51 results about "Sense of presence" patented technology

A system, apparatus, and method are directed to managing contextual based mobile searches. A context oriented user interface interprets inputs from a mobile user based on vitality information. In one embodiment, the input may be interpreted as a request to perform a context-based search over a network using at least some of the vitality information. Vitality information may include a location of the mobile device, a time of day, an event, information from the mobile user's calendar, past behavior of the mobile user, weather, social networking data, aggregate behaviors, or even information about proximity of a social contact. By employing vitality information to perform a mobile search, better search results and a richer user experience may be provided that includes a sense of community, a sense of presence (e.g., a sense of “here-ness.”). In one embodiment, the mobile user may provide comments to others regarding the search results.

Networked games, including network dating games are provided using instant messaging to provide a real time game and a game with a sense of presence from players and audience members. A dating game is provided where multiple men compete for a single woman.

In a fitness equipment that provides a user with walking, running, or bicycling exercises, signals generated by a driving device corresponding to the forward / backward movement of the user is converted into the forward / backward control of an electronic game or the up / down scrolling control of the content of an application of an electronic device, such that the user is capable of enjoying the content control while physically exercising, which beats boredom of just exercising. On the other hand, content control of the electronic device transferred from manual operation to movement on the fitness equipment provides fitness objectives when using the electronic device. Furthermore, the resemblance between the movement of walking, running, or bicycling of the user and the movement of the figures in the electronic games or the scrolling of the content of the application adds to similarity, sense of presence, and convenience.

The invention provides a display device and a video communication terminal. The display device comprises a transparent display panel which is used for displaying images; and an image photographing component which is used for acquiring images of the photographed objects arranged at the front surface side of the transparent display panel by collecting light transmitted through the transparent display panel. According to the display device, the image photographing component acquires the images of the photographed objects arranged at the front surface side of the transparent display panel by collecting light transmitted through the transparent display panel. When users perform video communication, the image photographing component can acquire the front surface images of the faces of the users through the transparent display panel so that visual and eye contact of both parties in the video communication can be realized, and thus the effect and sense of presence of the video communication can be enhanced.

[Object] To make it possible to generate a panoramic image that offers a stronger sense of presence and immersion to a user without imposing too heavy a load on a user.[Solution] Alignment determination processing (2) of determining whether or not other captured image data than captured panoramic image data is capable of aligning with the captured panoramic image data in a manner that a captured object remains consistent between the captured panoramic image data and the other captured image data, and image link processing (3) of linking, to the captured panoramic image data, the other captured image data determined to be capable of aligning with the captured panoramic image data are performed. In order to integrate a captured image such as a moving image and a high resolution image other than a captured panoramic image and to generate a captured panoramic image that offers a strengthened sense of presence and immersion, a user only has to shoot a panoramic image and another captured image at substantially the same image capturing spot. Thus, it is possible to generate a panoramic image that offers a stronger sense of presence and immersion to a user without imposing too heavy a load on a user.

A system and method displays a realistic image that allows a user to readily grasp his / her own positional relationship and also to experience a sense of presence. An outer dome screen is disposed so as to surround a user, and an immersion image such as the scenery of the surroundings of an object is displayed thereon. An inner dome screen is disposed inside the outer dome screen, and it displays a bird's-eye image of the object as perceived by the vision of the user when the object is viewed from a viewpoint of the user. In this case, the user is allowed to readily grasp his / her own positional relationship by the bird's-eye image and is allowed to experience a sense of presence by the immersion image.

Disclosed is an optical system for a head-mounted display, in which image rays provided from a display device are diverged to form and provide an enlarged image. First, second, and third lenses or first, second, third, and fourth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object along an optical axis and provide the enlarged image on an image plane, and angles of principal rays are gradually increased from the optical axis toward an edge of the image plane. Thus, as the angles of principal rays increase, the angle of view is improved to provide a large image so that it is possible to appreciate a vivid image due to an increase in the sense of presence and the degree of involvement. The size of the entire optical system can be reduced, thus a head-mounted display can be made compact and lightweight.

The invention discloses an interface layout method and a wraparound interface system. The interface layout method comprises that the whole interface is divided into several display objects, and the display objects are laid out in a wraparound manner in the three-dimensional space; the user's sight line is obtained, and the display object on the user's sight line is displayed to the user clearly in dependence on the direction of the user's sight line. A wraparound layout manner that the user is taken as the center in the three-dimensional space is employed, the number of the display objects that can be laid out is increased, and the scalability is high; the display object on the user's sight line is displayed to the user clearly, and the main content in the interface is effectively highlighted; the user can find the sense of presence and have a better user experience, the distance between the display object and the human eyes is corrected, the poor display effect that the object being close to the user is large and the object being far from the user is small is avoided, and a more comfortable viewing experience can be provided.

