Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a processor, memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and a collaboration engine communicatively coupled to the processor to identify a shared graphics component between two or more users in an environment, and share the shared graphics components with the two or more users in the environment. Embodiments of the collaboration engine may include one or more of a centralized sharer, a depth sharer, a shared preprocessor, a multi-port graphics subsystem, and a decode sharer. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Display devices and systems are configured with display panels substantially comprising one of several embodiments of three primary color or multi-primary color subpixel repeating groups that are particularly suitable for directional display devices which produce at least two images simultaneously, such as autostereoscopic three-dimensional display devices or multi-view devices. Input image data indicating an image is rendered to a device configured with one of the illustrated subpixel repeating groups using a subpixel rendering operation.

Abstract: A heads-up display associated with a user manipulated object in a gaming environment, particularly a racing game. According to one aspect the heads-up display may reduce the distance a user's eye travels between a focal area and the heads-up display.

Abstract: Methods and systems for using a multi-state button are described. A computing device may be configured to receive an input associated with a press state of a button. The computing device may be configured to cause an image-capture device to capture an image from a point-of-view (POV) of the computing device based on the input corresponding to a first press state on the button and cause the image-capture device to capture a video from the POV of the computing device based on the input corresponding to a second press state on the button. The computing device may be configured, based on the input corresponding to a partial press state of the button, to cause the image-capture device to capture the image and/or the video; and provide a search query based on the image and/or the video.

Abstract: Systems and methods are operable to share a viewing experience of a free viewpoint format media content event. An exemplary embodiment receives the free viewpoint format media content event, receives unique geometric orientation information from each one of a plurality of head mounted displays (HMDs), determines a unique viewpoint location for each one of the plurality of HMDs based upon the geometric orientation information received from each one of the plurality of HMDs, determines a unique viewpoint area for each one of the plurality of HMDs based upon the determined unique viewpoint location, and communicates each one of the unique viewpoint areas to the associated one of the plurality of HMDs.

Abstract: A method includes receiving media content of a particular program at a media device. The media content of the particular program is received via a plurality of video streams, where each of the plurality of video streams is associated with a different viewing perspective. The method includes determining locations of one or more viewers of a display device relative to a plurality of viewing zones of the display device. The method also includes selecting a video stream of the particular program to display to each viewer of the one or more viewers based on the location of each viewer. One video stream is selected for each viewer, and different video streams are selected for viewers in different viewing zones. The method further includes sending the selected video streams to the display device from the media device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling a cartridge of a welding helmet having a function to display a welding operation time, which can protect the welder's face from intense light generated during a welding or cutting operation and also, enable automated light transmittance adjustment and operation time setting on a per operation basis, enabling a welding operation to be more efficiently performed. In the method including welding operation, cutting operation, grinding operation and X-mode operation steps, which are automatically performed in sequence according to preset conditions and a light transmittance and operation time of a liquid crystal screen of the cartridge, a control unit calculates an operation time of the liquid crystal screen indicating how long the liquid crystal screen is kept dark, and the calculated operation time is stored in a memory unit so as to be displayed on a display unit in a life mode step.

Abstract: A system for, and method of automatically controlling a video presentation and 3D glasses incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system is configured to sense whether a viewer is wearing glasses and transmit a signal to the video source if the viewer is not wearing the glasses. In another embodiment, the system is configured to sense whether the viewer is watching the video presentation and transmit a signal to the video source if the viewer is not watching the video presentation.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image displaying apparatus and a corresponding stereoscopic image displaying method are disclosed. The stereoscopic image displaying apparatus comprises a display panel, a backlight module and a pair of shutter glasses. The display panel is configured to write left-eye image data and right-eye image data according to a timing sequence. The backlight module has a plurality of light source regions, and the light source regions are turned on and off according to a timing sequence to scan the left-eye image data and the right-eye image data. A left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter of the pair of shutter glasses are turned on and off alternately to receive the left-eye image data when the left-eye shutter is turned on and to receive the right-eye image data when the right-eye shutter is turned on.

