Having Record With Lenticular Surface Patents (Class 359/463)
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Patent number: 10437197Abstract: Three-Dimensional (3D) display device and method are disclosed. The device can include: a Light-Emitting Diode (LED) display, configured to display an image; a light path control structure including a multilayer pinhole type structure, configured to control emitting directions of light paths of the image to form 3D light field information, wherein multiple groups of pinhole arrays are arranged on each layer of the pinhole type structure; and a holographic function screen, configured to perform diffusion imaging on the 3D light field information to form a 3D image, wherein the LED display, the light path control structure and the holographic function screen are sequentially configured. The technical problems of the related art are solved.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: LEYARD OPTOELECTRONIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Changjun Lu, Zhihao Wang, Le Yang, Boyang Liu
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Patent number: 10338415Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to display devices, e.g., virtual and augmented reality displays and applications. In one embodiment, a planar substrate has stepwise features formed thereon and emitter structures formed on each of the features. An encapsulating layer is disposed on the substrate and a plurality of uniform dielectric nanostructures are formed on the encapsulating layer. Virtual images generated by the apparatus disclosed herein provide for improved image clarity by reducing chromatic aberrations at an image plane.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Robert Jan Visser, Avishek Ghosh
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Patent number: 10330944Abstract: A three-dimensional display device and a method for forming the same are provided. The three-dimensional display device includes a display panel and a parallax barrier on the display panel. The parallax barrier includes a first parallax sub-barrier, a resin layer on the first parallax sub-barrier and a second parallax sub-barrier on the resin layer. A thickness of the parallax barrier is larger than a predetermined thickness, where the predetermined thickness d1 is smaller than or equal to 1 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Wei Wei
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Patent number: 10317773Abstract: A display assembly includes a convex lens, a light-absorbing layer, and a refractive index-adjustable layer disposed therebetween. The refractive index-adjustable layer has a refractive index adjustable between less than, and no less than, a critical value, configured such that a light incident into the convex lens has a total reflection if the refractive index of the refractive index-adjustable layer is less than the critical value, and transmits through the refractive index-adjustable layer and reaches the light-absorbing layer for absorption if the refractive index of the refractive index-adjustable layer is no less than the critical value. The critical value can be a refractive index of the convex lens if it is in direct contact with the refractive index-adjustable layer, or can be a refractive index of a transparent film layer disposed between the convex lens and the refractive index-adjustable layer and in direct contact with the refractive index-adjustable layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhidong Wang
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Patent number: 10298921Abstract: A superstereoscopic display with enhanced off-angle separation includes a first light source; a lenticular lens optically coupled to the first light source that, with the first light source, generates a first light output having viewing angle dependency; and a high-index optical volume optically coupled to the lenticular lens.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Looking Glass Factory, Inc.Inventors: Shawn Frayne, Tung Yiu Fok, Shiu Pong Lee
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Patent number: 10275098Abstract: Mid-air holograms are used, as touch input buttons, for a device. The buttons enable a user to touch input in mid-air, into devices, such as, smarts toilet's, or used as keyboard input buttons. Using the hologram input buttons, eliminates contacting possibly harmful bacteria, that may be on touch input buttons that have a surface. The holograms are created by lasers, are visible, and have haptic touch. The laser excites air molecules, causing them to illuminate.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Inventor: Sigmund Lindsay Clements
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Patent number: 10274755Abstract: Disclosed are a beam combining/splitting modulator, a display apparatus including the same, and a spatial light modulation method. The beam combining/splitting modulator includes a light modulator including first and second modulation regions for modulating light, a polarization converter disposed at a side of an emitting surface of the light modulator and including a first transmissive region for polarizing and converting light incident from the first modulation region to have a first polarization and a second transmissive region for polarizing and converting light incident from the second modulation region to have a second polarization, a birefringence modulator disposed at the side of an emitting surface of the polarization converter and switching between a first state in which birefringence occurs and a second state in which birefringence does not occur, and a polarizer disposed at the side of an emitting surface of the birefringence modulator.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seunghoon Han, Kanghee Won, Hongseok Lee, Jaeeun Jung
