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20080231691 | USER-ADJUSTABLE THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A display system and method for providing user adjustability of displayed three-dimensional images. The system simultaneously displays a left-eye perspective view of an image and a right-eye perspective view of the same image, at a separation distance, and allows for the selective control of the separation distance via, for example, a user interface. The system and method allows multiple users to use multiple pieces of display hardware and quickly return each piece of display hardware to a user's own individualized preferences and compatibilities. It additionally allows a user to vary the display properties, such as providing extra foreshortening or stretching along the depth axis, quickly and simply. | 09-25-2008 |
20090201362 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY SYSTEM - An autostereoscopic display system is provided. The autostereoscopic display system includes: an image panel being divided into two or more display regions, each of which alternately displays an image for a left eye and an image for a right eye; an optical shutter which is spaced apart from the image panel, including three or more shutter segments capable of being switched between a transparent state and a non-transparent state, and guiding an image for a left eye and an image for a right eye which are displayed on the image panel to left and right eyes of a viewer, respectively; and a control unit which controls the optical shutter being synchronized with the image for a left eye and the image for a right eye which are displayed on the image panel. | 08-13-2009 |
20090237495 | Stereoscopic Image Display Apparatus, Image Display System and Method for Displaying Stereoscopic Image - A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal display device that alternately displays a left-eye image in a first time frame and a right-eye image in a second time frame, the left-eye image and the right-eye image being images to be respectively viewed by left and right eyes of a viewer; and an LCD shutter glasses that includes: a left-eye shutter that covers the left eye of the viewer during the second time frame; and a right-eye shutter that covers the right eye of the viewer during the first time frame, wherein the liquid crystal display device sequentially displays a first left-eye image frame and a second left-eye image frame included in the left-eye image during the first time frame and sequentially displays a first right-eye image frame and a second right-eye image frame included in the right-eye image during the second time frame. | 09-24-2009 |
20100026794 | Method, System and Apparatus for Multiuser Display of Frame-Sequential Images - A method for stereoscopic viewing in a multiuser environment (and corresponding system and apparatus therein) generates at least one signal representing a sequence of image triplets including a left perspective image, a right perspective image, and a transformation image. The signal is processed for displaying the sequence of image triplets in a frame-sequential manner. A synchronization signal is communicated to shutter glasses for blocking the viewing of the transformation image. The transformation image is adapted to reduce discomfort when viewing the stereoscopic images of the image triplets without blocking of the transformation image by the synchronized shutter glasses. | 02-04-2010 |
20100026795 | HIGH SPEED DISPLAY SHUTTER FOR AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A shutter for an autostereoscopic display, said shutter comprising a first switchable aperture array having a relatively fast switching time from a substantially transparent state to a substantially opaque state, and a second switchable aperture array having a relatively fast switching time from a substantially opaque state to a substantially transparent state, wherein said first switchable aperture array and said second switchable aperture at least partially overlap. | 02-04-2010 |
20100060723 | DISPLAY SYSTEM - [Problems] To eliminate flicker when a normal image is presented to user employing an optical shutter from two types or more of image under intermittent illumination of such as fluorescent lamp. | 03-11-2010 |
20100157031 | Synchronization for 3D Glasses - A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image. | 06-24-2010 |
20100165085 | Encoding Method for 3D Glasses - A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image. | 07-01-2010 |
20100177174 | 3D SHUTTER GLASSES WITH MODE SWITCHING BASED ON ORIENTATION TO DISPLAY DEVICE - A shuttered filter apparatus comprises a frame, one or more shuttered filters attached to the frame, and a tracker attached to the frame. Each shuttered filter is configured to selectively prevent a viewer from seeing through the filter in response to a signal from a controller. The tracker is configured to sense an orientation of the one or more shuttered filters relative to a video screen. The controller may use a signal from the tracker indicative of an orientation of the shutter filter(s) relative to enable shuttering when the shuttered filter apparatus is facing toward the video screen and disable shuttering when the shuttered filter apparatus is facing away from the video screen. | 07-15-2010 |
20100225750 | Image display apparatus, image display observation system, and image display method - An image display apparatus of present invention includes a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for displaying each of a right eye image and a left eye image at least two times continuously; and a display panel, input with the signal converted by the signal control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image continuing two or more times, and the left eye image continuing two or more times. | 09-09-2010 |
20100231697 | Image display apparatus, image display observation system, and image display method - There is provided an image display apparatus including a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for alternately displaying a right eye image and a left eye image, a display panel, input with the signal converted by the control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image and the left eye image, a surface light source for radiating the panel from a rear surface, a shutter control unit for generating a timing signal indicating a switching timing of the right eye image and the left eye image with respect to viewing eyeglasses including a right and a left eye shutters, and a surface light source control unit for causing the surface light source to emit light in a period shorter than an open period of the shutter according to the switching of the right eye image and the left eye image. | 09-16-2010 |
20100231698 | Image display apparatus, image display observation system, and image display method - There is provided an image display apparatus including a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for alternately displaying a right eye image and a left eye image, a display panel, input with the signal converted by the signal control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image and the left eye image, a surface light source for radiating the display panel from a rear surface, and a surface light source control unit for causing the surface light source to emit light according to switching of the right eye image and the left eye image. | 09-16-2010 |
20100289883 | STEREOCOPIC VISUALISATION - A LCD display system comprises a LC panel ( | 11-18-2010 |
20100302352 | VIDEO DATA SIGNAL, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SHUTTER GLASSES - A signal, method, system and computer program product is based on displaying at least two markers embedded within each frame of the video content. One of the at least two markers is displayed in a first half of each video frame and a second of the at least two markers is displayed in a second half of each video frame, the frame being split into the first and the second halves along a splitting line being perpendicular to an axis that is a refresh axis for a particular display screen. The markers are such that enable distinguishing whether a right-eye or left-eye frame is displayed. | 12-02-2010 |
20100309297 | Display device and display system - Disclosed herein is a display device, including: a display unit configured to display images each corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of shutter mechanisms that carry out opening and closing operation at timings different from each other, in such a manner as to switch the images in a time-division manner; and a shutter controller configured to set a respective one of the shutter mechanisms to an opened state in a display period of the image corresponding to the respective one of the shutter mechanisms, and variably control at least one of start time and length of an opened-state period of the shutter mechanism. | 12-09-2010 |
20110001806 | Image displaying device and image displaying system - An image displaying device includes: a display section cyclically switching a plurality of image streams, thereby time-divisionally displaying the plurality of image streams, each of the plurality of image streams being provided for corresponding one of a plurality of shutter mechanisms performing opening-closing operations at timings different from each other; and a dithering processing section performing a dithering process on a plurality of input images by using a plurality of masks, each of the plurality of masks having a pattern of two-dimensionally-arranged grayscale values, the pattern differing from a pattern of another mask, and then supplying a plurality of resultant images produced through the dithering process to the display section. The dithering processing section controls the dithering process in such a manner that the plurality of masks are sequentially and cyclically switched in synchronization with shutter open timings for each of the shutter mechanisms. | 01-06-2011 |
20110001807 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING AND DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes a stereoscopic image supply unit configured to supply a stereoscopic moving image in which stereoscopic image pairs each including two images of an object viewed from mutually different viewpoints are arranged in a temporal order, a synthetic image generation unit configured to generate a synthetic image in the temporal order by performing a predetermined operation on luminances of the two images, and an output image selection unit configured to sequentially select and output any one of the two images and the synthetic image in the temporal order so that a result of a time integral during a predetermine period of an output thereof offsets any one of the two images. | 01-06-2011 |
20110007140 | Video display device and system - In a video display device and system, a timing control section performs timing control for right- and left-eye video signals and to each have a blanking period whose length (Duty) is longer than that of a first-time blanking period Tb | 01-13-2011 |
20110018983 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A stereoscopic image display includes: a display device that time-division displays left-eye image data and right-eye image data; shutter glasses comprising a left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter alternately turned on and off in synchronization with the display device; and a backlight unit that irradiates light to the display device and is periodically turned on and off such that the backlight unit is turned on when a predetermined time determined according to a response time of liquid crystal lapses from a start point of a frame period. | 01-27-2011 |
20110037838 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel, a temporal division plate and a lenticular lens. The display panel includes a gate line, a data line, and a unit pixel of a horizontal pixel structure in which a long side is parallel with the first direction and a short side is parallel with the second direction. The display panel displays a 2D image based on an image control signal. The temporal division plate includes a plurality of shutters disposed on the display panel extending in the second direction. The temporal division plate opens and closes m shutters corresponding to each unit pixel, in a sequence, ‘m’ being a natural number no less than 2). The lenticular lens is disposed on the temporal division plate to convert the 2D image passing the temporal division plate into a 3D image. | 02-17-2011 |
20110050868 | Shutter drive unit and three dimensional image display system - Disclosed herein is a shutter drive unit, including: at least one inductor; first and second drive paths; first and second shutter including first and second drive object capacitive loads, respectively; first and second clamping circuits adapted to clamp the first and second drive object capacitive loads either to a power source potential or to a reference potential through the first and second drive paths, respectively; a first switch adapted to switch connection and non-connection between the inductor and the first drive object capacitive load over to each other; a second switch adapted to switch connection and non-connection between the inductor and the second drive object capacitive load over to each other; and a power collecting portion having a function of applying an intermediate voltage between the power source potential and the reference potential to the inductor, and a power collecting function of collecting a power by the inductor. | 03-03-2011 |
20110050869 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A parallax information detection unit detects parallax information based on a motion vector obtained resulting from motion compensation on a 3D video performed by a decoder, and converts the detected parallax information into a stereoscopic effect level. Then, a control unit compares the stereoscopic effect level with a lock level recorded in a lock level register, and performs stereoscopic display effect control based on a result of the comparison. | 03-03-2011 |
20110050870 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, an organic EL display device includes an organic EL element, a pixel circuit configured to include an output switch which controls emission/non-emission of the organic EL element, and a luminance switching module configured to output to the output switch a first control signal which causes the organic EL element to emit light with a first total emission time per unit time, when a first display mode of displaying a two-dimensional image is selected, and to output to the output switch a second control signal which causes the organic EL element to emit light with a second total emission time, which is longer than the first total emission time, per unit time, when a second display mode of displaying a three-dimensional image is selected. | 03-03-2011 |
20110063423 | VIDEO PROCESSOR, VIDEO DISPLAYING SYSTEM AND VIDEO DISPLAYING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video processor includes: an input module configured to receive a first image frame group in which an image capturing target is captured as a video image and a second image frame group in which the image capturing target is captured in the same timing as the first image frame group; an intermediate image generator configured to generate an intermediate image of continuous image frames in the first image frame group; a display controller; and a controller. The intermediate image generated by the intermediate image generator and the second image frame group are sequentially displayed alternately, and the intermediate image is seen in one part while the intermediate image is displayed and the second image frame group is seen in the other part while the second image frame group is displayed synchronously with the display controlled by the display controller. | 03-17-2011 |
20110074937 | Image displaying apparatus, image display observing system and image displaying method - An image displaying apparatus includes a signal control unit for receiving an input image signal and converting the signal into a signal for alternately displaying a right-eye image and a left-eye image, display panel into which the signal converted in the signal control unit is input for the right-eye image and the left-eye image, a surface light source for illuminating the display panel from its back, a shutter control unit for generating a timing signal indicating a period in which the right-eye and left-eye shutters are opened for a pair of viewing glasses with the right-eye and left-eye shutters, and for relatively changing the shutter-opened period for the emission timing of the surface light source, and a surface light source control unit for emitting the surface light source in a shorter period than the shutter-opened period in response to the switching between the right-eye image and the left-eye image. | 03-31-2011 |
20110074938 | Image display device, image display viewing system and image display method - An image display device of present invention includes a signal control portion that receives input of an image signal, and outputs a signal that causes an image for a right eye and an image for a left eye to be displayed alternately, a display panel to which the signal converted by the signal control portion is input, and which alternately displays the image for the right eye and the image for the left eye, and a polarity reversing portion that performs polarity reversal of a drive voltage of the display panel due to the signal, at least every time both the image for the right eye and the image for the left eye are displayed. | 03-31-2011 |
20110102560 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel and an optical lens assembly. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The display panel temporally divides M view images corresponding to M viewing spaces to display the temporally divided image on a display panel. ‘M’ is a natural number of no less than two. The optical lens assembly converts the view image displayed on the display panel into N stereoscopic images in which directions of the view images are different from each other to emit the converted view image toward a viewing space corresponding to the view image displayed on the display panel. ‘N’ is a natural number no less than two. | 05-05-2011 |
20110102561 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS CAPABLE OF VIEWING VIDEOS BY A PLURALITY OF PERSONS USING A PLURALITY OF SHUTTER EYEGLASSES AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - The video display apparatus is provided that the breaking up of the video image should not be viewed by users when the frame rate of video content items is changed in association with the change in the number of viewed content items. The video display apparatus, which is capable of viewing a plurality of video content items using the shutter eyeglasses, controls the plurality of video content items by time-division, and performs the shutter control of the shutter eyeglasses in association with the display videos. The video time-division output processing section applies time-division processing to data representing the plurality of video content items in accordance with the control command provided by the control section to output the resulting data to the display section. The control section changes the frame rate of the display videos depending on the number of video content items which are to be viewed. When the number of video content items which are to be viewed is changed, the control section controls the shutters of all of the shutter eyeglasses so that they close for the frame period of the video'content items that are first output after a change of the frame rate. | 05-05-2011 |
20110109733 | Stereoscopic Image Display and Driving Method Thereof - A stereoscopic image display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The stereoscopic image display includes shutter glasses including a left eye shutter and a right eye shutter that are alternately turned on and off in synchronization with a display device, a backlight unit that irradiates light to the display device and is periodically turned on and off, a controller that divides a first frame period into a first address period and a first vertical blanking period, divides a second frame period into a second address period and a second vertical blanking period, and controls so that durations of the first vertical blanking period and the second vertical blanking period are different from each other, and a driving circuit that supplies data to the display device during the first and second address periods under the control of the controller. | 05-12-2011 |
