EYEGLASSES ATTACHED WITH PROJECTOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20140313121A1
• Filed: 10/24/2013
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Lee, Hyun-Jae, Kim, Mu-Gyeom
• Granted Patent: US 9,367,142 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/04 Illuminating means
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/10 Electronic devices other than hearing aids
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• 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 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042

Abstract

Eyeglasses including a lens unit including a pair of lenses and a frame, a supporting unit supporting the lens unit, a camera mounted on the frame, a projector mounted on the frame and configured to project content on a screen, and a processor configured to control the camera and the projector. A method of controlling eyeglasses, including generating a first projector image to be projected on a screen by a projector mounted on the eyeglasses, obtaining a camera image from a camera mounted on the eyeglasses, and generating a first user input signal by analyzing the camera image.

Claims

1. Eyeglasses comprising:

a lens unit comprising a pair of lenses and a frame;

a supporting unit supporting the lens unit;

a camera mounted on the frame;

a projector mounted on the frame and configured to project content on a screen; and

a processor configured to control the camera and the projector.

2. The eyeglasses of claim 1, wherein the projector is a pico projector that is mounted in the frame of the eyeglasses.

3. The eyeglasses of claim 1, wherein the screen is a hand of a human.

4. The eyeglasses of claim 1, wherein the processor comprises:

a content generation unit configured to generate a projector image to be projected by the projector; and

an image recognition unit configured to process and analyze a camera image obtained from the camera and to convert the camera image into a user input signal.

5. The eyeglasses of claim 4,

wherein the image recognition unit is configured to detect whether or not the user input signal comprises a content operation signal, and

wherein the content generation unit is further configured to modify the projector image based on the detected content operation signal.

6. The eyeglasses of claim 5,

wherein the content operation signal is a gesture of a user, and

wherein the processor is configured to detect the content operation signal by using a gesture recognition algorithm.

7. The eyeglasses of claim 1, further comprising a microphone capable of obtaining a voice command of a user.

8. The eyeglasses of claim 7, wherein the processor comprises a voice recognition unit configured to process and analyze the voice command of the user obtained from the microphone, and to convert the voice command into a user input signal.

9. The eyeglasses of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to detect whether or not the user input signal comprises a content operation signal, and to modify a projector image to be projected by the projector based on the detected content operation signal.

10. The eyeglasses of claim 1, wherein a number of projectors is two and a number of cameras mounted on the eyeglasses is two.

11. The eyeglasses of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to generate two different projector images that, when respectively projected by the two projectors, form a three-dimensional image on the screen.

12. Eyeglasses comprising:

a camera mounted between lenses of the eyeglasses;

a projector mounted on a connection part between one of the lenses of the eyeglasses and a supporting unit;

a microphone mounted on the eyeglasses; and

a processor configured to control the camera and the projector,

wherein the processor is further configured to generate a projector image to be projected by the projector, and to generate a user input signal by analyzing a camera image obtained from the camera and a voice command obtained from the microphone.

13. A method of controlling eyeglasses, the method comprising:

generating a first projector image to be projected on a screen by a projector mounted on the eyeglasses;

obtaining a camera image from a camera mounted on the eyeglasses; and

generating a first user input signal by analyzing the camera image.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the projector is a pico projector that is mounted in a frame of the eyeglasses.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the screen is a hand of a human.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising generating a second projector image by modifying the first projector image when the first user input signal comprises a content operation signal with respect to the first projector image.

17. The method of claim 16,

wherein the content operation signal is a gesture of a user, and

wherein the generating of the first user input signal comprises detecting the content operation signal by using a gesture recognition algorithm.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising generating a second user input signal by obtaining and analyzing a voice command from a microphone mounted on the eyeglasses.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein a number of projectors is two and a number of cameras mounted on the eyeglasses is two.

20. The method of claim 19,

wherein the generating of the first projector image comprises generating two projector images for forming a three-dimensional projector image, and

wherein the obtaining of the camera image comprises obtaining two camera images for forming a three-dimensional camera image.