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Patent number: 10247950Abstract: A three-dimensional display panel includes an array of pixels arranged in row and column directions, and at least one lenticular lens configured to form N viewpoints in different directions. The at least one lenticular lens has a longitudinal axis inclined by an angle of ? with respect to a column direction of the pixel, and a pitch P of the at least one lenticular lens in the row direction thereof satisfies ( N S ) ? A < P < ( ( N + 1 ) S ) ? A , where N is the number of the viewpoints and is an integer greater than or equal to 1, S is the number of the lenticular lenses used to form the N viewpoints and is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and A is a width of each pixel in the row direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung-Hoon Lee, Soohee Oh, Haeyoung Yun, Junghwan Yi, Jinhwan Kim
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Patent number: 10247951Abstract: A display has an array of light emitting display pixels occupying pixel areas, and a polarizing light transmissive area between the pixel areas. This polarization can be used to improve the contrast ratio of a transparent 2D display. However, it can also be used to enable a transparent 3D display to be formed without distortion of the see-through transparent display function. For this purpose, the light emitting display pixels can emit polarized light orthogonal to the polarization provided by the light transmissive area.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Mark Thomas Johnson, Bart Kroon, Elbert Gerjan Van Putten, Olexandr Valentynovych Vdovin
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Patent number: 10242309Abstract: Provided are an information recording object and a reading device devised so that embedded information is difficult to guess. The information recording object 30 provided with a combined image comprising an image C1 printed in a lustrous layer 31 and an image C2 formed on the image C1 and printed in a transparent layer 32 is characterized in that: the image C1 and the image C2 are each printed with an ink for which the amount of reflected light differs according to viewing angle; for the combined image, one image is visible depending on the viewing angle; the image C2 is an image in which there is a regularity in feature points in a spatial frequency domain F2; and the image C1 is an image in which the feature points in a spatial frequency domain F1 are disposed at positions that block said regularity.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuko Aoyama, Toshihisa Yamakawa, Atsuhiro Sabashi, Daiki Katou
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Patent number: 10197811Abstract: An electronic device including a display panel having an optical plate attached thereon is disclosed. The optical plate includes a parallax separation sheet to allow a user to see a 3D image displayed on the display panel, and a touch-sensing layer to allow a user to select stored items such as pictures in the electronic device or to enter information into the electronic device. A method for assembly the electronic device is also disclosed. The method uses three cameras and three monitors to check the alignment between the optical plate and display panel. In order to achieve a correct alignment, rotating device and shifting device can be used to adjust the position of the display panel relative to the optical plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: 3D Media Ltd.Inventor: Kwok Wah Allen Lo
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Patent number: 10180530Abstract: A directional backlight unit and a three-dimensional image display apparatus including the directional backlight unit are provided. The directional backlight unit includes a light source, a light guide plate guiding light emitted from the light source, and a diffraction device including a plurality of sections. Each of the sections includes a grating pattern set configured to adjust the direction of light incident from the light guide plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Bongsu Shin, Joonyong Park, Hyunjoon Kim, Dongouk Kim, Jihyun Bae, Dongsik Shim, Sunghoon Lee, Jaeseung Chung, Seogwoo Hong
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Patent number: 10178377Abstract: Disclosed is a 3-dimensional image display device, which includes: an image display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a lattice pattern; and an optical plate disposed spaced apart from the image display panel and including a plurality of light transmission regions or a backlight panel disposed spaced apart from the image display panel and including a plurality of light emission units, wherein the plurality of light transmission regions or light emission units are inclined from a vertical direction, wherein the image display panel includes: a reference data row which forms a reference viewing zone; and at least one data row which forms an intervening viewing zone, wherein the reference viewing zone includes a plurality of unit reference viewing zones, and wherein the intervening viewing zone includes at least one unit intervening viewing zone located between the unit reference viewing zones adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Sung Kyu Kim, Ki-hyuk Yoon
