Abstract: A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library.

Abstract: A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library.

Abstract: A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library.

Abstract: An image input system includes: a display device that displays a three-dimensional image; a plurality of cameras; a controller that controls the display device and the plurality of cameras, wherein the controller causes the display device to display the three-dimensional image that includes a plurality of icons, the controller performs analysis processing on the plurality of images picked up by the plurality of cameras to obtain and output analysis information that contains three-dimensional position information regarding a most protruding part at a side of the user, the plurality of icons includes icons of which positions in a depth direction in the three-dimensional image are not the same, and each icon can be identified from the other icons or can be selected out of the icons of which the positions in the depth direction are not the same.

Abstract: The electro-optic device of the present invention includes an arrangement of an electro-optic panel and a lenticular lens sheet on one side of the electro-optic panel, wherein the lenticular lens sheet includes multiple cylindrical lenses arrayed parallel to one another and an alignment line extending in such a direction as to intersect with the cylindrical lenses at a predetermined angle. The lenticular lens sheet has cylindrical lenses arrayed so that the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical lenses intersects with the pixel array direction of the electro-optic panel at a predetermined angle, and has an alignment line formed in the lenticular lens sheet that is in alignment with the positioning reference portions of the electro-optic panel.

Abstract: Provided is an image display device including: an image forming layer for forming a plurality of images; and a lens layer which is integrally provided with the image forming layer and includes a plurality of lenses for guiding the plurality of images formed in the image forming layer in a plurality of corresponding directions.

Abstract: When “0” indicating that intensity of a stereoscopic effect is the lowest is applied as a stereoscopic effect tag, a stereoscopic image is allowed to be displayed as it is. On the other hand, when “1, 2, and 3” are applied as the stereoscopic effect tag, a reduction ratio is determined depending on a value of the stereoscopic effect tag (one-half, one-third, etc.). On the basis of this reduction ratio, the stereoscopic image is displayed and letters of “warning” are displayed. A user selects whether to display the stereoscopic image according to a producer's intention or to maintain the size-reduced stereoscopic image. If an operation requiring for a display of the stereoscopic image as it is intended by the producer is performed, an original stereoscopic image is displayed.

Abstract: A display device provides first and second images. The display device includes a display panel having electro-optical elements, including a first element group with first-image display elements displaying the first image and a second element group with second-image display elements displaying the second image. A light advance control unit controls light emitted from the first element group to advance to a first area displaying the first image and controls light emitted from the second element group to advance to a different, second area displaying the second image. The first and second element groups are controlled such that a first period in which the first-image display elements are driven and at least a part of the second-image display elements is not driven and a second period in which the second-image display elements are driven and at least a part of the first-image display elements is not driven are repeated.

Abstract: A directional display device configured to display a plurality of directional images simultaneously is provided. The directional display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a liquid crystal layer and a light reflecting membrane arranged behind the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal panel is configured to form the plurality of images by using a plurality of pixel dots. The directional display device includes a barrier portion arranged in front of the liquid crystal panel. The barrier portion has a plurality of light shields and a plurality of apertures. Each of the apertures is arranged in such a way that one of the apertures is associated with n (an integer being no less than two) pixel dots if n images are displayed. Each of the light shields has behind thereof a luminescent layer for illuminating the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: An image display apparatus capable of switching a display mode between a directional display mode where a first image is displayed in a first viewing direction and a second image is displayed in a second viewing direction and a non-directional display mode where the same image is displayed in both the first and second viewing directions. The apparatus includes an image forming unit and an optical member. The optical member is disposed adjacent to an emitting side of the image forming unit and is used for switching the display mode. The optical member includes two light-transmitting plate members, a lens member disposed between the two plate members, a refractive-index variable medium sealed in a gap between the lens member and the two plate members, and a refractive-index adjusting unit that adjusts a refractive index of the refractive-index variable medium. in order to switch between the directional and non-directional display mode.

Abstract: A directional display device that separates and displays images on an image display surface of a display panel in different viewing directions. The directional display device includes a polarization control unit which is arranged in front of the display panel. A liquid crystal lens is arranged in front of the polarization control unit. A polarization plate is arranged in front of the liquid crystal lens. The polarization control unit has first and second polarization areas which change incident light rays to light rays having different polarization axes. The liquid crystal lens includes a lens layer including having lenses with a predetermined refractive index and a liquid crystal layer. An alignment state of the liquid crystal layer is changed so as to change the refractive index of the liquid crystal layer and change the refractive power of the liquid crystal lens.

