Head-mounted display device, program, and method for controlling head-mounted display device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorYuichi Kunitomo
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Abstract
A head-mounted display device includes: an image display unit which is mounted on a head of a user and displays an image in such a way that the user can visually recognize an external scene; a camera; a detection control unit which detects an operation with a pointing element, based on a picked-up image picked up by the camera; and an operation control unit which controls the image on the image display unit, based on the operation detected by the detection control unit. If the pointing element is detected from the picked-up image picked up by the camera, the operation control unit causes the image display unit to display a hand-finger image showing at least one of position and shape of the pointing element.
Claims13
A head-mounted display device for use with a head of a user, the head-mounted display device comprising:
- an image display that is mounted on the head of the user and displays an image;
- a camera that picks up a picked-up image from an external scene;
- a processor and/or circuit configured to:
- detect a pointing element based on the picked-up image picked up by the camera;
- cause the image display to display a display object corresponding to a position or a shape of the detected pointing element in the image, the display object being superimposed over the external scene that includes the detected pointing element, the display object being a contour line constituting a part or an entirety of a contour of the detected pointing element;
- cause the image display to display a functional display image, the functional display image is the image indicating a function that executes an application;
- and
- change a width of the contour line in the image display.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for use with a head-mounted display device having:
- (i) an image display which is mounted on a head of a user and that displays an image, (ii) a camera, and (iii) a processor and/or circuit, that the program causing the processor and/or circuit to execute steps comprising:
- detecting a pointing element based on the picked-up image picked up by the camera;
- causing the image display to display a display object corresponding to a position or a shape of the detected pointing element in the image, the display object being superimposed over the picked-up image of the external scene that includes the detected pointing element, the display object being a contour line constituting a part or an entirety of a contour of the detected pointing element;
- causing the image display to display a functional display image, the functional display image indicating a function that executes an application;
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- changing a width of the contour line in the image display.
A method for controlling a head-mounted display device that includes an image display which is mounted on a head of a user and displays an image, a camera, and a processor and/or circuit, the method comprising:
- detecting a pointing element based on a picked-up image that is picked up by the camera;
- causing the image display to display a display object indicating at least one of position or shape of the detected pointing element in the image, the display object being superimposed over the picked-up image of the external scene that includes the detected pointing element, the display object being a contour line constituting a part or an entirety of a contour of the detected pointing element;
- causing the image display to display a functional display image, the functional display image indicating a function that executes an application;
- and
- changing a width of the contour line in the image display.
A head-mounted display device for use with a head of a user, the head-mounted display device comprising:
- an image display that is mounted on the head of the user and displays an image;
- a camera that picks up a picked-up image from an external scene;
- a processor and/or circuit configured to:
- detect a pointing element based on the picked-up image picked up by the camera;
- detect a sub-pointing element that is different from the detected pointing element form on the picked-up image;
- cause the image display to display a display object corresponding to a position or a shape of the detected pointing element in the image, the display object being superimposed over the external scene that includes the detected pointing element, the display object being a first contour line that is a part or an entirety of a contour of the detected pointing element;
- cause the image display to display a functional display image, the functional display image is the image indicating a function that executes an application;
- cause the image display to display a sub-display object, the sub-display object is a second contour line that is a part or entirety of a contour of the sub-pointing element;
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- cause the image display to display a width of the first contour line with different from a width of the second contour line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.