Separation By Lenticular Screen Patents (Class 348/59)
  • Publication number: 20140146091
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel for displaying an image toward a plurality of viewing zones; a light guide plate under the display panel; a lens array disposed along a side of the light guide plate, the lens array including a plurality of lenses; a light source part including a plurality of line light sources each emitting a ray toward the lens array; a position sensing unit for obtaining a position information about the plurality of viewing zones; and a control unit for controlling the display panel, the light source part and the position sensing unit according to the position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoon KANG, Jung-Eun SON, Joo-Bong HYUN, Jee-Hwan OH
  • Patent number: 8736675
    Abstract: In one implementation, a system includes a multi-core processor and an optical display with a plurality of hogels. Each hogel is configured to radiate light in a plurality of directions, with controllable intensities in each of the plurality of directions. The multi-core processor is coupled to the optical display and configured to control the hogels. The multi-core processor includes at least two cores, an on-chip memory, and a master processor in a single integrated circuit package. The master processor may be a general-purpose on-chip processor, such as a core in the multi-core processor, that is used to coordinated operations of the other cores. Each of the cores is configured to receive hogel data and to generate signals for a corresponding subset of the plurality of hogels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Zebra Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Holzbach, Mark E. Lucente, Thomas L. Burnett, III
  • Publication number: 20140132726
    Abstract: An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a camera configured to capture image; a display configured to display a three-dimensional content screen, and a controller configured to change at least one of a depth of a predetermined object in the 3D content screen or an on screen display (OSD) if the OSD is included in the 3D content screen, wherein the display displays a 3D content screen including the object or OSD having the changed depth. Accordingly, it is possible to increase user convenience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngkyung JUNG, Jayoen KIM, Kyoungha 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: 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: 8704884
    Abstract: A switchable autostereoscopic display device comprising: a display panel having an array of display pixels for producing a display, the display pixels being arranged in rows and columns; an array of lens elements arranged over the display panel for directing the light output of the display pixels so as to provide a stereoscopic image, the lens elements comprising an electro-optic material whose refractive index is switchable by selective application of an electric field between a first value that maintains the light output directing function and a second value that removes the light output directing function; and electrode arrangements provided above and below the lens elements for applying the electric field across the lens elements. At least one of the electrode arrangements comprises first and second electrode layers separated by a dielectric layer, and each electrode layer comprises a plurality of parallel elongate electrodes separated by gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Martin Gerard Hendrik Hiddink, Siebe Tjerk De Zwart, Oscar Hendrikus Willemsen
  • Publication number: 20140098205
    Abstract: An image display device displays a plurality of image elements of a left-view image and a plurality of image elements of a right-view image on a display in alternation in a horizontal direction, and displays an image element of a black image between each adjacent pairing of an image element of the left-view image and an image element of the right-view image. The image display device uses a parallax barrier to ensure that a left eye of a viewer only views the left-view image and that a right eye of the viewer only views the right-view image. Through the above configuration the image display device reduces occurrence of cross-talk regardless of position of the viewer or shape of the parallax barrier, and improves image quality of a stereoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventors: Tohru Usukura, Ken Mashitani
  • Patent number: 8687273
    Abstract: In an image display device having a parallax barrier element, a bright display with a broad viewing range can be realized. The image display device according to the present invention includes: a display panel having a first group of pixels for displaying a first image and a second group of pixels for displaying a second image; and a parallax barrier element for separating display light emitted from the first group of pixels and display light emitted from the second group of pixels, the parallax barrier element including a plurality of light-shielding portions and a plurality of light-transmitting portions which are alternately positioned within the same plane. The parallax barrier element includes converging elements respectively provided for the plurality of light-transmitting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukushima, Koji Yabuta, Tomoo Takatani
  • Publication number: 20140078274
