Single Display With Optical Path Division Patents (Class 348/54)
  • Patent number: 8723771
    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: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Yeon Yang, JongWoung Park, Geun-Young Jeong, Ju-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 8717419
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus executes a distortion correction on coordinates of a target pixel in a virtual viewpoint image based on distortion characteristics of a virtual camera and calculates coordinates in the virtual viewpoint image after the distortion correction. The image process apparatus calculates ideal coordinates in a captured image from the coordinates in the virtual viewpoint image after the distortion correction and calculates real coordinates in the captured image from the ideal coordinates in the captured image based on distortion characteristics of an imaging unit. The image process apparatus calculates a pixel value corresponding to the real coordinates from image data of the virtual viewpoint image and corrects the pixel value corresponding to the real coordinates based on ambient light amount decrease characteristics of the imaging unit and ambient light amount decrease characteristics of the virtual camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yahata, Takuya Kotani
  • Patent number: 8717424
    Abstract: A display apparatus configured to display three-dimensional video viewable by a viewer wearing stereoscopic-viewing glasses. The display apparatus includes: an input module; a display device; an image input module; a detection module; and a recording module. The input module receives video data. The display device displays the three-dimensional video based on the received video data. The image input module receives a captured image from an image-capturing device that captures an image of an area around the display apparatus and on a side facing the display device. The detection module detects an image of the stereoscopic-viewing glasses from the received captured image. The recording module records the received video data when the image of the stereoscopic-viewing glasses is not detected by the detection module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Aiko Akashi
  • Patent number: 8717425
    Abstract: Moving pictures, as may be exemplified by television programming, are viewed stereoscopically. The system preferably comprises a visual display screen upon which may be displayed a left-to-right reversed visual display. A reflecting surface is positioned opposite the visual display screen for reflecting imagery from the visual display screen toward the viewer. The reflected imagery provides a reflected left-to-right correct visual display. The visual display screen is spaced from the reflecting surface such that the viewer's perception of the visual display screen causes the viewer to focus on a point behind the reflecting surface thereby requiring the viewer to perceive laterally offset reflections of the visual display screen at the reflecting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Inventor: Leslie C. Hardison
  • Patent number: 8717348
    Abstract: System and method for synchronizing shutter glasses with a display system. An embodiment comprises displaying a first image from a first image stream on a display plane, displaying a second image from a second image stream on the display plane, and displaying a synchronization signal on the display plane, during a first, a second, and a third display period, respectively. The first image and the second image are displayed at least partially on the same area of the display plane and the first and the second display periods do not overlap. The display of the synchronization signal on the display plane enables the elimination of a dedicated synchronization signal broadcast unit, thereby reducing the cost while increasing the reliability of a display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Gregory Raymond Basile, Frank Joseph Poradish
  • Publication number: 20140118512
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method for processing an image using a multi-view image and pixel information are provided. The image processing method includes determining a view image that corresponds to a predetermined display direction of a display pixel of a display, determining at least one view image pixel corresponding to the display pixel in the determined view image based on a position of the display pixel in the display and pixel position information of the determined view image, and determining a pixel value of the display pixel based on a pixel value of the determined at least one view image pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju Yong PARK, Dong Kyung Nam
  • Publication number: 20140118513
    Abstract: A display image generation part 134 generates a display image in accordance with a display output mode set by a mode setting part 112. A notification image generation part 116 generates a notification image indicating that the display output mode can be changed. A determination part 114 determines whether or not the conditions for generating a notification image are met. If the determination part 114 determines that the conditions for generating a notification image are met, the notification image generation part 116 generates a notification image. The notification image indicates the operation adapted to change the display output mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Masaki Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20140118511
    Abstract: A autostereoscopic display system includes an autostereoscopic display configured to project images representing a left-eye view and a right-eye view of an image, an emitter configured to emit a tracer beam having a directional relationship to that of the projected images, a sensor configured to detect reflections of the tracer beam, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to control an emission of the tracer beam, receive feedback data from the sensor, use the feedback data to determine an impact site on the viewer corresponding to the tracer beam and adjust a direction of the tracer beam based on the impact site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Elwha LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare
