Stereoscopic Cameras And/or Projectors Patents (Class 352/57)
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Patent number: 11630210Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for creating an occupancy grid map, as well as a processing apparatus. The method includes: creating a current occupancy grid map based on a location of the vehicle and a previous occupancy grid map; and determining a current probability that each grid in the current occupancy grid map belongs to each of occupancy categories based on last environment perception information received from the sensors and updating an occupancy category to which each grid in the current occupancy grid map belongs based on the current probability that the grid belongs to each of the occupancy categories, in accordance with an asynchronous updating policy.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: BEIJING TUSEN ZHITU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xuan Lin, Naiyan Wang
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Patent number: 10996552Abstract: A pseudo-volumetric display apparatus includes a first inwardly facing image display surface having a continuous geometry, with an open upper end, for presenting an interior panoramic image, and a second upwardly facing image display surface, located at a lower end of the first image display surface, for presenting a second image. The images may be generated optically or electronically. The second image is correlated and synchronized to the first image, and the first image display surface is sized and positioned to facilitate simultaneous viewing of both images from outside of the first surface via the open upper end. The same or coupled information may be simultaneously presented as a continuous Cartesian representation on the first image display surface and as a polar representation on the second image display surface, and content of one representation may be synchronized in accordance with a selected position in the other representation.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteInventors: Eric Louis Ameres, Gordon Patrick Clement
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Patent number: 10634898Abstract: The stereoscopic imaging optical system 1 includes, in order from an object side thereof to an image plane side thereof, a front group Gf including a first front group Gf1 with a center axis C1 thereof as center and a second front group Gf2 with a center axis C2 thereof arranged parallel with the center axis of the first front group as center, a front deflection group Gfd located on an image plane side of at least one of the first front group Gf1 and the second front group, and a rear group Gb that is located on the image plane side of the front group Gf and the front deflection group Gfd and has a single center axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Takayoshi Togino
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Patent number: 10471696Abstract: A mounting apparatus for a recoater rail of an additive manufacturing machine includes: a bracket including: a body having first and second ends; first and second flanges extending from the first and second ends respectively, the body and flanges cooperatively forming a C-shape; a first jack screw mounted to the first flange, the first jack screw extending parallel to the body; and a second jack screw mounted to the second flange, the second jack screw extending parallel to the body.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Stephen Michael Deak
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Patent number: 10274717Abstract: An optical system 1 includes, in order from an object side to an image plane side, a front group Gf including a first front group Gf1 arranged centering a first front central axis Cf1 and a second front group Gf2 arranged centering a second front group central axis Cf2 as a rotation symmetry axis extending parallel to the first front group central axis Cf1; and a back group Gb arranged centering a single back group central axis Cb. A central principal ray of a first light beam L1 that has passed through the first front group Gf1 and a central principal ray of a second light beam L2 that has passed through the second front group Gf2 do not cross each other from when they exit from the back group Gb to when they reach the image plane.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Takayoshi Togino
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Patent number: 10162187Abstract: This invention is directed to attenuating a beam output without changing the beam position and the beam diameter. A high-output optical attenuator includes a first reflector that totally reflects incident light and causes first reflected light serving as reflected light of the incident light to enter a second reflecting portion, a second reflector that reflects the first reflected light and causes second reflected light serving as reflected light of the first reflected light to enter a third reflecting portion, a third reflector that reflects the second reflected light and causes third reflected light serving as reflected light of the second reflected light to enter a fourth reflecting portion, and a fourth reflector that reflects the third reflected light as fourth reflected light having the same optical axis as the optical axis of the incident light. At least two of the second reflector, the third reflector, and the fourth reflector are half mirrors.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Inventors: Saneyuki Goya, Toshiya Watanabe, Minoru Danno, Yoshihito Fujita, Haruhiko Niitani
