Separation By Lenticular Screen Patents (Class 348/59)
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Patent number: 8416287Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 25, 2008Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Hiroya, Shinichi Uehara, Koji Shigemura
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Patent number: 8416289Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Kurt Akeley
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Patent number: 8402502Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 16, 2010Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Troy Meuninck, William Brown, Nadia Morris, James Carlton Bedingfield, Sr.
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Patent number: 8384772Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 31, 2007Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tatsuo Saishu, Rieko Fukushima
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Patent number: 8379178Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 6, 2011Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Masao Iriguchi, Naoyasu Ikeda, Nobuaki Takanashi
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Patent number: 8368745Abstract: An image display apparatus and method to simultaneously display two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) images with minimized visual 3D discomfort. The image display apparatus may include a lens unit to spatially separate images displayed in a display panel unit to thereby simultaneously form a 2D image viewing area and a 3D image viewing area, respectively, enabling the simultaneous displaying of the 2D images and the 3D images.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong Kyung Nam, Yun-Tae Kim, Du-Sik Park
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Patent number: 8370873Abstract: A method of operation of three dimensional (3D) stereoscopic television consistent with certain implementations involves turning on or installing a set of 3D glasses on a viewer to cause the set of 3D glasses to enter an active operational mode; and at the 3D glasses, emitting a signal to the television that causes the television to switch from a 2D display mode to a 3D display mode. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Peter Rae Shintani
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Patent number: 8358399Abstract: An electrically-driven liquid crystal lens wherein electric connection between finely split electrodes and signal lines used to apply signals to the split electrodes can be accomplished using a minimal number of masks and signals can be applied to the finely split electrodes without line resistance, and a stereoscopic display device using the same are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2008Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byung Joo Lee, Hee Jin Im
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Patent number: 8350899Abstract: A stereoscopic display device includes: a display panel having a display screen on which two-dimensional image is displayed, and configured to polarize image light of the image-displaying into a particular polarization direction; and a lens array element disposed to oppose the display screen of the display panel, and having a liquid crystal layer which includes liquid crystal molecules having a refractive index anisotropy and aligned in a predetermined orientation direction under no application of voltage. The lens array element is configured to electrically change the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules to generate a lens effect, and configured to selectively change a state of passing therethrough of the image light exiting from the display panel. The predetermined orientation direction of the liquid crystal molecules of the lens array element and the polarization direction of the image light are parallel to each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenichi Takahashi, Sho Sakamoto, Takashi Oku
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Patent number: 8339705Abstract: An optical sheet for three-dimensional images and a three-dimensional image display device using the same, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the three-dimensional image display device includes a display unit to display two-dimensional images using unit pixels each including at least three colors of sub-pixels, and an optical sheet to convert the two-dimensional images into a plurality of different three-dimensional images, and the neighboring three-dimensional images are overlapped with each other by a predetermined range. With the above described configuration, the curved lenses are tilted to provide neighboring viewers with three-dimensional images overlapped with each other by 15% to 60%. As a result, a ratio of the horizontal and vertical display resolutions of the three-dimensional images can be equal to a ratio of the horizontal and vertical display resolutions of the two-dimensional images, and the quality of three-dimensional images can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyung Ki Hong, Byung Joo Lee
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Patent number: 8334897Abstract: A direction-controlled illumination unit for an autostereoscopic display, which unit deflects light from activated illumination elements through a transmissive image reproduction means in the space in front of the display into visibility areas, from which a stereoscopic and/or monoscopic representation can be seen. The direction-controlled illumination unit contains an illumination means having illumination elements, an imaging means having imaging elements, a prism arrangement, a light-scattering means and an image reproduction means. A respective imaging element is assigned a number of illumination elements in order to deflect light in the form of a beam onto observers' eyes in a sequential manner in terms of time.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Seereal Technologies S.A.Inventors: Steffen Buschbeck, Jean-Christophe Olaya