  • Patent number: 8711062
    Abstract: In a structure in which six active matrix regions 103 to 108 are integrated on one glass substrate, horizontal scanning control circuits 101 and 102 are commonly disposed for the respective active matrix regions 103 to 105 and 106 to 108. Then the horizontal scanning control circuits 101 and 102 are operated at different timings, and images formed by the active matrix regions 103 to 105 and 106 to 108 are synthesized and projected. With this operation, the horizontal scanning frequency required for one horizontal scanning control circuit can be made half of the horizontal scanning frequency of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yoshiharu Hirakata, Jun Koyama, Satoshi Teramoto
  • Patent number: 8704878
    Abstract: An image display apparatus for displaying an image of an object on a screen by using a projector includes a three-dimensional image display unit having a plurality of screens overlaid but spaced apart from one another, each of the screens diffusing and reflecting part of the light incident thereon and transmitting the remainder of the light, and an image projection unit having a plurality of projectors, each of the projectors is assigned to the corresponding one of the screens and projects an image of the object on the screen. The image projection unit displays a three-dimensional image of the object in the three-dimensional image display unit by projecting on the screens the shapes of the object in sectioning positions corresponding to the positions of the screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Akihiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8704876
    Abstract: A 3D video processor that outputs a left-eye image and a right-eye image to be superimposed on main video includes: a left-eye object processing unit that outputs the left-eye image; a right-eye object processing unit that outputs the right-eye image; and an image output control unit that controls the left-eye object processing unit and the right-eye object processing unit so that the images are synchronously outputted. The left-eye object processing unit determines if image output preparation of the left-eye image is completed. The right-eye object processing unit determines if image output preparation of the right-eye image is completed. The image output control unit instructs to skip the output of both the images, when the image output preparation of one of the left-eye image and the right-eye image is not completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Mizobuchi, Yohei Ikeuchi, Shoji Kawamura, Kengo Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20140098201
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for rendering an image considering an orientation of a display may include a display mode determination unit to determining an expression mode of a display based on spatial information corresponding to eyes of a user, and an image rendering unit to render an image corresponding to the eye of the user based on the expression mode of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju Yong PARK, Chang Yeong KIM, Du Sik PARK, Dong Kyung NAM
  • Patent number: 8692872
    Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) glasses, a method for driving 3D glasses, and a system for providing a 3D image are provided. The 3D glasses driving method includes detecting a first pattern corresponding to a left eye image and a second pattern corresponding to a right eye image from a 3D display apparatus, converting the first pattern into a first histogram and the second pattern into a second histogram, comparing the converted first and second histograms with first and second optimal histograms, and adjusting an opening or a closing of a left eye glasses part and a right eye glasses part of the 3D glasses based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chan-young Jo
  • Publication number: 20140092223
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image, which is further composed of a multi-view 3D image combination method and a parallax barrier structure design, and is being used in a case when a common flat-panel display screen and a view separation device are used to display a 3D image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO.LTD
    Inventor: MING-YEN LIN
  • Publication number: 20140092224
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a viewer detector, and a viewing area information calculator. The viewer detector is configured to detect the number and a position of one or a plurality of viewers using an image captured by a camera. The viewing area information calculator is configured to calculate a control parameter so as to set a viewing area, in which a plurality of parallax images displayed on a display are viewed as a stereoscopic image, according to the number and the position of the viewers. The viewing area controller is configured to set the viewing area according to the control parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Osamu KASENO, Shinobu OKITSU
  • Patent number: 8684531
    Abstract: An image signal storing unit stores an image signal provided from the outside. An image processing unit appropriately processes the image signal stored in the image signal storing unit in accordance with the instruction from an adjusting unit. A projecting unit projects, onto a display area, light corresponding to an image created by the image processing unit. A display size determination unit computes the display size of the picture plane displayed on a screen based on an image captured by the camera provided adjacent to the projection-type video-image display device. The display size determination unit then determines whether or not the display size of the picture plane is equal to or larger than a predetermined upper-limit size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Vision3D Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ken Mashitani, Masutaka Inoue, Hideyuki Kanayama, Takashi Ikeda, Takahisa Ando, Kazuhiro Arai, Ryuhei Amano
