IP Library Granted Patent US 12687722
Granted Patent B2
US 12687722 · App. 18/462,374 · Granted Jul 21, 2026

Eyewear display device and non-transitory recording medium

Inventor: Tomohiro Ozawa (Tachikawa, JP)
Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
G02B27/0172G02B27/0093G02B2027/014G02B2027/0178G02B2027/0187
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12687722
App. No.
18/462,374
Granted
Jul 21, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An eyewear display device includes: a display that displays one or more display areas in front of eyes of a user wearing the eyewear display device; a line-of-sight recognizer that recognizes a line of sight of the user; and a hardware processor that identifies one of the display areas to which the user is turning the eyes, based on a movement of the line of sight recognized by the line-of-sight recognizer, and changes a position of the identified display area.

Claims (48)

1 . An eyewear display device comprising:

an imaging device that captures an image of a user wearing the eyewear display device; and

a hardware processor that:

displays, in a field of view of the user, a plurality of display areas each capable of displaying different images;

recognizes a line of sight of the user based on the image;

identifies one of the display areas to which the user is turning the eyes, based on a direction of the line of sight that has been recognized; and

moves an image displayed in the identified display area to a predetermined position within the field of view of the user.

2 . The eyewear display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the one of the display areas to which the user is turning the eyes includes at least one of:

a display area that is within the field of view of the user; and

a display area that is in a three-dimensional space and outside the field of view, and is not associated with a movement of the eyewear display device.

3 . The eyewear display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the hardware processor moves the image displayed in the identified display area to a front position.

4 . The eyewear display device according to claim 3 , wherein

the front position includes at least one of:

a front position relative to the eyewear display device worn by the user, and

a preset front position.

5 . The eyewear display device according to claim 3 , further comprising:

a storage that stores positions of the display areas in a three-dimensional space, the positions being set by the user, wherein

the hardware processor further:

determines a position of each of the display areas relative to the eyewear display device in the three-dimensional space,

identifies the one of the display areas to which the user is turning the eyes, based on a determination result of the position of the identified display area and the direction of the line of sight that has been recognized, and

moves the image displayed in the identified display area to the front position.

6 . The eyewear display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the hardware processor moves the image displayed in the identified display area, based on trigger conditions set in accordance with the user, in addition to the line of sight that has been recognized.

7 . The eyewear display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a motion detector that acquires information on a motion or a physical state of the user, wherein

based on the information acquired by the motion detector, upon determining that the user has moved a face together with the line of sight, or upon determining that the user has directed the face or a body together with the line of sight to the identified display area, the hardware processor refrains from moving the image displayed in the identified display area.

8 . The eyewear display device according to claim 6 , wherein

the hardware processor sets a combination of the trigger conditions, based on a setting operation by the user.

9 . The eyewear display device according to claim 1 , wherein

in a case that there are a plurality of display areas on the line of sight, the hardware processor identifies, as the one of the display areas to which the user is turning the eyes, a display area on which the eyes are focused.

10 . The eyewear display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the hardware processor moves the image displayed in the identified display area upward, downward, leftward, rightward, frontward, or rearward.

11 . The eyewear display device according to claim 1 , wherein

one or more of the display areas include a plurality of window areas displayed in a single screen.

12 . The eyewear display device according to claim 3 , wherein

the hardware processor moves the image displayed in the identified display area to the front position, by directly replacing a front display area among the display areas with the identified display area, or by sliding at least two of the display areas including the front display area.

13 . The eyewear display device according to claim 3 , wherein

the front position is optionally changeable.

14 . The eyewear display device according to claim 13 , wherein

when changing the front position, the hardware processor displays one of the display areas at the front position before being changed, at the front position having been changed.

15 . A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing instructions for a computer of an eyewear display device that comprises an imaging device, the instructions causing the computer to execute:

capturing, by the imaging device, an image of a user wearing the eyewear display device;

displays, in a field of view of the user, a plurality of display areas each capable of displaying different images;

recognizing a line of sight of the user based on the image;

identifying one of the display areas to which the user is turning the eyes, based on a direction of the line of sight that has been recognized; and

moving an image displayed in the identified display area to a predetermined position within the field of view of the user.