Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189033 | Recording medium, playback device, and integrated circuit The recording medium 100 stores playlist information and a plurality of elementary streams. The playlist information includes a basic stream selection table and an extension stream selection table. The basic stream selection table shows elementary streams tha... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184145 | Display device and electronic apparatus In a SW-LCD, an orienting film is divided into first and second regions having different directions of orientation, and a transparent electrode film is also patterned so as to be divided into regions respectively corresponding to the first and second regions. In the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179423 | Image display system, an image display method, a coding method, and a printed matter for stereoscopic viewing An image display system, an image display method, a coding method, and a printed matter for stereoscopic viewing are disclosed. The image display system includes a real image presentation unit for showing a first view image of the stereoscopic image as a real image,... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174562 | Stereo camera having 360 degree field of view A stereo camera comprises at least one image sensor; a first surface configured to direct a first view of an area to the at least one image sensor, the first view comprising an approximately 360 degree view of the area; and a second surface configured to direct a se... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8164619 | Recording medium, playback device, and integrated circuit A recording medium records a main-view stream, a sub-view stream, and management information. The management information includes a system rate for each stream, and each stream is divided into a plurality of data blocks that form a plurality of extent blocks. In eac... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159524 | Orthorectifying stitched oblique imagery to a nadir view, and applications thereof An oblique photographic image is projected onto a three-dimensional model of terrain. Points are sampled from the projected photographic image at the intersection of the three-dimensional model of terrain and parallel rays extended from a virtual viewport having a n... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160420 | Optical disk for high resolution and general video recording, optical disk reproduction apparatus, optical disk recording apparatus, and reproduction control information generation apparatus The present invention has an objective of realizing compatibility of an optical disk having a high resolution video signal recorded thereon and a system for reproducing the optical disk, with a conventional system for producing a standard resolution video signal. A ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155500 | Optical disk for high resolution and general video recording, optical disk reproduction apparatus, optical disk recording apparatus, and reproduction control information generation apparatus The present invention has an objective of realizing compatibility of an optical disk having a high resolution video signal recorded thereon and a system for reproducing the optical disk, with a conventional system for producing a standard resolution video signal. A ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149267 | Recording medium, playback device, and integrated circuit A recording medium according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base-view stream and a dependent-view stream. The base-view stream is used for monoscopic video playback. The dependent-view stream is used for stereoscopic video playback in combinati... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149268 | System and method for determining three-dimensional information from two-dimensional images A system and method of determining three-dimensional data for an object by performing optical flow analysis to calculate surface profile analysis for a group of monocular component images that vary wavelength distribution, and determining three-dimensional data rela... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144188 | Projector arrangement A projector arrangement includes a first image generation and projection unit and a second image generation and projection unit. A first or two-dimensional projection/display mode and a second stereoscopic or projection/display mode can be realized by the cooperatin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8125513 | 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 ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121460 | Information recording medium and playback device for playing back 3D images To aim to increase the use efficiency of a screen on which a subtitle is displayed together with a stereoscopic image. A video shift mode is set for each subtitle. When a stereoscopic image is played back, in accordance with the video shift mode of the subtitle, a v... | 02/21/2012 |
| RE43203 | Computation time reduction for the three-dimensional displays A reconfigurable, three-dimensional display (1) wherein knowledge of the viewer's (4) eyes is used to enable the effective exit pupil(s) of the display system to be optimised. The system utilises this knowledge to identify contributing regions (5 | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115802 | Image processing system, display apparatus and image processing method An image processing system for stereoscopic view using a parallax barrier method includes an image information generating unit that generates image information of a lower resolution than an actual resolution for each of a first to an nth viewpoints. A receiving unit... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115803 | Apparatus and method for projecting spatial image An apparatus and method for projecting a spatial image is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes i) a monitor, which outputs the spatial image, ii) an image direction control unit, which controls the direction of the spatial image outputted from the mo... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106937 | Optical device Stereoscopic device including an image directing assembly, an image differentiator and an image detector, the image directing assembly having a first light inlet for receiving a first image and a second light inlet for receiving a second image, the first light inlet... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102413 | Stereoscopic imaging apparatus incorporating a parallax barrier An apparatus is disclosed for providing a stereoscopic image for viewing by a viewer, with improved resolution. The apparatus includes a generally planar display comprising a two-dimensional array of uniformly spaced pixels, and it further includes a generally plana... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8089506 | Image display apparatus and signal processing apparatus An apparatus is disclosed for displaying to a viewer an image stereoscopically representing a three-dimensional object to be displayed. The apparatus includes: an emitter emitting light, having an intensity modulating section capable of intensity modulation for modu... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081206 | 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 on... