Stereoscopic Display Device Patents (Class 348/51)
  • Patent number: 10108260
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for a vehicle, and including a display configured to display image information associated with the vehicle; at least one light source configured to emit light so as to form at least one reflected light in one region of a pupil and eyeball of a user gazing at one region on the display; a memory configured to store coordinate information on each region within the vehicle and the at least one light source; at least one camera configured to obtain an image including the one region of the pupil and eyeball of the user; and a controller configured to calculate a first coordinate from a center of the pupil and calculate a second coordinate from the at least one reflected light included in the obtained image, calculate a coordinate of one point within the vehicle as a reference coordinate from prestored coordinate information of the at least one light source when a distance between the first coordinate and the second coordinate is less than a preset distance, and perform calibration on the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyungmin Park, Hyun Kim, Choil Lee, Joongrock Kim, Injun Park
  • Patent number: 10108021
    Abstract: A system for stereoscopic visualization of image information includes a display device defining a display area for displaying a left and a right partial image. The display device displays the left partial image to a left eye of an observer focused on the display area in a first viewing direction using a left observation beam path and the right partial image to the right eye in a second viewing direction using a right observation beam path. The system includes a vision assist through which the left and right observation beam paths pass. The vision assist sets a beam course for the left and right viewing observation beam paths wherein, starting from the left and right eyes in a direction toward the display area, a perpendicular distance between the left and right observation beam paths decreases to a minimum at a finite distance from the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Pacher, Rainer Sessner
  • Patent number: 10101807
    Abstract: A distance adaptive holographic displaying method and device based on eyeball tracking are disclosed. The method includes: detecting a human face of a user and acquiring positions of eyes of the user, wherein the positions of the eyes of the user comprise a distance between the eyes and a displaying screen; adjusting the size of an object in a holographic scene along a z-axis direction in the holographic three-dimensional display according to the distance, and displaying the object in the displaying screen; adjusting an emergent direction of the light emitted by the displaying screen to the direction of the left eye and the right eye of the eyes so that the different individual holographic three-dimensional images of the left eye and the right eye are imaged into the left eye and the right eye respectively; and tracking the change of the positions of the eyes, and repeating the aforesaid steps to dynamically adjust viewpoints and the displayed content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN MAGIC EYE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meihong Liu, Wei Gao, Wanliang Xu
  • Patent number: 10097808
    Abstract: An apparatus and corresponding method are provided to match images and include assigning depth candidate values to a pixel in a first image, and reassigning third depth candidate values to a first pixel in the first image based on first depth candidate values assigned to the first pixel and second depth candidate values assigned to a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel. The apparatus and method also include determining one of the third depth candidate values to be a depth value of the first pixel, and matching the first pixel and a third pixel in a second image corresponding to the determined depth value of the first pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hui Zhang, Yongjie Zhang, Fei Duan, Haoxing Wang, Jaejoon Han, Jungbae Kim, Meng Ye, Seon Min Rhee
  • Patent number: 10097816
    Abstract: The proposed solution is a calibration process for a dynamic auto-stereoscopic 3D device using an image capture by the camera of the device of the auto-stereoscopic screen through a reflecting surface. The process may also compute the horizontal phase of the parallax barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sebastien Guido, Janos Boudet, François-Xavier Pasquier
  • Patent number: 10078135
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with identifying a physical distance using audio channels are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include a microphone associated with a first audio channel of a plurality of audio channels and a radio receiver associated with a second different audio channel of the plurality of audio channels. The apparatus may include one or more processors, devices, and/or circuitry to identify an amount of time between times of receipt of first and second representations of a signal received via the microphone over the first audio channel and via the radio receiver over the second audio channel, respectively. The amount of time may be usable to identify a physical distance between references associated with a remote source of the first and second representations and the apparatus, respectively. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Matias Almada, Xintian Eddie Lin, Songnan Yang
