Patent ID: 9342925
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: G06T

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: circuitry configured to: generate a viewpoint image for display, using three-dimensional coordinates of a watch point and a virtual viewpoint, wherein the viewpoint image represents a three-dimensional virtual space generated as a view of the watch point from the virtual viewpoint, the watch point being set in the three-dimensional virtual space; detect a movement of an operator within a real space, based upon image detection of the operator; and displace the virtual viewpoint with the set watch point as a reference on the basis of the detected movement of the operator within the real space, such that the virtual viewpoint is positionally changed about the set watch point and the generated viewpoint image is changed to represent a view of the set watch point from the displaced virtual viewpoint, wherein the virtual viewpoint is disposed on a sphere with the watch point as a center of the sphere, the virtual viewpoint is displaced so as to rotate about the watch point on the sphere, and a radius of the sphere is reduced in accordance with a shortening distance between the operator and a location of displaying the viewpoint image.