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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189035 | 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 imag... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189037 | Various configurations of the viewing window based 3D display system A panoramic 3D image is created by using multiple projectors whose field-of-view is narrower than the screen's width. Each projector provides a different image of a common subject from a different view angle, and the different images are mosaiced onto the screen. An... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189036 | Concealed regions complementing system of free viewpoint video images A sender produces a background video image 4 from a reference video image 1 and a depth map 3 and synthesizes the background video image 4 in a background buffer 5. A projection converting matrix 6 for synthesizing is calcul... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179426 | Pixel arrangement for an autostereoscopic display apparatus An autostereoscopic display apparatus comprises a spatial light modulator comprising an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns in a pixel plane, and a spatially multiplexing parallax element capable of directing light from successive columns of pixels towards ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179425 | Alignment of elements of a display apparatus To align a display substrate comprising an array of pixels with a component substrate comprising an array of optical components, the display substrate is divided from a display motherglass formed with an array of panels each comprising an array of pixels sufficient ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174564 | Three-dimensional display device A three-dimensional display device includes an image display portion displaying a left eye image and a right eye image; and a parallax barrier facing the image display portion and directing the left eye image and the right eye image displayed by the image display po... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174565 | Three-dimensional image display system Disclosed herein is a three-dimensional image display system, including: a multi-parallax image reproduction apparatus configured to reproduce two-dimensional images, which include a plurality of parallax images within one frame, at a first frame rate; and a three-d... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169468 | 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 syste... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164620 | Stereo projection optical system A stereo projection optical system includes an image engine configured for providing light superimposed spatial information, a color selector positioned to receive a light output of the image engine, a transmission-type light modulator positioned to receive an emerg... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159529 | 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 pl... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159530 | Method and apparatus 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 sect... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159526 | Stereoscopic image display system A stereoscopic image display system includes: an image display unit that displays a parallax image composed of a right eye image and a left eye image; glasses having a transmission portion for a right eye transmitting only the right eye image of the parallax image a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159527 | Method of displaying pictures, program for displaying pictures, recording medium holding the program, and display unit At least one picture is shown on a plurality of displays according to the distance from a user to an object. Picture signals are classified based on depth values of pictures, a plurality of displays are chosen based on the classification, and the pictures are shown ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159528 | Visual display apparatus A visual display apparatus suitable for use with a viewing apparatus capable of providing stereoscopic view of an image from 360-degree directions around it, or a display apparatus capable of displaying an observation image that changes depending on what angle it is... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154586 | Projection system and method of curved film The invention involves a sort of curved film projection system, including a rendering surface, a projection screen, a real scene rendering model of image system, a rendering model of projection system that renders the projection the image rendered by the rendering m... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154587 | Apparatus and method of displaying the three-dimensional image A three-dimensional image display apparatus displays element images each composed of a set of parallax component images. An exit pupil array is located opposite the display surface. Exit pupils of the array correspond to the respective element images. The horizontal... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149272 | Multiple view display A multiple view display comprises a parallax optic such as a parallax barrier (25) and a spatial light modulator (20) having a plurality of pixels arranged as rows and columns. The parallax optic (25) cooperates with the pixel structure to creat... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139104 | Autostereoscopic display device The present invention relates to an autostereoscopic display device, comprising an imaging layer (9) and a lens layer (10). The lens layer (10) serves to project different content from the imaging layer (9) to the left and right eyes, res... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134590 | Stereoscopic display apparatus In a stereoscopic display apparatus having optical directory elements such as lenticular elements (4) extending parallel to each other and being slanted at an angle to one of the rows and columns of picture elements the appearance of so called dark bands is p... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130259 | 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 tha... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8120648 | Method for displaying stereoscopic image The invention discloses a method for displaying a stereoscopic image, wherein the stereoscopic image includes a first-eye image and a second-eye image. The method is to firstly calculate a shift of the first-eye image with respect to the second-eye image. Then, the ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120646 | Spatial representation assembly The invention relates to arrangements for spatially displaying a scene or object, in which a great number of individual pixels αij in a grid of rows (j) and columns (i) are made visible simultaneously, with the pixels (αij) presenting bits of... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120647 | 3-dimensional display device having divided regions 3-dimensional display device includes a display panel for displaying image; a backlight for supplying light to the display panel; and a switching liquid crystal panel between the display panel and the backlight to display 2-dimensional image and 3-dimensional image ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8106941 | 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 ima... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106940 | Stereoscopic image display apparatus and stereoscopic image producing method A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes a two-dimensional display device having a display surface formed of a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, and an optical plate which is provided in front of the display surface of the two-dimensional display... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106939 | Image processing method, image processing device and image display apparatus employing the image processing device An image processing method is provided. The method includes a process carried out by a pair of imagers to extract a parallax caused by a distance to an object of photographing as a positional shift between mutually corresponding pixels included in said imagers or be... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106938 | Arrangement for realizing a three-dimensional representation The invention relates to arrangements and methods for spatially displaying images of a scene or object, in which several viewers can get a spatial impression without the use of aids. Arrangements according to the invention comprise an image display device and at lea... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094185 | 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 displa... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094184 | 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. A stereoscopic two-dimensional image display device includes a display unit 1 including an image display plane 1a on ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085294 | Stereoscopic image display apparatus A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: a plane display device; a lens array provided in front of the display surface to distribute light rays from pixels of the display device to predetermined angles, and having a plurality of lenses arranged in a first di... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077196 | 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 rece... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077195 | Autostereoscopic system A method for the autostereoscopic representation of images on a screen, wherein image information of separate channels for a right eye and a left eye of a user is displayed in interleaved segments on the screen, and a lens array is disposed for deflecting light emit... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068131 | 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 s... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068130 | Display panel and display apparatus An active matrix type display panel, used as a display-use panel, has pixel patterns each having aperture sections. The aperture sections are set to have a width satisfying the following inequality, 0 | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063931 | Stereoscopic display apparatus A stereoscopic display apparatus includes a display having pixels arrayed in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction to form a matrix, each pixel including sub-pixels with color components, and a control element opposed to the display and having linear open... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059939 | Recording medium, playback device, and integrated circuit On a recording medium, stereoscopic and monoscopic specific areas are located one after another next to a stereoscopic/monoscopic shared area. The stereoscopic/monoscopic shared area is a contiguous area to be accessed both in stereoscopic video playback and monosco... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8044997 | 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 st... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040370 | Stereoscopic image display apparatus having stereoscopic pixel with approximately square shape and stereoscopic image display method It is possible to prevent an image processing amount from increasing and obtain excellent display characteristics. A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: a flat display device having approximately square pixels arranged on a flat display plane in a square ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040371 | Three-dimensional display device and driving method thereof A three-dimensional display device according to the present invention includes a panel that time-shares images and displays left and right eye images, a panel control unit for controlling the panel by applying a display control signal that includes vertical and hori... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035683 | Stereoscopic image reproducing apparatus and stereoscopic image reproducing method When three-dimensional images are displayed on various display apparatuses, the images are displayed in a state that allows for stereoscopic vision even if the size of the display apparatus is large or even if the resolution of the display apparatus is low. T... | 10/11/2011 |
