Single Display With Optical Path Division Patents (Class 348/54)
  • Publication number: 20140300713
    Abstract: A hardware and software independent method and system of providing three-dimensional stereoscopic presentations of simulations which lack 3D stereoscopic graphics is provided wherein advanced graphics features such as view modulation, user tracking, geometry warping, edge blending and interweaved views, are each provided in stereoscopic 3D, allowing for raster-based and projector-based screen projection including multiple tile presentations. Further provided are hardware and software independent motion inputs for simulator seats based on the motion effects produced in simulator applications lacking motion output for simulator seats via translation of simulator camera data into motion input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Ingo Nadler, Cornel Swoboda
  • Publication number: 20140300714
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method of modifying a display including a plurality of pixels wherein each of the pixels is less than twice as tall as the pixel is wide includes modifying the display to create a plurality of modified pixels wherein each of the modified pixels is at least twice as tall as the modified pixel is wide, comprising at least one of a) masking of at least a portion of the display, b) optically shifting a perceived position of at least one row of sub-pixels of the display, and c) changing the addressing of sub-pixels of the display. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: SoliDDD Corp.
    Inventors: Richard A. Muller, Neal I. Weinstock
  • Publication number: 20140300712
    Abstract: A tri-viewing angle display comprises a display panel and a parallax barrier located in front of the display panel, the parallax barrier comprises light transmitting strips and light shielding strips that are arranged alternately and parallel to each other, and the display panel is provided with three pixel areas arranged successively and periodically thereon, each of the light shielding strips is positioned right above two adjacent pixel areas and a width of the light shielding strip is greater than the sum of widths of the two adjacent pixel areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Ma, Jaegeon You
  • Patent number: 8854439
    Abstract: A stereoscopic picture is viewable from all directions with high reproducibility without complicating a stereoscopic display mechanism, compared to related art. A cylindrical rotation section 104 rotating around a rotation shaft as a rotation center, a two-dimensional light-emitting element array 101 mounted in the rotation section and having a light-emission surface formed of a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a matrix, and a slit 102 arranged in a circumferential surface of the rotation section in a position facing the light-emission surface are included. As the two-dimensional light-emitting element array 101, a two-dimensional light-emitting element array including a curved portion with a concave surface which is formed as a light-emission surface is used. The plurality of light-emitting elements emit light, which corresponds to orientation of the light-emission surface, to outside of the rotation section through the slit 102.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Ito, Naoya Eguchi, Hiroki Kikuchi, Shinichiro Tajiri, Izushi Kobayashi, Hiroaki Yasunaga
  • Patent number: 8854434
    Abstract: There is provided a demultiplexer that receives video data for one of a three-dimensional display and a two-dimensional display. There is also provided an HDMI transmission portion that transmits the video data and display information that pertains to one of the three-dimensional display and the two-dimensional display of the video data to a television receiver through TMDS channels #0, #1, and #2 of an HDMI cable. There is also provided a transmission/receiving portion that transmits the display information to the television receiver through a CEC line of the HDMI cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiko Saito, Ichiro Hamada
  • Publication number: 20140293024
    Abstract: A foldable display and a method and apparatus for controlling the foldable display are disclosed. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a display device including a first display panel and a second display panel disposed on the first display panel, wherein the first and second display panels are folded along a first axis. The apparatus also includes a recognizer for recognizing folding of at least one of the first and second display panels and a display controller for controlling a display operation of the display device according to the recognized folding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeong-Hwa Choi, Seung-Bae Lee
  • Publication number: 20140293023
    Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring a surface of an object. The system, in one embodiment, includes a laser projector device mounted at a fixed location relative to an object being formed by a fabrication process, and a videogrammetry device mounted at another fixed location relative to the object. The laser projector device includes a laser element mounted on a two-axis gimbal assembly, and the gimbal assembly directs laser beams from the laser element onto target points on a surface of the object. The laser projector device measures angles of the laser beams to the target points, while the videogrammetry device simultaneously performs measurements of the target points by capturing video images of the laser beams reflecting off of the target points. A controller processes the measurements from the laser projector device and the videogrammetry device to calculate x, y, z coordinates of the target points in a 3D coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: The Boeing Company
  • Publication number: 20140293025
    Abstract: A 3D projection and viewing system comprising viewing glasses having a frame including a receptacle mechanism on an eyewear frame, the receptacle mechanism configured to receive a corresponding portion attached to a temple part of eyeglasses comprising the eyewear frame. The corresponding portion may be, for example, an insertable snap device that fits into the receptacle mechanism and includes a barb or other latch mechanism that “snaps” into place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventor: Julian Farnam