  • Patent number: 10075728
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for encoding a multi-view video stream comprising at least two video sequences, comprising a step of motion information prediction for a square or rectangular block of a current picture of a current view from a list of candidate motion information predictors, a motion information predictor including at least a motion vector, and a step of entropic encoding of an item of information representative of the position of a selected motion information predictor in the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignees: INRIA INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (C.N.R.S)
    Inventors: Christine Guillemot, Laurent Guillo, Thomas Guionnet
  • Patent number: 10063887
    Abstract: A method inducing video information required for decoding a current block by entropy-decoding a bitstream; inducing a first disparity vector based on a neighboring block of the current block in the same view by using the video information, inducing a second disparity vector by using the first disparity vector and a reference view depth, and inducing a third disparity vector using the difference between the first disparity vector and the second disparity vector; inducing a prediction sample of the current block by using one of the first disparity vector, the second disparity vector, or the third disparity vector; and applying filtering to a current picture which has been restored using the prediction sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Junghak Nam, Jungdong Seo, Sunmi Yoo, Sehoon Yea, Jin Heo, Taesup Kim, Moonmo Koo
  • Patent number: 10037626
    Abstract: Motion and/or rotation of an input mechanism can be tracked and/or analyzed to determine limits on a user's range of motion and/or a user's range of rotation in three-dimensional space. The user's range of motion and/or the user's range of rotation in three-dimensional space may be limited by a personal restriction for the user (e.g., a broken arm). The user's range of motion and/or the user's range of rotation in three-dimensional space may additionally or alternatively be limited by an environmental restriction (e.g., a physical object in a room). Accordingly, the techniques described herein can take steps to accommodate the personal restriction and/or the environmental restriction thereby optimizing user interactions involving the input mechanism and a virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Gabriel Poulos, Cameron Graeme Brown, Andrew Austin Jackson, Cheyne Rory Quin Mathey-Owens, Michael Robert Thomas, Arthur Tomlin
  • Patent number: 10033990
    Abstract: A systematic approach to producing multi-dimensional photon images on a computer platform having applications to a plurality of input image(s) from various sources, and applications to coordinate and adjust numerous variables which determine the quality of the image, such as the size of the imported images, the output image size, the resolving power of the viewing screen and the width of the resolving elements, the dots per inch of the output device (or pixels per inch), the desired nearest object, the desired furthest object and the determination of the central or the “key subject”, rules of interphasing, the number of frames or layers, the minimum parallax, and the maximum parallax, and, thus, provide a digital multi-dimensional image without jumping images or fuzzy features or other visual distortions by creating high quality output images both in the form of a printed hardcopy or as a viewed image on an appropriate viewing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Inventors: Jerry Nims, William M. Karszes, Samuel Pol
  • Patent number: 10009601
    Abstract: A projector includes a lamp that emits projection light to project 3D picture, in which a right eye image and a left eye image are represented in a time division manner, to an object, a synchronization signal transmission section which transmits shutter synchronization signal to glasses having a right eye shutter and a left eye shutter to control the opened state or the closed state of the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter, based on the signal indicating a displaying period of the right eye image and the left eye image of 3D picture, and a lamp drive section that supplies AC current having peak overlapping with a period when the right eye shutter of the glasses is in the opened state and peak overlapping with a period when the left eye shutter of the glasses is in the opened state to the lamp, based on the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirosada Horiguchi, Hiroshi Yoshimoto, Tadashi Yamada, Keiji Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 10001834
    Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) console receives slow calibration data from an imaging device and fast calibration data from an inertial measurement unit on a VR headset including a front and a rear rigid body. The slow calibration data includes an image where only the locators on the rear rigid body are visible. An observed position is determined from the slow calibration data and a predicted position is determined from the fast calibration data. If a difference between the observed position and the predicted position is greater than a threshold value, the predicted position is adjusted by a temporary offset until the difference is less than the threshold value. The temporary offset is removed by re-calibrating the rear rigid body to the front rigid body once locators on both the front and rear rigid body are visible in an image in the slow calibration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Dov Katz, Jonathan Shine, Robin Michael Miller
  • Patent number: 9998790
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for providing streamlined access to media assets of interest to a user. The method includes determining that a supplemental viewing device, through which a user views a field of view, is directed at a first field of view. The method further involves detecting that the supplemental viewing device is now directed at a second field of view, and determining that a media consumption device is within the second field of view. A first media asset of interest to the user that is available for consumption via the media consumption device is identified, and the supplemental viewing device generates a visual indication in the second field of view. The visual indication indicates that the first media asset is available for consumption via the media consumption device, and the visual indication tracks a location of the media consumption device in the second field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Logan, Alexander W. Liston, William L. Thomas, Gabriel C. Dalbec, Margret B. Schmidt, Mathew C. Burns, Ajay Kumar Gupta
  • Patent number: 9992419
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: an image acquisition section that acquires a captured image obtained by imaging an imaging range; and a display control section that controls a display section in such a way that a virtual object corresponding to an imaging subject reflecting on the captured image is displayed. The display control section displays the virtual object in such a way that a ratio of an amount of movement of the virtual object in a virtual image to an amount of movement of the imaging range in real space changes according to an imaging magnification of the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Frank Nielsen
  • Patent number: 9967516
    Abstract: There are provided a stereo matching method capable of increasing a resolution and precision of an object and a device for performing the method. The method includes investigating a pattern according to a predetermined period; obtaining left and right stereo images in which the investigated pattern is included or not included; determining whether each of the stereo image obtained according to the predetermined period and a buffering image that is a previous frame image of the stereo image includes the pattern; and generating a final cost volume by performing different image processing according to whether each of the stereo image and the buffering image includes the pattern. Therefore, it is possible to increase precision of a disparity of a thin object and increase accuracy and precision of an object at a long distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ji Ho Chang, Jae Chan Jeong, Ho Chul Shin, Dae Hwan Hwang, Seung Min Choi, Eul Gyoon Lim, Jae Il Cho, Kuk Jin Yoon
  • Patent number: 9947288
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device, a display driving method and a display system, wherein the display device includes a display panel and a polarizer disposed on the light outgoing side of the display panel. The polarizer comprises a first polarizing region and a second polarizing region having different polarizing directions from each other. The display device further includes an image processor configured to cause only a region of the display panel corresponding to the first polarizing region to display an image to be displayed if a first anti-peep mode is selected by a user; and to cause only a region of the display panel corresponding to the second polarizing region to display the image to be displayed if a second anti-peep mode is selected by a user. The display device according to the present disclosure has a significantly improved applicability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiqin Huang, Junwei Wang, Haifeng Yu
  • Patent number: 9930317
    Abstract: A method for applying power in a plurality of pulses to the projection source to control the projection source to emit coherent light during an exposure interval comprising at least two sub-intervals, the applied power causing the projection source to have different temperatures during first and second sub-intervals of the at least two sub-intervals; and emitting light from the projection source, wherein the projection source emits light having different wavelengths during the first and second sub-intervals in accordance with the different temperatures of the projection source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Aquifi, Inc.
