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20080239067 | Optical concatenation for field sequential stereoscpoic displays - A device used in projecting or transmitting stereoscopic images is provided. The device includes a multi-section light emitter, such as a “color wheel or a series of light emitting diodes (LEDs) configured to emit light energy in multiple sections. Each section of light energy has an optical attribute associated therewith, such as color. Light energy projected in at least two sequential sections by the multi-section light emitter provides light energy having identical optical attributes, such as identical colors (red, green, or blue) but different perspective views associated with each sequential section, where the same optical attributes being employed in adjacent sections is referred to as “concatenation.” Different polarization attributes or polarization axis orientations may be employed within each section to facilitate stereoscopic image transmission and such concatenation in many cases reduces “judder” or other adverse visual effects. | 10-02-2008 |
20080284844 | Switchable Lens - A display apparatus has a switchable birefringent lens array. The display apparatus produces a substantially linearly polarised output. The lens array comprises birefringent material arranged between a planar surface of a first substrate and a relief substrate of a second substrate defining an array of cylindrical lenses. The lens array has electrodes for applying a control voltage across the birefringent material for electrically switching the birefringent material between a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode the lens array modifies the directional distribution of incident light polarised in a predetermined direction. In the second mode the lens array has substantially no effect on incident light polarised in said predetermined direction. | 11-20-2008 |
20090002484 | Method and Apparatus for Correcting Misalignment of a Lenticular in a 3-D Television Receiver - A projection television receiver is given 3-dimensional functionality by mounting a lenticular array of substantially vertically arranged cylindrical lenses in front of the display screen. The position of this lenticular array is critical to the performance of the 3-D functionality. In order to correct for misalignment, the lenticular array is equipped with a photo-sensor on the side facing the display. The display is then controlled to selectively energize the pixels such that the actual position of the lenticular array can be determined. The displayed image is then shifted based on the measurement such that the user will see an optimal 3-D image quality. | 01-01-2009 |
20090009594 | Three-Dimensional Representation Apparatus - Three-dimensional representation apparatus are disclosed. In one implementation, the three-dimensional representation apparatus includes a first two-dimensional picture forming device configured to form a first two-dimensional picture and a second two-dimensional picture forming device configured to form a second two-dimensional picture. The luminance of the first and second two-dimensional pictures may be individually adjusted. The first and second two-dimensional picture forming devices are positioned to be out of light paths for projecting the two-dimensional pictures formed by the other two-dimensional picture forming device. The three-dimensional representation apparatus may also include a focal distance adjustment optical element configured to adjust focal distances for each of the first and second two-dimensional pictures differently. A picture combining optical element of the three-dimensional representation apparatus is configured to combine the first and second two-dimensional pictures comprising different focal distances along the same optical axis. A display optical element of the three-dimensional representation apparatus is configured to display three-dimensional images by allowing the two-dimensional pictures combined by the picture combining optical element to be projected as virtual images at focusing positions displaced from each other along a sight line of a user. | 01-08-2009 |
20090027488 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - There are provided a video processing apparatus and a video processing method. The video processing apparatus includes: a plurality of signal delay parts which sequentially store left-eye pixel information and right-eye pixel information that are alternately supplied; an interpolation unit which interpolates the right-eye pixel information and separately interpolates the left-eye pixel information; and an image generating unit which generates a left-eye image and a right-eye image based on the interpolated left-eye pixel information and the interpolated right-eye pixel information, respectively. | 01-29-2009 |
20090040297 | Display Apparatus and Display Method - The present invention is an display apparatus including: a display portion | 02-12-2009 |
20090046142 | AUTO STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY IMPROVING BRIGHTNESS - Provided is an auto stereoscopic display improving brightness, including: a left eye pixel including a plurality of first color sub pixels and a first white sub pixel; a right eye pixel including a plurality of second color sub pixels and a second white sub pixel; and a viewing field separating unit which separates a viewing field of a left image formed by the left eye pixel and a viewing field of a right image formed by the right eye pixel. | 02-19-2009 |
20090051761 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, PROGRAM AND MEMORY MEDIA | 02-26-2009 |
20090066786 | Depth Illusion Digital Imaging - A method of generating a visual display of a scene having a desired illusion of depth comprising: generating a sequence of display images of the scene; setting velocities of features in the scene to generate non-perspective distortions of the scene in the display images; and sequentially displaying the display images. | 03-12-2009 |
20090102916 | Structure of Stereoscopic Image Data, Stereoscopic Image Data Recording Method, Reproducing Method, Recording Program, and Reproducing Program - It is made possible to record stereoscopic image data of parallel-ray one-dimensional IP type in a format at a high compression rate with little image quality degradation. This stereoscopic image data can be efficiently decompressed and reproduced. A stereoscopic image data structure includes: a parallax component image data representing n or more parallax component images, each having accumulated pixels that cause the pixels to generate the parallel light rays in the same parallax direction in the viewing zone, and having different numbers of horizontal pixels. N combined images with the same numbers of vertical and horizontal pixels are a unit to be converted into a parallax interleaved image, the n combined images being formed by combining two or more parallax component images with parallax directions different from each other by n. | 04-23-2009 |
20090141122 | Three-dimensional image display device and method of driving the same - A three-dimensional image display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels each having red, green and blue sub-pixels, the red, green and blue sub-pixels alternately disposed along a horizontal direction and each of the red, green and blue sub-pixels disposed in a single line along a vertical direction; and a parallax barrier over the display panel, the parallax barrier including a plurality of open areas and a blocking area surrounding the plurality of open areas, the plurality of open areas alternating with the blocking area, and each of the plurality of open areas corresponding to each couple of the adjacent two sub-pixels. | 06-04-2009 |
20090147075 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING DIFFERENTIAL OUTPUTS FROM A SINGLE VIDEO SOURCE - A method for producing differential outputs from a single video source. A first step involves providing a single video source with two or more sequentially intermeshed video streams. A second step involves isolating through on and off temporal synchronization at least one of the sequentially intermeshed video streams. | 06-11-2009 |
20090153651 | SUSPENDED PARTICLE DEVICE - The invention relates to a 3 D display. The 3 D display comprises suspended particle devices with a suspension of elongated particles that align at a predetermined angle with incoming light beam. The display will allow information to be separated relevant to the left and right eye. An electronically controllable set of suspended particle devices adjusts the deflection angle of the outcoming light beam. | 06-18-2009 |
20090153652 | DEPTH DEPENDENT FILTERING OF IMAGE SIGNAL - The invention pertains to rendering of image data for a multi-view display, such as image data for a lenticular auto-stereoscopic display. The method comprising the steps of receiving an image signal representing a first image, the first image comprising 3D image data, spatially filtering the first image signal to provide a second image signal, the second image signal representing a second image, the spatial filtering being such as a low-pass filter, a high-pass filter or a combination of a low-pass and a high-pass filter, a strength of the spatial filter is determined by a reference depth of the first image and a depth of an image element of the first image, and sample the second image to a plurality of sub-images, each sub-image being associated with a view direction of the image. | 06-18-2009 |
20090167846 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND TERMINAL DEVICE - To provide an image display device of an excellent display quality with which the brightness is not deteriorated in reflective displays, and to provide a portable terminal using the same. Provided is a display device which includes: a plurality of arranged display elements each including at least a pixel for displaying a first-viewpoint image and a pixel for displaying a second-viewpoint image, each of the pixels having a transmissive display area for transmitting light and a reflective display area for reflecting external light; and an optical device for distributing light emitted from each of the pixels to different directions from each other, wherein the reflective display areas of each of the display elements are arranged asymmetrically with respect to an axis that is perpendicular to an image distributing direction. | 07-02-2009 |
20090262185 | Display apparatus and display method - The present invention relates to a display apparatus and a display method that enable multiple users to view high resolution moving images from various viewing points of the users. A light-control screen | 10-22-2009 |
20090278918 | DISPLAY USING BIDIRECTIONALLY SCANNED LINEAR MODULATOR - A method for forming a stereoscopic image forms separate left-eye and right-eye images in a repeated cycle that forms the left-eye image by providing data for lines of the left-eye image, ordered in sequence from a first to a second edge of an image frame, then forms successive lines of modulated light according to the ordered sequence by progressively scanning lines of modulated light across a display surface by rotating a scanning element forward from a first to a second position. The right-eye image is formed by providing data for lines of the right-eye image, ordered in sequence from the second to the first edge of the image frame and forming successive lines of modulated light, progressively scanning the lines of modulated light across the display surface by rotating the scanning element in reverse from the second to the first position. The left-eye image is distinguished from the right-eye image. | 11-12-2009 |
20090309958 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device provides first and second images. The display device includes a display panel having electro-optical elements, including a first element group with first-image display elements displaying the first image and a second element group with second-image display elements displaying the second image. A light advance control unit controls light emitted from the first element group to advance to a first area displaying the first image and controls light emitted from the second element group to advance to a different, second area displaying the second image. The first and second element groups are controlled such that a first period in which the first-image display elements are driven and at least a part of the second-image display elements is not driven and a second period in which the second-image display elements are driven and at least a part of the first-image display elements is not driven are repeated. | 12-17-2009 |
20090309959 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROJECTOR AND ADAPTER FOR STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROJECTOR - A stereoscopic image projector includes: an image generator configured to generate three left-eye wavelength-specific images and three right-eye wavelength-specific images having different wavelengths by modulating three light beams having the different wavelengths in spatial modulators; an image combiner configured to combine the three left-eye wavelength-specific images into a single left-eye combined image and the three right-eye wavelength-specific images into a single right-eye combined image; a relay lens configured to receive the left-eye and right-eye combined images and focus real images of the left-eye and right-eye combined images that are separated from each other; a light guide configured to separately guide the real images of the left-eye and right-eye combined images; a left-eye image projection lens and a right-eye image projection lens respectively configured to project the real images of the left-eye and right-eye combined images guided through the light guide on a screen so that left-eye and right-eye images are focused. | 12-17-2009 |
20100013911 | Dual Projection System With Inversely Synchronized Channel Projections - A dual projection system utilizes a first projector and a second projector to project alternating left and right channel images of a 3D display. The projectors are inversely synchronized such that while the first projector projects a right channel image the other projector projects a left channel image. A projection filter in each projector has left channel properties when the image being projected is a left channel image and right channel properties when the image being projected is a right channel image. The images projected from each projector alternate between left and right channel images approximately once per frame. | 01-21-2010 |
20100026792 | Method for manufacturing stereoscopic image display apparatus and stereoscopic image display apparatus - A method for manufacturing a stereoscopic image display apparatus includes a bonding step of bonding an image display panel and a phase difference element by disposing an adhesive layer between the entire surfaces thereof, the image display panel displaying a right-eye image and a left-eye image by regularly mixing them in a plane, the phase difference element including a right-eye image display section corresponding to the right-eye image and a left-eye image display section corresponding to the left-eye image, the phase difference element achieving different polarizations between the right-eye image display section and the left-eye image display section, the adhesive layer being composed of a transparent gel acrylic adhesive with a thickness of 25 to 100 μm, hardness of the adhesive being more than 0 and 350000 μN or less, holding strength of the adhesive at 40° C. after bonding being 8 to 20 N/20 mm. | 02-04-2010 |
20100026793 | Stereoscopic image display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same - A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes an image display panel displaying an image for a right eye and an image for a left eye in a regularly mixed manner in a plane, a phase difference element including a right-eye image display portion corresponding to the image for the right eye and a left-eye image display portion corresponding to the image for the left eye to provide different polarization states, a light shield layer formed to project only in an area including a boundary between the right-eye image display portion and the left-eye image display portion of the phase difference element, and a binder layer interposed between the phase difference element and the image display panel to levelly coat and fill projections and recesses formed by the light shield layers, thus bonding the image display panel, the phase difference element, and the light shield layers together. | 02-04-2010 |
20100039504 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE CORRECTION DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE REPRODUCTION DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROVISION SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A three-dimensional image correction device includes when a displacement amount which is a difference between a convergence angle on a display surface and a convergence angle on a perceived three-dimensional surface based on image information for a three-dimensional image is set as a disparity amount, a width of a depth amount represented by pop-up and pull-in of the three-dimensional image is set as a dynamic range, and display device specification information is set as display device information, a disparity amount detection unit for inputting the image information to detect the disparity amount from the image information, a correction computation unit for adjusting the detected disparity amount on the basis of the display device information to correct the dynamic range, and a disparity amount correction unit for correcting the disparity amount in the corrected dynamic range while corresponding to the display device information. | 02-18-2010 |
20100079585 | INTERACTIVE THEATER WITH AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION - A method for providing differing image streams to audience members in an interactive theater setting. The method includes positioning optical filters such as shuttered glasses between audience members and a display surface. During a display period, two or more image streams are provided on the display surface with the optical filters operating to transmit a first image stream. The method includes modifying an operating state of a subset of the optical filters during the display period to transmit a second image stream. The image streams may be provided by a set of projectors that operate concurrently to project the image streams upon the display surface such as over the same portion of the surface. Modifying the operating state may be in response to user input from audience members such as manual switching of operating state or channel by the user with a device linked to the filter or glasses. | 04-01-2010 |
20100085425 | One-Touch Projector Alignment for 3D Stereo Display - A 3D image is created by using two digital projectors having overlapping projection regions. The two digital projectors both emit polarized light, and one are arranged at different angles to each other, such that individual images projected from respective digital projectors can be discerned by the use of polarized eyeglasses. Individualized light transport matrices are used to coordinate together the two digital projectors. | 04-08-2010 |
20100091097 | Supporting A 3D Presentation - For reducing the effect of reverse half-occlusion in a 3D presentation on a screen, a virtual window is created in front of the screen. The screen is to be used for combining a left image and a right image for the 3D presentation. The virtual window is created by removing image data at a left edge of the left image and at a right edge of the right image before combining the left image and the right image on the screen. | 04-15-2010 |
20100091098 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display apparatus includes: a video display unit that converts a video signal containing information indicating the magnitude of disparity between left-eye and right-eye video images into video images and displays the video images on a screen; a projection distance detector that detects a projection distance that is the distance between the video display unit and the screen; a display size calculator that calculates the size of the video images displayed on the screen using the projection distance detected by the projection distance detector; a disparity magnitude detector that detects the information indicating the magnitude of disparity from the video signal; and a disparity magnitude adjuster that adjusts the magnitude of disparity using the size of the video images displayed on the screen and the information indicating the magnitude of disparity detected by the disparity magnitude detector. | 04-15-2010 |
20100123773 | IMAGE-DISPLAYING DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM - An image display device including: an image formation unit which forms images for the left and right eyes; a projecting section which emits light beams representing the images for the left and right eyes via optical filters having different properties to display an image in a superimposed manner; first and second converting sections respectively convert signals representing images for the left eye and for the right eye into image signals of different color spaces by using first and second color conversion coefficients determined so that the images for the left and right eyes displayed on the basis of the light beams passing through the optical filters may have desired properties; and a driving section which drives the image formation unit on the basis of the converted signals representing the images of the left and right eyes to form the images for the left and right eyes. | 05-20-2010 |
20100123774 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display apparatus includes an image forming unit, a projecting unit, first and second correcting units, and a driving unit. The image forming unit forms images for left and right eyes. The projecting unit emits light for the left-eye image via an optical filter for the left eye and emits light for the right-eye image via an optical filter for the right eye having properties different from those of the left-eye optical filter, to display the images in a superimposed manner. The first and second correcting units each correct image signals for the corresponding eye using correction data for use in correcting non-uniformity in the image being displayed by the light emitted via the corresponding optical filter. The driving unit drives the image forming unit on the basis of the corrected image signals to cause the image forming unit to form the left-eye image and the right-eye image. | 05-20-2010 |
20100157030 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - Systems and methods for displaying three-dimensional (3D) images are described. In particular, the systems can include a display block made from a transparent material with optical elements three-dimensionally disposed therein. Each optical element becomes luminous when illuminated by a light ray. The systems can also include a computing device configured to generate two-dimensional (2D) images formatted to create 3D images when projected on the display block, by a video projector coupled to the computing device. The video projector is configured to project the 2D images on the block to create the 3D images by causing a set of the passive optical elements to become luminous. Various other systems and methods are described for displaying 3D images. | 06-24-2010 |
20100165084 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD - A stereoscopic display apparatus and a display method are provided. The stereoscopic display apparatus includes a display panel, a dynamic-backlight module, a tracking panel, an optical lens array. The display has an updated region and a non-updated region during a frame period the display panel displays according a first synchro-signal. The dynamic-backlight module has a plurality of light-emitting regions and the light-emitting regions are turned-on according to a second synchro-signal. The first synchro-signal and the second synchro-signal are synchronal. During the frame period, parts of the light-emitting regions corresponding to the updated region are synchronally turned-on and parts of the light-emitting regions corresponding to the non-updated region are synchronally turned-off. A light provided by at least the part of the light-emitting regions turned-on passes through one silt set and the display panel such that one of the single-eye images is only displayed by the non-updated region. | 07-01-2010 |
20100194866 | Electronic imaging device and driving method thereof - An electronic imaging device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels divided into a first region and a second region, and a controller that generates first and second control signals to control the light emission of the plurality of pixels and applies the first and second control signals to the plurality of pixels in the first region and the plurality of pixels in the second region, respectively. The controller may generate and apply the first control signal as a turn-off signal when second stereoscopic images synthesized in a second order different from a first order are displayed in the first region after first stereoscopic images synthesized in the first order are displayed in both the first and second regions. | 08-05-2010 |
20100194867 | METHOD OF ILLUMINATING A 3D OBJECT WITH A MODIFIED 2D IMAGE OF THE 3D OBJECT BY MEANS OF A PROJECTOR, AND PROJECTOR SUITABLE FOR PERFORMING SUCH A METHOD - The invention provides a method of illuminating a 3D object | 08-05-2010 |
20100214396 | Dual ZScreen Projection - A system and method for projecting stereoscopic images using a multiple projector arrangement is provided. The design comprises transmitting a first field train from the first projector, the first field train comprising first projector left and right images and concurrently transmitting a second field train from the second projector, the second field train comprising second projector left and right images. The first projector left image is transmitted by the first projector at substantially a same time as the second projector right image is transmitted by the second projector. Alternately, the design comprises transmitting a first field train from the first projector, the first field train comprising first projector left images alternating with first projector right images, and concurrently transmitting a second field train from the second projector, the second field train comprising second projector left images alternating with second projector right images. A quasi-interlacing technique is also provided. | 08-26-2010 |
20100220177 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS OF NET PATTERN - A stereoscopic image display apparatus is provided which includes an image display panel and a parallax barrier having parallax barrier pieces in the front of the image display panel. In the stereoscopic image display apparatus, the image display panel has a pixel pattern in which left-eye sub pixels and right-eye sub pixels are alternately arranged in horizontal and vertical directions. The parallax barrier is spaced apart from the image display panel by a predetermined distance and the parallax barrier pieces with a predetermined size are arranged at a predetermined interval in the horizontal and vertical directions so as to allow a left eye and a right eye to separately recognize a left-eye image and a right-eye image formed by the left-eye sub pixels and the right-eye sub pixels, respectively. Accordingly, since a strip pattern is removed from s stereoscopic image, it is possible to obtain a natural stereoscopic image. In addition, since a strip pattern and a color mixing phenomenon are removed from s stereoscopic image, it is possible to obtain a natural and clear stereoscopic image. | 09-02-2010 |
20100220178 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: an adjustment amount setting section to set an adjustment amount of a parallax amount with respect to a two-dimensional image for left eye and a two-dimensional image for right eye; a difference calculation section to calculate a difference between brightness values of the two-dimensional image for left eye and the two-dimensional image for right eye in which the parallax amount is changed using the adjustment amount set by the adjustment amount setting section; a smallest value judgment section to determine an optimum adjustment amount by judging the adjustment amount at which a calculation amount using the difference between brightness values is smallest; and a parallax amount adjustment section to adjust the parallax amount of the two-dimensional image for left eye and the two-dimensional image for right eye, based on the optimum adjustment amount determined by the smallest value judgment section. | 09-02-2010 |
