HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY AND IMAGE ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR THE SAME

• US 20070285346A1
• Filed: 06/06/2007
• Published: 12/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Himax Display Incorporated (Himax Technologies Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Himax Display Incorporated (Himax Technologies Incorporated)
• Inventors: Li, Kuo Yuin
• Application Number:
  US11/759,097
• Publication Number:
  US 20070285346A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/8
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0129 comprising devices for correcting parallax
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted

Abstract

A head mounted display including a frame wearable on a user'"'"'s head, first and second imaging apparatuses integrating on the frame and at least one control unit. Each imaging apparatus includes a display unit having a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix. The control unit is utilized for selectively setting a part of the pixels as display pixels and the rest of the pixels as non-display pixels, thereby determining the positions of display areas on the display units. Two virtual images respectively seen by a user can be adjusted to substantially coincide with each other by scrolling the positions of the display areas on the display units. The present invention also provides an image adjustment method for the head mounted display.

Claims

1. A head mounted display, comprising:

a frame wearable on a user'"'"'s head; and

a first imaging apparatus and a second imaging apparatus respectively integrated on the frame, each imaging apparatus comprising;

a display unit having a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix; and

a control unit for selectively setting a part of the pixels as display pixels and the rest of the pixels as non-display pixels, thereby determining the position of a display area on the display unit.

2. The head mounted display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control units control the pixels through a gate driver and a source driver.

3. The head mounted display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first imaging apparatus generates a first virtual image while the second imaging apparatus generates a second virtual image;

and the first and the second virtual images can be adjusted to substantially coincide with each other by adjusting the positions of the display areas on the first and the second imaging apparatuses.

4. The head mounted display as claimed in claim 3, wherein the control unit of the first imaging apparatus controls the position of the display area thereof to make longitudinal movement and the control unit of the second imaging apparatus controls the position of the display area thereof to make transverse movement.

5. The head mounted display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display units are LCD panels or LCOS panels.

6. The head mounted display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the non-display pixels are driven by dark gray level.

7. A head mounted display, comprising:

a frame wearable on a user'"'"'s head;

a first imaging apparatus having a display unit with a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix;

a second imaging apparatus having a display unit with a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix; and

a control unit for selectively setting a part of the pixels of the display units as display pixels and the rest of the pixels of the display units as non-display pixels, thereby determining the positions of display areas on the display units.

8. The head mounted display as claimed in claim 7, wherein the control unit controls the pixels through a gate driver and a source driver.

9. The head mounted display as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first imaging apparatus generates a first virtual image while the second imaging apparatus generates a second virtual image;

and the first and the second virtual images can be adjusted to substantially coincide with each other by adjusting the positions of the display areas on the first and the second imaging apparatuses.

10. The head mounted display as claimed in claim 9, wherein the control unit controls the position of the display area on the first imaging apparatus to make longitudinal movement and controls the position of the display area on the second imaging apparatus to make transverse movement.

11. The head mounted display as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first imaging apparatus generates a first virtual image while the second imaging apparatus generates a second virtual image;

and the first and the second virtual images can be adjusted to substantially coincide with each other by adjusting the position of the display area on the first imaging apparatus.

12. The head mounted display as claimed in claim 7, wherein the display units are LCD panels or LCOS panels.

13. The head mounted display as claimed in claim 7, wherein the non-display pixels are driven by dark gray level.

14. An image adjustment method for a head mounted display, comprising the steps of:

providing a first imaging apparatus having a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix for generating a first virtual image;

providing a second imaging apparatus having a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix for generating a second virtual image; and

selectively setting a part of the pixels as display pixels and the rest of the pixels as non-display pixels, thereby respectively determining the positions of display areas on the first and the second imaging apparatuses.

15. The image adjustment method as claimed in claim 14, further comprising the step of:

controlling the positions of the display areas on the first and the second imaging apparatuses so as to adjust the first and the second virtual images substantially coincide with each other.

16. The image adjustment method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising the step of:

providing at least one control unit to control the positions of the display areas on the first and the second imaging apparatuses.

17. The image adjustment method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the position of the display area on the first imaging apparatus is controlled to make longitudinal movement while the position of the display area on the second imaging apparatus is controlled to make transverse movement.

18. The image adjustment method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the position of the display area on the first imaging apparatus is controlled to make longitudinal and transverse movement while the position of the display area on the second imaging apparatus is fixed.

19. The image adjustment method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the non-display pixels are driven by dark gray level.

20. The image adjustment method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the control unit controls the pixels through a gate driver and a source driver.