Patent ID: 9310884
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: G01S,G02B,G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A head-mountable display system comprising: a games machine configured to generate a video signal representing a video game; a head mountable display having a frame to be mounted onto an observer's head, the frame defining one or two eye display positions which, in use, are positioned for viewing by the observer, the frame comprising one or more shutters for obscuring the observer's view of the surrounding real environment and a display element mounted with respect to each of the eye display positions, the display element providing a virtual image of a video display of a video signal from the games machine to the observer; an object detector configured to detect the presence of an object within a detection range of the observer's head and, in response to a detection, configured to instruct the games machine to cause the observer's in-game motion to be brought to a halt; and a controller configured to control operation of the head mountable display so as to allow the observer to view at least a portion of the surrounding real environment in response to detection of the presence of an object within the detection range once the observer's in-game motion has been brought to a halt.