With Right And Left Channel Discriminator (e.g., Polarized Or Colored Light) Patents (Class 359/464)
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Publication number: 20130342663Abstract: The instant application discloses an eyewear device including: a light amount adjuster which adjusts a light amount transmitted to left and right eyes of an observer to perform assistance operation that assists in observing a video so that the video is stereoscopically perceived; a battery portion which stores power for the light amount adjuster to perform the assistance operation; and a transmitter configured to transmit a notification signal for notifying a condition of the battery portion. The notification signal contains charge information, which indicates whether or not the battery portion is being charged, and remaining level information, which indicates a power amount stored in the battery portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: Yoshihiro HARA, Hiroki URABE
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Publication number: 20130335821Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging directional backlight apparatus for providing large area uniform directed illumination from localized light sources. Within an exemplary optical valve system, a waveguide comprises a stepped structure, where the steps comprise extraction features hidden to guided light, propagating in a first forward direction. Returning light propagating in a second backward direction may be refracted, diffracted, or reflected by the features to provide discrete illumination beams exiting from the top surface of the waveguide. Such controlled illumination may provide for efficient, multi-user autostereoscopic displays as well as improved 2D display functionality. Illumination uniformity is provided by the positioning, packaging, and optically modifying of individual input sources. The latter employs non-imaging and refractive optics.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: REALD INC.Inventors: Michael G. Robinson, Graham J. Woodgate, Jonathan Harrold, Miller H. Schuck
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Publication number: 20130321720Abstract: In an embodiment of the invention, a 3D display device is provided. The 3D display device includes: a first substrate including a plurality of right eye pixels and left eye pixels in an alternate arrangement; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a first optical modulating unit with a first inclined direction located in the right eye pixels between the first substrate and the second substrate; a second optical modulating unit with a second inclined direction located in the left eye pixels between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first inclined direction is distinct from the second inclined direction; and a light transparent element disposed on the second substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Toshiya INADA
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Publication number: 20130321913Abstract: Disclosed is an optical inline light guiding apparatus which may include a substantially parallel planar light expansion section and a light extraction section comprising a stepped structure, in which the steps may be extraction features and guiding features. Such controlled illumination may provide for efficient, multi-user autostereoscopic displays with wide viewing freedom, high efficiency and low cross talk and other directional display uses.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: REALD INC.Inventors: Jonathan Harrold, Graham J. Woodgate, Michael G. Robinson, Miller H. Schuck
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Publication number: 20130301124Abstract: A display device has an NTSC ratio of higher than or equal to 80% and a contrast ratio of higher than or equal to 500 and includes a display portion. In the display portion, a pixel is provided at a resolution of greater than or equal to 80 ppi, and the pixel includes a light-emitting module capable of emitting light with a spectral line half-width of less than or equal to 60 nm. Further, the light emission of the light-emitting module is raised to a desired luminance with a gradient of greater than or equal to 0 in response to an input signal within a response time of longer than or equal to 1 ?s and shorter than 1 ms.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yoshiharu Hirakata
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Publication number: 20130301123Abstract: A display device according to the present disclosure includes a display panel to output an image thereon, a functional panel attached onto the display panel by use of an adhesive, a supporting member disposed on one side of the display panel, and having a partial area disposed between the display panel and the functional panel to maintain a uniform gap between the display panel and the functional panel, and at least one adhesive introduction space formed on the supporting member such that an adhesive is introduced therein, the adhesive filled between the display panel and the functional panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: SeHwan JEON
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Patent number: 8564649Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shutter drive unit, including: at least one inductor; first and second drive paths; first and second shutter including first and second drive object capacitive loads, respectively; first and second clamping circuits adapted to clamp the first and second drive object capacitive loads either to a power source potential or to a reference potential through the first and second drive paths, respectively; a first switch adapted to switch connection and non-connection between the inductor and the first drive object capacitive load over to each other; a second switch adapted to switch connection and non-connection between the inductor and the second drive object capacitive load over to each other; and a power collecting portion having a function of applying an intermediate voltage between the power source potential and the reference potential to the inductor, and a power collecting function of collecting a power by the inductor.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2010Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobuhiko Shigyo, Toshio Suzuki, Koichi Hashikaki, Seigou Sakai
