Plural Patents (Class 353/94)
  • Patent number: 11919246
    Abstract: Methods and systems of and for using volumetric display technology including volumetric display technology to create three-dimensional objects for various industries, including, but not limited to solar, automotive and/or other technological areas that use 3D printing or additive manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Daniel S. Clark
  • Patent number: 11856120
    Abstract: A mobile terminal comprises: a case; a display unit disposed on the front surface of the case and including a hole; a camera mounted in the case; an image output unit disposed at one side of the camera; a switching device for selectively placing the image output unit and the camera inward from the hole; and a control unit for controlling the camera, the image output unit, and the switching device. The mobile terminal outputs an image even to the hole of the display unit when the camera is not used through the hole, and thus can substantially implement full vision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yunsuk Jung
  • Patent number: 11818517
    Abstract: A projector controlling method includes acquiring first imaging information obtained by capturing a first image projected from a projector at a first timing, acquiring second imaging information obtained by capturing a second image projected from the projector at a second timing, evaluating whether or not a change in the posture of the projector satisfies a certain criterion based on the first imaging information and the second imaging information, and outputting information based on the result of the evaluating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11810534
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display layer for displaying images. An optical coupling layer having an input surface that receives light from the display panel may convey the light from the input surface to an output surface. The output surface may have different dimensions than the display layer and may have any desired shape. To account for the displacement of light between the active area and the outer surface of the optical coupling layer and to ensure the output image is perceived with the desired distortion, image data may be rendered for the output surface then modified to account for the distortion and displacement that will occur later when the image is transported by the optical coupling layer from the display active area to the output surface of the optical coupling layer. Image distortion control circuitry may modify the rendered image data based on a distortion map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Qiao, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Yingying Tang, Michael J. Brown, Paul C. Kelley, Tyler R. Kakuda, Hao Dong, Ying-Chih Wang, Chaohao Wang, Shaorui Yang, Wei H. Yao
  • Patent number: 11765341
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of operating a lenticular display is performed by a device including a processor, non-transitory memory, an image sensor, and a lenticular display. The method includes displaying, via the lenticular display, first content at a horizontal angle of a first user and second content, different than the first content, at a horizontal angle of a second user. The method further includes displaying, via the lenticular display, the first content at a second horizontal angle of the first user and the second content at a second horizontal angle of the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Seung Wook Kim, Nicolas V. Scapel, Felipe Bacim De Arujo E Silva
  • Patent number: 11758181
    Abstract: An encoding method is performed by an encoding apparatus, and the encoding method includes a step in which an image of an object captured by a camera in a plurality of frames of a moving image is analyzed and it is determined whether camera parameters relating to an intrinsic matrix of the camera are invariable, a step in which, when the camera parameters are invariable, six parameters representing destinations of three points for a projective transformation unit of the image of the object are generated, and a homography matrix is generated on the basis of the six parameters, and a step in which projective transformation is performed on the projective transformation unit of the image of the object using the homography matrix, and a prediction signal of the image of the object is generated on the basis of the result of the projective transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Inter-University Research Institute Corporation Research Organization Of Information And Systems
    Inventors: Seishi Takamura, Gene Cheung, Cheng Yang
  • Patent number: 11733599
    Abstract: A light source unit of the present invention includes a first light source and a second light source that are configure to emit light in a first wavelength range, a luminescent plate configured to be excited by the light in a first wavelength range to emit light in a second wavelength range, and a dichroic filter provided on one surface side of the luminescent plate and configured to transmit the light in a second wavelength, and the light in a first wavelength range emitted from the first light source is incident on the dichroic filter at an angle within a first incident angle range, and the light in a first wavelength range emitted from the second light source is incident on the dichroic filter at an angle within a second incident angle range that is greater than the first incident angle range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chihaya Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11714282
    Abstract: A light source includes a first set of source elements and a second set of source elements. A respective set of source elements is disposed on a respective substrate and electrically coupled to a respective set of circuit pads formed on a respective top surface of the respective substrate by respective bond wires. At least a portion of the respective top surfaces face each other and are spaced apart from each other to accommodate at least some of the first set of source elements, at least some of the second set of source elements, and at least some of the bond wires. The display device that includes a light source configured to output image light, an optical assembly configured to collimate the image light, a scanning assembly configured to steer the image light, and an output device configured to output the image light for displaying images is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Wanli Chi, Chadwick Brian Martin, Scott Charles McEldowney, Maxwell Parsons, Stephen James McNally, Daniel Guenther Greif
