Title
Pinlight displays: wide field of view augmented reality eyeglasses using defocused point light sources
Abstract
We present a novel design for an optical see-through augmented reality display that offers a wide field of view and supports a compact form factor approaching ordinary eyeglasses. Instead of conventional optics, our design uses only two simple hardware components: an LCD panel and an array of point light sources (implemented as an edge-lit, etched acrylic sheet) placed directly in front of the eye, out of focus. We code the point light sources through the LCD to form miniature see-through projectors. A virtual aperture encoded on the LCD allows the projectors to be tiled, creating an arbitrarily wide field of view. Software rearranges the target augmented image into tiled sub-images sent to the display, which appear as the correct image when observed out of the viewer's accommodation range. We evaluate the design space of tiled point light projectors with an emphasis on increasing spatial resolution through the use of eye tracking, and demonstrate a preliminary human viewable display.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2614066.2614080
SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies
Keywords
DocType
Volume
design,applications,see-through displays,computational displays,augmented reality,head-mounted displays,image display,image displays,artificial, augmented, and virtual realities,image reconstruction,image sensor
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0730-0301
14
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.89
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew Maimone126817.31
Douglas Lanman250435.26
Kishore Rathinavel3303.38
Kurtis Keller435237.89
David Luebke52196140.84
Henry Fuchs641661248.53