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Granted Patent B2
US 12,456,401 · App. 18/643,108 · Granted Oct 28, 2025

Display device and control method

Inventor: Kazuharu Osawa (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
G09G3/003G02B27/0093G02B27/0172G02B27/0176G02B2027/0138G02B2027/0178G02B2027/0187
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Patent No.
US 12,456,401
App. No.
18/643,108
Granted
Oct 28, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device includes: a display that displays an image; a camera that acquires an eyeball image obtained by capturing an image of an eyeball of a user seeing the display; a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to request the user to perform, as a first operation, an operation of arranging the eyeball in a first range in the eyeball image, and adjust a position of a first member used for displaying the image to arrange the eyeball, which is positioned in the first range in the eyeball image, so as to be in a second range included in the first range.

Claims (42)

1. A display device comprising:

a first member including a display, the display being configured to display an image;

a camera that obtains an eyeball image by capturing an image of an eyeball of a user seeing the display;

a processor; and

a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to, in a case where, in response to a first operation of the user, a position of the first member, the display of which is configured to display the eyeball image, is adjusted such that the eyeball has been arranged in a first range in the eyeball image which is displayed, control is performed such that the eyeball, which is positioned in the first range in the eyeball image, is arranged in a second range included in the first range by automatically adjusting the position of the first member

wherein the second range is a range in which a pupil of the user is needed to be arranged, and

wherein the first range is larger than the second range.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the program, when executed by the processor, further causes the processor to acquire a relative position of the eyeball with respect to the first member.

3. The display device according to claim 2 , wherein the program, when executed by the processor, further causes the processor to acquire a position of the eyeball in the eyeball image as a relative position of the eyeball with respect to the first member.

4. The display device according to claim 2 , wherein the program, when executed by the processor, further causes the processor to automatically adjust the position of the first member on a basis of the relative position of the eyeball with respect to the first member when a relative position of the first member with respect to the eyeball is manually adjusted by the first operation.

5. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first range is a range based on (1) the second range and (2) an amount at which the position of the first member is adjustable.

6. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the program, when executed by the processor, further causes the processor to request, in a case where the eyeball in the eyeball image is not capable of being arranged in the second range, the user to adjust the position of the first member by the first operation again.

7. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the program, when executed by the processor, further causes the processor to display, when requesting the user to adjust the position of the first member, an indication showing at least any of a target and an adjustment direction, which require adjustment by the user.

8. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first member includes (1) a second member that corresponds to a left eyeball of the user and (2) a third member that corresponds to a right eyeball of the user.

9. The display device according to claim 8 , wherein the program, when executed by the processor, further causes the processor to adjust a position of the second member and a position of the third member so that the second member and the third member move along substantially same vectors.

10. The display device according to claim 8 , wherein the program, when executed by the processor, further causes the processor to adjust a position of the second member and a position of the third member so that the second member and the third member move along vectors that are substantially opposite to each other.

11. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the program, when executed by the processor, further causes the processor to shift the first member to adjust the position of the first member.

12. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the program, when executed by the processor, further causes the processor to rotate the first member in the first operation.

13. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first operation is adjustment of a mechanism that rotates the first member, and

wherein the program, when executed by the processor, further causes the processor to adjust the position of the first member by a mechanism that shifts the first member.

14. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the display device is a head-mounted display attached to a head of the user.

15. The display device according to claim 14 , wherein the first operation is an operation performed on a mechanism attached to the head of the user, and

wherein the program, when executed by the processor, further causes the processor to adjust the position of the first member by a mechanism other than the mechanism attached to the head of the user.

16. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a head attachment mechanism fixed to a head of the user; and

a coupling mechanism configured to couple the first member to the head attachment mechanism in a rotatable or shiftable manner,

wherein the first operation is an operation carried out upon the coupling mechanism.

17. A display device capable of manually adjusting, by an operation of a user seeing a display, a relative position of a first member used for displaying an eyeball image obtained by capturing an image of an eyeball of the user with respect to the eyeball of the user, the display device comprising:

the first member, which includes the display, the display being configured to display the eyeball image;

a processor; and

a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to (1) request the user to adjust a position of the first member by a first operation to arrange the eyeball so as to be in a first range in the eyeball image, and (2) request the user to adjust, by a second operation which is able to move the first member in fewer directions than the first operation after the position of the first member is adjusted by the first operation, the position of the first member to arrange the eyeball, which is positioned in the first range in the eyeball image, so as to be in a second range included in the first range,

wherein the second range is a range in which a pupil of the user is needed to be arranged, and

wherein the first range is larger than the second range.

18. The display device according to claim 17 , further comprising a camera that is integrally constituted with the first member and that acquires the eyeball image.

19. A control method for a display device including (1) a first member including a display configured to display an image, and (2) a camera that obtains an eyeball image by capturing an image of an eyeball of a user seeing the display, the control method comprising:

in a case where, in response to a first operation of the user, a position of the first member, the display of which is configured to display the eyeball image, is adjusted such that the eyeball has been arranged in a first range in the eyeball image which is displayed, performing control such that the eyeball, which is positioned in the first range in the eyeball image, is arranged in a second range included in the first range by automatically adjusting the position of the first member,

wherein the second range is a range in which a pupil of the user is needed to be arranged, and

wherein the first range is larger than the second range.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores a program, wherein the program causes a computer to execute a control method for a display device including (1) a first member including a display configured to display an image, and (2) a camera that obtains an eyeball image by capturing an image of an eyeball of a user seeing the display, the control method comprising:

in a case where, in response to a first operation of the user, a position of the first member, the display of which is configured to display the eyeball image, is adjusted such that the eyeball has been arranged in a first range in the eyeball image which is displayed, performing control such that the eyeball, which is positioned in the first range in the eyeball image, is arranged in a second range included in the first range by automatically adjusting the position of the first member,

wherein the second range is a range in which a pupil of the user is needed to be arranged, and

wherein the first range is larger than the second range.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 3, 2024
From: OSAWA, KAZUHARU
To: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2023-079335 · May 12, 2023 · national
Continuity (1)
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