Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Raskar Pocket Projectors Allinone

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Raskar Pocket Projectors All-in-one Solution for Mobility, Augmentation, Communication Ramesh Raskar Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) Cambridge, MA, USA

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Raskar Ultimate Personal Display ? Mitsubishi Electric Pocket Projector • DLP based with R, G, B LEDs • Instant on, battery-pack • Available Now

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Pro’s and Con’s 1. Large image with small device 2. Image overlay on real object 1. Ideal for augmentation 3. Superposition of images 1. Higher resolution, brightness Issues 1. Ambient bright light 2. Affected by display surface reflectance Raskar

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Raskar Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories RFID R F I G (Radio Frequency Id & Geometry) Photosensing Wireless Tags Interactive stabilized projection Siggraph 2004 Find tag location using handheld Projector Many geometric ops

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Raskar Augmented Reality with Photosensing RFID and Handheld Projector Siggraph 2004

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Raskar • ‘Personal’ display • Shrinking portable devices that carry more data • Opportunity to switch between personal and public • Modular – Low cost mass market product – Will become building block • Platforms: TV, Stereoscopic, advertising, etc • Process: Tiling, Jittering, Superposition, Steering

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Raskar Shader Lamps: Changing Virtual Illumination Raskar, Welch, Low, Bandyopadhyay, “Shader Lamps: Animating Real Objects with Image Based Illumination, ” Eurographics Rendering Worksop (EGRW 2001)

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Raskar Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Pocket Projector • Modular – Building block of every type of display • All-in-one – – Display with small device size Augment image overlay on real objects Communicate with tagged world (RFID, Sensors) Collaborate using shared projection merl. com