Picture Reproducers (epo) Patents (Class 348/E13.075)
  • Publication number: 20110157323
    Abstract: A miniaturized imaging module, a 3D display system using the same and an image arrangement method are disclosed. The 3D display system includes a plurality of multi-viewing zone miniaturized imaging modules and an image output module. The image output module is for editing, adjusting and distributing a multi-viewing zone image to the multi-viewing zone miniaturized imaging modules for display. Each multi-viewing zone miniaturized imaging module includes a housing, a projection unit and a viewing zone modulating screen. The projection unit and the viewing zone modulating screen are respectively disposed on two opposite sides inside the housing. In each multi-viewing zone miniaturized imaging module, the projection unit projects an image onto respective viewing zone modulating screen, and forms a plurality of viewing zones in front of the viewing zone modulating screen, wherein the image is a segmented image of an image composed of a plurality of images having different view-angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wu-Li Chen, Chao-Hsu Tsai, Shu-Chuan Cheng, Chang-Shuo Wu
  • Publication number: 20110157332
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device includes; a display device into which left-eye image data and right-eye image data are alternately input, and a shutter member including a left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter, wherein the left-eye shutter and the right-eye shutter are opened in at least one of at least a part of an input period for the left-eye image data and at least a part of an input period for the right-eye image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo-Ram KIM, Byoung-Jun LEE, Yun-Jae KIM, Nam-Hee GOO, Myoung-Chul KIM, Gyeong-Ub MOON, Seung-Hwan MOON
  • Publication number: 20110157338
    Abstract: A reciprocating lenticular lens screen assembly includes a lenticular lens screen and a driving assembly. The lenticular lens screen includes a substrate and an optical portion formed on a first major face of the substrate for viewing by a viewer at a viewer's position. The optical portion is configured for transmitting light rays representing images to the viewer's position at angles corresponding to a right eye viewing position of the viewer's position and at angles corresponding to a left eye viewing position of the viewer's position. A part of the driving assembly is connected to the substrate, and the driving assembly moves the lenticular lens screen back and forth at a predetermined frequency to show the images to the right eye viewing position and to the left eye viewing position alternately at the predetermined frequency. A stereoscopic display device incorporating the lenticular lens screen is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: JEN-TSORNG CHANG
  • Publication number: 20110157325
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video display apparatus includes a display device, a camera, a detection module, a determination module, and a message display module. The camera is configured to capture an image in front of the display device. The detection module is configured to detect a position of glasses in the image. The determination module is configured to determine a relative relationship between the position detected by the detection module and a predetermined reference position. The message display module is configured to display a message corresponding to the relative relationship on the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kei Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20110157173
    Abstract: A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Mashitani, Goro Hamagishi, Satoshi Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20110157156
    Abstract: An electric apparatus and a 3D object display method thereof are provided. The 3D object display method is suitable for a 3D monitor having interlaced first display areas and second display areas, and includes the following steps of: displaying a 3D object formed by a first display image and a second display image on the 3D monitor such that the first display image and the second display image are displayed on the first display areas and the second display areas respectively; and adjusting the location or the area size of the 3D object by moving the boundary of the 3D object at least a min moving unit formed by one first display area and one adjacent second display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: WEI-HENG HUANG, CHUEH-PIN KO
  • Publication number: 20110157336
    Abstract: A display system is provided that enables three-dimensional images to be displayed. The display system includes an elastic light manipulator positioned proximate an image generator. The image generator includes a pixel array. The elastic light manipulator includes an elastic material and is mounted in a manner that allows for automated stretching thereof. For instance, the elastic light manipulator may be an elastic lenticular lens, an elastic parallax barrier, etc. Because the elastic light manipulator can be stretched, optical properties of the elastic light manipulator can be dynamically modified, thereby changing the manner in which light emanating from the pixel array is delivered to the eyes of viewer(s). This allows for adaptive accommodation of, for example, a changing viewer sweet spot. The elastic light manipulator may be automatically rolled up or otherwise automatically removed from in front of the image generator in order to facilitate switching between 2D and 3D views.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: James D. Bennett, Jeyhan Karaoguz
