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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2015
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Numaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Keiji Togawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Osawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeshi Yamagishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Hirata, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an information processing system, an information processing apparatusrecognizes, when a user moves real bodiesandarranged on a play field, the movement on the basis of, for example, an image taken by a camerataking an image of the movement to interlock objects of corresponding charactersanddisplayed on a display apparatus. In addition, when the user moves the charactersandthrough an input apparatus, the information processing apparatustransmits a control signal to the corresponding real bodiesandto perform interlocking. When a situation in which interlocking between the real bodiesandand the charactersandis difficult occurs, an appropriate scenario is selected from the scenarios prepared in advance and realized, thereby maintaining the consistency.