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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10670880 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 13, 2017

Image display apparatus and image display method

Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Takafumi Morifuji, Tokyo, JP;

Masami Ogata, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Chip Law Group

Primary Examiner:

Mark W Regn

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 30/24 (2020.01); H04N 13/128 (2018.01); H04N 13/144 (2018.01); H04N 13/156 (2018.01); H04N 13/167 (2018.01); H04N 13/344 (2018.01); H04N 13/383 (2018.01); H04N 13/398 (2018.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G09G 3/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/239 (2018.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); H04N 13/337 (2018.01); H04N 13/341 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 30/24 (2020.01); G02B 27/0093 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/04815 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G09G 3/003 (2013.01); H04N 13/128 (2018.05); H04N 13/144 (2018.05); H04N 13/156 (2018.05); H04N 13/167 (2018.05); H04N 13/239 (2018.05); H04N 13/344 (2018.05); H04N 13/383 (2018.05); H04N 13/398 (2018.05); G02B 2027/011 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0143 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0187 (2013.01); H04N 13/337 (2018.05); H04N 13/341 (2018.05);
Abstract

A display image is superimposed and displayed on an outside image in a preferred manner. An optical system superimposes a display image displayed on a display device onto an outside image, and leads the display image to an eye of an observer. A display control unit controls the display size and the display position of the display image on the display device so that the display image is displayed in an image superimposition region (a flat region) detected from the outside image. For example, the display control unit controls the display state of the display image in accordance with the state of the image superimposition region in the outside image. Also, the display control unit performs control to selectively display the display image in a line-of-sight region or outside the line-of-sight region in accordance with the line of sight of the observer.

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