DE102010050843A1 - Thin flexible display for eyeglasses of visually handicapped person in augmented reality and computer games region, has sensors detecting and representing characteristics and appearance of healthy eye or ill eye - Google Patents

Abstract

The display has sensors enabling synchronization of eyes and detecting and representing characteristics and appearance of a healthy eye or an ill eye. Eyeglasses represent the healthy movable eye by an autostereoscopic three-dimensional display unit. Video glasses are provided with a camera, and provide autofocussing with and/or without different viewing directions. The camera allows a visually handicapped person to focus objects in a natural way. The display simulates the healthy movable eye, and displays pupil and motion of the eye.

Description

There are thin, flexible displays that can simulate a healthy, mobile eye instead of the rigid image of a glass eye.

Blind people often wear sunglasses to hide their eyes. With the new 3D displays you can make glasses that can simulate 3 Dimensional healthy eyes.

Progressive spectacles save the spectacle changes, since they are designed for near and far. The disadvantage is the exhausting, unnatural and habitual use, because you have to look up or down to see the different images removed. A pair of glasses that automatically project the correct distance-dependent image onto the inside of the glasses via a camera enables a natural and relaxed vision.

Through autostereoscopic 3D displays on the outside of the glasses, you can see through the displays hidden eyes normal.

Through the use of text recognition software, the camera images for the blind can be converted into speech and thus, for example, the expiry date of foods can be read out automatically. The software can z. B. in a smartphone, which is connected to the glasses, or via an external computer, which is connected for example via the Internet and has the necessary computing power.

This technique also offers benefits for augmented reality and computer games applications because wearing these eyewear looks more natural through the appearance of the eyes.

advantages

The simulation of healthy eyes facilitates the social life of the visually impaired.

Wearers of glasses do not need to use unnatural progressive lenses for the near and far range.

Due to the components used, the glasses can be universally used for different eyesight, as the respective Dioptrienzahl can be adjusted via the software. As a result, the glasses can be manufactured in large quantities and therefore cost-effectively.

Claims (4)

When losing an eye, glass eyes replace the image of a lost eye. The image of a glass eye is rigid. There are thin flexible displays that can simulate a healthy moving eye instead of the rigid image of a glass eye, where a video can simultaneously display to the other eye the pupil and the movement of the eye. The synchronization of the eyes can be done via sensors that can detect and display the characteristics and the appearance of the healthy or diseased eye. Blind people often wear sunglasses to hide their eyes. Glasses that display healthy eyes using autostereoscopic 3D displays can improve the communication of the visually impaired. The use of progressive lenses is habitual and thus difficult for some people. Video glasses with camera and autofocusing can give the same result without having to work with different directions of view. The blindfolded camera allows blind people to naturally focus on objects and thereby read texts in their day-to-day lives through text recognition. A trivial example of this would be looking into the fridge and reading the shelf life of the food.