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Patent number: 10067323Abstract: EZ Hi-Def. device is comprised of 6 round bars arranged in a hexagon and a base ring. Round bar handles are located outside of base ring to make the shape of hexagon smaller or bigger, so that bars don't block the live view of the camera or don't show in a photograph. Six round bars reflect light to the camera lens to provide two critical factors to capture a high definition photograph: more image data and increased light sensitivity of the camera.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: KINGHOME ENTERPRISEInventor: Michael Pham
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Patent number: 9805924Abstract: A lamp assembly including a housing defining an internal volume and a lamp positioned in the internal volume, the lamp including a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode is both thermally and electrically coupled to the housing, and wherein the second electrode is thermally coupled to the housing by way of a thermally conductive, electrically insulative material and a heat transfer element.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Douglas R. Jungwirth, Anton M. Bouckaert, Christina Vlastelica
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Directional imaging using camera positioning in light fixtures for minimizing protective window size
Patent number: 9742970Abstract: The specification and drawings present a light fixture for an imaging camera, where a protective window size requirements for camera imaging in a wide field of view (WFOV) are minimized using directional imaging through the protective window. This can be accomplished by a camera position adjustment according to a predefined algorithm as described herein. This adjustment may be performed using a mechanical motor or manually (using corresponding screws, lever, etc.) to actuate a mechanical mechanism. For example, a four-bar linkage mechanism may be used, which may allow the camera to pivot about a virtual pivot point (or generally, a pivotal area) generated by the intersection of the camera lens bore sight axes (camera lens central axes), e.g., outside of a housing of the light fixture.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Koushik Babi Saha, Jonathan Robert Meyer, Thomas Clynne -
Patent number: 9659382Abstract: A system and method for spatiotemporal depth extraction of images with forward and backward depth prediction are provided. The system and method of the present disclosure provide for acquiring a plurality of frames, generating a first depth map of a current frame in the plurality of frames based on a depth map of a previous frame in the plurality of frames, generating a second depth map of the current frame in the plurality of frames based on a depth map of a subsequent frame in the plurality of frames, and processing the first depth map and the second depth map to produce a third depth map for the current frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2008Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: THOMSON LICENSINGInventors: Dong-Qing Zhang, Izzat Izzat, Youngshik Yoon
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Patent number: 9420257Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a controller and a display configured to display a stereoscopic image comprising a first image provided to a left eye and a second image provided to a right eye. The controller searches for a plurality of objects within the first image and the second image, wherein each of the plurality of objects is correspondingly present in both the first image and in the second image to form a stereoscopic image; calculates a separation distance for each object; changes only a position of a selected object of each of the first and second images when the calculated separation distance for the selected object is equal to or greater than a threshold value to decrease the separation distance for the selected object to less than the threshold value; and causes the display to display the changed first and second images.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Yunhwan Seol
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Patent number: 9305398Abstract: A trajectory is drawn on a digital canvas with a pointing device, wherein the trajectory comprises a plurality of spaced points, and each spaced point has a plurality of characteristics, including a geometric profile, a depth, and a color if a color trajectory or an intensity if a monochromatic trajectory. One or more of the plurality of characteristics is adjusted by manually controlling a speed of the drawing, and a faster drawing speed results in spacing between two successive points that is greater than that resulting from a slower speed. A line is generated by interpolating the space between the points. A picture is created with a number of trajectories and/or lines. A three-dimensional image may be created from the picture by creating, then integrating a set of multi-view images from the picture. The picture in progress and/or as completed may be displayed, for example, on a three-dimensional display.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONGInventor: Wai-Ming Peter Tsang
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Patent number: 9279992Abstract: An apparatus for projecting a spatial image in which the spatial image with a background is projected into a space through a projection unit is discussed. The apparatus according to an embodiment includes a receiving unit to receive a spatial image and a background image, a display unit to display the spatial image and the background image and to project light, a control unit to control the display unit to display the spatial image and the background image, and a spatial image projection unit to project the spatial image and the background image by transmitting or reflecting the light. Thus, a spatial image may be viewed from every direction, and the spatial image may be projected to different positions according to images and a background image may be displayed at the same time. In addition, a user may perform interaction such as reaching of hands into the projected image.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignees: LG ELECTRONICS INC., KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATIONInventors: Sungchul Shin, Eunsoo Kim, Seungcheol Kim, Bolam Kim
