Single Display With Optical Path Division Patents (Class 348/54)
  • Patent number: 11668936
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display unit configured to display objects in a display region (VR) overlapping with outside scenery; a storage unit configured to store a process flow data to be used for selecting the objects to be displayed in the display region (VR); and a control unit configured to select any of the objects to be displayed in the display region (VR), based on the selection information, and to control display positions of the objects in a depth direction of the display region (VR) so that a display position of a selected object is different from a display position of another object to be displayed in the display region (VR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Tomizawa, Fumiya Hori, Yuichi Kakizaki
  • Patent number: 11641455
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring a dynamic crosstalk are provided. The method may include: controlling a driver configured to cause a camera to have a dynamic movement; at either one or both of a left eye position and a right eye position of a user, capturing a stereo pattern image output through a three-dimensional (3D) display, by the camera while the camera is in the dynamic movement; and measuring the dynamic crosstalk occurring by the 3D display based on the stereo pattern image captured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byong Min Kang, Chansol Hwang, Jinho Lee
  • Patent number: 11634028
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing method and an image processing device. The image processing method includes generating an image based on viewpoint information of a user; rendering the image based on information about what is in front of the user; and outputting the rendered image using an optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinho Lee, Dong Kyung Nam, Juyong Park, Yang Ho Cho, Kyuhwan Choi, Yoonsun Choi
  • Patent number: 11616940
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel configured to display a parallax image including a first image to be viewed by a first eye of a user and a second image to be viewed by a second eye of the user; and an optical member including a plurality of optical elements arranged along a predetermined direction which includes a component in a parallax direction of the first eye and the second eye. A beam direction of the parallax image is defined by the plurality of optical elements. The display panel includes a plurality of subpixels including a plurality of minipixel. Each of the minipixels included in the plurality of subpixels is configured to be able to display different images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kaoru Kusafuka
  • Patent number: 11610526
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel, a method of controlling the display panel. The display panel includes multiple pixel groups arranged in an array, wherein each pixel group comprises a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel which are adjacently arranged; a plurality of gate lines, wherein the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel in a same row of the array are connected to one gate line; a plurality of first data lines, wherein the first sub-pixels in a same column of the array are connected to one first data line; a plurality of second data lines. The second sub-pixels in a same column of the array are connected to one second data line of the plurality of second data lines; the first and the second data lines are spacedly arranged, and a driving component to which the gate lines, the first data lines and the second data lines are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Huan He, Wei Fu, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11593958
    Abstract: There are provided an imaging device, a distance measurement method, a distance measurement program, and a recording medium capable of accurately measuring a distance to a subject without depending on a color of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Ono
  • Patent number: 11573603
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of display pixels that provide image light to a user. The array of display pixels may form an active display structure with a rectangular shape. The rectangular active display structure may be surrounded by an inactive border region. Optical structures such as upper structures formed from a sheet of glass and lower optical structures that lie beneath the sheet of glass may be configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The upper optical structures may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical structures may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. The lower and upper optical structures may have curved surfaces for bending the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Prest, Tseng-Mau Yang, Dale N. Memering
  • Patent number: 11532118
    Abstract: Augmented and virtual reality display systems increase viewer comfort by reducing viewer exposure to virtual content that causes undesirable accommodation-vergence mismatches (AVM). The display systems limit displaying content that exceeds an accommodation-vergence mismatch threshold, which may define a volume around the viewer. The volume may be subdivided into two or more zones, including an innermost loss-of-fusion zone (LoF) in which no content is displayed, and one or more outer AVM zones in which the displaying of content may be stopped, or clipped, under certain conditions. For example, content may be clipped if the viewer is verging within an AVM zone and if the content is displayed within the AVM zone for more than a threshold duration. A further possible condition for clipping content is that the user is verging on that content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian David Schwab, Randall E. Hand, Björn Nicolaas Servatius Vlaskamp
  • Patent number: 11513359
