Interactive display system
View Patent ↗A display system comprises a head-mounted projector including an exit aperture and a projection engine to project image light through the exit aperture. The image light is projected onto a retro-reflective display that reflects image light in a first dimension at above 90% efficiency within a 25 degree exit angular spread and reflects image light in the first dimension below 10% efficiency outside of a 35 degree exit angular spread.
1. A display system, comprising:
a head-mounted projector, including:
an exit aperture, and
a projection engine to project image light through the exit aperture; and
a retro-reflective display that reflects image light in a first dimension at above 90% efficiency within a 25 degree exit angular spread and reflects image light in the first dimension below 10% efficiency outside of a 35 degree exit angular spread.
2. The display system of claim 1 , wherein the retro-reflective display includes a diffuser layer adhered to a retro-reflective film.
3. The display system of claim 2 , wherein the diffuser layer is characterized by a top-hat type diffusion profile.
4. The display system of claim 3 , wherein the diffuser layer includes a graded index diffuser.
5. The display system of claim 2 , wherein the diffuser layer includes a substantially one-dimensional surface relief diffuser, and where the retro-reflective display diffuses light in the first dimension, and substantially retro-reflects image light without diffusion in a second dimension, perpendicular to the first dimension.
6. The display system of claim 2 , further comprising a frame, wherein the frame mounts the exit aperture horizontally to an outside of a user's eyes.
7. The display system of claim 1 , wherein the projection engine has a field of projection and auto-crops the field of projection to avoid projecting outside boundaries of the retro-reflective display.
8. The display system of claim 7 , further comprising an optical stabilization subsystem configured to adjust the auto-cropping of the field of projection responsive to the retro-reflective display moving within the field of projection.
9. The display system of claim 8 , where the optical stabilization subsystem is further configured to adjust a projection direction of the projection engine by physically moving the projection engine relative to the retro-reflective display responsive to the retro-reflective display moving outside of the field of projection.
10. The display system of claim 9 , where the optical stabilization subsystem comprises a rotational motor coupled to the projection engine.
11. The display system of claim 8 , further comprising one or more cameras to receive light reflected off of the retro-reflective display, and where the optical stabilization subsystem is configured to determine boundaries of the retro-reflective display based on the received light.
12. The display system of claim 11 , where the optical stabilization subsystem is configured to determine a size of the retro-reflective display based on the boundaries of the retro-reflective display, and further configured to adjust auto-cropping of the field of projection based on the size of the retro-reflective display.
13. The display system of claim 11 , further comprising:
one or more IR LEDs; and
an input subsystem to determine the position of one or more objects on or near the retro-reflective display based on IR light received by the one or more cameras.
14. The display system of claim 13 , where the projection engine is further configured to mask the one or more objects from the projected image light.
15. The display system of claim 1 , where the retro-reflective display is a foldable display.
16. A method for a display system, comprising:
receiving boundaries of a retro-reflective display relative to a field of projection of a projection engine;
auto-cropping the field of projection to avoid projecting outside the boundaries of the retro-reflective display; and
dynamically adjusting the auto-cropping of the field of projection responsive to movement of the retro-reflective display within of the field of projection.
17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:
dynamically adjusting a projection direction of the projection engine by physically moving the projection engine relative to the retro-reflective display responsive to one or more boundaries of the retro-reflective display moving outside of the field of projection.
18. The method of claim 16 , where receiving boundaries of a retro-reflective display further comprises:
at one or more cameras, receiving IR light retro-reflected off of the retro-reflective display.
19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising:
determining a position of one or more objects located between the retro-reflective display and the projection engine based on IR light received by the one or more cameras; and
masking the one or more objects on or near the retro-reflective display from image light projected by the projection engine.
20. A display system, comprising:
a head-mounted projector, including:
an exit aperture;
a projection engine to project image light within a field of projection through the exit aperture; and
a frame to mount the exit aperture horizontally to an outside of a user's eyes;
a retro-reflective display including a graded index diffuser adhered to a retro-reflective film such that the retro-reflective display reflects image light with a top-hat type diffusion profile; and
an optical stabilization subsystem to adjust auto-cropping of image light within the field of projection responsive to the retro-reflective display moving within the field of projection.