Image processing
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited
InventorsSharwin Winesh Raghoebardajal, Simon Mark Benson, Jeremy David Ashforth, Ian Henry Bickerstaff
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Abstract
An image processing method includes capturing an image of the head of a user of a head mountable display device. The position of the head mountable display device is detected in the image captured by a camera. A region of the user's face that is occluded by the head mountable display device is identified. The portion of the captured image corresponding to the head mountable display device is at least partially replaced with a corresponding portion of a 3D facial model, to provide a modified version of the captured image.
Claims17
An image processing method comprising:
- capturing, by a camera, an image of a head of a user of a head mountable display device;
- detecting, by a detector device, a position of the head mountable display device in the image captured by the camera;
- identifying, by a processor device, a region of the user's face that is occluded by the head mountable display device;
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- the processor device at least partially replacing a region of the captured image corresponding to the head mountable display device with a corresponding portion of a 3D facial model to provide a modified image.
A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium which stores computer readable instructions thereon that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform an image processing method comprising:
- capturing an image of a head of a user of a head mountable display device;
- detecting a position of the head mountable display device in the image captured by a camera;
- identifying a region of the user's face that is occluded by the head mountable display device;
- and
- at least partially replacing a region of the captured image corresponding to the head mountable display device with a corresponding portion of a 3D facial model, to provide a modified image.
An image processing apparatus operable to process an image, comprising:
- an image capturing device configured to capture an image of a head of a user of a head mountable display device;
- a detector configured to detect a position of the head mountable display device in the image captured by the image capturing device;
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- a processor configured to identify a region of the user's face that is occluded by the head mountable display device, the processor being further configured to replace, at least partially, a portion of the captured image corresponding to the head mountable display device with a corresponding portion of a 3D facial model, to provide a modified image.
A communications system comprising:
- first and second head mountable displays;
- one or more cameras configured to capture images of the first and second head mountable displays in use;
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- an image processing apparatus comprising:
- a detector configured to detect positions of the first and second head mountable displays in the images captured by the one or more cameras;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- replace, at least partially, a portion of a captured image corresponding to the first head mountable display device with a corresponding portion of a 3D facial model, to provide a first modified image for display by the second head mountable display, and
- replace, at least partially, a portion of a captured image corresponding to the second head mountable display with a corresponding portion of the 3D facial model, to provide a second modified image for display by the first head mountable display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.