  • Patent number: 11662599
    Abstract: The invention provides an illumination system and a projection device with the illumination system. The illumination system is configured to provide an illumination beam, and includes a coherent light source, a first and a second optical module, a first and a second diffuser element. A coherent beam emitted by the coherent light source is focused on a first position through the first optical module, and the first diffuser element is located at or near the first position. The coherent beam from the first diffuser element is focused on a second position through the second optical module. The second diffuser element is located on a transmission path of the coherent beam from the second optical module, and located at or near the second position. The coherent beam sequentially passes through the first diffuser element, the second optical module and the second diffuser element to form the illumination beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chien-Chung Liao, Hung-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11619867
    Abstract: To provide a new method for displaying a video image on a whole circumference screen. Provided is an image display device including: an emission unit configured to emit image light along a predetermined axis; a screen arranged over a whole circumference around the predetermined axis and having a cylindrical shape with the predetermined axis as a substantially central axis; and an optical unit arranged to face the emission unit with the predetermined axis as a reference, and configured to control an incident angle of the image light emitted by the emission unit, the incident angle being with respect to the screen, in which a video image displayed by the image light incident on the screen is simultaneously displayed over a whole circumference around the predetermined axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuki Furue, Mitsuo Okumura, Yoshihito Ohki, Tomoharu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11611731
    Abstract: An evaluation method for an image projection system in which a first projector, a second projector, and a third projector perform stack projection on a screen, the method including acquiring a first image generated by capturing the screen at a first timing, acquiring a second image generated by capturing the screen at a second timing, causing the projection state of the first projector to differ from the projection states of the second projector and the third projector at the first timing, and evaluating whether or not the first projector needs to be adjusted based on the first image and the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Susumu Ota
  • Patent number: 11586317
    Abstract: An interactive assembly including at least one interactive surface element, at least a first region of the at least one interactive surface element having first user sensible functionality and at least a second region of the at least one interactive surface element having second functionality, different from the first user sensible functionality, input sensor functionality, including at least one input sensor located in propinquity to at least one of the at least one interactive surface element, operative to sense impingement of an electromagnetic radiation spot on at least one of the at least one first region and the at least one second region of the at least one interactive surface element and utilization functionality for employing outputs of the input sensor functionality in respect of impingement on either or both of the at least one first region and the at least one second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Power2b, Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah Michelle Lipman, Eran Kali, Boris Gutin, Mordehai Margalit, Robert Michael Lipman, Ken Zwiebel
  • Patent number: 11470291
    Abstract: A projector including a casing, a control system, an image assembly and at least one electric thermal heater is provided. The image assembly is coupled to and controlled by the control system. The electric thermal heater is coupled to and controlled by the control system. The control system is configured to activate the electric thermal heater to preheat the image assembly, such that the image assembly is warmed up to a cut-off temperature. Then, the control system is configured to switch off the electric thermal heater. Then the focal length of the image assembly is adjusted. A focal length adjusting method for the projector is further provided. The projector and the method may be used to avoid the thermal expansion of various elements, so as to avoid focal length shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Te-Tang Chen, Chun-Lung Yen, Wen-Yen Chung, Tung-Chou Hu
  • Patent number: 11442351
    Abstract: An illumination system including a first light source device, a light guide device, a light splitting device, and a light converging element is provided. The first light source device provides first, second, and third light beams and a first compensation light beam. The light guide device reflects the first, second, and third light beams and the first compensation light beam. The light splitting device includes a first half reflecting element configured to reflect a part of a light beam and being pervious to another part of the light beam. The light converging element receives first and second combined light beams formed by the first, second, and third light beams and the first compensation light beam, where distances between light spots formed on the light converging element by the first and second combined light beams and a central axis of the light converging element are identical and greater than zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Lin, Kun-Chen Hsu
