Presentation system

• US 7,027,041 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2002
• Issued: 04/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujinon Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujinon Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yokoyama, Junichi, Nagashima, Takashi, Nishimura, Mitsuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Shankar, Vijay
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEWIS, DAVID LEE
• Application Number:
  US10/254,508
• Publication Number:
  US 20030063260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,293 Days
• Field of Search: 345/8, 345156-180
• US Class Current: 345/178
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0425 using a single imaging device like a video camera for tracking the absolute position of a single or a plurality of objects with respect to an imaged reference surface, e.g. video camera imaging a display or a projection screen, a table or a wall surface, on which a computer generated image is displayed or projected tracking a projected light spot to determine a position on a display surface G06F3/0386
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26

Abstract

A presentation system comprises: a screen device; a projecting device for projecting an image onto the screen device; an indication mark for setting two reference points, which is two orthogonal points on a rectangular virtual screen, near a presenter and for the presenter operating a point on the virtual screen; a photographing device for photographing the virtual screen and the indication mark; and an arithmetic operation device for generating coordinates of the virtual screen from the two reference points photographed by the photographing device, and for calculating coordinates of the indication mark on the generated virtual screen. The projecting device projects a point image onto the coordinates of the indication mark on the image.

Claims

1. A presentation system comprising:

a screen device that displays an image;

an indication mark for setting a virtual screen near a user and for being used by the user to operate a point on the virtual screen;

a photographing device that photographs the virtual screen and the indication mark;

an arithmetic operation device that calculates coordinates of the indication mark on the virtual screen based on a photographed image of the virtual screen and the indication mark photographed by the photographing device; and

a projecting device for projecting a point image onto the screen device, based on the calculated coordinates of the indication mark on the virtual screen, which are calculated by the arithmetic operation device;

wherein when the user sets two arbitrary reference points by using the indication mark, the photographing device photographs the two reference points and the arithmetic operation device generates coordinates of the virtual screen from a photographed image of the two reference points photographed by the photographing device, so that the virtual screen is set to have a rectangular area based on the two arbitrary reference points.

2. A presentation system according to claim 1, wherein the photographing device comprises an automatic angle change mechanism that automatically searches and photographs each of the two reference points so as to photograph each reference point initially set at the time the two reference points were set by the indication mark.

3. A presentation system according to claim 1, wherein the photographing device comprises a zoom function.

4. A presentation system according to claim 1, wherein the photographing device comprises a lighting device that illuminates the user, an image of the illuminated user being projected to the screen device according to operation.

5. A presentation system according to claims 1, wherein the indication mark is produced by a light emitter.

6. A presentation system comprising:

a screen device capable of displaying an image;

a coordinate space spatially distinct from the screen device;

an indication mark that specifies a point within the coordinate space;

a photographing device that creates a photographic image of the coordinate space;

an arithmetic operation device that calculates coordinates of a point within the coordinate space based on the photographed image of the coordinate space and the indication mark; and

a projecting device that projects a point image onto the screen device based on the calculated coordinates of the indication mark within the coordinate space;

wherein the indication mark is used to identify reference points within the coordinate space which are photographed by the photographing unit, the output of the photographing unit providing input to the arithmetic operating device to generate coordinates defining a rectangularly bounded coordinate space based on the identified reference points.