20100225749 | Aerial display system - An aerial display system comprising inexpensive optical elements and a high brighted LCD display or similar video image display types provides floating images in an inexpensive enclosure. In the aerial display system, either an anti-reflective acrylic plastic layer or a circular polarizer is disposed proximate and parallel to a beam splitter so that the focal point of the floating image is proximate to the plastic layer or polarizer. This image position yields both a wider field of view and wider perceived field of view. | 09-09-2010 |
20100238275 | Method for Shortening or Lengthening a Viewing Distance between a Viewer and an Arrangement for Spatially Perceptible Display - The invention relates to the field of spatial representation, in particular to the spatially perceptible representation without auxiliary means for a plurality of observers at a time, the so-called autostereoscopic visualization. It is the object of the invention to create a possibility for autostereoscopic representation, allowing an adjustment of the observation distance independently of constraints for the configuration of the distance from the image display device to the optical element, for example a barrier or lenticular lens. This object is achieved by a method for spatial representation, in which partial image information of different views A(k), wherein k=1, . . . ,n and n>=2, is visualized on a grid ( | 09-23-2010 |
20100238276 | APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - An elemental image display has a pixel plane on which pixels are aligned with a matrix shape. A lens array has a plurality of birefringence lens aligned with an array shape. Each birefringence lens has an isotropy. A plurality of electrodes is placed between the elemental image display and the lens array. Each electrode is differently connected to a power supply line. A first electrode substrate has a part of the plurality of electrodes. A second electrode substrate has other part of the plurality of electrodes. A longitudinal direction of electrodes of the other part is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of electrodes of the part. A medium is placed between the first electrode substrate and the second electrode substrate. The medium expresses anisotropy of a refractive index by applying a voltage from the power supply line. | 09-23-2010 |
20100259604 | MULTI-USER AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A display apparatus for projecting images towards eyes of at least one viewer selectively when said eyes are spaced horizontally within a viewing field, said apparatus comprising: transmitting means for transmitting light; image generation means for generating different images, the image generation means being capable of generating image parts in a plurality of different vertical image areas; and light configuration means for configuring said transmitted light to provide a plurality of sets of vertical light configurations, the different configurations in each set being selectable to provide different emergent light characteristics for a vertical image area which is common to each configuration in a set and which is different for each set, whereby said different images are projected by said apparatus to coincide with one or more eyes selected from the eyes of each of the one or more viewers, and not one or more other eyes of the viewers. | 10-14-2010 |
20100277576 | Systems for Capturing Images Through a Display - The present invention describes a visual-collaborative system comprising: a display screen having a first surface and a second surface; a first projector positioned to project images onto a projection surface of the display screen, wherein the projected images can be observed by viewing the second surface; and a first camera system positioned to capture images of objects through the display screen, the first camera system including a first filter disposed between a first camera and the first surface, wherein the first filter passes the light received by the camera but substantially blocks the light produced by the first projector, wherein the first filter is a GMR (Guided Mode Resonance) filter. | 11-04-2010 |
20100309296 | Autostereoscopic Display Apparatus - In an autostereoscopic display apparatus comprising a liquid crystal spatial light modulator having an array of pixels of different colors, each pixel comprising plural domains of different polar alignments, and a parallax element comprising an array of optical elements having geometric axes extending in parallel across the spatial light modulator in an inclined direction, the domains are shaped to improve the angular contrast uniformity. For each individual domain, a notional line parallel to the geometric axes of the optical elements of the parallax element has a total length of intersection with the individual domain, summed over adjacent pixels of the same color, is the same for all positions of the notional line. The total length of intersection for different domains is proportional to the area of the individual domains. | 12-09-2010 |
20110018981 | Visual Displays and TelePresence Embodiments with Perception of Depth - System and method for a visual display system with a two-way mirror, which is between the observation zone and the image display device, positioned at an angle to reflect a backdrop surface that may be wider than the image display device or a backdrop with mirrored sides to extend the visual perception of the backdrop surface. A camera may be included with the visual display system for telepresence applications. The two-way mirror may extend into wall panels on the sides to form a room that appears to extend in depth by the reflection of the wall panels and a backdrop panel. | 01-27-2011 |
20110018982 | Video game apparatus, game information display control method and game information display control program - A video game apparatus | 01-27-2011 |
20110032343 | Liquid crystal shutter device and picture display system - A liquid crystal shutter glass includes: two shutter mechanisms and a drive section. Each of the shutter mechanisms includes a liquid crystal device and is configured so as to alternately perform an opening action and a closing action in a time-divisional manner, the opening action allowing incident light to pass through corresponding one of the shutter mechanisms, the closing action allowing the incident light to be blocked. The drive section controls a switching operation between the opening action and the closing action for each of the shutter mechanisms, while driving the liquid crystal device in each of the shutter mechanisms by means of a polarity inversion method in which a polarity of a drive voltage is alternately inverted. The drive section inverts the polarity of the drive voltage in a period of the opening action. | 02-10-2011 |
20110032344 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN 2D AND 3D IMAGE DISPLAYING MODES - A display apparatus for switching between 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) image displaying modes is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display apparatus includes: i) a display unit configured to emit light, ii) a first optical sheet configured to input the emitted light and output a first refracted light and iii) a second optical sheet configured to input the first refracted light and selectively output one of a second refracted light and a third refracted light, wherein the first optical sheet is located between the display unit and second optical sheet. The display apparatus further includes an actuator configured to move at least one of the first optical sheet and the second optical sheet between a contacting state and a separating state, wherein the first and second optical sheets contact each other at the contacting state so that the second optical sheet outputs the second refracted light, and wherein the first and second optical sheets are spaced apart from each other at the separating state so that the second optical sheet outputs the third refracted light. | 02-10-2011 |
20110063422 | VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A video processing system and a video processing method are disclosed. It is determined whether a display mode of a display device is a Two-Dimensional (2D) mode or a Three-Dimensional (3D) mode. When the display mode of the display device is the 3D mode and a 2D On Screen Display (OSD) image is to be overlaid on an image being displayed on the display device, the display mode of the display device is switched to the 2D mode so that an image mixed with the 2D OSD image is displayed as a 2D image. | 03-17-2011 |
20110090323 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program - An image processing apparatus includes a controller that selects, from multiple images photographed from different viewpoints, a set of images for three-dimensional image display. The controller determines whether or not amount-of-movement information corresponding to a parallax between the images is recorded as attribute information of the images. When the amount-of-movement information is recorded, the controller selects a combination of images having a parallax corresponding to a display size of a display section by using the recorded amount-of-movement information. When the amount-of-movement information is not recorded, the controller selects a combination of images having a parallax corresponding to the display size by determining an amount of movement through use of information resulting from determination of degrees of block matching between images divided into blocks and using information of the determined amount of movement. | 04-21-2011 |
20110102558 | Display device for stereoscopic display - The present invention relates to a display system for stereoscopic viewing, the system comprising a binocular viewing device, information content, and a display source. The display system is remarkable in that it further comprises electronic components for implementing pieces of software for optimizing the binocular viewing device, the information content, and the display source, said pieces of optimization software together forming a loop for managing various parameters. The wearer of said device can thus view the information content via the binocular viewing device under conditions that are best adapted to the wearer's physiology. | 05-05-2011 |
20110102559 | VIDEO DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - Stereoscopic video content is reproduced to obtain a first pair of images with mutual parallax producing a stereoscopic effect. A first stereoscopic adjustment on the first pair of images is carried out to obtain a second pair of images. A second stereoscopic adjustment on the second pair of images is carried out to obtain a third pair of images, which are displayed on a screen to respective eyes of the viewer. The first stereoscopic adjustment is carried out differently for different video sources. The second stereoscopic adjustment is the same for all sources. The combination of the first and second stereoscopic adjustments enables content from different sources to be displayed with an appropriate stereoscopic adjustment for each source. | 05-05-2011 |
20110109732 | DISPLAY CONTROLLER, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, OUTPUT DEVICE, AND TRANSMITTER - A display controller includes: an extraction means for extracting a characteristic of at least one of image data and sound data of content; a detection means for detecting a predetermined scene of the content on the basis of the characteristic extracted by the extraction means; a reproduction means for reproducing the content; and a display control means for displaying an image of the content so as to be recognized as a two-dimensional image when the reproduction position of the content is a position of a section of the predetermined scene detected by the detection means and displaying an image of the content so as to be recognized as a three-dimensional image when the reproduction position of the content is a position outside the section of the predetermined scene. | 05-12-2011 |
20110128356 | Method for displaying image information and autostereoscopic screen - The invention relates to a method for displaying image information in which pixels of a matrix screen ( | 06-02-2011 |
20110134227 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ENCODING, DECODING, AND DISPLAYING A STEREOSCOPIC 3D IMAGE - A method and an apparatus for encoding a 3D image, decoding a three-dimensional (3D) image, and 3D image display apparatus and system that reduce capacity and transmission bandwidth of a 3D image content. In a 3D image, 3D image frames may include similar images to be viewed by right and left eyes of a viewer to produce a stereoscopic effect. To increase coding efficiency and reduce a bandwidth required to transmit the 3D image, the 3D image frames to be viewed by one of the viewer's eyes may be encoded based on the similar 3D image frames to be viewed by the other of the viewer's eyes. | 06-09-2011 |
20110149052 | 3D IMAGE SYNCHRONIZATION APPARATUS AND 3D IMAGE PROVIDING SYSTEM - A three dimensional (3D) image synchronization apparatus and a 3D image providing system are provided. The 3D image synchronization apparatus synchronizes at least one input 3D image using a single sync signal and outputs the synchronized 3D image. Accordingly, the plurality of display apparatus are synchronized with one another according to a single sync signal. | 06-23-2011 |
20110157329 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING TO DISPLAY THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES AND DIGITAL DISPLAY SYSTEM - A method for switching to display three-dimensional (3D) images and a digital display system are provided. In the method, a digital display is activated to receive image data comprising at least one image and to detect a triggering signal, which is generated by detecting whether a 3D glasses is being used through a software means or a hardware means. According to the triggering signal, the digital display switches between formats of two-dimensional (2D) image and 3D image, so as to display the images. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157330 | 2D/3D PROJECTION SYSTEM - Projection systems, including projectors and projection screens, that support the presentation of two-dimensional and three-dimensional images for viewing are described, as well as methods for operating the same. In each of the example projection systems, a projection screen is used in conjunction with a light manipulator, such as a parallax barrier or a lenticular lens, that is disposed adjacent to (and may be integrated with) the projection screen to support the viewing of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional images. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157331 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE REPRODUCTION METHOD IN CASE OF PAUSE MODE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS USING SAME - An apparatus, which forms a stereoscopic image by alternately displaying a left image and a right image, for reproducing a stereoscopic image in a pause mode, includes: a decoder unit configured to perform decoding on received image information; a 3D format generation unit configured to pair left and right images which are temporally consistent to generate stereoscopic image data; and a user input processing unit configured to receive a user selection with respect to image reproduction and delivering a corresponding signal to the decoder unit and the 3D format generation unit, wherein when the user input processing receives a to selection of a pause mode from the user, the decoder unit stops the decoding operation on the basis of the signal from the user input processing unit and the 3D format generation unit generates the stereoscopic image data by using the same left and right video frames. Even when a pause mode is selected while a stereoscopic image is being reproduced, the stereoscopic image can be outputted, and in this case, the stereoscopic image can be outputted in the pause mode without using any additional configuration. | 06-30-2011 |
20110199465 | METHOD OF PROCESSING PARALLAX INFORMATION COMPRISED IN A SIGNAL - This invention relates to a method and a device of processing parallax information comprised in a signal. A signal comprising parallax map associated with further image information is received. A first data is obtained from the signal indicative of first parallax map constraints. A second data is obtained from the signal indicative of second parallax map constraints. Third data matching third parallax map constraints of a target device is determined by means of processing the at least the first data and the second data. This third data is used to generate an updated signal matching the parallax map information constraints of the target device. | 08-18-2011 |
20110205342 | ELECTRICALLY-DRIVEN LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY USING THE SAME - An electrically-driven liquid crystal lens is disclosed. The electrically-driven liquid crystal lens being partitioned into a lens region and a non-lens region includes: a first and a second substrates disposed opposite to each other; a protrusion formed on the first substrate corresponding to the lens region, a first electrode formed on the first substrate and the protrusion for guiding electrical fields to increase the focus of the lens, and a second electrode formed on the non-lens region of the second substrate; a liquid crystal layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. A stereoscopic display using the electrically-driven liquid crystal lens is also disclosed. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205343 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A stereoscopic video processing device includes a candidate coordinate range calculation unit configured to calculate a range of candidate coordinates of a display position of a reference point of a two-dimensional object in a screen, a parallax total value calculation unit configured to calculate a total value of parallax values of pixels of a region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, for each candidate coordinate, a display position determination unit configured to determine a candidate coordinate having a smallest total value of the parallax values as the display position of the reference point of the two-dimensional object, a maximum value specifying unit configured to specify a maximum value of the parallax values of the pixels of the region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, and a parallax setting unit configured to set the parallax of the two-dimensional object displayed in the stereoscopic video. | 08-25-2011 |
20110216173 | Impairments To 3D Experiences - Systems and methods for impairing video content to a user are described. Video content may be outputted to a user via at least one output device. Such video content may be video content associated with a video game. A determination may be made as to whether a simulated impairment to the video content is required. Upon determining that a simulated impairment is required, impaired video content may be outputted to the user via the at least one output device. The at least one output device may include an output device for the left eye of the user and an output device for the right eye of the user. The impaired video content then may outputted to the output device for the left eye while the video content, without simulated impairment, may be outputted to the output device of the right eye. | 09-08-2011 |
20110221875 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a three-dimensional image display apparatus according to the present embodiments includes an acquisition unit, a selection unit, a generation unit, a display unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire attribute information related to attribute of one or more images to be displayed. The selection unit is configured to set parameter information based on the attribute information to control 3D effect for displaying the images and the parameter information includes at least parallax. The generation unit is configured to generate the images adjusted the 3D effect in accordance with the parameter information. The display unit is configured to display the adjusted images. | 09-15-2011 |
20110228059 | PARALLAX AMOUNT DETERMINATION DEVICE FOR STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A parallax appropriate for a viewer is determined. An iris-to-iris distance of a user is stored for each user. A viewer at the front of the display screen of a stereoscopic image display apparatus is photographed, and an iris image of the viewer is detected. Iris authentication is carried out, and if the same image as the detected iris image is stored, it is understood which user is the viewer. The iris-to-iris distance of the viewer is read. A parallax is determined from the read iris-to-iris distance, the distance from the display screen to the viewer, and the display screen size. | 09-22-2011 |
20110234772 | STEREOSCOPIC PICTURE DISPLAY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND STEREOSCOPIC PICTURE DISPLAY METHOD - A stereoscopic picture is viewable from all directions with high reproducibility without complicating a stereoscopic display mechanism, compared to related art. A cylindrical rotation section | 09-29-2011 |
20110242295 | Three dimension image display method - Disclosed is a three dimensional image display method and some application structures. The three dimensional display method employs one piece of flat mirror to separate an observer's right and left eyes while flipping one image, either right or left, to overlay with another to render a vivid three dimensional image. The method does not need eyeglasses, does not need to see through any optical elements, has no limit to the field of view, and is the most nature method for observers to view a three dimensional image just as to view the real world with naked eyes. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242296 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic image display device, for outputting left and right two (2) pieces of output videos, by superimposing an OSD (On Screen Display) on left and right two (2) pieces of output images, comprises: a disparity correction portion for correcting disparity of the input images, thereby outputting corrected images; and an OSD superimpose for superimposing the OSD on each of the corrected image, thereby outputting output images, wherein correction is made in such that the disparity of the corrected images in jumping out direction comes to be small, when displaying the OSD, and thereby lightening visual fatigue due to the fact that an object on the input image is seen in front than the OSD. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242297 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electric apparatus includes a receiving module, an expanding module, and an output module. The receiving module is configured to receive a motion picture including a first image and a second image having a parallax therebetween. The expanding module is configured to expand the first image and the second image at least in a horizontal direction. The output module is configured to output data of a third image corresponding to a first region of the expanded first image and a fourth image corresponding to a second region of the expanded second image. The first region comprises the same size as the first image and does not include a first horizontal end portion of the extended first image. The second region comprises the same size as the second image and does not include a second horizontal end portion of the extended second image. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242298 | PRIVATE VIDEO PRESENTATION - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to private video presentation. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a system including a display surface, a directional backlight system configured to emit a beam of light from the display surface and to vary a direction in which the beam of light is directed, and a spatial light modulator configured to form an image for display via the directional backlight system. The system further includes a controller configured to control the optical system and the light modulator to display a first video content item at a first viewing angle and a second video content item at a second viewing angle. | 10-06-2011 |
20110273543 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus that stereoscopically displays a two-dimensional image, comprising a generating section that generates a left-side image and a right-side image by shifting the two-dimensional image left and right in a display region; a right-edge processing section that attaches a right-edge image, which is displayed within a prescribed range from a right edge of the display region, to a right side of the left-side image; a left-edge processing section that attaches a left-edge image, which is displayed within a prescribed range from a left edge of the display region, to a left side of the right-side image; and an output section that outputs the left-side image with the right-edge image attached thereto to a left eye of a user and outputs the right-side image with the left-edge image attached thereto to a right eye of the user. | 11-10-2011 |
20110279659 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A stereoscopic image display and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The stereoscopic image display includes a display panel, that displays data of a 2D image in a 2D mode and display data of a 3D image in a 3D mode in a time division manner, and a data modulation unit that previously stores modified values satisfying a luminance of a predetermined gray level and modulates left eye image data or right eye image data input during a current frame period to a modified value selected based on the result of a comparison between right/left eye image data input during a previous frame period and the left/right eye image data of the current frame period using the previously stored modified values. | 11-17-2011 |
20110292190 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. A method for operating an image display apparatus includes receiving a three-dimensional (3D) image including a left-eye image and a right-eye image, increasing/reducing a disparity between the left-eye image and the right-eye image, enlarging the left-eye image and the right-eye image in such a manner that a region where the 3D image is not displayed is not generated on a display screen as positions of the left-eye image and the right-eye image are changed to increase/reduce the disparity, and displaying the enlarged left-eye image and the enlarged right-eye image. The image display apparatus can provide a 3D image having an apparent depth suitable for the user's viewing environment, and can prevent a region where no images are displayed in response to increase/reduction of the disparity, and prevent an image from being damaged or lost. | 12-01-2011 |
20110298905 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME - A display apparatus and a method of driving the same for performing local dimming that is suitable for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image. The display apparatus receives a video signal containing a left-eye image and a right-eye image, processes the video signal, displays a three-dimensional (3D) image on the basis of the processed video signal, emits light to a display unit by local dimming, and controls the light source unit to be driven based on dimming information about at least one of the left-eye image and the right-eye image. | 12-08-2011 |
20110304713 | INDEPENDENTLY PROCESSING PLANES OF DISPLAY DATA - Independently processing planes of display data is provided by a method of outputting a video stream. The method includes retrieving from memory a first plane of display data having a first set of display parameters and post-processing the first plane of display data to adjust the first set of display parameters. The method further includes retrieving from memory a second plane of display data having a second set of display parameters and post-processing the second plane of display data independently of the first plane of display data. The method further includes blending the first plane of display data with the second plane of display data to form blended display data and outputting the blended display data. | 12-15-2011 |