  • Patent number: 8687043
    Abstract: A method of generating a stereoscopic image signal and scaling the same includes receiving a left-eye image signal and a right-eye image signal, generating a progressive stereoscopic image signal by multiplexing the left-eye image signal and the right-eye image signal, and scaling up or down the progressive stereoscopic image signal. Accordingly, it is possible to simplify a structure of an apparatus to generate the stereoscopic image signal and reduce manufacturing costs of the apparatus to generate the stereoscopic image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-sik Kim, Tae-hyeun Ha, Jae-phil Koo
  • Patent number: 8687051
    Abstract: A method for representing picture information on an autostereoscopic screen that is designed as a multiperson screen and that is suitable for the simultaneous display of a plurality of views which are visible in each case from at least one of different observation zones. The screen includes a matrix screen having a plurality of pixels as well as a beam splitter raster that is suitable for guiding light coming from the pixels, in each case into at least one of the observation zones. In the method, the pixels are activated with picture information of at least two different scenes, in a manner such that a first observer of the screen may exclusively see a first of the at least two scenes and a second observer of the screen may exclusively see a second of the at least two scenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Rene de la Barre, Silvio Jurk
  • Patent number: 8687054
    Abstract: A method and system for providing individualized video program content whereby currently available synchronized active shutter technology, such as is implemented in currently available 3-D televisions, and multiple channel audio technology, such as stereo, or 5:1 surround sound technology, is modified to provide two or more interlaced versions of at least a portion of a video program such that two or more “classes”, or types of viewers, can virtually simultaneously view separate versions of the portion of a video program in a single run of the video program, i.e., in the same viewing of the program by both types of viewers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Elwell, Alan Buhler, Marianne Y. Lu
  • Patent number: 8687050
    Abstract: A test pattern for evaluating L/R crosstalk extinction ratio in a stereoscopic 3D system has a strip of one characteristic—polarization, white, color—associated with a plurality of calibrated chips in a left eye image and a strip of a contrasting characteristic—orthogonal polarization, white, contrasting color—associated with a plurality of calibrated chips in a right eye image such that, when the two images are superimposed, the strip of one image overlays the calibrated chips of the other image. By alternately occluding one eye while observing the superimposed image with the other eye, a portion of the strip of the occluded eye image appears across the chips of the viewing eye image when there is crosstalk. The extinction ratio value associated with the chip of the viewing eye image that most closely matches the portion of the strip from the occluded eye image is an estimate of the L/R crosstalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel G. Baker
  • Publication number: 20140085437
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a multi-view display system. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a display screen to display multiple views simultaneously, and a controller to control the views presented on the display screen. The apparatus is configurable by the controller to provide multiple view settings, the view settings including a first setting in which the apparatus provides a single view to each viewer of the display screen and a second setting in which the apparatus provides a first view to a first viewer of the display screen and a second view to a second viewer of the display screen. A first filtering element filters views presented to viewers of the display screen such that an intended view is displayed to one or more viewers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Silicon Image, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Unkel, Lawrence L. Butcher, James G. Hanko, J. Duane Northcutt, Brian K. Schmidt, Edwin C. Seim
  • Publication number: 20140085436
    Abstract: Systems and methods for convergent 3D displays. In one embodiment, the 3D display has a display screen that includes a convergent reflector and a horizontally narrow angle diffuser. The convergent reflector focuses 2D images projected on the diffuser from an array of 2D image projectors to form viewpoints in an eyebox where one viewpoint corresponds to one projector. At a particular viewpoint, the viewer's eye sees a full-screen field of view from a corresponding projector in the array. The narrow angle diffuser diffuses incident rays projected from the 2D image projectors into narrow angular slices so that the views in the eyebox are continuously blended together. The system and methods provide advantages in that only a few projectors are required in the array to provide the viewer with a full-screen field of view and a sufficiently large eyebox for comfortable viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Third Dimension IP LLC
    Inventors: David L. Page, Clarence E. Thomas, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140085442