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Publication number: 20130258462Abstract: An adapter system for displaying and recording stereoscopic images from a single lens optic device and methods of producing stereoscopic images using such an adapter are provided herein. The adapter system utilizes an active stereoscopic shutter mounted along the optical path of the single lens optic device, such as, for example, a microscope or an endoscope, to provide a stereoscopic image to a video or still camera mounted along the same optical path.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2011Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: Reach3D Medical LLCInventors: Kevin Brent May, Richard J. Michaels
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Publication number: 20130258464Abstract: An image display device capable of maintaining continuity of images of adjacent image display elements on a display screen that is composed of a plurality of image display element includes image display elements (1, 2) and a prism (3). The prism (3) is an L-shaped prism having two planar surfaces, and image display elements (1, 2,) are arranged on the portion of the prism that corresponds to the rear side as seen from the viewing direction (9). Image display elements (1, 2) are arranged such that the virtual images (5, 6) of the image display portions of each are optically continuously connected in the prism (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroshi IMAI
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Publication number: 20130258463Abstract: The ability of some people to perceive simulated stereoscopic images or even actual stereoscopic images can be enhanced by treating the two eyes differently. The disclosed system can enhance stereoscopic images by selectively modifying the incoming images using right/left differentiation filter. The system can also include the capability of filtering images using parameters that for which the right eye and left eye images are treated independently of each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: Allan Thomas Evans, Edward Tang
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Publication number: 20130258461Abstract: A 3D display device that includes: a first optical section of focal distance f1 provided with a group of small lenses arrayed along a specific direction; and a second optical section of focal distance f2 that converges N beams of parallel light that are emitted from the first optical section and hit the individual small lenses by converging so as to offset the N beams from an optical axis. A distance d1 between the first optical section and the second optical section satisfies f2?f1?d1?f2 and a viewing distance d2 from the second optical section satisfies d2?f2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Teruyuki SATO, Mineo Moribe, Takahiro Umada, Hiroyasu Yoshikawa, Takashi Itoh
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Patent number: 8547635Abstract: Eyewear for viewing three-dimensional (3D) images is disclosed. In some embodiments, the eyewear can include lenses that include circularly polarizing filters. The right lens can block light that is circularly polarized in a first direction, and the left lens can block light that is circularly polarized in a second, opposite direction. The circularly polarizing filters can be attached to a surface (e.g., the front surface) of a lens body using an adhesive or by lamination. The lenses can have one or more surfaces that conform to the surface of a sphere, a cylinder, or another geometric shape. In some embodiments, the surface of the lens to which the circularly polarizing filter is applied is cylindrical. In some embodiments, the lenses can have a tapered thickness to provide for optical correction of the lenses.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Saylor, Carlos Reyes
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Publication number: 20130242387Abstract: Provided is a three-dimensional image display system including: eyeglasses including a type information transmission unit which transmits type information of the eyeglasses and a potential information transmission unit which transmits a biopotential of a viewer as potential information; and a three-dimensional display TV including a type information reception unit which receives the type information, an electrode position determination unit which determines, based on the received type information, a position of an electrode included in the eyeglasses, a potential information reception unit which receives the transmitted potential information, and a wearing conditions determination unit which determines wearing conditions of the viewer wearing the eyeglasses, based on the determined electrode position and the received potential information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Jun OZAWA, Yumiko KATO, Tsuyoshi INOUE
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Publication number: 20130242388Abstract: A pair of stereoscopic glasses includes a pair of left and right stereoscopic rims connected to each other and respectively holding stereoscopic optical components used when observing a stereoscopic image, and a stereoscopic frame that includes stereoscopic temples extending rearward from the stereoscopic rims. The stereoscopic frame is provided with an engagement section that is brought into engagement with a rim or a bridge of a frame of glasses already worn by a user in a state where the stereoscopic optical components are positioned in front of lenses of the glasses so that the stereoscopic optical components are positionally maintained in front of the lenses of the glasses.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Hideki Arai
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Publication number: 20130242386Abstract: A display device includes a display portion and an opening portion. In the display portion, pixels having different optical characteristics are arranged. The opening portion is arranged so as to face a display surface side of the display portion and causes a light from the display portion to pass in a predetermined direction. With respect to the pixels having the different optical characteristics in the display portion, the pixels having the same color are located in the opening portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY WEST INC.Inventors: Takeo Koito, Daisuke Takama
