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20110090217 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library. | 04-21-2011 |
20110102427 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library. | 05-05-2011 |
20110102428 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103680 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library. | 05-05-2011 |
20110157173 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157174 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157319 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library. | 06-30-2011 |
20110193861 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library. | 08-11-2011 |
20110228183 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes: an image display means for displaying left-eye images and right-eye images alternately; a light-shielding means for generating an effect of binocular parallax in images displayed by the image display means; and a detection means for detecting a position of an observer, wherein the light-shielding means includes an image transmitting portion through which images of the image display means are transmitted and an image non-transmitting portion through which images are not transmitted, which moves a position of the image transmitting portion by ½, ¼ or ⅛ of a light-shielding portion pitch prescribed by an arrangement interval of the image transmitting portion based on a detected result of the detection means. | 09-22-2011 |
20110228185 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes: an image display unit having a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixels with colors different from one another, the sub-pixels displaying an image for a right eye and an image for a left eye; and a light shielding unit configured to cause parallax to be generated between the two eyes. In the image display unit, each of the sub-pixels is substantially square and arranged in such a manner as to correspond to a corresponding lattice point of a triangular lattice. In the light shielding unit, a shape of a light shielding barrier in a state in which a display device body is oriented in a vertical direction is different from a shape of the light shielding barrier in a state in which the display device body is oriented in a horizontal direction. | 09-22-2011 |
20110242466 | THIN FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THIN FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a display device that provides a first observation region with a first picture and provides a second observation region with a second picture, a double image made of the first picture and the second picture is suppressed. First columns of pixels that display the first picture and second columns of pixels that display the second picture are disposed alternately with a black matrix interposed between each neighboring pair of them. A light-shielding plate having light-shielding portions and openings is disposed above the panel. When a distance between the first observation region and the second observation region is denoted by V, a distance between the first observation region or the second observation region and the light-shielding plate is denoted by D, a distance between the light-shielding plate and the display panel is denoted by G, an interval of the first columns of pixels or the second columns of pixels is denoted by P, and the width of the black matrix is denoted by Q, an equation K≦Q×D/(D+G) is satisfied. The openings are disposed on lines connecting between a position directly above a center of the display panel and the black matrix. | 10-06-2011 |
20120044249 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library. | 02-23-2012 |
20120120213 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a two-dimensional display unit that displays p viewpoint videos, which are spatially divided, within one screen; and an optical device that optically splits the p viewpoint videos displayed on the display unit so as to enable a stereoscopic view at p viewpoints. The display unit includes unit pixels each formed from sub-pixels that display r types of colors necessary for a color video display, and the sub-pixels that emit light of different colors are arranged so as to be adjacent to each other in a same row in a screen horizontal direction. Each of the p viewpoint videos is displayed in n sub-pixel rows, each of which is configured by the sub-pixels aligned in a first direction other than the screen horizontal direction and which are consecutive in the screen horizontal direction, in the screen horizontal direction on a cycle of (p×n) rows. | 05-17-2012 |
20120229457 | DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a display device excellent in resolution balance when a plurality of perspective pictures is used for stereoscopic display. The display device includes a display section including a plurality of sub-pixels, and displaying a plurality of perspective pictures in a screen, and an optical separation element optically separating the perspective pictures displayed on the display section. The sub-pixels are each with, in a planar view, a size in a long-side direction being less than three times a size in a short-side direction. | 09-13-2012 |
20120242569 | DISPLAY - A display capable of performing optimum stereoscopic display according to a view position is provided. A display includes: a display section including a plurality of first pixels to a plurality of nth pixels, where n is an integer of 4 or more, and displaying a plurality of perspective images assigned to the first to nth pixels; a detection section detecting a view position of a viewer; and a display control section varying the number of the plurality of perspective images assigned to the first to nth pixels and varying a correspondence relationship between the first to nth pixels and the perspective images, according to the view position of the viewer. | 09-27-2012 |
20130003176 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display unit that time-divisionally displays a plurality of view point images in N divisions, N being an integer equal to or more than 2, a backlight that irradiates the display unit with image display light, and a separation unit that separates M view point images displayed in the same time slot in the display unit, M being an integer equal to or more than 2. The backlight controllably switches the exit direction of light time-divisionally in synch with the timing of time division display by the display unit, the backlight controllably switching the exit direction of light between N directions. | 01-03-2013 |
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20090141052 | DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A display unit has subpixels arranged in a row direction and an intersecting column direction. A light-shielding member is arranged to overlap every other boundary of the subpixels arranged in the row direction in front view. An image data synthesis circuit generates image data of a composite image to be displayed on a part of the display unit based on first and second images. Each of the subpixels forms either a first or second subpixel alternately arranged in the row direction. The first subpixel and the second subpixel are arranged at adjacent positions on opposite sides of the light-shielding member in front view. In the part of the display unit, the first and second subpixels display, respectively, the first and second images on the basis of image data of the composite image. In another part of the display unit, the first and second subpixels display a third image. | 06-04-2009 |
20090309958 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device provides first and second images. The display device includes a display panel having electro-optical elements, including a first element group with first-image display elements displaying the first image and a second element group with second-image display elements displaying the second image. A light advance control unit controls light emitted from the first element group to advance to a first area displaying the first image and controls light emitted from the second element group to advance to a different, second area displaying the second image. The first and second element groups are controlled such that a first period in which the first-image display elements are driven and at least a part of the second-image display elements is not driven and a second period in which the second-image display elements are driven and at least a part of the first-image display elements is not driven are repeated. | 12-17-2009 |