  • Publication number: 20110157339
    Abstract: A display system and method are provided that enable two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional images to be displayed. One or more light manipulating layers, a pixel array, and an optional backlighting panel are provided. Each light manipulating layer may be a parallax barrier or a lenticular lens. A parallax barrier includes a plurality of barrier elements arranged in a barrier element array. The barrier element array includes a plurality of strips of barrier elements selected to be transparent to form a plurality of non-blocking strips. A lenticular lens includes an array of sub-lenses, and may be elastic. The display system is configured to deliver light from the pixel array or backlighting panel as views to corresponding viewers in a viewing space. The delivered views may include one or more two-dimensional views and/or one or more three-dimensional views.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: James D. Bennett, Jeyhan Karaoguz
  • Publication number: 20110157329
    Abstract: A method for switching to display three-dimensional (3D) images and a digital display system are provided. In the method, a digital display is activated to receive image data comprising at least one image and to detect a triggering signal, which is generated by detecting whether a 3D glasses is being used through a software means or a hardware means. According to the triggering signal, the digital display switches between formats of two-dimensional (2D) image and 3D image, so as to display the images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Shih-Ting HUANG, Chueh-Pin KO
  • Publication number: 20110157310
    Abstract: In a recording and reproducing device, compressed 3D video image data recorded on an optical disc is reproduced by a recording and reproducing unit and decompressed to baseband 3D video image data by a codec. A format converting unit converts the recording format of the optical disc into the transmission format of HDMI in accordance with the display capability of the display device preliminarily acquired and outputs the resulting data. The format converting unit of the display device converts the transmission format of 3D video image data received through an HDMI cable into a display format. A display control unit displays 3D video image data converted into the display format on the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mitani, Toshiroh Nishio
  • Publication number: 20110157331
    Abstract: An apparatus, which forms a stereoscopic image by alternately displaying a left image and a right image, for reproducing a stereoscopic image in a pause mode, includes: a decoder unit configured to perform decoding on received image information; a 3D format generation unit configured to pair left and right images which are temporally consistent to generate stereoscopic image data; and a user input processing unit configured to receive a user selection with respect to image reproduction and delivering a corresponding signal to the decoder unit and the 3D format generation unit, wherein when the user input processing receives a to selection of a pause mode from the user, the decoder unit stops the decoding operation on the basis of the signal from the user input processing unit and the 3D format generation unit generates the stereoscopic image data by using the same left and right video frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventor: Jun-Yeong Jang
  • Publication number: 20110157334
    Abstract: A system is discussed for displaying multivideo, which enables users to view a plurality of different video images at the same time through one video displaying system without lowering resolution. The system includes according to an embodiment a video processor for alternately outputting first and second images every predetermined number of frames according to a similarity between previous and present frames of first or second video image; and a display panel for displaying the video image outputted from the video processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Eui Tae KIM, Seung Ho Baek
  • Publication number: 20110157337
    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: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: JEN-TSORNG CHANG
  • Publication number: 20110157313
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of transmitting three dimensional information. The method includes providing a remote server having a three dimensional image database, and a local terminal device coupled to the remote server via network, wherein the local terminal device includes a stereo image display. The local terminal device transmits a request command for three dimensional images to the remote server through the network, followed by sending the desired three dimensional images to the local terminal device through the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventor: Kuo-Ching CHIANG
  • Publication number: 20110149028