  • Patent number: 8848043
    Abstract: A multi-view 3D image display method is provided, which is mainly to propose a multi-view 3D image combination method and slantwise strip parallax barrier structure design and optimization methods without reducing a sub-pixel aperture ratio during display of a multi-view 3D image by using a planar display screen having sub-pixels in strip configuration and a slantwise strip parallax barrier, so as to achieve objectives of solving a direct cross-talk phenomenon and balancing a phenomenon of asymmetrical left and right viewing freedom at the same time. In addition, for display of a multi-view 3D image having a total view number greater than two, a multiple multi-view 3D image combination and display method is proposed, so as to achieve an objective of alleviating a defect of discontinuous parallax jump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Zhangjiagang Kangde Xin Optronics Material Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming-Yen Lin
  • Publication number: 20140285640
    Abstract: A 3D image display device includes: a display panel including pixels; a signal controller controlling driving of the display panel; and an image signal processor generating a 3D input image signal based on image information and outputting the generated 3D input image signal to the signal controller. The image signal processor includes a view point generating unit generating view points corresponding to the respective pixels, and a 3D input image signal generating unit generating the 3D input image signal for the respective pixels based on information on a position of the pixel, information on the generated view point for the respective pixel, and the image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il Yong YOON, Hae Young Yun, Jin Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20140285641
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display device for displaying a three-dimensional image, including: a gaze point obtaining unit which obtains a position of a gaze point of a viewer; a fusional area determination unit which determines a fusional area where binocular fusion is allowed, based on the obtained position of the gaze point; a correction unit which corrects the three-dimensional image so as to suppress display of an object that is included in the three-dimensional image outside the fusional area; and a display unit which displays the corrected three-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Yumiko KATO, Jun OZAWA, Tsuyoshi INOUE, Toru NAKADA
  • Patent number: 8836772
    Abstract: Active shutter 3D glasses with multiple optical detectors, such as photodiodes, are described that detect a frame rate of a 3D television or other 3D display by using independent component analysis. The detected frame rate is used to update a clock onboard the 3D glasses that times the active shutters, thereby synchronizing the shutters to the 3D display. A switch can reverse the shutters in case the left eye/right eye images are shown oppositely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Mao
  • Publication number: 20140253698
    Abstract: The ability of some people to perceive simulated stereoscopic images or even actual stereoscopic images can be enhanced by treating the two eyes differently. The disclosed system can enhance stereoscopic images by selectively modifying the incoming images using right/left differentiation filter. The system can also include the capability of filtering images using parameters that for which the right eye and left eye images are treated independently of each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Allan Thomas Evans, Edward Tang
  • Publication number: 20140253699
    Abstract: Recent production methods for 3D video as a general rule generate stereo images in a same phase of movement. The left and right images of a stereo pair thus image the recorded (or rendered) scene at a same point of time. Correct reproduction consequently requires the two images to be shown concurrently. This is, however, not true for all apparatuses such as, for example, 3D television sets including the so-called shutter technology, which show the left and right images in temporal succession. This temporally offset reproduction of the two stereo images results in clearly perceivable image errors. The invention describes a method for compensating such image errors. This is achieved by interpolating the images of one of the channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: INSTITUT FUR RUNDFUNKTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Schafer, Peter Tho Pesch
  • Patent number: 8830301
    Abstract: An apparatus, which forms a stereoscopic image by alternately displaying a left image and a right image, for reproducing a stereoscopic image in a pause mode, includes: a decoder unit configured to perform decoding on received image information; a 3D format generation unit configured to pair left and right images which are temporally consistent to generate stereoscopic image data; and a user input processing unit configured to receive a user selection with respect to image reproduction and delivering a corresponding signal to the decoder unit and the 3D format generation unit, wherein when the user input processing receives a to selection of a pause mode from the user, the decoder unit stops the decoding operation on the basis of the signal from the user input processing unit and the 3D format generation unit generates the stereoscopic image data by using the same left and right video frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jun-Yeoung Jang
  • Patent number: 8817066