    Abstract: A lenticular lens based autostereoscopic display arrangement uses a display arrangement such as an emissive display arrangement or a reflective display arrangement. The interface between adjacent lenticular lenses (49) is interrupted by a light shielding arrangement (50), which extends at least from the lens surface at the interface into the lens structure, thereby providing a shield extending beneath the lens surface. This reduces lateral progression of light in the lenticular lens arrangement and thereby reduces cross talk caused by waveguiding in the lens material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Bart Kroon, Mark Thomas Johnson, Martinus Hermanus Wilhelmus Maria Van Delden, Philip Steven Newton
  • 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: 8675125
    Abstract: A minimized-thickness angular scanner of electromagnetic radiation includes an optical sandwich having a two-dimensional (2D) image source, and a scanning assembly that includes a first optic and a second optic, wherein at least one of the first optic and the second optic are oscillatorily translating. Translation of the optics provides for generation of a three-dimensional (3D) image, while the optical sandwich design provides for compact implementation of 3D displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Parellel Consulting Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: Oliver Cossairt, Gregg E. Favalora
  • 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: 20140063213
    Abstract: A method for moving viewing positions of a stereoscopic image display system is disclosed. Each cylindrical lens is tilted relative to vertical lines. A data stripe for left eye and a data stripe for right eye making up stereoscopic image data are alternately set to correspond to the cylindrical lenses. At a home position, a long axis of the cylindrical lens agrees with the center of each data stripe, thus concentrating light at a predetermined concentrating position. When setting stereoscopic image data at a different position of sub-pixels that is shifted vertically downward from the home position, the center of the data stripe is shifted relative to the long axis by 0.5 times the length of the sub-pixels horizontally to the left thus concentrating light at a concentrating position moved from the home position in the left-right direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: MORIYUKI TSUCHIHASHI, YI ZHENG
  • Patent number: 8654390
    Abstract: A lenticular print and method of producing that substantially reduces progressive pixel misalignment to produce a lenticular print that has increased angular resolution. The lenticular print includes a dot matrix pixel arrangement that is rotated with respect to the X-Y axis of a printer. The printed output of the rotated dot matrix pixel arrangement requires substantially no re-sampling interpolation. The lenticular print includes a conventional lenticular sheet having a plurality of convex shaped lenticular elements wherein the axis of the lenticular elements are substantially aligned with the axis of the pixel direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Inventor: Robert Chih-Jen Chi
  • Publication number: 20140043452
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described herein for lenticular directional displays having an image source layer and a directional layer. A control system can be configured to execute various methods for obtaining first content and second content, the first content being associated with a first viewpoint and the second content being associated with a second viewpoint. The control system can also display the first content and the second content at the image source layer adjacent to the directional layer such that the first content is visible at the first viewpoint and the second content is visible at the second viewpoint. The control system can determine that the first viewpoint or the second viewpoint has changed relative to the display, and modify at least one of the first content or the second content in response to determining that the first viewpoint or the second viewpoint has changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Edward Alex Ehrlacher
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8643704
    Abstract: A method for generating stereoscopic images with retinal rivalry effects. The method includes retrieving primary eye images and alternate eye images from memory. These images are filmed from horizontally offset cameras but include the same content. The method continues with processing the alternate eye images to introduce retinal rivalry such as by including a set of frames that have differing content from a corresponding set of frames from the primary eye images. The differing content, for example, may include an object rendered for the alternate eye that was not rendered in the primary eye images. The method may further include editing the primary eye images by inserting a transition and then editing the alternate eye images to perform the transition (e.g., a dissolve or cut) at a temporally offset transition point such as several frames later to introduce frames that differ in content from one eye stream to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Neuman
  • Patent number: 8640182
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for detecting a viewing apparatus, and causing a presentation device to present a media program in a time division multiplexed (TDM) scheme or a space division multiplexing (SDM) scheme responsive to said detection, wherein the viewing apparatus is configured to the TDM or SDM schemes to enable viewing of the media program. Other embodiments are disclosed and contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: James Carlton Bedingfield, Sr.