    Abstract: 3D glasses may communicate with a video device that is used for playback of 3D video content to determine an operating mode used during the 3D video content playback and to synchronize viewing operations via the 3D glasses during the 3D video content playback based on the determined operating mode. Exemplary operating modes include polarization mode or shutter mode. The 3D video content may comprise stereoscopic left and right views. Polarization of the 3D glasses may be synchronized to polarization of the right and left views in polarization mode; whereas shuttering of the 3D glasses may be synchronized to the frequency of alternating rendering of right and left views in shuttering mode. Synchronization of the 3D glasses may be performed prior to start of the 3D video content playback and/or dynamically during the 3D video content playback. The 3D glasses may communicate with the video device via wireless interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Ilya Klebanov, Xuemin Chen, Samir Hulyalkar, Marcus Kellerman
  • Publication number: 20110149054
    Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) glasses, a method for controlling 3D glasses, and a method for controlling an on/off operation of the 3D glasses are provided. The 3D glasses rotate a glass unit based on sensed motion information to maintain a polarization direction of the glass unit in a particular direction. Therefore, a user may view 3D images in various positions. In addition, a user manages the on/off operation of the 3D glasses using the sensed motion information, thereby conveniently viewing 3D images in various positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-un YUN, Ki-bum SEONG, Jung-jin PARK, Hyung-rae KIM, Nak-won CHOI
  • Publication number: 20110149036
    Abstract: A 3D caption display method for harmoniously merging and displaying closed caption with 3D image in a 3D display apparatus, and a 3D display apparatus suitable for implementing the method. When the 3D display apparatus receives image signals of first and second images for implementing 3D image in a stereoscopic scheme, the 3D display apparatus receives closed caption data only for a base view determined from the first and second images. Then, the display apparatus determines the position of a closed caption for an extended view based on the closed caption data for the base view and a certain 3D caption information, and formats caption graphic data for the base view and the extended view to output 3D closed caption in a stereoscopic format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Jong-Yeul Suh, Jeong-Hyn Yang, Jin-Pil Kim
  • Publication number: 20110149049
    Abstract: A main-view stream and a sub-view stream are recorded on a recording medium. The main-view stream is used for monoscopic video playback. The sub-view stream is used for stereoscopic video playback in combination with the main-view stream are recorded. The main-view stream includes a plurality of main-view pictures, and the sub-view stream includes a plurality of sub-view pictures. The main-view pictures and the sub-view pictures are in one-to-one correspondence. A B picture is not used as a reference picture for compression of any of the sub-view pictures whose corresponding main-view picture is one of an I picture and a P picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Taiji Sasaki, Hiroshi Yahata, Tomoki Ogawa, Takeshi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20110149053
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display panel that periodically displays different images, a shutter control portion that generates timing signals for driving shutters for a right eye and a left eye, in synchronization with the periodical display of the display panel, with respect to glasses for viewing images, the glasses being provided with the shutters for the right and left eye, a backlight that includes a light guide plate of a size corresponding to a display area of the display panel and light sources that are provided on two opposing side faces of the light guide plate and that irradiates the display panel from a rear side of the display panel, and a backlight control portion that causes the respective light sources that are provided on the two opposing side faces to blink at different timings during an opening period of the shutters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Kyoichiro Oda
  • Publication number: 20110149047
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) image display device includes a liquid crystal display panel alternately displaying a left eye image and a right eye image every unit frame period, a data driving circuit, a gate driving circuit, a timing controller that divides the unit frame period into first and second sub-frame periods, repeatedly supply the same frame data to the data driving circuit during the first and second sub-frame periods, and control operations of the data and gate driving circuits using a frame frequency higher than an input frame frequency, backlight light sources generating light to be provided to the liquid crystal display panel, and a light source driving circuit that sequentially turns on the backlight light sources when liquid crystals of the liquid crystal display panel are kept in a saturation state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Byungsam Min, Kiduk Kim, Sunhwa Lee, Jinwoo Hong
