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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186836 | Mobile Projector apparatus and method of controlling the same A mobile projector apparatus includes a light source, a modulation unit modulating light of the light source using a picture signal, a projection lens magnifying and projecting the modulated light of the light source, a battery supplying electric power to the light ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8167439 | Image forming device A field-sequential-type image forming device which includes: a light valve element which divides one field of a color image to sectors corresponding to primary colors different from each other and forms images corresponding to the primary colors during periods of th... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167438 | Light source device, projector, and driving method of discharge lamp A light source device is provided. The light source device has: a discharge lamp that emits light by discharge in an interelectrode space between a first electrode and a second electrode; a main mirror arranged at the first electrode side that reflects light flux ge... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8157389 | Synchronous control system for light source and spatial light modulator employed in projection apparatus The present invention provides a display apparatus, comprising: an a light source for emitting illumination light for transmitting along illumination light path; a display device includes a plurality of pixels for modulating the illumination light for reflecting the... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157388 | System and method for a projection display system using an optical lightguide A system and method for using an optical lightguide in a projection display system. A plurality of light sources provides a plurality of colored light to a lightguide. The lightguide may include alternating layers of a relatively high refractive index material and a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152311 | Display apparatus and light control method of the same Disclosed are a display apparatus and a light control method thereof, in which the display apparatus including a display panel, a light source unit, an illumination unit to illuminate the display panel with light emitted from the light source unit, and a projection ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8109641 | Safety interlock system for a projector system A safety interlock system for a projector system is provided. The projector system has a lamp, a controller and ballast for powering the lamp upon receipt of a lamp enable signal from the controller. The projector system further has a safety inter-lock system for de... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8079717 | System and method for automated projector lamp management An information handling system projector tracks lamp usage to generate a lamp order form for order of a replacement lamp when lamp usage is a predetermined usage. The lamp order form is automatically generated and displayed to include lamp usage and projector identi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8066387 | Light source module and display system comprising the light source module A light source module and a display system comprising the light source module are provided. The light source system comprises a first light source module and a second light source module. The first light source module provides a light beam of a first color, and the ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8061854 | Projection display system with varying light source The present invention provides a projection apparatus, comprising: a light source; at least one spatial light modulator for modulating illumination light from the light source by a plurality of pixel elements by using different modulation states; a light source cont... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8057051 | Light source device, image display device, and monitor device A light source device includes a plurality of light emitting elements for emitting light beams, a resonant mirror functioning as a resonator for selectively reflecting the light beams emitted respectively from the light emitting elements, towards the light emitting ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8057052 | Laser projector Disclosed in a laser projector to display an image by projecting a laser beam from a laser light source to a projection screen including an electromagnetic driven scan mirror to scan the laser beam from the laser light source, a detection unit to detect a back EMF w... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8047659 | Light source device, image display apparatus, and monitor apparatus A light source device includes plural light-emitting elements that emit lights, a wavelength selection element that has plural light selection areas in which wavelength selection is performed for the lights emitted from the plural light-emitting elements, respective... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8042952 | Control of a light valve that is dependent upon a voltage and a duration time of lighting measurement of a light source unit In order to provide a high-image-quality display apparatus which can perform proper correction with respect to an abrupt luminance change at the time of lighting of a discharge lamp and a white balance change, a projection type display apparatus which projects irrad... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042953 | Projector using ballast controlled high-pressure discharge lamps A projector includes: plural high-pressure discharge lamps; a high-pressure discharge lamp lighting device for lighting the plural high-pressure discharge lamps; a light combining system that combines and outputs lights from the plural high-pressure discharge lamps;... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8038306 | Light source device and image display device having a wavelength selective element A light source device includes: a plurality of light emitting elements that emit laser light; and a wavelength selective element that includes a light selective region functioning as a resonator mirror of the light emitting element by selecting light of predetermine... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8021001 | Projector and method of controlling a light source for use with the projector A projector has a storage unit storing data on a plurality of different light emission patterns each occurring in a period based on a plurality of different-colored lights, wherein each light emission pattern corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of differe... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8016433 | Projector and control method thereof A projector that can be loaded with lamps of a plurality of kinds, each of a plurality of the lamps loadable into the projector being given a lamp serial code formed by arranging lamp information including at least a minimum wattage and a maximum wattage of the lamp... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8011792 | Lighting unit and projection display apparatus A lighting unit includes: a light source unit 10 having a plurality of solid state light sources, a liquid crystal panel 30 displaying an image in accordance with an image input signal, a light source controlling unit 260 controlling, in accorda... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8007115 | Lamp driving apparatus and control method thereof A lamp driving apparatus configured to drive a plurality of types of lamps, each of the plurality of lamps is attached with lamp identification information for uniquely identifying the lamp. The lamp driving apparatus includes: a lamp power supply configured to driv... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7993015 | Projector and control method thereof Disclosed herein is a projector that can be loaded with lamps of a plurality of kinds, each of a plurality of the lamps loadable into the projector being given a lamp serial code formed by arranging lamp information on the lamp and a check sum in predetermined order... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7984993 | Projector including light source controlling section for turning light source on and off, control method, control program,and recording medium A projector to form image light by modulating light emitted from a light source according to image information and enlarges and projects the image light includes a projector main body with a light passing opening regulated by a blocking member, a reproduction device... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7976173 | Projector and control method therefor Disclosed herein is a projector for projecting an image to a screen, including: a lamp configured to emit light; an elliptic reflecting mirror configured to reflect and condense the light from the lamp; an image display device configured to modulate the light reflec... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7967449 | Arc tube having electrodes including coil winding portions and projector including arc tube light source An arc tube includes: a tube spherical portion containing a pair of electrodes each of which has a shaft portion and a coil winding portion formed by winding coil around the shaft portion; and a pair of seal portions extending from both sides of the tube spherical p... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7959303 | Image display device When a position detector detects that the position of a spot on a projection plane designates a non-projection region, the level of a driving signal of a laser is corrected. Specifically, the correlation between the quantity of laser light detected by a light-receiv... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7954961 | Method for driving a high-pressure gas discharge lamp of a projector system A method for driving a high-pressure gas discharge lamp of a projector system, which is suitable to produce and to supply to a light valve device during a projection interval (4) a light beam of a basic color which is selected from several basic colors (G, R,... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7950807 | Projector and control method thereof Disclosed herein is a projector that can be loaded with lamps of a plurality of kinds, each of a plurality of the lamps loadable into the projector being given a lamp serial code formed by arranging lamp information including at least a minimum wattage and a maximum... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7946715 | Light source and projector A light source includes an discharge lamp including a first electrode and a second electrode emitting light by discharge between them, a drive unit performing a steady operation which supplies steady energy to the first and second electrodes and an initial operation... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7938546 | Method of illuminating a projecting imager, corresponding system and projector The invention is directed at least in part to a method of illuminating an imager for projecting images, implementing light-emitting diodes of different colors, the diodes being designed to provide a beam illuminating the imager. According to various embodiments of t... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7926956 | Image forming apparatus, method of controlling same, and program Disclosed herein is an image forming apparatus that emits a beam corresponding to an image onto an image-projected object to allow the image to be formed thereon. The apparatus includes: a lamp; a lamp power supply; a lens; a brightness sensor that measures a lamp b... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7922337 | Method for establishing a light beam with substantially constant luminous intensity The invention relates to a method for establishing a light beam (CLB) with substantially constant luminous intensity comprising the steps of establishing a light beam (LB) by means of a light source (SAL) and controlling an attenuation of said light beam (LB) on the... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7909473 | Method for operating a high-intensity discharge lamp, lamp driver and projection system There is described a method for operating a high-intensity discharge lamp (2), in which the high-intensity discharge lamp (2) is acted upon by an AC current (I) which commutates between positive pulses (Ip) and negative pulses (In) with a predefined cu... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7905608 | Light source device and image display device having a wavelength selective element A light source device includes: a plurality of light emitting elements that emit laser light; and a wavelength selective element that includes a light selective region functioning as a resonator mirror of the light emitting element by selecting light of predetermine... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7901087 | Projector and control method thereof Disclosed herein is a projector that can be loaded with lamps of a plurality of kinds, each of a plurality of the lamps loadable into the projector being given a lamp serial code formed by arranging lamp information including at least a minimum wattage and a maximum... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7896505 | Projector and control method thereof Disclosed herein is a projector that can be loaded with lamps of a plurality of kinds, each of a plurality of the lamps loadable into the projector being given a lamp serial code formed by arranging lamp information including at least a minimum wattage and a maximum... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7891822 | Handheld projection device The invention relates to a handheld projection system (10) comprising a projection device (14, 18, 20) for projecting an image onto a projection surface (24). The projection device has at least two drive power modes associated with different qua... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7887196 | Projection system and method for operating a projection system to compensate for overshoot sequence A method for operating a projection system (1) is described, wherein a brightness level (B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6) in an image (IM) is represented by the total length of a number of light switch-on phases within a parti... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7845805 | Discharge lamp lighting apparatus and projector A discharge lamp lighting apparatus for lighting a discharge lamp, comprises an inverter which reverses a polarity of an output voltage and applies alternating voltage to the discharge lamp, and an inverter control circuit which generates an inverter control signal ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7845806 | Discharge lamp control device controlling lighting of a discharge lamp, and projector using the same A discharge lamp control device includes: a discharge lamp driver section which drives a lamp; and a discharge lamp drive control section which performs constant current control so that a discharge lamp current that flows between electrodes of the lamp becomes const... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7841724 | Method and apparatus for storing lamp data A lamp memory module is provided for recording lamp serial numbers, providing a ‘lamp-inserted’ interlock for preventing operation of the lamp when the lamp is not properly installed, and for collecting and storing lamp operational data such as lamp use (time), ... | 11/30/2010 |
