Head mounted camera with eye monitor and stereo embodiments thereof
OwnerFrancis J. Maquire, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing, in response to image signals originating in an object space, mixed image signals for providing nonuniform resolution images for stimulating simulated active percepts for passive perception by a viewer in an image space. The images have a highly detailed component which has its image content changed according to changes in the direction of a simulated observer's eye position in an object space. The images may be provided stereoscopically. The images may be provided at various apparent distances and the relationship between accommodation and convergence may be preserved. Audio waves for directionally simulating that which would be heard by the simulated observer may be provided.
Claims22
A method, comprising the steps of,
- monitoring a human eye in a human head, for providing an eye direction signal having a magnitude indicative of a direction of a visual axis of said human eye in said human head as said eye views objects in a space with said objects therein;
- receiving light reflected from said objects with a lens of a video camera mounted on said human head, for providing an optical image;
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- casting said optical image onto a surface sensitive thereto in said camera for converting said optical image to an electrical image signal for display according to said eye direction signal.
Apparatus, comprising:
- means for monitoring a human eye in a human head, for providing an eye direction signal having a magnitude indicative of a direction of a visual axis of said human eye in said human head as said eye views objects in a space with said objects therein;
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- a video camera having a lens for receiving light reflected from said objects with said video camera adjacent said human head, said lens for casting an optical image onto a surface sensitive thereto in said camera for converting the optical image to an electrical image signal for display according to said eye direction signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.