Abstract: Different full screen content is displayed on the same television at the same time from the perspective of the viewer by displaying as the content as two full screen sequential frames. The different full screen content may be provided as a single combined frame signal such as a side-by-side, top-bottom, or checkerboard signal which is then displayed as two sequential full screen frames. Configured glasses such as polarized or shutter are used to view the different content as full screen content where one pair of configured glasses views an initial one of the sequential frames but blocks the subsequent one and another pair of configured glasses blocks the initial one of the sequential frames and views the subsequent one. Shutter glasses have both lenses open during the initial frame and both closed during the subsequent one. For polarized glasses, the initial frame has a polarization matching both lenses of one pair of glasses while the subsequent frame has a polarization that differs from both lenses.

Abstract: A wall fixture supports at least one display screen and a display shelf. The display shelf is located adjacent the display screen and includes a holder for housing a pair of three-dimensional (3D) glasses that are tethered to the holder The display screen displays two-dimensional (2D) media content. In response to receiving an indication from a presence sensor that the 3D glasses located in a glasses holder of the display shelf have been removed from the glasses holder, 3D media content is displayed on the display monitor.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal panel of a 3D TV, and the liquid crystal panel is provided with a left eye frame signal watched by left eye, a first frame signal, a right eye frame signal watched by a right eye and a second frame signal for overlay displaying each frame of displays. The first frame signal is a left-right eyes frame signal watched by the left eye and the right eye simultaneously, and the second frame signal is a black signal. The present invention also relates to shutter glasses of a 3D TV. The liquid crystal panel of a 3D TV and the shutter glasses are capable of increasing the display brightness of the 3D TV.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device (100) according to the present invention performs display in a stereoscopic display mode. In each of the plurality of pixels in the liquid crystal display device (100), left-eye image data and right-eye image data are alternately written every two successive vertical scanning periods. Each of the plurality of pixels exhibits the same polarity over the two vertical scanning periods in which left-eye image data is written, and exhibits the same polarity over the two vertical scanning periods in which the right-eye image data is written. Accordingly, the liquid crystal display device (100) performs stereoscopic display with suppressed display unevenness.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image correction device includes when a displacement amount which is a difference between a convergence angle on a display surface and a convergence angle on a perceived three-dimensional surface based on image information for a three-dimensional image is set as a disparity amount, a width of a depth amount represented by pop-up and pull-in of the three-dimensional image is set as a dynamic range, and display device specification information is set as display device information, a disparity amount detection unit for inputting the image information to detect the disparity amount from the image information, a correction computation unit for adjusting the detected disparity amount on the basis of the display device information to correct the dynamic range, and a disparity amount correction unit for correcting the disparity amount in the corrected dynamic range while corresponding to the display device information.

Abstract: Systems and methods are operable to share a viewing experience of a free viewpoint format media content event. An exemplary embodiment receives the free viewpoint format media content event, receives unique geometric orientation information from each one of a plurality of head mounted displays (HMDs), determines a unique viewpoint location for each one of the plurality of HMDs based upon the geometric orientation information received from each one of the plurality of HMDs, determines a unique viewpoint area for each one of the plurality of HMDs based upon the determined unique viewpoint location, and communicates each one of the unique viewpoint areas to the associated one of the plurality of HMDs.

Abstract: An apparatus for operating a pair of 3-D glasses to view a 3-D video signal on a TV. The apparatus includes a controller having an input for receiving a 3-D video data stream from a video source, an output for delivering a portion of the 3-D video data stream as a video signal to be displayed on the TV, synchronization programming for reading the 3-D video data stream and obtaining 3-D commands relating to said 3-D video data and a transmitter for wireless transmitting the 3-D commands. The system further includes 3-D glasses having a receiver configured to receive the 3-D command signal, left and right shutters configured to selectively close and open according to the 3-D commands, and a control input configured to calibrate the glasses to the displayed video signal of the TV.

