Methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling virtual image scenarios in plurality display devices

• US 20180329664A1
• Filed: 08/17/2017
• Published: 11/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hung-Bin Chen, Ya-Ju Chang
• Original Assignee: Hung-Bin Chen, Ya-Ju Chang
• Inventors: CHANG, YA-JU, CHEN, HUNG-BIN
• Application Number:
  US15/679,224
• Publication Number:
  US 20180329664A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0384 Wireless input, i.e. hardware and software details of wireless interface arrangements for pointing devices
• 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 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/02 Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/002 to project the image of a two-dimensional display, such as an array of light emitting or modulating elements or a CRT

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for controlling virtual image scenarios in plurality display devices are disclosed. The method comprising: establishing, by a first display device in the virtual image system, a first virtual image scenario according to at least one predetermined image; receiving, by the first display device, a control signal; calculating, by the first display device, an absolute coordinate value corresponding to the at least one predetermined image according to an orientation and a view field of the first display device and the control signal; and displaying, by the first display device, a first object in the first virtual image scenario according to the absolute coordinate value.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a virtual image system, the method comprising:

establishing, by a first display device in the virtual image system, a first virtual image scenario according to at least one predetermined image;

receiving, by the first display device, a control signal;

calculating, by the first display device, an absolute coordinate value corresponding to the at least one predetermined image according to an orientation and a view field of the first display device and the control signal; and

displaying, by the first display device, a first object in the first virtual image scenario according to the absolute coordinate value.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the absolute coordinate value is independent on a screen of the first display device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one predetermined image comprises a 360°

panoramic image.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the absolute coordinate value corresponds to a positioning information of the first virtual image scenario.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first display device broadcasts an information comprising the absolute coordinate value to a second display device in the virtual image system.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the information further comprises a corresponding command of the first display device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

establishing, by the second display device, a second virtual image scenario according to the at least one predetermined image;

receiving, by the second display device, information comprising the absolute coordinate value; and

displaying, by the second display device, a second object in the second virtual image scenario according to the absolute coordinate value of the information,

wherein the first object and the second object are substantially at the same location of the at least one predetermined image.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first display device operates at a briefing mode and the second display device operates at a listeners'"'"' mode.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the control signal is generated by a gesture performed on the first display device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first display device operates at a virtual image (VI) mode or a non-VI mode according a mode control signal.

11. A virtual image system, the virtual image system comprising:

a first display device comprising a first display unit, a first transceiver, and a first processor, an operation mode of the first display device comprising a virtual image (VI) mode;

wherein when the first display device operates at the VI mode, the first display device is configured to establish a first virtual image scenario according to at least one predetermined image, to receive a control signal comprises at least one of a movement amount and a command, to calculate an absolute coordinate value corresponding to the at least one predetermined image according to an orientation and a view field of the first display device and the control signal; and

to display a first object in the first virtual image scenario according to the absolute coordinate value.

12. The virtual image system of claim 11, wherein the first virtual image scenario is one of Virtual reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), Substitutional Reality (SR), and Cinematic Reality (CR) scenarios.

13. The virtual image system of claim 11, further comprising:

a second display device comprising a second display unit, a second transceiver, and a second processor;

an operation mode of the second display device comprising the virtual image (VI) mode;

wherein when the second display device operates at the VI mode, the second display device is configured to establish a second virtual image scenario according to the at least one predetermined image;

to receive the absolute coordinate value produced from the first display device; and

to display a second object in the second virtual image scenario according to the absolute coordinate value; and

wherein the first object and the second object are substantially at the same location of the at least one predetermined image.

14. The virtual image system of claim 11, wherein the operation mode of the first display device further comprises a non-VI mode;

wherein when the first display device operates at the non-VI mode, the first display device is configured to calculate a relative coordinate value of the screen of the first display device according to the control signal, and to display a third object according to the relative coordinate value.

15. The virtual image system of claim 11, wherein the control signal is generated by a control device comprising:

a pointing module comprising at least one button and a pointing unit;

a control circuit, coupled to the pointing module, to generate the control signal according to output of the pointing module; and

a transmission unit, coupled to the control circuit, to transmit the control signal to the first display device.

16. The virtual image system of claim 15, wherein the first display device operates at the VI mode or a non-VI mode according to a mode switch signal of the control signal from the control device.

17. A computer-readable memory comprising a set of instructions stored therein which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform steps comprising:

establishing a first virtual image scenario according to at least one predetermined image;

receiving a control signal;

calculating an absolute coordinate value corresponding to the at least one predetermined image according to an orientation and a view field of the first display device and the control signal; and

displaying a first object in the first virtual image scenario according to the absolute coordinate value.

18. The computer-readable memory of claim 17, the set of instructions further comprising:

broadcasting an information comprising the absolute coordinate value.