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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2018
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kei Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Takayoshi Shimizu, Chiba, JP;
Ryouhei Yasuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Ayumi Nakagawa, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a computer program that enable to switch communication between virtual space and real space smoothly. The information processing device includes a communication control unit that controls communication performed in virtual space in which a virtual image corresponding to a real image of a user present in real space is created, interactively between users through the virtual image of the user; a user-information acquiring unit that acquires position information regarding a position of the user in the real space and attribute information including at least information regarding intimacy between the users at predetermined timing; and a switching control unit that controls switching between communication performed in the real space and communication performed in the virtual space according to at least either one of the position information and the attribute information.