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Patent number: 8330806Abstract: In a stereoscopic image conversion panel and a stereoscopic image display apparatus, the stereoscopic display panel includes a first lens substrate, a second lens substrate, a stereoscopic image lens part and a lens liquid crystal layer. The stereoscopic image lens part is disposed between the first and second substrates, and includes a main lens and sub-lenses with a concave shape. At least one sub-lens is disposed at opposite edge portions of the main lens. The lens liquid crystal layer is received by the main lens and the sub-lenses, is disposed between the first and second lens substrates, and includes liquid crystal molecules having an anisotropic refractive index. The lens liquid crystal layer refracts a polarized light at an interface between the lens liquid crystal layer and the stereoscopic lens part, to convert a flat image into a stereoscopic image. Therefore, the thickness of the stereoscopic image panel can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2007Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hae-Young Yun, Jae-Ik Lim, Seung-Kyu Lee
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Patent number: 8320041Abstract: A three-dimensional image display device is provided with a display panel. The display panel is provided with a plurality of pixels for the right eyes and pixels for the left eye, and light emitted from the pixels for the right eye is made incident to the right eye of a viewer and light emitted from the pixels for the left eye is made incident to the left eye. When the normal distance between the display panel and the viewer is set to a maximum observation distance, D (mm), then definition X (dpi) of at least one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction on a display plane of the display panel is set as in the following expression. X ? 25.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2004Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Masao Imai, Nobuaki Takanashi, Setsuo Kaneko
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Patent number: 8294753Abstract: An image display device and a method of driving the same are provided. The image display device includes a lenticular lens array, a first backlit display element that is positioned on the lenticular lens array and is driven at a frame frequency of N×60 Hz, where N is an integer equal to or greater than 1, and a light source module under the lenticular lens array. The first backlit display element displays a video signal of a 2D format in a 2D mode and displays a video signal of an N-view 3D format in a 3D mode. The light source module irradiates light in the form of a surface light source onto the lenticular lens array in the 2D mode and irradiates light in the form of a plurality of line light sources onto the lenticular lens array in the 3D mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Woonam Jeong, Hoon Kang, Insu Baik
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Patent number: 8289228Abstract: A display device includes a display body in which a plurality of unit display areas that display images having a parallax therebetween so as to be viewed stereoscopically is arranged and a drive circuit that sequentially displays single-color images of a plurality of color components which constitute a first image and a second image having a parallax therebetween for each one or more of unit display areas among the plurality of unit display areas.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yoshio Arai
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Patent number: 8284243Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes a display panel and an image conversion sheet. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit has a zigzag shape that extends in a first direction. The image conversion sheet includes a plurality of lens units. Each lens unit extends in the first direction and is disposed in a second direction different from the first direction. A plurality of the lens units is disposed in parallel with each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2009Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung-Hoon Lee, Kyoung-Ju Shin, Hae-Young Yun, Sung-Woon Kim, Lu Jian Gang
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Patent number: 8279272Abstract: A method and system for presenting both autostereoscopic images and planar images in a single display is disclosed. The design comprises processing the planar images received in the form of planar image data. The processing comprises at least one from a group comprising selectively employing bleed-through processing to enhance the planar image data when viewed through a lens sheet comprising slanted lenticules, selectively introducing blurring into the planar image data, and selectively employing anti-alias processing to the planar image data. Certain super pixels may be computed that differ from standard pixels, and lenticules in the data sheet may be slanted at desired angles. The physical lenticules may cause bleed-through that may be processed. Resolution may be computed after processing, and the resolution implemented for display. Mode switching between planar and autostereoscopic imaging may be provided in the form of Metadata or visible flags.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2006Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: RealD Inc.Inventors: Lenny Lipton, Robert Akka, Jerilynn Schisser, Mark H. Feldman