    Abstract: A mirror assembly adapted for use in a panoramic imaging system for capturing a panoramic image includes a mirror for optically coupling to a fisheye lens having a first field of view, the mirror configured for reflecting an image of a second field of view through the fisheye lens. A housing has a first end and a second end, the mirror being secured proximate to the first end, and the second end having an engagement portion for securing the mirror assembly to the panoramic imaging system. When the mirror assembly is secured to the panoramic imaging system, the mirror is optically coupled to the fisheye lens and a detector for capturing a first portion of the panoramic image and a second portion of the panoramic image, the first portion of the panoramic image having a portion overlapping the second portion of the panoramic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Gurunandan Krishnan, Shree K. Nayar
  • Patent number: 8817083
    Abstract: An image display apparatus for displaying a 3D video signal using a liquid crystal device such as an HIPS or LCOS device comprises a frame rate converter (3) that converts the input video signal to a doubled frame rate, a signal format converter (4) that converts the pixel sequence of the video signal, a light source controller (7) that outputs a light source control signal for turning the light source used for image display on and off, and a 3D glasses controller (8) that generates a glasses control signal (c3) for shutters (64R, 64L) that switch the transmission of the light to the right and left eyes of 3D glasses (64). The risk of crosstalk between the right and left images, due to device response speed is reduced, without requiring a large number of frame memories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Nagase, Takahiko Yamamuro, Kouji Okazaki
  • Patent number: 8817082
    Abstract: An autostereoscopic display device comprises a display (103) having an array of display pixels (105) and a view forming arrangement (109) of elongate elements which have a long axis which is slanted at an angle ? to the column pixel direction, and the elements have a pitch of P times the width between pixels of the same color in different columns. The pitch P is selected to be: P=0.5·k·(1+S2) in which S=tan ?, and k is a positive integer. This arrangement enables the resulting image projected in respect of each view to have a uniform and regular distribution of pixels across the image. This improves the visual appearance of the views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Jan Van Der Horst, Age Jochem Van Dalfsen
  • Publication number: 20140232836
    Abstract: An autostereoscopic display comprising a temporally multiplexed display arranged to provide viewing windows in a range around 45 degrees to achieve landscape and portrait viewing in cooperation with an observer tracking system. The temporally multiplexed display may comprise a stepped waveguide imaging directional backlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: ReaID Inc.
    Inventors: Graham J. Woodgate, Michael G. Robinson, Jonathan Harrold
  • Publication number: 20140232835
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image processing device displays a first image that is a stereoscopic image and a second image that is a stereoscopic image or a two-dimensional image on the same display screen at the same time. The stereoscopic image processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires the first image and the second image; and a processing unit that performs image processing on the first image or the second image so that, when a viewer views the first image, the second image appears to be deeper than the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventor: Asako Kojima
  • Patent number: 8803955
    Abstract: An endoscope with a stereoscopic optical channel is held and positioned by a robotic surgical system. A first capture unit captures: a visible first color component of a visible left image combined with a fluorescence left image from first light from one channel in the endoscope; a visible second color component of the visible left image from the first light; and a visible third color component of the visible left image from the first light. A second capture unit captures: a visible first color component of a visible right image combined with a fluorescence right image from second light from the other channel in the endoscope; a visible second color component of the visible right image from the second light; and a visible third color component of the visible right image from the second light. An augmented stereoscopic outputs a real-time stereoscopic image including a three-dimensional presentation including the visible left and right images and the fluorescence left and right images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: David Scott, Wenyi Zhao, Brian D. Hoffman, Ian McDowell, Catherine J. Mohr, John D. Stern
  • Patent number: 8797390
    Abstract: An image display device, a 3D viewing device, and a method for operating the same are provided. The method includes receiving a synchronization signal from an image display device, alternately opening a left glass and a right glass according to the synchronization signal, and simultaneously opening the left glass and the right glass in a left-eye image display period or a right-eye image display period of a 3D image displayed on the image display device when a period of the synchronization signal has changed. This ensures that a user reliably (or correctly) views 3D or 2D images using the 3D viewing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Daehun Kim, Seonghak Moon, Junhak Lee, Joongmin Ra
  • Patent number: 8797461
    Abstract: A screen time control device includes a source interface for receiving a video signal, a processor connected to the video source interface for overlaying the video signal with a translucent signal to produce an overlaid video signal, and a device interface connected to the processor for receiving the overlaid video signal and providing the overlaid video signal to the display device. The processor substitutes the translucent signal in the overlaid video signal with a parental signal, where the parental signal can be a substantially opaque overlay signal that masks an image on the screen of the display device to prohibit viewing of the screen, a textual message, or a combination of both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Behavioral Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Steve G. Davis, Jim Vincent, Trever Patton, Kristin Christopherson
