Using A Parallax Barrier, E.g., Spatial Light Modulator (epo) Patents (Class 348/E13.03)
  • Patent number: 10194142
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a display driving apparatus and method for a pixel array, the apparatus for pixel display of pixel units of a display device, which comprises a pixel array including a first view pixel unit and a second view pixel unit alternately arranged in the row direction, said pixel array includes in each row sub-pixels corresponding to one color, each of the first and second view pixel units comprises a plurality of physical pixel units cyclically arranged in the column direction, and each physical pixel unit includes a plurality of sub-pixels, the apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit for obtaining an input signal of each sub-pixel in the first and second view pixel units; a setting unit for setting a sampling region on the pixel array for each sub-pixel in the first and second view pixel units; and a calculating unit for determining an output signal of each sub-pixel based on the sampling region of each sub-pixel, the physical pixel unit overlapping the sampling region a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Renwei Guo, Xue Dong
  • Patent number: 9869870
    Abstract: A 3D display device, comprising: a display panel (01); a first grating layer (02), located at a light exiting side of the display panel (01) and comprising hole-like light-transmitting regions arranged in an array form; a second grating layer (03), located over the first grating layer (02) and comprising hole-like light-transmitting regions arranged in an array form; and an adjusting device (04), configured to adjust a relative shift between the first grating layer (02) and the second grating layer (03) so as to realize switching between a 2D display state and a 3D display state, wherein, the hole-like light-transmitting regions included in the first grating layer (02) correspond to the hole-like light-transmitting regions included in the second grating layer (03) in a one-to-one correspondence relationship, pixel units (05) arranged in an array form are provided within the display panel (01); in the 2D display state, an overlap region of projections of each pair of the hole-like light-transmitting regions on
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naifu Wu
  • Patent number: 9836023
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating coherent light, and a display apparatus using coherent light are provided. A wide-angle coherent light generation apparatus may focus parallel light onto a focal point, and may generate coherent light at a wide angle, using an optical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Kyung Nam, Ho Cheon Wey, Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 9804566
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating coherent light, and a display apparatus using coherent light are provided. A wide-angle coherent light generation apparatus may focus parallel light onto a focal point, and may generate coherent light at a wide angle, using an optical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Kyung Nam, Ho Cheon Wey, Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 9740017
    Abstract: An optical polarization device for a stereoscopic image projector, including: a polarizer optical element including two beam splitter-polarizer plates, joined to one another; first and second optical reflectors configured to modify, respectively, a trajectory of first and second light beams reflected such that the reflected and transmitted light beams are projected to form one and same stereoscopic image; first, second, and third polarization modulators configured to selectively switch the optical polarization, respectively, of a transmitted light beam, of the first and of the second reflected light beams, between the first and second states of optical polarization; and a control circuit for the polarization modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: VOLFONI R&D
    Inventors: Minh Hoang, Christophe Brossier, Bertrand Caillaud, Simon-Pierre Delord
  • Patent number: 9715121
    Abstract: The present invention is for a switchable 3-dimensional conversion device having a spacer stably formed at a predetermined height by imprinting, a manufacturing method thereof and a stereoscopic image display device using the same, the method includes: providing a first electrode on an inner surface of a first substrate; applying a resin material to the first electrode to a predetermined thickness; placing a mold structure which has a concave part formed with a predetermined depth thereon, on the resin material; stamping the resin material using the mold structure, in order to form a spacer pattern; dry etching the spacer pattern to form a spacer; forming a plurality of second electrodes, which are spaced from one another and have longitudinal axes in one direction, respectively, on a second substrate; and arranging the first and second substrates opposite to each other, bonding the same, and forming a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Ho Kook, Soon-Sung Yoo, Chul-Ho Kim, Hee-Jin Im
  • Patent number: 9341853
    Abstract: A stereo image displaying system including an image displaying apparatus and an imaging element is provided. The image displaying apparatus displays image beams along an optic axis. The imaging element has a curved-surface. The curved-surface receives the image beams and converts the image beams into deformation images. The imaging element transmits the deformation images. Furthermore, a stereo image capturing system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Young Optics Inc.
