Dual-Lens VR Image Control for Symptom-Aware Display

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing VR image display systems do not adequately address the potential for user symptoms such as fatigue or sickness due to significant differences between left and right eye images, and there is a lack of recognition of these risks before image display.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device with a dual lens system captures images and associates them with information about potential symptoms, recording this data and controlling image display based on that information to mitigate such symptoms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If VR images are displayed with significant differences between left and right eye images, then the VR image quality and stereoscopic effect are improved, but the user experiences specific symptoms such as fatigue and VR sickness

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestereoscopic effect accuracyVSAvoiduser symptoms
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the VR image content before display to detect phenomena that may cause user symptoms. By analyzing the captured image data in advance and identifying problematic frames, the system can prepare appropriate应对措施 (such as frame substitution or display control) before the user views the content, thereby preventing symptom occurrence while maintaining stereoscopic image quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Object-affected harmful factors

If the display device controls display based on phenomenon information, then the possibility of causing specific symptoms is reduced, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser symptomsVSAvoiddisplay control system
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary component (the phenomenon information analysis module) that acts as a bridge between the VR image content and the display control system. This intermediary analyzes the image content, identifies potentially harmful phenomena, and provides control signals to the display device, thereby reducing symptom causation without requiring direct complex integration between the imaging and display systems

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12598395B2Electronic device, control method thereof and non-transitory computer-readable medium
Publication Date: 2026.04.07 CANON KK
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AI summary

An electronic device acquires a captured image. The electronic device, in a case where the captured image is an image acquired by imaging of an imaging device to which a dual lens is attached, first information which is information associated with the captured image and is information associated with a phenomenon that possibly cause a specific symptom. The electronic device records the captured image and the first information in a recording unit so that the captured image relates to the first information.