1. A method for treating a weak viewer-eye, the method comprising:
receiving eye-strength data indicative of an eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye; and
causing a 3D display system to vary, in accordance with the eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye, display characteristics of a perspective that the 3D display system displays.
2-5. (canceled)
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating, at an eye-monitoring system, the eye-strength data.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein generating the eye-strength data comprises using gaze-tracking data to determine the relative eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye with respect to a strong viewer-eye.
8. The method of claim 6, wherein generating the eye-strength data comprises:
tracking the focus of the weak viewer-eye and a corresponding strong viewer-eye; and
determining the strength of the weak viewer-eye relative to the strong viewer-eye, based at least in part on the tracked focus.
9. The method of claim 6, wherein generating the eye-strength data comprises monitoring the dilation of the weak viewer-eye to determine the eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye.
10. The method of claim 6, wherein generating the eye-strength data comprises:
using the 3D display system to perform an eye-strength test; and
as part of the eye-strength test, receiving user-input indicative of the eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye.
11. The method of claim 6, wherein generating the eye-strength data comprises:
causing the 3D display system to display a first perspective of an image to the weak viewer-eye and a second perspective of the image to a dominant viewer-eye;
receiving an indication regarding a quality of a viewer’s perceived 3D effect from the images;
determining, in accordance with the received indication, data associated with the eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the 3D display system is capable of interfacing with a gaming system, and wherein the received indication comprises a metric of the viewer’s game play performance.
13. (canceled)
14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
occasionally receiving additional eye-strength data indicative of a current eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye; and
causing the 3D display system to vary the display characteristics of the perspective in accordance with the received additional eye-strength data.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the display characteristics are varied in accordance with a time dependent trend identified using the additional eye-strength data.
16-24. (canceled)
25. The method of claim 1, wherein causing the 3D display system to vary, in accordance with the eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye, the display characteristics comprises:
evaluating a difference in eye-strength between the weak viewer-eye and a second viewer-eye;
determining whether the evaluated difference in eye-strength is larger than a predefined threshold difference in eye-strength;
in response to determining that the evaluated difference is larger than the threshold difference, causing the 3D display system to vary the display characteristics.
26. The method of claim 25, further comprising:
determining whether the evaluated difference in eye-strength is larger than any of a plurality of predefined threshold differences in eye-strength; and
in response to determining that the evaluated difference is larger than a particular set of threshold differences of the plurality of threshold differences, causing the 3D display system to vary the display characteristics in accordance with the particular set of threshold differences.
27-29. (canceled)
30. The method of claim 1, wherein varying the display characteristics of the perspective comprises reducing a relative amount of time that a perspective for a dominant viewer-eye is displayed with respect to an amount of time that a perspective for the weak viewer-eye is displayed.
31. The method of claim 1, wherein varying the display characteristics of the perspective comprises reducing, in relative image complexity, a perspective that is displayed to a dominant viewer-eye with respect to an image complexity of a perspective that is displayed to the weak viewer-eye.
32. The method of claim 1, wherein varying the display characteristics of the perspective comprises varying the display characteristics in a way that increases a viewing difficulty of a perspective for the weak viewer-eye with respect to a viewing difficulty of a perspective for a dominant viewer-eye.
33. (canceled)
34. The method of claim 1, wherein varying the display characteristics of the perspective comprises:
initially varying the display characteristics in a way that decreases a viewing difficulty of a perspective associated with the weak viewer-eye; and
gradually increasing the viewing difficulty of the perspective associated with the weak viewer-eye.
35-36. (canceled)
37. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing a viewer-profile, wherein the viewer-profile comprises eye-strength data associated with a viewer, and wherein receiving the eye-strength data comprises:
determining that a current viewer is associated with a particular viewer-profile; and
loading the eye-strength data associated with the current viewer from the particular viewer-profile.
38-41. (canceled)
42. A display-control system comprising:
a processor;
a computer-readable medium;
program instructions stored on the computer-readable medium and executable by the processor to cause the processor to:
receive eye-strength data representative of an eye-strength of each of two viewer-eyes, wherein one of the viewer-eyes is a weak viewer-eye; and
cause a 3D display system to vary, in accordance with an eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye, display characteristics of the perspective that the 3D display system displays.
43-47. (canceled)
48. The display-control system of claim 42, wherein the program instructions are further executable to cause an eye-monitoring system to generate the eye-strength data, and wherein generating the eye-strength data comprises using gaze-tracking data to determine the relative eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye with respect to a second viewer-eye.
49-50. (canceled)
51. The display-control system of claim 42, wherein the program instructions are further executable to cause the eye-monitoring system to generate the eye-strength data, and wherein generating the eye-strength data comprises:
using the 3D display system to perform an eye-strength test; and
as part of the eye-strength test, receiving user-input indicative of the eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye.
52. The display-control system of claim 42, wherein the program instructions are further executable to cause the eye-monitoring system to generate the eye-strength data, and wherein generating the eye-strength data comprises:
causing the 3D display system to display a first perspective of an image to the weak viewer-eye and a second perspective of the image to a dominant viewer-eye;
receiving an indication regarding a quality of a viewer’s perceived 3D effect from the images;
determining, in accordance with the received indication, data associated with the eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye.