    Abstract: According to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a lens is disclosed. The lens is located remotely from a display device, and the lens includes: a liquid crystal layer variably oriented according to a voltage so as to have a variable refractive index; and an optical unit accommodated inside the liquid crystal layer, in which the refractive index of the liquid crystal layer is varied, so that the liquid crystal layer may modulate a speed of a change of an image that is being displayed on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: Min Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11490802
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes a data acquisition unit, a storage unit, and a correction unit. The data acquisition unit includes a concave mirror and an optical scanner configured to deflect light from a light source to guide to a reflective surface of the concave mirror. The data acquisition unit is configured to acquire a first data set group in an A-scan direction by performing optical coherence tomography on a subject's eye placed at a subject's eye position or a conjugate position of the subject's eye position using light reflected by the reflective surface. The storage unit is configured to store correction data for correcting an incident angle of the light at the subject's eye position depending on a deflection angle of the light by the optical scanner. The correction unit is configured to generate a second data set group by correcting at least a part of the first data set group based on the correction data stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Tatsuo Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11477434
    Abstract: Some embodiments of an example method may include receiving an input image with depth information; mapping the input image to a set of focal plane images; orienting the set of focal plane images using head orientation information to provide stereo disparity between left and right eyes; and displaying the oriented set of focal plane images. Some embodiments of another example method may include: receiving a description of three-dimensional (3D) content; receiving, from a tracker, information indicating motion of a viewer relative to a real-world environment; responsive to receiving the information indicating motion of the viewer, synthesizing motion parallax by altering multi-focal planes of the 3D content; and rendering an image to the multi-focal plane display using the altered multi-focal plane rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: PCMS Holdings, INC.
    Inventors: Seppo T. Valli, Pekka K. Siltanen
  • Patent number: 11475805
    Abstract: In an example, a switchable display may include a movable pixel unit having a rotatable motive element. The movable pixel unit may further include a first display unit having a first display characteristic and disposed on a first side of the rotatable motive element. The movable pixel unit may further include a second display unit having a second display characteristic and disposed on a second side of the rotatable motive unit, different from the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ting Wu, Chi Hao Chang, Xuan Shi
  • Patent number: 11477430
    Abstract: Mathematical relationships between the scene geometry, camera parameters, and viewing environment are used to control stereography to obtain various results influencing the viewer's perception of 3D imagery. The methods may include setting a horizontal shift, convergence distance, and camera interaxial parameter to achieve various effects. The methods may be implemented in a computer-implemented tool for interactively modifying scene parameters during a 2D-to-3D conversion process, which may then trigger the re-rendering of the 3D content on the fly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Christopher E. Nolan, Bradley T. Collar, Michael D. Smith
  • Patent number: 11436797
    Abstract: A system for rasterizing an image of a virtual environment, the system comprising a bounding volume hierarchy, BVH, obtaining unit operable to obtain a BVH representing one or more objects in the virtual environment, wherein each node of the BVH is associated with geometry information for the one or more objects at least partially contained within a bounding volume represented by that node, a frustum identification unit operable to identify a viewing frustum associated with a virtual camera defining a viewpoint within the virtual environment, a BVH identification unit operable to identify a BVH node associated with at least one bounding volume that is intersected by the frustum and a rasterization unit operable to rasterize an image of the virtual environment using the geometry information associated with the identified BVH node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Colin Jonathan Hughes
  • Patent number: 11402629
    Abstract: An imaging system includes a light source configured to produce a plurality of spatially separated light beams. The system also includes an injection optical system configured to modify the plurality of beams, such that respective pupils formed by beams of the plurality exiting from the injection optical system are spatially separated from each other. The system further includes a light-guiding optical element having an in-coupling grating configured to admit a first beam of the plurality into the light-guiding optical element while excluding a second beam of the plurality from the light-guiding optical element, such that the first beam propagates by substantially total internal reflection through the light-guiding optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Klug, Scott C. Cahall, Hyunsun Chung
  • Patent number: 11302092
    Abstract: The system control unit functions as a captured image data acquisition unit that acquires captured image data obtained by imaging the inside of a subject with an endoscope; a visual-line detection unit 44B that detects a visual line directed to a display device that displays a captured image based on the captured image data; a processing unit that performs recognition processing for performing detection of a lesion site from the captured image data and identification of the detected lesion site on the captured image data; and a display control unit for causing the display device to display a result of the recognition processing by the processing unit. The processing unit controls the content of the recognition processing on the captured image data on the basis of the visual line detected by the visual-line detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Hayashi, Masaaki Oosake