  • Patent number: 11435562
    Abstract: A device for projecting a test pattern for evaluating the image-capturing properties of a lens module includes a light emitting assembly. The light emitting assembly includes a light emitter and a patterning plate on the light emitter. The patterning plate includes a first surface facing the light emitter and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The second surface is concave and defines a patterning groove. The light from the light emitter passes through the patterning groove to form an original pattern for testing, the display of a test pattern being instantly selectable and displayable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Jin-Ke Chen
  • Patent number: 11405596
    Abstract: A lighting arrangement for a passenger cabin of an aircraft is provided. The lighting arraignment has a display surface for displaying image content, at least two luminaires in a lighting environment of the display surface and a control unit. The luminaires radiate light in accordance with at least one lighting parameter. In the control unit, each luminaire is assigned part of the display surface as an evaluation region and a mapping rule. The mapping rule assigns image content of the evaluation region values of the lighting parameters. The control unit, for each of the luminaires, assigns the image content of its evaluation region values of its lighting parameters using the mapping rule and actuates the luminaires with the values with regard to the assigned lighting parameters. A passenger cabin having the lighting arrangement and a method for actuating the luminaires are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Bachhuber, Tobias Mengel
  • Patent number: 11314080
    Abstract: A method of adjusting a chromatic aberration of a display device includes defining a tolerance scope of chromatic aberration; determining a varying scope of chromatic aberration of the display device according to chromatic aberrations of the plurality of display screens; defining a plurality of adjusting levels of chromatic aberration according to the tolerance scope of chromatic aberration and the varying scope of chromatic aberration; setting a color offset value corresponding to each of the plurality of adjusting levels of chromatic aberration; and for each of the plurality of display screens, selecting a corresponding adjusting level of chromatic aberration in comparison to one of the plurality of display screens, and inputting a corresponding color offset value of the selected adjusting level of chromatic aberration to each of the plurality of display screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chingyuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11303867
    Abstract: A method of controlling a display system includes a first generation step of projecting a test pattern in a reference state in which a projection condition of a first projector is adjusted so that a color of a first projection image when viewed from the front becomes a desired color, and taking the first projection image corresponding to the test pattern by a first camera to generate a first reference image, a second generation step of projecting the test pattern and then taking the projection image corresponding to the test pattern by the first camera to generate a first comparative image, a third generation step of generating first correction data for correcting the projection condition so that the first comparative image coincides with the first reference image, and a correction step of correcting the projection condition based on the first correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Kubota
  • Patent number: 11303871
    Abstract: A server according to the disclosure includes a communicator configured to communicate with a plurality of display apparatuses; and a controller configured to produce a plurality of split images corresponding to individual view angles of screens of the plurality of display apparatuses from each frame of a 360-degree image including a plurality of frames, transmit the plurality of split images according to the frames to the corresponding display apparatus, and control the communicator to transmit a split image updated corresponding to change in the individual view angle based on movement of a view point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-deok Kim, Bo-eun Kim, Sung-hyun Kim, Jong-in Lee
  • Patent number: 11295641
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunguk Lee, Goun Park, Jinchoul Lee, Seungnyun Kim, Yongsang Yun
  • Patent number: 11285866
    Abstract: A vehicular ground illumination module includes first, second and third icon LEDs, and first, second and third masks associated with respective ones of the first, second and third LEDs. A ground illumination LED and a freeform optic of the module function to, when the ground illumination LED electrically powered, illuminate the ground adjacent the side of the vehicle at which the module is mounted, with a ground illumination region of the ground being illuminated at a ground illumination intensity and an icon region of the ground being illuminated at an icon illumination intensity that is less than the ground illumination intensity. When the first, second and third icon LEDs are individually electrically powered to emit light, light emitted by the LEDs passes through the respective masks to project first, second and third projected images that provide animated images at the icon region of the ground adjacent the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Justin E. Sobecki, Gregory A. Huizen
  • Patent number: 11258945
    Abstract: An immersive environment for data exploration comprising a curved video projection surface. According to the invention, the curved video projection surface is assembled from a multitude of video projection modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
    Inventor: Alexei Matveev
  • Patent number: 11237391
