Abstract: The invention relates to a stereoscopic image display apparatus comprising a light source for emitting light from plural apertures, an optical element array composed of an array of optical elements having different optical functions in the horizontal and vertical directions, for giving directivity to the light emerging from the apertures, and a transmissive display device for displaying a stripe image, obtained by dividing each of a parallax image for the right eye and a parallax image for the left eye in the vertical direction to obtain right stripe pixels and left stripe pixels and arranging the right and left stripe pixels alternately in a predetermined order, wherein the plural apertures are provided corresponding to each of the optical elements constituting the optical element array, for each stripe pixel, and are adapted to cause the light, passing through the right or left stripe pixel, to reach a predetermined area.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus has a display section 110 and a visual point position detecting mechanism for detecting positional information of an observer. The display apparatus uses an optical barrier having a mask pattern formed therein, and makes a patterned beam pass through an optical system to illuminate a display having a discrete pixel structure and displaying a synthetic parallax image by use of scanning lines. The observer stereoscopically observes the image information displayed on the display. The synthetic parallax image is comprised of m parallax images where m is an integer not less than 3. The contents of the synthetic parallax image are changed according to visual point position information outputted from the visual point position detecting mechanism according to positions of visual points of the observer.

Abstract: An image display apparatus has a light source, a reflective display device, an illumination optical system for guiding light from the light source to the display device to illuminate the display device, and a display optical system for guiding the light reflected by the display device to the pupil of an observer to allow the observer to observe an image displayed on the display panel. The illumination optical system and the display optical system have an optical element shared in part or are arranged so as not to interfere with each other, thereby providing the image display apparatus of compact structure. Particularly, where the display optical system is a thin optical system having a plurality of decentered, reflecting, curved surfaces, the appropriate illumination optical system is arranged, thereby providing the thin image display apparatus using the reflective display device.

Abstract: Parallax images corresponding to a plurality of different view points are divided each into predetermined stripe images, a synthetic parallax image is synthesized from the stripe images, and display light from stripe images corresponding to one view point of the synthetic parallax image on the image display element displaying the synthetic parallax image is guided to a mask member having a mask pattern with predetermined openings and shields by a second optical system placed in front of the image display element. The display light passing through the openings of the mask member is condensed to a position corresponding to the view point on an observation surface a predetermined distance apart, by a first optical system, whereby an observer is permitted to stereoscopically observe image information displayed on the image display element.

Abstract: An image display apparatus comprises image generation means for displaying an image on a display surface constituted by a plurality of pixels, illumination means for illuminating said image, an optical system for guiding a light beam outgoing from said illuminated image to the pupil of the observer, thereby causing the observer to observe a virtual image of said formed by said light beam image and diverging angle conversion means for setting a first direction and a second direction substantially perpendicular thereto on the plane of formation of said virtual image and causing the light beam outgoing from each pixel to be incident on said optical system making diverging angles in said first and second directions different.