  • Patent number: 11183049
    Abstract: Monitoring and instigating shifts in visual focus by monitoring a first duration associated with a first focus point distance, determining that the first focus point distance satisfies a first distance threshold and that the first duration satisfies a first temporal threshold, instigating a change in the first focus point distance, yielding a second focus point distance, wherein the second focus point distance exceeds a second distance threshold, monitoring a second duration associated with the second focus point distance, determining that the second duration satisfies a second temporal threshold, and providing an output indicating satisfaction of the second distance threshold and second temporal threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vignesh Harish, Aaron T. Smith, Tibor Beres
  • Patent number: 11156852
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a holographic projection device, a holographic projection method, and a holographic projection apparatus. The holographic projection device includes a first stereoscopic imaging device including a plurality of transparent pixel blocks; and a light emitting device including a plurality of light emitting units, wherein the plurality of transparent pixel blocks have a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of light emitting units, and wherein for a light emitting unit A of the plurality of light emitting units, the light emitting unit A is configured to illuminate a transparent pixel block A, and the transparent pixel block A is a transparent pixel block corresponding to the light emitting unit A in the plurality of transparent pixel blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Cheng, Yongfeng Xia, Jiaping Wang
  • Patent number: 11106052
    Abstract: A focus tunable optical system includes a compound lens, which includes a plurality of focus tunable lenses. Further, the focus tunable optical system includes a controller, which is configured to shift a focus of the compound lens from a first focal plane to a second focal plane. To this end, the controller is configured to apply, individually to each focus tunable lens of the plurality of the focus tunable lenses, a control signal having a first value for the first focal plane and a second value for the second focal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hector Navarro Fructuoso, Atanas Boev, Panji Setiawan, Onay Urfalioglu
  • Patent number: 11064387
    Abstract: One exemplary implementation involves performing operations at an electronic device with one or more processors and a computer-readable storage medium. The device establishes a wireless communication link with a host device. The device receives, from the host device, a left eye frame and a right eye frame via a sequence of left eye frame transmissions and right eye frame transmissions. The device switches data transmissions schemes according to wireless commination link quality or eye gaze tracking. Adjusting transmission format based on transmission quality of the wireless communication link allows the devices to take advantage of greater bandwidth when available to save power. An additional transmission format is based on alternately transmitting left eye and right eye frames for very low bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aleksandr M. Movshovich, Arthur Y. Zhang, Hao Pan, Holly E. Gerhard, Jim C. Chou, Moinul H. Khan, Paul V. Johnson, Sorin C. Cismas, Sreeraman Anantharaman, William W. Sprague
  • Patent number: 11051006
    Abstract: A superstereoscopic display with enhanced off-angle separation includes a first light source; a lenticular lens optically coupled to the first light source that, with the first light source, generates a first light output having viewing angle dependency; and a high-index optical volume optically coupled to the lenticular lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Looking Glass Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Frayne, Tung Yiu Fok, Shiu Pong Lee
  • Patent number: 11012605
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program that enable refocusing accompanied by desired optical effects. A light collection processing unit performs a light collection process to generate a processing result image focused at a predetermined distance, using images of a plurality of viewpoints. The light collection process is performed with the images of the plurality of viewpoints having pixel values adjusted with adjustment coefficients for the respective viewpoints. The present technology can be applied in a case where a refocused image is obtained from images of a plurality of viewpoints, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Hayasaka, Katsuhisa Ito
  • Patent number: 10969604
    Abstract: An apparatus for a three-dimensional display is disclosed that includes a waveguide having a pair of opposed faces configured to propagate radiation along a length of the waveguide between the faces, a radiation source optically coupled to the waveguide and configured to transmit the radiation to the waveguide, at least one prismatic element having a face optically coupled to at least one of the faces of the waveguide, and a layer of image modulating material optically coupled to at least one of the faces of the waveguide. The image modulating material may be optically coupled to an area of at least one of the faces of the waveguide, at least a portion of the area being located outside a perimeter of a face of the prismatic element optically coupled to at least one of the faces of the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen J. Telfer, Stephen Bull, John L. Chuma, George G. Harris, Kosta Ladavac, Allan Sadun
  • Patent number: 10817131