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Patent number: 8264528Abstract: A display apparatus, frame member, and reflection suppressing member that are capable of achieving an improvement in display quality and an improvement in visibility, are provided. In a case, a reflection suppressing portion that attenuates emitted display light is formed on an annular wall portion (frame portion). The reflection suppressing portion previously suppresses undesirable display (display that is directed to a not-intended direction) which can occur due to the display light emitted from an outer periphery of a display face being reflected by the case and the like.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2005Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu Ten LimitedInventors: Toru Yamane, Shinya Tanaka
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Patent number: 8259165Abstract: The invention relates to an image display device comprising an imaging matrix, which consists of imaging elements which are arranged in a lateral manner, for example, lenticulars or a lens array, and a plurality of point elements which are disposed on a object plane and which are formed from the imaging elements in an observation chamber. In order to reduce imaging errors resulting in the image field curvature of the individual imaging elements of a large observation angle, compensation by a correction matrix, which contains a plurality of optical corrections elements, takes place. An optical correction element is associated with each individual optical imaging element. Said invention can be used, for example, in image or video display devices, such as autostereoscopic displays, multi-user-displays with sweet-spot-units and multi-view-displays, in order to image illuminating elements.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2006Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Seereal Technologies GmbHInventor: Armin Schwerdtner
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Publication number: 20120218393Abstract: An automatic method for producing 3D multi-view interweaved image(s) from a stereoscopic image pair source to be displayed via an auto-multiscopic display. The technique is optimized to allow its use as part of a real-time 3D video handling system. Preferably, the 3D interweaved image(s) are generated from a stereo pair where partial disparity is calculated between the pixels of the stereo images. The partial disparity information is then used at a sub-pixel level to produce a series of target (intermediary) views for the sub-pixel components at each image position (x, y). Then, these target views are used to generate a desired number of views resulting in glass-free 3D via an auto-multiscopic display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2011Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: BERFORT MANAGEMENT INC.Inventors: Philippe Fortin, Jean-Louis Bertrand
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Patent number: 8254026Abstract: A three-dimensional image display capable of reducing a difference between a resolution variation rate in a pixel column direction and a resolution variation rate in a pixel row direction and preventing a color separation phenomenon is disclosed. The three-dimensional image display includes a display panel in which n (n is a natural number) disparity images are displayed and the same disparity images are distributed and displayed in subpixels of the same color, and a lenticular sheet which divides travel paths of the disparity images using a plurality of lenticular lenses which are obliquely arranged in front of the display panel, and the long axes of the lenticular lenses are parallel to an extension line of the subpixels in which the same disparity images are displayed.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyung Ki Hong, Byung Joo Lee, Hee Jin Im
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Patent number: 8248406Abstract: A three-dimensional image/two-dimensional image display device includes a plurality of display pixels, and a lenticular lens for three-dimensional display. Each display pixel is consisted of M×N number of sub-pixels to be viewed from N view points. A pitch a of sub-pixels arranged in the longitudinal direction of ridge projection of the lenticular lens and a pitch b of the sub-pixels arranged in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the lenticular lens satisfy the following expression. The M×N number of sub-pixels included in each of said display pixels are formed within a square area.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Naoyasu Ikeda, Nobuaki Takanashi
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Patent number: 8248457Abstract: A stereoscopic device including a sensor assembly for detecting a sequence of stereoscopic images of an object, a movement detector for detecting the movements of the sensor assembly relative to the object, and a processing unit connected to the sensor assembly and to the movement detector, wherein the processing unit selects portions of the stereoscopic images, according to a signal received from the movement detector, thereby producing a visually stable sequence of display images.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2001Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Visionsense, Ltd.Inventors: Michael D. Goldstein, Avi Yaron
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Patent number: 8233036Abstract: 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 sampling, multiplexing, and displaying a plurality of parallax images so as to implement a three-dimensional image; and a lenticular lens plate provided on the front surface of the display device and having a vertical axis tilted from a vertical axis of the display device by a predetermined angle ?. The number of parallax images included in an elementary three-dimensional image of the three-dimensional image is a multiple of 5.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2007Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Tae Soo Park