  • Publication number: 20140015942
    Abstract: An adaptive monoscopic and stereoscopic display system is disclosed. The display system includes a display, a 3D sheet mounted to the display, and a processor to adapt the display according to whether the 3D sheet is mounted to the display. The display includes at least one lock to hold the 3D sheet in place and at least one sensor to facilitate alignment of the 3D sheet and calibration of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventor: Amir Said
  • Patent number: 8624961
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for 3-D display based on random constructive interference. It produces a number of discrete secondary light sources by using an amplitude-phase-modulator-array, which helps to create 3-D images by means of constructive interference. Next it employs a random-secondary-light-source-generator-array to shift the position of each secondary light source to a random place, eliminating multiple images due to high order diffraction. It could be constructed with low resolution liquid crystal screens to realize large size real-time color 3-D display, which could widely be applied to 3-D computer or TV screens, 3-D human-machine interaction, machine vision, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Inventor: Zhiyang Li
  • Patent number: 8614771
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display panel, a first substrate over the display panel, a plurality of first electrodes on the first substrate, a plurality of second electrodes alternately arranged with the plurality of first electrodes, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a replica layer on the second substrate and having a concave pattern of half-cylinder shape, the concave pattern facing the second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer in the concave pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung-Ki Hong, Byung-Joo Lee, Sung-Min Jung, Ju-Un Park, Hyun-Ho Shin
  • Patent number: 8599248
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel, a temporal division plate and a lenticular lens. The display panel includes a gate line, a data line, and a unit pixel of a horizontal pixel structure in which a long side is parallel with the first direction and a short side is parallel with the second direction. The display panel displays a 2D image based on an image control signal. The temporal division plate includes a plurality of shutters disposed on the display panel extending in the second direction. The temporal division plate opens and closes m shutters corresponding to each unit pixel, in a sequence, ‘m’ being a natural number no less than 2). The lenticular lens is disposed on the temporal division plate to convert the 2D image passing the temporal division plate into a 3D image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwi Kim, Hae-Young Yun, Kyung-Ho Jung, Seung-Hoon Lee, Hee-Seop Kim, Jian-Gang Lu, Jung-Hwan Yi
  • Publication number: 20130307948
    Abstract: A 3-dimensional image display device includes: a backlight unit; a barrier panel above the backlight unit and including unit barriers which selectively blocks light; a lenticular lens array above the barrier panel and including lenticular lenses, each having a principal point; a liquid crystal panel above the lenticular lens array; an eye tracking sensor which detects a position of eyes of a viewer and a distance between the principal point of the lenticular lenses and the eyes; and a controller which controls the backlight unit, the barrier panel and the liquid crystal panel based on an output of the eye tracking sensor, where the controller turns on and off the unit barriers such that light passes through the principal point of the lenticular lenses to apply a right-eye image to a right eye of the viewer and apply a left-eye image to a left eye of the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota ODAKE, Se Joon OH, Goro HAMAGISHI
  • Publication number: 20130293691
    Abstract: On a display device, a lenticular lens is arranged in a state where a periodic direction thereof is inclined with respect to the horizontal direction. Within a maximum predetermined viewing angle defined by two viewpoint images with the largest parallax, a viewpoint adjustment unit sets a first angular region where there is a high possibility that one or more eyes may be present when an observer observes the display device, and a second angular region where there is a low possibility that one or more eyes may be present. The viewpoint adjustment unit adjusts the viewpoints so that a parallax between adjacent viewpoint images in viewpoint images to be presented in the first angular region is reduced more than a parallax between adjacent viewpoint images in viewpoint images to be presented in the second angular region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventor: Atsushi SAITO
  • Patent number: 8576277
    Abstract: A display device capable of displaying a stereoscopic image has improved display quality when displaying a 2-D image by filtering to include image data from surrounding pixels in output data corresponding to a specific pixel based on weight values. The data of the specific pixel is influenced by the surrounding pixels, to display the data of the specific pixel in a wider range. As a result, non-recognition of a thin line or character at an arbitrary angle may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo-Young Kim, Cheol-Wo Park
  • Publication number: 20130286170