20110304714 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DESIRED BY USER WITH SIMPLER OPERATION, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM - A storage medium encoded with a display control program and executable by a computer of a display control device capable of interacting with an input device, for controlling a display capable of providing stereoscopic display, is provided. The present display control program stored in the storage medium includes zoom control instructions for performing zoom processing of a stereoscopic image based on an operation input accepted by operation input acceptance instructions, parallax control instructions for adjusting parallax of the stereoscopic image based on the operation input accepted by the operation input acceptance instructions, and display control instructions for causing the display to display the stereoscopic image subjected to zoom processing in accordance with the zoom control instructions, with parallax adjusted in accordance with the parallax control instructions. | 12-15-2011 |
20110304715 | Video Display Apparatus and Shutter Glasses - According to one embodiment, a video display apparatus includes a cabinet; and a glasses housing box. The glasses housing box is provided in the cabinet and configured to house at least one pair of shutter glasses. | 12-15-2011 |
20110304716 | Optical device for stereoscopic display and stereoscopic display apparatus - An optical device for stereoscopic display includes: a display section having a first surface and a second surface opposed to each other and outputting displayed-image light from the second surface; a parallax separation section disposed to face the second surface of the display section, and splitting the displayed-image light from the display section to allow stereoscopy; a first transparent parallel plate disposed to be in contact with the first surface of the display section; and a second transparent parallel plate disposed to be in contact with the second surface of the display section. | 12-15-2011 |
20110310235 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PLAYBACK DEVICE AND METHOD - A device for displaying stereoscopic images on a screen includes a receiving unit, signal processing unit, and display unit. The receiving unit receives stream data including left and right views of stereoscopic images. The signal processing unit alternately extracts left- and right-view frames from the stream data. The display unit displays each frame sent from the signal processing unit for a predetermined time on the screen. The signal processing unit sends the display unit one left-view frame a first number of times and one right-view frame a second number of times during one frame period of the stereoscopic images. The signal processing unit calculates the frame rate at which the display unit displays the left- and right-view frames divided by the frame rate of the stereoscopic images. The signal processing unit sets the first and second numbers of times to different values for one frame period of the stereoscopic images. | 12-22-2011 |
20110316991 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD OF STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic display device includes: a parallax adjustment section performing a parallax adjustment on each of a left-eye image and a right-eye image which are inputted; and a display section displaying the left-eye image and the right-eye image which are resultant of the parallax adjustment by the parallax adjustment section. The parallax adjustment section performs the parallax adjustment only on a region other than an OSD image region with an OSD image superposed therein in each of the left-eye image and the right-eye image. | 12-29-2011 |
20120002023 | SPATIAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a spatial image display device capable of forming more natural spatial images even with a simple configuration. In the spatial image display device | 01-05-2012 |
20120002024 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating an image display apparatus includes receiving a 3-dimensional (3D) image, detecting the depth of the 3D image, performing 3D processing on an audio signal received in synchronization with the 3D image in correspondence with the detected depth, and outputting the audio signal subjected to 3D processing. Thus, it is possible to output the audio signal in correspondence with the depth of the 3D image during 3D image display. | 01-05-2012 |
20120007964 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A location error determination unit determines, prior to displaying on a display device stereoscopic images including a parallax image for the left eye and a parallax image for the right eye of a subject, whether the parallax image for the left eye and the parallax image for the right eye are stereoscopic images that can be located as three-dimensional images. A parallax error determination unit determines, when it is determined that the parallax image for the left eye and the parallax image for the right eye can be located as stereoscopic images, whether a range of distribution of parallax between the parallax image for the left eye and the parallax image for the right eye is accommodated within a predetermined parallax range. An error communicating unit communicates an error when it is determined that that the parallax image for the left eye and the parallax image for the right eye cannot be located as stereoscopic images or when it is determined that the range of parallax between the parallax image for the left eye and the parallax image for the right eye is not accommodated within the predetermined parallax range. | 01-12-2012 |
20120007965 | CONTROLLER, DISPLAY DEVICE, EYEGLASS DEVICE AND VIDEO SYSTEM - A controller for controlling an eyeglass device which performs an assistance operation for assisting in stereoscopically viewing a video includes: a first acquisition portion for acquiring first frequency information relating to a display frequency of frame images of the video; a second acquisition portion for acquiring second frequency information relating to an environmental factor which periodically varies in an environment where the video is viewed; and a generator for generating a reference signal to adapt the assistance operation of the eyeglass device to display of the frame image and periodic variation of the environmental factor on the basis of the first frequency information and the second frequency information. | 01-12-2012 |
20120007966 | EYEGLASS DEVICE AND VIDEO SYSTEM - An eyeglass device for assisting in viewing a video to be stereoscopically perceived includes an optical filter portion with left and right filters for adjusting light amount to be transmitted to left and right eyes, respectively and a controller for controlling adjustment operation of the light amount by the optical filter portion, wherein the controller switches a control mode of the optical filter portion between a first control mode of controlling the optical filter portion so that the adjustment operation becomes synchronized with display of a frame image of the video and a second control mode of controlling the optical filter so that that the adjustment operation becomes slower than a frame rate of the video to make a viewer perceive the adjustment operation which is asynchronous with the display of the frame image. | 01-12-2012 |
20120007967 | VIDEO SYSTEM, EYEGLASS DEVICE AND VIDEO PLAYER - A video system includes a video player for playing data of contents and an eyeglass device used to view a video. The eyeglass device includes an optical filter portion for adjusting a light amount reaching eyes of a viewer, a battery used as a power supply of the eyeglass device, and a first transceiver for transmitting remaining charge information on battery charge remaining in the battery and receiving a synchronization signal for controlling the optical filter portion. The video player includes a second transceiver for receiving the remaining battery charge information and transmitting the synchronization signal, and a controller for calculating a time period represented by operational time information of the eyeglass device based on the remaining battery charge information and causing the second transceiver to transmit the synchronization signal so as to make the optical filter portion less frequently operated. | 01-12-2012 |
20120013718 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus configured to reproduce video data and additional data for displaying a sub-image, includes a first generator, an arrangement control module, a second generator, and a display control module. The first generator estimates depths of pixels in an image frame of the video data, and generates first left-eye image data and first right-eye image data which correspond to the image frame and have a parallax based on the depths. The arrangement control module sets a depth at which the sub-image is to be displayed, based on a foremost depth of the depths. The second generator generates second left-eye image data and second right-eye image data which correspond to the additional data and have a parallax based on the set depth of the sub-image. The display control module displays an image frame generated by using the generated image data. | 01-19-2012 |
20120019634 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DISPLAY METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method is provided for a three-dimensional (3D) display system. The method includes obtaining a plurality of original images of a plurality of viewpoints in a 3D image for display, and determining an actual size of a display window on a display device configured to display the 3D image. The method also includes adjusting an average parallax value between at least two of the plurality of original images based on the actual size of the display window. Further, the method includes creating a new 3D image with a desired average parallax based on the adjusted plurality of original images, and sending the new 3D image to the display device for display. | 01-26-2012 |
20120019635 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DISPLAY METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method is provided for a three-dimensional (3D) display system. The method includes obtaining a plurality of original images of a plurality of viewpoints in a 3D image for display, and adjusting an average parallax value between at least two of the plurality of original images based on a current size of a display window on a display device configured to display the 3D image. The method also includes reconstructing 3D scene information of the 3D image, and obtaining an image for each of the plurality of viewpoints and at least one new viewpoint based on the reconstructed 3D scene information. Further, the method includes combining the image of each viewpoint into a new 3D image with a desired average parallax, and sending the new 3D image to the display device for 3D display. | 01-26-2012 |
20120026303 | METHOD FOR FORMING AND OBSERVING STEREO IMAGES HAVING MAXIMUM SPATIAL RESOLUTION AND A DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SAID METHOD - The invention relates to stereoscopic displays and can be used for producing flat screen stereoscopic monitors and television sets with the option of observing a stereo image both with glasses and without glasses and with maximum spatial resolution equal to the full resolution of display matrices, and retaining the option of observing monoscopic images with full resolution. The required separation of two views of stereo image in a pair of observation windows (zones) is ensured with aid of virtually any type of display matrix, the transmission characteristic of which are linearized with aid of reciprocal or inverse functions which are deduced in accordance with a calibrating curve defining as the relation between two corresponding light intensity dependences in a pair of observation windows (zones) whereas changing the amplitude of calibrating signal. | 02-02-2012 |
20120033058 | Stereoscopic Video Display Apparatus and Display Method - In one embodiment, a stereoscopic video display apparatus is configured to divide each of frames displaying a stereoscopic video into two subframes; assign one pixel from among the plurality of parallax images to each row in each subframe; display parallax images of a first group from among the plurality of parallax images in odd-numbered rows and displaying parallax images of a remaining second group from among the plurality of parallax images in even-numbered rows, when displaying one of the first and second subframes; and display parallax images of the second group in odd-numbered rows and displaying parallax images of the first group in even-numbered rows when displaying the other of the first and second subframes. | 02-09-2012 |
20120044330 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A stereoscopic video display apparatus includes: a two-dimensional display unit which selects, for each of parallax images having a parallax from a reference parallax image, at least one pixel sequence on a panel, and displays each of the parallax images using the selected pixel sequence; a barrier part which divides light from the pixel sequences such that the respective parallax images are displayed at predetermined positions; a position detecting unit which detects the positions of viewers; and a parallax image arrangement control unit which specifies viewing positions possible for the left eyes of the viewers from among the detected viewing positions other than the viewing positions for the right eyes, and cause the two-dimensional display unit to respectively display the parallax images predetermined for the left eyes at the specified positions. | 02-23-2012 |
20120069160 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AMBIENT BRIGHTNESS PERCEIVED VIA THREE-DIMENSIONAL GLASSES BY ADJUSTING AMBIENT BRIGHTNESS SETTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL GLASSES, AND VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE THEREOF - A method for controlling an ambient brightness perceived via three-dimensional (3D) glasses is provided. The 3D glasses are arranged to view stereo images presented by a video display apparatus. The method includes the following steps: adjusting an ambient brightness setting of the 3D glasses, and controlling the 3D glasses according to the ambient brightness setting in order to adjust the ambient brightness perceived via the 3D glasses. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069161 | 3D GLASSES AND 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS USING IR SIGNAL AND RF SIGNAL - Three dimensional (3D) glasses and a 3D display apparatus are provided. The 3D glasses receive a sync signal from the 3D display apparatus through at least one of an infrared signal and a radio frequency signal. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069162 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a recording unit that records a 3D content including a left eye image and a right eye image; a parallax adjusting unit that adjusts parallax between the left eye image and the right eye image of the 3D content according to a recording rate or a transmission rate of the 3D content; and a transmission control unit that transmits the 3D content including the left eye image and the right eye image with the adjusted parallax to respective terminals as a transmission destination through a network. | 03-22-2012 |
20120075438 | VIDEO IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VIDEO IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided a video image processing apparatus. A display device includes a first display portion for a left eye image and a second display portion for a right eye image. The apparatus comprises: video image processing means for cutting out a part of frame images from a three-dimensional video image configured as an aggregate of the frame images, a single frame image being formed by arranging a pair of a left and right eye images corresponding to the same scene in a prescribed pattern; and output means for outputting the partial image to the display device. The video image processing means, when changing the cutout position, cuts out the partial image such that an arrangement pattern of the left and right eye images in the partial image after the change matches an arrangement pattern of the first and the second display portions in the display region. | 03-29-2012 |
20120081526 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR INCREASING HORIZONTAL BLANKING INTERVAL DATA TO GENERATE ADJUSTED HORIZONTAL BLANKING INTERVAL DATA - An image display method includes increasing a horizontal blanking interval (HBI) data included in a scan line data corresponding to at least a scan line and accordingly generating an adjusted HBI data; and transmitting a non-HBI data included in the scan line data and the adjusted HBI data to a display screen. An image display system includes a display screen, an adjusting circuit, and an output circuit. The adjusting circuit is arranged for increasing an HBI data included in a scan line data corresponding to at least a scan line and accordingly generating an adjusted HBI data. The output circuit is arranged for transmitting a non-HBI data included in the scan line data and the adjusted HBI data to the display screen. | 04-05-2012 |
20120098944 | 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A three dimensional (3D) image display apparatus is provided. The 3D image display apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives a transport stream (TS) including a content image and an additional image, an information detecting unit which detects 3D depth information for the content image, an additional image processing unit which applies the 3D depth information detected by the information detecting unit to the additional image, and an output unit which displays the additional image, to which the 3D depth information is applied, along with the content image. | 04-26-2012 |
20120105608 | METHOD, SHUTTER GLASSES, AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENT BRIGHTNESS RECEIVED BY SHUTTER GLASSES - A method for controlling an environment brightness received by shutter glasses which are used to view images presented by a display device is provided. The method includes the following steps: generating a control signal according to image variations of image content presented by the display device, external environment brightness, or an instruction signal for controlling an operation of the shutter glasses; and adjusting activation time of the shutter glasses to adjust the environment brightness received by shutter glasses according to the controlling signal. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105609 | BINOCULAR VISUAL PERFORMANCE MEASURING METHOD, BINOCULAR VISUAL PERFORMANCE MEASURING PROGRAM, EYEGLASS LENS DESIGN METHOD AND EYEGLASS LENS MANUFACTURING METHOD - A binocular visual performance measuring method including: a parallax image displaying step of displaying left and right parallax images at a predetermined measurement start position on a display screen when a measurement item is designated; a parallax image changing step of changing one of the left and right parallax images relative to the other of the left and right parallax images in accordance with the designated measurement item; a timing detecting step of detecting a timing when the subject viewing the left and right parallax images from a position a predetermined distance away from the display screen becomes unable to achieve fusion of the left and right parallax images; and a measurement value calculating step of calculating a measurement value of the designated measurement item based on the predetermined distance and a difference between the left and right parallax images defined at the detected timing. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105610 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING 3D EFFECT IN VIDEO DEVICE - An apparatus and method of a video device provide a stereoscopic effect to a user to provide a 3 Dimensional (3D) video. The apparatus includes a 3D glasses recognition unit and a controller. The 3D glasses recognition unit determines a posture of a user who watches a stereoscopic video. The controller provides control to change the stereoscopic effect of the stereoscopic video according to the posture of the user determined by the 3D glasses recognition unit. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105611 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A stereoscopic image processing method for a stereoscopic image pair forming a 3D image comprises the steps of evaluating whether the distance of a user is closer or further than a preferred distance from a 3D image display upon which the stereoscopic image pair is to be displayed, and if the evaluation indicates that the user is further than the preferred distance from the 3D image display, adjusting the respective displacements between corresponding image elements in the stereoscopic image pair, thereby changing the stereoscopic parallax in the 3D image. | 05-03-2012 |
20120120208 | 3D shutter glasses with frame rate detector - Active shutter 3D glasses with multiple optical detectors, such as photodiodes, are described that detect a frame rate of a 3D television or other 3D display by using independent component analysis. The detected frame rate is used to update a clock onboard the 3D glasses that times the active shutters, thereby synchronizing the shutters to the 3D display. A switch can reverse the shutters in case the left eye/right eye images are shown oppositely. | 05-17-2012 |
20120120209 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND VIDEO VIEWING SYSTEM - A display device includes a liquid crystal panel which switches between a left frame image which is viewed by a left eye and a right frame image which is viewed by a right eye to alternately display the left and right frame images on a display surface with time; and a liquid crystal driver which scans and drives the liquid crystal panel with a frame image signal for displaying the left or right frame image over the display surface. The liquid crystal driver executes a first scanning operation over the display surface and a second scanning operation over the display surface after the first scanning operation, and the first scanning operation is executed in a shorter period than the second scanning operation. | 05-17-2012 |
20120120210 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electric apparatus includes a receiving module, an expanding module, and an output module. The receiving module is configured to receive a motion picture including a first image and a second image having a parallax therebetween. The expanding module is configured to expand the first image and the second image at least in a horizontal direction. The output module is configured to output data of a third image corresponding to a first region of the expanded first image and a fourth image corresponding to a second region of the expanded second image. The first region comprises the same size as the first image and does not include a first horizontal end portion of the extended first image. The second region comprises the same size as the second image and does not include a second horizontal end portion of the extended second image. | 05-17-2012 |
20120127285 | SYNCHRONIZATION APPARATUS AND SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD - A synchronization apparatus synchronizes switchover between the right and left shutters of shutter glasses for viewing three-dimensional images, with switchover between a right-eye image frame and a left-eye image frame alternately displayed on a display device. The synchronization apparatus includes a sensor installed on the image display screen of the display device, and a controller for controlling switchover between the right and left shutters in accordance with an output signal from the sensor. The right-eye image frame and the left-eye image frame include discrimination marks for discriminating between the right-eye image frame and the left-eye image frame. The sensor detects the discrimination marks displayed on the image display screen. | 05-24-2012 |
20120127286 | 3D DISPLAY DEVICE AND 3D DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes: an optical barrier unit which includes a plurality of gate groups each including a plurality of gates, and in which gates in different groups perform a gating operation individually at different timings; a combined image generator which generates a plurality of sequences of combined images each corresponding to the plurality of gate groups based on a plurality of different viewpoint images in accordance with an opening timing of the respective gate groups; and a display unit which displays the corresponding sequence of combined images in synchronization with the gating operation of the respective gate groups, wherein the combined image generator generates at least one sequence of combined images through interpolation. | 05-24-2012 |
20120127287 | OPTICAL COMPENSATION FOR GHOSTING IN STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYS - A method for reducing crosstalk is stereoscopic displays comprises providing a first first-eye image, a compensated image of the first first-eye image, a first other-eye image, and a compensated image of the first other-eye image; displaying each of the images at least once during a single frame flash sequence, wherein the first first-eye image is displayed to a first eye, the compensated image of the first first-eye image is displayed to another eye, the first other-eye image is displayed to the another eye, and compensated image of the first other-eye image is displayed to the first eye; wherein the compensated images can be displayed simultaneously and/or at least one of the compensated images or eye images can be displayed more than one time during a single frame flash sequence. | 05-24-2012 |
20120154558 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE THEREOF - A display apparatus and a method for processing an image thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes an image input unit which receives an image, an image processing unit which generates a left eye image and a right eye image corresponding to the input image, a control unit which generates a virtual obstacle corresponding to an obstacle interrupting viewing of the input image, and adds the virtual obstacle to the left eye image and the right eye image, and a display unit which outputs a left eye image and a right eye image, to which the virtual obstacle has been added, alternately. Accordingly, collision of recognition regarding depth information due to an obstacle may be prevented and thus, a user may enjoy a stereoscopic 3D image. | 06-21-2012 |
20120162398 | Stereoscopic Video Processor and Stereoscopic Video Processing Method - According to one embodiment, a stereoscopic video processor includes a mode setting module, an adjustment module, and a communication module. The mode setting module sets a mode from among a plurality of modes each specifying an adjustment amount related to the disparity between first stereoscopic video and second stereoscopic video. The adjustment module adjusts the disparity between the first stereoscopic video and the second stereoscopic video by an adjustment amount corresponding to the mode set by the mode setting module. The communication module communicates with stereoscopic glasses for viewing the first stereoscopic video and the second stereoscopic video the disparity between which is adjusted by the adjustment module. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162399 | VISION SYSTEM, ALIGNMENT SYSTEM FOR ALIGNING DISPLAY PANEL AND PATTERNED RETARDER ON STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY USING THE VISION SYSTEM - A vision system for obtaining an image of a patterned retarder comprising first and second patterns having different optical axes is provided. The vision system comprises a camera, a ½ wavelength plate arranged in front of a lens of the camera, a rotatable ¼ wavelength plate arranged in front of the ½ wavelength plate. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162400 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS - There is provided a stereoscopic image displaying apparatus that displays a stereoscopic image to a viewer wearing glasses, in which the image displaying unit has a plurality of display pixels, the correcting unit corrects gray levels of pixels of the image signal for the right eye or the left eye, the writing unit writes the image signal corrected by the correcting unit, into the display pixels of the image displaying unit, the timing controlling unit controls timing to open and close the right and the left of the glasses in accordance with timing of the writing by the writing unit, and the correcting unit corrects the gray levels of the pixels of the image signal in accordance with a difference between the timing of the writing by the writing unit and the timing to open and close the right and the left of the glasses. | 06-28-2012 |