A materialization system for virtual objects and a method thereof are disclosed. The system and the method according to the present invention transform information of a virtual object in a virtual game into a physical machine so as to make the physical machine have the same characters as the virtual object. Thus according to various characters of virtual objects, the user can create his / her own physical machine. The users can carry the physical machine with them to play games with others face to face with a new sense of fun, a sense of presence and visual realism.

The invention discloses an immersive virtual reality screen projection system, which includes a projection screen and projection equipment. The projection screen includes a top screen, a vertical screen and a ground screen sequentially connected from top to bottom, and the top screen, vertical screen and ground screen are jointly formed. A three-dimensional viewing space, the projection equipment includes a first projection group, a second projection group and a third projection group, the first projection group includes the first projector projected on the floor screen, and the second projection group includes the first Two projectors, the third projection group includes a third projector projecting on the ceiling. In the present invention, the top screen, the vertical screen and the ground screen are connected as an integrated screen, and the screen is bent or bent as a whole to form a three-dimensional and grand viewing space, and each area on the projection screen is correspondingly equipped with a corresponding The projection group is used to form a balanced and complete projection picture. When the audience walks or stands on the ground, they are surrounded by images, so that the audience has a strong sense of presence and immersion, effectively improving the audience's viewing experience.

The invention discloses a theater with a multi-dimension moving auditorium. The theater comprises a theater body internally provided with a spherical space, a grid top, a base, a rotatable rotating shaft arranged between the base and the grid top, and the nacelle-type auditorium arranged on the outer wall of the rotating shaft, wherein the a moving device enabling the nacelle-type auditorium to move vertically is arranged on the rotating shaft, the micelle-type auditorium is provided with a nacelle and a swing device enabling the nacelle to swing, and a video screen used for displaying videos is arranged on the inner wall of the theater body. According to the theater with the multi-dimension moving auditorium, the nacelle-type auditorium is arranged inside and can swing front and back and left and right, move vertically along the rotating shaft and rotate along with the rotating shaft so that the audience in the nacelle-type auditorium can watch the content of spherical videos in multiple angles and be free from the constraint of plane vision, the sense of presence and the reality of watching are enhanced, the audience can have the immersive feeling, and the shock power brought by watching the videos is larger.

[Problem]To minimize an increase in the number of screen modes, and to provide modes capable of giving a remarkable sense of presence and modes capable of displaying right circles in the video display device whose aspect ratio is 10:3. [Means to Solve the Problem]A video display device whose aspect ratio is longer in the horizontal direction than 16:9 is provided with a video conversion circuit for stretching an inputted video signal in horizontal and vertical directions and a display unit adapted to display the video stretched by the video conversion circuit. The video conversion circuit includes a mode for stretching the inputted video at a stretch rate of A (A is equal to or larger than 1) in the horizontal direction and at a stretch rate of B (B is equal to or larger than 1) in the vertical direction, so that unpleasant sensation caused by the stretch in the horizontal direction is reduced, and videos effectively utilizing the aspect ratio of the video display device are displayed.

A system and method displays a realistic image that allows a user to readily grasp his / her own positional relationship and also to experience a sense of presence. An outer dome screen is disposed so as to surround a user, and an immersion image such as the scenery of the surroundings of an object is displayed thereon. An inner dome screen is disposed inside the outer dome screen, and it displays a bird's-eye image of the object as perceived by the vision of the user when the object is viewed from a viewpoint of the user. In this case, the user is allowed to readily grasp his / her own positional relationship by the bird's-eye image and is allowed to experience a sense of presence by the immersion image.

The present invention gives a sense of glare to a display image an displays a high sense of presence by producing a sufficient gradation expression from high light to highest light. An image-capturing device having a display means with which it is possible to make the display luminance of image data enhanced over prescribed standard luminance, wherein the image-capturing device has an image-capturing step (S1) for capturing the image of a subject under a prescribed photographing condition and outputting image-capture data, an image-processing step (S3) for generating image data for display on the display means from the image-capture data, and control steps (S7-S25) for controlling the photographing condition in the image-capturing step and the enhancement of display luminance in the display means. The control steps control the image-capturing step so that, as an image is captured, gradation on the high luminance side is extended against a gradation characteristic that servers as standard (S13), and control, when displaying the image data on the display means, the enhancement of the display luminance of the display means on the basis of the extended amount of gradation on the high luminance side in the image-capturing step (S15).