20110115889 | METHOD OF DRIVING LIGHT SOURCE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method of driving a light source including a light source part includes determining whether an image signal is a two-dimensional mode image signal or a three-dimensional mode image signal to generate a mode signal, adjusting a level of a current to be applied to the light source part in response to the mode signal to generate an adjusted current, and driving the light source part using the adjusted current. | 05-19-2011 |
20110115890 | SHUTTER GLASSES FOR STEREOSCOPY, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM COMPRISING THE SAME AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are shutter glasses for viewing a stereoscopic image including: a left-eye shutter; a right-eye shutter; and a controller which generates an error signal indicating an error if at least one of a first and a second error condition exists, wherein the first error condition is internal to the shutter glasses, and the second error condition is external to the shutter glasses. | 05-19-2011 |
20110122237 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING TRANSMITTANCE INTERVALS IN 3D SHUTTER EYEWEAR BASED ON DISPLAY PANEL RESPONSE TIME - A 3D video viewing shutter device receives display response time from a 3D video display device for determining shutter open and close times. Response time may correspond to display type, a particular display and/or a change in pixel illumination levels between frames. The shutter device receives response information during device initialization and/or corresponding to changing pixel illumination levels. A sequence of 3D frames may comprise a pattern of left frames, right frames, blank frames and/or frames comprising a combination of left and right frames. Based on display device and/or shutter device response times, the shutter device may extend shutter transmittance time during a frame display interval into a blank frame interval. Transmittance may be enabled during display of blank frames subsequent to left or right frames. The shutter device and display device may communicate via a wireless link for example, via a Bluetooth wireless link utilizing Bluetooth clocks. | 05-26-2011 |
20110122238 | Method And System For Synchronizing 3D Shutter Glasses To A Television Refresh Rate - A 3D shutter glasses device, coupled via a wireless link to a 3D video display device, maintains a slave clock synchronized with a master clock in the display device. The clocks may comprise Bluetooth clocks. The shutter glasses receive 3D frame display information and time information referenced to the master clock that corresponds to when frames are displayed. The shutter glasses control opening and closing of left and right shutters utilizing slave clock time and the received information. The received display information comprises left, right and/or blank frame pattern information, a frame pattern time interval, a frame refresh rate and a time offset for delaying opening and/or closing of shutters. The time information indicates master clock time when frames are displayed. The shutter glasses and the display maintain synchronization when display and/or time information updates are skipped. The shutter glasses may transmit information to the display device. | 05-26-2011 |
20110128357 | STEREOSCOPIC GLASSES, DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed are a display device and a driving method of the same, the display device including: a receiver; a signal processor which processes a video signal; a display unit which displays a stereoscopic image based on the video signal; a sync signal output unit which outputs a sync signal to stereoscopic glasses so that left eye shutter and right eye shutter are opened and closed corresponding to left eye image and right eye image displayed on the display unit; a power supply; and a controller which outputs the sync signal at an initial mode, controls the sync signal output unit so that a power saving mode and a check mode are alternately repeated, and controls the power supply to stop supplying power to the sync signal output unit during the power saving mode, so the sync signal can be selectively output to stereoscopic glasses, thereby reducing power consumption. | 06-02-2011 |
20110134229 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image signal processing apparatus performs gradation control on respective pixels. Specifically, the image signal processing apparatus includes an image signal processing unit which controls light emission and non-light emission of respective subfields so as to provide a field having a level of brightness. Here, the field is a unit display period of the pixels and divided into the subfields which have different light emission periods and are arranged in a predetermined sequence. In the predetermined sequence, the subfields are arranged in a manner such that a subfield having the shortest light emission period among the subfields is in the first place, one of a subfield having the longest light emission period and a subfield having the second longest light emission period among the subfields is in the second place, and the other one is in the third place. | 06-09-2011 |
20110134230 | SHUTTER GLASSES FOR STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE AND DISPLAY SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - Provided are shutter glasses for stereoscopic image and a display system having the same. The display system includes: a display apparatus including a display part which displays a stereoscopic image including a left eye image and a right eye image and a signal transceiving part which transmits a synchronization signal and receives a control signal; and shutter glasses including: a signal receiving part which receives the synchronization signal; a left eye shutter and a right eye shutter; a first attenuating part which attenuates an intensity of light incident onto the signal receiving part below a threshold of signal sensitivity of the signal receiving part; and a control part which controls the opening and closing of the left eye shutter and the right eye shutter based on the synchronization signal received from the signal receiving part. | 06-09-2011 |
20110134231 | Method And System For Synchronizing Shutter Glasses To A Display Device Refresh Rate - A video viewing shutter device, which is wirelessly coupled to a multi-view video display device, generates a slave clock based on a master clock in the display device. The slave and master clocks may be Bluetooth clocks and maintain synchronization. The video viewing shutter device receives display information regarding display of independent video frames and time information referenced to the master clock. Time information corresponds to display time of independent frames. Both shutters open and/or close together, during frame display time, based on the slave clock, display information and/or master clock information. Display information may concern a pattern of independent frames and/or blank frames, pattern display time, refresh rate and/or a time offset. Master clock time information corresponds to frame display time. Shutter open and close times may be maintained when display and/or time information is not received. Information may be transmitted to the multi-view video display device. | 06-09-2011 |
20110141248 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO VIEWING LIMITER AND LIMITATION METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO VIEWING LIMITATION NOTIFYING DEVICE AND METHOD, VIDEO VIEWING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND VIDEO VIEWING SYSTEM - A stereoscopic video viewing limiter extracts factor information related to different factors affecting a viewer of a stereoscopic video display from a video signal, generates corresponding effect coefficients representing the degree of effect on the viewer, integrates the effect coefficients as the viewer watches the stereoscopic video image, compares the integrated values with respective thresholds determined according to the viewer's tolerances for each of the factors, and generates a viewing limitation signal when the tolerances are exceeded. The viewing limitation signal is used to limit viewing to a two-dimensional video image instead of the stereoscopic video image. When several viewers watch the same stereoscopic video display, separate viewing limitation signals are generated, tailored to the viewers' individual stereoscopic viewing tolerances, permitting each viewer to enjoy the stereoscopic video display as long as possible without adverse effects. | 06-16-2011 |
20110149053 | Image display device, image display viewing system and image display method - An image display device includes a display panel that periodically displays different images, a shutter control portion that generates timing signals for driving shutters for a right eye and a left eye, in synchronization with the periodical display of the display panel, with respect to glasses for viewing images, the glasses being provided with the shutters for the right and left eye, a backlight that includes a light guide plate of a size corresponding to a display area of the display panel and light sources that are provided on two opposing side faces of the light guide plate and that irradiates the display panel from a rear side of the display panel, and a backlight control portion that causes the respective light sources that are provided on the two opposing side faces to blink at different timings during an opening period of the shutters. | 06-23-2011 |
20110157332 | 3 DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A stereoscopic image display device includes; a display device into which left-eye image data and right-eye image data are alternately input, and a shutter member including a left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter, wherein the left-eye shutter and the right-eye shutter are opened in at least one of at least a part of an input period for the left-eye image data and at least a part of an input period for the right-eye image data. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157333 | THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a three-dimensional image system. The present disclosure suggests a three dimensional image system comprising: a display device configured to suggest a left image and a right image alternately; a liquid crystal shutter having a liquid crystal layer and configured to switch between a λ/2 phase retardation state and a 0 phase retardation state; polarized glasses including a right glass window having a first polarization axis and a left glass window having a second polarization axis. According to the present disclosure, the left image and the right image can be exactly recognized by the left eye and the right eye, respectively, without any cross-talk problem. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157334 | SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING MULTIVIDEO - A system is discussed for displaying multivideo, which enables users to view a plurality of different video images at the same time through one video displaying system without lowering resolution. The system includes according to an embodiment a video processor for alternately outputting first and second images every predetermined number of frames according to a similarity between previous and present frames of first or second video image; and a display panel for displaying the video image outputted from the video processor. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157335 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - A method for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image includes: alternately displaying a left eye image and a right eye image; calculating a luminance value of a displayed image to detect a peak value of a luminance value; comparing the detected peak value and a stored peak value, and when the detected peak value corresponds to a right eye peak value, determining that a current image is a right eye image, and when the detected peak value corresponds to a left eye peak value, determining that the current image is a left eye image; outputting a synchronization signal according to the determination result; and making the left eye image and the right eye image reach a user's left eye or right eye according to the synchronization signal. | 06-30-2011 |
20110164123 | 3D GLASSES DRIVING METHOD AND 3D GLASSES AND 3D IMAGE PROVIDING DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A 3D glasses driving method for driving 3D shutter glasses and 3D glasses and a 3D display apparatus using the same, the 3D glasses driving method including: receiving a sync signal from an external device; determining a duty of a driving signal which opens a left eye glass and a right eye glass of the 3D shutter glasses; and opening and closing the left eye glass and the right eye glass of the 3D shutter glasses alternately based on the sync signal and the determined duty. Accordingly, the user is able to watch the 3D image in a descried brightness without experiencing a crosstalk phenomenon. | 07-07-2011 |
20110181708 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME, AND SHUTTER GLASSES AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - Disclosed is a display device using three-dimensional (3D) shutter glasses including a left shutter and a right shutter, the display device including: a signal receiving unit which receives an image signal including a left image and a right image; a signal processing unit which processes the image signal received by the signal receiving unit; a display unit which displays a 3D image according to the processed image signal; a synchronization signal receiving unit which receives a synchronization signal for the left and right images from the 3D glasses; and a controller which controls the signal processing unit to alternately display the left and right images according to the synchronization signal corresponding to opening and closing of the left shutter and the right shutter. | 07-28-2011 |
20110193947 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY SYSTEM WHICH ADJUSTS BACKLIGHT TO GENERATE A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE EFFECT AND METHOD THEREOF - When an image frame is generated, a plurality of backlight blocks are driven according to percentage of the image frame being generated, and a left shutter and a right shutter of a pair of shutter glasses are switched according to the time the image frame is generated. In this way, ghost shadows resulting from right eye images or left eye images can be avoided. | 08-11-2011 |
20110199467 | 3D IMAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A 3D image control apparatus receives from shutter glasses an identification signal for identifying a type of the shutter glasses, reading a shutter opening and closing characteristic of the shutter glasses of the type identified based on the identification signal from a storage unit storing shutter characteristics of the shutter glasses in association with the type of the shutter glasses. The 3D image control apparatus controls display timing of an image display unit based on the shutter opening and closing characteristic in such a manner that display periods of the right eye image and the left eye image are respectively within opening periods of the right shutter and the left shutter. | 08-18-2011 |
20110205344 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device comprises a liquid crystal display panel configured to selectively implement 2D images and 3D images, panel driving circuits configured to drive the liquid crystal display panel, a backlight configured to include a plurality of light sources and supply light to the liquid crystal display panel, and a controller configured to modulate input data to generate frame data synchronized with N (where N is a positive integer equal to or more than 2) multiple frame frequency, control the panel driving circuits such that the frame data is displayed in the liquid crystal display panel, expand a vertical blank interval where the frame data is not displayed, and control a turned-on period of the backlight to overlap with the expanded vertical blank interval. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205345 | SHUTTER GLASSES, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The shutter glasses for the display apparatus include a shutter-glasses communication unit which receives a first sync signal from the display apparatus displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image; and a shutter-glasses controller which generates an ON/OFF driving signal for a left-eye lens unit and a right-eye lens unit of the shutter glasses based on the first sync signal, the first sync signal including a pattern, based on which at least one sync pulse is periodically omitted in a second sync signal used in displaying the 3D image according to a frame driving frequency of the 3D image. The shutter-glasses controller generates an ON/OFF driving signal in sync with the first sync signal, so that the ON/OFF driving signal includes the sync pulse in a section corresponding to the omitted sync pulse of the second sync signal according to a time period of the first sync signal. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205346 | 3D IMAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In a 3D image viewing system of field sequential type using a liquid crystal apparatus, an apparatus generates a black field that is a period for displaying a black image, which is located between a right field that is a right eye image display period and a left field that is a right eye image display period. Right and left shutters of shutter glasses start to open in synchronization with start of the right and left fields and start to close in synchronization with end of the adjacent black field. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205347 | UNIVERSAL 3D GLASSES FOR USE WITH TELEVISIONS - A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image. | 08-25-2011 |
20110216175 | DISPLAY DEVICE, SYSTEM AND GLASSES FOR THE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a stereoscopic display device is for three-dimensionally displaying a display image to enable a viewer to view the display image by means of glasses. The device includes a receiving unit, a display memory unit, a controller unit, an adjusting unit, and a display unit. The receiving unit receives, from the glasses, glasses information used to identify an attribute of the glasses. The display memory unit stores parameter information corresponding to the received glasses information and used to control a quality of the display image when the display image is displayed. The controller unit generates image control information in accordance with the parameter information. The adjusting unit adjusts the display image based on the image control information to generate an adjusted display image. The display unit displays the adjusted display image. | 09-08-2011 |
20110216176 | 3D Glasses With RF Synchronization - A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image. | 09-08-2011 |
20110221876 | Solar Powered 3D Glasses - A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image. | 09-15-2011 |
20110228061 | SYNCHRONIZING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL EYEWEAR - An application for three-dimensional eyewear that includes a left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter. The shutters open and close in unison with a display of left-eye content and right-eye content. Because the shutters do not instantaneously open and close, a delay is inserted into the opening of each of the shutters until the other shutter has had enough time to have at least partially closed. | 09-22-2011 |
20110228062 | 3D Glasses with OLED Shutters - A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image. | 09-22-2011 |
