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US 12,631,876 · App. 18/620,954 · Granted May 19, 2026

Display control apparatus, head mounted display, and display control method

Inventor: Yusuke Onoyama (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
G02B27/0101G02B27/0172H04N13/344G02B2027/014G02B2027/0147
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Patent No.
US 12,631,876
App. No.
18/620,954
Granted
May 19, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a display control apparatus capable of displaying a high-quality image while inhibiting a load at the time of displaying the image in front of a user. There is provided a display control apparatus including a signal processing unit that performs signal processing in which a first mode and a second mode are switchable at a first region in a screen and a region other than the first region in the screen, display being performed at a first resolution in the first mode, display being performed at a second resolution in the second mode, in which the signal processing unit performs display while reducing a resolution in the second mode toward an outer periphery of the screen.

Claims (29)

1 . A display device, comprising:

a display panel including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix;

a controller; and

an eye tracker configured to detect a gaze point of a user, wherein

the controller is configured to determine a first region and a second region on the display panel based on a detection result of the gaze point,

the first region is different from the second region, and

the display panel is configured to:

display first image data with a first resolution in the first region; and

display second image data with a second resolution in the second region, wherein

the second resolution is lower than the first resolution, and

the first region is wider in a horizontal direction than in a vertical direction.

2 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to:

generate the first image data based on first data corresponding to the first region of image data; and

generate the second image data based on second data corresponding to the second region of the image data.

3 . The display device according to claim 2 , wherein the controller is further configured to enlarge the second data to generate the second image data.

4 . The display device according to claim 2 , wherein the controller is further configured to thin out the second data to generate the second image data.

5 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller further includes a data driver configured to:

select at least one pixel column; and

select at least two pixel columns simultaneously in the second region.

6 . The display device according to claim 5 , wherein the data driver is further configured to supply same data to the at least two pixel columns simultaneously.

7 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the first region is a region which the user focuses on, and

the second region is a region outside the first region.

8 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first region is a region with a FOV (field of view) of 40 degrees.

9 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the controller comprises a gate driver, and

the gate driver is configured to:

select at least one pixel line in the first region; and

select at least two pixel lines simultaneously in the second region.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-204296 · Oct 23, 2017 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17661373 · Apr 29, 2022
Continuation 16755947
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