    Abstract: This parallax image display device is provided with an image acquiring unit that acquires a right-eye image and a left-eye image used for generating a parallax image enabling a stereoscopic view, an information volume distribution calculator that calculates an information volume distribution of the right-eye image and an information volume distribution of the left-eye image, and a parallax image generator that generates the parallax image from the right-eye image and the left-eye image on the basis of the information volume distribution of the right-eye image and the information volume distribution of the left-eye image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji ONO
  • Patent number: 8681184
    Abstract: A display unit for binocular representation of a multicolor image including a control unit triggering an imaging element such that the imaging element generates in a temporal successive manner the image to be displayed for a first beam path and a second beam path as a first image and second image, respectively. The images are generated in a pre-distorted manner, opposite of the chromatic aberration of the respective beam path, such that the chromatic aberration generated in the respective beam path is compensated when the first and second image is displayed. The display unit includes a switching module which operates in temporal synchrony with the first and second image being generated, such that a user can see the first image only via the first beam path and the second image only via the second beam path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Markus Seesselberg, Johannes Ruoff
  • Publication number: 20140078267
    Abstract: Every frame regarding an input video signal is changed into a sequence of subframes. Subframe data is generated from the input video signal while first and second tables are alternately used. The first and second tables are designed so that a number of subframes assigned a pixel activated state increases each time a drive gradation related to the input video signal increases by 1. According to the first table, a subframe newly assigned the pixel activated state is one following the subframe or subframes which have already been assigned the pixel activated state when the drive gradation increases from an odd number to a next even number. According to the second table, a subframe newly assigned the pixel activated state is one preceding the pixel-activated-state subframe or subframes in that case. A display device is driven in response to the generated subframe data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20140078273
    Abstract: This parallax image display device is provided with an image acquiring unit that acquires a left-eye image and a right-eye image, a parallax image display unit that has a parallax image display area including a left-eye region for displaying the left-eye image and a right-eye region for displaying the right-eye image, and a parallax image generating unit that generates the parallax image, wherein the parallax image display area is composed of unit region sets, each having a rectangular left-eye unit region and a right-eye unit region which is same in shape as the left-eye unit region; and the parallax image generation unit generates the parallax image by displaying the left-eye image in the left-eye region and displaying the right-eye image in the right-eye region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji ONO
  • Publication number: 20140078268
    Abstract: An image display device includes: an image display unit (100) that displays a plurality of parallax images corresponding to the number of view points for stereoscopic viewing on a screen of a display panel (100a); a parallax barrier (101) that is arranged facing the screen, and performs optical separation of the displayed parallax images; and an adaptive pitch adjustment unit (103) that adjusts, for each of regions of the display panel (100a), perform adjustment on a pitch of the parallax barrier (101) corresponding to the region in accordance with an amount of distortion of the display panel (100a) in the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: Tatsumi Watanabe, Nobuyuki Kuneda, Ken Mashitani
  • Patent number: 8674902
    Abstract: A method for generating a signal to display a three-dimensional (3D) image, and an image display apparatus using the same are disclosed. The method includes receiving a first synchronization signal, generating a second synchronization signal, and generating an output signal. Therefore, a user may satisfactorily view a 3D image regardless of whether the synchronization signal received from a display device reports errors or whether there is an obstruction between the display device and shutter glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-jin Park, Rustam Abdulaev, Tae-hyeun Ha
  • Patent number: 8675054
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The stereoscopic image display includes a display panel, that displays data of a 2D image in a 2D mode and display data of a 3D image in a 3D mode in a time division manner, and a data modulation unit that previously stores modified values satisfying a luminance of a predetermined gray level and modulates left eye image data or right eye image data input during a current frame period to a modified value selected based on the result of a comparison between right/left eye image data input during a previous frame period and the left/right eye image data of the current frame period using the previously stored modified values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sungmin Jung
  • Patent number: 8675050
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording controller configured to record picture data of a 3D picture and viewing environment information indicating an environment intended as a viewing environment for the 3D picture on a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Takafumi Morifuji
  • Patent number: 8675042
