Storage medium for storing a signal having successive images for subsequent playback and a method for forming such a signal for storage on such a storage medium

• US 20100231706A1
• Filed: 05/22/2010
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/1995
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Simulated Percepts, LLC
• Original Assignee: Susan C. Maguire
• Inventors: Maguire, Francis J. JR.
• Granted Patent: US 8,330,812 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/121
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user

Abstract

A method of (1) navigating a camera with both translatory movements and attitudinal movements while capturing successive images in an object space and at the same time sensing the translatory and attitudinal movements of the camera with respect to a three-dimensional reference frame of the object space, (2) providing successive computer generated images produced by a computer workstation from the successive images in synchronization with the sensed translatory and attitudinal movements of the camera with respect to the three-dimensional reference frame, and (3) storing the successive computer generated images on a non-transitory storage medium for later retrieval by a playback device for presentation by the playback device of said successive computer generated images to at least one eye of a viewer in an image space for perception of the successive computer generated images. A non-transitory storage medium for storing the successive images is also provided.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

navigating a camera with both translatory movements and attitudinal movements while capturing successive images,

sensing said translatory movements and said attitudinal movements of said camera with respect to a three-dimensional reference frame,

providing successive computer generated images produced by a computer workstation from said successive images captured by said camera in synchronization with said sensed translatory movements and said sensed attitudinal movements of said camera with respect to said three-dimensional reference frame, and

storing said successive computer generated images on a non-transitory storage medium for later retrieval from said non-transitory storage medium by a playback device for presentation by the playback device of said successive computer generated images to at least one eye of a viewer for perception of said successive computer generated images.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said successive computer generated images include successive nonuniform computer generated images, each successive nonuniform computer generated image having a highly detailed component and a lesser detailed component, wherein a position of the highly detailed component is changed in selected successive nonuniform computer generated images.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said sensed attitudinal movements include one or more attitudinal roll, pitch, and yaw movements of said camera and wherein said sensed translatory movements include translations in position of said camera in at least one linear dimension of said three-dimensional reference frame.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said camera is a stereoscopic camera for simulating two eyes of the person and said images taken from a camera are stereoscopic images taken from said stereoscopic camera, wherein said stored successive images are successive stereoscopic images produced as computer generated stereoscopic images by said computer workstation from said stereoscopic images taken from said stereoscopic camera simulating two eyes of the person intersecting at various depths, said computer generated stereoscopic images for viewing by two eyes of the viewer correspondingly intersecting at various depths.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said stored successive images comprise a field of view with informational content concentrated or highlighted in a portion thereof that changes position within said field of view between said successive images, wherein among said successive images for presentation to said at least one eye of said viewer are distinct visual fixation images presented for attention of said viewer, each distinct visual fixation image comprising a distinct point of view with distinct resolution wherein said distinct resolution of said each distinct visual fixation image comprises a distinct position of said region of concentrated or highlighted informational content within said field of view for said attention of said viewer.

6. A non-transitory storage medium comprising successive computer generated images stored thereon according to the method of claim 1.

7. A non-transitory storage medium comprising successive computer generated images stored thereon according to the method of claim 2.

8. A non-transitory storage medium comprising successive computer generated images stored thereon according to the method of claim 3.

9. A non-transitory storage medium comprising successive computer generated images stored thereon according to the method of claim 4.

10. A non-transitory storage medium comprising successive computer generated images stored thereon according to the method of claim 5.

11. A non-transitory storage medium having a light control signal comprising successive images stored thereon, wherein said successive images are computer generated images produced by a computer workstation from successive images taken from a camera navigated by a person within a three-axis reference frame of an object space, said stored light control signal for later retrieval from said storage medium and presentation by a playback device of said computer generated images to a viewer in an image space, wherein said computer generated images are produced by said computer workstation with said successive images taken from said camera for presentation with movements in synchronization with sensed movements of said camera with respect to said three-axis reference frame.

12. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 11, wherein said light control signal comprising successive images includes successive nonuniform computer generated images, each successive nonuniform computer generated image having a highly detailed component and a lesser detailed component, wherein a position of the highly detailed component is changed in selected successive nonuniform computer generated images.

13. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 11, wherein said sensed movements include one or more attitudinal roll, pitch, and yaw movements of said camera and wherein said sensed movements include linear translations in position of said camera in at least one axis of said three-axis reference frame.

14. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 11, wherein said camera is a stereoscopic camera for simulating two eyes of the person and said images taken from a camera are stereoscopic images taken from said stereoscopic camera wherein said stored successive images are successive stereoscopic images produced as computer generated stereoscopic images by said computer workstation from said stereoscopic images taken from said stereoscopic camera simulating two eyes of the person intersecting at various depths in the object space, said computer generated stereoscopic images for viewing by two eyes of the viewer correspondingly intersecting at various depths in the image space.

15. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 11, wherein said stored successive images comprise a field of view with informational content concentrated or highlighted in a portion thereof that changes position within said field of view between said successive images, wherein among said successive images for presentation to said at least one eye of said viewer are distinct visual fixation images presented for attention of said viewer, each distinct visual fixation image comprising a distinct point of view with distinct resolution wherein said distinct resolution of said each distinct visual fixation image comprises a distinct position of said region of concentrated or highlighted informational content within said field of view for said attention of said viewer.

16. A non-transitory storage medium having successive images stored thereon for retrieval and presentation by a playback device to at least one eye of a viewer, wherein said stored successive images are produced as computer generated images by a computer workstation from images of objects taken from a camera navigated by a person, wherein said computer generated images are generated for presentation with movements synchronized with sensed movements of said camera.

17. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 16, wherein said successive images include successive nonuniform computer generated images, each successive nonuniform computer generated image having a highly detailed component and a lesser detailed component, wherein a position of the highly detailed component is changed in selected successive nonuniform computer generated images with respect to a field of view of the selected successive nonuniform computer generated images.

18. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 16, wherein said sensed movements include one or more attitudinal roll, pitch, and yaw movements of said camera and translations in position of said camera in at least two dimensions.

19. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 16, wherein said camera is a stereoscopic camera for simulating two eyes of the person and said images taken from a camera are stereoscopic images taken from said stereoscopic camera, wherein said stored successive images are successive stereoscopic images produced as computer generated stereoscopic images by said computer workstation from said stereoscopic images taken from said stereoscopic camera simulating two eyes of the person intersecting at various depths, said computer generated stereoscopic images for viewing by two eyes of the viewer correspondingly intersecting at various depths.

20. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 16, wherein said stored successive images comprise a field of view with informational content concentrated or highlighted in a portion thereof that changes position within said field of view between said successive images, wherein among said successive images for presentation to said at least one eye of said viewer are distinct visual fixation images presented for attention of said viewer, each distinct visual fixation image comprising a distinct point of view with distinct resolution wherein said distinct resolution of said each distinct visual fixation image comprises a distinct position of said region of concentrated or highlighted informational content within said field of view for said attention of said viewer.