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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2007
Louis B. Rosenberg, Arroyo Grande, CA (US);
Louis B. Rosenberg, Arroyo Grande, CA (US);
Outland Research, LLC, Pismo Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
A portable music player apparatus that outputs visual content to a head-worn transmissive display, the visual content being modulated in time with playing musical content and overlaid upon the user's direct view of his or her physical surroundings. In this way, the user is provided with an enhanced visual view of his or her physical surroundings, the enhanced visual view including transmissive visual content that is generally synchronized in time with the playing music content. This provides the user with an improved music listening experience in which he or she feels present within a visually enhanced version of the physical world that has changing visual qualities that are perceptually synchronized in time with one or more features of the playing music. The displayed visual content may include time-varying translucency and/or color-tinting such that the user's direct view of the physical world changes in brightness and/or color tinting in a manner choreographed with the playing music.