Patent ID: 9710967
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable information processing program and executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus connected to an image pick-up apparatus and a display, the information processing program, when executed, causing the computer to control the information processing apparatus to perform operations comprising: obtaining an image of a subject picked up by the image pick-up apparatus; detecting a search target from the obtained image of the subject; causing a first event to occur when the search target is successfully detected; recognizing a shape of the detected search target; causing a second event to occur in a virtual space in accordance with a deformation of the recognized shape of the search target, wherein the second event is caused to occur when the shape of the search target deforms to a prescribed shape subsequent to occurrence of the first event; generating a virtual image by shooting the second event that occurs with a virtual camera arranged in the virtual space; and causing the display to display the virtual image so that the virtual image is visually superimposed on the image of the subject or on the subject seen through a screen of the display.