Stereoscopic rendering to eye positions
OwnerQuentin Simon Charles Miller, Drew Steedly +1inventors
InventorsQuentin Simon Charles Miller, Drew Steedly, Gerhard Schneider
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Abstract
Enacted in a stereoscopic display system, a method to display a virtual object at a specified distance in front of an observer. The method includes sensing positions of the right and left eyes of the observer, and based on these positions, shifting a right or left display image of the virtual object. The shift is of such magnitude and direction as to confine the positional disparity between the right and left display images to a direction parallel to an interocular axis of the observer, in an amount to place the virtual object at the specified distance.
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Enacted in a stereoscopic display system, a method to display a virtual object at a specified distance in front of an observer, the method comprising:
- sensing a position of a right eye of the observer;
- sensing a position of a left eye of the observer;
- based on the positions of the right and left eyes, shifting a right or left display image of the virtual object so that positional disparity between the right and left display images is parallel to an interocular axis of the observer, in an amount to place the virtual object at the specified distance;
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- guiding the right display image to the right eye and the left display image to the left eye.
A wearable, stereoscopic display system for displaying a virtual object at a specified distance in front of a wearer of the display system, the display system comprising:
- one or more sensors configured to sense a position of a right eye of the wearer and a position of a left eye of the wearer;
- logic configured to form right and left display images of the virtual object and to shift the right or left display image based on the positions of the right and left eyes, the shift being of such magnitude and direction as to confine positional disparity between the right and left display images to a direction parallel to an interocular axis of the wearer, in an amount to place the virtual object at the specified distance;
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- an optical system configured to guide the right and left display images to the right and left eyes of the wearer.
Enacted in a stereoscopic display system, a method to display a virtual object at a specified distance in front of an observer, the method comprising:
- sensing positions of right and left eyes of the observer;
- computing scheduling data defining one or more intervals over which a shift in a right or left display image of the virtual object is to be made;
- in the one or more intervals defined in the scheduling data, shifting the right or left display image based on the positions of the right and left eyes so that positional disparity between the right and left display image is parallel to an interocular axis of the observer, in an amount to place the virtual object at the specified distance;
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- guiding the right display image to the right eye and the left display image to the left eye.
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