  • Publication number: 20110149051
    Abstract: A method, which forms a stereoscopic image by alternately displaying a left image and a right image, for reproducing a stereoscopic image in a trip mode, includes: reproducing a stereoscopic image; receiving a selection of a trip mode from a user while the stereoscopic image is being reproduced; and when the trip mode is entered, changing the stereoscopic image into a two-dimensional (2D) image by selectively displaying one of a left image and a right image. Preferably, in selecting one of the left image and the right image, any one of the left image and the right image is determined on the basis of quality of input image data or a performance efficiency of an apparatus which is reproducing the stereoscopic image. More preferably, after any one of the left image and the right image is selected, data of an image which has not been selected from each frame may be replaced by data of a selected image, to thereby change the stereoscopic image into the 2D image without causing a change in a frame rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventor: Jun-Yeoung Jang
  • Publication number: 20110149050
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device according to the present invention includes: an image generating section 4, which uses first and second images, captured by two image capturing sections arranged at a first optical axis interval, to generate two images to be viewed from two viewing points that are spaced by a wider interval than the first optical axis interval; and a display section 10 for presenting the two images generated by the image generating section 4 to a user's left and right eyes, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventor: Katsumi Imada
  • Publication number: 20110141246
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying a stereoscopic image to a guest that compensates for spatial orientation of the guest includes providing a guest with a device comprising eye lenses, projecting a first and a second image on a surface viewable by the guest, wherein the first image has a polarizing vector that is orthogonal to a polarization vector of the second image, varying the rotational and translational orientation of the guest relative to the surface viewable by the guest, maintaining a directional correspondence between the polarizing vector for the one eye lens and that of the first image and the other eye lens and that of the second image during changes in the guest rotational and translational orientation to reduce distortion in the images viewed by the guest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Justin Michael SCHWARTZ, Steven C. Blum, Robert John Cortelyou, Thierry Coup, Brian Birney McQuillian
  • Publication number: 20110141249
    Abstract: A stereo-image display device is disclosed in the invention. The stereo-image display device includes a polarization beam splitter, an image projection lens set, a first image unit and a second image unit. The first image unit is used for generating a first visual optical signal to the polarization beam splitter. The second image unit is used for generating a second visual optical signal to the polarization beam splitter. A polarization direction of the second visual optical signal is orthogonal to a polarization direction of the first visual optical signal. Two visual optical signals are combined to one beam by the polarization beam splitter, and are projected through the image projection lens set onto a screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: HUANG-TZUNG JAN, Chih-Pei Chen, Ching-Chueh Yang
  • Publication number: 20110141250
    Abstract: The invention discloses a stereo-image display device. The stereo-image display device includes a light source, a polarization beam splitter, two image modulators and an image projection lens set. The light source is used for generating a parallel beam. The polarization beam splitter is used for splitting the parallel beam into two polarization orthogonal beams. Each image modulator is used for generating one visualized optical signal according to one of the beams and reflecting the visualized optical signal to the polarization beam splitter. Two visualized optical signals are to combine to one beam by the polarization beam splitter, and are projected through the image projection lens set onto a screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: HUANG-TZUNG JAN, SUN-CHEN WANG, CHIH-PEI CHEN
  • Publication number: 20110141244
    Abstract: A method of zero-D dimming backlights for 3D or multi-view displays using right and left image data. The method receives right and left pixel luminance values for the right and left image data, and it remaps the right and left pixel luminance values using a factor based upon an average luminance value or based upon a luminance percentile value or a modified factor that further includes the absolute difference between left and right pixel luminance values. The factor or modified factor are selectively used to remap particular right and left pixel luminance values based upon a disparity consideration. The method results in power savings by dimming the backlight without perceptible or substantial loss in brightness of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: MARTIN J. VOS, GLENN E. CASNER
  • Publication number: 20110141240