    Abstract: It is provided a method for providing mono-vision in a multi-view system comprising at least two views of the same scene and at least one viewing zone, wherein, each viewing zone is provided with two views, and the at least two views are arranged in a way that two adjacent views among the at least two views are provided to each viewing zone so as to provide stereo-vision. The method comprises the steps of receiving an instruction requesting a viewing zone to provide mono-vision; and rearranging the at least two views in a way that two views provided to the viewing zone that provides mono-vision are of the same view as one among the at least two views. An apparatus thereof is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Peng Qin, Sinan Shangguan, Lin Du
  • Patent number: 8570367
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a main body, a 2-dimensional display panel and a display-mode switching device. The main body includes a first surface. The 2-dimensional display panel is mounted in the first surface for selectively displaying 2-dimensional images, and left and right parallax images. The display-mode switching device includes a lenticular lens sheet capable of directing the left parallax image light beams to a left eye of the viewer and directing the right parallax image light beams to a right eye of the viewer. The display-mode switching device is movably mounted on the main body between a first position where the lenticular lens sheet is overlaid on the 2-dimensional display panel to convert the left and right parallax images into stereoscopic images and a second position where the lenticular lens sheet is moved away from the 2-dimensional display panel such that the 2-dimensional display panel displays the 2-dimensional images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jen-Tsorng Chang
  • Publication number: 20130278736
    Abstract: A plurality of pixels is arrayed on a display device. On the display device, a lenticular lens is arranged in a state where a periodic direction thereof is inclined with respect to a horizontal direction. The lenticular lens divides video data of N different viewpoints into separate viewpoint directions, presents the divided video data, and creates stereoscopic vision. In the event of assigning respective pieces of pixel data of video data composed of less than N viewpoint images to the plurality of pixels and displaying the pixel data, the drive unit lowers brightness of pixel data of viewpoint images seen to overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventor: Atsushi SAITO
  • Patent number: 8564755
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal lens, a controlling method thereof and a 3-Dimensional (3D) display using the same. The liquid crystal lens includes a pair of electrode structures which are arranged apart from each other; and a liquid crystal layer which is arranged between the pair of electrode structures and includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules aligned in an initial aligning direction in which the liquid crystal layer has a non-lens effect. The pair of electrode structures are arranged to generate a first electric field which is used to change aligning directions of the liquid crystal molecules to make the liquid crystal layer have a lens effect. The pair of electrode structures are further arranged to generate a second electric field which is used to make the liquid crystal molecules revert to the initial aligning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Shenzhen Super Perfect Optics Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-wei Chen, Po-chuan Chen, Yi-pai Huang, Jian-jun Li
  • Patent number: 8553070
    Abstract: An image signal processing device is provided which includes a receiving unit for receiving an image signal and setting information for each predetermined unit of the image signal including image type setting information to define whether the image signal represents a stereoscopic image and gamma correction setting information to define a gamma correction amount for the image signal, a gamma correcting unit for performing gamma correction for the image signal based on the gamma correction setting information included in the setting information received by the receiving unit, and a stereoscopic image processing unit for selectively performing a process to display the stereoscopic image for the image signal corrected by the gamma correcting unit based on the image type setting information included in the setting information received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 8537208
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for displaying a three-dimensional image according to the position of a user, in which the distance between a display panel displaying a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional optical panel converting a two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional image is controlled in accordance with the position of the user to provide an optimized three-dimensional image. The apparatus includes a three-dimensional optical device converting a displayed two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional image, a position measurement module measuring the position of the user who converges on the three-dimensional image, a crosstalk calculator calculating the level of crosstalk that can occur in the position of the user, and a driver adjusting a position of the three-dimensional optical device if the level of crosstalk exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-seob Ryu, Tae-hee Kim, Soo-hyun Bae, Jun-il Sohn, Yong-beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20130222558
