Occupant supports and virtual visualization and navigation
Apparatus and method for using light fields for virtual visualization and virtual navigation.
1. A system for virtual visualization of a real space comprising:
a User Member with a user interface comprising a display, wherein said User Member is connected to an Active Network hosted by computing resources to enable a real time virtual visualization infrastructure for a real space comprising a plurality of Sources, wherein said infrastructure is enabled by an internet with at least one digital communications protocol;
a plurality of Source Members, each comprising at least one of said Sources each comprising one or more cameras configured to provide visual stimuli to the User:
wherein one or more of said cameras on at least one Source Member are enabled to construct a Light Field between available Sources;
wherein each of the Sources are at Source Points;
wherein said Source Points are configured to move;
wherein the Network derives Source physical location information through their respective Source Members in the Network;
wherein locations of each of said Sources is determined by the Active Network;
wherein said system is configured to deconstruct said light fields of Sources and reconstruct light fields for Source Points between available Sources to at least one of: interpolate to construct at least one view at a location of a interpolated Source Point distinct from a location of any of the Sources; construct a 3D visualization; and construct a field of view of a selected Source with reconstructed occluded regions;
Wherein said Active Network is configured to provide interpolation processing;
Wherein said Active network generates at least one Plenoptic Function across an aggregate light field from said cameras located at each of said Source points configured to generate light fields from one or more of said Sources.
2. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 1 , wherein the at least one Source Member Light Field comprises a light field constructed by the motion of the one or more cameras.
3. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 1 , wherein the at least one Source Member Light Field comprises a plurality of Source Light Fields generated by a plurality of Sources attached to said Source Member of said plurality of Source Members.
4. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 1 , wherein at least one of said Sources are configured to move relative to its Source Member.
5. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 1 , wherein at least one of said Source Members is a Machine Source Member (MCM).
6. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 1 , wherein at least one of said Sources are mounted on a Source Vehicle of said Source controlled by its Source Member.
7. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 6 , wherein a plurality of said Sources mounted on their Source Vehicles fly in swarms, wherein each of their flight paths are controlled by their Source Member.
8. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 6 , wherein the Active Network controls the flight path of said Source vehicles.
9. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 8 , wherein at least one of said Users instruct the Active Network on desired at least one of Synthetic Source Points, 3D visualizations, reconstruction of occluded regions, thereby defining the required light field density in a local region of said Aggregate Light Field.
10. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 9 , wherein the constituent parts of the Aggregate light field used for the construction of the at least one of Synthetic Source Points, 3D visualizations, reconstruction of occluded regions, uses real time light fields in the region when the field of view is changing over time and include previously saved time lagged light field components in the local region which used in combination increase the clarity of the visualization.
11. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 1 , wherein one or both of: a plurality of cameras are configured to have distinct focal lengths; and at least one camera is configured to have a plurality of focal lengths at a sequence of times, thereby capture different slices in the Fourier domain of the 4-D light fields and enabling refocusing ex-post.
12. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 1 , wherein a plurality of cameras constitute a cluster camera.
13. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 12 , wherein a cluster camera is one or more of a wide angle camera, a rectangular array, an elliptical array.
14. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 13 , wherein said cluster camera is a 360 degree view camera.
15. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 6 , wherein one or more of said Source Vehicles are configured to have electromagnetic field sensors to detect EM fields in a neighborhood of a flight path, and have landing gear for parking to park in the vicinity of said EM field as detected by said electro-magnetic field sensors, and inductive coupling coils which are configured to couple to the EM field to charge a vehicle battery.
16. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 15 , wherein a swarm of Source vehicles communicate to share among each other, EM charging opportunities.
17. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 1 , wherein the generated Aggregate Light Field is archived to generate a history of Aggregate Light Fields to construct Real Maps to enable documentaries of the past with one or both of video and static images.
18. A system for virtual visualization as in claim 1 , further configured for virtual navigation of a real space:
wherein a first field of view of one of the at least one Source of the plurality of Source Members comprises a plurality of icons representing locations of other Sources for selection of said Sources;
wherein selection of the locations of said icons available for selection in said first field of view of one of the at least one Source of the plurality of Source Members, is the selection of the locations of their corresponding Sources;
wherein virtual navigation of the User Member comprises changing the display of the first field of view of one of the at least one Source of the plurality of Source Members to the display of a desired second field of view of one of the at least one Source of the plurality of Source Members, which is enabled by said User Member selecting an icon of the plurality of icons displayed in said first field of view of one of the at least one Source of the plurality of Source Members wherein said selected icon is at the location of the desired one of the at least one Source of the plurality of Source Members, at the time of presence of said Source at the location of the Source Point corresponding to the second field of view;
wherein the User Member is enabled to select a starting point at one of: a location comprising a native real environment of the User; and a menu of selection options from a choice of Sources;
wherein upon selection of the starting point it is displayed as the first field of view, that comprises a plurality of icons that represent locations of other Sources available for selection and navigation thereto.
19. A System for Virtual Visualization as in claim 1 , wherein User-Sources are User devices with Sources, wherein one or more of said Sources of User-Sources are mobile phones and are supported by their Source Members that are configured to be supported by a human user wherein said support is configured to redirect the light field incident on mirrors thereby directing it to the Source cameras while allowing the human User to view the screen of the mobile phone as a User of the Navigation system.
20. A system for virtual navigation as in claim 18 , further comprising block chain nodes at each of said Sources and Users, wherein a Block Chain Transaction comprises a plurality of: a Source Start Time, a Source End Time, a Source Start Location, a Source End Location, a Summary Statistic of Data communicated from Source to User, and wherein a series of transactions generate a block chain, and wherein inspection of replicated databases of the blockchain on the nodes provides a verifiable history of virtual navigation of the User.