US 12,002,141 B2
Image display apparatus
Takanobu Omata, Tokyo (JP); Kaoru Koike, Tokyo (JP); Yuichi Miyagawa, Tokyo (JP); Hisataka Izawa, Tokyo (JP); and Itaru Shimizu, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/766,816
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 21, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/028273
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 6, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/075118, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-188504 (JP), filed on Oct. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0087205 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01)
CPC G06T 15/00 (2013.01) [G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image display apparatus, comprising:
a display unit that displays a three-dimensional image, by which a three-dimensional object appears to exist in a space partitioned by members configuring an outer surface, to be visually recognizable from a plurality of circumferential directions;
a direction estimation section that estimates a direction in which a user exists as seen from the display unit; and
a display control section that orients a front face of the three-dimensional object displayed by the display unit in the direction in which the user exists estimated by the direction estimation section.