    Abstract: A distance to an object is measured for each of a series of left images, and the count of a distance range including the calculated distance increases. A distance range with the highest frequency of appearance is specified from the counter information of a distance table counter, and a left image in which the distance included in the specified distance range is measured is selected. The adjustment amount of the parallax amount adjusted for the selected left image and a corresponding right image is determined to be the adjustment amount of the parallax amount of a panorama image. A series of left images is combined to generate a panorama image and a series of right images is combined to generate a panorama image. A panorama image displayed in stereoscopic view is generated based on the determined adjustment amount of the parallax amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shimaya
  • Patent number: 8675053
    Abstract: There are provided a video processing apparatus and a video processing method. The video processing apparatus includes: a plurality of signal delay parts which sequentially store left-eye pixel information and right-eye pixel information that are alternately supplied; an interpolation unit which interpolates the right-eye pixel information and separately interpolates the left-eye pixel information; and an image generating unit which generates a left-eye image and a right-eye image based on the interpolated left-eye pixel information and the interpolated right-eye pixel information, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bong-geun Lee
  • Patent number: 8675056
    Abstract: Stereographic glasses includes reception-stop timing control means that is so arranged as to: (i) cause a wireless-signal receiving section to stop receiving signals, after a cycle detection section detects a cycle of synchronous signals and a liquid crystal shutter control data memory section stores liquid crystal shutter control data therein signals; (ii) cause a liquid crystal shutter control signal timing generation section to generate timings for controlling opening and closing of liquid crystal shutters, based on cycle signals generated by a cycle signal generation section and the liquid crystal shutter control data stored in the liquid crystal shutter control data memory section; and (iii) cause a liquid crystal shutter control section to open and close the liquid crystal shutters, at the timings thus generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihito Ishida
  • Publication number: 20140071255
    Abstract: A light source control device comprises a light source unit which emits parallel beams from an arbitrary position along a second axial direction which is orthogonal to a first axial direction, a light source control unit which controls an emitting position of the parallel beams of the light source unit, one or more deflectors which deflects the parallel beams emitted from the light source unit, and a first diffuser which diffuses the light beam, deflected by the deflector, in a third axial direction which is orthogonal to the first axial direction and the second axial direction, wherein the deflector is disposed to be tilted relative to the first axial direction, and yields a different deflection operation in a first element direction which is orthogonal to the deflector's own optical axis direction and in a second element direction which is orthogonal to both the optical axis direction and the first element direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Okuyama, Akio Nishimura, Toshikazu Ohtsuki, Daisuke Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20140071246
    Abstract: A method and device for producing and capturing three dimensional (“3D”) images by utilizing a matrix of reflex micro lens assemblies (“3DRML”) is provided. Each comprises a housing having a base structure, lateral walls surrounding the base structure, an open end defined by the walls, flex mirror assembly at the base structure and dual diode (or photodiodes (“PDs”) for capturing) projecting assembly. The projecting assembly has a parallax barrier extending from about the center of the mirror assembly and dividing it into two portions, and at least two light emitting diodes (“LEDs”) (or PD) affixed to the barrier away from the mirror assembly. LEDs project light to the mirror assembly (or PDs receive lights therefrom). Two lens assemblies at the open end correct and redirect the directions of light rays. PD (or LED), facing directly to the open end, may be added to capture (or produce) two dimensional images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventor: Scott Andrew Campbell
  • Patent number: 8670023
    Abstract: An electronic interaction apparatus for providing a 3D MMI is provided with a processing unit. The processing unit determines a first length between an object positioned at a first time and a surface formed by two digital camera modules, and a second length between the object positioned at a second time and the surface. Also, the processing unit determines a third length between the object positioned at a third time and the surface, and determines a depth in a virtual 3D space corresponding to the object positioned at the third time according to the first length, the second length, and the third length. Particularly, the virtual 3D space is displayed in a display screen, the third time is later than the first time and the second time, and the third length is longer than the first length and shorter than the second length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventors: Yueh-Wei Hu, Cheng-Che Chen, Ting Chiou
  • Publication number: 20140063210
    Abstract: A method of operation of a display system includes: determining a correction profile for adjusting an intended image based on a viewing aide; and generating an adjusted output image based on the correction profile for displaying on a device and for perceiving the intended image through the viewing aide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Li Tao
  • Publication number: 20140063211