    Abstract: A method for displaying an N-view autostereoscopic image formed of N elementary images interlaced according to a predetermined mixing scheme on a mobile display screen includes pivoting the screen; detecting a pivot angle ? of the screen; rotating the N elementary images by an inverse angle of the detected pivot angle ?, interlacing the N elementary images rotated according to the mixing scheme of the N elementary images in an initial direction, and displaying the N elementary images rotated on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: ALIOSCOPY
    Inventors: Pierre Allio, Flavien Maingreaud
  • Patent number: 10810971
    Abstract: A method of rendering content for display on a multi-view display includes assigning a first display to a first pixel of a pixelated array, with a plurality of pixels periodically spaced along a first axis, the first display associated with a first viewing angle relative to the first axis. The method includes assigning a second display to a second pixel of the pixelated array, display associated with a second viewing angle relative to the first axis. The method further includes controlling a filter value of the first pixel based on a rendering of first content for display, and controlling a filter value of the second pixel based on a rendering of second content for display. The first viewing angle belongs to a first range of viewing angles of an optical multiplexer disposed in front of the pixelated array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nigel A. Clarke, Sergio Perdices-Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 10805601
    Abstract: A multiview image display device is disclosed. The multiview image display device comprises: an image input unit for receiving an image; a rendering unit for rendering a plurality of views of different visual views on the basis of the depth of the inputted image; a display unit for displaying a multiview image generated on the basis of a pixel value constituting the plurality of views; and a control unit for generating the multiview image by mapping, to at least one target pixel area, a mixed pixel value obtained based on the pixel value of a specific visual view and the pixel value of a visual view adjacent to the specific visual view among the plurality of views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-ryong Han, Jong-sul Min, Jin-sung Lee, Ho-young Lee
  • Patent number: 10782531
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display unit configured to display objects in a display region (VR) overlapping with outside scenery; a storage unit configured to store a process flow data to be used for selecting the objects to be displayed in the display region (VR); and a control unit configured to select any of the objects to be displayed in the display region (VR), based on the selection information, and to control display positions of the objects in a depth direction of the display region (VR) so that a display position of a selected object is different from a display position of another object to be displayed in the display region (VR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Tomizawa, Fumiya Hori, Yuichi Kakizaki
  • Patent number: 10714029
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit having a display surface on which pixels are arranged in row and column directions. Each pixel includes subpixels having different colors. Subpixels in the pixels include a first subpixel including an electrode having an opening with a longitudinal direction along a first direction and a second subpixel including an electrode having an opening with a longitudinal direction along a second direction. The first and second directions are different from the row and column directions. Subpixels arranged in a third direction are the first or second subpixels. The number of subpixels constituting one color pattern in a fourth direction is 2?. The number of subpixels in which the first and second subpixels arranged in the fourth direction constitute one cycle is 4?. The third direction is one of the row and column directions, and the fourth direction is the other direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Masaaki Kabe
  • Patent number: 10699567
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of controlling a traffic surveillance system. The method comprises the steps of: capturing first images and second images over time by a plurality of the stereoscopic sensors; processing, by the processing unit, a first image and a second image from a first stereoscopic sensor of the plurality of the stereoscopic sensors to produce a first height image; analyzing said first height image to detect a moving object such as a vehicle located within the primary view; and analysing a part of a primary view of at least a first image, a second image or a combination of the first image and the second image captured by a second stereoscopic sensor based on the detected moving object in said first height image to determine a characteristic of the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Kapsch TrafficCom AB
    Inventors: Johan Bäckvall, Ulf Ärlig, Björn Crona, Christian Karlström
  • Patent number: 10681328
    Abstract: A direct retinal projector system that provides dynamic focusing for virtual reality (VR) and/or augmented reality (AR) is described. A direct retinal projector system scans images, pixel by pixel, directly onto the subject's retinas. This allows individual pixels to be optically affected dynamically as the images are scanned to the subject's retinas. Dynamic focusing components and techniques are described that may be used in a direct retinal projector system to dynamically and correctly focus each pixel in VR images as the images are being scanned to a subject's eyes. This allows objects, surfaces, etc. that are intended to appear at different distances in a scene to be projected to the subject's eyes at the correct depths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander Shpunt
  • Patent number: 10678061
    Abstract: An optical system and method that utilize multiple low-etendue lasers to illuminate multiple spots one or more spatial light modulators. Stereoscopic systems may be formed by using different wavelengths or different polarizations for each spot. Light from each spot is guided to each eye of the viewer by wearing 3D glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Laser Light Engines, Inc.