    Inventor: Chih-Hsien Tsai
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20130033583
    Abstract: An image display device and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a 3D stereoscopic image are more comfortably appreciated in consideration of appreciation environment. In a mobile terminal including a display unit configured to variably display a 2D (2-dimensional) image and a 3D stereoscopic image of a parallax barrier type, the present invention includes determining a play mode of a source image including a left eye image and a right eye image for implementation of the 3D stereoscopic image, if the determined play mode is a 3D play mode, determining a brightness of the source image, and enhancing an output brightness of the source image in accordance with an output brightness of the source image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Namsu LEE, Hyunghoon OH
  • Patent number: 8345088
    Abstract: In an autostereoscopic display apparatus comprising a liquid crystal spatial light modulator having an array of pixels of different colors, each pixel comprising plural domains of different polar alignments, and a parallax element comprising an array of optical elements having geometric axes extending in parallel across the spatial light modulator in an inclined direction, the domains are shaped to improve the angular contrast uniformity. For each individual domain, a notional line parallel to the geometric axes of the optical elements of the parallax element has a total length of intersection with the individual domain, summed over adjacent pixels of the same color, is the same for all positions of the notional line. The total length of intersection for different domains is proportional to the area of the individual domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Harrold, Graham John Woodgate
  • Publication number: 20120224038
    Abstract: An autostereoscopic display system comprised of an array of vertically oriented narrow light sources and a spatial light modulator, (SLM), disposed between the lights and viewers, whereby light rays originating from the lights and passing through the SLM are vertically dispersed by a vertical dispersion panel. The lights are sequentially flashed, sending light through the SLM where selected full height narrow vertical picture lines, VPL's, are made briefly transmissive while the remainder of the SLM remains dark, projecting vertically oriented sheets of light through selected VPL's toward selected eyes. The light sheets are sufficiently narrow as to enter a left or right eye but not both, while the entire height of selected VPL's is visible due to said vertical dispersion. The process rapidly repeats for all VPL's and all array lights, alternating between right/left SLM scenes each projected into appropriately selected eyes resulting in a 3D image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventor: Alexander Roth
  • Publication number: 20120182407
    Abstract: Moiré generated in an autostereoscopic display utilizing a parallax barrier method is cancelled. The interval between visible light transmitting sections that are abutting in the horizontal direction of a parallax barrier is determined using: the average number of subpixels constituting one pixel for three-dimensional display in one row in the horizontal direction; the width of a subpixel, which forms a display; the distance from a predetermined diagonal moiré canceling position to the parallax barrier; the number of viewpoints of a video image used for displaying an autostereoscopic video image; and the distance (Z) from the image display surface of the display to the parallax barrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventor: Kenji Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20110102559
    Abstract: Stereoscopic video content is reproduced to obtain a first pair of images with mutual parallax producing a stereoscopic effect. A first stereoscopic adjustment on the first pair of images is carried out to obtain a second pair of images. A second stereoscopic adjustment on the second pair of images is carried out to obtain a third pair of images, which are displayed on a screen to respective eyes of the viewer. The first stereoscopic adjustment is carried out differently for different video sources. The second stereoscopic adjustment is the same for all sources. The combination of the first and second stereoscopic adjustments enables content from different sources to be displayed with an appropriate stereoscopic adjustment for each source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventor: Kazuhiko NAKANE
  • Patent number: 7825999
    Abstract: An autostereoscopic display is provided which includes: a light source; a display panel which forms an image by controlling the transmittance of light incident from the light source; a display panel controller that controls the modulation of the display panel and that scans the display panel according to an image signal; a switching barrier that separates the viewing zone of an image beam incident from the display panel by electrically controlling light transmittance and which includes odd column cells and even column cells that are alternately arranged in a horizontal direction and are alternately switched between slits transmitting light and masks blocking light; and a switching barrier controller that controls barrier modes of the slits and the masks to be changed in synchronization with the scanning of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sergey Chestak, Dae-sik Kim
  • Patent number: 7675668
    Abstract: A 3D image display device with a 2D or 3D image mode switching barrier is provided. The image display device includes an image panel, color change regions spaced apart from each other in a repetitive pattern and selectively change into light transmission regions or light blockage regions, and a barrier having the color change regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: LG. Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eun Jung Lim