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| 20080204546 | Stereoscopic Imaging Device and Means for Construction Thereof - A stereoscopic display device comprises a display device for displaying a pixellated display image; and a stereoscopic conversion screen. The conversion screen comprises an array of light guiding members, each light guiding member being associated with an underlying pixel or sub-array of pixels, and wherein alternate rows of light guiding members are arranged to direct light from the associated pixel or sub-array of pixels to different viewing positions. The invention provides spatial multiplexing of images into successive horizontal rows, rather than in vertical columns, as in common practice. This can resolve a looming problem so that a stereoscopic effect is perceived across the full width of the 2D image. This spatial multiplexing screen may be combined with a dynamic temporal multiplexing arrangement to increase the number of views. The invention also relates to such a dynamic temporal multiplexing system. The display device may be switchable between 2D and 3D modes of operation by using electro chromic materials, or by removing the conversion screen. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080204547 | Process and system used to discover and exploit the illusory depth properties inherent in an autostereoscopic image - A method, system and devices for optimizing and/or maximizing the perceived autostereoscopic effect for any chosen combination of photographic or electronic recording materials, recording methods and parameters, and imaging methods and parameters. The method first determines the parameters characterizing the optimum autostereoscopic effect of the combination materials etc. (the front pixel spread and the back pixel spread), then specifies how to apply these parameters to the arrangement of image acquisition devices, or the production of images by computational means, to produce a final image with optimal autostereoscopic properties. Features of the present invention provide for image acquisition either occurring in the real world (via digital or analog means) or within a computer graphic environment (or a blend of both), by way of specific methods necessary for successfully traveling through a variety of different mathematical spaces to arrive at a common space. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080204548 | SWITCHABLE OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM AND RELATED 3D/2D IMAGE SWITCHABLE APPARATUS - The present invention is directed a switchable optical imaging system and a 3D/2D image switchable apparatus having high functional flexibility in a number of aspects and adaptability to various applications. The present invention is based on generating directional optical beams, transforming these optical beams and projecting transformed optical beams in a field of view to thereby divide the field of view into one or more adjustable viewing zones and to form 2-dimensional (2D) images or perspective views of a 3-dimensional (3D) image of an object or scene therein. The present invention is embodied in the switchable optical imaging system and the 3D/2D image switchable apparatus using the same system. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080204549 | Apparatus And Method For Photographing Three-Dimensional Image, Apparatus And Method For Displaying Three-Dimensional Image, And Apparatus And Method For Converting Three-Dimensional Image Display Position - Described is a device and method that makes it possible to acquire image information required for displaying a three-dimensional image of an object in a space with a simple configuration and to achieve display of a stereoscopic dynamic image in a true sense with a simple configuration. Light from an object ( | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080204550 | Stereoscopic Display Apparatus - In a stereoscopic display apparatus having optical directory elements such as lenticular elements ( | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080218589 | Autostereoscopic Display - An autostereoscopic display | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080225113 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE, AND STRUCTURE OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA - A three-dimensional image display device includes a display section having pixels arranged in a matrix and each includes three color component sub-pixels arranged in vertical stripes, and a light beam control element installed opposite the display section and having optical apertures arranged in a substantially horizontal direction and extending linearly in a direction inclined at an angle atan (1/n) (n=4 or 5) to a direction of pixel columns. The average value of the horizontal pitch of element images displayed in the display section is specified to be equal to or greater than natural number m times as large as a pixel horizontal pitch (m| 09-18-2008 | |
| 20080225114 | Stereoscopic Display Apparatus - A method of computing a display value to be provided to a stereoscopic display apparatus ( | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080231689 | BEAMSPLITTER DISPLAY - A three dimensional viewing assembly includes a first display, a second display, and a beamsplitter. The first display is for displaying a first image. The second display is for displaying a second image. The beamsplitter is disposed at least partially between the first display and the second display, and is configured to receive, and to optically overlay, the first and second images. The beamsplitter comprises a first surface, a second surface, and a mirror. The first surface at least partially faces the first display, and the second surface at least partially faces the second display. The mirror is disposed between the first surface and the second surface. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080231690 | Display Apparatus - A display apparatus comprises a spatial light modulator and optical elements in series therewith. The optical elements provide a first parallax element being a parallax barrier capable of directing light output from the display apparatus into a first plurality of viewing windows, and a second parallax element capable of directing light output from the display apparatus into a second plurality of viewing windows. In a first mode, the first and second parallax elements have substantially no directional effect on the light output from the display apparatus. In a second mode, the first parallax element directs light output from the display apparatus into the first plurality of viewing windows and the second optical element has substantially no directional effect. In a third mode, the second optical element directs light output from the display apparatus into the second plurality of viewing windows and the first parallax element has substantially no directional effect. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080239066 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - Methods and systems are provided for displaying 3D images using a display system having multiple physical layers. The physical layers of the display system are controlled (or manufactured) such that the display system produces a desired 4D light field corresponding to a real or synthetic 3D object or scene to be viewed by an observer. This may be accomplished, for example, by determining the transmittance values of one or more points in each physical layer that are required such that the desired 4D light field is produced by the display system. Various alternative embodiments are also disclosed. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080246837 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes an autosteroscopic liquid crystal display panel having a frame response time of less than 10 milliseconds, and a backlight positioned to provide light to the autosteroscopic liquid crystal display. The backlight includes a right eye solid state light source and a left eye solid state light source capable of being modulated between the right eye solid state light source and a left eye solid state light source at a rate of at least 90 Hertz. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080259156 | Stereoscopic Display Device with Liquid Crystal Shutter Light Filter for Naked Eye Viewing and a Display Method Thereof - A stereoscopic display device with liquid crystal shutter light filter for naked eye viewing which comprises a personal computer and an image screen, wherein a dual display card is disposed inside the personal computer, and a light filtering screen is disposed in front of the image screen, and both the image screen and the light filtering screen connect with the dual display card respectively. Input the three-dimensional model data of a stereo image to the dual display card of the personal computer; and set the light filtering data and control the light filtering screen to open light filtering apertures correspondingly to obtain a light filtering image, and then use region projection method to record the stereo image as divided into partitions and obtain a continuous parallax image data, and then perform image processing on the continuous parallax image data to obtain a continuous parallax image, and the light filtering image and the continuous parallax image form a recording unit of the stereo image. Display the continuous parallax image on the image screen and the light filtering image on the light filtering screen simultaneously by the dual display card to see stereo image. The present invention has extensive applications. It is not required to wear any special glasses or helmets to view stereo images. It is also possible to move freely and view the stereo images from different perspective without causing any visual strain. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080266387 | Autostereoscopic Display Device - A switchable autostereoscopic display device comprises a display panel having an array of display pixels for producing a display, the display pixels being arranged in rows and columns; and an imaging arrangement for directing the output from different pixels to different spatial positions to enable a stereoscopic image to be viewed. The imaging arrangement is electrically switchable between at least three modes comprising a 2D mode and two 3D modes. The imaging arrangement comprises an electrically configurable graded index lens array. The display can be switched between a number of modes to enable the display to be adapted or to adapt itself to the image content to be displayed and/or the display device orientation. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080273083 | Stereoscopic Two-Dimensional Display Device - To facilitate seeing of the image on a peripheral region which may become difficult to see as the screen size increases. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080278573 | Method and Arrangement for Monoscopically Representing at Least One Area of an Image on an Autostereoscopic Display Apparatus and Information Reproduction Unit Having Such an Arrangement - In a method for monoscopically representing at least one image area of an image on an autostereoscopic display apparatus with a resolution of M×N arranged like a matrix with M columns and N rows and a plurality of active or passive beam splitters or parallax barriers that separate the monitor pixels in P fields, an image area that is to be represented monoscopically is selected. A representation of the selected area is generated with a resolution of M/S×N/K image pixels wherein 1| 11-13-2008 | |
| 20080278574 | Display of generalized anaglyphs without retinal rivalry - General anaglyphs may be rendered using multiple primary colors to display the first and second images of stereoscopic images. Retinal rivalry in the anaglyphs may be avoided by using transformations which balance the brightness contrast in the first and second images. Certain primary colors may be advantageous for rendering anaglyphs in six, five, four, and three primary colors. A white primary color is advantageous for displaying a monochrome second image with a color first image. General anaglyphs may be dynamically created by a display apparatus using certain transformations and communication with external sources. Four-primary-color anaglyphs may be compressed into three channels for transfer to a display apparatus. A user may select the primary colors of the first and second images and the relative brightness of the second image. Several methods to display general anaglyphs are disclosed. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080284843 | Three-dimensional image display method and apparatus - A three-dimensional image display method, includes: displaying a three-dimensional image including a left eye image signal and a right eye image signal displayed at a display focus angle; determining whether to change a viewing focus angle with respect to the display focus angle; calculating a pixel distance between the left eye image signal and the right eye image signal if it is determined to change the viewing focus angle; and displaying indicator marks at positions spaced as much as a half of the pixel distance from a center of a screen in leftward and rightward directions. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080291267 | Lenticular Autostereoscopic Display Device and Method, and Associated Autostereoscopic Image Synthesising Method - An autostereoscopic display device includes a matrix display screen and a lenticular array arranged in front of the display screen. The lenticular array is adapted to receive and optically process a raster image transmitted by the display screen, with the raster image being encoded in order to integrate a plurality P of viewpoints of a same scene. The display screen includes a matrix of screen pixels, each of which includes three color cells organized in rows and columns laid out so as to form columns of a same color within the screen. The image transmitted by the display screen comprises a set of three-dimensional pixels, each integrating the plurality P of viewpoints of an image pixel of the scene, and each three-dimensional pixel occupying 3×P color cells in two adjacent rows within the screen. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080291268 | Rendering of Image Data for Multi-View Display - The invention pertains to rendering of image data for a multi-view display, such as image data for a lenticular auto-stereoscopic display. The method comprising the steps of providing view-dependent image data for an image, determining a view-dependent intensity function, or luminance function, for the image, applying a spatial filtering to a view-dependent coordinate of the intensity function, the spatial filtering being such as a low-pass filter, a high-pass filter or a combination of a low-pass and a high-pass filter, and sampling the view-dependent intensity function to a plurality of sub-images, each sub-image being associated with a view-direction of the image. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080291269 | 3D IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A three-dimensional image display method is disclosed. The three-dimensional image display method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: displaying an object image; displaying a background image by using a three-dimensional image display method; and disposing the object image at a close distance and the background image at a far distance such that the object image and the background image overlap inside a same viewing angle. By using images having a different sense of depth, a high-resolution image can be displayed while providing a sense of reality. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080297591 | Supplementary Visual Display System - There is provided a supplementary visual display system ( | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080297592 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY AND PHASE DIFFERENT PLATE - A stereoscopic display is provided. The stereoscopic display includes: an image displaying section that generates a right eye image and a left eye image and emits the same; and a phase differential plate disposed on an exit side of the image displaying section that orthogonalizes to each other or rotates reversely the polarizing directions of the right eye image and the left eye image which are incident from the image displaying section and emits the same. The phase differential plate is disposed on the image displaying section side and has an image light-antireflective film that prevents the right eye image light and the left eye image light from reflecting from the image displaying section. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080297593 | Rendering for an Interactive 360 Degree Light Field Display - An interactive, autostereoscopic system for displaying an object in 3D includes a mirror configured to spin around a vertical axis when actuated by a motor, a high speed video projector, and a processing system including a graphics card interfaced to the video projector. An anisotropic reflector is bonded onto an inclined surface of the mirror. The video projector projects video signals of the object from the projector onto the inclined surface of the mirror while the mirror is spinning, so that light rays representing the video signals are redirected toward a field of view of a 360 degree range. The processing system renders the redirected light rays so as to interactively generate a horizontal-parallax 3D display of the object. Vertical parallax can be included in the display by adjusting vertically the displayed views of the object, in response to tracking of viewer motion by a tracking system. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080309755 | Image outputting apparatus and program - An operation unit switches the operating mode between a 3D display output mode in which the images of the 3D image file are displayed as a stereoscopic images and a 2D display output mode in which one of the images of the 3D image file is displayed as an ordinary planar image. The 3D image file is composed of stereoscopic image data which represents a plurality of monocular images constituting a multi-ocular stereoscopic image and information which is added to the stereoscopic image data and which indicates that the data is stereoscopic data. In the 2D display output mode, a control unit makes an output unit display an image of the 3D image file read from a medium by a media reader and also display a mark on the same screen, indicating that the image displayed in the 2D display output mode is based on the 3D image file. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080309756 | Rendering Views for a Multi-View Display Device - A method of rendering views for a multi-view display device ( | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080316302 | Autostereoscopic Display Device - The present invention relates to an autostereoscopic display device, comprising an imaging layer ( | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080316303 | Display Device - An enhanced liquid crystal display design is provided having relatively fast response time particularly useful in high speed or highly intense applications, such as stereoscopic or autostereoscopic image display. The liquid crystal display device is configured to display stereoscopic images, and comprises an LCD panel and control electronics configured to drive the LCD panel to a desired stereoscopic display state. The control electronics are configured to employ transient phase switching and overdrive the LCD panel to a desired state to enable relatively rapid display of stereoscopic images. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090009593 | THREE DIMENSIONAL PROJECTION DISPLAY - A display system includes a screen and a plurality of projectors configured to illuminate the screen with light. The light forms a three dimensional (3D) object for display in a viewing region. The system further includes one or more processors configured to generate image information associated with the 3D object. The image information is calibrated to compensate for a projector bias of the plurality of projectors by transforming a projector perspective of the 3D object to a viewing region perspective. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090027487 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an image obtaining device which obtains image data taken from multiple viewpoints, an image processing device which selects one of the image data and applies a process of emphasizing a stereoscopic effect with respect to the selected image data, to generate list display image data, a file generation device which generates a recorded image file which stores the list display image data and the image data taken from the multiple viewpoints, and a display device which, when the recorded image file is displayed in a list, uses the list display image data to perform the list display. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090033741 | 2D-3D CONVERTIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD HAVING A BACKGROUND OF FULL-PARALLAX INTEGRAL IMAGES - A two dimensional to three dimensional (2D-3D) convertible display device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display device includes i) a first display unit configured to selectively output one of a composite image and backlight, wherein the composite image comprises a background image and a mask image, for an object, wherein the background image comprises element images for a background excluding the object and wherein the mask image is a white image which has the same shape as that of the object, ii) a lens unit configured to convert the composite image into a stereoscopic image or pass through the backlight and iii) a second display unit configured to output i) a two-dimensional (2D) image of the object by the use of the backlight at a 2D mode and ii) the combination of the 2D image and the composite image at a three dimensional (3D) mode. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090046140 | Mobile Virtual Reality Projector - A spatially aware apparatus includes a projector. Projected display contents can change based on the position, motion, or orientation of the apparatus. The apparatus may include gyroscope(s), accelerometer(s), global positioning system (GPS) receiver(s), radio receiver(s), or any other devices or interfaces that detect, or provide information relating to, motion, orientation, or position of the apparatus. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090058994 | STEREO PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM - A stereo projection optical system, includes a first polarizing beam splitter configured for separating a light input into a first polarized light component and a second polarized light component; a first transmission-type spatial light modulator configured for receiving the first polarized light component; a second transmission-type spatial light modulator configured for receiving the second polarized light component; a second polarizing beam splitter positioned to receive the light outputs of the first, second spatial light modulators. The first and second transmission-type spatial light modulators respectively generate two images formed by the first polarized light component and the second polarized light component with spatial information. When a viewer wears glasses that have two polarizing lenses whose polarization directions are perpendicular to each other, the viewer can perceive projected images as being three-dimensional. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090066785 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND REPRODUCING 3D STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE FILE INCLUDING 2D IMAGE - A method for controlling moving picture encoding using channel information of wireless networks is provided. By the method, it is possible to use a pre-verified standard technology in the prescription of a stereoscopic image file format, thereby simplifying a verification procedure for a new standard. Also, it is possible to use a new a stereoscopic image file format, thereby selecting, generating, and reproducing either of a 2D image file or a 3D stereoscopic image file. In particular, according to a system and a method for using a file format used to generate a 3D stereoscopic image, it is possible to reproduce and display a caption in the form of a 2D image during reproduction of the 3D stereoscopic image, thereby reducing eyestrain of a user, and additionally providing an image such as news, or an advertisement, to a user. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090079818 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - It is made possible to provide a stereoscopic image display apparatus capable of preventing a luminance difference from being caused between left and right eyes irrespective of the observation position even if the viewing zone is wide and the number of parallaxes is large. A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: a display unit including pixels arranged in a matrix form in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction; an optical plate installed so as to be opposed to the display unit and having linear optical openings prolonged in a longitudinal direction and arranged in a lateral direction; and a luminance compensation processing unit which, for each of elemental images associated with the optical openings, sets a brightness of an image displayed on a pixel located in a center of the elemental image smaller than a brightness of an image displayed on a pixel located in each of boundaries of the elemental image. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090091613 | Asymmetric viewing angles for a dual view display - The present invention is related to an asymmetric aligned display having asymmetric viewing angles. The present invention provides a dual-view or 3D display capable of displaying two images of unrelated or related content along different directions with asymmetric viewing angles. The asymmetric viewing angles of the display device of the present invention can be realized by the introduction of multiple sub-pixel pitches into a single display. To be more specific, the present invention provides an asymmetric aligned display by realizing the asymmetry design in the sub-pixel itself. Consequently, the angular extends of the respective viewing windows or images displayed along different directions can be different or asymmetrical. The asymmetric aligned display of the present invention is, therefore, capable of displaying images along different directions with asymmetric viewing angles and windows without affecting the outer boundaries of the viewing windows. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090128622 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - In 3D information creation means | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090135248 | Stereoscopic display apparatus - The present invention discloses a stereoscopic display apparatus comprising a first and a second image displayer, an aspherical reflection mirror, a beamsplitter and a housing. The first and the second image displayer are used for projecting a first and a second image light respectively. The aspherical reflection mirror is used for refracting the image light and for changing a polarity of the image light. The beamsplitter, disposed between the image generator and the aspherical reflection mirror, is used for deflecting a proceeding route of the image light based on the polarity of the optical signal. The housing has at least one opening for an operator to inspect a first image and a second image through. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090141121 | CALIBRATION OF A 3-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090147073 | Methods and Systems for Stereoscopic Three Dimensional Viewing - A method and system for three dimensional viewing of stereo images of an object or cavity includes using an imaging machine to obtain images representative of either a physical volume or a volumetric set of data. A computing machine can be used to identify image elements within the volumetric set of data by executing a ray tracing function to identify image elements along a path that is directed through the collection of images or sequentially ordered stack of images. The computing machine further applies a weighting function to intensity values related to the identified image elements. The computing machine generates at least one image element value based in part on the identified image elements, and based in part on the results generated from the executing of the ray tracing function and the application of the weighting function. Using the at least one image element value, the computing machine derives a pair of stereo images. Alternatively, the computing machine can select from within a collection of images representative of a physical volume, stereo pairs of images. The stereo pairs of images are displayed on a viewing apparatus. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090147074 | Methods and Systems for Marking Stereo Pairs of Images - Systems and methods for marking stereo pairs of images include an imaging device for retrieving a collection of images that are representative of a volume, where the images can be representative of a physical volume or a volumetric set of data. A computing machine identifies image elements within the retrieved collection of images representative of a volumetric set of data, and further generates image element values that are based in part on the identified image elements. The computing machine further generates a stereoscopic pair of projection images having two members, where each member of the pair is based in part on at least one image element value generated by the computing machine. A viewing apparatus displays either the calculated stereoscopic pair of projection images or a pair of stereo images selected from images representative of a physical volume, such that when the pair of images are viewed through a portion of the viewing apparatus, the resultant display is a perceived three dimensional image. An input device or computer application is further used to position a marker within the stereoscopic pair of projection images to identify a location within the stereo pair of images. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090167845 | Method and System for Three-Dimensional Displays - In one embodiment, a method of rendering stereoscopic images includes providing eyewear having a pair of lenses. Each lens is transitioned between an optically-shuttered state and an optically-transmissive state. The transitioning is in response to a voltage waveform applied substantially simultaneously to at least a portion of each lens. Each lens transitions between states in opposition to the other lens. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090195642 | Three-dimensional image display device, three-dimensional image display method, and computer program product for three-dimensional image display - A three-dimensional image display device includes a two-dimensional image display screen having color filters in which each color is disposed on sub-pixels obtained by dividing one pixel in a vertical direction and same color is disposed on each column of sub-pixels; an optical plate having an exit pupil, the exit pupil being provided for making a viewing zone different for each pixel and having a longitudinal axis disposed as to be inclined from a vertical direction of the two-dimensional image display screen at a degree (θ) (θ≠0, −45°<θ<45°), the viewing zone being a region in which parallax information displayed on the two-dimensional image display screen is observed; and a viewing zone adjusting unit that adjusts the viewing zone by shifting the viewing zone in a horizontal direction of the two-dimensional image display screen by shifting the parallax information disposed on each pixel of the two-dimensional image display screen in the vertical direction by pixel. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090195643 | MEDIAL AXIS DECOMPOSITION OF 2D OBJECTS TO SYNTHESIZE BINOCULAR DEPTH - A computer-based method for generating a stereoscopic image from a two dimensional (2D) image such as a 2D cell animation. An object is selected in the 2D image, such as an animated character, and is stored in memory as the base image. With an erosion engine, the selected object is eroded to generate a set of eroded versions of the base image corresponding to a number of erosion levels. Each erosion level image may be formed by eroding or removing a set of outer or edge pixels from the image on the prior level. The method continues with calculating a parallax shift value for each of the eroded versions of the base image. An alternate eye image is then generated by compositing the set of eroded versions along with the base image. The eroded versions are horizontally offset from the base image by the level-specific parallax shift values. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090195644 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus that can form an image composed of pixels on an image forming plane such that, by suppressing density of the pixels in each portion of the image to be formed on the image forming plane from becoming ununiformity, a natural image free from distortion or deflection is observed regardless of a shape of the image forming plane even in the case where the image forming plane is viewed at any position are provided. The image forming apparatus forms includes a light emitting unit that emits the light; a light scanning unit having at least one actuator in which a movable plate having a light reflector that reflects the light emitted from the light emitting unit is rotatably provided around one rotation axis or two rotation axes which are orthogonal to each other, the actuator irradiating and scanning the light reflected on the light reflector onto the image forming plane by rotation of the movable plate; a drive pattern generating unit that generates a drive pattern of the light emitting unit, the drive pattern by which the light emitting unit can emit the light with such timing and emission time that suppress density of the pixels in each portion of the image to be formed on the image forming plane from becoming ununiformity, wherein the ununiformity in the density of the pixels would be generated due to differences between incident angles of the light to be irradiated with respect to portions of the image forming plane corresponding to the respective pixels or differences between distances from the light emitting unit to the respective portions of the image forming plane; and a controlling unit that controls operation of the light emitting unit based on the drive pattern generated by the drive pattern generating unit. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090207237 | Method and Device for Autosterioscopic Display With Adaptation of the Optimal Viewing Distance - A method for autostereoscopic viewing including encoding a matrix image on a display, the matrix image integrating a set of P view points of the same scene. The matrix image consists of image pixels, and P image pixels forming a 3D image including P view points. The display includes a matrix of screen pixels, the screen pixels including P view points forming a 3D screen pixel. The method further includes receiving and optically processing a matrix image, emitted by the display, with a converting display, remotely generating a three-dimensional image. The device and method further include adapting the number of screen pixels to encode a 3D image pixel, based on a desired optimal viewing distance (D | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090207238 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING VIEW OF STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE FOR STEREO SYNCHRONIZATION - Provided is a method and apparatus for determining stereo views of a stereoscopic image. The method includes: selecting a pair of first and second images from a pair of frames of the stereoscopic image, the pair of frames including a base view image and an additional view image. The method further includes determining which of the first image and the second image is the base view image and which of the first image and the second image is the additional view image based on a parallax between the pair of first and second images. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090219385 | Method for the Multimodal Representation of Image Contents on a Display Unit for Video Holograms, and Multimodal Display Unit - The invention relates to a method for the multimodal representation of image contents on a display unit for video holograms. Said unit comprises at least one or several light sources (LS), an optical system (L), and a spatial light modulator SLM (S) with hologram contents. According to the inventive method, the unit directs the wavefront that an object would emit to the associated eye positions (EP) such that the viewer sees the reconstruction of the scene and different views are presented to the eyes by means of temporal or spatial multiplexing in order to generate the stereo effect. The inventive method is characterized in that the light of the zero order of diffraction is directed to the eye positions (EP) for a holographic representation in a first mode, whereby the viewer sees the reconstructed scene (3D-S), while the non-diffracted light is directed to the eye positions for a direct representation in a second mode, whereby the viewer sees an autostereoscopic and/or a 2D representation (3D-2D) on the SLM. The invention also relates to display units for implementing said method. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090237494 | Apparatus, method, and program for displaying stereoscopic images - A stereoscopic image display apparatus is constituted by: an image obtaining section for obtaining a plurality of images, which are obtained by photography of a subject from different positions; a distance measuring section, for measuring the distance to the subject; a stereoscopic image generating section, for generating a stereoscopic image for three dimensional display from the plurality of images; a display region generating section, for generating display regions that display the images in manners corresponding to the distance, when the display regions are displayed overlapped in the stereoscopic image; and a display section, for displaying the stereoscopic image, on which the display regions are overlapped. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090244266 | Enhanced Three Dimensional Television - The performance of autoscopic multiview displays such as glasses free three dimensional television is improved by the application of adaptive crosstalk cancelation information. Adaptive crosstalk cancelation information is created using a display profile for a three dimensional television and is applied to imagery displayed on the three dimensional television thereby reducing the presence of crosstalk and ghosting that otherwise degrades the quality of imagery displayed. Adaptive crosstalk cancellation information is also applied to improve the quality of lenticular hardcopy imagery and illuminated barrier strip three dimensional signage. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090244267 | Method and apparatus for rendering virtual see-through scenes on single or tiled displays - A system for displaying an image on a display includes a display for displaying an image thereon. A three dimensional representation of an image is obtained. The three dimensional representation is rendered as a two dimensional representation on the display. An imaging device is associated with the display. The location of a viewer is determined with respect to the display. The rendering on the display is based upon the determining the location of the viewer with respect to the display. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090244268 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEOS - A stereoscopic video processing apparatus is constituted by: a video input section, for receiving input of stereoscopic videos constituted by a plurality of frames, which are viewable stereoscopically; a scene detecting section, for detecting positions within the stereoscopic videos at which scene changes occur; and a perceived depth adjusting section, for administering perceived depth adjusting processes that adjust the perceived depths of the stereoscopic videos such that the perceived depth changes gradually at the positions at which scene changes occur. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090244269 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES - A stereoscopic image display apparatus displays stereoscopic images generated from a plurality of images obtained by photography of subjects from different viewpoints. The stereoscopic image display apparatus is constituted by: an interpolative image generating section, for generating at least one pair of interpolative images, which have smaller degrees of parallax than the degree of parallax among the plurality of images; a stereoscopic image generating section, for generating at least one interpolative stereoscopic image from the at least one pair of interpolative images; and a display control section, for sequentially displaying the at least one interpolative stereoscopic image at at least one of a timing prior to and following display of the stereoscopic images. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090268015 | AUGMENTED STEREOSCOPIC VISUALIZATION FOR A SURGICAL ROBOT - A robotic surgical system positions and holds an endoscope. A visible imaging system is coupled to the endoscope. The visible imaging system captures a visible image of tissue. An alternate imaging system is also coupled to the endoscope. The alternate imaging system captures a fluorescence image of at least a portion of the tissue. A stereoscopic video display system is coupled to the visible imaging system and to the alternate imaging system. The stereoscopic video display system outputs a real-time stereoscopic image comprising a three-dimensional presentation of a blend of a fluorescence image associated with the captured fluorescence image, and the visible image. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090268016 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display apparatus for displaying an image of an object on a screen by using a projector includes a three-dimensional image display unit having a plurality of screens overlaid but spaced apart from one another, each of the screens diffusing and reflecting part of the light incident thereon and transmitting the remainder of the light, and an image projection unit having a plurality of projectors, each of the projectors is assigned to the corresponding one of the screens and projects an image of the object on the screen. The image projection unit displays a three-dimensional image of the object in the three-dimensional image display unit by projecting on the screens the shapes of the object in sectioning positions corresponding to the positions of the screens. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090278916 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A device for arranging images three-dimensionally in perspective as partially overlapping pages is disclosed so that a user can visually and intuitively manage the displayed images. The display image operating has means for manipulating a plurality of pre-stored images through buttons or a pointing device to select and display images. Image displaying means are provided for displaying on the same display screen in three-dimensional perspective a central first image group having a plurality of images arranged as pages overlapping sequentially from top to bottom, and second and third image groups disposed one on either side of the first image group at a prescribed distance therefrom and having a plurality of images arranged as fanned out pages overlapping sequentially from top to bottom with a portion of the images displayed on the display screen. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090303314 | Direction-Controlled Illumination Unit for an Autostereoscopic Display - A direction-controlled illumination unit for an autostereoscopic display, which unit deflects light from activated illumination elements through a transmissive image reproduction means in the space in front of the display into visibility areas, from which a stereoscopic and/or monoscopic representation can be seen. The direction-controlled illumination unit contains an illumination means having illumination elements, an imaging means having imaging elements, a prism arrangement, a light-scattering means and an image reproduction means. A respective imaging element is assigned a number of illumination elements in order to deflect light in the form of a beam onto observers' eyes in a sequential manner in terms of time. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100007721 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A MULTI-VIEWPOINT IMAGE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method for displaying a multi-viewpoint image is capable of reducing display defects, and a display apparatus to perform the method includes a display part and a driving control part. The driving control part provides the display part with a plurality of multi-viewpoint images signals. The driving control part sequentially provides the display part with a first viewpoint image to a last viewpoint image and provides the display part with a compensation viewpoint image signal that replaces the last viewpoint image signal of a frame. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100013910 | STEREO VIEWER - Various embodiments of opto-electronic display modules for viewing real time, stored or computer generated images and video information in 3D or 2D are presented. The various 2D or 3D viewer embodiments of the present disclosure allow independent use of the imaging information in a way that is convenient to the user without affecting the other tasks that the user needs to perform. Multiple viewers of the present embodiment can be used concurrently by multiple users, where each viewer is fully maneuverable and controllable for and by each specific user. Additionally, the viewer of the present disclosure may communicate to various input devices as well as send user commands to such devices in an electrical, optical, or wireless transmission format. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100020161 | APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A POSITION OF A FIRST OBJECT WITHIN A SECOND OBJECT - The present invention relates to an apparatus for determining a position of a first object ( | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100020162 | STEREO IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - A stereo image display device includes an image display unit for displaying a parallactic image having a right-eye image and a left-eye image on a display plane, a parallactic image selecting unit for making only the right-eye image of the parallactic image reach the right eye of a viewer and making only the left-eye image of the parallactic image reach the left eye of the viewer to thereby make the viewer view a stereo image, an eye fatigue degree detecting unit for detecting the eye fatigue degree of the viewer, and an eye fatigue relaxation processing unit for carrying out eye fatigue relaxation processing for relaxing the eye fatigue of the viewer. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100026790 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD OF RECEPTION DEVICE - A game machine | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100026791 | IMAGE DISPLAY - To provide an image display device in which reflection of an image on one display surface onto another display surface is suppressed. In an image display device where an image is displayed on a screen combining the display surfaces of two or more image display elements, a polarizing plate is arranged on the display surface on conditions that extinction takes place between the display surfaces of the image display elements. The extinction conditions are set such that the light entering from a display surface to which the polarizing plate is fixed is passed through and the light entering from other than the above display surface is absorbed by intersecting the polarization directions of the polarizing plates perpendicularly. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100033556 | Three-Dimensional Image Display Device and Three-Dimensional Image Display Method - It is made possible to provide a three-dimensional image display device by which a viewing zone can be readily adjusted in the parallel-ray one-dimensional IP system, without a decrease in processing speed. A three-dimensional image display device includes: an elemental image display unit that has pixels arranged in a matrix form in a display plane, and displays an elemental image; an optical plate that is placed to face the elemental image display unit, extends straightly in a vertical direction, and controls a light ray from the elemental image display unit, the optical plate having optical apertures arranged at intervals in a horizontal direction; and an image data converting unit that converts image data so as to replace missing image data with a neighboring parallax component in same the elemental image, based on the average width of elemental images in an input image data and the optimum average width of elemental images in a three-dimensional video image to be output. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100039503 | DISPLAY AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A display and a display method thereof are provided. The display is used for displaying 2D and/or 3D video image. The display method includes displaying 2D video image according to a first gamma curve and displaying 3D video image according to a second gamma curve, wherein the gamma value of the first gamma curve is greater than the gamma value of the second gamma curve. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100045780 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO APPARATUS AND METHOD PROVIDING ON SCREEN DISPLAY APPLIED THERETO - A three-dimensional (3D) video apparatus and a method of providing an OSD object applied thereto are provided. The 3D video apparatus includes an on-screen display (OSD) generation unit which receives an OSD object and generates a reduced OSD object to be displayed on the 3D image on a screen, wherein the reduced OSD object is smaller than the received OSD object. An OSD insertion unit inserts the reduced OSD object into input 3D image data. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100045781 | Device and Method for Tracking a Viewer Window - The invention relates to a method and a playback device for a two- and/or three-dimensional illustration, having at least one light source, at least one light modulation device, a display screen, and a tracking system for tracking a virtual viewer window of a viewer plane, in which at least one viewer is located. This tracking system has a position detection system for determining the eye positions of the at least one viewer in the viewer plane, a tracking device, and a control device for activating and controlling the tracking device, and is disposed between the light modulation device and the display screen. In order to track the viewer window along an optical axis of the playback device, a focal width on the image side of an optical system of the tracking device is constant. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100045782 | CONTENT REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In a content reproducing apparatus for displaying three dimensional image using image data for the right eye and left eye, stored after being downsampled in order to reduce data, a high quality image is obtained even at the scene changes or in still pictures. The content reproducing apparatus includes a similar region detector ( | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100053310 | TRANSFORMING 3D VIDEO CONTENT TO MATCH VIEWER POSITION - Systems and methods for transforming 3D video content to match a viewer's position to provide a means to make constrained-viewpoint 3D video broadcasts more independent of viewer position. The 3D video display on a television is enhanced by taking 3D video that is coded assuming one particular viewer viewpoint, sensing the viewer's actual position with respect to the display screen, and transforming the video images as appropriate for the actual position. The process provided herein is preferably implemented using information embedded in an MPEG2 3D video stream or similar scheme to shortcut the computationally intense portions of identifying object depth that is necessary for the transformation to be performed. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100060721 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY, FABRICATING METHOD AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A three-dimensional display for the viewer to watch through glasses is provided, wherein the glasses have two lenses and the polarized directions thereof are perpendicular to each other. The three-dimensional display includes a display panel and a liquid crystal phase modulator. The display panel, suitable for displaying an image, has a plurality of pixels arranged in array and a polarizer having a transmission axis, wherein the polarizer disposed between the pixels and the glasses. The liquid crystal phase modulator suitable for providing phase retardation includes a liquid crystal layer and an alignment layer adjacent to the display panel. An included angle between an alignment direction of the alignment layer and the transmission axis is substantially equal to n×45 degrees, wherein an absolute value of n is an integer. The liquid crystal phase modulator adjusts a phase of the image and then outputs an image with three-dimensional information. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100060722 | DISPLAY WITH BUILT IN 3D SENSING - Information from execution of a vision processing module may be used to control a 3D vision system. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100066816 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH FLEXIBLE RENDERING FOR MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVERS - A method for display of stereoscopic images defines at least first and second unequal subsets of viewers and provides at least the first subset of viewers with a first decoding device for viewing displayed stereoscopic images. From a single display apparatus, separate images are displayed for each eye of at least the first and second subsets of viewers in a repeated sequence of displaying the image for the first eye of all viewers during a first time interval; displaying the image for the second eye of the first subset of viewers during a second time interval; and displaying the image for the second eye of the second subset of viewers during a third time interval. The first, second, and third time intervals are non-overlapping. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100066817 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATING AND/OR VISUALIZING A MULTI IMAGE DISPLAY AND FOR REDUCING GHOSTING ARTIFACTS - A method for identifying a blur profile of a multi image display with a first image separating mask. The method comprises displaying a calibration pattern through a second image separating mask, allowing an evaluator to provide a visual estimation indicating a blur brought about to the calibration pattern by the second image separating mask, and generating a blur profile of at least the first image separating mask according to the visual estimation. The first and second image separating masks having a substantially similar optical profile. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100073464 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING AND DISPLAYING A THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - A method for producing stereoscopic views of an object is provided that includes the steps of: a) providing an imaging device having “n” number of independent lenses, where “n” is an integer equal to or greater than two; b) creating “n” number of electronic perspective images of the object using the imaging device, each of which perspective images are created from a vantage point different from the vantage point of the other images, wherein the electronic perspective images are created at substantially the same time, and each electronic perspective image is created through a different one of the “n” number of independent lenses; and c) combining a first of the perspective images and a second of the perspective images into a single electronic collective image within the imaging device, wherein the first perspective image is disposed substantially contiguous with the second perspective image within the electronic collective image. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100073465 | Apparatus and method for displaying three dimensional image - Disclosed are a 3D image display apparatus and method. The 3D image display apparatus may adjust a number of viewpoints of a 3D image, distance between viewpoints, and other parameters through varying a display pattern of a viewing zone generating unit and a distance between an image display unit and the viewing zone generating unit. Accordingly, the 3D image display apparatus may effectively express the 3D image suitable for various viewing circumstances. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100073466 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA FOR DISPLAY BY A MULTIPLE-VIEW DISPLAY DEVICE - A method is provided for processing image data for display by a multiple-view display device ( | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100097445 | RESTAURANT TABLES AND ELECTRONIC MENU APPARATUS - A restaurant table for which seats are arranged includes, a top plate on which a dishes is set, and a display panel provided in the top plate, and configured to display a three-dimensional image of the dish to be stereoscopically viewable. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100097446 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus which displays a plurality of items includes a display panel provided with a function of displaying a three-dimensional image to be stereoscopically viewable, an item overview creation section which creates information on an item overview screen on which two-dimensional images of the respective items are arranged, an overview display control section which displays the item overview screen on the display panel, and a specific item display control section which switches an image of a specific item selected from among the items two-dimensional images of which are displayed on the item overview screen from the two-dimensional image to a three-dimensional image. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100097447 | Image Display Device - It is an object to provide an image display device that does not damage a feeling of a three-dimensional shape of an object displayed as a floating image even if a contrast of a display unit is so bad that floating blacks occur. An image display device ( | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100097448 | Rotational Display System - The present invention provides a system which integrates unique lighting technologies, switching systems, mounting systems, information delivery systems and power supply systems within a support such as vehicular wheel to provide an advanced, high quality visual display apparatus in various surfaces of rotation. A displayed image may be three dimensional. These technologies, and their many unique applications, provide for a novel and useful series of video display devices that are small, lightweight, efficient and can have the capability of producing a clear, bright, high definition image that is equivalent to that of a modern day TV or high quality computer monitor. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100103248 | CONFIGURABLE THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROJECTION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a three dimensional image projection systems comprised of the projection of two different portions of the image in light beams of differing spectral properties by automated luminairs which can be remotely positioned and can reverse roles during repositioning. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100103249 | Stereoscopic image format with depth information - A multi-view distribution format is described for stereoscopic and autostereoscopic 3D displays. In general, it comprises multi-tile image compression with the inclusion of one or more depth maps. More specifically, it provides embodiments that utilize stereoscopic images with one or more depth maps typically in the form of a compressed grey scale image and, in some instances, incorporates depth information from a second view encoded differentially. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100118126 | Device for directional light field 3D display and method thereof - A three-dimensional (3D) display device and method using a directional light field is provided. The 3D display device may construct a light field using a direction light generated by a high speed projector and at least one rotating optical device to thereby display a more natural 3D image in a wide region. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100118127 | Wide depth of field 3D display apparatus and method - A display apparatus and method that may display a high depth three-dimensional (3D) image is provided. The display method may separate an input image into a near-sighted image and a far-sighted image, image and output the near-sighted image using a light field method, and image and output the far-sighted image using a multi-view method. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100123772 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - A terminal apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display a projection image of a three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional display screen; an imaging unit configured to capture an image of an operator who is in a state of viewing the display screen; a changing unit configured to change a viewpoint position relative to the three-dimensional object in response to a position of an image of the operator's face relative to the captured image; and a projection image generator configured to obtain a projection image generated by projecting each portion of the three-dimensional object viewed from the viewpoint position onto a predetermined projection plane. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100128112 | IMMERSIVE DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR INTERACTING WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT - A system for displaying three-dimensional (3-D) content and enabling a user to interact with the content in an immersive, realistic environment is described. The system has a display component that is non-planar and provides the user with an extended field-of-view (FOV), one factor in the creating the immersive user environment. The system also has a tracking sensor component for tracking a user face. The tracking sensor may include one or more 3-D and 2-D cameras. In addition to tracking the face or head, it may also track other body parts, such as hands and arms. An image perspective adjustment module processes data from the face tracking and enables the user to perceive the 3-D content with motion parallax. The hand and other body part output data is used by gesture detection modules to detect collisions between the user's hand and 3-D content. When a collision is detected, there may be tactile feedback to the user to indicate that there has been contact with a 3-D object. All these components contribute towards creating an immersive and realistic environment for viewing and interacting with 3-D content. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100128113 | Computer Device Capable of Providing Stereoscopic Image - A computer device capable of providing a stereoscopic image is provided. The compute device includes a host, a display, and a stereoscopic display film. The host reads an image data having 3D information. The display is connected with the host. The display displays an image converted from the image data. The display has a fixing element. The stereoscopic display film is detachably fixed at front side of the display via the fixing element, and the image is converted to a stereoscopic image with a stereoscopic effect. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100134601 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE POSE OF VIDEO CAPTURE MEANS IN THE DIGITIZATION FRAME OF REFERENCE OF AT LEAST ONE THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL OBJECT MODELLING AT LEAST ONE REAL OBJECT - The invention relates to a method for determining the arrangement of a video capturing means in the capture mark of at least one virtual object in three dimensions, said at least one virtual object being a modelling corresponding to at least one real object present in images of the video image flows. The inventive method is characterised in that it comprises the following steps: a video image flow is received from the video capturing means; the video image flow received and at least one virtual object flow are displayed; points of said at least one virtual object are paired up, in real-time, with corresponding points in the at least one real object present in images of the video image flows; and the arrangement of said video capturing means is determined according to the points of the at least one virtual object and the paired point thereof in the at least one real object present in the images of the video image flows. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100141741 | 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - Provided are a 3-dimensional image display apparatus and a control method thereof, the apparatus including: a video signal receiving unit which receives a video signal containing plane image data or stereoscopic image data from an external signal source; a liquid crystal module which includes a liquid crystal display panel to selectively display the plane image data and the stereoscopic image data, and a backlight unit provided in a rear portion of the liquid crystal display panel; a power supply which supplies power to the liquid crystal module; and a controller which determines whether the received video signal contains the plane image data or the stereoscopic image data, and if the video signal receiving unit contains the stereoscopic image data, the controller controls the power supply such that the backlight unit operates in a power saving mode while the stereoscopic image data is scanned to the liquid crystal display panel. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100141742 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES IN AN OVERLAYING RELATIONSHIP - A system and a method for displaying a first image of an object of interest from a first source and a second image of an object of interest from a second source in an overlaying relationship are described. The system ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100141743 | RED PHOSPHOR FOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING SAME - A red phosphor is represented by the following Formula 1. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100149317 | Method of improved three dimensional display technique - A method of displaying an image. The method includes aligning a first display relative to a second display. The first and second displays having a differing encoding patterns. The method also includes determining a location in relation between the displays and activating pixels on the displays based on the determined location. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100149318 | SINGLE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC CONTENT - A single display system and method are provided for displaying stereoscopic content. In particular, a single display mechanism capable of displaying stereoscopic content for viewing with passive glasses is provided. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100149319 | SYSTEM FOR PROJECTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES ONTO A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SCREEN AND CORRESPONDING METHOD - A method and system for projecting three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional screen that includes a static correction module for each image capable of deforming the image before the projection thereof depending on the screen configuration and relative to a fixed reference point. The system further includes a sensor capable of detecting in real time the position of a selected observer watching the screen, and a dynamic correction module coupled upstream from the static correction module and capable of automatically correcting in real time distortion generated on each image by movement of the observer relative to the reference point based on the observer's position, on the reference point position, and on the screen configuration. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100149320 | Power Conservation System for 3D Glasses - A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100149321 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an input unit, a computing unit, a determining unit, and a 3D image processor. The input unit receives filter width information indicating the vertical size of each line constituting a polarizing filter, as well as position correction information indicating positional misalignment of the polarizing filter. The computing unit computes determination regions for each pixel on the basis of the information. The determination regions are used to determine whether individual pixels constituting a 3D image to be output are contained in a right-eye or a left-eye image region. On the basis of the determination regions, the determining unit determines whether each pixel is contained in a right-eye image region or a left-eye image region. The 3D image processor creates a 3D image from a right-eye image and a left-eye image according to pixel positions determined on the basis of determination results. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100157023 | System And Method For Configuring An Information Handling System To Present Stereoscopic Images - Three dimensional images are presented at an information handling system display using a communication protocol that the information handling system negotiates with a content source. Negotiation of a stereoscopic protocol supported by the information handling system from stereoscopic protocols available from the content source allows selection of one or more stereoscopic protocols that best fit content at the information handling system, such as based upon the resolution used to present images at the information handling system display. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100157024 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING TWO-DIMENSIONAL OR THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE SEQUENCE WHILE ADJUSTING FRAME RATE - Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying a two-dimensional (2D)/three-dimensional (3D) image, and apparatus to execute the same, the method including determining whether an input image sequence having a first frame rate is a 2D image sequence or a 3D image sequence, wherein, if the input image sequence is a 2D image sequence, generating a 2D output image sequence having a second frame rate, the 2D output image sequence including the input image sequence and a 2D intermediate image generated from the input image sequence, and wherein, if the input image sequence is a 3D image sequence, generating a 3D output image sequence having a third frame rate, where a left-viewpoint intermediate image, a right-viewpoint intermediate image and the input image sequence are repeatedly included in the 3D output image sequence, the left-viewpoint intermediate image is determined from at least one left-viewpoint image in a left-viewpoint image sequence included in the input image sequence, and the right-viewpoint intermediate image is determined from at least one right-viewpoint image in a right-viewpoint image sequence included in the input image sequence. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100157025 | 3D caption display method and 3D display apparatus for implementing the same - A 3D caption display method for harmoniously merging and displaying closed caption with 3D image in a 3D display apparatus, and a 3D display apparatus suitable for implementing the method. The 3D display apparatus receives a broadcast signal containing caption data, and obtains caption control commands including a 3D parameter setting command from the caption data. Afterwards, the 3D display apparatus displays a plurality of 3D caption images according to the caption control commands. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100157026 | Directional Illumination Unit for Autostereoscopic Displays - A directionally controlled illumination unit is disclosed that deflects light from activated illumination elements into visibility regions by a transmissive image reproduction means. The visibility regions are tracked by the eyes of different viewers to other positions in front of the display via a tracking unit and image control. To avoid a strong correlation of one pixel of the image reproduction means to a deflection element (electro-wetting cell) of a deflection means, the directionally controlled illumination unit comprises a two-dimensional illumination means in front of the image reproduction means arranged in a serial manner in the optical path and a deflection means containing at least one field having an arrangement of electro-wetting cells that can be discretely addressed in groups and adjusted with regard to their refractive behavior by the tracking unit and image control. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100165083 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - On a recording medium according to the present invention, extents for a base-view and a dependent-view are arranged alternately. The lower limit of the size of the base-view extents is the larger of a first lower limit value and a second lower limit value. The lower limit of the size of the dependent-view extent is a third lower limit value. The first lower limit value is determined so that, in monoscopic video playback, buffer underflow does not occur during jump periods between base-view extents. The second lower limit value is determined so that, in stereoscopic video playback, buffer underflow does not occur during read periods from each base-view extent to a next dependent-view extent. The third lower limit value is determined so that, in stereoscopic video playback, buffer underflow does not occur during read periods from each dependent-view extent to a next base-view extent. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100171816 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGES - The present invention provides a display device for three-dimensional (3D) images. The display device presents a first and a second frame respectively to left and right eyes of a user, whereby the user perceives a 3D image according to the first and second frames. The display device includes a digital signal processor and an image output module. The digital signal processor generates the first and second frames according to 3D image signals, and the image output module outputs the first and second frames sequentially. The first frame has a first color wavelength distribution, and the second frame has a second color wavelength distribution. The first color wavelength distribution is different from the second color wavelength distribution. At least one of the first color wavelength distribution and the second color wavelength distribution corresponds to at least two colors selected from a color group consisting of red, green, and blue. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100171817 | CONVERSION, CORRECTION, AND OTHER OPERATIONS RELATED TO MULTIPLEXED DATA SETS - Conversion of interleaved data and/or correction of color samples or other data are corrected by recognizing an underlying arrangement or format of different data sets within a data stream and a conversion process applied that causes bleeding between the sets The data sets are, for example, separate channel views of a 3D display, and the corruption occurs, for example, upon up-conversion of color samples that take into account both views together rather than individually. The invention is embodied, for example, as part of a playback device, display, or as a stand alone converter box that corrects the corrupted samples by at least one of substitution, filtering, or interpolation with appropriately selected samples (e.g., neighboring samples of a same view). In one embodiment, the invention comprises a conversion from a received format (e.g., checkerboard) to a delivery format (e.g., native format of a 3D ready display). | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100171818 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR DRIVING FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a display section, an image signal drive circuit, a scan signal drive circuit, a common electrode potential control circuit, and a synchronous circuit. The display section has scan electrodes, image signal electrodes, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, a plurality of switching elements for transmitting an image signal to the pixel electrodes, and a common electrode. The common electrode potential control circuit changes an electric potential of the common electrode into a pulse shape, after the scan signal drive circuit has scanned all the scan electrodes and the image signal has been transmitted to the pixel electrodes. Otherwise, the image signal is overdriven. Otherwise, torque for returning to a no-voltage-application state is increased. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100177169 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL CONSTRUCTION USING UNSTRUCTURED PATTERN - Systems and methods using an unstructured pattern for three-dimensional model construction, such as may be used for processing images of documents are disclosed. The method generally includes projecting an unstructured infrared pattern onto a target object, capturing a pair of stereoscopic images of the pattern projected onto the target object, such as with infrared cameras, performing signal processing on the pair of stereoscopic images to cross-correlate portions of the stereoscopic images in order to identify corresponding portions in the stereoscopic images, and constructing a three-dimensional model of the target object. The three-dimensional model can be utilized to rectify, e.g., de-warp, an image of the target object, e.g., a page or both facing pages of a bound document. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100177170 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS THAT ALLOWS VIEWING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE FROM DIRECTIONS - An image display apparatus includes an image display device having pixels to display right- and left-eye images for a three-dimensional image, a first and second optical shutter devices located on rear and front sides of the image display device. The pixels include pixel pairs that have pixels arranged across first light-shielding portions and that are arrayed across second light-shielding portions. The first shutter device includes first light-transmitting portions that cause image light beams passing through the pixels to strike the right and left eyes of a viewer located in a first direction, and first shutter portions to control transmission/shielding of light. The second shutter device includes second light-transmitting portions that cause image light beams passing through the pixels to strike right eyes and left eyes of viewers located in second and third directions, and second shutter portions to control transmission/shielding of light. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100182408 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic display device has a plurality of sub-pixel units respectively arranged along a first axis and a second axis. Each sub-pixel unit and the adjacent sub-pixel unit along the first axis have a predetermined dislocation in the second axis. Each of the sub-pixel unit includes a first sub-pixel row having a first sub-pixel and two second sub-pixels arranged along the first axis, a second sub-pixel row under the first sub-pixel row having a first sub-pixel and two second sub-pixels arranged along the first axis, and a three sub-pixel row under the second sub-pixel row having three third sub-pixels arranged along the first axis. The stereoscopic display device also has a parallax panel having a plurality of transparent regions and shielding regions alternately parallel to each other. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100182409 | Signal processing device, image display device, signal processing method, and computer program - There is provided a signal processing device including an image analysis portion that analyzes content of an input image, a distance information acquisition portion that acquires distance information between a viewer who views a screen on which the input image is displayed and the screen, and a stereoscopic image generation portion that generates a stereoscopic image from the original input image, using an analysis result of the input image analyzed by the image analysis portion, the distance information acquired by the distance information acquisition portion, and information about a specification of the screen in a horizontal direction. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100182410 | COMPUTING A DEPTH MAP - A system for computing a depth map comprising depth values representing distances to a viewer for respective pixels of an image. The system comprises an optimization unit ( | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100194864 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRAWING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - Coordinate values of an object located in a coordinate space are stored in a memory. The coordinate space is represented by a first direction, a second direction and a third direction each different. The coordinate values include first coordinate values along the first direction, second coordinate values along the second direction and third coordinate values along the third direction. A stereoscopic image of the object having a parallax along one of the first direction and the second direction is displayed. A direction of the parallax is detected. When the direction of the parallax is the first direction, the first coordinate values are subjected to a parallel projection. When the direction of the parallax is the second direction, the second coordinate values are subjected to the parallel projection. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100201788 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MATING AN INFRARED STEREOSCOPIC DEVICE WITH A VIEWING DEVICE - The present invention sets forth a method and system for mating a signal transmitting device and a viewing device. In one embodiment, the method includes determining presence of the signal transmitting device and the viewing device, selecting a unique code from a pre-determined group of codes assigned to the signal transmitting device, and sending the unique code to the viewing device for the viewing device to decipher data packets from the signal transmitting device. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100201789 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DIGITAL ZOOM CORRECTION METHOD - A digital zoom rate of two-dimensional images zoomed by a digital zoom unit is obtained. When the obtained digital zoom rate is larger than 100%, at least one of the digitally zoomed two-dimensional images is modified based on an enlarged amount of parallax to provide an amount of parallax between the digitally zoomed two-dimensional images equal to the enlarged amount of parallax. The enlarged amount of parallax is obtained by enlarging, at a moderated digital zoom rate, an amount of parallax between the two-dimensional images before being digitally zoomed, and the moderated digital zoom rate is obtained by moderating the digital zoom rate at a moderation rate, where the moderation rate increases as the zoom rate increases. Then, a display unit is caused to carry out three-dimensional display based on the modified two-dimensional images. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100208040 | Preventing interference between primary and secondary content in a stereoscopic display - A method of positioning primary and secondary images on a stereoscopic display device involves ascertaining a perceived depth of the primary image and the secondary image; transforming the perceived depth of at least one of the primary and secondary image data by compressing the perceived depth of the at least one of the primary and secondary image data; and transforming at least one of the primary and secondary image data so as to position the perceived secondary image at a position that will be perceived by a viewer to be situated at a depth when viewed on the stereoscopic display such that the secondary image appears to be situated fully between the primary image and the viewer when viewed stereoscopically. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100208041 | STEREOSCOPIC 3D DISPLAY DEVICE - 3D stereoscopic viewing enabled by the use of a fast switching speed LCD panel, dynamic backlight, and low cost glasses. The system utilizes an LCD panel with an LED backlight and wavelength selective glasses to isolate each channel by color. The system is based on alternating left and right image frames on an LCD panel. The left and right frames are illuminated by two slightly different red-green-blue light sources that are synchronized sequentially. The light sources are designed to emit light of different spectral composition. The viewer wears glasses where the left lens or filter passes only the spectrum of light used for the left channel of data, and the right lens or filter passes only the spectrum of light used for the right channel of data. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100214394 | VOLUME SCANNING THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOATING IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A volume scanning three-dimensional floating image display is constructed from a real mirror image forming optical system capable of forming the real mirror image of an object to be projected in a planar symmetric position with respect to a symmetry surface, and a display located under the symmetry surface showing images that serve as the object to be projected, and an actuator means capable of moving the display in a direction with a component perpendicular to the display surface, so by changing the displayed image synchronously with the motion of the display, the real mirror image of that image will be formed in the space on the other side of the symmetry surface as a three-dimensional floating image. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100214395 | Camera System with Eye Finder Modules - The detection of the position of observer eyes in large object planes by a camera system with eye finder modules is disclosed, each of which comprises a camera with an objective lens and a camera chip. An embodiment is based on a camera system with two eye finder modules, where each eye finder module comprises an objective lens and a camera chip for detecting and determining the position of observer eyes in at least one object plane, and where the camera system is connected with a control unit. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100225747 | 2D/3D Image Displaying Apparatus - A 2D/3D image displaying apparatus includes a sub-pixel, a first and second data lines and a gamma circuit. The sub-pixel includes a first portion and a second portion. The first and second data lines are coupled to the first and second portion of the sub-pixel, respectively. The gamma circuit transmits correlated gamma signals to a driving circuit for driving the first and second part of the sub-pixel via the first and second data lines when 2D image is to be displayed, and transmits a single gamma signal to the driving circuit for driving the first and second portion of the sub-pixel via the first and second data lines when 3D image is to be displayed. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100225748 | LIGHTING APPARATUS - Irradiation light LA and irradiation light LB, which are to be projected toward an irradiation target object from a plurality of irradiation light projection units, respectively, are corrected so as to be ached with outlines of the irradiation target object, which are viewed individually from the irradiation light projection units. In such a way, a surface of the irradiation target object is coated with irradiation light LA′ and irradiation light LB′, which are narrower in range than the irradiation light LA and the irradiation light LA. In such a way, the irradiation target object having an arbitrary shape is coated with the plural pieces of irradiation light with high accuracy. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100231693 | Stereoscopic Exit Pupil Expander Display - The specification and drawings present a new apparatus and method for providing a stereoscopic display in electronic devices with a diffractive exit pupil expander using sequentially switching between right and left images of one display (e.g., microdisplay). An optical delivery system can provide a sequential left and right image of the display and the illumination is then switched for left and right accordingly using exit pupil expander (EPE) with asymmetric, e.g., highly slanted, in-coupling gratings, sending light practically to only one direction (e.g., one area of the EPE substrate). | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100231694 | LIGHTING APPARATUS - A lighting control device includes: an irradiation light generation unit that receives an irradiation light signal; coating correcting means for correcting the irradiation light signal so that an irradiation target object can be coated with irradiation light; and an irradiation light projection unit that projects the irradiation light by using the corrected irradiation light signal. The irradiation light includes coating light that coats the irradiation target object, and background light that becomes a background of the irradiation target object. The lighting control device includes: a first coating correction unit that corrects the irradiation light signal so as to cut an outline of the coating light in conformity with a shape of the irradiation target object; and a second coating correction unit that corrects the outline of the coating light in response to a positional relationship between an origin position of the irradiation target object and the irradiation light projection unit. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100231695 | Noise Immune Optical Encoder for High Ambient Light Projection Imaging Systems - A 3D stereographic projection apparatus comprises an input for receiving stereographic image data that includes sync signals corresponding to image streams in the image data. A digital light projector projects the stereographic image data. A motor driven rotating filter has a marker disposed thereon positioned in the path of the projected stereographic image data. The motor driven rotating filter separately polarizes the image streams in the stereographic image data. A motor drive circuit, coupled to the input, receives the sync signals and synchronizes a rotation of the filter with the sync signals. A tach sensor, comprising a light transmitter and detector coupled to the rotating filter, detects the marker and outputs marker signals indicating that the marker is detected. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100238274 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA AND AN APPARATUS OF PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA - A method is provided that includes receiving a three-dimensional (3D) image signal, generating image data from the 3D image signal, wherein said image data includes a plurality of left image data and a plurality of right image data, configuring the generated 3D image data to a 3D format, wherein the configured 3D image data includes black data and displaying the configured 3D image data at an output frequency, wherein the output frequency is synchronized with a shutter glasses. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100245547 | Image signal processing device, three-dimensional image display device, three-dimensional image transmission/display system, and image signal processing method - An image signal processing device improving quality of three-dimensional image is provided. The device includes a determination section; deinterlace sections and a synchronous control section. The determination section determines whether first and/or second input image signals, having horizontal parallax there between, are interlaced signals derived from video signal or from pull down-converted film signal. The deinterlace sections perform deinterlace on each of the first and second input image signals, through interpolation for a video signal or pull down reverse conversion for a film signal, and generate first and second output image signals as progressive signals, having horizontal parallax there between. The synchronous control section synchronously controls the deinterlace, based on result of the determination section, such that deinterlace process onto the first and second input image signals, synchronized with each other for each of fields, are of same type. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100245548 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Provided is a recording medium that enables seamless connection between preceding playitems which are stream data arranged prior to a position where a long jump occurs, such as a layer boundary, and succeeding playitems which are stream data arranged subsequent to the position where the long jump occurs. A block exclusively for 2D playback Ln | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100253766 | Stereoscopic Device - Systems and methods are disclosed for generating stereoscopic images for a user based on one or more images captured by one or more scene-facing cameras or detectors and the position of the user's eyes or other parts relative to a component of the system as determined from one or more images captured by one or more user-facing detectors. The image captured by the scene-facing detector is modified based on the user's eye or other position. The resulting image represents the scene as seen from the perspective of the eye of the user. The resulting image may be further modified by augmenting the image with additional images, graphics, or other data. Stereoscopic mechanisms may also be adjusted or configured based on the location or the user's eyes or other parts. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100253767 | INTEGRATED ELECTROCHROMIC 2D/3D DISPLAY DEVICE - An integrated electrochromic 2D/3D display device including a first substrate; a parallax barrier unit disposed under the first substrate; a color filter unit disposed under the parallax barrier unit; a common electrode disposed under the color filter unit; a liquid crystal unit disposed under the common electrode; a plurality of thin film transistors disposed under the liquid crystal unit; a second substrate disposed under the plurality of thin film transistors; and a light emitting unit disposed under the second substrate is provided. Another integrated electrochromic 2D/3D display device including a substrate; a parallax barrier unit disposed under the substrate; and a display unit disposed under the parallax barrier unit is also provided. An adjustment of a planar image and a stereo image is performed to reduce a thickness and an assembling cost of conventional display devices. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100253768 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND DISPLAYING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE ON A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - An apparatus and method for generating and displaying a stereoscopic image on a mobile computing device. The apparatus includes an autostereoscopic overlay which is secured over at least a portion of the screen of the mobile computing device, such as by using a case. Computer-readable instructions are executed on the mobile computing device to align two captured images, if necessary, and interlace them into an interlaced image for subsequent display to the screen of the mobile computing device. When the displayed image is viewed by the user of the mobile computing device through the autostereoscopic overlay, the image appears as a stereoscopic (or three-dimensional) image. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100259601 | Liquid crystal shutter and image display observation system - A liquid crystal shutter includes a plurality of liquid crystal layers arranged in a light-incident direction; and a plurality of polarizers attached to each of the plurality of liquid crystal layers, polarization axes of 2 adjacent polarizers that have a liquid crystal layer therebetween being crossed at an angle of 90°, the accumulated value of degrees of polarization of polarizers that have polarization axes in a first direction being identical to that of degrees of polarizations of polarizers that have polarization axes in a second direction that crosses the first direction at an angle of 90°. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100265319 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING AN IMAGE IN THREE DIMENSIONS AND PANEL THUS PRODUCED - The invention seeks to make it possible to display an image in three dimensions without additional display means, and to furnish a device that is easy to implement and applicable to drawings and paintings. To that end, a purpose of the invention is a direct display panel of images in three dimensions that comprises a bottom panel ( | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100271464 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - Provided are an apparatus, a method, and a program for processing an image which reduces crosstalk and achieves high image quality. The method includes obtaining a differential signal by subtracting one input image signal of an object to be processed from another input image signal; applying a predetermined correction coefficient to the differential signal; determining, for each pixel, whether the differential signal is a negative value; selectively outputting, for each pixel, the differential signal, to which the predetermined correction coefficient is applied, as a correction signal based on a result of the determining; and correcting, for each pixel, the one input image signal based on the one input image signal and the correction signal that is selectively output if the differential signal is the negative value. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100271465 | RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA - A receiving system and a method of processing data are disclosed herein. The receiving system includes a receiving unit, a system information processor, a decoding unit, and a display unit. The receiving unit receives a broadcast signal including a 3D content and system information associated with the 3D content. The system information processor extracts identification information from the system information. Herein, the identification information may identify that the broadcast signal being received by the receiving unit includes the 3D content. The decoding unit decodes the received 3D content based upon transmission format information of the 3D content. Herein, the transmission format information may be included in the extracted identification information. And, the display unit displays the 3D content decoded by the decoding unit as a 3D image based upon a display method of a display device. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100271466 | IMAGE PROCESSOR FOR OVERLAYING A GRAPHICS OBJECT - An image processor processes an assembly of data (DDS) that defines an elementary image and a graphics object. The assembly of data (DDS) comprises composition data (CS) that defines a given appearance of the graphics object in an output image, wherein the graphics object overlays a portion of the elementary image. The image processor comprises an occlusion analyzer (OCA) for establishing an occlusion indication (OCS) on the basis of the composition data (CS). The occlusion indication (OCS) specifies an area in the elementary image that the graphics object will occlude in the output image, but which may be de-occluded in a stereoscopic rendering of the output image. An occlusion data generator (ODG) composes an occlusion image on the basis of the occlusion indication (OCS) and the elementary image. The occlusion image represents a portion of the elementary image that corresponds with the area specified by the occlusion indication (OCS). | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100277573 | Orthostereoscopic Motion Picture Theater - A system for presenting stereoscopic motion pictures comprising a predominantly hemispherical screen ( | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100277574 | VIDEO OUTPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is provided a method for controlling a video output apparatus that displays on a display device three-dimensional video that a viewer facing a display surface of the display device can perceive as video protruding from the display surface to a viewer side, the method comprising steps of: acquiring a maximum protruding amount that is a value corresponding to a maximum protruding degree that the viewer perceives if the three-dimensional video is displayed on the display device; generating, using the acquired maximum protruding amount, a notification three-dimensional image for letting the viewer perceive the maximum protruding amount from the display surface; and displaying the generated notification three-dimensional image on the display device. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100283838 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device capable of detecting an object in a space where a 3D visualized image is formed without feeling the existence of a mechanism for position detection. The image display device includes: display unit ( | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100283839 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY WALL - A stereoscopic display apparatus includes a display, a raster, a positioning unit, an information processing unit and a drive unit. The display displays a 2-dimensional image. The raster, situated in front of the display and having size-adjustable openings, opens and closes the openings and generates a left-eye view and a right-eye view from the 2-dimensional image. The positioning unit obtains and sends location information of a viewer. The information processing unit calculates, based on the location information of the viewer, sizes of the openings located in different areas of the raster and sizes of corresponding display areas on the display and sends a calculation result. The drive unit adjusts the sizes of the openings located in different areas of the raster and the sizes of corresponding display areas on the display according to the calculation result. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100289882 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY CAPABLE OF PROVIDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE HAVING DISPLAY CAPABLE OF PROVIDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - A display control program and an information processing device capable of appropriately adjusting a parallax between images involved with three-dimensional display while further mitigating processing load are provided. A display displacement search range covering a prescribed range can be defined by using a matching position. While moving a vertex of an input image from a left end to a right end of this display displacement search range, similarity between images within a focused area at each relative position is calculated. A display displacement amount is determined in correspondence with a relative position achieving the highest similarity among calculated similarities. The display displacement search range is set to be narrower than a reference search range described above. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100295928 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC REPRESENTATION OF IMAGE INFORMATION - A method for the autostereoscopic representation of image information on a matrix screen on which image points are formed through a subpixel group, each with a plurality of subpixels, wherein two stereoscopic fields are imaged on one of two subgroups of the image points, and wherein light emanating from the two subgroups of image points is guided through a barrier raster into two adjacent viewing zones, and wherein a change of the viewer's head position is further detected, and activation of the subpixels is adapted to the change of the head position by shifting intensity centroids, in particular, within the image points in that, upon a change in the viewing distance between the head position and the matrix screen by adapting of weightings of intensities within the image points such that a lateral distance between the centroid of the intensity distributions in a left viewing zone and the centroid of the intensity distributions in a right viewing zone in a viewing plane remains constant. A respective device for the autostereoscopic representation of image information is described. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100302349 | THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - A three dimensional display includes a display panel and a view-scanning layer. The display panel is used to display many display images quickly. The view-scanning layer is disposed on the display panel and receives the display images. The view-scanning layer has many light refracting modulation regions. Each of the light refracting modulation regions includes a view-scanning unit. The view-scanning unit changes an ongoing direction of a light according to an applied electric field so as to project a part of each of the display images at different view directions. Here, each of the view directions corresponds to the ongoing direction of the light. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100309293 | PROJECTION-TYPE STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A projection type stereoscopic display system (and corresponding methodology) is provided. The system comprises a light source, two or more projection chambers, and a switch. The switch receives a plurality of light beams and diverts the beams in a predetermined sequential order to each projection chamber. The projection chamber projects a first image on a first receiving surface and the second image on a second receiving surface parallel with the first receiving surface so that a viewer observes the first and second images simultaneously thereby establishing stereoscopic effects. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100309294 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image display apparatus - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including, a motion-vector detection section configured to find a motion vector corresponding to an image disparity existing between left and right eyes to appear as a disparity in images, and a format determination section configured to determine whether the input image signal is a signal of the 3-dimensional image format or a signal of the 2-dimensional image format. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100315491 | Projector systems and methods for producing digitally augmented, interactive cakes and other Food Products - A method for digitally augmenting or enhancing a food product such as the surface or top of a cake or other edible object. The method includes generating an augmentation media file based on a projection surface of the food product such as a digital movie or image that is mapped to the 3D topography of projection surface and that is projected on the food product using a properly aligned projector. Interactivity is provided by having the method include determining a modification or change of the 3D topography of the projection surface and, based upon the modification, generating a modified augmentation media file and operating the projector to use the modified augmentation media file to project a modified projected image on the food product. The method further provides interactivity by detecting a user interaction with the projection surface and generating a modified augmentation media file based on this tracked interaction. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100315492 | Local multi-view image display Apparatus and method - A local multi-view image display apparatus and method is provided. The local multi-view image display method may track a location of an observer, and locally display a multi-view input image on the tracked location. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100315493 | Receiving apparatus, transmitting apparatus, communication system, display control method, program, and data structure - Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including, a video signal acquisition section configured to acquire a video signal included in a digital broadcast signal, and a control section configured to acquire display information regarding three-dimensional or two-dimensional display and included in both a system data area and a video data area of the digital broadcast signal in order to control the processing of video display with the video signal based on the display information. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100321478 | Microdroplet-based 3-D volumetric displays utilizing emitted and moving droplet projection screens - Volumetric three-dimensional (3-D) graphical or computer displays are disclosed herein that are capable of presenting objects, data, scenes or other visual information in a realistic or solid-like manner, allowing for an unaided observer to observe such static or moving objects from multiple perspectives with natural depth-cues and superior image quality. We utilize in this refined approach moving-screens formed from particulate-arrays and we preferably optically project multiple image sub-slices on each such flying-screen as it passes through the image-volume thereby minimizing particulate mass-flow since only once screen per image-volume is needed to present the several or many necessary slices of each volumetric frame. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100321479 | RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING 3D IMAGE - A three-dimensional (3D) image may be provided in a receiving system by receiving a request for a 3D image viewing while displaying content from a first input source, switching from the first input source to a second input source that correspond to a specific source device, receiving the 3D image transmitted from the specific source device, and displaying the received 3D image at the receiving system. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100328438 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAYING DEVICE, OBJECT PROXIMITY DETECTING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A stereoscopic image displaying device includes an outer surface that a detection target object approaches; a stereoscopic image generating unit that generates a three-dimensional stereoscopic image based on an input video signal, and a proximity sensor unit that is disposed on a side of the outer surface that is opposite to a side that the detection target object approaches and detects proximity of the detection target object to the outer surface based on a height that is a distance from the outer surface and is set based on parallax information included in the video signal. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110001802 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD, AS WELL AS PROGRAM - A stereoscopic image for allowing stereoscopic viewing, which is generated from two or more images obtained from different viewpoints, is obtained. Depth information, which indicates a distance in the depth direction of the stereoscopic image of at least one subject contained in the stereoscopic image, is obtained. A depth image is generated by positioning a subject image with relating the distance in the depth direction of the subject to a distance in the depth direction from a reference position to a position of the subject image. Display of the subject image positioned in the depth image is controlled in a manner that the subject image is rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the depth direction, and the depth image with display of the subject image contained therein being controlled to be rotatable is displayed. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110001803 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE - An autostereoscopic image output device comprises an image panel having an array of image pixels ( | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110001804 | Apparatus for Displaying 3D Images - A 3D visualization apparatus is described based on the method of generating different horizontal light emitting directions from different screen positions. This is achieved by way of an array of scanning light source modules placed behind the screen. The scanning modules can be implemented by using an array of ID or 2D scanning modules where each one is coupled with at least one light source. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110007139 | Method and system for administering remote area monitoring system - A remote area monitoring system is configured to detect movement in a disallowed direction through a space. The system monitors two volumetric spaces that are established by the system, both of which spaces are defined with respect to depth, width and height. In one embodiment, the system includes one or more stereoscopic sensors for capturing image information of the space, a processor processing the image information to detect movement of humans or objects in a disallowed direction through the space, and an alarm indicator. The system may also include workstation configured to display and store the image information. The workstation may have multiple levels of access, such as basic user, supervisor and technician level access. The workstation may display a log of alarm or related events and permit selection of events and viewing of image information associated with the events. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110013000 | 3D IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND 3D IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A 3D image display apparatus, comprising:
| 01-20-2011 |
| 20110018976 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating an image display apparatus includes receiving an image including at least one three-dimensional (3D) object, calculating a depth value of the at least one 3D object, changing at least one of sharpness and brightness of pixels corresponding to the at least one 3D object according to the depth value and generating an output image including the changed at least one 3D object, and displaying the output image. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110018977 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - If a loaded image is a 3D image, the image is first displayed in 2D. If a user enters instructions to end displaying the image in 2D, switching from 2D display to 3D display is immediately performed. Although switching from 2D display to 3D display is also performed if a predetermined period of time has elapsed during 2D display, switching from 2D display to 3D display is immediately performed if instructions to end 2D display are entered before the predetermined period of time elapses. Because firstly an image is displayed in 2D display mode and then the mode is switched from 2D display to 3D display if a user instructed to do so, it becomes possible to simultaneously achieve a reduction in the fatigue in an observer's eyes and an increase in the speed of switching to 3D display. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110018978 | 3D IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND 3D IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - Visibility at a time of stereoscopic viewing is improved by enabling parallax adjustment during shooting or reproduction of a moving image. A 3D image display apparatus includes a parallax adjustment control unit which performs parallax adjustment for the 3D image for stereoscopic viewing when receiving an instruction to perform the parallax adjustment via an interface such as a key pressing. The parallax adjustment control unit temporarily stops the 3D image for stereoscopic viewing that has being reproduced as a moving image on a display device and performs parallax adjustment. And then, the 3D image display apparatus resumes reproduction of the moving image in a manner which reflects a value obtained by the parallax adjustment. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110018979 | DISPLAY CONTROLLER, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, OUTPUT DEVICE, AND TRANSMITTER - A display controller includes: an extraction means for extracting a characteristic of at least one of image data and sound data of content; a detection means for detecting a predetermined section of the content for which an evaluation value calculated on the basis of the characteristic extracted by the extraction means is equal to or larger than a threshold value; and a display control means for controlling display of a representative image of each scene of the content, the display control means displaying a representative image of a scene of the predetermined section so as to be recognized as a three-dimensional image and displaying a representative image of a scene outside the predetermined section so as to be recognized as a two-dimensional image. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110025832 | Ghost-compensation for improved stereoscopic projection - A method and system for reducing ghost images in plano-stereoscopic image transmissions is provided. The method comprises establishing a plurality of expected ghosting profiles associated with a plurality of predetermined regions on a screen, and compensating for leakage in each predetermined region of a projected left and right eye images by removing an amount of ghost images leaking from the projected left eye image into the projected right eye image and vice versa. The system comprises a processor configured to receive the quantity of ghost artifacts and compute ghost compensation quantities for left eye images and right eye images. The processor is further configured to remove an amount of actual image ghost artifacts leaking from a projected left eye image into a projected right eye image and vice versa. The processor is also configured to compute ghost compensation quantities for each of a plurality of zones, each zone corresponding to a region on a screen having an expected ghosting profile associated therewith. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110032338 | ENCAPSULATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS - In general, techniques are described for encapsulating three dimensional video data in accordance with a transport protocol. As one example, an apparatus comprising a multimedia processing module, a transport protocol module and a wireless module implement the techniques. The multimedia processing module generates a video data segment, an audio data segment and a depth data segment of 3D video content. The transport protocol module encapsulates each of the video data, audio data and depth data segments in different ones of a plurality of packets according to a transport protocol and adds metadata to at least one of the plurality of packets for enhancing playback of the 3D video content. The wireless module transmits the packets to a 3D display device external from the apparatus. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110032339 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS - It is made possible to mitigate appearance of the strap-shaped disturbance image and shift to the side lobe naturally. The sense of incongruity for an image viewed in a transitional zone is reduced by performing interpolation processing between parallax information pieces displayed on pixels associated with adjacent exit pupils. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110032340 | METHOD FOR CROSSTALK CORRECTION FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) PROJECTION - A method for crosstalk compensation of stereoscopic images for three-dimensional projection is disclosed. The method can be used for producing a stereoscopic presentation containing stereoscopic image pairs that incorporate density or brightness adjustments to at least partially compensate for crosstalk contributions from images exhibiting differential distortion. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110032341 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO TRANSFORM STEREO CONTENT - Methods and systems to process stereo images and video information, and, in particular, to methods and devices to transfer and/or transform stereo content to decrease eye fatigue of a user during viewing of 3D video. The methods and systems can compute an initial map of disparity/depth for stereo images from 3D video, smooth a depth map, change depth perception parameters according to the estimation of eye fatigue, and generate new stereo image according to the depth perception parameters. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110032342 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display method can make the total time of light emission longer per display line. This method is an image display method used in an image display apparatus that repeats displaying images for a left eye and for a right eye alternately that form a stereoscopic image, on a screen including a plurality of display lines, and includes: a shield switching starting step (t | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110037835 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE - The video signal processing device has a parallax detection unit for detecting the parallax between a right-eye video signal and a left-eye video signal and outputting the detected parallax as a parallax detection signal. The video signal processing device has an encoding noise detection unit for detecting an encoding noise generated by encoding processing, outputting an encoding noise detection signal corrected by using a detection result of the detected encoding noise based on the parallax detection signal. The video signal processing device has an encoding noise removing unit for performing at least one of reducing the encoding noise by filtering processing using the encoding noise detection signal, and reducing, based on the parallax detection signal, the encoding noise by replacing the data of a noise generating pixel in the right-eye video signal and the left-eye video signal. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110043614 | Content transmission method and display device - There is provided a video content transmission method that includes the steps of: transmitting normal video content to at least one stream respectively transmitted on at least one broadcast channel; transmitting stereoscopic video content that corresponds to the normal video content to at least one stream respectively transmitted on at least one broadcast channel; transmitting, along with the broadcast channel, system information relating to a transmission system of the stereoscopic video content; and transmitting, along with the broadcast channel, source location information relating to a source location of the stereoscopic video content. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110043615 | Stereoscopic display device and display method - It is made possible to satisfy such a condition that moire or color moire is suppressed and a fast image processing is made easy and such a condition that sufficient image quality can be obtained both at a flat image display time and at a stereoscopic image display time simultaneously. A vertical period of pixel rows having the pixels arranged in one row in a lateral direction is three times a lateral period of the pixels, the pixels developing red, green and blue are alternately arranged in a lateral direction in the same row, the pixels in one row of two rows adjacent in a vertical direction are arranged such that lateral positions thereof are shifted to the pixels in the other row by 1/2 of the lateral period of the pixels, the pixels in rows adjacent in the same column through one row interposed therebetween are the pixels developing different colors of red, green and blue, and a pitch of the elemental images is equal to a width of 18n (n=1, 2, 3 . . . ) pieces of the pixels, and a lateral pitch of the beam control element is smaller than the width of the 18n pieces of the pixels. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110050860 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENCODING AND TRANSMITTING HIGH DEFINITION 3-D MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - One particular implementation of the present invention may take the form of a method and system for encoding and/or transmitting high definition 3-D multimedia content. In one embodiment, the frames for each eye of a viewer may be transmitted in a frame sequential manner to a display device, with an occasional null frame included in the frame stream. The null frame may be ignored by the display device and not presented to the viewer. In another embodiment, a synchronization signal may be presented to the display device to instruct the display device on how to display the frame-sequenced frames such that the 3-D effect of the content may be achieved. The synchronization signal may be presented to the display device embedded within the frames of the content or embedded within the null frames. The synchronization signal may also be provided out of band, such as on a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) cable. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110050861 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, a stereoscopic image display device obtains a substantially greater value of a maximum value of luminous when displaying a first stereoscopic image and a maximum value of luminous when displaying a second stereoscopic image in each of plural areas divided from a display panel surface corresponding to plural light sources which illuminate the display panel thereby to control the emitted light amount of the light source corresponding to the area. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110050862 | Frame Rate Conversion Apparatus for 3D display and Associated Method - A frame rate conversion apparatus for 3D display is provided. The frame rate conversion apparatus for 3D display is capable of preserving alternate display of left and right frames while also preventing an issue of frame tearing. The frame rate conversion apparatus includes a storage unit, an input controller and an output controller. The input controller inputs an input frame sequence to the storage unit according to an input frame rate. The input frame sequence includes a plurality of frame pairs each having a left frame and a corresponding right frame. The output controller alternately outputs one of the left frames and one of the right frames from the storage unit according to an output frame rate and left/right frame information associated with the frame pairs in the storage unit to form an output frame sequence. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110050863 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a display apparatus and a control method thereof which includes receiving a three-dimensional image signal comprising left eye image data and right eye image data between successive first and second vertical blank sections; generating a third vertical blank section which divides the left eye image data and the right eye image data between the first and second vertical blank sections of the received image signal if the received image signal is determined as a three-dimensional image signal; and displaying an image based on the image signal having the generated third vertical blank section. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110050864 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR TRANSFORMING TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES INTO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A system and process is provided for the conversion of a stream of two-dimensional images into a pair of streams of images for providing the perception of a stream of three-dimensional images. Each complimentary image in the image stream undergoes the application of a selection and remapping process to independently alter portions of the image, so that the remappings shift the image elements in a manner which produces a stereo depth effect when the images are viewed through the appropriate viewing device. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110058024 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - In a display apparatus, a display panel displays an image, and a frame rate converter separates an image signal to a first image frame for a left-eye and a second image frame for a right-eye and generates first and second intermediate image frames respectively following the first and second image frames. A timing controller converts the first and second image frames to first and second compensation frames, respectively, and sequentially provides the first compensation frame, the first intermediate image frame, the second compensation frame, and the second intermediate image frame to a data driver. The data driver converts the first and second compensation frames to a left-eye data voltage and a right-eye data voltage, respectively, and converts the first and second intermediate image frames to a predetermined black data voltage. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110069157 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - Embodiments of the invention provide an image display device comprising a rotating section having a plurality of light emitting elements. The rotating section rotates about a center and presents an image. A sensor detects an object, and a display controller controls presentation of the image based at least in part on detection of an object by the sensor. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110074933 | Reduction of viewer discomfort for stereoscopic images - A method for modifying images for display on a three dimensional display includes receiving a first image and a corresponding second image which together represent a three dimensional image when displayed on the three dimensional display. Based upon the first and second image, the method determines whether their content is expected to cause substantial discomfort to a viewer when displayed on the three dimensional display. At least one of the first and second images are modified based at least in part on a physical value related to the pixel pitch of the display, in such a manner to reduce the expected discomfort to the viewer. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110074934 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO SIGNAL DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus and method which display a three dimensional (3D) video signal, the apparatus comprising: a receiver which receives a video signal; a video signal processor which processes the received video signal; a display unit which displays thereon the processed video signal; and a controller which, in response to the received video signal being a 3D video signal, controls the video signal processor to convert the received 3D video signal into a two dimensional (2D) video signal, and displays the 2D video signal on the display unit. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110074935 | Image Display Viewing System and Image Display Device - Systems, methods, and display apparatuses consistent with the invention may generate control signals to control n light-passing devices such that the n light-passing devices each are sequentially operated between ON and OFF states, and such that each of the n light-passing devices are in the ON state no less than 1/n of the viewing period. This may allow different images to be viewed through different light-passing devices. The embodiments may be used, for example, to present a three-dimensional image to a viewer or to present different videos to different viewers. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110074936 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING CROSS-SECTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF AN OBJECT - There is described a display device for displaying cross-sectional representations of an object, the display device comprising: a frame; and a plurality of display units mounted on the frame, each one of the plurality of display units adapted to display a cross-sectional image of the object, the cross-sectional image comprising at least one internal feature of the object and being dependent on a spatial position in a three-dimensional environment of a corresponding one of the plurality of display units on which the cross-sectional image is to be displayed, the plurality of display units being connectable to a processor adapted to generate the cross-sectional image for each one of the plurality of display units as function of the spatial position. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110080472 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC STATUS DISPLAY - A system and method for autostereoscopically displaying status of a computer-based device are disclosed herein. A computer includes a display configured to provide autostereoscopic viewing of computer status. The computer generates and provides to the display data configured for three-dimensional display. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110080473 | DISPLAY PANEL FOR 3-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND 3-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME - A display panel for a 3-dimensional display device is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of unit pixels arranged in a matrix form having a row and column with each unit pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels. Further, the plurality of unit pixels form each of a plurality of pixels alternately arranged with each other for a viewer's left eye and pixels for the viewer's right eye. In addition, at least one unit pixel has a different arrangement of sub-pixels than another unit pixel. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110085028 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OBJECT SEGMENTATION IN DIGITAL IMAGES - Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to object segmentation of digital video streams and digital images. In one aspect, a method for segmenting an object in a digitally-encoded image includes designing a non-linear local function that generates function values associated with identifying the object of interest and a combination function that combines the function values, the object of interest encoded in digital image data. The method includes forming orthogonal projections of the digital image data based on the function values and the combination function. In addition, the orthogonal projections can be used to determining boundaries segmenting the object in the digital image data. The method also includes extracting an image of the object that lies within the boundaries. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110090319 | Display Apparatus and Method of Driving the Same - In a display apparatus and a driving method thereof, a detector determines whether a timing controller is operated in a three-dimensional (3D) mode or a two-dimensional (2D) mode to output a first or second mode signal according to a result of the determination. A compensator compensates for a gamma value of a 3D image to be increased in response to a first mode signal when the 2D mode is converted to the 3D mode and decreases an increased gamma value to a gamma value for a 2D image in response to a second mode signal when the 3D mode is converted to the 2D mode. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110090320 | VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM, VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A video display apparatus includes pixels arranged in lines, a scanning signal transferor that supplies scanning signals to the pixels, and a data signal transferor that supplies a video signal to the pixels. A first controller supplies the video signal to the data signal transferor and causes the scanning signal transferor to supply a first scanning signal that corresponds to a first picture to the lines in the display from a head line to a final line and a second scanning signal that corresponds to a second picture subsequent to the first picture to the lines in the display from the final line to the head line. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110090321 | Display device, display method and computer program - A display system and display method in which a gradation difference between a first frame and a second frame of a video signal is detected, a determination is made as to whether the gradation difference is of a first state or a second state, and a target value of an output of a display is changed based on the result of the determination. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110096151 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NOISE REDUCTION FOR 3D VIDEO CONTENT - A video processing system receives left and right 3D video and/or graphics frames and generates noise reduced left 3D video, right 3D video and/or graphics frames based on parallax compensated left and right frames. Displacement of imagery and/or pixel structures is determined relative to opposite side left and/or right frames. Parallax vectors are determined for parallax compensated left 3D video, right 3D video and/or graphics frames. A search area for displacement may be bounded by parallax limitations. Left 3D frames may be blended with the parallax compensated right 3D frames. Right 3D frames may be blended with the parallax compensated left 3D frames. The left 3D video, right 3D video and/or graphics frames comprise images that are captured, representative of and/or are displayed at a same time instant or at different time instants. Motion estimation, motion adaptation and/or motion compensation techniques may be utilized with parallax techniques. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110096152 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY - A stereoscopic image display including an image displaying unit and a directional light modulator is provided. The image displaying unit has a black matrix. The directional light modulator is disposed corresponding to the image displaying unit, wherein the directional light modulator comprises a plurality of constitutional groups repeating arranged in a first direction. Each of constitutional groups comprises a plurality of periodically changed structures, and each periodically changed structure in same constitutional group changes its size along the first direction. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110096153 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program, whereby a graphics mode to play a graphics image, or the like can be changed without changing resolution. A device plane to store a graphics, video, or background image is a storage region where an L region to store an image for L, and a R region to store an image for R are collaterally arranged, and the configuration of the device plane is defined as to the whole of the device plane that is of storage regions for two images. The graphics mode or the like is included in the configuration of the device plane, and a configuration mode setting API sets the graphics mode. The present invention may be applied to a BD player configured to play a BD, or the like. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110102554 | Transmission device, receiving device, program, and communication system - There is provided a demultiplexer that receives video data for one of a three-dimensional display and a two-dimensional display. There is also provided an HDMI transmission portion that transmits the video data and display information that pertains to one of the three-dimensional display and the two-dimensional display of the video data to a television receiver through TMDS channels #0, #1, and #2 of an HDMI cable. There is also provided a transmission/receiving portion that transmits the display information to the television receiver through a CEC line of the HDMI cable. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110102555 | Stereoscopic Image Reproduction Apparatus, Stereoscopic Image Reproduction Method and Stereoscopic Image Reproduction System - According to one embodiment, a stereoscopic image reproduction apparatus is configured to output a video signal on which signal processing corresponding to stereoscopic image display has been performed, when stereoscopic viewing glasses are being worn, and configured to perform one of outputting a video signal on which signal processing corresponding to two-dimensional image display has been performed, instead of the signal on which the signal processing corresponding to stereoscopic image display has been performed, and stopping outputting of the video signal on which the signal processing corresponding to stereoscopic image display has been performed, when stereoscopic viewing glasses are not being worn. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110102556 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING 3D IMAGE BY USING THE BINOCULAR DISPARITY IN MOBILE TERMINAL AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE SAME - A method of controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes receiving a selection signal from an input unit setting a 3D attribute to at least one item among a plurality of items to be displayed on a display of the mobile terminal; and turning on a switching panel unit positioned in front of the display, via a controller controlling the switching panel unit, when the at least one item is displayed on the display of the mobile terminal. Further, the switching panel unit displays left and right eye images of the at least one item such that the at least one item is viewed as a 3D image based on binocular disparity. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110102557 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a stereoscopic display device which enhances accessibility from a stereoscopic display device to other multimedia device, the stereoscopic display device includes a flat panel that displays an image, the flat panel generating a porch signal on each frame of the image being display and having a predetermined period of blank time after generation of the porch signal, a stereo controller that senses the porch signal to generate a wireless goggle control signal, and a goggle that receives the goggle control signal according to wireless protocol at the time of watching the flat panel, to perceive a stereo 3D image by opening/closing a left eye lens and a right eye lens, selectively. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110109728 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREFOR - A method for operating an image display apparatus that receives a three-dimensional (3D) image signal and displays the 3D image signal as a 3D image, includes according to an embodiment displaying an image, detecting a connected external device, receiving data from the detected external device, generating at least one 3D object corresponding to the received data, and displaying the at least one 3D object corresponding to the received data. The at least one 3D object corresponding to the received data is processed to have a different depth from the image. