US 12,445,590 B2
Head-mounted display and image displaying method
Mitsuru Nishibe, Chiba (JP); Haruka Iwaki, Kanagawa (JP); Kuniaki Oe, Tokyo (JP); and Takanori Minamino, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/353,905.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-118226 (JP), filed on Jul. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0031552 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 13/332 (2018.01); H04N 13/00 (2018.01)
CPC H04N 13/332 (2018.05) [H04N 2013/0085 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A head-mounted display implementing stereoscopic vision, comprising:
a central processing unit;
a graphical processing unit; and
a main memory;
wherein the head-mounted display is configured to:
determine a virtual distance of a superimposition image to be displayed, according to a state of a three-dimensional space in a field of view;
generate data of a display image including the superimposition image in a state in which the superimposition image is placed at the virtual distance in the three-dimensional space; and
output the data of the display image to a display panel,
wherein the head-mounted display is further configured to:
acquire a distribution of distances to physical objects being present in the three-dimensional space in the field of view;
determine a virtual distance of the superimposition image in reference to the distribution of distances;
acquire a captured image of a real space in a direction of a line of sight of a user;
acquire a distribution of distances of real physical objects on a basis of the captured image; and
generate the data of the display image in which the superimposition image is displayed on the captured image.