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Apparatus and method for providing images for viewing at various distances
Assignee: SIMULATED PERCEPTS LLC
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Filing: 1997-06-30
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Granted: 2000-07-25
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Expires: 2017-06-30
Abstract
Abstract A method and apparatus for providing, in response to successive image signals and a control signal, the successive images at various apparent distances. The relationship between accommodation and convergence may be preserved. The images may have a highly detailed component which has its image content changed according to changes in the direction of a monitored one or more visual axes. The images may be provided stereoscopically.
Inventors
- 👤 Francis J. Maguire, Jr.
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 19:37
CPC Classifications
G; G09; G09G; G09G3/00; G09G3/001; G09G3/003; G02; G02B; G02B30/00; G02B30/20; G02B30/22; G02B30/24; H; H04; H04N; H04N13/00; H04N13/10; H04N13/106; H04N13/161; H04N13/167; H04N13/194; H04N13/20; H04N13/204; H04N13/239; H04N13/296; H04N13/30; H04N13/366; H04N13/383; H04N13/398; H04N13/111; H04N13/117; H04N13/189; H04N13/286; H04N13/302; H04N13/305; H04N13/322; H04N13/332; H04N13/337; H04N13/341; H04N13/344; H04N19/00; H04N19/50; H04N19/597; H04N2013/0074; H04N2013/0081; H04N2013/0096; H04N5/00; H04N5/74; H04N5/7475; H04N5/7491
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 22
Claim 1
Independent Claim
47 words
Apparatus, comprising: an image source for providing successive images for presentation to a viewer's eye; and means, responsive to said successive images and to a control signal, for providing said successive images at various apparent distances for viewing by the viewer's eye at said various apparent distances.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
47 words
Apparatus, comprising: an image source for providing successive images for presentation to a viewer's eye; and means, responsive to said successive images and to a control signal, for providing said successive images at various apparent distances for viewing by the viewer's eye at said various apparent distances.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
51 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said means for providing the successive images at said various apparent distances is for providing said successive images such that the viewer's eye may accommodate to focus on the successive images at the various apparent distances with a normal relationship between accommodation and convergence preserved.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
15 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said successive images are mixed images having nonuniform resolution.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
28 words
The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the mixed images have a high resolution component that changes position within said successive images with respect to a low resolution component.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
37 words
The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the mixed images have a high resolution component and a low resolution component, and wherein the high resolution component and the low resolution component together chance position within said successive images.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
58 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said image source is for providing additional successive images for presentation to a remaining eye of the viewer; and wherein said means for providing said successive images at various distances is also for providing said additional successive images for viewing by said remaining eye of said viewer at the various apparent distances.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
25 words
The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the additional successive images provided at various distances are for viewing by the viewer's remaining eye with varying accommodation.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
41 words
The apparatus of claim 6, wherein said successive images and said additional successive images are provided at said various apparent distances in such a way as to preserve a normal relationship between accommodation and convergence in the eyes of the viewer.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
61 words
The apparatus of claim 3, wherein said image source is for providing additional successive mixed images for presentation to a remaining eye of the viewer; and wherein said means for providing said successive mixed images at various distances is also for providing said additional successive mixed images for viewing by said remaining eye of said viewer at the various apparent distances.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
29 words
The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the additional successive mixed images provided at various apparent distances are for viewing by the remaining eye of the viewer with varying accommodation.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
43 words
The apparatus of claim 9, wherein said successive mixed images and said additional successive mixed images are provided at said various apparent distances in such a way as to preserve a normal relationship between accommodation and convergence in the eyes of the viewer.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
39 words
Apparatus, comprising: an image source for providing images of objects; and means for moving the image source, responsive to a control signal, for providing the images at various distances for viewing at said various distances with correspondingly varying accommodation.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
39 words
Apparatus, comprising: an image source for providing images of objects; and means for moving the image source, responsive to a control signal, for providing the images at various distances for viewing at said various distances with correspondingly varying accommodation.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
19 words
The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising eye monitoring means for monitoring an eye for providing said control signal.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
25 words
The apparatus of claim 12, wherein said images at various distances are provided for viewing with a normal relationship between convergence and said varying accommodation.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
19 words
The apparatus of claim 14, further comprising eye monitoring means for monitoring an eye for providing said control signal.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
39 words
Method, comprising the steps of: providing images from an image source; providing a control signal; and moving the image source, in response to the control signal, for providing the images at various distances for viewing with correspondingly varying accommodation.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
39 words
Method, comprising the steps of: providing images from an image source; providing a control signal; and moving the image source, in response to the control signal, for providing the images at various distances for viewing with correspondingly varying accommodation.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
18 words
The method of claim 16, further comprising the step of monitoring an eye for providing said control signal.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method of claim 16, wherein said images at various distances are provided for viewing binocularly with correspondingly varying convergence.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
18 words
The method of claim 18, further comprising the step of monitoring an eye for providing said control signal.
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