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Patent number: 8218096Abstract: Provided are a 2D (2-dimensional)/3D (3-dimensional) display apparatus using a scanning backlight and a method of controlling the same. The apparatus sequentially includes a backlight which is capable of scanning and irradiating polarized light, a retarder which transmits light emitted from the backlight as phase-maintained light and phase-delayed light, a lenticular array which transmits light from the retarder as directional light, and a display panel which displays an inputted image and which is illuminated by light being transmitted through the lenticular array. The backlight includes a plurality of light guide plates which are independently disposed and arranged in parallel with one another, a plurality of light sources which are provided for the respective light guide plates and emit light, and a plurality of polarization filters which are arranged in front of the respective light guide plates.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2008Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyung-hoon Cha, Sergey Chestak, Dae-sik Kim, Jae-phil Koo, Seon-deok Hwang
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Patent number: 8217990Abstract: An apparatus for rendering a three-dimensional model from a plurality of eye points to present a three-dimensional picture, wherein the position of a virtual camera for rendering apexes of the three-dimensional model is controlled in accordance with the amount of protrusion of an object under rendering from a display plane to create and present a non-perspective projection picture as a picture at each eye point position. Also, for this control, a weighting parameter is incorporated in each part of the three dimensional model, such that the presentation of stereoscopic sense can be finely controlled.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2006Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kei Utsugi, Michio Oikawa, Takafumi Koike
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Patent number: 8212810Abstract: A method and a device for calibration (or “electronic” adjustment) of a display unit are provided and include a display and autostereoscopic adapter disc, particularly provided for fixing to the display. A method and a device for generation or playback of 3D images by the display unit including autostereoscopic adapter disc and display are also provided. Misalignment of the adapted disc with the display are compensated for by corresponding adjustment of the image display on the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Inventors: Rolf-Dieter Naske, Gabriela Cochius, Ivo-Henning Naske
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Patent number: 8212858Abstract: Stereoscopic device including an image directing assembly, an image differentiator and an image detector, the image directing assembly having a first light inlet for receiving a first image and a second light inlet for receiving a second image, the first light inlet being spaced apart from the second light inlet, the image differentiator differentiating between the first image and the second image, wherein the image directing assembly directs the first image to the image detector via a common path, and wherein the image directing assembly directs the second image to the image detector via the common path.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Visionsense Ltd.Inventors: Mark Schechterman, Michael Goldstein, Nadav Horesh, Avi Yaron, Martin Abraham
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Patent number: 8208011Abstract: A method of computing a display value to be provided to a stereoscopic display apparatus (150) is described. The method includes: determining a first intermediate value (811) from a 3-D representation on basis of a first one of the angular directions and coordinates of a first one of the picture elements (102); determining a second intermediate value (810) from the 3-D representation on basis of a further angular direction relative to the first plane and the coordinates of the first one of the picture elements; and combining the first intermediate value (811) and the second intermediate value (810) to the display value, the display value related to the particular output of a first one of the picture elements of the stereoscopic display apparatus (102).Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Siebe Tjerk De Zwart, Oscar Hendrikus Willemsen, Martin Gerard Hendrik Hiddink, Robert-Paul Mario Berretty
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Patent number: 8199173Abstract: In a liquid crystal display apparatus, one display pixel has a total of six sub pixels, namely, a red sub pixel for a left eye, a green sub pixel for the left eye, a blue sub pixel for the left eye, a red sub pixel for a right eye, a green sub pixel for the right eye, and a blue sub pixel for the right eye. Those sub pixels are arranged in a square area, two in a horizontal direction along which gate lines extend, three in a vertical direction along which data lines extend. The polarity of the data lines with respect to a potential of a common electrode is inverted every time three gate lines are scanned and every frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Masao Iriguchi, Naoyasu Ikeda, Shin-ichi Uehara
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Patent number: 8189039Abstract: A drive method and apparatus is provided for a 2D/3D autostereoscopic display with a switchable lens array having an electrically switchable refractive index, between an array of row electrode lines and an array of column electrode lines to control the switching of the lens elements. The drive signals comprise: a row select voltage waveform (Rsw), —a column select voltage waveform (Csw), —and a common row and column de-select voltage waveform (Vbase). The waveforms each comprise a substantially square wave voltage waveform, each waveform having the same period. The three waveforms are time staggered with respect to each other with a phase shift of 2/3 or 4/3 between each waveform and each other waveform. This arrangement provides polarity inversion voltage waveforms when switching voltages are applied to the lens elements, and with maximized RMS voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2006Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Martin Gerard Hendrik Hiddink, Siebe Tjerk De Zwart