  • Patent number: 8797389
    Abstract: The invention provides: a code generation and data assignment circuit that sets the order in which a confidential image and a reversed image are displayed, based on an orthogonal code; and a shutter glass control signal generation circuit that controls so that during a period when an image signal of an image including at least part or all of the confidential image is outputted, the shutter glasses disposed between the succeeding display apparatus and the user's eyes are set in a light transmission state and during a period when another image is displayed, the shutter glasses are set in a light shielding state. The image signal of the confidential image and the image signal of the reversed image are in a relationship such that when the brightness values of the images are added together for each pixel, the resultant image has no correlation with the first output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daigo Miyasaka, Junichirou Ishii, Masao Imai, Fujio Okumura
  • Publication number: 20140210953
    Abstract: An image display apparatus, includes: a stereoscopic image obtaining unit which obtains a plurality of images having different points of view; a display unit which displays the plurality of images; a photographic subject selecting unit which selects a specific photographic subject in any one of the plurality of images; and a display controller which displays a line where a parallax amount of a first viewpoint image and a second viewpoint image among the plurality of images is zero and an anteroposterior relationship of the line where the parallax amount is zero and a position of the specific photographic subject in an optical axis direction in photographing a stereoscopic image in a partial display region of the display unit as a pseudo overhead view of the photographic subject which is seen from an upper side with respect to the optical axis in photographing the stereoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunta EGO
  • Publication number: 20140210962
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling display of a stereoscopic image, includes: a display control portion which cuts out a stereoscopic image in a to-be-displayed area which is an area corresponding to a part of a stereoscopic image consisting of a plurality of images with a parallax, and displays the cut-out stereoscopic image on a display portion; a parallax change amount calculation portion which calculates a change amount between a parallax amount in a stereoscopic image within the to-be-displayed area before the to-be-displayed area is moved and a parallax amount in a stereoscopic image within the to-be-displayed area after the to-be-displayed area is moved by a first moving distance when an instruction to move the to-be-displayed area is issued; and a to-be-displayed area movement control portion which moves the to-be-displayed area by a moving distance in accordance with the change amount calculated by the parallax change amount calculation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Akiyoshi TSUCHITA
  • Publication number: 20140210964
    Abstract: A system for determining a distance to an object comprises an image capture device (101) which has a coded aperture and an image sensor which is positioned out of a focus plane of the coded aperture. A receiver (103) receives an image of a scene from the image sensor and a detector (105) detects at least two image objects of the image corresponding to ghost images of the object resulting from different openings of the coded aperture in response to an optical characteristic of the object. A distance estimator (107) then determines a distance to the object in response to a displacement in the image of the at least two image objects. The distance may be to a person and the image may be a bright pupil image wherein pupils are enhanced by reflection of light by the retina. The image may be compensated by a dark pupil image of the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Remco Theodorus Johannes Muijs, Frederik Jan De Bruijn, Tommaso Gritti
  • Publication number: 20140210965
    Abstract: A method and system for securing visual media utilizing an encoding process with optical translation for decoded image viewing having the steps of displaying a first image for viewing by a user, generating a second image that is substantially a negative of the first image, displaying the first and second image through a stereoscopic projection system using at least two separate channels of the system to create a displayed garbled image decoding the displayed image by cancellation of the second image from the view of said user. The system may also employ active and passive 3D glasses or other decoder and generate interference and other signals to obscure the desired image before decoding. The system may also be used with handheld display devices such as tablets, notebooks and smart phones utilizing decoding screens or user wearable devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Jason David Goodman, James Vincent Masi
  • Publication number: 20140210963
    Abstract: A parallax adjustment is facilitated. A stereoscopic image is displayed and the parallax between a left-viewpoint image and a right-viewpoint image, which form the stereoscopic image, is calculated. If the parallax of the stereoscopic image exceeds a prescribed allowable amount of parallax, a determination to reduce the size of the stereoscopic image is made. A parallax adjustment is carried out based upon a stereoscopic image, which has been reduced in size. Since parallax is adjusted using the stereoscopic image that has a parallax that falls within the allowable amount of parallax, parallax is easy to adjust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi TANAKA, Koichi YAHAGI
  • Patent number: 8791992