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Patent number: 9282318Abstract: An image processing device, method and computer program product cooperate to make adjustments in detection area for image adjustment processing to when displacement adjustments have been made to a first or second imaging area. A detection area setting device sets a first detection area within a first imaging area and sets a second detection area in a second imaging area after a displacement adjustment is applied to at least one of the first imaging area and the second imaging area. The first detection area is an area used in image adjustment processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hidenori Kushida
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Patent number: 9225949Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor unit for a display system adapted for generating three dimensional images by combining at least first sub-images for a first eye and second sub-images for a second eye. The sensor unit includes a detector and is adapted to individually detect irradiation properties of the radiation used for the displaying of said first sub-images and/or of the radiation used for the displaying of said second sub-images.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2008Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: BARCO, N.V.Inventor: Tom Kimpe
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Patent number: 8977037Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for creating stereoscopic images. A left-eye view image for a stereoscopic image and an imperfect right-eye view image may be received. A smooth optical flow may be generated from the received image representing the left-eye view to the imperfect image representing the right-eye view to produce a first candidate right-eye view. Objects are identified in the imperfect image, and merged into the first candidate right-eye view image to create a right-eye view image. A stereoscopic image is created from the left-eye view image and right-eye view image.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Hui Fang, Ming Yin
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Patent number: 8928673Abstract: A system includes a computer apparatus, a means for display, and a means for storage. The computer apparatus is configured to perform a method of 3D animation. The method includes setting a first inter-axial distance between logical representations of a first set of two cameras, the first inter-axial distance being configured to produce a desired 3D effect for a target audience, setting a second inter-axial distance between logical representations of a second set of two cameras, the second inter-axial distance being based on the first inter-axial distance, setting a multi-rig spacing between the first and second sets of two cameras, the multi-rig spacing begin a value determined to reduce depth distortion effects in the 3D animation, and creating a stereoscopic frame set representing the 3D animation using the logical representations of the first and second sets of two cameras.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Blue Sky Studios, Inc.Inventor: James Wilkinson
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Patent number: 8743113Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus according an embodiment includes: an elemental image display unit having a display face in which pixels having sub-pixels are arranged in a matrix form, the display face being divided into a plurality of elemental images for display; and an optical plate provided on a viewer side of the elemental image display unit, the optical plate having a plurality of lenses arranged periodically with respect to the display face to be respectively associated with the plurality of elemental images, each of the lenses controlling light rays from the pixels which display an associated elemental image. In each lens, the sub-pixels which display an elemental image associated with the lens differing in isolation degree between adjacent sub-pixels depending upon whether a location is in a central portion of the lens or in a peripheral portion of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masako Kashiwagi, Tatsuo Saishu
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Patent number: 8542267Abstract: A calibration system including a display screen having a first surface and a second surface and a projector configured to project an image onto the first surface of the display screen and the image is viewable on the second surface of said display screen, wherein the projector includes a projector coordinate system. The calibration system also includes a camera configured to capture an image of an object through the display screen, where the camera comprises a camera coordinate system, and a calibration device configured to calibrate the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Mitchell Trott, Kar-Han Tan
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Patent number: 8508583Abstract: A three-dimensional video image projecting device and projecting method uses video image projectors to project a three-dimensional video image on a cylindrical screen face which can be three-dimensionally viewed through three-dimensional glasses having a first polarizing filter and a second polarizing filter arranged thereon. A plurality of video image projectors are disposed to be opposed to respective regions of the screen face, and the video image projectors produce a continuous, three-dimensional video image in a circumferential direction, by projecting, from the video image projectors, three-dimensional video images, each of which has an angle of 30 degrees or less in a circumferential direction of the screen face, arranged along the circumferential direction of the screen face.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: PBsystems, Inc.Inventor: Kunio Goto
