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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189039 | Autostereoscopic display device A drive method and apparatus is provided for a 2D/3D autostereoscopic display with a switchable lens array having an electrically switchable refractive index, between an array of row electrode lines and an array of column electrode lines to control the switching of ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7969463 | Three-dimensional display An object of the present invention is to eliminate color non-uniformity and intensity non-uniformity on a three-dimensional image. The present invention provides a three-dimensional display comprising: a two-dimensional display, which comprises a plurality of color ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7839430 | Autostereoscopic reproduction system for 3-D displays What is described is a position-adaptive autostereoscopic 3-D reproduction system for generating 3-D images or scenes, having a flat image screen (1) with colour subpixels (R, G, B) lying side by side, a raster screen (2), a coding unit (6, 9) a... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7436594 | Autostereoscopic display apparatus An autostereoscopic display device (1), includes a display panel (10), a lenticular sheet (15) and an electrically controllable diffuser (80). The electrically controllable diffuser (80) includes an optical medium (94), e.g.... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7375886 | Method and apparatus for optimizing the viewing distance of a lenticular stereogram A method and apparatus for optimizing viewing distance for a stereogram system. In a stereogram, an image is held in close juxtaposition with a lenticular screen. In the invention, a data store is used to store optimum pitch values for specified viewing distances. A... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372629 | Three-dimensional image display device, portable terminal device, display panel and fly eye lens In a three-dimensional image display device for displaying color three-dimensional images, a fly eye lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in this order from the observer side. A display panel has four pixels arrayed in a (2×2) matrix correlated wi... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372458 | Method to fast search printing frequency to present a 3D image A method for searching a printing frequency to display a 3D picture includes breaking an image into strips and using NumLen lenses to form a NumLen-1 image cycle. After the NumLen-1 image cycle is formed, a quantity of images of the image cycle is defined to be dpi/... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365707 | Display system for displaying images within a vehicle A display system (100) for displaying images from different data streams (1,2) simultaneously is described. Images corresponding to the first data stream (1) are shown to a first observer (106) in a vehicle and images corresponding to the second data stream (... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365809 | Stereoscopic image display device having negative pressure regions within A stereoscopic image display device 30 comprising a backlight 32, a liquid crystal display panel 36, a liquid crystal parallax barrier 44, and a spacer member 40 arranged between the liquid crystal display panel 36 and the l... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357510 | Projection-type 3-D image display device using single projector A projection-type 3-D image display device includes a single display element, a polarization conversion switch, a first image shifter, a second image shifter, a projection lens unit, a mirrored light tunnel, and a screen unit. The screen unit includes an image separ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7342602 | Polarization means and its position holding mechanism This invention provides a polarization means capable of obtaining an always clear three-dimensional image easily, correctly, and quickly and a position holding mechanism. A polarizing plate has areas for the left eye and the right eye where respective polarized ligh... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7327389 | 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 The present invention 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 simple configurat... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7315241 | Enhanced perception lighting The present invention relates to an enhanced perception lighting (EPL) system for providing enhanced perception of a user's physical environment. The EPL system comprises a sensor module for detecting and sampling a physical aspect from at least one point in a physi... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7302113 | Displaying digital images A method of displaying digital images comprises the steps of using a processor to determine an extent of similarity between a first image part and a second image part, displaying a first image part from a viewpoint and transitioning to displaying a second image part... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298552 | Observer-adaptive autostereoscopic display An observer-adaptive autostereoscopic display system (100) comprises a display device (102) having a screen for displaying an image and a shutter (204) being electronically controlled to have transparent (230) and non transparent segments... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292392 | Apparatus and method for displaying stereoscopic two-dimensional image An apparatus includes: an image display unit including a display device having an image display surface that displays a two-dimensional image and a microlens array disposed in spaced-apart relation to the image display surface, the image display unit that displays a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7281802 | Stereoscopic display device and method In a one-dimensional IP (vertical disparity discarding system), it is made possible to obtain a perspective projection image with no distortion or reduced distortion. A stereoscopic display device is provided with a display device including a display plane in which ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7265775 | Three-dimensional display apparatus A three-dimensional image display apparatus comprising a display panel, which displays a parallel projection image corresponding to a three-dimensional image, and an array plate disposed on a front of the display panel and having pinholes arranged two-dimensionally.... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256783 | Image capture device, a method of capturing images, an image producing device and a method of producing images The imaging device reads out a first time spatial parameter required for image capturing of an object from various time spatial parameters stored in the storage server and/or recorded on the recording medium, captures the images of the object and produces the captur... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7250954 | Three-dimensional image rendering devices and methods A three-dimensional rendering device may project an image on a movable display through a collimating device, which collimates the rays from the display into a narrow solid angle. The narrow solid angle may allow the rays from the display to be projected only to a vi... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250990 | 2D and 3D display device having a particular light control device A display device that can selectively display 2D and 3D images is provided. The display device includes a backlight unit, a liquid crystal device, and a light control device including two polarizing plates interposed between the backlight and the liquid crystal devi... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245430 | Method and apparatus for displaying three-dimensional stereo image using light deflector In a method for displaying a three-dimensional stereo image, a left-eye image defined by multiple left-eye strip pixels and a right-eye image defined by multiple right-eye strip pixels are displayed such that the left-eye pixels and the right-eye pixels are arranged... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236300 | Transmission type screen using a fly-eye lens A transmission type screen including a fly-eye lens having a convex shape on one side thereof and a light-shielding layer provided on an opposite side of a lens surface of the fly-eye lens and having a plurality of openings provided near each focus of lens unit cell... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233441 | Stereoscopic display The invention provides a stereoscopic display to display a high-quality three-dimensional video which can be viewed without using polarizing glasses. A stereoscopic display according to the present invention includes an electronically-formed, multi-viewpoint light b... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7215356 | 3D stereo display method and a device thereof A 3D stereo display method and a device thereof. Two sets of shutters are disposed in a display. The shutters are complimentarily interlaced with each other. The opening/closing of the two sets of shutters are controlled by time interval concept. When the display fr... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215302 | Display device, position adjustment pattern display program, recording medium, polarized glasses, and method of adjusting position of filter of the display device Even if a divided wavelength plate filter is mounted, it is possible to reliably display a three-dimensional image or perform a displaying operation on from one screen to a plurality of screens. In a display device, the relative positions of an image display section... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209142 | Image display method and an image display apparatus for implementing the method The image display method and apparatus display a monochromatic image with a color display device in which a unit pixel is composed of R, G and B cells and display the monochromatic image having a higher gradation resolution than reproduction performance of each of t... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7187344 | 2D/3D display apparatus Switching between 2D and 3D visualization is achieved by an optical-index matching fluid (9) which can be brought between a lenticular sheet (6, 7) and a top plate (10). The fluid may contain two immiscible fluids while switching is based on (re... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185989 | Color separation device, imaging optical engine, and projection apparatus A color separation device according to the present invention comprises a first color separation member having a first polarization direction changing element and a second polarization direction changing element, and a first polarization separation element, and a sec... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7154528 | Apparatus for placing primary image in registration with lenticular lens in system for using binocular fusing to produce secondary 3D image from primary image Digital binocular fusing apparatus places a primary image in registration with a lenticular lens to produce a secondary 3D image from the primary image. The apparatus includes a lens array, a display mounted behind the lens array and including a primary image and re... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7148862 | Stereoscopic image display apparatus The present invention discloses a stereoscopic image display apparatus for which an image display unit can be freely selected, and in which crosstalk is suppressed even if a transmissive image display unit is used. The stereoscopic image display apparatus according ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7126598 | 3D image synthesis from depth encoded source view A method of generating a synthesized 3D image from a source 2D image for display on a 3D display device including mapping a position on the display device to a fractional view number, and determining a source pixel of the 2D image to represent the said fractional vi... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123287 | Autostereoscopic display A multi-viewer autostereoscopic display system having a viewing field across which the system is capable of steering exit pupils, in each of which a viewer is capable of viewing an image for a selected eye. The system comprises an image forming device for generating... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7116477 | Stereoscopic image display apparatus and stereoscopic image display system A stereoscopic image display apparatus in accordance with the present invention solves a problem with a conventional multi-view stereoscopic image display apparatus in that the resolution of each parallax image deteriorates as the number of provided parallax images ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7106506 | Lenticular lens sheet and projection screen A high contrast lenticular lens sheet that can improve the brightness of an image and the angle of visibility. When it is assumed that P represents the pitch of the lens element and H represents the width of the black stripe portion as viewed in a cross section perp... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099080 | Autostereoscopic lenticular screen An autostereoscopic lenticular screen has a lenticular screen held in juxtaposition with a display surface. The lenticular screen has lenticules disposed on one side thereof and a smooth surface on the other side thereof. In one aspect of the invention, a closed cha... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7084841 | Method and apparatus for the presentation of three-dimensional images There is disclosed a method and apparatus for the presentation of three-dimensional images, where light beams with appropriate intensity and optionally with appropriate color are projected in different viewing directions and thereby creating a three-dimensional imag... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7068252 | Display unit capable of displaying two- and three-dimensional images and method for controlling display unit A display unit includes an organic electroluminescence device having light-emitting regions, and a liquid crystal panel having pixels. The liquid crystal panel is spaced apart from the organic electroluminescence device so that the light of each light-emitting regio... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064754 | Stereoscopic-image display apparatus A stereoscopic-image display apparatus displays a stereoscopic image by inputting a character string of a portion common to two image-file names corresponding to an arbitrary pair of stereoscopic images when selecting the pair of stereoscopic images from a plurality... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064895 | Stereoscopic image display method and stereoscopic image display apparatus using it Parallax images corresponding to a plurality of different view points are each divided into predetermined stripe images, a synthetic parallax image is synthesized from the stripe images, and display light, from stripe images corresponding to one view point of the sy... | 06/20/2006 |
