Abstract: The present invention relates to display systems that use materials made from various arrangements of lenses and other optical materials. Careful design and use of these materials can be used to achieve display systems with many desirable visual effects having applicability in image and video displays, virtual reality, immersive environments, as well as in architecture, art, entertainment, and interactive systems.

Abstract: A light modulating device for a display apparatus includes a light source, and a light modulator including a point illumination source part and a light transmitting part. The point illumination source part is substantially surrounded by the light transmitting part. The point illumination source part is configured to receive polarized light from the light source to form a point illumination source. The point illumination source transmits the polarized light from the light source to a reflective display panel. The light transmitting part is configured to receive light reflected by the reflective display panel and configured to transmit light reflected by the reflective display panel to a light beam collector.

Abstract: An image display device according to the present disclosure includes a first self-light-emitting display element that emits light for an image of red light, a second self-light-emitting display element that emits light for an image of blue light, a third self-light-emitting display element that emits light for an image of green light, and a prism having a dichroic mirror that synthesizes images of three colors, in which the first self-light-emitting display element, the second self-light-emitting display element, and the third self-light-emitting display element have a first cathode, a second cathode, and a third cathode, respectively, and when a film thickness of the first cathode is referred to as TR, a film thickness of the second cathode is referred to as TB, and a film thickness of the third cathode is referred to as TG, a relationship TR<TG is satisfied.

Abstract: A method of controlling an image projection system that includes a plurality of projectors including a first projector and a second projector having a lens shift function, and that includes an imaging device, includes: projecting, by the first projector, a first pattern having a first color tone; projecting, by the second projector, a second pattern having a second color tone; generating, by the imaging device, a captured image obtained by capturing a composite image including the first and second pattern; determining, by the first projector, whether an area of an overlapping portion of the second pattern in the captured image is equal to or larger than a predetermined ratio; and causing, by the first projector, the second projector to perform lens shift by the lens shift function of the second projector such that the second pattern overlaps the first pattern, when the area is less than the predetermined ratio.

Abstract: The invention relates to a head-up display device for representing information in a field of view of an observer. The head-up display device comprises at least one projection device, a deflection device which comprises at least one deflection element at which incident light beams are deflected, a sensor device, and a control device. The sensor device is used for detecting data of at least one test beam which is incident on the deflection device. The control device is used for determining at least one aberration caused by the deflection device and for determining at least one correction signal in real time.

Abstract: A viewing devices includes an optical assembly comprising a display, an optical system forming of this display an image at infinity and a light guide for expanding a pupil in two spatial directions. The guide comprises three planar mirrors and two semi-reflective plates, the optical axis of the optical assembly being inclined with respect to the surface of the first planar mirror by an angle different from zero and strictly smaller than 90 degrees, the light beams output from the optical assembly propagating inside the light guide via successive reflections from the planar mirrors and the semi-reflective plates, the transmission of the light beams output from the optical assembly to outside of the light guide occurring via successive transmissions by the second semi-reflective plate.

Abstract: The present invention describes an image display apparatus for directing an image towards an observer. The apparatus comprises a source of image point rays; a collimating device configured to collimate image point rays to produce collimated image rays; and, a prism sheet configured to receive the collimated image rays. The prism sheet comprises an array of micro-prisms, each micro-prism having two reflective facets arranged such that each collimated image ray is reflected off one facet and then an adjacent facet. Reflection from the second facet reorients the collimated image rays towards an image observation zone. The collimated image rays from an upper portion of the prism sheet converge with collimated image rays from a lower portion of the prism sheet within the image observation zone. The present invention also describes a method for directing an image towards an observer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to augmented reality glasses, including: a transparent display device for displaying an image; a polarizing element configured to convert external light incident to the transparent display device into polarized light in the first direction of the external light, which polarized light transmits through the transparent display device; a light-splitting element configured to transmit polarized light in the first direction of light for displaying the image and polarized light in the first direction of the external light, and reflect polarized light in the second direction of the light for displaying the image; and a light-reflecting structure configured to receive the polarized light in the second direction reflected by the light-splitting element and totally reflect it into a viewing angle range of eyes of a user wearing the augmented reality glasses. The glasses will not block the line of sight on the side of the user.

Abstract: A cinema projection method and system are provided, to perform GDR transformation on an original DCP while keeping a luminance component value of pure black unchanged. A transformed DCP has a brighter display luminance than the original DCP, and a display luminance of pure black remains unchanged. By adjusting the PWM, the brightness of a screen display is reduced. To ensure that the transformed DCP has a consistent display luminance with the original DCP, a luminance adjustment consistency mapping model of a local cinema is used to transform a standard PWM level of each frame of the original DCP, to obtain a local PWM level of each frame of the local cinema.

Abstract: A special effects system for creating a unique walking character effect or illusion. The character appears to the observer to be a physical character or to have dimensionality rather than being two dimensional. The illusion or effect is achieved by mounting a projector and a thin, vertical, flat screen onto an automated cart or sled. The cart is adapted to roll on a track positioned to run from a backdrop or backwall toward a viewing space in which one or more observers or viewers may be located during system operations. The media (or video file) of the character walking is projected on the projection surface of the screen element with the projector. The sled or cart is triggered to roll forward toward the viewing space as the media is playing so that the projected image appears to be moving and getting closer to the viewer.

