Head mounted display

• US 10,460,165 B2
• Filed: 04/01/2015
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FOVE, inc.
• Original Assignee: FOVE, inc.
• Inventors: Wilson, Lochlainn, Seko, Keiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Jayanti K
• Assistant Examiner(s): Habib, Irfan
• Application Number:
  US15/028,838
• Publication Number:
  US 20170262703A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,672 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0138 comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/02 Viewing or reading apparatus stereoscopic systems G02B30/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/19 Sensors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/193 Preprocessing; Feature extraction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/33 Transforming infrared radiation cameras or camera modules for generating image signals from infrared radiation H04N23/20; circuitry of SSIS for transforming infrared radiation into image signals H04N25/20

Abstract

A head mounted display includes a lens disposed at a position facing a user'"'"'s cornea; a plurality of infrared light sources disposed in a periphery of the lens that emit infrared light toward the user'"'"'s cornea; a hot mirror that reflects the infrared light; a camera that captures an image projected into the hot mirror; an output unit that outputs an image captured by the camera to an eyesight direction detection unit that detects an eyesight direction of the user; and a housing, wherein when the periphery of the lens is divided into four regions: a first corresponding to the outer corner side of the eye, a second corresponding to the inner corner side, a third corresponding to the top side of the head, and a fourth corresponding to the jaw side, the plurality of infrared light sources are disposed in any of the first region and the second region.

Claims

1. An eyesight detection device comprising:

a lens to be disposed at a position facing a user'"'"'s cornea when the device is used by the user;

a plurality of infrared light sources disposed in a periphery of the lens that emit infrared light toward the user'"'"'s cornea; and

a camera that captures an image including the user'"'"'s cornea;

wherein, when the periphery of the lens is equally divided into four regions of a first region corresponding to the outer corner side of the eye of the user, a second region corresponding to the inner corner side of the eye, a third region corresponding to the top side of the head, and a fourth region corresponding to the jaw side, the plurality of infrared light sources are disposed in the first region and the second region wherein the plurality of infrared light sources are disposed asymmetrically with respect to an axis extending through a center of the first region and a center of the second region.

2. The eyesight detection device according to claim 1, further comprising a lens holding unit that holds the lens, wherein the plurality of infrared light sources are included in the lens holding unit.

3. The eyesight detection device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a hot mirror that reflects the infrared light;

an output unit that outputs an image captured by the camera to an eyesight direction detection unit that detects an eyesight direction of the user; and

a housing that houses the lens, the infrared light sources, the hot mirror, the output unit, and the camera,

wherein the lens is disposed between the hot mirror and the user'"'"'s cornea.