Handling different input signals
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited
InventorsIan Henry Bickerstaff, Simon Mark Benson
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Abstract
A head mountable display (HMD) system in which the size and/or distance from the viewer of a virtual screen for display of video material depends upon one or more of the following: whether the video material is in a 2-D or a 3-D format; the image resolution of the video material; the compression quality and/or data rate of the video material; the aspect ratio of the video material; the origin of the video material; and metadata associated with the video material.
Claims17
A head mountable display (HMD) system comprising:
- an HMD having stereoscopic display elements for eyes of a wearer of the HMD, the stereoscopic display elements being configured to provide a virtual screen to the HMD wearer at a rendered virtual position within a three-dimensional display environment;
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- a video processor configured to process video material for display by the stereoscopic display elements of the HMD;
- in which the video processor is configured so that one or both of a size of the virtual screen and a distance from the wearer of the rendered virtual position of the virtual screen within the three-dimensional display environment for display of the video material by the HMD depends upon a spatial frequency content of the video material,
- wherein when a maximum spatial frequency is less than a threshold amount, the system is configured to display the video material on a virtual screen that appears smaller and at a selected rendered virtual position which is closer to the wearer within the three-dimensional display environment than a virtual screen on which video with a maximum spatial frequency above the threshold amount is displayed.
A video display system comprising:
- a frame;
- at least one a pair of stereoscopic display elements coupled to the frame to provide a three-dimensional display environment;
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- a video processor arranged in operative communication with the pair of stereoscopic display elements,
- in which the video processor is configured to generate video material for display, one or both of an image size and a rendered image position within the three-dimensional display environment at which the video material is displayed depending upon an image resolution of the video material and spatial frequency content of the video material, wherein if a maximum spatial frequency is less than a threshold amount, then the video material is configured by the video processor for display on a virtual screen associated with the pair of stereoscopic display elements, the virtual screen configured to appear smaller and at a selected rendered position within the three-dimensional display environment which is closer to a user than a virtual screen on which video with a maximum spatial frequency above the threshold amount is configured for display.
A method of operation of a stereoscopic head mountable display (HMD) system operable to provide a three dimensional display environment, comprising:
- rendering a virtual screen for display of video material to a viewer of the HMD system, in which one or both of a size and rendered virtual distance from the viewer of the virtual screen within the three-dimensional display environment depends upon spatial frequency content of the video material;
- determining, by one or more processors, whether a maximum spatial frequency is less than a threshold amount;
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- when the maximum spatial frequency is determined to be less than the threshold amount, displaying the video material on a virtual screen that appears smaller and at a selected rendered virtual position within the three-dimensional display environment which is closer to the viewer than a virtual screen on which video with a maximum spatial frequency above the threshold amount is displayed.
A method of operation of a stereoscopic video display operable to provide a three-dimensional display environment, in which one or both of an image size and a rendered image position within the three-dimensional display environment at which video material is displayed depends upon an image resolution of the video material and spatial frequency content of the video material, the method comprising:
- determining, by one or more processors, whether a maximum spatial frequency is less than a threshold amount;
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- upon determination that the maximum spatial frequency is less than the threshold amount, preparing the video material for display on a virtual screen that appears smaller and at a selected rendered position within the three-dimensional display environment which is closer to a user of the video display than a virtual screen on which video with a maximum spatial frequency above the threshold amount is displayed.
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