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Publication number: 20130242389Abstract: Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses and spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved surface lenses configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. The spectrally complementary filters include guard bands to prevent crosstalk between spectrally complementary portions of a 3D image viewed through the shaped glasses. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters are disposed on the curved lenses with increasing layer thickness towards edges of the lenses. The projected complementary images may also be pre-shifted to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts occurring while viewing the images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Martin J. Richards, Wilson Allen
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Patent number: 8537101Abstract: A three-dimensional image display device includes a luminance controller receiving a three-dimensional enable signal, a backlight data signal and at least one starting signal of a scan starting signal, a vertical blank starting signal and a backlight starting signal. The luminance controller outputs a backlight control signal and a backlight unit is operated based on the backlight control signal and is coupled to the luminance controller. The backlight data signal is based on a previous pulse of the starting signal and is applied from a first time when a current pulse of the starting signal starts to a second time when a next pulse of the starting signal starts.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yun-Jae Kim, Byoung Jun Lee, Kyung-Uk Choi, Seung Hwan Moon, Nam-Hee Goo, Myoung-Chul Kim, Bo-Ram Kim, Jong-Yoon Lee
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Patent number: 8537463Abstract: Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses and spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved surface lenses configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. The spectrally complementary filters include guard bands to prevent crosstalk between spectrally complementary portions of a 3D image viewed through the shaped glasses. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters are disposed on the curved lenses with increasing layer thickness towards edges of the lenses. The projected complementary images may also be pre-shifted to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts occurring while viewing the images.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Martin Richards, Wilson Heaton Allen
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Publication number: 20130235170Abstract: An electronic apparatus utilized in stereo glasses is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a first receiver, a second receiver, and a synchronization controller. The first receiver receives a first synchronization signal, and the second receiver receives a second synchronization signal. The transmission mechanism of the second synchronization signal is different from that of the first synchronization signal. The synchronization controller coupled to the first and the second receivers synchronizes left-eye/right-eye shutter glasses of the stereo glasses with a corresponding left-eye/right-eye frame of a stereo image according to at least one of the first and second synchronization signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: MSTAR SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.Inventors: Shih-Yuan Huang, Yen-Lin Lee, Chih-Cheng Ku, Shan-Cheng Sun
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Publication number: 20130229711Abstract: Provided is an image display system which can assuredly perform collaborative processing such as determination of a fatigue state of a viewer using three-dimensional eyeglasses and an image display apparatus, without increasing system scale, the image display system including: a transmitting and receiving unit included in a three-dimensional display TV which transmits to three-dimensional eyeglasses a specification-designating signal designating a specification which at least includes a data format for a communication signal; a transmitting and receiving unit included in the three-dimensional eyeglasses which receives the specification-designating signal transmitted from the three-dimensional display TV and, according to the specification designated by the received specification-designating signal, converts a biometric signal acquired by a biometric signal sensor into the communication signal, and transmits the communication signal to the three-dimensional display TV.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yumiko KATO, Jun OZAWA, Tsuyoshi INOUE
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Publication number: 20130222905Abstract: A printed dynamic anaglyph design apparatus is provided having a source of left eye information and right eye information, a memory data regarding colorant characteristics and a processor. The processor determines a colorant type map. At least one mutable colorant and at least one non-mutable colorant are selected for a colorant type map so that the printed dynamic anaglyph image has a first appearance state in which the at least one mutable colorant is in the first colorant state and is color matched to at least one of a left eye information and a right eye information and so that when the image is exposed to an external stimulus the mutable colorant changes color to provide a second appearance state having a color in a difference region that spectrally overlaps a spectral filter in one eye of a pair of stereo color glasses.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Andrew F. Kurtz, Andrew Charles Gallagher
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Publication number: 20130215504Abstract: A stereoscopic image processing system, a stereoscopic image processing method and glasses are disclosed. The stereoscopic image processing system transmits a control value for controlling a prism diopter of glasses having a prismatic effect on light irradiated for displaying a left-view image and a right-view image, controls the prism diopter of the glasses based on the transmitted control value, and causes the prismatic effect on the light passing through the glasses.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Dalyoung Kim, Jihye Baek, Youngjin Noh, Yunjoo Kim, Doyoung Kim, Jaeho Kim, Hayoung Seo
