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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120002179 | ADJUSTING SYSTEM AND PROJECTOR INCLUDING THE SAME An adjusting system for a projector includes a reference point projection unit, an infrared apparatus, a micro controller unit (MCU), and a graphic processing unit (GPU). The reference point projection unit stores reference points. The reference points are projected on ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110310360 | ADJUSTING SYSTEM AND PROJECTOR INCLUDING SAME A projector includes a body, a support shaft, an input unit, a distance detection unit mounted on a front surface of the body, an angle detection unit mounted in the support shaft, a micro controller unit, a graphics processing unit (GPU), and an optical unit. The dista... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110299047 | Projection Type Image Display Apparatus A projection type image display apparatus includes an image display element, a projection unit including a first lens group and a second lens group formed with a plural number of lenses, a reflection mirror configured to reflect light emitted from the second lens group ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110285971 | PROJECTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A projection apparatus which projects an image onto a projection plane based on an input image signal, the apparatus comprises: a division unit configured to divide an image represented by the input image signal into a plurality of regions; a deformation unit configured... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110242421 | IMAGE DISTORTION CORRECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD An image distortion correction apparatus and method are provided. The image distortion apparatus includes an image projector which projects an image on a projection screen; a user interface which receives an adjustment signal allowing a keystone correction on the projec... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110242491 | PROJECTOR OPTICAL SYSTEM Disclosed is a projector optical system, the system including an illumination unit including illumination lenses illuminating light downwards, a display device receiving light illuminated from the illumination lenses to enable to realize an image, projection lenses down... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110234994 | PROJECTOR DEVICE AND PROJECTION METHOD THEREOF A projector device includes: a light modulating element which modulates light from a light source section according to an image signal; a projecting section which projects a modulation light modulated by a displayable region in a surface of an effective region of the li... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110216289 | PROJECTOR, PROJECTION UNIT AND INTERACTIVE BOARD A projector includes: a body including a light source, a display plane illuminated with light from the light source, and a projection optical system which projects light from the display plane; and a projection unit which projects the light from the display plane, which... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110216284 | AUTOMATIC MODE SWITCHING BETWEEN SINGLE AND MULTIPLE PROJECTORS Control of a multiprojector system having multiple projectors arranged in a projector array. It is determined whether the projector array is positioned to form one object or two or more objects. A first keystone correction mode is selected if it is determined that the p... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110216288 | Real-Time Projection Management An exemplary method includes defining an environment, formulating an anti-keystoning algorithm based at least in part on the defined environment, projecting a laser image from a source to a surface of the defined environment, determining at least one vector parameter wi... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110181846 | PROJECTOR AND IMAGE PROJECTION METHOD A projector includes: an image projection unit that projects an image; a trapezoidal correction unit that performs trapezoidal correction on the image projected by the image projection unit; a nonvolatile storage unit that stores the amount of previous trapezoidal corre... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110164226 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROJECTION CORRECTION A method for projection correction includes following steps. An original image is projected as a projection image on an object. A projection-zone image including the projection image is captured from the object. A projection image outline corresponding to the projection... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110157563 | PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS A projection-type display apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a vertical keystone correction value used to correct a vertical distortion of a projection image and a horizontal keystone correction value used to correct a horizontal distortion of the proje... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110109884 | Post-Scan Distortion Adjustment Optics for Infinite Focus Projector System Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a scanned beam display may utilize one or more post-scan optics while at least partially maintaining an infinite focus, or nearly infinite focus, property of the display. The display may comprise a light source to gen... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110075113 | Projection Type Image Display Apparatus A projection type image display apparatus includes an image display element, a lens group disposed in a direction of propagation of light with respect to the image display element and being formed with a plural number of lenses, a s reflection mirror configured to refle... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110069284 | PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE AND KEYSTONE CORRECTION METHOD A projection display device includes: a projection section having an optical system; a parameter obtaining section adapted to obtain a first parameter corresponding to the projection angle showing a relative posture of the projection display device to the projection sur... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110043770 | REAR-PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE A rear-projection type display device has a projection device, a transmission type screen, a housing, and input means. The projection device projects a light from a light source, as an optical image. The optical image is projected to the transmission type screen. The ho... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110032492 | PROJECTOR, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND TRAPEZOIDAL DISTORTION CORRECTING METHOD A projector includes: a storing unit that stores setting data indicating a manual trapezoidal distortion correction system selected out of plural kinds of manual trapezoidal distortion correction systems; an operation unit that generates operation information; an imagin... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110025988 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE ADJUSTMENT METHOD A projection display apparatus includes; an element control unit configured to control a light valve so as to display a test pattern image configuring at least one portion of a respective one of three or more line segments configuring three or more crossing points; an a... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025982 | PROJECTOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A projector adapted to project an image includes: a detection section adapted to detect a motion of the projector; a determination section adapted to compare a detection result of the detection section with a predetermined criterion to perform determination on whether t... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110007283 | PROJECTOR, IMAGE PROJECTING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROJECTING METHOD A projector includes: an imaging unit that picks up an image of a projection target area with light in a first wavelength band and generates a first pickup image and picks up an image of the projection target area with light in a second wavelength band and generates a s... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100315602 | PROJECTOR, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND IMAGE PROJECTING METHOD A projector includes: a judging section that judges whether or not an event representing an instruction to project a message image containing a character string has occurred; a projection distance information generating section that generates projection distance informa... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100315601 | PROJECTOR AND TRAPEZOIDAL DISTORTION CORRECTING METHOD A projector includes: capturing section that images an object on which an image is projected to produce a captured image; a projection distance information generating section that generates projection distance information representing a projection distance, which is the... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100290010 | PROJECTION APPARATUS AND TRANSPARENT SCREEN FOR IT There is provided a projection apparatus using an oblique projection optical system, which generates little reflection loss by providing a linear Fresnel lens at an incident surface in the case where the apparatus is used as a linear system, wherein said linear Fresnel ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100283976 | Projection-Type Image Display Apparatus A projection-type image display apparatus for projecting an image, enlargedly, onto a projection surface, comprises: an image display element; a lens group, being disposed behind the image display element, comprising therein, a front lens group made up with a plural num... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100265471 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS A projection type image display apparatus includes an image display element, a first lens group disposed in a light direction with respect to the image display element and configured to include a plurality of lenses, a second lens group disposed in a light direction wit... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100265470 | Projection Type Image Display Apparatus A projection type image display apparatus includes an image display element, and a projection optical unit, which is configured to project an image displayed on the image display element, enlargedly, upon a screen. The projection optical unit includes a lens group, whic... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100265469 | Projector and image correction method A projector displays an image on a projection surface. The projector has a zoom adjusting module and a keystone correcting module. The zoom adjusting module adjusts zoom level of a zoom lens for enlarged projection of image light. The keystone correcting module corrects... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100225746 | REFERENCE IMAGE TECHNIQUES FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SENSING A method including providing a device that projects a pattern of coherent radiation. The method further includes capturing a reference image of the pattern using an image sensor by projecting the pattern of the coherent radiation onto a reference surface and engendering... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100171937 | OBLIQUE PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME A projection type display apparatus including an oblique projection optical system having a plurality of lenses is disclosed. A lens nearest to a projection screen has a vertical effective image area through which a light flux passes. The lens is arranged at a position ... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100165302 | PROJECTOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A projector adapted to perform a keystone distortion correction for correcting keystone distortion of an image projected on a projection surface, includes: a fluctuation detection section adapted to start detection of fluctuation state of the projector in response to a ... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100128231 | PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING PROJECTION ADJUSTMENT A projection-type display apparatus that projects an image toward a projection surface and displays the image thereon, the apparatus includes: a projecting section that includes a focal length adjusting mechanism and projects an image; an adjustment image controlling se... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100123878 | METHOD OF MEASURING ZOOM RATIO OF PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM, METHOD OF CORRECTING PROJECTION IMAGE USING THE METHOD, AND PROJECTOR EXECUTING THE CORRECTION METHOD A method of measuring a zoom ratio of a projection optical system adapted to project image light representing an original image on a projection screen, the method includes: (a) projecting and displaying a measuring image including a measurement point on the projection s... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100118281 | PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM A projection optical system satisfies the following conditional equation: 0.01<{(tan θ f1−tan θ f2)−(tan θ n1−tan θ n2)}·(β2/β1)<0.20. If, however, the normal line and longer side directions of a screen surface are z... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100103386 | PROJECTOR AND PROJECTOR CONTROL METHOD A projector which projects an image onto a projection surface, and displays it thereon, includes: a light source; a light modulator which modulates light from the light source into an image light representing the image; a projection optical system which projects the ima... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100103384 | PROJECTION APPARATUS A projection apparatus adapted to be disposed on a surface and adapted to project an image frame onto the surface is provided. The projection apparatus includes a housing, an optical engine, a projection lens, a containing sink, an extension rod, and a curved surface re... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100103385 | PROJECTOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PROJECTOR A projector adapted to perform display by projecting an image on a projection surface, includes: a light source; a light modulator adapted to modulate light from the light source into image light representing the image; a projection optical system adapted to project the... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100097581 | PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM A projection optical system receives light from a display device surface and enlarges and projects a display image thereon onto a screen surface. The projection optical system includes one or more reflective surfaces having an optical power between the display device su... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100060863 | Distortion Altering Optics for MEMS Scanning Display Systems or the Like Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a wedge is disposed after the MEMS scanner in a MEMS scanning display system which redirects the scan cone at the same time stretches and/or squashes the image to reduce or eliminate distortion inherent in scanning pr... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100053569 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD A projection display apparatus for displaying an image on a projection plane by projection, includes: an image capturing unit capturing an image; an angle calculator calculating an angle of the projection plane relative to the projection display apparatus; a straight li... | 03/04/2010 |