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Patent number: 10156709Abstract: This image display element (10) includes a lenticular sheet (11) and a color sheet (12). The lenticular sheet (11) has a structure in which a plurality of parallel cylindrical lenses (111) are formed integrally, and on the back surface side of the lenticular sheet, provided are rough surface parts (114) and flat surface parts (113) which can be optically differentiated. The flat surface parts (113) are disposed in correspondence with each of the cylindrical lenses (111). The lenticular sheet (11) is created by injection molding of a transparent resin.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Izawa
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Patent number: 10123000Abstract: A backlight module includes a light source module, a light timing control unit, a light guide plate and a lenticular lens. The light source module includes first light sources and second light sources. The lenticular lens disposed beside a side surface of the light guide plate and optically coupled between the light source module and the light guide plate, the lenticular lens having a central axis and a plurality of lenticular units. Each lenticular unit has a central optical axis, and one of the first light sources covered by one of the lenticular units is symmetrically disposed with respect to the central optical axis of the lenticular unit covering the first light source, at least two of the second light sources covered by one of lenticular units are disposed symmetrically with respect to the central optical axis of the lenticular unit covering the second light sources.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventor: June-Jei Huang
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Patent number: 9897818Abstract: A stereoscopic image viewer comprises a frame to be physically coupled to a handheld electronic device. The frame comprises a face plate having a pair of lens sockets with a pair of lenses, and a pair of side arms with a pair of slots to receive the handheld electronic device. The lenses can be coupled in the sockets by twist-to-lock couplings. A forehead pad comprising a squat dome is disposed on the face plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Handstands Promo, LLCInventor: Bryce Haymond
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Patent number: 9900587Abstract: An image display apparatus splits a barrier panel, which forms a plurality of light-transmitting areas and a plurality of light-blocking areas on each pixel, into a plurality of areas, and individually correcting locations of the light-transmitting areas and the light-blocking areas on the basis of viewing location information of a viewer with respect to a display panel, thereby realizing a stereoscopic image on an entire area of the display panel even if the viewing location of the viewer is varied.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jung Eun Son
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Patent number: 9888234Abstract: A three-dimensional integral imaging display device and a display system are provided, the three-dimensional integral imaging display device has: a two-dimensional liquid crystal display panel, a lens array, and an adjustment means, which is disposed between the two-dimensional liquid crystal display panel and the lens array, for increasing a depth of field of the three-dimensional integral imaging display device. The three-dimensional integral imaging display device can increase the depth of field of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Bin Fang
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Patent number: 9857604Abstract: A stereoscopic display comprises a flat-panel display and an optical layer disposed thereon. The optical layer further includes a lens array layer and a micro-structure layer. The flat-panel display has a display plane. The lens array layer has a base and a plurality of lens with focusing function. The lens array layer adjusts the light field. The micro-structure layer connects to the lens array layer, and includes a substrate and a plurality of micro structures. The micro-structure layer modulates the direction of light so that a stereo image which allows an oblique angle of view natural to the user is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: CHERAY CO. LTD.Inventors: Chun-Hsiang Yang, Yi-Pai Huang, Chih-Hung Ting, Ping-Yen Chou, Chih-Wei Shih, Jui-Yi Wu, Chia-Yu Lee
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Patent number: 9848178Abstract: A method is provided for generating an autostereoscopic display. The method includes acquiring a first parallax image and at least one other parallax image. At least a portion of the first parallax image may be aligned with a corresponding portion of the at least one other parallax image. Alternating views of the first parallax image and the at least one other parallax image may be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: VISION III IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Christopher Alan Mayhew, Michael Burgess Martin
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Patent number: 9817239Abstract: A 3D display device having a lens-switching function. The device includes an LCD picture layer, a lens-array plate, an LCD shielding pattern layer, and a synchronous picture providing system. The synchronous picture providing system is connected with the LCD picture layer and the LCD shielding pattern layer such that the LCD picture layer and the LCD shielding pattern layer are synchronous to respectively display a 3D picture and a shielded pattern. Through increasing an area of black shielding pattern, an edge of each lens unit corresponding to the shielding region is shielded, the area of a single light transparent region is reduced, and a light transparent aperture of a lens unit corresponding to the shielding region is reduced in order to eliminate a cross talk generated by scattering and bluntness at the edge.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventor: Jianhong Chen