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110109729 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THERFOR - A method for operating an image display apparatus that receives a 3D image signal and displays the 3D image signal as a 3D image, which includes displaying an image, detecting a connected external device, generating a 3D object indicating the connected external device, and displaying the 3D object. The 3D object is processed to have a different depth from the displayed image. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110109730 | STEREOSCOPIC OVERLAY OFFSET CREATION AND EDITING - Adjusting overlay positioning in stereoscopic video, including: receiving overlay data including a plurality of overlays, each overlay having a lateral axis value, a vertical axis value, and a depth value; receiving and displaying the stereoscopic video to a user as at least one of a video preview display and a stereoscopic display, each display including an overlay from the overlay data, wherein a position of the overlay in each display is based on the lateral axis value, the vertical axis value, and the depth value of the overlay, and wherein the video preview display includes interfaces for adjusting the position of the overlay in each display; receiving input from the user related to the depth value of the overlay; and adjusting the position of the overlay in the video preview display based on the input from the user. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110109731 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING PARALLAX IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO - A method and apparatus for adjusting parallax of a three-dimensional (3D) video are provided. The method including receiving an input of a 3D video sequence; determining whether a scene transition occurs between a previous frame and a current frame of the 3D video sequence; if it is determined that the scene transition occurs between the previous frame and the current frame, determining and comparing first depth information of a previous scene which includes the previous frame and second depth information of a current scene which includes the current frame; and, based on a result of the comparing, selectively adjusting depth information of at least one of the frames of the previous scene and the frames of the current scene in consideration of a difference between the first depth information and the second depth information. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110115887 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - An image display apparatus and an operating method thereof are provided. The image display apparatus may determine the location of a user, and may display a 3D object in consideration of the location of the user. If the user moves his or her eyes or hands, the location of the 3D object may change accordingly. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110115888 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A broadcast receiving apparatus is provided with an image identifying unit that identifies the type of a received broadcast image and a simulcast identifying unit that identifies a simulcast of a received broadcast. A glasses control and communication unit communicates with the viewing glasses, and identifies whether a user is wearing glasses based on the detection signal of a state-of-wear detecting unit | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110122234 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CURSOR DISPLAY METHOD - A stereoscopic image display apparatus capable of generating a cursor that moves according to user operation to allow stereoscopic view with a stereoscopic image including a set of images with parallax and capable of combining and displaying the cursor on the stereoscopic image acquires a parallax amount of the stereoscopic image at a location where the cursor is combined and displayed on the stereoscopic image and calculates a moving speed of the cursor. The stereoscopic image display apparatus determines whether the cursor is moving based on the calculated moving speed and generates the cursor including a certain predetermined value as the parallax amount of the cursor if it is determined that the cursor is moving. The stereoscopic image display apparatus generates the cursor by setting the parallax amount of the cursor to the parallax amount of the acquired stereoscopic image if it is determined that the cursor is not moving. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110122235 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image display device for displaying a 3-Dimensional (3D) image and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The image display device includes a user input unit configured to receive an item selection signal for some of one or more items included in a User Interface (UI) image, a control unit configured to generate a detailed image of a selection item selected by the item selection signal as a 3D image, and a display unit configured to display the detailed image. A user can select and receives an UI image or items included therein as a 3D image, and select a 2D/3D mode of the displayed UI image so as to control a sense of depth thereof. If a plurality of UI images is displayed, the image display device can display UI images on multiple layers with senses of depth. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110134226 | 3D IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING 3D IMAGE THEREOF - A three dimensional (3D) display apparatus and a method for determining a 3D image are provided. The 3D display apparatus detects definition information of a received image data, and determines whether the received image data is 3D image data based on the detected definition information. Therefore, the 3D display apparatus may determine whether or not that a received image is a 3D image. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110141244 | ZERO-D DIMMING FOR 3D DISPLAYS - A method of zero-D dimming backlights for 3D or multi-view displays using right and left image data. The method receives right and left pixel luminance values for the right and left image data, and it remaps the right and left pixel luminance values using a factor based upon an average luminance value or based upon a luminance percentile value or a modified factor that further includes the absolute difference between left and right pixel luminance values. The factor or modified factor are selectively used to remap particular right and left pixel luminance values based upon a disparity consideration. The method results in power savings by dimming the backlight without perceptible or substantial loss in brightness of the display. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141245 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING IMAGE REGISTRATION THEREOF - Disclosed are a display apparatus and method for producing image registration thereof. The display apparatus comprising: a receiver which receives a broadcasting signal comprising information about a broadcast image and three-dimensional (3D) information of at least one area of the broadcast image; a signal processor which extracts the 3D information of the at least one area from the received broadcasting signal, registers at least one additional image to the at least one area using the extracted 3D information and outputs an output signal including the registered at least one additional image; and a display unit which displays the broadcasting image output by the signal processor. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110149047 | 3D IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A three-dimensional (3D) image display device includes a liquid crystal display panel alternately displaying a left eye image and a right eye image every unit frame period, a data driving circuit, a gate driving circuit, a timing controller that divides the unit frame period into first and second sub-frame periods, repeatedly supply the same frame data to the data driving circuit during the first and second sub-frame periods, and control operations of the data and gate driving circuits using a frame frequency higher than an input frame frequency, backlight light sources generating light to be provided to the liquid crystal display panel, and a light source driving circuit that sequentially turns on the backlight light sources when liquid crystals of the liquid crystal display panel are kept in a saturation state. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149048 | 3D Image Contents Viewing System - 3D television set or its external speaker box has container for a plurality of 3D spectacles. Container can locate individual 3D spectacles therein. Each of 3D spectacles has unique modulation reflector of infrared synchronizing signal. 3D television set displays 3D image on 3D program upon use of 3D spectacles detected directly by the modulation reflection or indirectly by 3D spectacles not remaining in container. 3D television set displays 2D image on 3D program if nonuse of 3D spectacles is detected directly by the no modulation reflection or indirectly by 3D spectacles remaining in container. Upon detection of nonuse, recommendation display is made to ware 3D spectacles. During 2D commercial message, synchronizing signal is halted. Recommendation to put unnecessary 3D spectacles in container is made upon end of every program, or end of 3D program followed by 2D program, or right before power off of 3D television set. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149049 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A main-view stream and a sub-view stream are recorded on a recording medium. The main-view stream is used for monoscopic video playback. The sub-view stream is used for stereoscopic video playback in combination with the main-view stream are recorded. The main-view stream includes a plurality of main-view pictures, and the sub-view stream includes a plurality of sub-view pictures. The main-view pictures and the sub-view pictures are in one-to-one correspondence. A B picture is not used as a reference picture for compression of any of the sub-view pictures whose corresponding main-view picture is one of an I picture and a P picture. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149050 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A stereoscopic image display device according to the present invention includes: an image generating section | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149051 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE REPRODUCTION METHOD IN QUICK SEARCH MODE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS USING SAME - A method, which forms a stereoscopic image by alternately displaying a left image and a right image, for reproducing a stereoscopic image in a trip mode, includes: reproducing a stereoscopic image; receiving a selection of a trip mode from a user while the stereoscopic image is being reproduced; and when the trip mode is entered, changing the stereoscopic image into a two-dimensional (2D) image by selectively displaying one of a left image and a right image. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110157322 | CONTROLLING A PIXEL ARRAY TO SUPPORT AN ADAPTABLE LIGHT MANIPULATOR - A display system is provided that enables three-dimensional images to be displayed. The display system includes an adaptable light manipulator positioned proximate to an image generator to provide an image to a viewer based on light that is received from the image generator. The image generator includes a pixel array. A display controller controls the pixel array to compensate for modification of a configuration of the adaptable light manipulator. The pixel array includes a plurality of display pixels. A plurality of image pixels is rendered to a plurality of respective subsets of the display pixels. The display controller is capable of changing a number of display pixels that represents each image pixel and/or which display pixels or groups thereof correspond to the respective image pixels. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110157323 | Miniaturized Imaging Module, 3D Display System Using the Same and Image Arrangement Method Thereof - A miniaturized imaging module, a 3D display system using the same and an image arrangement method are disclosed. The 3D display system includes a plurality of multi-viewing zone miniaturized imaging modules and an image output module. The image output module is for editing, adjusting and distributing a multi-viewing zone image to the multi-viewing zone miniaturized imaging modules for display. Each multi-viewing zone miniaturized imaging module includes a housing, a projection unit and a viewing zone modulating screen. The projection unit and the viewing zone modulating screen are respectively disposed on two opposite sides inside the housing. In each multi-viewing zone miniaturized imaging module, the projection unit projects an image onto respective viewing zone modulating screen, and forms a plurality of viewing zones in front of the viewing zone modulating screen, wherein the image is a segmented image of an image composed of a plurality of images having different view-angles. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110157324 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIEWING 3D VIDEO USING A STEREOSCOPIC VIEWING DEVICE - Methods and systems are described for enabling the operation of a stereoscopic viewing device such that the viewing device provides a movable viewing window that enables the 3D rendering of 3D image data displayed by a backlit LCD device. In a particular implementation, the systems and methods disclosed herein are operable to control the operation of a pair of LCD shutter glasses. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110157325 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a video display apparatus includes a display device, a camera, a detection module, a determination module, and a message display module. The camera is configured to capture an image in front of the display device. The detection module is configured to detect a position of glasses in the image. The determination module is configured to determine a relative relationship between the position detected by the detection module and a predetermined reference position. The message display module is configured to display a message corresponding to the relative relationship on the display device. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110157326 | MULTI-PATH AND MULTI-SOURCE 3D CONTENT STORAGE, RETRIEVAL, AND DELIVERY - Techniques are described herein for supporting presentation of multi-path and multi-source viewing content. For example, portions of three-dimensional viewing content may be received via respective pathways from respective sources. A visual presentation of the three-dimensional viewing content may be caused based on the portions. In another example, instances of viewing content may be received via respective pathways from respective sources. Configurations of respective regions of a screen may be directed to support display of the respective instances. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110157327 | 3D AUDIO DELIVERY ACCOMPANYING 3D DISPLAY SUPPORTED BY VIEWER/LISTENER POSITION AND ORIENTATION TRACKING - Techniques are described herein for supporting 3D audio delivery accompanying 3D display supported by viewer/listener position and orientation tracking. For example, audio content is configured to have a spatial orientation that accords with an orientation of a viewer. A spatial orientation of audio content is a configuration of the audio content in which characteristics of respective portions of the audio content, which correspond to respective speakers, indicate an orientation of ears of a viewer/listener with respect to sound source(s) that correspond to (e.g., are depicted in) a three-dimensional view. Such a characteristic may include an amplitude of sound that corresponds to a sound source and/or a delay associated with the sound that corresponds to the sound source. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110157328 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD AS WELL AS PROGRAM - When an end portion of a three-dimensional image appears to pop forward from a display surface, a predetermined end area is set at a periphery of images forming the three-dimensional image to modify at least one of the images to modify the stereoscopic effect so that at least a part of the end portion appears to be level with the display surface. A disparity between corresponding pixels in the end area of the images is modified so that the disparity is gradually decreased toward the end of the images, and image parts at left and right areas of the end area of a reference image among the images are deformed based on the disparity. At least one of the images is modified by modifying the image other than the reference image with the deformed image parts of the end area. Then, three-dimensional processing is applied to the modified images. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110164118 | DISPLAY APPARATUSES SYNCHRONIZED BY ONE SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL - A display system is provided. The display system includes a plurality of display apparatuses synchronized by a synchronization signal to display an input image. Accordingly, the plurality of display apparatuses may synchronize a 3D image to be displayed, and thus a user may watch the 3D image displayed on the plurality of display apparatuses using 3D glasses. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110164119 | APPARATUS OF ACQUIRING 3D INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DRIVING LIGHT SOURCE THEREOF, AND SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING 3D INFORMATION - An apparatus for acquiring 3-dimensional (3D) information, a method for driving a light source thereof, and a system for acquiring 3D information are provided. The apparatus includes: a projector, a photographing unit, and a controller which causes a driving signal to be applied to the projector. The driving signal has a first peak current in a display mode and a second peak current, higher than the first peak current, in a 3D mode. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110164120 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a stereoscopic image display device and to a stereoscopic image display system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a stereoscopic image display device in which a polarizing film and a panel contained in a display are not separated from each other so that the color and the view angle are prevented from degrading, and relates to a stereoscopic image display system which enables a user to observe both stereoscopic images and planar images at the same time with both eyes even when the user is wearing polarizing eyeglasses. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110164121 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, RECORDING MEDIUM - A playback device for playing back a graphics stream in accordance with a stream selection table recorded on the recording medium. A procedure means determines a playback type of a graphics corresponding to the current stream number, based on the playback capability indicated by the capability register. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110169924 | Systems and methods for optically projecting three-dimensional text, images and/or symbols onto three-dimensional objects - The present invention provides a method whereby the spatial relationship and orientations of one or more three-dimensional objects being illuminated by an optical projector, and the optical projector itself, can be very accurately defined both quickly and easily. The present invention also provides a novel computerized optical projection system whereby three dimensional data when viewed by the human eye projected onto three dimensional objects is not deformed as a result of the non-planar projection surface. The present invention could have many applications in many industries that include entertainment, apparel, marketing, and many others. In one embodiment, the invention provides computerized optical assembly or manufacturing guidance systems, and related methods, that provide step-by-step assembly or manufacturing instructions for instructing technicians how to assemble or manufacture three-dimensional objects or systems, or parts thereof, which may be extremely complex, such as an aircraft, or a part thereof (a vertical stabilizer, or the like), in a very efficient, rapid and accurate manner. The assembly instructions are in the form of calibrated three-dimensional text, images and/or symbols, and are projected by one or a plurality of optical projectors that are in operable communication with one or a plurality of computers onto the three-dimensional objects or systems, or component parts or skins thereof. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110169925 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF THE ORIENTATION OF A 3D MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND THE ORIENTATION OF AN INTELLIGENT GUIDANCE DEVICE - There is described a method to synchronize the orientation of an IGD 3D Coordinate System and the orientation of a 3DM 3D Coordinate System, in which the IGD's gravity direction measurement device and electronic compass are used explicitly. There is also described how an IGD, once its orientation has been synchronized to the orientation of a 3DM, can be used to display 3D graphics that guide the measurement process. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110169926 | DATA STRUCTURE, RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A recording apparatus includes a recording controller configured to record picture data of a 3D picture and viewing environment information indicating an environment intended as a viewing environment for the 3D picture on a recording medium. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110169927 | Content Presentation in a Three Dimensional Environment - Systems, devices, and methods for displaying method content are described. In some embodiments, media content for display in a virtual three dimensional environment may be described. The virtual three dimensional environment including a representation of the identified media content may be generated. The generated virtual three dimensional environment may be displayed on a display device in communication with the first computing device. The virtual three dimensional environment may be displayed from a vantage point at a first location within the virtual three dimensional environment. Input modifying the virtual three dimensional environment may be detected. The virtual three dimensional environment may be updated in accordance with the detected input. The updated virtual three dimensional environment may be displayed on the display device. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110175988 | 3D VIDEO GRAPHICS OVERLAY - Preparing a three dimensional (3D) video graphical overlay based on a two dimensional (2D) graphical image in a decoded stereoscopic video signal. This includes receiving the 2D graphical image and receiving 3D information associated with the 3D video graphical overlay. This also includes reproducing, using a processor, the 2D graphical image to form a first view graphical image and a second view graphical image in a graphics window. This also includes mapping the first and second view graphical images, using the 3D information, to frames in the 3D video to form a 3D video graphical overlay of a 3D video stream. This also includes blending the 3D video graphical overlay and the 3D video stream. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110181705 | Signal processing device, signal processing method, and program - A signal processing device configured to produce a first output video signal and a second output video signal as video signals for right and left eyes in a stereoscopic video, the first and second output video signals each having a predetermined number of output gradation steps, from a first input video signal and a second input video signal, the first and second input video signals each having a predetermined number of input gradation steps. A predetermined gradation value difference is produced between the gradation values of the first output video signal and the gradation values of the second output video signal to express a higher number of gradation steps than the number of output gradation steps in the stereoscopic video. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110181706 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - An autostereoscopic display apparatus includes a spatial light modulator in which alignment features such as bump features provide radially symmetric alignment of the molecules of the liquid crystal. A parallax element is arranged over the spatial light modulator to direct light from the pixels into different viewing windows. The apertures of the pixels are shaped such that, for each individual row of pixels, a notional line parallel to the geometric axes of the parallax elements has a total length of intersection with the pixels of the row, weighted for the intensity of light modulated by the alignment features, which is the same for all positions of the notional line. This improves angular intensity uniformity. The pixels may each include plural apertures, wherein the alignment features of the apertures of each individual pixel are offset from one another in a direction perpendicular to said geometric axes. This improves angular contrast uniformity. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110187835 | APPARATUS FOR COMPENSATING 3D IMAGE IN PROJECTOR AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for compensating a 3D image in a projector and method thereof are disclosed, by which an image quality of a 3D image can be compensated. The present invention includes a test pattern generating unit generating at least one of a left eye image test pattern and a right eye image test pattern, a display unit displaying the generated test pattern, a sensing unit sensing the displayed test pattern, an analyzing unit extracting an information value of the test pattern by analyzing the sensed test pattern, and an image compensating unit compensating an information value of the left eye image test pattern and an information value of the right eye image test pattern to correspond to the extracted information value, the image compensating unit controlling the display unit to display the 3D image according to the compensated information values. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110187836 | 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. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110193945 | Image display device, image display viewing system and image display method - An image display device includes an invalid area detecting portion that detects an invalid area of an image for a left eye and an image for a right eye, a final invalid area calculating portion that calculates a final invalid area of the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye based on the detected invalid area and a depth adjustment amount, a mask amount calculating portion that calculates a mask amount based on the final invalid area, a depth adjustment portion that adjusts a depth of a stereoscopic image based on the depth adjustment amount, a mask adding portion that adds a mask to the image for the left eye and to the image for the right eye after the adjustment, and a display portion that displays the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye to each of which the mask is added. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110205341 | PROJECTORS AND DEPTH CAMERAS FOR DEVICELESS AUGMENTED REALITY AND INTERACTION. - Architecture that combines multiple depth cameras and multiple projectors to cover a specified space (e.g., a room). The cameras and projectors are calibrated, allowing the development of a multi-dimensional (e.g., 3D) model of the objects in the space, as well as the ability to project graphics in a controlled fashion on the same objects. The architecture incorporates the depth data from all depth cameras, as well as color information, into a unified multi-dimensional model in combination with calibrated projectors. In order to provide visual continuity when transferring objects between different locations in the space, the user's body can provide a canvas on which to project this interaction. As the user moves body parts in the space, without any other object, the body parts can serve as temporary “screens” for “in-transit” data. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110211049 | Methods and Systems for Presenting Three-Dimensional Video Content - An exemplary method includes receiving, by a three-dimensional (“3D”) adapter subsystem separate from and communicatively coupled to a display device, a 3D video content stream comprising data representative of 3D video content, directing, by the 3D adapter subsystem, the display device to generate and display the 3D video content in accordance with the 3D video content stream, and calibrating, by the 3D adapter subsystem, the display of the 3D video content in accordance with one or more attributes of the display device. Corresponding methods and systems are also described. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110211050 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY OF AN IMAGE - In a method of creating an autostereoscopic display of an image, a plurality of images are received at a spatial-resolution-to-angular-resolution-converter. The plurality of images each have differing incident angles with respect to the spatial-resolution-to-angular-resolution-converter. An autostereoscopically displayed image is created from the plurality of images using the spatial-resolution-to-angular-resolution-converter. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110216169 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display panel and an optical member. The display panel includes a plurality of a pixel and displays a 2D image. The optical member includes a plurality of a lens, each having a plurality of a focal point and configured such that at least two pixels of the display panel correspond to one 3D pixel. The optical member divides the 2D image into left and right-eye images by using the lenses of the optical member. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216170 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE VIEWING DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A three-dimensional image viewing device includes a control panel in which a plurality of pixels are disposed in a predetermined region; a position identifying unit that identifies a right eye position and a left eye position of a user viewing a display screen on which a left eye image and a right eye image are displayed through the predetermined region of the control panel configured to be interposed between the user and the display screen; and a control circuit that controls the plurality of pixels such that at least part of the pixels arranged in a region corresponding to the right eye position identified by the position identifying unit transmits light only from the right eye image and also such that at least part of the pixels disposed in a region corresponding to the left eye position identified by the position identifying unit transmits light only from the left eye image. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216171 | SCREEN AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTING PICTURE INFORMATION - A method for representing picture information on an autostereoscopic screen that is designed as a multiperson screen and that is suitable for the simultaneous display of a plurality of views which are visible in each case from at least one of different observation zones. The screen includes a matrix screen having a plurality of pixels as well as a beam splitter raster that is suitable for guiding light coming from the pixels, in each case into at least one of the observation zones. In the method, the pixels are activated with picture information of at least two different scenes, in a manner such that a first observer of the screen may exclusively see a first of the at least two scenes and a second observer of the screen may exclusively see a second of the at least two scenes. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110221870 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A liquid crystal displayer and control method thereof are disclosed. The liquid crystal displayer capable of displaying image in a three dimensional mode comprises a display panel, a first timing controller, a second timing controller and a control module. The first timing controller and the second timing controller are electrically coupled to the display panel. While receiving multiple frames, the control module controls the first timing controller according to a refresh frequency of the frames, to feed the frames to the panel based on a frame clock, and controls the second timing controller to invert the signal polarity of the frames based on an inversion clock. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110221871 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND AUDIOVISUAL DEVICE - The display device is configured to comprise an input part into which video image information is input and a display part displaying the video image information input into the input part and, if the displayed video images are switched from 3D video images to 2D video images, is devised to modify the brightness of the displayed video images over a prescribed period of time. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110221872 | Image display device and method of displaying image - An image display device includes: an image display section; a display controller alternately displaying left and right eye images, which have parallax therebetween, on the image display section; a synchronizing signal generating section generating a synchronizing signal indicating a display timing of each of the left and right eye images on the image display section, as an internal synchronizing signal; a synchronizing signal receiver receiving a synchronizing signal indicating the display timing of each of the left and right eye images output from another image display device, as an external synchronizing signal; and a synchronizing signal selecting section selecting either the external synchronizing signal or the internal synchronizing signal output from the synchronizing signal generating section, as a reference synchronizing signal, when the synchronizing signal receiver receives the external synchronizing signal. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110221873 | Extended Command Stream for Closed Caption Disparity - A method of transporting data within a DTV bit stream involves in a stream of digital video closed caption data packets, receiving closed caption text and a two bit extended packet control field; where the two bit extended packet control field has a value that designates that the information in cc_data_1 and cc_data_2 fields of the digital video closed caption data packets contain an extended packets within the digital video closed caption data packets; receiving the extended packets within the digital video closed caption data packets in the cc_data_1 and cc_data_2 fields that carry extended channel packets. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110221874 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING 3D IMAGE QUALITY, 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS, 3D GLASSES, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING 3D IMAGE - A method for adjusting an image quality of a 3-dimension (3D) image, a 3D display apparatus, 3D glasses, and a system for providing a 3D image are provided. Attribute information of the 3D glasses is acquired from the 3D glasses to adjust an image quality of a displayed 3D image according to the attribute information of the 3D glasses. Therefore, if a viewer views a 3D image through a glasses type 3D display apparatus, brightness of the 3D image is prevented from being darker by 3D glasses or a color hue of the 3D image is prevented from being degraded by the 3D glasses. Accordingly, the viewer views the 3D image with an optimal image quality. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110228054 | Methods To Eliminate/Reduce The Crosstalk Artifacts Of The Retro-Reflective Auto-Stereoscopic 3D Display - Crosstalk artifacts in a retro-reflective auto-stereoscopic 3D display system are compensated by providing various methods of directing surface reflections of a screen away from a viewing region, i.e. a region from which the screen is viewed. This is achieved by splitting the screen in two, and tilting the left-side and right-side of the screen either towards, or away, from a projection baseline so as to direct mirror reflections away from the viewing region. Alternatively, the screen is not split, but virtical v-shaped grooves are made along the surface of the screen facing the projection line. The angle of the v-shaped groove direct surface reflections away from the viewing region, but the groove are substantially small that the screen appears flat to an observer. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228055 | SPACE SKIPPING FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE RENDERING - Space skipping for multi-dimensional image rendering is described. In an embodiment a ray-casting engine is used to form a two dimensional image from an at least three dimensional image volume by computing rays extending from a camera location, through the two dimensional image and into the volume. For example, a space skipping logic is used to clip the rays such that computationally expensive aspects of ray-casting only need to be performed along the clipped rays. For example a volume pyramid is formed by repeatedly reducing the resolution of the volume data. In an example, each ray is intersected with the lowest resolution volume of the pyramid and clipped using data from that volume. In examples, the clipping is then repeated at higher resolutions in order to clip the ray closely to non-transparent voxels in the volume and optimize the task of rendering the image. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228056 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, VIDEO OUTPUT SYSTEM, AND VIDEO OUTPUT METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a video output module, a receiving module, and an image quality adjusting module. The video output module is configured to output 2D video and 3D video selectively. The receiving module is configured to receive a wearing state signal indicating whether or not a user wears shutter glasses. The image quality adjusting module is configured to determine a first image quality adjustment amount when the video output module outputs the 2D video and the wearing state signal indicates that the user wears the shutter glasses, and to determine a second image quality adjustment amount when the video output module outputs the 2D video and the wearing state signal indicates that the user does not wear the shutter glasses. The second image quality adjustment amount is different from the first image quality adjustment amount. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228057 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Conversion Method, and Program - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a determining unit that determines, based on parallax of a 3D main image including a left-eye main image and a right-eye main image, parallax of a sub-image overlapped with the 3D main image and determines a zoom-in/out ratio of the sub-image based on parallax of the corresponding sub-image; a magnification/reduction processing unit that magnifies or reduces the sub-image depending on the zoom-in/out ratio; a creating unit that creates a left-eye sub-image and a right-eye sub-image by shifting the sub-image in left and right directions based on the parallax of the sub-image; and a synthesizing unit that synthesizes, for each eye, the left-eye main image and the right-eye main image with the left-eye sub-image and the right-eye sub-image created by magnifying/reducing and shifting the sub-image in left and right directions. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228058 | REPRODUCING DEVICE, REPRODUCTION CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - A reproducing device includes a reproducing section that reproduces a two-dimensional video and a three-dimensional video recorded on a predetermined video recording medium, and a reproduction controller that controls to reproduce a three-dimensional test video for confirmation of stereovision by a viewer before reproducing the three-dimensional video, when the video reproduced by the reproducing section is switched from the two-dimensional video to the three-dimensional video. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110234769 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES IN IMAGE SYSTEM - An apparatus for displaying images in an image system includes: an encoder configured to encode color and depth images of at least one view received from a plurality of imaging devices and generate a reference image by synthesizing the encoded depth image of a current view and the encoded color and depth images before and after the current view based on a predetermined method; a decoder configured to decode a color image of the current view by using the generated reference image and decode the encoded color and depth images of at least one view; and a splitter configured to divide and split, based on each view, the decoded color and depth images of at least one view. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234770 | MULTIVIEW 3-D DISPLAY FOR SEQUENTIALLY PROJECTING IMAGES INTO WIDE FIELD OF VIEW - This invention relates to a multiview 3-dimentional display for sequentially projecting high number of 2-dimensional images of aspect angles of objects (scenes) into the wide field of view (apparatus) for producing their 3-dimentional images. The 3D image is perceived with great depth, provides comfortable conditions for its viewing without eye strain. The viewing of such 3D image also does not require using any supplementary means such as glasses or tracking devices, does not limit the position of the viewer in the field of view. This allows viewing the 3D image by many viewers simultaneously. The 3D display of the present invention can be used in computer and TV systems for transforming 2-dimentional images of aspect angles of virtual and real, static and moving 3D objects into corresponding signals and transmitting said signals for reproducing 2-dimentional by 3D display. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110242288 | Streaming and Rendering Of 3-Dimensional Video - Transmitting and receiving 3D video content via an Internet protocol (IP) stream are described. 3D video content may be transmitted in a single IP stream and adjusted by a device associated with a display for rendering the 3D video content in a desired manner. 3D content also may be transmitted in a plurality of IP streams and a device associated with a display for rendering the 3D content may determine which of the plurality of IP streams to decode based upon a mode of operation of the device. A device receiving 3D video content may be configured to adjust the appearance of the content displayed on a display associated with the device. Such adjusting of the appearance may include moving the position of the rendered 3D video content within the display, positioning in band and/or out of band content in front of, behind, or within the rendered 3D video content. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242289 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - Certain embodiments provide a display apparatus including: a selection unit configured to make a selection as to which image in images shot by which virtual cameras should be displayed on which subpixel based on the viewing position and the number of parallaxes which can be displayed; a generation unit configured to dispose the virtual camera on the coordinates of the virtual cameras in the CG space, shoot a drawing object in the CG space, and generate an elemental image based on a shot multiple viewpoint image and the selection result in the selection unit; a display unit configured to display a stereoscopic image based on the elemental image; and an optical plate configured to control light rays illuminated from the display unit to make it possible for the viewer to conduct stereoscopic viewing with a light ray interval which is wider than the shooting interval. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242290 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image display apparatus includes a connection module, a power transmitting module, a receiving module and a display module. The connection module is configured to be electrically connected to 3D image viewing glasses. The power transmitting module is configured to transmit power to the 3D image viewing glasses via the connection module. The receiving module is configured to receive information relating to a charging amount of the 3D image viewing glasses. The display module is configured to display an image representing the charging amount of the 3D image viewing glasses based on the information relating to the charging amount. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242291 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that includes an interface that receives a multi-view video coded stream including a base view video stream and a dependent view video stream, and control information corresponding to at least one of a plurality of predetermined formats of the multi-view coded video stream. The information processing apparatus further includes a display control unit that controls reproduction of the base video stream and the dependent video stream based on the control information. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242292 | Display control unit, display control method and program - A display control unit includes: a determining section which determines a type of content to be reproduced when 2D content and 3D content are to be reproduced in a mixed order, the 2D content containing video data of 2D images and the 3D content containing video data of images for the left eye and images for the right eye; a setting section which, for the 2D content, displays 2D images and, for the 3D content, sets a 2D display mode to cause either the images for the left eye or the images for the right eye are displayed; a reproducing section which reproduces the content in the 2D display mode; and a display control section which, when 3D content is to be reproduced, displays type information while the content is displayed in the 2D display mode on the basis of data obtained through reproduction. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242293 | Calibration device, image display system and shutter glasses - A calibration device including a communication section which communicates with a display device which displays images on a screen, a light sensor arranged in a position to receive transmitted light of a lens of shutter glasses, a signal processing section which processes an output signal of the light sensor, a processing section which determines a shutter opening/closing timing, and a shutter driving section which operates the opening and closing of shutters of shutter glasses in accordance with the shutter opening/closing timing determined by the processing section, where the communication section receives a standard pulse which shows a timing when images are switched from the display device, and the processing section determines an appropriate correction amount τ of the shutter opening/closing timing based on a change in the output of the light sensor when the shutter opening/closing timing is changed with regard to the standard pulse. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242294 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DERIVING MOTION VECTOR - A motion vector is derived with high accuracy while avoiding deriving of an erroneous motion. A stereoscopic image display device | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110254929 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING STEREO-VIEW OR MULTIVIEW SEQUENCE IMAGE - An electronic device and a 3D image display method are disclosed. A receiver receives 3D video data including left-view video data and right-view video data. A formatter generates a first video frame and a second video frame, wherein the first video frame includes first pixel data of one of the left-view video frame and the right-view video frame in odd lines and includes second pixel data of the other of the left-view video frame and the right-view video frame in even lines, and wherein the second video frame includes third pixel data of one of the left-view video frame and the right-view video frame in odd lines and includes fourth pixel data of the other of the left-view video frame and the right-view video frame in even lines. A display scans the first video frame and the second video frame. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110254930 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a unit that detects a motion vector from a first video image and a second video image; a unit that detects a disparity vector between a frame of the first video image and a frame of the second video image; a unit that, when there exists a non-detection position at which no motion vector is detected in a frame of one video image, performs correction by detecting a corresponding position included in a frame of the other video image that corresponds to the non-detection position using the disparity vector, and setting a motion vector of the frame of the other video image at the corresponding position, to the non-detection position; and a unit that generates respective interpolation frames of the first video image and the second video image using the motion vector after correction. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110261169 | COLOR MANAGEMENT OF AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC 3D DISPLAYS - Color correction of an autostereoscopic color display capable of displaying multiple views of one scene. Multiple viewing regions of the autostereoscopic color display are identified. The multiple viewing regions together comprise the whole of an operating viewing zone for the autostereoscopic color display. A respective plurality of color correction LUTs are constructed. At least one color correction LUT is constructed for each different viewing region. Color correction LUTs corresponding to current viewing regions are selected based on information regarding viewer location. The selected color correction LUTs are applied to the autostereoscopic color display. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261170 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, there is provided a video display apparatus, including: a 3D image generating module configured to receive a 3D image input signal; and to generate a 3D image display signal to be displayed on a screen of a video display unit, from the 3D image input signal; and an image mixing module configured to receive a 2D image signal and the 3D image display signal; to mix the 3D image display signal to be displayed on a first area of the screen and the 2D image signal to be displayed on a second area of the screen to generate a mixed image signal, the first area being different from the second area; and to output the mixed image signal to the video display unit. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261171 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS - A video processing apparatus comprises an input unit, to which video information is inputted; a decoder unit, which is configured to decode the video information inputted to the input unit; and an output unit, which is configured to output the video information decoded within the decoder unit, wherein a message indicting that there is a schedule for outputting 3D video information from the output unit, in case where the video information to be inputted to the input unit after elapsing a predetermined time is the 3D video information, or the video information outputted from the output unit is 3D video information, and a message for prompting a user to be in a condition of being able to view the 3D video from the output unit, if the user is not in the condition of being able to view the 3D video, or the video information outputted from the output unit is 3D video information, and an output of the 3D video information from the output unit is stopped, temporally, when the user is not in the condition of being able to view the 3D video. Or, it further comprises a recording unit, which is configured to record the video information inputted to the input unit onto a recording medium, wherein the recording unit starts recording of the 3D video information, when the 3D video information is inputted to the input unit in case where a user is not in a condition of being able to view the 3D video. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261172 | STEREOSCOPIC VIEWER - An apparatus with a stereoscopic three-dimensional video display. The video presentation is divided into left and right views for the left and right eyes, respectively. A face plate with left and right ocular apertures is disposed on an exterior surface of the vending machine in an optimal position for viewing. A divider plate is centered between the left and right views and the left and right ocular apertures so that a viewer's left eye can only see the left view of the video presentation and vice-versa. In one embodiment, the apparatus is incorporated in a vending machine. When a purchaser buys a product from the vending machine, the purchaser may view a short video presentation through the stereoscopic display, which depicts something of interest to the viewer. In another embodiment, the apparatus in incorporated in a housing associated with media player. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110267437 | 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. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110267438 | 3D LCD USING SPECTRUM METHOD AND 3D IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a 3D LCD using a spectrum method. The 3D LCD which forms and displays a 3D image using light sources comprises: a 1st light source that forms an image for a left eye; a 2nd light source that forms an image for a right eye; and a control unit that is connected to the 1st and 2nd light sources and drives the light sources in turn, wherein the RGB spectrum bands of each light source overlap to a degree that does not cause interference between the RGB spectrum bands. Preferably, the 1st and 2nd light sources include an LED. More preferably, the 1st and 2nd light sources are installed on a light source unit for a back light unit. Selectively, the 1st and 2nd light sources comprise at least one light source body respectively. Therefore, the invention can: produce a 3D image of which brightness and definition are more improved than a 3D LCD using a polarization method; display the 3D image at a cheaper cost than a 3D LCD using a time-sequential method; and improve user satisfaction by increasing user convenience. In addition, the invention is able to simplify the fabrication processes of the 3D LCD and reduce fabrication costs as the 3D image can be produced through the spectrum method by using little-changed conventional LCD production processes. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110273540 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND AN IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A method may be provided for operating an image display apparatus. Content may be displayed on a display, and a size of a first region in which the content is displayed may change. A menu may be displayed in a second region of the display at a side of the first region. An area of the first region in which the content is displayed may be greater than an area of the second region in which the menu is displayed. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110273541 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD, SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND SIGNAL RECEPTION DEVICE - Provided is a signal transmission method including a step of, if one part of a content distributed through a network includes a stereoscopic image display zone for displaying a stereoscopic image, transmitting with the content, switching information related to a switching timing of the stereoscopic image display zone in units of contents; transmission method information indicating a transmission method of the stereoscopic image; and distribution source information indicating a distribution source of another content when the stereoscopic image or a two-dimensional image corresponding to the stereoscopic image is distributed in another content. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110273542 | BROADCAST RECEIVER AND VIDEO DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A broadcast receiver and a method for processing video data are disclosed. The method for controlling a three dimensional (3D) video display output of a broadcast receiver includes receiving a broadcast signal including a video stream, wherein the video stream includes a plurality of video stream sections having different view points, acquiring view point information indicating corresponding view points of the video stream sections, and controlling a three dimensional (3D) video display output of the video stream according to the obtained view point information. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110279657 | ADAPTER PLATE FOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MAKING OF STEREO VISUAL VISUALIZATION IN DETERMINED VISUAL DISTANCE - Adapter plate applicable for use with display devices for making of stereo visual visualization in given visual distance (R) wherein the pixel size ( | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110285827 | IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus capable of connecting to an image reproducing apparatus, including: an authentication switchover unit operable to perform mutual authentication with the image reproducing apparatus to switch an own authentication state between a 2D-authenticated state and a 3D-authenticated state; a display switchover unit operable to switch an own display mode between a 3D display mode and a 2D display mode; and an output unit operable to output image display mode information in accordance with the display mode set in the own apparatus in case where the authentication switchover unit sets the own authentication state to the 3D-authenticated state. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285828 | USING 3D TECHNOLOGY TO PROVIDE MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES IN SHOWS AND MOVIES - A system and method that uses 3D technology to provide multiple character viewpoints in shows and movies. An image source module provides multiple series of images. A processor module connected to the image source module receives the multiple series of images provided by the image source module to create multiple series of images each representing a different character's viewpoint. A single display module connected to the processor module to display the multiple series of images representing different character's viewpoints. A viewer restricted to viewing a single series of images representing one character's viewpoint from the multiple series of images displayed by the single display module. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110292184 | 3D DISPLAY - A method of operating a stereo display device comprises addressing a display such that a stereo image is addressed in one field period by presenting left and right eye images in sequence with line-by-line addressing. A backlight is controlled in line-by-line manner with a different addressing rate to the addressing rate of the images. A shutter arrangement for a viewer is controlled by opening a shutter associated with one eye of the viewer when the respective image is displayed. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292185 | PICTURE REPRODUCING METHOD AND PICTURE REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A picture-dimensionality check unit checks whether or not a picture to be reproduced is a three-dimensional picture containing a first parallax image and a second parallax image, which are images of an object from different points of view in a three-dimensional space. A display panel check unit configured acquires, from a display apparatus by which the picture is displayed on a display panel, information including the type of the display panel on the condition that the picture to be reproduced is a three-dimensional picture. A picture adjusting unit retrieves from a database a picture output condition that provides suitable display of the picture on the display panel, on the basis of the information acquired by the display panel check unit, and to adjust the picture in accordance with the retrieved picture output condition. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292186 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes components explained below. A parallax calculating unit receives input of image input data Da | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292187 | 3D Display Control Device and Method Thereof - A three-dimensional (3D) display control device generates a suitable and fixed output timing signal for a 3D display panel. Regardless of input 3D video format, the 3D display control device maintains a stable 3D display quality. The 3D display control device includes a receiving unit, for receiving 3D video data and a corresponding input timing signal from a 3D video source; and a timing control unit, for generating a group of output timing signals for displaying the 3D video data to the 3D display panel according to the input timing signal. The group of output timing signals corresponds to a group of output timing parameters for the 3D display panel, and the group of output timing parameters is independent from a 3D video format of the 3D video data. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292188 | DISPLAY DEVICE, VIDEO DEVICE, MENU-SCREEN DISPLAY METHOD, AND VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display device includes: a display section displaying a stereoscopic video image; and a display control section performing a control to allow the display section to display a plurality of menu screens including a first menu screen and a second menu screen with different stereoscopic effects. The first menu screen is provided for each of one or more video devices connected to the display device, and the second menu screen is provided for the display device. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292189 | 3D DISPLAY HANDLING OF SUBTITLES - A non-transitory three-dimensional image signal includes a first image component, a second component for creating a three-dimensional image in combination with the first image component, and a text component that includes text-based subtitles and/or presentation graphics-based bitmap images for including in the three-dimensional image. A shared Z-location component includes Z-location information describing the depth location of the text component within the three-dimensional image. The signal is rendered by rendering the three-dimensional image from the first image component and the second component. The rendering includes rendering the text-based subtitles and/or presentation graphics-based bitmap images in the three-dimensional image. Further, the rendering of the text component includes adjusting the depth location of the text-based subtitles and/or presentation graphics-based bitmap images based on the shared Z-location component. The Z-location for both text-based and presentation-graphics-based subtitles may be the same and only needs to be stored once per stream. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110298902 | SHUTTER GLASSES FOR 3D IMAGE DISPLAY, 3D IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a shutter glasses for a 3D image display, a 3D image display system including the same, and a manufacturing method thereof. Shutter glasses for a 3D image display system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention include a left eye shutter and a right eye shutter. At least one of the left eye shutter and the right eye shutter includes a MEMS element controlling an opening and a closing of the at least one of the left eye shutter and the right eye shutter. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298903 | Image Output Apparatus and Image Output Method - According to one embodiment, an image output apparatus is provided. The image output apparatus includes: an image data order-change module configured to input images from a plurality of systems, to change the order of the images, and to output the images continuously; a glasses shutter controller configured to generate a signal synchronized to an output of the images; and a corrected image generation block configured to correct the images such that coloring of successive images approaches each other. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298904 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The frame-parallax-adjustment-amount generating unit outputs, as first parallax data, parallax data of an image portion protruded most among image portions protruded more than a first reference value from a pair of frame images forming a three-dimensional image. The pixel-parallax-adjustment-amount generating unit outputs, as second parallax data, parallax data of an image portion retracted more than a second reference value from the pair of frame images. The adjusted-image generating unit generates a pair of image output data by moving the entire pair of image input data to the inner side based on the first parallax data and moving an image portion retracted more than the second reference value of the pair of image input data based on the second parallax data to adjust a parallax amount and outputs the pair of image output data. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110304707 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DISPLAY CONTROLLING PROGRAM, DISPLAY CONTROLLING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD AND DISPLAY CONTROLLING SYSTEM - A game apparatus displays a virtual space on a stereoscopic LCD (hereinafter referred to as 3D display) allowing for an autostereoscopic display, and images a stereoscopic image for displaying an object in a three-dimensional manner and a planar image for displaying the object in a two-dimensional manner (hereinafter referred to as 2D display) in the virtual space with virtual cameras. A computer performs a 3D display on the stereoscopic LCD by utilizing the imaged stereoscopic image and a 2D display on the stereoscopic LCD by utilizing the imaged planar image. Furthermore, the computer accepts an input from a button, a microphone, etc. to control the object. Then, in a case that a non-input state continues past a predetermined time period during the 3D display, the 3D display is switched to the 2D display. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304708 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING STEREO-VIEW AND MULTI-VIEW IMAGES FOR RENDERING PERCEPTION OF DEPTH OF STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - Methods and apparatuses for stereo-view visualization for control of perception of depth of a stereoscopic image generated by display device are provided. The method of stereo-view visualization for control of perception of depth of a stereoscopic image generated by display device, includes: estimating a disparity map for a source stereo-view image; adjusting depth perception parameters adjustment of depth perception of observed 3D content in TV-set; generating a modified stereo-view image based on the source stereo-view image, the adjusted depth perception parameters and the estimated disparity map; and post-processing the modified stereo-view image by spatial filtering of disocclusions of the modified stereo-view image. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304709 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VIDEO VIEWING SYSTEM - A liquid crystal drive unit performs overdrive processing such that when driving a liquid crystal panel so as to increase a brightness toward a target brightness determined by a left-eye video signal or a right-eye video signal, the liquid crystal drive unit drives the liquid crystal panel in accordance with a drive amount corresponding to a brightness of not less than the target brightness and, when driving the liquid crystal panel so as to reduce the brightness toward the target brightness, the liquid crystal drive unit drives the liquid crystal panel in accordance with a drive amount corresponding to a brightness of not more than the target brightness. In the overdrive processing, the drive amount corresponding to the same target brightness differs depending on a scanning position on a display screen of the liquid crystal panel. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304710 | STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A game device | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304711 | STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A game device | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304712 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY SYSTEM, STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND GLASSES FOR STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO IMAGE OBSERVATION - Provided are a stereoscopic display device and stereoscopic display system, and a stereoscopic display device and glasses for stereoscopic video image observation, which are capable of reducing flicker attributable to the influence of a fluorescent lamp while preventing increase in crosstalk. Specifically, provided is a stereoscopic display system provided with: a stereoscopic display device which displays left-eye video images and right-eye video images alternatively in terms of time, the left-eye video images and right-eye video images being based on inputted left-eye video signals and right-eye video signals; and glasses for stereoscopic observation which comprise left-eye shutter and right-eye shutter configured to adjust quantities of light passing through the glasses toward the respective left and right eyes, and with which the left-eye video images and right-eye video images are observed. The stereoscopic display system is further provided with: an ambient light detecting unit which detects ambient light surrounding the system; and a shutter controlling unit which, so that changes in quantities of ambient light entering the respective left and right shutters can be reduced, controls quantities of light passing through the respective left and right shutters. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110310232 | SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MULTIPLEXING DISPLAY - Described is using a combination of which a multi-view display is provided by a combining spatial multiplexing (e.g., using a parallax barrier or lenslet), and temporal multiplexing (e.g., using a directed backlight). A scheduling algorithm generates different views by determining which light sources are illuminated at a particular time. Via the temporal multiplexing, different views may be in the same spatial viewing angle (spatial zone). Two of the views may correspond to two eyes of a person, with different video data sent to each eye to provide an autostereoscopic display for that person. Eye (head) tracking may be used to move the view or views with a person as that person moves. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310233 | Optimization of a Multi-View Display - Described herein is a multi-view display (based on spatial and/or temporal multiplexing) having an optimization mechanism that dynamically adjust views based upon detected state changes with respect to one or more views. The optimization mechanism determines viewing parameters (e.g., brightness and/or colors) for a view based upon a current position of the view, and/or on the multi-view display's capabilities. The state change may correspond to the view (a viewer's eye) moving towards another viewing zone, in which event new viewing parameters are determined, which may be in anticipation of entering the zone. Another state change corresponds to more views being needed than the display is capable of outputting, whereby one or more existing views are degraded, e.g., from 3D to 2D and/or from a personal video to a non-personal view. Conversely, a state change corresponding to excess capacity becoming available can result in enhancing a view to 3D and/or personal. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110316984 | ADAPTIVE ADJUSTMENT OF DEPTH CUES IN A STEREO TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM - Described is a stereoscopic display (telepresence) system that includes a depth cue adjustment mechanism for changing screen disparity to move a fixation distance of a viewer (subject) closer to a focus distance, thereby providing more desirable viewing conditions. In one aspect, the depth cue adjustment mechanism adjusts a depth cue by moving the fixation distance forward, and/or by moving the focus distance backward. Also described is detecting encroachment, where the object is perceived as being too close to the subject viewer for comfort, and adjusting one or more depth cues (e.g., object scale) to counteract the sensation of the encroachment. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316985 | Display device and control method of display device - There is provided a display device including a display unit which periodically arranges and displays a plurality of images and a parallax barrier which is disposed in front of a pixel plane of the display unit and separates light from the display unit. The display device includes a disparity extraction unit which extracts information on a distribution of disparities between the view images, a parameter calculation unit which calculates a shift amount based on the disparity distribution information, a shift processing unit which performs shift processing on at least one of the view images based on the calculated shift amount, and a mapping processing unit which rearranges the at least one shift-processed view image on the display unit. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316986 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video display apparatus is provided. The video display apparatus includes: a margin generating module which adds a peripheral margin to an input first 3D image signal for generating a 3D image in a case where the first 3D image signal has no peripheral margin; and a 3D image generating module which compensates for a second 3D image signal in the margin, generates the 3D image based on the first and second 3D image signals, and outputs the 3D image to a video display unit. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316987 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a display device including a viewer position information acquisition unit configured to determine positions of a plurality of viewers and a display configured to display an image indicating whether one or more of the plurality of viewers is within a viewing zone. A display method includes determining positions of a plurality of viewers and displaying an image indicating whether one or more of the plurality of viewers is within a viewing zone. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316988 | THREE DIMENSIONAL TELEVISION AND SYSTEM USING RF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING OF THREE DIMENSIONAL TELEVISION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein are a 3D TV and a system using RF wireless communication and a method for synchronizing a 3D TV system using the same. In the 3D TV system using the RF wireless communication according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, two or more 3D TVs transmit and receive synchronous signals through the RF wireless communication, thereby locking the screen synchronization and synchronous signals of the 3D TVs. Thereafter, when the 3D TVs transmits the synchronous signals to the 3D spectacles, the synchronous signals including the time offset are transmitted, having different time difference. As a result, the 3D spectacles can be synchronized with images displayed on the 3D TVs by using time offset information. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316989 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316990 | VIDEO TRANSMISSION DEVICE, VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM, VIDEO TRANSMISSION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is a video transmission device that includes: a transmission signal output portion that outputs a video signal that causes two-dimensional video or three-dimensional video to be displayed, an audio signal that causes audio to be output, and a control signal including information relating to the video signal and the audio signal; and a control portion that controls content of the control signal output from the transmission signal output portion. When the video signal switches from three-dimensional video to two-dimensional video, the control portion does not stop output of the video signal from the transmission signal output portion, and controls the transmission signal output portion such that information indicating that the video signal output from the transmission signal output portion has switched to two-dimensional video is included in information indicating that the video signal is three-dimensional video that is output from the transmission signal output portion. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120002020 | BILLBOARD DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A billboard display method includes: capturing images of a scene near the screen by a number of time-of-flight (TOF) cameras, building three dimension (3D) models of the scene according to the images and the data about distances between points in the scene and the TOF cameras; checking the 3D models to determine whether there is a person nearby the screen; checking the 3D models to determine a relative position of the person to the screen upon the condition that there is a person nearby the screen; and controlling a media to be shown at a corresponding position of the screen according to the relative position of the person to the screen. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002021 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC GLASSES, AND STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a stereoscopic video display apparatus includes a planar video display module, a stereoscopic video display module, an eyeglass control module, an operation control module, a determining module, and a switching module. The planar video display module outputs two-dimensional video. The stereoscopic video display module outputs video for left and right eyes. The eyeglass control module projects the video for left eye the left-eye portion of stereoscopic glasses and that for right eye on the right-eye portion. The operation control module receives operation information from a remote controller. The determining module determines whether a user wearing the stereoscopic glasses is operating the remote controller. The switching module selects video output from the planar video display module or from the stereoscopic video display module. When the user wearing the stereoscopic glasses is operating the remote controller, the video output from the stereoscopic video display module is displayed. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002022 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE CODING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image coding apparatus records stereoscopic video partially as 2D video so as to enable display to be performed while seamlessly switching between 3D video and 2D video, and includes: a control unit that sets one of a 2D coding mode and a 3D coding mode which are modes of coding the stereoscopic video so that, when displayed in 3D, the stereoscopic video is displayed as 2D video and 3D video respectively; and a coding unit that, in the case where the control unit switches from the 3D coding mode to the 2D coding mode, codes the to stereoscopic video according to a 3D coding standard in the 3D coding mode, and codes the stereoscopic video according to the 3D coding standard using a coding condition in the 2D coding mode, the coding condition being a condition for causing the stereoscopic video to be viewed as the 2D video when displayed. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120007959 | STEREOSCOPIC GLASSES AND DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Stereoscopic glasses and a display apparatus including the same, which can reduce a user's eyestrain, are provided. The display apparatus includes: a signal processor which processes a three-dimensional (3D) video signal to have a predetermined depth effect; a display unit which displays a 3D image based on the video signal processed by the signal processor; and a controller which controls the signal processor to process a first area determined viewed by a user and a second area that is not determined to be viewed by the user, of the 3D image displayed by the display unit, such that the first area is different in level of a depth effect than the second area. Accordingly, a user's eyestrain is remarkably reduced to thereby increase convenience. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007960 | Video processing method for 3D display based on multi-cue process - A video processing method for a three-dimensional (3D) display is based on a multi-cue process. The method may include acquiring a cut boundary of a shot by performing a shot boundary detection with respect to each frame of an input video, computing a texture saliency with respect to each pixel of the input video, computing a motion saliency with respect to each pixel of the input video, computing an object saliency with respect to each pixel of the input video based on the acquired cut boundary of the shot, acquiring a universal saliency with respect to each pixel of the input video by combining the texture saliency, the motion saliency, and the object saliency, and smoothening the universal saliency of each pixel using a space-time technology. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007961 | 3D Image Output Apparatus, 3D Image Display Apparatus and 3D Image Output Method - According to one embodiment, a 3D image output apparatus includes: an oblique display judging module configured to judge whether a thumbnail relating to an image content that can be displayed in 3D is displayed obliquely; and an image signal output module configured to: output an image signal relating to a thumbnail so that the thumbnail is displayed in 2D when the oblique display judging module judges that the thumbnail is displayed obliquely; and output an image signal relating to the thumbnail so that the thumbnail is displayed in 3D when the oblique display judging module judges that the thumbnail is not displayed obliquely. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007962 | IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, IMAGE DATA RECEPTION APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA RECEPTION METHOD, AND IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - An apparatus may include a control unit to determine whether a display state notification indicating a dimensional display process exists. The control unit may set an output form of display data to be displayed on image data to an output form corresponding to a display state indicated by the display state notification. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007963 | ILLUMINATION CONTROLLER, ILLUMINATOR AND ILLUMINATION SYSTEM USING ILLUMINATION CONTROLLER, AND DISPLAY DEVICE AND EYEGLASS DEVICE FOR USE WITH ILLUMINATION CONTROLLER - An illumination controller including: an acquisition portion for acquiring timing information on a timing of a non-display period during which a display device switches a frame image of a stereoscopic video without displaying the frame image; and a control portion for brightening a light source configured to illuminate a space where the display device is situated in synchronism with the non-display period and for darkening the light source in synchronism with a display period during which the frame image is displayed, based on the timing information. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120013716 | Personal 3D Video Device - The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a personal 3D video device, composed of a mount with two lens windows in the front side, a display board having a dual screen to simultaneously display visions which can be seen respectively from each lens, two lens holders contained convex lens and each attached to a lens window; and the distance between convex lens and display screen is the focal distance of the lens. This invention provides the user a spatial vision through the parallax between two focus visions from the lenses towards to the screen. Other advantages and novel features of the invention are easy-to-make, low cost for material and manufacture, and less bulky. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013717 | MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM, MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE ENCODING PROGRAM, AND MOVING PICTURE ENCODING APPARATUS - A moving picture decoding method of an embodiment according to the present invention is a moving picture decoding method for decoding encoded data of an interlaced scanned picture including Top field and Bottom field, and the method includes a stereo information acquisition step for acquiring stereo information indicating whether Top field and Bottom field are two pictures forming a stereo picture from the encoded data, a decoding step for decoding two fields corresponding to each other from the encoded data and generating two decoded fields, and an output step for outputting the two decoded fields. In the output step, the stereo information is referred to and the two decoded fields are outputted simultaneously. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120019628 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DISPLAY METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method is provided for a three-dimensional (3D) display system. The method includes obtaining a plurality of original images of a plurality of viewpoints in a 3D image, detecting a type of a display device for displaying the 3D image, and determining a total number of required images based on the detected type of the display device. The method also includes determining whether the total number of required images is equal to a total number of the plurality of original images, and adjusting the plurality of original images such that the total number of required images are provided, when the total number of required images is not equal to the total number of the plurality of original images. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019629 | IMAGE RECEIVER - An image receiver according to the present invention includes a receiving unit that receives an integrated image in which a first image and a second image are arranged in one frame and an reception unit that receives region information indicating a region of the first image transmitted along with the integrated image is provided, wherein a non-stereoscopic video display mode in which only the first image is displayed based on the region information and/or a stereoscopic video display mode in which the first image and the second image are displayed as stereoscopic video are included. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019630 | IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS AND IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image output apparatus includes a counter and an output module. The counter is configured to count a 3D image output time. The output module is configured to output a 3D image and 3D image output time information used to provide notification of the 3D image output time. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019631 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING 3D CONTENT - A method and apparatus for displaying an alternative object while reproducing three-dimensional (3D) content. The method includes reproducing the 3D content; during the reproducing of the 3D content, detecting an interrupt signal; determining a maximum depth value of the 3D content in response to detecting of the interrupt signal; adjusting a depth value of the 3D content according to the maximum depth value; and controlling a 3D content reproducing apparatus to display the alternative object corresponding to the interrupt signal, wherein the alternative object overlaps the 3D content of which the depth value is adjusted. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019632 | DISPLAY DEVICE, SHUTTER DEVICE, SHUTTER CONTROL CIRCUIT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SHUTTERS, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display system using a shutter device which is capable of reducing power consumed by a transmission section transmitting a shutter control signal, and achieving increased degree of freedom in setting of open/close timings of shutters is obtained. The display system includes a display section | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120026301 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALTERING IMAGES FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - Provided are a display device and method for altering images, the apparatus including: an input unit operable to receive a left image and a right image; and an image altering unit which is operable to alter the received left image and the received right image and to output an output image signal including the altered left image and the altered right image, wherein the left image is altered by changing a first portion, which is near a boundary area in the left image, and wherein the right image is altered by changing a second portion, which is near a boundary area in the right image. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026302 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING MULTI-VIEW PROGRAM IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A method for transmitting a multi-view program composed of a plurality of video streams in a digital broadcasting system includes generating information representing that the program is a multi-view program, information on a composition of the multi-view program and information on the plurality of physical channels through which the multi-view program is transmitted; and transmitting the multi-view program and the generated information through the plurality of physical channels. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120033052 | ESTABLISHING Z-AXIS LOCATION OF GRAPHICS PLANE IN 3D VIDEO DISPLAY - A television for presenting video content in 3D has a video display controlled by a processor to present video content in a video plane and a user interface (UI) in a graphics plane. The processor receives input indicating a viewer desire to virtually move the UI up or back along a z-axis that is perpendicular to the video plane and responsive to the input change the location of the UI on the z-axis. This may done by altering image disparity produced to create a 3D effect. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033053 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A stereoscopic image display device comprises a display panel; a panel driving unit configured to address left eye image data in all pixels of the display panel during a data addressing period set in an N-th (where N is a natural number) frame period and adjust voltages of all the pixels of the display panel to a black grayscale voltage during a black grayscale inserting period set in the N-th frame period, address right eye image data in all the pixels of the display panel during a data addressing period set in a (N+1)-th frame period and adjust voltages of all the pixel of the display panel to the black grayscale voltage during a black grayscale inserting period set in the (N+1)-th frame period; and a controller configured to supply the left eye image data, and the right eye image data to the panel driving unit and control operation timings of the panel driving unit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033054 | Stereoscopic Video Display Apparatus and Display Method - In one embodiment, a stereoscopic video display apparatus includes: a plane display unit including a display screen in which first to third subpixels having respectively different color components are arranged in a matrix form; and an optical plate. The plane display unit includes a configuration obtained by arranging a first subpixels and the second subpixels alternately on a first subpixel row, arranging the third subpixels on a second subpixel row adjacent to the first subpixel row, arranging the first subpixels and the second subpixels alternately on a third subpixel row adjacent to the second subpixel row to have a sequence opposite to that on the first subpixel row, arranging the third subpixels on a fourth subpixel row adjacent to the third subpixel row, and arranging a set of the first to fourth subpixel rows in the column direction of subpixels on the display screen repeatedly. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033055 | Stereoscopic Video Display Apparatus and Display Method - In one embodiment, a stereoscopic video display apparatus is configured to assign one subpixel column to each of a plurality of parallax images, and select three subpixels, which are the first to third subpixels, arranged consecutively in the column direction of subpixels with the third subpixel located in the center, as a pixel displaying each parallax image; cause pixels adjacent in the column direction of subpixels in each parallax image to share the first subpixel or the second subpixel; divide each of frames displaying a stereoscopic video into two subframes; assign one pixel from among the plurality of parallax images to each row in each subframe; display odd-numbered rows when displaying one of the first and second subframes; and display even-numbered rows when displaying the other of the first and second subframes. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033056 | Stereoscopic Video Display Apparatus and Display Method - In one embodiment, a stereoscopic video display apparatus includes: a plane display unit including a display screen in which first to third subpixels having respectively different color components are arranged in a matrix form; and an optical plate disposed to be opposed to the plane display unit and having a plurality of optical aperture parts. The plane display unit includes a configuration obtained by arranging the first subpixels on a first subpixel row, arranging the third subpixels on a second subpixel row adjacent to the first subpixel row, arranging the second subpixels on a third subpixel row adjacent to the second subpixel row, arranging the third subpixels on a fourth subpixel row adjacent to the third subpixel row, and arranging a set of the first to fourth subpixel rows in the column direction of subpixels on the display screen repeatedly. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033057 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC VISION DISPLAY APPARATUS - An electro-optic device includes: an electro-optic panel displaying a display image with illumination light emitted from an illumination device; a display control circuit controlling the electro-optic panel to display a right-eye image during a right display period and display a left-eye image during a left display period; a glasses control circuit controlling a right-eye shutter of stereoscopic vision glasses so as to maintain an open state during the right display period, controlling a left-eye shutter of stereoscopic vision glasses so as to maintain an open state during the left display period, and controlling both the right-eye shutter and the left-eye shutter so as to maintain a close state during a blocking period; and an illumination control circuit controlling the illumination device to vary an intensity of the illumination light in a pulsed shape during the blocking period. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120038751 | SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE DISPLAYS - A display includes an integrated imaging sensor and a plurality of pixels. The imaging sensor integrated within the display includes a plurality of individual sensors each of which provides an output. The content of the display is modified based upon the sensed content. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120038752 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device comprises a display panel selectively displaying a 2D image and a 3D image according to a mode selection signal; a first memory enabled in a 2D mode to output a previously stored first compensation value; a second memory enabled in a 3D mode to output a previously stored second compensation value; and a timing controller modulating input digital video data based on the first compensation value to display the 2D image in the 2D mode and modulating input digital video data based on the second compensation value to display the 3D image in the 3D mode. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120038753 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING APPARATUS - A cut-out process of image corresponding to an amount of optical axis deviation of left and right imaging optical systems is applied to left and right images acquired by the left and right imaging units to correct an optical axis deviation. In this case, the amount of optical axis deviation corresponding to a current focus position is acquired from the amounts of optical axis deviation detected in accordance with focus positions stored in advance in a storage unit (step S | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120038754 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGES IN DISPLAY DEVICE OUTPUTTING 3-DIMENSIONAL CONTENTS AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method for processing images in a display device outputting 3-dimensional (3D) contents and a display device using the same are disclosed herein. The method includes the steps of adjusting output positions of one of a first video image and a second video image, adjusting an angle of one of the first video image and the second video image, and outputting the first video image and the second video image in a 3D format. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120057002 | Viewpoint Navigation - Viewer interaction herein triggers switching from a first view point to a second view point and thereby controls presentation of video sequences. Each video sequence comprises a sequence of images of one and the same subject and is associated with a respective view point. Images are obtained from a first video sequence associated with a first view point and are provided for presentation. Viewer input information is received that indicates a desire to present a second view point. In response, a start position within a second video sequence associated with the second view point is determined, and the obtaining of images from the first video sequence is discontinued as of the determined start position. Images are then obtained from the second video sequence associated with the second view point, starting from the determined start position, and are then provided for presentation. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120062709 | SYSTEM FOR CROSSTALK REDUCTION - A display includes receiving a first image and a second image to be displayed on the display in order to provide a stereoscopic scene to a viewer. The first image is modified in such a manner so as to reduce the appearance of crosstalk. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120062710 | 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHODS WITH VIDEO PROCESSING AND FRAME PACKING BASED ON DISPLAY FORMAT INFORMATION - A 3D display engine includes a timing generator circuit configured to receive format information from a 3D display and to responsively generate display timing information, a video image data processor circuit configured to receive and process left and right video image data, a 3D format generator circuit configured to frame-pack the processed left and right video image data and a controller circuit configured to control the video image data processor circuit and the 3D format generator circuit responsive to the display timing information. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120062711 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, SYSTEM LSI, PLAYBACK METHOD, GLASSES, AND DISPLAY DEVICE FOR 3D IMAGES - A recording medium in which a left-view video stream and a right-view video stream are recorded in an interleaved transport stream file. The interleaved transport stream file is identified by a combination of (i) an equivalent identification number being equivalent with the file reference information and (ii) a file extension indicating that video streams are stored in the interleaved manner, the equivalent identification number. Among Extents that constitute the interleaved transport stream file, Extents constituting the left-view or right-view video stream are identified as a normal-format transport stream file by a combination of (i) the equivalent identification number being equivalent with the file reference information and (ii) a file extension indicating that video streams are stored in a normal manner. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120069154 | TRANSFERRING OF 3D IMAGE DATA - A system of transferring of three dimensional (3D) image data is described. A 3D source device ( | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069155 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE THEREOF - A display apparatus and method for processing an image in a display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit, a receiving unit which receives a frame image including a first image and a second image and sync information of the frame image, a determination unit which determines whether the frame image is consistent with a reference pattern using the sync information, and an image processing unit which, if the frame image is inconsistent with the reference pattern, adjusts the frame image based on a level of inconsistency, and a controlling unit which controls the display unit to display the adjusted frame image. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069156 | CELL SUBSTRATE INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, the system for inspecting a cell substrate is provided. The inspection system includes: a signal generator transmitting to a cell substrate a display signal causing the cell substrate to display a test image; an imaging apparatus capturing the test image displayed on the cell substrate; a parallax image generator arranging the set of parallax image information of the captured test image for each parallax image to generate a parallax image prediction of parallax image which is obtained when the cell substrate is bonded to the lenticular lens; and an interface apparatus displaying the parallax image predictions. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069157 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus including a display unit that displays moving images corresponding to moving image data consisting of multiple two-dimensional images and three dimensional images that are sequentially generated chronologically. A touch panel is provided on a display screen of the display unit and receives an input of a signal corresponding to a position touched by an external object. A setting unit sets a subject contained in the moving images and specified according to an input signal received by the touch panel. A motion detector detects motion of the subject, which is set by the subject setting unit, on the basis of successive two of the two-dimensional images or the three dimensional images that are generated chronologically. A display controller causes the display unit to display the moving images as the three-dimensional images. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069158 | IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND IMAGE DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS - [Object] To prevent image quality deterioration due to unnecessary format conversion. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069159 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a stereoscopic image display device that improves visibility of a stereoscopic pointer image when the pointer position moves between objects in the stereoscopic image that have greatly different display depths. The display device changes the display depth of the stereoscopic pointer image in accordance with the display depth of an object in the stereoscopic image. When the pointer position moves between objects that have greatly different display depths from time t | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120075434 | Three dimensional image display - A liquid crystal lens unit is provided for use in an autostereoscopic 3D image display. Light passing through the liquid crstyal lens unit is refracted by a liquid crystal layer arranged by an electric field. The voltage levels applied to the to the liquid crystal layer are periodically changed thereby periodically oscillating the position of the focus profile of the liquid crystal lens unit. As a result, moiré patterns are removed and display quality is improved. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075435 | Method and System for 3D Display Calibration with Feedback Determined by A Camera Device - Several embodiments of 3D display system and systems and methods for their calibration are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method and system for calibrating a 3D display using feedback indicative of measurements of light, emitted from the 3D display (typically during display of a test pattern), by a camera device. In one embodiment, the camera device is a handheld camera device including an inexpensive, uncalibrated camera. In another class of embodiments, a system including a 3D display (to be recalibrated), a video preprocessor coupled to the display, and a feedback subsystem including a camera device operable to measure light emitted by the display are also disclosed. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075436 | CODING STEREO VIDEO DATA - In one example, a method of decoding video data comprising base layer data having a first resolution and enhancement layer data having the first resolution includes decoding the base layer data, wherein the base layer data comprises a reduced resolution version of a left view relative to the first resolution and a reduced resolution version of a right view relative to the first resolution. The method also includes decoding enhancement layer data comprising enhancement data for exactly one of the left view and the right view, wherein the enhancement data has the first resolution, and wherein decoding the enhancement layer data comprises decoding the enhancement layer data relative to at least a portion of the base layer data. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075437 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INCREASING AN LCD DISPLAY VERTICAL BLANKING INTERVAL - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for enhancing a viewing experience when display content is viewed utilizing stereo glasses. In use, display content is received for being outputted utilizing a display. Further, a duration of a vertical blanking interval associated with the display content is increased for enhancing a viewing experience when the display content is viewed utilizing the stereo glasses. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120081521 | Apparatus and Method for Displaying Images - An apparatus and a method for displaying images are provided. In the method, first and second set of image pre-compensation parameters are read from a memory. An image is loaded, the image including at least one of sub-image pair, each pair including a sub-image intended to the left eye and a sub-image intended to the right eye. The first set of parameters is applied to the at least one sub-image of each pair intended to the left eye and the second set of parameters is applied to the at least one sub-image of each pair intended for right eye. The image is displayed on a stereoscopic display. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120081522 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor including a controller to obtain three-dimensional media content, obtain position information associated with at least one viewer of a display device that is operably coupled to the media processor, adjust convergence of the three-dimensional media content based on the position information, and provide the three-dimensional media content with the adjusted convergence to the display device for presentation. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120081523 | 2D/3D COMPATIBLE DISPLAY SYSTEM WHICH AUTOMATICALLY SWITCHES OPERATIONAL MODES - A 2D/3D compatible display system includes an image source and a 3D viewing device. When a viewer is wearing the 3D viewing device | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120081524 | TWO DIMENSIONAL MEDIA COMBINER FOR CREATING THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAYS - A three-dimensional (3D) display device combining two-dimensional (2D) images from two image sources to create a 3D image. The 3D display device utilizes a beam combining film that includes a prismatic front surface and a planar back surface. The film transmits light striking its back surface at particular incidence angles. A first 2D image source provides a foreground image and a second 2D image source to provide a background image. First and second liquid crystal displays may be arranged with display surfaces proximate to top and bottom edges of the beam combining film and at angular offsets to emit light corresponding with a 2D image stream onto the back surface of the beam combining film at one of the film's incidence angles. The 2D image streams striking the back surface of the film are combined by the film and transmitted from the front surface as a single autostereoscopic video image. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120081525 | Display Apparatus, Recording Method and Computer-Readable Recoding Medium - A display apparatus configured to display three-dimensional video viewable by a viewer wearing stereoscopic-viewing glasses. The display apparatus includes: an input module; a display device; an image input module; a detection module; and a recording module. The input module receives video data. The display device displays the three-dimensional video based on the received video data. The image input module receives a captured image from an image-capturing device that captures an image of an area around the display apparatus and on a side facing the display device. The detection module detects an image of the stereoscopic-viewing glasses from the received captured image. The recording module records the received video data when the image of the stereoscopic-viewing glasses is not detected by the detection module. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120092464 | REMOTE CONTROLLER, DISPLAY APPARATUS, 3D GLASSES AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A remote controller, a display apparatus, 3D glasses and a control method thereof are provided. The remote controller includes a first communication unit which communicates with a three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus, a user input unit which allows a user to input a selection for controlling the 3D display apparatus, a signal processor which selects one of a two-dimensional (2D) mode and a 3D mode and processes a video signal to be displayed in the selected mode, a display unit which displays the processed video signal in the selected mode, and a controller which controls the first communication unit to send the 3D display apparatus a control signal corresponding to a user's selection input through the user input unit, and the signal processor to select one of the 2D mode and the 3D mode based on the display mode of the 3D display apparatus. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092465 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NON-REAL TIME STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO SERVICE - A non-real time stereoscopic video service method and apparatus are provided. The non-real time stereoscopic video service method performed by a reception apparatus, including: extracting a program association table (PAT) from a received transport stream (TS) and analyzing the same; extracting a program map table (PMT) corresponding to a program selected by a user from the PAT and analyzing the same; extracting a stereoscopic video service descriptor from the PMT and analyzing the same; generating frame and/or time information of an image to be reproduced according to the analysis of the stereoscopic video service descriptor; and reproducing an image by synchronizing a reference image and a supplementary image based on the generated frame and/or time information. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092466 | VIEWING RANGE NOTIFICATION METHOD AND TV RECEIVER FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a viewing range notification method for guiding a viewer to watch TV within an optimal viewing range by providing a guide message for advising the viewer to change his/her position if the viewer is out of the optimal viewing range and a TV receiver appropriate for implementing the guiding method. According to the present invention, the viewing range guiding method can be implemented by a three-dimensional TV receiver. The three-dimensional TV receiver determines whether the viewing range of the user is farther than a predetermined distance, and whether the viewing angle is within the predetermined angular range. Then, if the viewing range is nearer than the predetermined distance or the viewing angle is not within the predetermined angular range, the three-dimensional TV receiver provides a guide message for changing the viewing position. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092467 | 3D IMAGE PROVIDING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD THEREOF - A 3D-image providing device comprises: an index selection unit for selecting at least one index frame set from 3D-image data including plural frame sets; and a thumbnail generation unit for obtaining left and right images for the selected index frame set and generating a thumbnail frame set based on the obtained left and right images, wherein the frames included in the thumbnail frame set satisfy conditions that the sizes and resolution thereof are respectively small and low compared to the frames included in the index frame set. Accordingly, the 3D-image providing device generates 3D-thumbnails from the left and right images of the 3D-image data to provide 3D images considered when moving to a user-desirable reproduction time point. Also, the 3D-image supply device merges the 3D-thumbnails with 3D-broadcasting images or 3D-contents and displays the merged image. Consequently, the image providing device minimizes viewer confusion when perceiving 3D-images and increases user satisfaction. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120098941 | VOLUMETRIC PROJECTION DEVICE - A three-dimensional (3D) display device creating 3D illusions or effects within a contained space or volume. The device includes a front sidewall providing a viewing window to an interior of the display device. The device includes a transparent rear projection screen with a front surface facing the viewing window that is spaced apart a distance from the front sidewall. A media source projects a two dimensional (2D) image onto a back surface of the projection screen in a direction that is oblique to the front sidewall. The projection screen is positioned such that the front surface is angled away from the front sidewall, whereby the front surface is oblique to the viewing window. A leading edge of the projection screen is proximate to the front sidewall and a trailing edge of the projection screen is distal to the front sidewall with the front surface angled away from the front sidewall. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098942 | Frame Rate Conversion For Stereoscopic Video - At least a method and a system are described for providing frame rate conversion using parallax information. In a representative embodiment, the method comprises receiving a frame of stereoscopic video. The stereoscopic video comprises frames for displaying to a left eye and to a right eye. The method comprises computing displacements for a plurality of groups of pixels, wherein each of the groups corresponds to an object of a plurality of objects. The method further comprises using the plurality of displacements to position the plurality of groups within an interpolated frame. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098943 | Modifying Images for a 3-Dimensional Display Mode - Modifying images for a 3-dimensional display mode includes receiving a third image encoded for a 3-dimensional display mode, receiving a first image not encoded for the 3-dimensional display mode, modifying the first image to generate a second image encoded for the 3-dimensional display mode, and displaying the third image and the second image in the 3-dimensional display mode. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120105603 | DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC 3D SOUND REPRODUCTION AND RELATED METHOD - A display system includes a video processor, an audio processor, a screen and a sound reproducing apparatus is provided. The video processor is configured to convert a 2D video signal into a 3D video signal and acquire a 3D computation power loading indicator which is associated with 3D video contents of the 3D video signal. The audio processor is configured to convert a 2D audio signal into a 3D audio signal according to a 3D positioning algorithm and the 3D computation power loading indicator. Images are displayed on the screen according to the 3D video signal. The sound reproducing apparatus is configured to generate dynamic 3D sound according to the 3D audio signal. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105604 | OPTICAL MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - An optical measuring apparatus and method for a stereoscopic display device are capable of measuring optical characteristics of the stereoscopic display device. The optical measuring apparatus includes a test image supplier for generating a 3D test signal, a 3D display for displaying left-eye image and/or right-eye image based on the 3D test signal supplied from the test image supplier, an image selection member for selectively transmitting the left-eye image and right-eye image to be displayed on the 3D display, and a light measuring device that measures luminance of the image transmitted via the image selection member and calculates 3D image crosstalk of the left eye image and the right eye image based on the measured luminance. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105605 | Stereoscopic display device and driving method thereof - A stereoscopic display device includes a scan driver, a data driver, a light emission driver, a display unit including a first region and a second region with pixel lines, and a controller. The light emission driver is configured to transmit a plurality of first light emission control signals to pixels to emit light in the first region and a plurality of second light emission control signals to pixels to emit light in the second region after corresponding scan signals are transmitted to respective pixels in the first and second regions, the first light emission control signals being separated from corresponding scan signals by respective first periods, and the second light emission control signals overlapping in time with corresponding scan signals. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105606 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A controller for a display device includes a formatter and a processor. The formatter generates a predetermined arrangement of left and right image data included in a three-dimensional (3D) video signal. The processor controls operation of one or more backlight lamps of a display device based on the predetermined arrangement of left and right image data and a detected temperature. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120113234 | Stereoscopic image display device and driving method thereof, and data driving apparatus and shutter glasses for stereoscopic image display device - A stereoscopic image display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels and a data driver supplying first image data for a first view point to the plurality of pixels, second image data for a second view point to the plurality of pixels after supply of the first image data, third image data for the second view point to the plurality of pixels after supply of the second image data, and fourth image data for the first view point to the plurality of pixels after the input of the third image data. The stereoscopic image display device using such a time-division type scheme may decrease driving speed needed to display the stereoscopic image, may decrease reduction of luminance by reducing an amount of black data, and may decrease power consumption. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113235 | 3D GLASSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZED VIEWING OF 3D VIDEO CONTENT - 3D glasses, 3D glasses systems, and related methods are disclosed for determining an orientation of the 3D glasses, and at least one of: indicating such to a user or adjusting disparity of the 3D content for optimizing a 3D video content viewing experience. The orientation of 3D glasses is determined by a tilt sensor or an infrared camera. A notification according to the orientation of the 3D glasses is provided to a user in the form of a visual indicator on a display, a vibration of the 3D glasses, or an audible sound. A video content device may be programmed to switch from a 3D presentation mode to a 2D presentation mode according to an orientation of the 3D glasses. Additionally, the system may be adapted to adjust image disparity to compensate for tilt. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113236 | Portable Auto-Stereoscopic Media Displaying and Recording Device - The present invention is a portable auto-stereoscopic media displaying and recording device. An auto-stereoscopic display screen allows a user to view stereoscopic electronic media without the need for specialized glasses. The user is able to create stereoscopic electronic media with the present invention through a 3D ASIC camera. The present invention also retrieves stereoscopic electronic media to display from a flash memory card through from a flash memory card slot, a USB enabled device through a USB port, or from the internet through an internet connectivity module. The casing, which creates a portable enclosure for the other components of the present invention, consists of two parts, a front portion and a back portion. A chipset allows the present invention to properly perform all of its functions such as executing the necessary software to display, manage, and create the files of stereoscopic electronic media. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120120203 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY METHOD, TRACKING THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY UNIT AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - A three-dimensional display method is provided in the present disclosure. The three-dimensional display method includes obtaining position information of an observer; and adjusting displaying content of a stereoscopic image according to the position information. A tracking three-dimensional display unit and an image processing device are also provided in the present disclosure. In the present disclosure, three-dimensional displaying contents may be adjusted according to the position information of the observer to introduce movement parallax, so as to achieve mutual effect between the observer and displaying contents, and enhance the sense of reality of three-dimensional displaying. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120204 | RECEIVER - A receiver to receive 2D and 3D content from a content distributor, including a content list obtaining unit obtaining a list screen of content receivable from the content distributor, a content obtaining unit obtaining 2D or 3D content from the content distributor, a display unit displaying the list screen and reproduced screen of the content on an external or built-in monitor, and a function determining unit determining a function for viewing/listening to 3D and 2D content, wherein the content list obtaining unit determines if 3D content is visible/listenable and obtains a content list of only 2D content or both 2D and 3D content, in accordance with a result of determination, from the content distributor, and the display unit displays the content list obtained through the content list obtaining unit, thereby enabling the receiver of content to receive, memorize and/or output outside the content, being distributed from various networks. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120205 | ACCELERATED BLACK FRAME INSERTION FOR DISPLAYING 3D CONTENT - An accelerated black frame is inserted into an output vertical blanking period, keeping the output VBI at the same length or shorter than the input VBI. The output VBI is not extended. Input video data is received at a frame memory at a first transmission rate during an input active frame period. The video data is transmitted from the frame memory to a display at a second transmission rate during an output active frame period. The second transmission rate is faster than the first rate, which would normally lead to an extended output VBI. The transmitting (pouring in of data into the frame buffer) ends at the same time as all the data has been received at the monitor (drained). A black data frame which consists of meaningless data is inserted into the output VBI such that the output VBI is not longer than the input VBI. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120206 | METHOD, TV SET FOR DISPLAYING 3D IMAGE AND GLASSES - A method for displaying 3D image is provided in the present invention. The method includes: 3D image signals, which comprise consecutive one frame of left-eye signal and one frame of right-eye signal, are received; the 3D image signals are processed by frequency multiplication, and n consecutive frames of left-eye signals and n consecutive frames of right-eye signals are obtained, n being the times number of the frequency multiplication and equal to or greater than 2; light-emitting diode (LED) driving signals drive the LED to display the n consecutive frames of left-eye signals and the n consecutive frames of right-eye signals; in the n consecutive frames of left-eye signals, the first frame of left-eye signal corresponds to an LED driving signal which is off, the nth frame of left-eye signal corresponds to an LED driving signal which is on, and in the n consecutive frames of right-eye signals, the first frame of right-eye signal corresponds to an LED driving signal which is off, the nth frame of right-eye signal corresponds to an LED driving signal which is on. The present invention also provides a TV set for displaying 3D image and a pair of glasses for viewing 3D image. By the present invention, the problem of crosstalk between leftimage and rightimage is solved, and backlight sources energy consumption and complete apparatus cost are reduced. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120207 | IMAGE PLAYBACK DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An image playback device includes a playback portion which plays back content data to make a video stereoscopically viewed by means of video data including first and second images for first and second view points, respectively; a setting portion which sets a playback speed for playing back the content data; and an adjuster which adjusts parallax information about parallax between the first and second images in response to the playback speed set by the setting portion. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120127281 | EXTENSIBLE AUTHORING AND PLAYBACK PLATFORM FOR COMPLEX VIRTUAL REALITY INTERACTIONS AND IMMERSIBLE APPLICATIONS - An immersive video system includes a display, a sensor that provides information about a user's location relative to the display, a projector capable of projecting images onto the user, and a processor in communication with the display, the sensor, and the projector. The processor manipulates the images projected onto the user based on user location data from the sensor. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127282 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a video display apparatus and an operating method therefor. The operating method for a video display apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: receiving video information on an incoming video from outside or on a broadcast video; detecting conversion information between a 2D video and a 3D video within 3D video information, when the received video information is 3D video information; performing a 2D signal processing or a 3D signal processing on either the incoming video from outside or the broadcast video, according to the conversion information. In this way, it becomes easier to find out whether an incoming video from an external device is a 2D video or a 3D video. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127283 | Apparatus and Method for Measuring Picture Quality of Stereoscopic Display Device, and Picture Quality Analyzing Method Using the Same - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for measuring picture quality of a stereoscopic display device, and a picture quality analyzing method using the same, which quantify a motion artifact of a 3D moving picture in consideration of even an undesired moving picture artifact caused by a motion and gray-to-gray crosstalk, and moreover measure a motion blur. The picture quality measuring apparatus includes a pattern generator, a 3D display device, a polarization member, a following camera, and an analyzer. The pattern generator generates a right-eye and a left-eye moving picture pattern which move at a predetermined scroll speed. The 3D display device displays the right-eye and left-eye moving picture pattern inputted from the pattern generator. The following camera follows respective boundary portions of the right-eye and left-eye moving picture pattern, which pass through the polarization member and are incident on the following camera, to measure luminance. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120133747 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a depth-information extraction section; a luminance extraction section; a contrast extraction section; a gain generation section; a correlation estimation section; and a movement analyzing section. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120133748 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR USING SCREEN SIZE OF DISPLAY DEVICE - A signal processing method is provided. The signal processing method includes extracting three-dimensional effect adjustment information from a memory in a video image reproducing apparatus, and adjusting a three-dimensional effect of a video image according to the three-dimensional effect adjustment information, and outputting the video image. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120140048 | LOCATION BASED MEDIA DISPLAY - A method includes receiving media content of a particular program at a media device. The media content of the particular program is received via a plurality of video streams, where each of the plurality of video streams is associated with a different viewing perspective. The method includes determining locations of one or more viewers of a display device relative to a plurality of viewing zones of the display device. The method also includes selecting a video stream of the particular program to display to each viewer of the one or more viewers based on the location of each viewer. One video stream is selected for each viewer, and different video streams are selected for viewers in different viewing zones. The method further includes sending the selected video streams to the display device from the media device | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120147153 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME RADIATION PATTERN VISUALIZATION - A display apparatus for real-time radiation pattern visualization comprises a positioning module, a radiation pattern measuring module and an image processing module. The positioning module is used to measure a distance of an object from the positioning module and locate the orientation of the object. The radiation pattern measuring module is used to receive radiation of the object. The image processing module is coupled with the positioning module and the radiation pattern measuring module, and processes the radiation to generate a stereoscopic radiation pattern signal. According to the distance and orientation of the object, the stereoscopic radiation pattern signal is displayed in the display interface for engineers in the workplace to estimate the calibration of the real-time radiation pattern. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120147154 | Stereoscopic Video Display Apparatus and Method Therefor - According to one embodiment, a stereoscopic video display apparatus of a glasses-less type displays video that is perceived as original stereoscopic video when observed from the predetermined range of the viewing position and as defective stereoscopic video when observed from a position different from the predetermined range of the viewing position. A 3D related controller may insert an information signal that displays a figure, character, mark, or symbol indicating that the viewing position is different from the predetermined range of the viewing position into a signal of the defective stereoscopic video. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120147155 | APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - According to one embodiment, an apparatus for displaying a stereoscopic image includes an illuminator, a display unit, and an image control element. The illuminator includes a plurality of illumination units. Each illumination unit is configured to emit a plurality of luminous fluxes. Each luminous flux is emitted along one direction differently. The display unit is oppositely located to the illuminator, on which a plurality of sub pixels is arranged. Each sub pixel is configured to display a parallax image corresponding to the luminous flux in one direction. The image control element is oppositely located to the illuminator via the display unit, on which a plurality of apertures is arranged. Each aperture is configured to control a direction of the parallax image. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120147156 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus according to the present invention that displays a stereoscopic image to a viewer, includes an input unit that inputs image data related to the stereoscopic image, a detection unit that detects a change of a projection amount of the stereoscopic image from the image data input by the input unit, a generation unit that generates the image obtained by suppressing high-frequency components from the stereoscopic image when the change of the projection amount is detected by the detection unit, and a display control unit that displays a video image generated by the generation unit in a display apparatus. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120154553 | Simultaneous Viewing of Multiple Viewer-Specific Programming on a Single Display - In certain implementations, a method consistent with certain embodiments involves associating a first headset with a first viewer profile; associating the first headset with a first audio channel within an audio channel multiplex and with a first set of display refresh time slots; selecting a first advertisement based on criteria contained in the first viewer profile; displaying a video portion of the first advertisement on a video display during the first set of refresh time slots associated with the first headset; transmitting a synchronization signal that is synchronized to a video frame refresh clock to establish the video time slots; and transmitting an audio portion of the first advertisement on the first audio channel associated with the headset. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120154554 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD, AND VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - A video signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a sharpening processing circuit configured to perform processing of sharpening a multiple parallax video concerning an input video signal; a viewing zone boundary improvement processing circuit configured to perform processing of improving a viewing zone boundary of the multiple parallax video subjected to the sharpening processing; and a viewing zone expansion processing circuit configured to perform processing of expanding a viewing zone on the multiple parallax video subjected to the viewing zone boundary improvement processing. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120154555 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A correction unit corrects gradation of pixels of a processing-target image signal for the right eye or the left eye. A writing unit writes the corrected image signal into display pixels of an image displaying unit. A reached level calculation unit calculates a reached gradation which is a gradation to be reached by each display pixel after one sub-frame period after the corrected image signal is written into the display pixel, on the basis of response characteristics of the display pixel, respectively. A timing controlling unit controls opening/closing timing of the glasses according to writing timing of the writing unit. The correction unit corrects the gradation of the pixels of the processing-target image signal, respectively, on the basis of a difference between the writing timing of the writing unit and the opening/closing timing of the glasses, and the reached gradation of the pixels in an immediately previous sub-frame. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120154556 | Stereoscopic Image Display and Method for Driving the Same - A stereoscopic image display includes a display panel, which displays first to nth view images produced by separating cameras from one another by a general distance between both eyes and photographing images of an object, where n is a natural number, a liquid crystal (LC) lens cell, which moves LC molecules existing in an LC layer between a lower substrate and an upper substrate of the display panel based on a voltage difference between a common electrode and each of electrodes to form an LC lens, an LC lens cell controller controlling a voltage supplied to each of the common electrode and the electrodes, and an LC lens cell driver supplying the voltage to each of the common electrode and the electrodes. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120162394 | DISPLAYS FOR EASY VISUALIZING OF 3D DISPARITY DATA - Embodiments of the present invention provide various displays for easy visualization of disparity data. Some embodiments provide a “snapshot” display having a plurality of markers, each marker representing a disparity statistic of a horizontal or vertical segment of a 3D image under test. Other embodiments provide a “trend” display having a plurality of markers, each marker representing a disparity statistic, or a rate of change of a disparity statistic, calculated over a single frame or field of a 3D video under test on a frame-by-frame basis. The disparity statistic may be maximum disparity, minimum disparity, mean disparity, RMS disparity, or the like. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120162395 | METHOD FOR FILLING HOLE-REGION AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO SYSTEM USING THE SAME - Method for filling a hole-region and a three-dimensional (3D) video system using the same. In order to synthesize an image, a plurality of images each having a different viewpoint may be obtained. By using depth maps of the obtained plurality of images, an intermediate virtual viewpoint image may be synthesized. After synthesizing, a hole-region in the intermediate virtual viewpoint image may be filled using a color image of the intermediate virtual viewpoint image, a mask image indicating the hole-region in the intermediate virtual viewpoint image, and a depth image of the intermediate virtual viewpoint image. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120162396 | Systems and Methods for Converting a 2D Image to a 3D Image - Systems and methods are provided for converting a two dimensional (2D) image for three dimensional (3D) display. In one embodiment, a minimum depth for the 3D image is set to pixels in a bottom portion of the received 2D image. If the 2D image includes an object limiting the maximum image depth, then the maximum depth of the 3D image is set based on a location of the object in the 2D image. If the 2D image does not include an object limiting the maximum image depth, then the maximum depth of the 3D image is set to pixels in a top portion of the 2D image. A continuous depth function is generated from the minimum depth to the maximum depth and is used to generate a stereoscopic image from the 2D image. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120162397 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a receiver and an output module. The receiver configured to receive a video data and audio data corresponding to the video data, the video data comprising a character image. The output module configured to output a first and a second image to a display, where a parallax of the first and the second images depends on the volume level of the audio data, the first image and the second image being based on the character image. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120176482 | ALIGNMENT OF STEREO IMAGES PAIRS FOR VIEWING - A method for viewing of a three dimensional image of a scene with a monocular device on one eye for viewing a first two-dimensional image of the scene and providing a second display for viewing a second two-dimensional image of the scene in a stereo image pair with the other eye. Using a camera to provide an image of the second display to determine the position of the second display relative to the first display. Adjusting the alignment of the first two-dimensional image in correspondence to the determined position of the second display relative to the first display, whereby the viewer perceives a three dimensional image of the scene and one or more other viewers that are not wearing monocular devices can view the second display with both eyes so that they can perceive a two-dimensional image of the scene. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120182401 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO PROCESSING | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120182402 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a video display device and an operating method therefore. An operating method for a video display device according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: determining whether or not a text is contained in an input video; determining whether or not a text display mode is a 2D text display mode when a text is contained in the video; separating a text region in the video when the text display mode is a 2D text display mode; performing 3D signal processing on the video region separated from the text region; performing 2D signal processing on the text region; and displaying the 2D signal-processed text region and the 3D signal-processed video region on a display. Accordingly, text can be displayed clearly when a 3D video is displayed. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120182403 | Stereoscopic imaging - The invention represents a new form of stereoscopically-rendered three-dimensional model and various methods for constructing, manipulating, and displaying these models. The model consists of one or more stereograms applied to a substrate, where the shape of the substrate has been derived from the imagery or from the object itself, and the stereograms are applied to the substrate in a specific way that eliminates parallax for some points and reduces it in others. The methods offered can be (conservatively) 400 times more efficient at representing complex surfaces than conventional modelling techniques, and also provide for independent control of micro and macro parallaxes in a stereoscopically-viewed scene, whether presented in a VR environment or in stereo film or television. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120194654 | EMBEDDED LIGHT FIELD DISPLAY ARCHITECTURE TO PROCESS AND DISPLAY THREE-DIMENSIONAL LIGHT FIELD DATA - An embedded light field display architecture to process and display three-dimensional light field data in a light field display is provided. The light field display architecture includes a plurality of hierarchical modules to decode compressed light field data associated with a light field and a plurality of tile modules embedded directly in the light field display to process light field data for display. A plurality of networking modules is also provided to transmit light field data among the hierarchical modules and the tile modules. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120194655 | DISPLAY, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus positioned in a display includes a receiving unit, a color separation unit and an image processing unit. The receiving unit is utilized for receiving 3D image data, where the 3D image data includes left-eye image data and right-eye image data. The color separation unit is coupled to the receiving unit, and is utilized for performing a color separation operation upon at least a portion of the left-eye image data to generate color-separated left-eye image data, and performing the color separation operation upon at least a portion of the right-eye image data to generate color-separated right-eye image data. The image processing unit is coupled to the color separation unit, and is utilized for generating adjusted 3D image data according to the color-separated left-eye image data and the color-separated right-eye image data. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120200676 | Three-Dimensional Display with Motion Parallax - The subject disclosure is directed towards a hybrid stereo image/motion parallax system that uses stereo 3D vision technology for presenting different images to each eye of a viewer, in combination with motion parallax technology to adjust each image for the positions of a viewer's eyes. In this way, the viewer receives both stereo cues and parallax cues as the viewer moves while viewing a 3D scene, which tends to result in greater visual comfort/less fatigue to the viewer. Also described is the use of goggles for tracking viewer position, including training a computer vision algorithm to recognize goggles instead of only heads/eyes. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120200677 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A three-dimensional display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a display unit including pixels arranged in a matrix form; and an optical plate opposed to the display unit, the optical plate functioning as a plurality of optical apertures which are extended nearly in a straight line manner in a second direction and arranged in a first direction. Each of the pixels is divided into M sub-pixels respectively comprising M color components arranged in the first direction where M is an integer of at least 1, and Q/B is an integer N, M×P/A is a non-integer, and (Q/B)/(P/A) is a non-integer, where P is a period of the optical apertures in the first direction, Q is a period of the optical apertures in the second direction, A is a period of the pixels in the first direction, and B is a period of the pixels in the second direction. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120200678 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus for processing image data may include a receiving unit, which may be configured to receive first image data representing at least one first image. The apparatus may also include an edge data generating unit, which may be configured to generate edge data representing unidirectional edge components of the at least one first image. Additionally, the apparatus may include a display control unit, which may be configured to generate second image data representing at least one of a left-eye image or a right-eye image, based on the first image data and the edge data. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120200679 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND DISTRIBUTION METHOD - The present invention aims to provide a video processing device allowing notifications to be made to viewers of a program without annoyances being posed thereby. A video processing device comprises a receiver receiving video information including a subject program and flag information indicating whether the video information includes type-1 guide information for making a notification when the subject program is in 3D; a determiner determining, according to received flag information, whether the user is to be notified of the type-1 guide information; and an output controller outputting a program from the received video information, outputting type-2 guide information for making the notification when the subject program is in 3D and the determiner determines that the user is not to be notified of the type-1 guide information, and preventing output of the type-2 guide information when the determiner determines that the user is to be notified of the type-1 guide information. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120206579 | THREE-DIMENTIONAL VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE FOR GENERATING BACKLIGHT CONTROL SIGNAL TO REDUCE CROSSTALK, AND RELATED THREE-DIMENTIONAL VIDEO SYSTEM USING BACKLIGHT CONTROL AND CONTROL CIRCUIT - A three-dimensional (3D) video processing device capable of avoiding crosstalk between adjacent frames includes a video processing circuit and a control circuit. The video processing circuit is configured to generate a 3D video signal having a first frame timing. The 3D video signal is used to control a panel to update, to thereby display 3D video frames in accordance with a second frame timing which is a delayed version of the first frame timing. The control circuit is utilized for generating a backlight control signal. A switching timing of the backlight control signal is determined according to the second frame timing. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120212589 | PLAYBACK METHODS AND PLAYBACK APPARATUSES FOR PROCESSING MULTI-VIEW CONTENT - A playback method for processing a multi-view content includes: detecting a location of each viewer and accordingly generating a detecting result; and driving a display device according to the multi-view content and the detecting result. A playback apparatus for processing a multi-view content includes a detecting circuit and a driving circuit. The detecting circuit is arranged to detect a location of each viewer and accordingly generate a detecting result. The driving circuit is coupled to the detecting circuit, and implemented for driving a display device according to the multi-view content and the detecting result. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120212590 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes a system block producing source data from a video signal received from the outside, a display block displaying 2D data or 3D data included in the source data, and a multifunctional block including a single multifunctional chip for integrating a first function, a second function, and a third function and a memory. The first function reflects a depth information on the 2D data based on motion evaluation for extracting an object and converts the 2D data into the 3D data. The second function renders the 3D data in conformity with a driving environment of the display block. The third function up-converts a frame rate of the 2D data based on the motion evaluation. The memory individually stores the 2D data of a predetermined amount for the motion evaluation. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120218390 | INTERACTIVE STEREO DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL COORDINATE - An interactive stereo display system and a method for calculating a three-dimensional (3D) coordinate are provided. The interactive stereo display system includes a plurality of interactive devices, a stereo display panel, and a processing unit. When the stereo display panel is irradiated by a light radiated from a light source of each interactive device, an image of each light filtered by a color filter is captured by an in-cell type optical sensor array. After receiving the images, the processing unit determines overlapping circle objects in each image and identifies the circle object formed by each light source according to a light intensity value at the center of each circle objects. Accordingly, the 3D coordinate of each interactive device relative to the stereo display panel can be calculated according to the center and a radius of each circle object corresponding to each light source. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120218391 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE REGISTRATION AND COLOR BALANCE EVALUATION DISPLAY - A method of generating a stereoscopic image registration and color balance evaluation display enables a user to align two cameras used to produce a stereoscopic video signal or to analyze a received stereoscopic video signal. Left and right images from the cameras are converted into desired video signal components. Corresponding pixels from the left and right images are compared for each of the video signal components, and plotted as x and y inputs to a Cartesian plot to produce respective two-dimensional (2D) histograms. The multiple 2D histograms are presented as a Quad Diamond display so a user may align the two cameras or analyze the received stereoscopic video signal. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120218392 | Stereoscopic Video Display Device - Provided is a stereoscopic video display device having increased convenience which simultaneously displays a plurality of stereoscopic video footages on one screen, thereby allowing a viewer to simultaneously view the plurality of stereoscopic video footages. A video control section | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120229612 | VIDEO TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND VIDEO RECEPTION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image transmission device which includes, a plurality of transmission terminals each of which has an encoder which performs encoding processing with respect to an input video signal, and transmits a video signal which is encoded; a time synchronization unit which synchronizes the plurality of transmission terminals; and a managing unit which receives connection information of reception terminals to be connected from a reception side, instructs connections by transmitting the connection information to the plurality of transmission terminals, informs the plurality of transmission terminals of an encoding start time, and informs the reception side of a decoding start time. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120236130 | VIDEO OUTPUT DEVICE - A video output device that is capable of luminance adjustment while preventing signal degradation includes a display unit which respectively displays a left eye image that is transmitted to the left eye and a right eye image that is transmitted to the right eye and which also outputs, by insertion between the left-eye image and the right-eye image, a black image that lowers luminance and does not contribute to the display, and a control unit that controls and adjusts the luminance by adjusting an insertion time of the black image inserted between the left-eye image and the right-eye image displayed on the display unit. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120242808 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating an image display apparatus includes receiving an image, separating the image into at least one of a two-dimensional (2D) image area or a three-dimensional (3D) image area, and displaying the at least one of the 2D or 3D image areas along with an area control object for changing a position or size of the 2D or 3D image area, on a display. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120242809 | VIDEO SURVEILLANCE APPARATUS USING DUAL CAMERA AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a video surveillance apparatus and method using a dual camera, which is capable of applying any camera videos with a result of video analysis made based on one selected from videos provided from a special purpose camera, such as a thermal image camera, and a visible light camera. Since the video surveillance apparatus and method is capable of arranging a visible light camera and a special-purpose camera in the same surveillance area, securing FOV differences between these cameras as pixel matching parameters between images by the medium of the same space corresponding to an image of each camera, performing selective video analysis for one of these parameters, and checking a result of the analysis in any camera images through the matching information in the same way, it is possible to guarantee autonomy of video switching, continuity of object tracking in video switching, and high reliability. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120242810 | Three-Dimensional (3D) Imaging Based on MotionParallax - Techniques and technologies are described herein for motion parallax three-dimensional (3D) imaging. Such techniques and technologies do not require special glasses, virtual reality helmets, or other user-attachable devices. More particularly, some of the described motion parallax 3D imaging techniques and technologies generate sequential images, including motion parallax depictions of various scenes derived from clues in views obtained of or created for the displayed scene. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120249754 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD FOR VIDEO DATA, AND PROGRAM - One embodiment provides an electronic apparatus, including: a display controller configured to perform a display control of video data, the video data including a main video and a sub video which are assigned in different time zones; and a detector configured to detect whether the main video or the sub video is currently to be displayed, wherein the display controller performs the display control so as to perform a 3D display of the video data when the detector detects that the main video is currently to be displayed, and perform a 2D display of the video data when the detector detects that the sub video is currently to be displayed. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120249755 | PICTURE PRESENTATION SYSTEM - A picture presentation system includes a first shutter device, a second shutter device, and a picture presentation device. The picture presentation device includes a picture presentation unit configured to present a first picture and a second picture in sequence, a first control signal transmitting unit configured to transmit the first control signal to bring the first shutter and the second shutter into a closed state when the second picture is presented, and a second control signal transmitting unit configured to transmit the second control signal to bring at least one of the third shutter and the fourth shutter into an opened state when the second picture is presented. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120249756 | Enhanced ZScreen modulator techniques - A method and system for use in conjunction with a push-pull liquid crystal modulator system for creating circularly polarized light of alternating handedness is provided. The method and system comprise a pair of surface mode liquid crystal cells and a driver electrically coupled to the cells. The driver is configured to move an electrical charge using a quenching pulse comprising a relatively brief voltage spike at a beginning of a waveform period. Multiple additional improvements are provided, including reducing the thickness of the LC gap (the distance between cell electrode plates), creating a charge connection or wiring connection to the cell electrodes, employing anti-reflection coating technology, thinner ITO and ITO index matched to the LC material, bonding all possible air to material surfaces, using superior glass, employing more efficient polarizers, and reducing projector blanking time. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120249757 | Stereoscopic Video Display Device - An object is to provide a stereoscopic video display device having improved convenience which simultaneously displays a plurality of stereoscopic video footages on one screen, thereby allowing a viewer to simultaneously view the plurality of stereoscopic video footages. The stereoscopic video display device includes: a display panel | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120257025 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MULTI-ANGLE VIEW CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a mobile terminal and a method for controlling a 3D multi-angle view thereof. Multi-angle views of a 3D image captured by a plurality of cameras are displayed, switched (converted) and selected according to a touch input. And, a selected angle view of the 3D image undergoes a capturing or a recording. While appreciating different-angle views of a 3D image (broadcast image) captured by a plurality of cameras, a desired angle view of the 3D image may be played, recorded and stored with using a user interface. This may enhance a user's convenience. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120262555 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING PLAYBACK OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ACCORDING TO DETECTION RESULT OF USER STATUS AND RELATED APPARATUS THEREOF - A playback method of a multimedia content includes: receiving the multimedia content; performing playback upon the multimedia content; detecting a user status and accordingly generating a detection result; and adjusting the playback of the multimedia content when the detection result indicates a change of the user status. A playback apparatus of a multimedia content includes a receiving block, a playback block, and a detecting block. The receiving block is used for receiving the multimedia content. The playback block is coupled to the receiving block, and used for performing playback upon the multimedia content. The detecting block is coupled to the playback block, and used for detecting a user status and accordingly generating a detection result. The playback block adjusts the playback of the multimedia content when the detection result indicates a change of the user status. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120262556 | DETECTING CROSSTALK ON A DISPLAY SURFACE COMPARTMENTALIZED INTO DISPLAY REGIONS BY IMAGE PATTERNS CONTAINED IN AN INPUT IMAGE SIGNAL TO A DISPLAY DEVICE - The instant application describes a method for detecting crosstalk on a display surface compartmentalized into display regions by image patterns that are contained in an input image signal to a display device. The method includes steps of: displaying a first image and a second image on a display surface, the first image including first pattern images having main regions depicted with different brightness from each other and the second image including second pattern images having the main regions and sub regions depicted with different brightness from the main regions; taking an image of the display surface to obtain image data; and comparing at least one of the first and second images with the image data to detect the crosstalk. The first and second pattern images are displayed in a center region at a center of the display surface and adjacent regions adjacent to the center region. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120268575 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - According to one exemplary embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes: a controller which determines whether to display 2D video or 3D video as video corresponding to a video signal according to a size of a display window in which the video corresponding to the video signal is to be displayed; an image processor which generates 2D video data or 3D video data based on the video signal according to a determination result of the controller; and a display module which displays, in the display window, any one of 2D video corresponding to the 2D video data and 3D video corresponding to the 3D video data. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120274747 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, there is provided a stereoscopic video display device including a depth information generator, a depth controller, an image generator, and an image display unit. The depth controller creates a weighted histogram of the depth value by weighting a frequency of each depth value, and adjusts the depth value by using an accumulated weighted histogram obtained from the histogram. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120274748 | Stereoscopic Image Display Device and Method for Driving the Same - A stereoscopic image display device and a method for driving the stereoscopic image display device. The stereoscopic image display device divides pixels of a display panel into first sub-divided pixels and second sub-divided pixels. The second sub-divided pixels are controlled to function as an active black stripe during a 3D mode to enhance the quality of a 3D mode. However, the second sub-divided pixels are controlled to display a 2D image during a 2D mode to prevent the reduction of luminance in the 2D mode. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120274749 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - According to an embodiment, a stereoscopic video display device displays images for a plurality of view point directions on a displaying device while switching between the images at predetermined time intervals. The stereoscopic video display device includes a calculator configured to calculate a crosstalk amount of a first image for one view point direction, which is an image to be corrected, by using a pixel value of the first image, a pixel value of a second image for a view point direction different from that of the first image, the second image being an image to be displayed at a time before the first image, and characteristics data including response characteristics of the displaying device; and a corrector configured to correct the first image by using the crosstalk amount. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120281073 | Customization of 3DTV User Interface Position - A custom interface depth may be provided. A content stream, such as a three-dimensional television signal, comprising a plurality of video planes may be displayed. In response to receiving a request to adjust a depth of at least one of the video planes, the display depth of the requested video plane may be adjusted relative to at least one other video plane. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120281074 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT USING THE SAME METHOD - A three-dimensional image processing method and a three-dimensional image processing circuit using the above method are provided. The method is configured for processing N source images, and N is a natural number and is larger than or equal to two. Each of the source images corresponds to a visual angle, and each of the source images comprises image data with three primary colors. The image data of each of the source images are arranged in an array according to a predetermined color sequence. In the method, six parameters are provided firstly, wherein each of the six parameters is configured for defining a basic data-arrangement variation. Then, the image data with three primary colors of the N source image are obtained according to the six parameters, so as to form a three-dimensional image. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120281075 | BROADCAST SIGNAL RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING VIDEO DATA - The present invention relates to a broadcast signal receiver and to a data-processing method for same, which can output a portion of 3D vide data contained in a single video stream as 2D images using signaling information associated with 2D images. Particularly, the receiver and method of the present invention involve acquiring signaling information contained in a specific area of the video stream, extracting a portion of 3D video data, and outputting the extracted portion as 2D images using the acquired signal information. In addition, the receiver and method of the present invention are advantageous in that the image of the extracted portion can be resized using the acquired signal information, thereby providing both 2D and 3D images without consuming additional bandwidth. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120281076 | GENERATION INTERPOLATION FRAMES - The instant application describes a stereoscopic video processing system that includes a vector detector configured to detect a motion vector associated with frames of an input video signal; an output image generator configured to generate interpolation frames based on the frames of the input video signal and the motion vector and to arrange the frames of the input video signal and the interpolation frame along a time axis; and an output controller configured to control the output image generator to output the interpolation frames as the output video signal alternately at intervals of one frame and two frames, and output the frames of the input video signal between the one frame and the two frames of the interpolation frames. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120287250 | CROSSTALK CANCELLATION IN 3D DISPLAYS - Image processing is performed to facilitate subtractive crosstalk cancellation in 3D images. In a global embodiment, pixel values are compressed to provide sufficient foot room for subtractive crosstalk cancellation. For video images the degree of compression may vary from frame to frame. Temporal filtering may be applied to reduce flicker. In a local embodiment luminance is added to and/or compression is performed in local areas to facilitate more complete subtractive crosstalk cancellation. The amount or added luminance or compression may be matched to the requirements of the local areas. Added luminance and/or compression may be made to vary smoothly in time and smoothly in space. Displays and other apparatus may be constructed to perform methods for partial or complete crosstalk cancellation. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120287251 | DISPLAY MATRIX CONTROLLER AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DISPLAY MATRIX - One object of the invention is a display matrix controller configured to drive a display matrix ( | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120293636 | Automatic 3-Dimensional Z-Axis Settings - Methods and structures related to generation of and display of on screen graphics, such as content, closed captioning, channel number, and volume bar, with 3D video content are described. A computing device may determine a z-axis depth to utilize for display of on screen graphics 3D video content. A video image of the 3D video content and the on screen graphics at the z-axis depth may be generated, and the generated video image may be outputted to a display device. In another example, frames of 3D video content and a z-axis setting profile may be received at a central facility for further processing. The z-axis setting profile may include a z-axis depth value for display of on screen graphics. The z-axis setting profile may be embedded with the frames of 3D video content into a video stream, and the video stream may be transmitted to a customer premises. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120293637 | Bufferless 3D On Screen Display - A system, method and computer program product provide 3D on screen display content derived from 2D image content utilizing the on screen display image buffer, as opposed to an on screen display 3D buffer, of a content receiver. The on screen display image buffer separates image data for one image formatted as a 2D image into data for a first image and data for a second image. Utilizing the data for the first and second image, the on screen display image buffer formats the first and second image data for an offset display on a content display device so that a user perceives the first and the second image as a 3D image forming a portion of the on screen display. The first and second image for each of the original images may have differing offsets relative to one another thereby providing the perception of differing levels of depth for each of the 3D images. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120293638 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING 3D CONTENT - An apparatus and method for providing three-dimensional (3D) contents are provided. The 3D content providing method executed by a 3D content providing apparatus includes: acquiring first 3D contents and second 3D contents generated by two-dimensional (2D) to 3D conversion; transmitting product information of the first 3D contents and the second 3D contents to a user terminal; receiving a content offer request from the user terminal; and sending the user terminal 3D contents selected between the first 3D contents and the second 3D contents in response to the content offer request, the first 3D contents and the second 3D contents being generated by different combination proportions of a manual process and an automatic process for the 2D to 3D conversion. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120300042 | LENS MODULE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A lens module includes a lens panel and a lens driving part. The lens panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes first electrodes and second electrodes alternately disposed thereon that partially overlap each other and are electrically insulated from each other. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The lens driving part provides a substantially equal voltage to both ends of each of the first and second electrodes. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120300043 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention discloses a stereoscopic image display device includes a first image processing chip, a second image processing chip and a format reception unit. The first image processing chip carries out image processing on a 3D image including a frame image in which an image for left eye and an image for right eye are combined. The second image processing chip reproduces the image for left eye and the image for right eye from the 3D image. The first image processing chip has an OSD section that superimposes an OSD image to the frame image. The second image processing chip reproduces the image for left eye by using an image acquired from a combined area of the image for left eye that is defined in the output format received by a format reception unit and reproduces the image for right eye by using an image acquired from a combined area of the image for right eye that is defined in the output format received by the format reception unit. The OSD section superimposes the OSD image to a position according to the output format received by the format reception unit. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120300044 | Systems and Methods for Alignment, Calibration and Rendering for an Angular Slice True-3D Display - Systems and methods for calibrating a 3D display system. In one embodiment, a system includes a display screen, 2D image projectors that project 2D projection images onto the screen and a camera that captures calibration images of the screen. A computer generates the 2D projection images, which include calibration patterns, and processes the captured calibration images. The computer uses the calibration images to calculate corrections based upon the calibration images. The computer can then generate corrected 2D projection images that are projected by the 2D image projectors onto the screen to produce a substantially visually correct 3D image with continuous viewing, true horizontal parallax, and a different view for each eye within a valid viewing zone. The corrections to the images may include corrections to the geometry (including distortion, alignment, etc.) color (including intensity and related parameters). | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120307022 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND CALIBRATION METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processor includes: a display module; a detector; a first operation receiver; a second operation receiver; a display controller; and an adjuster. The display module displays a video. The detector detects a position of a hand of an operator. The first operation receiver receives an operation from the operator with a first operation reception mode. The second operation receiver receives an operation from the operator based on a detection result of the detector with a second operation reception mode. The display controller controls the display module to display a confirmation screen to confirm that, if the first operation reception mode is to be changed to the second operation reception mode, the change of the mode. The adjuster adjusts a parameter relating to detection of position of the hand based on the detection result of the detector while the confirmation screen is displayed. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120307023 | DISPARITY DISTRIBUTION ESTIMATION FOR 3D TV - A method and apparatus for estimating a disparity distribution between a left image and a right image of a stereoscopic 3D picture, each image having an array of pixels, including: providing a maximum range of disparity; correlating, by an estimation device, a left image area with a right image area, with one of both image areas being shifted by a disparity shift value, wherein the result of the correlation is an indication of a pixel match between both images; repeating the correlating for a set of disparity shift values within the maximum range of disparity; and deriving the disparity distribution from the results of the correlation. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120320166 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus that outputs, if three-dimensional stereoscopically viewable left-eye and right-eye images are not alternately supplied at accurate timings, only one of the three-dimensional stereoscopically viewable left-eye or right-eye image when the three-dimensional stereoscopically viewable left-eye and right-eye images are supplied. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120320167 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a display unit capable of displaying stereoscopic images by displaying a group of parallax images and a display control unit. The display control unit displays an operation screen for receiving operations on medical image data on the display unit, displays selection information for selecting medical image data on the operation screen, and controls whether the selection information will be displayed as a stereoscopic image or a planar image depending on the content of medical image data selected by the selection information. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120320168 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION IN THE PROVISION OF A PLURALITY OF TRANSPORT INTERACTIVE 3DTV BROADCASTING SERVICES - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a plurality of transport interactive 3DTV broadcasting services in the provision of higher definition 3D video service and 3D data service, while maintaining the compatibility with the existing digital TV broadcasts or 3DTV services. To this end, an input 3D video is encoded to generate a 3D additional video base stream and a 3D additional video enhanced stream. Engineer information for defining engineers, which includes 3D broadcasting service configuration information, is generated, and then an encoded 2D base video stream, an encoded audio stream, the encoded 3D additional video base stream and the engineer information are multiplexed and transmitted via a base layer. The 3D additional video enhanced stream is multiplexed and transmitted via an enhanced layer. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120327198 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD - An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a stereoscopic display device, a transform unit, an image generating unit, and a display control unit. The transform unit reduces or enlarges volume data which is three-dimensional (3D) image data such that among scales of a stereoscopic image assumed to be displayed on the stereoscopic display device using a parallax image group obtained from the volume data, a scale in a depth direction on a display surface of the stereoscopic display device is substantially the same as a scale in another direction which is a direction other than the depth direction. The image generating unit generates a parallax image group by performing a rendering process on transformed volume data. The display control unit causes the parallax image group to be displayed on the stereoscopic display device. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120327199 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY WITH MODULATING SCREEN HAVING MULTIPLE SECTIONAL IMAGES - An autostereoscopic displaying unit is for displaying an image, which includes a plurality of viewing-zone images corresponding to a plurality of viewing zones. The autostereoscopic displaying unit includes a viewing zone adjusting module for adjusting a content of each pixel of the image corresponding to a determined one of the viewing zones according to a viewing-zone shifting information. The viewing-zone shifting information includes a viewing-zone correction for distortion of a projection lens, and the image is then modified as an adjusted image. A projection module with the projection lens projects the adjusted image. A viewing zone modulating screen receives and displays the adjusted image. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130002831 | Infrared Emitter in Projection Display Television - An IR emitter internally mounted behind the screen of a projection television apparatus. The IR emitter is mounted so as not to interfere with the image display light path. The IR emitter is mounted so that IR rays are reflected off the mirror and exit through the screen of the projection television. The IR emitter includes one or more IR type LEDs. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130002832 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AN OBJECT - A method and system of monitoring an object (e.g., for change in configuration of a person) includes projecting a radiation pattern onto the object; recording at a first time first image data representing a portion of the projected radiation pattern on the object, the first image data representative of a three dimensional configuration of the object at the first time; recording at a second time second image data representing a portion of the projected pattern of radiation on the object, the second image data representative of a three dimensional configuration of the object at the second time; and processing the first and second image data to generate differential data representative of a change in the configuration of the object between the first and second times. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130002833 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CLOSED CAPTIONING IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGERY - Systems and methods are presented for processing three-dimensional (3D or 3-D) or pseudo-3D programming. The programming includes closed caption (CC) information that includes caption data and a location identifier that specifies a location for the caption data within the 3D programming. The programming information is processed to render the caption data at the specified location and to present the programming on the display. By encoding location identification information into the three-dimensional programming, a high level of configurability can be provided and the 3D experience can be preserved while captions are displayed. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130002834 | 3D IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The disclosed 3D image display device has: a delay unit ( | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130010088 | Control method and apparatus for displaying moving pictures - A control method and apparatus for displaying moving pictures are disclosed, which make it possible to significantly reduce a side effect occurring when watching a 3D moving picture, in particular, a side effect such headache, nausea or dizziness generally occurring when a watcher watches a 3D moving picture while a watcher watches an excellent 3D moving picture. The method for displaying moving pictures comprises a step for receiving a data source containing a moving picture, a variable filtering information of the moving picture which is in time-sync with the moving picture and controls the fatigue that a user feels in the course of watching moving pictures, and a filter mask image code; a step for filtering the moving pictures with respect to the section in which the filtering is set depending on the variable filtering information and the filter mask image; and a step for outputting the filtered moving pictures. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130016192 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEMAANM SHIBATA; MotohiroAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP SHIBATA; Motohiro Tokyo JP - An image processing device forms an omnifocal image and/or a three-dimensional image based on a group of images captured while moving along a fixed axis. The image processing device includes a detecting unit that detects a shift in a plane vertical to the axis of images in the group of the image; a correcting unit that corrects the shift according to a result detected at the detecting unit; and an image forming unit that forms an omnifocal image and/or a three-dimensional image based on the group of the images including images captured while moving along the fixed axis and/or an image corrected at the correcting unit. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130016193 | METHOD, DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSOR AND VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR DIGITALLY PROCESSING A VIDEO SIGNAL - There is provided a method, a digital image processor and a video display system for digitally processing a video signal. A video signal is digitally processed according to a user profile. The video signal is also digitally processed according to a parameter related to a video display system. A resulting processed video signal is Digitally process a video signal according displayed on the video display system. In an embodiment, the video display system comprises a headset. In the same or other embodiments, the video signal comprises left and right components for stereoscopic according to a device parameter of a display and digital processing is made separately for the left and right components. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130016194 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND SHUTTER SPECTACLESAANM Shiozaki; YuyaAACI OsakaAACO JPAAGP Shiozaki; Yuya Osaka JP - The shutter glasses normally control a right-eye shutter and left-eye shutter even if a control signal to be received is temporarily missed. The image display section displays an image by alternately repeating a right-eye field and a left-eye field, and transmits first control signals synchronously with the right-eye field and left-eye field. The shutter glasses receive the first control signals, and have a right-eye shutter and left-eye shutter for transmitting and blocking visible light. The shutter glasses include a shutter control circuit that stores first timing information for a plurality of fields based on the received first control signals for the plurality of fields and generates second control signals based on the stored first timing information for the plurality of fields. The shutter glasses control the transmission and blocking of visible light at the right-eye shutter and left-eye shutter using the second control signals. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130021453 | Autostereoscopic rear-view display system for vehicles - A vehicle monitoring system uses at least one image capture device located on a vehicle and provides two or more associated images for combined display on an autostereoscopic display provided adjacent an operator. Preferably the images are processed for display and provide the operator with visual information that otherwise may not be available. The invention is directed to both apparatus and method for providing of this information. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130021454 | 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTENT DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A content processing method and a three dimensional (3D) image processing apparatus are provided. The content processing method includes: processing a video signal to be displayed on a screen; processing an audio signal corresponding to the video signal to be output in synchronization with the video signal on the screen; and individually controlling a 3D effect of a subtitle to be displayed on the screen according a loudness level of the audio signal. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130021455 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A video display device includes a first terminal unit that receives video data that is outputted by a source device and transmits data about a format of video data that can be inputted, to the source device, a video data processing unit that display-processes the video data, a display unit that displays an image based on the video data, a data storage unit that stores data about video data that can be inputted, a second terminal unit that outputs synchronization data for performing three-dimensional display on the display unit, and a control unit that performs control of storing data indicating that video data for three-dimensional display can be inputted, in the data storage unit when an external device is connected to the second terminal unit, and control of storing data indicating that input of video data for three-dimensional display is not permitted when the external device is not connected. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130021456 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONVERGENCE PERFORMANCE - Provided is a convergence performance determination device including an eye information acquisition unit configured to acquire eye information which is information on eye movements of a user when viewing a stereoscopic video; a convergence movement calculation unit configured to calculate amounts of convergence movement each indicating a degree of a convergence eye movement of the user, based on the eye information acquired by the eye information acquisition unit; and a determination unit configured to determine convergence eye movement performance of the user by comparing between distribution data indicating a distribution of the amounts of convergence movement calculated by the convergence movement calculation unit in an evaluation interval which is a predetermined playback time interval of the stereoscopic video being viewed by the user and distribution data indicating a distribution of the amounts of convergence movement determined in accordance with depth information on the stereoscopic video in the evaluation interval. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130033585 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLOR COMPENSATION IN MULTI-VIEW VIDEO - An apparatus and a method for color compensation in multi-view video is provided. Video sequences corresponding to a common scene of interest are captured and processed using the master and slave channels respectively. A compensation gain is calculated based on a set of global color ratio statistics obtained from the master and slave channels. The compensation gain is applied to the slave channel. An initial master color correction matrix is combined with a master color matching matrix to obtain a final master color correction matrix. The initial slave color correction matrix is combined with a slave color matching matrix to obtain a final slave color correction matrix. The master and gain-compensated slave channels are color-compensated by applying the final master and final slave color correction matrices to the master and gain-compensated slave channels, respectively. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130033586 | System, Method and Apparatus for Generation, Transmission and Display of 3D Content - A method of and system and apparatus for, generating visual information from left and right (L/R) view information and depth information, comprising computing left and right projections of L/R view information in three-dimensional space, combining the occluded portions of the computed projections in three-dimensional space, and mapping the combined projections to two-dimensional space according to a desired projection point. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130038702 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PERFORMING ACTIONS BASED ON RECEIVED INPUT IN A THEATER ENVIRONMENT - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for performing actions based on received input in a theater environment. In operation, content is displayed to a plurality of users in a theater environment. Additionally, input from one or more of the plurality of users is received in response to the displaying. Further, one or more actions are performed based on the received input. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130038703 | DATA STRUCTURE, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to data structures, image processing apparatuses, image processing methods, and programs for enabling appropriate processing of video data of 3D content. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130038704 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic video image display method according to the present invention is such that in a case where switching between a right-eye image and a left-eye image, both of which accommodate a parallax that allows an observer to visually recognize a stereoscopic video image, is done once, for example, every two frames, a gray scale transition emphasis process is carried out in each of the frames, and that in a case where, in a visual recognition period (e.g. frame F | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130044192 | CONVERTING 3D VIDEO INTO 2D VIDEO BASED ON IDENTIFICATION OF FORMAT TYPE OF 3D VIDEO AND PROVIDING EITHER 2D OR 3D VIDEO BASED ON IDENTIFICATION OF DISPLAY DEVICE TYPE - Aspects of the subject disclosure relate to techniques for extracting a 2D video from a 3D video. A 3D video uploaded by a source is analyzed to identify its 3D format type, for example, a side-by-side, a top and bottom, or frame alternate format. Upon the identification of the 3D format type, 2D video information is extracted from the frames of the 3D video to generate a 2D video. Both the 3D video and 2D video are stored in a database. When a device requests the video, it is determined if the device is associated with a 3D or 2D display device type, and based on that determination either the 2D or the 3D video is provided to the device. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130044193 | DYNAMIC SELECTION OF SURFACES IN REAL WORLD FOR PROJECTION OF INFORMATION THEREON - One or more devices capture a scene of real world, and process one or more image(s) which include distances to points on surfaces in the real world. The distances are used to automatically identify a set of surfaces in the real world. Then, the one or more devices check whether a surface in the set is suitable for display of an element of information to be projected into the scene. On finding that a surface is suitable, a transfer function is automatically identified, followed by automatic application of the transfer function to the element of the information. A transformed element, which results from automatically applying the transfer function, is stored in a frame buffer coupled to a projector, at a specific position in the frame buffer identified during the check for suitability. When no surface is suitable, user input is obtained, followed by projection of information as per user input. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130050440 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a viewer detector, and a viewing area information calculator. The viewer detector is configured to detect the number and a position of one or a plurality of viewers using an image captured by a camera. The viewing area information calculator is configured to calculate a control parameter so as to set a viewing area, in which a plurality of parallax images displayed on a display are viewed as a stereoscopic image, according to the number and the position of the viewers. The viewing area controller is configured to set the viewing area according to the control parameter. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130050443 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a viewer detector that acquires position information of a viewer from video photographed by a camera, a viewer selector that selects, when a plurality of the viewers are present, a viewer considered to have the highest viewing desire out of the plural viewers taking into account the current time of day and/or information concerning a program being viewed, a viewing area information calculator that calculates, using position information of the selected viewer, a control parameter for setting a viewing area in which the selected viewer is set, a viewing area controller that controls the viewing area according to the control parameter, a display that displays plural parallax images that the viewer present in the viewing area can observe as a stereoscopic video, and an apertural area controller that outputs the plural parallax images displayed on the display in a predetermined direction. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130050444 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - According to an embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a display, an aperture control unit, an observation unit, a viewer detector, a presentation unit, a viewer selection unit, a calculator and a controller. The display is configured to display a plurality of parallax images. The observation unit is configured to obtain an observation image including one or more viewers. The viewer detector is configured to detect positions of the one or more viewers. The viewer selection unit is configured to select one or more viewers in the observation image according to a viewer selection signal. The calculator is configured to calculate a control parameter so that a viewing zone, from which the plurality of parallax images can be seen stereoscopically, is set in areas according to positions of the selected one or more viewers. The controller is configured to control the viewing zone according to the control parameter. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130057659 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VIEWING POSITION CHECK METHOD - According to one embodiment, a three-dimensional image display apparatus displays, when an event of requesting a check of a viewing position occurs, a three-dimensional image for testing, by displaying on the display a three-dimensional display image which is obtained by using a left-eye image and a right-eye image included in the three-dimensional still image data for testing in a storage device. The three-dimensional image for testing includes such a first image that when the three-dimensional image for testing is viewed from a predetermined viewing area, stereoscopic images of a plurality of vertical rods disposed at different depth positions are perceived. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057660 | USER HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM COMPRISING 3D GLASSES AND DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A user health monitoring system having 3D glasses and a display apparatus and a display apparatus and a control method thereof, the user health monitoring system including: 3D glasses which obtain biosignal information of a user and transmit; and a display apparatus which receives the biosignal information transmitted by the 3D glasses, obtains a health index of the user by using the biosignal information and controls a display state according to the health index. With this configuration, a user's health condition may be monitored in real-time with a biosignal of the user viewing a 3D image and a 3D display state may be controlled according to the user's health condition to thereby protect a user's health. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057661 | PROJECTION APPARATUS AND PROJECTION CONTROL METHOD - In a projection apparatus, a processor performs a light-source controlling process of simultaneously driving the semiconductor light-emitting elements included in the light source unit and of generating a sync signal for use in projecting a stereoscopic image, and a gradation controlling process of correcting gradations ranging from zero gradation to the gradation according to the luminance level of the sync signal, to a specific gradation, when the projecting unit forms an optical image of a color complimentary to the color of the sync signal generated by the light-source controlling unit. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057662 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - When a user views a three-dimensional video on an external apparatus, the user cannot always simultaneously view the three-dimensional video on another video display apparatus, because of the difference between the display methods used by these apparatuses, for example. In such case, when a three-dimensional video signal is output to the external apparatus, a display unit of the video display apparatus displays a two-dimensional video. In this way, even when the external apparatus is displaying a three-dimensional video, a user can simultaneously view the display unit of the video display apparatus easily. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130063573 | High Dynamic Range Displays Having Improved Field Sequential Processing - Several embodiments of display systems are disclosed that comprise a backlight source, a first modulator, a second modulator and a controller. The backlight source may further comprise an edge-lit backlighting source that may be controlled to affect a field-sequential illumination for the dual or multiple modulator display system. In another embodiment, the display system may comprise two or more color primary emitters that each comprise a color gamut. When the color gamuts are driven in a field sequential pattern, the resulting overall gamut is substantially wider. Other display systems and methods are disclosed herein that affect a variety of 3D viewing embodiments. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063574 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VIDEO ENHANCEMENTS FOR DISPLAY IMAGES - A method and apparatus for processing video utilize individually collected image enhancement statistic information from differing processor cores for a same frame or multi-view that are then either shared between the processor cores or used by a third processor core to combine the statistical information that has been individually collected to generate global image-enhancement control information. The global image enhancement control information is based on a global analysis of both left and right eye views for example using the independently generated statistic information for a pair of frames. Respective image output information is produced by each of the plurality of processor cores based on the global image enhancement control information, for display on one or more displays. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063575 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIEWING ANGLE COMPENSATION FOR POLARIZED THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - A method and system for reducing crosstalk for a three dimensional display includes a processor in communication with a display configured to display three dimensional video. The processor is configured to determine a viewing angle between a section of the three dimensional display and a viewpoint of the three dimensional display, generate a crosstalk compensation function for the section of the three dimensional display, wherein the crosstalk function compensates for the crosstalk at the viewing angle, and apply the crosstalk compensation function to the section of the three dimensional display to reduce the crosstalk of the three dimensional display from the viewing angle. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063576 | STEREOSCOPIC INTENSITY ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC INTENSITY ADJUSTMENT METHOD, PROGRAM, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A parallax map acquisition unit acquires a parallax map indicating a parallax value for each pixel in a set of main-view data and sub-view data constituting stereoscopic video images. A parallax map assessment unit assesses the accuracy of the acquired parallax map. A stereoscopic intensity adjustment method selection unit selects either pixel shifting by a DIBR execution unit using the parallax map or plane shifting by a plane shift execution unit. The DIBR execution unit and the plane shift execution unit adjust stereoscopic intensity in accordance with the selection of the stereoscopic intensity adjustment method by the stereoscopic intensity adjustment method selection unit. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130070063 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A method for operating an image display apparatus is disclosed. The method includes receiving a three-dimensional (3D) video signal, displaying an image based on the received 3D video signal on a display, the image being a video or a still image, displaying a guideline on the display, for adjustment of the received 3D video signal, receiving an adjustment input for the 3D video signal, adjusting the 3D video signal based on the adjustment input, and displaying a 3D image based on the adjusted 3D video signal on the display. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070064 | GENERATION AND DISPLAY OF STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES - A method of displaying successive stereoscopic image pairs comprises: capturing, at a predetermined image rate, a sequence of images suitable for a left eye of a viewer and capturing, at the predetermined image rate, a corresponding sequence of images suitable for a right eye of the viewer; and displaying a sequence of stereoscopic image pairs at the predetermined image rate, in which each displayed stereoscopic image pair comprises one left image suitable for the left eye of the viewer and one right image suitable for the right eye of the viewer, the one left and one right images being derived from the captured sequence of images suitable for the left and right eye of the viewer, respectively; in which: the one left image and the one right image of each stereoscopic image pair are displayed for different respective portions of an image period defined by the predetermined image rate; and the effective temporal position of the one left image of a stereoscopic image pair for display is different to the effective temporal position of the one right image of that stereoscopic image pair. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070065 | 3DIMENSION STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a 3Dimension stereoscopic display device including a video image playback device | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130076872 | System and Method of Detecting and Correcting an Improper Rendering Condition in Stereoscopic Images - In some embodiments, a method of rendering stereoscopic images includes receiving a plurality of stereoscopic image frames to be rendered on a display screen, detecting the occurrence of an improper rendering condition in the stereoscopic image frames, and performing an action for protecting a viewer's vision when the improper rendering condition is detected. In other embodiments, systems of rendering stereoscopic images are also described. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130076873 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CONVERTING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CONVERTING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a stereoscopic image converting method includes: generating a first depth map comprising depth values of pixels of an input video, wherein the depth values are estimated based on an amount of a characteristic of the input video, and wherein the depth values are represented by pixel shading; generating a second depth map by correcting the depth values of pixels within a distance from each of right and left ends of the depth map to become closer to a depth value corresponding to a screen of a display not protruding forward or recede rearward in stereoscopic viewing as the pixels within the first distance are positioned closer to the each of the right and left ends of the depth map; and generating a multi-parallax image by shifting pixels of the input video by an amount horizontally based on the depth values of the second depth map. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130076874 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING CONTENT TO NON-3D GLASS WEARERS VIA 3D DISPLAY - Embodiments of the invention pertain to a method and apparatus for controlling what non-3D glass wearers see from a 3D display. Such control is accomplished by controlling the images displayed on a 3D display, which allows a 3D-glass wearer to see a 3D image and/or video content while controlling one or more of the following: the content of the right eye image, the left eye image, the timing of displaying the right eye image, the timing of displaying the left eye image, the polarization of the right eye image (for polarization based 3D), the polarization of the left eye image (for polarization based 3D), the shuttering of the right lens (for shutter based 3D), the shuttering of the left lens (for shutter based 3D), and other images displayed not available to the 3D glass wearer, and/or controlling other aspects of the presented images and/or presentation of the presented images. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130076875 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method is provided for a three-dimensional (3D) image processing system including a stereoscopic display device. The method includes providing a stereoscopic image and obtaining a parallax range of the stereoscopic image and a parallax range supported by the stereoscopic display device. The method also includes determining a parallax operation to adjust the parallax range of the stereoscopic image based on the relationship between the parallax range of the stereoscopic image and the parallax range supported by the stereoscopic display device. Further, the method includes determining an offset value and an offset direction of a horizontal coordinate of each pixel of the stereoscopic image, and shifting the horizontal coordinate of each pixel of the stereoscopic image by the offset value and in the offset direction. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130076876 | 3DIMENSION STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a 3Dimension stereoscopic display device including a screen composition processing unit for generating a right-eye image or video image and a left-eye image or video image for planar display or for three-dimensional stereoscopic display of an image or video image, a video image playback device | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130083173 | VIRTUAL SPECTATOR EXPERIENCE WITH A PERSONAL AUDIO/VISUAL APPARATUS - Technology is described for providing a virtual spectator experience for a user of a personal A/V apparatus including a near-eye, augmented reality (AR) display. A position volume of an event object participating in an event in a first 3D coordinate system for a first location is received and mapped to a second position volume in a second 3D coordinate system at a second location remote from where the event is occurring. A display field of view of the near-eye AR display at the second location is determined, and real-time 3D virtual data representing the one or more event objects which are positioned within the display field of view are displayed in the near-eye AR display. A user may select a viewing position from which to view the event. Additionally, virtual data of a second user may be displayed at a position relative to a first user. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130083174 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A natural stereoscopic image is displayed and eye strain is mitigated. A face image is detected in a stereoscopic image composed of a left-eye image and a right-eye image. The left- and right-eye images are shifted in such a manner that visual disparity of the detected face image is removed. Furthermore, a display area containing the face image is calculated. The calculated display area is enlarged so as to be displayed over the entirety of the display screen. Since a double image that appears in front of the face image is excluded, the strain upon the eyes of the observer is mitigated. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130093859 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic image is displayed with an appropriate amount of parallax on the basis of auxiliary information recorded in a three-dimensional image file. A 3D image file is read (Step S | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130093860 | 3DIMENSION STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a 3Dimension stereoscopic display device including a stereoscopic display monitor | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130093861 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device that displays an image, includes: a light source; an aperture stop array including a plurality of aperture stops; a lens array including a plurality of lenses which are disposed corresponding to the plurality of aperture stops respectively, and focus the light transmitted through the plurality of aperture stops respectively; a deflecting unit deflecting a travelling direction of the focused light respectively; a spatial light modulator that is illuminated by the deflected light, and modulates the illumination light; a detector that detects an observer; and a controller that calculates a position of a pupil of the observer based on a detection result by the detector, calculates a relative position of the display device and the pupil of the observer based on the calculation result, and controls an aperture amount of the plurality of aperture stops and a deflecting amount of the deflecting unit based on this calculation result. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130093862 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A switchable autostereoscopic display device comprises a first LED display panel, an array of non-switchable lens elements and a second LED display panel. This arrangement avoids the need for a switchable lens array to implement a switchable 2D/3D display. The first LED display panel can simply be turned off so that the lens array does not play a role in generating a 3D output. The second LED display panel then produces the desired 2D image. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130100258 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY - A stereoscopic image display includes a display panel including subpixels, a polarizing plate attached to a display surface of the display panel, a patterned retarder film attached to one surface of the polarizing plate, and a pattern groove including an air layer which is formed on one surface of an upper substrate of the display panel contacting the polarizing plate at a location corresponding to a boundary between the subpixels. The pattern groove includes a plurality of peaks and a plurality of valleys and forms a triangular cross section along with a portion of the upper substrate contacting the polarizing plate, thereby providing the air layer. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130107022 | 3D USER INTERFACE FOR AUDIO VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE SUCH AS TV | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130107023 | Contact-less Power Transmitter and Contact-less Power Transmission System | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130113899 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A video processing device has a viewer detector to recognize a face of a viewer using a video shot by a camera in order to acquire position information of the viewer, a subscreen display controller to superimpose a live video shot by the camera on a part of a display screen of a display device as a subscreen, a viewing area frame display controller to display, in the live video in the subscreen, a viewing area frame representing a viewing position where the viewer is viewable a stereoscopic video, and a face frame display controller to display a first face frame showing that the stereoscopic video is viewable when the viewer is located within the frame, and to display a second face frame showing that the stereoscopic video is not viewable when the viewer is located outside the frame. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113900 | VIEWING SYSTEM AND VIEWING METHOD - A viewing system is disclosed, comprising: a detector of electromagnetic radiation (EMR); and a control system connected to receive signals from the detector, and configured to identify an image locator, disposed within a field of view of the detector in use, and select for detection by the detector the image locator or an image located by the image locator. A viewing method is disclosed comprising: detecting electromagnetic radiation from an image locator disposed within a field of view of a detector; identifying the image locator with a control system; and displaying the image locator or an image located by the image locator on one or more displays. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130120542 | 3D MEDIA PLAYING DEVICE - In one embodiment, a portable 3D media playing device comprises: a telescope-shaped housing; at least one display for displaying video data; and a circuit board coupled to the display for processing video data and transmitting the video data to the display. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120543 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Adjusting a Convergence Plane of a Stereoscopic Image - First and second views of a stereoscopic image are received. In response to determining that the stereoscopic image has a predominance of foreground features, a convergence plane of the stereoscopic image is adjusted to improve a depth resolution of at least one foreground feature within the stereoscopic image for display to a human by a display device. In response to determining that the stereoscopic image has a predominance of background features, the convergence plane is adjusted to position at least most of the stereoscopic image as background features for display to the human by the display device. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120544 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTARY CONTENT IN 3D COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - It is provided a method for providing a main 3D content and a supplementary content used in a 3D multimedia device. The method comprises the steps of displaying the main 3D content; and triggering the supplementary content by a 3D related event of the main 3D content, wherein, depth value of the supplementary content is updated along with depth value change of the main 3D content. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130128011 | HEAD TRACKING EYEWEAR SYSTEM - In some embodiments, a system for tracking with reference to a three-dimensional display system may include a display device, an image processor, a surface including at least three emitters, at least two sensors, a processor. The display device may image, during use, a first stereo three-dimensional image. The surface may be positionable, during use, with reference to the display device. At least two of the sensors may detect, during use, light received from at least three of the emitters as light blobs. The processor may correlate, during use, the assessed referenced position of the detected light blobs such that a first position/orientation of the surface is assessed. The image processor may generate, during use, the first stereo three-dimensional image using the assessed first position/orientation of the surface with reference to the display. The image processor may generate, during use, a second stereo three-dimensional image using an assessed second position/orientation of the surface with reference to the display. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130141550 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SELECTING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING VIEWPOINT PAIR | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130141551 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal which reproduces a video including image data and audio data and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal which reproduces a video including image data and audio data includes a display unit configured to display an image corresponding to the image data based on a reproduction command with respect to the video, a subtitle processing unit configured to output subtitles related to the video along with the image to the display unit, and a controller configured to control the subtitle processing unit to change a display format of the subtitles according to sound characteristics of the audio data related to the image. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130147927 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD - A stereoscopic video display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a display panel having a display face on which pixels are arranged in a matrix form; an active lens disposed in front of the display panel to control light rays from the pixels, the active lens being capable of conducting partial changeover on a focus state of the display face; a defocus region detection unit configured to detect a region to be subject to focus processing from an image which is input; and a drive unit configured to drive the active lens to conduct defocus processing on a region to be defocused, which is detected by the defocus region detection unit. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130147928 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PAYMENT METHOD THEREOF - The embodiments of the present invention are directed to electronic devices and methods of controlling the electronic devices. The electronic device provides a user interface to set up a depth range allowable for a stereoscopic video and adjusts the depth of the stereoscopic image based on the depth range set trough the user interface. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130155206 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A SIGNAL FOR A VIDEO DISPLAY UNIT - A method for generating, in a video signal receiver, an output signal for a display unit, comprising the steps of determining the display mode of the display unit, detecting the type of a video input signal received by the video signal receiver, converting the received video signal into an adapted output signal compatible with the display mode of the display unit, providing the adapted output signal to the display unit. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130162787 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MULTI-VIEW - An image processing method and apparatus. The image processing apparatus may generate a standard viewpoint layer and use the standard viewpoint layer to recover holes within at least one output view having different viewpoints. Holes within output views may be collectively recovered, using the standard viewpoint layer. The image processing apparatus may adaptively apply inter-frame inpainting that uses an accumulated background layer to generate the standard viewpoint layer, and intra-frame inpainting that uses an initial standard viewpoint layer including a hole. The accumulated background layer may include information associated with a background of a standard viewpoint layer generated in a previous frame. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130169762 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD AND TRANSMITTING APPARATUS - Transmitting apparatus transmits a 3D video content, including video data, caption data, and information of depth display position or parallax information relating to the caption data, while a receiving apparatus conducts video processing on the video data and the caption data, so as to display it/them in 3D or 2D, wherein the video processing comprises a first video process for displaying the video data of the 3D video content received, and for displaying the caption data received with using the information of depth display position or the parallax information, and a second video process for displaying the video data of the 3D video content received in 2D, and for displaying the caption information received without based on the information of depth display position or the parallax information, when an operation input signal to change 3D display into 2D display is inputted, enabling a user to view/listen to 3D content. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130169763 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND INPUT APPARATUS USED IN THE SAME - A display apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided. The display apparatus includes a plurality of reception units configured to receive a plurality of different contents, a signal processing unit configured to process each of the plurality of contents, an output unit configured to output contents processed in the signal processing unit, a remote controller signal reception unit configured to receive a selection signal from a remote controller, and, if the selection signal is received, a control unit configured to perform different control operations according to a current operation state of the display apparatus. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130169764 | LED STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY, DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF AND SIGNAL RECEIVER - The disclosure discloses an LED stereoscopic display, a display method thereof and a signal receiver. Wherein, the LED stereoscopic display method comprises: a video signal controller, which is configured for receiving image data, and controlling the signal receiver to a single-frame mode or a double-frame mode according to the image data; a signal receiver, which is configured for receiving the image data from the video signal controller, and when in the double-frame mode, dividing the image data into left-eye image frames and right-eye image frames with a time difference there-between, and storing the left-eye image frames and the right-eye image frames; and an LED display panel, which is configured for displaying the left-eye image frames and the right-eye image frames. The disclosure can improve the resolution of the LED stereoscopic display. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130176404 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a reception unit and a storing unit. The reception unit receives a capturing instruction to capture a stereoscopic image being displayed stereoscopically. If the reception unit receives the capturing instruction, the storing unit stores a plurality of parallax images used for displaying the stereoscopic image being displayed stereoscopically in a manner associated with one another as captured images in a predetermined storage device. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130176405 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING 3D IMAGE - An apparatus and method are provided for outputting a 3D image in a 3D image display apparatus. Camera information for each of a left virtual camera and a right virtual camera is generated upon receiving image data including a 3D object. Left and right images are generated by applying the generated camera information to the image data. A stereoscopic image is generated and output based on the generated left image and the generated right image | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130176406 | MULTI-LAYER OPTICAL ELEMENTS OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY FOR REDUCING PSEUDO-STEREOSCOPIC EFFECT - A device may include sensors for obtaining tracking information associated with a user, a display including pixels for displaying images, and an optical guide including two layers of optical elements, each of the optical elements blocking or directing light rays from one or more of the pixels. In addition, the device may include one or more processors to determine a relative location of the user based on the tracking information obtained by the sensors, control optical characteristics of each of the two layers of optical elements based on the relative location of the user, and display a stereoscopic image via the display. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130182083 | CALIBRATION OF AN AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY SYSTEM - A method for calibrating an autostereoscopic display system, having the steps of detecting a camera viewing position (P) of a camera ( | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130182084 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR IMAGE DISPLAY AND MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - An image display system according to an embodiment includes a controlling apparatus and a display apparatus. The controlling apparatus includes a judging unit and a switching control unit, whereas the display apparatus includes a switching unit. Based on information related to viewing of an image, the judging unit judges whether the image to be displayed by the display apparatus is an image for a stereoscopic view or an image for a planar view. The switching control unit exercises control so as to switch the display apparatus into a stereoscopic view mode or a planar view mode, according to a judgment result of the judging unit. The switching unit switches the display apparatus into the stereoscopic view mode or the planar view mode, according to the control of the switching control unit. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130182085 | MRI-COMPATIBLE 3D TELEVISION AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display system compatible with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus disposed in a magnet room for producing video images to a patient in an MRI magnet tunnel, the images having a three-dimensional (3D) effect. An MRI-compatible 3D display includes a display panel configured to generate optical images having 3D content, and RF and electromagnetic interference filtering. A Faraday cage encloses the display panel, and includes an optically transparent window panel having an electrically conductive mesh and a layer of transparent optically isotropic material. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130188027 | IMAGE DEPTH GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - An image depth generation device and method thereof is disclosed in the present invention. The device includes at least a processing circuit and at least a calculator. The processing circuit receives an input image and determines a visual distance of a pixel Pi according to a color of the pixel in the input image and at least a reference value to generate a depth offset of each pixel. The calculator is coupled to the processing circuit and uses the depth offset of each pixel and a predetermined depth to generate an output depth value of each pixel in the input image. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130194394 | Energy Conserving Display - A method of adjusting pixel height in a display panel having sub-pixelized pixels capable of operating in at least a tall mode and a short mode involves at a detector coupled to the display panel, detecting a position of a viewer viewing the display; at a processor, calculating a vertical viewing angle for a viewer; at the processor, determining if the calculated vertical viewing angle is within a predetermined range of vertical viewing angles; and the processor selecting a tall mode or a short mode for operation of the display panel as a result of the determining. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130194395 | Method, A System, A Viewing Device and a Computer Program for Picture Rendering - A method and technical equipment implementing the method is provided for glasses-based stereoscopic display systems. The solution enables a good stereoscopic viewing quality when viewed with glasses, but also when viewed without glasses. Various aspects of the invention include a method, a system, a viewing device and a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a computer program stored therein. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130194396 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an area setting module, a display controller and a 3D function controller. The area setting module outputs a request for displaying a 3D image to a display device via a first interface in order to cause the display device to set a 3D area. The display controller outputs a video signal of the 3D image to the display device via a second interface in order to cause the display device to display the 3D image in the 3D area. The 3D function controller outputs, if abnormality occurs in operation of an OS executed on the electronic apparatus, a signal for disabling a 3D function to the display device via a third interface in order to set an entire screen of the display device to be a 2D area. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130194397 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, APPARATUS FOR UPGRADING DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD OF DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display apparatus and an apparatus for upgrading the display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a display; an image processor processing an image signal received from an image source; a connector to which an upgrade apparatus is connected to and upgrades hardware or software of the display apparatus. The upgrading apparatus may be mounted to the display apparatus, and an image, user interface, or graphic processing route may be changed in order to upgrade hardware or software processes of the display apparatus. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130194398 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - An autostereoscopic display apparatus includes a two-dimensional display including color subpixels arranged in horizontal and vertical directions, cylindrical lenses configured to observe the color subpixels therethrough, a temperature sensor measuring an ambient temperature of the cylindrical lenses, and a parallax image changer changing the parallax images based on the measured ambient temperature. px is a horizontal pixel pitch. py is a vertical pixel pitch. Lx is a horizontal lens pitch. θ is an inclined angle of boundaries of the cylindrical lenses to the vertical direction. Ax and Ay are relatively prime natural numbers. Ax is equal to or larger than two. Bx is a minimum natural number by which a value GF indicated in the formula (2) represents an integer value. px, py, Lx and θ satisfy relational expressions represented by the formula (1) to the formula (3). | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130201303 | 3DIMENSION STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a 3Dimension stereoscopic display device including a video image playback device | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130201304 | System for Displaying Stereoscopic Images - The present invention relates to a system for displaying stereoscopic microscope images, including a display screen ( | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130215240 | RECEIVER APPARATUS AND OUTPUT METHOD - It was impossible for digital broadcast receiver apparatuses to determine whether or not a currently received program or a program to be received in the future is a 3D program. A transmitter apparatus transmits both a program content including video information and ID information including information for determining whether the program content is a 2D program content or a 3D program content. A receiver apparatus comprises: a receiving unit for receiving both the program content including the video information and ID information including information for determining whether the program content is a 2D program content or a 3D program content; and an output unit for outputting the received program content in a 2D format or 3D format. In a case where a 3D program is received and the content thereof is then converted to a 2D format for output, the output unit outputs, in addition to the content of the program in the 2D format, information indicating that the program is a 3D program. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130215241 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - A video display device is provided to achieve local control for a high-quality 3D image while reducing extraneous radiation. A video display device that receives video signals from two video signal lines with an identical frame period and is capable of displaying a stereoscopic image based on left-eye and right-eye images, the video display device including: a liquid crystal drive unit; a liquid crystal panel; an LED backlight that has a plurality of light emission areas; a combination unit that generates a composite video signal by combining the video signals with the identical frame period; a local control unit that detects a video feature quantity such as the intensity value of the composite video signal and determines the light-emission intensity value of the light emission area; and an LED driver. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130229498 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An image-luminance transformation section receives a video signal on a frame basis, and transforms the video signal into a luminance signal in each frame. A crosstalk ratio setting section sets a crosstalk ratio. An amount-of-correction calculation section calculates a correction luminance signal, for correcting a video signal of a frame n, using a luminance signal of a frame n−1, a luminance signal of the frame n, and the crosstalk ratio. A luminance-image transformation section transforms the correction luminance signal into a correction video signal. A correction section adds the correction video signal to the video signal of the frame n to generate a video signal of the frame n in which the amounts of crosstalk have been corrected. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130229499 | GENERATION OF DEPTH IMAGES BASED UPON LIGHT FALLOFF - Technologies pertaining to computing depth images of a scene that includes a mobile object based upon the principle of light falloff are described herein. An infrared image of a scene that includes a mobile object is captured, wherein the infrared image has a plurality of pixels having a respective plurality of intensity values. A depth image for the scene is computed based at least in part upon square roots of respective intensity values in the infrared image. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130229500 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR UPGRADING A PROJECTOR TO DISPLAY THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT - An apparatus for upgrading a projector having a two-dimensional projector lens to display three-dimensional content includes a circular polarized filter having at least two polarized zones, and a motor having a shaft on which is mounted the filter. At least one light sensor is disposed in front of the two-dimensional projector lens for providing a spatial control output signal and a temporal control output signal. A processor controls a speed at which the filter is rotated around the shaft of the motor responsive to information determined from the spatial control output signal and the temporal control output signal, such that the filter is automatically adjusted to spin so as to respectively place an appropriate one of the at least two polarized zones of the filter in front of an applicable frame of the video sequence to obtain a polarization thereof representative of the three-dimensional content. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130235166 | SYNCHRONISATION METHOD - A method by which a transmitter and receiver synchronise. The transmitter and receiver are operable in accordance with a protocol which mandates that some transmissions are jittered. The method comprises the transmitter transmitting a pseudo-random seed to the receiver; determining a jitter value based on the pseudo-random seed; and transmitting a synchronisation packet to the receiver at a time determined by the jitter value. The receiver receives the pseudo-random seed from the transmitter; determines timing of a receive window for the synchronisation packet based on the pseudo-random seed; opens the receive window at the determined time; and receives the synchronisation packet within the receive window. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130235167 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes: a size acquisition section that acquires a first display size of an output target display device that performs 3D display; a storage section that stores respective parallax amounts adjusted by a user during performing 3D display of 3D display image data respectively on display devices of different types, and stores respective second display sizes of the display devices; a parallax amount computation section that computes a parallax amount for the first display size based on a relationship between the parallax amounts and the second display sizes stored in the storage section; and an output section that outputs to the output target display device the computed parallax amount and the 3D display image data. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130235168 | IMAGE PROJECTOR SYSTEM FOR A SCANNING ROOM - The invention relates to a method and a system for reducing anxiety of patients before and during e.g. MR scanning examinations. The method is based on displaying images on walls ( | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130242062 | AUTOMATIC SWITCHING OF A MULTI-MODE PROJECTOR DISPLAY SCREEN FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - Techniques for controlling switching of a barrier component for efficiently displaying various types of 2-D content and 3-D content on a projector screen are presented. A barrier control component detects an optical signal in a control region of the projector screen that is providing visual content to the barrier component, and identifies the type of visual content, such as 2-D content or 3-D autostereoscopic content, based on the optical signal. The barrier control component identifies a control signal based on the identified content type, and transmits the control signal to the barrier component via a wireline or wireless connection. The barrier component is controlled to automatically switch to a desired mode, such as 2-D mode or 3-D autostereoscopic mode, and employ a desired barrier pattern, in response to the received control signal. The barrier component is powered using a solar cell component that generates power using the optical signal. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130242063 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A video display apparatus can adjust the parallax level of stereoscopic video images in accordance with the video image size and allows a user to make further parallax adjustment. The video display apparatus acquires the video image size of the stereoscopic video images, sets a default value of a depth adjustment value for adjusting the parallax level of the stereoscopic video images based on the acquired video image size, changes the depth adjustment value when the user has provided an input representing a change in the depth adjustment value, sets a parallax adjustment level of the stereoscopic video images based on the changed depth adjustment value, and adjusts the parallax level of the stereoscopic video images based on the parallax adjustment level. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130242064 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL CONTENT - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for providing social content and/or interaction. A content tracking module is configured to track content displayed at multiple locations on an electronic display. An individual tracking module is configured to track one or more individuals in multiple video feeds of observing areas at the multiple locations. The multiple video feeds include a first video feed and a second video feed. A change detection module is configured to detect a change in expression and/or a body movement in at least one individual in the first video feed and an overlay display module is configured to initiate display of an image of the at least one individuals overlaying the content displayed at a location of the second video feed. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130242065 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A three-dimensional video processing apparatus includes: a video obtaining unit which obtains a 3D video for three-dimensional viewing; a position obtaining unit which obtains a position of a first area which is an area included in a part of the 3D video; a disparity obtaining unit which obtains disparity amounts of the 3D video; a determination unit which determines a size of an enlargement area; and an area selection unit which selects, as the enlargement area, at least one second area that has disparity amounts within a predetermined range, includes the first area, and has a size determined by the determination unit. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130250071 | 3D CAPTION DISPLAY METHOD AND 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A 3D caption display method for harmoniously merging and displaying closed caption with 3D image in a 3D display apparatus, and a 3D display apparatus suitable for implementing the method. The 3D display apparatus receives a broadcast signal containing caption data, and obtains caption control commands including a 3D parameter setting command from the caption data. Afterwards, the 3D display apparatus displays a plurality of 3D caption images according to the caption control commands. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130250072 | 2D/3D DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR FORMING 3D IMAGE - A display capable of providing 2D and/or 3D images. The display comprises a liquid crystal display device and a self-emissive display device. The self-emissive display device is disposed on the rear of the liquid crystal display device, in which the liquid crystal display device provides a first image and the self-emissive display device a second image and a backlight source. One of the first and second images comprises a parallax barrier pattern for forming a three-dimensional (3D) image, and the other is a 2D image. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130258070 | INTELLIGENT DEPTH CONTROL - A system configured to display autostereoscopic video (AV) may determine a depth setting for displaying the AV based on at least one of user parameters or device parameters, and may proceed to display the AV on a display based on the depth setting. In one embodiment the system may try to obtain user parameters before relying on device parameters. User parameters may be available from user profiles. For example, facial recognition may be used to determine if a user profile exists for a user. If a user profile is determined not to exist for the user, then the system may sense a distance from the display to the viewer, and may proceed to determine the depth setting based on the distance and device characteristics. Device characteristics may identify the manufacturer/model of the system, the type/size of display on which the AV will be viewed, the abilities of the system, etc. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130258071 | LIQUID CRYSTAL MEDIUM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - The present invention relates to a liquid crystal panel, a liquid crystal display device and to a liquid crystal medium having a negative dielectric anisotropy Δ∈. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130265397 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - To provide a plan in which it is possible to prevent wasteful consumption of the lenticular lens, an image processing apparatus that forms a 3-D viewable image via a lenticular lens, wherein it has a suitability determination means that determines the suitability of the combination of the first feed image and the second feed image for the image for 3-D viewing based on the position relationship between the corresponding points of the first feed image and the second feed image having a parallax with respect to each other, and a means that notifies the user about the determination result obtained by the suitability determination means; here, the suitability determination means works as follows: when the first feed image and the second feed image overlap each other so that a pair of corresponding points are in agreement with each other. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130278732 | CONTROL OF PERSPECTIVE IN MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA - Media bit streams are encoded in a multi-dimensional manner so that a user can have multiple perspectives of a particular scene or portrayal. In some examples, different bit streams depicting the same scene from slightly different perspectives, angles, or vantage points are presented depending on user control. The experience of the user can change depending on the perspective of the media stream presented. A device sensor, such as an accelerometer, compass, gyroscope, camera, etc., can be used to control which multi-dimensional bit streams are displayed to a particular user. Devices may include mobile devices, remote controls, tablets, etc. A user can pan or move around a scene or object presented in an intuitive and non-imposing manner. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130278733 | System for Delivering Stereoscopic Images | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130278734 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DYNAMIC ADS WITHIN A VIDEO GAME OF A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and system for generating and tracking dynamic advertisements within a program, such as a video game, running on a portable computing device (PCD) are described. The method and system include receiving a call from the program for a texture and reviewing an identifier associated with the texture. A graphics driver determines if the identifier associated with the texture matches an identifier in a texture database. The graphics driver then selects a dynamic advertisement from a texture database if the identifier associated with the texture matches the identifier in the texture database. The graphics driver issues commands to the graphics processor so that dynamic advertisement is presented on a screen display. The graphics driver then determines if a video object produced by the program blocks a portion of the dynamic advertisement present on the screen display. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130286166 | 3D STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND 3D STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD USING THE SAME - Provided are a stereoscopic image display unit having a 3D information input device and a 3D stereoscopic image display method using the 3D information input device. The 3D information input device receives a synchronization signal used for a conventional stereoscopic image display unit and generates an ultrasonic signal. The stereoscopic image display unit receives the ultrasonic signal through the ultrasonic wave reception units installed at a plurality of areas and measured a distance between the 3D information input device and each of the ultrasonic wave reception units by using a time difference between a generation time of the synchronization signal and a reception time of the ultrasonic signal and measures a position of the 3D information input device in a 3D real space by using the distances. The measured position of the 3D information input device in the 3D real space is converted into a coordinate in the 3D stereoscopic image space. A position of the 3D information input device functioning as a mouse or a remote controller is stereoscopically displayed on the 3D stereoscopic image, so that click information or menu selection information can be input. A synchronization signal logic used for a conventional stereoscopic image display unit is employed, so that it is possible to embody a 3D remote controller or a 3D mouse without an increase in cost caused by addition of the configuration. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130286167 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND VIDEO VIEWING SYSTEM - A display device includes: a liquid crystal panel which has a display surface including pixels, and displays frame images; a generation portion which generates a first and a second image signals based on a frame image signal, the first image signal rendering an image of a lower resolution than the frame image signal and including data to be written to all the pixels, the second image signal including data to be written to a part of the pixels and not including data to be written to remaining pixels other than the part of the pixels; and a liquid crystal driver which executes, after executing a first scanning operation, a second scanning operation in which scanning based on the second image signal is executed, to drive the liquid crystal panel, wherein data that has been written to the remaining pixels is held in the second scanning operation. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130293687 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is generated an image where a guide image that represents a position in real space of a display unit configured to display a stereoscopic image and serves as a reference of depth in the stereoscopic image is overlapped on the stereoscopic image, thereby generating a stereoscopic image where a viewer can readily recognize a forward/backward position of an object within the stereoscopic image. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130300841 | STEROSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY - The present invention provides a stereoscopic image display which controls display mode of the stereoscopic image display according to the entered image signal and displays both 2D images and stereoscopic images at high resolution with better viewing. The stereoscopic image display is constituted of a device for comparing the image signal entered into the stereoscopic image to determine to either 2D image signal or stereoscopic image signal and a combined use type stereoscopic image display of 2D images and stereoscopic images which can display 2D images and stereoscopic images at high resolution by controlling illumination pattern of the light source device for the stereoscopic image display to provide better viewing. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130300842 | 3D CAPTION DISPLAY METHOD AND 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A 3D caption display method for harmoniously merging and displaying closed caption with 3D image in a 3D display apparatus, and a 3D display apparatus suitable for implementing the method. The 3D display apparatus receives a broadcast signal containing caption data, and obtains caption control commands including a 3D parameter setting command from the caption data. Afterwards, the 3D display apparatus displays a plurality of 3D caption images according to the caption control commands. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130307941 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video processing device includes a viewer search module, a viewer position estimator, a viewing area parameter calculator, a viewing area controller. The viewer search module is configured to search a viewer using a video taken by a camera, a distance from the display to the viewer being within a search area. The viewer position estimator is configured to estimate a viewing position of the searched viewer. The viewing area parameter calculator is configured to calculate a viewing area parameter for setting a viewing area at the estimated viewing position. The viewing area controller is configured to set the viewing area based on the viewing area parameter when the stereoscopic video is displayed on the display. The search area for the stereoscopic video being displayed on the display is narrower than the search area for the stereoscopic video not being displayed on the display. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130307942 | Video Stream Composed of Combined Video Frames and Methods and Systems for its Generation, Transmission, Reception and Reproduction - A video stream composed of combined video frames having a first resolution and include in their entirety two contents usable through extraction from the aforesaid video frame: a first content belonging to a video stream (F | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130307943 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a stereoscopic display apparatus comprises: a display panel in which a plurality of unit pixels is defined and which enables n views; and a parallax barrier disposed on one side of the display panel. n is an integer larger than 2, and p and 1 are divisors of said n. In said display panel, q unit pixels arranged adjacently to one other in rows constitute one unit row, and said n views are achieved by means of p unit rows arranged adjacently to one another in columns. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130314512 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A parallax composite image displayed by image display means may be observed as predetermined parallax image at predetermined position by reflecting and guiding light from light source means and by using a diffusion pattern in which diffusion patterns are engraved at predetermined intervals to diffuse and transmit incident light on the diffusion pattern to the image display means. A fine notched structure is provided to cyclically and symmetrically vary the diffusion patterns in the horizontal direction. A structure is provided to control an amount and range of blur of pixels visible through light diffused toward the image display means by the diffusion pattern to which recesses and protrusions are added. By evaluating and adjusting a cycle of the notched structure so as to be appropriate, resultant adverse effects from the notched structure itself may be suppressed. Bright-dark patterns having a relatively long cycle may be reduced without increasing crosstalk. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130321593 | VIEW FRUSTUM CULLING FOR FREE VIEWPOINT VIDEO (FVV) - The view frustum culling technique described herein allows Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) or other 3D spatial video rendering at a client by sending only the 3D geometry and texture (e.g., RGB) data necessary for a specific viewpoint or view frustum from a server to the rendering client. The synthetic viewpoint is then rendered by the client by using the received geometry and texture data for the specific viewpoint or view frustum. In some embodiments of the view frustum culling technique, the client has both some texture data and 3D geometric data stored locally if there is sufficient local processing power. Additionally, in some embodiments, additional spatial and temporal data can be sent to the client to support changes in the view frustum by providing additional geometry and texture data that will likely be immediately used if the viewpoint is changed either spatially or temporally. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130321594 | Image Synchronization Method and Associated Apparatus - An image synchronization method for a three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus is provided. The method includes steps of: receiving a plurality of first-eye image frames and a plurality of second-eye image frames; selecting a first image frame from the first-eye image frames according to a system time; selecting a second image frame from the second-eye image frames according to a timestamp of the first image frame; and outputting the first image frame and the second image frame. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130321595 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A three-dimensional video display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a display unit having pixels arranged in a matrix form along a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, each of the pixels being divided into M (≧1) sub-pixels respectively having M color components arranged in the first direction; an optical control element functioning as a plurality of optical apertures extended in a straight line manner at a constant angle from the second direction; and a driving circuit conducting mapping of rearranging a multiple viewpoint video having a number N′ of viewpoints to a video to be output to the display unit, N′ being an integer satisfying ((M−1)/M) N−0.5≦N′| 12-05-2013 | |
| 20130321596 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY CROSSTALK - A three-dimensional (3D) display system is provided for displaying a 3D image including a first view image and a second view image to a viewer. The 3D display system includes an arrangement module, a processing module, and a displaying module. The arrangement module is configured to alternatingly arrange display units of the first view image and display units of the second view image on a display panel. The processing module is configured to obtain an information difference of a display unit of the second view image from the display units of the first view image, and re-calculate a pixel value of the display unit of the second view image. The displaying module is configured to display to the viewer the display unit of the second view image with the re-calculated pixel value via a light separation device. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140002619 | DETECTOR, DETECTION METHOD AND VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140002620 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140002621 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140009588 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A video display apparatus includes an image acquiring module, a face-dictionary face detector, a face determining module and a face tracking module. The image acquiring module is configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging device. The face-dictionary face detector is configured to search the captured image acquired by the image acquiring module for a portion that coincides with a face pattern in a human face dictionary. The face determining module is configured to evaluate the portion based on the captured image and a background image acquired in advance. The face tracking module is configured to track a face based on a feature quantity of the face pattern and a result of the evaluation by the face determining module. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140009589 | VEHICLE HAVING A DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE SURROUNDINGS OF SAID VEHICLE - A vehicle ( | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140015939 | PASSIVE-STEREO THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAYS - A passive-stereo three-dimensional display device is described. The display device includes unconventional pixel elements that may display, substantially simultaneously, colors from two image channels using different types of polarized light. The display integrates two polarizing filters over two sets of sub-pixel elements associated with the image channels. In a two-dimensional mode, a single color value may be displayed on both sets of sub-pixel elements to display a single color per pixel. In a three-dimensional mode, two color values may be displayed on the two discrete sets of sub-pixel elements. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140028807 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM AND 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS - An optical imaging system and related 3D display apparatus for forming different perspective views of a 3-dimensional image by transforming optical beams emanating from pixels located on a display pixel surface displaying 2-dimensional patterns and projecting the transformed optical beams in a field of view is disclosed herein. The optical imaging system comprises: an array of selecting light guide elements for reducing a radiating aperture of each pixel; a lens array of converging micro-lenses; a displacement mechanism for moving the lens array relative to the array of light guide elements in a respective plane; and a sensor system for sensing the position of the lens array relative to the array of light guide elements. The lens array together with the array of light guide elements are configured to provide at least one viewing zone in the field of view and form respective perspective views in each viewing zone by projecting therein the transformed optical beams. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140028808 | Dual-View Image Display Device and Dual-View Image Display Method Used for the Same - A dual-view image display device and a dual-view image display method used for the same are provided. The dual-view image display device includes a signal input module, a video processing module, a dual-view processing module and a display module, and the video processing module includes a nonlinear processing module. The dual-view image display method includes: inputting a video signal having a frame image that is split into two first images, processing the video signal to obtain the two first images, horizontally or vertically splitting each of the two first images into areas, nonlinearly enlarging each of the areas, and interpolating pixels to each of the enlarged areas to obtain two fullscreen second images. The invention uses the nonlinear enlargement to allow the enlarged images generated during the dual-view image display to be robust to distortion, resulting in better image quality. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140028809 | POSITION INDICATOR FOR 3D DISPLAY | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140028810 | SCALING PIXEL DEPTH VALUES OF USER-CONTROLLED VIRTUAL OBJECT IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCENE - Pixel depth values of a user-controlled virtual object in a three-dimensional scene may be re-scaled to avoid artifacts when the scene is displayed. Minimum and maximum threshold values can be determined for the three-dimensional scene from a target derived from pixel depth data for the three-dimensional scene. Each pixel depth value of the user-controlled virtual object can be compared to the minimum threshold value and the maximum threshold value. A depth value of each pixel of the user-controlled virtual object that falls below the minimum threshold value can be set to a corresponding low value. Each pixel depth value of the user-controlled virtual object that exceeds the maximum threshold value can be set to a corresponding high value. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140036044 | DISPLAY APPARATUS WHICH DISPLAYS A PLURALITY OF CONTENT VIEWS, GLASSES APPARATUS WHICH SYNCHRONIZES WITH ONE OF THE CONTENT VIEWS, AND METHODS THEREOF - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a video processor which, in a multi-view mode, processes a plurality of contents and generates a plurality of content views, a display which displays the plurality of content views, a sync signal generator which generates a sync signal regarding the plurality of content views, a communicator which transmits the sync signal, and a controller which, upon communicating with a glasses apparatus, transmits information on a target content view which is controllable from among the plurality of content views to the glasses apparatus. Accordingly, a newly-connected glasses apparatus may be directly synchronized with a target content view. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140036045 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including an arrangement determination unit configured to determine whether an arrangement of sub-pixels forming pixels of a display screen is a first arrangement in which a short dimension of the sub-pixels is arranged so as to be in a horizontal direction of the display screen, or a second arrangement in which a long dimension of the sub-pixels is arranged so as to be in the horizontal direction of the display screen, a disparity determination unit configured to determine a disparity of the determined sub-pixel arrangement, and an image generation unit configured to generate one or two or more images of other viewpoints that are different to a viewpoint of an image represented by the image signal. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140043446 | 3D DISPLAY DEVICE, 3D DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING 3D IMAGES - 3D display device, 3D display system and method for displaying 3D images are disclosed in the present invention. The 3D display device comprises: a display screen; a backlight means including a pulse light source; and a drive means used to receive video signals which are based on a standard video transmission protocol, so as to control the display screen to display 3D images according to the video signals, and control the pulse light source to emit a backlight pulse in the form of pulse during a vertical blank of each frame period of the video signals, wherein the duration of the backlight pulse is shorter than that of the vertical blank. The degrading of light is avoided in the 3D display device and the efficiency of the backlight can achieve almost 100%. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140043447 | CALIBRATION IN THE LOOP - Method for iteratively calibrating a disparity estimation process generating a disparity estimation map relating to a 3D image which consists of at least a right and a left image, the method comprising: estimating a left-to-right image disparity map of a 3D image in horizontal and vertical direction, estimating a right-to-left image disparity map of the 3D image in horizontal and vertical direction, determining a misalignment value between the left and right images on the basis of the disparity maps, feeding back the misalignment value as to be considered in the next estimating the disparity maps of a next 3D image, and repeating the method for the next 3D image to iteratively calibrate the disparity estimation process. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140043448 | AUTO-STEREOSCOPIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An auto-stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) display including a display module and a driving module is provided. The display module includes a display panel and a barrier unit. The display panel has odd-column pixels and even-column pixels. The barrier unit coordinates with a left-eye image and a right-eye image displayed by the display panel to switch vertically and alternatively arranged slits and barriers, so as to produce a stereoscopic image in a viewer's eyes through parallax. The driving module provides left-eye image data and right-eye image data to drive the display module. The driving module drives the odd-column and even-column pixels respectively according to different driving timings, so as to respectively and sequentially enables the odd-column and even-column pixels during a plurality of corresponding frame periods to receive the left-eye image data and the right-eye image data and allow the display panel to display the left-eye and right-eye images. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140049619 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY PANEL AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A stereoscopic display panel, a display panel and a driving method thereof are provided. A pixel array of the pixel array substrate includes a first scan line, a second scan line, a first data line, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a first active device and a second active device. The first data line is electrically connected to the first pixel electrode disposed at the left side of the first data line through the first active device. The first data line is electrically connected to the second pixel electrode disposed at the right side of the first data line through the second active device. The first scan line electrically connected to the first active device and the second scan line electrically connected to the second active device are disposed at the same side of the first active device and the second active device. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140049620 | ENTERTAINMENT DISPLAYING SYSTEM AND INTERACTIVE STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYING METHOD OF THE SAME - An entertainment displaying system for generating interactive displaying effects corresponding to a real object in view of an observation area is disclosed. The entertainment displaying system includes a tracking module, a computing module and a stereoscopic displaying module. The tracking module is used for tracking a relative position relationship between the real object and the observation area. The computing module is configured for generating a stereoscopic virtual object according to the relative position relationship. The stereoscopic displaying module includes a transparent displaying apparatus and an optical-shielding structure. The transparent displaying apparatus is configured for displaying the stereoscopic virtual object. The optical-shielding structure is disposed adjacent to the transparent displaying apparatus and located between the transparent displaying apparatus and the real object. The optical-shielding structure is configured to be switched according to a virtual depth-of-field order between the stereoscopic virtual object and the real object. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140055578 | APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING DISPLAYED PICTURE, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus for adjusting displayed picture, comprising a video signal input means, a position measuring means, an image processing means and a video signal output means. Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a display apparatus comprising the above apparatus for adjusting the displayed picture and a display method thereof. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, a position being concerned by viewer's eyes on the display screen is enlarged or a field depth of the position being concerned by the eyes on the display screen is increased when the viewer moves forward or tilts his/her body forward, such that the viewer can view the displayed picture more clearly, thus achieving an interaction between the displayed picture and the viewer. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140055579 | PARALLAX ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE, AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING PARALLAX AMOUNT - A parallax adjustment device includes: an obtainment unit which obtains parallax data indicating an amount of parallax for an input image; and a parallax adjustment unit which adjusts the amount of parallax indicated by the parallax data by converting the amount of parallax as an input amount of parallax into an output amount of parallax in accordance with a predetermined correlation between the input amount of parallax and the output amount of parallax, in which the predetermined correlation in a first range of the input amount of parallax shows that the output amount of parallax decreases with an increase in the input amount of parallax. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140063205 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO RECEIVER - To provide a stereoscopic video receiver that generates a stereoscopic video with a sense of stereoscopy and a powerful impression even when a left-eye screen and a right-eye screen are displayed on a small-sized display, a left-eye screen and a right-eye screen shot by a stereo camera to be displayed on a display having a width narrower than that of a virtual display are displayed so as to be displaced in a direction of separating these screens away from each other, and left and right fields of vision are matched with each other at a position away from the display and a distance between left and right corresponding points of an infinite distance subject image is set to be shorter than an interpupillary distance of a viewer. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140063206 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VIEWER CENTRIC DEPTH ADJUSTMENT - In a system and method of viewer centric depth adjustment, a sensor measures viewing distance of a viewer from a screen; and a depth remapping unit receives a color image, a depth map and the viewing distance, and accordingly remaps depth values of the depth map such that the viewer perceives same depth at different viewing distances. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140063207 | APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A method is provided for controlling stereoscopic display. The method includes a collection device obtaining a position variation between a space position of a viewer at the current time and a space position of the viewer at the previous time, wherein the position variation is an offset of parallel translation of the space position of the viewer relative to a display panel. The method also includes an adjusting device adjusting a stereoscopic display apparatus based on the space position of the viewer at the current time and the position variation. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140063208 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - A medical image diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a display unit, a rendering processor, a a first controller, and a second controller. The display unit displays a stereoscopic image by displaying a parallax image group. The rendering processor generates the parallax image group by applying a volume rendering process to volume data from a plurality of viewpoints including a reference viewpoint as center. The first controller receives positions of a plurality of reference viewpoints as a position of the reference viewpoint, and causes the rendering processor to generate a parallax image group based on each of the reference viewpoints. The second controller controls to assign and display each of a plurality of parallax image groups to and on corresponding one of a plurality of sections that are divided parts of a display area of the display unit. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140063209 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display device includes an image display, an image separator and a controller. The image display displays a plurality of parallax images. The image separator performs optical separation such that the plurality of parallax images which are displayed are viewed as a stereoscopic image. The image separator includes a light-transmitting region (region | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140071251 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING DEPTH OF OBJECT IN REAL SPACE USING IMAGE PROCESSING - A histogram generator generates a histogram that indicates a count of pixels of a designated colour in association with coordinates along a basic axis of a screen, for frame image data obtained by filming a real space. A histogram smoother performs smoothing of the generated histogram. A three-dimensional coordinates generator selects a value associated with particular coordinates from among the counts indicated in the smoothed histogram, and performs depth value determination for a target object using the selected value. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140071252 | IMAGE STABILIZATION SYSTEM FOR HANDHELD DEVICES EQUIPPED WITH PICO-PROJECTOR - It is proposed a method for the projection of a sequence of images onto a projection surface by a handheld device having an embedded projector, the method including, for an input image to be projected of the sequence of images:
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| 20140071253 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC SCREEN AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING IMAGE INFORMATION - The present invention relates to an autostereoscopic screen for the simultaneous reproduction of at least two different images, in a manner such that each of these images is visible from at least one of different viewing zones, comprising a subpixel matrix, an optical element and a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured, on the subpixel matrix, to define different subsets of subpixels such that each of the subsets forms a family of parallel strips and is assigned to at least one of the viewing zones, wherein the strips of the different subsets cyclically alternate, and to activate the subpixels in dependence on image data such that each of the images is reproduced on one of the subsets, wherein the optical element has a grating-like structure aligned according to the strips, in order to lead light departing from the subpixels of each of the subsets into the viewing zone assigned to this subgroup. Thereby, the control unit is further configured to define the subsets such that two of subsets overlap, and to activate the subpixels within an intersection of these subsets, in each case with an averaged intensity value. The invention further relates to a suitable method for reproducing image information on an autostereoscopic screen. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140085432 | METHOD TO STORE AND RETRIEVE CROSSTALK PROFILES OF 3D STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYS - A method of reducing crosstalk for a 3D stereoscopic display using locally stored crosstalk profiles. The method generates a crosstalk profile for a stereoscopic display and stores the crosstalk profile in a memory, such as the EDID or DID, locally associated with the display. The crosstalk profile includes information for reducing crosstalk in the display based at least in part upon operational characteristics of the display. The method retrieves the crosstalk profile and applies the information in the crosstalk profile to stereoscopic content displayed on the display in order to reduce crosstalk in the displayed content. Using a locally stored crosstalk profile provides for crosstalk reduction tailored to a specific display. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140085433 | MULTIVIEW IMAGE GENERATING METHOD AND MULTIVIEW IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A multiview image generating method is provided. The multiview image generating method includes generating a hole image using depth information of an original image, dividing a boundary region in which a hole area of the generated hole image is in contact with a background into at least one patch, selecting an area having the most similar pixel value to a background included in the divided at least one patch, in a preset area of the original image, and filling a hole area on the divided at least one patch with a pixel value of the selected area to generate a first view image. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140085434 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An obtaining unit obtains, for a stereoscopic image signal, depth information indicating a depth value in each position in an image plane. A processing determination unit determines contents of smoothing processing in accordance with a predetermined condition. A smoothing unit smoothes the depth information in the image plane in accordance with the contents of the smoothing processing determined by the processing determination unit. An image generation unit generates, based on the depth information which has been smoothed, a new stereoscopic image from the stereoscopic image signal. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140085435 | AUTOMATIC CONVERSION OF A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE IN ORDER TO ALLOW A SIMULTANEOUS STEREOSCOPIC AND MONOSCOPIC DISPLAY OF SAID IMAGE - The invention concerns a device and a method for generating on a defined display screen of determined size a 3D image including a left view and a right view from an incoming video signal to be viewed at a distance by a viewer. The device comprises:
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| 20140092221 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAM - Externally-set mask patterns are corrected into corrected mask patterns in a variable correction degree. A depth map is processed for each of areas designated by the corrected mask patterns respectively. The depth map is for an input image. A different-viewpoint image is generated on the basis of the input image and the processed depth map. The different-viewpoint image relates to a viewpoint different from the viewpoint concerning the input image. A texture in the input image is analyzed to obtain an analyzation result. The correction of the externally-set mask patterns into the corrected mask patterns includes varying the correction degree in response to the obtained analyzation result. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140092222 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To provide a stereoscopic image processing device that can display an image that can be easily viewed stereoscopically by a viewer even in the case where there is a difference other than parallax between viewpoint images by reducing the difference without calculating the size of the difference. A stereoscopic image display device ( | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140104399 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MULTIVIEW IMAGE AND SUPER MULTIVIEW IMAGE - An image display apparatus and method for displaying a multiview image and a super multiview image is provided. The image display apparatus may include a light beam outputting unit to output at least one light beam corresponding to a view image, a diffusion image generating unit to generate a diffusion image by diffuse-projecting the at least one light beam in a predetermined direction, and a multiview image generating unit to display, on a screen, multiview images generated when light beams included in the diffusion image are distributed. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140104400 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: a display unit which stereoscopically displays an image; an operation unit which is stereoscopically displayed so as to be spatially recognized and serves as an interface for operation by a user; and a control unit which links image display information by the display unit and spatial recognition information by the operation unit while matching the image display information and the spatial recognition information. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140111626 | METHOD AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO PLAYBACK USING VISUAL FATIGUE ESTIMATION - A method for playing a three-dimensional video is provided, which includes the following steps. A disparity velocity or a disparity acceleration for at least one continuous video in the three-dimensional video is calculated. A visual fatigue estimating value of a viewer is calculated according to the disparity velocity or the disparity acceleration. A subsequent playback of the three-dimensional video is controlled according to the visual fatigue estimating value. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140111627 | MULTI-VIEWPOINT IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE AND MULTI-VIEWPOINT IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - An image acquirer acquires paired left and right viewpoint images. A disparity calculator calculates a disparity between the left and right viewpoint images. A display properties memory stores naked-eye stereoscopic display properties such as recommended disparity values and a cross-talk rate. A disparity analyser reads the naked-eye stereoscopic display properties from the display properties memory and uses these properties to perform a disparity adjustment on the left and right viewpoint images. A multi-viewpoint image generator uses the disparity as adjusted by the disparity analyser to generate a multi-viewpoint image by performing a shift on each pixel of the left and right viewpoint images. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140118507 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEPTH MANIPULATION OF STEREOSCOPIC 3D IMAGE - Provided are an apparatus and a method for manipulating depth of a stereoscopic image that enable a user to manipulate depth of a stereoscopic image easily and intuitively. The apparatus may include: a histogram analyzing unit acquiring a depth distribution chart by performing histogram analysis of a disparity map corresponding to an input image; a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) fitting unit acquiring multiple depth layers by performing GMM fitting of the depth distribution chart; a disparity adjusting unit adjusting at least one of a position and a volume of at least one of the multiple depth layers and calculating a disparity mapping function on which a result of the adjustment is reflected in response to a user request; and a disparity map recalculating unit calculating a new disparity map by optimizing the disparity mapping function. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140118508 | DIGITAL HOLOGRAM DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a digital hologram display device displaying 3D image as a hologram by using a complex modulation. The digital hologram display device comprising a spatial light modulator including a first pixel outputting a first modulation light by modulating a phase of a first plane-polarized light and a second pixel outputting a second modulation light by modulating the phase of the first plane-polarized light, wherein the second pixel is adjacent to the first pixel; and a light combiner changing a path of the first modulation light outputted from the first pixel so that the path of the first modulation light corresponds to a path of the second modulation light outputted from the second pixel for combining the first modulation light with the second modulation light, wherein a phase of the first modulation light is different from a phase of the second modulation light. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140118509 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A SIGNAL FOR A DISPLAY - An apparatus for generating an image signal for a display ( | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140118510 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL SIGNAL - A digital signal processing apparatus including a receiver configured to receive a digital signal including a first image source and a second image source, an image processor configured to generate a main image from the first image source and an additional image from the second image source, wherein the additional image is an expanded image of the main image, and the expanded image is partially corresponding to the main image, a first display unit configured to display the main image, and a second display unit configured to display the additional image which is seamlessly connected to an edge region of the main image. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140125777 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic display device includes a display unit and a lens unit. The display unit has a display center axis corresponding to an interface between a first sub-pixel region and a second sub-pixel region of the stereoscopic display device. The display unit includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a black matrix. The first sub-pixel is disposed in the first sub-pixel display region. The second sub-pixel is disposed in the second sub-pixel region. The black matrix is at least partially disposed between the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel. The lens unit is disposed correspondingly to the display unit. The lens unit includes a first sub-lens and a second sub-lens respectively disposed in the first sub-pixel region and the second sub-pixel region. The first sub-lens and the second sub-lens respectively have a first lens center axis and a second lens center axis deviating from the display center axis. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140125778 | SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES WITH A HOLE FILLING ALGORITHM AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a system for producing stereoscopic images with a hole filling algorithm, and a method thereof. A system for producing stereoscopic images according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a movement area detecting unit examining a movement area for an object moved in an image, detecting/tracking changes of the movement area by dividing a front view and a background of the movement area, and providing result information; a filling error processing unit filling a hole detected by the movement area detecting unit and correcting a filled filling region; and a stereoscopic image visualizing unit visualizing a stereoscopic image corrected by the filling error processing unit. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140125779 | CAPTURING AND VISUALIZATION OF IMAGES AND VIDEO FOR AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - An autostereoscopic display apparatus or a light field display apparatus arranged to provide different display properties to different viewer positions (e.g. colour bit depth; brightness; contrast ratio; spatial resolution; image depth quality; perspective density; refresh rate; flicker rate; and gamma curve). There is also provided a method for presenting three dimensional information on an autostereoscopic or lightfield display comprising showing at least two different representations of the three dimensional information to at least two different viewer positions. There is also provided a method for capturing and visualising a real three dimensional object or scene comprising using at least two different image capturing methods to capture the real three dimensional object or scene, visualising the captured information on an autostereoscopic or lightfield display, using data points from each image capturing methods to verify and adjust the correct relative positions and transformations of the images captured using the different capturing methods. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140125780 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING DIGITAL BROADCAST SIGNAL - The present invention relates to a device and method for receiving digital broadcast signals including three-dimensional images. The method for receiving digital broadcast signals, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a first receiving unit for receiving digital broadcast signals including signaling data and video stream at a reference time; a signaling data processor for decoding information, which is included in the signaling data, and which is related to video stream at an additional time for realizing three-dimensional images in conjunction with the video stream at a reference time; a second receiving unit for receiving digital broadcast signals including video stream at an additional time, using the information related to the video stream at an additional time; a base view video decoder for decoding the received video stream at a reference time and generating a base view video; and additional image decoder for decoding the received video stream at an additional time and generating an additional image; and an output formatter for outputting stereoscopic, three-dimensional image signals by combining the base view video and the additional image. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140125781 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes an obtaining unit, a first determining unit, and a detecting unit. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain an input image. The first determining unit is configured to determine a detection order that indicates an order of performing a detection operation for detecting whether an object is present with respect to partitioned areas into which the input image are divided, according to an existence probability that is set in advance for each of the partitioned areas and indicates a probability at which an object exists. The detecting unit is configured to perform, according to the detection order, the detection operation to detect whether the object is present in an area corresponding to a partitioned area subjected to the detection order in the input image. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140125782 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed is a camera to provide images for use in multi-dimensional imaging. In an embodiment, the camera includes an image gathering lens operable to obtain a lens image of a visual, a plurality of optic modules operable to provide distinct focusing options for the lens image, a relaying module operable to relay at least part of the lens image to the plurality of optic modules and a plurality of capture devices operable to capture a plurality of distinct versions of the lens image from the plurality of optic modules relayed from the relaying module. In another embodiment, a multi-dimensional imaging system is provided that includes a camera, such as described above, and further includes a computing device operable to receive and display the plurality of distinct versions, and a data management module operable to receive data related to the distinct versions and to display the distinct versions on separate displays. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140125783 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - An autostereoscopic display and a method for driving the same are discussed. The autostereoscopic display according to an embodiment includes a display panel displaying data of a left eye image and data of a right eye image and a three-dimensional (3D) cell which is positioned on the display panel or is embedded in the display panel and separates optical axes of the left eye image and the right eye image. A frame rate of the 3D cell is greater than a frame rate of the display panel. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140125784 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus includes a detection section and a display controller. The detection section is configured to detect an operation input. The display controller is configured to control a display to display a plurality of objects, the display controller configured to control the display to select at least one of the plurality of objects based on the operation input, to modify a depth component of a display position of the at least one object selected, and to display the at least one object selected at the display position having the depth component modified. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140132742 | Three-Dimensional Stereo Display Device and Method - A method is disclosed for display images on a three-dimensional stereo display device includes generating a detection result according to user information, and generating a disparity range signal according to the detection signal, a display information and a comfort model, retrieving a dense disparity map signal of an original display signal. The method also includes generating an adjusted disparity map signal according to the disparity range signal and the dense disparity map signal and outputting an adjusted display signal according to the adjusted disparity map signal and the original display signal, to process a three-dimensional stereo display operation of the three-dimensional stereo display device. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140132743 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING/DECODING MUTLI-VIEW IMAGES - Provided are an image magnification apparatus and method for three-dimensional display images. A multi-view image magnification apparatus includes: a region designation detection unit for detecting detection regions corresponding to the magnification regions of three-dimensional display images from original view images; a magnification ratio determination unit for determining the magnification ratios of the magnification regions; and a partial multiplexing unit for multiplexing non-detection regions except for the detection regions of the original view images according to a predetermined resolution and multiplexing the detection regions according the resolution which is different from the resolution of the non-detection regions on the basis of the magnification ratios. The present invention can magnify the images without lowering the resolution in a three-dimensional display. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140139646 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUTTING IMAGE, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING IMAGE USING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image output apparatus including a filtering unit configured to filter a first superimposed image including a plurality of image data regarding a target object and to output a second superimposed image including the plurality of image data at a predetermined ratio, and a controller configured to control the filtering unit to vary the ratio based on an external input. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140139647 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - According to an embodiment, a stereoscopic image display device includes a display unit, a first obtaining unit, a measuring unit, a determining unit, and a parallax control unit. The display unit displays thereon a stereoscopic image. The first obtaining unit obtains a captured image that is obtained by capturing a space including a viewing position in which a viewer supposed to view the stereoscopic image. The measuring unit measures an angle of convergence of the viewer who appears in the captured image that is obtained by the first obtaining unit. The determining unit determines based on the angle of convergence measured by the measuring unit whether the viewer is fatigued. The parallax control unit performs control to reduce an amount of parallax of the stereoscopic image when the determining unit determines that the viewer is fatigued. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140139648 | 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - A 3D display apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a display unit, an input unit, an estimator, a generator and an output unit. The display unit is capable of displaying a plurality of parallax images as a 3D image. Each of the parallax images may have a mutually different parallax. An input unit may input an input image. An estimator may estimate a relative tilt angle of an interocular direction of an observer with respect to a reference direction having been preset on the display unit. A generator may generate the parallax images from the input image using the relative tilt angle, each of the parallax images having the mutually different parallax along the interocular direction. An output unit may make the display unit display the parallax images. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140139649 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - A stereoscopic video display system includes a display device for displaying stereoscopic video, an image pickup element for generating image data, a position determiner for processing the image data received by the image pickup element to determine position information of at least one object identified in the image data, and a plurality of light output sections each having one or more light transmitters. Each light transmitter is configured to output timing signals having a signal strength based on the determined position information. The stereoscopic video display system also includes at least one set of shutter eyeglasses including a light receiving section for receiving timing signals output from at least one of the light transmitters of the light output sections. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140139650 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus including a background image generator which generates a background image, a receiver which receives additional information, a depth memory which stores in advance a depth for each of types of the additional information, a depth decide module which determines a type of the additional information received by the receiver, and reads a depth which is associated with the determined type from the depth memory, a three-dimensional image generator which generates an object image based on the additional information, and generates a three-dimensional image based on the object image and the depth which is read by the depth decide module, an image composite module which generates a video signal by displaying the background image and displaying the three-dimensional image in front of the displayed background image, and an output module which outputs the video signal generated by the image composite module. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140146143 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - The embodiments herein provide a stereoscopic image display device and method for driving the same capable of improving 2D image quality. The stereoscopic image display device comprises a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a 2D data converter configured to received two-dimensional data for each of a plurality of sub-pixels of the pixels and to convert the 2D data for each of the plurality of sub-pixels into converted 2D data for each of the plurality of sub-pixels based on all of the 2D data for the plurality of sub-pixels; and a display panel driving circuit configured to receive the converted 2D data for each of the plurality of sub-pixels and to supply each of the converted 2D data to a corresponding one of the plurality of sub-pixels in a two-dimensional mode of the stereoscopic image display device. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140146144 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING MULTI-LAYER THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DISPLAY - Provided is an apparatus and method for calibrating a multi-layer three-dimensional (3D) display (MLD) that may control a 3D display including a plurality of display layers to display a first image on one of the plurality of display layers, acquire a second image by capturing the first image, calculate a homography between the display layer and an image capturer based on the first image and the second image, and calculate geometric relations of the display layer with respect to the image capturer based on the calculated homography. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140146145 | Multileveled Television - A video or other kind of screen device form of multiple layers of pixels. The pixels in the different layers may be modified in order to form a 3-D effect. According to another embodiment, the lenses may be associated with different whalers of zoom in order to simulate a 3-D effect. The different layers may also be used as an additive with one another to reduce their output level. The different layers may also be used as backup layers, so that one layer can be used when another player fails. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140146146 | IN-PAINTING METHOD FOR 3D STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS GENERATION - A method for generating an intermediate view on the basis of left and right views of a 3D picture and a disparity map, the method including: using pixel information contained in the left and right views and the disparity map for creating an intermediate view, identifying occlusion pixels in the created intermediate view, and filling the occlusion pixels with information gained from adjacent pixels. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140152781 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - A display apparatus that may generate a high density light field image is provided. The display apparatus may identify an eye position of a user and set a virtual viewing window around the eye of the user. The display apparatus may generate a directional light corresponding to the viewing window and generate a high density light field image. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140152782 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE CREATION OF PSEUDO-HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGES - A method and a device enable the creation of three-dimensional images with more than two perspectives (e.g. pseudo-holographic images), especially to be reproduced with the aid of an autostereoscopic display or an autostereoscopic screen, from fed images having, in particular, only two perspectives, e.g., a left and a right image channel. Also, a related device creates and reproduces three-dimensional images having more than two perspectives, especially in the form of an autostereoscopic multi-user visualization system. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140152783 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The display device ( | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140160256 | APPARATUS AND TECHNIQUES TO PROVIDE VARIABLE DEPTH DISPLAY - A device may include a processor circuit and a screen depth modifier component for execution on the processor circuit to vary an image displacement between a first image and second image for presentation simultaneously with the first image, the image displacement varying from a first image displacement to a second image displacement different from the first image displacement. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140168388 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE ON A VIDEO MONITOR - A system and method are provided for display of a 3D image on a video monitor. A characteristic of each of a plurality of sample LCD panels is measured and a display parameter is calculated based on the measured characteristics. A first 3D image is displayed on one of the sample LCD panels using the calculated display parameter and the displayed image is evaluated. Based on the evaluation, each of the sample LCD panels is assigned to one of a plurality of groups. For each group, a group display parameter is calculated based on the measured characteristics of the panels assigned to the group. A video monitor controller is configured to display a second 3D image on an installation LCD panel. The second 3D image is displayed based on the group display parameters and an indication of a group to which the installation LCD panel is assigned. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140168389 | 3D DISPLAY DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING 3D IMAGE USING AT LEAST ONE OF GAZE DIRECTION OF USER OR GRAVITY DIRECTION - A three-dimensional (3D) display device for displaying a 3D image using at least one of a gaze direction of a user and a gravity direction includes a gaze direction measuring unit to measure the gaze direction, a data obtaining unit to obtain 3D image data for the 3D image, a viewpoint information obtaining unit to obtain information relating to a viewpoint of the 3D image, a data transform unit to transform the 3D image data, based on the gaze direction and the information relating to the viewpoint of the 3D image, and a display unit to display the 3D image, based on the transformed 3D image data. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140176684 | TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIPLE VIEWER THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - Various embodiments are generally directed toward a viewing device using and steering of collimated light to separately paint detected eye regions of multiple persons to provide them with 3D imagery. A viewing device includes an image panel to cause collimated light to convey multiple pixels of one of a left side frame and a right side frame associated with a frame of 3D imagery, and a steering assembly to steer the collimated light towards an eye to paint an eye region of a face that includes the eye. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140176685 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an image display method and an image display apparatus, which solve the three-dimensional cueing confliction problem of the maximum intensity projection in the stereoscopic display method, while enabling users to select and render with emphasis the maximum intensity projection of the objects of interest, so that to realize the stereoscopic display. In accordance with the present invention, a three-dimensional surface which has equal distance to a sight-point is utilized as a reference surface, and the distances from all of the local maximum intensity points to this reference surface are calculated, then, the weighting factor of each local maximum intensity point is calculated according to the distances and predetermined weighting function, afterwards, the values of local maximum intensity points are adjusted according to the obtained weighting factors, and finally, the maximum intensity projection value is produced by synthesizing all of the adjusted values of local maximum intensity points. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140176686 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING DISPARITY AMOUNT - A subject whose disparity amount is to be adjusted is selected with a cross key. An identification mark representing the subject is displayed on a two-dimensional graph in an assistance window. Both the disparity amount corresponding to a vertical axis and distance information corresponding to a horizontal axis are explicitly indicated. A guide mark is displayed close to the identification mark. The guide mark, being an arrow, indicates a direction in which the disparity amount of the subject decreases. The identification mark and the guide mark are shifted along the vertical axis in accordance with an operation for adjusting the disparity amount, and displayed. A disparity amount adjustment circuit is activated to adjust the disparity amount of the subject. When the identification mark is shifted to a position between displayed lines, which indicate an appropriate range, the guide mark disappears. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140184756 | STEREOSCOPIC PROJECTION DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A stereoscopic projection device includes a plurality of light source modules, a dichroic mirror, a first optical module, a second optical module, and a beam-combining prism. Each light source module includes a plurality of light sources used for providing light beams and a prism module used for collecting the light beams. The light beams propagate at different angles after passing through the prism module. The light source modules are disposed on different sides of the dichroic mirror. The dichroic mirror is used for guiding portions of the light beams to a first optical path, and guiding other portions of the light beams to a second optical path. The first and second optical modules disposed on the first and second optical path are used for guiding and modulating the light beams passing along the first and second optical paths and forming first and second image light beams with different images. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140184757 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTICALLY PROJECTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL TEXT, IMAGES AND/OR SYMBOLS ONTO THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS - The present invention provides a method whereby the spatial relationship and orientations of one or more three-dimensional objects being illuminated by an optical projector, and the optical projector itself, can be very accurately defined both quickly and easily. The present invention also provides a novel computerized optical projection system whereby three-dimensional data when viewed by the human eye projected onto three-dimensional objects is not deformed as a result of the non-planar projection surface. In one embodiment, the invention provides computerized optical assembly or manufacturing guidance systems, and related methods, that provide step-by-step assembly or manufacturing instructions for instructing technicians how to assemble or manufacture three-dimensional objects or systems. The assembly instructions are in the form of calibrated three-dimensional text, images and/or symbols, and are projected by one or a plurality of optical projectors that are in operable communication with one or a plurality of computers onto the three-dimensional objects or systems, or component parts or skins thereof. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140184758 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD OF TRANSPARENT DISPLAY APPARATUS AND APPARATUS THEREOF - There are provided an image processing method. Perspective is calculated from an image, the image is divided into a plurality of objects in consideration of the perspective, and processing levels of the plurality of objects are assigned. A light shielding rate of a transparent display apparatus is calculated based on the processing levels. Further, image processing is performed on the objects on the basis of the processing levels, so that it is possible to improve a stereoscopic effect being felt while using the transparent display apparatus. Furthermore, a shielding rate of light entering from the rear side of the transparent display apparatus is effectively adjusted, and the image is processed to improve the visibility of the image. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140184759 | DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display method is provided. The display method according to various exemplary embodiments includes: extracting stereoscopic information of an image frame; adjusting at least one of brightness and saturation regarding at least one object included in the image frame based on the extracted stereoscopic information; and displaying an image frame including the adjusted object. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140192169 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD - According to an embodiment, a stereoscopic image display device includes a display, an optical element, a detector, a calculator, a deriver, and an applier. The display has a display surface including pixels arranged thereon. The optical element has a refractive-index distribution that changes according to an applied voltage. The detector detects a viewpoint position representing a position of a viewer. The calculator calculates a gravity point of the viewpoint positions when a plurality of viewpoint positions are detected. The deriver derives a drive mode according to the gravity point, where the drive mode is indicative of a voltage to be applied to the optical element. The applier applies a voltage to the optical element according to the drive mode such that a visible area within which a display object displayed on the display is stereoscopically viewable is set at the gravity position. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140192170 | Model-Based Stereoscopic and Multiview Cross-Talk Reduction - A method for reducing cross-talk in a 3D display is disclosed. The cross-talk in the 3D display is characterized with a plurality of test signals to generate a forward transformation model. Input image signals are applied to the forward transformation model to generate modeled signals. The modeled signals are applied to a visual model to generate a visual measure. The input signals are modified based on the visual measure. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140198189 | GAZE CONTROLLED FOCUSING OF STEREOSCOPIC CONTENT - An apparatus and method generate a three-dimensional image by presenting, using a stereoscopic display, a representation of a scene comprising one or more objects, tracking a gaze of the user to determine a direction of gaze within the scene, determining depths associated with one or more objects in the scene, and determining which of the objects in the scene are inside and which are outside a comfort zone based at least in part on the direction of gaze of the user and the depths associated with the one or more objects in the scene. In some embodiments, the method includes identifying one or more objects proximate the direction of gaze of the user, determining depths associated with the one or more identified objects, determining a range of depths based at least in part on the depths associated with the one or more identified objects, and establishing the comfort zone based at least in part on the range of depths. In some embodiments, the method includes modifying the presented representation of the scene based on which of the objects are outside the comfort zone. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140210958 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND SCREEN ADJUSTING PROGRAM - An adjusting screen with a predetermined format including a specific indication mark which is used to correct the display irregularity of the screen in a relationship between a plurality of mirrors and regions of the screen with a predetermined format is generated to be displayed on a display screen. In accordance with a shift input instruction that moves the screen which is displayed on the display screen in a forward or backward direction as seen from a user, the screen shift control is performed to control the adjusting screen including a specific indication mark to be moved forward or backward by a predetermined amount to be displayed on the display screen. In a state where the screen is moved by a predetermined amount by the screen shift control (in a state where the screen deviation is corrected), a video is disposed in the plurality of regions to generate an adjusting screen with a format to be displayed on the display screen and the displayed video is reflected from the plurality of mirrors to be displayed as a three-dimensional video. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140210959 | Pixel Arrangement Method That Reduces Color Shift Of Pattern Retarder Glasses Based 3D Display System In Large View Angle and Display Panel Using Same - The present invention provides a pixel arrangement method that reduces color shift of pattern retarder glasses based 3D display system and includes: providing a display panel, which includes a substrate and a plurality of primary pixels that is formed on the substrate in an array; dividing the primary pixels in 3D mode displaying in such a way that each of the primary pixels is divided into four sub-pixels, wherein the sub-pixels are of colors that are pure colors and two adjacent ones of the sub-pixels in either horizontal or vertical direction are of different colors; and dividing the primary pixels in 2D mode displaying in such a way that each of the primary pixels is divided into three or four sub-pixels, wherein the sub-pixels are of colors that are pure colors and two adjacent ones of the sub-pixels in either horizontal or vertical direction are of different colors. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140210960 | COMPLEX SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR AND 3D IMAGE DISPLAY INCLUDING THE SAME - A complex spatial light modulator and a three-dimensional (3D) image display apparatus including the complex spatial light modulator are provided. The complex spatial light modulator includes: a spatial light modulator that modulates a phase of light; a prism array including a plurality of prism units, each of the plurality of prism units including a first prism surface and second prism surface, where light from the spatial light modulator is incident on the prism array; and a polarization-independent diffracting element that diffracts light that has passed through the prism array. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140218487 | VARIABLE DISPARITY THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A variable disparity three-dimensional (3D) display system and method of processing a variable disparity three-dimensional (3D) image shown on a display to reduce motion sickness of a person viewing the display. The system includes a motion detector configured to determine a motion value that characterizes motion of a display, and an image processor configured to adjust incrementally a disparity amount of a 3D image shown by the display based on the motion value in order to reduce motion sickness of a person viewing the display. The method includes determining a motion value that characterizes motion of a display, and adjusting a disparity amount of a 3D image shown by the display incrementally based on the motion value in order to reduce motion sickness of a person viewing the display. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140218488 | METHODS AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL STEREO IMAGE CONTENT - According to the invention, a computer-implemented method for processing digital stereo image content, comprises the steps of estimating a perceived disparity of the stereo image content and processing the stereo image content, based on the estimated perceived disparity. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140218489 | TEST SIGNAL GENERATOR, TEST SIGNAL FOR 3D DISPLAY APPARATUSES, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING A TEST SIGNAL STORED THEREON - Some 3D video display apparatuses reproduce the two stereo channels in a temporally offset manner, which may bring about the occurrence of interfering image errors. Appropriate dispositions allow to compensate such image errors entirely or in part. In the reproduction of 3D video it is not definitely possible to recognize whether, and in what form, such dispositions are being employed in a display apparatus. The invention discloses a test signal generator and a test signal which allow to examine the error compensation dispositions being employed. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140218490 | Receiver-Side Adjustment of Stereoscopic Images - There is provided a video apparatus having a stereoscopic display associated therewith, the video apparatus arranged to: receive at least one image and at least one reference parameter associated with said image; calculate a baseline distance for synthesizing a view, the calculation based upon the received at least one reference parameter and at least one parameter of the stereoscopic display; synthesize at least one view using the baseline distance and the received at least one image; and send the received at least one image and the synthesized at least one image to the stereoscopic display for display. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140218491 | 3D image contents viewing system - 3D television set or its external speaker box has container for a plurality of 3D spectacles. Container can locate individual 3D spectacles therein. Each of 3D spectacles has unique modulation reflector of infrared synchronizing signal. 3D television set displays 3D image on 3D program upon use of 3D spectacles detected directly by the modulation reflection or indirectly by 3D spectacles not remaining in container. 3D television set displays 2D image on 3D program if nonuse of 3D spectacles is detected directly by the no modulation reflection or indirectly by 3D spectacles remaining in container. Upon detection of nonuse, recommendation display is made to ware 3D spectacles. During 2D commercial message, synchronizing signal is halted. Recommendation to put unnecessary 3D spectacles in container is made upon end of every program, or end of 3D program followed by 2D program, or right before power off of 3D television set. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140232834 | DISPLAY UNIT - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a three dimensional image display device capable of preventing the generation of crosstalk. The three dimensional image display device according to the present invention includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a backlight capable of partially illuminating the display panel, and a drive circuit for driving the display panel and the backlight. The drive circuit causes the display panel to display a three dimensional image by synchronizing the scanning of the display panel with the scanning of the partial illumination light (Lz) of the backlight. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140240472 | 3D SUBTITLE PROCESS DEVICE AND 3D SUBTITLE PROCESS METHOD - A 3D subtitle process device causes a 3D display device to three-dimensionally display subtitles each indicated in corresponding subtitle data, including the following units. A setting control unit controls subtitle display setting regarding a subtitle display method performed by the 3D display device. A depth correction unit corrects at least one depth information included in corresponding subtitle data, so that a subtitle that starts display earlier among the subtitles is three-dimensionally displayed to appear deeper, when the subtitle display setting instructs a change of the subtitle display method and subtitles each indicated in corresponding subtitle data are to be displayed temporally overlapping on a screen. A subtitle drawing unit generates a 3D subtitle image from the pieces of the subtitle data in which at least one depth information has been corrected, so as to cause the 3D display device to three-dimensionally display the subtitles. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140247329 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - According to an embodiment, there is provided an image processing device that displays a stereoscopic image on a display device having a panel and an optical aperture, including: a parallax image acquiring unit, a viewer position acquiring unit and an image generating unit. The parallax image acquiring unit acquires at least one parallax image, the parallax image being an image for one viewpoint. The viewer position acquiring unit acquires a position of a viewer. The image generating unit corrects a parameter for correspondence relationship between the panel and the optical aperture based on the position of the viewer relative to the display device, and generates an image, based on the corrected parameter, to which each pixel of the parallax image is allocated such that the stereoscopic image is visible to the viewer when the image is displayed on the display device. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140247330 | LOCAL MULTI VIEW IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - A local multi-view image display apparatus and method is provided. The local multi-view image display method may track a location of an observer, and locally display a multi-view input image on the tracked location. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140253694 | PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNALS BASED ON USER FOCUS ON A PARTICULAR PORTION OF A VIDEO DISPLAY - Devices and methods are disclosed for detecting a focus of at least one viewer as being directed to a particular region of a video display. A first portion of a frame of video for presentation in the region of the viewer's focus is processed differently than another portion of the frame of video related to a region that is not part of the viewer's focus. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140253695 | System for distributing Auto-Stereoscopic Images - A system for distributing auto-stereoscopic images, a parallax blocking mask and methods for producing a parallax blocking mask. A parallax blocking mask is provided as an “add-on” for an existing image display device having a flat panel type display screen. The mask is tailored to the needs of the existing device and delivered to a remote user of the display device. The user mounts the mask to the display device so that the mask overlies the display screen. 3D content in the form of composite stereoscopic images derived from one or more stereoscopic image pairs, and application software, are downloaded to the display device over the Internet, and the application software interleaves the composite stereoscopic images for display on the display screen while the mask is in place. Use of a parallax blocking mask having variable edge transitions, a duty cycle less than fifty percent, or both, is disclosed. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140253696 | 3-D IMAGE SHUTTER GLASSES - Disclosed are 3-D image shutter glasses. The 3-D image shutter glasses include a left-eye glass and a right-eye glass to alternately receive left-eye image data and right-eye image data from a display with a predetermined interval, and a transmission part to transmit an image received by one lens of the left-eye and right-eye glasses to an opposite lens. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140267634 | PROVIDING TIMING INFORMATION OVER A DATA LINK - Systems and methods may involve minimizing interference when synchronization information is being transmitted from multiple sources. This may include receiving a trigger signal wherein the trigger signal includes a timing parameter to be used by a user device to synchronize with a content platform, and transmitting a synchronization signal having a transmitter identification and the timing parameter. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140267635 | Enhanced 3D Display Method and System - A method and system using hardware and software to enhance the realism, capabilities and efficiencies when generating and displaying 3D content is disclosed. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140293017 | Method of Automatically Forming One Three-Dimensional Space with Multiple Screens - Multiple electronic displays are arranged to define an ensemble of the user's choosing. The processor generates and displays a uniquely encoded emblem encoding a unique identifier for that display. A camera captures at least one image of the ensemble so that the encoded emblem for each display is captured. The captured images are then processed to extract the following attributes: a) unique identifier of the display; b) position of the encoded emblem relative to the reference coordinate system; and c) pointing direction of the encoded emblem relative to the reference coordinate system. The processor collectively processes the attributes for each of the emblem images to compute for each display a transformation matrix that selects a portion of the image data for display on that monitor and performs pointing direction correction so that the information presented on that display appears spatially consistent with the information presented on the other displays. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140293018 | Method and Device for Generating an Image View for 3D Display - There is described a method for generating an image view from at least one input image for a 3D display using a backward processing enabling post processing for handling holes in the image view. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140293019 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING STEREOSCOPIC SUBTITLES BY ANALYZING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) SPACE - An apparatus and method of producing stereoscopic subtitles by analyzing a three-dimensional (3D) space is disclosed, the apparatus including a camera position calculator to calculate a position of a first camera and a position of a second camera from a first image and a second image, respectively, a subtitle flat arranger to arrange a subtitle flat using a viewing direction of the first camera and a viewing direction of the second camera at the calculated positions, and a subtitle producer to produce subtitles using the subtitle flat. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140293020 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display unit that displays a moving image, a detection unit that detects a position of a user, a calculation unit that calculates a moving speed of the user on the basis of a frame time and an amount of transition of the position detected by the detection unit, a position estimation unit that calculates an estimated position of the user when the moving speed calculated by the calculation unit is higher than a threshold value, and that does not calculate the estimated position when the moving speed is equal to or lower than a threshold value, and an image adjustment unit that performs adjustment of an image to be displayed on the display unit on the basis of the estimated position, when the estimated position is calculated by the position estimation unit. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140293021 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING DEPTH OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - An apparatus for measuring a depth of a 3D image includes a display panel unit which produces a 3D image by displaying a left-eye and a right-eye image, a depth measurement unit which measures projecting distances or recessed distances of the 3D image and a real object, a parallax measurement unit which measures a distance between pupils of an experimenter based on the projecting distances or recessed distances of the 3D image and the real objects, and a depth value calculation unit which calculates an average value of the projecting distances or recessed distances of the real object with respect to a plurality of experimenters measured when a change in distance between pupils is the same as a change in distance between pupils measured by adjusting the projecting distance or recessed distance of the 3D image, and determines the calculated average value as a depth value of the 3D image. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140293022 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display controller that controls a display of an object to be displayed such that when the object to be displayed is displayed stereoscopically in accordance with 3D image data that can be displayed stereoscopically, a display format of the object to be displayed positioned outside a fusional area of an observer is different from a display format of the object to be displayed positioned inside the fusional area. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140300708 | Distortion Compensation for Image Projection - Chromatic aberration can be reduced and extreme projection angles can be allowed in a projection system by modifying one color channel of light having a wavelength bandwidth with image data to produce imaged light, causing the imaged light to spread angularly when displaying the imaged light through an optical distorting element onto a screen, and reducing angular spread of the imaged light exiting the optical distorting element by adjusting the wavelength bandwidth. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140300709 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCENE - The invention relates to a display device for representing a three-dimensional scene, comprising a light source array, a lenticular system and a data display in this order, but not necessarily immediately following one another, and a corresponding method for representing a three-dimensional scene. The object thereof is to enlarge the observer region of a 3D display in such a way that this simultaneously provides a plurality of observers with the option of perceiving the 3D scene on the 3D display. This is achieved by an aforementioned display device with a multiplexing element, which follows the data display and can be used to distribute light incident from the data display into a plurality of angle segments, and by an aforementioned method, in which, in an additional step, a multiplexing element distributes the light coming from the data display in a plurality of angle segments. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140300710 | DISPLAY UNIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a display unit that achieves more favorable image. This display unit includes: an illumination unit including a light-guiding plate; and a display section adhered to the light-guiding plate to face the light-guiding plate, and performing image display by utilizing light from the light-guiding plate. The light-guiding plate has first and second internal reflection surfaces facing each other. At least one of the first and second internal reflection surfaces is provided with a plurality of scattering regions that scatter first illumination light from outside and allow scattered light travelling from the first internal reflection surface towards the display section to be emitted. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140300711 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - A display device ( | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140307063 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING VIEWER FACE-TRACING INFORMATION, RECORDING MEDIUM FOR SAME, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - This invention is a method and a device for generating a viewer's face tracking information, a computer-readable recording medium and a three-dimensional display apparatus. It is organized into the following four stages as a method for generating a viewer's face tracking information in order to control the 3D effects of a three-dimensional display apparatus in response to at least one of information about a viewer's viewing direction and distance: (a) stage where the above viewer's facial area is detected from the image extracted from the image input via an image input apparatus installed at the task location of the above three-dimensional display apparatus; (b) stage where facial feature point is detected from the above extracted facial area; (c) stage where the feature point of a standard three-dimensional face model is changed to estimate the optimal transformation matrix which generates a viewer's three-dimensional face model corresponding to the above facial feature points; and (d) stage where at least one of information about the above viewer's viewing direction and distance is estimated based on the above optimal transformation matrix to generate a viewer's face tracking information | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140307064 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROJECTOR, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROJECTION METHOD, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROJECTION SYSTEM - A three-dimensional image projector includes: a conversion optical system including a plate-shaped first optical member that has an incidence surface is incident, and an emission surface and that converts a traveling direction of the image light so as to form a predetermined angle between the emission surface and an emission direction of the image light on the emission surface; a rotary driving unit that drives the conversion optical system so as to rotate along the emission surface with a predetermined point on the emission surface as the center of rotation; and an image projection unit that is erected along a rotation axis, converts the traveling direction of the image light emitted from the conversion optical system into a first direction along a surface crossing the rotation axis, and diffuses the image light emitted from the conversion optical system in a second direction along the rotation axis. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140307065 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND EYE GLASSES FOR STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE VIEWING - A stereoscopic display comprises: a first light-emitting unit that emits a first infrared ray in a first direction directed outward from a display surface; a second light-emitting unit that emits a second infrared ray in a second direction opposite the first direction; a display controller that alternately displays a right eye image and a left-eye image for a front-side user at a side of display surface in the first direction; and a vision controller that controls a vision of the user so that, in accordance with a control signal transmitted through the infrared ray, the image is visible | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140307066 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THREE DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION OF DISPARITY MAPS - The present invention relates to a three dimensional video processing system. In particular, the present invention is directed towards a method and system for the three dimensional (3D) visualization of a disparity map. The 3D visualization system selectably provides 3D surface visualization for disparity map, 3D bar visualization for the disparity map and the 3D line meshing visualization for the disparity map. Based on the 3D visualization system, a user can analyze the disparity map of a stereo content, and then adjusting for different viewing environments to promote comfortable viewing standards. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140313295 | Non-linear Navigation of a Three Dimensional Stereoscopic Display - Systems and methods for navigating a 3D stereoscopic scene displayed via a 3D stereoscopic display system using user head tracking. A reference POV including a reference user head position and a reference user head orientation may be established. The user head POV may be tracked, including monitoring user head positional displacements and user head angular rotations relative to the reference POV. In response to the tracking, a camera POV used to render the 3D stereoscopic scene may be adjusted based on a non-linear mapping between changes in the camera POV and the user head positional displacements and user head angular rotations relative to the reference POV. The non-linear mapping may include a mapping of user head positional displacements relative to the reference POV to translational movements in the camera POV and a mapping of user head angular rotations relative to the reference POV to rotations in the camera POV. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140320613 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING THREE-DIMENSIONAL VISUAL FATIGUE - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for reducing 3D visual fatigue that a user feels when viewing a 3D image. An optimal 3D image may be regenerated and displayed without causing 3D visual fatigue and thus, it is possible to significantly reduce the 3D visual fatigue. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140320614 | METHOD AND DISPLAY FOR SHOWING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - A method of generating stereoscopic images and an autostereoscopic system are introduced. Stereoscopic images are obtained by generating, on a screen, a first image having a pattern comprising alternating columns of N left-image pixels or sub-pixels and of N right-image pixels or sub-pixels and a second image having a reversed pattern from the pattern of the first image. A parallel-strip barrier has alternating strips for blocking alternating columns of the first and second images. A tracking system provides position information related to a viewer of the stereoscopic image. A controller shifts to the left or to the right, in relation to the strips of the barrier, the image columns by a number of image pixels or sub-pixels as a function of the position of the viewer. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140327747 | THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY SYSTEM - A three-dimensional display system ( | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140340490 | PORTABLE SIMULATED 3D PROJECTION APPARATUS - A projection apparatus is provided which is portable and scalable in size, and comprises a first projection device to direct a first program material towards a planar viewing film which is at least partially transparent and at least partially reflective, and which is mounted at an angle with respect to the viewing plane of a viewer, so as to create a virtual image. A rear screen is arranged in the viewing plane, behind the viewing film so as to exhibit second program material from a second projection device. The first program material and the second program material are edited and synchronized one with the other so that the virtual image is interrelated with the second program material on the rear screen, and provide an enhanced simulated 3D viewing. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140340491 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REFERRING TO MOTION STATUS OF IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE TO GENERATE STEREO IMAGE PAIR TO AUTO-STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY FOR STEREO PREVIEW - A stereo preview apparatus has an auto-stereoscopic display, an input interface, a motion detection circuit, and a visual transition circuit. The input interface receives at least an input stereo image pair including a left-view image and a right-view image generated from an image capture device. The motion detection circuit evaluates a motion status of the image capture device. The visual transition circuit generates an output stereo image pair based on the input stereo image pair, and outputs the output stereo image pair to the auto-stereoscopic display for stereo preview, wherein the visual transition circuit refers to the evaluated motion status to configure adjustment made to the input stereo image pair when generating the output stereo image pair. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140340492 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection display apparatus includes an image generation unit that generates an image light, an optical system that projects the image light onto a projection plane, an optical path changing unit that changes a display position of the image light on the projection plane, and a controller. The controller generates signals for plural types of sub-frames by dividing spatially a signal for each frame of the video input signal. The controller controls the optical path changing unit to keep the display position of the image light on the projection plane before and after transition of the frame of the video signal, and controls the image generation unit to make a type of a beginning sub-frame in a frame output just after the transition equal to a type of a last sub-frame in a frame output just before the transition. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140340493 | BROADCAST RECEIVER AND 3D VIDEO DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A broadcast receiver and a 3D video data processing method are disclosed. A three dimensional (3D) video data processing method for use in a broadcast receiver includes receiving a broadcast signal including three dimensional (3D) video data, extracting display condition information of the 3D video data from the broadcast signal, and controlling an output of the 3D video data using the extracted display condition information. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140340494 | INTERLACED 3D VIDEO - A video processing device ( | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140347451 | Depth Adaptation for Multi-View System - In a multi-view autostereoscopic display system ( | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140354785 | METHOD OF PROVIDING A CORRECT 3D IMAGE FOR A VIEWER AT DIFFERENT WATCHING ANGLES OF THE VIEWER - A method of providing a correct 3D image for a viewer at different watching angles includes: providing an autostereoscopic 3D display for concurrently generating a left-eye image and a right-eye image; capturing the position of a left eye and a right eye of the viewer by a built-in image capturing module to obtain a real-time watching angle of the viewer with respect to the autostereoscopic 3D display; and determining whether the real-time watching angle is in a first or a second predetermined range. When the real-time watching angle is in the first predetermined range, the left-eye image and the right-eye image are respectively received by the left eye and the right eye of the viewer. When the real-time watching angle is in the second predetermined range, the right-eye image and the left-eye image are respectively received by the left eye and the right eye of the viewer. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140354786 | IMAGE PROCESSOR - A mode setting part | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140362194 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes a first detector, a calculator, and a determiner. The first detector is configured to detect a position of a viewer. The calculator is configured to calculate a position variation probability that indicates a probability of the viewer making a movement, based on positions detected at different times. The determiner is configured to determine a visible area within which stereoscopic images to be displayed on a display are visible, based on the position variation probability. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140362195 | ENHANCED 3-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) NAVIGATION - One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for 3-dimensional (3-D) navigation are provided herein. A heads-up display (HUD) component can project, render, display, or present graphic elements on focal planes around an environment surrounding a vehicle. The HUD component can cause these graphic elements to appear volumetric or 3-D by moving or adjusting a distance between a focal plane and the vehicle. Objects within the environment may be tracked, identified, and corresponding graphic elements may be projected on, near, or around respective objects. For example, the HUD component may project graphic elements or pointers on pedestrians such that it may alert the driver or operator of the vehicle of their presence. These pointers may stay ‘stuck’ on the pedestrian as he or she is walking within the environment. Metadata associated with objects may be presented, such as address information, ratings, telephone numbers, logos, etc. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140375778 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING VIEWING AREA, AND DEVICE CAPABLE OF THREE-DIMENSION DISPLAYING VIDEO SIGNAL - Disclosed in the present application are a method and device for determining the position of a viewer and adjusting a viewing area, and a device for displaying three-dimensional video signals, such that the position of a viewer in front of an electronic device can be accurately determined and the viewing area can be adjusted according to the specific position, enabling the viewer to be unaware of any sudden viewing change when watching 3D signals. The method for determining the position of the viewer is applied in an electronic device comprising a display screen capable of displaying three-dimensional video signals. The viewing areas of the electronic device include a three-dimensional display area and a non-three-dimensional display area. The method comprises: acquiring the image in front of the electronic device; judging whether the image contains the face image of the viewer; if the image contains the face image, identifying at least one feature in the face image to determine the position of the viewer; according to the at least one feature, determining whether the viewing area of the viewer is a three-dimensional display area or a non-three-dimensional display area. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140375779 | Method for Measuring Recognition Warping about a Three-Dimensional Image - The invention relates to a method for measuring recognition warping with respect to a three-dimensional (3D) image. The method according to the invention comprises: (a) a step of selecting any one from a plurality of 3D parameters for a scale for recognizing a 3D image in a 3D manner; (b) a step of displaying a test stereoscopic image corresponding to the selected 3D parameter on a screen; (c) a step of displaying, on a screen, a plurality of sample images obtained by varying the value of the selected 3D parameter for the test stereoscopic image; (d) a step of selecting at least one of the plurality of sample images; and (e) a step of performing the steps (b) to (d) at least two times on different test stereoscopic images, and measuring a 3D recognition scale for the selected 3D parameter based on the sample image selected in the step (d). Therefore, it is possible to measure whether a viewer distortedly recognizes a 3D image or the degree to which a viewer recognizes the 3D image three-dimensionally in connection with the 3D parameter such as the size of the 3D image, the depth of the 3D image, etc. by means of the 3D recognition ability of each viewer. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140375780 | METHOD AND RECEIVER FOR ENABLING SWITCHING INVOLVING A 3D VIDEO SIGNAL - A transmitter according to the present invention includes a decoder that decodes a video signal received from outside and acquires identification information including a format concerning 2D or 3D of video from a layer corresponding to each frame of the video signal and a backend processor that performs spatial or temporal scaling of video data by the video data based on the identification information and, when the format of the video is switched, switches parameters for the scaling adjusting to switching timing. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150009302 | AUTOSTEREO TAPESTRY REPRESENTATION - Representation and coding of multi-view images using tapestry encoding are described. A tapestry comprises information on a tapestry image, a left-shift displacement map and a right-shift displacement map. Perspective images of a scene can be generated from the tapestry and the displacement maps. The tapestry image is generated from a leftmost view image, a rightmost view image, a disparity map and an occlusion map. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150009303 | MOBILE DISPLAY DEVICE - Mobile display device ( | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150009304 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING AN AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A portable electronic equipment ( | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150009305 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING 3D CAPTION AND 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A 3D caption display method for harmoniously merging and displaying closed caption with 3D image in a 3D display apparatus, and a 3D display apparatus suitable for implementing the method. When the 3D display apparatus receives image signals of first and second images for implementing 3D image in a stereoscopic scheme, the 3D display apparatus receives closed caption data only for a base view determined from the first and second images. Then, the display apparatus determines the position of a closed caption for an extended view based on the closed caption data for the base view and a certain 3D caption information, and formats caption graphic data for the base view and the extended view to output 3D closed caption in a stereoscopic format. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150015679 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD - An autostereoscopic display system includes a three-dimensional (3D) image converter configured to arrange a multiplicity of views, and a display device being coupled to receive the multiple arranged views. The arranged views include views arranged in forward order of view angle and views arranged in reverse order of view angle, the views in forward order and the views in reverse order being alternately arranged on each line of the display device. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150015680 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR GENERATING MULTIPLE POINT OF VIEW VIDEO - The present disclosure proposes a method and an electronic device of generating a multiple point of view (MPOV) video. In the present disclosure, the method for generating the MPOV video may include a step of obtaining a plurality of media contents, determining, from the plurality of media contents, a first media content and a second media content as relevant media contents, wherein each of the relevant media contents comprises a scene of a same event, identifying an overlap section comprising a portion of the first media content overlapping with a portion of the second media content, identifying a highlight period by analyzing a content feature of the portion of the first media content and the portion of the second media content within the overlap section, and generating the MPOV video based on the first media content and the second media content within the highlight period. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150015681 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC 3D IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE FOR FLATTENING VIEWING ZONE AND MINIMIZING DYNAMIC CROSSTALK - The present invention relates to a 3D image display device and includes an image display panel for displaying a 3D image, a control unit for controlling a viewpoint image, and a viewer position tracking system for determining the position of a viewer's pupil and transmitting positional information to the control unit, wherein the image display panel provides multiple viewpoints such as four or more viewpoints, and the intersection of the viewing zone for any one of the multiple viewpoints with the field of view of an adjacent viewpoint is at least 85% of the maximum brightness of one viewpoint. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150015682 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image signal processing device is provided which includes a receiving unit for receiving an image signal and setting information for each predetermined unit of the image signal including image type setting information to define whether the image signal represents a stereoscopic image and gamma correction setting information to define a gamma correction amount for the image signal, a gamma correcting unit for performing gamma correction for the image signal based on the gamma correction setting information included in the setting information received by the receiving unit, and a stereoscopic image processing unit for selectively performing a process to display the stereoscopic image for the image signal corrected by the gamma correcting unit based on the image type setting information included in the setting information received by the receiving unit. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150015683 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MULTI-VIEW IMAGE USING HOLE RENDERING - A method and apparatus for processing a multi-view image are provided. A priority may be assigned to each hole pixel in a hole region generated when an output view is generated. The priority of each hole pixel may be generated by combining a structure priority, a confidence priority, and a disparity priority. Hole rendering may be applied to a target patch including a hole pixel having a highest priority. The hole pixel may be restored by searching for a source patch most similar to a background of the target patch, and copying a pixel in the found source patch into a hole pixel of the target patch. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150022645 | Method and Apparatus for Providing a Display Position of a Display Object and for Displaying a Display Object in a Three-Dimensional Scene - A method for determining a display position of a display object to be displayed together with a three-dimensional (3D) scene is provided. The method comprising: providing a display distance of one or more displayable objects comprised in the 3D scene with respect to a display plane; and providing the display position comprising a display distance of the display object in dependence on the display distance of the one or more displayable objects in the 3D scene. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150029314 | VOLUMETRIC DISPLAY SYSTEM BLENDING TWO LIGHT TYPES TO PROVIDE A NEW DISPLAY MEDIUM - A method for creating a volumetric display. The method includes projecting a first light type onto a planar projection surface to display first content and, concurrently with projection of the first light type, first projecting a second light type onto the planar projection surface to display second content that at least partially overlays the displayed first content. The method includes second projecting the second light type onto a three dimensional (3D) set of reflective elements, whereby the second content moves between the planar projection surface and the 3D set. The first light type may be non-coherent light and the second light type may be laser light (or coherent light). While projected on the planar projection surface, the coherent light is at a first illumination level that matches or is somewhat greater than the non-coherent light, and a second much higher illumination level is used when projecting onto the 3D set. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150029315 | ULTRA HIGH-RESOLUTION VOLUMETRIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - An ultra high-resolution volumetric three-dimensional (3D) display system comprises an image chamber, and an addressing system to direct a beam of electromagnetic energy at a first wavelength to slice through the image chamber. The beam of electromagnetic energy slices the image chamber along a first axis to provide an image slice. The addressing system comprises a line generator to shape the beam into a line extended along a second axis. An imaging system delivers the electromagnetic energy at a second wavelength to an area within the provided image slice. The line is moved along a third axis to form a three dimensional (3D) image. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150035953 | Electronic display numerical aberration correction - Disclosed is a method for stereoscopic numerical aberration compensation. One embodiment of this may be implemented as a software module which may be invoked after the display content has been copied, as in the case of prepared content such as a movie, or rendered, as in the case of dynamically-generated content, such as a game or design visualization application. This scheme windows the image in the frame buffer in-place, as a final processing step prior to transmission to the display. A less-tightly-integrated embodiment modifies the data during transmission, with minimal additional buffering. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150042769 | IMAGE PROCESSING FOR PRIVACY AND WIDE-VIEW USING ERROR DIFFUSION - A display device includes control electronics and a pixellated liquid crystal (LC) panel. The control electronics receives inputs of main image data for a main image and side image data for a side image. The control electronics outputs combined image data combining the main and side images such that an on-axis viewer perceives from the combined image the main image, and an off-axis viewer perceives from the combined image the side image. The output image data comprises data values chosen from a set of available output data values for the pixels selected from multiple sets of available data values depending on at least on the side image data. For a pixel currently being processed, the output data value is chosen from the selected set of available output data values for which a resulting luminance value is closest to a target luminance value for the current pixel. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150042770 | DISPLAY PROCESSOR FOR 3D DISPLAY - Display processor ( | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150062310 | THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present disclosure provides an optical-field 3D display apparatus based on multi-layer transparent excitation display, display method thereof, and an electronic device. The 3D display apparatus comprises an array of multiple layers of display units comprising at least two layers of display units, any layer of display unit of the said layers of display units being configured with a transparent fluorescent excitation thin film layer; and an array of excitation projection units comprising at least one excitation projection unit, the light emitted from all the projection units in the array of excitation projection units being projected to corresponding display units in the array of multiple layers of display units to excite the transparent fluorescent excitation thin film layer to display corresponding images, the corresponding images being superimposed for imaging. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150062311 | VIEW WEIGHTING FOR MULTIVIEW DISPLAYS - Disclosed is a system and method for presenting multiple horizontally offset views, each view comprised of image data. A computer vision tracker device tracks a left and right eye position for a viewer relative to the display to determine a viewpoint for the left and right eye. A pixel modulation module associates two of the multiple views with the left eye position and the right eye position. Image intensity weighting factors are calculated for the two left eye views and the two right eye views. The intensity of each view associated with the left eye position and right eye position are modulated according to the weighting factors determined for the left eye position and the right eye position. The two left eye views and right eye views are blended into respective single views to be perceived by the left eye and right eye when projected on the display. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150070475 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a frame; and a transparent display module in the frame, the transparent display module including a horizontal cross-section including a closed curve and configured to emit light from opposite surfaces thereof. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150077526 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A multi-viewpoint image display device is provided. The display device includes a tracker configured to track a position of a face of a user according to a user shifting position, a display configured to provide a multi-view and to select and provide first and second target views of the multi-view as user's left-eye and right-eye images, and a controller configured to shift positions of the multi-view and to provide the shifted multi-view so that the first and second target views are provided as the user's left-eye and right-eye images based on the tracked face position of the face of the user. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150077527 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A method of processing an image in a display apparatus includes receiving an image from an external source, processing the received image by applying depth information to at least one pixel among pixels constituting the received image according to occurrence of a preset event, and displaying the processed image. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150085085 | DISPARITY CALCULATING METHOD AND STEREO MATCHING SYSTEM THEREOF - A disparity calculating method for a stereo matching system includes calculating a global energy matrix according to a first image, a second image and a previous disparity matrix of a previous frame; calculating a global disparity matrix according to the global energy matrix and a first stereo matching algorithm; calculating a local energy matrix between a first image block of the first image and a second image block of the second image according to the first image block, the second image block, a previous block disparity matrix and the global disparity matrix; and calculating a local disparity matrix between the first image block and the second image block according to the local energy matrix and a second stereo matching algorithm. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150085086 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR CREATING IMAGES - A method is provided for creating at least one image of a graphics scene that is to be played back on a screen. The graphics scene is made up of graphics objects. The position of a user is known. A graphics object is created in at least one image while taking account of the position of the user. A terminal is provided, which includes including an image-creator for creating at least one image of a graphics scene that is to be played back on a screen of a user occupying a position relative to the screen, the scene including at least one graphics object. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150085087 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CORRECTING DISTORTION ERRORS DUE TO ACCOMMODATION EFFECT IN STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - The invention concerns a method and a device for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content viewed by an observer on a screen. The method comprises the step of determining a rendered roundness factor (ITO of a pinhole model projected cylinder, estimating a rendered roundness factor table depending on the defined distance of the observer to the screen and the disparity values of objects of the image, determining for the observer a disparity transform function (TD) as a function of the estimated rendered roundness factor table and modifying the object disparity values using the disparity transform so that a perceived roundness factor of one is provided. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150097932 | DIGITAL CINEMA PROJECTION METHOD, OPTIMIZATION DEVICE AND PROJECTION SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a digital cinema projection method comprising the following steps: projecting images to a screen by a digital cinema projector, and acquiring the images on the screen by an image capture unit; performing digital analysis on the acquired images by an image analysis unit to obtain a plurality of parameters of the acquired images; according to each of the parameters, performing correction process on image signals input from the digital cinema server, and then outputting to the digital cinema projector; and projecting the differently corrected and improved images targeted to each of the digital cinema projectors. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150097933 | BROADCAST RECEIVER AND VIDEO DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A broadcast receiver and a method for processing video data are disclosed. The method for controlling a three dimensional (3D) video display output of a broadcast receiver includes receiving a broadcast signal including a video stream, wherein the video stream includes a plurality of video stream sections having different view points, acquiring view point information indicating corresponding view points of the video stream sections, and controlling a three dimensional (3D) video display output of the video stream according to the obtained view point information. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150103150 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An information processing method and electronic device, the method comprising: displaying on a first device a first target object as a first display parameter; when the first target object is displayed as the first display parameter, a user of the electronic device can perceive a first perceptible distance to the first target object; displaying the first target object as a second display parameter at a second moment after the first moment; when the first target object is displayed as the second display parameter, the viewer can perceive a second perceptible distance to the first target object, the first perceptible distance being different from the second perceptible distance, thus solving the technical problem of single display mode of a 3D imaging device in the prior art. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150116465 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DISPLAY OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) INFORMATION - A method and system for providing a three-dimensional (3D) display. A variable length z-axis is added to each of plural (x,y) cells in a two-dimensional (2D) Cartesian plane creating plural three-dimensional (3D) cells each with a x, y and z axis. The z-axis includes a variable length light source for each of the plural x-y cells. The z-axis also includes a space vector including time and space information. A 3 | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150116466 | CRITICAL ALIGNMENT OF PARALLAX IMAGES FOR AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A method is provided for generating an autostereoscopic display. The method includes acquiring a first parallax image and at least one other parallax image. At least a portion of the first parallax image may be aligned with a corresponding portion of the at least one other parallax image. Alternating views of the first parallax image and the at least one other parallax image may be displayed. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150124061 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 2D/3D SWITCHABLE DISPLAYING - A method for 2D/3D switchable displaying includes: real-time detecting a 3D display area; when a change of the 3D display area is detected, calculating a gradient coefficient based on a number of frame of change and a rate of the change of the 3D display area; adjusting a 3D image area and a 3D grating area based on the calculated gradient coefficient; and performing a stereoscopic display by the adjusted 3D image area and the adjusted 3D grating area. When the 3D display area starts a change and ends the change, the 3D display area gradually is switched to be 2D display and switched to be 3D display respectively, so that a gradient visual effect is achieved, and the problems of viewing image jitter and 3D effect mistake caused by pixel arrangement and hardware control in the 3D display area being not synchronized can be avoided. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150124062 | Joint View Expansion And Filtering For Automultiscopic 3D Displays - Multi-view autostereoscopic displays provide an immersive, glasses-free 3D viewing experience, but they preferably use correctly filtered content from multiple viewpoints. The filtered content, however, may not be easily obtained with current stereoscopic production pipelines. The proposed method and system takes a stereoscopic video as an input and converts it to multi-view and filtered video streams that may be used to drive multi-view autostereoscopic displays. The method combines a phase-based video magnification and an interperspective antialiasing into a single filtering process. The whole algorithm is simple and may be efficiently implemented on current GPUs to yield real-time performance. Furthermore, the ability to retarget disparity is naturally supported. The method is robust and works transparent materials, and specularities. The method provides superior results when compared to the state-of-the-art depth-based rendering methods. The method is showcased in the context of a real-time 3D videoconferencing system. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150130910 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - A three-dimensional image display device and a method for displaying a three-dimensional image, and particularly relates to a three-dimensional image display device improving movement degradation and a method for displaying a three-dimensional image. A three-dimensional image display device includes: a display panel; a movement determining unit determining whether an object of a 3D image moved in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the display panel based on image information; a hole-filling unit filling a hole generated according to the movement of the object with an edge region of the object to compensate a movement degradation when it is determined that the object moved in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the display panel; and a 3D input image signal generator generating a 3D input image signal based on the image information compensated with the movement degradation. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150138326 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a display apparatus for three-dimensional (3D) communication and a control method thereof. The display apparatus includes: a communicator configured to transmit and receive information for the 3D image communication; an image processor configured to process a received image received through the communicator and to process a first image captured by a first imaging device and a second image captured by a second imaging device; a displayer configured to display the processed first image and the processed second image; and a controller configured to, in response to a first characteristic value of the first image and a second characteristic value of the second image being different from each other, calibrate at least one of the first image and the second image so that the first characteristic value is equal to the second characteristic value. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150145968 | EMBOLIZATION VOLUME RECONSTRUCTION IN INTERVENTIONAL RADIOGRAPHY - An apparatus (IP) and a method to point-wisely reconstruct 3D image a 3D image volume of one or more 3D image volumina (Vp, Vc, Vv) to record changes of configuration of an embolus (E) introduced in an embolization procedure into a region of interest (ROI) of an object (OB) | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150145969 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a main panel which displays video, a sub panel which projects and provides the video displayed on the main panel by including a first lens array and a second lens array facing the first lens array so as to share a focus with the first lens array, a hinge which connects the sub panel and the main panel in a manner in which the sub panel is displaceable from the main panel according to user manipulation, a sensor which senses angles formed by the main panel and the sub panel, and a controller which controls so that the video is adjusted based on the sensed angles and displayed on the main panel. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150296204 | MULTI VIEW IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A multi view image display device is provided, which includes a depth estimator configured to estimate depth of an input image, a renderer configured to perform rendering of multi view image based on the estimated depth, a display configured to display the rendered multi view image, and a controller configured to control the rendering of the multi view image by controlling the number of rendering viewpoints according to a depth value of at least one object region included in the input image. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150304645 | Enhancing the Coupled Zone of a Stereoscopic Display - Systems and methods for enhancement of a coupled zone of a 3D stereoscopic display. The method may include determining a size and a shape of a coupled zone of a 3D stereoscopic display. The coupled zone may include a physical volume specified by the user's visual depth of field with respect to screen position of the 3D stereoscopic display and the user's point of view. Content may be displayed at a first position with a virtual 3D space and the first position may correspond to a position within the coupled zone. It may be determined that the content is not contained in the coupled zone or is within a specified distance from a boundary of the coupled zone and, in response, display of the content may be adjusted such that the content has a second position in the virtual 3D space that corresponds to another position within the coupled zone. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304647 | stereoscopic viewing apparatus and display synchronization - A stereoscopic viewing apparatus ( | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150312552 | PORTABLE THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNER AND METHOD OF GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCAN RESULT CORRESPONDING TO AN OBJECT - A portable three-dimensional scanner includes at least two image sensing units and a depth map generation unit. When the portable three-dimensional scanner is moved around an object, a first image sensing unit and a second image sensing unit of the at least two image sensing units capture a plurality of first images comprising the object and a plurality of second images comprising the object, respectively. When the first image sensing unit captures each first image of the plurality of first images, a corresponding distance exists between the portable three-dimensional scanner and the object. The depth map generation unit generates a corresponding depth map according to the each first image and a corresponding second image. A plurality of depth maps generated by the depth map generation unit, the plurality of first images, and the plurality of second images are used for generating a color three-dimensional scan result corresponding to the object. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150319429 | Virtual Window - A virtual window system, the system comprising a light field camera device and a light field display device arranged back-to-back, the light field camera device configured to capture an input light field video stream, the light field display device configured to display an output light field video stream based on the input light field video stream. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319430 | See-Through Near-Eye Light Field Display - A see-through near-eye light field display device, the device comprising a light field camera device and a light field display device arranged back-to-back, the light field camera device configured to capture an input light field video stream, the light field display device configured to display an output light field video stream based on the input light field video stream. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150334365 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention makes it possible to adaptively convert distribution of disparities or depths of a stereoscopic image according to a visual property of a human related to stereopsis. A stereoscopic image processing apparatus according to the present invention is a stereoscopic image processing apparatus which receives an input stereoscopic image, and converts distribution of disparities or depths of the input stereoscopic image, the apparatus includes a planar region extracting unit ( | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334379 | DISPLAY UNIT FOR ROTATABLY DISPLAYING AN AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC PRESENTATION - A display unit may include a display screen device to display contents formed by pixels based on image data, a parallax barrier including pixels forming slit parts and mask parts and arranged to display an autostereoscopic presentation in combination with the display screen device, and a sensor to sense a rotation of the display unit about an axis perpendicular to a surface of the display screen device from a reference rotational position. A pixel arrangement of the display screen device and a pixel arrangement of the parallax barrier may be rotated depending on the rotation of the display unit from the reference rotational position. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150341622 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES - One aspect of the disclosed invention relates to a stereoscopic display apparatus comprising: a stereo image acquisition unit configured to acquire a first stereo image for a first image and a second stereo image for a second image; a border generation unit configured to generate a border for separating the first image from the second image; and a displaying unit configured to combine the second stereo image and the generated border with the first stereo image and display the combined stereo images. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341626 | 3D DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed, in which a user may control a 3D display device more conveniently and exactly. The 3D display device comprises a 3D display unit a measurement unit configured to obtain location information indicating a location of a user located in front of the 3D display unit, and a processor configured to control the 3D display unit and the measurement unit, wherein the processor obtains a first angle, which is a horizontal angle between the 3D display unit and the user, by using the location information, maintains an image displayed on the 3D display unit if the first angle is within a preset first angle range, and rotates the image displayed on the 3D display unit based on a vertical axis of the image and in a left or right direction according to the first angle if the first angle departs from the preset first angle range. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150350634 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING COMPLEX-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT SERVICE USING COMPLEX 2D-3D CONTENT FILE, METHOD FOR PROVIDING SAID SERVICE, AND COMPLEX-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT FILE THEREFOR - An information processing method of a multidimensional content providing system for providing a user with a multidimensional content including at least one 2D video section and at least one 3D video section is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) the multidimensional content providing system playing the 2D video section with a 2D player; (b) the multidimensional content providing system playing the 3D video section with the 2D player; (c) the multidimensional content providing system acquiring a distorted image during the play at the step (b); (d) the multidimensional content providing system applying a rendering process to the distorted image acquired at the step (c) by using a 3D rendering engine; and (e) the multidimensional content providing system providing the rendered image for the user. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350635 | HEAD TRACKING EYEWEAR SYSTEM - In some embodiments, a system for tracking with reference to a three-dimensional display system may include a display device, an image processor, a surface including at least three emitters, at least two sensors, a processor. The display device may image, during use, a first stereo three-dimensional image. The surface may be positionable, during use, with reference to the display device. At least two of the sensors may detect, during use, light received from at least three of the emitters as light blobs. The processor may correlate, during use, the assessed referenced position of the detected light blobs such that a first position/orientation of the surface is assessed. The image processor may generate, during use, the first stereo three-dimensional image using the assessed first position/orientation of the surface with reference to the display. The image processor may generate, during use, a second stereo three-dimensional image using an assessed second position/orientation of the surface with reference to the display. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350636 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The electronic apparatus of the present embodiment displays, by means of first display parameters, a first image, and, by means of second display parameters, a second image, thus allowing a user of said electronic apparatus to perceive a first display image at a first distance which is smaller than a second distance between the user and a display unit, and to perceive a second display image at a third distance which is greater than the second distance between the user and the display unit, thus resolving the technical problem in the prior art whereby a user wishing to view an image in 3D must be at a relatively precise position relative to the 3D display device in order to be able to view an image with 3D effects, failing which such effects are poor. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150355471 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a screen formed in an arcuate shape centering on a center axis and a projection device configured to project, along projecting directions orthogonal to the center axis and different from one another, images corresponding to the projecting directions on the inner circumferential surface or the outer circumferential surface of the screen. The screen includes a retroreflective layer having a reflection surface directed to the projection device and a diffusion layer arranged on the projection device side with respect to the retroreflective layer and configured to diffuse, when transmitting light made incident from the retroreflective layer, the light wider in a first direction along the center axis than in a second direction, which is a circumferential direction centering on the center axis. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150365658 | MANAGING A DISPLAY - A system and computer implemented method for managing a display for a software application is disclosed. The software application may have a set of portions. The method can include collecting, for a first portion and a second portion of the set of portions, optical tracking information including a set of viewing coordinates having a temporal feature. The method can also include determining, based on the optical tracking information including the set of viewing coordinates having the temporal feature, a set of viewing scores including a first group of viewing scores and a second group of viewing scores. The method can also include generating a frustum having a set of regions. The set of regions can include a first region, to provide the first portion, based on the first group of viewing scores, and a second region, to provide the second portion, based on the second group of viewing scores. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150381970 | INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE, INPUT/OUTPUT PROGRAM, AND INPUT/OUTPUT METHOD - An I/O device, an I/O program, and an I/O method that can add a sense of distance from the position of visually recognizing eyes to a stereoscopic image that is a virtual image, through an object that is a real image and provide visual recognition as if the stereoscopic image were associated with the object are provided. An I/O device of the present invention includes a display device that can generate a stereoscopic image, a depth level sensor that measures a distance to an object, and an event generating unit that generates an event according to a mode of the object at least either in a stereoscopic region of the stereoscopic image generated by the display device or in a depth level detection region of the depth level sensor. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381972 | DEPTH ESTIMATION USING MULTI-VIEW STEREO AND A CALIBRATED PROJECTOR - The subject disclosure is directed towards using a known projection pattern to make stereo (or other camera-based) depth detection more robust. Dots are detected in captured images and compared to the known projection pattern at different depths, to determine a matching confidence score at each depth. The confidence scores may be used as a basis for determining a depth at each dot location, which may be at sub-pixel resolution. The confidence scores also may be used as a basis for weights or the like for interpolating pixel depths to find depth values for pixels in between the pixels that correspond to the dot locations. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381973 | CALIBRATION DEVICE, CALIBRATION PROGRAM, AND CALIBRATION METHOD - A calibration device, a calibration program, and a calibration method that can adjust the relation between a distance to an object that is a real image and a view of a stereoscopic image that is a virtual image and create an association therebetween are provided. The calibration device of the present invention includes a display device that can generate a stereoscopic image, a depth level sensor that measures a distance to an object, and an adjusting unit that adjusts the stereoscopic image generated by the display device and a depth level of the object detected by the depth level sensor. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160007004 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus may include a determination unit configured to determine a position on a surface of the determination unit corresponding to a contact between a portion of a operating tool and the determination unit surface. The apparatus may also include a definition unit configured to define a first display position of a first stereoscopic image, and a generation unit configured to generate a second stereoscopic image in response to the contact. A control unit may be configured to generate a signal to display the first stereoscopic image at the first display position and display the second stereoscopic image at a second display position, the first and second display positioned being within a predetermined distance of the contact position. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160007014 | EQUIDISTANT STEREO LENS SHADER - An equidistant stereo lens shader includes a user controlled device and an output device. The user controlled device includes one or more controllers, which are configured for orientation of a stereo field, orientation of a projection surface relative to a camera, use of converging stereo rays or parallel stereo rays, control over the zero-parallax distance for converging rays, and control over the interocular distance. The output device is configured to output left-eye images, right-eye images, or monoscopic images as equidistant fisheye projections. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160007015 | Open Head Mount Display Device and Display method Thereof - The present invention provides an open head mount display device and a display method thereof, relates to the field of head mount display technology, and can solve technical problems (such as a tedious operation, a poor display effect, an inaccurate position of the display image or the like) of the open head mount display device in the prior art. The open head mount display device of the present invention comprises: a display unit for providing a display image to user's eyes; an image acquisition unit for acquiring an image of an external object; an image analysis unit for analyzing and determining a position of the external object relative to the user's eyes in accordance with the image acquired by the image acquisition unit; and an image adjusting unit for adjusting the display image in accordance with an analysis result of the image analysis unit. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160014387 | MULTIPLE VIEW IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPARITY ESTIMATION METHOD THEREOF | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014402 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160021363 | Enhancing the Coupled Zone of a Stereoscopic Display - Systems and methods for calibrating a three dimensional (3D) stereoscopic display system may include rendering a virtual model on a display of a 3D stereoscopic display system that may include a substantially horizontal display. The virtual model may be geometrically similar to a physical object placed at a location on the display. A vertex of the virtual model may be adjusted in response to user input. The adjustment may be such that the vertex of the virtual model is substantially coincident with a corresponding vertex of the physical object. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021364 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MULTI-VIEW STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - The present invention discloses an image display method and device for multi-view stereoscopic display. The multi-view stereoscopic display includes multiple viewing areas periodically disposed along a horizontal direction, and each of the multiple viewing areas includes multiple viewpoints. The method comprises obtaining a position of a viewer, determining that if the viewer is located in an inversion region, and if the position of the viewer is located in the inversion region, executing a preset process for left and right eye viewpoint images of the viewpoints respectively corresponding to the viewer's left eye and right eyes so as to decrease the brightness contrast of the left eye and the right eye viewpoint images in order to reduce the discomfort of the viewer for watching in the inversion region and adding the comfort of watching the stereoscopic image. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021366 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING AN IMAGE AND DISPLAY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of display an image and a display device for performing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes receiving image data for a content image, determining a modulation region and a peripheral region in the content image and generating a left-eye content image and a right-eye content image based on the image data for the content image such that the modulation region has a three-dimensional depth. The method further includes displaying the left-eye content image and the right-eye content image and periodically changing the three-dimensional depth of the modulation region by changing a modulation distance between the modulation region in the left-eye content image and the modulation region in the right-eye content image based at least in part on a periodic modulation reference timing. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160029012 | RE-TARGETING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE SIGNAL - The present invention relates to a method and system for generating and retargeting a three-dimensiona video signal for use on a target three-dimensional display device, wherein the three-dimensional video signal comprises three-dimensional video data suitable for driving a multi-view display device and reference disparity mapping data, the reference disparity mapping data indicative of a disparity mapping for the three-dimensional video data for a reference three-dimensional display device and wherein a target disparity mapping is derived based on the reference disparity mapping and characteristics of the reference three-dimensional display device and corresponding characteristics of the target three-dimensional display device, the resulting target disparity mapping is used for retargeting the three-dimensional video data using the target disparity mapping data into a target three-dimensional video data. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160037155 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic display device is provided where the luminance variation encountered when the parallax barrier is switched is reduced for viewing from a wide region. The stereoscopic display device includes: a display panel that displays an image; a switch liquid crystal panel disposed to overlie the display panel and including a liquid crystal layer; a position sensor that obtains positional information about a viewer; and a control unit that receives the positional information from the position sensor and locally applies to the liquid crystal layer a first voltage for rendering the switch liquid crystal panel translucent and a second voltage for rendering the switch liquid crystal panel non-translucent to display a parallax barrier that depends on the positional information. The control unit includes a timing adjustment unit that delays a time point for switching from the lower one of the first voltage and the second voltage to the higher one relative to a time point for switching from the higher one to the lower one by a delay time that depends on the positional information. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160037156 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An organic light emitting display is driven in a simultaneous (or concurrent) emission scheme. The organic light emitting display includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels coupled to scan lines, control lines, and data lines; a control line driver for providing control signals to the pixels through the control lines; and a power driver for applying a power at different levels to the pixels of the display unit during a plurality of periods of one frame. The control signals and the power are concurrently provided to the pixels included in the display unit. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160044304 | IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-VIEW STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - An image displaying method and an image displaying apparatus for a multi-view stereoscopic display device are provided. The method includes: determining an inversion region, the inversion region being a location wherein viewpoints respectively corresponding to left and right eyes of the viewer are in neighboring viewing zones; and replacing at least one of a viewpoint image of the viewpoint in the inversion region corresponding to the left eye and a viewpoint image of the viewpoint in the inversion region corresponding to the right eye to be a viewpoint image of other viewpoint, to thereby reduce a parallax reversal degree of the two viewpoint images. By the above method, a content difference between the viewpoint images of the viewpoints respectively corresponding to the left and right eyes is reduced and the degree of comfort of viewing to the viewer is improved consequently. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160050410 | 3D DISPLAY DEVICE FOR REDUCING MOVING FLICKER - A display device discussed, and includes a display panel to display a left-eye image and a right-eye image; a parallax barrier panel to block and transmit the left-eye image and the right-eye image so that the left-eye image and the right-eye image reaching a user's left-eye and right-eye, respectively, produces a 3D image; a camera to sense a user's movement; and a controller to implement the 3D image by estimating a user's position when the user moves, and by applying a driving voltage to a barrier electrode according to the estimated position. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160057412 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD OF DISPLAY APPARATUS - An operating method of a display apparatus includes calculating a range of a movement of a user based on eye movement information indicating movements of eyes of the user; and adjusting a stereoscopic depth of a three-dimensional (3D) image based on the range of the movement. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160065933 | BROADCASTING RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING 3D IMAGES - Disclosed are a method for displaying 3D images and a broadcast receiver. The method for displaying 3D images according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving broadcasting signals including video data and 3D object data; decoding the 3D object data, the 3D object data including texts or image information for a 3D object, output position information of the 3D object, and disparity information of the 3D object; obtaining parallax values from the disparity information and producing distortion compensation coefficients using the parallax values; adjusting a display size of the 3D object using the distortion compensation coefficients; and outputting and displaying the 3D object. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065949 | Guided 3D Display Adaptation - A 3D display is characterized by a quality of viewing experience (QVE) mapping which represents a display-specific input-output relationship between input depth values and output QVE values. Examples of QVE mappings based on a metric of “viewing blur” are presented. Given reference depth data generated for a reference display and a representation of an artist's mapping function, which represents an input-output relationship between original input depth data and QVE data generated using a QVE mapping for a reference display, a decoder may reconstruct the reference depth data and apply an inverse QVE mapping for a target display to generate output depth data optimized for the target display. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065950 | 2D/3D SWITCHABLE STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic display device includes a display panel for displaying 2D/3D images, a driving circuit module, and a light-splitting device. The light-splitting device includes a first substrate having a plurality of first electrodes, a second substrate arranged facing the first substrate and having at least one second electrode, a liquid crystal layer placed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of spacers in the liquid crystal layer. The driving circuit module is configured to, when in the 3D display mode, provide a plurality of driving voltages between the first electrodes and the second electrode to make the liquid crystal layer an array of liquid crystal lenses and, when in the 2D display mode, to provide a deflection voltage between the first electrodes and the second electrode to reduce a refractive index difference between the liquid crystal molecules and the spacers with a predetermined range. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065954 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus splits a barrier panel, which forms a plurality of light-transmitting areas and a plurality of light-blocking areas on each pixel, into a plurality of areas, and individually correcting locations of the light-transmitting areas and the light-blocking areas on the basis of viewing location information of a viewer with respect to a display panel, thereby realizing a stereoscopic image on an entire area of the display panel even if the viewing location of the viewer is varied. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160073085 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPTICALLY SCANNING AND MEASURING AN ENVIRONMENT - A method for scanning and measuring an environment is provided. The method includes providing a three-dimensional (3D) measurement device having a controller. Images of the environment are recorded and a 3D scan of the environment is produced with a three-dimensional point cloud. A video image of the environment is recorded. The video image is displayed on a first portion of a display. A portion of the three-dimensional point cloud is displayed on a second portion of the display, the second portion of the display being arranged about the periphery of the first portion of the display. Wherein a portion of the 3D point cloud displayed in the second portion represents a portion of the environment outside of a field of view of the video image. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160073099 | USER INFORMATION EXTRACTION METHOD AND USER INFORMATION EXTRACTION APPARATUS - The present application discloses a user information extraction method and a user information extraction apparatus. The method comprises: acquiring an image comprising at least one digital watermark; acquiring user related information corresponding to a user and comprised in the at least one digital watermark in the image; and projecting the user related information to a fundus of the user. In the present application, user related information used in a certain scenario is extracted in the corresponding scenario and projected onto a fundus of a user, and therefore, the user does not need to memorize the user related information, thereby avoiding inconvenience caused when the user forgets the user related information. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160080734 | Graphical System with Enhanced Stereopsis - A computer system that provides stereoscopic images is described. During operation, the computer system generates the stereoscopic images at a location corresponding to a viewing plane based on data having a discrete spatial resolution, where the stereoscopic images include image parallax. Then, the computer system scales objects depicted in the stereoscopic images so that depth acuity associated with the image parallax is increased, where the scaling is based on the spatial resolution and a viewing geometry associated with a display. For example, the viewing geometry may include a distance from an individual that views the stereoscopic images on the display and the display. Alternatively, the viewing geometry may include a focal point of the individual. Next, the computer system provides the resulting stereoscopic images to the display. In this way, the computer system may optimize the depth acuity for data having discrete sampling. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080736 | OPTIMIZATION OF A MULTI-VIEW DISPLAY - Described herein is a multi-view display (based on spatial and/or temporal multiplexing) having an optimization mechanism that dynamically adjust views based upon detected state changes with respect to one or more views. The optimization mechanism determines viewing parameters (e.g., brightness and/or colors) for a view based upon a current position of the view, and/or on the multi-view display's capabilities. The state change may correspond to the view (a viewer's eye) moving towards another viewing zone, in which event new viewing parameters are determined, which may be in anticipation of entering the zone. Another state change corresponds to more views being needed than the display is capable of outputting, whereby one or more existing views are degraded, e.g., from 3D to 2D and/or from a personal video to a non-personal view. Conversely, a state change corresponding to excess capacity becoming available can result in enhancing a view to 3D and/or personal. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160091966 | STEREOSCOPIC TRACKING STATUS INDICATING METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A stereoscopic tracking status indicating method is provided. The method includes tracking information of a user's face by a three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus. The method also includes generating abnormal status indicating information when the information of the user's face is not tracked, where the abnormal status indicating information indicates that the information of the user's face is not tracked. Further, the method includes presenting the abnormal status indicating information to the user, such that the user is prompted to adjust a position of the user's face based on the abnormal status indicating information. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094839 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device displays a plurality of display elements having respective densities that continuously change in a first direction (an X direction), in such an arrangement that the display elements constitute a pointer needle and the densities continuously change in a second direction (a Y direction) intersecting the first direction, thereby displaying the pointer needle on a display section. This provides a display device with improved stereoscopic vision of the pointer needle. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160100138 | SPATIAL IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS - A spatial image projection apparatus including a receiver configured to receive an image signal; a display unit configured to display an image acquired by processing the image signal; a projection unit configured to project a spatial image to a prescribed space by reflecting light corresponding to the image displayed on the display unit. Further, the projection unit includes a plate having a first surface facing the display unit and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a protrusion arranged on the first surface or the second surface of the plate. In addition, the protrusion includes first and second slopes tilted at about 45 degrees relative to the surface of the plate, and an angle between the first and second slopes is about 90 degrees. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160104313 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RENDERING OBJECT FOR MULTIPLE 3D DISPLAYS - The invention provides a method and apparatus for rendering an object for a plurality of 3D displays. The method comprises determining one of the plurality of 3D displays to render the object according to the relationship, in a global coordinate system, the position of the object and a region defined from a user's eyes to the 3D display; and rendering the object on the determined 3D display. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105664 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING FLEXIBLE BARRIER PATTERN - The present specification provides a stereoscopic image display apparatus of which a barrier pattern arrangement can be modified according to the movement of a user. According to one example, disclosed is the stereoscopic image display apparatus comprising: an electrode on one side provided with a plurality of extended electrodes which are separated from each other; an electrode on the other side provided with a plurality of extended electrodes which are separated from each other; and a liquid crystal portion, arranged between the electrode on the one side and the electrode on the other side, for forming a barrier pattern according to an electric field or a potential difference selectively formed between the electrode on the one side and the electrode on the other side, wherein each of the extended electrodes of the electrode on the one side and each of the extended electrodes of the electrode on the other side are provided so as to overlap while in mutually corresponding positions with respect to the liquid crystal portion at the center, and wherein the barrier pattern arrangement formed on the liquid crystal portion can be modified depending on the application state of a voltage or a pulse applied to the electrode on the one side and the electrode on the other side. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105666 | Stereoscopic Dual Modulator Display Device Using Full Color Anaglyph - Systems and methods are provided for displaying three-dimensional image data on a display having a light source modulation layer and a display modulation layer. The light source modulation layer has light sources for providing spatially modulated, spectrally separated light for displaying time-multiplexed left and right eye images. The display modulation layer has pixels for spatially modulating the amount of light received from the light source modulation layer. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160110078 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing device is provided that includes: an image generation portion that generates a composite image by synthesizing a stereoscopic image with a two-dimensional image that is associated with the stereoscopic image, the stereoscopic image being generated from a right eye image and a left eye image which have parallax therebetween and on which perspective correction is performed; and an identification portion that, when a user operation on the two-dimensional image is detected, identities the stereoscopic image with which the two-dimensional image is associated, as a selected target. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160119615 | THREE DIMENSIONAL DATA VISUALIZATION - A technique to generate a three-dimensional (3D) data visualization from multi-dimensional data. A data set may be grouped into multiple groups based on a function. Data members of the groups may be mapped to respective 3D volumes via graphic elements. A value of the function for each data member may be mapped to at least one of the spatial display variables representing depth. A 3D data visualization including the 3D volumes may be generated. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160127722 | Device for generation of virtual three-dimensional images - A device for generation of three-dimensional images in the observer's eye using at least one two-dimensional display and an optical system with an adjustable focal length. The display generates planar images corresponding to the different depths of the designed three dimensional (3D) image and the images are then directed to at least one mirror or lens with the adjustable focal length synchronized to the particular image. The optical system generates virtual images at different virtual planes in such a way that the eye receives a complete 3D virtual image. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160148418 | GEO-LOCATED ACTIVITY VISUALISATION, EDITING AND SHARING - This disclosure relates to visualising geographic positions in a three-dimensional virtual environment. A processor receives position data indicative of a geographic position of an object and generates a first image of the virtual environment which represents a view from an initial observation position in the virtual environment in an initial direction based on an initial target position in the virtual environment. The processor then determines an updated target position that is closer to the virtual position of the object than the initial target position and determining an updated observation position that is closer to a desired observation position than the initial observation position. The processor then generates a second image of the virtual environment which represents a view from the updated observation position in the virtual environment in an updated direction based on the updated target position in the virtual environment. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160150209 | Depth Range Adjustment of a 3D Video to Match the Depth Range Permissible by a 3D Display Device - A 3D video sequence is acquired. The 3D video sequence comprises left and right views of image pairs. A capturing parameter (depth range) of the 3D video sequence is acquired. A rendering capability parameter (screen size or allowable depth range) of a rendering device is acquired. A positional displacement between the left and right views of the image pairs in the 3D video sequence is determined based on the acquired rendering capability parameter and the acquired capturing parameter so as to enable adaptation of the 3D video sequence to the rendering device. The 3D video sequence and the positional displacement are provided to at least one of the rendering unit and a controller. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160150223 | METHOD OF DETERMINING CALIBRATION PARAMETER FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DISPLAY DEVICE AND 3D DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE METHOD - A method of determining a calibration parameter for a three-dimensional (3D) display device includes determining a calibration parameter for a 3D display device based on an image of a second pattern three-dimensionally converted from an image of a first pattern. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160156901 | MULTI-VIEW DISPLAY DEVICE | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156902 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160165217 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING VIEWING ZONE CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC 3D IMAGE DISPLAY - Disclosed are a system and method for measuring viewing zone characteristics of an autostereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) image display device. The system for measuring viewing zone characteristics of the autostereoscopic 3D image display device includes at least one image sensor that is provided on a front side of the image display device, and measures characteristics of luminance distribution of viewpoint images in a depth direction (Z-direction) formed from at least two local areas which are designated in advance in a horizontal direction (X-direction) of the image display device, and a determination unit that determines, as an optimum viewing distance (OVD), a position of the image sensor corresponding to a depth direction (Z-direction) having a horizontal direction (X-direction) minimum deviation of a center position of luminance distribution of light generated from the same viewpoint image of each of the at least two local areas by analyzing the characteristics of luminance distribution on an X-Z plane measured from the image sensor. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160165222 | MEDICAL STEREOSCOPIC OBSERVATION APPARATUS, MEDICAL STEREOSCOPIC OBSERVATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a medical stereoscopic observation apparatus, including an acquiring unit configured to acquire a status signal according to a status of image processing from each of image processing sections of a plurality of systems that perform the image processing on input image data through a selected image processing unit among a plurality of image processing units and generate output image data to be output as a right eye image or a left eye image, and a control unit configured to cause a second image processing section different from a first image processing section to switch the selected image processing unit according to the status signal acquired from the first image processing section among the image processing sections of the plurality of systems. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160173862 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING GRAYSCALE BRIGHTNESS AND 3D DISPLAY DEVICE | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173864 | PICKUP OF OBJECTS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160178815 | Systems and Methods for Displaying an Image or Video on a Retro-Reflective Screen | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182878 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CLOSED CAPTIONING IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGERY | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182897 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182900 | Display System and Control Method Thereof | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160189633 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING LIGHT SOURCE THEREOF - An autostereoscopic 3D display apparatus, and a light source driving method thereof, includes an image receiver configured to receive an image, an image analyzer configured to analyze the image input through the image receiver, a 2D light source configured to generate a 2D image, a 3D light source configured to generate a 3D image, and a controller configured to drive the 2D light source and the 3D light source based on a result analyzed through the image analyzer in response to the display apparatus being operated in a 2D mode. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191904 | Autostereoscopic 3D Display Device - An autostereoscopic 3D display device according to the present disclosure may be configured to set the width of a viewing zone to a proper fraction of the interocular distance while at the same time overlapping the viewing zones with each other. Through this, an autostereoscopic 3D display device allowing the input and output of stereo image data may be implemented to reduce the number of image sources as well as reduce 3D crosstalk. In addition, the present disclosure may apply view data rendering to extend a 3D viewing zone. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191906 | WIDE-ANGLE AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND DEVICE - A wide-angle autostereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) image display method is provided. The method includes tracking a user in an autostereoscopic 3D image viewing state with respect to a display panel including a plurality of display units, obtaining a first distance between the display panel and a spectroscopic unit array including a plurality of spectroscopic units and a first width associated with each spectroscopic unit, and determining a second distance between a viewing position of the user and the display panel. The method also includes determining a width of a display unit combination corresponding to the second distance. Further, the method includes calculating a gray value of each display unit based on the width of the display unit combination and a reference value of the distance between each display unit and an edge of the display unit combination and displaying the 3D image on the display panel. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191909 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DISPLAY DEVICE - An autostereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) display device and a method for an autostereoscopic 3D display device is provided. The display device includes a tracking device configured to track a user in an autostereoscopic 3D viewing state, a display panel coupled with a light splitting device for 3D displaying, a display driving circuit for driving the light splitting device; a 3D image display controlling chip configured to store hardware parameters of the autostereoscopic 3D display device and to control the display driving circuit to switch on/off the light splitting device, an application module configured to receive a 3D displaying request from an application program for displaying a 3D image on the display device, a tracking module configured to obtain position information of the user by the tracking device, a scheduling module configured to read hardware parameters of the autostereoscopic 3D display device and to calculate 3D image arrangement data, and a 3D image arrangement module configured to receive the 3D image arrangement data and to arrange an image required for 3D displaying. Further, the scheduling module causes the 3D image display controlling chip to switch on the light splitting device for the display device to enter a 3D display mode and display the arranged 3D image on the display device. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160199015 | IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, OPERATING METHOD FOR SAME, AND IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205385 | HOLOSCOPE DIGITAL VIRTUAL OBJECT PROJECTOR | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205390 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ON A SCREEN AN OBJECT SHOWN IN A 3D DATA SET | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205391 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205492 | VIDEO DISPLAY HAVING AUDIO CONTROLLED BY VIEWING DIRECTION | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160252964 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING MEDIA ASSETS ASSOCIATED WITH HOLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURES | 09-01-2016 |
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