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Patent number: 8159530Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus displays stereoscopic images generated from a plurality of images obtained by photography of subjects from different viewpoints. The stereoscopic image display apparatus is constituted by: an interpolative image generating section, for generating at least one pair of interpolative images, which have smaller degrees of parallax than the degree of parallax among the plurality of images; a stereoscopic image generating section, for generating at least one interpolative stereoscopic image from the at least one pair of interpolative images; and a display control section, for sequentially displaying the at least one interpolative stereoscopic image at at least one of a timing prior to and following display of the stereoscopic images.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Mikio Watanabe, Tomonori Masuda
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Patent number: 8154587Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 19, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Rieko Fukushima, Tatsuo Saishu, Yuzo Hirayama
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Patent number: 8154799Abstract: A two dimensional/three dimensional (2D/3D) switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus and method. The 2D/3D switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus and method may selectively display a 2D image and 3D image using two displays, control a display operated as backlight from among the two displays when displaying the 2D image, and thereby may increase a contrast. Also, the 2D/3D switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus and method may output a 2D object and a 3D background using two displays.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2009Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yun-Tae Kim, Gee Young Sung, Du-Sik Park, Dong Kyung Nam, Ju Yong Park
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Patent number: 8149342Abstract: An autostereoscopic display device comprises: a display panel having an array of display pixels for producing a display, the pixels being arranged in rows and columns; and at least two arrays of light output directing elements, the arrays being arranged in series over the display panel at different depths, each array being controllable to direct the light output from respective groups of pixels in different directions to enable a stereoscopic image to be perceived. The device is operable to selectively control any one of the arrays to provide the light output directing function, thereby providing respective first and second three dimensional display modes having different amounts of perceived depth.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2006Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Willem Libertus Ijzerman, Oscar Hendrikus Willemsen
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Patent number: 8149272Abstract: A multiple view display comprises a parallax optic such as a parallax barrier (25) and a spatial light modulator (20) having a plurality of pixels arranged as rows and columns. The parallax optic (25) cooperates with the pixel structure to create a plurality of primary viewpoint-corrected viewing windows. The rows are arranged as groups and the parallax elements are arranged as rows. Each parallax element is aligned with a respective group of rows of the pixels. The pixels comprise sets of pixels of different colors arranged so that the sequence of visible colors viewable in each viewing window through each parallax element of each row of parallax elements is different from the sequence of pixel colors visible through the or each nearest parallax element in the or each adjacent row of parallax elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Allan Evans, Jonathan Mather, Graham Jones
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Publication number: 20120057006Abstract: An autostereoscopy apparatus that typically includes a passive autostereoscopic panel such as a lenticular poster. The panel has a front surface, a back surface, and a plurality of static images. Dining use, the autostereoscopic panel is configured or designed to reflect light to generate, passively or without power, a three dimensional (3D) display of images based on the static images. The apparatus includes an image source selectively operating to project two dimensional (2D) images onto the back surface of the autostereoscopic panel, which is non-opaque such that the two dimensional images are projected outward from the front surface within the 3D display, e.g., the 2D images are inserted or injected into the volumetric display so as to also appear to have depth and dimensions. The two dimensional images may be video images precision masked based on at least one of the static images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2010Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: DANIEL M. JOSEPH, MARK A. REICHOW
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Patent number: 8130680Abstract: A method for timing a full duplex pulsed wireless communication system between first and second transceivers is disclosed. At least one of the transceivers is mobile. A propagation time between the first and second transceivers is calculated. A pulse period of the first transceiver is set to be twice the propagation time divided by an integer. The second transceiver's pulse period is set to be equal to the pulse period of the first transceiver to enable the first and second transceivers to transmit and receive pulses with a substantially reduced risk of a collision between pulses transmitted from the first and second transceivers.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: L-3 Communications, Corp.Inventors: William K. McIntire, Larry S. Thomson, David H. Robbins
