09.20.16
The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP has been developing various applications for OLED microdisplays based on organic semiconductors. By integrating the capabilities of an image sensor directly into the microdisplay, eye movements can be recorded by the smart glasses and utilized for guidance and control functions, as one example. The new design will be debuted at Augmented World Expo Europe (AWE) in Berlin at Booth B29, Oct. 18-19.
“Eye-controlled augmented-reality smart glasses using our OLED microdisplays can be designed to be relatively small and light-weight since the display and image sensor are integrated on a single chip,” said Judith Baumgarten, project manager at Fraunhofer FEP.
The current generation of color bi-directional microdisplays offers SVGA resolution (800 × 600 × RGBW) and for the first time, sufficient image quality to become established in this market segment. The updated hardware design with standard HDMI and USB interfaces likewise contribute to getting established.
The eyeglasses exhibited at AWE Europe 2016 originated within the FAIR Project completed this year, was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project objective was to develop smart glasses for human-machine interaction, with control based on visual information captured and derived from eye movements.
The bi-directional full color OLED microdisplays integrated into see-trough data eye-glasses under this joint project were designed by project partner Trivisio.
Various use-cases were examined and suitable application software for guide-by-eye control were developed by project partners Interactive Minds and Mecotec. One application developed is a communications and entertainment platform for ALS patients. It converts pre-composed text segments as well as those created by the patients themselves into audible speech signals, as well as enabling photographs to be selected and displayed, and videos and music to be watched and listened to.
“Eye-controlled augmented-reality smart glasses using our OLED microdisplays can be designed to be relatively small and light-weight since the display and image sensor are integrated on a single chip,” said Judith Baumgarten, project manager at Fraunhofer FEP.
The current generation of color bi-directional microdisplays offers SVGA resolution (800 × 600 × RGBW) and for the first time, sufficient image quality to become established in this market segment. The updated hardware design with standard HDMI and USB interfaces likewise contribute to getting established.
The eyeglasses exhibited at AWE Europe 2016 originated within the FAIR Project completed this year, was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project objective was to develop smart glasses for human-machine interaction, with control based on visual information captured and derived from eye movements.
The bi-directional full color OLED microdisplays integrated into see-trough data eye-glasses under this joint project were designed by project partner Trivisio.
Various use-cases were examined and suitable application software for guide-by-eye control were developed by project partners Interactive Minds and Mecotec. One application developed is a communications and entertainment platform for ALS patients. It converts pre-composed text segments as well as those created by the patients themselves into audible speech signals, as well as enabling photographs to be selected and displayed, and videos and music to be watched and listened to.