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Granted Patent B2
US 10,877,269 · App. 16/510,443 · Granted Dec 29, 2020

Head-mounted display apparatus, inspection supporting display system, display method, and recording medium recording display program

Inventors: Tatsuyuki Uemura (Tachikawa, JP); Hirofumi Endo (Tokyo, JP); Takao Shibasaki (Hokkaido, JP); Yoji Osanai (Hachioji, JP); Seiji Tatsuta (Hachioji, JP)
Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
G02B27/017G06T7/0004G06T7/0012G02B2027/014G02B2027/0178G02B2027/0187G06T2207/30121
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Patent No.
US 10,877,269
App. No.
16/510,443
Granted
Dec 29, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A head-mounted display apparatus includes a display device configured to form a virtual display region by a virtual image of an electronic video in a visual field of a user, an image pickup device configured to pick up an image of an image pickup range including a part or a whole of visual field of the user, and a processor. The processor determines, with signal processing for a picked-up image by the image pickup device, an observation necessary range in the picked-up image and performs display control for displaying, in the virtual display region, an image portion of the observation necessary range in the picked-up image.

Claims (37)

1. A head-mounted display apparatus comprising:

a display device configured to form a virtual display region by a virtual image of an electronic video in a visual field of a user;

an image pickup device configured to pick up an image of an image pickup range including a part or a whole of visual field of the user; and

a processor, wherein

the processor determines, with signal processing for a picked-up image by the image pickup device, an observation necessary range in the picked-up image and performs display control for displaying, in the virtual display region, an image portion of the observation necessary range in the picked-up image, and

the processor detects a fingertip of the user's left hand and a fingertip of the user's right hand and sets a range surrounded by the user's left hand fingertip and right hand fingertip as the observation necessary range.

2. A head-mounted display apparatus comprising:

a display device configured to form a virtual display region by a virtual image of an electronic video in a visual field of a user;

an image pickup device configured to pick up an image of an image pickup range including a part or a whole of visual field of the user;

at least one mechanism of a first mechanism configured to change a position of the virtual display region in the visual field of the user and a second mechanism configured to change an image pickup direction of the image pickup device, and

a processor, wherein

the processor determines, with signal processing for a picked-up image by the image pickup device, an observation necessary range in the picked-up image and performs display control for displaying, in the virtual display region, an image portion of the observation necessary range in the picked-up image,

the processor detects a fingertip of the user's left hand and a fingertip of the user's right hand and sets a range surrounded by the user's left hand fingertip and right hand fingertip as the observation necessary range, and

the processor determines an act of holding-up the user's hands as a determination condition for the observation necessary range.

3. The head-mounted display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the processor determines, as the observation necessary range, an image portion including a work object of the user.

4. The head-mounted display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the processor determines a work object of the user through an image analysis for the picked-up image and determines, as the observation necessary range, an image portion including the work object of the user.

5. The head-mounted display apparatus according to claim 2 , further comprising a work database including information concerning work of the user, wherein

the processor specifies a work object based on an image analysis for the picked-up image and information of the work database and determines, as the observation necessary range, an image portion including the specified work object.

6. The head-mounted display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the processor performs, using a predetermined inference model, inference of the observation necessary range based on the inputted picked-up image.

7. An inspection supporting display system comprising:

a head-mounted display apparatus including:

a display device configured to form a virtual display region by a virtual image of an electronic video in a visual field of a user; and

an image pickup device configured to pick up an image of an image pickup range including a work target of the user; and

a processor, wherein

the processor determines, with signal processing for a picked-up image by the image pickup device, an observation necessary range including the work target in the picked-up image and performs display control for enlarging and displaying an image portion of the observation necessary range in the picked-up image, and

the processor detects a fingertip of the user's left hand and a fingertip of the user's right hand and sets a range surrounded by the user's left hand fingertip and right hand fingertip as the observation necessary range.

8. A display method comprising:

forming a virtual display region by a virtual image of an electronic video in a visual field of a user;

picking up an image of an image pickup range including a part or a whole of visual field of the user;

determining, with signal processing for a picked-up image acquired by the image pickup, an observation necessary range in the picked-up image;

performing display control for displaying, in the virtual display region, an image portion of the observation necessary range in the picked-up image, and

detecting a fingertip of the user's left hand and a fingertip of the user's right hand and setting a range surrounded by the user's left hand fingertip and right hand fingertip as the observation necessary range.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording a display program for causing a computer to:

form a virtual display region by a virtual image of an electronic video in a visual field of a user;

pick up an image of an image pickup range including a part or a whole of visual field of the user; determine, with signal processing for a picked-up image acquired by the image pickup, an observation necessary range in the picked-up image;

execute display control for displaying, in the virtual display region, an image portion of the observation necessary range in the picked-up image, and

detect a fingertip of the user's left hand and a fingertip of the user's right hand and set a range surrounded by the left hand fingertip and right hand fingertip as the observation necessary range.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 18, 2021
From: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
To: OM DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058901/0912 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 16, 2019
From: UEMURA, TATSUYUKI; ENDO, HIROFUMI; SHIBASAKI, TAKAO; OSANAI, YOJI; TATSUTA, SEIJI
To: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049760/0624 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-133468 · Jul 13, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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