IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20130300760A1
• Filed: 04/26/2013
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sugano, Hisako, Ueno, Masatoshi, Kabasawa, Kenichi, Kawakami, Daisuke, Kuriya, Shinobu, Goto, Tetsuro, Tsukahara, Tsubasa, Nakagawa, Toshiyuki
• Application Number:
  US13/871,705
• Publication Number:
  US 20130300760A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/592
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

An image display apparatus includes a see-through display, an image mask generator, an image generator, and an image display unit. The see-through display is located before an eye of a user. The image mask generator is configured to generate an image mask. The image generator is configured to generate a display image with the image mask being overlapped with an original image. The image display unit is configured to display the display image on the see-through display.

Claims

1. An image display apparatus, comprising:

a see-through display located before an eye of a user;

an image mask generator configured to generate an image mask;

an image generator configured to generate a display image with the image mask being overlapped with an original image; and

an image display unit configured to display the display image on the see-through display.

2. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an imaging unit configured to capture a capture image; and

an object image extraction unit configured to extract, from the capture image, an object image being an image of an object included in a field of view of the imaging unit, wherein

the image mask generator is configured to generate an image mask by utilizing a range of the object image in the capture image.

3. The image display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the object image extraction unit is configured to execute edge detection with respect to the capture image and extract the object image.

4. The image display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the image mask generator is configured to set the range of the object image as the image mask.

5. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the image mask generator is configured to set a range specified by the user as the image mask.

6. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the image generator is configured to make a periphery of the image mask blurred and overlap the image mask with the original image.

7. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the image generator is configured to make the original image a semi-transparent image.

8. An image display program, comprising:

an image mask generator configured to generate an image mask;

an image generator configured to generate a display image with the image mask being overlapped with an original image; and

an image display unit configured to display the display image on a see-through display located at an eye of a user.

9. An image display method, comprising:

generating, by an image mask generator, an image mask;

generating, by an image generator, a display image with the image mask being overlapped with an original image; and

displaying, by an image display unit, the display image on a see-through display located before an eye of a user.