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Patent number: 8130259Abstract: When an end portion of a three-dimensional image appears to pop forward from a display surface, a predetermined end area is set at a periphery of images forming the three-dimensional image to modify at least one of the images to modify the stereoscopic effect so that at least a part of the end portion appears to be level with the display surface. A disparity between corresponding pixels in the end area of the images is modified so that the disparity is gradually decreased toward the end of the images, and image parts at left and right areas of the end area of a reference image among the images are deformed based on the disparity. At least one of the images is modified by modifying the image other than the reference image with the deformed image parts of the end area. Then, three-dimensional processing is applied to the modified images.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Eiji Ishiyama, Mikio Watanabe
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Patent number: 8106937Abstract: Stereoscopic device including an image directing assembly, an image differentiator and an image detector, the image directing assembly having a first light inlet for receiving a first image and a second light inlet for receiving a second image, the first light inlet being spaced apart from the second light inlet, the image differentiator differentiating between the first image and the second image, wherein the image directing assembly directs the first image to the image detector via a common path, and wherein the image directing assembly directs the second image to the image detector via the common path.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Visionsense Ltd.Inventors: Mark Schechterman, Michael Goldstein, Nadav Horesh, Avi Yaron, Martin Abraham
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Patent number: 8102413Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for providing a stereoscopic image for viewing by a viewer, with improved resolution. The apparatus includes a generally planar display comprising a two-dimensional array of uniformly spaced pixels, and it further includes a generally planar parallax barrier having an area substantially coextensive with the display and spaced a prescribed uniform distance from the display. The pixel array includes a first set of sub-pixels controllable to project light in a first spectral color, a second set of sub-pixels controllable to project light in a second spectral color, and a third set of sub-pixels controllable to project light in a third spectral color, and the parallax barrier includes a repeating pattern of vertically oriented regions configured to transmit light to the viewer's first eye along light paths defined from only the first set of sub-pixels and to transmit light to the viewer's second eye along light paths defined from only the second and third sets of sub-pixels.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2006Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Unipixel Displays, Inc.Inventor: Michael Mehrle
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Patent number: 8068129Abstract: Stereoscopic device including an image directing assembly, an image differentiator and an image detector, the image directing assembly having a first light inlet for receiving a first image and a second light inlet for receiving a second image, the first light inlet being spaced apart from the second light inlet, the image differentiator differentiating between the first image and the second image, wherein the image directing assembly directs the first image to the image detector via a common path, and wherein the image directing assembly directs the second image to the image detector via the common path.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Visionsense Ltd.Inventors: Mark Schechterman, Michael Goldstein, Nadav Horesh, Avi Yaron, Martin Abraham
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Patent number: 8054329Abstract: A high resolution 2D-3D switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus includes: a backlight unit emitting light; a polarizer sheet changing the light emitted from the backlight unit so that the light has only a specific polarization direction; a polarization switch converting the direction of the polarization of incident light; a birefringent element array comprising a plurality of alternating first and second birefringent elements and changing the polarization direction of incident light so that the polarization of light transmitted by the first birefringent elements is perpendicular to the polarization of light transmitted by the second birefringent elements; a lenticular lens sheet separating and emitting incident light to a first eye viewing zone and a second eye viewing zone; and a display panel displaying an image.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2006Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sergey Shestak, Sung-yong Jung, Dae-sik Kim
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Patent number: 8054548Abstract: In a three-dimensional image display device for displaying color three-dimensional images, a fly eye lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in this order from the observer side. A display panel has four pixels arrayed in a (2×2) matrix correlated with one lens element of the fly eye lens. In the event that j is a natural number, a pixel magnifying projection width e in a second direction is set in a range of the following expression according to mean interpupillary distance Y of the observers.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2010Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Naoyasu Ikeda, Nobuaki Takanashi