20100245997 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The electro-optic device of the present invention includes an arrangement of an electro-optic panel and a lenticular lens sheet on one side of the electro-optic panel, wherein the lenticular lens sheet includes multiple cylindrical lenses arrayed parallel to one another and an alignment line extending in such a direction as to intersect with the cylindrical lenses at a predetermined angle. The lenticular lens sheet has cylindrical lenses arrayed so that the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical lenses intersects with the pixel array direction of the electro-optic panel at a predetermined angle, and has an alignment line formed in the lenticular lens sheet that is in alignment with the positioning reference portions of the electro-optic panel. | 09-30-2010 |
20110083106 | IMAGE INPUT SYSTEM - An image input system includes: a display device that displays a three-dimensional image; a plurality of cameras; a controller that controls the display device and the plurality of cameras, wherein the controller causes the display device to display the three-dimensional image that includes a plurality of icons, the controller performs analysis processing on the plurality of images picked up by the plurality of cameras to obtain and output analysis information that contains three-dimensional position information regarding a most protruding part at a side of the user, the plurality of icons includes icons of which positions in a depth direction in the three-dimensional image are not the same, and each icon can be identified from the other icons or can be selected out of the icons of which the positions in the depth direction are not the same. | 04-07-2011 |
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20130249896 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method of displaying three-dimensional stereoscopic image includes displaying N viewpoint images on N sub-pixels, emitting the N viewpoint images through a dynamic conversion panel on which a emission unit is defined, controlling a sub-area to emit the N viewpoint images onto N×M viewpoint positions if observers are plural, and moving the emission unit to a position determined according to an observer's position if the observer is single, and then emitting the N viewpoint images to the observer's position. The dots are consecutive in a row direction of a display panel. The emission unit includes a constituent emission unit consisting of M sub-areas. The display quality of three-dimensional stereoscopic images may be improved by detecting the number of observers and then driving in a multi-viewpoint mode or a tracking mode according to the number of the observers. | 09-26-2013 |
20130307948 | 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A 3-dimensional image display device includes: a backlight unit; a barrier panel above the backlight unit and including unit barriers which selectively blocks light; a lenticular lens array above the barrier panel and including lenticular lenses, each having a principal point; a liquid crystal panel above the lenticular lens array; an eye tracking sensor which detects a position of eyes of a viewer and a distance between the principal point of the lenticular lenses and the eyes; and a controller which controls the backlight unit, the barrier panel and the liquid crystal panel based on an output of the eye tracking sensor, where the controller turns on and off the unit barriers such that light passes through the principal point of the lenticular lenses to apply a right-eye image to a right eye of the viewer and apply a left-eye image to a left eye of the viewer. | 11-21-2013 |
20140028813 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE AND THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method of displaying a three-dimensional (“3D”) image, the method includes determining a shutter electrode of an unit part included in a shutter panel as a left-eye electrode and a right-eye electrode, the unit part including ‘n’ shutter electrodes (herein, n is a natural number), selectively driving the left-eye electrode and the right-eye electrode as an opening part based on an image displayed on a display panel to transmit light through the opening part, and providing light transmitted through the opening part with an observer's two eyes through a lens plate, the lens plate including a plurality of lenses. | 01-30-2014 |
20140063001 | ACTIVE BARRIER PANEL AND THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An active barrier panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first opening electrode configured to operate as a first opening transmitting the light and a first barrier electrode configured to as a first barrier blocking the light, the first opening electrode and the first barrier electrode having a step structure. The second substrate includes a second opening electrode configured to operate as a second opening and crossing at a right angle to the first opening electrode, and a second barrier electrode configured to operate as a second barrier and crossing at a right angle to the first barrier electrode. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and second substrates. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063083 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENABLING PERCEPTION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A display apparatus may enable a viewer to perceive an image. The viewer has a right eye and a left eye, the right eye having a right pupil, the left eye having a left pupil. The display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of subpixels. The display apparatus further includes a position detecting part configured to detect a user location related to the viewer. The display apparatus further includes a light controlling element configured for transmitting light provided from one or more of the subpixels toward one or more of the right eye and the left eye. The display apparatus further includes a display panel driver configured to change subpixel-eye association for at least one of the subpixels in response to a change of the user location detected by the position detecting part. | 03-06-2014 |
20140118332 | METHOD OF DRIVING ACTIVE BARRIER PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method of driving an active barrier panel, the active barrier panel comprising an electrode unit which has n barrier electrodes operating as an opening part transmitting light and n barrier electrodes operating as a barrier part blocking the light, the method includes calculating a crosstalk distribution of each of observer's left-eye and right-eye corresponding to each of 2n barrier-shift modes, according to an observer's position, dividing an active area of the active barrier panel into at least one barrier block based on a flat portion of the crosstalk distribution, in which a minimum crosstalk is maintained, determining the barrier-shift mode for each barrier block to maintain the minimum crosstalk, and operating the electrode unit in a corresponding barrier block in the determined barrier-shift mode. | 05-01-2014 |
20140146023 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE USING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a barrier part, a display panel driver and a barrier driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The barrier part is disposed on the display panel. The barrier part generates N viewpoint images using a plurality of barriers selectively transmitting and blocking a light. N is a natural number. The display panel driver provides image data to the display panel. The barrier driver controls the barrier part such that the different barriers have transmitting statuses in a first subframe and a second subframe. | 05-29-2014 |
20140340402 | THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - A time multiplexing multi-view point three dimensional image display device includes a display panel that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, where each pixel displays one color of a plurality of primary colors, and a view point division unit that divides the 3D image displayed by the display panel into two or more view points. The display panel includes a plurality of dots, each dot includes a set of pixels in which each pixel shows a different primary color. Each dot displays a 3D image for a view point during a frame set that includes a plurality of frames. The view point division unit moves in a row direction when the frame changes in the frame set, and at least one pixel one of the dot is selected in each frame of the frame set. | 11-20-2014 |