Abstract: A marker for lens is provided as aligning unit in a lenticular lens that is of optical unit, and a marker for display panel is provided as aligning unit in a transmissive liquid crystal display panel that is of the display panel. Fixing unit is provided in at least a part of an area that encloses an image display area of the lenticular lens. An image display device is formed in such a manner that alignment between the lenticular lens and the liquid crystal display panel is performed by the marker for lens and the marker for display panel and the lenticular lens is fixed to a surface of the liquid crystal display panel on the side of a viewer.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image/two-dimensional image display device includes a plurality of display pixels, and a lenticular lens for three-dimensional display. Each display pixel is consisted of M×N number of sub-pixels to be viewed from N view points. A pitch a of sub-pixels arranged in the longitudinal direction of ridge projection of the lenticular lens and a pitch b of the sub-pixels arranged in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the lenticular lens satisfy the following expression. The M×N number of sub-pixels included in each of said display pixels are formed within a square area.

Abstract: In a display panel, a plurality of pixel sections are arranged in the form of a matrix. Each of the pixel sections includes a pixel for displaying an image for the left eye and a pixel for displaying an image for the right eye. Lenticular lens having repeated convex surfaces is disposed in front of the display panel to deflect the light emitted from each pixel in the horizontal direction from the pixel for displaying the image for the left eye to the pixel for displaying the image for the right eye in each pixel section. Reflection plate reflects the exterior light toward the display panel and has surface projections on the surface. In this case, the focal distance f of the lens is different from the distance H between the surface of the reflection plate and the apex of the lens.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image display device is provided with a display panel. The display panel is provided with a plurality of pixels for the right eyes and pixels for the left eye, and light emitted from the pixels for the right eye is made incident to the right eye of a viewer and light emitted from the pixels for the left eye is made incident to the left eye. Then, when the distance between the display panel and the viewer is set to D (mm), definition X (dpi) of at least one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction on a display plane of the display panel is set as in the following expression. 1 X ≥ 25.

Abstract: A 3D image/2D image switching display apparatus is provided with a liquid crystal display unit and first and second lenticular lenses. To display a 3D image, the first lenticular lens is arranged in such a way that the optical axis of the first lenticular lens coincides with the optical axis of the second lenticular lens so that pixels for a left eye display an image for a left eye and pixels for a right eye display an image for a right eye. To display a 2D image, the first lenticular lens is arranged in such a way that the optical axis of the first lenticular lens is shifted from the optical axis of the second lenticular lens by half a lens pitch so that the pixels for the left eye and the pixels for the right eye display the same image independently.

Abstract: A left-eye image signal and a right-eye image signal are supplied to a pixel structure converter of a stereoscopic image pre-processor, and multiplexed, so to form one image, an interlace image is formed by a frame/field converter, encoded in an MPEG format by an MPEG encoding unit, stored into a storage and transmitted outward by a transmitting/recording unit. The encoded stereoscopic image signal received from the outward and reproduced from the storage is decoded by am MPEG decoding unit after going through a receiving/reproducing unit, the interlace image is reproduced, returned to the frame image by a field/frame converter of a stereoscopic image post-processor, and reproduced as the left-eye image signal and the right-eye image signal and output by the pixel structure converter.

Abstract: A sound reproducing system including at least one portable terminal unit which acquires data including sound data. For example, the data may be multimedia data and is acquired from data delivery service and the like. Each of the at least one portable terminal unit comprises: a loudspeaker for reproducing sound from the sound data; and a sound data reproducing portion which makes the loudspeaker reproduce the sound based on the sound data and in cooperation with at least one sound devices. The sound devices may be other portable terminal units. By using a plurality of portable terminal units, it becomes possible to reproduce stereophonic sound, surround sound, and the like. It is also possible to reproduce image together with such sound.

Abstract: An instruction input that permits convenient input of instructions for moving an object in three-dimensional space. A desired instruction is entered by an input device and displayed on the screen of a display device. The instruction specifies at least one position change and one attitude change of the object. A cursor generator displays a cursor showing the position and the attitude of the object. A cursor controller specifies a post-motion position and a post-motion attitude of the main cursor according to the entered instruction. The cursor controller forms a mathematical projection of the main cursor onto a plane based on the specified post-motion position and the specified post-motion attitude of the main cursor which is displayed on the display device to show the post-motion position and post-motion attitude of the object after the desired motion specified by the instruction.

Abstract: In a joint assembly for moving a free end relative to a reference end like a human arm, first and second axle members have first and second axes associated with the reference and the free ends, respectively, and are coupled to each other by an axis end plane oblique to the first and the second axes. A coupling member, such as a universal joint, is coupled to the first and the second axle members and to the reference end. The first and the second axle members are rotated about the first and the second axes, respectively, to move the free end along a spherical surface, with the free end prohibited from being twisted. The oblique axis end plane may be provided by a pair of plate members or by a pair of shells. Alternatively, the axis end plane may be given by a stator and a rotor of a single motor. A motion of the free end is controlled by angles of rotation of the first and the second axle members.

Abstract: A new variety of Limonium is tall with upright stems. The flower color is a bluish-purple. The flowers are long-lasting and the plant is easy to grow. Up to 8 stems flowers can be cut in the first year and 10-12 flower stems in the second year.

Abstract: A new variety of Limonium is tall with good branching. The petal color is a greenish-yellow. The calyx color is pale purplish-pink. The flowers are long-lasting and the plant is easy to grow. Up to 8 stems flowers can be cut in each year.