Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and providing medium

摘要

The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal to a sub-notebook PC. A CCD video camera takes in a visual ID from an object, and supplies the inputted visual ID to the sub-notebook PC. A user inputs, through a microphone, a voice to be attached to situations in the real world. The sub-notebook PC transmits position data, object data and voice data, which have been supplied to it, to a server through a communication unit. The transmitted data is received by the server via a wireless LAN. The server stores the received voice data in a database in correspondence to the position data and the object data.

主权项

1. A wearable augmentable reality user device comprising:
at least one processing unit configured to:
transmit, from the wearable augmentable reality user device, position information indicating a physical position of the wearable augmentable reality user device to a first information processing apparatus;in response to transmitting the position information, receive, at the wearable augmentable reality user device, attachment information corresponding to the transmitted position information from a second information processing apparatus via a network; andcontrol a display to display an image with the attachment information along with distance scale information and direction information based on a current position of the wearable augmentable reality user device, wherein the attachment information includes information inputted by a user using at least one of the wearable augmentable reality user device and another user device, wherein the image includes a center O corresponding to the current position of the wearable augmentable reality user device and the distance scale information indicates a distance between the center O and the attachment information, and wherein the attachment information includes information related to other physical positions near the physical position indicated by the transmitted position information.