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, pixel processor includes: storage module; first adder; and second adder. Storage module stores initial parallax, initial coordinate, parallax difference, and coordinate difference. Initial parallax represents parallax of predetermined pixel. Initial coordinate represents coordinate of parallax image information of the predetermined pixel. Parallax difference is for calculating, from parallax of one pixel, parallax of other pixel. Coordinate difference is for calculating, from coordinate of parallax image information of one pixel, coordinate of parallax image information of other pixel. First adder adds the parallax difference to the initial parallax to calculate parallax of other pixel, and repeats adding the parallax difference to the calculated parallax to calculate parallax of each pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Yutaka YAMADA, Masayuki Tokunaga, Tatsuo Saishu
  • Patent number: 8493439
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image display apparatus having improved resolution and an expanded elementary three-dimensional space is disclosed. The three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a display device (22) sampling, multiplexing and displaying a plurality of parallax images so as to implement a three-dimensional image and a lenticular lens plate (24) provided on the front surface of the display device (22) and having a vertical axis (25) tilted from a vertical axis of the display device by a predetermined angle ?, wherein the number of parallax images included in an elementary three-dimensional image of the three-dimensional image is a multiple of 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Tae Soo Park
  • Patent number: 8493440
    Abstract: A switchable autostereoscopic display device comprises a display panel having an array of display pixels for producing a display, the display pixels being arranged in rows and columns; and an imaging arrangement for directing the output from different pixels to different spatial positions to enable a stereoscopic image to be viewed. The imaging arrangement is electrically switchable between at least three modes comprising a 2D mode and two 3D modes. The imaging arrangement comprises an electrically configurable graded index lens array. The display can be switched between a number of modes to enable the display to be adapted or to adapt itself to the image content to be displayed and/or the display device orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn, Gerardus Petrus Karman, Willem Lubertus Ijzerman, Oscar Henrikus Willemsen
  • Patent number: 8482597
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device comprises a display panel, and a lens panel disposed on one surface of the display panel, wherein the lens panel includes, a lower substrate, a lower electrode layer having electrodes divided in plurality on one surface of the lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed on the lower electrode layer and tilted in a lens form, an upper substrate combined to the lower substrate, and an upper electrode layer disposed on one surface of the upper substrate and having pattern omissions where a part of electrodes is omitted in areas corresponding to a surface of discontinuity of the lens form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungeun Son, Heejin Im
  • Patent number: 8477181
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a viewer detector that performs face recognition using a video photographed by a camera and acquires position information of a viewer, a correction amount calculator that calculates a correction amount for compensating for an error of the position information involved in deviation of an attaching position of the camera, a position information corrector that corrects the position information using the correction amount calculated by the correction amount calculator, a viewing area information calculator that calculates, using the position information corrected by the position information corrector, a control parameter for setting a viewing area in which the viewer is set, and a viewing area controller that controls the viewing area according to the control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshihiro Morohoshi, Yutaka Irie, Shinzo Matsubara, Yuichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 8466953
    Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus and method for providing a stereoscopic display in electronic devices with a diffractive exit pupil expander using sequentially switching between right and left images of one display (e.g., microdisplay). An optical delivery system can provide a sequential left and right image of the display and the illumination is then switched for left and right accordingly using exit pupil expander (EPE) with asymmetric, e.g., highly slanted, in-coupling gratings, sending light practically to only one direction (e.g., one area of the EPE substrate).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Tapani Levola
  • Publication number: 20130147932
