Patent ID: 7817167

Claim:
An information processing method of superimposing a virtual model of a physical object onto an image of the physical object, comprising steps of: inputting an image of the physical object with an image input device, the physical object including a plurality of marks on a surface thereof; displaying the image of the physical object on a display device, the image of the physical object including a plurality of virtual indices representing first positions of the plurality of marks of the physical object that are used for setting a position of a virtual model of the physical object for a user; acquiring second positions of the plurality of marks of the physical object corresponding to the plurality of virtual indices in an actual space of the physical object based on interaction of the user with the plurality of marks of the physical object, wherein at least one of the plurality of virtual indices is displayed by the displaying step in a display mode so as to prompt the interaction of the user with the plurality of marks of physical object; correcting the first positions of the plurality of marks based on the second positions of the plurality of marks; and superimposing the virtual model on the image of the physical object based on the corrected first positions of the plurality of marks such that at least a predetermined number of marks of the physical object coincide with a corresponding predetermined number of virtual indices.