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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2017
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Yasushi Okumura, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Hirata, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshihisa Takahashi, Saitama, JP;
Yoichi Nishimaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Norihiro Nagai, Kanagawa, JP;
Kunihito Sawai, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichi Machida, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus is connected to a device for detecting a user's hand motion, controls a motion of a virtual character, and decides, in accordance with a detection result of hand motion by the device, whether the detected motion is a first instruction action or a second instruction action. The first instruction action achieves a match between a hand motion of the character and the user's hand motion. The second instruction action instructs an action different from the user's hand motion. When it is decided, as a result of the decision, that the detected user's hand motion is the first instruction action, the control apparatus achieves a match between the character's hand motion and the detected user's hand motion. When it is decided that the detected user's hand motion is the second instruction action, the control apparatus causes the character to perform an action different from the hand motion.