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Patent number: 8497858Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for processing a graphic stream. The method may include determining whether a graphic picture is reproducible as a three-dimensional (3D) image by assigning different depth values according to graphic objects or by assigning the same depth value to the graphic picture, using 3D capability information.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2011Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kil-Soo Jung, Sung-Wook Park, Dae-Jong Lee, Hye-Young Jun
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Patent number: 8427730Abstract: Disclosed are optical projection lenses for projecting three dimensional images. Exemplary lenses comprise a chassis, first and second sets of offset truncated optical elements and first and second polarizers respectively disposed in light paths of the first and second sets of optical elements. An optional hot mirror may be disposed between the polarizers and the sets of optical elements. Preferably, an aperture plate is disposed at an output end of the chassis. The aperture plate may comprise upper and lower adjustable masking strips that are adjustable up and down to allow masking of an image for a particular throw. The lenses comprise focus adjustment apparatus for adjusting the relative focus of the sets of optical elements, and convergence adjustment apparatus for adjusting the convergence of the sets of optical elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Inventor: Raymond G. Weaver
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Patent number: 8340466Abstract: The aim of the invention is the improvement of an arrangement for the imaging of surface structures of three-dimensional objects, comprising a device for the optical recording of the surface of at least a partial region of the three-dimensional object from different positions, such that the imaging of the object can be carried out with comparatively little complexity with high reproducible accuracy. According to the invention, the arrangement thus comprises a selection circuit (9), for the selection of a first image section (10) and a subsequent image module (11), in which at least one further image section (12) is digitally recorded.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2005Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Heraeus Kulzer GmbHInventors: Bernd Kordass, Christian Gärtner
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Patent number: 8339442Abstract: An image conversion apparatus includes an image signal input unit repeatedly inputting an odd-numbered frame of a first parallax, an odd-numbered frame of a second parallax, an even-numbered frame of the first parallax, and an even-numbered frame of the second parallax, in this order; a frame memory storing the first and second parallax data having been input; a memory control unit alternately reading as field data (m+1) pieces (m is an integer of one or larger than one) of identical odd-numbered frames of the first parallax and m pieces of identical odd-numbered frames of the second parallax, and subsequently alternately reading as field data m pieces of identical even-numbered frames of the first parallax and (m+1) pieces of identical even-numbered frames of the second parallax; and an image output unit outputting the field data having been read.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shingo Miyauchi, Yoshihito Ohta
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Patent number: 8326088Abstract: A method for registering and fusing time-varying image sources to provide highest possible information rendering to an operator comprising the steps of aligning a plurality of image sources by matching target image to a reference image and minimizing visual registration error in a static sense and selecting target images which are best fused with a reference image using a dynamic, time-varying optimality maximum likelihood decision theory. The maximum likelihood decision theory is modified to account for time-varying using an orthogonal projection technique charactering changing density functions.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Daniel W. Repperger, Rodney G. Roberts, Alan R. Pinkus, Robert D. Sorkin
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Patent number: 8319938Abstract: There is disclosed a stereographic camera system including a first camera and a second camera including respective first and second lenses. A zoom mechanism may synchronously set focal lengths of the first and second lenses to a selected focal length of a plurality of predetermined focal lengths.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Inventors: Vincent Pace, Patrick Campbell
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Patent number: 8284294Abstract: A compound-eye image pickup apparatus includes: a plurality of image pickup devices each including a focusing lens; a moving device configured to move the focusing lens; an automatic focusing device configured to cause the moving device to move the focusing lens within a predetermined range, to acquire focusing positions of each of the plurality of image pickup devices; and a detecting device configured to detect whether or not the focusing position can be acquired, wherein when the detecting device detects that the focusing position of at least one of the plurality of image pickup devices is acquired and the focusing position of the remaining image pickup device is not acquired, the automatic focusing device moves the focusing lens of the image pickup device for which it is detected that the focusing position thereof is not acquired, within an additional range outside of the predetermined range to acquire the focusing position thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Masaki Kohama
