Extended virtual table: an optical extension for table-like projection systems
US6803928B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 17, 2002 |
| Grant date | Oct 12, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 17, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05B2219/32014
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Apparatus that uses a large transflective mirror to extend a virtual reality system such as a virtual table that employs a projection plane to produce the virtual reality. The transflexive mirror is positioned relative to the projection plane such that the plane of the mirror intersects the projection plane and the angle of the mirror relative to the projection plane is such that the user of the system who looks at the mirror sees the projection plane reflected in the mirror. The virtual reality system is responsive to the position of the mirror and the direction in which a user is looking and produces separate virtual realities on the projection plane: one when the user is looking at the mirror and another when the user is looking at the projection plane. The virtual reality that the user sees when looking at the mirror may or may not be coherent with the virtual reality that the user sees when looking at the projection plane. The two virtual realities may share a global coordinate system that is divided into two parts by the plane of the mirror, and what the user sees when looking into the mirror may be what the user would see looking through a window into the part of the global …
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