Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110221705 | TOUCH OBJECT AND PROXIMATE OBJECT SENSING APPARATUS BY SELECTIVELY RADIATING LIGHT - Provided is a touch object and proximate object sensing apparatus by selectively radiating a light. An object sensing apparatus may separately use a touch light source to sense a touch image generated by an object touching a light guide, and a hovering light source to sense a target image generated by an object proximate to the light guide. The light guide may emit, to an upper portion of the light guide, an invisible light radiated from the hovering light source to enhance a sensation of sensing the proximate object. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221888 | Apparatus, method and computer-readable medium imaging through at least one aperture of each pixel of display panel - Provided is an imaging apparatus, method and computer-readable medium that photographs an object through at least one aperture of each of pixel of a display panel. The imaging apparatus includes a camera unit in back of the display panel and photographs the object through the at least one aperture of each of the pixels of the display panel to enable a location of the camera unit to be the same as a location of a display unit, measures a distance to the object using a blur effect occurring when photographing through the at least one aperture of the display panel, and restores an image where the blur effect is included. | 09-15-2011 |
20110304532 | Image capturing and display apparatus and method - Provided is a display apparatus and method. The display apparatus may sense light reflected from an object and passed through a display panel, and may control a power of a backlight unit depending on whether the light has passed through the display panel. | 12-15-2011 |
20120026160 | Photographable three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus - Provided is a three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus. The 3D display apparatus may include a mode decision unit to determine a mode corresponding to a predetermined criterion, a barrier panel to form a pattern based on the determined mode, and a controller to control a power of a backlight unit associated with an image panel, based on the determined mode. | 02-02-2012 |
20120139855 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING TOUCH INFORMATION AND PROXIMITY INFORMATION IN DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided are an apparatus and method for detecting touch information and proximity information in a display apparatus. The apparatus for detecting the touch information and the proximity information in the display apparatus may detect the touch information and the proximity information by obtaining an image area associated with touch sensing and an image area associated with proximity sensing with respect to an obtained image in the display apparatus. | 06-07-2012 |
20120146953 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR SENSING MULTI-TOUCH AND PROXIMITY OBJECT - A display apparatus that may enable sensing a multi-touch and a proximity object is provided. The display apparatus may display an image generated by the object on an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel, and may sense an invisible light that may be reflected by the object and may have entered through a hole. | 06-14-2012 |
20120176298 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (OLED) DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING LIGHT SENSING FUNCTION - An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display apparatus having an optical sensing function is provided. The OLED display apparatus may photograph an external object by sensing input light from the external object that passes through an imaging pattern included in a display panel. | 07-12-2012 |
20120183203 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING FEATURE OF DEPTH IMAGE - Provided is a feature extraction method and apparatus to extract a feature of a three-dimensional (3D) depth image. The feature extraction apparatus may generate a plurality of level sets using a depth image, and may extract a feature for each level depth image. | 07-19-2012 |
20120268426 | APPARATUS TO SENSE TOUCHING AND PROXIMATE OBJECTS - A sensing apparatus may emit light, radiated from a light source, to an upper part and may preserve light in an internal part, based on a total internal emission angle of the light. Also, the sensing apparatus may project the light radiated to the upper part, and the light preserved in the internal part, towards at least one of a touching object and the proximate object. | 10-25-2012 |
20130169643 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING DEPTH - A display apparatus and method may be used to estimate a depth distance from an external object to a display panel of the display apparatus. The display apparatus may acquire a plurality of images by detecting lights that are input from an external object and passed through apertures formed in a display panel, may generate one or more refocused images, and may calculate a depth from the external object to the display panel using the plurality of images acquired and one or more refocused images. | 07-04-2013 |
20130250064 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING FIELD OF VIEW - A display apparatus for controlling a field of view is provided. When a mode it set to a photograph mode, the display apparatus may control the field of view when photographing, by sensing an input light emitted from an object and transmitted through a first panel on which a field of view control pattern is formed, and a second panel on which an imaging pattern is formed. | 09-26-2013 |
20140132530 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING AND MANUFACTURING THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device, and a method of operating and manufacturing the display device may receive input light from an object to be scanned that is positioned in front of a display for displaying an image, and may perform scanning of the object to be scanned. | 05-15-2014 |
20140184754 | METHOD OF OBTAINING DEPTH INFORMATION AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A method of obtaining depth information and a display apparatus may adjust a sensor area of a sensor panel based on a distance from an object, and may obtain depth information of the object based on the adjusted sensor area. | 07-03-2014 |
20140232638 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER INTERFACE USING GAZE INTERACTION - A method and apparatus for a user interface using a gaze interaction is disclosed. The method for the user interface using the gaze interaction may include obtaining an image including eyes of a user, estimating a gaze position of the user, using the image including the eyes of the user, and determining whether to activate a gaze adjustment function for controlling a device by a gaze of the user, based on the gaze position of the user with respect to at least one toggle area on a display. | 08-21-2014 |
20140333722 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DEPTH IMAGE USING RELATIVE ANGLE BETWEEN IMAGE SENSOR AND TARGET OBJECT - An apparatus for processing a depth image using a relative angle between an image sensor and a target object includes an object image extractor to extract an object image from the depth image, a relative angle calculator to calculate a relative angle between an image sensor used to photograph the depth image and a target object corresponding to the object image, and an object image rotator to rotate the object image based on the relative angle and a reference angle. | 11-13-2014 |
20150015544 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSING OBJECT, AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING CALIBRATION PATTERN IN OBJECT SENSING APPARATUS - At least one example embodiment discloses an apparatus for sensing an object, the apparatus including a display, a light source configured to emit light toward the display, a pattern layer on the display, the pattern layer including a first pattern for identifying a position on the display, a camera configured to generate a pattern image based on light reflected off of the pattern layer, and a controller configured to adjust an operation of at least one of the light source and the camera based on a second pattern displayed in the pattern image. | 01-15-2015 |