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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7489331 | Method and apparatus for an autostereoscopic display having a lenticular lenslet array An autostereoscopic imaging apparatus for an observer includes an eye tracking mechanism for determining a position of each eye of the observer. The apparatus includes a computer for constructing a right image and a left image of a scene. The left image being seen b... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7443392 | Image processing program for 3D display, image processing apparatus, and 3D display system An image processing program includes the first step (S101, S102) of acquiring the first parameter serving as a parameter associated with 3D display on the first 3D display device, and acquiring the first 3D image data corresponding to the first paramet... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439940 | Passive virtual reality A method and apparatus for providing, in response to image signals originating in an object space, mixed image signals for providing nonuniform resolution images for stimulating simulated active percepts for passive perception by a viewer in an image space. The imag... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7430018 | Timesharing of a display screen Since a continuous movie effect is created at 24 frames/second, a TV or a movie screen capable of displaying 48 frames/second can alternate the frames from two different programs, so that the frames of each program will have the rate of 24 frames/second. Two viewers... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430312 | Creating 3D images of objects by illuminating with infrared patterns According to a general aspect, processing images includes projecting an infra-red pattern onto a three-dimensional object and producing a first image, a second image, and a third image of the three-dimensional object while the pattern is projected on the three-dimen... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426068 | Display apparatus A display apparatus comprises a spatial light modulator and optical elements in series therewith. The optical elements provide a first parallax element being a parallax barrier capable of directing light output from the display apparatus into a first plurality of vi... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426292 | Method for determining optimal viewpoints for 3D face modeling and face recognition A method determines an optimal set of viewpoints to acquire a 3D shape of a face. A view-sphere is tessellated with a plurality of viewpoint cells. The face is at an approximate center of the view-sphere. Selected viewpoint cells are discarded. The remaining viewpoi... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7417665 | Stereoscopic image observing apparatus A stereoscopic image observing apparatus includes a right-eye projector 1 and a left-eye projector 2 which illuminate projected light for right and left eyes with the parallax generated based on an image pick-up signal obtained from a stereoscopic endo... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414596 | Data conversion method and apparatus, and orientation measurement apparatus An orientation sensor measures the orientation of the orientation sensor itself on a sensor coordinate system, and outputs an orientation measurement value. A first alignment data setting unit reads out first alignment data, which is recorded in an external storage ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411611 | Device and method for performing multiple view imaging by means of a plurality of video processing devices In one aspect, the present invention provides an imaging system for multiple view imaging. Multiple view imaging comprises, but is not limited to, stereoscopic imaging. The imaging system for multiple view imaging comprises at least two video processing devices, eac... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403709 | Structure for attaching stereoscopic camera in vehicle A structure for attaching a stereoscopic camera to a vehicle, by which a plurality of cameras are attached to a body frame of the vehicle in order to stereoscopically capture images surrounding the vehicle; and the same structure includes a lateral stay for coupling... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397943 | Method and arrangement for touchless detection of data of uneven surfaces A method for detecting data of an uneven surface of an object includes the following steps: illuminating at least one of stripes and a grid on the uneven surface using at least one light source; detecting, without a touching contact, light reflected from the uneven ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7388598 | 3D camera system and method A 3D camera system and method for generating a 3D picture from real 3D input pictures. The system includes one or more cameras, a robotic or manually driven moving platform on which the camera or cameras are adjustably mounted. The system is moved on a fan-shaped gr... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386163 | Obstacle recognition apparatus and method, obstacle recognition program, and mobile robot apparatus An obstacle recognition apparatus is provided which can recognize an obstacle by accurately extracting a floor surface. It includes a distance image generator (222) to produce a distance image using a disparity image and homogeneous transform matrix, a plane ... | 06/10/2008 |
