DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20150243081A1
• Filed: 09/26/2013
• Published: 08/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Ueno, Yasuhiro, Tanabe, Shigeki
• Granted Patent: US 9,799,141 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/212 using sensors worn by the player, e.g. for measuring heart beat or leg activity
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/213 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells A63F13/219, A63F13/655 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/428 involving motion or position input signals, e.g. signals representing the rotation of an input controller or a player's arm motions sensed by accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/5255 according to dedicated instructions from a player, e.g. using a secondary joystick to rotate the camera around a player's character
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/0612 Electronic puzzles
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/0826 Three-dimensional puzzles with slidable or rotatable elements or groups of elements, the main configuration remaining unchanged, e.g. Rubik's cube elements rotatable about just one axis, e.g. discs stacked as a cylinder A63F9/0811
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0172 characterised by optical features
• 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: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/366 using viewer tracking

Abstract

According to one of aspects, a display device includes: a display unit configured to stereoscopically display an aggregation configured from a plurality of regular hexahedrons arrayed along mutually perpendicular three directions, in a display space, by displaying images respectively corresponding to both eyes of a user by being worn; a detection unit configured to detect movement of a body in the display space; and a control unit configured to change positions of the regular hexahedrons of the aggregation according to a detection result of the detection unit. Each of six faces of the aggregation includes external faces of the regular hexahedrons as elements, and notations with which whether all of the elements on the same face of the aggregation belong to a same group is discriminative are provided to the respective elements.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

a display unit configured to stereoscopically display an aggregation configured from a plurality of regular hexahedrons arrayed along mutually perpendicular three directions, in a display space, by displaying images respectively corresponding to both eyes of a user by being worn;

a detection unit configured to detect movement of a body in the display space; and

a control unit configured to change positions of the regular hexahedrons of the aggregation according to a detection result of the detection unit, wherein

each of six faces of the aggregation includes external faces of the regular hexahedrons as elements, and notations with which whether all of the elements on the same face of the aggregation belong to a same group is discriminative are provided to the respective elements, and

the control unit controls the regular hexahedrons to be pivoted such that,

of the six faces, in faces perpendicular to a first direction of the mutually perpendicular three directions, positional relationship among the elements that configure each of the faces is not changed, and

of the six faces, in a plurality of other faces perpendicular to a second or third direction of the mutually perpendicular three directions, part of the elements that configure each of the plurality of other faces are interchanged among the plurality of other faces,

based on the detection result of the detection unit, using the first direction as a rotation axis.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein,

when the detection unit has detected that there is the body at a position where the body holds the aggregation, and the body has moved,

the control unit controls the aggregation to be moved according to the movement of the body.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein,

when the detection unit has detected two pairs of bodies that hold the aggregation at two places, and movement that the two pairs of bodies are relatively rotated around a direction into which the two pairs of bodies face each other,

the control unit determines the direction into which the two pairs of bodies face each other as the first direction, and controls the regular hexahedrons to be pivoted according to an amount of rotation of the relatively rotating movement.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the display unit stereoscopically displays a plurality of aggregations in the display space, and

when the detection unit has detected, with respect to first aggregation of the plurality of aggregations, two pairs of bodies that hold the first aggregation at two places, and movement that the two pairs of bodies are relatively rotated around a direction into which the two pairs of bodies face each other,

the control unit determines the direction into which the two pairs of bodies face each other as the first direction, and controls the regular hexahedrons that configure the first aggregation, and the regular hexahedrons that configure second aggregation of the plurality of aggregations to be pivoted in conjunction with each other, according to an amount of rotation of the relatively rotating movement with respect to the first aggregation.

5. The display device according to claim 4, wherein

the display unit stereoscopically displays the aggregations in a state where the second aggregation is nested into the first aggregation, and

when the detection unit has detected that there is the body at a position where the body holds the second aggregation, and the body has moved,

the control unit controls such that only the second aggregation is moved without moving the first aggregation, according to the movement of the body.

6. The display device according to claim 4, wherein

the display unit stereoscopically displays the first aggregation and the second aggregation in the same display space, and

when the detection unit has detected that there is the body at a position where the body holds the second aggregation, and the body has moved,

the control unit controls such that the second aggregation and the first aggregation are moved in conjunction with each other, according to the movement of the body with respect to the second aggregation.

7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the detection unit includes a camera or a TOF sensor.

8. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays a time limit.

9. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays the number of pivoting by which the regular hexahedrons are pivoted.

10. A display device, comprising:

a display unit configured to stereoscopically display a cubic puzzle in a display space, by displaying images respectively corresponding to both eyes of a user by being worn;

a detection unit configured to detect movement of a body in the display space; and

a control unit configured to change a position of a piece of the cubic puzzle according to a detection result of the detection unit.

11. The display device according to claim 10, wherein the cubic puzzle is a regular polyhedron-type cubic puzzle.

12. The display device according to claim 11, wherein the regular polyhedron-type cubic puzzle includes a regular tetrahedron-type cubic puzzle, a regular hexahedron-type cubic puzzle, a regular octahedron-type cubic puzzle, a regular dodecahedron-type cubic puzzle, and a regular icosahedron-type cubic puzzle.

13. The display device according to claim 12, wherein the regular hexahedron-type cubic puzzle includes a Pocket Cube, a Rubik'"'"'s Cube, a Rubik'"'"'s Revenge, and a Professor'"'"'s Cube.

14. A control system, comprising:

a display device including

a display unit configured to stereoscopically display an aggregation configured from a plurality of regular hexahedrons arrayed along mutually perpendicular three directions, in a display space, by displaying images respectively corresponding to both eyes of a user by being worn, and

a detection unit configured to detect movement of a body in the display space; and

a control device including a control unit configured to change positions of the regular hexahedrons of the aggregation according to a detection result of the detection unit, wherein

each of six faces of the aggregation includes external faces of the regular hexahedrons as elements, and notations with which whether all of the elements on the same face of the aggregation belong to a same group is discriminative are provided to the respective elements, and

the control unit controls the regular hexahedrons to be pivoted such that,

of the six faces, in faces perpendicular to a first direction of the mutually perpendicular three directions, positional relationship among the elements that configure the each of faces is not changed, and

of the six faces, in a plurality of other faces perpendicular to a second or third direction of the mutually perpendicular three directions, part of the elements that configure each of the plurality of other faces are interchanged among the plurality of other faces,

based on the detection result of the detection unit, using the first direction as a rotation axis.

15. A non-transitory storage medium that stores a control program that causes, when executed by a display device including a detection unit and a display unit configured to display images respectively corresponding to both eyes of a user by being worn, the display device to execute:

stereoscopically displaying an aggregation configured from a plurality of regular hexahedrons arrayed along mutually perpendicular three directions, in a display space, by the display unit, wherein each of six faces of the aggregation includes external faces of the regular hexahedrons as elements, and notations with which whether all of the elements on the same face of the aggregation belong to a same group is discriminative are provided to the respective elements;

detecting movement of a body in the display space by the detection unit; and

controlling the regular hexahedrons to be pivoted such that,

of the six faces, in faces perpendicular to a first direction of the mutually perpendicular three directions, positional relationship among the elements that configure the each of faces is not changed, and

of the six faces, in a plurality of other faces perpendicular to a second or third direction of the mutually perpendicular three directions, part of the elements that configure each of the plurality of other faces are interchanged among the plurality of other faces,

based on the detection result of the detection unit, using the first direction as a rotation axis.

16. A display device, comprising:

a display unit configured to stereoscopically display an aggregation configured from a plurality of regular polyhedrons arrayed along faces configured by connecting vertexes of a regular polyhedron with N faces (N=4, 6, 8, 12, or

     20), in a display space, by displaying images respectively corresponding to both eyes of a user by being worn;

a detection unit configured to detect movement of a body in the display space; and

a control unit configured to change positions of the regular polyhedrons of the aggregation according to a detection result of the detection unit, wherein

each of faces of the aggregation includes external faces of the regular polyhedrons as elements, and notations with which whether all of the elements on the same face of the aggregation belong to a same group is discriminative are provided to the respective elements, and

the control unit controls the regular polyhedrons to be pivoted such that

on a first face of the faces, and further on a second face parallel to the first face when there is the second face, positional relationship among the elements is not changed and,

on a plurality of other faces intersecting with the first face, or either on a plurality of other faces intersecting with the second face or on a plurality of other faces intersecting with the first face when there is the second face, part of the elements that configure the plurality of other faces are interchanged among the plurality of other faces,

based on the detection result of the detection unit, using a direction perpendicular to the first face as a rotation axis.