DUAL CAMERA HMD WITH REMOTE CAMERA ALIGNMENT

• Main Authors: PRICE, Raymond Kirk, EDMONDS, Christopher Douglas, BLEYER, Michael
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.01.2022
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

Techniques for aligning and stabilizing images generated by an integrated stereo camera pair with images generated by a detached camera are disclosed. A first image is generated using a first stereo camera; a second image is generated using a second stereo camera; and a third image is generated using the detached camera. A first rotation base matrix is computed between the third and first images, and a second rotation base matrix is computed between the third and second images. The third image is aligned to the first image using the first rotation base matrix, and the third image is aligned to the second image using the second rotation base matrix. A first overlaid image is generated by overlaying the third image onto the first image, and a second overlaid image is generated by overlaying the third image onto the second image. The two overlaid images are parallax corrected and displayed.