US 11,989,842 B2
Head-mounted display with pass-through imaging
Charles N. Lohr, Bellevue, WA (US); and Gordon Wayne Stoll, Sammamish, WA (US)
Assigned to VALVE CORPORATION, Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed by Valve Corporation, Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed on May 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/828,897.
Application 17/828,897 is a division of application No. 16/848,332, filed on Apr. 14, 2020, granted, now 11,361,513.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/837,668, filed on Apr. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0292790 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06T 15/20 (2011.01)
CPC G06T 19/006 (2013.01) [G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0187 (2013.01); G06T 15/20 (2013.01); G06T 2200/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a head-mounted display comprising:
a display;
a first camera; and
a second camera;
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
capturing, via the first camera, first image data representing a first portion of an environment;
capturing, via the second camera, second image data representing a second portion of the environment;
determining a first offset of the first camera relative to a first eye of a user and a second offset of the second camera relative to a second eye of the user;
generating a depth map based at least in part on the first offset and the second offset;
generating third image data based at least in part on the depth map, the first image data, and the second image data; and
displaying the third image data via the display.