Abstract: A compound eye camera provided integrally with plural image pickup elements and a display unit adapted to display an image, divided into stripes in every scanning line or in every plural scanning lines and to give different directionalities to the display of the striped image in the odd-numbered lines and the display of the striped image in the even-numbered lines, thereby providing stereoscopic display at a predetermined observing position. The camera further has a display control unit for dividing each of two images, picked up with the plural image pickup elements and having a parallax, into stripes in the horizontal direction and alternately arranging the divided stripes by every line to synthesize a striped image, and causing the display unit to display such synthesized striped image.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a stereoscopic image displaying method and stereoscopic image displaying apparatus for interchangeably displaying a stereoscopic image and a two-dimensional image or for displaying a mixed stereoscopic image and two-dimensional image. In accordance with the present invention, light from a surface illuminant is passed through a mask substrate in which a mask pattern comprised of a plurality of apertures is formed. The light then is guided through a cylindrical lens array and a light directivity control element of polymer distributed liquid crystal having a stripe pattern, and thereafter the light irradiates a transmissive display device for displaying a stripe image having a parallax, or a two-dimensional, image. Control region stripes of the light directivity control element are brought into a non-scattering state when the stripe image is displayed on the display device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a stereoscopic image display apparatus comprising an illumination light source, an illuminating apparatus in which an optical system for guiding light from the illumination light source with directivity in predetermined regularity is housed in a housing, and a transmissive image sheet in which a stripe composite image produced by dividing a plurality of parallax images into stripes and arranging the stripes in a predetermined order is provided on a surface of a transparent sheet, wherein the transmissive image sheet is detachably mounted on the housing and the stripe composite image illuminated by the light from the illuminating apparatus is observed as a stereoscopic image, and wherein the transmissive image sheet is mounted on the housing so that a position of the transmissive image sheet can be adjusted by an adjusting device.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus has a light source for emitting patterned light in a predetermined shape, an optical system having horizontal optical action and vertical optical action different from each other, and a display device. The display device displays a stripe image obtained by alternating stripe pixels from a parallax image for the right eye and stripe pixels from a parallax image for the left eye in a predetermined order. The patterned light is provided with directivity by the optical system to irradiate the stripe image. The light is separated into two areas, so as to permit an observer to visually recognize the stripe image as a stereoscopic image. In the stereoscopic image display apparatus, a difference DH between a horizontal pitch Hi of the patterned light and a horizontal pixel pitch Hd of the display device is not less than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A basic cylinder-charged air quantity is determined by a first-order delay processing of an intake air quantity per rotation. Next, an estimated value of a change portion of the cylinder-charged air quantity caused by a change in intake valve timing is computed on the basis of engine speed, throttle opening angle, displacement angle of the intake valve timing. Then, the estimated value of the change portion of the cylinder-charged air quantity is processed second-time by the first-order delay. A difference between the estimated value of a change portion of the cylinder-charged air quantity and a value obtained by processing the estimated value second-time by the first-order delay is added as a delay correction to the basic cylinder-charged air quantity, thereby obtaining an actual cylinder-charged air quantity with a change in the intake valve timing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image displaying apparatus comprising an image displaying device for radiating light to display an image, a first optical system for forming the image on a primary image plane, which has a magnification-changing portion for changing an image magnification of the image and a second optical system for guiding light from the primary image plane to the pupil of an observer in order to enable the observer to observe an enlarged, virtual image of the image formed on the primary image plane.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus for causing an observer to observe a stereoscopic image, includes a light source for illuminating, with a surface illuminant, a mask substrate on which a mask pattern including aperture portions and shielding portions arranged in a checkerboard pattern is formed, a vertical cylindrical lens array including vertical cylindrical lenses each having a generatrix in a vertical direction, and a transmission type display device for displaying an image on scanning lines. Right stripe pixels and left stripe pixels are alternately arranged in a predetermined order to form one image, thereby displaying a horizontal stripe image on a display surface of the display device, and light beams emitted from the light source, to which directivity is given by the vertical cylindrical lens array, irradiate the horizontal stripe image.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus for stereoscopically viewing an image displayed on a display, by transmitting light through a mask pattern where plural apertures and plural light shielding portions are arranged in a predetermined pitch in the horizontal and vertical directions, transmitting the luminous flux through an optical system for illuminating the display where at least two parallax images are displayed, and leading the luminous flux based on the two parallax images displayed on the display to the right eye and left eye of a viewer respectively. The apparatus enables to give flexibility to precise adjustment during the assembly and enables the viewing of a stereoscopic image from a wide area with good quality, by setting vertical widths Vt and Vs of the aperture and the light shielding portion of the mask pattern, and horizontal widths Ht and Hs of the aperture and the light shielding portion of the mask pattern to satisfy the relationship of Vt<Vs and Ht<Hs.

