Patent ID: 8705177
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G02B,G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A head mounted display (HMD) for displaying a computer generated image (CGI) to an eye of a user, the HMD comprising: a frame assembly for wearing on a head of the user; an integrated display module mounted to the frame assembly within a peripheral viewing region of the eye of the user when the HMD is worn by the user, the integrated display module including: a housing; a display source disposed in the housing for outputting the CGI; a lens system disposed in the housing and optically aligned with the display source to focus the CGI emitted from the integrated display module towards the eye in a near-to-eye configuration; and an actuator disposed in the housing and coupled to adjust an offset between the display source and a focal point of the lens system for changing an image depth of the CGI displayed to the user; a CGI engine coupled to the display source, the CGI engine to provide image data to the display source; and a controller coupled to the CGI engine to receive image metadata associated with each frame or groups of frames of the image data and coupled to the actuator to control manipulation of the image depth of the CGI emitted from the integrated display module in real-time based upon the image metadata.