Abstract: An image display including light emission controller provided with a transmissive portion and a shielding portion extending in a second direction intersecting with a first direction connecting the left and right eyes of an observer with each other for transmitting and blocking light irradiated from a light source respectively and capable of changing the length of the transmissive portion and the shielding portion in the first direction and a lens including at least one lens portion formed to advance the light received from the light source through the transmissive portion of the light emission controller in a prescribed direction and to extend in the second direction.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An image display includes polarization axis control means for separating light irradiated from a light source into light having a first polarization axis and another light having a second polarization axis different from the first polarization axis and a lens advancing the light having the first polarization axis and the light having the second polarization axis separated by the polarization axis control portion to have different polarization axes in prescribed directions respectively and including at least one lens portion formed to extend in a first direction intersecting with a line segment connecting the left and right eyes of an observer with each other.

Abstract: A display unit has subpixels arranged in a row direction and an intersecting column direction. A light-shielding member is arranged to overlap every other boundary of the subpixels arranged in the row direction in front view. An image data synthesis circuit generates image data of a composite image to be displayed on a part of the display unit based on first and second images. Each of the subpixels forms either a first or second subpixel alternately arranged in the row direction. The first subpixel and the second subpixel are arranged at adjacent positions on opposite sides of the light-shielding member in front view. In the part of the display unit, the first and second subpixels display, respectively, the first and second images on the basis of image data of the composite image. In another part of the display unit, the first and second subpixels display a third image.

Abstract: By rotating a second camera (4) by a hinge (5) by 180 degrees so as to obtain an opening state, the second camera 4 faces a surface side. As a result, a first camera (3) and the second camera (4) are aligned horizontally, and use the same direction as a photographing range. When the second camera (4) is rotated, a system controller determines that a state is in a stereoscopic vision photographing mode. When a camera shutter is operated by a user, both the first camera (3) and the second camera (4) are allowed to perform a photographing process, and obtained two image data are stored in a memory after being attached to information indicating that the image is for the right eye and the image is for the left eye, and etc. Then, the two image data are transmitted by an e-mail function to a terminal of a communicating partner.

Abstract: The present invention enables liquid crystal display devices, note-book personal computers, or the like to display stereoscopic images by installing an image splitting means and comprises a display panel displaying images taken from a plurality of viewpoints, image splitting means installed to the display panel removably and including an image splitting panel which splits image light from the display panel into stereo pairs of images. The image splitting means comprises an installing means for installing the image splitting means to the display panel removably and an adjusting means for positioning spatially the image splitting means and the display panel.

Abstract: An image display provides a stereoscopic image to an observer by advancing either light having a first polarization axis or light having a second polarization axis toward the eyes of the observer while arranging a prescribed reference side of a display panel in a first direction, and provides another stereoscopic image to the observer by advancing either light having a third polarization axis or light having a fourth polarization axis toward the eyes of the observer while arranging the prescribed reference side of the display panel in a second direction intersecting with the first direction.

Abstract: An image display capable of providing stereoscopic images to an observer in both of a vertically arranged state and a horizontally arranged state is obtained. This image display comprises display portion for displaying an image, a light source for applying light to the display portion, first polarization axis control part or portion for separating the light emitted from the light source into light having a first polarization axis and light having a second polarization axis in a state where at least a prescribed reference side of the display portion is arranged in a first direction and second polarization axis control portion for separating the light emitted from the light source to light having at least two different polarization axes in a state where the prescribed reference side of the display portion is arranged in a second direction intersecting with the first direction.

Abstract: An image displaying device displays a first image in a first direction and a second image in a second direction. The image displaying device includes a display panel having first display cells that display the first image and second display cells that display the second image. An optical unit has a first opening portion that causes light to be emitted from the first display cells in the first direction and from the second display cells in the second direction through the first opening portion. A light-shielding region defines a second opening portion and limits an opening-width along the predetermined direction of the second opening portion to be smaller than the cell intervals. An opening-width in the predetermined direction of the second opening portion of the first cell is different from an opening-width in the predetermined direction of the second opening portion of the second display cell.