20110234773 | THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A 3D image display device includes a data receiving unit receiving frame data. The frame data includes left eye image data and right eye image data. An image modification unit generates modification image data corresponding to one of the left eye image data and the right eye image data. The modification image data corresponding to the left eye image data is based on left eye image data of a current frame and left eye image data of a next frame. The modification image data corresponding to the right eye image data is based on right eye image data of the current frame and right eye image data of the next frame. Utilization of the modification image data improves the display quality of moving objects in the 3D image display device. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234774 | Shutter glasses and method of obtaining shutter control signal of shutter glasses - A pair of shutter glasses includes a shutter glasses unit having a right eye shutter and a left eye shutter, a wireless communication unit performing a wireless communication with an image display device, a shutter driving unit opening and closing the left eye shutter and the right eye shutter of the shutter glasses unit, a glasses state obtaining unit obtaining glasses state information by detecting one or both of the position and the direction of the shutter glasses unit, a storage unit holding a combination of the glasses state information and network address information of the image display device, and a control unit controlling the wireless communication unit to perform the wireless communication with a predetermined image display device using the network address information contained in the combination, and to obtain the shutter control signal from the predetermined image display device accordingly. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234775 | DLP Link System With Multiple Projectors and Integrated Server - A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234776 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ORGANIC EL DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, a device includes a plurality of pixels configured to include an organic EL element and a pixel circuit which controls the organic EL element, a plurality of video signal lines configured to be connected to the pixel circuit for every column and provide a video signal, and a plurality of scanning signal lines configured to be connected to the pixel circuit for every row for causing a write operation of writing the video signal to the pixel circuit and a light emitting operation of the organic EL element, and provide a scanning signal for controlling in a manner that a time from end of the write operation to start of the light emitting operation sequentially becomes shorter from a first row to a last row of the pixel circuit while keeping a light emission duration in each organic EL element constant. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234777 | THREE-DEMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY SYSTEM - A stereoscopic display apparatus and a stereoscopic display system capable of reducing flicker due to the influence of a fluorescent lamp while preventing an increase in crosstalk. The stereoscopic display apparatus includes a display controller that causes a display section to display left-eye video and right-eye video based on an input left-eye video signal and right-eye video signal and a shutter control section that controls an open/closed state of left and right shutters of stereoscopic image observation glasses in an opening/closing cycle in accordance with a display cycle of the left-eye video and the right-eye video, wherein the shutter control section controls a duty ratio of an Open period of each of the left and right shutters to a greater value than 50% and the display controller causes the display section to display video on a side whose shutter is in the open state of the left-eye video and the right-eye video only while the shutter control section exercises control so that one of the left and right shutters is in the closed state. | 09-29-2011 |
20110249102 | FREE WHEELING MODE OF OPERATION FOR 3D GLASSES - A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image. | 10-13-2011 |
20110249103 | 3D GLASSES AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - In a field sequential 3D image viewing system, 3D glasses are provided for use with a plurality of types of image control apparatuses. A storage unit stores opening control data associated with timing of opening right and left shutters of the 3D glasses in relation to each type of the image control apparatus. A signal processing unit generates an opening signal for driving the shutters based on the switching signal associated with the right and left shutters and based the opening control data read from the storage unit. The right and left shutters are driven according to the opening signal. The start time and open duration of the opening signal may be set based on the type of image control apparatus. | 10-13-2011 |
20110254932 | 3D DISPLAY USING PARTIAL SCREEN ILLUMINATION AND SYNCHRONIZED SHUTTER GLASS - An electronic visual display system includes a display screen for displaying an image. The display screen has at least a first display region and at least a second display region that is approximately contiguous to the first display region. The image has at least a first portion that is displayed within the first display region and at least a second portion that is displayed within the second display region. The system further includes a first light source configured to illuminate substantially the first display region, a second light source configured to illuminate substantially the second display region, and a display device controller coupled to the first light source and the second light source which is configured to lessen an amount of light emanating from the first light source approximately when updating the first portion of the image. | 10-20-2011 |
20110254933 | SHUTTER GLASSES, DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a display apparatus for transmitting a sync signal, shutter glasses, and a method of controlling the same. The display apparatus includes: a video signal processor which processes a predetermined three-dimensional (3D) video signal to be displayed on a display unit; a communication unit which communicates with the shutter glasses; and a sync signal generator which generates a sync signal to open and close shutters of the shutter glasses in response to the 3D video signal, the generated sync signal including error-correction information for correcting an error that causes malfunction of the shutter glasses, wherein the sync signal generator transmits, to the shutter glasses, the generated sync signal including the error-correction information through a communication unit. | 10-20-2011 |
20110254934 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, 3D GLASSES, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A display apparatus, three-dimensional (3D) glasses, and a display system including the display apparatus and the 3D glasses are provided. The 3D glasses which interwork with an external display apparatus include: a wireless receiver which receives a sync signal and audio signals from the external display apparatus; a shutter driver which drives shutters according to the received sync signal; and an audio output part which processes and outputs the received audio signal. Thus, users can individually enjoy contents without interfering with one another by selecting and listening to audio corresponding to an image viewed through the display apparatus. | 10-20-2011 |
20110254935 | RF SIGNAL FOR 3D FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION FOR 3D SHUTTER GLASSES - A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image. | 10-20-2011 |
20110254936 | UNIVERSAL 3D GLASSES - A method of operating three dimensional (“3D”) glasses having left and right shutters including detecting if a command signal has been received to operate the 3D glasses in a two dimensional (“2D”) or a 3D mode of operation from a display device; if the command signal has been received to operate the 3D glasses in the 2D mode of operation, then opening both the left and right shutters; and if the command signal has been received to operate the 3D glasses in the 3D mode of operation, then alternately opening and closing the left and right shutters. | 10-20-2011 |
20110267441 | 3-D MOVING PICTURE VIEWING APPARATUS - A 3-D viewing apparatus for viewing moving pictures, the apparatus comprising a left-channel viewer and a right-channel viewer respectively for viewing by left-eye and right-eye of a user, and an electronically controlled shutter mechanism which is arranged to alternatively shut the left-channel viewer and the right-channel viewer such that a user only sees the left- and right- channels through the left- and right viewers respectively. The shutting frequency of the shutter mechanism is predetermined or preset by an electronic controller. The 3-D viewing glass has a shutting mechanism which is arranged to shut the left- and right-viewers at a predetermined, preset or pre-programmed means there is no need to extract electronic synchronization signals from the video source and this makes the 3-D viewing glass more economical and more convenient to use. | 11-03-2011 |
20110267442 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO VIEWING SYSTEM, DISPLAY SYSTEM, OPTICAL SHUTTER, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO VIEWING METHOD - Disclosed is three-dimensional video viewing system ( | 11-03-2011 |
20110273544 | Shutter driving device and three-dimensional video display system - Disclosed herein is a shutter driving device that drives a first shutter including a first driving-subject capacitive load and a second shutter including a second driving-subject capacitive load. The shutter driving device includes a power recovery unit, a first driving path, a second driving path, a third driving path, a first clamp circuit, a second clamp circuit, a third clamp circuit, a power recovery path, and a recovery control switch configured to be disposed on the power recovery path. | 11-10-2011 |
20110273545 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PICTURE VIEWING SYSTEM, DISPLAY SYSTEM, OPTICAL SHUTTER, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL PICTURE VIEWING METHOD - A three-dimensional picture viewing system includes: display system ( | 11-10-2011 |
20110279660 | IR RECEIVER, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER GLASSES HAVING THE SAME - There are provided an IR receiver and liquid crystal shutter glasses with the same, and more particularly, an IR receiver and liquid crystal shutter glasses having the same to solve the problem in that a pair of the crystal liquid shutter glasses malfunctions by infrared generated from the surrounding environment, such as a halogen light. | 11-17-2011 |
20110285830 | Stereoscopic Image Display Apparatus Capable Of Wirelessly Transmitting and Receiving Power - Disclosed herein is a stereoscopic image display apparatus capable of wirelessly transmitting and receiving power. The stereoscopic image display apparatus includes a stereoscopic image display unit and shutter glasses. The stereoscopic image display unit divides stereoscopic images into images for the left eye and images for the right eye and displays the resulting stereoscopic images, generates a signal of opening/closing a right eye shutter and a left eye shutter, and generates a power signal and then wirelessly transmits power in a magnetic resonance coupling manner. The shutter glasses wirelessly receives the power signal from the stereoscopic image display unit in the magnetic resonance coupling manner, and provides the images for the left eye and the images for the right eye by alternatively opening and closing the left eye shutter and the right eye shutter in response to the signal of opening/closing the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter. | 11-24-2011 |
20110285831 | Content Playback Device, Content Playback Method, and Content Display System - A timing signal generation unit of a content playback device generates a shutter control signal requesting the opening or closing of a shutter of a lens among one or more lenses of a pair of shutter glasses worn by a user viewing a display panel adapted to display content, and a backlight control signal requesting a backlight of the display panel to be turned on at least when the shutter is open. A transmitter unit transmits the shutter control signal to the shutter glasses. The timing signal generation unit changes at least one of the timing of turning on the backlight or the timing of opening the shutter of the lens of the shutter glasses. | 11-24-2011 |
20110285832 | THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND A METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A three dimensional (3D) image display device including a display unit receiving a time-division configured 3D image, the time division configured 3D image including a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) images spaced apart over time; and a synchronization unit identifying first images in the plurality of 2D images to be viewed with a first viewer and second images in the plurality of 2D images to be viewed with a second viewer, and generating a synchronization signal based on the first and second images, wherein the display unit displays the plurality of 2D images on a full screen of the display unit. | 11-24-2011 |
20110285833 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, SHUTTER GLASSES, VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Shutter glasses include: shutters transmitting or blocking video displayed with a specified display interval on a video display device by performing opening/closing operations based on control information; a clock counter | 11-24-2011 |
20110292191 | 3D FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION FOR 3D - A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image. | 12-01-2011 |
20110292192 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL CIRCUIT, AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display method includes: time-divisionally displaying a plurality of stereoscopic vision images corresponding to a plurality of perspectives, through time-divisionally displaying a left-eye image and a right-eye image configuring each of the plurality of stereoscopic vision images corresponding to the respective perspectives; detecting an azimuth or respective azimuths in which one or more shutter eyeglasses are located, in which the shutter eyeglasses including a left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter; and allowing the left-eye shutter and the right-eye shutter in one or more shutter eyeglasses located in the azimuth corresponding to the perspective of the stereoscopic vision image currently displayed to be open and closed, based on a detection result thereof, and in synchronization with a left-eye-image display timing and a left-eye-image display timing for each of the stereoscopic vision images corresponding to the respective perspectives. | 12-01-2011 |
20110298906 | THREE DIMENSIONAL LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - Disclosed is a three dimensional liquid crystal display device ( | 12-08-2011 |
20110316992 | Image Playback System, Associated Apparatus and Method Thereof - An image playback system displays three-dimensional (3D) content data via a pair of glasses together with a monitor to provide a multiplexing service to a user wearing different types of glasses via a single monitor. For a multiplexing service, the monitor interleaving displays frames of different content data to provide predetermined content data to the user while the glasses shelters other content data. | 12-29-2011 |
20120007968 | Shutter glasses repeater - A method, consistent with certain implementations involves at a television remote controller housing that provides a user interface that provides access to controls for television functions and encloses a television remote controller circuit: receiving a 3D shutter glasses synchronization signal; and re-transmitting the shutter glasses synchronization signal. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 01-12-2012 |
20120007969 | METHOD FOR REDUCING LEFT-EYE/RIGHT-EYE CROSSTALK IN A 3D LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND RELATED DISPLAY SYSTEM - A liquid crystal display (LCD) system for displaying three-dimensional video includes a backlight module for providing light, a liquid crystal panel for modifying brightness of the light, a backlight driver for controlling the backlight module according to a backlight module control signal, a temperature sensor for detecting temperature to generate a temperature signal, a television processor for increasing duty cycle of the backlight module control signal from a predetermined duty cycle to an increased duty cycle equaling sum of the predetermined duty cycle and an additional duty, and a shutter glasses control module coupled to the television processor for outputting a shutter glasses control signal according to the additional duty. The additional duty is based on the temperature signal. | 01-12-2012 |
20120007970 | SHUTTER GLASSES AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PAIR OF SHUTTER GLASSES - A method for controlling a pair of shutter glasses utilized for viewing stereo images. A video output apparatus respectively outputs a first image and a second image during a plurality of image output periods, alternately. Each image output period includes an image driving period and an image stabilization period. The method includes controlling each of a first shutter lens and a second shutter lens to be switched between an on-state and an off-state. The first shutter lens and the second shutter lens stay in the on-state within image stabilization periods respectively corresponding to a specific first image and a specific second image, and the first shutter lens and the second shutter lens simultaneously stay in the on-state only within a single continuous time period of an image driving period corresponding to the specific second image. | 01-12-2012 |
20120013719 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING USING THE SAME - A display apparatus, display method, image processing apparatus, and image processing method which are capable of allowing a stereoscopic image to be recognized exactly by a left eye and a right eye. The display apparatus includes: an image signal receiving unit which receives an image signal; an image signal processing unit which generates a scanning signal for scanning a left eye image signal and a right eye image signal of the image signal alternately and for scanning a part of the left eye image signal or a part of the right eye image signal between a section for scanning the left eye image signal and a section for scanning the right eye image signal; and an image output unit which displays the image signal according to the scanning signal. | 01-19-2012 |
20120019637 | SHUTTER GLASSES AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PAIR OF SHUTTER GLASSES - A method for controlling shutter glasses is utilized for viewing stereo images. A video output apparatus respectively outputs a first image and a second image during a plurality of image output periods, alternately. Each image output period includes an image driving period and an image stabilization period. The method includes controlling each of a first shutter lens and a second shutter lens to be switched between an on-state and an off-state. The first shutter lens stays in the on-state within image stabilization periods respectively corresponding to two successive first images, and is switched from the off-state to the on-state and then switched from the on-state to the off-state for at least one time during a time interval between the image stabilization periods respectively corresponding to the two successive first images. | 01-26-2012 |
20120019638 | UNIVERSAL 3D GLASSES - A method of operating three dimensional (3D) shutter glasses including defining a default operational protocol, determining if a signal has been received from a display device, determining if the received signal uses the default operational protocol, and if the received signal uses the default operational protocol, then operating the 3D shutter glasses using the default operational protocol. | 01-26-2012 |
20120019639 | ACTIVE SHUTTER STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A stereoscopic image display device is for use with shutter glasses having left and right shutter lenses and includes a display processor, a display screen, a signal generator, and a signal transmitter. The display processor is for receiving a video input signal and outputting a video output signal sequence according to a frame sync signal acquired from the video input signal. The display screen is for receiving the video output signal sequence corresponding to a sequence of left-eye and right-eye images and displays the left-eye and right-eye images in an alternating manner according to the frame sync signal. The signal generator is for generating a shutter sync control signal that is transmitted to the shutter glasses by the signal transmitter for controlling duty cycles of alternating operations of the shutter glasses according to the frame sync signal. | 01-26-2012 |