    Abstract: A stereoscopic video display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a plane display device having a display face in which a first pixel and a second pixel having an equal area and different shapes are arranged alternately in a row direction and a column direction; an optical plate disposed in front of the display face of the plane display device; a video generation unit generating a video for stereoscopic image display and a video for two-dimensional image display from a video signal; and a luminance control unit changing luminance values of the first and second pixels which are adjacent to each other when displaying the video generated and exercising control to cause an average luminance of the first pixel and the second pixel before the change and an average luminance of the first pixel and the second pixel after the change to become equal to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Inventors: Masayuki Tokunaga, Tatsuo Saishu
  • Publication number: 20130128019
    Abstract: A display device (1) includes: a parallax barrier producing a plurality of sight line directions of the parallax video images displayed in a display section (60) so that the parallax video images are displayed separately in the plurality of sight line directions; and a display controlling section (10) controlling, for each of the plurality of sight line directions, display of the parallax video images and allowing a stereoscopic video image to be viewed via liquid crystal shutter glasses (70), the parallax video images being displayed separately in the plurality of sight line directions produced by the parallax barrier. Thereby, the display device (1) can allow a plurality of viewers to respectively view video images of different display modes by using a parallax barrier, when the display device (1) allows a viewer to view the stereoscopic video image via the liquid-crystal shutter glasses (70) for switching whether or not to allow each of right and left eyes to view the stereoscopic video image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideharu Tajima, Go Mori
  • Patent number: 8446460
    Abstract: An autostereoscopic display includes a display panel, a lenticular lens assembly, a driver, a number of camera modules, and a controller. The lenticular lens assembly includes an array of cylindrical lenses and is rotatably hung above the display panel. The driver is configured for driving the lenticular lens assembly to rotate about an axis that is substantially parallel to the lengthwise direction of the cylindrical lenses. The camera modules are arranged beside the display panel and oriented at different angles. The controller is configured for controlling the camera modules to take images in sequence and controlling the driver to rotate the lenticular lens assembly to an orientation at the same angle as a corresponding camera module when the display panel plays an image taken by the camera module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jen-Tsorng Chang
  • Publication number: 20130107024
    Abstract: A light-field display is provided that renders a light-field at one or more viewing apertures through a microlens array. The light-field display includes a display such as a monitor that is positioned behind the microlens array. The monitor and the microlens array are positioned so that light emitted from a pixel of the monitor reaches the one or more apertures through at most one microlens from the microlens array. For each microlens in the microlens array, the pixels of the monitor visible through that microlens of the microlens array at the one or more apertures is determined, and a light-field is then rendered at each of the one or more viewing apertures by rendering the determined pixels corresponding to each microlens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Microsoft Corporation
  • Patent number: 8427532
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image display apparatus displays element images each composed of a set of parallax component images. An exit pupil array is located opposite the display surface. Exit pupils of the array correspond to the respective element images. The horizontal pitch of the exit pupils or an integral multiple of the horizontal pitch is set equal or slightly smaller than an integral multiple of the horizontal pitch of pixels. The parallax component images are oriented in different directions via the exit pupil. Principal beams from the parallax component images via the exit pupils are emitted substantially parallel to one another. The element image contains substantially the same parallax image component in two pixel areas in which two adjacent parallax image components are otherwise displayed. The same parallax image component is oriented in different directions via the corresponding exit pupil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Rieko Fukushima, Tatsuo Saishu, Yuzo Hirayama
  • Patent number: 8427531
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a display device including a display panel including pixels, and an optical plate controlling light rays emitted from pixels; a camera provided in the display device; a face tracking unit making a decision whether a viewer exists in front of the display device based on an image picked up by the camera, and if the viewer exists, sampling and detecting a distance from the display device to the viewer and a position of the viewer; a memory storing the position of the viewer sampled and detected by the face tracking unit; and an image display control unit estimating the position of the viewer based on the position of the viewer stored in the memory and driving and controlling the display panel on based on the estimated position, when the face tracking unit does not recognize that the viewer exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takashima, Kiyoshi Hoshino
  • Patent number: 8427746