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Patent number: 8514272Abstract: A directionally controlled illumination unit is disclosed that deflects light from activated illumination elements into visibility regions by a transmissive image reproduction means. The visibility regions are tracked by the eyes of different viewers to other positions in front of the display via a tracking unit and image control. To avoid a strong correlation of one pixel of the image reproduction means to a deflection element (electro-wetting cell) of a deflection means, the directionally controlled illumination unit comprises a two-dimensional illumination means in front of the image reproduction means arranged in a serial manner in the optical path and a deflection means containing at least one field having an arrangement of electro-wetting cells that can be discretely addressed in groups and adjusted with regard to their refractive behavior by the tracking unit and image control.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Seereal Technologies S.A.Inventor: Stephan Reichelt
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Publication number: 20130201661Abstract: A rear parallax emitter is disclosed for use, for example, in a display. The display includes a light modulator as well as the rear parallax emitter. The light modulator comprises a plurality of pixels viewable at a viewing position. The rear parallax emitter comprises a plurality of sets of light emitting regions (LERs) and has an area substantially coextensive with the light modulator and spaced a prescribed uniform distance from the display opposite from a viewing position. Each set of LERs is independently controllable to transmit a light color that differs from a light color transmitted by another set of LERs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2011Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: UNIPIXEL DISPLAYS, INC.Inventor: Michael Mehrle
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Publication number: 20130201285Abstract: 3-D or other glasses with an illuminated light guide for tracking with a camera are presented. The light guide can be a light guide plate (LGP) or other transparent and/or translucent material that conveys light through its interior. LEDs embedded within the frames illuminate the light guide and optionally can be dimmed or brightened depending on ambient lighting.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2010Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Xiaodong Mao, Richard Marks, Dominic Mallinson, Eric J. Larsen
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Patent number: 8503078Abstract: Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses and spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved surface lenses configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. The spectrally complementary filters include guard bands to prevent crosstalk between spectrally complementary portions of a 3D image viewed through the shaped glasses. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters are disposed on the curved lenses with increasing layer thickness towards edges of the lenses. The projected complementary images may also be pre-shifted to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts occurring while viewing the images.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Martin Richards, Wilson Allen
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Patent number: 8503079Abstract: A parallax barrier 3D image display method is provided. Particularly, a vertical strip parallax barrier design method is provided to avoid transverse ghost images generated by a conventional parallax barrier and directed to arrangement of sub-pixels on a screen of a flat panel display, which displays multi-view 3D images with minimal ghost images, thereby achieving the purpose of optimum 3D image display.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Unique Instruments Co.LtdInventor: Ming-Yen Lin
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Publication number: 20130194663Abstract: Stereoscopic image viewing eyewear includes a left-eye shutter that controls a visual field of a viewer's left eye, a right-eye shutter that controls a visual field of a viewer's right eye, a distance determiner that detects a distance between the display device and the eyewear and determines whether the detected distance is smaller than a predetermined value, and a shutter controller that controls open and close of the left-eye shutter and the right-eye shutter based on the determined result of the distance determiner to cause the viewer to view the stereoscopic image when the detected distance is larger than a predetermined value, and to cause the viewer to view a non-stereoscopic image when the detected distance is smaller than the predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: PANASONIC CORPORATION
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Publication number: 20130194401Abstract: A display apparatus switching between a two-dimensional (2D) display mode and a three-dimensional (3D) display mode is provided. The display apparatus includes: an imaging device configured to capture an image a pair of 3D glasses worn by a user to view an image displayed in the 3D display mode, wherein the 3D glasses are switchable between a plurality of different states; a transmitter/emitter module configured to remotely control the 3D glasses so as to switch the states of the 3D glasses; and a controller configured to determine whether the user is wearing the 3D glasses based on a state of the 3D glasses in the image captured by the imaging device, and to control the display apparatus to operate in the 3D display mode when it is determined that the user is wearing the 3D glasses.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
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Publication number: 20130188252Abstract: The invention provides an eyewear device for transmitting a signal and a communication method thereof. The eyewear device comprises a receiving unit, a shutter and a transmitting unit. For example, the receiving unit is capable of receiving a synchronization signal, and the shutter performs an operation in response to the synchronization signal. Meanwhile, the transmitting unit transmits the synchronization signal to another eyewear device. By this way, each eyewear device is capable of receiving the synchronization signal, and re-transmits the synchronization signal to another eyewear device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATIONInventors: Chih-Jung Lin, Yueh-Lin Liao