    Abstract: Disclosed is a head-up display device for a vehicle including at least one light source, a liquid crystal display, and at least one polarization converter disposed between the light source and the liquid crystal display and configured to convert unpolarized light generated by the light source into single linearly polarized light and to provide the single linearly polarized light to the liquid crystal display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ohjin Kweon, Jongmyeong Shim
  • Patent number: 11184605
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of operating a lenticular display is performed by a device including a processor, non-transitory memory, an image sensor, and a lenticular display. The method includes displaying, via the lenticular display, first content at a horizontal angle of a first user and second content, different than the first content, at a horizontal angle of a second user. The method further includes displaying, via the lenticular display, the first content at a second horizontal angle of the first user and the second content at a second horizontal angle of the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Seung Wook Kim, Nicolas V. Scapel, Felipe Bacim De Arujo E Silva
  • Patent number: 11143861
    Abstract: There is provided a wearable heads-up display (WHUD) having a laser projector to generate a display image. The display image can have a pixel having a pixel on-time. Furthermore, the laser projector can have a laser diode to emit laser light. The WHUD can also include a controller communicatively coupled to the laser diode. The controller can modulate the laser diode during the pixel on-time to be off during a laser off-time of the pixel on-time and on during a laser on-time of the pixel on-time. Moreover, the WHUD can include a holographic optical element to receive the laser light from the laser projector and redirect the laser light towards an eye of a user of the WHUD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Stuart James Myron Nicholson
  • Patent number: 11079665
    Abstract: The present disclosure describe embodiments of a laser projection apparatus. The apparatus includes: an apparatus housing, a laser source system, an optical illumination system and a lens system. The laser source system includes: a first laser assembly configured to emit a first laser beam, a second laser assembly configured to emit a second laser beam and a third laser assembly configured to emit a third laser beam; a first laser combining lens configured to reflect the third laser beam; a second laser combining lens configured to transmit the second laser beam and reflect the third laser beam; and a third laser combining lens configured to transmit the first laser beam and reflect the second and third laser beams. The optical illumination system is configured to modulate laser beams to generate a modulated beam. The lens system is configured to project the modulated beam onto a projection screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HISENSE LASER DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ke Yan, Youliang Tian, Wei Li, Yun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11074027
    Abstract: A display apparatus having a first mode and a second mode includes a first input section that receives first image information, a first image processor that performs image processing on the first image information to generate second image information in the first mode, a second input section that receives third image information, a second image processor that performs image processing on the second image information to generate fourth image information in the first mode and performs image processing on the third image information to generate fifth image information in the second mode, a display section that displays an image based on the fourth image information on a display surface in the first mode and displays an image based on the fifth image information on the display surface in the second mode, and an output section that outputs the second image information to another display apparatus in the first mode and outputs the third image information to the other display apparatus in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Ueda
  • Patent number: 11054731
    Abstract: A light source device includes first and second surface light sources, a first optical system that forms light source images of the first and second surface light sources on an image forming surface, an optical element provided with a columnar light guide section, and a second optical system that forms, on an entrance surface of the light guide section, an image of a synthesis surface light source comprising the light source images of the first and second surface light sources. The first optical system includes a reflection element provided with a first reflection surface that reflects a first light flux from the first surface light source toward the image forming surface, and a second reflection surface that reflects a second light flux from the second surface light source toward the image forming surface and that is at right angles to the first reflection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Horie, Chikatoshi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11032525
    Abstract: Image display apparatus and methods may use a single imaging element such as a digital mirror device (DMD) to spatially modulate plural color channels. A color channel may include a light steering element such as a phase modulator. Steered light from a light steering element may be combined with or replaced by additional light to better display bright images. These technologies may be provided together or applied individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: MTT Innovation Incorporated
    Inventors: Gerwin Damberg, Eric Jan Kozak, Raveen Kumaran, Anders Ballestad
  • Patent number: 10948735
    Abstract: A system and method for projecting images including an illumination light beam (emitted by a source) and a collimated light beam (emitted by a laser source). The two light beams being combined into one light via a microlens array combined with a pinhole matrix located in the focal plane of the microlens array. The collimated beam is transmitted through this array and the base beam is reflected therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: BARCO N.V.
