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US 12,717,405 B2Granted
Techniques for displaying images in a visual effects system
AssigneeUniversal City Studios LLC
InventorsAnthony Alexander Mecca, Evie Czerniawska
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Abstract
A visual effects system includes a first display, a second display, and a graphics generation system. The graphics generation system is configured to provide graphics data to the first display and the second display to define a combined image. The graphics generation system includes a processing system and a memory, the memory encoded with instructions configured to be executed by the processing system to cause the first display and the second display to display a first image on the first display based on the graphics data and a user location, a user gaze orientation, or both, and display a second image on the second display based on the graphics data and the user location, the user gaze orientation, or both.
Claims19
A visual effects system, comprising:
- a first display in a physical space;
- a second display in the physical space;
- and
- a graphics generation system configured to provide graphics data to the first display and the second display to define a combined image, wherein the graphics generation system comprises:
- a physics engine configured to determine a position and a shape of a virtual object with respect to the physical space and generate the graphics data based on the determined position and the shape of the virtual object with respect to the physical space;
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- a processing system and a memory, the memory encoded with instructions configured to be executed by the processing system to cause the first display and the second display to:
- display a first image comprising at least a first portion of the virtual object on the first display based on the graphics data and a user location, a user gaze orientation, or both;
- display a second image comprising at least a second portion of the virtual object on the second display based on the graphics data and the user location, the user gaze orientation, or both;
- and
- display a visual disruption on the first display, the second display, or both, while adjusting the first image, the second image, or both.
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A method for operating a visual effects system, the method comprising:
- determining, via a processing system, a position and a shape of a virtual object based on a model comprising the virtual object defined relative to a physical space;
- displaying, via the processing system, a first image comprising at least a first portion of the virtual object on a first display in the physical space in coordination with the model based on graphics data;
- adjusting, via the processing system, the first image on the first display based on a viewer location, a viewer gaze orientation, or both;
- displaying, via the processing system, a second image comprising at least a second portion of the virtual object on a second display in the physical space in coordination with the model based on the graphics data;
- adjusting, via the processing system, display of the second image on the second display based on the viewer location, the viewer gaze orientation, or both such that the first image and the second image coordinate to define a combined image representative of the virtual object;
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- displaying, via the processing system, a visual disruption on the first display, the second display, or both, while adjusting display of the first image, the second image, or both.
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A visual effects system, comprising:
- a first display in a physical space;
- a second display in the physical space;
- and
- a graphics generation system configured to provide graphics data to the first display and the second display, wherein the graphics generation system comprises:
- a physics engine configured to determine a position and a shape of a virtual object with respect to the physical space and generate the graphics data based on the determined position and the determined shape of the virtual object with respect to the physical space;
- and
- a processing system and a memory, the memory encoded with instructions configured to be executed by the processing system to cause the first display and the second display to:
- display a first image comprising at least a first portion of the virtual object on the first display based on the graphics data;
- actuate to adjust the first image on the first display based on the graphics data and one or more viewer locations, one or more viewer gaze orientations, or both;
- display a second image comprising at least a second portion of the virtual object on the second display based on the graphics data;
- actuate to adjust the second image on the second display based on the graphics data and the one or more viewer locations, the one or more viewer gaze orientations, or both such that the first image and the second image define a combined image;
- and
- display a visual disruption on the first display, the second display, or both, while adjusting the first image, the second image, or both.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.