INFORMATION PRESENTATION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20150029091A1
• Filed: 07/22/2014
• Published: 01/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nakashima, Yusaku, Iwakuma, Yukifumi
• Application Number:
  US14/337,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20150029091A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• 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 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements

Abstract

An information presentation apparatus includes a main body, a detection unit, and a presentation unit. The main body is mounted on a head portion of a user. The detection unit is disposed on a position intersecting a median plane of the user who wears the main body and configured to detect a motion of the head portion of the user. The presentation unit is disposed on the main body and is capable of presenting information switched on the basis of an output from the detection unit to the user.

Claims

1. An information presentation apparatus, comprising:

a main body mounted on a head portion of a user;

a detection unit disposed on a position intersecting a median plane of the user who wears the main body and configured to detect a motion of the head portion of the user; and

a presentation unit disposed on the main body and capable of presenting information switched on the basis of an output from the detection unit to the user.

2. The information presentation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the detection unit is disposed to be opposed to a glabella portion of the user who wears the main body in a direction perpendicular to the glabella portion.

3. The information presentation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the presentation unit includes a display unit capable of displaying an image switched on the basis of the output from the detection unit in front of eyes of the user.

4. The information presentation apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the presentation unit includes a speaker unit capable of outputting voice switched on the basis of the output from the detection unit to the user.

5. The information presentation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the detection unit includes an angular velocity sensor unit that detects the motion of the head portion of the user.

6. The information presentation apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the angular velocity sensor unit includes

a first vibration element that detects an angular velocity about a first axis based on a first motion of the user, and

a second vibration element that detects an angular velocity about a second axis based on a second motion of the user, the second axis being different from the first axis.

7. The information presentation apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

a direction of the first axis is one of a lateral direction and a vertical direction.

8. The information presentation apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

a direction of the first axis and a direction of the second axis are perpendicular to each other.

9. The information presentation apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the first and second vibration elements each have a first end portion capable of vibrating and a second end portion opposite to the first end portion and are extended along the directions of the first and second axes, respectively, and

in the angular velocity sensor unit, a distance from a point at which a first straight line and a second straight line intersect to the second end portion of the first vibration element is equal to a distance from the point to the second end portion of the second vibration element, the first straight line being extended along the direction of the first axis from the first vibration element, the second straight line being extended along the direction of the second axis from the second vibration element.

10. The information presentation apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the angular velocity sensor unit includes a detection body capable of detecting angular velocities about three axes different from one another.

11. An information processing system, comprising:

a main body mounted on a head portion of a user;

a presentation unit disposed on the main body and capable of presenting predetermined information to the user;

a detection unit disposed on a position intersecting a median plane of the user who wears the main body and configured to detect a motion of the head portion of the user; and

a control unit configured to switch the information presented by the presentation unit on the basis of an output from the detection unit.