Image Generation Systems And Image Generation Methods
First Claim
1. An image generation system comprising:
- an attachment system configured to secure the image generation system to a head of a user in a position to be observed by the user;
an imaging system configured to reflect some light towards an observer'"'"'s eye to form a plurality of pixels of an image upon the retina of the observer'"'"'s eye at a moment in time and to reflect other light away from the observer'"'"'s eye at the moment in time; and
a control system coupled with the imaging system and wherein the control system is configured to access data content regarding the image, to generate a plurality of control signals according to the accessed data content, and to output the control signals to the imaging system to control the reflection of the some light by the imaging system towards the observer'"'"'s eye to form the plurality of pixels of the image upon the retina of the observer'"'"'s eye at the moment in time and to control the reflection of the other light away from the observer'"'"'s eye at the moment in time.
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Abstract
Image generation systems and image generation methods are described. According to one aspect, an image generation system includes an imaging system configured to transmit light towards an observer'"'"'s eye to form a plurality of pixels of an image upon the retina of the observer'"'"'s eye at a moment in time; and a control system coupled with the imaging system and wherein the control system is configured to access data content regarding the image, to generate a plurality of control signals according to the accessed data content, and to output the control signals to the imaging system to control the transmission of the light by the imaging system towards the observer'"'"'s eye to form the plurality of pixels of the image upon the retina of the observer'"'"'s eye at the moment in time.
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23 Claims
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1. An image generation system comprising:
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an attachment system configured to secure the image generation system to a head of a user in a position to be observed by the user; an imaging system configured to reflect some light towards an observer'"'"'s eye to form a plurality of pixels of an image upon the retina of the observer'"'"'s eye at a moment in time and to reflect other light away from the observer'"'"'s eye at the moment in time; and a control system coupled with the imaging system and wherein the control system is configured to access data content regarding the image, to generate a plurality of control signals according to the accessed data content, and to output the control signals to the imaging system to control the reflection of the some light by the imaging system towards the observer'"'"'s eye to form the plurality of pixels of the image upon the retina of the observer'"'"'s eye at the moment in time and to control the reflection of the other light away from the observer'"'"'s eye at the moment in time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An image generation system comprising:
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a data generation system configured to generate data content of a two-dimension color image; an imaging system configured to transmit light towards an observer'"'"'s eye to simultaneously form a plurality of pixels of the two-dimension image upon the retina of the observer'"'"'s eye; a control system coupled with the data generation system and the imaging system, wherein the control system is configured to access the data content of the image, to generate a plurality of control signals according to the accessed data content, and to output the control signals to the imaging system to control the transmission of a plurality of light beams of the light and corresponding to respective ones the pixels in parallel towards the observer'"'"'s eye to simultaneously form the pixels of the two-dimension color image upon the retina of the observer'"'"'s eye; an eye monitoring system coupled with the control system, wherein the eye monitoring system is configured to monitor actions of the observer'"'"'s eye; wherein the imaging system is configured to form a plurality of different color frames of the two-dimension color image at respective ones of a plurality of different moments in time, and the imaging system comprises; a light source configured to emit the light having different colors at the different moments in time; an optical fiber optically coupled with the light source and configured to homogenize the light; and a light modulator optically coupled with the light source and the optical fiber, wherein the light modulator comprises a plurality of mirrors which are configured to move between a plurality of positions, and wherein the control system is configured to generate the control signals to control different sets of the mirrors to move to one of the positions to reflect the light from the light source to the observer'"'"'s eye at the different moments in time to form the different color frames of the two-dimension color image upon the retina of the observer'"'"'s eye at the different moments in time and to reflect an image of the observer'"'"'s eye to the eye monitoring system at an additional moment in time; and wherein the control system is configured to control at least one operation of the imaging system as a result of the reflection of the image of the observer'"'"'s eye to the eye monitoring system.
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15. An image generation method comprising:
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accessing data content regarding an image; using the data content, identifying a plurality of pixels of the image which are to be formed at a moment in time; and after the identifying, reflecting some light for the plural identified ones of the pixels of the image in parallel towards an observer'"'"'s eye to form the plural identified ones of the pixels of the image upon the retina of the observer'"'"'s eye at the moment in time and reflecting other light away from the observer'"'"'s eye at the moment in time. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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