Provided is an image codec apparatus that allows a user to check his own-image properly while feeling a strong sense of presence. The image codec apparatus (100) includes cameras (Ca, Cb, and Cc) that generate taken-image data by shooting, monitors (Ma, Mb, and Mc) that display images, encoders (101, 102, and 103) that code taken-image data, decoders (121, 122, and 123) that decodes coded image data for generating decoded image data, and synthesizers (111, 112, and 113) that process the taken-image data generated by the cameras (Ca, Cb, and Cc) for generating processed image data and synthesizing a processed image represented by the processed image with the decoded image and output, to the monitors (Ma, Mb, and Mc), synthesized image data that represents synthesized image.

An optical system for a head-mounted display in which image rays provided from a display device are divergent to form and provide an enlarged image is configured so that first and second lenses are sequentially disposed from an object along an optical axis and provide the enlarged image on an image plane, and angles of principal rays are gradually increased from the optical axis toward the edge of the image plane. Thus, as the angles of principal rays are increased, an angle of view is improved to provide a large screen so that it is possible to appreciate a vivid image due to an increase in the sense of presence and the degree of involvement. The entire size of the optical system can be reduced. The head-mounted display can be made compact and lightweight.

The present disclosure discloses a wraparound interface layout method, which adopts a user-centered wraparound layout in a stereo space, thus more display objects are available for the layout, and the expansibility is better; by clearly presenting the display objects located in a user's sight line to the user, main content in the interface is effectively highlighted, so that the user finds the sense of presence, and a better user experience is achieved; in addition, the distances from the display objects to the human eyes are corrected, which avoids the undesirable display effect that the objects close to the user are visually larger and the objects far away from the user are visually smaller, and provides a more comfortable viewing experience. The present disclosure discloses a content switching method and a list switching method under a three-dimensional immersive environment, which sufficiently utilizes spatial characteristics under the three-dimensional immersive environment, a content to be presented is divided into a plurality of content units, and only display the current content unit or the current list within the scope of the user's sight line, thereby effectively highlighting the content to be displayed, visually improving the sense of space, and enhancing the user's three-dimensional immersive experience. Moreover, the user's switching operation is simplified, thus through a very simple action within a narrow range, the user can complete the content switching or the list switching, and enjoy a smooth and accurate switching experience.

The invention discloses a method for realizing VR scene of safe electricity utilization. The method adopts a reality modeling technology based on virtual reality technology, , and displays and experiences a typical working scene of high voltage line patrol by VR, in which the content comprises high voltage electric tower line patrol and cable obstacle clearing, and the participant can understand the work content of the high voltage line patrol by means of walk-through and interaction from the perspective of linesmen. The method for realizing VR scene of safe electricity utilization is of greatsignificance for high voltage linesmen to adapt to the work content in advance, and for enterprises to popularize and educate the electricity utilization knowledge such as safe electricity utilization, green electricity utilization and electricity saving by multiple publicity mediums and means. The implementation of the method from the angle of screening the hidden risks of safe electricity utilization in families, is not only to simulate the actual physical sense of presence, but also to eliminate the boundary between real environment and computer system in a natural and interactive way.

The invention relates to a virtual remote diagnosis and treatment system, which comprises a computer system, cameras and a VR virtual visual device. The two cameras are arranged above the center of adiagnosis room or an operation and treatment room. The two cameras are simulated in a virtual scene as the left eye and the right eye of a person, taking pictures of the process of a diagnosis or operation and treatment on a patient in all directions. The data of the left eye pictures and the right eye pictures is processed, synthesized and transmitted to the VR virtual visual device of a doctor at the remote end by the computer system. Thus the doctor at the remote end can remotely diagnose and treat the patient under a more realistic, all-directions environment. The invention solves the problems that the prior remote diagnosis process is too single in pictures, having no sense of presence, and is difficult to obtain the actual effect of face-to-face communication between doctors and patients, and doctors at the remote end have difficulties in observing the operation details in all directions in remote operation guiding treatments. Moreover, the virtual reality technology is integrated into the remote diagnosis and treatment. Thus the doctor at the remote end can remotely diagnose and treat under a more realistic, all-directions environment.

The invention relates to the technical field of automobile electronic communication, in particular to a height-based vehicle-mounted memory seat and a steering wheel adjusting method and system, and aims to solve the problems that an existing vehicle-mounted memory seat and an existing steering wheel adjusting method and system have limited technical means and require additional operation to inputdriver information in advance. The invention discloses the height-based vehicle-mounted memory seat and a steering wheel adjusting method and system, and the height-based vehicle-mounted memory seatcomprise a distance control unit, a distance measuring device with a three-dimensional structure, a seat control adjusting mechanism, a steering wheel control and adjusting mechanism and an external rearview mirror control and adjusting mechanism. The height-based vehicle-mounted memory seat and the steering wheel adjusting method and system have the advantages of no sense of presence, no need ofadditional operation, no need of inputting driver information in advance, safety, stability and high efficiency.

