SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR PROCESSING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES

• US 20160139676A1
• Filed: 01/21/2016
• Published: 05/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Ayala, Alfredo M.
• Application Number:
  US15/003,717
• Publication Number:
  US 20160139676A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/20 using two or more projectors
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/26 using polarised or coloured light separating different viewpoint images
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/005 Input arrangements through a video camera
• 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: H04N 13/111 Transformation of image signals corresponding to virtual viewpoints, e.g. spatial image interpolation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/243 using three or more 2D image sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/363 using image projection screens volumetric display H04N13/388

Abstract

The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a method and/or system for projection of images to appear to an observer as one or more three-dimensional images.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

projecting one or more images in a theater;

detecting a gesture from an audience member in the theater, wherein the gesture interacts with the one or more projected images; and

interpreting the gesture.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the detection is performed by capturing images of the audience member in response to detection of movement of the audience member.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the detection is performed by capturing an infrared illumination of the audience member.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the interpretation of the gesture is performed through blob processing of one or more attributes of the audience member.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more attributes of the audience member is selected from the group consisting of facial features, location of eyes, location of hands, and head positioning.

6. A system comprising:

a projector that projects one or more images in a theater;

a detection device that detects a gesture from an audience member in the theater, wherein the gesture interacts with the one or more projected images; and

a processor that interprets the gesture.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the detection device is an infrared camera that captures images of the audience member in response to detection of movement of the audience member.

8. The system of claim 6, further comprising an infrared illuminator that illuminates the audience member such that the detection device detects the gesture.

9. The system of claim 6, further comprising a processor that interprets the gesture through blob processing of one or more attributes of the audience member.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more attributes of the audience member is selected from the group consisting of facial features, location of eyes, location of hands, and head positioning.

11. An apparatus comprising:

a detection device that detects a gesture from an audience member in a theater and provides the gesture to a processor for interpretation, wherein the gesture interacts with one or more images projected by a projector in the theater.