Augmented reality vision systems which derive image information from other vision system

• US 6,307,556 B1
• Filed: 03/27/1995
• Issued: 10/23/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Geovector Corporation
• Original Assignee: Geovector Corporation
• Inventors: Ellenby, Peter, Ellenby, John, Ellenby, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph H.
• Application Number:
  US08/411,299
• Time in Patent Office: 2,402 Days
• Field of Search: 395/118-19, 395/127, 395/135, 345/418-19, 345/427, 345/435
• US Class Current: 345/427
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 17/34 Sun- or astro-compasses
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32014 Augmented reality assists operator in maintenance, repair, programming, assembly, use of head mounted display with 2-D 3-D display and voice feedback, voice and gesture command
• 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 3/0346 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 3/04815 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: G06T 15/10 Geometric effects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces

Abstract

A vision system which collects information from similar vision systems having a different perspective of a scene are arranged to produce a composite image. The composite image having information from both perspectives can then include features impossible to otherwise show. Objects otherwise “hidden” from a first perspective are displayed as information from a second perspective may contain imagery relating to those images. A translation of spatial coordinates conditions the image from the second perspective such that it will fit into a composite image and match the first perspective.

Claims

1. An apparatus operable for providing an image of a scene, the image being a composite image comprised of information relating to the scene realized from a plurality of perspectives, the apparatus comprising:

a) a first vision system; and

b) a second vision system in electro-magnetic communication with the first vision system,

said first vision system having a first perspective of the scene and said second vision system having a second perspective of the scene, the second perspective being a different perspective than the first perspective,

said information relating to the scene further including;

image information acquired from a first vision system and image information acquired from a second vision system, the image information from the second vision system having been operated on by a translation of perspective routine such that the perspective of the image information after the perspective translation is substantially the same perspective as that of the first vision system, said image information further being graphical and determined by measurements of position and attitude of either vision system.