Patent ID: 11865448
Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 10:
11. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
the acquiring includes acquiring information about position and posture of a head of the user based on the position information about the head-mounted display;
the information processing includes using the information about the position and posture of the head of the user;
said image to be displayed defines a virtual world displayed from a point of view corresponding to the position and posture of the head of the user;
the generating and outputting the data of the image of the user guide includes generating the image of the user guide indicating position information about the user in the real space and a play area set up as a range in which the user is to stay, using the position information about the head-mounted display; and
the play area is set to coincide with or be narrower than the camera angle of view of an imaging device for imaging the head-mounted display to acquire its position.