Individually interactive multi-view display system for non-stationary viewing locations and methods therefor
AssigneeMisapplied Sciences, Inc.
InventorsAlbert Han Ng, Paul Henry Dietz, David Steven Thompson
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Abstract
A multi-view display system that permits viewers to individually interact therewith to communicate commands or viewing preferences is disclosed. Methods in accordance with the present teachings enable a multi-view display to deliver a unique content stream to each of plural viewers, based on the viewers' interactions with the multi-view display system, wherein the viewers are not in fixed locations.
Claims19
A method for operating a system including a multi-view display, wherein the multi-view display is visible in a viewing area comprising a plurality of viewing zones, the method comprising:
- detecting a presence and determining a location of a plurality of viewers, including a first viewer and a second viewer, in the viewing area of the multi-view display, wherein a location of each viewer in the viewing region at any moment defines, for each viewer, a personal viewing zone;
- detecting a first interaction of the first viewer with the system and a second interaction of a second viewer with the system, wherein detecting the first interaction and second interaction comprises capturing, via a machine/computer vision system, gestures performed by respective first and second viewers, and further wherein the gestures:
- (i) originate from a bodily motion or state of each of the first and second viewers,
- (ii) represent at least one of a command and a preference of each of the first and second viewers pertaining to content, which can be different for each of the first and second viewers;
- generating first content based on the first interaction and second content based on the second interaction;
- displaying, via the multi-view display, the first content to the first viewer and the second content to the second viewer, wherein the first content is viewable only in the first viewer's personal viewing zone and the second content is viewable only in the second viewer's personal viewing zone, and further wherein
- the first content is associated with a first viewing zone, the method further comprising
- continuing, for at least one of a limited period of time or a limited distance, to display the first content to the first viewer when the first viewer moves away from the first viewing zone.
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