    Inventors: Aryan Hazeghi, Abbas Rafii
  • Patent number: 9915773
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a light source component and a light guide plate. The light guide plate includes at least one micro-structure on a bottom surface of the light guide plate, and the micro-structure includes a plane reflective surface. The light source component includes light source groups, a first cylindrical lens array and a second cylindrical lens. Each of the light source groups includes a first light source and a second light source arranged along an X direction. The first cylindrical lens array is optically coupled between the light source groups and the light guide plate, and includes first cylindrical lenses having lens power along the X direction and disposed corresponding to each of the light source groups. The second cylindrical lens is optically coupled between the light source groups and the light guide plate, and has lens power along a Z direction orthogonal to the X direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: June-Jei Huang
  • Patent number: 9912968
    Abstract: A decoding apparatus has an arithmetic decoder and a controller. A counter logic of the controller generates a first statistics result according to a first syntax element decoding result. A control logic of the controller instructs the arithmetic decoder to perform a first scan procedure at least once to generate the first syntax element decoding result of transform coefficients of a transform coefficient block, controls a repetition number of a second scan procedure based at least partly on the first statistics result, and instructs the arithmetic decoder to perform the second scan procedure at least once to generate a second syntax element decoding result of the transform coefficients. The first scan procedure decodes a first coded syntax element of one transform coefficient when performed by the arithmetic decoder once. The second scan procedure decodes a second coded syntax element of one transform coefficient when performed by the arithmetic decoder once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chia-Yun Cheng, Chi-Cheng Ju, Yung-Chang Chang, Chih-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 9911388
    Abstract: The present application discloses a pixel structure, an array substrate and a display device comprising the same. The pixel structure comprises a pixel array comprising a first array section and a second array section alternatively arranged along a first direction; the first array section comprises at least one first pixel sequence extending along a second direction and at least one second pixel sequence extending along the second direction; the second array section comprises at least one third pixel sequence extending along the second direction and at least one fourth pixel sequence extending along the second direction. According to the present application, the brightness centers are uniformly distributed in the pixel array, thereby resulting in a more uniform brightness and a reduction of the sub-pixels' dark state light leakage when an image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignees: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chunping Xiang
  • Patent number: 9906780
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method for creating an ambient experience for a person, particularly for a patient to be examined in a medical imaging device having a bore into which a patient table can be moved. In a preferred embodiment, the system comprises a display (30) for displaying an image content such as a video for the relaxation of a patient, and an illumination device (40) for illuminating the surroundings with polarized light. Moreover, it comprises a viewing aid, particularly a pair of glasses (20), that is designed to at least partially block light from the illumination device (40) while letting light from the display (30) pass. The viewing aid (20) may for example comprise a polarization filter (23) that lets linearly polarized light (4) from the display (30) pass while blocking light from the illumination device (40) that is polarized in a perpendicular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Laura Klaming, Murray Fulton Gillies, Juergen Vogt
  • Patent number: 9900588
    Abstract: A display panel includes sub-pixel pairs arranged laterally at a predetermined pitch, the sub-pixel pair including two sub pixels displaying images for right and left eyes respectively. A parallax-barrier shutter panel includes sub apertures switching light-transmitting and light-blocking states by driving a liquid crystal layer held between two transparent substrates with transparent electrodes extending vertically. The sub apertures are arranged laterally at a pitch obtained by dividing a reference parallax-barrier pitch by N (N being an even number equal to or greater than four), the reference parallax-barrier pitch being determined on the basis of a predetermined design observation distance and the pitch of the sub-pixel pairs. The parallax-barrier shutter panel includes common driving areas obtained by dividing a display area laterally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akimasa Yuuki, Tetsuya Satake, Yasunori Niwano, Toshiaki Fujino, Shuichi Kira, Kazunori Okumoto, Shingo Nagano, Yoshimitsu Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Ishiguchi
  • Patent number: 9892499
