| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 348759000 | Single light modulator | 30 |
| 20110279739 | PROJECTION SYSTEM AND COMPONENTS - A system including a plurality of pixels disposed on a substrate forming a screen. A signal, such as an image, can be projected on the screen. The pixels of the screen include a sensor configured to sense a portion of the signal, an emitter, and circuitry. In response to information sensed in the signal, the circuitry can be configured to drive the emitter. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20100201895 | Optical Projection Method And System - An image projection system is presented. The system comprises an optical unit and a connectable thereto control unit. The optical unit is configured to define an illumination channel for illuminating an object, an imaging channel for creating an image of the object from light collected therefrom and generating image data indicative thereof, and a projection channel for projecting an image of the object on a projection target. The control unit is configured and operable for receiving and analyzing the image data, and for controlling the image creation and projection. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20080266468 | OPTICALLY ENHANCED IMAGE SEQUENCES - Enhanced image sequences are provided by a high resolution imaging system (HRIS) for generating an enhanced image, where the system includes a device for outputting an image sequence including a plurality of K source images, each source image including a plurality of pixels; and a projector for projecting, within a period of integration, each of the source images to an optical filter, the filter adapted for providing pixels of each source image as sub-pixels of pixels in the enhanced image. The enhanced images may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional. A method and computer program product are provided for generating enhanced images, as well as techniques for fabrication of the HRIS. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090040398 | Apparatus and method for projection image - When it is estimated that first average brightness of image information of a projection image is under second average brightness of image information of a source image having a single spatial frequency on which a normal compensation is performed, an area having brightness above the second average brightness in the image information of the projection image is increased, and when it is estimated that the first average brightness is above the second average brightness, an area having brightness under the second average brightness in the image information of the projection image is increased. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20110267550 | OFF-STATE LIGHT BAFFLE FOR DIGITAL PROJECTION - A light modulation assembly for a digital projection apparatus comprising: a solid-state light source that provides an illumination beam; a spatial light modulator having a plurality of tiltable micro-mirrors, each micro-mirror being actuable to tilt with respect to a tilt axis between a first tilt position that provides on-state light and a second tilt position that provides off state light, and wherein the micro-mirrors deflect the illumination beam along an arced path defining a deflection plane as they are tilted between the first tilt position and the second tilt position; and a light baffle disposed alongside the optical axis and in the path of the off state light from the micro-mirrors, the light baffle having a light-trapping surface adapted to absorb the off-state light from the micro-mirrors on the spatial light modulator, the light-trapping surface having a plurality of protruding fins that extend outward from the light-trapping surface at an oblique angle. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20090244407 | Image display device - An image display device includes an optical scanning part, a drive control part which supplies an electric current to lasers, and a light detecting part. The drive control part supplies an electric current to the lasers while changing a current value at two points or more when a scanning position of the light scanned by the optical scanning part is at a predetermined position outside an effective scanning range. Based on intensity of an inspection-use light detected by the light detecting part, current-light emitting quantity characteristics of the lasers are calculated, and electric currents supplied to the lasers are adjusted based on a result of the calculation. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20080291343 | ILLUMINATING APPARATUS AND PROJECTION IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An illuminating apparatus comprises a light source and an optical system for guiding the light from the light source to an imager such as a liquid crystal panel. The optical system has an optical element disposed for changing a traveling direction of the light traveling to the imager in accordance with a control signal. The optical element is controlled such that, out of all pixel regions on the imager, part of the light amount to be applied to low-brightness pixel regions is distributed to high-brightness pixel regions. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20120242912 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A light source apparatus includes: an excitation light source including a laser light source; a first wheel that is controlled to rotate, and includes, in a part of a surface thereof to be illuminated by excitation light emitted from the excitation light source, a phosphor layer to be excited by the excitation light; a dichroic mirror that guides fluorescence emitted from the phosphor layer of the first wheel and the excitation light to an illumination optical system; and a second wheel that is controlled to rotate, and includes a dichroic filter that transmits light having a desired wavelength component of each of the fluorescence and the excitation light output from the dichroic mirror. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20090109350 | PROJECTOR AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - A projector that includes: a light source; a light-on/off unit that turns on or off the light source; a recording medium reproduction unit that reproduces information recorded on a recording medium, and outputs a video signal; a video signal processing section that converts the video signal provided by the recording medium reproduction unit, and generates a projection-video-use video signal; a light modulation unit that modulates a light coming from the light source based on the video signal generated by the video signal processing section, and emits a resulting video light; a projection system that includes a projection lens, and magnifies and projects the video light coming from the light modulation unit; a lens cover that opens and closes the front of the projection lens; a lens cover open/close detection sensor that detects an open/close state of the lens cover; and a control section that at least controls operation of the light-on/off unit and that of the recording medium reproduction unit. In the projector, the control section turns off the light source, and interrupts reproduction by the recording medium reproduction unit when the lens cover open/close detection sensor detects a state change of the lens cover from open to close, and turns on the light source, and starts reproduction by the recording medium reproduction unit in accordance with predetermined requirements when the lens cover open/close detection sensor detects a state change of the lens cover from close to open. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20100302467 | PROJECTOR - A projector includes: a speaker adapted to output a sound; a light source; a light modulation device; a projection optical system adapted to project an image modulated by the light modulation device; a cover member, and moving between a blocking position for blocking the light and an transmitting position for transmitting the light; a position detection section adapted to detect the position of the cover member; a microphone input terminal to which a microphone is connected; a microphone connection detection section; a loading section adapted to load a recording medium; a reproduction section adapted to reproduce a content recorded on the recording medium loaded to the loading section; a content identification section adapted to identify a type of the content the reproduction section reproduces; and a control section adapted to switch states of the projector. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20080252795 | System and method for improving image quality by synchronizing display modulation with light source pulses - A method for synchronizing a light source control signal with modulation of a display includes the steps of receiving a video signal including a synchronization signal (e.g., a Vsync signal) and using the synchronization signal to generate a light source control signals at high and low values. The light source control signal is pulsed between its high and low values between subsequent synchronization signals to cause a light source to produce light pulses at the same time over each frame of the display. Optionally, the low and/or high time periods are adjustable. A novel display driver is also disclosed and includes an input terminal for receiving the synchronization signal, a light source driver for generating the light source control signal in response to the synchronization signal, and an output terminal for providing the light source control signal to a light source control unit. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20110157487 | PROJECTION TYPE VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - A projection type video display device is provided, which is capable of displaying a plurality of kinds of input videos with different aspect ratios without requiring cumbersome adjustment operations. The device includes a light source ( | 06-30-2011 |
| 20130010212 | PROJECTOR AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - A projector that performs light control by varying power level of a light source in response to a video signal, includes a cooling fan that cools the light source, and a control device that averages samples of the power level of the light source based on the video signal or a brightness level of the video signal acquired with respect to each unit time and performs feedback control of a rotational speed of the cooling fan based on the average value, wherein the control device varies the number of samples and calculates the average value between the cases where the power level or the brightness level is rising and falling. | 01-10-2013 |
| 348760000 | Color TV | 13 |
| 20100165218 | Display Device, Display Method, and Projection Type Display Device - Aspects of the invention can provide a display device, a display method, and a projection type display device that allow a characteristic of a display image such as brightness to be continuously changed. The display device can include a light source capable of emitting a plurality of different color lights and a white light, and an optical modulation device for modulating light corresponding to the lights emitted from the light source. The ratio of the period of emitting the white light relative to the total of the periods of emitting the lights from the light source can be variable. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20090190045 | Color display apparatus - A color display apparatus includes a color changeover unit for changing over colors of an illumination light or a projection light, and a control circuit for applying a video signal for generating a control signal for controlling a spatial light modulator, wherein the control circuit further applying the video signal for generating a control signal during a transition period when the illumination and/or the projection light are projected with a first color coexisting with a second color as the color changeover unit changing over the colors of the illumination light or projection light from the first color to the second color. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090141195 | Apparatus and method, both for controlling spatial light modulator - An image display apparatus includes: a first spatial light modulator (SLM) and a second modulator for modulating a first and a second illumination lights for displaying images; an SLM control unit for generating first control data and second control data for controlling the first and second SLMs respectively in accordance with the first and second control data, wherein each of the first control data and second control data is generated for each of a plurality of sub-frame periods divided from one frame period for displaying the images, and the start timing of one sub-frame period of the first control data is different from the start timing of one sub-frame period of the second control data. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20100118214 | Optical system and projection display device - An optical system attaining a nearly double resolving power in spite of one projector and also eliminating a convergence device is provided. The system includes an 1:1 relay lens | 05-13-2010 |
| 20090262262 | PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection type display apparatus is provided that is safe even when a person looks directly into a laser beam. A laser operation control unit sets the output power of at least one laser source so that intensity A (mW/mm | 10-22-2009 |
| 20080211973 | Spectrum Sequential Display Having Reduced Cross Talk - A color display device, a drive circuit for a color display device, a method, a signal and a computer-readable medium for reducing electro-optical cross talk that occurs in a display that is operated in Spectrum Sequential mode is disclosed. The invention eliminates annoying visible artefacts, such as contouring, noise, or color deviation, which normally are introduced by this cross talk by compensating for the cross talk. According to embodiments of the invention, a drive signal (R′,G′,B′) to drive picture elements of the display is altered in video processing circuitry (MPC, XTC, SC) and/or software, in dependence on one or more properties of different spectra from a light source ( | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090174824 | Color sequence control for video display apparatus - A video display apparatus is provided, comprising: a light source(s) controllable for emitting a plurality of reference colors; a color conversion circuit received an input video signal for generating the color data of at least one correction color for correcting a reference color emitted from a light source; an image processing unit receives the input video signal for generating an output video signal comprising a plurality of sub-frame signals; and a control circuit applies the color data generated by the color conversion circuit for controlling a light source to display color images. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090059099 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND PROJECTION SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The illumination device includes a plurality of light source units and a plurality of optical concentrators facing the plurality of light source units and each having an entry surface, lateral surfaces, and an output surface. A color synthesizing unit synthesizes light emitted by the plurality of optical concentrators and includes two intersecting dichroic filters. A relay optical system transmits light synthesized by the color synthesizing unit to an illuminated surface. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20120176556 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image display system comprises red, green and blue laser light source units (22 to 24), a spatial light modulator (25) that modulates the laser lights of different colors in a time sharing manner and a control unit (13) for controlling the operation of the laser light source units and the spatial light modulator. The green and red laser light source units are lighted in that order in each frame. The green color is diminished owing to the response delay of the spatial light modulator, but the green laser light produced by the green laser light source unit (23) has a relatively large color phase shift from the standard green color so that the shortage of green color cancels out with the color phase shift of the generated green color so that the color phase shift of the displayed intermediate color can be minimized. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120224110 | PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - A projection display device of the present invention comprises a light source, a DMD chip for modulating emitted light in response to an input signal, an illumination optical system for emitting light from the light source to the DMD chip, a projection lens for projecting light modulated by the DMD chip onto a screen, and a photosensor disposed on an optical path of branch light which is branched outside of a main optical path from the light source to the screen, in the vicinity of a position which is optically conjugate to a screen surface of the screen. With this constitution, it is possible to provide a projection display device which is capable of accurately detecting a luminance change and a hue change on a screen surface without interfering with any display video image. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20100328554 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, VIDEO PROJECTOR AND VIDEO PROJECTION METHOD - A light source device includes: a first light source configured to emit a first source light in a first wavelength range; a source light generator configured to generate, from the first light, a color-varying source light having time varying color; a second light source configured to emit a second source light in a second wavelength range that is different from the first wavelength range; and a light source controller configured to control driving timing for turning on and off each of the first light source and the second light source so as to cyclically select one of the color-varying source light and the second source light to be output as an output source light. | 12-30-2010 |
| 348761000 | Liquid crystal | 2 |
| 20100079685 | Spatial light modulator performing a gamma correction - An image projection system implemented with a spatial light modulator (SLM) comprises a plurality of pixel elements each includes a pixel memory wherein said SLM receives inputted bit data representing an image from an external image source to write the inputted data into said pixel memory wherein said SLM further adjusts a smallest period for displaying image represented by a least significant bit (LSB) of the inputted data. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100245687 | CONTROL DEVICE AND PROJECTOR - A control device controlling a display device which has an image forming area containing plural pixels to form an image on the image forming area according to inputted image information, includes: a memory unit which stores input/output characteristics measured at plural points on the image forming area in advance and indicating correspondence between applied voltage and emission luminance for each of the plural points; and a control unit which controls operation of the image forming area based on the respective input/output characteristics. | 09-30-2010 |
| 348770000 | Deformable medium | 4 |
| 348771000 | Including solid-state deflection elements (e.g., deformable mirror device (DMD)) | 4 |
| 20080309832 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD APPLIED TO THE SAME - A display apparatus and a display method applied to the same are disclosed, the display apparatus including a lamp which emits a ray of light; and a panel which represents each of a plurality of pixels constituting an image in a manner such that the ray of light emitted from the lamp is reflected against a plurality of micro mirrors; wherein the plurality of micro mirrors form one square micro-mirror. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20100014008 | WIDE COLOR GAUT HIGH RESOLUTION DMD PROJECTION SYSTEM - A wide gamut high resolution projection system has a light source for generating and emitting light, a prism assembly for separating the light into six primary color light beams, and a plurality of digital micromirror device imagers configured to receive and reflect the primary color light beams. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20090135315 | Diplay apparatus using pulsed light source - The present invention provides a display apparatus, comprising: a light source; at least one spatial light modulator for modulating a luminous flux emitted from the light source; and a controller for processing inputted video image information and for controlling the light source and spatial light modulator, wherein the controller controls the light source and spatial light modulator so that the light source performs pulse emission for a period shorter than a period in which the spatial light modulator is controlled under a modulation state. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090135314 | Method and System for Controlling Deformable Micromirror Devices - A method and system for controlling deformable micromirror devices are provided. In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a display system includes multiple deformable micromirror devices, a buffer, and a controller. Each deformable micromirror device includes a plurality of micromirrors. The buffer is communicatively coupled, at a first interface speed, to each deformable micromirror device. The buffer is operable to communicate in parallel with the deformable micromirror devices. The controller is communicatively coupled, at a second interface speed, to the buffer. The controller is operable to receive a display input and, in response, generate a plurality signals each corresponding to an optical characteristic of the display input. The controller is further operable to sequentially communicate each of the plurality of signals through the buffer to a corresponding one of the deformable micromirror devices. Each deformable micromirror device receives at least a subset of the plurality of signals. | 05-28-2009 |
