Sony Patent | Display control apparatus, display control method, and program

Patent: Display control apparatus, display control method, and program

Publication Number: 10181221

Publication Date: 2019-01-15

Applicants: Sony

Abstract

Provided is a display control apparatus including a state detection unit configured to detect a state of a user who observes an image, and a display control unit configured to cause a display to display the image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, and to control a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.

Background

In recent years, a technology called augmented reality (AR) has been attracting attention. AR is a technology to present information by superimposing the information on an image obtained by photographing a real space. In such a technology, as described in Patent Literature 1, for example, an object disposed in a three-dimensional space (the real space in a case of AR) is displayed as the image. Note that Patent Literature 1 proposes a technique of presenting information in a way that a user understands the information more easily even in a situation in which information items are clouded in the image.

Summary

Technical Problem

It has not been a long time since the above technology was developed, however. Accordingly, for example, there have not been proposed sufficient techniques of appropriately displaying a plurality of objects disposed in a space as display content items.

Thus, the present disclosure proposes a novel and improved display control apparatus, display control method, and program that enable a plurality of display content items to be displayed more appropriately.

Solution to Problem

According to the present disclosure, there is provided a display control apparatus including a state detection unit configured to detect a state of a user who observes an image, and a display control unit configured to cause a display to display the image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, and to control a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.

According to the present disclosure, there is provided a display control method including causing a display to display an image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, detecting a state of a user who observes the image, and controlling a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.

According to the present disclosure, there is provided a program for causing a computer to achieve a function of causing a display to display an image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, a function of detecting a state of a user who observes the image, and a function of controlling a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.

By controlling the behaviors of these display content items according to the state of the user who observes the plurality of c display content items, it becomes possible to display the plurality of display content items more appropriately.

Advantageous Effects of Invention

As described above, according to the present invention, it becomes possible to display a plurality of display content items more appropriately.