US 12,321,528 B2
Head-mounted display
Yo Nonomura, Tokyo (JP); and Naoyuki Kanda, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to MAXELL, LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by Maxell, Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Feb. 15, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/442,182.
Application 18/442,182 is a continuation of application No. 17/892,320, filed on Aug. 22, 2022, abandoned.
Application 17/892,320 is a continuation of application No. 16/625,824, granted, now 11,455,042, issued on Sep. 27, 2022, previously published as PCT/JP2017/030273, filed on Aug. 24, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2024/0201791 A1, Jun. 20, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06T 3/20 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01)
CPC G06F 3/017 (2013.01) [G02B 27/017 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G06F 3/012 (2013.01); G06T 3/20 (2013.01); G06T 3/40 (2013.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30196 (2013.01); G06T 2219/2021 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A head-mounted display comprising:
a projector configured to project an image;
a see-through lens configured to superimpose the image projected by the projector on a nearby space and display the image as a mixed reality object;
a receiver configured to receive position information of the head-mounted display;
a communication interface; and
a controller,
wherein the controller is configured to:
set a first operating space in which a gesture operation of a user of the head-mounted display may be performed,
control the projector to display an image of the first operating space and an image of an operation object as the mixed reality object via the see-through lens, the operation object is an object operated by the gesture operation of the user of the head-mounted display and is displayed in the first operating space,
acquire information of a position and a second operating space of another apparatus by the communication interface, the second operating space is a space in which a gesture operation of a user of the another apparatus may be performed,
determine whether the first operating space overlaps with the second operating space based on the position information of the head-mounted display received by the receiver and the information of the position and the second operating space of the another apparatus acquired by the communication interface,
reduce a size of the first operating space so as not to overlap the second operating space if the first operating space overlaps with the second operating space, and
control the projector so that a part of the operating object is set to non-display if an image of the reduced size first operating space is displayed as the mixed reality object via the see-through lens, and
control the communication interface so as to communicate with a smartphone and switch an operation corresponding to the non-displayed object from the gesture operation to an operation by the smartphone if the part of the operating object is set to non-display.