Aremac-based means and apparatus for interaction with computer, or one or more other people, through a camera
First Claim
1. A photographer'"'"'s assistant system where said system includes a head-worn display means where said display means is responsive to the output of a camera fixed in the immediate vicinity of the wearer of said display means, and where said system further includes a scene aremac, where said scene aremac is fixed in the immediate vicinity of the wearer of said display means.
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Abstract
A new kind of display means and apparatus called an aremac is provided. The aremac may either be worn upon the body, such as in a pair of eyeglasses, where it can direct light into an eye of the wearer of the apparatus, or it may be located together with a fixed camera to direct light onto a three dimensional scene or objects. The typical application of the aremac is that of collaborative photography, in which a remote director assists a photographer in composing a picture, or arranging lighting in a photographic studio while the remote director remotely views the scene through the photographer'"'"'s camera. In a wearable embodiment, the camera is effectively imaged inside an eye of the wearer so that the remote director can view the light rays passing through an eye of the wearer of the apparatus and the director can write on the retina of the wearer of the apparatus by pointing a laser beam at the screen in the director'"'"'s office, which teleoperates a miniature laser beam directed through the wearer'"'"'s eye lens onto the retina of an eye of the wearer in such a manner that when the director points at an object in the scene, the wearer of the apparatus sees a red dot at the corresponding location on that same object. In another embodiment, the remote director can point to objects in the photographer'"'"'s studio by pointing a laser beam at a projection screen which displays images of these objects in the photographer'"'"'s studio, where the director'"'"'s laser pointer remotely controls a teleoperated laser pointer in the photographer'"'"'s studio.
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50 Claims
- 1. A photographer'"'"'s assistant system where said system includes a head-worn display means where said display means is responsive to the output of a camera fixed in the immediate vicinity of the wearer of said display means, and where said system further includes a scene aremac, where said scene aremac is fixed in the immediate vicinity of the wearer of said display means.
- 5. A director'"'"'s assistant system where said director'"'"'s assistant system includes communication means with a studio where said studio contains a camera and a scene aremac, where the director of said director'"'"'s assistant system has means for projection of the output of said camera onto a screen, and means for scanning said projection upon said screen together with a blob of light from a laser pointer when said blob of light is incident upon said screen.
- 11. A telepointer aremac control system where said system includes a screenspace, a workspace, and means of communication between said screenspace and said workspace, where said workspace includes a camera and an aremac, and where said screenspace includes a screen and scanner of said screen where said screen may display the output of said camera, and where said scanner may scan said screen to determine the location upon said screen where a laser pointer is pointing, and where said telepointer aremac control system also includes means of controlling said aremac where said means of controlling said aremac includes means of aiming said aremac at a point in the scene before said camera where said means of aiming said aremac includes means of matching said point in said scene with the corresponding point on said screen selected by the pointing of a laser pointer at said screen.
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12. A laser-based aremac system tele-operated by a laser pointer to facilitate communication between a first conferee using the laser pointer and a second conferee, at a remote location, working on objects in front of the laser-based aremac system, the laser-based aremac system comprising:
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a housing to be located in the workspace of said first conferee;
camera enclosed in said housing;
image capture means for said camera, laser-based aremac enclosed in said housing;
communications channel between said first conferee and said second conferee, said communications channel including means of display of an image from said image capture means upon a screen in view of said first conferee;
means of scanning said screen to detect the presence of a laser pointer aimed at said screen, and in the presence of a laser pointer aimed at said screen, to determine the coordinates where on said screen said laser pointer is pointing;
means of pointing said laser-based aremac at a location in said workspace corresponding to the location on said image where said second conversee is pointing.
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16. An EyeTap aremac where said EyeTap aremac includes a point source of light, a spatial light modulator, and optics where said optics form an image of said point source of light in the lens of an eye of the user of said EyeTap aremac, and where said spatial light modulator is responsive to a video input signal.
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38. A wearable camera system including camera and body-worn recording means, where said wearable camera system further includes camera EyeTapping means.
- 43. A wearable camera system including camera, spatial light modulator, and diverter, where said wearable camera system includes camera EyeTapping means.
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50. Telepointing means, where said telepointing means includes a camera, a motion stabilizer, an aremac, and a motion restorer.
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