Sony patents VR trick that keeps video stable on external screens
Sony describes a system that predicts how a VR headset moves by comparing camera images and internal sensor data. It uses this prediction to decide if a video playing on a separate screen, like a TV, should show a static frame to prevent visual glitches.
In the filing’s own words
There is provided an information processing apparatus including at least one processor including hardware, in which the at least one processor predicts a first amount of movement of a head-mounted display between a first time and a second time, by using images captured of a periphery of the head-mounted display respectively at the first time and the second time, derives a degree of reliability of the predicted first amount of movement, predicts a second amount of movement of the head-mounted display between the first time and the second time, by using sensor data acquired by a posture sensor between the first time and the second time, generates a display image to be displayed on a display different from the head-mounted display, and determines whether or not to generate a display image including a pattern representing a still image.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: at least one processor including hardware, a memory storing instructions that, upon execution by the at least one processor, configure the at least one processor to: predict a first amount of movement of a head-mounted display between a first time and a second time, by using images captured of a periphery of the head-mounted display respectively at the first time and the second time; derive a degree of reliability of the predicted first amount of movement; predict a second amount of movement of the head-mounted display between the first time and the second time, by using sensor data acquired by a posture sensor incorporated in the head-mounted display between the first time and the second time; determine whether to include a pattern representing a still image in a display image, according to a difference between the first amount of movement and the second amount of movement and the degree of reliability of the first amount of movement; and generate a display image comprising an image of a video, and further comprising the pattern, if determined, to be displayed on a display device different from the head-mounted display.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.)
- Official title
- Information processing apparatus and image generating method
- Patent number
- US12746464B2
- Application number
- 18356247
- Filed
- Jul 21, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 29, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A63F 13/26 Human necessitiesA63F 13/52 Human necessitiesG06T 7/285 Physics & computingG06T 11/00 Physics & computingH04N 13/332 Electricity & electronicsG06T 2207/10021 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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