Abstract: A picture presentation system includes a first shutter device, a second shutter device, and a picture presentation device. The picture presentation device includes a picture presentation unit configured to present a first picture and a second picture in sequence, a first control signal transmitting unit configured to transmit the first control signal to bring the first shutter and the second shutter into a closed state when the second picture is presented, and a second control signal transmitting unit configured to transmit the second control signal to bring at least one of the third shutter and the fourth shutter into an opened state when the second picture is presented.

Abstract: Technology for controlling image display according to the state of a viewer wearing eyeglasses to view 3D images is provided. When an inclined angle of eyeglasses is in a predetermined range, an image display device alternately displays a left-eye image and a right-eye image. When the inclined angle of the eyeglasses exceeds the predetermined range, the image display device does not switch the left-eye image with the right-eye image. For example, the image display device displays 2D images. Optical shutters of the eyeglasses are synchronized with the left-eye image and the right-eye image. When the image display device does not switch the left-eye image with the right-eye image, the optical shutters are both open.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes display unit for displaying left- and right-eye images alternately; and transmission control unit for transmitting a synchronizing signal indicating a timing for starting to display the left-eye image or the right-eye image on display unit, intermittently at a given transmission timing. Transmission control unit changes the given transmission timing according to a given condition and transmits the synchronizing signal.

Abstract: There is provided a stereoscopic image displaying apparatus that displays a stereoscopic image to a viewer wearing glasses, in which the image displaying unit has a plurality of display pixels, the correcting unit corrects gray levels of pixels of the image signal for the right eye or the left eye, the writing unit writes the image signal corrected by the correcting unit, into the display pixels of the image displaying unit, the timing controlling unit controls timing to open and close the right and the left of the glasses in accordance with timing of the writing by the writing unit, and the correcting unit corrects the gray levels of the pixels of the image signal in accordance with a difference between the timing of the writing by the writing unit and the timing to open and close the right and the left of the glasses.

Abstract: A method includes receiving media content of a particular program at a media device. The media content of the particular program is received via a plurality of video streams, where each of the plurality of video streams is associated with a different viewing perspective. The method includes determining locations of one or more viewers of a display device relative to a plurality of viewing zones of the display device. The method also includes selecting a video stream of the particular program to display to each viewer of the one or more viewers based on the location of each viewer. One video stream is selected for each viewer, and different video streams are selected for viewers in different viewing zones.

Abstract: A 3D display system includes an image source and a display device. The image source is configured to provide a 2D video signal consisting of multiple side-by-side frames for representing an image and generate an upsampled 2D video signal by increasing the frame rate of the source 2D video signal. The display device includes an identical frame detector and a 2D/3D converter. After identify corresponding pairs of side-by-side frames in the upsampled 2D video signal, the identical frame detector instructs the 2D/3D converter to extract a predetermined half of each side-by-side frame in the upsampled 2D video signal, and convert the extracted halves of the side-by-side frames alternatively into a series of right-eye images and a series of left-eye images constituting a 3D video signal.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of a video device provide a stereoscopic effect to a user to provide a 3 Dimensional (3D) video. The apparatus includes a 3D glasses recognition unit and a controller. The 3D glasses recognition unit determines a posture of a user who watches a stereoscopic video. The controller provides control to change the stereoscopic effect of the stereoscopic video according to the posture of the user determined by the 3D glasses recognition unit.

