Patent ID: 9630098
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: A63F,G02B,G06F,G06T,G09G,H04N

Claim:
1. A head mounted display for viewing an interactive environment, comprising, a head attachment portion; a viewing module coupled to the head attachment portion, the viewing module including an inner side having a view port into a screen configured for rendering image content, and an exterior housing; a communications module for exchanging data with a computer system; an image processing module configured for processing the image data for rendering the image content on the screen; a plurality of illuminating elements integrated with the exterior housing of the viewing module, the plurality of illumination elements defined for image tracking of the head mounted display by a camera, wherein the plurality of illuminating elements is arranged in a pattern to enable identification of location and orientation of the head mounted display, the location and orientation obtained from analysis of images captured by the camera being used as input for updating a current view of the interactive environment when rendered on the screen; and an illumination logic configured for controlling the plurality of illumination elements to be active or inactive.