Application (pre-grant publication)
Systems and Methods for Providing Input to a Computer-Mediated Reality Device Using a Viewing Device
- Number
- 20170256197
- Published
- 2017-09-07
- Filed
- 2017-01-09
- Assignee
- DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC.
- Inventors
- Goslin; Michael P., Olson; Joseph Logan
- CPC
- G02B27/022; G06F3/0346; G06F1/163; G02B27/017; G06F3/0488; G06F3/013; G06F3/011
- Verdict
- Medium Hardware
- Source
- Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline
The keeper's note
A viewing device that holds a users mobile device behind a control element and viewing portal, providing computer-mediated reality input via the phone display.
Abstract
There is provided system including a user device and a viewing device configured to receive the user device, the viewing device including a control element and a viewing portal, the user device including a display, a non-transitory memory storing an executable code, a hardware processor executing the executable code to display, on the display, a computer-mediated reality content visible by a user through the viewing portal of the viewing device, receive a first input from the viewing device, in response to a second input provided by the user using the control element of the viewing device, modify an operational element of the user device, in response to the first input.
Background
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 illustrates a diagram of an exemplary system including a computer-mediated reality device and a viewing device, according to one implementation of the present disclosure;
FIG. 2 illustrates a viewing side of a headset including an exemplary viewing device of the system of FIG. 1 with an exemplary computer-mediated reality device of the system of FIG. 1 plugged into the headset, according to one implementationof the present disclosure;
FIG. 3 illustrates a side view of the viewing device of FIG. 2 with the computer-mediated reality device plugged therein, according to one implementation of the present disclosure;
FIG. 4 illustrates a front view of the viewing device of FIG. 2, according to one implementation of the present disclosure;
FIG. 5a illustrates an exemplary real-world scene presented by the viewing device of FIG. 2, according to one implementation of the present disclosure;
FIG. 5b illustrates an exemplary augmented-reality scene presented by the viewing device of FIG. 2 using the computer-mediated reality device, according to one implementation of the present disclosure;
FIG. 6 illustrates a flowchart illustrating an exemplary method of providing input to the computer-mediated reality device via the viewing device of FIG. 2, according to one implementation of the present disclosure.DETAILED DESCRIPTION
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