Patent ID: 9401050
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: G02B,G06F,G06T,G09G,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image processing method for use with a mixed reality display apparatus having spaced apart first and second see-through displays respectively disposed to provide respective first and second see-through views of a three-dimensional (3D) outward scene and respective first and second generated images to outward facing left and right eyes of a user respectively, wherein a spatial relationship between the spaced apart first and second see-through displays can change, the method comprising: detecting a departure away from a first spatial relationship between spaced apart, outward facing and image data capturing first and second cameras, the first camera having a fixed spatial relationship with respect to the first see-through display, the second camera having a fixed spatial relationship with respect to the second see-through display, the first spatial relationship of the first and second cameras corresponding to a first processing of image data that provides the first and second generated images as co-registered to one another and as co-scaled to one another so as to thereby provide parallax images to the left and right eyes of the user respectively by way of the first and second see-through displays for thereby creating perception of a corresponding 3D virtual reality image; determining a second spatial relationship between the outward facing first and second cameras due to the detected departure away from the first spatial relationship between the outward facing first and second cameras; and based on the determined second spatial relationship between the first and second cameras, automatically changing at least part of the first processing of image data so as to provide a second processing of image data that provides the first and second generated images to the left and right eyes of the user while compensating for a loss or degradation of at least one of the co-registration and co-scaling of the first and second generated images relative to one another, the loss or degradation being due to a correspondingly changed spatial relationship between the first and second see-through displays that respectively have fixed spatial relationships with respective ones of the first and second cameras.