Abstract: Systems and methods for concurrently displaying two different 2D video programs on a screen of a stereoscopic 3D-enabled video viewing system. A control unit switches active shutter glasses in synchrony with the display of frames on the display screen, such that both shutters are open when frames corresponding to a first program are displayed, and both shutters are closed when frames corresponding to a second program are displayed, so that a viewer wearing the glasses sees only the first program. For higher refresh rate displays, more than two different programs can be displayed concurrently by interleaving the display of frames from more than two programs. Multiple viewers, each with a pair of active shutter glasses, can each independently choose the program they wish to watch on the single display screen. This viewing mode may leverage the 3D broadcast content delivery chain, or alternatively use appropriately encoded video stored on DVD, hard disk, or other storage.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to notify an observer who is wearing shutter glasses of information related to the remaining battery capacity or the like of the shutter glasses, through display of a stereoscopic image. To that end, shutter glasses (20) transmit internal information such as the remaining capacity of a battery (22) to a display apparatus (10). On the display apparatus (10) side, notification or warning of the remaining capacity is displayed on the screen by a display section (11). Of course, this notification or warning can be also presented as a time-division stereoscopic image. In such a case, the observer can check a state such as exhaustion of the battery (22) while keeping wearing the shutter glasses (20), that is, while viewing a stereoscopic image.

Abstract: Different full screen content is displayed on the same television at the same time from the perspective of the viewer by displaying as the content as two full screen sequential frames. The different full screen content may be provided as a single combined frame signal such as a side-by-side, top-bottom, or checkerboard signal which is then displayed as two sequential full screen frames. Configured glasses such as polarized or shutter are used to view the different content as full screen content where one pair of configured glasses views an initial one of the sequential frames but blocks the subsequent one and another pair of configured glasses blocks the initial one of the sequential frames and views the subsequent one. Shutter glasses have both lenses open during the initial frame and both closed during the subsequent one. For polarized glasses, the initial frame has a polarization matching both lenses of one pair of glasses while the subsequent frame has a polarization that differs from both lenses.

Abstract: A portable electronic device having automatic power supply mode switching is provided. The portable electronic device includes a micro-sensor and a control circuit. The control circuit controls operations of the electronic device, the micro-sensor senses whether the electronic device is carried or worn by a user. When the electronic device operates in a normal mode, and if the electronic device is not carried or worn for a time longer than a buffer period of a predetermined interval, the control circuit switches to a sleep mode, which results in lower power consumption.

Abstract: A video system includes a video player for playing data of contents and an eyeglass device used to view a video. The eyeglass device includes an optical filter portion for adjusting a light amount reaching eyes of a viewer, a battery used as a power supply of the eyeglass device, and a first transceiver for transmitting remaining charge information on battery charge remaining in the battery and receiving a synchronization signal for controlling the optical filter portion. The video player includes a second transceiver for receiving the remaining battery charge information and transmitting the synchronization signal, and a controller for calculating a time period represented by operational time information of the eyeglass device based on the remaining battery charge information and causing the second transceiver to transmit the synchronization signal so as to make the optical filter portion less frequently operated.

Abstract: Audio associated with three-dimensional image content is enabled to be heard by a user without interfering with other users. A device network includes a display system (master) and a wearable device (slave). The wearable device includes a glasses frame, earphones, and left and right eye shuttering lenses. The wearable device receives from the display system a frame sync signal and audio content associated with three-dimensional image content displayed by the display system as alternating left and right images. The audio content is played using the earphone. The left and right eye shuttering lens are shuttered in synchronism with the alternating left and right images according to the frame sync signal to enable a wearer of the wearable device to perceive the alternating left and right images as a three-dimensional image. Additional wearable devices may join the device network to be delivered independent audio and three-dimensional content in a similar manner.

Abstract: An image playback system displays three-dimensional (3D) content data via a pair of glasses together with a monitor to provide a multiplexing service to a user wearing different types of glasses via a single monitor. For a multiplexing service, the monitor interleaving displays frames of different content data to provide predetermined content data to the user while the glasses shelters other content data.

Abstract: A display apparatus, three-dimensional (3D) glasses, and a display system including the display apparatus and the 3D glasses are provided. The 3D glasses which interwork with an external display apparatus include: a wireless receiver which receives a sync signal and audio signals from the external display apparatus; a shutter driver which drives shutters according to the received sync signal; and an audio output part which processes and outputs the received audio signal. Thus, users can individually enjoy contents without interfering with one another by selecting and listening to audio corresponding to an image viewed through the display apparatus.