    Abstract: An objective assessment method for a stereoscopic image quality combined with manifold characteristics and binocular characteristics trains a matrix after dimensionality reduction and whitening obtained from natural scene plane images through an orthogonal locality preserving projection algorithm, for obtaining a best mapping matrix. Image blocks, not important for visual perception, are removed. After finishing selecting the image blocks, through the best mapping matrix, manifold characteristic vectors of the image blocks are extracted, and a structural distortion of a distorted image is measured according to a manifold characteristic similarity. Considering influences of an image luminance variation on human eyes, a luminance distortion of the distorted image is calculated according to a mean value of the image blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Ningbo University
    Inventors: Mei Yu, Zhaoyun Wang, Fen Chen, Meiling He
  • Patent number: 9892546
    Abstract: A method of pursuit path camera model navigation includes, providing, via processing circuitry of one server, a future viewpoint located at a first location and a current viewpoint located at a second location and calculating a first prefetch region including one or more viewcells and one or more visibility even packets, the first prefetch region corresponding to the first location of the future viewpoint and the second location of the current viewpoint. The method further includes receiving commands to modify the first location of the future viewpoint to a third location at a first velocity, calculating a navigational intent of the future viewpoint based on the commands, and calculating a second prefetch region including the viewcells and the visibility event packets by collapsing the calculated first prefetch region into the second prefetch region, the second prefetch region corresponding to a predicted pursuit path based on the calculated navigational intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: PRIMAL SPACE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Barry L. Jenkins
  • Patent number: 9886933
    Abstract: Discloses is a brightness adjustment system and method, and a mobile terminal. The brightness adjustment system is used for a display device, and comprises: a distance measurement module configured to measure a perpendicular viewing distance from user's eyes to a display surface of the display device; and a brightness adjustment module configured to adjust the brightness of the display device to desired brightness based on the measured perpendicular viewing distance. The brightness adjustment system renders the display device, such as mobile terminal, etc., to automatically adjust the brightness based on the perpendicular viewing distance between the user's eyes and the display surface of the display device, satisfying requirements for display brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xin Li
  • Patent number: 9888233
    Abstract: The present invention provides a 3D display system, which includes an OLED display panel and 3D shutter glasses. The OLED display panel includes a plurality of data lines for transmitting data signals, a plurality of scan lines for transmitting scan signals and a plurality of pixel units. When the pixel unit displays the left-eye image data signal and the right-eye image data signal, the left-eye shutter and the right-eye shutter of the 3D shutter glasses are both closed. When the pixel unit displays the left-eye blank data signal, the left-eye shutter of the 3D shutter glasses is open. When the pixel unit displays the right-eye blank data signal, the right-eye shutter of the 3D shutter glasses is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yufeng Jin
  • Patent number: 9877017
    Abstract: A method of driving an auto-stereoscopic display apparatus includes detecting a position of a user to determine a target visible distance, determining at least one original pixel unit having a first unit width based on the target visible distance, wherein the pixel unit includes a plurality of pixel sets in a row, each pixel set including N pixels, comparing the target visible distance to a predetermined reference visible distance of the auto-stereoscopic display apparatus, and converting the original pixel unit to a compensated pixel unit having a second unit width different from the first unit width to project viewpoint sets through the N pixels to a viewing zone at the target visible distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota Odake, Seonki Kim, Jinhwan Kim, Haeyoung Yun, Kyungho Jung
  • Patent number: 9862077
    Abstract: A system is provided that includes a laser projection apparatus and a fastener installation apparatus. The laser projection apparatus is configured to project an identifier of an instruction set including one or more instructions for installing a fastener or fastener collar on a structure, with the laser projection apparatus being configured to project the identifier onto the structure about a location at which the respective fastener or fastener collar is to be installed. The fastener installation apparatus is configured to capture an image of the projected identifier from the structure, determine the identifier from the captured image, and retrieve the instruction set based on the determined identifier. The fastener installation apparatus includes a tool for installing the respective fastener or fastener collar, and the fastener installation apparatus is configured to program the tool according to the retrieved instruction set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Raymond J. Slesinski
  • Patent number: 9864191
    Abstract: A viewer includes a varifocal lens and a lens controller that adjusts a focal length of the varifocal lens, and can adjust a focal point in accordance with eye movement of the user. When a 3D image viewing detector detects 3D image viewing by the user, a focal length fixing section instructs a lens controller to fix a focal length of the varifocal lens irrespective of eye movement of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumiko Kato, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Jun Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9865187
