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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7003150 | Homography transfer from point matches An infinity homography for an image pair within an image sequence is transferred to other image pairs within the image sequence utilizing point matches for the subject image pairs. An image set including the image pair for which the infinity homography is known and ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999239 | Head-mounted display by integration of phase-conjugate material This invention has incorporated projective optics and phase conjugate material thus eliminating the requisite use of an external phase conjugate material to provide a see-through head mounted projective display. A key component of the invention is the use of optical... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999137 | Reflection type semiconductor display device A reflection type semiconductor display device which can make satisfactory display even when external light is not satisfactorily intense is provided. A reflection type semiconductor display device according to the present invention can take in light other than inci... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6992811 | Display device Display devices, display device methods and display device software that allows users to, for example, immediately return a display device to the powered up state when a power button is inadvertently pressed. ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6991336 | Illumination apparatus and projector display apparatus An illumination apparatus comprise a light control member configured to perform changing the path of light from light emitters to be directed to an illuminated area and/or moving of the light emitters, a movement unit configured to allow the light control member to ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6988806 | Instant-on projector A projection system is provided with a primary light source and an auxiliary light source to compensate the primary light source for at least white light during an initial period to provide a user with an instant-on experience. In various embodiments, the auxiliary ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6988803 | Method for transmitting signals in a projection system and projection system which applies such method Method for transmitting signals in a projection system, including the step of transmitting signals (Ra, Ga, Ba and Rb, Gb, Bb) to two or more projection elements (6 and 7), which projection elements (6 and 7) each are used for projecting ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6986583 | Table type display device and an assembling method thereof A table type display device capable of selecting the best projector according to user's budget and mode is provided for with easy exchange of the projector. The table type display device comprises four projectors 1LU, 1LL, 1RU, and 1 | 01/17/2006 |
| 6984043 | Image display apparatus for displaying superimposed images from a plurality of projectors An image display apparatus is provided which includes a screen and a plurality of projectors which respectively project images relating to a same object so that the images are superimposed on each other on the screen. One of the plurality of projectors is arranged s... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6979960 | Circuit for driving light source, projector, method for controlling lighting of light source, and computer readable program for executing the same The invention provides a circuit to drive a light source capable of lengthening the life span of the light source and of coping with both a rated power mode and a power saving mode. A circuit to drive a light source includes a control device to drive the light sourc... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6979085 | Image projector and method of operating same The invention relates to an image projector with a High-Intensity-Discharge HID lamp (112) and a method of operating it. Such lamps have the disadvantage that their voltaic arc jumps back and forth between different positions at unforeseeable times during ope... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6975366 | Digital display system using pulsed lasers An image projection system comprises a laser source that generates a series of periodic pulses having substantially uniform energy content, a spatial light modulator, and a modulator driver synchronized with the laser pulses so that transition intervals of the modul... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975294 | Systems and methods for speckle reduction through bandwidth enhancement A laser imaging system with reduced speckle is disclosed. The laser imaging system includes spatially superpositioned 1-D arrays or alternatively 2-D arrays of independent emitters of laser radiation, with each emitter having a spectral bandwidth Δλi ce... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6972788 | Projection display for a aircraft cockpit environment A projection display is provided according to one embodiment of the invention. The projection display includes a hollow case including a window opening, a screen formed on one portion of the case, and at least one mirror internally mounted to the case at a position ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6969960 | Image projection lighting device An improved image projection lighting device is disclosed. Commands received by a communications port of the base housing may be acted upon to change zoom and focus values of a zoom and focus lens. A cooling system may be provided which compares an input air tempera... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6966658 | Projection type display apparatus rear projection and multi-vision system A small projection display apparatus which suppresses optical paths of incident and output light in a reflection valve from overlapping; and a rear projector and a multi-vision system using the same. The projection display apparatus includes an illumination optical ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6963454 | Head-mounted display by integration of phase-conjugate material This invention has incorporated projective optics and phase conjugate material thus eliminating the requisite use of an external phase conjugate material to provide a see-through head mounted projective display. A key component of the invention is the use of optical... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6956701 | Method and apparatus for combining light paths of multiple colored light sources through a common integration tunnel Embodiments of this invention include a system, method and apparatus for combining light paths of multiple colored light sources through a common integration tunnel. ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6955435 | Image projection lighting device An improved image projection lighting device is disclosed. Commands received by a communications port of the base housing may be acted upon to change zoom and focus values of a zoom and focus lens. A cooling system may be provided which compares an input air tempera... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6944581 | Collimated visual display apparatus Collimated visual display apparatus comprising an aspheric screen (12) and a curved collimating mirror (16), characterised in that the aspheric screen (12) is not a surface of revolution about an axis, the aspheric screen (12) comprises f... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6942344 | Autostereoscopic display for multiple viewers An apparatus for displaying a stereoscopic virtual image to a first viewer (12a) and to a second viewer (12b), where the stereoscopic virtual image is imaged to each viewer at a left viewing pupil (14l) and a right viewing p... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6940531 | Environment-Compliant image display system, image processing method, and information storage medium To provide an environment-compliant image display system, image processing method, and information storage medium that enable correction of images within a shorter time, a Y value of color signals (Y3, x3, y3) measured by a color light sensor | 09/06/2005 |
