US 12,175,951 B2
Imaging apparatus, and method of controlling imaging apparatus
Katsuyuki Nakayama, Tokyo (JP); and Ichiro Tsujimura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/912,981
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 19, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/011344
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/200266, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-059309 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0162707 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 15/10 (2011.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G09G 5/377 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 5/377 (2013.01) [G06F 3/013 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An imaging apparatus, comprising:
a gaze region specifying unit configured to:
generate line-of-sight information of a user; and
determine, based on the generated line-of-sight information, a gaze region of a display device at which the user gazes; and
a display image generation unit configured to:
acquire superimposition information;
determine the gaze region overlaps a superimposition information display region of the display device;
generate, based on the determination that the gaze region overlaps the superimposition information display region a first display image in which the superimposition information is superimposed on a captured image, wherein
the superimposition information has a first display form in a first region of the first display image, a second display form in a second region of the first display image, and a third display form in a third region of the first display image,
the second display form is different from the first display form,
the third display form is different from the second display form,
each of the first region and the second region corresponds to an overlapping region of the display device where the gaze region overlaps the superimposition information display region,
the second region is different from the first region, and
the third region corresponds to a non-overlapping region of the display device where the gaze region does not overlap the superimposition information display region; and
control the display device to display the first display image.