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Patent number: 9798216Abstract: A 2D/3D switchable stereoscopic display apparatus includes a display panel, a liquid crystal lens, and a controller. The liquid crystal lens includes a first substrate having a plurality of first electrodes, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate and having a second electrode, a liquid crystal layer constituting liquid crystal molecules disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality spacers. The controller is configured to, when the display apparatus is in a 2D display state, control a first voltage between the first electrodes and the second electrode to generate a first electric field with an equal electric field intensity, which causes the liquid crystal molecules to rotate by a predetermined degree such that a refractive index difference between the liquid crystal molecules and the spacers is within a preset range.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SUPERD CO. LTD.Inventors: Honglei Wang, Fuzhong Guo, Xiaoda Gong
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Patent number: 9772503Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) display system is provided. The 3D display system includes a backlight plate, a display panel, a light-splitting device, and a polarization state controller. The display panel is configured to display a two-dimensional (2D) image in a 2D mode or to display a 3D image in a 3D mode. The light-splitting device is configured to an arrangement module configured to pass the 2D image in the 2D mode, and to separate the 3D image into a left image and a right image. Further, the polarization state controller is disposed between the display panel and the light-splitting device and is configured to rotate a polarization direction of light emitted from the display panel in the 2D mode, and to keep the polarization direction of the light emitted from the display panel in the 3D mode.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2013Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: SUPERD CO. LTD.Inventors: Yinwei Chen, Xiaoda Gong, Lei Song, Ning Liu, Zhang Ge
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Patent number: 9740015Abstract: A three-dimensional imaging system based on a stereo hologram is disclosed. Images composed of sub-images having the same vertical-horizontal resolutions which are generated at plural image projection modules having a two-dimensional arrangement structure are projected to a prism array plate or a transmission-type diffusion plate, and are converted into light points, i.e., image points through a microlens array unit. A diffusion plate used as an image display screen is mounted to a position at which images diffused from the light points intersect with images diffused from the adjacent light points.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Konyang University Industry-Academic Cooperation FoundationInventor: Jung Young Son
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Patent number: 9716879Abstract: A multi-view stereoscopic display includes multiple viewing areas periodically disposed along a horizontal direction, and each of the multiple viewing areas includes multiple viewpoints. The method comprises obtaining a position of a viewer, determining that if the viewer is located in an inversion region, and if the position of the viewer is located in the inversion region, executing a preset process for left and right eye viewpoint images of the viewpoints respectively corresponding to the viewer's left eye and right eyes so as to decrease the brightness contrast of the left eye and the right eye viewpoint images in order to reduce the discomfort of the viewer for watching in the inversion region and adding the comfort of watching the stereoscopic image.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventors: Qiaosheng Liao, Zhiming Yang
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Patent number: 9697791Abstract: Provided is a 3D image display device, including: a display panel displaying an image; a lens panel positioned on the display panel and has layers formed of different materials, refractive indexes of the layers being varied according to a driving voltage supplied from the outside; and a lens panel driver supplying the driving voltage to the lens panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youngbok Lee, Taeyoung Heo
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Patent number: 9645403Abstract: A reflective imaging element that may be manufactured in a convenient method and obtain a high quality aerial picture is provided. A reflective imaging element of an embodiment includes a first reflective element and a second reflective element including a light receiving surface to receive light from a projected material and an emitting surface, parallel to the light receiving surface, to emit the light from the projected material. When a ratio of light contributing to imaging out of the light from the projected material is defined as a ratio of amount of light and an incident angle of the light from the projected material when the ratio of amount of light is highest to the light receiving surface is defined as a maximum incident angle, the maximum incident angle of the first reflective element and the maximum incident angle of the second reflective element are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentarou Imamura, Takahumi Shimatani
