Frame Synthesis Timing Control for AR Display Deviation

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Solution Overview

Problem

In AR techniques, delays in frame generation lead to deviations in combined frames and reduced frame rates, making it difficult to maintain display content quality.

Innovation Solution

A display control apparatus that generates frames in synchronization with a predetermined synchronizing signal, allowing for the synthesis of current and past frames to maintain frame rate and content consistency, using a first frame generation section, a second frame generation section, and a synthesis section to handle timing discrepancies.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If frame synthesis is performed only when all frames are generated by specific timing, then synchronization is maintained, but frame rate reduction occurs when generation is delayed

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesynchronizationVSAvoidframe rate
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The synthesis section performs frame synthesis in advance when frames are available, storing results for later display. This allows the system to maintain high frame rates by synthesizing frames before they are strictly needed, rather than waiting for perfect synchronization timing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts synthesis timing based on frame generation status. When frames are generated on time, synthesis occurs at specific timing; when delayed, synthesis uses available frames immediately. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction between maintaining synchronization and preserving frame rate.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Measurement precision

If frame synthesis waits for all frames to be generated, then accuracy is improved, but timing deviation increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesynthesis accuracyVSAvoidtiming deviation
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs frame synthesis in advance when frames become available, rather than waiting for all frames to be perfectly generated. This preliminary action reduces timing deviation while maintaining acceptable synthesis accuracy through dynamic timing adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The synthesis timing parameter is changed dynamically based on frame generation status. The system transitions from fixed timing synthesis to flexible timing synthesis, adjusting the synthesis time parameter to balance accuracy and timing deviation requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Stability of the object's composition

If frame rate is reduced to eliminate display deviation, then content consistency is improved, but productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay content consistencyVSAvoidframe rate
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts synthesis timing to maintain display content consistency without reducing frame rate. By making synthesis timing flexible rather than fixed, the system preserves both consistency and high frame rate performance simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The timing parameter for frame synthesis is changed from a fixed value to a dynamic value that adapts to frame generation conditions. This parameter change allows the system to maintain content consistency while operating at high frame rates.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10867587B2Display control apparatus, electronic equipment, and control method of display control apparatus
Publication Date: 2020.12.15 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

In an apparatus that synthesizes a plurality of frames, a deviation of display contents is not generated and reduction in a frame rate is suppressed. A first frame generation section generates a first frame whenever a period of a predetermined synchronizing signal has elapsed. A second frame generation section in turn generates a predetermined number of second frames. A synthesis section synthesizes, in a case in which a present frame that is the predetermined second frame is generated by specific timing, the present frame and the first frame and synthesizes, in a case in which the present frame is not generated by the specific timing, as a past frame, the second frame prior to the present frame with the first frame.