Patent ID: 6064355
Filing Date: 2000-05-16
Classification: A63F,G09B,H04N

Abstract:
An apparatus to display video images for a user comprising:circuitry for generating a sequence of frames of video signals from the video images from a prerecorded source of frames, said sequence of frames corresponding to different points of view of a scene;circuitry for determining a first direction that said user is facing by a first directional signal indicative of said first direction that said user is facing;circuitry for storing a first portion of said sequence of frames from said prerecorded source of said frames in accordance with said first direction that said user is facing in a first memory;circuitry for determining a second direction that said user is facing by a second directional signal indicative of said second direction that said user had been facing;circuitry for storing a second portion of said sequence of frames from said prerecorded source of said frames in accordance with said second directional signal indicative of said second direction that said user had been facing in a second memory;circuitry for reading, from said second memory, said stored second portion of said sequence of frames from said prerecorded source of frames in accordance with said second directional signal indicative of said second direction that said user had been facing; anda display coupled to said second memory for displaying said stored second portion of said sequence of frames.