Digital inter-pupillary distance adjustment
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorJeffrey R. Stafford
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Abstract
Stereoscopic viewing systems may be adjusted for a user's inter-pupillary distance (IPD). An inter-pupillary distance (IPD) value is determined from a signal from a position sensitive device coupled to two moveable sighting fixtures mounted to a head mounted display (HMD) having two fixed optics configured for a specific inter-pupillary distance. The position sensitive device is configured to produce a signal that corresponds to a distance between the two sighting fixtures. The images are warped with a processor to optimize display of the images with the two fixed optics for the determined IPD value.
Claims18
A method, comprising:
- determining an inter-pupillary distance (IPD) value with a processor from a signal from a position sensitive device coupled to two moveable sighting fixtures mounted to a head mounted display (HMD) having two fixed optics configured for a specific inter-pupillary distance, the position sensitive device being configured to produce a signal that corresponds to a distance between the two sighting fixtures;
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- warping images with the processor to optimize display of the images with the two fixed optics for the determined IPD value.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a computer processing system configured, by suitable programming, to perform a method comprising:
- determining an inter-pupillary distance (IPD) value from a signal from a position sensitive device coupled to two moveable sighting fixtures mounted to a head mounted display (HMD) having two fixed optics configured for a specific inter-pupillary distance, the position sensitive device being configured to produce a signal that corresponds to a distance between the two sighting fixtures;
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- warping images with the computer processing system to optimize display of the images with the two fixed optics for the determined IPD value.
A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions for inter-pupillary distance (IPD) adjustment on a display device comprising fixed optics, wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more processors of a processing system causes the one or more processors to carry out an IPD adjustment method, the IPD adjustment method comprising
- determining an inter-pupillary distance (IPD) value from a signal from a position sensitive device coupled to two moveable sighting fixtures mounted to a head mounted display (HMD) having two fixed optics configured for a specific inter-pupillary distance, the position sensitive device being configured to produce a signal that corresponds to a distance between the two sighting fixtures;
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- warping images with the processing system to optimize display of the images with the two fixed optics for the determined IPD value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.