Study on distortion correction of head-mounted displays based on hardware system

Ning Jiang*, Jing Chen, Yue Liu, Dongdong Weng

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Abstract

Thin, wide field-of-view HMDs with free-form-surface prism (FFSP) have been widely applied in the fields of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Because the optical distortions affect the quality of the displayed images, distortion correction becomes a key problem. Optical distortions can be corrected with an optical system, but the weight and complexity of the HMDs will be added. In order to overcome such problem, a real-time algorithm based on field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) for the distortion correction of FFSP-based HMDs is presented in this paper by analyzing the distorted characteristics of the optical system, in which a distorted image with predistortion information is constructed. The framework of the hardware implementation is also presented. The property of the proposed solution is analyzed and verified through a real FFSP-based HMD. Experimental results prove the feasibility of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering - Second Sino-Foreign-Interchange Workshop, IScIDE 2011, Revised Selected Papers
Pages490-497
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event2nd Sino-Foreign-Interchange Workshop on Intelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering, IScIDE 2011 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 23 Oct 201125 Oct 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7202 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd Sino-Foreign-Interchange Workshop on Intelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering, IScIDE 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period23/10/1125/10/11

Keywords

  • HMD
  • image distortion correction
  • predistortion

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