Head-Mounted Display Input Apparatus Image Overlay for Position Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users wearing head-mounted displays face difficulties in accurately selecting positions in virtual spaces due to the lack of visual recognition of the touchpad input apparatus, leading to inconvenient and imprecise input operations.
Innovation Solution
The display control system displays an image of the input apparatus on the head-mounted display, allowing users to select positions using a touchpad with enhanced visual feedback, thereby improving user interface convenience and precision.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users operate a touchpad input apparatus while wearing a head-mounted display, then position selection in virtual space can be performed, but users cannot visually recognize the touchpad and accurately perform input operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent displays an image of the input apparatus (touchpad) on the head-mounted display screen. This visual copy allows users to see the touchpad interface and accurately perform input operations while wearing the head-mounted display, without needing to visually recognize the actual physical touchpad.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users wear a head-mounted display to view virtual space, then immersion into the virtual world is enhanced, but the ability to accurately select positions using external input apparatus is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
By displaying an image of the input apparatus on the head-mounted display screen, the patent enables users to maintain accurate position selection capability while fully immersed in the virtual environment. The visual feedback on the screen allows precise touchpad operation without breaking immersion.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein is a display control apparatus including an image producing part that produces an image of a virtual space to be displayed on a head-mounted display, a display control part that causes the head-mounted display to display thereon the image of the virtual space, and a position selecting part that accepts a selection instruction for a position in the virtual space displayed on the head-mounted display, through an input apparatus used by a user. When the position selecting part accepts the selection instruction for the position from the user, the position selecting part causes the head-mounted display to display thereon an image of the input apparatus, and accepts the selection instruction for the position from a plurality of selectable positions in accordance with an input position relative to a touch pad included in the input apparatus.