Patents Assigned to Unique Instruments Co. Ltd
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Publication number: 20140098418Abstract: The present invention relates to a dual-directional 3D image displaying method, being used in a case when a flat-panel display screen and a view separation device are used for dual-directional 3D image displaying, which comprises the steps of: using a display screen having a sub-pixel arrangement of 45-degree slant angle to display a multi-view 3D combined image; and using a view separation device featured by a 45-degree slant angle to perform a view separation operation upon the multi-view 3D combined image. Thereby, an object of dual-directional displaying of 3D images can be achieved using only one view separation device, without being bothered by conventional problems, such as cross-talk and color distortion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO. LTD.Inventor: MING-YEN LIN
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Publication number: 20140092223Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image, which is further composed of a multi-view 3D image combination method and a parallax barrier structure design, and is being used in a case when a common flat-panel display screen and a view separation device are used to display a 3D image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO.LTDInventor: MING-YEN LIN
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Patent number: 8686994Abstract: A full-screen 3D image display device provides a dynamic liquid crystal parallax barrier device for solving a 3D image resolution deterioration problem caused by view separation of a multi-view 3D image displayed by a conventional parallax barrier, and achieves the purpose of displaying a multi-view 3D image with a full-screen image resolution through a multi-view image dynamic combination and display procedure and a barrier electrode dynamic driving procedure.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Unique Instruments Co., LtdInventor: Ming-Yen Lin
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Patent number: 8614772Abstract: A multi-functional liquid crystal parallax barrier device is a liquid crystal device mainly formed by two parallax barrier structures, namely, a double-view vertical strip parallax barrier and a multi-view slant-and-step parallax barrier, in which the two parallax barriers are respectively disposed corresponding to different screen display directions, so as to display a double-view 3D image and a multi-view 3D image in different display directions, in addition to displaying a 2D image, through the control of an appropriate driving voltage and the use of a flat panel display screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Unique Instruments Co. LtdInventor: Ming-Yen Lin
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Patent number: 8537292Abstract: A multi-functional liquid crystal parallax barrier device is a liquid crystal device mainly formed by two parallax barrier structures, namely, a double-view vertical strip parallax barrier and a multi-view slant-and-step parallax barrier, in which the two parallax barriers are disposed in the same horizontal display direction, so as to display a double-view 3D image and a multi-view 3D image, in addition to displaying a 2D image, through the control of an appropriate driving voltage and the use of a flat panel display screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Unique Instruments Co. LtdInventor: Ming-Yen Lin
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Patent number: 8531666Abstract: A method for positioning a viewing center of a parallax barrier mainly includes: disposing multiple alignment markers respectively at appropriate places of the parallax barrier and a flat panel display, and performing position measurement and alignment of the multiple alignment markers, so as to achieve a purpose of setting a viewing center at a specific and appropriate position.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Unique Instruments Co. LtdInventor: Ming-Yen Lin
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Patent number: 8503079Abstract: A parallax barrier 3D image display method is provided. Particularly, a vertical strip parallax barrier design method is provided to avoid transverse ghost images generated by a conventional parallax barrier and directed to arrangement of sub-pixels on a screen of a flat panel display, which displays multi-view 3D images with minimal ghost images, thereby achieving the purpose of optimum 3D image display.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Unique Instruments Co.LtdInventor: Ming-Yen Lin
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Patent number: 8497061Abstract: A method for replicating production of a 3D parallax barrier is capable of transfer-printing a 3D parallax barrier pattern on a planar transparent substrate mainly with a glass photo mask having the 3D parallax barrier pattern through processes of photo resistor coating, exposure, and development by using a photolithography technology, thereby achieving the purpose of replicating production.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Unique Instruments Co. LtdInventor: Ming-Yen Lin
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Patent number: 8493385Abstract: A 3D image display device mainly includes a multi-view image, a view memory, a memory image configuration, combination, and conversion procedure, a display memory, a conversion display controller, a display screen having sub-pixels in Delta configuration, and a view separation device. The memory image configuration, combination, and conversion procedure mainly performs processes of sub-pixel image configuration sequence conversion and multi-view image combination on the multi-view image, and outputs a recovered multi-view combined image. The conversion display controller mainly performs sub-pixel image data configuration sequence conversion on image data on even-numbered or odd-numbered horizontal scan lines of the recovered multi-view combined image, and then outputs the horizontal scan image data. The display screen having sub-pixels in Delta configuration receives the horizontal scan image data and displays the recovered multi-view combined image.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Unique Instruments Co. LtdInventors: Ming-Yen Lin, Kan-Ju Lee, Shou-Lun Chin
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Publication number: 20130114135Abstract: A method of displaying a 3D image is provided, which mainly proposes a real-time detection method of a viewing position, an optimum alignment method of a viewing position and a view, a dynamic multi-view 3D image combination method, and a design method of a static parallax barrier device, to eliminate defects of auto-stereoscopic display especially in the case that a common flat-panel display screen and a static parallax barrier device are used to display a 3D image, so as to effectively solve problems of a ghost image, a pseudo stereoscopic image, and insufficient viewing freedom in horizontal and vertical directions on an optimum viewable plane, thereby achieving the objectives of greatly improving the 3D image quality and the convenience of use.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO. LTDInventor: MING-YEN LIN