    Inventor: Dirk Maes
  • Patent number: 10921704
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for controlling a projection content and an electronic device. The method includes: controlling a projector to project a display content on a projection plane; obtaining a display range of the display content on the projection plane; detecting a light spot on the projection plane; and adjusting the display content based on a movement condition of the light spot with respect to the display range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Fang Yang, Chien Huang, Keng-Hsien Yang
  • Patent number: 10827166
    Abstract: An image projection system may include a translucent or transparent projection screen and multiple lenticules disposed on or within the projection screen. The image projection system may also include a projector to project multiple images onto the projection screen. The images may include multiple views of a scene, and the projector may simultaneously project the images to generate a three-dimensional display of the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Universal City Studio LLC
    Inventor: Howard Bruce Mall
  • Patent number: 10809603
    Abstract: The invention discloses a novel LCD projector, comprising an imaging system with single-light path system for LCD projector time-division display, a lighting system with PCS (P light converted into S light) function, a three-primary-colors LED light source with microlenses, and a heat dissipation system with dust-proof and self-cleaning function; the monochrome LCD screen of the imaging system has a high light transmittance and resolution, achieving higher brightness and resolution; the lighting part has a polarized light conversion function, which converts the useless P light into useful S light, improving the light utilization and increasing the brightness; a transparent antifouling coating is applied on the optical components of the heat dissipation system to reduce dust adsorption; ultrasonic vibrators are mounted on the optical components to shake off the dust attached; the light source uses the microlens to converge the three-primary-color LED light source to improve light efficiency and uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: XINGGUANGPU TECHNOLOGY CHENGDU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yi Xu
  • Patent number: 10715578
    Abstract: The disclosure proposes a projector system and a projector setting method. The projector system includes: a plurality of projectors including a first projector and at least one second projector, wherein the first projector is connected to the at least one second projector via a network. The first projector receives a plurality of set values and stores the set values as a configuration. The first projector acquires an Internet Protocol address corresponding to the at least one second projector. The first projector receives a copy command, and transmits the configuration to the at least one second projector according to the Internet Protocol address of the at least one second projector. The at least one second projector performs a setting operation according to the configuration. The projector setting method suitable for the projector system. In the disclosure, the configuration can be copied between a plurality of projectors faster and more conveniently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventor: Hsin-Ya Lai
  • Patent number: 10700545
    Abstract: A multimedia device including a main structure defining a supporting surface extending along a main direction and curved along a single direction oblique with respect to the main direction to form a curved profile, a plurality of secondary structures each defining a fastening surface and suitable to be fastened to the structure in a reciprocally continuous manner along the main direction and the curved profile to entirely cover the supporting surface and form a broken profile approximating to the curved profile, and a plurality of modules including a screen each configured to project images, wherein each of the secondary structures includes a support formed as a single piece and a plurality of modules arranged adjacent to one another along the main direction on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: LEADING TECHNOLOGIES S.R.L.