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Patent number: 8267520Abstract: The present invention relates generally to optical imaging and specifically to methods and systems for generating observable real images. The method consists of steps in configuring an image source and optical components, and defining the position of an observer in such a way that a binocular observation leads to a perception of a three-dimensional object being located in front of a background, and/or “hanging in mid-air” in front of an apparatus designed in accordance with the present invention. Particular embodiments of the invention may include various apparatus for implementing the method.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2006Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Avatekh, Inc.Inventor: Alexei V. Nikitin
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Publication number: 20120188513Abstract: Provided is a 3D image cinema system through which in one projection room one 3D image or 2D image is divided forward and rearward to be projected on a front screen and a rear screen which are provided in a front end and a rear end of the projection room, respectively. Further, a front direction chair and a rear direction chair having a different viewing direction are provided on a front step and a rear step between the projection room and the front and rear screens wherein the theater can be easily installed in a general building and the 3D and 2D image as 1.5-2 times wide as a prior image can be viewed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2011Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventor: Hae-Yong Choi
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Patent number: 8207961Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device for displaying a three dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image in real-time by using a 3D graphic contained within a 2D image. The stereoscopic image display device includes a controller, a 3D graphic processor, a driver, and a display unit. The controller receives 3D graphic data and a synchronization signal, and outputs a control signal and the 3D graphic data. The 3D graphic processor generates a plurality of stereoscopic matrices used to generate 3D stereoscopic image data for a plurality of viewing points according to the control signal, and transforms the 3D graphic data into 3D stereoscopic image data using the plurality of stereoscopic matrices. The driver generates a driving signal based on the image data output from the 3D graphic processor and the output control signal. The display unit displays an image corresponding to the image data according to the driving signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2006Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignees: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd., Nexuschips Co., Ltd.Inventors: Myoung-Seop Song, Jang-Doo Lee, Hyoung-Wook Jang, Hag-Keun Kim, Duck-Myung Lee, Han-Jun Choi, Hyun-Sook Kim, Woo-Jong Lee
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Patent number: 8208715Abstract: A method and system for target detecting, editing and rebuilding by 3D image is provided, which comprises an inputting and picking unit, a training and detecting unit, a displaying and editing unit and a rebuilding unit. The inputting and picking unit receives a digital image and a LiDAR data and picks up a first parameter to form a 3D image. The training and detecting unit selects a target, picks up a second parameter therefrom, calculates the second parameter to generate a threshold and detects the target areas in the 3D image according to the threshold. The displaying and editing unit sets a quick selecting tool according to the threshold and edits the detecting result. The rebuilding unit sets a buffer area surrounding the target, picks up a third parameter therefrom and calculates the original shape of the target by the Surface Fitting method according to the third parameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Chi-Chung Lau, Jin-King Liu, Kuo-Hsin Hsiao, Ta-Ko Chen, Jiann-Yeou Rau, Yi-Chen Shao, Liang-Chien Chen
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Patent number: 8142020Abstract: The invention relates to an autostereoscopic projection arrangement, comprising at least one projector (4) and at least one filter array (F1, F2), which has a multitude of filter elements arranged in columns and rows, in which arrangement bits of partial information from views of a scene or object are projected by the projector/the projectors (4) onto a projection screen (3), where these bits of partial information are rendered on image rendering elements and, having passed one or several of the filter arrays (F1, F2), are made visible to at least one observer (5), and in which, as regards the propagation direction of the bits of partial information, the image rendering elements correspond with correlated filter elements in such a way that an observer (5) will see predominantly bits of partial information from a first selection of views with one eye and predominantly bits of partial information from a second selection of views with the other eye, and thus will have a spatial impression.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Phoenix 3D, Inc.Inventors: Ingo Relke, Stephan Otte, Markus Klippstein, Thomas Bruggert, Bernd Riemann