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Patent number: 8493438Abstract: An exemplary method includes receiving, by a three-dimensional (“3D”) adapter subsystem separate from and communicatively coupled to a display device, a 3D video content stream comprising data representative of 3D video content, directing, by the 3D adapter subsystem, the display device to generate and display the 3D video content in accordance with the 3D video content stream, and calibrating, by the 3D adapter subsystem, the display of the 3D video content in accordance with one or more attributes of the display device. Corresponding methods and systems are also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Harpal S. Bassali, Armando P. Stettner, Michael P. Ruffini, Marcelo D. Lechner
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Publication number: 20130182323Abstract: In the field of stereoscopic image capture systems comprising two cameras, each camera comprising a lens and an electromechanical device allowing the adjustments of the lens to be controlled, a system is provided which comprises calibration means comprising means for storing adjustment setpoints fixed by an operator in operational use and control means allowing the adjustment setpoints of the first lens and those of the second lens to be closed-loop controlled in such a manner that the optical parameters of the first and of the second lens are identical.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: THALESInventors: Patrick DEFAY, Elvir MUJIC
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Publication number: 20130182320Abstract: Filter glasses for use with a stereoscopic digital display system that displays stereoscopic images including left-eye images and right-eye images. The left-eye images are formed with light in a plurality of left-eye spectral bands, and the right-eye images are formed with light in a corresponding plurality of spectrally-adjacent right-eye spectral bands. The filter glasses include a left-eye filter and a right-eye filter, each of which includes a dichroic filter stack and one or more absorptive filter layers. Each of the filters transmits 50% or more of the light in the corresponding eye spectra bands, while providing less than 5% crosstalk. A frame is used to position the right-eye filter in front of an observer's right eye and to position the left-eye filter in front of the observer's left eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Inventor: Barry David Silverstein
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Publication number: 20130182322Abstract: Filter glasses for use by an observer of a stereoscopic digital display system that displays stereoscopic images including first-eye images and second-eye images. The filter glasses include a first-eye filter that substantially transmits light from the first-eye images and blocks light from the second-eye images, and a second-eye filter that substantially transmits light from the second-eye images and blocks light from the second-eye images. A frame is used to position the first-eye filter in front of the observer's first eye and to position the second-eye filter in front of the observer's second eye, such that the front surfaces of the filters are oriented at a tilt angle of at least 5 degrees relative to vertical so that light from the display surface that is reflected from the first-eye filter and the second-eye filter is directed over the heads of other observers that are seated in front of the observer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Inventor: Barry David Silverstein
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Publication number: 20130182321Abstract: Filter glasses for use with a stereoscopic digital display system that displays stereoscopic images including left-eye images and right-eye images. The first-eye images are formed using red, green and blue first-eye light emitters having corresponding spectral bands with red, green and blue first-eye central wavelengths, ?R1, ?G1 and ?B1. The second-eye images are formed using red, green and blue second-eye light emitters having corresponding spectral bands with red, green and blue second-eye central wavelengths, ?R2, ?G2 and ?B2. The central wavelengths are arranged such that ?B1<?B2<?G2<?G1<?R1<?R2. The filter glasses include a first-eye filter having a contiguous transmission band that transmits light from both the red and green first-eye light emitters, and a second-eye filter having a contiguous transmission band that transmits light from both the blue and green second-eye light emitters.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Inventor: Barry David Silverstein
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Publication number: 20130176287Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device, including: an image displaying unit including a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels displaying a left-eye image and a right-eye image, a first light blocking unit having a lattice structure including a plurality of openings corresponding to the plurality of pixels, and a second light blocking unit extending from the first light blocking unit into horizontal center portions of the plurality of openings; and a parallax barrier opposed to the image displaying unit, the parallax barrier including transmitting regions and blocking regions, the transmitting regions and the blocking regions extending in a vertical direction and being alternately disposed to spatially divide the left-eye image and the right-eye image displayed by the image displaying unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2013Publication date: July 11, 2013Inventor: Chang-Woong CHU
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Publication number: 20130170029Abstract: A 3D adapter comprises a left-eye optical system (OL), a right-eye optical system (OR), an adjusting mechanism, and an exterior casing. The exterior casing accommodates the left-eye optical system (OL) and the right-eye optical system (OR), and can be mounted to a video camera. The adjusting mechanism is provided to adjust the position of a left-eye optical image QL1 and/or a right-eye optical image QR1 with respect to a CMOS image sensor from the outside of the exterior casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Morita, Akio Konishi, Masakazu Ito
