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Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 16, 2017
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Alex Levinshtein, Vaughan, CA;

Mikhail Brusnitsyn, Toronto, CA;

Andrei Mark Rotenstein, Vaughan, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/12 (2017.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 7/12 (2017.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01);
Abstract

A head-mounted display includes a camera that obtains an image of an object within a field of view. The head-mounted display further includes a processor configured to determine a plurality of feature points from the image and calculate a feature strength for each of the plurality of feature points. The processor is further configured to divide the image into a plurality of cells and select feature points having the highest feature strength from each cell and which have not yet been selected. The processor being further configured to detect and track the object within the field of view using the selected feature points.


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