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Patent number: 8049962Abstract: A method and system for providing an increased angular extent of autostereoscopic viewing zones received from a display is presented. The design comprises providing a first column of data having a baseline number of views associated therewith, said first column of data provided to at least one lenticule in a lens sheet associated with the display. The design further comprises altering the first quantity of columns of data to a second quantity of columns of data provided to the at least one lenticule. The second quantity of columns comprises more views than the baseline number of views. Employing the second quantity of columns when constructing an autostereoscopic image provides a display having relatively clear viewing of autostereoscopic images for specific viewing distances.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2006Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: RealD Inc.Inventors: Lenny Lipton, Jerilynn Schisser
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Patent number: 8045265Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a three-dimensional image recording medium in which three-dimensional information of a recorded material is recorded precisely and observed more naturally. The linear images of plural parallel-projection images from different directions A to E divided into rectangles are recorded sequentially to divisional recording units of the linear image recording units M1 to M8 and in addition, the linear images of divided parallel-projection images from the same direction are recorded sequentially to each divisional recording unit arranged in the same position relative to a lens width direction of each lenticular lens unit L1 to L8 corresponding to each linear image recording unit M1 to M8 to thereby reproduce a three-dimensional image by combining the linear images of plural parallel-projection images.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Takagi, Hideki Yamazaki
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Patent number: 8011786Abstract: Disclosed is a multiperspective backprojection system for autostereoscopically displaying three-dimensional representations. Said backprojection system comprises a backprojection screen (2) and an image generation unit (1) which is disposed behind the backprojection screen (2) and is provided with a projector (7a to 7p) for each perspective of the three-dimensional representations. The rear face (3) of the backprojection screen (2) is fitted with a first lenticular screen plate (8) while the front face (4) thereof is equipped with a second lenticular screen plate (9). The inventive backprojection screen (2) encompasses a third lenticular screen plate (10) between the first lenticular screen plate (8) and the second lenticular screen plate (9). The three lenticular screen plates (8, 9, 10) are provided with parallel cylindrical lenses.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2006Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Inventor: Siegbert Hentschke
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Publication number: 20110199463Abstract: A display system for displaying images to one or more people is disclosed having a display that receives and presents at least one image to a viewing region, wherein the images include 2D or 3D images and an image capture device associated with the display for capturing images of the viewing regions. The display further includes an image analyzer for detecting people in the viewing regions including detecting a category of eyewear that is worn by at least one person; and the image analyzer adjusting at least one image based on the detected people and the detected category of eyewear that is worn by at least one person.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventors: Andrew C. Gallagher, John N. Border
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Publication number: 20110199468Abstract: A display system for displaying 2D or 3D images to one or more people is disclosed having a display that presents two or more different images to two or more viewing regions, wherein the different images include 2D or 3D images. The display further includes an image capture device associated with the display for capturing images of the viewing regions; an image analyzer for detecting people in the viewing regions including detecting an indication by at least one person of a 2D or 3D preference; and the image analyzer adjusting at least one of the different images based on the detected people and the preference indication.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventors: Andrew C. Gallagher, John N. Border
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Patent number: 7993016Abstract: Aspects of the present invention involve novel display screens comprising light diffusion and retro-reflectivity. In embodiments, a retro-reflective light diffusion screen can be used to generate a three-dimensional autostereoscopic display by generating a plurality of viewing windows wherein each viewing window depicts a unique perspective image view. In embodiments, the retro-reflective light diffusion screen comprises a transparent medium layer between the retro-reflector surface and the light diffuser layer to help reduce ghost images. In embodiments, the retro-reflective light diffusion screen comprises a lenticular layer positioned such that the light diffuser layer is between the lenticular layer and the retro-reflective surface and is also positioned so that the light diffuser layer is at a focal plane of the lenticular layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2009Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Chunyu Gao, Jing Xiao