    Abstract: A timing signal generation unit of a content playback device generates a shutter control signal requesting the opening or closing of a shutter of a lens among one or more lenses of a pair of shutter glasses worn by a user viewing a display panel adapted to display content, and a backlight control signal requesting a backlight of the display panel to be turned on at least when the shutter is open. A transmitter unit transmits the shutter control signal to the shutter glasses. The timing signal generation unit changes at least one of the timing of turning on the backlight or the timing of opening the shutter of the lens of the shutter glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Ohba, Hiroyuki Segawa, Tetsugo Inada
  • Publication number: 20140204186
    Abstract: A theater utilizes multiple projectors that are widely spaced. The wide spacing of the projectors reduces hot spotting that occurs on flat, curved, retro-reflective, and other types of screens. The projectors are spaced widely apart and generally are placed at opposite sides of the theater. The wide spacing causes a trapezoidal distortion or effect which may be electronically compensated for by, for example, changing pixel locations on modulators of the projectors such that same (or corresponding) pixels modulated in both projectors are ultimately projected onto a same pixel area of the screen. The invention is particularly advantageous in polarization based 3D systems which generally require high directivity screens where hot spotting and related crosstalk are common.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventor: Martin J. Richards
  • Publication number: 20140204185
    Abstract: This invention discloses a multi-pitching angle suspended space 3D display device with 360° FOV, comprising: a transmitted composite deflective diffusing screen, a high speed projector, an image generator, a detecting module and a rotating drive mechanism. The high speed projector projects the composite images of the 3D objects of different pitching angles and horizontal 360° views to the composite deflective diffusing screen that rotates at a high speed. The composite deflective diffusing screen is able to control the vertical deflecting and scattering angles and horizontal diffusing angle for incident rays with different angles, allowing the surrounding viewers at different height levels to see the images corresponding to their viewpoints, making the displayed 3D objects suspended over the composite deflecting scattering screen, of which the position does not change as the height of the viewpoint changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xu Liu, xinxing Xia, Yifan Peng, Haifeng Li, Zhenrong Zheng
  • Patent number: 8786598
    Abstract: Discloses herein are methods, apparatuses, and systems for preparing and displaying images in frame-sequential stereoscopic 3D. Frame-sequential stereoscopic display includes an alternating sequence of left- and right-perspective images for display. Disclosed methods include identifying pixels that modulate due to the alternating sequence of left- and right-perspective images of the frame-sequential stereoscopic display. The disclosed methods also include processing the pixels to reduce one or more residual images caused by the alternating sequence of left- and right-perspective images of the frame-sequential stereoscopic display. The disclosed methods may be implemented by a processing unit and the processing unit may be included in a system (such as, a computer or video-game console).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: ATI Technologies, ULC
    Inventor: Philip L. Swan
  • Publication number: 20140200079
    Abstract: A method of displaying visual information to different viewer-eyes includes receiving eye strength data indicative of a deficiency of a weak viewer-eye with respect to a dominant viewer-eye. The method further includes causing a 3D-display system to display a first perspective of an image to the weak viewer-eye and causing the 3D-display system to display a second perspective of the image to the dominant viewer-eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Elwha LLC
    Inventors: Steven Bathiche, Alistair K. Chan, William Gates, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Edward K.Y. Jung, Jordin T. Kare, Jaron Lanier, John L. Manferdelli, Clarence T. Tegreene, Adrian Travis, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140198193
    Abstract: To appropriately prevent a burn-in phenomenon when a still image such as an OSD screen is displayed on a display panel. When a menu screen is displayed on a video screen in a superimposed manner, a menu phrase in at least one of a left-eye video and a right-eye video is deleted on a menu background area. A time period in which a brightness difference between still pixels in a boundary between a menu background area and a menu phrase remains large is reduced, and thus the occurrence of the burn-in phenomenon can be prevented. However, the menu background area is constantly displayed without being deleted, so that screen flickering does not occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Yamamoto, Masaomi Nabeta, Naomasa Takahashi, Yohsuke Kaji, Yoichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 8773508
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for computing a three dimensional model of a surface of an object are disclosed. At least one directional energy source (106-109) directionally illuminates the object (101). An imaging assembly (104), having at least two spatially separated viewpoints (111,112) at fixed positions relative to each other, records a series of images of the object at each viewpoint when the object is illuminated by the source. At least one localisation template (102,103) having predetermined geometrical features is visible to at least one of the viewpoints simultaneously with the object. The images recorded at the viewpoints are analysed so as to determine the location and pose of each viewpoint relative to the template for each image in the series of images. Photometric data for the object is generated using the calculated location and pose of the viewpoints and the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Fuel 3D Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Ronald Daniel, James Paterson, David H. Auty