    Abstract: A naked eye type and glasses type switchable stereoscopic display device includes a display panel and a switching module. The display panel provides first display image and second display image. The switching module includes a first transparent electrode, a second transparent electrode, a liquid crystal layer, and an electric field uniforming layer. The electric field uniforming layer is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the second transparent electrode. The liquid crystal layer is driven by the second transparent electrode through the electric field uniforming layer to form liquid crystal lenses under a naked eye type stereoscopic display mode; the switching module provides a first phase retardation mode and a second phase retardation mode under a glasses type display mode. The first phase retardation mode provides a first polarization state to the first display image; the second phase retardation mode provides a second polarization state to the second display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicants: WINTEK CORPORATION, Dongguan Masstop Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chong-Yang Fang, Wen-Chun Wang, Chia-Hsiung Chang, Yan-Yu Su, Chia-Hung Yeh, Wei-Chou Chen
  • Patent number: 8665323
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display apparatus includes: a plurality of light-emitting devices; a power supply line for supplying current to the light-emitting devices; a switching device provided on the power supply line; a glasses control circuit which generates a glasses control signal for setting, in a pair of shutter-type glasses, a non-viewable period in which both the right-eye image and the left-eye image are made non-viewable at the same time; and a power supply control circuit which generates a device control signal for setting, in the switching device, a voltage reduced period in which the voltage between the electrodes in the light-emitting device is reduced, in which the glasses control circuit and the power supply control circuit control the shutter-type glasses and the switching device, respectively, for setting the non-viewable period to be a period at least from a start to an end of the voltage reduced period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke Izawa
  • Patent number: 8665518
    Abstract: A display method and system are described for displaying a stereo image comprising a first image and a second image. A light valve array comprising an array of light valve elements is driven according to an image and a light source is provided for generating a shaped light beam which can illuminate a portion of the light valve array. A scanning device is provided which is arranged to scan the shaped light beam across the light valve array. Light valve elements of the same light valve array are caused to sequentially adopt a state representative of the first image of the stereoscopic image and a state representative of the second image, and to cause the light valve elements to adopt a new state representative of one of the first and second images in advance of the scanning by the shaped light beam and to change to a new state representative of the other of the first and second images during a period between successive scans of the shaped light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Barco N.V.
    Inventors: Bart Maximus, Gino Priem
  • Patent number: 8665321
    Abstract: An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating an image display apparatus includes receiving a 3-dimensional (3D) image, detecting the depth of the 3D image, performing 3D processing on an audio signal received in synchronization with the 3D image in correspondence with the detected depth, and outputting the audio signal subjected to 3D processing. Thus, it is possible to output the audio signal in correspondence with the depth of the 3D image during 3D image display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Tacksung Choi, Sungyong Yoon, Hyunkook Lee, Junghwan Hwang, Dongseok Kim, Byeongmoon Jeon, Jaewon Sung
  • Publication number: 20140055581
    Abstract: The present invention concerns the field of stereoscopic vision systems and more particularly the management of the position of the focal plane in a stereoscopic scene. The invention aims to propose a method for managing the focal plane within a stereoscopic image or a sequence of stereoscopic images. A translation of the right and left images is effected in order to place the focal plane in front of the scene viewed. Advantageously, the depth of the major objects of the scene is estimated by a division of the images into a plurality of zones and estimation of the depth of each of the zones. The depth of the focal plane is then calculated so that most of the scene is behind the focal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Alexandre Delattre, Jerome Larrieu
  • Publication number: 20140055580
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a depth of field maintaining apparatus, a 3D display system and a display method. The depth of field maintaining apparatus comprises: a 3D video signal input device; a position measuring device; an image processing device; and a 3D video signal output device, wherein the 3D video signal input device, the position measuring device and the 3D video signal output device are connected to the image processing device, the 3D video signal input device transmits an acquired 3D video signal to the image processing device, the position measuring device transmits detected position information of the viewer and the display screen to the image processing device, and the image processing device adjusts a space between corresponding object points in left and right eye images in a 3D video signal in accordance with the position information, such that a depth of field remains unchanged, and transmits a adjusted 3D video signal to the 3D video signal output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanshun Chen, Youmei Dong, Yanbing Wu
