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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 22, 2020
Applicant:

Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Satoshi Mitani, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/351 (2018.01); G02B 5/32 (2006.01); G02B 30/26 (2020.01); G03B 35/20 (2021.01); H04N 13/302 (2018.01); H04N 13/395 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/351 (2018.05); G02B 5/32 (2013.01); G02B 30/26 (2020.01); G03B 35/20 (2013.01); H04N 13/302 (2018.05); H04N 13/395 (2018.05);
Abstract

An image display apparatus including one or more virtual-image screens, a display section, and a display control unit. The one or more virtual-image screens are arranged to cover at least a part of a periphery of a predetermined axis, display a virtual image of a projected image by using the predetermined axis as a basis, and are transparent. The display section has one or more display surfaces that display a plurality of viewpoint images in mutually different directions and project the plurality of displayed viewpoint images onto the one or more virtual-image screens, respectively, the plurality of viewpoint images being images of a display target as viewed from mutually different directions. The display control unit displays, a virtual image of the display target that is visible from a second direction extending toward the predetermined axis from the observation point.


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