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US 8,803,946 B2Granted
Image signal processing device, method and projecting device for stereoscopic images
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorHideo Tomita
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Abstract
An image projecting device includes an image display unit that simultaneously displays left and right eye images in a line on a display panel and a projection optical system that projects the left and right eye images displayed on the display panel onto a screen in a superposed state. The display unit performs a transforming process for rotating the left eye image on a left eye image signal used to display the left eye image and for rotating the right eye image on a right eye image signal used to display the right eye image. The transformed left eye image signal and the transformed right eye image signal are synthesized to obtain an image signal for display use.
Claims5
An image signal processing device comprising:
- a vertical control unit having a vertical counter and a vertical tilt register, wherein a first correction value is stored in the vertical tilt register and added to the vertical counter when a vertically tilted transforming process is performed;
- a horizontal control unit having a horizontal counter and a horizontal tilt register, wherein a second correction value is stored in the horizontal tilt register and added to the horizontal counter when a horizontally tilted transforming process is performed;
- a first transforming process unit configured to perform a transforming process for rotating a left eye image on a left eye image signal used to display the left eye image as pixels each having rectangular coordinates x and y based on the first correction value and the second correction value;
- a second transforming process unit configured to perform a transforming process for rotating a right eye image on a right eye image signal used to display the right eye image as pixels each having rectangular coordinates x1 and y1;
- a projector unit configured to project the left eye image signal obtained by being subjected to the transforming process performed using the first transforming process unit with first linearly polarized light and the right eye image signal obtained by being subjected to the transforming process performed using the second transforming process unit with second linearly polarized light superposed upon one another to obtain an output image signal, the projected left eye image and projected right eye image displayed on a display device;
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- a resolution transforming unit configured to perform a transforming process for rotating a selected one of the displayed left eye image or the displayed right eye image displayed under the instruction of a user,
- wherein the unselected left eye image or right eye image is automatically rotated an equivalent amount in a direction opposite to that of the image whose rotation has been instructed from the user,
- wherein when the left eye image is selected for resolution transforming then the resolution transforming unit transforms coordinates x and y to display coordinates X and Y, respectively, according to the formula:
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- where a is less than or equal to 4 pixels/1000 pixels.
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An image signal processing method comprising the steps of:
- storing a first correction value in a vertical tilt register, the first correction value being added to a vertical counter when a vertically tilted transforming process is performed;
- storing a second correction value in a horizontal tilt register, the second correction value being added to a horizontal counter when a horizontal tilted transforming process is performed;
- performing a first transforming process for rotating a left eye image on a left eye image signal used to display the left eye image as pixels each having rectangular coordinates x and y based on the first correction value and the second correction value;
- performing a second transforming process for rotating a right eye image on a right eye image signal used to display the right eye image as pixels each having rectangular coordinates x1 and y1;
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- projecting the left eye image signal obtained by being subjected to the transforming process at the first transforming process step with first linearly polarized light and the right eye image signal obtained by being subjected to the transforming process at the second transforming process step with second linearly polarized light superposed upon one another to obtain an output image signal;
- displaying the projected left eye image and projected right eye image displayed on a display device;
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- rotating a selected one of the displayed left eye image or the right eye image displayed under the instruction of a user,
- wherein the unselected left eye image or right eye image is automatically rotated an equivalent amount in a direction opposite to that of the image whose rotation has been instructed from the user,
- wherein when the left eye image is selected for resolution transforming then the resolution transforming unit transforms coordinates x and y to display coordinates X and Y, respectively, according to the formula:
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- where a is less than or equal to 4 pixels/1000 pixels.
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An image projecting device comprising:
- a vertical control unit having a vertical counter and a vertical tilt register, wherein a first correction value is stored in the vertical tilt register and added to the vertical counter when a vertically tilted transforming process is performed;
- a horizontal control unit having a horizontal counter and a horizontal tilt register, wherein a second correction value is stored in the horizontally tilt register and added to the horizontal counter when a horizontally tilted transforming process is performed;
- an image display unit configured to simultaneously display a left eye image as pixels each having rectangular coordinates x and y based on the first correction value and the second correction value and a right eye image as pixels each having rectangular coordinates x1 and y1 in a line on a display panel;
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- a projection optical system configured to project the left eye image and the right eye image which have been displayed on the display panel onto a screen in a superposed state, wherein the image display unit has
- a first transforming process unit configured to perform a transforming process for rotating the left eye image on a left eye image signal used to display the left eye image;
- a second transforming process unit configured to perform a transforming process for rotating the right eye image on a right eye image signal used to display the right eye image;
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- a projecting unit configured to project the left eye image signal obtained by being subjected to the transforming process performed using the first transforming process unit with first linearly polarized light and the right eye image signal obtained by being subjected to the transforming process performed using the second transforming process unit with second linearly polarized light superposed upon one another to obtain an image signal for display use, the projected left eye image and projected right eye image displayed on a display device;
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- a resolution transforming unit configured to perform a transforming process for rotating a selected one of the displayed left eye image or rotating the right eye image displayed under the instruction of a user,
- wherein the unselected left eye image or right eye image is automatically rotated an equivalent amount in a direction opposite to that of the image whose rotation has been instructed from the user,
- wherein when the left eye image is selected for resolution transforming then the resolution transforming unit transforms coordinates x and y to display coordinates X and Y, respectively, according to the formula:
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- X
- Y
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- =
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- 1
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- 0
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- [
- x
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- where a is less than or equal to 4 pixels/1000 pixels.
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