Head-mounted display device
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorHiroshi ENDO
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Abstract
An HMD includes left and right camera units which have wide-angle lenses, capture the image of a real space, and capture a left viewpoint image and a right viewpoint image. A main image is extracted from a central portion of each viewpoint image, and a left sub-image and a right sub-image are extracted from a peripheral portion of each viewpoint image. The distortion of the wide-angle lens in each main image is corrected, and the corrected main images are displayed in front of the left and right eyes as a stereo image. The left sub-image and the right sub-image are displayed on the left and right sides of the main image without being corrected.
Claims20
A head-mounted display device that is worn on the head of a wearer and is used, comprising:
- an imaging unit including a pair of left and right cameras each of which captures an image of a real space through a wide-angle lens from left and right viewpoints substantially the same as those of a wearer, the left camera capturing a left viewpoint image, and the right camera capturing a right viewpoint image;
- an image dividing unit extracting a central portion of each of the left and right viewpoint images as a main image and a peripheral portion of each of the left and right viewpoint images as a sub-image;
- a distortion correcting unit correcting distortion of the wide-angle lens for the main image;
- a main image display unit including a left main screen which is provided in front of the left eye of the wearer and displays the main image obtained from the left viewpoint image, and a right main screen which is provided in front of the right eye of the wearer and displays the main image obtained from the right viewpoint image, the main image display unit stereoscopically displaying the main image;
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- a sub-image display unit including a sub-screen that displays the sub-image around each of the main screens.
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