See-through computer display systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9766463-B2
Application number	US-201514884598-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 15, 2015
Priority date	Jan 21, 2014
Publication date	Sep 19, 2017
Grant date	Sep 19, 2017

Abstract

Embodiments include a head-worn display including a display panel sized and positioned to produce a field of view to present digital content to an eye of a user, and a processor adapted to present the digital content to the display panel such that the digital content is only presented in a portion of the field of view, the portion being in the middle of the field of view such that horizontally opposing edges of the field of view are blank areas. The processor is adapted to shift the digital content into one of the blank areas to adjust the convergence distance of the digital content and thereby change the perceived distance from the user to the digital content.

First claim

We claim:

1. A head-worn display, comprising:
a. a display panel sized and positioned to produce a field of view to present digital content to an eye of a user;
b. a processor adapted to present the digital content to the display panel such that the digital content is only presented in a portion of the field of view, the portion being in the middle of the field of view such that horizontally opposing edges of the field of view are blank areas; and
c. the processor further adapted to shift the digital content into one of the blank areas to adjust a convergence distance of the digital content and thereby change a perceived distance from the user to the digital content.

2. The head-worn display of claim 1 , wherein the digital content includes augmented reality objects.

3. The head-worn display of claim 1 , wherein the perceived distance is within arm's reach by the user.

4. The head-worn display of claim 1 , wherein the convergence distance is adjusted in correspondence to the type of digital content being displayed.

5. The head-worn display of claim 1 , wherein the convergence distance is adjusted in correspondence to a use case associated with augmented reality objects.

6. The head-worn display of claim 1 , wherein the convergence distance is measured by an eye imaging system of the head-worn display.

7. The head-worn display of claim 6 , wherein the eye imaging system images a front perspective of the user's eye.

8. A head-worn display, comprising:
a. a display panel sized and positioned to produce a field of view to present digital content to an eye of a user;
b. a processor adapted to present the digital content to the display panel such that the digital content is only presented in a portion of the field of view, the portion being in the middle of the field of view such that horizontally opposing edges of the field of view are blank areas, wherein each blank area comprises approximately 10% or greater of the field of view lateral area; and
c. the processor further adapted to shift the digital content into one of the blank areas to adjust the position of the digital content.

9. The head-worn display of claim 8 , wherein a total amount of blank area in the field of view, comprised of a combined left and right portion of the field of view, remains constant while the left and right portions are changed to position the digital content within the field of view.

10. The head worn display of claim 9 , wherein the digital content is positioned to adjust a convergence distance associated with the digital content.

11. The head worn display of claim 9 , wherein the digital content is positioned to adjust an interpupillary distance associated with the digital content.

Assignees

• Osterhout Group Inc

Inventors

• Border John N
• Bietry Joseph
• Haddick John D

Classifications

• G02B2027/0159

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• G02B30/34

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• G09G3/3208

  organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED] · CPC title

• G06F5/10

  having a sequence of storage locations each being individually accessible for both enqueue and dequeue operations, e.g. using random access memory {(G06F5/065 takes precedence)} · CPC title

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  Field-sequential colour display · CPC title