Mediated reality display system improving lenses, windows and screens

• US 9,759,916 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2016
• Issued: 09/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Christopher V. Beckman
• Original Assignee: Christopher V. Beckman
• Inventors: Beckman, Christopher V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Laballe, Clayton E
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fenwick, Warren K
• Application Number:
  US15/138,481
• Publication Number:
  US 20160357014A1
• Time in Patent Office: 504 Days
• Field of Search: 396 52, 359237, 359601, 359613, 296 972
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 3/04 adjustable in transparency
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0118 comprising devices for improving the contrast of the display / brillance control visibility
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0134 of stereoscopic type
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0138 comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/01 Head-up displays
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0101 characterised by optical features G02B27/0172 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/55 Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/60 Control of cameras or camera modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/687 by shifting the lens or sensor position
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera

Abstract

New optic control systems are provided that manage user or environmental factors impacting viewing experiences. In some aspects of the invention, a variably, directionally shadable screen and actuating system is provided, which prevents and limits problematic glare for an observation point. In other aspects of the invention, a matrix of specialized pixels creates variably-directed light from a plurality of angle-directable, shiftable sources, which aids in creating virtual, 3-D objects of greater realism than conventional 3-D imaging methods and aid in reducing the appearance of distracting interceding objects (e.g., finger blocking a touch screen). In these aspects, existing images and objects viewed through a screen may be enhanced and overlaid with effects, and shifted in perspective, and demonstrative information related to images and objects and an environment. In other aspects of the invention, driving enhancement, and semi-autonomous driving systems and displays are provided.

Claims

1. A system for enhancing observable images comprising:

hardware capable of defining observation points or regions; and

hardware capable of shading any of several areas of a screen to shade or intercept at least some light that would otherwise reach said observation point(s) or region(s), which light transcends a threshold limit of luminance that would otherwise occur at said observation point(s) or region(s), which threshold limit is based on environmental light information, while leaving other light passing through the screen unshaded or less shaded by shading or not shading at least one of several areas of a screen,

wherein the system also may provide virtual objects using shifted reality and augmented reality hardware.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein a user of the system and/or the system may add margins or tolerance zones of additional shading affecting observation point- or region-destined light around said shaded areas.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said margins or tolerance zones may be expanded, shifted or contracted by the user or system in reaction to live sensory and user control actuation data.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said observation point(s) or region(s) may be variably set by a user and/or the system, using vehicle device or control comprised in a passenger-carrying vehicle, or using a second control, in addition to or instead of the vehicle device or control.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the system determines future movement of an object light source before shifting said shaded areas to intercept future light from said source.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the system reduces or augments at least part of said shaded areas based on potential danger posed by an object that would otherwise be blocked or otherwise reduced due to said shaded areas.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the system comprises a plurality of system-controlled light-diverting components, and wherein the system is configured to use said light-diverting components to create an image enhancing the visibility of a real-world object by diverting light emanating from the object and delivering it to a location different from where it would arrive without creating said image.