    Abstract: A method includes reducing a red rivalry through adjusting a color temperature on a first image, converting the first image from the RGB domain to a YCbCr domain, shifting a hue of a red color in the first image towards a magenta color to reduce a red color vibrancy, and adjusting a blue color in the first image such that a dark blue visible through a second lens corresponding to a second image is at least partially visible through a first lens corresponding to the first image. The method also includes reducing the red rivalry through adjusting a tone of the red color in the first image towards a brown color, converting the first image from the YCbCr domain back to the RGB domain, adjusting a color saturation in the first image, and combining the first image with the second image in a processor to generate an anaglyph image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Santanu Dutta, Gerrit Ary Slavenburg, David R. Cook
  • Publication number: 20110134228
    Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus outputs, alternately on a-per frame basis, a first image to be displayed to one of left and right eyes of a viewer and a second image to be displayed to the other eye, and transmits, to a pair of image viewer glasses, a synchronizing signal for controlling timing of opening and closing of optical filters so as to allow the viewer to see the output frames through corresponding eyes. Specifically, the apparatus includes: a persistence amount detecting unit which detects a persistence amount indicating an effect of a first frame in the first image on a second frame in the second image and immediately following the first frame; and an optical-filter adaptive control unit which generates the synchronizing signal indicating timing of opening and closing of the optical filter corresponding to the second frame. The timing is changed based on the persistence amount detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Keizo MATSUMOTO, Hiroshi MIYAI, Katsuo SAIGO, Masanobu INOE, Seiji NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20110134229
    Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus performs gradation control on respective pixels. Specifically, the image signal processing apparatus includes an image signal processing unit which controls light emission and non-light emission of respective subfields so as to provide a field having a level of brightness. Here, the field is a unit display period of the pixels and divided into the subfields which have different light emission periods and are arranged in a predetermined sequence. In the predetermined sequence, the subfields are arranged in a manner such that a subfield having the shortest light emission period among the subfields is in the first place, one of a subfield having the longest light emission period and a subfield having the second longest light emission period among the subfields is in the second place, and the other one is in the third place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Keizo MATSUMOTO, Hiroshi MIYAI, Katsuo SAIGO, Masanobu INOE, Seiji NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20110134226
    Abstract: A three dimensional (3D) display apparatus and a method for determining a 3D image are provided. The 3D display apparatus detects definition information of a received image data, and determines whether the received image data is 3D image data based on the detected definition information. Therefore, the 3D display apparatus may determine whether or not that a received image is a 3D image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ji-won KIM
  • Publication number: 20110134213
    Abstract: [Object] To provide suitable disparity using a disparity information set adapted to the type of superposition information. [Solution] A disparity information set creating unit 131 creates predetermined sets of disparity information sets. Examples of the disparity information sets include general-purpose disparity information sets, and disparity information sets for particular service application. Each set of the disparity information sets that is created at the disparity information set creating unit 131 and transmitted along with stereoscopic image data is added with identification information indicating the type of superposition information regarding which disparity information included in this disparity information set should be used. The predetermined sets of disparity information sets are transmitted to the reception side, for example, by being inserted in a user data region of a video data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Publication number: 20110134220
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect, the present invention provides a real-time 3D visualization system. The system includes means for conveying electromagnetic energy emanating from one or more 3D surfaces including a scene and means for sensing spatial phase characteristics of the electromagnetic energy as the configuration of the 3D surfaces relative to the system changes. The system includes means for creating a 3D scene model utilizing the spatial phase characteristics sensed in a plurality of configurations and means for displaying the 3D scene model in real-time. The means for displaying includes means for synthesizing depth cues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: Photon-X, Inc.
