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Apparatus for inducing attitudinal head movements for passive virtual reality

  • US 5,734,421 A
  • Filed: 05/30/1995
  • Issued: 03/31/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/30/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus, comprising:

  • a camera for mounting on a head of a cameraman, responsive to light reflected from objects in an object space, for providing an image signal indicative of the objects viewed by the cameraman;

    a head attitude monitor, responsive to an attitude of the head of the cameraman, for providing an attitude signal indicative of attitudinal head motions of the head of the cameraman as the objects are viewed by the cameraman; and

    a video and head motion signal processor, responsive to the image signal and to the attitude signal, for providing an encoded signal for decoding in an image space for controlling attitudinal head motions of a passive viewer in the image space corresponding to the attitudinal head motions of the head of the cameraman and for providing images of the objects to the passive viewer corresponding to the objects viewed by the cameraman.

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