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Patent number: 9648306Abstract: A method for aligning and assembling a stereoscopic display and manufacturing equipment are provided. Using an alignment imaging device to search alignment marks at non-display regions of a display panel and a cylindrical lens sheet. Determining a center coordinate of the display panel, a center coordinate of the cylindrical lens sheet, and an angle offset of the display panel and the cylindrical lens sheet. Using the center coordinate of the display panel and the center coordinate of the cylindrical lens sheet to perform a central assembling and aligning for the display panel and the cylindrical lens sheet. Respectively rotating the display panel and the cylindrical lens sheet according to the angle offset in order to finish assembling and aligning of the display panel and the cylindrical lens sheet.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd dInventors: Hongqing Cui, Guowei Zha
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Patent number: 9606367Abstract: Disclosed is a stereoscopic display device that can reduce moiré that occurs due to light-shielding areas in the aperture of pixels. The stereoscopic display device includes a display panel and a parallax barrier. The display panel has a plurality of pixels and displays a stereoscopic image. In the parallax barrier, the direction in which transmissive and non-transmissive parts are alternately arranged is the first direction and the lengthwise direction of the non-transmissive parts is the second direction. There is a boundary that extends in the second direction between two pixels next to each other in the first direction. There are light-shielding areas in the aperture of each pixel. There is a space between the boundary and the light-shielding areas. Of two pixels next to each other in the second direction, the light-shielding areas in the aperture of one pixel are shifted in the first direction with respect to the light-shielding areas in the aperture of the other pixel.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuto Yoshino, Takehiro Murao, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Patent number: 9609309Abstract: A stereoscopic image output system includes a stereoscopic vision output unit, an image database storage unit, and an output control unit. The stereoscopic vision is realized by outputting, from the stereoscopic vision output unit, a left-eye image and a right-eye image with parallax such that the left and right-eye images are visually recognized by the left and right eyes, respectively. Left-eye parallel projection data and right-eye parallel projection data are generated by parallel projection of a three-dimensional model using respective projection angles set for the left eye and right eye so as to produce the parallax therebetween, and stored in the database storage unit as two-dimensional drawing data. The output control unit controls an output range of the left and right-eye images. If the output range for the stereoscopic image changes, moving directions of the left-eye image and the right-eye image are individually determined by the output control unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Geo Technical Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyonari Kishikawa, Tsubasa Tomitaka, Masaya Ada, Tatsuji Kimura
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Patent number: 9549224Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein for presenting supplemental content in media assets, which may be presented only to particular users, irrespective of whether or not other users are viewing the same media asset on the same device.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2013Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventors: Paul Jensen, Jaya Bhagavathula
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Patent number: 9532033Abstract: An image capturing element comprising photoelectric converting elements that are arranged two-dimensionally and photoelectrically convert incident light into an electric signal; aperture masks that correspond one-to-one with the photoelectric converting elements; and color filters that correspond one-to-one with the photoelectric converting elements. Among n adjacent photoelectric converting elements, where n is an integer no less than three, apertures of the aperture masks corresponding to at least three of the photoelectric converting elements are included within each pattern of a color filter pattern formed from at least two types of the color filters that respectively pass different wavelength bands, and are positioned to respectively pass light from different partial regions within a cross-sectional region of the incident light, and photoelectric converting element groups that are each formed of the n photoelectric converting elements are arranged in series.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoshige Shibazaki, Muneki Hamashima, Susumu Mori, Satoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 9488844Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device, including a display unit comprising a plurality of pixel units, wherein at least one of the pixel units has a short side extended in a first direction and a long side extended in a second direction different from the first direction, and an image conversion unit comprising a lenticular lens overlapped with at least two of the pixel units arranged in the first direction, wherein the lenticular lens is extended in the second direction and a first prism corresponding to the lenticular lens is arranged in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hwi Kim, Hee-Seop Kim, Hae-Young Yun, Kyung-Ho Jung, Seung-Hoon Lee, Jung-Hwan Yi