20120176483 | THREE CHANNEL DELIVERY OF STEREO IMAGES - An apparatus for viewing of a three dimensional image of a scene, including a monocular device worn by a viewer for displaying a first two-dimensional image to one eye of the viewer, The monocular device being arranged so it can be worn on either eye of the viewer. A second display for displaying a second two-dimensional image of the scene in a stereo image pair which is viewed by the other eye of the viewer. A way of selecting the first two-dimensional image with either a left or right perspective relative to the second two-dimensional image dependent upon which eye the viewer uses with the monocular device. | 07-12-2012 |
20120176484 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A three-dimensional image display system, including: a multi-parallax image reproduction apparatus configured to reproduce two-dimensional images, which include a plurality of parallax images within one frame, at a first frame rate; and a three-dimensional display apparatus configured to carry out multi-parallax stereoscopic moving picture display at a second frame rate based on a plurality of parallax images reproduced by the multi-parallax image reproduction apparatus where one frame of stereoscopic moving pictures is formed from a multi-parallax image formed from a predetermined number of parallax images; the multi-parallax image reproduction apparatus reproducing an image wherein control information is included in any of the parallax images for every one frame or every plurality of frames, the three-dimensional image display apparatus carrying out control in accordance with the control information included in the parallax images to carry out the multi-parallax stereoscopic moving picture display. | 07-12-2012 |
20120182404 | Three Dimensional Display - A three dimensional display is disclosed, and the pixel unit matrix thereof includes a central area, an upper area and a lower area, a left and a right area and matrix corner areas, which are composed of sub-pixels with different colors or partially identical colors. By aforementioned arrangement, the present invention can provide a pixel array different from conventional RGB array, so that the 3D stereo image can still be attained effectively while the stereo display is rotated under various directions or angles. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182405 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING DISPLAY CONTROL SIGNAL TRANSMITTED TO DISPLAY SCREEN DURING EXTRA DRIVING PERIOD - An image display method includes the following steps: transmitting an active data of a full image to a display screen, and after transmitting the active data of the full image is completed and before a driving period for an original vertical blanking interval corresponding to the active data is started, adjusting a display control signal transmitted to the display screen during an extra driving period, wherein a period length of the extra driving period is not equal to a period length of transmitting the active data of the full image to the display screen. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182406 | Multi View and Stereoscopic Image Display - A multi view and stereoscopic image display comprises: first glasses that comprise a first left-eye filter and a first right-eye filter, allow only a first image to pass through the first left-eye filter and the first right-eye filter in a multi view mode, and allow a left-eye image and a right-eye image to respectively pass through the first left-eye filter and the first right-eye filter in a 3D mode; and second glasses that comprise a second left-eye filter and a second right-eye filter, allow only a second image to pass through the second left-eye filter and the second right-eye filter in the multi view mode, and allow the left-eye image and the right-eye image to respectively pass through the second left-eye filter and the second right-eye filter in the 3D mode. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182407 | PARALLAX BARRIER FOR AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY, AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY, AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING PARALLAX BARRIER FOR AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - Moiré generated in an autostereoscopic display utilizing a parallax barrier method is cancelled. The interval between visible light transmitting sections that are abutting in the horizontal direction of a parallax barrier is determined using: the average number of subpixels constituting one pixel for three-dimensional display in one row in the horizontal direction; the width of a subpixel, which forms a display; the distance from a predetermined diagonal moiré canceling position to the parallax barrier; the number of viewpoints of a video image used for displaying an autostereoscopic video image; and the distance (Z) from the image display surface of the display to the parallax barrier. | 07-19-2012 |
20120188348 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE AND VIDEO VIEW SYSTEM - A video display device and a video view system with which occurrence of crosstalk can be avoided in stereoscopic video images. The device has a liquid crystal panel on which the video image for the left eye corresponding to the video signal for the left eye and the video image for the right eye corresponding to the video signal for the right eye are displayed, and a driving unit which drives the liquid crystal panel by executing at least two times of write-scanning respectively according to the driving amount based on the respective video signal for the left or right eye, wherein in each write-scanning, the driving unit performs an overdrive operation in which the liquid crystal panel is driven according to a driving amount based on a target luminance. | 07-26-2012 |
20120200680 | Display device and method for providing 3D image of the display device - Provided is a display device including: a viewpoint tracker for detecting a viewpoint variation by tracking a user's viewpoint; a display for alternately displaying a right image and a left image corresponding to user's right eye and left eye; a parallax barrier consisting of sub-segments which are continuously arranged to transmit or block the images by electrical on or off and alternately turned on/off by the unit of groups to alternately form an image transmission region and an image blocking region, in order to provide a 3D image by separately transmitting the right image and the left image to the user's right eye and left eye; and a barrier controller for electrically moving the image transmission region and the image blocking region of the parallax barrier by the unit of sub-segment according to the viewpoint variation, and a method for providing a 3D image of the display device. According to the present invention, it is possible to continuously smoothly provide an autostereoscopic 3D image to a user regardless of a change of a user's viewpoint from a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone or a change of relative position of the mobile terminal. | 08-09-2012 |
20120212591 | Image Display Apparatus, Image Processing Device, and Image Processing Method - According to one embodiment, an image display apparatus includes a rearranging module, a scaling module, a display, and a parallax controller. The rearranging module is configured to rearrange a plurality of first parallax image signals in series in accordance with colors of the first parallax image signals to generate a second parallax image signal. The scaling module is configured to scale the second parallax image signal in a horizontal direction to generate a third parallax image signal. The display is configured to display at least a part of the third parallax image signal. The parallax controller is configured to output light emitted from the display to a specific direction. | 08-23-2012 |
20120212592 | ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM FOR DIPVERGENCE AND/OR CONVERGENCE OF A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PAIR - An adjustment system for use in a stereoscopic imaging system for adjusting the dipvergence and/or convergence of a displayed stereo image pair. A plano-plano window is mounted for tilting in one of the image paths thereby to enable the correction of dipvergence shifts, the adjustment of convergence or both. | 08-23-2012 |
20120224035 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a depth estimation module, a parallax calculation module, a video generation module, a sub-image parallax determination module, a sub-image generation module, and a display control module. The depth estimation module estimates depths corresponding to pixels in a frame of video data. The parallax calculation module calculates parallaxes by using the depths. The video generation module generates left-eye and right-eye video data by using the video data and the parallaxes. The sub-image parallax determination module determines (i) a first depth for displaying a sub-image and (ii) a first parallax by using the first depth. The sub-image generation module generates left-eye and right-eye sub-image data by using sub-image data and the first parallax. The display control module displays a left-eye image and a right-eye image by using the generated data. | 09-06-2012 |
20120224036 | DUAL-VIEW STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY USING LINEAR MODULATOR ARRAYS - A method for displaying first and second stereoscopic images to first and second viewers provides the first viewer with a first decoding device having a first viewer differentiating element for receiving the first stereoscopic image and further having a first left- and right-eye differentiating elements for separating left- and right-eye images. The second viewer is provided with a second decoding device having a second viewer differentiating element for receiving the second stereoscopic image and further having a second left- and right-eye differentiating element. The first stereoscopic image is displayed to the first viewer by forming a first left-eye image and forming a first right-eye image, each over substantially half of the refresh period. The second stereoscopic image is displayed to the second viewer by forming a second left-eye image and forming a second right-eye image, each over substantially half of the refresh period. | 09-06-2012 |
20120236131 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a display unit which displays a parallax image on a display surface; a viewing position deriving unit which obtains a viewing position suitable for stereoscopic vision on the basis of the display surface; and a display control unit which causes the display unit to perform display for showing the viewing position obtained by the viewing position deriving unit. | 09-20-2012 |
20120249758 | ELECTRIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF INDICATOR - According to one embodiment, an electric apparatus has a camera or a plurality of cameras, an indicator, and a first controller. The first controller is configured to switch an indication of the indicator according to whether the camera performs photographing and whether to recognize a user's eye based on an image photographed by the camera. | 10-04-2012 |
20120268576 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display with a screen, an area of a part of the screen being settable in one of a three-dimensional video display mode of displaying three-dimensional video and a two-dimensional video display mode of displaying two-dimensional video. The apparatus further includes a detection module, a switch module, and a video display control module. The detection module is configured to detect a variation of a range of the area. The switch module is configured to switch the area to the two-dimensional video display mode, in a case where the detection module detects the variation of the range of the area when the area is set in the three-dimensional video display mode. | 10-25-2012 |
20120293640 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a three-dimensional video display apparatus includes a display, a calculator and a generator. The display displays a plurality of images with different viewpoints by using a plurality of light beam control elements to control light beams from pixels. The calculator calculates a quality of view for each of viewing positions with respect to the display based on a number of the light beam control elements causing pseudoscopy at each of the viewing positions. The generator generates a map indicating the quality of view for each of the viewing positions. | 11-22-2012 |
20120300045 | PROJECTION APPARATUS, DECODER, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE PROJECTION APPARATUS - A projection apparatus, decoder, and an image processing method for the projection apparatus are provided therein. The projection apparatus includes a projection module, a decoder, and an optical device. The projection module is used for alternately projecting first projected images and second projected images according to a three-dimensional video signal. The decoder is coupled to the projection module, and used for receiving and decoding the three-dimensional video signal to generate and wirelessly transmit a status signal. The optical device is used for receiving a frame switching control signal outputted from the projection module, used for receiving the status signal from the decoder, and use for receiving the first projected images and the second projected images in an image receiving status. | 11-29-2012 |
20120300046 | Method and System for Directed Light Stereo Display - A plurality of perception directions associated with a viewer may be determined in a video device, and display of video content via the video device may be controlled based on the determined plurality of perception directions. Controlling display of the video content may comprise adaptively and/or separately configuring display of the content in each of the plurality of perception directions. The plurality of perception directions may be determined based on positioning information associated with the viewer. The positioning information may be determined using one or more sensors. The positioning information may comprise information pertaining to location and/or angle of perception associated with each of left eye and right eye of the viewer relative to the location and/or orientation of video device relative to the video device. The plurality of perception directions may comprise perception directions corresponding to each of right eye and left eye of the viewer. | 11-29-2012 |
20120320170 | SEGMENTED DUAL LAYER PARALLAX BARRIER-BASED 3D DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - A segmented dual layer parallax barrier-based 3D display device may includes an image panel that displays a left image and a right image so as to alternately display a left-image column and a right-image column; a dual layer parallax barrier that includes a first common electrode, a second common electrode, a plurality of first individual electrodes, a plurality of second individual electrodes, a plurality of segmented electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer, and blocks specific portions of the displayed images; and a driving unit that drives the electrodes based on the distance between the image panel and the viewer so as to allow the viewer to view the left image and the right image, separately. | 12-20-2012 |
20120320171 | DUAL LAYER PARALLAX BARRIER-BASED 3D DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - A dual layer parallax barrier-based 3D display device may include an image panel that displays a left image and a right image so as to alternately display a left-image column and a right-image column, a dual layer parallax barrier that includes a first common electrode, a second common electrode, a plurality of first individual electrodes, a plurality of second individual electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer, and blocks specific portions of the displayed images and a driving unit that drives the electrodes based on the distance between the image panel and the viewer so as to allow the viewer to view the left image and the right image, separately, and simultaneously drives, in a particular state, at least one of the first common electrode and the plurality of first individual electrodes and at least one of the second common electrode and the plurality of second individual electrodes. | 12-20-2012 |
20120327200 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE CORRECTION DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE REPRODUCTION DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROVISION SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A three-dimensional image correction device includes when a displacement amount which is a difference between a convergence angle on a display surface and a convergence angle on a perceived three-dimensional surface based on image information for a three-dimensional image is set as a disparity amount, a width of a depth amount represented by pop-up and pull-in of the three-dimensional image is set as a dynamic range, and display device specification information is set as display device information, a disparity amount detection unit for inputting the image information to detect the disparity amount from the image information, a correction computation unit for adjusting the detected disparity amount on the basis of the display device information to correct the dynamic range, and a disparity amount correction unit for correcting the disparity amount in the corrected dynamic range while corresponding to the display device information. | 12-27-2012 |
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20130050449 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a viewer detector that performs face recognition using a video photographed by a camera and acquires position information of a viewer, a correction amount calculator that calculates a correction amount for compensating for an error of the position information involved in deviation of an attaching position of the camera, a position information corrector that corrects the position information using the correction amount calculated by the correction amount calculator, a viewing area information calculator that calculates, using the position information corrected by the position information corrector, a control parameter for setting a viewing area in which the viewer is set, and a viewing area controller that controls the viewing area according to the control parameter. | 02-28-2013 |
20130070066 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A three-dimensional display apparatus and a data processing method thereof are provided. The three-dimensional display apparatus includes a data processing module. The data processing module includes an image comparison unit and an image compensation unit. The image comparison unit receives a first eye frame and a second eye frame in order, compares a plurality of first gray-scale data of the first eye frame with a plurality of second gray-scale data of the second eye frame respectively, and outputs a plurality of comparison results. The image compensation unit is coupled to the image comparison unit and generates a compensation frame corresponding to the second eye frame according to the comparison results. Therefore, image sticking can be avoided. | 03-21-2013 |
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20130093863 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL OF 3D TV AND SHUTTER GLASSES - Disclosed is a liquid crystal panel of a 3D TV, and the liquid crystal panel is provided with a left eye frame signal watched by left eye, a first frame signal, a right eye frame signal watched by a right eye and a second frame signal for overlay displaying each frame of displays. The first frame signal is a left-right eyes frame signal watched by the left eye and the right eye simultaneously, and the second frame signal is a black signal. The present invention also relates to shutter glasses of a 3D TV. The liquid crystal panel of a 3D TV and the shutter glasses are capable of increasing the display brightness of the 3D TV. | 04-18-2013 |
20130100259 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY EXPOSURE TO 3D MEDIA PRESENTATIONS - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify exposure to 3D media presentation. An example apparatus includes 3D glasses components to enable presentation of a 3D media presentation. The example apparatus includes 3D glasses to enable viewing of a 3D media presentation. The example apparatus includes a motion sensor carried by the 3D glasses to generate a movement signal. The example apparatus includes a transmitter carried by the 3D glasses to transmit the movement signal. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100260 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS, VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video display apparatus includes a telop detector, a correction coefficient calculator, a depth corrector, a parallax image generator, and a display. The telop detector is configured to calculate a probability of each pixel block in an input image being a telop. The correction coefficient calculator is configured to calculate a correction coefficient for a first depth value of a correction target frame so that a second depth value of a pixel block having a highest probability of being a telop out of the pixel blocks in the input image is within a first range. The depth corrector is configured to correct a third value of each pixel using the correction coefficient. The parallax image generator is configured to generate parallax images of the input image based on the corrected depth values. The display is configured to display the parallax images stereoscopically. | 04-25-2013 |
20130113901 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, COMPOUND-EYE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided: a CPU that, in at least one case among a case in which fluctuation of a fixed interval in the acquired parallax amount is greater than a predetermined value, and a case in which the parallax amount reaches a predetermined allowed limit value, or a case in which an object of acquisition of the parallax amount can no longer be detected, judges that there is an abnormality in the parallax amount, and that, in a case that is none of these, judges that there is no abnormality in the parallax amount, and that, when it is judged that there is no abnormality in the parallax amount, carries out first parallax adjustment, and that, when it is judged that there is an abnormality in the parallax amount, switches to control of a second parallax adjustment and carries out parallax adjustment. | 05-09-2013 |
20130128013 | 3D TV Display System - A wall fixture supports at least one display screen and a display shelf. The display shelf is located adjacent the display screen and includes a holder for housing a pair of three-dimensional (3D) glasses that are tethered to the holder The display screen displays two-dimensional (2D) media content. In response to receiving an indication from a presence sensor that the 3D glasses located in a glasses holder of the display shelf have been removed from the glasses holder, 3D media content is displayed on the display monitor. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128014 | System for stereoscopically viewing motion pictures - Moving pictures, as may be exemplified by television programming, are viewed stereoscopically. The system preferably comprises a visual display screen upon which may be displayed a left-to-right reversed visual display. A reflecting surface is positioned opposite the visual display screen for reflecting imagery from the visual display screen toward the viewer. The reflected imagery provides a reflected left-to-right correct visual display. The visual display screen is spaced from the reflecting surface such that the viewer's perception of the visual display screen causes the viewer to focus on a point behind the reflecting surface thereby requiring the viewer to perceive laterally offset reflections of the visual display screen at the reflecting surface. In one embodiment, a cabinet assembly enables the viewer or user to selectively position the visual display screen relative to the primary reflecting surface for enhancing the perception of depth in imagery effected by the perceived laterally offset reflections. | 05-23-2013 |
20130135451 | Stereoscopic Image Displaying Apparatus and Corresponding Stereoscopic Image Displaying Method - A stereoscopic image displaying apparatus and a corresponding stereoscopic image displaying method are disclosed. The stereoscopic image displaying apparatus comprises a display panel, a backlight module and a pair of shutter glasses. The display panel is configured to write left-eye image data and right-eye image data according to a timing sequence. The backlight module has a plurality of light source regions, and the light source regions are turned on and off according to a timing sequence to scan the left-eye image data and the right-eye image data. A left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter of the pair of shutter glasses are turned on and off alternately to receive the left-eye image data when the left-eye shutter is turned on and to receive the right-eye image data when the right-eye shutter is turned on. When data of one image frame are to be written into the display panel, first-type scanning lines of scanning lines are enabled sequentially according to a timing sequence to write first-type image data, and then second-type scanning lines of the scanning lines are enabled sequentially according to a timing sequence to write second-type image data. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135452 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid crystal prism element includes a pair of opposing substrates, a plurality of triangular prisms which have a ridge line extending in a Y axis direction and are arranged between the opposing substrates so as to be aligned along an X axis direction, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the opposing substrates. Each triangular prism has an inclined surface located on a center side of the opposing substrate in the X axis direction, an inclined surface located on a lateral side of the opposing substrate in the X axis direction, and a bottom surface. Both of the two inclined surfaces of a triangular prism provided at least in a portion of a region on the opposing substrate are formed so as to not be perpendicular to the opposing substrate. | 05-30-2013 |
20130141552 | POLARIZED GLASSES TYPE STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF - According to a polarized glasses type stereoscopic image display device and a fabrication method thereof in accordance with the present invention, a light blocking pattern may be formed on a rear surface of the color filter substrate to enhance vertical viewing angle and aperture ratio. Moreover a light blocking pattern may be formed of a metal having a large hardness instead of resin BM and a step height from the rear surface ITO may be removed to prevent a scratch due to an abrasive belt. | 06-06-2013 |
20130147929 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a video processing device includes a test pattern controller configured to output a test pattern to a display capable of displaying stereoscopically. The test pattern is indicative of whether a viewer is substantially at a center of a viewing area in which a video is viewed stereoscopically. The test pattern includes first to sixth parallax images corresponding to respective first to sixth viewing points arranged in a horizontal direction. The third parallax image and the fourth parallax image include a first mark The first parallax image and the sixth parallax image include a second mark different from the first mark. The second parallax image and the fifth parallax image include neither the first mark nor second mark. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147930 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display device according includes: a display section which displays a plurality of images intended for different eye-points; a separation section which optically separates the plurality of images for the different eye-points; a travel distance calculation section which calculates a plurality of directional travel distances of the separation section relative to the display section, in accordance with a change in an eye-point location of a viewer observing the display section; and a plurality of drive sections which is driven on the basis of the directional travel distances and moves the separation section relative to the display section. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147931 | Image DIsplay Device, Image Display Method, and Image Correction Method - A viewpoint detection unit detects a user viewing a stereoscopic image, including a parallax image of a subject as viewed from a predetermined position defined as a reference view position, and tracks a viewpoint of the detected user. A motion parallax correction unit determines, if a speed of movement of the viewpoint becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined level, an amount of motion parallax correction for the parallax image, on the basis of an amount of movement of the viewpoint, so as to generate a stereoscopic image corrected for motion parallax, generates, if the speed of movement of the viewpoint subsequently becomes lower than a predetermined level, a stereoscopic image by changing the amount of motion parallax correction in steps until the parallax image return to parallax images as seen from the reference view position. | 06-13-2013 |
