SHIFTED REALITY DISPLAY DEVICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A system for enhancing observable images and environments comprising:
- hardware capable of defining observation point(s) or region(s); and
hardware capable of blocking any of several areas of a screen to shade or intercept at least some light that would otherwise reach said observation point(s) or region(s),hardware capable of creating light to produce virtual objects and effects,hardware capable of re-routing environmental light passing through it, to produce a range of actual and virtual objects with a shifting perspective.
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Abstract
New visual control systems are provided that implement a new form of mediated reality, known as shifted-reality. In some embodiments, a matrix of specialized pixels creates redirected light with a plurality of angle-alterable, shiftable sources, which aids in creating virtual, 3-D objects of greater realism than conventional 3-D imaging methods, and aids in reducing the appearance of other objects or conditions. In these aspects, existing images and objects viewed through a screen may be shifted in perspective for an observer, and enhanced and overlaid with effects and demonstrative information related to viewable objects and a surrounding environment. In other aspects of the invention, the system builds and accesses an object structure and materials library, based on observation with a specialized group of sensors. Preferably, one observation sensor is non-visual (e.g., ultrasound), but observes an environment in a mappably-related perspective as a visual sensor. The system may create an array of subdividing material and structural categories. The system then applies the library to an object inventory, and later corrects the object inventory.
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18 Claims
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1. A system for enhancing observable images and environments comprising:
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hardware capable of defining observation point(s) or region(s); and hardware capable of blocking any of several areas of a screen to shade or intercept at least some light that would otherwise reach said observation point(s) or region(s), hardware capable of creating light to produce virtual objects and effects, hardware capable of re-routing environmental light passing through it, to produce a range of actual and virtual objects with a shifting perspective. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for identifying and real world objects with a personal environment viewing and scanning device, comprising the following steps:
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identifying at least one observation focal point of a user of the device; scan and image and identify environmental object and category encompassing said environmental object, using at least one camera and at least one other sensor paired with said at least one camera; create and present virtual object at the observation focal point, representing said environmental object, with shifted reality hardware; apply object physics stored in said library to said virtual object. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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