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US 10,746,996 · App. 15/677,663 · Granted Aug 18, 2020

Head mounted display and method for controlling the same

Inventors: Seunghyun Lee (Seoul, KR); Sangrae Kim (Seoul, KR); Jin Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
G02B27/0172G06F3/011G06F3/04815G09G3/003G02B2027/014G02B2027/0134G02B2027/0138G02B2027/0141G02B2027/0181G02B2027/0187G09G2354/00
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Patent No.
US 10,746,996
App. No.
15/677,663
Granted
Aug 18, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a head mounted display and operating method thereof. The present invention includes obtaining use environment information of a user wearing the head mounted display, determining an use environment of the head mounted display based on the obtained use environment information, and adjusting a motion of the user wearing the head mounted display based on the determined use environment.

Claims (38)

1. A head mounted display (HMD), comprising:

a camera;

a display;

a sensor module configured to sense a motion; and

a controller configured to:

obtain use environment information of a user wearing the HMD, determine a use environment of the HMD based on the obtained use environment information, and

adjust a tracking sensitivity for sensing the motion of the user based on the determined use environment,

wherein the controller is further configured to:

recognize at least one person included in an image captured via the camera,

determine whether the use environment of the HMD is a first environment or a second environment based on an acquaintance between the recognized person and the user,

adjust the tracking sensitivity to a default tracking sensitivity when the use environment of the HMD is the first environment, and

adjust the tracking sensitivity to be higher than the default tracking sensitivity when the use environment of the HMD is the second environment.

2. The HMD of claim 1 , further comprising:

a microphone configured to obtain a sound,

wherein the controller is further configured to determine the use environment based on the sound obtained by the microphone.

3. The HMD of claim 2 , wherein the controller is further configured to:

recognize an external event for the user wearing the HMD based on the determined use environment and the sound obtained by the microphone, and

output information on the recognized external event on the display.

4. The HMD of claim 1 , further comprising:

a location information module configured to obtain a current location,

wherein the controller is further configured to determine the use environment based on the current location obtained by the location information module.

5. The HMD of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to:

recognize the motion of the user sensed by the sensor module based on the adjusted tracking sensitivity, and

control an image corresponding to the recognized motion to be outputted on the display.

6. A method of operating a head mounted display (HMD), comprising:

obtaining use environment information of a user wearing the HMD;

determining an use environment of the HMD based on the obtained use environment information; and

adjusting a tracking sensitivity for sensing a motion of the user wearing the HMD based on the determined use environment,

wherein the determining the use environment of the HMD comprises recognizing at least one person included in an image captured via a camera of the mobile terminal and determining whether the use environment of the HMD is a first environment or a second environment based on an acquaintance between the recognized person and the user, and

wherein the adjusting the tracking sensitivity comprises adjusting the tracking sensitivity to a default tracking sensitivity when the use environment of the HMD is the first environment and adjusting the tracking sensitivity to be higher than the default tracking sensitivity when the use environment of the HMD is the second environment.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the obtaining the use environment information comprises obtaining a sound and wherein the determining the use environment comprises determining the use environment based on the obtained sound.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

recognizing an external event for the user wearing the HMD based on the determined use environment and the obtained sound; and

outputting information on the recognized external event.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the obtaining the use environment information comprises obtaining a current location and wherein the determining the use environment comprises determining the use environment based on the obtained current location.

10. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:

recognizing the motion of the user based on the adjusted tracking sensitivity; and

outputting an image corresponding to the recognized motion.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 15, 2017
From: LEE, SEUNGHYUN; KIM, SANGRAE; KIM, JIN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 043298/0899 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2016-0115604 · Sep 8, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180067316A1 · Mar 8, 2018