ADJUSTING 3D EFFECTS FOR WEARABLE VIEWING DEVICES

• US 20120218253A1
• Filed: 02/28/2011
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Clavin, John
• Application Number:
  US13/036,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20120218253A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0093 with means for monitoring data relating to the user, e.g. head-tracking, eye-tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/22 of the stereoscopic type
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/332 Displays for viewing with the aid of special glasses or head-mounted displays [HMD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/341 using temporal multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/373 for tracking forward-backward translational head movements, i.e. longitudinal movements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/403 the images being monoscopic

Abstract

Various embodiments are disclosed that relate to displaying 3D effects for one or more wearable 3D viewing devices. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method which comprises, for each of one or more wearable 3D viewing devices, detecting a property of the wearable 3D viewing device, and for a 3D effect to be presented to users of the one or more wearable 3D viewing devices, adjusting presentation of the 3D effect based on the detected properties.

Claims

1. A method for displaying 3D effects for one or more wearable 3D viewing devices, comprising:

for each of the one or more wearable 3D viewing devices, detecting a property of the wearable 3D viewing device; and

for a 3D effect to be presented to the one or more wearable 3D viewing devices, adjusting presentation of the 3D effect based on the detected property.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting a property of the wearable 3D viewing device includes detecting a distance from the wearable 3D viewing device to a display device on which the 3D effect is presented.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting a property of the wearable 3D viewing device includes detecting a type of the wearable 3D viewing device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the type is one of a passive wearable 3D viewing device, an active wearable 3D viewing device, and a head mounted display device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting a property of the wearable 3D viewing device includes detecting a capability of the wearable 3D viewing device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting a property of the wearable 3D viewing device includes receiving a communication from the wearable 3D viewing device, the communication indicating the property of the wearable 3D viewing device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein adjusting presentation of the 3D effect includes, in a setting with multiple different types of wearable 3D viewing devices, presenting the 3D effect so it is perceivable by all such wearable 3D devices.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in a setting with multiple different types of wearable 3D viewing devices, presenting a first 3D effect to one type of wearable 3D viewing device, and another, different, 3D effect to another type of wearable 3D viewing device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more wearable 3D viewing devices includes a first wearable 3D viewing device and second wearable 3D viewing device, and wherein adjusting presentation of the 3D effect includes adjusting a 3D effect presented to the first wearable 3D viewing device based on a capability of the second wearable 3D viewing device.

10. A method for displaying 3D effects for one or more wearable 3D viewing devices, comprising:

for a first wearable 3D viewing device, detecting a first property of the first wearable 3D viewing device;

for a second wearable 3D viewing device, detecting a second property of the second wearable 3D viewing device, the second property being different from the first property; and

for one or more 3D effects to be presented to the first wearable 3D viewing device and the second wearable 3D viewing device, adjusting presentation of such one or more 3D effects based on at least one of the first property and the second property.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein adjusting presentation of the one or more 3D effects includes presenting a first 3D effect to a user of the first wearable 3D viewing device and presenting a second 3D effect to a user of the second wearable 3D viewing device, the first 3D effect being different from the second 3D effect.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first 3D effect differs from the second 3D effect based on detecting that the first wearable 3D viewing device and the second wearable 3D viewing device differ in capability.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the first wearable 3D viewing device is a head mounted display, with the first 3D effect being adapted for immersive presentation on such head mounted display, and wherein the second 3D effect is adapted for presentation on a display device that is separate from the first wearable 3D viewing device and the second wearable 3D viewing device.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein one of the first property and the second property is a distance from a display device that is separate from the first wearable 3D viewing device and the second wearable 3D viewing device.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein adjusting presentation of such one or more 3D effects includes presenting a single 3D effect that is perceivable using either of the first wearable 3D viewing device and the second wearable 3D viewing device.

16. A computing device, comprising:

a logic subsystem; and

a data holding subsystem comprising machine-readable instructions stored thereon that are executable by the logic subsystem to;

for each of the one or more wearable 3D viewing devices, detect a property of the wearable 3D viewing device; and

for a 3D effect to be presented to the one or more wearable 3D viewing devices, adjust presentation of the 3D effect based on the detected property.

17. The computing device of claim 16, wherein detecting a property of the wearable 3D viewing device includes one or more of detecting a distance from the wearable 3D viewing device to a display device on which the 3D effect is presented, detecting a type of the wearable 3D viewing device, and detecting a capability of the wearable 3D viewing device.

18. The computing device of claim 16, wherein the machine-readable instructions further executable by the logic subsystem to receive a communication from a wearable 3D viewing device to detect the property of the wearable 3D viewing device.

19. The computing device of claim 16, wherein adjusting presentation of the 3D effect includes, in a setting with multiple different types of wearable 3D viewing devices, presenting the 3D effect so it is perceivable by all such wearable 3D devices.

20. The computing device of claim 16, wherein the machine-readable instructions are further executable to, in a setting with multiple different types of wearable 3D viewing devices, present a first 3D effect to one type of wearable 3D viewing device, and another, different, 3D effect to another type of wearable 3D viewing device.