    Abstract: A TFT array substrate is disclosed. The substrate includes a plurality of gate lines, and a first gate drive circuit, where the first gate drive circuit includes m levels of first repeat units. Each level of first repeat unit includes a first shift register. The substrate also includes a second gate drive circuit, where the second gate drive circuit includes n levels of second repeat units. Each level of second repeat unit includes a second shift register. The substrate also includes a first start signal line and a first start transistor, where a drain of the first start transistor is electrically connected with the first start signal line. The substrate also includes a second start transistor, where a drain of the second start transistor is electrically connected with the first start signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin Wen, Lei Li, Fen Wan
  • Patent number: 9866824
    Abstract: A device 120 for processing three-dimensional [3D] image data 122 for display on a 3D display 160, the 3D display being arranged for adjacently emitting, in a viewing cone 180, a series of views 100 of the 3D image data, the series of views enabling autostereoscopic viewing of the 3D image data at multiple viewing positions 182, 184 in the viewing cone by a viewer perceiving two different ones of the series of views, and the device comprising an indicator generator 140 arranged for establishing a graphical shape in the 3D image data for, when being displayed on the 3D display, providing to the viewer a position indicator graphically representing a relative position of the two different ones of the series of views within the series of views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Hendrikus Alfonsus Bruls
  • Patent number: 9858855
    Abstract: A wearable display device comprises: a set of position sensors, wherein the position sensors provide positioning data that describe a physical three-dimensional orientation of the wearable display device in real time; an exterior display surface that comprises a continuous display with a dynamically adjusted display region; and a video display controller, wherein the video display controller displays a video content on the region directed to the user's eyes on the dynamically adjusted display region based on the physical three-dimensional orientation of the wearable display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ilse M. Breedvelt-Schouten, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz, James L. Lentz
  • Patent number: 9851839
    Abstract: Eye-friendly display that can reduce eye strain on a user is achieved. A display system includes a display portion, an input portion, and a control portion. The display portion is configured to display an image. The input portion is configured to sense an input from a user and output a signal to the control portion. The control portion is configured to execute a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode executed by the control portion, an image is displayed on the display portion by an interlace method. In the second mode executed by the control portion, an image is displayed on the display portion by a progressive method. The control portion is configured to switch between the first mode and the second mode in accordance with the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyake, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9836887
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention include an apparatus comprising a recognition unit configured to recognize real object in an image. The apparatus may further comprise a determining unit configured to determine a stability indicator indicating a stability of the recognition, and a display control unit configured to modify a display of a virtual object according to the stability indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 9838671
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an autostereoscopic screen for the simultaneous reproduction of at least two different images, in a manner such that each of these images is visible from at least one of different viewing zones, comprising a subpixel matrix, an optical element and a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured, on the subpixel matrix, to define different subsets of subpixels such that each of the subsets forms a family of parallel strips and is assigned to at least one of the viewing zones, wherein the strips of the different subsets cyclically alternate, and to activate the subpixels in dependence on image data such that each of the images is reproduced on one of the subsets, wherein the optical element has a grating-like structure aligned according to the strips, in order to lead light departing from the subpixels of each of the subsets into the viewing zone assigned to this subgroup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: René de la Barré, Silvio Jurk
  • Patent number: 9838664
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing method including acquiring an original image and position information indicating a position of a viewer in a depth direction with respect to a display unit, acquiring crosstalk information indicating a crosstalk characteristic of the display unit, causing a processor to generate an index map that includes control information indicating a correspondence between respective pixels and a respective viewpoints based on the position information on the basis of the acquired position information and crosstalk information in a manner that, among first viewpoint images different from each other based on the original image corresponding to the respective viewpoints set in advance, one of the first viewpoint images is observed while crosstalk is negated at a position indicated by the position information, and outputting second viewpoint images corresponding to respective pieces of the control information in the index map based on the original image and the index map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Doba, Yasuhide Hyodo