53. The display-control system of claim 52, wherein the 3D display system is capable of interfacing with a gaming system, and wherein the received indication comprises a metric of the viewer’s game play performance.
54-62. (canceled)
63. The display-control system of claim 42, wherein the 3D display system comprises a portable device.
64-68. (canceled)
69. The display-control system of claim 42, wherein varying the display characteristics of the perspective comprises decreasing a relative brightness of a perspective that is displayed to the weak viewer-eye with respect to a brightness of a perspective that is displayed to a dominant viewer-eye.
70. The display-control system of claim 42, wherein varying the display characteristics of the perspective comprises reducing a relative amount of time that a perspective for a dominant viewer-eye is displayed with respect to an amount of time that a perspective for the weak viewer-eye is displayed.
71. The display-control system of claim 42, wherein varying the display characteristics of the perspective comprises reducing, in relative image complexity, a perspective that is displayed to a dominant viewer-eye with respect to an image complexity of a perspective that is displayed to the weak viewer-eye.
72. The display-control system of claim 42, wherein varying the display characteristics of the perspective comprises varying the display characteristics in a way that increases a viewing difficulty of a perspective for the weak viewer-eye with respect to a viewing difficulty of a perspective for a dominant viewer-eye.
73. The display-control system of claim 42, wherein varying the display characteristics of the perspective comprises varying the display characteristics in a way that decreases a viewing difficulty of a perspective associated with the weak viewer-eye, with respect to a previous viewing difficulty.
74. The display-control system of claim 42, wherein varying the display characteristics of the perspective comprises:
initially varying the display characteristics in a way that decreases a viewing difficulty of a perspective associated with the weak viewer-eye; and
gradually increasing the viewing difficulty of the perspective associated with the weak viewer-eye.
75-76. (canceled)
77. The display-control system of claim 42, wherein the program instructions are further executable to cause the processor to store a viewer-profile in the computer-readable medium, wherein the viewer-profile comprises eye-strength data associated with a viewer, and wherein receiving the eye-strength data comprises:
determining that a current viewer is associated with a particular viewer-profile; and
loading the eye-strength data associated with the current viewer from the particular viewer-profile.
78-81. (canceled)
82. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon program instructions executable by a processor to cause a display-control device to:
receive eye-strength data representative of an eye-strength of two or more viewer-eyes, wherein the eye-strength data is indicative of one of the two or more viewer-eyes being a weak viewer-eye; and
cause a 3D display system to vary, in accordance with the eye strength of the weak viewer-eye, display characteristics of the perspective that the 3D display system displays.
83-86. (canceled)
87. The computer-readable medium of claim 82, wherein the eye-strength data is received from an integral eye-monitoring system, and wherein the program instructions are further executable to cause the integral eye-monitoring system to generate the eye-strength data.
88. The computer-readable medium of claim 87, wherein generating the eye-strength data comprises using gaze-tracking data to determine the relative eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye with respect to a second viewer-eye.
89-91. (canceled)
92. The computer-readable medium of claim 87, wherein generating the eye-strength data comprises:
causing the 3D display system to display a first perspective of an image to the weak viewer-eye and a second perspective of the image to a dominant viewer-eye;
receiving an indication regarding a quality of a viewer’s perceived 3D effect from the images, wherein the 3D display system is capable of interfacing with a gaming system, and wherein the received indication comprises a metric of the viewer’s game play performance; and
determining, in accordance with the received indication, data associated with the eye-strength of the weak viewer-eye.
93-111. (canceled)
112. The computer-readable medium of claim 82, wherein varying the display characteristics of the perspective comprises varying the display characteristics in a way that increases a viewing difficulty of a perspective for the weak viewer-eye with respect to a viewing difficulty of a perspective for a dominant viewer-eye.
113. (canceled)
114. The computer-readable medium of claim 82, wherein varying the display characteristics of the perspective comprises:
initially varying the display characteristics in a way that decreases a viewing difficulty of a perspective associated with the weak viewer-eye; and
gradually increasing the viewing difficulty of the perspective associated with the weak viewer-eye.
115-116. (canceled)
117. The computer-readable medium of claim 82, wherein the program instructions are further executable to cause the display-control device to store a viewer-profile, wherein the viewer-profile comprises eye-strength data associated with a viewer, and wherein receiving the eye-strength data comprises:
determining that a current viewer is associated with a particular viewer-profile; and
loading the eye-strength data associated with the current viewer from the particular viewer-profile.
118-227. (canceled)
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of determining emissivity, temperature and area of an object, the method comprising:
simulating a measure of a radiant intensity of the object at each of a first wavelength, a second wavelength and a third wavelength;
forming a plurality of ratios of the measures of radiant intensity of the object, wherein each ratio is based upon a relationship of the measure of radiant intensity of the object at one wavelength to the measure of radiant intensity of the object at another wavelength;
determining the emissivity of the object as a function of the temperature of the object for each of a plurality of the ratios;
determining the area of the object as a function of the temperature of the object for each of a plurality of the ratios based upon the emissivity of the object as determined for a respective ratio and the measure of radiant intensity of the object at a wavelength other than the wavelengths associated with the respective ratio; and
determining the temperature of the object based upon the measure of radiant intensity of the object at each of the first, second and third wavelengths and the emissivity and the area of the object as determined as a function of the temperature of the object
wherein determining the emissivity, area and temperature of the object is performed by a processor.
