Head mount display

• US 20100060552A1
• Filed: 09/10/2009
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Watanabe, Mitsuyoshi, Yamada, Shoji, Ueno, Hideo, Taki, Kazunari
• Application Number:
  US12/585,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20100060552A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/8
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0138 comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted

Abstract

A see-through-type head mount display includes a display unit which is configured to project an image light corresponding to display information on an eye of a viewer thus allowing the viewer to visually recognize an image corresponding to the image light while allowing an external light to pass therethrough. The head mount display determines a distribution state of identifying objects within a detected imaging region, and decides a display mode of associated information which is associated with the respective identifying objects corresponding to a distribution state of the identifying objects. Further, the head mount display performs a control such that a display unit performs a display of the associated information which is associated with the identifying objects in the decided mode in association with the identifying objects viewable by a viewer in a see-through manner through the display unit.

Claims

1. A see-through-type head mount display comprising:

a display unit which is configured to project an image light corresponding to display information on an eye of a viewer thus allowing the viewer to visually recognize an image corresponding to the image light while allowing an external light to pass therethrough;

an imaging unit which is configured to photograph at least a portion of a visual field range of the viewer;

an identifying object detection unit which is configured to detect identifying objects within an imaging region formed by the imaging unit;

an associated information memory unit which is configured to store associated information associated with the respective identifying objects;

a distribution state determination unit which is configured to determine a distribution state of the identifying objects within the imaging region which are detected by the identifying object detection unit;

a display mode decision unit which is configured to decide a display mode of the associated information associated with the respective identifying objects corresponding to the distribution state of the identifying objects determined by the distribution state determination unit; and

a display control unit which is configured to perform a control in which the associated information associated with the identifying objects are displayed by the display unit in association with the identifying objects viewable by the viewer through the display unit in the display mode decided by the display mode decision unit.

2. A head mount display according to claim 1, wherein the head mount display further comprises a distribution density calculation unit which is configured to calculate distribution density of identifying objects within the imaging region detected by the identifying object detection unit, and the display mode decision unit decides the display mode of the associated information associated with the respective identifying objects based on the distribution density of the identifying objects calculated by the distribution density calculation unit.

3. A head mount display according to claim 2, wherein the head mount display further comprises a display position decision unit which is configured to decide, around identifying objects detected by the identifying object detection unit, a position where the distribution density of the identifying objects calculated by the distribution density calculation unit is relatively low, as a position for displaying the associated information associated with the respective identifying objects.

4. A head mount display according to claim 1, wherein the head mount display includes a display position decision unit which is configured to decide, around identifying objects detected by the identifying object detection unit, a position between the identifying object and another identifying object remotest from the identifying object as a position for displaying the associated information associated with the identifying object.

5. A head mount display according claim 1, wherein the display mode decision unit decides any one of a pattern, a character, a still image and a moving image indicative of the associated information associated with the identifying object as a display mode corresponding to the distribution state of the identifying objects.

6. A head mount display according to claim 1, wherein the display mode decision unit decides a display size of the associated information associated with the identifying object as the display mode corresponding to the distribution state of the identifying objects.

7. A head mount display according to claim 1, wherein the display mode decision unit decides a display mode of the associated information associated with the identifying object based on a kind of the identifying objects detected by the identifying object detection unit.

8. A head mount display according to claim 1, wherein the display mode decision unit decides a display mode of identifying objects present in a region near the center of a visual field range of the viewer out of the identifying objects detected by the identifying object detection unit as a relatively easily viewable display mode.

9. A head mount display according to claim 1, wherein the display mode decision unit, when displacement of identifying objects are detected by the identifying object detection unit, maintains a display mode immediately before displacement for a predetermined time.

10. A head mount display according to claim 1, wherein the display mode decision unit, when displacement of identifying objects are detected by the identifying object detection unit, decides a display mode of associated information associated with the identifying object based on the positional distribution of the identifying objects within the imaging region detected after the displacement.