20120033060 | SHUTTER GLASSES AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PAIR OF SHUTTER GLASSES - A method for controlling shutter glasses includes controlling each of a first shutter lens and a second shutter lens to be switched between an on-state and an off-state, wherein the first shutter lens stays in the on-state within an image output period corresponding to a secondary first image, and stays in the off-state with an image output period corresponding to a following primary second image, and the second shutter lens stays in the off-state within the image output period corresponding to the primary second image, and stays in the on-state within an image output period corresponding to a following secondary second image. The first shutter lens and the second shutter lens simultaneously stay in the off-state only within a single continuous time period of the image output period corresponding to the primary second image. | 02-09-2012 |
20120033061 | SHUTTER GLASSES CAPABLE OF CHANGING POLARIZATION DIRECTION THEREOF, AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND TRANSMITTER - Shutter glasses include a frame, two lenses disposed on the frame and a control chip. The control chip is utilized for selecting one of a plurality of operation modes to set the glasses according to a type of the display apparatus, wherein the operation modes are respectively corresponding to a plurality of type of the display apparatuses. In addition, the present invention further provides a shutter glasses system, a method for controlling shutter glasses and a transmitter thereof. | 02-09-2012 |
20120038756 | 3D GLASSES, METHOD FOR DRIVING 3D GLASSES, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING 3D IMAGE - Three-dimensional (3D) glasses, a method for driving 3D glasses, and a system for providing a 3D image are provided. The 3D glasses driving method includes detecting a first pattern corresponding to a left eye image and a second pattern corresponding to a right eye image from a 3D display apparatus, converting the first pattern into a first histogram and the second pattern into a second histogram, comparing the converted first and second histograms with first and second optimal histograms, and adjusting an opening or a closing of a left eye glasses part and a right eye glasses part of the 3D glasses based on the comparison. | 02-16-2012 |
20120038757 | METHOD FOR PLAYING CORRESPONDING 3D IMAGES ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT VISUAL ANGLES AND RELATED IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - A 3D image playback method includes utilizing a detecting module to detect a visual angle included between a display device and a shutter glasses, playing a plurality of 3D image sets with different visual angles at a specific frequency by the display device, transmitting a synchronization signal corresponding to the visual angle to the shutter glasses by the detecting module, and controlling a switching frequency of the shutter glasses so as to make the shutter glasses capable of receiving one of the plurality of 3D image sets corresponding to the visual angle. | 02-16-2012 |
20120044331 | 3D GLASSES - A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image. | 02-23-2012 |
20120044332 | STEREOGRAPHIC GLASSES - Stereographic glasses includes reception-stop timing control means that is so arranged as to: (i) cause a wireless-signal receiving section to stop receiving signals, after a cycle detection section detects a cycle of synchronous signals and a liquid crystal shutter control data memory section stores liquid crystal shutter control data therein signals; (ii) cause a liquid crystal shutter control signal timing generation section to generate timings for controlling opening and closing of liquid crystal shutters, based on cycle signals generated by a cycle signal generation section and the liquid crystal shutter control data stored in the liquid crystal shutter control data memory section; and (iii) cause a liquid crystal shutter control section to open and close the liquid crystal shutters, at the timings thus generated. | 02-23-2012 |
20120044333 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A stereoscopic image display device comprises: a display device that displays left-eye image data in a left-eye frame and right-eye image data in a right-eye frame; liquid crystal shutter glasses that alternately open and close a left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter in synchronization with the display device; and a control circuit that controls the ON duty ratio of a backlight of the display device to a first set value if the luminance of each of the left-eye and right-eye frames is less than a predetermined reference value, and controls the ON duty ratio of the backlight of the display device to a second set value if the luminance of each of the left-eye and right-eye frames is greater than the reference value. | 02-23-2012 |
20120057003 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, GLASSES FOR IMAGE OBSERVATION, IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A normal three-dimensional image is presented to a person who is wearing glasses for three-dimensional image observation, and additional information including a message, disturbance information, or the like is presented to a person who is not wearing glasses for three-dimensional image observation. An image display apparatus displays, on a display unit, an image frame sequence in which additional information image frame including additional information is added between an image frame for the left eye and an image frame for the right eye. At a display timing of the additional information image frame for the display unit, the image display apparatus outputs a control signal that sets shutters for both the left and right eyes of glasses for three-dimensional image observation worn by an observer to a closed state. With this configuration, an observer who is wearing glasses for three-dimensional image observation can observe a normal three-dimensional image, and a person who is not wearing the glasses can observe additional information such as a message prompting the person to wear the glasses. | 03-08-2012 |
20120057004 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, SHUTTER GLASSES AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display apparatus to display a three-dimensional image (3D) and a method of controlling the same, shutter glasses and a method of controlling the same, and a display system are provided. The shutter glasses include a lens which allows selective light transmission; a signal receiver which receives a first signal; a synchronization signal reconstruction unit which reconstructs a synchronization signal corresponding to a 3D display of the display apparatus through a correlation analysis on the received first signal; and a shutter driver which operates the lens corresponding to the synchronization signal reconstructed by the synchronization signal reconstruction unit. | 03-08-2012 |
20120057005 | NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, SHUTTER GLASSES, NOTIFICATION METHOD - In one embodiment, there is provided a notification system. The system includes: a display apparatus; and one or more pairs of shutter glasses. The display apparatus includes: a display module configured to display a 3D picture; and a transmitter configured to transmit a control data to each of the pairs of shutter glasses, wherein the control data contains a shutter control data for controlling shutters of each of the pairs of shutter glasses. Each of the pairs of shutter glasses includes: a receiver configured to receive the control data containing shutter control data; a shutter controller configured to open and close the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter, based on the shutter control data; and a notification module configured to notify a warning when a specific period of time has elapsed after the receiver receives the control data. | 03-08-2012 |
20120062712 | DELIVERY OF DEVICE-SPECIFIC STEREO 3D CONTENT - Apparatus for delivery of stereo 3D content, including a library manager for retrieving, from a digital library of stereo 3D content, a version of a requested item of stereo 3D content stored in the library, on demand, a receiver, coupled with the library manager, for receiving, from a target device, a request for a desired item of stereo 3D content stored in the library, and an identification of display properties and stereo 3D characteristics of the target device, an adaptation engine, coupled with the receiver and with the library manager, for adapting the version of the item of stereo 3D content retrieved by the library manager, to an adapted version, optimized for viewing on the target device, based on the display properties and stereo 3D characteristics of the target device, and a transmitter, coupled with the adaptation engine, for transmitting the adapted version of the item of stereo 3D content to the target device, for download or for streaming. A system and a method are also described and claimed. | 03-15-2012 |
20120069163 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image display apparatus comprise: a light source section; a light modulator that modulates light delivered from the light source section to display an image; a light level control section that adjusts the amount of light delivered from the light source section to the light modulator; and a display control section that updates the image displayed on the light modulator during a first period and a second period alternately switched therebetween. The display control section updated in the first period to a first image and a black image in this order and updates in the second period to a second image and the black image in this order. The light level control section sets the amount of light delivered from the light source section to be greater than that in other periods during a predetermined switching period including a point to switch between the first period and the second period. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069164 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE PRESENTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A plurality of images are alternately switched and displayed on the screen in a very short cycle while preventing crosstalk between the images. | 03-22-2012 |
20120081527 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF 3-D SHUTTER GLASSES TO ONE OF A PLURALITY OF PRESENTATION DEVICES - Systems and methods enable three dimensional (3-D) program content viewing in a media environment with different media presentation devices. An exemplary embodiment detects a first synchronization signal transmitted from a first synchronization signal source, wherein the first synchronization signal is associated with first 3-D program content and includes a first signal identifier; detects a second synchronization signal transmitted from a second synchronization signal source, wherein the second synchronization signal is associated with second 3-D program content and includes a second signal identifier; receives a selection of one of the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal; discriminates between the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal based upon the first signal identifier and the second signal identifier; and controls a left lens and a right lens of 3-D shutter glasses in accordance with the selected one of the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal. | 04-05-2012 |
20120081528 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to notify an observer who is wearing shutter glasses of information related to the remaining battery capacity or the like of the shutter glasses, through display of a stereoscopic image. To that end, shutter glasses ( | 04-05-2012 |
20120086788 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus, including: a projection section adapted to alternately project an image for a right eye and another image for a left eye; a separation section adapted to separate a projected image of the right eye image and another projected image of the left eye image from each other; a gaze detection section adapted to detect a gaze direction of an observer to which the right eye image and the left eye image are to be given; and a luminance adjustment section adapted to set a range with respect to the gaze direction to the right eye image and the left eye image and adjust a luminance value of pixels so that a portion of the right and left eye images other than the set range exhibits an invisible state. | 04-12-2012 |
20120092469 | SWITCHABLE 3D STEREOSCOPIC AND 2D MULTIPROGRAM VIEWING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for concurrently displaying two different 2D video programs on a screen of a stereoscopic 3D-enabled video viewing system. A control unit switches active shutter glasses in synchrony with the display of frames on the display screen, such that both shutters are open when frames corresponding to a first program are displayed, and both shutters are closed when frames corresponding to a second program are displayed, so that a viewer wearing the glasses sees only the first program. For higher refresh rate displays, more than two different programs can be displayed concurrently by interleaving the display of frames from more than two programs. Multiple viewers, each with a pair of active shutter glasses, can each independently choose the program they wish to watch on the single display screen. This viewing mode may leverage the 3D broadcast content delivery chain, or alternatively use appropriately encoded video stored on DVD, hard disk, or other storage. | 04-19-2012 |
20120120211 | DISPLAY CONTROL CIRCUIT AND PROJECTOR APPARATUS - A display control circuit includes a device driving unit that alternately writes a left video image and a right video image in a time-division manner to a light modulating device, a light source driving unit that increases or reduces the brightness of a light source that emits light passing through the light modulating device, a shutter eyeglass driving unit that provides shutter eyeglasses with a shutter driving signal, and a control unit that instructs the light source driving unit to reduce the brightness of the light source in the duration of a switchover between the left video image and the right video image for the light modulating device or instructs the light source driving unit to increase the brightness of the light source in the duration in which the left video image or the right video image is written solely to the light modulating device. | 05-17-2012 |
20120120212 | 3D SHUTTER GLASSES SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL THROUGH STEREO HEADPHONE WIRES - 3D shutter glasses with a synchronization signal sent through a stereo headphone wire are presented. In some embodiments, the 3D shutter glasses receive a synchronization signal through the same wire that transmits audio data to headphones or other audio devices. The synchronization signal may be combined with the audio data through various techniques so as to not disrupt the audio a listener hears, but to still provide the data to the 3D shutter glasses to synchronize with a display. | 05-17-2012 |
20120127288 | 2D-to-3D DELAY COMPENSATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A 2D-to-3D delay compensation method for making a pair of shutter glasses be synchronization with a display device's playback of a video source is disclosed. The display device is coupled with a 2D-to-3D conversion box. The method includes the following steps: firstly, the 2D-to-3D conversion box sends out a calibration pattern to the display device. Then, a shutter control signal is sent out after waiting a delay time to switch on and off the left and right lenses of the pair of shutter glasses. Subsequently, the calibration pattern is detected. Finally, determine whether the delay time must be adjusted or not according to the detecting result. | 05-24-2012 |
20120140049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TIME MULTIPLEXED STEREO DISPLAY AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A time multiplexed stereo display system is provided. The system includes a video player to output a sequence of image frames with respect to multiple stereo-displayed images. Each of the stereo-displayed images is formed by a first-view image and a second-view image with a parallax therebetween. The sequence of the image frames is sequentially displaying all of the first-view images and then sequentially displaying all of the second-view images to symmetrically transmitting first-view/second-view images. Further, a display panel receives the sequence of image frames for accordingly displaying the image frames. Multiple shutter eyeglasses, are controlled by the video player to transmit the stereo-displayed images, respectively, in accordance with the sequence of the image frames. Each of the shutter eyeglasses has a first-view glass and a second-view glass to accordingly transmit one of the first-view images and the second-view images in each display of the image frames. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140050 | 3D GLASSES AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Three-dimensional (3D) glasses for viewing a 3D display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The 3D glasses include: a glass unit including a left eye glass and a right eye glass; a driving unit which drives the glass unit; a mode setting unit which sets an operation mode of the glass unit between a 3D viewing mode or a 2D viewing mode; and a control unit which controls the driving unit to change an opening and closing shutter setting or a rotational direction of the glass unit according to the set operation mode set by the mode setting unit. Accordingly, a user convenience is improved. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140051 | SHUTTERING THE DISPLAY OF INTER-FRAME TRANSITIONS - A shuttering device can improve a viewer's perception of displayed three-dimensional (3D) content by concurrently shuttering both of the viewer's eyes during frame transitions. One implementation includes the shuttering device receiving a shuttering signal synchronized to a display of 3D content at a display device. In response to the shuttering signal, the shuttering device can shutter the display of the 3D content. The shuttering can include shuttering a first shuttering component during a first time period corresponding to display of second eye 3D content. The shuttering can also include shuttering both the first shuttering component and a second shuttering component concurrently during a second time period corresponding to display of a transition from the second eye 3D content to first eye 3D content. Additionally, the shuttering can include shuttering the second shuttering component during a third time period corresponding to display of the first eye 3D content. | 06-07-2012 |
20120147157 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING 3D VIDEO CONTENT - In a method of managing 3D video stream, 3D video stream is output to a connected display. The connected display displays the 3D video stream after a delay associated with the connected display. A timing offset is determined based on the delay. The timing offset is operable to be used to synchronize shutter operations of at least one shutter glasses with the presentation of the 3D video stream. A shutter control signal based on a frame start indication from the 3D video stream is transmitted. The frame start indication is operable to be used to determine a frame rate of the 3D video stream, and the shutter control signal is operable to be used to maintain synchronization of the shutter operations of the at least one shutter glasses with the presentation of the 3D video stream at the connected display. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147158 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS WHICH COLLABORATES WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL GLASSES FOR PRESENTING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES AND CONTROL METHOD APPLIED TO THE VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - A control method applied to a video display apparatus collaborating with three-dimensional glasses for presenting stereoscopic images includes sequentially transmitting a first video driving signal and a second video driving signal corresponding to a first video frame to a display screen for respectively driving a first display region and a second display region of the display screen; after transmitting the first video driving signal to the display screen is accomplished, activating a first backlight source of a scanning backlight module during a first period to provide backlight to the first display region driven by the first video driving signal for image display; and after transmitting the second video driving signal to the display screen is accomplished, activating a second backlight source of the scanning backlight module during a second period in order to provide backlight to the second display region driven by the second video driving signal for image display. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147159 | Three-Dimensional Video System, Shutter Glasses and Wireless Transmission Method - A three-dimensional video system includes a panel driving module, a signal transmitter and a shutter glasses. The panel driving module includes a timing controller, and a control unit, for generating a control signal. The signal transmitter is utilized for transmitting a radio frequency control signal according to the control signal. The shutter glasses includes a receiver, a calibrating and selecting unit, for alternating the receiver between a first operating status and a second operating status, and generating a calibration signal according to the received radio frequency control signal, and an LCD glass, for operating according to the calibration signal. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147160 | ADAPTIVE 3-D SHUTTERING DEVICES - Controlling a shuttering device. A method includes detecting from a use environment a set of encoded signals for use in controlling a shuttering device. The set of encoded signals are analyzed to determine an encoding scheme for the set of encoded signals. The encoded signals are prospectively decoded in the environment according to the determined encoding scheme to control the shuttering device. | 06-14-2012 |
