Abstract: A method includes displaying three dimensional medical imaging data in three dimensions via a display monitor (134) by generating and visually presenting a stereoscopic view of the three dimensional medical imaging data in the display monitor. A system includes a stereo processor (114) that processes three dimensional medical imaging data and generates two images from two different viewpoints, which are shifted from each other by a predetermined distance and are angled by a predetermined angle, and a display monitor (134) used to alternately display the two images, thereby creating a stereoscopic view.

Abstract: An electronic interaction apparatus for providing a 3D MMI is provided with a processing unit. The processing unit determines a first length between an object positioned at a first time and a surface formed by two digital camera modules, and a second length between the object positioned at a second time and the surface. Also, the processing unit determines a third length between the object positioned at a third time and the surface, and determines a depth in a virtual 3D space corresponding to the object positioned at the third time according to the first length, the second length, and the third length. Particularly, the virtual 3D space is displayed in a display screen, the third time is later than the first time and the second time, and the third length is longer than the first length and shorter than the second length.

Abstract: Described herein are techniques which facilitate the automatic synchronization of audio and video signals between an entertainment device and a presentation device. A sensing device detects and records timing information from a video test pattern generated by an entertainment device and output by a presentation device. Using the timing information from the sensing device, the entertainment device synchronizes the audio and video signals it outputs to one or more presentation devices. The presentation device exhibits synchronized audio and video to a user.

Abstract: Systems and methods for viewing image data. The system includes a head borne image source, a controller, an eyepiece lens assembly and a display device. The head borne image source images an object and provides the image data. The controller determines a focus adjustment from a focus position of the head borne image source. The display device receives and displays the image data to a user's eye via the eyepiece lens assembly. A distance between the eyepiece lens assembly and the display device is adjusted based on the focus adjustment responsive to the focus position.

Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and a control method of the same. The display apparatus includes: an organic light emitting panel which alternately scans a left-eye image and a right-eye image in units of a frame; a signal transmitter which outputs a control signal to external shutter glasses to open or to close a left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter of the shutter glasses; and a controller which controls the signal transmitter to make open and closed states of the left-eye shutter and the right-eye shutter be opposite to each other, and controls emission of the organic light emitting panel to display an image corresponding to an open shutter and not to display an image opposite to the open shutter when one of the left-eye shutter and the right-eye shutter is open.

Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for detecting a viewing apparatus, and causing a presentation device to present a media program in a time division multiplexed (TDM) scheme or a space division multiplexing (SDM) scheme responsive to said detection, wherein the viewing apparatus is configured to the TDM or SDM schemes to enable viewing of the media program. Other embodiments are disclosed and contemplated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for 3-D display based on random constructive interference. It produces a number of discrete secondary light sources by using an amplitude-phase-modulator-array, which helps to create 3-D images by means of constructive interference. Next it employs a random-secondary-light-source-generator-array to shift the position of each secondary light source to a random place, eliminating multiple images due to high order diffraction. It could be constructed with low resolution liquid crystal screens to realize large size real-time color 3-D display, which could widely be applied to 3-D computer or TV screens, 3-D human-machine interaction, machine vision, and so on.

Abstract: By the prior art, it was not possible to cope with a change in the way colors are viewed depending on the posture of a viewer. An image processing device for an image display system including glasses having polarizing elements and an image display device, characterized by having a color correction unit configured to perform color correction processing on image data indicating an image to be displayed based on inclination information of the glasses with respect to a display screen of the image display device.

Abstract: A head mount display used in a state worn on the head of a user is provided. In a worn state, a forehead support 102 comes in contact with the forehead of the user, and an upper band 104 and a lower band 105 of the headband come in contact with the back of the head. That is, the head mount display is worn on the head of the user with a three-point support by the forehead support 102, the upper band 104, and the lower band 105. Thus, unlike a structure similar to glasses whose weight is mainly supported by a nose piece, the head mount display can be worn while easing the strain on the user by distributing the load of the device over the entire head.