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8068129 | Optical device Stereoscopic device including an image directing assembly, an image differentiator and an image detector, the image directing assembly having a first light inlet for receiving a first image and a second light inlet for receiving a second image, the first light inlet... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063930 | Automatic conversion from monoscopic video to stereoscopic video The invention is a method for converting a monoscopic video movie passively acquired using a single camera to a stereoscopic video movie. The method comprises generating stereoscopic pairs comprising, for each frame in the original sequence, a transformed original f... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8049772 | Temperature compensation for the differential expansion of an autostereoscopic lenticular array and display screen A method and system for displaying autostereoscopic images is presented. The design comprises a display device, a lenticular array and a computational engine associated with the lenticular array. The computational engine is configured to assess temperature expansion... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044995 | Image processor and method for adjusting image quality An image processor includes: an receiving module configured to receive a video signal of a content; an image quality adjusting module configured to adjust image quality of the video signal received by the receiving module using image quality adjustment parameters in... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044994 | Method and system for decoding and displaying 3D light fields A method and system acquire and display light fields. A continuous light field is reconstructed from input samples of an input light field of a 3D scene acquired by cameras according to an acquisition parameterization. The continuous light is reparameterized accordi... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8018482 | Three-dimensional display device and driving method thereof A three-dimensional display device includes an image display unit and a light control unit facing the image display unit. The light control unit includes first and second substrates facing each other, a 2-viewpoint electrode layer and a multi-viewpoint electrode lay... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7999844 | Image conversion and encoding techniques A method of encoding a video signal of a 2D image with conversion data to assign in the conversion of said video signal to left and right eye images for stereoscopic display, including adding conversion data to a video signal of the 2D image to provide an encoded si... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7956886 | Multi-eye image pickup apparatus and adjusting method A stereoscopic camera includes a master camera for photoelectric conversion of object light to generate a first image signal with three color components G, R and B. A slave camera generates a second image signal. In an adjusting method, a first gain Dmr, Dmg and Dmb... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7940295 | Image display apparatus and control method thereof On the basis of an image taken by a right image taking unit and/or an image taken by a left image taking unit, an imaging parameter common to the right and left image taking units is calculated. The calculated imaging parameter is set in the right and left image tak... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7924307 | Optical viewing system and method for operating the same An optical viewing system (100) for viewing an object region has a display unit (105) which has a plurality of controllable display segments which make available color pulse sequences in order to generate a display image which is built up of a pluralit... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7911496 | Method of generating range images and apparatus therefor According to an aspect of the invention, since two range images (first and second range images) are individually generated by a first range image generating device and a second range image generating device by different methods, and one range image (a third range im... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7847816 | Imaging apparatus In an imaging apparatus having two imaging devices, a converter module which synthesizes the two signals of each horizontal line produced from the two imaging devices to thereby convert the two signals into a single composite signal, a line memory which cooperates w... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7796152 | Multi-dimensional imaging An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may include receiving a plurality of left eye rays through a first plurality of separating facets of a lens at an image acquisition plane, and receiving a plurality of right eye rays through a second plu... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7683926 | Optical device Stereoscopic device including an image directing assembly, an image differentiator and an image detector, the image directing assembly having a first light inlet for receiving a first image and a second light inlet for receiving a second image, the first light inlet... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7663660 | Image display system and image processing device A read unit reads a plurality of pieces of image data from an image storing unit for output, respectively. A destination specifying unit specifies image display units to be display destinations of the image data from the read unit. A divided-period setting unit divi... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7612795 | Enhancement of visual perception III A system, device within a system, and a method for enhancing visual perception in a two-dimensional image is disclosed, providing the induction of retinal disparity in the viewer by in a system with which the two-dimensional image is viewed. With fusion of the retin... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7545405 | Enhancement of visual perception II A system, device within a system, and a method for enhancing visual perception in a two-dimensional image is disclosed, providing the induction of retinal disparity in the viewer by a system and device with which the two-dimensional image is viewed. With fusion of t... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7525566 | Apparatus for obtaining data on the three-dimensional shape An apparatus for obtaining data on the three-dimensional shape is provided with: a device for producing data on the three-dimensional shape of an object; a display device for displaying an image based on the data produced by the producing device; a viewpoint variato... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7511731 | Image photographing apparatus and image processing method In an image generation apparatus capable of generating an image of an arbitrary view point, to enable a user to easily set a view point position of a reconstructed image in an actual space, there are provided an image photographing means for photographing an image; ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511730 | Image processing apparatus and method and image pickup apparatus A system to generate a three-dimensional image from a two-dimensional image in accordance with the mixture state of images. A foreground/background component image generator generates, from image data including a foreground area consisting of only foreground object ... | 03/31/2009 |