20120169852 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - Disclosed are a display apparatus and a system including the same. A 3-dimensional (3D) display apparatus includes a display unit; a video signal processor which extracts frame sync signals corresponding to a left-eye image and a right-eye image from a predetermined 3D video signal, and processes the left-eye image and the right-eye image to be alternately displayed on the display unit; and a first communication unit which communicates with an external 3D display apparatus, and transmits a display sync signal based on the extracted frame sync signal to the external 3D display apparatus so that a 3D image displayed in the external 3D display apparatus can be synchronized with order of the left-eye image and the right-eye image displayed on the display unit. | 07-05-2012 |
20120169853 | SHUTTER CONTROL SYSTEM AND IMAGE APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An image apparatus with reduced three-dimensional (3D) crosstalk includes a shutter control system including an infrared (IR) signal transmitter configured to receive from a display device for displaying two or more light-off sections and two or more light-on sections arranged alternately in one image frame, information corresponding to the light-off sections and the light-on sections, and to output an IR signal corresponding to the information, the IR signal corresponding to a start of a first light-off section of the light-off sections in the image frame, and a shutter controller configured to receive the IR signal, and to control opening or closing of a left shutter and a right shutter in accordance with the IR signal. | 07-05-2012 |
20120169854 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, 3D GLASSES, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a display apparatus, three-dimensional (3D) glasses and a control method thereof. The method of controlling three-dimensional (3D) glasses for a display apparatus includes: synchronizing clocks for communicating with the 3D glasses; generating drive timing information for driving shutters of the 3D glasses from the synchronized clocks and a frame sync signal of a displayed image; and transmitting a glasses control message, comprising the drive timing information, to the 3D glasses. | 07-05-2012 |
20120176485 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY METHOD - A three-dimensional display device includes display unit for displaying left- and right-eye images alternately; and transmission control unit for transmitting a synchronizing signal indicating a timing for starting to display the left-eye image or the right-eye image on display unit, intermittently at a given transmission timing. Transmission control unit changes the given transmission timing according to a given condition and transmits the synchronizing signal. | 07-12-2012 |
20120182408 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/PLAYBACK DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH ABOVEMENTIONED DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, SPEECH OUTPUT DEVICE, AND RECORDING/ - A display control device ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120188349 | TRANSMITTER, DISPLAY, SHUTTER EYEGLASS DEVICE, TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION SYSTEM, DISPLAY SYSTEM AND TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION METHOD - There are provided a transmitter, a display, a shutter eyeglass device, a transmission/reception system, a display system and a transmission/reception method allowed to achieve highly reliable communication between a transmission side and a reception side. The transmitter includes: a transmission section holding plural kinds of commands each represented by a plurality of bits and repeatedly transmitting a command set, the command set being configured of one or more kinds of commands which are selected from the plural kinds of commands and combined in predetermined order, in which a bit pattern representing a whole of the command set is the same as a bit pattern held in a receiver. | 07-26-2012 |
20120194656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MULTIPLE EXCLUSIVE VIDEO STREAMS ON ONE MONITOR - A video display system and method that allows two different users to view different video streams on the same monitor without being able to see the other user's video stream. Frames of each video stream are rendered on the monitor. Each user views the monitor using a viewing device that allows the user to see his/her respective video stream and blocks the user from seeing frames associated with the other video stream. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194657 | SHUTTER GLASSES, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING AMBIENT BRIGHTNESS RECEIVED BY SHUTTER GLASSES OPERATIVE UNDER TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE VIEWING MODE - A method for adjusting an ambient brightness received by a pair of shutter glasses which are operative under a two-dimensional image viewing mode includes: generating an ambient brightness control signal; and adjusting a shutter-open period of eyeglass (s) of the shutter glasses according to the ambient brightness control signal, for adjusting a length of the shutter-open period of the eyeglass (s) to be longer than an activation time length of a backlight of a display device so as to adjust the received ambient brightness. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194658 | RADIO SIGNAL TRANSMITTER, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE GLASSES, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A radio signal transmitter receives, from an image display device (i) synchronizing signals for switching between displaying a right-eye image and displaying a left-eye image on the image display device and (ii) liquid crystal shutter control data indicating which image is displayed, and transmits the synchronizing signals and the liquid crystal shutter control data to stereoscopic image glasses. The radio signal transmitter includes: a period detecting section that detects a period of each of the synchronizing signals; and a period data storage section in which the period is stored as period data. The radio signal transmitter is configured such that the period data in the period data storage section is updated every time the period of each of the synchronizing signals is detected. This makes it possible to provide a radio signal transmitter, stereoscopic image glasses, and an image display system that achieve a reduction in power consumption. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194659 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display control circuit includes: a frame memory; a first correction image data generation unit that generates first correction image data that corrects a response characteristic of an electro-optical element; a second correction image data generation unit that generates second correction image data that corrects the intermixing of a right-eye image and a left-eye image; a selection unit that selects the first correction image data in a first field and the second correction image data in a second and subsequent fields; and a correction unit that generates output image data by correcting the first image data. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194660 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND STEREO IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image display device that provides stereo image display with the help of special glasses (i.e. a vision aid) and that allows a viewer looking at the screen without such a vision aid to view a less strange image, and a stereo image display system including such an image display device are provided. The image display device includes: a display module capable of displaying a left eye image (L) to be viewed via a left eye portion of the vision aid and a right eye image (R) to be viewed via a right eye portion of the vision aid, the left eye and right eye images being displayed separately in time and space; and an average brightness controller capable of regulating an average brightness of the left eye image and an average brightness of the right eye image displayed on the display module in one given frame such that these average brightnesses are different from each other. | 08-02-2012 |
20120224039 | Methods and Apparatus for 3D Shutter Glasses Synchronization - Methods and apparatus for signaling timing of refreshes of stereographic displays are provided. In some embodiments, light emitting elements are used to signal the start of a display refresh and to signal when the light emitting elements of the display have attained a stable optical state following the display refresh. In some embodiments, light emitting elements used to signal timing of display refreshes include light emitting elements defining a display area of the display. | 09-06-2012 |
20120229613 | CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE SYSTEM, EYEGLASSES, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Technology for controlling image display according to the state of a viewer wearing eyeglasses to view 3D images is provided. When an inclined angle of eyeglasses is in a predetermined range, an image display device alternately displays a left-eye image and a right-eye image. When the inclined angle of the eyeglasses exceeds the predetermined range, the image display device does not switch the left-eye image with the right-eye image. For example, the image display device displays 2D images. Optical shutters of the eyeglasses are synchronized with the left-eye image and the right-eye image. When the image display device does not switch the left-eye image with the right-eye image, the optical shutters are both open. | 09-13-2012 |
20120242811 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, SHUTTER GLASSES AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a method of controlling a display apparatus, a display apparatus and shutter glasses, the method including: establishing a pairing with three dimensional (3D) glasses; receiving first information related to at least one of an operation, a status and a structure of the 3D glasses; storing the first information; and displaying based on the first information, wherein the first information includes information about one of the 3D glasses and the display apparatus. | 09-27-2012 |
20120249759 | 3-D CONTROLLER SYSTEM FOR LEGACY TV - An apparatus for operating a pair of 3-D glasses to view a 3-D video signal on a TV. The apparatus includes a controller having an input for receiving a 3-D video data stream from a video source, an output for delivering a portion of the 3-D video data stream as a video signal to be displayed on the TV, synchronization programming for reading the 3-D video data stream and obtaining 3-D commands relating to said 3-D video data and a transmitter for wireless transmitting the 3-D commands. The system further includes 3-D glasses having a receiver configured to receive the 3-D command signal, left and right shutters configured to selectively close and open according to the 3-D commands, and a control input configured to calibrate the glasses to the displayed video signal of the TV. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249760 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD, SHUTTER GLASSES, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication device allows control of a device to be controlled such as a display device based on reference timing acquired from reception data without delay and with low power consumption. A method for generating a control signal for controlling the device to be controlled, shutter glasses, and a communication system having the corresponding features are also disclosed. The communication device includes a timing signal identifying part which identifies whether or not a predetermined reference signal pattern exist in data incoming intermittently, and a control signal generating part which generates a control signal for the device to be controlled when the existence of the predetermined signal pattern is identified by the timing signal identification part, and a controller which performs the control of the communication device. | 10-04-2012 |
20120257027 | Stereoscopic Image Display Apparatus, Image Display System and Method for Displaying Stereoscopic Image - A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal display device that alternately displays a left-eye image in a first time frame and a right-eye image in a second time frame, the left-eye image and the right-eye image being images to be respectively viewed by left and right eyes of a viewer; and an LCD shutter glasses that includes: a left-eye shutter that covers the left eye of the viewer during the second time frame; and a right-eye shutter that covers the right eye of the viewer during the first time frame, wherein the liquid crystal display device sequentially displays a first left-eye image frame and a second left-eye image frame included in the left-eye image during the first time frame and sequentially displays a first right-eye image frame and a second right-eye image frame included in the right-eye image during the second time frame. | 10-11-2012 |
20120268577 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND SHUTTER DEVICE - An image display system includes an image display apparatus and a shutter device. The image display apparatus includes an image display section, a sync signal sending section which sends a sync signal for synchronizing display timings of the left-eye image and the right-eye image with the shutter device to the shutter device, and a protocol sending section which sends protocol information to the shutter device. The shutter device include a shutter section which transmits the left-eye image and the right-eye image, a shutter drive section which analyzes the sync signal received through a sync signal receiving section using the protocol information stored in a protocol storing section and drives the shutter section on the basis of the analysis result, and a protocol updating section which updates the protocol information stored in the protocol storing section. | 10-25-2012 |
20120287252 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - Provided are a mask addition unit for adding a mask to an input image of a two-dimensional (2D) image on the basis of a parameter for converting the 2D image into a three-dimensional (3D) image by a monocular stereopsis principle, a conversion unit for converting the input image to which the mask is added by the mask addition unit into a right-eye image and a left-eye image by the monocular stereopsis principle, and a display unit for displaying the right-eye image and the left-eye image. | 11-15-2012 |
20120300047 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING A 3D VIDEO PROJECTOR - A system and method for improving stereoscopic images produced by a projecting device containing a single chip DMD, seen through an eye-switching device, such as a pair of liquid crystal (LC) shutter glasses. The system and method are used with a video projector used with a multiple-color, color switching device The color switching device produces Blue, Red and Green lights and at least one non-critical segment. A color sequencing firmware resident in the video projector is used to align a non-critical segment in front of the projector's main light source during the eye-switching device's unstable transition phase. If the non-critical segment is transmissive, the firmware controls the DMD so light is discontinued. If the non-critical segment is non-transmissive, light is physically blocked. If the non-critical segment is electronically defined, the firmware directly controls the DMD to discontinue the transmission of light for the duration of device's unstable transition phase. | 11-29-2012 |
20120314041 | WIRELESS SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, 3D IMAGE GLASSES, AND PROGRAM - A wireless signal transmission device of the present invention includes a wireless signal transmission section for, when an image display device displays a 3D image, (i) a sync signal indicative of timing at which a right-eye image and a left-eye image included in the 3D image are switched and (ii) an optical shutter control signal for controlling optical shutters of 3D image glasses which optical shutters alternately transmit and shut the right-eye image and the left-eye image, and for, when the image display device displays an image other than a 3D image, periodically transmitting a certain signal which does not include at least optical shutter control data. | 12-13-2012 |
20120320172 | 3D DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A 3D display system is provided. The 3D display system includes a shutter glasses, a display apparatus and a transmitter module. The shutter glasses includes a left eye shutter and a right eye shutter. The shutter glasses controls a switching frequency of the left eye shutter and the right eye shutter according to a radio frequency signal. The display apparatus alternately displays left and right eye images according to an update frequency. The transmitter module detects the update frequency and provides the radio frequency signal to the shutter glasses when detecting that the update frequency has changed, wherein the radio frequency signal includes the changed update frequency. | 12-20-2012 |
