Image pickup apparatus, head-mounted display apparatus, information processing system and information processing method
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorAkio OHBA
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an image pickup apparatus adapted to pick up an image to be used for generation of a display image at a predetermined rate, the image pickup apparatus including: a first camera configured to pick up an image of an image pickup object space; a second camera configured to pick up an image of the image pickup object space with a wider field of view and a lower resolution than those of the first camera; and an outputting unit configured to successively output data of the images picked up by the first camera and the second camera.
Claims17
An image pickup apparatus adapted to pick up an image to be used for generation of a display image at a predetermined rate, comprising:
- a first camera configured to pick up an image of an image pickup object space;
- a second camera configured to pick up an image of the image pickup object space with a wider field of view and a lower resolution than those of the first camera;
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- an outputting unit configured to successively output data of the images picked up by the first camera and the second camera.
A head-mounted display apparatus, comprising:
- an image pickup apparatus adapted to pick up an image to be used for generation of a display image at a predetermined rate, including:
- a first camera configured to pick up an image of an image pickup object space, a second camera configured to pick up an image of the image pickup object space with a wider field of view and a lower resolution than those of the first camera, and an outputting unit configured to successively output data of the images picked up by the first camera and the second camera;
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- a display unit configured to display a display image synthesized from an image picked up by the first camera and an image picked up by the second camera.
A head-mounted display apparatus, comprising:
- a first display unit and a second display unit each configured to display an image;
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- a first reflector and a second reflector configured to reflect the images displayed by the first display unit and the second display unit in a direction toward the eyes of a user, respectively, wherein
- the first reflector is smaller than the second reflector and is disposed between the eyes of the user and the second reflector.
An information processing system, comprising:
- an image pickup apparatus adapted to pick up an image to be used for generation of a display image at a predetermined rate, including:
- a first camera configured to pick up an image of an image pickup object space, a second camera configured to pick up an image of the image pickup object space with a wider field of view and a lower resolution than those of the first camera, and an outputting unit configured to successively output data of the images picked up by the first camera and the second camera;
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- an information processing apparatus configured to acquire data of an image outputted from the image pickup apparatus, synthesize the image picked up by the first camera and the image picked up by the second camera to generate a display image, and output the display image to a display apparatus.
An information processing system, comprising:
- a head-mounted display apparatus, including:
- a first display unit and a second display unit each configured to display an image, and a first reflector and a second reflector configured to reflect the images displayed by the first display unit and the second display unit in a direction toward the eyes of a user, respectively, wherein the first reflector is smaller than the second reflector and is disposed between the eyes of the user and the second reflector;
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- an information processing apparatus configured to generate images to be displayed on the first display unit and the second display unit and output the images to the head-mounted display apparatus.
An information processing method, comprising:
- acquiring data of images picked up by a first camera configured to pick up an image of an image pickup object space and a second camera configured to pick up an image of the image pickup object space with a wider field of view and a lower resolution than those of the first camera;
- generating a display image by synthesizing the image picked up by the first camera and the image picked up by the second camera;
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- outputting data of the display image to a display apparatus.
A computer program for a computer, comprising:
- by a picked up image acquisition unit, acquiring data of images picked up by a first camera configured to pick up an image of an image pickup object space and a second camera configured to pick up an image of the image pickup object space with a wider field of view and a lower resolution than those of the first camera;
- by an image synthesis unit, generating a display image by synthesizing the image picked up by the first camera and the image picked up by the second camera;
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- by an outputting unit, outputting data of the display image to a display apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.