Display system, electronic device, and display method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11380287-B2
Application number	US-202117184036-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2021
Priority date	Dec 22, 2017
Publication date	Jul 5, 2022
Grant date	Jul 5, 2022

Abstract

A display system including a PC and an HMD, and in the display system, the PC includes an I/F unit configured to output image data, the HMD includes an I/F unit configured to acquire the image data output by the PC, an image display unit configured to superimpose an image on an outside scene visually recognized in a state where the HMD is worn, and to display the image, and a display controller configured to cause the image display unit to display the image data acquired by the I/F unit, and the display controller causes the image display unit to display the image data in correspondence to a position of the PC visually recognized as an outside scene.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display system comprising:
an electronic device including:
a processor configured to generate a first image and a second image that is different from the first image, and
a first image display that displays the first image; and

a head mounted type display device configured to communicate with the electronic device, the head mounted display including:
a camera that captures an outside scene, and
a second image display that displays the second image overlapping the outside scene, wherein

the processor of the electronic device is configured to:
acquire a position of the electronic device in the outside scene captured by the camera, and
apply a mask processing to a portion of the second image when the portion of the second image overlaps with the electronic device, wherein the mask processing changes a color of pixels to a dark color or a black color.

2. The display system according to claim 1 , wherein
the second image is wider than the first image, and
the second image includes a part of the first image.

3. The display system according to claim 1 , wherein
the second image display displays the second image in an area around the position of the electronic device.

4. The display system according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor is configured to:
determine a relative position of the electronic device with respective to the second image, and
change a position of the second image being displayed on the second image display to maintain the relative position when the processor detects a change in the position of the electronic device in the outside scene.

5. The display system according to claim 4 , wherein
the processor is configured to:
generate a third image that is different from the first image and the second image, and
cause the second image display to display the third image when the processor detects the change in the position of the electronic device in the outside scene.

6. A display system method for use with an electronic device and a head mounted display, the display system method comprising:
generating a first image and a second image that is different from the first image;
displaying the first image in a first image display of the electronic device;
capturing an outside scene by a camera of the head mounted display;
displaying the second image overlapping the outside scene in a second image display of the head mounted display;
acquiring a position of the electronic device in the outside scene; and
when a portion of the second image overlaps with the electronic device, applying a mask processing to the portion of the second image, wherein the mask processing changes a color of pixels to a dark color or a black color.

7. A display system comprising:
an electronic device comprising:
a processor configured to generate a first image and a second image; and
a first image display that displays the first image,

a head mounted display that communicates with the electronic device, the head mounted display including:
a camera that captures an outside scene; and
a second image display that displays the second image overlapping the outside scene, wherein

the processor of the electronic device is configured to acquire a position of the electronic device in the outside scene captured by the camera, and
the second image display displays a portion of the second image in an area that overlaps with the position of the electronic device and displays another portion of the second image in an area around the position of the electronic device, the portion of the second image being darker than the another portion of the second image.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Kunitomo Yuichi
• Kitadani Kazuma

Classifications

• G09G2340/145

  related to small screens · CPC title

• G09G2340/14

  Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed · CPC title

• G02B2027/014

  comprising information/image processing systems · CPC title

• G02B2027/0178

  Eyeglass type (eyeglass details G02C) · CPC title

• G02B27/0172 Primary

  characterised by optical features · CPC title