Systems and Methods for Providing Input to a Computer-Mediated Reality Device Using a Viewing Device

• US 20170256197A1
• Filed: 01/09/2017
• Published: 09/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2016
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Goslin, Michael P., Olson, Joseph Logan
• Application Number:
  US15/402,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20170256197A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0118 comprising devices for improving the contrast of the display / brillance control visibility
• 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 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/022 Viewing apparatus G02B27/04, G02B27/06, G02B27/08 take precedence
• 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 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units

Abstract

There is provided system including a user device and a viewing device configured to receive the user device, the viewing device including a control element and a viewing portal, the user device including a display, a non-transitory memory storing an executable code, a hardware processor executing the executable code to display, on the display, a computer-mediated reality content visible by a user through the viewing portal of the viewing device, receive a first input from the viewing device, in response to a second input provided by the user using the control element of the viewing device, modify an operational element of the user device, in response to the first input.

Claims

1. A computer-mediated reality system comprising:

a user device; and

a viewing device configured to receive the user device, the viewing device including a control element and a viewing portal;

the user device including;

a display;

a non-transitory memory storing an executable code;

a hardware processor executing the executable code to;

display, on the display, a computer-mediated reality content visible by a user through the viewing portal of the viewing device;

receive a first input from the viewing device, in response to a second input provided by the user using the control element of the viewing device;

modify an operational element of the user device, in response to the first input.

2. The computer-mediated reality system of claim 1, wherein modifying the operational element includes switching from one of an augmented reality view and a virtual reality view to the other.

3. The computer-mediated reality system of claim 2, wherein, when the user device is in the virtual reality view, the processor further executes the executable code to:

render a virtual reality.

4. The computer-mediated reality system of claim 1, wherein the first input is one of an audible sound, a color, a pattern, and a motion.

5. The computer-mediated reality system of claim 1, wherein the viewing device switches from one of an augmented reality mode to a virtual reality mode to the other using an adjustable lens.

6. The computer-mediated reality system of claim 5, wherein the adjustable lens includes a stationary polarized lens and a rotatable polarized lens.

7. The computer-mediated reality system of claim 1, wherein displaying the computer-mediated reality content includes projecting the computer-mediated reality content onto a beam splitter in the viewing portal of the viewing device.

8. The computer-mediated reality system of claim 1, wherein the control element is one of an accelerometer, a microphone, a camera, and a touch screen.

9. The computer-mediated reality system of claim 1, wherein modifying the operational element includes changing a brightness of the display.

10. The computer-mediated reality system of claim 1, wherein the second input includes a touch screen input entered on the display without obstructing the displaying of the computer-mediated reality content on the display.

11. A method for user with a computer-mediated reality system including a viewing device and a user device, the user device including a display, a non-transitory memory and a hardware processor, the method comprising:

displaying, using the display, a computer-mediated reality content visible by a user through a viewing portal of the viewing device;

receiving, using the hardware processor, a first input from the viewing device, in response to a second input provided by the user using the control element of the viewing device;

modifying, using the hardware processor, an operational element of the user device, in response to the first input.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein modifying the operational element includes switching from one of an augmented reality view and a virtual reality view to the other.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein, when the user device is in the virtual reality view, method further comprises:

rendering, using the hardware processor, a virtual reality.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the first input is one of an audible sound, a color, a pattern, and a motion.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the viewing device switches from one of an augmented reality mode to a virtual reality mode to the other using an adjustable lens.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the adjustable lens includes a stationary polarized lens and a rotatable polarized lens.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein displaying the computer-mediated reality content includes projecting the computer-mediated reality content onto a beam splitter in the viewing portal of the viewing device.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the control element is one of an accelerometer, a microphone, a camera, and a touch screen.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein modifying the operational element includes changing a brightness of the display.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the second input includes a touch screen input entered on the display without obstructing the displaying of the computer-mediated reality content on the display.