A method is provided. The method may include displaying content on a touch screen of the computing device, wherein the touch screen comprises a flexible touch screen display, detecting an obstruction of the content on one or more areas of the touch screen, wherein a user's view of the content is obstructed by the obstruction, determining obstructed content in the areas based on the detected obstruction, and determining a display configuration for a portion of the obstructed content. The method may further include detecting a deformed condition of the touch screen in which the obstruction is positioned within a display angle of the image projection device, rendering display content for concurrent display with unobstructed content of the touch screen, wherein the rendered display content corresponds to the obstructed content, and projecting the rendered display content onto the obstruction for viewing in superposition within a user's field of view.

Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an information handling system comprises a scanning system to scan one or more component wavelength beams into a combined multi-component beam in a first field of view, and a redirecting system to redirect one or more of the component wavelength beams into a second field of view. A first subset of the one or more component wavelength beams is projected in the first field of view and a second subset of the one or more component wavelength beams is projected in the second field of view. The first subset may project a visible image in the first field of view, and user is capable of providing an input to control the information handling system via interaction with the second subset in the second field of view.

An illuminator and a display capable of achieving miniaturization are provided with use of a plurality of light sources emitting light with two or more kinds of wavelengths. In the light source unit 11, a red-color laser 11R, a green-color laser 11G, a blue-color laser 11B, a microlens section 116, and a microprism 117 are integrated on a base material. Each laser beam emitted from each of the laser light sources is transmitted through the microlens section 116, and then, comes into the microprism 117. In the microprism 117, optical path conversion is performed to shorten the distance between the optical paths of the incident light beams (to allow the optical axes of the incident light beams to be closer to each other). Due to the above-described integration, the optical paths of the laser beams are allowed to be synthesized using the microscopic-scaled microlens section and microprisms.

A scanning projector includes a programmable voltage source to provide a programmable voltage to a laser light source. A look-ahead circuit determines future voltage requirements by finding peaks in future pixel data. The programmable voltage may change for each frame of video, for each line of video, or multiple times within each line of video.

A micromechanical device for projecting an image and for analyzing an optical spectrum and a corresponding manufacturing method. The device includes: a first light providing unit by which a first light beam is providable to the device; a diffraction unit for diffract the first light beam provided to the device as a function of a diffraction property of the diffraction unit; a second light providing unit by which a second light beam is providable to the device; a micromirror by which the second light beam provided to the device is variably deflectable as a function of a position and/or an orientation of the first micromirror; and a first actuator by which the adjustable diffraction property of the optical diffraction unit and also the position and/or the orientation of the micromirror are adjustable.

A device includes a housing having a top, a bottom opposite the top, a front, and a back opposite the front. One or more microphones are oriented substantially towards the top. A first camera, a display, a loudspeaker, and an emitter are oriented substantially towards the front. A second camera, a projector, and a sensor are oriented substantially towards the bottom. The second camera and the sensor may include field of views that at least partially overlap with a projection area of the projector.

There is provided a diffractive waveguide device comprising: a light source, at least one light detector, an SBG device comprising a multiplicity of separately switchable SBG elements sandwiched between transparent substrate to which transparent electrodes have been applied. The substrates function as a light guide. Each SBG element encodes image information to be projected on an image surface. Each SBG element when in a diffracting state diffracts light out of the light guide to form an image region on an image surface. The light detector detects light scattered from an object disposed in proximity to the image surface and illuminated by said image region.

The present application discloses systems and methods for a virtual input device. In one example, the virtual input device includes a projector and a camera. The projector projects a pattern onto a surface. The camera captures images that can be interpreted by a processor to determine actions. The projector may be mounted on an arm of a pair of eyeglasses and the camera may be mounted on an opposite arm of the eyeglasses. A pattern for a virtual input device can be projected onto a “display hand” of a user, and the camera may be able to detect when the user uses an opposite hand to select items of the virtual input device. In another example, the camera may detect when the display hand is moving and interpret display hand movements as inputs to the virtual input device, and/or realign the projection onto the moving display hand.

A projection apparatus and a projection method are provided. The projection apparatus includes a projection device, a capturing image device, and a processing device. The capturing image device is configured to obtain an environmental image. The processing device is coupled to the projection device and the capturing image device. The processing device is configured to analyze the environmental image to provide at least one effective projection region. The processing device selects one of the at least one effective projection regions as a target projection region. The projection device is configured to project a projection image to the target projection region.

Systems and methods are disclosed for using a wearable apparatus with overhead projection. In one implementation, a wearable apparatus may include an image sensor configured to capture a plurality of images from an environment of a user; a light projector; and at least one processor. The processor may be programmed to receive at least one image of the plurality of images; identify an item of information based on the at least one image; select a surface located within a field of view of the user; render the item of information into an informational image; and cause the projector to project the informational image onto the surface.