Abstract: A reproduction signal output from a reproduction device is output via a relay device to two or more display devices including an excellent display device that is used by being mounted on the head of a user. A connection monitoring circuit in a front end box 40 monitors both a +5V signal of a source appliance that is HDMI-connected to an HDMI input unit 501, and an HPD signal of a sink appliance that is HDMI-connected to a second output unit 503. Then, only when an HPD signal emitted by the HDMI sink appliance is detected together with a +5V signal emitted by the HDIM source appliance does the connection monitoring circuit in the front end box 40 enables a repeater function with respect to the HDMI sink appliance.

Abstract: A display controller includes an extraction unit for extracting a characteristic of at least one of image data and sound data of content; a detection unit for detecting a predetermined scene of the content on the basis of the characteristic extracted by the extraction unit; a reproduction unit for reproducing the content; and a display control unit for displaying an image of the content so as to be recognized as a two-dimensional image when the reproduction position of the content is a position of a section of the predetermined scene detected by the detection unit and displaying an image of the content so as to be recognized as a three-dimensional image when the reproduction position of the content is a position outside the section of the predetermined scene.

Abstract: A direct view display provides a light modulating panel and a backlight including first and second sets of spectral emitters. The first set of spectral emitters generate a first light bundle and the second set of spectral emitters generate a second light bundle. Several modes of operation may be provided including (1) an advanced 2D mode, (2) an enhanced color gamut mode employing simultaneous illumination of the first and second set of spectral emitters, (3) a privacy screen mode, (4) a channel multiplexed mode, and (5) a stereoscopic image mode. The latter three modes utilize the first and second set of spectral emitters to alternately illuminate a portion of the light modulating panel. Images and representations generated by the direct view display operating in the latter three modes are viewed using appropriate eyewear having filters with passband characteristics to transmit the respective light bundle.

Abstract: Shutter glasses for allowing a user to perceive 3D video includes: a shutter for a right eye and a shutter for a left eye performing open and close operations of shutters in accordance with a timing signal synchronized with 2D video displayed on a display; a detection means for detecting light intensity of linear polarized light; and a shutter control means for controlling ON/OFF for driving the shutter for the right eye and the shutter for the left eye in accordance with the detected light intensity of the linear polarized light.

Abstract: A method of transmitting three dimensional video information over an interface from a playback device to a displaying device, the displaying device and the interface such that the properties of the displaying device can be queried over the interface, the method comprising determining one or more video format in which a compressed three dimensional video information is available to an input of the playback device, the three dimensional video information available either as stored on a record medium or received via a data transmission system; querying the displaying device over the interface with respect to one or more three dimensional video formats which the displaying device is able to process; selecting a best matching video format, wherein the best matching video format different from at least one available video format, the selection of the best matching video format based on the available video format and the video formats which the displaying device is able to process; processing the compressed three di

Abstract: Provided is a stereoscopic image system. The stereoscopic image system includes a display device radiating linearly polarized light, glasses including left and right oculars each including a first polarizer disposed between the display device and the eyes of a user, a second polarizer disposed between the first polarizer and the eyes of the user, and a polarization plane rotator disposed between the first polarizer and the second polarizer, and a quarter wave plate disposed between the display device and the first polarizer. Accordingly, even when the glasses are rotated around a normal line to surfaces of the left and right oculars, a change in the brightness of a stereoscopic image can be reduced.

Abstract: A system is discussed for displaying multivideo, which enables users to view a plurality of different video images at the same time through one video displaying system without lowering resolution. The system includes according to an embodiment a video processor for alternately outputting first and second images every predetermined number of frames according to a similarity between previous and present frames of first or second video image; and a display panel for displaying the video image outputted from the video processor.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image display system, including a television having a screen, a sound projector, a control unit in signal communication with said screen and said sound projector, said control unit being configured for said sound projector to project one or more audible beams in a room towards one or more target paths. The system includes an optical instrument having a frame and a pair of lenses, detection means and transmission means, said detection means being designed to receive at their input an audio signal having a frequency falling in a 20-20 kHz frequency band and to output a processed signal, said transmission means being designed to receive at their input said processed signal, and to output a calibration signal. The control unit calibrates said sound projector according to said calibration signal generated by said optical instrument.

