Jvc Kenwood Corporation

Naoya Okamoto

Ryosuke Nakagoshi

Akihiro Sato

Shinji Kikuma

Takeshi Makabe

Hiroyuki Takada

Naoya Aizu

Shigeru Maruyama

A video analysis unit calculates an intensity of re-entering illumination light that is first polarized light, among first polarized light entering a reflective liquid crystal display element which is included in illumination light having the first polarized light and second polarized light, for each pixel constituting a target frame, the first polarized light being reflected by the reflective liquid crystal display element without being modulated by the reflective liquid crystal display element, returning to a position closer to a light source unit, and re-entering the reflective liquid crystal display element. The video analysis unit calculates a sum obtained by summing the intensity of the re-entering illumination light calculated for all pixels. A video correction amount determining unit determines a correction amount to be added to or subtracted from a pixel value of each pixel according to a difference between the sum and a reference sum of a reference frame image.

Projection display device and video correction method

A projection apparatus projects an image on a screen based on input data including information on absolute luminance. The projection apparatus includes: a peak luminance value acquisition unit configured to acquire a peak luminance value on the screen when the projection apparatus projects an image on the screen at a maximum output gradation value; a reference luminance value setting unit configured to set a reference luminance value to be higher than the peak luminance value; a relation information setting unit configured to set, based on the reference and peak luminance values, relation information indicating a relation between an output gradation value and a light output value for displaying an output image; an output gradation value setting unit configured to set an output gradation value based on the input data and the relation information; and an output control unit configured to output an image based on the output gradation value.

Projection apparatus, projection method, and computer-readable storage medium

At a first time point, a light amount adjusting unit stores the brightness of illumination light as a first brightness, and stores the light intensity of each color component of the illumination light as a first light intensity. A gain adjusting unit sets a gain value of at least one of the individual color components to be a maximum value, and stores the gain value as a first gain value. At a second time point after the first time point, the light amount adjusting unit calculates a ratio between a second light intensity and the first light intensity. The gain adjusting unit corrects the gain values based on the ratio between the second light intensity and the first light intensity.

Light amount adjusting device, projection device, and light amount adjusting method

Light emitted from a light source is irradiated to a reflective light modulator which modulates irradiated light to reflect based on image data and the light reflected by the light modulator is projected. A ratio of return light returning from the light modulator to the light source to the light irradiated to the light modulator is calculated based on the image data. A light amount of the light emitted from the light source is calculated by using the calculated ratio and a detection output of an optical sensor provided between the light source and the light modulator.

Detecting method, detecting device, and projecting device

Provided is a multi-projector system including: projectors; an image outputting apparatus; and an adjusting apparatus to adjust images. Each of the projectors includes: a light-emitting unit to emit the modulated light; and a color adjusting unit to adjust colors of the projected image. The image outputting apparatus includes an outputting unit to output the first adjustment image and the second adjustment image as the input images of the projectors. The adjusting apparatus includes: an imaging unit to take a projected image and to output a captured image; an analyzing unit to analyze an image of the overlapping area from the captured image so as to determine a color component; and a controller for controlling the color adjusting unit of the first projector so that the color of the overlapping area is an achromatic color in accordance with the color component determined as a result of the analysis.

Multi-projector system, projector, method for adjusting image, and computer program product

A multi-projector system includes two or more projection devices including a first projection device and a second projection device, an image output device configured to output an image to each of the two or more projection devices, and an adjustment device configured to adjust projection positions of projection images on a medium to be projected, the projection images being projected by the two or more projection devices, and a first projection image emitted by the first projection device, and a second projection image emitted by the second projection device being projected on the medium to be projected to have an overlapped region.

Multi-projector system, projector device, adjustment device, adjustment method, and computer-readable recording medium

A signal processor converts an input 3D image signal into a signal in which a left-eye signal and right-eye signal are rearranged temporally alternately. A driver of a liquid crystal display element includes a sub-frame data generator configuring all the sub-frames with step bit pulses and generating sub-frame data by using a drive gradation table in which the last sub-frame reaches a drive state when a drive gradation is '1' and the number of sub-frames reaching the drive state is increased one by one toward ahead of a sub-frame which has already reached the drive state, every time the drive gradation is increased by one. The liquid crystal display element is driven by the driver. An illumination optical system causes illumination light to enter into the liquid crystal display element. A projection lens projects modulated light emitted from the liquid crystal display element.

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Yokohama, Japan

Naoya Okamoto