    Inventors: Blair Allen Barbour, David Scott Ackerson
  • Publication number: 20110128351
    Abstract: A method of creating a three-dimensional image signal comprises receiving a first image component, receiving a second component for creating a three-dimensional image in combination with the first image component, receiving a text component for including in the three-dimensional image, receiving a data component comprising location information describing the location of the text component within the three-dimensional image, and creating a three-dimensional image signal comprising the first image component, the second component, the text component, and the data component. The signal is rendered by rendering a three-dimensional image from the first image component and the second component, the rendering including rendering the text component in the three-dimensional image, the rendering of the text component including adjusting three-dimensional parameters of the three-dimensional image in the location of the rendered text component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Philip Steven Newton, Dennis Daniel Robert Jozef Bolo, Francesco Scalori, Gerardus Wilhelmus Theodorus Van Der Heijden, Henricus Fransiscus Petrus Maria Van Doveren, Wiebe De Haan, Hendrik Frank Moll
  • Publication number: 20110128356
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for displaying image information in which pixels of a matrix screen (21) are actuated as a function of the image information (30) of a plurality of more than two different mutually complementary stereoscopic half-images such that each of the half-images is reproduced with a large number of image points on one of different sub-groups of the pixels and light emanating from each of these sub-groups of pixels is conducted through a beam splitter grid (22) into a region (31, 32, 33, 34) which is assigned to this sub-group, from which region only the half-image reproduced by this sub-group is visible, eye positions of respectively two eyes of at least two viewers (27, 28, 29) being determined and the sub-groups of pixels, on which respectively one of the half-images is reproduced, being chosen as a function of the detected eye positions such that the eyes of each of the at least two viewers (27, 28, 29) are situated in two of the mentioned regions (31, 32, 33, 34) from which two mu
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Renè de la Barrè, Silvio Jurk
  • Publication number: 20110122239
    Abstract: An image display device including an image display panel configured to display a 2D image and a 3D image, a driving circuit configured to apply a data voltage of a 2D data format or a data voltage of a 3D data format to the image display panel, a controller configured to control the driving circuit in a 2D mode for displaying the 2D image or a 3D mode for displaying the 3D image, and a patterned retarder including a first retarder and a second retarder that are arranged line by line, the patterned retarder configured to divide the 3D image from the image display panel into a first polarization component and a second polarization component, the patterned retarder being aligned so that boundary portions of the first and second retarders are positioned in a center of pixels positioned on odd-numbered horizontal lines or even-numbered horizontal lines of the image display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Insu BAIK, Hoon KANG
  • Publication number: 20110122236
    Abstract: Stereoscopic display with high definition compared with in the past may be easily realized. A lenticular lens 2 is disposed such that a longitudinal direction of each cylindrical lens 2A is parallel to an axis in a vertical direction Y of a two-dimensional display section 1. In addition, a plurality of beams corresponding to a plurality of view angles are radiated into a space by means of surface segmentation at a time, and a relative positional relationship between each cylindrical lens 2A and each pixel of the two-dimensional display section 1 is periodically changed, so that a radiation direction of display image light from one pixel through each cylindrical lens 2A is periodically displaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Sunao Aoki
  • Publication number: 20110122234
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus capable of generating a cursor that moves according to user operation to allow stereoscopic view with a stereoscopic image including a set of images with parallax and capable of combining and displaying the cursor on the stereoscopic image acquires a parallax amount of the stereoscopic image at a location where the cursor is combined and displayed on the stereoscopic image and calculates a moving speed of the cursor. The stereoscopic image display apparatus determines whether the cursor is moving based on the calculated moving speed and generates the cursor including a certain predetermined value as the parallax amount of the cursor if it is determined that the cursor is moving. The stereoscopic image display apparatus generates the cursor by setting the parallax amount of the cursor to the parallax amount of the acquired stereoscopic image if it is determined that the cursor is not moving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Teruki Kikkawa
  • Publication number: 20110122235