2. A method according to claim 1 wherein each of determining the emissivity of the object and determining the area of the object comprises evaluating components of radiant intensity attributable to both emission and reflectance.
3. A method according to claim 1 wherein determining the temperature comprises determining the temperature based upon a difference between the measure of the radiant intensity of the object and a model of the radiant intensity of the object, wherein the model of the radiant intensity of the object is based upon the emissivity and the area of the object at a predefined temperature.
4. A method according to claim 3 wherein determining the temperature further comprises evaluating the difference between the measure of the radiant intensity of the object and a model of the radiant intensity of the object at each of a plurality of predefined temperatures.
5. A method according to claim 1 further comprising defining the emissivity and the area of the object for each of a plurality of the ratios based upon the determined temperature of the object.
6. A method according to claim 5 further comprising determining an average of the emissivity and the area of the object over the plurality of the ratios.
7. A method of determining emissivity, temperature and area of an object, the method comprising:
simulating a measure of a radiant intensity of the object at each of a plurality of wavelengths;
forming a plurality of ratios of the measures of radiant intensity of the object, wherein each ratio is based upon a relationship of the measure of radiant intensity of the object at one wavelength to the measure of radiant intensity of the object at another wavelength;
determining the emissivity and the area of the object as respective functions of the temperature of the object including determining the area of the object as a function of the temperature of the object for each of a plurality of the ratios based upon the emissivity of the object as determined for a respective ratio and the measure of radiant intensity of the object at a wavelength other than the wavelengths associated with the respective ratio; and
performing, with a processor, a regression analysis of the temperature of the object without separately performing a regression analysis of the emissivity and the area of the object, wherein performing the regression analysis of the temperature of the object determines the temperature of the object from which the emissivity and the area of the object are determinable.
8. A method according to claim 7 wherein determining the emissivity of the object comprises:
determining the emissivity of the object as a function of the temperature of the object for each of a plurality of the ratios.
9. A method according to claim 7 wherein determining the emissivity and the area of the object comprises evaluating components of radiant intensity attributable to both emission and reflectance.
10. A method according to claim 7 wherein performing the regression analysis of the temperature comprises determining the temperature based upon a difference between the measure of the radiant intensity of the object and a model of the radiant intensity of the object, wherein the model of the radiant intensity of the object is based upon the emissivity and the area of the object at a predefined temperature.
11. A method according to claim 10 wherein determining the temperature further comprises evaluating the difference between the measure of the radiant intensity of the object and a model of the radiant intensity of the object at each of a plurality of predefined temperatures.
12. A method according to claim 7 further comprising defining the emissivity and the area of the object based upon the determined temperature of the object.
13. An apparatus for determining emissivity, temperature and area of an object, the apparatus comprising a processor configured to simulate a measure of a radiant intensity of the object at each of a first wavelength, a second wavelength and a third wavelength, the processor also configured to determine the emissivity of the object by forming a plurality of ratios of the measures of radiant intensity of the object, wherein each ratio is based upon a relationship of the measure of radiant intensity of the object at one wavelength to the measure of radiant intensity of the object at another wavelength, the processor also configured to determine the emissivity and the area of the object as respective functions of the temperature of the object including determination of the area of the object as a function of the temperature of the object for each of a plurality of the ratios based upon the emissivity of the object as determined for a respective ratio and the measure of radiant intensity of the object at a wavelength other than the wavelengths associated with the respective ratio, and the processor further configured to perform a regression analysis of the temperature of the object without separately performing a regression analysis of the emissivity and the area of the object, wherein the processor, in the performance of the regression analysis of the temperature of the object, is configured to determine the temperature of the object from which the emissivity and the area of the object are determinable.
14. A apparatus according to claim 13 wherein the processor is further configured to determine the emissivity of the object as a function of the temperature of the object for each of a plurality of the ratios.
15. An apparatus according to claim 13 wherein the processor is configured to determine the emissivity and the area of the object by evaluating components of radiant intensity attributable to both emission and reflectance.
16. An apparatus according to claim 13 wherein the processor is configured to perform the regression analysis of the temperature by determining the temperature based upon a difference between the measure of the radiant intensity of the object and a model of the radiant intensity of the object, wherein the model of the radiant intensity of the object is based upon the emissivity and the area of the object at a predefined temperature.
17. An apparatus according to claim 16 wherein the processor is further configured to determine the temperature by evaluating the difference between the measure of the radiant intensity of the object and a model of the radiant intensity of the object at each of a plurality of predefined temperatures.
18. An apparatus according to claim 13 wherein the processor is configured to define the emissivity and the area of the object based upon the determined temperature of the object.