HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20150168729A1
• Filed: 12/04/2014
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: KOBAYASHI, Shinichi
• Application Number:
  US14/560,439
• Publication Number:
  US 20150168729A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0138 comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• 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 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00

Abstract

A head mounted display sets a display status by a user via a display status setting table for virtual display of a virtual image corresponding to an imaged image imaged by a camera (real image) as a camera preview. Then, image data necessary for virtual display of the camera preview in response to the set display status is formed, and the camera preview is virtually displayed in a virtual image display range in the set display status.

Claims

1. A head mounted display device that enables visual recognition of a virtual image superimposed on an outside scenery, comprising:

an image display unit that forms and displays the virtual image to be visually recognized by a user;

a virtual image formation processing unit that executes virtual image formation processing in the image display unit;

a camera that can perform imaging in a line-of-sight direction of the user; and

a preview setting unit that sets an image display status when an imaged image imaged by the camera is virtually displayed as a preview image in the image display unit.

2. The head mounted display device according to claim 1, wherein the preview setting unit sets at least one of a display sire of the preview image, a display location of the preview image in a virtual image display range, and a scaling factor when the imaged image is used as the preview image.

3. The head mounted display device according to claim 1, wherein the preview setting unit waits for settings of the image display status by the user.

4. The head mounted display device according to claim 3, further comprising an option setting operation unit displaying a plurality of setting options with respect to each image display status and operated by the user for selection of the displayed setting options,

wherein the preview setting unit sets the image display status by a user operation of the option setting operation unit.

5. The head mounted display device according to claim 3, further comprising a display setting operation unit operated by the user when one of a setting of displaying the preview image and a setting of not displaying the image is determined,

wherein the preview setting unit sets the image display status by a user operation of the option setting operation unit when the setting of displaying the preview image is made by a user operation of the display setting operation unit.

6. The head mounted display device according to claim 3, further comprising a display setting unit that monitors a behavior of a head of the user, and mates the setting of displaying the preview image when the user mates a predetermined head behavior,

wherein the preview setting unit sets the image display status by a user operation of the option setting operation unit when the display setting unit makes the setting of displaying the preview image.

7. The head mounted display device according to claim 3, further comprising a mode switching unit for the user to switch an imaging status by the camera to one of a still image imaging mode and a video imaging mode,

wherein the preview setting unit sets the image display status by a user operation of the option setting operation unit when the mode switching unit switches to the still image imaging mode.

8. The head mounted display device according to claim 1, wherein the virtual image formation processing unit executes the virtual image formation processing so that the preview image may be displayed on the image display unit over a predetermined time.