  • Patent number: 8773517
    Abstract: To provide an image display device of an excellent display quality with which the brightness is not deteriorated in reflective displays, and to provide a portable terminal using the same. Provided is a display device which includes: a plurality of arranged display elements each including at least a pixel for displaying a first-viewpoint image and a pixel for displaying a second-viewpoint image, each of the pixels having a transmissive display area for transmitting light and a reflective display area for reflecting external light; and an optical device for distributing light emitted from each of the pixels to different directions from each other, wherein the reflective display areas of each of the display elements are arranged asymmetrically with respect to an axis that is perpendicular to an image distributing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Niioka, Koji Shigemura, Shinichi Uehara
  • Publication number: 20140184761
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method and a computer program are provided. The apparatus may include: a display panel including a plurality of pixel groups, wherein each pixel group includes first, second, third and fourth pixels; and an optical arrangement configured, when the display panel is in a first orientation relative to a viewer, to use the first and second pixels in each pixel group to provide a first image of an auto-stereoscopic image and to use the third and fourth pixels in each pixel group to provide a second image of the auto-stereoscopic image, and wherein the optical arrangement is configured, when the display panel is in a second orientation relative to the viewer, to use the first and third pixels in each pixel group to provide a first image of a further auto-stereoscopic image and to use the second and fourth pixels in each pixel group to provide a second image of the further auto-stereoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen Gunnar Keen
  • Patent number: 8767054
    Abstract: Viewing device used in the field of stereoscopy to allow a user to manipulate in his close environment a real or virtual object situated a greater or lesser distance from the user. The user can then view the manipulation spaces as well as the real and virtual spaces in the viewing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: KOLPI
    Inventor: Olivier Kleindienst
  • Patent number: 8766891
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate opposite a second substrate, a plurality of electrode patterns in the second substrate, the plurality of electrode patterns extending along a first direction, a plurality of barrier patterns in the second substrate, the plurality of barrier patterns being insulated from the electrode patterns and extending along a second direction crossing the first direction, and a plurality of pixels, the first and second substrates with the pixels defining a display panel, and each pixel including a gate line extending along a third direction, a data line extending along a fourth direction, and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the gate line and the data line, the pixel electrode being configured to generate an electric field with a corresponding electrode pattern of the plurality of electrode patterns to display an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Yeon Yang, JongWoung Park, Geun-Young Jeong, Ju-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 8767055
    Abstract: An image display method of a stereo display apparatus is provided. The image display method includes the following steps. A stereo display apparatus is provided, wherein the stereo display apparatus provides N view zones for a viewer and includes a periodic structure and a pixel plane. N view zones are divided in a space according to the N value. Projection areas corresponding to each of the view zones are formed on the pixel plane by the periodic structure, wherein each of the projection areas corresponds to at least one sub-pixel unit on the pixel plane. Image information of each view zone is obtained according to the corresponding sub-pixel units. A stereo image is displayed by blending image information of each view zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Chieh Chen, Chao-Yuan Chen, Ching-Ming Wei
  • Patent number: 8760587
    Abstract: A remote control device is operative to enable and facilitate user control of video systems that are operative to provide one or more three-dimensional (3D) viewing effects. According to an exemplary embodiment, the remote control device includes a user input terminal having an input element operative to receive user inputs to adjust at least one of a volume setting and a channel setting of a video system, and further operative to receive user inputs to adjust a three-dimensional (3-D) viewing effect of the video system. A transmitter is operative to transmit control signals to the video system in response to the user inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Dong Tian, Peng Yin, Wang Lin Lai, Zhenyu Wu, Chad Andrew Lefevre
  • Publication number: 20140168390
    Abstract: A display including an optical element disposed on a pixel array of a display panel; an optimal viewing distance control device configured to adjust primary view images seen through both eyes of a viewer to a first view image and second view image based on a viewer's position information sensed by a sensor, to automatically adjust other view images between the primary view images to view images separated at regular intervals, and to produce a view map using the adjusted primary view images and the adjusted other view images between the primary view images; a 3D formatter configured to map pixel data of a multi-view image based on the view map received from the optimal viewing distance control device; and a display panel driving circuit configured to write the pixel data of the multi-view image received from the 3D formatter to the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seongho CHO, Keongjin LEE
  • Patent number: 8754932