    Abstract: An image display device for displaying a 3-Dimensional (3D) image and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The image display device includes a user input unit configured to receive an item selection signal for some of one or more items included in a User Interface (UI) image, a control unit configured to generate a detailed image of a selection item selected by the item selection signal as a 3D image, and a display unit configured to display the detailed image. A user can select and receives an UI image or items included therein as a 3D image, and select a 2D/3D mode of the displayed UI image so as to control a sense of depth thereof. If a plurality of UI images is displayed, the image display device can display UI images on multiple layers with senses of depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaehak LEE, Youngsun Joo, Jaekyung Lee
  • Publication number: 20110115889
    Abstract: A method of driving a light source including a light source part includes determining whether an image signal is a two-dimensional mode image signal or a three-dimensional mode image signal to generate a mode signal, adjusting a level of a current to be applied to the light source part in response to the mode signal to generate an adjusted current, and driving the light source part using the adjusted current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo-Ram KIM, Myoung-Chul KIM, Yun-Jae KIM, Byoung-Jun LEE, Nam-Hee GOO, Seung-Hwan MOON, Kyung-Uk CHOI, Hyun-Seok KO
  • Publication number: 20110115993
    Abstract: A projection display system includes a glasses system, a driving unit and a projection apparatus. The driving unit is electrically connected to the glasses system for repeatedly applying or removing a voltage to/from the glasses system. The projection apparatus includes an illumination system and a color wheel. The color wheel is in a transmission path of a light beam provided by the illumination system. The color wheel has a compensation zone and a plurality of color zones. When the color wheel is rotated, the compensation zone and the color zones sequentially pass through the light beam. The compensation zone has first, second and third sub compensation zones. A time for the first sub compensation zone passing through the light beam is substantially equal to a time for the third sub compensation zone passing through the light beam. A liquid crystal glasses and a control method are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: CORETRONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chin-Ku Liu, Sze-Ke Wang
  • Publication number: 20110109728
    Abstract: A method for operating an image display apparatus that receives a three-dimensional (3D) image signal and displays the 3D image signal as a 3D image, includes according to an embodiment displaying an image, detecting a connected external device, receiving data from the detected external device, generating at least one 3D object corresponding to the received data, and displaying the at least one 3D object corresponding to the received data. The at least one 3D object corresponding to the received data is processed to have a different depth from the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyung Hee Yoo, Sang Jun Koo, Sae Hun Jang, Uni Young Kim, Hyung Nam Lee
  • Publication number: 20110109730
    Abstract: Adjusting overlay positioning in stereoscopic video, including: receiving overlay data including a plurality of overlays, each overlay having a lateral axis value, a vertical axis value, and a depth value; receiving and displaying the stereoscopic video to a user as at least one of a video preview display and a stereoscopic display, each display including an overlay from the overlay data, wherein a position of the overlay in each display is based on the lateral axis value, the vertical axis value, and the depth value of the overlay, and wherein the video preview display includes interfaces for adjusting the position of the overlay in each display; receiving input from the user related to the depth value of the overlay; and adjusting the position of the overlay in the video preview display based on the input from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, SONY PICTURES TECHNOLOGIES INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Aubey, JR., Peter Avventi, Dennis Adams, Yoshikazu Takashima, John Ying, Tommy Choy, George Reis, Michael Thompson, Kiruthika Krishnadevarajan, Don C. Eklund, II
  • Publication number: 20110109731
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for adjusting parallax of a three-dimensional (3D) video are provided. The method including receiving an input of a 3D video sequence; determining whether a scene transition occurs between a previous frame and a current frame of the 3D video sequence; if it is determined that the scene transition occurs between the previous frame and the current frame, determining and comparing first depth information of a previous scene which includes the previous frame and second depth information of a current scene which includes the current frame; and, based on a result of the comparing, selectively adjusting depth information of at least one of the frames of the previous scene and the frames of the current scene in consideration of a difference between the first depth information and the second depth information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-phil KOO, Dae-sik KIM
  • Publication number: 20110109733
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The stereoscopic image display includes shutter glasses including a left eye shutter and a right eye shutter that are alternately turned on and off in synchronization with a display device, a backlight unit that irradiates light to the display device and is periodically turned on and off, a controller that divides a first frame period into a first address period and a first vertical blanking period, divides a second frame period into a second address period and a second vertical blanking period, and controls so that durations of the first vertical blanking period and the second vertical blanking period are different from each other, and a driving circuit that supplies data to the display device during the first and second address periods under the control of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Seonggyun Kim, Jeongki Lee