Abstract: A stereoscopic display apparatus and method performs and includes, respectively, steps of dividing each of a plurality of parallax images supplied from a parallax image source having parallax image information into stripe pixels, displaying, on a display, a single stripe image by arranging and synthesizing some of the stripe pixels in a predetermined order, displaying a slit pattern consisting of a light-transmission portion and a light-shielding portion arranged at a predetermined pitch on a spatial light modulation element arranged at a predetermined position on the front or rear side of the display, inputting light transmitted through the stripe pixels, corresponding to the right and left eyes of an observer, of the stripe image to the right and left eyes of the observer via the spatial light modulation element and synchronously displaying the stripe pattern and the slit pattern in units of pixels or scan lines on corresponding scan lines of the display and the spatial light modulation element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a stereoscopic image display apparatus having light source means for emitting a light beam having a predetermined shape, a transmission type display device for displaying an image, a micro optical element arranged between the light source means and the display device and having different optical effects in horizontal and vertical directions, the micro optical element irradiating the light beam emitted by the light source means onto the display device by giving directivity to the light beam to split the light beam into at least two regions, and adjusting means for adjusting an interval between the light source means and the micro optical element in correspondence with an image displayed on the display device.

Abstract: This invention relates to a head mounted image display apparatus to be mounted on a head portion of an observer.The apparatus is constructed by image generation means for displaying an image by radiating light and an optical system which has a plurality of optical elements for guiding light from said image generation means to a pupil of the observer, wherein, of said plurality of optical elements, a first decentered curved surface mirror based on an ellipsoidal surface and a second decentered curved surface mirror based on a hyperboloidal surface are arranged in turn from the pupil side of the observer, said first decentered curved surface mirror has a first focal point at a predetermined pupil position of the observer, and a second focal point at a focal point position of said second decentered curved surface mirror.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image display apparatus suitable for a head mounted display which apparatus has been made compact as a whole by the use of a reflection type liquid crystal display element. The apparatus has a first optical element which has an incidence surface on which a light beam is incident, at least two curved reflecting surfaces made eccentric with respect to each other for reflecting the light beam incident from the incidence surface, and an emergence surface from which the light beam from the curved reflecting surfaces emerges. A reflection type image display device provided on the incidence surface side. A light beam from a light source is caused to enter from one of the two curved reflecting surfaces which comprises a half mirror surface, and emerge from the incidence surface and illuminate the image display device.

Abstract: This invention relates to a stereoscopic image display apparatus comprises a display for combining and displaying, in an alternate array in a predetermined direction, plural stripe images divided from each of two parallax image for the left and right eyes; a polarizing member in which stripe-shaped polarizing parts with mutually different polarizing axes are alternately arranged respectively corresponding to the divided stripe images, wherein the divided stripe images are emitted by the polarizing member with different polarization characteristics for the left and right eyes, and the left and right eyes of an observer observing said display unit are respectively given the corresponding parts of the divided plural stripe images by the difference of the polarization characteristics whereby the observer can recognize a stereoscopic image; and an optical member provided with stripe-shaped apertures arranged in a predetermined direction, respectively corresponding to the divided stripe images.

Abstract: This invention relates to an image display method, which includes the steps mainly characterized by allowing the observer to stereoscopically view the three-dimensional partial image by guiding a light beam coming from the three-dimensional partial image to a predetermined position via a partial parallax barrier, which is formed by light directivity controlling means, arranged to oppose the image displaying means, by alternately arranging stripe-shaped light-transmitting portions and light-shielding portions on an area corresponding to the three-dimensional partial image; and controlling, using light amount adjusting means, the brightness levels of the partial images to be observed by the observer in correspondence with the view point numbers of the partial images.

Abstract: This invention relates to a stereoscopic image display apparatus, which comprises a two-dimensionally array of light modulation elements for modulating light in correspondence with a stripe synthesized image obtained by alternately arranging stripe image portions of a plurality of stripe images which are obtained by dividing right- and left-eye images, an illumination light source, arranged behind the light modulation elements, for illuminating the light modulation element, a parallax barrier arranged in front of the light modulation elements, and having predetermined aperture portions and light-shielding portions in correspondence with the light modulation elements corresponding to the respective stripe image portions, and an element, arranged between the light modulation elements and the illumination light source, for dividing and deflecting light emitted by the illumination light source.