See-through Display Optics for Ambient Light Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current head-mounted display (HMD) systems, particularly those providing a see-through view, face challenges in optimizing user experience due to complex content presentation, requiring improved systems and methods to enhance immersion and interaction with both digital and environmental elements.
Innovation Solution
The development of head-worn computing (HWC) systems that integrate high-resolution digital displays, sensors, and contextual awareness to provide a lightweight, compact, and fully functional computing platform, allowing for augmented reality experiences by overlaying digital content onto the real environment while enabling user interaction through gestures and environmental sensing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If head-mounted display systems provide a see-through view of the environment, then user immersion and interaction with real-world elements are improved, but content presentation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The HMD system segments content presentation into multiple independent modules: a first set of optics for presenting first content and a second set of optics for presenting second content. Each optical module can be independently configured and optimized, reducing the overall system complexity while maintaining versatile content delivery capabilities for both digital and environmental elements.
2Device complexity
If multiple types of content are presented through the same optics, then device complexity is reduced, but image quality and user experience deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by providing different optical characteristics for different content types. The first optics are optimized for first content while the second optics are optimized for second content, allowing each optical path to have tailored properties (such as magnification, focus, or field of view) specific to its content type, thereby maintaining high image quality without requiring a single complex multi-purpose optical system.
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AI summary
Aspects of the present invention relate to providing see-through computer display optics with improved content presentation. The see-through computer display includes an ambient light sensor adapted to measure environmental scene light in an area that forms the background for digital content presented in the see-through computer display, and a processor adapted to invert a color channel parameter of the digital content based on data from the ambient light sensor.