Image processing apparatus and method, head mounted display, program, and recording medium

• US 8,456,485 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2009
• Issued: 06/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tsujimoto, Takuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, K.
• Application Number:
  US12/559,794
• Publication Number:
  US 20100091031A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,358 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/589
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0116 comprising devices for correcting chromatic aberration
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted

Abstract

An image processing apparatus that corrects chromatic aberration that occurs in a display optical system, using a display unit in which respective pixels have a plurality of primary color elements that emit light of respectively differing primary colors, the apparatus comprises an acquisition unit adapted to acquire a displacement amount in which the position of a primary color element used as a light source is used as a reference, for light of each primary color emitted by a primary color element of the display unit, a calculation unit adapted to calculate a display position in the display unit for each primary color component of each pixel in a display image, based on the acquired displacement amount, and a display control unit adapted to display each primary color component of each pixel of the display image at the display position of the display unit calculated by the calculation unit.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus that corrects chromatic aberration that occurs in a display optical system, using a display unit in which respective pixels have a plurality of primary color elements that emit light of respectively differing primary colors, the apparatus comprising:

a first acquisition unit constructed to acquire a displacement amount of a predetermined reference primary color element as a reference displacement amount in each pixel of the display unit;

a second acquisition unit constructed to acquire a displacement amount for each primary color element other than the reference primary color element included in the pixel, based on the position of the primary color element relative to the reference primary color element and the reference displacement amount;

a calculation unit constructed to calculate a display position in the display unit for each primary color component of each pixel in a display image, based on the displacement amounts acquired by the first and the second acquisition units; and

a display control unit constructed to display each primary color component of each pixel of the display image at the display position of the display unit calculated by the calculation unit.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

further comprising a storage unit constructed to store the reference displacement amount;

wherein the first acquisition unit is constructed to read out the reference displacement amount stored in the storage unit to acquire the reference displacement amount.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein when the display optical system has a shape that is symmetrical with the center of the display optical system as a reference,

the storage unit is constructed to store the reference displacement amount for each pixel included in a quadrant of the display unit used as a reference,

the first acquisition unit is constructed to acquire, for each reference primary color element included in a pixel that is not included in the reference quadrant, a displacement amount based on the relative position of the quadrant that includes that pixel relative to the reference quadrant, and a reference displacement amount of a pixel that corresponds to that pixel in the reference quadrant, and

the second acquisition unit is constructed to acquire, for each primary color element other than a reference primary color element included in a pixel that is not included in the reference quadrant, a displacement amount based on the relative position of the quadrant that includes that pixel relative to the reference quadrant, and the relative position of the primary color element relative to the reference primary color element, and a reference displacement amount of a pixel that corresponds to that pixel in the reference quadrant.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is constructed to interpolate the display of each pixel of the display image by adjusting the output of a primary color element included in each pixel of the display unit that is positioned surrounding the display position calculated by the calculation unit.

5. The image, processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first and second acquisition units are constructed to acquire the displacement amounts using an approximation polynomial that corresponds to the shape of the display optical system.

6. A Head Mounted Display comprising the image processing apparatus according to claim 1.

8. A computer-readable storage medium on which is stored a program for causing a computer to function as the image processing apparatus according to claim 1.

7. An image processing method in an image processing apparatus that corrects chromatic aberration that occurs in a display optical system, using a display unit in which respective pixels have a plurality of primary color elements that emit light of respectively differing primary colors, the method comprising the steps of:

acquiring a displacement amount of a predetermined reference primary color element as a reference displacement amount in each pixel of the display unit;

acquiring a displacement amount for each primary color element other than the reference primary color element included in the pixel, based on the position of the primary color element relative to the reference primary color element and the reference displacement amount;

calculating a display position in the display unit for each primary color component of each pixel in a display image, based on the displacement amounts acquired by the first and second steps of acquiring; and

displaying each primary color component of each pixel of the display image at the display position of the display unit that has been calculated in the calculating step.