US 6,982,709 B2
Information processing method
Satoru Matsuda, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/104,223.
Application 11/104223 is a continuation of application No. 09/389803, filed on Sep. 03, 1999, granted, now 6,933,938.
Claims priority of application No. P10-277064 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 1998.
Prior Publication US 2005/0216853 A1, Sep. 29, 2005
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 15/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 345—419 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing method for management of information on objects placed in a 3-dimensional virtual space, the method comprising:
configuring a storage element to store information related to a sensing object, information related to one or more sensed objects, information related to a sensing area, information related to a transmitting object, information related to one or more receiving objects, and information related to a transmission area, wherein said sensing area is used for said sensing object to sense said information related to said one or more sensed objects within said sensing area, wherein said transmission area is used for said transmitting object to transmit said information related to said transmitting object to said one or more receiving objects within said transmission area, and wherein at least one of said sensing object and transmitting object is associated with a server; and
configuring a processor coupled to said storage element to selectively set said sensing area and said transmission area, wherein said processor is further configured to determine whether said one or more sensed objects are within said sensing area, and to determine whether said one or more receiving objects are within said transmission area.