20130002835 | BACKLIGHT MODULATION TO PROVIDE SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN SHUTTER GLASSES AND THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) DISPLAY - In general, in one aspect, a three dimensional (3D) display includes an optical stack, a backlight, panel electronics and a backlight driver. The optical stack is to present left eye and right eye images. The backlight is to illuminate the optical stack so the left eye and right eye images are visible and to provide signals for synchronizing the image illuminated on the optical stack with shutter glasses worn by a user to enable a left eye to view the left eye images and a right eye to view the right eye images. The panel electronics are to generate the left eye and right eye images on the optical stack. The backlight driver is to control operation of the backlight. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002836 | 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS AND 3D DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A 3-dimensional (3D) display apparatus and a 3D display method thereof are provided. The 3D display apparatus includes: a display unit which outputs a plurality of image frames; a synchronization signal processor which generates a synchronization signal corresponding to the image frames; a controller which acquires period information of first and second sequences of the synchronization signal and determines whether the synchronization signal has been stabilized, according to change information of the period information; and a communicator which determines time information of the stabilized synchronization signal according to the determination result and transmits shutter control data, which is generated based on the time information, to 3D glasses. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002837 | DISPLAY CONTROL CIRCUIT AND PROJECTOR APPARATUS - A display control circuit includes: a device drive unit writing left and right images alternately into a light modulation device in time division based on time-division display type stereoscopic image data including the left and right images; a shutter glass drive unit driving opening and closing of liquid crystal shutters in the shutter glasses; a light source drive unit maintaining the total sum of light source current to be constant over cycles when an opening and closing period of the liquid crystal shutters is taken as one cycle; and a control unit controlling the timing of opening and closing the liquid crystal shutters with respect to the shutter glass drive unit, the timing of writing the left and right images with respect to the device drive unit and the luminance level of the light source in the opening and closing period with respect to the light source drive unit. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002838 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PLAYBACK METHOD AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PLAYBACK APPARATUS - When the video images to be played back are three-dimensional (3D) images each including a first parallax image and a second parallax image obtained when an object in a 3D space is viewed from different viewpoints, a video attribute determining unit determines whether or not the frame rate of the images is within a predetermined frame rate range at which a flicker is likely to occur. When the frame rate of the 3D images is within the predetermined frame rate range, a frame rate converter raises the frame rate of the 3D images until the frame rate exceeds the predetermined frame rate range. | 01-03-2013 |
20130010090 | TESTING STRUCTURE, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING SHUTTER GLASSES - A testing system including a preset display device, preset shutter glasses and a testing device is disclosed. The preset display device generates a synchronization signal and outputs a timing signal relating to the synchronization signal. The preset shutter glasses receive the synchronization signal to generate a masking signal. The testing device processes the timing signal and the masking signal according to a setting signal and determines whether the preset shutter glasses are normal according to the processed result. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010091 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image display apparatus for displaying a 3D video signal using a liquid crystal device such as an HIPS or LCOS device comprises a frame rate converter ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130021458 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO - Provided is a stereoscopic video presenting apparatus including: an eye movement measurement unit configured to measure an eye movement of each of users viewing the stereoscopic video; a user count determination unit configured to determine the number of users viewing a same stereoscopic video; and a failure state determination unit configured to compare, when the user count determination unit determines that the number of users viewing the same stereoscopic video is plurality, eye movements of a plurality of users to determine a user whose eye movement is in a failure state among the plurality of users. | 01-24-2013 |
20130027526 | UNIVERSAL ACTIVE 3D STEREO SHUTTER GLASSES - Stereoscopic 3-D active shutter glasses with multiple IR, RF, and other receivers configured for different TV brands are presented. In some embodiments, the multiple receivers and their accompanying logic circuits can be embedded in the glasses and selected automatically from a lookup table. Various logic for demodulating or otherwise decoding signals can be downloaded off the Internet for different brands. In other embodiments, each receiver and accompanying logic circuit can be plugged in to the glasses as a separate module corresponding to each brand or TV model. | 01-31-2013 |
20130038705 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A video-image selection unit cyclically acquires at least two types of video images. A replacing mask determination unit selects, for each acquired video image, a mask pattern for masking a video image acquired by the video-image selection unit by replacing some pixels composing the video image with pixels of a single color such that said some pixels are spatially removed. Based on the mask pattern, the video-image replacing unit replaces said some pixels composing the video image with the pixels of a single color. A video-image output unit outputs the video image for which the replacement was performed. When selecting a mask pattern, the replacing mask determination unit selects a mask pattern that is different from a mask pattern used for the last video image, the mask pattern being different in the position of pixels not to be replaced with pixels of a single color. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038706 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND SHUTTER GLASSES - The frequencies and the phases of frame timing signals are synchronized between a display apparatus and shutter glasses through a wireless network. | 02-14-2013 |
20130076878 | Image Display System, Shutter Glasses, And Display Apparatus - To adaptively perform display control by a display apparatus in accordance with characteristics of shutter glasses, the state of a viewer wearing the shutter glasses, etc. | 03-28-2013 |
20130120545 | Operation Method of Shutter Glasses Based 3D Display Device - The present invention relates to an operation method of shutter glasses based 3D display device, which alternatively supplies left-eye and right-eye frame signals to a liquid crystal panel to drive the liquid crystal panel, which cooperate with illumination of a scanning back light unit and timing control of the shutter glasses to simulate left and right eyes respectively with left-eye and right-eye signals for perception of a 3D image, wherein in a period of a current frame signal, duty time of each of blocks of the back light unit is located between the time when liquid crystal corresponding to the block completely responds after being driven by the current frame signal and the time when the liquid crystal corresponding to the block starts to respond as being driven by a subsequent frame signal, and the duty time of each of the blocks is divided into duty | 05-16-2013 |
20130120546 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY SYSTEM AND DRIVING CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A stereoscopic display system and a driving control method thereof are provided. The stereoscopic display system comprises a display device displaying images by dividing a first field and a second field in one image frame, and shutter spectacles controlling opening and closing of a binocular shutter corresponding to a light emitting period of a binocular view point image of the first field and the second field, and wherein the binocular shutter is closed earlier than a finishing point of each light emitting period of the binocular view point image by a first period. | 05-16-2013 |
20130128016 | Viewing of Different Full-Screen Television Content by Different Viewers At the Same Time Using Configured Glasses and A Related Display - Different full screen content is displayed on the same television at the same time from the perspective of the viewer by displaying as the content as two full screen sequential frames. The different full screen content may be provided as a single combined frame signal such as a side-by-side, top-bottom, or checkerboard signal which is then displayed as two sequential full screen frames. Configured glasses such as polarized or shutter are used to view the different content as full screen content where one pair of configured glasses views an initial one of the sequential frames but blocks the subsequent one and another pair of configured glasses blocks the initial one of the sequential frames and views the subsequent one. Shutter glasses have both lenses open during the initial frame and both closed during the subsequent one. For polarized glasses, the initial frame has a polarization matching both lenses of one pair of glasses while the subsequent frame has a polarization that differs from both lenses. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128017 | GLASSES AND METHOD FOR PAIRING THEREOF - Glasses and a method for pairing thereof are provided. The method includes: if a preset event occurs, determining whether a transmission packet for driving the glasses has been received from a display apparatus; and if the transmission packet is determined not to have been received, automatically performing a pairing of the glasses with the display apparatus. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128018 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, presenting a plurality of unassociated media programs from a single presentation device having overlapping presentation periods, receiving information from a viewing apparatus to adjust an intensity of emitted light associated with one of the unassociated media programs, and adjusting the intensity of the emitted light in a manner that is detectable by the viewing apparatus supplying the information. Other embodiments are disclosed and contemplated. | 05-23-2013 |
20130155210 | Shutter Glasses, Three-Dimensional Video System and Shutter Glasses Control Method - Shutter glasses for a three-dimensional video system includes a first lens, a second lens, a lens control module coupled to the first lens and the second lens for alternately blocking the first lens and the second lens according to a synchronization signal, an image capturing device for capturing a plurality of images including a synchronization image outputted from a display of the three-dimensional video system, and a timing generating module coupled to the image capturing device for generating the synchronization signal according to the synchronization image. | 06-20-2013 |
20130169769 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING VIDEO - A device for displaying a video includes: a content processor which, if a content is received, determines a type of the content according to additional information of the content; a controller which, if the content is a 3D content, operates in a 3D display mode and, if the content is a multi-view content, operates in a multi-view mode; and a display which performs a 3D display or multi-view display according to an operation mode of the controller. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169770 | SECURITY DISPLAY APPARATUS - A security display apparatus is provided including an image processor which reverses a normal image to create a reverse image which is a negative of the normal image, and a display unit which displays the normal image and the reverse image. The display apparatus further includes glasses which filter the reverse image such that the reverse image is blocked from a user by the glasses and the normal image is transmitted to the user through the glasses. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169771 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING A PLURALITY OF CONTENT VIEWS, GLASSES APPARATUS, DISPLAY SYSTEM COMPRISING THEM, AND DISPLAY METHODS THEREOF - A display apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes plurality of receivers which receive a plurality of content; a signal processor which generates image frames by processing each of the content; an output which displays a plurality of content views by combining the image frames of each content; a synchronization signal generator which generates a synchronization signal to synchronize the plurality of the content views and a plurality of glasses apparatus; an interface which transmits the synchronization signal to the plurality of the glasses apparatus; a storage which stores glass characteristic information; and a controller which controls the signal processor to process the plurality of the content according to the glass characteristic information. Thus, image quality adequate for the glass apparatus can be provided. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169772 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHODS THEREOF - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit which outputs a plurality of content views using a plurality of image frames; an interface unit which is connected with a glasses apparatus according to a predetermined communication standard; a synchronization signal generator which generates a synchronization signal that synchronizes one of the plurality of content views with the glasses apparatus; and a controller which, when a glasses apparatus is connected, controls the display apparatus to synchronize the one of the plurality of content views with the glasses. | 07-04-2013 |
20130182089 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The invention can provide a stereoscopic image display device, which achieves advantages of both a “glasses” device and a “naked-eye” device, while having a small size. When a right-eye image is displayed, as light blocking region forms on the left side of the center line, and when a left-eye image is displayed, a light blocking region forms on the right side of the center line. When the viewer is located in the regions, the right eye views the right-eye image, and the left eye views the left-eye image. Thus, even when the viewer faces stereoscopic display device with naked eyes, the viewer can view the stereoscopic image as long as the eyes of the viewer are located in the light blocking regions. The right and left images are mixed in the region other than the light blocking regions. However, multiple viewers can view the stereoscopic image when wearing the glasses. | 07-18-2013 |
20130215243 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY EXPOSURE TO 3D MEDIA PRESENTATIONS - Methods and apparatus to identify exposure to three dimensional media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes detecting a first brightness level with a first sensor and a second brightness level with a second sensor at a first time. A third brightness level is detected with the first sensor and a fourth brightness level is detected with the second sensor at a second time later than the first time. A 3D media counter is incremented when either: the first brightness is greater than the second brightness and the third brightness is less than the fourth brightness, or the first brightness is less than the second brightness and the third brightness is greater than the fourth brightness. The media is identified as 3D media when the 3D media counter exceeds a threshold | 08-22-2013 |
20130235171 | STEREO VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND STEREO VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A stereo video image display apparatus includes a data obtaining unit, a video image generator and an image quality degradation unit. The data obtaining unit obtains left eye video image data and right eye video image data. The video image generator generates sequential data in which a left eye video image data sequence repeating the left eye video image data and a right eye video image data sequence repeating the right eye video image data are arranged alternately to generate a control signal controlling opening and closing of shutter glasses according to the sequential data. The image quality degradation unit processes image quality degradation for object data which is frame data corresponding to one frame either before the switching between the left eye video image data and the right eye video image data and one frame after the switching, or two frames before and after the switching. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235172 | Method and System for Time-Multiplexed Shared Display - A method is provided for sharing a display. The method includes displaying periodically a first image sequence on the display in synchronicity with a first signal, and displaying periodically a second image sequence on the display in synchronicity with a second signal. The method also includes selecting by a user the first image sequence for viewing, and shuttering periodically a set of goggles for the user in synchronicity with the first signal. A method is provided for sharing a display. The method includes displaying periodically a private image sequence on the display in synchronicity with a first signal, and displaying periodically a non-private image sequence on the display. In the method, the private image sequence and the non-private image sequence combine to form a public image sequence on the display. A system is provided for sharing a display. | 09-12-2013 |
20130258073 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ADJUSTMENT FOR DISPLAYS HAVING 2D AND 3D DISPLAY MODES - Embodiments of the invention relate to a display operable in 2D and 3D display modes. Methods and apparatus are provided for adjusting the colors and brightness of the image data and/or intensity of the display backlight based on the current display mode and/or color-grading of the image data. For example, when switching to a 3D display mode a color mapping may be performed on left and right eye image data to increase color saturation in particular regions, and/or the backlight intensity may be increased in particular regions to compensate for lower light levels in 3D display mode. | 10-03-2013 |
20130271581 | 3D Viewing with Better Performance in Both Lumen Per Watt and Brightness - A method and apparatus for providing a three-dimensional display to a viewer is disclosed. If a color difference between pixels of a right eye image area and corresponding pixels of a left eye image area is greater than or equal to a predefined difference threshold, a parallax barrier is controlled to block either the right or the left eye image area from the viewer. Otherwise, if the color difference is less than the predefined threshold, the parallax barrier is controlled to display both the right and left eye image areas to the viewer. Corresponding devices to implement the method are also disclosed. The method may be performed by an autostereoscopic display controller, or a pair of active shutter glasses, for example. | 10-17-2013 |
20130278735 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS SYNCHRONIZING THREE-DIMENSIONAL EYEWEAR - An application for transmission of a three-dimensional eyewear synchronization signal to synchronize the operation of shutters of three-dimensional eyewear uses an industry standard wireless transmission technique. To compensate for inherent latencies of such transmission techniques, the latencies are measured and monitored to determine expected latencies and the shutter synchronization signal is skewed by the latency. In some embodiments, the synchronization signal is further adjusted by a user skew control. | 10-24-2013 |
20130286169 | Image Display System, Display Device, And Shutter Glasses - To preferably present a stereoscopic image to a viewer by controlling opening and closing timing of shutter lenses through intermittent communication between a display device and shutter glasses. | 10-31-2013 |
20130293690 | Medical device navigation system stereoscopic display - A system for displaying a stereoscopic representation of a modeled object such as an anatomical model can include an electronic control unit (ECU), a computer-readable memory coupled to the ECU, display logic, a synchronization circuit, and stereoscopic eyewear. The system can show a stereoscopic view of the anatomical model according to active stereoscopy. Thus, the display logic can be configured to render at least two views of the anatomical model and to provide the at least two views in a sequence for output to a display. The synchronization circuit can be configured to synchronize the sequence of the at least two views with the operation of the stereoscopic eyewear. The at least two views can be displayed according to a viewing position of a user. | 11-07-2013 |
20130300844 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND SHUTTER DEVICE - An image display apparatus includes an image display unit that displays an image for a stereoscopic image, a light-source control unit that controls a light source of the image display unit, a content discriminating unit that discriminates whether the image displayed on the image display unit is a limited image requiring viewing limitation or an unlimited image not requiring the viewing limitation, and a shutter control unit that controls shutter of shutter devices. The light-source control unit controls the light source to reduce light emission in a second period compared with light emission in a first period. The shutter control unit controls, during the display of the limited image, the shutter device set in a viewing limitation mode for limiting viewing of the limited image, to close the shutter in the first period and open the shutter in the second period. | 11-14-2013 |
