Proximity assisted 3D rendering
AssigneeSony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
InventorsHenrik Sundström, Johan Gulliksson
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Abstract
A mobile device for rendering or transforming three-dimensional images is disclosed. The mobile device determines a distance and/or location of a user relative to the device and adjusts the three-dimensional image to provide improved viewing of the three-dimensional image at the sensed distance and/or location.
Claims15
A mobile telephone adapted for displaying a three-dimensional image, the mobile telephone comprising:
- a display surface displaying the three dimensional image;
- a camera disposed on the mobile telephone and configured to capture at least one image of the user, the captured image comprising at least one feature of the user;
- a processor configured to analyze, independent of user input, the captured image and determine a size of a feature as it appears in the captured image, and to create distance data based on the determined size of the feature, the distance data being indicative of a distance between the user and the mobile telephone;
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- an image generator configured to generate a three-dimensional image based on the distance data.
A mobile telephone adapted for displaying a three dimensional image, the mobile telephone comprising:
- a display surface displaying the three dimensional image;
- a sensor that real-time senses a location and/or a distance of a user relative to the mobile telephone;
- a processor that determines distance data based on the real-time sensed location and/or distance of the user relative to the mobile telephone;
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- an image generator that generates a three dimensional image based on the distance data;
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- wherein the processor determines independent of user input a distance between two features of the user and distance data based on the distance between two features of the user real-time sensed by the sensor.
A method of rendering a three dimensional image on a mobile telephone, the method comprising the steps of:
- real-time sensing a location and/or a distance of a user relative to the mobile telephone;
- creating distance data based on the sensed location and/or the distance of the user relative to the mobile telephone;
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- rendering the three dimensional image based on the distance data;
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- wherein the distance data is created by capturing at least one image of the user, the image including at least one feature of the user, and analyzing, independent of user input, the captured image to determine a size of the feature as it appears in the captured image, and creating distance data based on the determined size of the feature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.