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Patent number: 9462261Abstract: A two dimensional/three dimensional (2D/3D) switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus and method to selectively display a 2D image and a 3D image using two displays and a convertible lens. When outputting the 2D image, the 2D/3D switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus may control a first display to output a white image/white light, control a second display to output an image, and control an electrical diffuser lens of the convertible lens to be switched off and the white image to be diffused so as to operate as a backlight. When outputting the 3D image, the 2D/3D switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus may control the first display to output an image, control the second display to be switched off to be in a transparent state, control the electrical diffuser lens of the convertible lens to be switched on to be in the transparent state, and control the lenticular lens to output the 3D image.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2009Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gee Young Sung, Yun-Tae Kim, Du-Sik Park, Dong Kyung Nam, Ju Yong Park
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Patent number: 9414049Abstract: A method of generating stereoscopic images and an autostereoscopic system are introduced. Stereoscopic images are obtained by generating, on a screen, a first image having a pattern comprising alternating columns of N left-image pixels or sub-pixels and of N right-image pixels or sub-pixels and a second image having a reversed pattern from the pattern of the first image. A parallel-strip barrier has alternating strips for blocking alternating columns of the first and second images. A tracking system provides position information related to a viewer of the stereoscopic image. A controller shifts to the left or to the right, in relation to the strips of the barrier, the image columns by a number of image pixels or sub-pixels as a function of the position of the viewer.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: ÉCRANS POLAIRES INC./POLAR SCREENS INC.Inventor: Jean-Etienne Gaudreau
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Patent number: 9389429Abstract: Disclosed are a naked-eye 3D backlight module, a naked-eye 3D display device, and a naked-eye 3D display method. The naked-eye 3D display device comprises: a light emitting diode (LED) sequential circuit board comprising a plurality of sets of LED backlight sources; a plurality of convex lenses provided in one-to-one correspondence with the LED units; a plurality of polygonal prisms provided in one-to-one correspondence with the LED backlight sources; a thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) having a refresh frequency the same as a sequential frequency of the LED backlight sources and configured to control transmissions of the n parallel light beams; and a multiple-viewing-angle parallax barrier configured to form the n parallel light beams, which are respectively oriented in the n directions after passing through the TFT-LCD, into an n-viewpoint area display in space. A three-dimensional (3D) viewing angle for the human eyes is greatly enlarged.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yingqiang Gao, Huabin Chen, Bin Feng
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Patent number: 9389428Abstract: It is an object to reduce 3D moiré and provide a higher-quality three dimensional image display device. The three dimensional image display device includes a display panel on which rows of pixels for right eye and rows of pixels for left eye are alternately arranged in a lateral direction, the display panel planarly displaying an image for three dimensional display, and a parallax forming liquid crystal panel for forming a parallax in an image for right eye and an image for left eye displayed by the display panel. Lateral direction center positions, which are vertexes of luminance in the lateral direction of an image for right eye and an image for left eye, where the image for three dimensional display is visually sensed through the parallax forming liquid crystal panel, are respectively positions shifted in the lateral direction in different positions in the screen longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Shinichi Komura, Tatsuya Sugita, Shinichiro Oka, Tomohiko Naganuma
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Patent number: 9329396Abstract: An image displaying sheet includes a lens array composed of plural lenticular lenses, wherein the lenticular lens has curvatures along two different directions. A composite image has image periods along the two different directions. The application of the image displaying sheet on the composite image can generate the morphing effect, the dynamic effect, the 3D effect, the depth effect or the zooming effect of the composite image.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: E-LON OPTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Ming Tang Yao
