Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jae-phil Koo

Dae-sik Kim

Tae-hyeun Ha

Kyung-hoon Cha

Seon-deok Hwang

Jae-Seung Kim

Yong-Tae Kim

Dae-Sik Kim

Sergey Aleksandrovich Shestak

Sergey Chestak

Sang-moo Park

Jung-jin Park

Nak-won Choi

Kang-wook Chun

Bong-hwan Cho

Su-gun Kim

Hyung-rae Kim

Sung-yong Jung

Sung-sik Kim

Kyung-Hoon Cha

Serguei Chestak

Tao-hyeun Ha

Seon-Deok Hwang

3D glasses and a method of controlling power and pairing thereof are provided. The method of controlling power and pairing includes: restricting supply of a specific power of 3D glasses; performing, by the 3D glasses, pairing with a display apparatus; and if it is determined that the pairing is performed, lifting the restriction on the supply of the specific power. Therefore, a user may perform pairing between the 3D glasses and the 3D display apparatus easily and prevent power of the 3D glasses from being unnecessarily wasted.

Three-dimension (3D) glasses and method for controlling power and pairing thereof

Disclosed is a method of controlling a display apparatus, a display apparatus and shutter glasses, the method including: establishing a pairing with three dimensional (3D) glasses; receiving first information related to at least one of an operation, a status and a structure of the 3D glasses; storing the first information; and displaying based on the first information, wherein the first information includes information about one of the 3D glasses and the display apparatus.

Display apparatus, control method thereof, shutter glasses and control method thereof

A method and apparatus for adjusting parallax of a three-dimensional (3D) video are provided. The method including receiving an input of a 3D video sequence; determining whether a scene transition occurs between a previous frame and a current frame of the 3D video sequence; if it is determined that the scene transition occurs between the previous frame and the current frame, determining and comparing first depth information of a previous scene which includes the previous frame and second depth information of a current scene which includes the current frame; and, based on a result of the comparing, selectively adjusting depth information of at least one of the frames of the previous scene and the frames of the current scene in consideration of a difference between the first depth information and the second depth information.

Method and apparatus for adjusting parallax in three-dimensional video

Provided is a method of reducing fatigue resulting from viewing a three-dimensional (3D) image display. The method includes: obtaining low visual fatigue parameter information on a frame section including at least one frame of a received 3D image; obtaining disparity vector information on each frame of the 3D image; and determining a disparity minimum limit value and a disparity maximum limit value with respect to the 3D image.

Method and apparatus for reducing fatigue resulting from viewing three-dimensional image display, and method and apparatus for generating data stream of low visual fatigue three-dimensional image

A stereoscopic image projection system including: a beam projector for projecting a left eye image and a right eye image in a side by side format; a stereoscopic image adaptor for alternately projecting the left eye image and the right eye image onto a screen in a time sequence; and a shutter controller for synchronizing a time sequential operation of the stereoscopic image adaptor and opening and closing of right and left shutters of a user shutter glasses.

Stereoscopic image projection system

A method of generating a stereoscopic image signal and scaling the same includes receiving a left-eye image signal and a right-eye image signal, generating a progressive stereoscopic image signal by multiplexing the left-eye image signal and the right-eye image signal, and scaling up or down the progressive stereoscopic image signal. Accordingly, it is possible to simplify a structure of an apparatus to generate the stereoscopic image signal and reduce manufacturing costs of the apparatus to generate the stereoscopic image signal.

Method of generating stereoscopic image signal and method of scaling the same

Provided is an auto stereoscopic display improving brightness, including: a left eye pixel including a plurality of first color sub pixels and a first white sub pixel; a right eye pixel including a plurality of second color sub pixels and a second white sub pixel; and a viewing field separating unit which separates a viewing field of a left image formed by the left eye pixel and a viewing field of a right image formed by the right eye pixel.

Auto stereoscopic display improving brightness

Provided is a method and apparatus for determining stereo views of a stereoscopic image. The method includes: selecting a pair of first and second images from a pair of frames of the stereoscopic image, the pair of frames including a base view image and an additional view image. The method further includes determining which of the first image and the second image is the base view image and which of the first image and the second image is the additional view image based on a parallax between the pair of first and second images.

Method and apparatus for determining view of stereoscopic image for stereo synchronization

An apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display to improve the quality of moving pictures are provided. The apparatus includes a transition check unit that determines whether an input image signal between a first frame and a second frame has changed and whether an input image signal between the second frame and a third frame has changed; an overdrive control unit that overdrives the input image signal in the second frame in an overdrive direction if the transition check unit determines that the input image signal between the first and second frames has changed, wherein the overdrive direction is one of an upper direction and lower direction; and an overdrive compensation unit that changes the input image signal in the third frame in an opposite direction to the overdrive direction if the transition check unit determines that the input image signal between the second and third frames has not changed.

Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display

A volumetric three-dimensional display panel and a volumetric three-dimensional display system employing the volumetric three-dimensional display panel are provided, wherein the volumetric three-dimensional display panel is formed by stacking a plurality of transparent flat display panels, such as, organic light-emitting devices. In the volumetric three-dimensional display panel, two-dimensional images are displayed on the transparent three-dimensional display panels, respectively, to form a single three-dimensional image.

Volumetric three-dimensional display panel and system using multi-layered organic light emitting devices

Provided are a 2D (2-dimensional)/3D (3-dimensional) display apparatus using a scanning backlight and a method of controlling the same. The apparatus sequentially includes a backlight which is capable of scanning and irradiating polarized light, a retarder which transmits light emitted from the backlight as phase-maintained light and phase-delayed light, a lenticular array which transmits light from the retarder as directional light, and a display panel which displays an inputted image and which is illuminated by light being transmitted through the lenticular array. The backlight includes a plurality of light guide plates which are independently disposed and arranged in parallel with one another, a plurality of light sources which are provided for the respective light guide plates and emit light, and a plurality of polarization filters which are arranged in front of the respective light guide plates. The scanning frequency of the backlight is synchronized with the input frequency of the input frames so that an illumination function and a scanning function are simultaneously performed using one backlight, a 2D image and a 3D image are efficiently displayed and crosstalk is reduced.

Method of controlling a 2D/3D switchable display apparatus including a scanning backlight and a plurality of light guide plates

Provided are an apparatus and method for driving a 2-dimensional (2D)/3-dimensional (3D) switchable display for improving the quality of image. The apparatus for driving a 2D/3D switchable display includes: an image mode determination unit determining whether input image signals of continuous frames are in a 2D mode or 3D mode; and an over-driving control unit over-driving the input image signal of a current differently according to the determined image mode. According to the apparatus and method, the response time in each of the 2D mode and the 3D mode can be increased, while motion blur and cross-talk effects can be decreased, thereby improving the quality of image.

Apparatus and method for driving 2D/3D switchable display

Provided are an image processing apparatus and method which can adjust the disparity of an input three-dimensional (3D) image and stably display the 3D image. The image processing apparatus includes: an image dividing unit receiving a 3D image and dividing the 3D image into a left-eye image and a right-eye image; a histogram generation unit estimating disparities between the left-eye image and the right-eye image, measuring a frequency with which the estimated disparities occur, and generating a histogram of the disparities and the frequency; a horizontal movement value determination unit determining a horizontal movement value for the left-eye image and the right-eye image using the generated histogram; and a horizontal movement unit moving the left-eye image and the right-eye image horizontally based on the determined horizontal movement value. The image processing apparatus can control convergence of an image to enhance 3D effects and reduce eye fatigue.

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Jae-phil Koo