Sony patents system that tracks your head to aim remote cameras
Sony describes a system where a wide-angle display shows live video from a remote camera. Sensors track the viewer's head position and direction, then send that data back to the camera to adjust its aim or highlight specific areas.
In the filing’s own words
A remote visual recognition system includes: a display device that displays an image at a wider angle than a visual field range of a person; a head position/direction detection device that detects a position and a direction of a head of a viewer of the display device; and a control device that performs processing of causing the display device to display a captured image at a remote location received from a site imaging system, and processing of generating gaze direction information on the basis of information on the position and the direction of the head of the viewer by the head position/direction detection device, and transmitting the gaze direction information to the site imaging system. A site imaging system includes: an imaging device that captures an image at a wider angle than a visual field range of a person; a direction indication device that indicates a direction; and a control device that performs processing of transmitting a captured image of the imaging device to a remote visual recognition system and processing of controlling an indication direction by the direction indication device on the basis of received gaze direction information.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A remote visual recognition system comprising: a display device that displays an image at a wider angle than a visual field range of a person; a head position/direction detection device that detects a position and a direction of a head of a viewer of the display device; and a control device that performs processing of causing the display device to display a captured image at a remote location transmitted from a site imaging system, and processing of generating gaze direction information on a basis of information on the position and the direction of the head of the viewer by the head position/direction detection device, and transmitting the gaze direction information to the site imaging system.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- REMOTE VISUAL RECOGNITION SYSTEM, SITE IMAGING SYSTEM
- Publication number
- US20260261646A1
- Application number
- 18876082
- Filed
- Jun 9, 2023
- Published
- Sep 3, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 16
Classified under
H04N 13/383 Electricity & electronicsH04N 13/296 Electricity & electronicsH04N 13/398 Electricity & electronicsMore 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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