    Inventor: Marco Porro
  • Patent number: 10701325
    Abstract: A multi-projection system that combines projection images projected by a plurality of projectors to allow an image containing an OSD image for adjustment of the projectors to be displayed on a projection surface includes an instruction receiving section that receives an adjustment instruction indicating one of first adjustment in which the plurality of projectors are adjusted altogether and second adjustment in which the plurality of projectors are individually adjusted and a switching section that switches the aspect of the OSD image to another in accordance with the adjustment instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10638100
    Abstract: A projector that is allowed to belong to a multi-projection system that projects an image on a projection surface, the image formed of a plurality of partial images including a first partial image, a second partial image, and a third partial image, includes a projection section that projects the third partial image on the projection surface and an adjustment instruction section that transmits, to a first projector that projects the first partial image, a first adjustment instruction of adjusting the projection area of the first partial image based on the projection area of the third partial image and transmits, to a second projector that projects the second partial image after transmitting the first adjustment instruction, a second adjustment instruction of adjusting the projection area of the second partial image based on the projection area of the first partial image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nozomi Sato
  • Patent number: 10627707
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a projector which is capable of reducing mechanical stress of an optical panel due to vibration of a coolant tube through which a coolant for cooling the optical panel is made to flow. A projector according to the present invention includes: an optical panel (60R, 60G, 60B); a heat receiving plate (30a, 30b, 30c) including a coolant passage inside and configured to receive heat released by the optical panel; a coolant tube (21a, 23a, 23b, 25a, 25b, 27a) having flexibility and connected to the heat receiving plate; and a supporting portion to which the coolant tube extending from the heat receiving plate is connected. The coolant tube is disposed along a direction in which a plane of the heat receiving plate is disposed at least at a portion where the coolant tube is connected to the heat receiving plate and a portion where the coolant tube is connected to the supporting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gota Kishimoto, Takashi Kato, Miki Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 10591812
    Abstract: A projector assembly includes a light emitting diode (LED) array, wherein the LED array has an array axis, wherein the LED array includes a plurality of LEDs arranged along the array axis, and wherein the plurality of LEDs are individually addressable. The projector assembly includes a rotatable actuator supporting the LED array, wherein the rotatable actuator has a rotation axis, and wherein the rotation axis and the array axis are parallel. The projector assembly includes a collimator positioned in optical communication with the LED array for collimating light emitted from the plurality of LEDs and a set of imaging optics positioned in optical communication with the collimator for focusing collimated light and forming a first image of the LED array at a distance, wherein the first image includes a first axis corresponding to the array axis and a second axis orthogonal to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventor: Fahri Yaras
  • Patent number: 10585343
    Abstract: A light source unit includes one or more light source rows that include a first light source row including light emitting devices. The light emitting devices of the first light source rows are arranged at non-uniform intervals. An illuminator includes a light source unit for emitting a bundle of light beams, a first fly-eye lens including lenslets, a second fly-eye lens, and a condenser lens. The light source unit includes one or more light source rows each including light emitting devices. The principal rays of first light beams outputted from a first light source row out of the one or more light source rows enter different lenslets out of the lenslets. A positional relationship between a principal ray of each of the first light beams and the optical axis of the lenslet which the principal ray enters is aperiodic over the first light source row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Yasumatsu, Akira Egawa
  • Patent number: 10585293
    Abstract: Disclosed are a light source and a display system. The light source comprises at least one original light emitting device group (1) and at least one supplementary light emitting device group (2). The original light emitting device group (1) comprises at least two LED (11, 12, 13) and a wavelength light combining device (14, 15), wherein the energy of the overlapped spectrum in the normalized spectrum of the two LED is smaller than 50% of the smaller energy of the two, and the wavelength light combining device combines the light output from all the LED in the original light emitting device group (1) in a wavelength light combining way. The supplementary light emitting device group (2) comprises at least one LED (21). The energy of the overlapped spectrum in the normalized spectrum of any LED of the supplementary light emitting device group (2) and at least one LED of the original light emitting device group (1) is larger than or equal to 10% of the smaller energy of the two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Yi Yang, Fei Hu
  • Patent number: 10574956
