WEARABLE DEVICE, PROGRAM AND DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD OF WEARABLE DEVICE
A wearable device configured to be worn by a wearer, the wearable device includes a display to provide an image on a display area that occupies a part of a field of view of the wearer, an eyesight sensor to acquire eyesight sensing information by an eyesight sensing in a field of view of the eyesight sensor, a peripheral sensing acquisition section to acquire peripheral sensing information from a peripheral sensing having a detection angle larger than an angle of the field of view of the eyesight sensor, and a display controller to control displaying object information of an object in the image, the object being selected from at least one candidate object recognized by at least one of the eyesight sensing and the peripheral sensing.
1 . A wearable device configured to be worn by a wearer, the wearable device comprising:
a display to provide an image on a display area that occupies a part of a field of view of the wearer,
an eyesight sensor to acquire eyesight sensing information by an eyesight sensing in a field of view of the eyesight sensor,
a peripheral sensing acquisition section to acquire peripheral sensing information from a peripheral sensing having a detection angle larger than an angle of the field of view of the eyesight sensor, and
a display controller to control displaying object information of an object in the image, the object being selected from at least one candidate object recognized by at least one of the eyesight sensing and the peripheral sensing.
2 . The wearable device according to claim 1 , wherein
the display controller controls displaying the object information of the object that is recognized by the eyesight sensing among the at least one candidate object.
3 . The wearable device according to claim 1 , wherein
the display controller controls displaying the object information of the object that is recognized by both the eyesight sensing and the peripheral sensing among the at least one candidate object.
4 . The wearable device according to claim 1 , wherein
the display controller controls displaying a control screen having a control instructions for controlling of the object whose object information is being displayed.
5 . The wearable device according to claim 4 , further including
a communication section configured to communicate with an electronic device as the object,
wherein the communication section is configured to transmit a signal of a control instruction to the electronic device based on an operation of the control screen by the wearer.
6 . The wearable device according to claim 1 , wherein
the eyesight sensor is configured to pick up an image in the field of view of the eyesight sensor as the eyesight sensing and acquire the eyesight sensing information based on image processing of the image.
7 . The wearable device according to claim 1 , wherein
the peripheral sensing acquisition section is configured to receive at least one signal concerning a position of the wearer and a position of the object so as to acquire information of a position of the object relative to a position of the wearer based on the signal received.
8 . The wearable device according to claim 4 , wherein
the display controller controls displaying an icon of one to N which expresses an object of one to N as the object information wherein N is an integer and is more than one, and
when a selection processing of selecting an icon i is performed among the icons of the one to N, the display controller controls displaying the control screen used as the control instruction of the object i corresponding to the icon i, wherein i is an integer satisfying 1≦i≦N.
9 . The wearable device according to claim 8 , wherein
when the selection is not performed by the wearer within a predetermined term, the display controller automatically selects a single icon among the icons and controls displaying the control screen of the object corresponding to the icon selected.
10 . The wearable device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the display controller controls displaying an icon representing the object as the object information,
wherein, the display controller controls displaying the icon of the object as a first form, the object being recognized by the eyesight sensing and not recognized by the peripheral sensing,
wherein, the display controller controls displaying the icon of the object as a second form, the object being not recognized by the eyesight sensing and being recognized by the peripheral sensing, and
wherein the display controller controls displaying the icon of the object as a third form, the object being recognized by both the eyesight sensing and the peripheral sensing, the first form, the second form and the third form being different from each other.
11 . The wearable device according to claim 1 , wherein
the display controller selects a single object from the object comprising two or more candidate objects based on at least one of the eyesight sensing information and the peripheral sensing information and controls displaying of the object information of the single selected object.
12 . The wearable device according to claim 11 , wherein
the display controller selects the single object determined by at least one of:
a) a distance from the wearer being nearer than a distance of other candidate objects and
b) an angle from a front direction of the wearer being smaller than an angle from the front direction of the wearer of other candidate objects
and controls displaying the object information of the object selected based on at least one of the eyesight sensing information and the peripheral sensing information.
13 . The wearable device according to claim 12 , wherein
the display controller selects the single object determined by a distance from the wearer being nearer than a distance of other candidate objects based on at least one of the eyesight sensing information and the peripheral sensing information.
14 . The wearable device according to claim 12 , wherein
the display controller selects the single object determined by an angle from a front direction of the wearer being smaller than that of other candidate objects based on at least one of the eyesight sensing information and the peripheral sensing information.
15 . The wearable device according to claim 1 , wherein
the display controller controls displaying property information of the object as the object information.
16 . The wearable device according to claim 1 , wherein
when a number of the at least one candidate object is equal or more than a predetermined threshold value, the at least one candidate object being divided into a first group and a second group,
wherein the display controller controls displaying the object information in the first group, a number of the first group being less than the predetermined threshold value and
wherein the display controller controls displaying an indication of a number of the second group.
17 . A computer program product storing a program code that, when executed by a computer, implements control of:
an eyesight sensor to acquire eyesight sensing information by an eyesight sensing in a field of view of the eyesight sensor,
a peripheral sensing acquisition section to acquire peripheral sensing information from a peripheral sensing having a detection angle larger than an angle of the field of view of the eyesight sensor, and
a display controller to control displaying object information of an object in the image, the object being selected from at least one candidate object recognized by at least one of the eyesight sensing and the peripheral sensing.
18 . A display controlling method of a wearable device configured to be worn by a wearer, the wearable device having a display to provide an image on a display area that occupies a part of a field of view of the wearer, comprising:
acquiring eyesight sensing information by an eyesight sensing in a field of view of the eyesight sensing,
acquiring peripheral sensing information by a peripheral sensing having a detection angle larger than an angle of the field of view of the eyesight sensing, and
controlling displaying object information of an object in the image, the object being selected from at least one candidate object recognized by at least one of the eyesight sensing and the peripheral sensing.