    Abstract: An image display method includes alternately receiving left and right images of a 3D image; and turning on a backlight such that the backlight is on only in periods when the left images are displayed or only in periods when the right images are displayed. A method of controlling shutter glasses separately for left and right images of a three-dimensional (3D) image includes alternately receiving the left and right images of the 3D image; and opening two shutters of the shutter glasses only in periods when the left images are received or only in periods when the right images are received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-hoon Jung, Sang-moo Park, Dae-sik Kim, Dong-choon Hwang
  • Publication number: 20140160258
    Abstract: A 3D image display device includes a display device including a plurality of pixels and displaying each of a left-eye image and a right-eye image. The display device inserts an insertion image between the left-eye image and the right-eye image such that the left-eye image is displayed for part of four frames and the insertion image is displayed for the remaining frames and the right-eye image is displayed for part of four other frames and the insertion image is displayed for the remaining other frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JAI-HYUN KOH, BONG-HYUN YOU, JAE-SUNG BAE
  • Publication number: 20140160257
    Abstract: A video signal processing apparatus includes a three-dimensional video image parallax detector, a superimposed video image parallax setter, a superimposed video image parallax giver, and a video signal synthesis processor. The three-dimensional video image parallax detector detects the parallax in three-dimensional video images from a left-eye and right-eye three-dimensional video signal. The superimposed video image parallax setter sets the parallax in a three-dimensional superimposed video image to be superimposed upon three-dimensional video images to a parallax greater than the three-dimensional video image parallax. The superimposed video image parallax giver generates a left-eye superimposed video signal and a right-eye superimposed video signal from the superimposed video signal so as to have the set superimposed video image parallax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 8749624
    Abstract: A method for displaying first and second stereoscopic images to first and second viewers provides the first viewer with a first decoding device having a first viewer differentiating element for receiving the first stereoscopic image and further having a first left- and right-eye differentiating elements for separating left- and right-eye images. The second viewer is provided with a second decoding device having a second viewer differentiating element for receiving the second stereoscopic image and further having a second left- and right-eye differentiating element. The first stereoscopic image is displayed to the first viewer by forming a first left-eye image and forming a first right-eye image, each over substantially half of the refresh period. The second stereoscopic image is displayed to the second viewer by forming a second left-eye image and forming a second right-eye image, each over substantially half of the refresh period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael A. Marcus, John A. Agostinelli
  • Publication number: 20140146147
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided, including a video processor configured to process video data of contents, a display configured to display content views using the video data processed by the video processor, a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device which is paired with the display apparatus, and a control unit configured to assign a remote control right to a content view corresponding to the remote control right switching command from among the content views based on whether the remote control right switching command is received from the external device. If a remote control signal is received, the control unit performs an operation corresponding to the remote control signal with respect to the content view having the remote control right.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Je-hwan SEO, Geun-sam YANG, Seung-bok LEE, Tae-hyeun HA
  • Publication number: 20140139652
    Abstract: A 3D-display system alternates between directing light representing a left-eye view of a 3D image to a viewer's left eye and directing light representing a right-eye view of a 3D image to a viewer's right eye. To direct the light towards the viewer's eyes, the system receives eye-location data relative to a display device from an eye-tracking system and uses light deflectors, such as acousto-optic, electro-optic, and passive optical deflectors, to aim the light in a particular direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Elwha LLC
    Inventors: Erez L. Aiden, Alistair K. Chan, Philip A. Eckhoff, William Gates, Peter L. Hagelstein, Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Robert Langer, Eric C. Leuthardt, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Michael Schnall-Levin, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Patent number: 8723933
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image correction device includes when a displacement amount which is a difference between a convergence angle on a display surface and a convergence angle on a perceived three-dimensional surface based on image information for a three-dimensional image is set as a disparity amount, a width of a depth amount represented by pop-up and pull-in of the three-dimensional image is set as a dynamic range, and display device specification information is set as display device information, a disparity amount detection unit for inputting the image information to detect the disparity amount from the image information, a correction computation unit for adjusting the detected disparity amount on the basis of the display device information to correct the dynamic range, and a disparity amount correction unit for correcting the disparity amount in the corrected dynamic range while corresponding to the display device information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Takahashi, Isao Ohashi, Takuya Ooi, Kazunari Yoshifuji