    Abstract: A system and method for automatic alignment and projection mapping are provided. A projector and at least two cameras are mounted with fields of view that overlap a projection area on a three-dimensional environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS USA, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Moule, Derek Scott, Nick Wasilka, Ian James Fraser, James Robinson
  • Patent number: 10504616
    Abstract: An example of a display system includes a sensor, a projector, and control means. The sensor senses user information for calculating a state regarding sleep of a user. The user information is, for example, biological information such as pulse. The projector projects and displays a predetermined image. The projector, for example, projects the image upward to project and display the image on the ceiling. The control means controls the projector in accordance with a state regarding sleep, which is calculated on the basis of the user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eizi Kawai, Masahiro Kondo, Kazuhiro Hosoi
  • Patent number: 10488745
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a light source section emitting excitation light; homogenizer optical element; first condensing element converging the excitation light; wavelength conversion element on which the converged excitation light is incident and that emits fluorescent light; and light separation element. The light source section, homogenizer optical element, and light separation element are disposed on a first illumination optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriko Imae, Takayuki Matsubara, Katsumitsu Hama, Noriyuki Hirano
  • Patent number: 10360876
    Abstract: Various approaches discussed herein enable techniques for displaying instances of content on a curved display screen. Multiple users of a curved display screen may desire to view separate instances of content on different regions of the same display screen. A location of the separate users may be determined, and a region associated with each user determined and positioned on the display such that the region is within the field of view of the respective user. The content associated with the particular user is displayed in the region of the display that is directed at the associated user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Omair Abdul Rahman
  • Patent number: 10297190
    Abstract: In some examples, a device includes at least two light sources, buffer circuitry configured to receive a bit stream, and driver circuitry configured to receive the bit stream from the buffer circuitry and to drive the at least two light sources based on the bit stream. In some examples, the device further includes monitor circuitry configured to determine a voltage drop across each light source of the at least two light sources and snooping circuitry configured to read an inactive bit of the bit stream. In some examples, the snooping circuitry is further configured to read an active bit of the bit stream after reading the inactive bit and based on a value of the inactive bit and to cause the monitor circuitry to determine a voltage drop across a light source of the at least two light sources based on a value of the active bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Andrea Scenini
  • Patent number: 10175497
    Abstract: An illumination device includes an irradiation device, a diffusing element, a first lens array, a second lens array and a deflecting element, which are arranged in this order along the light path. Diffused light that has entered a particular region on the diffusing element and has been diffused by the diffusing element, and diffused light that has entered a region, which differs from the particular region, on the diffusing element and has been diffused by the diffusing element, travel to regions which at least partly overlap each other. The diffusion angle of diffused light exiting the diffusing element is not more than the acceptable angle formed between two line segments LS extending from the principal point of a second unit lens of the second lens array to both ends of a first unit lens of the first lens array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishida, Makio Kurashige
  • Patent number: 10104276
    Abstract: A projector includes a lens, an image capturing device, and a processor connected to the projector and the image capturing device. The processor includes instructions for illuminating a work space using the lens, defocusing the lens, and after defocusing the lens, capturing an image of the work space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David Bradley Short, Robert L Mueller, Otto Sievert
  • Patent number: RE48753
    Abstract: A projection image display device includes: laser diodes which emit excitation light; a top-hat diffusing element which diffuses and provides the excitation light with a top-hat intensity distribution; a phosphor which emits light when illuminated by the excitation light diffused by the top-hat diffusing element; an integrator rod which homogenizes the light emitted by the phosphor; DMDs which modulate the light homogenized by the integrator rod; and a projector which projects the light modulated by the DMDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Michihiro Okuda
  • Patent number: RE49040
    Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a light source unit that includes plural sets of a laser and a coupling lens corresponding to the laser, which are circumferentially provided to form a circle; and a reflecting unit placed within the circle and provided with plural reflecting surfaces corresponding to the lasers of the plural sets of the light source unit to be formed in a cone shape, the light irradiated from each of the lasers being injected into the corresponding reflecting surface via the corresponding coupling lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ikuo Maeda