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Patent number: 8059118Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device for displaying a three dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image in real-time by using a 3D graphic contained within a 2D image. The stereoscopic image display device includes a controller, a 3D graphic processor, a driver, and a display unit. The controller receives 3D graphic data and a synchronization signal, and outputs a control signal and the 3D graphic data. The 3D graphic processor generates a plurality of stereoscopic matrices used to generate 3D stereoscopic image data for a plurality of viewing points according to the control signal, and transforms the 3D graphic data into 3D stereoscopic image data using the plurality of stereoscopic matrices. The driver generates a driving signal based on the image data output from the 3D graphic processor and the output control signal. The display unit displays an image corresponding to the image data according to the driving signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2006Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Myoung-Seop Song, Jang-Doo Lee, Hyoung-Wook Jang, Hag-Keun Kim, Duck-Myung Lee, Han-Jun Choi, Hyun-Sook Kim, Woo-Jong Lee
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Patent number: 8004515Abstract: A system and method that produces stereoscopic images modifies a vertex shader program that was intended to produce a single monoscopic image. When executed, the modified vertex shader program generates a first image of a stereoscopic image pair based on a first viewpoint and generates a second image of the stereoscopic image pair based on a second viewpoint.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: David R. Cook, Mikhail V. Krivega
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Patent number: 7859529Abstract: A controller 103, based on the positional information of the display image, selects whether the 3-dimensional image data decoded by a decoder 102 is displayed stereoscopically (in 3-dimensional display mode) or planarly (in 2-dimensional display mode) and gives notice of the selected display mode to a display portion 104. Specifically, the input positional information=display address is monitored, and if no temporal change occurs, namely if the displayed position of the image data does not change, 3-dimensional display mode is selected as the display mode. On the other hand, if there is a temporal change, namely if the displayed position of the image data varies by scrolling, 2-dimensional display mode is selected as the display mode. Thus, an image data display apparatus which can efficiently display image data on a display when display of 3-dimensional image data is scrolled is provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2005Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuaki Tokumo, Toshio Nomura
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Patent number: 7817166Abstract: An operating system level windowing system provides for the reliable display of multiple translucent windows. Incorporating stereo object processing within the windowing system itself (rather than at the application level), permits the windowing system to ensure that stereo content is reliably displayed (e.g., via use of blue-line technology) regardless of whether a window within which stereo content is displayed is occluded or overlapped by another window.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2006Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Michael J. Paquette
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Patent number: 7652665Abstract: A method for producing a multi-viewpoint image for a three-dimensional image display, includes: providing a plurality of viewpoints to be spaced at equal intervals in direction perpendicular to a single reference projection plane including target viewpoints serving as reference are spaced at constant intervals in a first direction parallel to the reference projection plane; providing a plurality of individual target viewpoints which are respectively different from the target viewpoints serving as reference and serve as feet of a perpendicular to the plurality of viewpoints, corresponding to the respective viewpoint, on a projection plane which is a plane including the reference projection plane; making determination such that the shapes and the sizes of the individual projection planes are included in the reference projection plane in overlapping regions of the individual projection planes acquired from two viewpoints positioned at the outermost positions of the plurality of viewpoints; and clipping only regiType: GrantFiled: April 13, 2006Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Rieko Fukushima, Tatsuo Saishu, Hitoshi Kobayashi, Yuzo Hirayama
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Patent number: 7616885Abstract: The invention presents a single lens auto focus system of stereo image generation and a method thereof. The stereo three-dimensional (3D) image capturing method of a single lens auto focus camera, includes the steps of a) taking plural multi-focus images; b) estimating the plural multi-focus images to obtain a depth map and an all-in-focus image; c) mixing the depth map with plural background depth maps to obtain a mixed depth map; d) obtaining respectively a left image for left eye of user and a right image for right eye of user by means of depth image based rendering (DIBR); and e) outputting the left image and the right image, thereby displaying a stereo image onto a 3D display.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2006Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: National Taiwan UniversityInventors: Liang-Gee Chen, Wan-Yu Chen, Yu-Ling Chang