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Patent number: 9316841Abstract: A multiview display device displays multiple views having respective viewing angles related to an object to be displayed. The display device includes an optical device for displaying multiple viewing cones. A first cone of the multiple viewing cones has different views so that a different view is observed by a right eye and a left eye of a viewer of the multiview display device. The different views of the first cone have an angular distribution relative to the display device, where sets of image data are provided such that the angular distribution has a first part of adjacent views with increasing viewing angle and a second part of adjacent views with decreasing viewing angle. Further, the angular distribution has a first one of the views in between a maximum view which corresponds to a maximum viewing angle and a minimum view which corresponds to a minimum viewing angle.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2005Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Siebe Tjerk De Zwart, Willem Lubertus Ijzerman, Ralph Antonius Cornelus Braspenning, Marc Joseph Rita Op De Beeck, Robert-Paul Mario Berretty
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Patent number: 9318057Abstract: A display apparatus allowing a user positioned in a first direction to visually recognize a first image and allowing a user positioned in a second direction different from the first direction to visually recognize a second image includes: a display unit displaying a combined image formed by combining the first image with the second image; an irradiation unit irradiating the display unit displaying the combined image with irradiation light; a distribution unit distributing components corresponding to the first image of the irradiation light transmitted through the display unit to the first direction and distributing components corresponding to the second image of the irradiation light transmitted through the display unit to the second direction; and a cancellation unit cancelling luminance characteristics of the irradiation light distributed by the distribution unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Chihiro Tanaka, Toshinori Uehara
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Patent number: 9288481Abstract: A stereoscopic display method includes the following acts. A plurality of stereoscopic images are provided by providing a plurality of stereoscopic display panels. At least one border is disposed between two of the stereoscopic display panels adjacent to each other. At least one stripe segment is added in each of the stereoscopic images. The stripe segments are adjacent to the border, such that the stripe segments and the border form a floating frame when an observer observes the stripe segments and the border using both eyes of the observer. A width of each of the stripe segments is adjusted, such that a depth of field of the floating frame is substantially the same as a depth of field of the stereoscopic images adjacent to the floating frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Chih-Chieh Wang, Cheng-Pim Ku, Li-Hsuan Lin
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Patent number: 9279995Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a 3D display device and a 3D display system, the 3D display device, comprising: a reflecting unit, reflecting light incident thereon; a polarization display unit, formed at a reflected light emitting side of the reflecting unit, and the polarization display unit for displaying images, converting incident natural light into polarized light and transmitting or blocking light reflected by the reflecting unit; and a polarization direction adjustment unit, formed at a reflected light emitting side of the polarization display unit, for converting the reflected light emitted from the polarization display unit into two sets of polarized light with different polarization directions.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenbo Li, Yanbing Wu
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Patent number: 9261703Abstract: A multi-view autostereoscopic display comprising a projection device array and a pair of lenticular arrays is disclosed. The projection device array includes a plurality of projectors. Each of the projectors includes a light source array, which consists of a plurality of light sources for projecting light beams towards a split visual field via the projectors respectively. The pair of the lenticular arrays is disposed between the projection device array and the split visual field so that a portion of the light beams projected from each of the light sources can be obtained at each position on the split visual field.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventor: Junejei Huang
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Patent number: 9247286Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that relate to frame formatting supporting mixed two and three dimensional video data communication. For example, frames in frame sequence(s) may be formatted to indicate that a first screen configuration is to be used for displaying first video content, that a second screen configuration is to be used for displaying second video content, and so on. The screen configurations may be different or the same. In another example, the frames in the frame sequence(s) may be formatted to indicate that the first video content is to be displayed at a first region of a screen, that the second video content is to be displayed at a second region of the screen, and so on. The regions of the screen may partially overlap, fully overlap, not overlap, be configured such that one or more regions are within one or more other regions, etc.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, James D. Bennett, Nambirajan Seshadri