Abstract: A head-mountable display system comprises a head mountable display having a frame to be mounted onto an observer's head, the frame defining one or two eye display positions which, in use, are positioned for viewing by the observer. The frame comprises one or more shutters for obscuring the observer's view of the surrounding real environment and a display element mounted with respect to each of the eye display positions. The display element provides a virtual image of a video display of a video signal from a video signal source to the observer. An object detector detects the presence of an object within a detection range of the observer's head. And a controller controls operation of the head mountable display so as to allow the observer to view at least a portion of the surrounding real environment in response to detection of the presence of an object within the detection range.

Abstract: A see-through head-mounted display (HMD) device, e.g., in the form of augmented reality glasses, allows a user to view a video display device and an associated augmented reality image. In one approach, the augmented reality image is aligned with edges of the video display device to provide a larger, augmented viewing region. The HMD can include a camera which identifies the edges. The augmented reality image can be synchronized in time with content of the video display device. In another approach, the augmented reality image video provides a virtual audience which accompanies a user in watching the video display device. In another approach, the augmented reality image includes a 3-D which appears to emerge from the video display device, and which is rendered from a perspective of a user's location. In another approach, the augmented reality image can be rendered on a vertical or horizontal surface in a static location.

Abstract: A viewing system for viewing images having the appearance of a three dimensional image.

Abstract: A 3D image control apparatus receives from shutter glasses an identification signal for identifying a type of the shutter glasses, reading a shutter opening and closing characteristic of the shutter glasses of the type identified based on the identification signal from a storage unit storing shutter characteristics of the shutter glasses in association with the type of the shutter glasses. The 3D image control apparatus controls display timing of an image display unit based on the shutter opening and closing characteristic in such a manner that display periods of the right eye image and the left eye image are respectively within opening periods of the right shutter and the left shutter.

Abstract: A wavelength separation device includes a waveplate adapted to convert the polarization direction of light in a predetermined wavelength band so that right-eye and left-eye image light in a time-divisional manner can be separated into first outgoing light as first polarized light in a first wavelength band and second outgoing light as second polarized light in a second wavelength band, a polarization control element adapted to keep the polarization direction of the first and the second outgoing light input from the waveplate in the case of either one of the right-eye and the left-eye image light, and respectively change the polarization direction of the first and the second outgoing light input from the waveplate in the case of the other thereof, and a polarization plate adapted to absorb one of the first polarized light and the second polarized light, and transmit the other thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a method of controlling view of a stereoscopic image. The method includes changing the view angle and depth information of a 3D image displayed on a display according to position information for each user; and combining at least two of a spatial division technique spatially dividing light from the display, a time division technique temporally dividing light from the display and a polarization division technique dividing light from the display into lights having polarization characteristics to divide the 3D image for the each user by using the combined technique and producing a binocular disparity of for the each user.

Abstract: An HMD includes: a display which displays a three-dimensional video image; a position obtaining unit which measures a position of an inner corner or tail of an eye of a viewer with respect to the display; a standard position storage unit which obtains and stores, as a standard position relating to the position, the measured position of the inner corner or outer corner of the eye, in calibration for determining the standard position; a position gap detecting unit which detects, as a position gap, a difference between the standard position and a newly measured position of the inner corner or outer corner of the eye of the viewer viewing content with respect to the display; and an image processing unit which performs image processing on the 3D video image to be displayed on the display, to rotated or parallely move the 3D video image according to the detected position gap.

Abstract: A 3D image control apparatus is provided which prevents unevenness of luminance in an observed image on a screen caused in a 3D image viewing system including an impulse type display device and liquid crystal shutter glasses. The 3D image control apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to generate luminance signals for displaying a right eye image and a left eye image on the basis of an input image signal and output the signals to a display unit. The image processing unit performs arithmetic operation on an image signal corresponding to pixels on a predetermined number of vertical lines using correction values for increasing a luminance in accordance with the position of each vertical line so that a lack of transmittance for a rising period or falling period of shutters of liquid crystal shutter glasses is compensated for, thus generating luminance signals.

Abstract: A device and method for enhancement of a viewer's visual perception in a real physical (three spatial dimension) scene and/or a single two-dimensional image, which includes enhancement of a viewer's depth perception and perception of clarity in the real physical scene and/or the two-dimensional image, by alteration of a viewer's eye dominance with direction of greater attention to the viewer's non-dominant eye for contribution to the binocular view.

Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of the methods for displaying at least two non-stereoscopic images of a different nature intended to be superposed so as to form only one final image. The method according to the invention comprises the following two successive steps: A first step for generation of the first image and of the second image, the two images being of a different nature and non-stereoscopic; A second step for displaying the said images in a binocular or stereoscopic display system comprising two display channels, the first channel being intended for the right eye of a user, the second channel being intended for the left eye of the said user, the first image being displayed on the first right channel and the second image being displayed on the second left channel.

Abstract: Liquid crystal spectacles are provided for three-dimensional viewing of digital video content from a projector. The viewing spectacles include a first rectilinear polariser and a second rectilinear polariser respectively having polarisation axes P1 and P2, the polarisation axes P1 and P2 being parallel or perpendicular relative to each other. Furthermore, the liquid crystal has an adapted intrinsic tilt angle and is used in a half-wave blade configuration. The liquid crystal further includes first and second separate areas, each respectively located opposite a vision axis. The first area includes a first director and the second area includes a second director. The first and second directors are oriented so as to define an adapted angle between them. This enables a “non-one-eyed” vision while waiting for the projection of the film to start, and to obtain the best possible contrast between the two eyes of the user when viewing the digital video content.

Abstract: A stereo display including a display panel unit, a shutter glasses unit, and a backlight unit is provided. The display panel unit sequentially displays a right eye image and a left eye image according to a right eye synchronizing vertical signal and a left eye synchronizing vertical signal. The shutter glasses unit has a right eye glass and a left eye glass, wherein the right eye glass is synchronously opened according to the right eye synchronizing vertical signal, and the left eye glass is synchronously opened according to the left eye synchronizing vertical signal. The backlight unit provides a light source to the display panel unit, wherein the backlight unit is synchronously turned on and off according to the right eye synchronizing vertical signal, and the backlight unit is also synchronously turned on and off according to the left eye synchronizing vertical signal.

Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method comprising, via a signal, triggering an illumination of a first light source and a second light source, the first light source adapted to lighten a first image, the second light source adapted to lighten a second image, the first image rendered side-by-side with the second image.

Abstract: The present invention relates to three-dimensional glasses, to a three-dimensional image display apparatus, and to a method for driving the three-dimensional glasses and the three-dimensional image display apparatus.

Abstract: A device for controlling shutter glasses used in a 3D display system, including: a generator unit generating sync signals used to synchronize shutter glasses with the 3D display system, the sync signals having a timing and a sync rate; a transmit unit for transmitting the sync signals to the shutter glasses, and a sync signal adjusting unit coupled to the generator unit and configured to adjust the timing and/or sync rate of the sync signal generated by the generator unit. The adjusting unit includes a transmit element transmitting an adjusting signal indicating the timing and/or the sync rate and receivable by other devices for controlling shutter glasses.

Abstract: The ability of some people to perceive simulated stereoscopic images or even actual stereoscopic images can be enhanced by treating the two eyes differently. The disclosed system can enhance stereoscopic images by selectively modifying the incoming images using right/left differentiation filter. The system can also include the capability of filtering images using parameters that for which the right eye and left eye images are treated independently of each other.

Abstract: A representative Device and Method for 3-D Display Control is disclosed. The method for controlling stereo image display is disclosed. That is, to receive an image input signal wherein the image input signal includes a first refresh rate; to convert a frame rate of the image input signal to generate an image output signal, wherein the image output signal includes a second refresh rate which is higher than the first refresh rate, and includes a first image signal, a first VBI (Vertical Blanking Interval), a second image signal, a second VBI, a third image signal and a third VBI; to output a control signal for a left eye shutter of shutter glasses during a duration between the first VBI and a part of the second image signal; and to output a control signal for a right eye shutter of the shutter glasses during a duration between a part of the third image signal and the third VBI.

Abstract: An application for transmission of a three-dimensional eyewear synchronization signal to synchronize the operation of shutters of three-dimensional eyewear uses an industry standard wireless transmission technique. To compensate for inherent latencies of such transmission techniques, the latencies are measured and monitored to determine expected latencies and the shutter synchronization signal is skewed by the latency. In some embodiments, the synchronization signal is further adjusted by a user skew control.