20130307947 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a three-dimensional image display device, in particular, a three-dimensional image display device using a glassless mode. The three-dimensional image display device includes a data panel for displaying an image including a left eye image and a right eye image, a light supplier disposed at a first side of the data panel, the light supplier locally radiating light to enable a left eye image and a right eye image displayed on the data panel to be seen by a left eye and a right eye of a user, respectively, a lens array including a plurality of lenses disposed at a second side being opposite to the first side of the data panel, the lens array determining a passage such that the image supplied by the light supplier is transferred to the user, and a gap layer disposed between the data panel and the light supplier. | 11-21-2013 |
20130335539 | MULTI-VIEW DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF - A multi-view device includes a lens unit which operates to selectively transmit or block light; a communication unit which communicates with a display apparatus which is displaying an image; and a controller which receives, from the display apparatus via the communication unit, a beacon signal which synchronizes with a display period of the displayed image, controls an operation of the lens unit based on the beacon signal, and changes, via the communication unit, a reception frequency of the beacon signal based on information relating to a wireless communication environment level between the display apparatus and the multi-view device which is extracted from the beacon signal. | 12-19-2013 |
20140015941 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE AND GLASSES APPARATUS - An image display apparatus is provided. The image display apparatus includes a signal processor which composes image frames of two-dimensional (2D) content or image frames three-dimensional (3D) content; an output unit which displays an image, wherein the output unit operates in a first mode to output the 2D content so that the image frames of the 2D content composed by the signal processor are displayed and operates a second mode to output the 3D content so that the image frame of the 3D content composed by the signal processor is displayed; an interface unit which receives a mode conversion command; and a controller which controls the output unit to convert between operating in the first mode and the second mode in accordance with the mode conversion command received through the interface unit. | 01-16-2014 |
20140022361 | SYNCHRONIZATION CIRCUITS AND METHODS USABLE IN SHUTTER GLASSES - Described herein are circuits and methods enabling a user to view 3D video using shutter glasses. The shutter glasses can wirelessly receive a video synchronization signal to synchronize the timing of a shutter operation with the timing of displayed video. A self-timing signal can be generated based on a measured period of the video synchronization signal. A low-power mode of operation can be entered for a period of time in which reception of the video synchronization signal is disabled and the shutter operation is controlled based on the self-timing signal. | 01-23-2014 |
20140043450 | MULTI-VIEW DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - A multi-view display system comprises a display controller ( | 02-13-2014 |
20140043451 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, DISPLAY SYSTEM, VIDEO GENERATION APPARTUS, AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - A plurality of parallax images which are time-divisionally displayed are processed so that correct parallax can be displayed even during motion picture display. | 02-13-2014 |
20140063212 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, GLASSES APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus, a glasses apparatus and a control method are provided. The display apparatus includes a display which displays a plurality of contents, an audio signal processor which generates a single audio signal by signal-processing a plurality of audio data which correspond to each of the plurality of contents, and a communicator which transmits the signal-processed single audio signal to a glasses apparatus. | 03-06-2014 |
20140078271 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, PROJECTION APPARATUS, DISPLAY ASSIST APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - A display apparatus includes a master/slave setting unit configured to execute at least one of setting of a master apparatus which displays a switching-display synchronization signal superposed on an image as a target to be displayed and setting of a slave apparatus which does not display the switching-display synchronization signal, a synchronization-signal superposition unit configured to superpose the switching-display synchronization signal on the image as the target to be displayed, when setting of the master apparatus is executed by the master/slave setting unit, and a display unit configured to display the image on which the switching-display synchronization signal is superposed by the synchronization signal superposition unit. | 03-20-2014 |
20140085438 | STEREOSCOPIC SPECTACLES CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND STEREOSCOPIC SPECTACLES CONTROL METHOD - A phase error detection unit measures a phase error between an external synchronization signal and a spectacles control signal that is fed back, more specifically, a discrepancy between vertical synchronization timing and shutter opening/closing timing, that is, jitter. A timing correction unit corrects the shutter opening/closing timing, using the measured jitter. Specifically, a parameter indicating the corrected shutter opening/closing timing is written to a storage unit. The storage unit stores a parameter used to generate the spectacles control signal, for example, the parameter indicating the shutter opening/closing timing. A signal generation unit generates the spectacles control signal, using the parameter stored in the storage unit. A frequency divider divides the frequency of the spectacles control signal by n. | 03-27-2014 |
20140085439 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The display device includes a display panel on which sub-pixel pairs are arranged in a lateral direction, and a parallax barrier shutter panel on which sub-openings that can be changed between a light transmittance state and a light-shielding state are arranged in a lateral direction. Arbitrary allocated number of adjacent sub-openings among the plural sub-openings belonging to a reference parallax barrier pitch are put into a light transmittance state, and the remaining sub-openings are put into a light-shielding state, so that a general opening is formed on the parallax barrier shutter panel. A sub-opening pitch of the sub-opening on the boundary part between the adjacent common driving areas is different from the sub-opening pitch of the other sub-openings. | 03-27-2014 |
20140098202 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIEWING SYSTEM - A three-dimensional viewing system includes a television having an electric circuit provided therein for the generation of alternating left-eye image and right-eye image on a screen, a micro controller unit provided inside the television and configured to extract a vertical synchronizing signal therefrom, a signal transmitting system for directly transmitting the vertical synchronizing signal to a pair of three-dimensional shutter glasses to be worn by the viewer in front of the television. The shutter glasses include left and right liquid crystal shutter lenses adapted to receive the vertical synchronizing signal and produce alternating transparency and opacity of the left and right shutter lenses. A switch unit connected to the left and right shutter lenses for independently switching the transparency and opacity thereof so that left eye of the viewer sees the left-eye image and right eye of the viewer sees the right-eye image to perceive a three-dimensional image. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098203 | Video Controller For Synchronizing Presentation Of A Plurality Of Images Projected Onto A Display - A video controller for synchronizing presentation of a plurality of images is provided. A color switching device is operable to continually select a color out of a set consisting essentially of a plurality of fundamental colors. Each fundamental color is selected for presentation for a fixed time segment. A light processing element is operable to block and permit transmission of light in each color selected by the color switching device during each fixed time segment. The light includes at least two streams of sequential images. A synch signal generator is in control of the light processing element and is configured to time presentation of the light by the light processing element and of control signals to a viewing device of the display. The presentation of the light and of the control signals is timed in synchrony with the fixed time segments only during a transition state of the viewing device. | 04-10-2014 |
20140104401 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHODS THEREOF - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit which outputs a plurality of content views using a plurality of image frames; an interface unit which is connected with a glasses apparatus according to a predetermined communication standard; a synchronization signal generator which generates a synchronization signal that synchronizes one of the plurality of content views with the glasses apparatus; and a controller which, when a glasses apparatus is connected, controls the display apparatus to synchronize the one of the plurality of content views with the glasses. | 04-17-2014 |
20140125785 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A head-mounted display apparatus and method of the control are provided. The apparatus includes a display unit, a signal processing unit processing an image signal received from an outside to display a first image on the display unit, a shutter glass performing a shutter operation to allow selective transmission of external light, a communication unit communicating with an external display apparatus, and a controller controlling the head-mounted display apparatus to operate in a selective one of a first mode, in which the head-mounted display apparatus operates corresponding to a second image displayed on the external display apparatus, and a second mode, in which the head-mounted display apparatus displays the image signal processed by the signal processing unit on the display unit as the first image, based on a preset event. | 05-08-2014 |
20140139653 | METHOD FOR GENERATING SIGNAL TO DISPLAY THREE-DIMENSIONAL(3D) IMAGE AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method for generating a signal to display a three-dimensional (3D) image, and an image display apparatus using the same are disclosed. The method includes receiving a first synchronization signal, generating a second synchronization signal, and generating an output signal. Therefore, a user may satisfactorily view a 3D image regardless of whether the synchronization signal received from a display device reports errors or whether there is an obstruction between the display device and shutter glasses. | 05-22-2014 |
20140146147 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MULTI-VIEW DISPLAY - A display apparatus is provided, including a video processor configured to process video data of contents, a display configured to display content views using the video data processed by the video processor, a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device which is paired with the display apparatus, and a control unit configured to assign a remote control right to a content view corresponding to the remote control right switching command from among the content views based on whether the remote control right switching command is received from the external device. If a remote control signal is received, the control unit performs an operation corresponding to the remote control signal with respect to the content view having the remote control right. | 05-29-2014 |
20140168391 | PROJECTOR AND PROJECTION SYSTEM - A projector includes a discharge lamp, a discharge-lamp driving unit, a control unit, a light modulating element, and a projection optical system. The control unit alternately repeats a high luminance period in which a driving current having a relatively large absolute value is supplied to the discharge lamp and a low luminance period in which the driving current having a relatively small absolute value is supplied to the discharge lamp. The control unit controls the discharge-lamp driving unit according to a driving current waveform formed by the control waveform unit including a direct-current waveform pattern in which the driving current in a first high luminance period, the driving current in a first low luminance period immediately after the first high luminance period, and the driving current in a second high luminance period immediately after the first low luminance period have the same first polarity. | 06-19-2014 |
20140168392 | METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZING A DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZING AN EYEGLASS DEVICE, AND METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZING THE DISPLAY DEVICE WITH AN EYEGLASS DEVICE - A method of synchronizing a display device is presented. The method of synchronizing the display device according to various embodiments includes the steps of: receiving a message from an eyeglass device and confirming the eyeglass device that is to perform synchronization based on the received result; transmitting transmission timing information on a beacon packet having a control signal of the eyeglass device to the eyeglass device; and transmitting the beacon packet to the eyeglass device according to the transmission timing information. | 06-19-2014 |
20140184762 | METHOD OF STEREOSCOPIC SYNCHRONIZATION OF ACTIVE SHUTTER GLASSES - A three-dimensional viewing device for providing images to a user includes a receiver receiving source 3D synchronization signals from a transmitting device, wherein the source 3D synchronization signals comprise a source frequency and a source phase, a plurality of LCD shutters including a right LCD shutter and a left LCD shutter are for alternatively entering a translucent state in response to local 3D synchronization signals in response to the source 3D synchronization signals, and an adjustment portion for adjusting parameters of the local 3D synchronization signals in response to parameters of the source 3D synchronization signals. | 07-03-2014 |
20140192174 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, SHUTTER GLASSES, DISPLAY METHOD, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING GLASSES APPARATUS - A glasses apparatus is provided. The glasses apparatus includes: a first retarder which delays phases of a first image and a second image which are output from a display apparatus, a second retarder which delays the phases of the first image and the second image in a direction different from that of the first retarder, a first shutter glass and a second shutter glass which change polarization properties of the first image and the second image, optical axes of which are rotated according to whether power is supplied or not, and a controller which controls to selectively supply the power to the first shutter glass and the second shutter glass so that a user selectively views the first image and the second image. | 07-10-2014 |
20140192175 | Multi-Person Stereo Display System - The multi-person stereo display system permits several independent viewers to see different stereo images on a single projection surface. This is accomplished through the innovative use of video multiplexing, software, control electronics, and special viewing glasses. The system is particularly useful in situations where the viewers see computer generated images from their own independent perspectives. | 07-10-2014 |
20140210965 | Method for Securing Visual Media Utilizing Encoding Process With Optical Translation for Decoded Image Viewing - A method and system for securing visual media utilizing an encoding process with optical translation for decoded image viewing having the steps of displaying a first image for viewing by a user, generating a second image that is substantially a negative of the first image, displaying the first and second image through a stereoscopic projection system using at least two separate channels of the system to create a displayed garbled image decoding the displayed image by cancellation of the second image from the view of said user. The system may also employ active and passive 3D glasses or other decoder and generate interference and other signals to obscure the desired image before decoding. The system may also be used with handheld display devices such as tablets, notebooks and smart phones utilizing decoding screens or user wearable devices. | 07-31-2014 |
20140210966 | Methods and Systems for Presenting Adjunct Content During a Presentation of a Media Content Instance - An exemplary method includes an adjunct content presentation system including adjunct content within a first image of a media content instance and a second image of the media content instance by setting a pixel value of a first group of pixels included in the first image and a pixel value of a second group of pixels included in the second image and corresponding to the first group of pixels to each be substantially equal to one pixel value unit greater than a predetermined neutral pixel value, including the adjunct content within a compensating image by setting a pixel value of a third group of pixels included in the compensating image and corresponding to the first and second groups of pixels to be substantially equal to two pixel value units less than the predetermined neutral pixel value, and presenting the first image, the second image, and the compensating image. | 07-31-2014 |
20140240474 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A glasses-type radio communication device ( | 08-28-2014 |
20140313297 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, 3D GLASSES, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A display apparatus, three-dimensional (3D) glasses, and a display system including the display apparatus and the 3D glasses are provided. The 3D glasses which interwork with an external display apparatus include: a wireless receiver which receives a sync signal and audio signals from the external display apparatus; a shutter driver which drives shutters according to the received sync signal; and an audio output part which processes and outputs the received audio signal. Thus, users can individually enjoy contents without interfering with one another by selecting and listening to audio corresponding to an image viewed through the display apparatus. | 10-23-2014 |
20140347455 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR ENCODING AND PLAYBACK OF STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO SEQUENCES - A method for decoding a compressed image stream, the image stream having a plurality of frames, each frame consisting of a merged image including pixels from a left image and pixels from a right image. The method involves the steps of receiving each merged image; changing a clock domain from the original input signal to an internal domain; for each merged image, placing at least two adjacent pixels into an input buffer and interpolating an intermediate pixel, for forming a reconstructed left frame and a reconstructed right frame according to provenance of the adjacent pixels; and reconstructing a stereoscopic image stream from the left and right image frames. The invention also teaches a system for decoding a compressed image stream. | 11-27-2014 |
20150035956 | METHOD FOR THE SYNCHRONIZATION OF 3D DEVICES AND CORRESPONDING SYNCHRONIZATION DEVICE - The invention relates to a method for the synchronization of a set of 3D devices suitable for the processing of data representative of at least one stereoscopic image comprising a first image and a second image. In order to synchronize the 3D devices involved in the rendering of the at least one stereoscopic image, the method comprises the steps for:
