Abstract: The exemplary embodiments herein provide a lighting system for a display case having at least one edge. A lighting assembly is positioned along an edge of the display case or a door assembly, where a transparent or semi-transparent rod is positioned adjacent to the lighting assembly to act as a lens element. The rod is generally placed parallel to the edge of the display case or door assembly. The lighting assembly preferably includes a mounting structure which contains a substrate with a plurality of LEDs along with the rod. A blinder may extend rearwardly from the mounting structure to prevent headlighting.

Abstract: A method for an image capturing device is disclosed. The method includes capturing a first image and a second image; adjusting a first resolution of the first image to a second resolution of the second image; cropping a first image part corresponding to the second image in the first image via comparing feature points between the first image and the second image, for generating a third image; detecting non-ideal effects between the second image and the third image; compensating the non-ideal effects, for generating a first corrected image and a second corrected image; and calculating a depth information based on the first corrected image and the second corrected image.

Abstract: An interactive, autostereoscopic system for displaying an object in 3D includes a mirror configured to spin around a vertical axis when actuated by a motor, a high speed video projector, and a processing system including a graphics card interfaced to the video projector. An anisotropic reflector is bonded onto an inclined surface of the mirror. The video projector projects video signals of the object from the projector onto the inclined surface of the mirror while the mirror is spinning, so that light rays representing the video signals are redirected toward a field of view of a 360 degree range. The processing system renders the redirected light rays so as to interactively generate a horizontal-parallax 3D display of the object. Vertical parallax can be included in the display by adjusting vertically the displayed views of the object, in response to tracking of viewer motion by a tracking system.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for creating animated video frames which include both computer generated elements and hand drawn elements. For example, a software tool may allows an artist to draw line work (or supply other 2D image data) to composite with an animation frame rendered from a three dimensional (3D) graphical model of an object. The software tool may be configured to determine how to animate such 2D image data provided for one frame in order to appear in subsequent (or prior) frames in a manner consistent with changes in rendering the underlying 3D geometry.

Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) display device combining two-dimensional (2D) images from two image sources to create a 3D image. The 3D display device utilizes a beam combining film that includes a prismatic front surface and a planar back surface. The film transmits light striking its back surface at particular incidence angles. A first 2D image source provides a foreground image and a second 2D image source to provide a background image. First and second liquid crystal displays may be arranged with display surfaces proximate to top and bottom edges of the beam combining film and at angular offsets to emit light corresponding with a 2D image stream onto the back surface of the beam combining film at one of the film's incidence angles. The 2D image streams striking the back surface of the film are combined by the film and transmitted from the front surface as a single autostereoscopic video image.

Abstract: The invention relates to stereoscopic displays and can be used for producing flat screen stereoscopic monitors and television sets with the option of observing a stereo image both with glasses and without glasses and with maximum spatial resolution equal to the full resolution of display matrices, and retaining the option of observing monoscopic images with full resolution. The required separation of two views of stereo image in a pair of observation windows (zones) is ensured with aid of virtually any type of display matrix, the transmission characteristic of which are linearized with aid of reciprocal or inverse functions which are deduced in accordance with a calibrating curve defining as the relation between two corresponding light intensity dependences in a pair of observation windows (zones) whereas changing the amplitude of calibrating signal.

Abstract: An autostereoscopic display system is provided. The autostereoscopic display system includes: an image panel being divided into two or more display regions, each of which alternately displays an image for a left eye and an image for a right eye; an optical shutter which is spaced apart from the image panel, including three or more shutter segments capable of being switched between a transparent state and a non-transparent state, and guiding an image for a left eye and an image for a right eye which are displayed on the image panel to left and right eyes of a viewer, respectively; and a control unit which controls the optical shutter being synchronized with the image for a left eye and the image for a right eye which are displayed on the image panel.