Storage medium for storing a signal having successive images for subsequent playback and a method for forming such a signal for storage on such a storage medium

• US 20100149329A1
• Filed: 02/19/2010
• Published: 06/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/1995
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Simulated Percepts, LLC
• Original Assignee: Simulated Percepts, LLC
• Inventors: Maguire, Francis J. JR.
• Granted Patent: US 8,330,811 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/121
• 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 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

A method for producing successive nonuniform images for storage is shown with the successive images having a changing point of view that changes direction between images, and a storage medium storing the successive images, wherein a playback device retrieves the successive images for presentation to a viewer, wherein among the successive images are at least four distinct visual fixations presented in a second or two for attention of the viewer, each distinct visual fixation comprising a distinct point of view with distinct resolution.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing a transitory light control signal comprising successive images having a changing point of view that changes direction between said successive images, and

storing said transitory light control signal comprising said successive images as a non-transitory light control signal, wherein said non-transitory light control signal is for later retrieval by a playback device for controlling light for presentation of said successive images to a viewer, wherein among said successive images for presentation to said viewer are at least four distinct visual fixation images presented in a second or two for attention of said viewer, each distinct visual fixation image comprising a distinct point of view with distinct resolution.

2. The method of claim 1, said successive images having a field of view with informational content concentrated or highlighted in a portion thereof that changes position within said field of view between said successive images, wherein said distinct resolution of said each distinct visual fixation image comprises a distinct position of said region of concentrated or highlighted informational content within said field of view for said attention of said viewer.

3. A storage medium having said non-transitory light control signal according to claim 1 stored thereon for said later retrieval for controlling said light presented by said playback device to said viewer of said successive images.

4. The storage medium of claim 3, wherein said successive images are successive stereoscopic images.

5. A method comprising:

providing a transitory light control signal comprising successive images having;

(i) a changing point of view that changes in translational position, that changes in direction, and that changes in various combinations of said changes in translational position and said changes in direction between said successive images, and

(ii) a field of view with informational content concentrated or highlighted in a portion thereof that changes position within said field of view between said successive images, and

storing said transitory light control signal comprising said successive images as a non-transitory light control signal, wherein said non-transitory light control signal is for later retrieval by a playback device for controlling light presented by said playback device to a viewer as said successive images including changing visual fixations that each comprise a different combination of;

(i) a distinct point of view, and

(ii) a distinct position of said region of concentrated or highlighted informational content within said field of view.

6. A storage medium having said non-transitory light control signal according to claim 5 stored thereon for said retrieval and said controlling light for presentation by said playback device to said viewer as said successive images.

7. The storage medium of claim 6, wherein said successive images succeed each other at a rate of 60 or 120 images per second.

8. The storage medium of claim 6, wherein said successive images are stereoscopic images.

9. The storage medium of claim 6, wherein said series of changing visual fixations comprises at least four changing visual fixations that succeed one another within a second or two.

10. The storage medium of claim 6, wherein said changes in translational position of said point of view are with at least two degrees of freedom.

11. The storage medium of claim 6, wherein said changes in direction of said point of view are with at least two degrees of freedom.

12. The storage medium of claim 6, wherein said changes in position of said region of concentrated or highlighted informational content changes within said field of view with at least two degrees of freedom.

13. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein the changes in position of said region of concentrated or highlighted informational content of said successive images changes according to changes in a monitored attitude of a human eye.

14. The method of claim 5, wherein said successive images are computer generated images produced by a computer workstation with software.

15. The method of claim 5, wherein said successive images are produced by a workstation on which software is used to carry out post-production work on images of real objects taken from a camera.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein said camera comprises a head mounted camera.

17. A storage medium having a non-transitory signal comprising successive images stored thereon for retrieval by a playback device for presentation of said successive images to an eye of a viewer within a field of view, said successive images including

(i) nonuniform images, each nonuniform image having a highly detailed component and a lesser detailed component, wherein a position of the highly detailed component changes within said field of view in selected nonuniform images, and

(ii) a point of view that changes direction and that changes translational position,

wherein selected images of said successive images are for presentation by said playback device to said eye of said viewer as changing visual fixations that each comprise a different combination of:

(i) a distinct point of view, and

(ii) a distinct position of said highly detailed component within said field of view.

18. The storage medium of claim 17, wherein said successive images are stereoscopic images.

19. The storage medium of claim 17, wherein said series of changing visual fixations comprises at least four changing visual fixations that succeed one another within a second or two.

20. The storage medium of claim 17, wherein said changes in translational position of said point of view are with at least two degrees of freedom wherein said changes in direction of said point of view are with at least two degrees of freedom, and wherein said changes in position of said region of concentrated or highlighted informational content changes within said field of view with at least two degrees of freedom.