Floating image display device
A floating image display device includes an image display, a floating image formation optical system that causes diffuse light emitted from the image display to form an image again in a space, a viewpoint position detector that acquires viewpoint position information on an observer observing the diffuse light that has passed through the floating image formation optical system, and display control circuitry. The display control circuitry estimates a floating image formation region, in which the observer perceives an image display surface in the space, based on positional relationship in the floating image formation optical system and the viewpoint position information, estimates image resolution in the floating image formation region based on the viewpoint position information and the positional relationship in the floating image formation optical system, and outputs the display image information to the image display based on information on the floating image formation region and the image resolution.
1. A floating image display device comprising:
an image display that displays an image;
a floating image formation optical system that causes diffuse light emitted from the image display to form a floating image again in a space;
a viewpoint position detector to acquire viewpoint position information on an observer observing the diffuse light that has passed through the floating image formation optical system; and
display control circuitry configured
to receive the viewpoint position information as an input and controls display image information outputted to the image display,
to estimate a floating image formation region, which contains the floating image the observer perceives, in the space by performing three-dimensional optical path tracking based on positional relationship in the floating image formation optical system and the viewpoint position information,
to estimate image resolution of the floating image in the floating image formation region based on the viewpoint position information and the positional relationship in the floating image formation optical system, and
to output the display image information to the image display based on information on the floating image formation region and the image resolution.
2. The floating image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the display control circuitry controls at least one of a display size and a display position of the image information outputted to the image display.
3. The floating image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the display control circuitry executes a process of reducing high frequency components of gradation of the image information outputted to the image display.
4. The floating image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the display control circuitry controls brightness or chromaticity of the image information outputted to the image display in regard to each output pixel.
5. The floating image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the display control circuitry changes contents of the image by the image display depending on height of the observer's viewpoint from a floor surface.
6. The floating image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the display control circuitry changes an arrangement position of the image display.
7. The floating image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the floating image formation optical system comprises a beam splitter that splits incident light into transmitted light and reflected light and a retroreflective sheet that reflects incident light towards a direction of incidence.
8. The floating image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the floating image formation optical system comprises a dihedral corner reflector array into which two mirror surfaces are disposed together orthogonal to each other in an array on a flat surface.
9. The floating image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the viewpoint position detector includes an image sensor and calculates the viewpoint position information from information obtained by capturing an image of the observer as a subject.