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Publication number: 20120274630Abstract: A multi-view 3D image display method is provided, which is mainly to propose a multi-view 3D image combination method and slantwise strip parallax barrier structure design and optimization methods without reducing a sub-pixel aperture ratio during display of a multi-view 3D image by using a planar display screen having sub-pixels in strip configuration and a slantwise strip parallax barrier, so as to achieve objectives of solving a direct cross-talk phenomenon and balancing a phenomenon of asymmetrical left and right viewing freedom at the same time. In addition, for display of a multi-view 3D image having a total view number greater than two, a multiple multi-view 3D image combination and display method is proposed, so as to achieve an objective of alleviating a defect of discontinuous parallax jump.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO. LTDInventor: MING-YEN LIN
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Publication number: 20120274880Abstract: A method for reducing screen bending is mainly applied for a conventional large-size goggle free 3D image display device, in which an improved method of laminated fixation is proposed for a screen bending defect that occurs as the screen size increases, so as to reduce cross-talk caused by screen bending, thereby achieving an objective of displaying optimum 3D images.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO.LTDInventor: MING-YEN LIN
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Patent number: 8229510Abstract: A device having 2D and 3D image display functions for a mobile phone is provided. A plurality of image pickup elements, a 2D and 3D touch screen, and a 2D and 3D function key are installed on the mobile phone, so as to achieve the function of 3D image capture and viewing as well as 3D interface operations.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Unique Instruments Co. LtdInventors: Ming-Yen Lin, Kan-Ju Lee
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Publication number: 20120086708Abstract: A 3D image display device mainly includes a multi-view image, a view memory, a memory image configuration, combination, and conversion procedure, a display memory, a conversion display controller, a display screen having sub-pixels in Delta configuration, and a view separation device. The memory image configuration, combination, and conversion procedure mainly performs processes of sub-pixel image configuration sequence conversion and multi-view image combination on the multi-view image, and outputs a recovered multi-view combined image. The conversion display controller mainly performs sub-pixel image data configuration sequence conversion on image data on even-numbered or odd-numbered horizontal scan lines of the recovered multi-view combined image, and then outputs the horizontal scan image data. The display screen having sub-pixels in Delta configuration receives the horizontal scan image data and displays the recovered multi-view combined image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO.LTDInventors: MING-YEN LIN, Kan-Ju Lee, Shou-Lun Chin
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Publication number: 20110234929Abstract: A multi-functional liquid crystal parallax barrier device is a liquid crystal device mainly formed by two parallax barrier structures, namely, a double-view vertical strip parallax barrier and a multi-view slant-and-step parallax barrier, in which the two parallax barriers are respectively disposed corresponding to different screen display directions, so as to display a double-view 3D image and a multi-view 3D image in different display directions, in addition to displaying a 2D image, through the control of an appropriate driving voltage and the use of a flat panel display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO.LTDInventor: MING-YEN LIN
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Publication number: 20110222017Abstract: A multi-functional liquid crystal parallax barrier device is a liquid crystal device mainly formed by two parallax barrier structures, namely, a double-view vertical strip parallax barrier and a multi-view slant-and-step parallax barrier, in which the two parallax barriers are disposed in the same horizontal display direction, so as to display a double-view 3D image and a multi-view 3D image, in addition to displaying a 2D image, through the control of an appropriate driving voltage and the use of a flat panel display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO.LTDInventor: MING-YEN LIN
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Publication number: 20110170026Abstract: A multi-functional liquid crystal parallax barrier device is a liquid crystal parallax barrier device mainly formed by two independent barrier electrodes, which are individually driven to achieve the purpose of displaying 3D images bi-directionally with different barrier structures and different numbers of views.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO.LTDInventor: MING-YEN LIN
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Publication number: 20110157171Abstract: A full-screen 3D image display device provides a dynamic liquid crystal parallax barrier device for solving a 3D image resolution deterioration problem caused by view separation of a multi-view 3D image displayed by a conventional parallax barrier, and achieves the purpose of displaying a multi-view 3D image with a full-screen image resolution through a multi-view image dynamic combination and display procedure and a barrier electrode dynamic driving procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO., LTDInventor: MING-YEN LIN
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Publication number: 20110109916Abstract: A method for positioning a viewing center of a parallax barrier mainly includes: disposing multiple alignment markers respectively at appropriate places of the parallax barrier and a flat panel display, and performing position measurement and alignment of the multiple alignment markers, so as to achieve a purpose of setting a viewing center at a specific and appropriate position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO.LTDInventor: MING-YEN LIN
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Publication number: 20110080566Abstract: A method for replicating production of a 3D parallax barrier is capable of transfer-printing a 3D parallax barrier pattern on a planar transparent substrate mainly with a glass photo mask having the 3D parallax barrier pattern through processes of photo resistor coating, exposure, and development by using a photolithography technology, thereby achieving the purpose of replicating production.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2010Publication date: April 7, 2011Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO.LTDInventor: MING-YEN LIN