Parallax Image Magnification for Wide-Field Electronic Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic apparatuses that display parallax images struggle with magnifying an image, leading to a narrowed visual field and discomfort due to mismatched parallax, making it difficult for users to recognize surroundings and maintain a sense of distance.
Innovation Solution
The apparatus generates a third image with parallax and magnifies a partial region of this image, while maintaining separate parallax for the third image and a fourth image displayed on the electronic device, ensuring the user can distinguish between general and magnified images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a magnified image is simply displayed on the display screen, then the user can check details, but the visual field range narrows and the user experiences discomfort due to mismatched parallax
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is segmented into a general image display region and a magnified image display region. The general image maintains the original visual field range while the magnified image is displayed in a separate region, allowing users to view both the overall scene and detailed information simultaneously without the magnified image obscuring the surrounding context.
Solution Approach 2:
The magnified image is displayed in a different spatial dimension or layer relative to the general image. Instead of simply enlarging the image which narrows the visual field, the system creates a layered display structure where the magnified image coexists with the general image in a way that preserves the original visual field range.
2Measurement precision
If a magnified image is simply displayed on the display screen, then the user can check details, but the sense of distance is lost due to the mismatch of parallax
Solution Approach 1:
Different parallax characteristics are applied to different regions of the display. The general image maintains the original parallax relationship that provides accurate depth perception, while the magnified image region applies appropriate parallax adjustment to maintain the sense of distance. This local differentiation allows detail viewing without compromising overall depth perception reliability.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic apparatus includes a processor, and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic apparatus to acquire a first image which is captured via a first optical system, and a second image which is captured via a second optical system, and which corresponds to the first image, and generate, by using the first image and the second image, a third image, and a fourth image which has parallax with respect to the third image and of which partial region included in the third image is magnified.