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

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image display apparatus includes a connection module, a power transmitting module, a receiving module and a display module. The connection module is configured to be electrically connected to 3D image viewing glasses. The power transmitting module is configured to transmit power to the 3D image viewing glasses via the connection module. The receiving module is configured to receive information relating to a charging amount of the 3D image viewing glasses. The display module is configured to display an image representing the charging amount of the 3D image viewing glasses based on the information relating to the charging amount.

Abstract: A method for adjusting an image quality of a 3-dimension (3D) image, a 3D display apparatus, 3D glasses, and a system for providing a 3D image are provided. Attribute information of the 3D glasses is acquired from the 3D glasses to adjust an image quality of a displayed 3D image according to the attribute information of the 3D glasses. Therefore, if a viewer views a 3D image through a glasses type 3D display apparatus, brightness of the 3D image is prevented from being darker by 3D glasses or a color hue of the 3D image is prevented from being degraded by the 3D glasses. Accordingly, the viewer views the 3D image with an optimal image quality.

Abstract: There are provided a transmitter, a display, a shutter eyeglass device, a transmission/reception system, a display system and a transmission/reception method allowed to achieve highly reliable communication between a transmission side and a reception side. The transmitter includes: a transmission section holding plural kinds of commands each represented by a plurality of bits and repeatedly transmitting a command set, the command set being configured of one or more kinds of commands which are selected from the plural kinds of commands and combined in predetermined order, in which a bit pattern representing a whole of the command set is the same as a bit pattern held in a receiver.

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 display apparatus, a method for providing a three-dimensional (3D) image and a system for providing a 3D image are disclosed. The display apparatus determines a format of an input image if a first signal is received from 3D glasses, and displays the image currently being displayed in a two-dimensional (2D) image mode in a 3D image mode according to the determined format. Accordingly, the displays apparatus determines the format of the 3D image in response to a user wearing the 3D glasses and displays the 3D image in a 3D image mode according to the determined format. Thus, the user may enjoy the 3D image more easily and conveniently.

Abstract: A video eyewear device in which parallel side-by-side video signals are driven as analog signals to the left and right displays, with timing controlled by a common sampling clock. A left display sampling clock burst occurs during an active video period and the right display burst occurs during the same portion of the active video period.

Abstract: Connections, software programming and interaction between a smart phone and a Head Mounted Display (HMD) or other video eyewear to improve user experience. The signal from an accelerometer and/or a touch screen in a smart phone is used only for certain control of an application program, such as to steer a racing car or a plane or to move a game persona character within a virtual space. The main scene for the game is displayed in the HMD and not the smart phone screen. One or more inputs from the HMD such as a head tracker or camera, are connected to the smart phone either via a wire or wirelessly such as via WiFi or Bluetooth. The head tracking and/or camera inputs are used as another input to the game, such as to pan/zoom or change the viewpoint of the user. In a still further implementation, the HMD also can have an integrated processor to make it a “smart” HMD.

Abstract: 3D television set or its external speaker box has container for a plurality of 3D spectacles. Container can locate individual 3D spectacles therein. Each of 3D spectacles has unique modulation reflector of infrared synchronizing signal. 3D television set displays 3D image on 3D program upon use of 3D spectacles detected directly by the modulation reflection or indirectly by 3D spectacles not remaining in container. 3D television set displays 2D image on 3D program if nonuse of 3D spectacles is detected directly by the no modulation reflection or indirectly by 3D spectacles remaining in container. Upon detection of nonuse, recommendation display is made to ware 3D spectacles. During 2D commercial message, synchronizing signal is halted. Recommendation to put unnecessary 3D spectacles in container is made upon end of every program, or end of 3D program followed by 2D program, or right before power off of 3D television set.

