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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2019
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Hidehiko Ogasawara, Tokyo, JP;
Norio Nagatsuka, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Numaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Segawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Akio Ohba, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A mat for an image pickup apparatus, where the image pickup apparatus operates to recognize a real object, the mat includes: a play field that defines a bottom region of a space in which the real object is placed; and a calibration chart located in the space and having a plurality of color regions in which respective luminances thereof differ from one another, where: the image pickup apparatus: (i) obtains data of a picked up image of the space in which the real object is located; and (ii) evaluates the picked up image and adjusts at least one of an image pickup condition in which the picked up image of the space is taken, and a processing condition in which the data are analyzed to recognize the real object, and at least one of the image pickup condition and the processing condition are adjusted based on color information in the data of the picked up image resulting from the plurality of color regions of the calibration chart.