Methods and systems of automatic calibration for dynamic display configurations
AssigneePCMS Holdings, Inc.
InventorTatu V. J. Harviainen
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Abstract
Systems and methods are described for capturing, using a forward-facing camera associated with a head-mounted augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display (HMD), images of portions of first and second display devices in an environment, the first and second display devices displaying first and second portions of content related to an AR presentation, and displaying a third portion of content related to the AR presentation on the AR HMD, the third portion determined based upon the images of portions of the first and second display devices captured using the forward-facing camera. Moreover, the first and second display devices may be active stereo display, and the AR HMD may simultaneously function as shutter glasses.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- displaying augmented reality (AR) content using an AR head-mounted display;
- detecting an active stereo display surface in an environment around the AR head-mounted display using a front-facing camera of the AR head-mounted display;
- and
- responsive to detecting the active stereo display surface, switching the AR head-mounted display to an active shutter mode.
An apparatus comprising:
- an augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display configured to be switched to an active shutter mode;
- a front-facing camera;
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that are operative, when executed by the processor, to cause the apparatus to:
- display AR content using the AR head-mounted display;
- detect an active stereo display surface in an environment around the AR head-mounted display using the front-facing camera;
- and
- responsive to detecting the active stereo display surface, switching the AR head-mounted display to the active shutter mode.
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that are operative, when executed by the processor, to cause the apparatus to:
- intercept a set of three-dimensional (3D) content;
- and
- partition the set of 3D content into a first virtual element and a second virtual element;
- a head-mounted display configured to display the second virtual element, the head-mounted display having a portion associated with a left-eye display and having a portion associated with a right-eye display;
- and
- a forward-facing camera associated with the head-mounted display, the camera being configured to capture images coming from a portion of an external display,
- wherein the instructions are further operative, when executed by the processor, to further cause the apparatus to:
- responsively determine that the captured images comprise a first portion of 3D content as displayed on the external display as alternating images of a stereoscopic image sequence, the first portion of 3D content being related to an AR presentation;
- detect a frequency of the captured images by analyzing sequential images of the captured images;
- and
- shutter, at the detected frequency, the head-mounted display in synchronization with the images of the stereoscopic image sequence while also presenting left-eye imagery of a second portion of content related to the AR presentation in the portion of the head-mounted display associated with the left-eye display, and right-eye imagery of the second portion of content related to the AR presentation in the portion of the head-mounted display associated with the right-eye display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.