Abstract: A disclosed projection system includes a display that renders a video representing a sequence of original images each having a corresponding frame interval, and one or more viewing device(s). During each frame interval, multiple subimages are displayed that, in some cases, average together to approximate an original image corresponding to that frame interval. The viewing device(s) attenuate each of the subimages by a respective coefficient to synthesize a target image for each frame interval. The system may include additional viewing device(s) that apply attenuation coefficients to the subimages to synthesize a second, different target image for each frame interval. A described projection method includes displaying multiple subimages in each frame interval, and transmitting attenuation coefficients to the viewing device(s).

Abstract: To overcome problems with vergence, a binocular head mounted display (HMD) is used in a simulator in which an out-the-window scene is displayed in real time on a screen arrangement. Imagery for the left and right eyes of the HMD is derived by generating a starting HMD image for a Cyclops viewpoint between the user's eves, and then rendering respective views for each eve from the position of the eye in a virtual 3D model of the screen arrangement, wherein the starting HMD image is frustum projected against the screen arrangement of the 3D model.

Abstract: An apparatus and a system for viewing a 3D image including a synchronization signal receiver for receiving 3D image synchronization signal; a 3D control signal generator for generating left-eye glass control signal and a right-eye glass control signal in accordance with the synchronization signal received; a left-eye glass that opens or intercepts light transmitted to the left-eye glass; a right-eye glass that opens or intercepts light transmitted to the right-eye glass; a central processor that controls operation of the 3D control signal generator and transmits the synchronization signal to the 3D control signal generator; and a power controller that connects or intercepts power supplied to the synchronization signal receiver and the central processor. The power consumption of the apparatus is minimized by supplying power to the synchronization signal receiver and the central processor at a time when the synchronization signal is received and power is intercepted during the rest period.

Abstract: A method for synchronizing a function on a remote device with a function on a primary device includes selectively broadcasting, from a radio frequency (RF) transmitter of the primary device, data broadcast on channels at different times relative to a fixed period strobe signal of the primary device. Only the channels that have a noise level below a specified threshold level selectively broadcast the data and each of the channels have an associated fixed time frame offset relative to the fixed period strobe signal. Each of the channels is broadcast after their associated fixed time frame offset expires. An RF receiver of the remote device receives the data on one of the channels. The data on each of the channels is received at different times, depending on its associated fixed time frame offset, which results in the data on each received channel having an associated received time reference relative to a strobe signal of the remote device.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a stereoscopic image display system and a method of controlling the same. An eye tracking module locates current 3D spatial positions of the viewer's eyes, and generates the information of both left and right eyes' current 3D spatial positions. A control module controls a display device that can alter the direction of the light outputted, and outputs images on the display device in time multiplex mode. The light containing the left eye image is outputted to the position of left eye instead of right eye at one time point, and the light containing the right eye image is outputted to the position of right eye instead of left eye at another time point, so that a stereoscopic image is perceived according to the parallax theory. The present invention enlarges the visual range of stereoscopic image and achieves a better stereoscopic image visual experience for viewers.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a display device including a display panel including pixels, and an optical plate controlling light rays emitted from pixels; a camera provided in the display device; a face tracking unit making a decision whether a viewer exists in front of the display device based on an image picked up by the camera, and if the viewer exists, sampling and detecting a distance from the display device to the viewer and a position of the viewer; a memory storing the position of the viewer sampled and detected by the face tracking unit; and an image display control unit estimating the position of the viewer based on the position of the viewer stored in the memory and driving and controlling the display panel on based on the estimated position, when the face tracking unit does not recognize that the viewer exists.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display for the viewer to watch through glasses is provided, wherein the glasses have two lenses and the polarized directions thereof are perpendicular to each other. The three-dimensional display includes a display panel and a liquid crystal phase modulator. The display panel, suitable for displaying an image, has a plurality of pixels arranged in array and a polarizer having a transmission axis, wherein the polarizer disposed between the pixels and the glasses. The liquid crystal phase modulator suitable for providing phase retardation includes a liquid crystal layer and an alignment layer adjacent to the display panel. An included angle between an alignment direction of the alignment layer and the transmission axis is substantially equal to n×45 degrees, wherein an absolute value of n is an integer. The liquid crystal phase modulator adjusts a phase of the image and then outputs an image with three-dimensional information.