20130155207 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING A VIDEO PRESENTATION - A system for, and method of automatically controlling a video presentation and 3D glasses incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system is configured to sense whether a viewer is wearing glasses and transmit a signal to the video source if the viewer is not wearing the glasses. In another embodiment, the system is configured to sense whether the viewer is watching the video presentation and transmit a signal to the video source if the viewer is not watching the video presentation. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155208 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes: an image display panel; a backlight device; first and second liquid crystal prism elements each configured to change a deflection direction of emitted light according to a voltage applied thereto; a position detection section configured to detect a position of a user; and a control section configured to control the voltages applied to the liquid crystal prism elements, on the basis of information of the position of the user detected by the position detection section. Each liquid crystal prism element includes a pair of opposing substrates, a plurality of triangular prisms which have ridge lines extending in a first direction parallel to one side of the image display panel and are arranged between the pair of opposing substrates so as to be aligned along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a liquid crystal sealed between the opposing substrates. | 06-20-2013 |
20130169765 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, DISPLAY METHOD AND IMAGING PROCESSING THEREOF - An image processing apparatus, an image processing system, and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes: a signal processor which receives a plurality of contents and constructs image frames of the respective contents; an outputter which operates in a first mode to output image frames of only one content, and in a second mode to combine and output the image frames of the plurality of contents; a video telephony processor including an image capturer to capture an image external to the apparatus, the video telephony processor connecting video telephony, if a request for video telephony is received via an external network; and a controller which controls the outputter to determine a combination of the image frames of the plurality of contents outputted through the signal processor, according to an operational status of the video telephony processor. | 07-04-2013 |
20130176408 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - The imaging element of the imaging apparatus is provided with pixels respectively having multiple photoelectric conversion units that generate image signals by photoelectrically converting light fluxes that transit different regions dividing an exit pupil of an imaging optical system to a single micro lens. The imaging apparatus generates left-eye image data and right-eye image data for three-dimensional display based on image signals output by the imaging element, and generates combined image data for two-dimensional display by additively combining the left-eye image data and the right-eye image data. The imaging apparatus compresses the combined image data at a first compression rate, compresses the left-eye image data and the right-eye image data at a second compression rate that is higher than the first compression rate, and records the respectively compressed image data in the same image file. | 07-11-2013 |
20130182087 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a glassless three dimensional (3D) display capable of displaying a three-dimensional image. The apparatus includes a display, a detection module, and a setting module. The display is configured to display windows corresponding to application programs, each application program configured to support display of a three-dimensional image. The detection module is configured to detect a window observed by an observer. The setting module is configured to set a first region to a three-dimensional-image display region based on the observed window. | 07-18-2013 |
20130188028 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure decreases or avoids tearing at a time when a stereoscopic image is updated, without increasing the capacity of memory. The stereoscopic image playback apparatus extracts a set of rendering requests for a left image plane and a right image plane from the BD-J application, and prevents a discord between update timing of an image for the left eye and an image for the right eye by adjusting an actual rendering timing or rendering order depending on an operation of an image output side. This enables an image update which relatively does not make viewers uncomfortable. | 07-25-2013 |
20130201305 | DIVISION OF A GRAPHICAL DISPLAY INTO REGIONS - The described examples provide a method and system to divide a main screen on a wireless device into two or more logical screens or regions. Each region is capable of presenting its own multimedia data or content without user intervention. In one example, the audio signal for a desired multimedia data is sent via wireless connections, such as Bluetooth® or other wireless personal area networks (WPAN), to each user. The described examples enable multiple content viewing on a single wireless device. Also described are eyeglasses capable of selecting which audio stream to receive based on a user's gaze position to the display that has been divided into multiple regions. | 08-08-2013 |
20130208099 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A 3D tablet includes: a parallax image display unit which displays a stereoscopic image including a right-eye image and a left-eye image, between which there is parallax; a parallax barrier display unit which displays a parallax barrier having a stripe pattern and superimposed on the parallax image display unit to show the right-eye image and the left-eye image to a right and left eye of a user, respectively; a user position detection unit which obtains an orientation of the user relative to the parallax image display unit; a direction calculation and control unit which substantially collimates a longitudinal direction of the stripe pattern of the parallax barrier with the orientation of the user; and a parallax image generation unit which generates and displays, using the parallax image display unit, the stereoscopic image in which there is parallax in a direction substantially perpendicular to the orientation of the user. | 08-15-2013 |
20130222557 | Image display using a virtual projector array - Image viewing systems are disclosed. In one aspect, an image viewing system includes a screen ( | 08-29-2013 |
20130229501 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A video display apparatus includes a display section that carries out a display process based on a drive signal and a drive section that outputs to the display section a first drive signal based on a video signal having undergone video processing in a first video processing section at a fixed cycle and a second drive signal based on a video signal having undergone video processing in a second video processing section at the same cycle as the cycle at which the first drive signal is outputted but at timing shifted from the first drive signal by one-half the cycle. When the video signals contain two-dimensional video images, the first video processing section produces a video signal for two-dimensional video images and the second video processing section produces a video signal for black screen insertion. | 09-05-2013 |
20130242067 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING LOCATION OF SWEET SPOT FOR DISPLAYING MULTI-VIEW IMAGE - A three-dimensional image processing apparatus and a method for controlling a location of a sweet spot for displaying a multi-view image are disclosed. A receiver receives a multi-view image including a plurality of view images. A controller detects a plurality of users from an image obtained by taking a watching zone, acquires user location information indicating locations of the plurality of detected users, calculates distance information indicating a distance between the detected users by using the acquired user location information, and controls a location of a sweet spot for viewing the plurality of view images on the basis of the calculated distance information and a length of a dead zone of the multi-view image. | 09-19-2013 |
20130250073 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM ENCODED WITH A COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, CAPABLE OF STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - An exemplary embodiment provides an information processing apparatus capable of stereoscopic display. The information processing apparatus includes: a display unit capable of stereoscopic display; a first creating unit for successively creating an input image by periodically picking-up an image of a target object; a second creating unit for creating a right-eye image and a left-eye image from the input image; and a display control unit for presenting stereoscopic display on the display unit, using the right-eye image and the left-eye image. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250074 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INDEPENDENT MULTI-SCREEN VIEWING - Described herein are apparatus, system, and method for providing independent multi-screen viewing of multiple video streams on a digital display. The apparatus comprises a pair of active shutter eye-glasses; a receiver for receiving a first signal corresponding to a first frame from a first video stream being displayed on a display unit; and a processor operable to: darken the pair of eye-glasses during a time interval of a second frame from a second video stream being displayed on the display unit; and make transparent the pair of eye-glasses during a time interval of the first frame. The display unit displays multiple video streams on full screen size, and each user with the apparatus can independently view the full screen sized video and receive its corresponding audio signal. | 09-26-2013 |
20130258072 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT USING PHOTOSENSITIVE LENSES - Systems and methods are provided for presenting three-dimensional content on a display. An exemplary system for presenting a plurality of frames on a display comprises a first lens, a second lens, and an activation system. The activation system utilizes electromagnetic radiation to activate the first lens when a respective frame being presented on the display corresponds to the first lens, resulting in the first lens being substantially transparent and the second lens being substantially opaque, and to activate the second lens when a respective frame being presented on the display corresponds to the second lens, resulting in the second lens being substantially transparent and the first lens being substantially opaque. | 10-03-2013 |
20130265398 | Three-Dimensional Image Based on a Distance of a Viewer - Embodiments disclosed herein relate to determining a three-dimensional image based on a distance of a viewer from a display | 10-10-2013 |
20130286168 | 3D DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - A 3D display device includes: a data processor configured to generate at least one frame by combining a left-eye image and a right-eye image; a panel including pixels, each of the pixels including three sub pixels; a barrier configured to form a light blocking region and a light transmitting region on the panel on a basis of two sub pixel units; and a controller configured to control the data processor to generate the at least one frame by placing the left-eye image and the right-eye image alternately on the basis of two sub pixels, and to control the panel to display at least one frame generated by the data processor. | 10-31-2013 |
20130293689 | Wireless Communication Techniques - Wireless communication techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are described that involve active power control such that a device may bypass use of a power amplifier to communicate wirelessly. In one or more additional implementations, wireless communication techniques are described in which multiple bands may be leveraged to provide wireless communication. In one or more further implementations, wireless communication techniques are described in which a frame buffer on a receiving device is leveraged by a sending device. Yet further, in one or more implementations wireless communication techniques are described in which a sending device employs codec adaptation. Still yet further, in one or more implementations, wireless communication techniques are described which may be used to change characteristics of a channel used to communicate data. Yet further again, in one or more implementations, a receiving device is configured to adjust a display based on wireless communications received from a plurality of devices, such as to leverage a display by multiple wireless sources. | 11-07-2013 |
20130307944 | IMAGE PROJECTING SYSTEM AND SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD THEREOF - An image projecting system and a synchronization method thereof are provided. The image projecting system comprises a projector, a pair of stereoscopic glasses and a light meter. The projector projects a left-right eye test image according to a timing, and generates a plurality of left-right eye synchronization signals according to the timing. The light meter, which is electrically connected to the projector, measures a plurality of left-lens brightness values and a plurality of right-lens brightness values through a left lens and a right lens of the pair of stereoscopic glasses, respectively. The projector calculates a plurality of left-lens light leakage values and a plurality of right-lens light leakage values corresponding to the left-right eye synchronization signals according to the left-lens brightness values and the right-lens brightness values, respectively, so as to choose one of the left-right eye synchronization signals as an adjusted left-right eye synchronization signal. | 11-21-2013 |
20130307945 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING SUBTITLE APPLIED TO DISPLAY APPARATUS - A method for controlling subtitles applied to a display apparatus is provided. The method is capable of dynamically adjusting a subtitle of an original image. The original image includes a right-eye frame and a left-eye frame. The right-eye frame includes right-eye subtitle information, and the left-eye frame includes left-eye subtitle information. The method includes the steps of: determining an adjusted subtitle display mode; determining a shift distance of the right-eye subtitle information and the left-eye subtitle information; and adjusting the shift distance according to the adjusted subtitle display mode or a given 3D depth, such that an adjusted subtitle presented by the right-eye frame and the left-eye frame shows an adjusted subtitle 3D depth. The adjusted subtitle display mode includes a static display mode and a dynamic 3D display mode. | 11-21-2013 |
20130314513 | Visual Displays and TelePresence Embodiments with Perception of Depth - System and method for a visual display system with a two-way mirror, which is between the observation zone and the image display device, positioned at an angle to reflect a backdrop surface that may be wider than the image display device or a backdrop with mirrored sides to extend the visual perception of the backdrop surface. A camera may be included with the visual display system for telepresence applications. The two-way mirror may extend into wall panels on the sides to form a room that appears to extend in depth by the reflection of the wall panels and a backdrop panel. | 11-28-2013 |
20130314514 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, 3D GLASSES, AND 3D-VIDEO VIEWING SYSTEM - A state setting unit stores a parameter indicating the state of a display device. A packet analyzing unit refers to the parameter to receive a broadcast stream, and analyzes management packets contained in the broadcast stream. A decoding unit uses a result of the analyzing to extract packets constituting broadcast content from the broadcast stream and decode the packets into video frames. A display unit displays video images represented by the video frames. A 3D video image detecting unit uses a result of the analyzing to determine whether broadcast content to be displayed contains 3D video images or not. A transmitter unit transmits a notification signal to a pair of 3D glasses when the 3D video image detecting unit detects that the broadcast content contains 3D video images. A notifying unit operates to urge the viewer to use the pair of 3D glasses in response to the notification signal. | 11-28-2013 |
20130321597 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A projector displays, together with an input image, an OSD image different from the input image. The projector includes an image output unit configured to output image data of an image for the left eye and image data of an image for the right eye, an image processing unit configured to read out a different image data from a RAM, apply, to the image data of the image for the left eye, processing for arranging the different image data in a position for the left eye and combining the different image data with the image data of the image for the left eye, and apply, to the image data of the image for the right eye, processing for arranging the different image data in a position for the right eye and combining the different image data with the image data of the image for the right eye. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321598 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device for receiving input image data in which multiple images displayed in mutually differing directions from a display are combined includes: a crosstalk correction processor for performing a crosstalk correction; and a response speed improvement correction processor for performing a response speed improvement correction. The crosstalk correction processor has an optical crosstalk correction processor for performing an optical crosstalk correction, and an electrical crosstalk correction processor for performing an electrical crosstalk correction. The optical crosstalk correction processor performs the correction based on the input image data and outputs optical crosstalk correction processed image data. | 12-05-2013 |
20130329021 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH MOVEMENT ELEMENTS FOR OBTAINING A HIGH RESOLUTION AND/OR A 3D EFFECT - A display device (A) for the display of image information, which consists of at least one or a plurality of picture elements and may be modified by means of a frame rate (R), having at least one light source (L) for the generation of a picture element of the image information, characterized in that there are provided picture element modification means (VM) having movement elements (BR, BV, LI, L), which are movably arranged with at least the frame rate (R) in the display device (A) and which are adapted to selectively deflect and/or cover the light emitted by the at least one light source (L) for the viewer (LA, RA) of the display device (A) in order to generate per light source (L) of the display device (A) at least twice the number of picture elements as extension picture elements (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) for the display of the image information, wherein the light emitted by the at least one light source (L) is modified with at least twice the frame rate (R) as light source frequency (f | 12-12-2013 |
20130335537 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - In a 3D image display apparatus, a display unit includes a plurality of pixels and alternately displays a left-eye image in a first group of the pixels and a right-eye image in a second group of the pixels along a first direction, a barrier unit includes a light blocking portion blocking light received from the display unit and a light transmitting portion transmitting the light received from the display unit, and the light blocking portion and the light transmitting portion are alternately arranged in the first direction. A position information extraction unit determines the distance between the display unit and a viewer watching the display unit, and a control unit controls the display unit and the barrier unit in accordance with the distance information to allow the display unit and the barrier unit to be operated in a first mode or a second mode. Thus, a distance range in which the viewer perceives the 3D image increases. | 12-19-2013 |
20130335538 | MULTIPLE VIEWPOINT IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A multi-viewpoint image display device is provided, which includes an image panel including a plurality of pixels configured to be arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, a backlight unit configured to provide light to the image panel, a parallax portion configured to be arranged in front of the image panel, and a mask portion configured to be arranged between the image panel and the backlight unit to partially mask the plurality of pixels. Accordingly, resolution balance can be matched without interference. | 12-19-2013 |
20130342663 | EYEWEAR DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, VIDEO SYSTEM COMPRISING EYEWEAR DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE, AND VIDEO SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD - 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. | 12-26-2013 |
20140015940 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSOR AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A three-dimensional image processor includes an aspect conversion discriminator, an aspect conversion parameter generator, a 2D/3D conversion parameter generator, a frame memory unit and a read address controller. The aspect conversion discriminator generates a signal indicating whether or not a read position of a video signal is to be modified. The aspect conversion parameter generator generates a parameter indicating an aspect ratio of an image based on the video signal. The 2D/3D conversion parameter generator generates shift amounts for generating a left-eye signal and a right-eye signal based on the video signal. The frame memory unit temporarily stores the video signal. The read address controller controls the read position of the video signal based on the parameter and the shift amounts when the signal received from the aspect conversion discriminator indicates that the read position is to be modified. | 01-16-2014 |
20140028811 | METHOD FOR VIEWING MULTIPLE VIDEO STREAMS SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM A SINGLE DISPLAY SOURCE - A method and controller are presented which associate subsets of frames from an input video data stream and maps each subset to its respective viewer which video stream is then displayed in full screen mode. The method and controller further synchronize each viewer's optical discriminators with the display screen in a manner such that each viewer only views their mapped content on a display screen in full screen mode. In this fashion, multiple viewers may perceive independent content on a display screen in full screen mode. | 01-30-2014 |
20140028812 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - A three-dimensional video display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a display panel comprising pixels in a matrix form along a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; an optical plate having a plurality of optical apertures in the first direction and extending in a straight line form with inclination from the second direction, the inclination of the optical apertures being changeable; a detection unit detecting a face and eyes of a viewer; an angle calculation unit calculating an inclination angle of a straight line coupling the detected eyes from the first direction; a control unit controlling the optical plate to change over the inclination of the optical apertures when the inclination angle is greater than a threshold; and a pixel mapping generation unit changing mapping of the pixels in response to the changeover in the optical plate. | 01-30-2014 |
20140028813 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE AND THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method of displaying a three-dimensional (“3D”) image, the method includes determining a shutter electrode of an unit part included in a shutter panel as a left-eye electrode and a right-eye electrode, the unit part including ‘n’ shutter electrodes (herein, n is a natural number), selectively driving the left-eye electrode and the right-eye electrode as an opening part based on an image displayed on a display panel to transmit light through the opening part, and providing light transmitted through the opening part with an observer's two eyes through a lens plate, the lens plate including a plurality of lenses. | 01-30-2014 |
20140036046 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a stereoscopic image display device and the like with which the issues of a CT-image and pseudoscopic view by the 3D crosstalk can be overcome so that a sense of discomfort is not felt by the observer even when the observing position of the observer is shifted without giving a sense of discomfort by a drastic change in the parallax value, in which an image processing unit includes: a relative position calculating unit which calculates a relative position of a stereoscopic display panel with respect to the measured observing position of the observer; a parallax adjustment amount calculating unit which calculates a parallax adjustment amount suited for stereoscopic image display according to the relative position; and a parallax adjustment processing unit which performs parallax adjustment processing on image data according to the parallax adjustment amount. | 02-06-2014 |
20140036047 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - A video processing device is provided, in which the cross-talk is prevented from increasing while the Moiré pattern is diminished. A video display device displays multiple-parallax video using a parallax barrier method, the video display device comprising: a display unit displaying pixel columns of a given image and pixel columns of one or more parallax images corresponding to the given image, all of the pixel columns being arranged in predetermined order; and a parallax barrier arranged at a predetermined distance from an image display face of the display unit, and having a plurality of elongated passing regions passing light rays from the display unit, wherein at least one of the passing regions has a waveform formed at a longitudinal edge thereof, and at least one waveform includes two wave units that differ in terms of wave height or wave width. | 02-06-2014 |
20140043449 | STEREO IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A stereo image output method includes: providing a request command; outputting current image frame information from a storage unit in response to the request command, and triggering an image synchronization operation to update the image frame information in the storage unit; and outputting a set of stereo images from a memory according to the image frame information. | 02-13-2014 |
20140049621 | 3D DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND 3D DISPLAY DEVICE - The embodiments of the present invention relates to a 3D display device and a method for driving the 3D display device, the 3D display device comprising an Active Retarder (AR) ( | 02-20-2014 |
