# US 2024/0201502 A1 · Wearable terminal device, program, and display method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2024/0201502 A1 - Document ID: US20240201502A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 18/551,857 - Filed: 2021-03-25 - Published: 2024-06-20 - Earliest claimed: 2021-03-25 - Assignees: KYOCERA Corporation - Applicants: KYOCERA Corporation - Inventors: Shingo ITO; Tomokazu ADACHI; Kai SHIMIZU - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20240201502A1 ## CPC - G02B 27/0172: {characterised by optical features} - G06F 3/01: Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer (G06F3/16 takes precedence) - G06F 3/011: {Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality (blind teaching G09B21/00)} - G06F 3/017: {Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883)} - G06F 3/0482: Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus - G02B 2027/0138: {comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera} - G02B 2027/0141: {characterised by the informative content of the display} - G02B 2027/0196: {having transparent supporting structure for display mounting, e.g. to a window or a windshield} - G02B: OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract A wearable terminal device is configured to be used by being worn by a user. The wearable terminal device includes at least one processor. The at least one processor causes a display to display a virtual image located inside a space and having a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side from the first surface. The first surface of the virtual image has a first region and a strip-shaped second region that is smaller than the first region, and the second surface of the virtual image has a third region that is larger than the second region. The at least one processor causes a display mode of the virtual image to change to a prescribed display mode in response to a prescribed operation performed on the third region. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A wearable terminal device configured to be used by being worn by a user, the wearable terminal device comprising: at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor causes a display to display a virtual image located inside a space and having a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side from the first surface, the first surface of the virtual image has a first region and a strip-shaped second region that is smaller than the first region, and the second surface of the virtual image has a third region that is larger than the second region, and the at least one processor causes a display mode of the virtual image to change to a prescribed display mode in response to a prescribed operation performed on the third region. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The wearable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the display includes a display member that is transparent to light, and the at least one processor causes the virtual image to be displayed on a display surface of the display member with the virtual image visible in the space that is visible through the display member. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The wearable terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising: a camera configured to capture an image of the space, wherein the at least one processor causes the display to display an image of the space captured by the camera and the virtual image superimposed on the image of the space. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The wearable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the second region is a region in which a function bar is displayed. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The wearable terminal device according to t claim 1, wherein the second region is a region in which a title or an icon relating to display content of the first region is displayed. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The wearable terminal device according to claim 1, is a plurality of the virtual images on which the prescribed operation can be performed displayed on the display, in response to the prescribed operation being performed on one of the plurality of virtual images, the at least one processor changes a display mode of another one of the virtual images to the prescribed display mode. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The wearable terminal device according claim 1, wherein the prescribed operation includes a pointing operation in which an intersection between a virtual line displayed in a direction in which a hand of the user extends and the virtual image is specified as a specified position in the virtual image. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The wearable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the prescribed operation includes a pointing operation in which a location where a position of a finger of the user in a real space overlaps the virtual image is specified as a specified position in the virtual image. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The wearable terminal device according to claim 7, wherein the prescribed operation includes a selection operation in which the specified position specified by the pointing operation is selected. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The wearable terminal device according to claim 9, wherein the at least one processor causes an image of the first surface to be displayed on the second surface of the virtual image in response to the prescribed operation. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The wearable terminal device according to claim 9, wherein the prescribed operation further includes a prescribed movement of a hand of the user made while the pointing operation and the selection operation are performed, and the at least one processor causes an image of the first surface to be displayed on the second surface of the virtual image in response to the prescribed operation. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The wearable terminal device according to claim 11, wherein the prescribed movement of the hand of the user is a turning motion mimicking an action of turning a piece of paper. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The wearable terminal device according to claim 12, wherein the at least one processor causes an image of the first surface to be displayed on the second surface of the virtual image when a movement speed of the hand of the user in the turning motion is greater than or equal to a prescribed speed. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The wearable terminal device according to claim 12, wherein the at least one processor causes an image of the first surface to be displayed on the second surface of the virtual image when a movement distance of the hand of the user in the turning motion is greater than or equal to a prescribed distance. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The wearable terminal device according to claim 14, wherein the at least one processor causes the virtual image to be displayed in a manner in which a portion of the first surface corresponding to a portion of the second surface appears as a result of the portion of the second surface being turned over in accordance with a distance moved by the hand of the user in a period until the distance moved by the hand of the user reaches the prescribed distance in the turning motion. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The wearable terminal device according to claim 15, wherein the at least one processor causes the virtual image to be displayed in a manner in which all of the second surface prior to the turning motion appears when the turning motion is canceled before the distance moved by the hand of the user in the turning motion reaches the prescribed distance. ### Claim 17 (depends on 12) The wearable terminal device according to claim 12, wherein when a video is being played back and displayed in the first region of the virtual image, the at least one processor stops playback display of the video while the turning motion is being performed. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The wearable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein each virtual image can be set to either a first mode in which the virtual image can be changed to the prescribed display mode or a second mode in which the virtual image cannot be changed to the prescribed display mode, and the at least one processor causes the virtual images set to the first mode and the virtual images set to the second mode to be displayed in a distinguishable manner when causing the display to display the virtual images. ### Claim 19 A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program configured to cause a computer provided in a wearable terminal device configured to be used by being worn by a user to execute: causing a display to display a virtual image located inside a space and having a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side from the first surface, wherein the first surface of the virtual image has a first region and a strip-shaped second region that is smaller than the first region, and the second surface of the virtual image has a third region that is larger than the second region, and the causing a display to display a virtual image includes causing a display mode of the virtual image to change to a prescribed display mode in response to a prescribed operation performed on the third region. ### Claim 20 A display method for use in a wearable terminal device configured to be used by being worn by a user, the method comprising: causing a display to display a virtual image located inside a space and having a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side from the first surface, wherein the first surface of the virtual image has a first region and a strip-shaped second region that is smaller than the first region, and the second surface of the virtual image has a third region that is larger than the second region, and in the causing a display to display a virtual image, a display mode of the virtual image is caused to change to a prescribed display mode in response to a prescribed operation performed on the third region.