The invention belongs to the technical field of video monitoring, in particular to a 720 panoramic deployment monitoring method based on opengl. Concretely comprising the following steps: a, creatinga mask image; B, establishing a mathematical model for calculating vertex coordinate and texture coordinates; C, image rendering and displaying; D, hot spot area addition and operation. The inventionachieves the effect of smooth transition by creating a mask map with alpha value of the same size as the original image to carry out the fusion of the splicing positions, and the steps are simpler, the processing efficiency is high, and the realistic feeling and the sense of presence of the picture are stronger.

Belonging to lottery betting, the invention relates to a betting method of guessing football lotteries, and relates to the purchase of lotteries. The method is characterized in that: first, purchase must be conducted along with the gradual elapse of competition time during a competition; second, sale is carried out through a network system, and the time is recorded at the same time of lottery purchase; then, the betting bottom line is gradually raised based on the pass of time, so that a participant can have stronger senses of presence and participation; moreover, conformity between the time and the betting bottom line is checked, if an inconformity exists, the system can prompt that the betting fails, and if everything goes right, the betting can be confirmed; and finally, the system sends a code and confirm the password so as to ensure the security of lottery purchase. By the method of the invention, real-time betting can be realized during the competition, so that a bettor can have a stronger sense of participation for the competition.

The invention discloses a service robot of a business hall. The service robot comprises a robot body, wherein a central control unit as well as a walking mechanism, a display module, a voice input and output module, a human body infrared sensor module, a face recognition module and a memory module which are connected with the central control unit are arranged in the robot body. The service robot disclosed by the invention can be used for replacing a greeter in the business hall and recognizing and remembering faces through the face recognition module, and when a customer comes again, since information of the customer is stored in the memory module, the information of the customer can be actively displayed by the service robot; on one hand, the step that the customer inputs personal information is omitted, on the other hand, the intimacy and sense of presence are given to the customer, goodwill is created to the customer, and the customer is willing to receive products and businesses which are subsequently recommended to the customer by the service robot; in addition, the customer can be guided to a corresponding service window by the service robot, so that manpower is saved.

Disclosed is an optical system for a head-mounted display, in which image rays provided from a display device are diverged to form and provide an enlarged image. First, second, and third lenses or first, second, third, and fourth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object along an optical axis and provide the enlarged image on an image plane, and angles of principal rays are gradually increased from the optical axis toward an edge of the image plane. Thus, as the angles of principal rays increase, the angle of view is improved to provide a large image so that it is possible to appreciate a vivid image due to an increase in the sense of presence and the degree of involvement. The size of the entire optical system can be reduced, thus a head-mounted display can be made compact and lightweight.

The invention belongs to the field of medical equipment and specifically relates to a guide wire control handle. The invention aims to solve the problem in prior art that the operation environmental harm of vascular surgeons is great, the surgical precision is poor and the efficiency is low. The guide wire control handle provided by the invention includes a guide wire translation and feedback module, a guide wire rotating module and a body structural part. The guide wire rotating module and the guide wire translation and feedback module are connected and both of the modules are installed on the body structural part; a rotating angle output by the guide wire rotating module generates a posture control signal of the guide wire and the posture control signal is used for driving the guide wireto rotate by taking the length direction of the guide wire as an axis; and the guide wire translation and feedback module outputs a translation amount to generate a displacement control signal of theguide wire and is used for controlling delivery of the guide wire through linear motion and providing force feedback for an operator in the guide wire pushing process. Through the guide wire controlhandle, a doctor can keep away from a radiation area to achieve a remote operation. The sense of presence is enhanced through the force feedback, and the controllability is improved. The guide wire control handle has good clinical practical value.

The invention discloses an intelligent WIFI lamp control system and a method thereof in order to solve a technical problem that a conventional intelligent WIFI lamp control method is considerable in difficulty and extremely low in sense of presence in actual use. The intelligent WIFI lamp control system comprises a control panel and a wireless router. The control panel comprises a power supply, a key module, a memory, and a WIFI module. The WIFI module is connected with the wireless router. The key module is provided with multiple control keys. Each control key is bound to a corresponding intelligent WIFI lamp. The bonding information of each control key is stored in the memory. The control keys send control instructions to the bound intelligent WIFI lamps via the WIFI module and the wireless router according to the bonding information of the memory in order to control the operating states of the intelligent WIFI lamps.