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Patent number: 8474980Abstract: A projection autostereoscopic display including an image projector and a stereo screen is provided. The image projector projects an image. The image includes multiple viewing-zone images. The stereo screen receives the image and reflects the image to an observing direction. The stereo screen includes a linear polarizer layer, for receiving and polarizing the image. A first microretarder layer is disposed behind the linear polarizer layer. A second microretarder layer is disposed behind the first microretarder layer by a distance. A reflection-type polarization-reserved diffuser layer is disposed behind the second microretarder layer for reflecting and diffusing the image into various directions while maintaining the polarization state of the image. A switching layer is switched between a transparent state which maintains the polarization state of the image and an opaque state which changes the polarization states of the image to a non-polarization state, to switch between 2D and 3D display modes.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Wei-Liang Hsu, Chao-Hsu Tsai, Chang-Ying Chen, Jinn-Cherng Yang
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Publication number: 20130155504Abstract: A polarization glasses type stereoscopic image display displaying a stereoscopic image on a display surface includes a thin film transistor array substrate, a color filter array substrate having a plurality of black matrix patterns formed on a first plane facing the thin film transistor array substrate, a plurality of black stripe patterns that are aligned correspondingly to the black matrix patterns on a second plane of the color filter array substrate opposite to the first plane, and a patterned retarder disposed over the second plane of the color filter array substrate. The overall vertical pitch of the patterned retarder is less than the overall vertical pitch of a pixel array formed on the display surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: LG Display Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20130155505Abstract: A polarization glasses type stereoscopic image display includes: a thin film transistor array substrate; a color filter array substrate having a plurality of black matrix patterns formed on a first plane facing the thin film transistor array substrate; a plurality of black stripe patterns that are aligned in a first direction correspondingly to the black matrix patterns on a second plane of the color filter array substrate opposite to the first plane; and a patterned retarder disposed over the second plane of the color filter array substrate. The width of the black stripe pattern is different depending on a display position with respect to the first direction. The first direction is directed from an upper side of the display to a lower side of the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: LG Display Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20130148859Abstract: The perspective in the captured image is enhanced. Provided is an image processing apparatus including: a detecting section that detects a subject distance in each region of a captured image; and an image processing section that changes a distance perspective of an image of the region depending on the subject distance detected for each region of the captured image. In an example, the image processing section may increase the blue component ratio of a region whose detected subject distance is larger than a reference value. In an example, the image processing section may blur an image of a region whose detected subject distance is larger than a reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2013Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Nikon Corporation
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Patent number: 8459796Abstract: Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses and spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved surface lenses configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. The spectrally complementary filters include guard bands to prevent crosstalk between spectrally complementary portions of a 3D image viewed through the shaped glasses. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters are disposed on the curved lenses with increasing layer thickness towards edges of the lenses. The projected complementary images may also be pre-shifted to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts occurring while viewing the images.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Martin Richards, Allen Wilson
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Publication number: 20130141407Abstract: A stereoscopic display system for displaying stereoscopic image data includes an illumination system that provides a temporal sequence of illumination from left-eye and right-eye light sources having different optical properties, and a monochrome reflective display system including a directly-viewable display surface having display pixels with a controllable reflectance. The illumination system is selectively connectable to the display. When the illumination system and display system are connected, the display system synchronously controls the reflectance of the display pixels according to image data for left-eye and right-eye images. When the illumination system and display system are not connected, the display pixels are controlled to display a monoscopic image determined from the stereoscopic image data. The illumination system optionally provides illumination using a plurality of illumination color channels to provide color stereoscopic images.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventor: Christopher J. White
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Publication number: 20130141784Abstract: A stereoscopic display system for displaying stereoscopic image data includes an illumination system that provides a temporal sequence of illumination from left-eye and right-eye light sources having different optical properties, and a monochrome reflective display system including a directly-viewable display surface having display pixels with a controllable reflectance. The display system detects an active one of the left-eye and right-eye light sources and controls the reflectance of the display pixels according to image data for corresponding left-eye and right eye images. When the illumination system is not providing illumination to the display surface, the display pixels controlled to display a monoscopic image determined from the stereoscopic image data. The illumination system optionally provides illumination using a plurality of illumination color channels to provide color stereoscopic images.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventor: Christopher J. White
