Patent 10345686 was granted and assigned to Panasonic on July, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A projector device includes a distance detector, an imaging unit, a projector unit, a driver, and a controller. The imaging unit detects a specific target object. The projector unit projects a projection image. The driver drives the projector unit such that a projection direction in which the projection image is to be projected is changed. The distance detector detects a state of the target object detected by the imaging unit. The controller controls at least one of the projector unit and the driver such that the projection image tracks the target object. The projection image has display data including a content for guiding the target object. The controller changes a content of information included in the display data in the projection image, which is to be projected while tracking the target object, according to the state of the target object detected by the distance detector.