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Patent number: 7611293Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus related to a motorized platform for use in creating three dimensional images. The motorized platform includes a symmetrical steering system such that a digital camera remains focused upon a desired image target as the motorized platform is advanced. The symmetrical steering system includes a three-wheel arrangement providing a constant radius path around the image target. A pair of steerable wheels located on an inside edge of the motorized platform are operably connected with a steering linkage assembly such that the steerable wheels are angularly adjusted to define the constant radius path. A drive wheel is operably connected to a motor assembly for propelling the motorized platform along the constant radius path. A digital camera can be mounted to a tripod attached to the motorized platform and the digital camera can be operably controlled either manually or automatically as the motorized platform is advanced.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Image Ensemble, Inc.Inventors: Charles C. Lee, Bruce H. Koehler
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Patent number: 7605776Abstract: This invention provides a stereoscopic-vision image processing apparatus, a stereoscopic-vision image providing method, and an image display method that are capable of managing specification of display unit on which a stereoscopic-vision image is desired to be displayed as accessory information (assumed display information). The assumed display information includes a type and a display size of the display unit on which a stereoscopic-vision image is desired to be displayed. This allows an appropriate stereoscopic-vision image to be obtained by specifying a type or a display size of the display unit that is desired to be displayed with them being combined with the stereoscopic-vision image and scaling the stereoscopic-vision image up or down, in display of a stereoscopic image, in accordance with the type or the display size of the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2004Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Satoh, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Toshio Nomura, Masahiro Shioi, Goro Hamagishi, Ken Mashitani
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Patent number: 7573475Abstract: A method of creating a complementary stereoscopic image pair is described. The method includes receiving a first 2D image comprising image data, where the first 2D image is captured from a first camera location. The method also includes projecting at least a portion of the first 2D image onto computer-generated geometry. The image data has depth values associated with the computer-generated geometry. The system includes rendering, using the computer-generated geometry and a second camera location that differs from the first camera location, a second 2-D image that is stereoscopically complementary to the first 2-D image, and infilling image data that is absent from the second 2-D image.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2006Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Industrial Light & MagicInventors: Steve Sullivan, Alan D. Trombla, Francesco G. Callari
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Patent number: 7538768Abstract: An image display device capable of displaying an images on right and left image display elements (26I, and 26R) by receiving right and left image signals for displaying three-dimensional images which are fed alternately in a field sequence manner. The degree of influence on the viewer is operated by measuring the parallax value of the right and left image signals fed to the right and left image display elements (26L, and 26R) by a 3D protecting means (14), and it is judged whether or not the operated degree of influence reaches a reference value. If the operated degree of influence reaches the reference value, the degree of influence of the 3D image on the viewer is reduced by selectively displaying the result of the judgment on the right and left image display elements (26L, and 26R), so that the image can be viewed in a consistently suitable manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2002Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Izuru Kiyokawa, Naoya Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20090115783Abstract: A 3D viewing system captures offset images from off-axis camera perspectives inclined to a normal of base plane of a scene that includes one or more objects projecting from the base plane. The offset images, which take a planar form, are displayed from a display surface at an off-axis viewing perspective that is inclined to a normal of the display surface similar to the inclination of the off-axis camera perspective to the normal of the base plane. The offset images undergo a distortion to counteract a keystone distortion associated with the off-axis viewing perspective. The base plane of the scene is oriented parallel to the display surface, and the objects projecting from the base plane appear to project from the display surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2007Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: DIMENSION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Jesse B. Eichenlaub
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Publication number: 20080278807Abstract: Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses and spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved surface lenses configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. The spectrally complementary filters include guard bands to prevent crosstalk between spectrally complementary portions of a 3D image viewed through the shaped glasses. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters are disposed on the curved lenses with increasing layer thickness towards edges of the lenses. The projected complementary images may also be pre-shifted to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts occurring while viewing the images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2007Publication date: November 13, 2008Inventors: Martin John Richards, Wilson Heaton Allen