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a stereoscopic image display system and a method of controlling the same. An eye tracking module locates current 3D spatial positions of the viewer's eyes, and generates the information of both left and right eyes' current 3D spatial positions. A control module controls a display device that can alter the direction of the light outputted, and outputs images on the display device in time multiplex mode. The light containing the left eye image is outputted to the position of left eye instead of right eye at one time point, and the light containing the right eye image is outputted to the position of right eye instead of left eye at another time point, so that a stereoscopic image is perceived according to the parallax theory. The present invention enlarges the visual range of stereoscopic image and achieves a better stereoscopic image visual experience for viewers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Infovision Optoelectronics (Kunshan) Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Bingyu Si
  • Patent number: 8422131
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display is provided. The stereoscopic display is able to control a viewing position and make a viewing angel wide. On top of a display panel, an image is provided through a plurality of pixels and is separated to a left-eye image and a right-eye image by a lenticular lens. An elastic membrane prism array controls an angle of emitted light. An elastic membrane prism array is disposed on the lenticular lens or on and under the lenticular lens. The elastic membrane prism array includes a prism body having a first chamber and a second chamber, a wall disposed between the first and second chamber, a prism plate connected to the wall, a piston adapted for moving back-and-forth and a transporting tube disposed between the piston and the prism body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwi Kim, Hae-Young Yun, Jiangang Lu, Kyung-Ho Jung, Seung-Hoon Lee, Jung-hwan Yi, Hee-Seop Kim
  • Patent number: 8416287
    Abstract: A display device reduces the image quality degradations by suppressing the effect of the defective alignment regions caused by the spacers while minimizing the aperture ratio lowering, and prevents the image quality change dependent on the observation positions. The display device has a display panel and a lenticular lens. Each unit pixel of the display panel includes the sub-pixel for the left eye and the sub-pixel for the right eye. To keep the pair of substrates at a predetermined gap, spacers are arranged at predetermined positions in the gap. The spacers are stripe-shaped and extended along a direction perpendicular to the image separation axis of the lenticular lens. The spacers are equally overlapped with the sub-pixels for the left eye and those for the right eye. The spacers may be isolated for the respective unit pixels, or the first or second sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Hiroya, Shinichi Uehara, Koji Shigemura
  • Patent number: 8416289
    Abstract: A light-field display is provided that renders a light-field at one or more viewing apertures through a microlens array. The light-field display includes a display such as a monitor that is positioned behind the microlens array. The monitor and the microlens array are positioned so that light emitted from a pixel of the monitor reaches the one or more apertures through at most one microlens from the microlens array. For each microlens in the microlens array, the pixels of the monitor visible through that microlens of the microlens array at the one or more apertures is determined, and a light-field is then rendered at each of the one or more viewing apertures by rendering the determined pixels corresponding to each microlens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Kurt Akeley
  • Patent number: 8402502
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, presenting a plurality of unassociated media programs from a single presentation device having overlapping presentation periods, receiving information from a viewing apparatus to adjust an intensity of emitted light associated with one of the unassociated media programs, and adjusting the intensity of the emitted light in a manner that is detectable by the viewing apparatus supplying the information. Other embodiments are disclosed and contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Troy Meuninck, William Brown, Nadia Morris, James Carlton Bedingfield, Sr.
  • Patent number: 8384772
    Abstract: It is made possible to provide a three-dimensional image display device by which an alarm image with high visibility can be displayed at the end of the viewing zone in a parallel-ray one-dimensional IP system, without a reduction of the viewing zone or a decrease in processing speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tatsuo Saishu, Rieko Fukushima
  • Patent number: 8379178
    Abstract: In an image display device where a lenticular lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in order from a viewer side, when cylindrical lenses of the lenticular lens are arrayed in a horizontal direction, in first-viewpoint pixels and second-viewpoint pixels of the display panel, openings whose sides which intersect with straight lines in the horizontal direction are not parallel to a vertical direction are formed. And, a shape of the openings of a pair of pixels mutually adjacent in the vertical direction is made line-symmetric with respect to edges of the pixels extending in the horizontal direction as an axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Masao Iriguchi, Naoyasu Ikeda, Nobuaki Takanashi