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Patent number: 9237336Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a display panel, a processor, a timing control circuit, and a switch cell layer. The switch cell layer includes a liquid crystal layer, a first driving circuit, and a second driving circuit. The switch cell layer is installed on the display panel. When the display panel displays at least one two-dimensional region and at least one three-dimensional region according to an image signal, the processor determines positions of the at least one two-dimensional region and the at least one three-dimensional region on the display panel according to the image signal. The timing control circuit is for generating an address signal according to the positions. The first driving circuit and the second driving circuit drive first enable lines coupled to the first driving circuit in groups and second enable lines coupled to the second driving circuit in groups respectively according to the address signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2012Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.Inventors: Chih-Chieh Wang, Yu-Chieh Chen
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Patent number: 9224957Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for measuring an offset of a sub-pixel in an OLED manufacturing process, including: depositing OLED material onto a display unit in a substrate through a hollow portion of a mask, the display unit including an effective region and a peripheral measuring region at periphery of the effective region, the OLED material forming a plurality of effective sub-pixels within the effective region and forming a plurality of dummy sub-pixels within the peripheral measuring region; and using UV light to excite at least a portion of the dummy sub-pixels of the OLED material to emit light, and measuring the offset of the dummy sub-pixel with respect to a predetermined position of a corresponding light emitting unit located on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Inventors: ChiaPin Kang, Chin Chih Lin, Chunchieh Huang
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Patent number: 9182487Abstract: A system for inspecting a test article incorporates a diagnostic imaging system for a test article. A command controller receives two dimensional (2D) images from the diagnostic imaging system. A three dimensional (3D) computer aided design (CAD) model visualization system and an alignment system for determining local 3D coordinates are connected to the command controller. Computer software modules incorporated in the command controller are employed, in aligning, the 2D images and 3D CAD model responsive to the local 3D coordinates. The 2D images and 3D CAD model are displayed with reciprocal registration. The alignment system is then directed to selected coordinates in the 2D images or 3D CAD model.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: James J. Troy, Scott W. Lea, Gary E. Georgeson, William P. Motzer, Peter J. Hellenbrand, Kevin Puterbaugh
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Patent number: 9164285Abstract: A 3D image display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels to display an image and a lenticular lens plate disposed in front of the display panel and including a plurality of lenticular lenses. The pixels are arranged to have an arrangement axis inclined with respect to a vertical axis of the display panel, and the lenticular lenses have a lens axis inclined with respect to the vertical axis of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Woo Whangbo, Jinhwan Kim, Haeyoung Yun, Seung Jun Jeong
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Patent number: 9147136Abstract: To provide a display technique for presenting to a user a visual effect of an image obtained when printed onto a lenticular sheet in a state that more closely conforms to the actual circumstances, a print apparatus is provided with: an image creating means for creating a multi-viewpoint image formed by arranging side by side in sequential order image strips each created from a plurality of mutually different original images; a printing means for printing the multi-viewpoint image by forming side by side print dots made of a recording material on a lenticular sheet having a lenticular lens; and an image displaying means for displaying a simulation image simulating the multi-viewpoint image seen via the lenticular lens; the image displaying means displaying a simulation image visually reflective of cross-talk arising due to overlapping of the print dots at a boundary between the mutually adjacent image strips.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Shirotori
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Patent number: 9132690Abstract: A visual display assembly adapted for use as an anti-counterfeiting device on paper currency, product labels, and other objects. The assembly includes a film of transparent material including a first surface including an array of lenses and a second surface opposite the first surface. The assembly also includes a printed image proximate to the second surface. The printed image includes pixels of frames of one or more images interlaced relative to two orthogonal axes. The lenses of the array are nested in a plurality of parallel rows, and adjacent ones of the lenses in columns of the array are aligned to be in a single one of the rows with no offset of lenses in adjacent columns/rows. The lenses may be round-based lenses or are square-based lenses, and the lenses may be provided at 200 lenses per inch (LPI) or a higher LPI in both directions.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2013Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: LUMENCO, LLCInventors: Mark A. Raymond, Hector Andres Porras Soto