Patent ID: 6690338
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
Apparatus, comprising:a head mounted camera apparatus (10) for mounting on a head of a viewer (12), responsive to reflected light in an object space, for providing a real object image signal (14); an image store (22), responsive to a selection signal (20), for providing a virtual object image signal (24); a computer and image processor (16), responsive to the real object image signal (14), to the virtual object image signal (24), and to a plurality of viewer monitor signals, for providing an integrated image signal having both real and virtual objects; a plurality of viewer monitors (18), responsive to viewer actions in the object space, for providing the plurality of viewer monitor signals; and a head mounted display (28), responsive to the integrated image signal (26), for providing images of the object space with both real and virtual objects.