20140049622 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to a display device, a method, and a program for allowing a high quality stereoscopic image to be presented more easily. A display unit is a display device for four viewpoints, including a parallax barrier, and a plurality of block regions, each including pixels in channels CH0 to CH3 arranged in a parallax direction, are arranged on the display unit in the parallax direction. An assignment control unit assigns a parallax image for a left eye or for a right eye to a pixel in each channel in a block region according to the viewpoint position of a user. For example, the same parallax image is assigned to pixels in two different channels that are adjacent to each other in the parallax direction. A generation unit generates a combined image by combining parallax images for a left eye and for a right eye according to the assignment by the assignment control unit, and causes the combined image to be stereoscopically displayed on the display unit. The present invention may be applied to a display device. | 02-20-2014 |
20140055580 | Depth Of Field Maintaining Apparatus, 3D Display System And Display Method - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a depth of field maintaining apparatus, a 3D display system and a display method. The depth of field maintaining apparatus comprises: a 3D video signal input device; a position measuring device; an image processing device; and a 3D video signal output device, wherein the 3D video signal input device, the position measuring device and the 3D video signal output device are connected to the image processing device, the 3D video signal input device transmits an acquired 3D video signal to the image processing device, the position measuring device transmits detected position information of the viewer and the display screen to the image processing device, and the image processing device adjusts a space between corresponding object points in left and right eye images in a 3D video signal in accordance with the position information, such that a depth of field remains unchanged, and transmits a adjusted 3D video signal to the 3D video signal output device. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055581 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE POSITION OF THE FOCAL PLANE IN A STEREOSCOPIC SCENE - The present invention concerns the field of stereoscopic vision systems and more particularly the management of the position of the focal plane in a stereoscopic scene. | 02-27-2014 |
20140063210 | DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH DISPLAY ENHANCEMENT MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a display system includes: determining a correction profile for adjusting an intended image based on a viewing aide; and generating an adjusted output image based on the correction profile for displaying on a device and for perceiving the intended image through the viewing aide. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063211 | NAKED EYE TYPE AND GLASSES TYPE SWITCHABLE STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A naked eye type and glasses type switchable stereoscopic display device includes a display panel and a switching module. The display panel provides first display image and second display image. The switching module includes a first transparent electrode, a second transparent electrode, a liquid crystal layer, and an electric field uniforming layer. The electric field uniforming layer is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the second transparent electrode. The liquid crystal layer is driven by the second transparent electrode through the electric field uniforming layer to form liquid crystal lenses under a naked eye type stereoscopic display mode; the switching module provides a first phase retardation mode and a second phase retardation mode under a glasses type display mode. The first phase retardation mode provides a first polarization state to the first display image; the second phase retardation mode provides a second polarization state to the second display image. | 03-06-2014 |
20140078267 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - Every frame regarding an input video signal is changed into a sequence of subframes. Subframe data is generated from the input video signal while first and second tables are alternately used. The first and second tables are designed so that a number of subframes assigned a pixel activated state increases each time a drive gradation related to the input video signal increases by 1. According to the first table, a subframe newly assigned the pixel activated state is one following the subframe or subframes which have already been assigned the pixel activated state when the drive gradation increases from an odd number to a next even number. According to the second table, a subframe newly assigned the pixel activated state is one preceding the pixel-activated-state subframe or subframes in that case. A display device is driven in response to the generated subframe data. | 03-20-2014 |
20140078268 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display device includes: an image display unit ( | 03-20-2014 |
20140085436 | Systems and Methods for Convergent Angular Slice True-3D Display - Systems and methods for convergent 3D displays. In one embodiment, the 3D display has a display screen that includes a convergent reflector and a horizontally narrow angle diffuser. The convergent reflector focuses 2D images projected on the diffuser from an array of 2D image projectors to form viewpoints in an eyebox where one viewpoint corresponds to one projector. At a particular viewpoint, the viewer's eye sees a full-screen field of view from a corresponding projector in the array. The narrow angle diffuser diffuses incident rays projected from the 2D image projectors into narrow angular slices so that the views in the eyebox are continuously blended together. The system and methods provide advantages in that only a few projectors are required in the array to provide the viewer with a full-screen field of view and a sufficiently large eyebox for comfortable viewing. | 03-27-2014 |
20140085437 | MULTI-VIEW DISPLAY SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a multi-view display system. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a display screen to display multiple views simultaneously, and a controller to control the views presented on the display screen. The apparatus is configurable by the controller to provide multiple view settings, the view settings including a first setting in which the apparatus provides a single view to each viewer of the display screen and a second setting in which the apparatus provides a first view to a first viewer of the display screen and a second view to a second viewer of the display screen. A first filtering element filters views presented to viewers of the display screen such that an intended view is displayed to one or more viewers. | 03-27-2014 |
20140092223 | MULTI-VIEW THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - The present invention relates to a method for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image, which is further composed of a multi-view 3D image combination method and a parallax barrier structure design, and is being used in a case when a common flat-panel display screen and a view separation device are used to display a 3D image. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092224 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a viewer detector, and a viewing area information calculator. The viewer detector is configured to detect the number and a position of one or a plurality of viewers using an image captured by a camera. The viewing area information calculator is configured to calculate a control parameter so as to set a viewing area, in which a plurality of parallax images displayed on a display are viewed as a stereoscopic image, according to the number and the position of the viewers. The viewing area controller is configured to set the viewing area according to the control parameter. | 04-03-2014 |
20140098201 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING IMAGE RENDERING BASED ON ORIENTATION OF DISPLAY - An apparatus and method for rendering an image considering an orientation of a display may include a display mode determination unit to determining an expression mode of a display based on spatial information corresponding to eyes of a user, and an image rendering unit to render an image corresponding to the eye of the user based on the expression mode of the display. | 04-10-2014 |
20140118511 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CONFIRM THAT AN AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY IS ACCURATELY AIMED - A autostereoscopic display system includes an autostereoscopic display configured to project images representing a left-eye view and a right-eye view of an image, an emitter configured to emit a tracer beam having a directional relationship to that of the projected images, a sensor configured to detect reflections of the tracer beam, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to control an emission of the tracer beam, receive feedback data from the sensor, use the feedback data to determine an impact site on the viewer corresponding to the tracer beam and adjust a direction of the tracer beam based on the impact site. | 05-01-2014 |
20140118512 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus and method for processing an image using a multi-view image and pixel information are provided. The image processing method includes determining a view image that corresponds to a predetermined display direction of a display pixel of a display, determining at least one view image pixel corresponding to the display pixel in the determined view image based on a position of the display pixel in the display and pixel position information of the determined view image, and determining a pixel value of the display pixel based on a pixel value of the determined at least one view image pixel. | 05-01-2014 |
20140118513 | IMAGE PROCESSOR - A display image generation part | 05-01-2014 |
20140139652 | PULSED PROJECTION SYSTEM FOR 3D VIDEO - A 3D-display system alternates between directing light representing a left-eye view of a 3D image to a viewer's left eye and directing light representing a right-eye view of a 3D image to a viewer's right eye. To direct the light towards the viewer's eyes, the system receives eye-location data relative to a display device from an eye-tracking system and uses light deflectors, such as acousto-optic, electro-optic, and passive optical deflectors, to aim the light in a particular direction. | 05-22-2014 |
20140160257 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A video signal processing apparatus includes a three-dimensional video image parallax detector, a superimposed video image parallax setter, a superimposed video image parallax giver, and a video signal synthesis processor. The three-dimensional video image parallax detector detects the parallax in three-dimensional video images from a left-eye and right-eye three-dimensional video signal. The superimposed video image parallax setter sets the parallax in a three-dimensional superimposed video image to be superimposed upon three-dimensional video images to a parallax greater than the three-dimensional video image parallax. The superimposed video image parallax giver generates a left-eye superimposed video signal and a right-eye superimposed video signal from the superimposed video signal so as to have the set superimposed video image parallax. The video signal synthesis processor generates a left-eye and right-eye synthesized video signal generated by synthesizing the left-eye and right-eye three-dimensional video signal and the left-eye and right-eye superimposed video signal. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160258 | 3 DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A 3D image display device includes a display device including a plurality of pixels and displaying each of a left-eye image and a right-eye image. The display device inserts an insertion image between the left-eye image and the right-eye image such that the left-eye image is displayed for part of four frames and the insertion image is displayed for the remaining frames and the right-eye image is displayed for part of four other frames and the insertion image is displayed for the remaining other frames. | 06-12-2014 |
20140168390 | MULTI-VIEW AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPTIMAL VIEWING DISTANCE THEREOF - A display including an optical element disposed on a pixel array of a display panel; an optimal viewing distance control device configured to adjust primary view images seen through both eyes of a viewer to a first view image and second view image based on a viewer's position information sensed by a sensor, to automatically adjust other view images between the primary view images to view images separated at regular intervals, and to produce a view map using the adjusted primary view images and the adjusted other view images between the primary view images; a 3D formatter configured to map pixel data of a multi-view image based on the view map received from the optimal viewing distance control device; and a display panel driving circuit configured to write the pixel data of the multi-view image received from the 3D formatter to the display panel. | 06-19-2014 |
20140184761 | Displaying an Auto-Stereoscopic Image - An apparatus, a method and a computer program are provided. The apparatus may include: a display panel including a plurality of pixel groups, wherein each pixel group includes first, second, third and fourth pixels; and an optical arrangement configured, when the display panel is in a first orientation relative to a viewer, to use the first and second pixels in each pixel group to provide a first image of an auto-stereoscopic image and to use the third and fourth pixels in each pixel group to provide a second image of the auto-stereoscopic image, and wherein the optical arrangement is configured, when the display panel is in a second orientation relative to the viewer, to use the first and third pixels in each pixel group to provide a first image of a further auto-stereoscopic image and to use the second and fourth pixels in each pixel group to provide a second image of the further auto-stereoscopic image. | 07-03-2014 |
20140198193 | HEAD MOUNT DISPLAY AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - To appropriately prevent a burn-in phenomenon when a still image such as an OSD screen is displayed on a display panel. When a menu screen is displayed on a video screen in a superimposed manner, a menu phrase in at least one of a left-eye video and a right-eye video is deleted on a menu background area. A time period in which a brightness difference between still pixels in a boundary between a menu background area and a menu phrase remains large is reduced, and thus the occurrence of the burn-in phenomenon can be prevented. However, the menu background area is constantly displayed without being deleted, so that screen flickering does not occur. | 07-17-2014 |
20140204185 | MULTI-PITCHING ANGLE SUSPENDED 3D DISPLAY DEVICE WITH 360-DEGREE FIELD OF VIEW - This invention discloses a multi-pitching angle suspended space 3D display device with 360° FOV, comprising: a transmitted composite deflective diffusing screen, a high speed projector, an image generator, a detecting module and a rotating drive mechanism. The high speed projector projects the composite images of the 3D objects of different pitching angles and horizontal 360° views to the composite deflective diffusing screen that rotates at a high speed. The composite deflective diffusing screen is able to control the vertical deflecting and scattering angles and horizontal diffusing angle for incident rays with different angles, allowing the surrounding viewers at different height levels to see the images corresponding to their viewpoints, making the displayed 3D objects suspended over the composite deflecting scattering screen, of which the position does not change as the height of the viewpoint changes. The multi-pitching angle suspended space 3D display device with 360° FOV allows watching by multiple persons at multiple pitching angles and horizontal 360° FOV in naked eyes, realizing space occlusion, exploration and interaction. | 07-24-2014 |
20140210962 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE, APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An apparatus for controlling display of a stereoscopic image, includes: a display control portion which cuts out a stereoscopic image in a to-be-displayed area which is an area corresponding to a part of a stereoscopic image consisting of a plurality of images with a parallax, and displays the cut-out stereoscopic image on a display portion; a parallax change amount calculation portion which calculates a change amount between a parallax amount in a stereoscopic image within the to-be-displayed area before the to-be-displayed area is moved and a parallax amount in a stereoscopic image within the to-be-displayed area after the to-be-displayed area is moved by a first moving distance when an instruction to move the to-be-displayed area is issued; and a to-be-displayed area movement control portion which moves the to-be-displayed area by a moving distance in accordance with the change amount calculated by the parallax change amount calculation portion. | 07-31-2014 |
20140210963 | PARALLAX ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A parallax adjustment is facilitated. A stereoscopic image is displayed and the parallax between a left-viewpoint image and a right-viewpoint image, which form the stereoscopic image, is calculated. If the parallax of the stereoscopic image exceeds a prescribed allowable amount of parallax, a determination to reduce the size of the stereoscopic image is made. A parallax adjustment is carried out based upon a stereoscopic image, which has been reduced in size. Since parallax is adjusted using the stereoscopic image that has a parallax that falls within the allowable amount of parallax, parallax is easy to adjust. | 07-31-2014 |
20140210964 | OBJECT DISTANCE DETERMINATION FROM IMAGE - A system for determining a distance to an object comprises an image capture device ( | 07-31-2014 |
20140232835 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A stereoscopic image processing device displays a first image that is a stereoscopic image and a second image that is a stereoscopic image or a two-dimensional image on the same display screen at the same time. The stereoscopic image processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires the first image and the second image; and a processing unit that performs image processing on the first image or the second image so that, when a viewer views the first image, the second image appears to be deeper than the first image. | 08-21-2014 |
20140232836 | Temporally multiplexed display with landscape and portrait operation modes - An autostereoscopic display comprising a temporally multiplexed display arranged to provide viewing windows in a range around 45 degrees to achieve landscape and portrait viewing in cooperation with an observer tracking system. The temporally multiplexed display may comprise a stepped waveguide imaging directional backlight. | 08-21-2014 |
20140253698 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES - 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. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253699 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING 3D IMAGES - Recent production methods for 3D video as a general rule generate stereo images in a same phase of movement. The left and right images of a stereo pair thus image the recorded (or rendered) scene at a same point of time. Correct reproduction consequently requires the two images to be shown concurrently. This is, however, not true for all apparatuses such as, for example, 3D television sets including the so-called shutter technology, which show the left and right images in temporal succession. This temporally offset reproduction of the two stereo images results in clearly perceivable image errors. The invention describes a method for compensating such image errors. This is achieved by interpolating the images of one of the channels. | 09-11-2014 |
20140285640 | THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - A 3D image display device includes: a display panel including pixels; a signal controller controlling driving of the display panel; and an image signal processor generating a 3D input image signal based on image information and outputting the generated 3D input image signal to the signal controller. The image signal processor includes a view point generating unit generating view points corresponding to the respective pixels, and a 3D input image signal generating unit generating the 3D input image signal for the respective pixels based on information on a position of the pixel, information on the generated view point for the respective pixel, and the image information. | 09-25-2014 |
20140285641 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY METHOD - A three-dimensional display device for displaying a three-dimensional image, including: a gaze point obtaining unit which obtains a position of a gaze point of a viewer; a fusional area determination unit which determines a fusional area where binocular fusion is allowed, based on the obtained position of the gaze point; a correction unit which corrects the three-dimensional image so as to suppress display of an object that is included in the three-dimensional image outside the fusional area; and a display unit which displays the corrected three-dimensional image. | 09-25-2014 |
20140293023 | LASER VIDEOGRAMMETRY - Systems and methods for measuring a surface of an object. The system, in one embodiment, includes a laser projector device mounted at a fixed location relative to an object being formed by a fabrication process, and a videogrammetry device mounted at another fixed location relative to the object. The laser projector device includes a laser element mounted on a two-axis gimbal assembly, and the gimbal assembly directs laser beams from the laser element onto target points on a surface of the object. The laser projector device measures angles of the laser beams to the target points, while the videogrammetry device simultaneously performs measurements of the target points by capturing video images of the laser beams reflecting off of the target points. A controller processes the measurements from the laser projector device and the videogrammetry device to calculate x, y, z coordinates of the target points in a 3D coordinate system. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293024 | FOLDABLE DISPLAY AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A foldable display and a method and apparatus for controlling the foldable display are disclosed. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a display device including a first display panel and a second display panel disposed on the first display panel, wherein the first and second display panels are folded along a first axis. The apparatus also includes a recognizer for recognizing folding of at least one of the first and second display panels and a display controller for controlling a display operation of the display device according to the recognized folding. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293025 | Method and Apparatus of Assembly and Retention of 3D Glasses - A 3D projection and viewing system comprising viewing glasses having a frame including a receptacle mechanism on an eyewear frame, the receptacle mechanism configured to receive a corresponding portion attached to a temple part of eyeglasses comprising the eyewear frame. The corresponding portion may be, for example, an insertable snap device that fits into the receptacle mechanism and includes a barb or other latch mechanism that “snaps” into place. | 10-02-2014 |
20140300712 | TRI-VIEWING ANGLE DISPLAY - A tri-viewing angle display comprises a display panel and a parallax barrier located in front of the display panel, the parallax barrier comprises light transmitting strips and light shielding strips that are arranged alternately and parallel to each other, and the display panel is provided with three pixel areas arranged successively and periodically thereon, each of the light shielding strips is positioned right above two adjacent pixel areas and a width of the light shielding strip is greater than the sum of widths of the two adjacent pixel areas. Provision of three sets of image presentation areas on the display panel increases contents that can be simultaneously displayed by the liquid crystal display, and improves the displaying efficiency of the display; further, viewers in all the watching zones can watch the images displayed in the corresponding image presentation area, without being interfered by the images displayed in other image presentation areas, thus increasing the areas of visual regions and improving display quality. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300713 | STEREOSCOPIC THREE DIMENSIONAL PROJECTION AND DISPLAY - A hardware and software independent method and system of providing three-dimensional stereoscopic presentations of simulations which lack 3D stereoscopic graphics is provided wherein advanced graphics features such as view modulation, user tracking, geometry warping, edge blending and interweaved views, are each provided in stereoscopic 3D, allowing for raster-based and projector-based screen projection including multiple tile presentations. Further provided are hardware and software independent motion inputs for simulator seats based on the motion effects produced in simulator applications lacking motion output for simulator seats via translation of simulator camera data into motion input. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300714 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYS - An aspect provides a method of modifying a display including a plurality of pixels wherein each of the pixels is less than twice as tall as the pixel is wide includes modifying the display to create a plurality of modified pixels wherein each of the modified pixels is at least twice as tall as the modified pixel is wide, comprising at least one of a) masking of at least a portion of the display, b) optically shifting a perceived position of at least one row of sub-pixels of the display, and c) changing the addressing of sub-pixels of the display. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 10-09-2014 |
20140307068 | MULTIPLE-VIEWER AUTO-STEREOSCOPIC 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS - A multiple-viewer auto-stereoscopic display apparatus includes a display unit, an eye-tracking unit, a light transmission control unit, a light separation unit, and a synchronization control unit. The display unit is configured to display a view sequence of a plurality of view images of a 3D image in multiple viewing zones to one or more viewers. The light transmission control unit is configured to control light transmission to a particular viewing zone. The light separation unit is configured to separate the plurality of view images for the viewers to perceive 3D display. Further, the synchronization control unit is configured to synchronize refreshing of the display unit and the light transmission control unit, wherein a refreshing rate of the display unit equals to a refreshing rate of the light transmission control unit, and to dynamically adjust the view sequence based on the position information of the one or more viewers. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307069 | 3D VIDEOGAME SYSTEM - A 3D videogame system capable of displaying a left-right sequences through a different, independent VGA or video channel, with a display device sharing a memory in an immerse manner. The system has a videogame engine controlling and validating the image perspectives, assigning textures, lighting, positions, movements and aspects associated with each object participating in the game; creates left and right backbuffers, creates images and presents the information in the frontbuffers. The system allows handling the information of data associated to the xyz coordinates of the object's image in real-time, increases the RAM for the left-right backbuffer, with the possibility to discriminate and take the corresponding backbuffer, whose information is sent to the frontbuffer or additional independent display device sharing a memory in an immerse manner. | 10-16-2014 |