| 6939012 | Laser image projector A laser image projector includes a substrate; and a two dimensional array of individually addressable laser pixels formed on the substrate for emitting an imagewise beam of laser light perpendicular to the substrate, each of the laser pixels including an addressable... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6939025 | Light consolidating system A light consolidating system is provided for converging light emitted from at least one lamp positioned at the focus of an ellipse. A light guiding means is provided in the system for guiding the converged light to the output side. The system is characterized by the... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6937209 | Image display system An image display apparatus has an observation room for housing an observer, and the side faces, floor face, and ceiling face of the observation room are used as screens, onto which images displayed on a smaller number of image display devices than the number of scre... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6932481 | Projection display system, projector and menu image display method for same To provide a technique for facilitating control of a plurality of projectors. A projection display system comprises a plurality of projectors wherein a plurality of images projected by the projectors are displayed on a common projection screen. Each projector compri... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930456 | Method and apparatus for controlling images with image projection lighting devices A lighting system includes a central controller and multiparameter lights, including IPLDs. A display of the multiparameter lights at the central controller includes the IPLDs and their image parameters, which are used to evoke a display of graphics tools at the cen... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6930832 | Strap design for tiled rear projection screens An improved strap design is provided for to reducing edge reflections in tiled video cubes. More particularly, a groove is notched on the outside of the strap into which bonding compound is injected for bonding the screen mounting surface to the video cube. In addit... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6930681 | System and method for registering multiple images with three-dimensional objects A computer implemented method registers an image with a 3D physical object by first acquiring a 3D graphics model of an object. Multiple 3D calibration points a surface of the object and corresponding 3D model calibration points in the 3D graphics model are identifi... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6926412 | Projection display apparatus with a curved screen A projection display apparatus with red (R), green (G), and blue (B) monochromatic cathode ray tubes (CRTs) and three projection lenses, disposed in front of the R, G, and B monochromatic CRTs respectively, along with a screen having a predetermined curvature concav... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6921176 | Illuminating optical system, image display unit and method of illuminating space modulation element Provided are an illumination optical system having superior color rendering properties while ensuring sufficient illuminance, an image display apparatus comprising the illumination optical system and a spatial modulation device illuminated by the illumination optica... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6921171 | Color scrolling projection system A projection system including an adjusting part, a scrolling part, and a color separating part is provided. The adjusting part adjusts the divergence angle of light emitted from a light source. The scrolling part scrolls a plurality of color bars on a light valve. T... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6916097 | Light source device and projection type display unit to which the device is applied A light emitted from a semiconductor light emitting device array having a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices arranged two-dimensionally on a substrate is converged by a condensing lens. In a light guide, a mirror surface is formed from a light inciden... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6917462 | Method and apparatus for translating a spatial light modulator to provide dithering A method for translating a spatial light modulator (22) to provide dithering comprises the steps of: providing a support (11) have a high degree of flexibility; rigidly attaching an outer portion (14) of the support to a nonmoving base; attachin... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6909543 | Foveated display system An improved theater geometry which is capable of providing improved image resolution and improved image contrast over prior systems is achieved with a unique projection geometry and image re-mapping technique. The projected image is provided with a continuously vari... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6905217 | Projector with narrow-spectrum light source to complement broad-spectrum light source A projector that has a narrow-spectrum light source to complement a broad-spectrum light source is disclosed. The broad-spectrum light source has a broad spectrum. The narrow-spectrum light source has a narrow spectrum complementing the broad spectrum of the broad-s... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6899435 | Illumination apparatus and image projection apparatus using the illumination apparatus An illumination apparatus which illuminates a portion to be illuminated with light from a light source comprises a plurality of light emitting members constituting the light source, a driving circuit which drives the respective light emitting members, a condenser op... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6899436 | Projection apparatus with axis parallel micro mirrors and light sources A projection apparatus is formed employing at least one micro mirror with a tilt axis disposed on a first plane, and a number of light sources disposed on a light source axis disposed on a second plane, where the light source axis is parallel to the tilt axis. ... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6886943 | High-resolution projection display system An image display system uses a polarizing beam splitter to direct light from a lamp to multiple spatial modulators. The spatial light modulators (“SLM”) each generate an image portion, which are stitched together on a display screen to obtain a high resolution i... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6886940 | Autostereoscopic display for multiple viewers An apparatus for displaying a stereoscopic virtual image to a first viewer (12a) and to a second viewer (12b), where the stereoscopic virtual image is imaged to each viewer at a left viewing pupil (14l) and a right viewing p... | 05/03/2005 |