  • Publication number: 20140049622
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display device, a method, and a program for allowing a high quality stereoscopic image to be presented more easily. A display unit is a display device for four viewpoints, including a parallax barrier, and a plurality of block regions, each including pixels in channels CH0 to CH3 arranged in a parallax direction, are arranged on the display unit in the parallax direction. An assignment control unit assigns a parallax image for a left eye or for a right eye to a pixel in each channel in a block region according to the viewpoint position of a user. For example, the same parallax image is assigned to pixels in two different channels that are adjacent to each other in the parallax direction. A generation unit generates a combined image by combining parallax images for a left eye and for a right eye according to the assignment by the assignment control unit, and causes the combined image to be stereoscopically displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Shingo Tsurumi, Noriyuki Yamashita, Masaya Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20140049621
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention relates to a 3D display device and a method for driving the 3D display device, the 3D display device comprising an Active Retarder (AR) (200) and a display panel (100), the display panel (100) comprising N first pixel regions and N second pixel regions, N being an integer larger than or equal to 1, the AR (200) comprising 2N signal electrode sets, each signal electrode set comprises at least one signal electrode, and each signal electrode set corresponding to at least one pixel region of the display panel (100). The embodiments of the present invention also relate to an image processing method and a 3D display device, which can avoid prominent variation in lightness received by the left and right eye when switching from a current frame to a next frame, and thus flicking can be eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanbing WU
  • Patent number: 8654182
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display unit which periodically arranges and displays a plurality of images and a parallax barrier which is disposed in front of a pixel plane of the display unit and separates light from the display unit. The display device includes a disparity extraction unit which extracts information on a distribution of disparities between the view images, a parameter calculation unit which calculates a shift amount based on the disparity distribution information, a shift processing unit which performs shift processing on at least one of the view images based on the calculated shift amount, and a mapping processing unit which rearranges the at least one shift-processed view image on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Ishikawa, Kazunari Yoshifuji, Yota Komoriya, Isao Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20140043440
    Abstract: The present invention provides 3D glasses, a 3D display system and a 3D displaying method. The 3D display system comprises: 3D glasses, comprising a first sensor disposed on the 3D glasses for detecting an action of a head of a wearer and a second sensor disposed on the 3D glasses for detecting an action of an eyeball of the wearer; 3D display device, including a screen for displaying a 3D image; and a controller, for controlling a first operation of the 3D display device according to the action of the head, and controlling a second operation of the 3D display device according to the action of the eyeball. The 3D display system provided by the present invention can control the first and second operation of the 3D display device in response to the action of the head and the eyeball, so as to achieve human-machine interaction without any intermediate device. Therefore, it has the advantage of convenient use, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hao Tang, Shuang Xu
  • Publication number: 20140043449
    Abstract: A stereo image output method includes: providing a request command; outputting current image frame information from a storage unit in response to the request command, and triggering an image synchronization operation to update the image frame information in the storage unit; and outputting a set of stereo images from a memory according to the image frame information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventor: Shih-Han Hung
  • Patent number: 8648896
    Abstract: A stereoscopic optical system includes, at a distal end of an insertion part of an endoscope, a two-path forming optical system for forming two paths of rays involving a parallax, an image forming optical system for forming images out of light travelling along the respective paths of rays in the two-path forming optical system onto a common region, and an image sensor arranged at an image forming position of the image forming optical system. The stereoscopic optical system is further provided with a time-division path switching means that is capable of switching between the two paths of rays in a time-division manner so that only light coming from either one of the two paths of rays formed by the two-path forming optical system enters the image forming optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventor: Susumu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8648876
    Abstract: There is provided a display including a display unit which periodically arranges and displays a plurality of view images, an acquisition unit which acquires information on a position of an observer, a calculation unit which sets a target viewing zone based on the information on the position of the observer, and a control unit which selects an arrangement of the view images that gives a viewing zone similar to the target viewing zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunari Yoshifuji, Takanori Ishikawa, Yota Komoriya, Isao Ohashi