Texas Instruments Corporation

Daniel M Donahue

Dale A Cone

Thomas M Siep

Judd E Heape

Tom J Bannon

Christopher Adam Crane

Donald Wayne Adkins

Andrew Kendall Smith

Video images are displayed from a sequence of frames or lines of video signals from a prerecorded source of frames or lines, respectively. A direction that a user is facing is determined by a directional device and a portion of the sequence of frames or lines are stored based on the direction determined by the directional device. The stored portion is read from memory and displayed for the user.

Method and apparatus for playback with a virtual reality system

In a virtual reality system (20) an operator perceives being in a virtual reality world (74) of virtual reality images (62). The system (20) models the relative position and movement of objects (208 and 210) in a virtual reality world (74) by representing graphically a first (208) and second (210) object in a virtual reality world (74) on a graphical display (60 and 68). The representation selective obscures the first (208) and second (210) objects according to the relative position of the objects (208 and 210) to a predetermined observation point in the virtual reality world (74). The system (20) then determines a first partitioning plane (204) between the first (208) and second (210) objects. Then, the system (20) method determines a second partition plane (206) between the first (208) and second (210) object in response to either of said first (208) or second (210) objects moving across the first partitioning plane (204). Then, the system (20) graphically represent on the graphical display (60 and 68) the first (208) and second (210) objects within the virtual reality world (74) by selectively obscuring the first (208) and second (210) objects according to their relative position to the predetermined observation point.

Method of modeling player position and movement in a virtual reality

A 360 degree scene is obtained by image generating devices. These image generating devices obtain a plurality of different video images, each of the image generating devices obtain a different video image of a different field of view of the scene. These different video images are sequentially recorded for use in a virtual reality system.

Method and apparatus for recording images for a virtual reality system

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Daniel M Donahue