Abstract: Disclosed are a display device and a driving method of the same, the display device including: a receiver; a signal processor which processes a video signal; a display unit which displays a stereoscopic image based on the video signal; a sync signal output unit which outputs a sync signal to stereoscopic glasses so that left eye shutter and right eye shutter are opened and closed corresponding to left eye image and right eye image displayed on the display unit; a power supply; and a controller which outputs the sync signal at an initial mode, controls the sync signal output unit so that a power saving mode and a check mode are alternately repeated, and controls the power supply to stop supplying power to the sync signal output unit during the power saving mode, so the sync signal can be selectively output to stereoscopic glasses, thereby reducing power consumption.

Abstract: Disclosed are shutter glasses for viewing a stereoscopic image including: a left-eye shutter; a right-eye shutter; and a controller which generates an error signal indicating an error if at least one of a first and a second error condition exists, wherein the first error condition is internal to the shutter glasses, and the second error condition is external to the shutter glasses.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a stereoscopic image reproduction apparatus is configured to output a video signal on which signal processing corresponding to stereoscopic image display has been performed, when stereoscopic viewing glasses are being worn, and configured to perform one of outputting a video signal on which signal processing corresponding to two-dimensional image display has been performed, instead of the signal on which the signal processing corresponding to stereoscopic image display has been performed, and stopping outputting of the video signal on which the signal processing corresponding to stereoscopic image display has been performed, when stereoscopic viewing glasses are not being worn.

Abstract: A display apparatus and an image processing method thereof are disclosed. A display apparatus includes a display unit; a signal processor which classifies an image comprising a left eye image and a right image into one of a first image and a second image according to a predetermined brightness level, generates at least two sub frames including a white frame if the image is classified into a first image, generates at least two sub frames comprising a black frame if the image is classified into a second image, and outputs the generated sub frames to the display unit. A signal transmitter outputs, to external shutter glasses, a control signal corresponding to the left eye image and the right eye image.

Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus and an image display which are allowed to achieve stereoscopic image display with a more natural sense of depth are provided. The image signal processing apparatus includes: a first motion vector detection section and an information obtaining section. The first motion vector detection section detects one or more two-dimensional motion vectors as motion vectors along an X-Y plane of an image, from an image-for-left-eye and an image-for-right-eye which have a parallax therebetween. The information obtaining section obtains, based on the detected two-dimensional motion vectors, information pertaining to a Z-axis direction. The Z-axis direction is a depth direction in a stereoscopic image formed with the image-for-left-eye and the image-for-right-eye.

Abstract: A method for driving a pair of three-dimensional glasses comprising receiving 3D video output signals from a source of 3D video signals, determining a plurality of synchronization signals in response to the 3D video output signals, and outputting radio frequency signals to the pair of three-dimensional glasses in response to the plurality of synchronization signals.

Abstract: A system for providing respective video signals to at least two viewers is disclosed. The system includes a control unit; and a display connected to the control unit. The control unit is operable to control the display to alternately display an image from a first video signal and an image from a second video signal, to synchronize a first shuttered filter to the display such that the first filter is shuttered when the second video signal image is displayed, and to synchronize a second shuttered filter to the display such that the second filter is shuttered when the first video signal image is displayed. In this way only the first video signal image is provided to a first viewer using the first shuttered filter and only the second video signal image is provided to a second viewer using the second shuttered filter.

Abstract: A three dimensional video reproduction apparatus includes a video input unit operable to input a signal for displaying a 2D image or a 3D image; a separation unit operable to divide an image indicated by the signal inputted in the video input unit into two images; a difference extraction unit operable to extract a difference or correlation between the two divided images; a determination unit operable to determine whether the signal inputted in the video input unit is a signal for displaying a 3D image or a signal for displaying a 2D image, based on the output of the difference extraction unit; and a 2D/3D changeover unit operable to change over an output mode for outputting an image between a 2D mode for displaying a 2D image and a 3D mode for displaying a 3D image, based on the result of the determination by the determination unit.