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Publication number: 20130135720Abstract: Method for producing an autostereoscopic display with an optical element and an image forming unit, characterized by the following method steps: provide an optical element preferably generated on a flat substrate, determine position parameters of the optical element using a sensor unit, particularly an optical sensor unit, and deposit the image forming unit onto the back of the optical element based on the position parameters determined. In addition, an autostereoscopic display produced in this manner is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: STERRIX TECHNOLOGIES UGInventors: Ivo-Henning Naske, Sigrid Kamins-Naske, Valerie Antonia Naske
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Publication number: 20130135721Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for inspecting misalign between a display panel and a film patterned retarder (FPR) in the stereoscopic image display separating polarized lights of a left-eye image and a right-eye image using the FPR. The present disclosure suggests a system for inspecting misalign between a display panel and a film patterned retarder, comprising: an inspection target panel including the display panel to which the film patterned retarder adheres; a misalign inspector for imaging edge images of both sides of the inspection target panel or imaging a central image of a pixel array of the inspection target panel; and a controller for analyzing an image received from the misalign inspector to measure a misalign degree between the film patterned retarder and the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2012Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: LG Display Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20130128355Abstract: The present invention provides a flat panel display device. The flat panel display device includes a backlight system and a display panel, wherein: the backlight system includes a light source, a light homogenization mechanism, and a back frame; the back frame carries the light source and the light homogenization mechanism and the back frame includes at least first and second primary assembling pieces, wherein the first primary assembling piece has an end forming at least two joint sections, each of the joint sections having a structure mating an end of the second primary assembling piece, the first primary assembling piece using one of the joint sections to join the corresponding end of the second primary assembling piece. The primary assembling pieces forms a cavity. The present invention also provides a stereoscopic display device and a plasma display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LTD.Inventors: Yi-Cheng Kuo, Yu-Chun Hsiao, Chong Huang, Jia-He Cheng, Cheng-Wen Que, Quan Li, Liu-Yang Yang
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Publication number: 20130120362Abstract: A collimated stereo display system is provided. The system comprises: an image generator enabled to provide a stream of stereoscopic images comprising left eye images and right eye images; at least one image modulator enabled to receive the stream of stereoscopic images from the image generator and form light into the stereoscopic images for viewing at a viewing apparatus for filtering the light into the left eye images and the right eye images respectively thereby providing a three dimensional rendering of the stereoscopic images when viewed through the viewing apparatus; and, collimation apparatus enabled to receive and collimate the light from the at least one image modulator, such that rays of light are substantially parallel when the stereoscopic images are received at the viewing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc.Inventors: Gordon Harris, Larry Paul, Roy C. Anthony
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Patent number: 8441522Abstract: A method for the autostereoscopic representation of image information on a matrix screen on which image points are formed through a subpixel group, each with a plurality of subpixels, wherein two stereoscopic fields are imaged on one of two subgroups of the image points, and wherein light emanating from the two subgroups of image points is guided through a barrier raster into two adjacent viewing zones, and wherein a change of the viewer's head position is further detected, and activation of the subpixels is adapted to the change of the head position by shifting intensity centroids, in particular, within the image points upon a change in the viewing distance between the head position and matrix screen by adapting of weightings of intensities within the image points such that a lateral distance between the centroid of the intensity distributions in a left viewing zone and the centroid of the intensity distributions in a right viewing zone in a viewing plane remains constant.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.Inventors: René De La Barré, Siegmund Pastoor, Hans Röder
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Publication number: 20130114135Abstract: A method of displaying a 3D image is provided, which mainly proposes a real-time detection method of a viewing position, an optimum alignment method of a viewing position and a view, a dynamic multi-view 3D image combination method, and a design method of a static parallax barrier device, to eliminate defects of auto-stereoscopic display especially in the case that a common flat-panel display screen and a static parallax barrier device are used to display a 3D image, so as to effectively solve problems of a ghost image, a pseudo stereoscopic image, and insufficient viewing freedom in horizontal and vertical directions on an optimum viewable plane, thereby achieving the objectives of greatly improving the 3D image quality and the convenience of use.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS CO. LTDInventor: MING-YEN LIN