20140313296 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method is disclosed for a stereoscopic display system. The display system has a display panel containing an array of display units and a plurality of stereoscopic devices coupled to the display panel to affect three-dimensional (3D) display. The method includes receiving a 3D image to be displayed on the array of display units. The method also includes determining original display values for the display units and determining a coupling relationship between the display units and the stereoscopic devices. Further, the method includes determining a crosstalk condition based on the coupling relationship, and adjusting the original display values of display units based on the coupling relationship, the crosstalk condition, and the original display values of both the left display units and the right display units such that the crosstalk condition is cancelled. The method also includes displaying the 3D image using the adjusted display values of the display units. | 10-23-2014 |
20140320615 | DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - A display device includes a display unit that displays an image including a stereoscopic image based on binocular parallax, a detection unit that detects an obstacle that blocks the stereoscopic image, and a control unit that determines at least one of a display state and a blocking state of the stereoscopic image by the obstacle based on a detection result of the detection unit, and controls a display of a related image based on the determination result, the related image being related to the stereoscopic image. | 10-30-2014 |
20140327748 | RENDERING FOR AN INTERACTIVE 360 DEGREE LIGHT FIELD DISPLAY - An interactive, autostereoscopic system for displaying an object in 3D includes a mirror configured to spin around a vertical axis when actuated by a motor, a high speed video projector, and a processing system including a graphics card interfaced to the video projector. An anisotropic reflector is bonded onto an inclined surface of the mirror. The video projector projects video signals of the object from the projector onto the inclined surface of the mirror while the mirror is spinning, so that light rays representing the video signals are redirected toward a field of view of a 360 degree range. The processing system renders the redirected light rays so as to interactively generate a horizontal-parallax 3D display of the object. Vertical parallax can be included in the display by adjusting vertically the displayed views of the object, in response to tracking of viewer motion by a tracking system. | 11-06-2014 |
20140327749 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes an obtainer, a determiner, a controller, and a generator. The obtainer obtains a position of an object to be observed in volume data of a medical image. The determiner determines a region of interest by using the position of the object and an instructed region inputted by a user in the volume data so that the region of interest includes at least part of the object. The controller controls a relation between the region of interest and a display range that indicates a range allowed to be displayed stereoscopically on a display. The generator generates a stereoscopic image of the volume data according to the relation between the region of interest and the display range. | 11-06-2014 |
20140333735 | CONTROLLABLE LENTICULAR LENSLETS - An autostereoscopic 3D display system includes a display having a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel is configured to display light rays representing a left-eye view and a right-eye view of an image. The autostereoscopic 3D display system further includes an optical-deflection system configured to control the light rays representing the left-eye view and the right-eye view. The optical-deflection system includes a separately controllable lenslet associated with each pixel, where the lenslet is configured to steer the light ray representing the left-eye view corresponding to the pixel, and steer the light ray representing the right-eye view corresponding to the pixel. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333736 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - An image display method includes: receiving an original frame having an original image data part; adjusting the original frame to generate an adjusted frame having an adjusted image data part and a non-image data part, wherein, the adjusted image data part comprises a plurality of pixel lines; and scanning image data of N number of the pixel lines of the adjusted image data part to generate data of N+K number of pixel lines of a scanned frame. N and K are positive integers. The original frame has a same size as that of the adjusted frame; and the adjusted image data part has a size smaller than that of the original image data part. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333737 | Digital Point Spread Function (DPSF) and Dual Modulation Projection (including Lasers) using DPSF - A digital PSF for use in a dual modulation display. The invention allows the use of less than optimal point spread (PSF) functions in the optics between the pre-modulator and primary modulator of a dual modulation projection system. This technique uses multiple halftones per frame in the pre-modulator synchronized with a modified bit sequence in the primary modulator to produce a compensation image that reduces the errors produced by the sub-optimal PSF. The invention includes the application to dual modulation and dual modulated 3D viewing systems. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333738 | Energy efficient directional flat illuminators - Disclosed is an optical valve or light valve for providing large area collimated illumination from localized light sources, and system and method thereof for 2D, 3D, and/or autostereoscopic displays. An optical valve may include a stepped structure, in which the steps include separated extraction features which may be optically hidden to light propagating in a first direction. Light propagating in a second direction may be refracted, diffracted, or reflected by the features to provide illumination beams exiting from the top surface of the optical valve. Such controlled illumination may provide for efficient, multi-user autostereoscopic displays as well as improved 2D display functionality. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333739 | 3D IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - Disclosed are a device and a method for displaying a 3D image. A 3D image display device comprises: a stereo image analysis unit which receives a stereo image having a left image and a right image, and detects image information that contains edge information, color information, and/or scene change information; a first depth adjusting unit which determines a reference point by analyzing the distribution of depth of the stereo image based on the detected image information, and adjusts a three-dimensional effect of the stereo image by shifting the stereo image based on the determined reference point; a second depth adjusting unit which extracts depth map information in a pixel unit after reducing the size of the stereo image, and generates an image of a new viewpoint by warping the extracted depth map information such that the three-dimensional effect of the stereo image is adjusted; and a formatter which converts, according to a display device, the format of the stereo image having a three-dimensional effect adjusted by the first depth adjusting unit and/or the second depth adjusting unit. | 11-13-2014 |
20140340495 | FASTER STATE TRANSITIONING FOR CONTINUOUS ADJUSTABLE 3DEEPS FILTER SPECTACLES USING MULTI-LAYERED VARIABLE TINT MATERIALS - An electrically controlled spectacle includes a spectacle frame and optoelectronic lenses housed in the frame. The lenses include a left lens and a right lens, each of the optoelectrical lenses having a plurality of states, wherein the state of the left lens is independent of the state of the right lens. The electrically controlled spectacle also includes a control unit housed in the frame, the control unit being adapted to control the state of each of the lenses independently. | 11-20-2014 |
20140347452 | EFFICIENT STEREO TO MULTIVIEW RENDERING USING INTERLEAVED RENDERING - Approaches are described for generating a multiview autostereoscopic image from a stereo three-dimensional input image pair. A stereo to multiview rendering system receives a stereo three-dimensional image including a left image and a right image at a first view position and a second view position, respectively. The system generates a first input warp and a second input warp that maps the left image and the right image to a third and fourth positions, respectively, where the third and fourth positions lie between the first and second view positions. The system generates a plurality of output warps based on the first warp and the second warp. The system resamples each output warp in the plurality of output warps to create a plurality of partial output images. The system interleaves the plurality of partial output images to generate a composite output image. | 11-27-2014 |
20140347453 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a display device in which the occurrence of the crosstalk can be suppressed. A display unit includes a display panel ( | 11-27-2014 |
20140347454 | COMPUTER DEVICE WITH POWER-CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANAGING POWER-CONSUMPTION OF COMPUTER DEVICE - The present invention relates to a computer device comprising a detector for detecting a user's eye and a processor. The processor is configured to determine if the position of the user's eye is kept in a zone for a first time period, and if the position of the user's eye is kept in the zone for the first time period, suspend for a second time period detecting the user's eye and determining the position of the user's eye. | 11-27-2014 |
20140362197 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes a detector, a determiner, and a generator. The detector is configured to detect a real-space position of a viewer. The determiner is configured to determine a first relative position in a virtual space between the viewer and a display surface displaying a stereoscopic image based on the real-space position of the viewer, so that a particular site of the object to be displayed on the display surface faces the viewer in the virtual space. The generator is configured to generate a stereoscopic image by rendering a three-dimensional data of the object based on the first relative position. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362198 | Stereoscopic Video Processor, Stereoscopic Video Processing Method and Stereoscopic Video Processing Program - An electronic apparatus according to an embodiment is provided with circuitry to separate a video signal for stereoscopic video display into a first signal of a background and a second signal of a foreground, and to determinate a first maximum depth position and a first maximum projection position with respect to the first signal, and to determinate a second maximum depth position and a second maximum projection position with respect to the second signal. | 12-11-2014 |
20140368622 | DISPLAY DEVICE - According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display section; a barrier section in which a plurality of unit regions are arranged in columns in a first direction, the plurality of unit regions extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a plurality of light shields disposed at regular intervals for the display section such that a transmittance of light transmitted through a unit region is kept substantially the same regardless of a position of the unit region through which light is transmitted in the barrier section. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368623 | DISPLAY APPARATUS PROVIDING MULTI-VIEW MODE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a video processor configured to process a plurality of content and generate a plurality of contents views if a multi-view mode is executed, a display configured to display the plurality of content views, a synchronization signal generator configured to generate a synchronization signal for the plurality of content views, a communicator configured to transmit the synchronization signal, and a controller configured to control the communicator to transmit information on a type of the content provided in the multi-view mode to the at least one glasses device. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368624 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND TOUCH PANEL - A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image frame that includes a right-eye image and a left-eye image, and a touch panel configured to sense a user touch, wherein the touch panel includes a polarizing switch panel configured to switch a direction of polarization of light emitted from the display panel, and a parallax realization layer which is formed on one side of the polarizing switch panel and is configured to provide a binocular disparity image by using light emitted from the polarizing switch panel. | 12-18-2014 |
20150009306 | MAPPING SUB-PORTIONS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) VIDEO DATA TO BE RENDERED ON A DISPLAY UNIT WITHIN A COMFORTABLE RANGE OF PERCEPTION OF A USER THEREOF - A method includes receiving, through a processor of a data processing device communicatively coupled to a memory, data related to a dimensional parameter of a display unit and/or a distance between a user and the display unit, and determining, through the processor, a comfortable range of perception of a sub-portion of three-dimensional (3D) video data on the display unit based on the dimensional parameter of the display unit and/or the distance between the user and the display unit. The method also includes adjusting, through the processor, a disparity between one or more sub-portion(s) of the 3D video data corresponding to perception of the sub-portion by a left eye of the user and one or more sub-portion(s) of the 3D video data corresponding to perception of the sub-portion by a right eye of the user such that the sub-portion is mapped within the determined comfortable range of perception. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009307 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a stereoscopic image display device. A stereoscopic image display device according to one aspect of the present invention comprises: a backlight unit including a left-eye light source; a display panel unit for receiving light from the backlight unit and displaying the light in 2D images or 3D images; a double-sided prism film arranged to face the backlight unit and emit light at a predetermined angle toward the display panel unit; and a switchable diffuser interposed between the display panel unit and the double sided prism film and turned on/off depending on whether it is a 2D mode or a 3D mode to emit light having different viewing angles. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009308 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes: a display unit displaying plural viewpoint images; a light separation unit having plural transmitting portions and separating light from the display unit; and a display control unit controlling the timing of switching either of display positions of respective viewpoint images on the display unit and transmittance of respective transmitting portions of the light separation unit based on correlation information of the viewpoint images between frames. | 01-08-2015 |
20150015684 | 3D GLASSES INCLUDING A COLOR COORDINATE CONTROLLER AND A DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A display device includes a controller and a display. The controller is configured to receive a first color coordinate control signal and a second color coordinate control signal, and generate an image data signal by adjusting an input image signal according to the first and second color coordinate control signals. The display is configured to display an image according to the image data signal. The first and second color coordinate control signals are transmitted to the display device by a pair of three-dimensional (3D) glasses. | 01-15-2015 |
20150035954 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES IN RESPONSE TO HEAD ROLL - A stereoscopic display includes: a sensor configured to detect head roll of a viewer; and an image renderer coupled to the sensor and configured to adjust a 3D image according to the detected head roll. | 02-05-2015 |
20150035955 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A stereoscopic video processing device includes a candidate coordinate range calculation unit configured to calculate a range of candidate coordinates of a display position of a reference point of a two-dimensional object in a screen, a parallax total value calculation unit configured to calculate a total value of parallax values of pixels of a region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, for each candidate coordinate, a display position determination unit configured to determine a candidate coordinate having a smallest total value of the parallax values as the display position of the reference point of the two-dimensional object, a maximum value specifying unit configured to specify a maximum value of the parallax values of the pixels of the region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, and a parallax setting unit configured to set the parallax of the two-dimensional object displayed in the stereoscopic video. | 02-05-2015 |
20150042771 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRESENTING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT IN MEDIA ASSETS - 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. | 02-12-2015 |
20150062312 | Autostereoscopic Display Panel, Alignment Method, and Autostereoscopic Display Method thereof - An autostereoscopic display panel includes a display panel and a barrier panel adjacent to each other. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units. Each of the pixel units includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along a first direction, such that each of the pixel units has a pixel width along the first direction. The barrier panel includes a plurality of barrier units. Each of the barrier units includes at least three barrier electrodes parallel to each other. Each of the barrier electrodes has an electrode width along the first direction, and the electrode width is smaller than the pixel width. An alignment method and an autostereoscopic display method using the autostereoscopic display panel are also disclosed. | 03-05-2015 |
20150070476 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A three-dimensional (3D) display device comprises a display panel and a grating disposed on one side of the display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of first display units and a plurality of second display units; the first display units and the second display units are alternately arranged in both a transverse direction and a longitudinal direction of the display panel. The grating includes a plurality of grating units arranged in parallel; an acute angle between each grating unit and the transverse direction of the display panel is a predetermined angle; and the grating is configured to present a first image displayed by the plurality of first display units and a second image displayed by the plurality of second display units to a left eye and a right eye respectively. The 3D display device can reduce the granular sensation in viewing a 3D image and hence improve viewing comfort. | 03-12-2015 |
20150077529 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL-IMAGE OBSERVATION SYSTEM - Eye fatigue in an observer is reduced in the case in which observation is performed by performing visual comparison between an imaging subject and an auxiliary indication superimposed on the imaging subject in a three-dimensional image. Provided is an image-processing device including a display portion that displays a three-dimensional image reproduced from two parallax images of an imaging subject; attention-point detecting portions that detect an attention point of the observer observing the three-dimensional image; a parallax calculating portion that calculates parallax between the two parallax images at the detected attention point; an auxiliary-indication creating portion that creates an auxiliary indication to which the same parallax as the parallax calculated by the parallax calculating portion is assigned, that superimposes the created auxiliary indication on the three-dimensional image, and that displays the superimposed image on the display portion. | 03-19-2015 |
20150085088 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus capable of displaying a 3D image includes: an image display section including partition regions partitioned in a row direction and a column direction; a display control section; and a light control section arranged at a front surface side of the image display section and including a plurality of separation elements each configured to separate light of the right eye image and light of the left eye image in displaying the 3D image. Each separation element is arranged so as to extend linearly and be tilted with respect to the column direction, and an arrangement pitch of the separation element in the row direction is non-integer times that of an arrangement pitch of the partition region in the row direction, the integer times being less than 4.5 times. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085089 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - The stereoscopic image display device which displays images corresponding to each of a plurality of viewpoints includes: a stereoscopic image display panel which includes a display panel in which a plurality of pixels are arranged and a light-ray separating module provided on the display panel for separating parallax images from each of the pixels towards a plurality of N-viewpoints (N is a natural number of 2 or larger) according to the layout direction of each of the pixels; an observer position measuring unit which measures an observing position of the observer who is facing the display surface; a relative position calculating unit which calculates a relative position of the observer with respect to the stereoscopic image display panel based on the measurement result; and an image generation processing unit which generates viewpoint image by corresponding to the relative position and outputs the image towards the stereoscopic image display panel. | 03-26-2015 |
20150092025 | STEREO DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereo display device includes a display panel and a barrier panel. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixel units arranged in an array along an X-direction and a Y-direction. At least three sub-pixel units form a pixel unit. The barrier panel is located at one side of the display panel and includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and an optically anisotropic medium. An included angle between an extension direction of the first electrodes and the Y-direction is +θ1, and θ1≠0 degree. An included angle between an extension direction of the second electrodes and the Y-direction is −θ2, and θ2≠0 degree. The optically anisotropic medium is located between the first electrodes and the second electrodes. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092026 | MULTI-VIEW IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A multi-view image display apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a crosstalk compensator configured to compensate for crosstalk with respect to multi-view images by using a crosstalk matrix defining the crosstalk that occurs between the multi-view images; a tracker configured to track a position of a user's face as a user's position is moved; a controller configured to determine at least two views to be provided as images for user's left and right eyes from among the multi-view images based on the tracked position of the user's face, and to control the crosstalk compensator to compensate for the crosstalk by applying a predetermined weight to the at least two determined views; and a display configured to display the multi-view images of which the crosstalk is compensated. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092027 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes a display including a plurality of light emitting elements that are two-dimensionally arranged, the plurality of light emitting elements being divided into a plurality of division regions, each of which includes more than one of the plurality of light emitting elements; and a lens that is located near a surface of the display so as to correspond to the division regions and that forms a display image by focusing each of images displayed in the respective division regions as a real image or a virtual image so that the focused images overlap on a same image plane. | 04-02-2015 |
20150116467 | PARALLAX ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND FRAME FORMAT - A parallax adjustment device including a parallax adjustment unit configured to perform parallax adjustment on a left-eye image and a right-eye image that are obtained by imaging, and a data processing unit configured to associate metadata regarding the parallax adjustment with image data including the left-eye image and the right-eye image. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116468 | SINGLE DISPLAY PIPE MULTI-VIEW FRAME COMPOSER METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for providing multi-view composed frames uses a single display pipe mechanism. The single display pipe includes, in one example, a memory requestor that fetches multi-view data from a frame buffer using a plurality of viewports. The single display pipe may also include a multi-view packer. Each viewport of the single display pipe has access to a frame buffer holding multi-view frame data, and may be configured to have access to different areas of the frame buffer. In this fashion the single display pipe may fetch data representing more than one view of a multi-view frame. Additionally, the multi-view packer combines the data fetched from one or more of the viewports to form a multi-view frame to be supplied for display. | 04-30-2015 |
20150130912 | PROJECTOR FOR USE WITH TELEVISION DISPLAY - A display system used with a television display. An image projector is supplied with image information that differs from but is related to the television content displayed by the television display. Image information is decoded from the content information supplied to the display system and supplied to the image projector. As a result, the image projector projects an image on a surface separate and apart from the display screen of the television display. | 05-14-2015 |
20150130913 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a parallax acquiring unit configured to acquire a parallax of each of a plurality of stereoscopic pictures in a moving picture including the plurality of stereoscopic pictures chronologically as a moving picture parallax, and a parallax generating unit configured to generate a parallax causing a position in front of all of the plurality of stereoscopic pictures corresponding to the moving picture parallax acquired in a certain period of time to be a display position of a user interface picture as a user interface parallax. | 05-14-2015 |
20150138327 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed herein are an electronic device and a method of controlling the same. The electronic device may include a sensor configured to detect the location of at least one viewer, a display configured to generate a 3D image and generate at least one 3D-visible area where a 3D image is able to be recognized and at least one 3D-invisible area where a 3D image is unable to be recognized, and a control unit configured to change a display state of a 3D image if the detected at least one viewer is placed in the 3D-invisible area. In accordance with the present invention, a viewer may smoothly view an image because the display state of a 3D image is changed if the viewer is placed in a 3D-invisible area. | 05-21-2015 |
20150145970 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - An apparatus for image processing controls a luminance of at least one light beam projected to a surface of a screen by at least one light source by controlling the at least one light source that emits the at least one light beam, wherein a luminance of an image output to the screen may be uniform by the luminance of the at least one light beam projected to the surface of the screen being controlled. | 05-28-2015 |
20150145971 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE FRAME - To provide a display device that gives a viewer a strong stereoscopic effect or sense of depth in a two-dimensional image and a display device that gives a viewer a natural stereoscopic effect or sense of depth in a two-dimensional image, a display device includes a frame portion, and a display portion which has a display surface on a frame portion side and is located so as to be apart from the frame portion with a distance therebetween. The display portion overlaps with an opening of the frame portion, and an end portion of the display portion overlaps with the frame portion. The distance between the frame portion and the display portion is variable. | 05-28-2015 |