  • Patent number: 9838672
    Abstract: A stereo preview apparatus has an auto-stereoscopic display, an input interface, a motion detection circuit, and a visual transition circuit. The input interface receives at least an input stereo image pair including a left-view image and a right-view image generated from an image capture device. The motion detection circuit evaluates a motion status of the image capture device. The visual transition circuit generates an output stereo image pair based on the input stereo image pair, and outputs the output stereo image pair to the auto-stereoscopic display for stereo preview, wherein the visual transition circuit refers to the evaluated motion status to configure adjustment made to the input stereo image pair when generating the output stereo image pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chia-Ming Cheng, Po-Hao Huang, Yuan-Chung Lee
  • Patent number: 9823485
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and a depth perception adjusting unit for adjusting a depth perception, based on polarization characteristics of light output from the display panel, wherein the depth perception adjusting unit includes a directional mirror and a reflective polarizer. Thus, the display device is implemented such that the directional mirror transmits or reflects light depending on an advancing direction of the light. Accordingly, any crosstalk phenomenon does not occur, and a depth perception can be adjusted without any loss of brightness efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hee Seung Kim, Hyun Seo Kang, Sei Hyoung Lee, Soo Yong Jung
  • Patent number: 9817442
    Abstract: A method for presenting visual interface content comprising adjunct visual interface content during application program execution, and the adjunct visual interface content provides visual information associated with application program execution. The method comprising displaying the adjunct visual interface content using a first interface, displaying the adjunct visual interface content using a second interface, and displaying the updated adjunct visual interface content on the at least one of the first and second interfaces based on actuation of the first and second interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: RAZER (ASIA-PACIFIC) PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Min-Liang Tan
  • Patent number: 9819929
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and configurations for an optoelectronic three-dimensional object acquisition assembly configured to correct image distortions. In one instance, the assembly may comprise a first device configured to project a light pattern on an object at a determined angle; a second device configured to capture a first image of the object illuminated with the projected light pattern; a third device configured to capture a second image of the object; and a controller coupled to the first, second, and third devices and configured to reconstruct an image of the object from geometric parameters of the object obtained from the first image, and to correct distortions in the reconstructed image caused by a variation of the determined angle of the light pattern projection, based at least in part on the first and second images of the object. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ron Kimmel, Barak Freedman, Alex Bronstein, Michael Bronstein, Sagi Ben Moshe
  • Patent number: 9812052
    Abstract: A 2D/3D image displaying apparatus includes a sub-pixel, a first and second data lines and a gamma circuit. The sub-pixel includes a first portion and a second portion. The first and second data lines are coupled to the first and second portion of the sub-pixel, respectively. The gamma circuit transmits correlated gamma signals to a driving circuit for driving the first and second part of the sub-pixel via the first and second data lines when 2D image is to be displayed, and transmits a single gamma signal to the driving circuit for driving the first and second portion of the sub-pixel via the first and second data lines when 3D image is to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Chen, Wen-Hao Hsu, Ting-Jui Chang
  • Patent number: 9807375
    Abstract: A 3D image display device includes: a display panel that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form; and a view point division part that divides the plurality of pixels into a plurality of corresponding view points. The view point division part includes a plurality of view point division units each associated with a lenticular lens tilted at an inclination angle and an inclination angle changing unit for changing the inclination angles of the plurality of the view point division units to correspond to a portrait mode or a landscape mode. The view point division part and the display panel are configured so that a same optimal viewing distance is calculated in portrait mode and landscape mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Ho Jung, Goro Hamagishi
  • Patent number: 9798146
    Abstract: A head-mounted display apparatus includes a display unit including a plurality of emissive areas which displays images and a plurality of transmissive areas disposed between the emissive areas and which transmits light from external light sources, a first optical element which receives and converges light emitted from the display unit onto a predetermined area, and a second optical element disposed opposite to the first optical element with respect to the display unit and which receives and diverges light incident toward the display unit from an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sumin Yang