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20150035957 | DISPLAY SYSTEM AND DISPLAYING METHOD FOR DISPLAY SYSTEM - Display system includes a processor, a display module, and a number of shutter glasses. The processor can integrate video signals of different channels into an integrated video signal, thus the display module can display the video signals of the different channels orderly in a sequence according to a predetermined cycling period, and viewers wearing different pair of shutter glasses can watch their own specific programs. In this way, different viewers can watch different programs from the different channels through the same display system substantially at the same time. | 02-05-2015 |
20150035958 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONCURRENTLY DISPLAYING MULTIPLE VIEWS - A display apparatus and method thereof are provided. The display apparatus may include a plurality of receiving units which receive a plurality of different contents, a signal processing unit which processes the contents received at the plurality of receiving units to construct a plurality of contents views, an output unit which displays each content view constructed at the signal processing unit, an input unit which receives a command to display an on-screen display (OSD), and a control unit which determines a content view to display OSD information from among the plurality of contents views, when an OSD display command is inputted, and an OSD processing unit which displays OSD information on the determined content view. | 02-05-2015 |
20150054927 | Method of glassless 3D display - Present invention relates to apparatus and methods for glassless 3D display with “unlimited” number of TV viewers and with flexibility for eye positions, the fundament elements of this invention are the introduction of “eye space” and the circuit unit for shutter pupil control on shutter screen. The methods are applied to any 3D display, such as TV's, monitors, smart devices (iphone, ipad, . . . ), movie theaters, games, etc. One of the methods is called “mimic scene method”, based on image depth map. The second one is called “dynamic pinhole shutter method”. | 02-26-2015 |
20150062315 | SIMULTANEOUS 2D AND 3D IMAGES ON A DISPLAY - Many 3D displays show 3D images to viewers wearing special eyeglasses, while showing a double image to viewers without eyeglasses ( | 03-05-2015 |
20150070477 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including a determination unit configured to determine whether or not difference between left-eye image data and right-eye image data which constitute image data satisfies a threshold condition, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust the image data in a manner that an angle of convergence become smaller in a case of stereoscopically displaying the image data, in a case where the determination unit determines that the difference satisfies the threshold condition. The adjustment unit adjusts the image data in a manner that respective pieces of image data become a same in movement amount of display positions in a depth direction perceived at a target point, the pieces of image data corresponding to a plurality of frames. | 03-12-2015 |
20150077530 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Apparatuses and methods related to a display apparatus and a control method thereof, are provided. More particularly, the apparatuses and methods relate to a display apparatus which provides a 3D image or a multi-view image through shutter glasses and a control method thereof. | 03-19-2015 |
20150092029 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR PACKING COLOR FRAME AND ORIGINAL DEPTH FRAME - A method, device and system for packing a color frame and an original depth frame to obtain a packed frame are disclosed. The color frame is corresponding to the original depth frame, and the packed frame is to be displayed on a screen. The method for packing the color frame and the original depth frame includes the steps of resizing the original depth frame to obtain a resized depth frame; and combining the color frame and the resized depth frame to obtain the packed frame. The center of the color frame is displayed in the central area of the screen. | 04-02-2015 |
20150103153 | SHUTTER CONTROL SYSTEM AND IMAGE APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An image apparatus with reduced three-dimensional (3D) crosstalk includes a shutter control system including an infrared (IR) signal transmitter configured to receive from a display device for displaying two or more light-off sections and two or more light-on sections arranged alternately in one image frame, information corresponding to the light-off sections and the light-on sections, and to output an IR signal corresponding to the information, the IR signal corresponding to a start of a first light-off section of the light-off sections in the image frame, and a shutter controller configured to receive the IR signal, and to control opening or closing of a left shutter and a right shutter in accordance with the IR signal. | 04-16-2015 |
20150109425 | Receiving Device, Transmitting Device and Transmitting/Receiving System - According to one embodiment, an electronic device including an image signal output module, a display, a lighting module, a driving module, and a shutter controller configured to control a timing of opening a first shutter which makes the first image viewable and a second shutter which makes the second image viewable alternately, according to a timing of the alternate output of the first image signal and the second image signal by the image signal output module, while providing a period of closing both of the first shutter and the second shutter. | 04-23-2015 |
20150124063 | Stereoscopic Display - A stereoscopic display system includes an image display panel, viewpoint position sensors, and a means to create first or left and second or right stereoscopic images corrected for parallax. This allows for multiple viewpoints to perceive the viewed 3D stereoscopic image as approximately fixed in space. In one embodiment, the first and second images may be perceived as a 3D stereoscopic image by applying shutter glasses. In another embodiment, the first and second images may be perceived as a 3D auto stereoscopic image by applying configurable louvers or light guiding layers. In this embodiment, the display system utilizes information from the position sensors to optimize electronically configurable louvers. This allows for large displays to be seen from multiple viewpoints. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124064 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR VIEWING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - Systems and methods for viewing stereoscopic television are described. The methods generate stereoscopic views from 3D content; synchronize with external view ware (e.g., shuttered glasses) to include shutter information and viewing geometry; sequence 3D content for multiple viewers at multiple perspective views; and output to a display component for viewing. | 05-07-2015 |
20150145973 | 3D IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND 3D IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH UNIFORM LUMINANCE - The present invention discloses a 3D image display device including a backlight source driver providing N driving current signals, a backlight module including N backlight sources which emit lights when receiving N driving current signals in sequence, and a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of liquid crystal display zones. After the first frame images are displayed in the liquid crystal panel in the first time period when the second frame images are being displayed in the liquid crystal panel in the second time period, luminance of the 1 | 05-28-2015 |
20150145974 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The occurrence of crosstalk in a display device which performs 3D display is suppressed. When 3D display is performed, part of a plurality of pixels perform desired color display and the other part of the plurality of pixels perform black display. Thus, as compared to the case where all of a plurality of pixels perform desired color display, the occurrence of crosstalk can be suppressed. A plurality of pixels which perform desired color display are changed depending on the display state. Therefore, as compared to the case where a plurality of pixels which perform desired color display are fixed when 3D display is performed, the display device can have a longer period until display change in a pixel becomes obvious (a longer lifetime) and variations in display among the plurality of pixels can be reduced. | 05-28-2015 |
20150304640 | Managing 3D Edge Effects On Autostereoscopic Displays - 3D images may be represented by a sequence of received pairs of LE and RE frames. It is determined whether a frame comprising a floating window exists in a pair of LE and RE frames in the sequence of pairs of LE and RE frames. If so, depth information for one or more pixels in a plurality of pixels in a portion of the frame covered by the floating window is determined. Such depth information may be generated based on depth information extracted from one or more frames in one or more pairs of LE and RE frames in the sequence of pairs of LE and RE frames that are either previous or subsequent to the pair of LE and RE frames. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304643 | FAST-ACTING LOW VOLTAGE LIQUID CRYSTAL STEREO GLASSES - The invention relates to the field of optoelectronics and display technology and can be used in high speed stereoscopic glasses when working with any type of 3D display, designed to operate with active stereo glasses with standard (60-160 Hz), high (hundreds of Hz) and ultrahigh (several kilohertz) frame rate. According to the invention in optical shutters of high-speed stereo glasses a layer of the helix-free ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) with optimized physical parameters is used. The technical result is an increase of the optical contrast of FLC shutters, reducing the amplitude of the control voltage. | 10-22-2015 |
20150338673 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIEWING AN IMAGE - It is provided a method for viewing an image that is wider or higher than the display screen, wherein, the image is evenly divided into two portions by using a line passing through centers of larger edges of the image compared to the display screen. The method comprises, at the side of shutter glasses, the steps of receiving a message indicating display of a first portion of the two portions; turning dark of the shutter glasses and turning refraction direction of the shutter glasses towards a first position; turning transparent of the shutter glasses; receiving a message indicating display of a second portion of the two portions; turning dark of the shutter glasses and turning refraction direction of the shutter glasses towards a second position; and turning transparent of the shutter glasses. | 11-26-2015 |
20150350631 | DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH A 3D SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL TRANSMITTER DISPOSED THEREIN - A display apparatus in which a user can view a 3D image using shutter glasses is provided. The display apparatus, in which a user can view a three-dimensional (3D) image using shutter glasses, may include: a cover; a display module which is disposed in the cover and displays. an image; and a transmitter which is disposed in the cover and transmits a synchronization signal to the shutter glasses to synchronize the image displayed by the display module with the shutter glasses. | 12-03-2015 |
20150365648 | METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING SHUTTER-TYPE THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY - Compared with the prior art, in the processing method provided by the present disclosure, a corresponding monocular frame mixed image signal that includes a part of successive monocular frame image signals and a part of successive black picture image signals is inserted after the monocular frame image signal. Therefore at the time of 3D image display, since the monocular frame mixed image signal includes part of the monocular frame image signals and part of the black picture image signals, the 3D image crosstalk phenomenon can be efficiently improved. Moreover, since the monocular frame mixed image signal only has part of the black picture image signals, a better brightness evenness can be obtained in display by reducing the proportion of the black picture image signals in the monocular frame mixed image signal. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365656 | DISPLAY AUXILIARY DEVICE, DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM MEDIUM - A display auxiliary device includes a light receiving sensor that receives display light from a display target, and a CPU that determines whether or not a switching display synchronous signal is included in the received display light, shields both a left-eye liquid crystal shutter and a right-eye liquid crystal shutter during a light reception period of time of the switching display synchronous signal based on the switching display synchronous signal, and performs a shutter switching operation of the left-eye liquid crystal shutter for the left-eye image and the right-eye liquid crystal shutter for the right-eye image to be switched and displayed, when the switching display synchronous signal is determined to be included. | 12-17-2015 |
20160080733 | SHUTTER GLASSES, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SHUTTER GLASSES, AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - Shutter glasses in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention include a shutter lens configured to transmit an image of a display unit and a controller configured to control shutoff of the shutter lens. The shutter lens includes a first shutter block and a second shutter block, and the controller controls shutoff of the first shutter block in response to an image of the first display block of the display unit and controls shutoff of the second shutter block in response to an image of the second display block of the display unit. | 03-17-2016 |
20160088291 | MONOCHROME STEREOSCOPIC PROJECTION DISPLAY SYSTEM ON SEMITRANSPARENT PLATE - The field of the invention is that of viewing systems comprising means for generating stereoscopic images, a viewing device comprising a projector and a semitransparent screen and a pair of stereoscopic glasses. The projector according to the invention comprises means arranged so as to project alternatively a first image emitted at a first wavelength and a second image emitted at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. The pair of glasses comprises a first filter and a second filter, the first filter transmitting the entirety of the spectrum except a first narrow spectral band centred on the first wavelength and the second filter transmitting the entirety of the spectrum except a second narrow spectral band centred on the second wavelength. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088292 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, VIDEO SYSTEM AND EYEGLASS DEVICE - One embodiment provides an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a display panel; a backlight; a sync processor; a backlight driver; and a transmitter. The display panel displays an image. The backlight illuminates the display panel from its back side. The sync processor generates a backlight control signal according to sync pulses that indicate respective vertical sync periods for frame-by-frame display of the image on the display panel, or a shutter control signal for opening/closure control of a shutter provided in eyeglasses in synchronism with the backlight control signal. The backlight driver receives the backlight control signal generated by the sync processor, and to cause the backlight to be lit during a prescribed period of each vertical sync period. The transmitter configured to send the backlight control signal or the shutter control signal outward. | 03-24-2016 |
20160112697 | SHUTTER GLASSES, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The shutter glasses for the display apparatus include a shutter-glasses communication unit which receives a first sync signal from the display apparatus displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image; and a shutter-glasses controller which generates an ON/OFF driving signal for a left-eye lens unit and a right-eye lens unit of the shutter glasses based on the first sync signal, the first sync signal including a pattern, based on which at least one sync pulse is periodically omitted in a second sync signal used in displaying the 3D image according to a frame driving frequency of the 3D image. The shutter-glasses controller generates an ON/OFF driving signal in sync with the first sync signal, so that the ON/OFF driving signal includes the sync pulse in a section corresponding to the omitted sync pulse of the second sync signal according to a time period of the first sync signal. | 04-21-2016 |
20160150224 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SUPER MULTI-VIEWPOINT IMAGE - A super multi-viewpoint image generating device includes a host system, a storage unit, first and second liquid crystal display (LCD) projection lamps, a synchronization unit, first and second LCD shutters, first and second projection objectives, and an image light combination unit, according to the present invention, a super multi-viewpoint image where interference between adjacent viewpoint images is removed by a viewing zone-based synchronized shutter timing may be generated, thereby providing an environment for generating a super multi-viewpoint image having a realistic level, establishing a method of generating a viewing zone-based super multi-viewpoint image, and displaying a super multi-viewpoint image. | 05-26-2016 |
20160161753 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING BEAM SPLITTER - An image display device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a display including light-emitting elements arrayed two-dimensionally, and having regions, in each of which a part of the light-emitting elements is located; a mirror lens array including mirror lenses, each of the mirror lenses being disposed correspondingly to one of the regions, reflecting light from the regions, and forming virtual images; and a beam splitter disposed between the display and the mirror lens array, the beam splitter transmitting a part of the light from the regions in a direction of the mirror lens array and reflecting a part of reflected light from the mirror lens array. | 06-09-2016 |
20160165224 | PROJECTOR - A projector includes a lamp that emits projection light to project 3D picture, in which a right eye image and a left eye image are represented in a time division manner, to an object, a synchronization signal transmission section which transmits shutter synchronization signal to glasses having a right eye shutter and a left eye shutter to control the opened state or the closed state of the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter, based on the signal indicating a displaying period of the right eye image and the left eye image of 3D picture, and a lamp drive section that supplies AC current having peak overlapping with a period when the right eye shutter of the glasses is in the opened state and peak overlapping with a period when the left eye shutter of the glasses is in the opened state to the lamp, based on the signal. | 06-09-2016 |
20160191907 | Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Controlling Stereo Glasses - A method, system, and computer program product are provided for controlling stereo glasses. Left and right eye shutters of stereo glasses are controlled to switch between closed and open orientations and simultaneously remain in a fast switching orientation for a predetermined amount of time between the closed and open orientations. The fast switching orientation of each of the left and right eye shutters has at least one open time and at least one closed time. A duration from a first one of the at least one open time and the at least one closed time through a last one of the at least one open time and at least one closed time is equal to the predetermined mount of time. Each of the at least one open time of the fast switching orientation of each of the left and right eye shutters is shorter than or equal to 1/24 seconds. | 06-30-2016 |
20160198149 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DRIVE METHOD THEREFOR | 07-07-2016 |