    Inventor: William Brady Beck
  • Patent number: 10666930
    Abstract: Disclosed is a full parallax multi-focus three-dimensional (3D) display including: a parallax image provider configured to form two-dimensionally arranged parallax images spatially divided to provide at least two parallax images; and a parallax image convergence unit configured to converge the two-dimensionally arranged parallax images provided by the parallax image provider around a pupil of an eyeball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Sungkyu Kim, Soongi Park
  • Patent number: 10648790
    Abstract: A system for determining a three-dimensional position of a tip of a testing tool in an anatomic training model can be used for injection training. The system can include first and second cameras positioned in the anatomic training model. The first and second cameras can each detect an area of light emitted from the tip of the testing tool. The system can also include a processing unit configured to trace the emitted light away from a location of a centroid of the area of emitted light in the first camera and a location of a centroid of the area of emitted light in the second camera respectively, and calculate a three-dimensional position of the distal tip of the testing tool based on the locations of the centroids. The calculation can take into account refraction of the emitted light through an innermost layer of the training model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Truinject Corp.
    Inventors: Clark B. Foster, Scott Cameron Royston
  • Patent number: 10627643
    Abstract: The present invention has an object of providing a display that makes uniform brightnesses of a display image in a plane of a display panel according to a position of an observer. The display includes a display panel, a surface light source panel that emits light toward a back surface of the display panel, a sensor that senses a position of an observer with respect to the display panel, and a controller, wherein a brightness can be adjusted for each of areas of the surface light source panel, and the controller adjusts respective brightnesses of the areas of the surface light source panel so that brightnesses of a display image in a plane of the display panel are made uniform, when the display panel is observed from the position of the observer sensed by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Kokusho, Kenji Arita
  • Patent number: 10594922
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor that has a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed pixels, each of the pixels having a first photoelectric conversion portion and a second photoelectric conversion portion, a generation unit that generates a first image signal by connecting, in a pupil divided direction, a first signal obtained by combining signals of the first photoelectric conversion portions, and generate a second image signal, in the pupil divided direction, a second signal obtained by combining signals of the second photoelectric conversion portions. In a case of combing signals of the first photoelectric conversion portions, or combining signals of the second photoelectric conversion portions, the generation unit decreases weighting of a signal of a photoelectric conversion portion in which an effect of crosstalk from a neighboring photoelectric conversion portion is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiko Kanda
  • Patent number: 10545352
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional display device in which a pixel structure includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in rows and columns. In each column of sub-pixels, the sub-pixels are aligned. In each row of sub-pixels, each of the sub-pixels is staggered by half a sub-pixel with respect to an adjacent sub-pixel, and is different in color from the adjacent sub-pixel. The corresponding three-dimensional grating includes a plurality of strip-like grating structures periodically arranged in a horizontal direction, wherein the strip-like grating structures extend in the same direction that has a preset inclination angle with respect to the horizontal direction. Each strip-like grating structure corresponds to at least two sub-pixels in respective rows of sub-pixels which display different viewpoint images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kun Wu
  • Patent number: 10540818
    Abstract: Video data of an environment may be prepared for stereoscopic presentation to a user in a virtual reality or augmented reality experience. According to one method, a plurality of locations distributed throughout a viewing volume may be designated, at which a plurality of vantages are to be positioned to facilitate viewing of the environment from proximate the locations. For each location, a plurality of images of the environment, captured from viewpoints proximate the location, may be retrieved. For each location, the images may be reprojected to a three-dimensional shape and combined to generate a combined image. The combined image may be applied to one or more surfaces of the three-dimensional shape to generate a vantage. The vantages may be stored such that the vantages can be used to generate stereoscopic viewpoint video of the scene, as viewed from at least two virtual viewpoints corresponding to viewpoints of an actual viewer's eyes within the viewing volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Kurt Akeley