  • Patent number: 9792757
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine for stereoscopic display of game components is provided. The machine includes at least one processor, memory storing processor-executable instructions in communication with the at least one processor, a stereoscopic display. Executing the instructions by the at least one processor causes the processor to: identify, for display, at least one game component in accordance with a set of game rules for a given game; select a three-dimensional intensity level for displaying the at least one game component; render left and right eye images based on the selected three-dimensional intensity level; and provide the rendered left and right eye images to the stereoscopic display, for presentation to the left and right eyes, respectively, of a player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: IGT CANADA SOLUTIONS ULC
    Inventor: Franz Pierer
  • Patent number: 9794548
    Abstract: A 3-dimensional image display device includes a signal controller, a data driver, a display panel, and glasses. The signal controller includes a reference gamma data generator to correct image data. The data driver includes a gray voltage generator to generate a gray voltage based on the corrected image data. The display panel displays left-eye and right-eye images based on a data voltage from the data driver. The lenses of the glasses are controlled by a glasses synchronization signal from the signal controller, to compensate for charging rates of the left-eye and right-eye images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Sik Yoon, Jae Hyoung Park, Jun Pyo Lee, Seung Hwan Moon, Dong Won Park, Byung Kil Jeon
  • Patent number: 9789762
    Abstract: A vehicle display assembly includes a three-dimensional (3D) display, and an actuator coupled to the 3D display. The actuator is configured to adjust an orientation of the 3D display relative to a vehicle occupant. The vehicle display assembly also includes a sensor assembly configured to monitor a position of a head of the vehicle occupant, and a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor assembly and to the actuator. The controller is configured to instruct the actuator to adjust the orientation of the 3D display based on the position of the head of the vehicle occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Mario Javier Enriquez Ortiz
  • Patent number: 9784984
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus including a first polarizing unit that polarizes light from an object, a lens system that condenses light from the first polarizing unit, and an imaging element array that has imaging elements arranged in a matrix of a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, has a second polarizing unit arranged on a light incident side, and converts the light condensed by the lens system into an electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiko Baba
  • Patent number: 9784981
    Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal display module for realizing a switching between 2D and 3D switching and a liquid crystal display device thereof. The liquid crystal display module includes a backlight unit, a liquid crystal display unit and a 2D/3D conversion adjustment unit successively stacked and parallel with one another. The liquid crystal display device and the liquid crystal display module provided by the invention use the arched electrode structural design to make different positions of the liquid crystal layer have different thicknesses. By applying voltages on the electrodes or not to realize the switching between 2D and 3D images, so that the liquid crystal display device is endowed with both functions of playing 2D and 3D images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Chang Xie
  • Patent number: 9766458
    Abstract: An image generating system includes a first attitude data obtaining unit obtaining first attitude data indicating an attitude of a head-mounted display in first timing; a reference image generating unit generating a reference image showing a state of looking at a virtual three-dimensional space from a viewpoint, a position and a sight line direction of the viewpoint being identified on a basis of the first attitude data; a second attitude data obtaining unit obtaining second attitude data indicating the attitude of the head-mounted display in second timing; a corresponding position identifying unit identifying a corresponding position for each pixel within a display image to be displayed on the head-mounted display; a pixel value identifying unit identifying a pixel value of the pixel within the display image, the pixel being associated with the corresponding position; and a display image generating unit generating the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Takakazu Ikeda, Takashi Yamamoto, Atsushi Takizawa, Kenichiro Yokota
  • Patent number: RE46755
    Abstract: A 3D image playback method includes utilizing a detecting module to detect a visual angle included between a display device and a shutter glasses, playing a plurality of 3D image sets with different visual angles at a specific frequency by the display device, transmitting a synchronization signal corresponding to the visual angle to the shutter glasses by the detecting module, and controlling a switching frequency of the shutter glasses so as to make the shutter glasses capable of receiving one of the plurality of 3D image sets corresponding to the visual angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Ching-An Lin