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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2018
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takeshi Ohashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04186 (2019.05); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04106 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided an information processing apparatus to increase the manipulability during manipulation of a device by means of an instruction using a part of the body of a user, the information processing apparatus including: a detection unit that executes detection of a one-eye-closed state in which one eye of a user is opened and another eye is closed; and a control unit that identifies an instruction position instructed by a part of a body of the user depending on a result of detection of the one-eye-closed state by the detection unit.