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Patent number: 7446766Abstract: A method of generating an evidence grid representing an environment comprises the steps of collecting a set of stereo images at multiple locations within the environment using stereo sensors, and processing the set of stereo images to determine occupancy and distance data associated with each point in space represented in the set of stereo images; applying a sensor model to each point in space to determine a probability of occupancy of each voxel representing each point in space; and generating an evidence grid of the environment by combining the probabilities for each voxel.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2006Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Seegrid CorporationInventor: Hans Moravec
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Patent number: 7425953Abstract: A method of assembling a composite image comprising generating three-dimensional data defining a non-stereo image, assigning a first screen portion to a first rendering node, assigning a second screen portion to a second rendering node, rendering, by the first rendering node, a left image portion from the three-dimensional data, rendering, by the second rendering node, a right image portion from the three-dimensional data, and sequentially assembling the left image portion and the right image portion into the composite image is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2005Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Kevin T. Lefebvre, Howard D. Stroyan, Samuel C. Sands
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Patent number: 7419265Abstract: An autostereoscopic projection arrangement, comprising at least one projector and at least one filter array which has a multitude of filter elements arranged in columns and rows, in which arrangement bits of partial information from views of a scene or object are projected by the projector(s) onto a projection screen, where there bits of partial information are rendered on image rendering elements and, having passed one or several of the filter arrays, are made visible to at least one observer, and in which, as regards to propagation direction of the bits of partial information, the image rendering elements correspond with correlated filter elements in such a way that an observer will see predominantly bits of partial information from a first selection of views with one eye and predominantly bits of partial information from a second selection of views with the other eye, and thus will have a spatial impression.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2003Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: X3D Technologies GmbhInventors: Ingo Relke, Stephan Otte, Markus Klippstein, Thomas Bruggert, Bernd Riemann
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Patent number: 7409152Abstract: The present invention provides a technique for enabling even a person having no expert knowledge to adjust the direction of an optical axis easily with high precision. In a three-dimensional image processing apparatus having plural image capturing apparatuses, optical center of an image from an image capturing apparatus is stored for each of the image capturing apparatuses. A mark indicative of the optical center is superimposed on an image obtained from the image capturing apparatus. By referring to the mark for each of the image capturing apparatuses, the orientation of each of the image capturing apparatuses is adjusted so that all of the marks overlay on the same point on an object.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2005Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: Omron CorporationInventor: Masaki Suwa
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Patent number: 7388598Abstract: A 3D camera system and method for generating a 3D picture from real 3D input pictures. The system includes one or more cameras, a robotic or manually driven moving platform on which the camera or cameras are adjustably mounted. The system is moved on a fan-shaped grating sheet in a format, such as curved or linear format, to produce accurate trigger signals for camera exposure at precise intervals, i.e. pictures of an object are taken at predetermined locations at precise intervals. Alternatively, an optical encoder and programmable divider can be used to trigger the cameras at programmable precise intervals. Also, a stepper or servo motor that moves the camera platform can be used to move the cameras to precise locations.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2004Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: Image Ensemble, Inc.Inventors: Charles C. Lee, Bruce H. Koehler
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Publication number: 20080018859Abstract: These lenses or glasses made with these lenses will allow people to watch any movie in 3-D without the need for special filming, additional electronics, conversion programs, or software. Normal 2-D movies may be viewed in 3-D with these glasses. And it will work with virtually any type of video presentation, as well as print media and art. As an added benefit, the lenses also improve overall image quality by filtering out interference patterns, without the need for electronic editing. This is especially useful for viewing old videos or low grade images. These glasses make it easy, convenient, and comfortable to view any movie in 3-D, even if the movie was not specifically created for 3-D viewing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2007Publication date: January 24, 2008Inventor: Becky Lynn Gauger