  • Patent number: 10531066
    Abstract: Provided is a device including a camera configured to capture an image of eyes of a user who is watching three-dimensional (3D) video; and a processor configured to obtain an eye feature of the user from the captured image of the eyes of the user, determine a degree of eyestrain degree of the user based on the obtained eye feature, and adjust a parallax of the 3D video according to the degree of eyestrain of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Zengzeng Sun, Penghui Qiao, Bing Hu, Yuan Zeng, Wei Gao
  • Patent number: 10382745
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device including a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix defined by a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, the display panel having a changeable display direction; and a parallax unit on the display panel and including a plurality of optical elements having a tilt angle of 30° to 60° relative to the vertical direction and a pitch corresponding to a multiple of a pitch of the sub-pixels. Among the sub-pixels located to correspond to each of the optical elements, at least two sub-pixels, adjacently arranged, display the same view image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hee-Jin Im
  • Patent number: 10338805
    Abstract: A method is provided for displaying content to a user. The method comprises displaying content in a first position. The method further comprises detecting an operating member; and determining a distance between the member and a device. The method still further comprises displaying, if the distance between the member and the device is less than a predefined distance, the content in a second position appearing to be behind the first position, with respect to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoya Narita
  • Patent number: 10313661
    Abstract: A virtual image generation system and method of operating same are provided. A left synthetic image and a right synthetic image of a three-dimensional scene are rendered respectively from a first left focal center and a first right focal center relative to a first viewpoint. The first left and first right focal centers are spaced from each other a distance greater than the inter-ocular distance of an end user. The synthetic image and the right synthetic image are warped respectively to a second left focal center and a second right focal center relative to a second viewpoint different from the first viewpoint. The second left and right focal centers are spaced from each other a distance equal to the inter-ocular distance of the end user. A frame is constructed from the left and right warped synthetic images, and displayed to the end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Kass
  • Patent number: 10291907
    Abstract: A multi-view display device, including a controller that is operable to receive from a positioning device, position information representing positions of a left eye and a right eye of a viewer relative to the multi-view display. The viewer is able to activate a channel selection mode in which the multiview display simultaneously projects different stereoscopic channels on the side of his last position before starting the new mode, so he can see other channels by changing his head position. The viewer selects then a desired channel by which it ends the channel selection mode and switches the display to a mode where only one channel is stereoscopically displayed at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Michael Huber, Olof Ermis, Jacob Ström
  • Patent number: 10237541
    Abstract: The stereoscopic image display device includes: an observer position measuring unit which measures the observing position of the observer; an image processing unit which calculates the relative position of the observing position of the observer and the stereoscopic display panel, calculates the luminance adjustment amount suited for stereoscopic image display for the relative position, and performs luminance adjustment processing on the image data according to the luminance adjustment amount; and a stereoscopic display panel unit which projects the image data on which the luminance adjustment processing is performed to the right eye and the left eye of the observer via the stereoscopic display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takefumi Hasegawa, Koji Shigemura
  • Patent number: 10225545
