INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL REALITY IMAGE GENERATING SYSTEM
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Abstract
The invention provides an image generating system and method that provides to an observer a substantially real-time mixed reality experience of a physical work space with superposed thereon a virtual space comprising virtual objects and allows the observer to manipulate the virtual objects in the virtual space by actions performed in the physical work space, and a program for implementing the method and a storage medium storing the program for implementing the method.
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- 20. An image generating system for allowing an observer to manipulate a virtual object, comprising image pickup means for capturing an image of a physical work space, virtual space image generating means for generating an image of a virtual space comprising the virtual object, composite image generating means for generating a composite image by synthesising the image of the virtual space generated by the virtual space image generating means and the image of the physical work space outputted by the image pickup means, display means for displaying the composite image generated by the composite image generating means, a manipulator for manipulating the virtual object by the observer, and manipulator pose determining means for determining the pose of the manipulator in the physical work space, characterised in that the system is configured to transform a change in the pose of the manipulator in the physical work space as determined by the manipulator pose determining means into a change in the pose and/or status of the virtual object in the virtual space, wherein the pose of the manipulator in the physical work space is wholly or partly determined from the image of the physical work space outputted by the image pickup means, and wherein the manipulator comprises a recognition member and wherein the recognition member is recognised in the image of the physical work space by an image recognition algorithm, and wherein the appearance of the recognition member in the image of the physical work space is a function of the pose of the recognition member relative to the image pickup means.
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