Abstract: A television consistent with certain implementations has a display system having a display frame refresh rate R. A frame synchronizer transmitter transmits a signal used to synchronize frame refreshes for a left and right eye images of shutter glasses, where a sequence of left and right eye images to the shutter glasses defines one image cycle. A video processor that alters at least one image per image cycle so that at least one of the images to at least one eye of at least one of the shutter glasses is synchronized to a display frame that has been altered by the video processor. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.

Abstract: A head mount display includes: an image display unit at which an image is displayed; an arm that supports the image display unit while allowing an orientation of the image display unit to be adjusted; a mounting unit that supports the arm and is used to attach the head mount display to a user; and a protective member extending from the arm to range on an outer side relative to the image display unit to protect the image display unit. The image display unit is positioned between the head of the user, to which the mounting unit is attached, and the protective member.

Abstract: A light-field display is provided that renders a light-field at one or more viewing apertures through a microlens array. The light-field display includes a display such as a monitor that is positioned behind the microlens array. The monitor and the microlens array are positioned so that light emitted from a pixel of the monitor reaches the one or more apertures through at most one microlens from the microlens array. For each microlens in the microlens array, the pixels of the monitor visible through that microlens of the microlens array at the one or more apertures is determined, and a light-field is then rendered at each of the one or more viewing apertures by rendering the determined pixels corresponding to each microlens.

Abstract: An image signal processing device improving quality of three-dimensional image is provided. The device includes a determination section; deinterlace sections and a synchronous control section. The determination section determines whether first and/or second input image signals, having horizontal parallax there between, are interlaced signals derived from video signal or from pull down-converted film signal. The deinterlace sections perform deinterlace on each of the first and second input image signals, through interpolation for a video signal or pull down reverse conversion for a film signal, and generate first and second output image signals as progressive signals, having horizontal parallax there between. The synchronous control section synchronously controls the deinterlace, based on result of the determination section, such that deinterlace process onto the first and second input image signals, synchronized with each other for each of fields, are of same type.

Abstract: A method for communicating between a user using a viewing device (2000) and the viewing device, includes the following steps: acquiring, at an acquisition interface (1400) integrated into a pair of glasses (1000) of the user, an item of information on utilization of the glasses; and generating and sending to the viewing device (2000), by a microcontroller (1100) integrated into the glasses, a data signal (DATA) depending on the acquired information. The acquired information enables in particular the authentication of the user, so as to send, to the viewing device, data that the latter will use to display a digital content.

Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, presenting a plurality of unassociated media programs from a single presentation device having overlapping presentation periods, receiving information from a viewing apparatus to adjust an intensity of emitted light associated with one of the unassociated media programs, and adjusting the intensity of the emitted light in a manner that is detectable by the viewing apparatus supplying the information. Other embodiments are disclosed and contemplated.

Abstract: The present description discloses a method and apparatus for displaying images. An image display method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the following steps: generating, from an inputted source, 3D image data to be outputted; taking, as an input, first information on whether or not there are a plurality of viewers, and, in the event there are a plurality of viewers, on the number of viewers, and second information on the viewing mode of each viewer based on the first information; generating individual synchronization information for the generated 3D image data in response to the viewing mode of each viewer in accordance with the inputted first information and second information; and outputting the generated 3D image data via a screen, and transmitting the generated synchronization information to the 3D eyeglasses of each viewer.

Abstract: Glasses worn by a user during viewing of a stereoscopic image include a signal transmission/reception unit 101 and a preference storage unit 106. The signal transmission/reception unit 101 transmits and receives data to and from a stereoscopic image processing device. The preference storage unit 106 stores a preference specialized for a user. The signal transmission/reception unit 101 transmits control information to the stereoscopic image processing device before the user, wearing the glasses, starts viewing the stereoscopic image, the control information instructing the stereoscopic image processing device to perform a status setting using the preference.