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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.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
353 28 ; 353121 ; 353122 ; 359630 ; 345-7 ;
Abstract
A camera is arranged at a conjugate position to eyes of the observer. A distance from the observer to a pixel in the real space image located at the same position as a pixel in the virtual space image is determined according to the real space image picked up by the camera. A virtual space image is generated based on virtual space information stored beforehand. Then, the distance of the real space image is compared with that of the virtual space image, and one of the pixels more near the observer is selected for the display. This processing is performed on each pixel, and the real space image and the virtual space image are integrated as an image to be displayed for the observer at the same time.