Abstract: An image display device according to the present disclosure includes a first self-luminous display element that self-emits an image of first color light, a second self-luminous display element that self-emits an image of second color light, a third self-luminous display element that self-emits an image of third color light, and a prism including a dichroic mirror that synthesizes images of three colors, the first, the second, and the third self-luminous display element are each configured to extract light from a side of a semireflective semitransmissive electrode included in the first, the second, and the third self-luminous display element, and at least one of sums of a thickness of a transparent electrode and a thickness of an optical adjustment layer differs from other in the first, the second, and the third self-luminous display element.

Abstract: Optical scanning apparatus includes an emitter array, including a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of optical emitters, which are configured to emit respective beams of optical radiation and which are arranged on the semiconductor substrate in an array of rows and columns, the columns having mutually-parallel column axes. A scanner is configured to intercept and deflect the emitted beams at respective angles that vary about a scan axis that is parallel to the column axes. Control circuitry is configured to select the optical emitters that are to be actuated to emit the respective beams in each of a succession of time slots and to drive the scanner in synchronization with the time slots to deflect the emitted beams at an angular scan rate selected so as to cause the beams emitted from successive columns of the array to impinge on an image plane in succession along a common line.

Abstract: An image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an emitter, an irradiation target object, an optical unit, and a polarization control unit. The emitter emits image light along a predetermined axis. The irradiation target object is disposed in at least a part of an area around the predetermined axis. The optical unit is disposed to be opposite to the emitter by using the predetermined axis as a reference and causes the emitted image light to enter the irradiation target object. The polarization control unit controls a polarization state of the image light that enters the irradiation target object in accordance with a shape of the irradiation target object.

Abstract: A projection device includes a first light-emitting component, a second light-emitting component and a housing. The first light-emitting component and the second light-emitting component are fixed to the housing. A first outer surface of the housing is provided with a first light outlet and a second light outlet; the first light-emitting component is arranged corresponding to the first light outlet; the second light-emitting component is arranged corresponding to the second light outlet; and the first light outlet has a larger area than the second light outlet, such that a projection range of the second light-emitting component is within that of the first light-emitting component. The disclosure can avoid the defect of a single effect of a lamp cap of a projection lamp in the scope of the prior art.

Abstract: A light source unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a light source section and a light-emitting device (1) that is excited by light derived from the light source unit and outputs fluorescence. The light-emitting device (1) includes a first base (11), a phosphor layer (12) provided on one face of the first base (11), and a first heat dissipation member (14) provided at the first base (11). The first heat dissipation member (14) includes a plurality of fins (14a and 14b) disposed to be spaced apart along a periphery.

Abstract: Provided is a display that includes a liquid-crystal panel, a heat-transfer member, and a light-diffusion member between the liquid-crystal panel and the heat-transfer member. The display includes a liquid-crystal panel, a heat-transfer member, and a light-diffusion structure. The liquid-crystal panel includes a display screen. The heat-transfer member is light-transmissive. The heat-transfer member is on an opposite side of the liquid-crystal panel from the display screen.

Abstract: An image including an input field for a password is projected onto a screen by a projection device including an optical system for adjusting a focal length and projection range. A control signal transmitted from a remote controller is received by at least one of a first receiving device and a second receiving device. A character of the password input to the input field is determined from the control signal by a control circuit. The projection device is controlled to project, according to a combination a size a projection surface in the screen calculated from the focal length and the projection range and a position of the remote controller determined from the control signal, a reduced character obtained by reducing a size of the character to a size smaller than a reference size in the input field.

Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes a reflective image display element having an image display surface including micromirrors, a prism unit bending an optical path of illumination light and transmitting image light, and a projection optical system. The prism unit has an air gap tilted with respect to a principal ray of the image light emitted from the center of the image display surface, and the image light passes through the air gap. The projection optical system includes an aperture stop with a noncircular aperture so shaped that part of a circular aperture in a peripheral portion thereof is cut off in a shape of a segment to serve as a shade portion, and image light corresponding to an end portion at a side where an incidence angle with respect to the air gap is large in an F-number beam is blocked by the shade portion satisfying predetermined conditions.

Abstract: An optical imaging system including refractive optics and a blocking component. The refractive optical having an entrance aperture and configured to receive optical radiation via an operational aperture, to focus the optical radiation onto a focal plane to form a telecentric image plane co-located with the focal plane, the operational aperture being co-located with the entrance aperture, having a diameter less than half a diameter of the entrance aperture, and being offset from a primary optical axis that bisects the entrance aperture by at least a radius of the entrance aperture, and a blocking component located at the entrance aperture on an opposite side of the primary optical axis from the operational aperture. The blocking component being configured to block the optical radiation from exiting the refractive optics via a region of the entrance aperture where the blocking component is located.

Abstract: A system is provided. The system includes a translucent display positioned such that a first face is a display face and that a second face is a projection face and at least one projector configured to project an image on the second face of the translucent display. The image is displayed on the first face. The system also includes at least one sensor configured to transmit a signal when triggered and a projector controller in communication with the at least one projector and the at least one sensor. The projector controller is programmed to receive a signal from the at least one sensor and instruct the at least one projector to project at least one image on the translucent display in response to the signal from the at least one sensor.