  • Publication number: 20110102561
    Abstract: The video display apparatus is provided that the breaking up of the video image should not be viewed by users when the frame rate of video content items is changed in association with the change in the number of viewed content items. The video display apparatus, which is capable of viewing a plurality of video content items using the shutter eyeglasses, controls the plurality of video content items by time-division, and performs the shutter control of the shutter eyeglasses in association with the display videos. The video time-division output processing section applies time-division processing to data representing the plurality of video content items in accordance with the control command provided by the control section to output the resulting data to the display section. The control section changes the frame rate of the display videos depending on the number of video content items which are to be viewed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuharu Ichihashi
  • Publication number: 20110102556
    Abstract: A method of controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes receiving a selection signal from an input unit setting a 3D attribute to at least one item among a plurality of items to be displayed on a display of the mobile terminal; and turning on a switching panel unit positioned in front of the display, via a controller controlling the switching panel unit, when the at least one item is displayed on the display of the mobile terminal. Further, the switching panel unit displays left and right eye images of the at least one item such that the at least one item is viewed as a 3D image based on binocular disparity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Sungdo KIM, Jonghwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20110102563
    Abstract: A multi-spectral stereoscopic display system is disclosed. A left-eye image may be presented and viewed via a first set of spectral bands. A right-eye image may be presented and viewed via a second set of spectral bands. The two sets of spectral bands may have low or no overlap with each other. The color balances of the left-eye image and the right-eye image may be almost matching or identical. The left-eye image and the right-eye image may each be a full-color image with neutral color balance, even without modifying the color balance of original image content. Thin-film optical interference filters may provide pass-bands corresponding to these sets of spectral bands. The filter design may lead to an inexpensive viewing apparatus that can be mass-produced using inexpensive glass or polymer substrates. This system does not rely on polarization techniques and may be used with a white or metallic display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Robert L. Johnson, JR., Benjamin Fitch Price, John James Galt
  • Publication number: 20110102557
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a stereoscopic display device which enhances accessibility from a stereoscopic display device to other multimedia device, the stereoscopic display device includes a flat panel that displays an image, the flat panel generating a porch signal on each frame of the image being display and having a predetermined period of blank time after generation of the porch signal, a stereo controller that senses the porch signal to generate a wireless goggle control signal, and a goggle that receives the goggle control signal according to wireless protocol at the time of watching the flat panel, to perceive a stereo 3D image by opening/closing a left eye lens and a right eye lens, selectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Hyun-Jin SO, Byung-Moo Choi
  • Publication number: 20110102560
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel and an optical lens assembly. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The display panel temporally divides M view images corresponding to M viewing spaces to display the temporally divided image on a display panel. ‘M’ is a natural number of no less than two. The optical lens assembly converts the view image displayed on the display panel into N stereoscopic images in which directions of the view images are different from each other to emit the converted view image toward a viewing space corresponding to the view image displayed on the display panel. ‘N’ is a natural number no less than two.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Hwi KIM, Oh-Jeong KWON, Seung-Hoon LEE, Kyung-Ho JUNG, Hee-Seop KIM
  • Publication number: 20110102558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display system for stereoscopic viewing, the system comprising a binocular viewing device, information content, and a display source. The display system is remarkable in that it further comprises electronic components for implementing pieces of software for optimizing the binocular viewing device, the information content, and the display source, said pieces of optimization software together forming a loop for managing various parameters. The wearer of said device can thus view the information content via the binocular viewing device under conditions that are best adapted to the wearer's physiology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Renaud Moliton, Cécile Bonafos, Cédric Buchon, Sarah Marie, Benjamin Rousseau