20150304641 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - In a display control circuit ( | 10-22-2015 |
20150304644 | 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a 3D image display apparatus, which configures a light path such that light sources radiated from at least two projection optical systems pass through any one point (or nodal point) formed before the imaging position and forms a viewing zone having at least two viewing points at each observation position. Thereby, fixing a ratio of a degree of overlap (crosstalk) between neighbor viewing zones according to each depth sense (or observation distance) behind the imaging position, establishing a 3D viewing environment suitable for an observer, and enabling the observer to view a multi-view and super multi-view image. In addition, by merging the adjacent viewing points within one viewing zone, it is possible to minimize an area in which the viewing zones are overlapped and uniformize the intensity of light representing an image. | 10-22-2015 |
20150309574 | STEREOSCOPIC TOUCH DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic touch device and a display device are provided. The stereoscopic touch device is arranged in the front of the stereoscopic display panel and comprises: an air injection panel which comprises a plurality of air injection holes in array distribution thereon; an image processing chip which generates a control signal for controlling strengths of airflows from respective air injection holes depending on a stereoscopic image signal; an airflow regulating device which is in signal connection with the image processing chip and is configured for providing air with the airflow strengths to the respective air injection holes depending on the control signal. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312558 | STEREOSCOPIC RENDERING TO EYE POSITIONS - Enacted in a stereoscopic display system, a method to display a virtual object at a specified distance in front of an observer. The method includes sensing positions of the right and left eyes of the observer, and based on these positions, shifting a right or left display image of the virtual object. The shift is of such magnitude and direction as to confine the positional disparity between the right and left display images to a direction parallel to an interocular axis of the observer, in an amount to place the virtual object at the specified distance. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317784 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A user's operability in an image processing apparatus such as a camera scanner is improved. The image processing apparatus has: a pickup image obtaining unit for obtaining a pickup image on a stage through an imaging unit; a distance image obtaining unit for obtaining a distance image on the stage through a solid measuring unit; a solid information obtaining unit for obtaining solid information of a solid object put on the stage based on the obtained pickup image of the solid object and the obtained distance image of the solid object; a projecting unit for projecting a projection image showing a contents area onto the solid object through a projector based on the obtained solid information; and a processing unit for executing the contents in accordance with a user's gesture to the projected projection image. | 11-05-2015 |
20150334377 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE OUTPUT SYSTEM - 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. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334380 | STEREO SOURCE IMAGE CALIBRATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus and a method implemented by the image process apparatus generates a vertical disparity map through regression analysis, based on a difference between vertical coordinate values from feature correspondence information of left and right source images. A geometric difference through image warping is calibrated before depth information is restored through depth estimation. Thus, a process of optimizing a camera model may not have to be performed, and occurrence of black areas that may be caused by image rotation may be reduced. | 11-19-2015 |
20150341616 | PARALLAX BASED MONOSCOPIC RENDERING - A method for creating multiple viewpoint images for an image frame. The method includes receiving by a processing element a left eye image and a right eye image, wherein the left eye image and right eye image comprise a stereoscopic image pair. Once the images are received, the method includes determining by the processing element a first viewing location corresponding to the left eye image and a second viewing location corresponding to the right eye image and determining by the processing element a plurality of new viewpoint locations using the first viewing location and the second viewpoint location. | 11-26-2015 |
20150348273 | DEPTH MODIFICATION FOR DISPLAY APPLICATIONS - Techniques of depth modification for display applications are disclosed. A multiscopic video frame, including at least first and second images depicting a scene, is received. Depth information pertaining to the multiscopic video frame is received. A depth mapping function is determined based on one or more image characteristics of the multiscopic video frame, other than depth. The depth information is modified based on the depth mapping function. At least a third image is generated based on the modified depth information and based further on at least one of the first and second images, where the third image is output for display. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350632 | STEREOSCOPIC VIEW SYNTHESIS METHOD AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A stereoscopic image synthesis method includes the following: receiving a first image corresponding to a first view angle and a second image corresponding to a second view angle; obtaining a disparity map corresponding to the first image and the second image; determining a zero disparity region according to the disparity map; adjusting the disparity map according to the zero disparity region to obtain a shifted disparity map; linearly or non-linearly adjusting the shifted disparity map according to the shifted disparity map and a preset maximum range to obtain an adjusted disparity map; generating a plurality of virtual view angle images according to the adjusted disparity map, the first image, and the second image; and enhancing a two-dimensional depth cue of the virtual view angle images according to the adjusted disparity map. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350637 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a camera and a processor. The camera is configured to capture an image of eyes of a user. The processor is configured to detect a distance of the user's point of gaze by using the image captured by the camera, and to determine parallax to be applied to a pair of parallax images including a left-eye image and a right-eye image such that an image is displayed at a depth position corresponding to the detected distance of the user's point of gaze. | 12-03-2015 |
20150365655 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Second barrier electrodes are arranged under first barrier electrodes so as to fill gaps between the first barrier electrodes, while an insulating layer is located between the first barrier electrodes and the second barrier electrodes. The number of first barrier electrodes and the number of second barrier electrodes in each barrier pitch are 6 or more. The positions of the barriers formed by the first barrier electrodes and the second barrier electrodes are controlled by the reception of a signal representing detected positions of the eyes of a viewer. If pitches of the first barrier electrodes are defined as BE, and the widths of regions in which the first barrier electrodes are overlapped with the second barrier electrodes are defined as BA, a ratio BA/BE of the widths BA to the pitches BE are 0.3 or smaller. This configuration can suppress the occurrence of moire. | 12-17-2015 |
20150381971 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING 2D/3D DISPLAY SWITCH AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure provides an array substrate for implementing 2D/3D display switch. The array substrate includes M*N pixel units arranged in an array form, and M and N are positive integers. Each pixel unit includes at least a first pixel subunit A and a second pixel subunit B, the M*N pixel units include at least 2M*N pixel subunits. During the 2D display, the first pixel subunit A and the second pixel subunit B of the pixel unit in an m | 12-31-2015 |
20150381975 | SYNCHRONOUS SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY OF SPLICED-SCREEN BODY, AND SPLICED-SCREEN BODY - The present invention provides a synchronous signal processing method and device for stereoscopic display of a spliced-screen body, and a spliced-screen body, wherein the spliced-screen body comprises a plurality of modular screens spliced with one another. The method comprises: selecting a first modular screen from a plurality of modular screens according to a preset rule; obtaining a synchronous signal for stereoscopic display through the first modular screen, wherein the synchronous signal is used for instructing the modular screens to perform synchronous display of video images; and transmitting the synchronous signal to the other modular screens through the first modular screen according to a preset rule. By means of the technical solution provided by the present invention, the technical problems of high cost, complex implementation, and the like existing in synchronous signal sending solutions in the related technologies are solved, so that the cost is reduced and the complexity of a synchronization mode is also lowered. | 12-31-2015 |
20160007013 | 3D DISPLAY METHOD AND 3D DISPLAY DEVICE - A 3D display method and a 3D display device are provided. The 3D display method comprises: decomposing one frame of picture into a left-eye picture and a right-eye picture, the left-eye picture including pixel information of a left-eye perspective picture, and the right-eye picture including pixel information of a right-eye perspective picture; decomposing the left-eye picture into continuously displayed left-eye sub-pictures, and decomposing the right-eye picture into continuously displayed right-eye sub-pictures. By decomposing one frame of picture into the left-eye sub-pictures and right-eye sub-pictures continuously displayed, each frame of the sub-picture can only display partial picture information, which reduces or eliminates the 3D crosstalk problem when the left-eye perspective picture and the right-eye perspective picture alternate, and improves the 3D display effect. | 01-07-2016 |
20160007016 | Binocular fixation imaging method and apparatus - A controller that may implement variation of the content of binocular images which may depend upon which region of a binocular image a viewer is fixating. An aspect of the present disclosure may include locally controlling the viewer's perceived depth impression which may depend on where in perceived depth in an image the viewer is fixating. This may enable the perceived depth to be optimized across the image for quality and performance reasons. | 01-07-2016 |
20160021353 | I/O DEVICE, I/O PROGRAM, AND I/O METHOD - Provided are an I/O device, an I/O program, and an I/O method that enable visual recognition with such a sense of distance as if a target object that is a real image were in contact with a stereoscopic image that is a virtual image. The I/O device according to the present invention includes: a display device that can generate a stereoscopic image; and a depth level sensor that measures a distance to a target object. A stereoscopic region of the stereoscopic image generated by the display device and a depth level detection region of the depth level sensor overlap with each other to thereby have a common region therebetween. As a result, the visual recognition with such a sense of distance as if the target object that is a real image were in contact with the stereoscopic image that is a virtual image is possible. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021362 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes: a display unit that displays, in a screen, images corresponding to viewpoints existing in a X direction; and a parallax forming unit that divides light existing between the display unit and the respective viewpoints with respect to the X direction so that different lights reach the respective viewpoints from the display unit due to light blocking or refraction, and guides the images corresponding to the respective viewpoints to the respective viewpoints. In a case where the width of each of the pixels in the X direction and/or the width of each of the pixels in a Y direction is equal to or smeller than a predetermined width, the parallax forming unit divides light beams existing between the display unit and the respective viewpoints so that light of more than one pixel is included in each minimum divisional unit region formed through the dividing. | 01-21-2016 |
20160037153 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RENDERING IMAGE - An image rendering apparatus and method for rendering a stereoscopic image are provided. The image rendering apparatus may estimate a disparity of an image pixel included in an input image. Based on the disparity, a viewpoint direction of the image pixel may be determined by the image rendering apparatus. The image rendering apparatus may render a stereoscopic image by assigning a pixel value of the image pixel to a display pixel having a viewpoint direction corresponding to the viewpoint direction of the image pixel, instead of generating a multiview image. | 02-04-2016 |
20160037157 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SCREEN THEREOF - A display apparatus and a method of controlling a screen thereof are provided. The method includes displaying a rectangular screen including a digital image in a display area, receiving information to modify a shape of the rectangular screen, and modifying and displaying the shape of the rectangular screen based on a coordinate value of a horizontal axis of the display area, and the received information. A height of the modified screen decreases as the height is closer to the coordinate value, and the digital image decreases in size as the digital image is closer to the coordinate value to correspond to the height. | 02-04-2016 |
20160044302 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC 3D DISPLAY DEVICE - An autostereoscopic 3D display device is disclosed. The autostereoscopic 3D display device includes: a display panel; an autostereoscopic 3D panel; an image comparing module; and a scattering module. The autostereoscopic 3D display device scatters a part of the emitting lights of one display image by disposing the image comparing module and the scattering module, thereby reducing the moire pattern phenomenon on the basis of without increasing the crosstalk of the display image. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044305 | MULTIVIEW IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A multiview image display apparatus is provided. The multiview image display apparatus includes a depth adjuster configured to adjust a depth of an input image, a renderer configured to perform rendering on multiview images based on the depth-adjusted image, a crosstalk compensator configured to perform crosstalk inverse compensation on the rendered multiview images, a display configured to arrange the crosstalk inverse compensated multiview images in a preset arrangement pattern and display the crosstalk inverse compensated multiview images arranged in the preset arrangement pattern, and a controller configured to estimate crosstalk, and control the depth adjuster to adjust a depth value of a region that satisfies a preset condition to a preset depth value based on the estimated crosstalk. | 02-11-2016 |
20160050409 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing method and apparatus for a three-dimensional (3D) display device that may process image data for a first panel to generate an image for a second panel based 3D display device, is provided. | 02-18-2016 |
20160057408 | Vibrating Grid Based 3D Space Visualization Device - The object of the present invention is a vibrating grid based space generating device, which enables 3D perception for the user, and which comprises a containing frame and image display surface, configured in such a manner that to the containing frame ( | 02-25-2016 |
20160057409 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING LASER BEAM SCANNING PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEMS - Provided is a three-dimensional (3D) image display apparatus using laser beam scanning (LBS) projection optical systems. The 3D image display apparatus includes a plurality of LBS projection optical systems arrayed in horizontal and vertical directions, an input unit through which a 3D image signal is input, and an image signal controller configured to distribute the 3D image signal input through the input unit to the LBS projection optical systems. Each of the arrayed LBS projection optical systems has a beam-projection center point for outputting light to an outside of the LBS projection optical system, and an image projected from the beam-projection center point is a horizontal-parallax image based on the beam-projection center point. | 02-25-2016 |
20160065953 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing method includes tracking users viewing a three-dimensional (3D) image displayed on a screen, and generating a 3D image on the screen for each of a plurality of regions based on a result of the tracking, the plurality of regions being formed based on a number of the users is disclosed. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065955 | BACKLIGHT UNIT AND HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided are a backlight unit and a holographic display including the same. The backlight unit may include: a light guide plate; a light source unit configured to adjust a direction of light which is emitted from the light source unit and incident on the light guide plate; and a diffraction device which is disposed on the light guide plate and configured to control a direction of light emitted from the light guide plate. | 03-03-2016 |
20160073098 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY SYSTEM USING AUTO-STEREOSCOPY 3D TRANSPARENT ELECTRONIC DISPLAY - A head up display system for a vehicle includes a vehicle network constructed and arranged to receive vehicle operating data. A system controller, based on the operating data, receives a request signal from the vehicle network regarding information to be displayed. A graphics controller is constructed and arranged to process images, using a three-dimensional auto-stereoscopic effect, of the information to be displayed. A transparent display is visually associated with a transparent windshield of the vehicle in a line of sight of the driver so that the driver can view a road through both the windshield and the transparent display. Based on a signal received from the graphics controller, the transparent display is constructed and arranged to display the images to the driver at the line of sight in a three-dimensional auto-stereoscopic manner, without the need for the driver to wear three-dimension viewing eyewear. | 03-10-2016 |
20160080729 | VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD AND VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - A video display method using a display apparatus for displaying a glasses free 3D video, the display apparatus including a display unit in which sub-pixels constituting pixels are arranged in a matrix, the video display method including: (a) displaying, in a row of sub-pixels of the display unit, a video in which a left-eye video and a right-eye video are disposed alternately in units of display each unit made up of n sub-pixels, where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2; and (b) detecting a distance from the display unit to a viewer, wherein in step (a), if the detected distance is different from a predetermined distance, the number of sub-pixels of at least one unit of display, among a plurality of units of display included in the row of sub-pixels, is varied as a function of the detected distance. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080730 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device comprises a display panel, a driving module coupled to the display device, a parallax baffle arranged at a light-entering side or a light-exiting side of the display panel, and at least one reflective plate arranged outside at least one edge of the display panel. The display panel comprises a plurality of display units, the driving module is configured to drive the plurality of display units of the display panel to display a plurality of images, the parallax baffle is configured to display the plurality of images displayed by the plurality of display units at a plurality of predetermined visual areas, respectively, and the at least one reflective plate is configured to reflect the image displayed at the visual area adjacent to the reflective plate to other predetermined visual area. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080731 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel and a display device are disclosed. Each of pixels in the display panel includes a pixel area; a switch element located near an intersection of a data line and a scan line; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switch element; and a common electrode located on the first substrate. The common electrode comprises first common electrodes superposing data lines or scan lines and having the same first width; and second common electrodes overlapping with respective pixel areas and having the same second width, the first width is the same as the second width. Alternatively, the common electrode comprises first slits, which have the same first slit width, located above data lines and scan lines, and second slits, which have the same second slit width and are located in respective pixel areas. The first slit width is the same as the second slit width. | 03-17-2016 |
20160094828 | CROSSTALK CANCELLATION IN 3D DISPLAYS - Image processing is performed to facilitate subtractive crosstalk cancellation in 3D images. In a global embodiment, pixel values are compressed to provide sufficient foot room for subtractive crosstalk cancellation. For video images the degree of compression may vary from frame to frame. Temporal filtering may be applied to reduce flicker. In a local embodiment luminance is added to and/or compression is performed in local areas to facilitate more complete subtractive crosstalk cancellation. The amount or added luminance or compression may be matched to the requirements of the local areas. Added luminance and/or compression may be made to vary smoothly in time and smoothly in space. Displays and other apparatus may be constructed to perform methods for partial or complete crosstalk cancellation. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094835 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON AN IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device including means for: inputting two parallax images composed of images of first and second viewpoint directions; generating first and second smoothed images by applying, respectively to the images of the first and second viewpoint directions, a smoothing filter in a direction joining the first and second viewpoints; generating a reference image formed by a value based on a product of values of the first and second smoothed images; generating gain distribution data by dividing a value of the reference image by the value of the first smoothed image; performing gain correction of each pixel on the image of the first viewpoint direction, based on the gain distribution data; and outputting the gain corrected image of the first viewpoint direction as a parallax image, the smoothing filter having a filter diameter approximately equal to a parallax amount between the images of the first and second viewpoint directions. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094838 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device includes a switching liquid crystal unit, a display, and a controller. The switching liquid crystal unit includes optical elements switching an aperture pattern including an aperture portion and a light-shielding portion. The display overlaps the switching liquid crystal unit and displays parallax images including right and left eye images. The controller acquires positional information relating to a position of a viewer, and controls a position of the aperture pattern. The controller switches the aperture pattern from a first aperture pattern to a second aperture pattern so that a right eye always views the right eye image and a left eye always views the left eye image, and starts the switching before the viewer moves to an optimal switching position where a luminance viewed from the first aperture pattern is substantially equal to a luminance viewed from the second aperture patterns. | 03-31-2016 |
20160105668 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERGAL IMAGING DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - 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. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105669 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RENDERING CONTENT - A method and apparatus for rendering content are provided. The content rendering method includes determining at least one reference plane set to three dimensional (3D) content, in response to a request for displaying 3D content; classifying objects, displayed on the 3D content, based on a location of each object relative to a location of the reference plane into objects corresponding to at least one of a first left image or a first right image, and objects corresponding to at least one common image, respectively; creating the first left image, the first right image and the at least one common image, according to the respective classified objects; and combining the at least one common image with each of the first left image and the first right image to form a second left image and a second right image, respectively. | 04-14-2016 |
20160127719 | DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH ELECTROCHROMIC MIRROR - A three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus including: a display panel; a backlight configured to supply light to the display panel; and a parallax barrier disposed between the display panel and the backlight, wherein the parallax barrier includes an electrochromic mirror (ECM). | 05-05-2016 |
20160127720 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND BLACK PICTURE INSERTION METHOD FOR THE PANEL DISPLAYED IN 3D MODE - An LCD panel includes multiple data lines, multiple scanning lines, multiple pixels, and multiple control transistors. Each pixel connected with a corresponding one of the data lines and one of the scanning lines. Gate electrodes of the control transistors are connected with a same scanning line. A source electrode of each control transistor is connected with a corresponding one of the data lines. Drain electrodes of the control transistors are connected with each other. A black picture insertion method for the LCD panel displayed in a 3D mode is also disclosed. Accordingly, a refresh frequency of the driving circuit is one half of the prior art. The power consumption and cost are reduced. Besides, a black picture is inserted into one frame during a blank time domain of the one frame such that the brightness is increased and the charge time of the liquid crystal capacitor is increased. | 05-05-2016 |
20160150226 | MULTI-VIEW THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH POSITION SENSING AND ADAPTIVE NUMBER OF VIEWS - A multi-view three-dimensional display system and method with an adaptive number of views are described. The system includes a position sensing unit for detecting a position of an observer, a view disposing unit for determining a number of views and a view arrangement based on the position, such that only a different one of the views is provided to a viewing zone for each eye of the observer, and a multi-view display unit for displaying the number of views in accordance with the view arrangement to enable viewing of a three-dimensional image by the observer. | 05-26-2016 |
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