    Abstract: This fully-automated 3D photo booth uses a single-or dual-lens camera or other depth sensors. Depth algorithms process the pictures taken, which can be inserted into themed templates. A novel method of coarse segmentation separates the foreground and background. The photo booth dispenses an interlaced print and snap-in photo frame, or gives the option of viewing on a mobile device or sending via email or social media. On a mobile device, the 3D viewing is with a snap-on or adhesive optical overlay if available, using novel lenticules that solve Moiré artifacts. In the absence of an optical overlay, tilt sensors are used to move the viewpoint of the 3D scene model, to look around objects in the foreground, the same as if real objects were being tilted back and forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: IPC HK LMITED
    Inventor: Simon Rizkallah Gemayel
  • Patent number: 10212415
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image processing system, an image processing method, a position determining method and a display system. The image processing system includes a processing module configured to process at least a portion of original views in an original image to be displayed currently, so as to obtain a target image including the processed views, each processed view including an identifier; and a display module configured to display the target image, so as to enable a viewer to determine, in accordance with a combination of the identifiers in the target image, a position for viewing a 3D image. According to the present disclosure, it is able to guide the viewer to view the glassless 3D image at an extremely low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naifu Wu, Wei Wei, Kun Wu, Heliang Di, Tao Wang, Chiachiang Lin, Chunmiao Zhou
  • Patent number: 10185145
    Abstract: An operating method of a display apparatus includes calculating a range of a movement of a user based on eye movement information indicating movements of eyes of the user; and adjusting a stereoscopic depth of a three-dimensional (3D) image based on the range of the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok Lee, Jingu Heo, Dong Kyung Nam, Juyong Park
  • Patent number: 10158846
    Abstract: The present invention relates to conversion of 2D media to pseudo-3D left and right image pairs. In particular, it relates to imposing forced perspective on left and right versions of a 2D image. The distorted pair of images, when displayed, will be interpreted by a viewer as a 3D image. The pseudo-3D forced perspective image pairs can be produced without depth mapping of objects in scenes and without comparing the position of objects in successive image frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: TERANEX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: James F. Curtis, Shawn D. Goodwin, Christopher M. Riehl, Raymond D. Conkling
  • Patent number: 10112115
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for broadcasting composited game content. The technique includes executing an application program to generate a first video frame of game content, and causing the first video frame to be displayed on a primary display device. The technique further includes compositing at least one graphical user interface (GUI) element with the first video frame to generate a composited frame. The technique further includes causing the composited frame to be displayed on an external display device by transmitting the composited frame to the external display device via a local display interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joshua Abbott, James Van Welzen, Jonathan White, David Clark, Nidhi Singh, Cristobal Alvarez-Russell
  • Patent number: 10038859
    Abstract: In example embodiments, a system and method for presenting multiple content (e.g., programs) on a single presentation device to a plurality of viewers is provided. The method comprises causing presentation of a combined video stream on the single presentation device. The combined video stream combines video data for at least a first video content of a first content stream and a second video content of a second content stream. The first video content is viewable by a first viewer and the second video content is viewable a second viewer. A control signal is received from a handheld device of the first viewer that indicates an action to be performed on the first video content. The combined video stream is modified to cause the action to be performed on the first video content. The adjusting of the combined video stream has no effect on the display of the second video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: OPENTV, INC.
    Inventors: Clay E. Gaetje, John Tinsman
  • Patent number: 9986579
    Abstract: In order to perform an appropriate data transmission control, an information processing apparatus performs data transmission by using at least one of a wireless transmission channel of a high frequency band and a wireless transmission channel of a low frequency band, and performs real time image transmission with another information processing apparatus in accordance with a Wi-Fi certified miracast specification. Also, the information processing apparatus includes a control unit. This control unit executes a control to transmit a control signal relevant to Wi-Fi certified miracast to the other information processing apparatus by using the wireless transmission channel of the low frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Amano, Hideki Iwami, Osamu Yoshimura, Natsuki Itaya