Image Region Extraction for Immersive Content Information Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users engaging with immersive content through image display technologies, such as head-mounted displays, face challenges in recognizing notices and advertisements without disrupting their focus on the primary content, as additional images may cause discomfort or require significant line-of-sight shifts.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus and system that extracts a region of non-interest from the moving image and overlays a different image in this area, using a server to calculate viewing rates based on user line-of-sight changes, ensuring information is presented effectively without hiding the object of interest and maintaining realistic immersion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If an additional image carrying information is brought into the user's field of view, then information such as notices and advertisements can be presented, but the content may be partially hidden causing discomfort or botheration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the display field into a content display region and an information display region. The information is presented in a separate region rather than overlaying the content, allowing both content and information to be visible simultaneously without mutual interference. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by preventing content hiding while enabling information presentation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes the vertical dimension of the display field by positioning the information display region in the lower portion while the content occupies the upper portion. This dimensional separation allows the user to view both content and information without line-of-sight shifts, resolving the contradiction between information visibility and content完整性.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the additional image is displayed in a separate region within the screen, then information can be presented without hiding content, but the user must shift line of sight far from the content which causes the additional image to fail to draw attention
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating distinct visual regions with different functional characteristics. The content region maintains normal display properties for immersive content viewing, while the information region is positioned to be naturally visible within the same field of view. This local differentiation allows information to be presented without requiring significant line-of-sight shifts from the content.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a head-mounted display is used to display panoramic video image, then the sense of immersion is enhanced, but recognizing notices and advertisements becomes difficult without disrupting focus on primary content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the panoramic display field into distinct content and information regions. The information display region is positioned in the lower portion of the field of view, allowing users to recognize notices and advertisements while maintaining focus on the immersive content. This segmentation enables both immersive content display and information recognition simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary information display region that mediates between the immersive content and the information presentation requirements. This intermediate region allows information to be conveyed without disrupting the immersive experience, as it is integrated into the overall field of view rather than overlaying the content.
Data Source
AI summary
In an image processing apparatus, a region extraction part extracts an image of the sky as an image of a target object not included in an object of interest in a moving image of content, on the basis of at least any of changes in pixel values, a frequency at which a line of sight is directed, a distance from a camera, registered information designating the target object, and the like. In the extracted region, a different image presentation part displays an image indicative of a magnified image of a player and character information for cheering as an image different from the sky image.