Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Nobuo Minoura

Katsumi Kurematsu

Hideaki Mitsutake

Haruyuki Yanagi

Hidetoshi Suzuki

Kazuo Yoshinaga

Katsuo Nakadai

Masaaki Kanashiki

Kazumi Kimura

Satoshi Iwamatsu

Koichi Sato

Toshikazu Ohnishi

Yomishi Toshida

Takeo Eguchi

Toshikatsu Harase

Sadahiko Tsuji

Noritaka Mochizuki

Shigeru Kawasaki

Shigeru Oshima

Junko Shingaki

An image signal processing apparatus of the present invention is an apparatus to process image signal, wherein an input image signal is corrected and made into a sharp and visually preferred image signal through such composition that an outline correction signal which has been non-linearly processed corresponding to the outline section of the input image signal is formed, the formed outline section correcting signal is added to the delayed image signal to be output.

Image signal processing apparatus

A method for mass-producing eccentric Fresnel lens sheets comprising the steps of: preparing a number of concentric Fresnel lens sheets; dividing the concentric Fresnel lens sheets into a first set and a second set each including a plurality of Fresnel lens sheets; cutting out a plurality of first sheets each corresponding to one portion of the eccentric Fresnel lens sheet from each of the Fresnel lens sheets of the first set; cutting out a plurality of second sheets each corresponding to the other portion of the eccentric Fresnel lens sheet from each of the Fresnel lens sheets of the second set; and bonding each of the first sheets and each of the second sheets in such a manner that patterns on the first sheet and the second sheet are continuous to prepare a plurality of eccentric Fresnel lens sheet. The second set can include a third set and a fourth set and a plurality of third sheets are cut out from the third set and a plurality of fourth sheets are cut out from the fourth set. The third sheets and fourth sheets are bonded to the first sheets. The first sheets are relatively large rectangular sheets and the second sheets are small rectangular sheets.

Method for mass-producing eccentric Fresnel lens sheets

A liquid crystal device for controlling scattering of light beams incident upon a liquid crystal layer so as to modulate the light beams includes: a first lens array having lenses corresponding to the liquid crystal layer, the lenses causing the light beams transmitted from the liquid crystal layer, the lenses causing the light beams transmitted from the liquid crystal layer to travel toward a focal plane; a mask for shielding scattered light transmitted from the first lens array as well as allowing non-scattered light to pass through, the mask having a plurality of aperture portions which are formed along the focal plane to correspond to the lenses of the first lens array so as to allow non-scattered light transmitted from corresponding lenses to pass through; and a second lens array having lenses arranged to correspond to the aperture portions of the mask, the lenses substantially collimating the non-scattered light transmitted from corresponding aperture portions of the mask.

Scattering type liquid crystal device

A liquid crystal device is constituted by disposing a display layer between a pair of electrode plates. The display layer comprises a mesomorphic polymer and a low-molecular weight mesomorphic compound. The mesomorphic polymer may preferably be a main chain-type ferroelectric mesomorphic polymer having an ester linkage or a mesomorphic polymer derived from a polymerizable mesomorphic compound. The display layer may preferably comprise a ferroelectric mesomorphic polymer having a dielectric anisotropy .DELTA..epsilon. of -3.0 or below and a low-molecular weight mesomorphic compound incompatible with the mesomorphic polymer and having a positive dielectric anisotropy.

Display method and apparatus using chiral smectic liquid crystal

The television apparatus of the present invention is an apparatus which displays an image corresponding to the television signal, is so arranged that the picture quality of an image signal can be adjusted according to the projection condition of the image when the image corresponding to the image signal is projected, so that the optimum image may be projected.

Image displaying apparatus with image displaying function

This specification discloses a polarization converting apparatus having means emitting non-polarized light, and polarizing means having a light incidence surface and a light emergence surface, the polarizing means receiving the non-polarized light by the light incidence surface and causing polarized light to emerge from the light emergence surface, the size and shape of the light incidence surface being similar to the size and cross-sectional shape of the non-polarized light. The specification also discloses an optical instrument having such apparatus.

Polarization converting apparatus and optical instrument having the same

An image display apparatus has a radiation source, generator for generating an image by modulating a polarized light beam and directing device for directing a light beam from the radiation source toward the generator. The directing device has a conversion optical system for converting the beam from the radiation source into the polarized light beam. The conversion optical system has a polarizing beam splitter for splitting the beam from the radiation source into a first and second beams. In the conversion optical system, a 1/4 wavelength plate and a mirror are arranged so that the plane of polarization of the first beam is rotated to generate a third beam with the plane of polarization same as that of the second beam. The third beam is directed toward the generator through the polarizing beam splitter while the second beam is also directed toward the generator.

Image display apparatus

An eccentric Fresnel lens is formed from a concentric Fresnel lens sheet or Fresnel lens sheet mold. The concentric Fresnel lens sheet or mold is cut to produce an eccentric Fresnel lens having a center offset from the optical axis of the concentric Fresnel lens.

Eccentric Fresnel lens sheet and method of making same

A polarization illumination device and projector having the polarization illumination device are provided. An example of the polarization illumination device comprises an illuminator and a polarized including a polarization splitting surface and a reflecting surface, the splitting surface and the reflecting surface form an inverted V shape. The splitting surface splits part of the light into a transmitted component and a reflected component and directs the former in a first direction and the latter toward the reflecting surface. The reflecting surface reflects a remaining part of the light and directs it toward the splitting surface. The splitting surface splits the remaining part of the light into a transmitted component and a reflected component. The former directed toward a second direction different from the first direction, and the latter is returned to the illuminator. The illuminator modulates a plane of each returned reflected light component and causes each returned reflected component to be incident on the polarizer again.

Polarization illumination device and projector having the same

A liquid crystal device is constituted by disposing a display layer between a pair of electrode plates. The display layer comprises a mesomorphic polymer and a low-molecular weight mesomorphic compound. The mesomorphic polymer may preferably be a main chain-type mesomorphic polymer having an ester linkage or a mesomorphic polymer derived from a polymerizable mesomorphic compound. The display layer may preferably comprise a mesomorphic polymer having a dielectric anisotropy .DELTA..epsilon. of -3.0 or below and a low-molecular weight mesomorphic compound incompatible with the mesomorphic polymer and having a positive dielectric anisotropy.

Liquid crystal device, display apparatus using same and display method

A projector has means for supplying first and second radiation beams, first image generating means for modulating a plurality of portions of the first radiation beam individually and forming a deflected beam and a non-deflected beam to generate a first image, second image generating means for modulating a plurality of portions of the second radiation beam individually and forming a deflected beam and a non-deflected beam to generate a second image, and means for projecting the first and second images onto a predetermined plane by the use of one of the deflected beams and the non-deflected beams from the first and second image generating means, the first and second image generating means emitting the deflected beams so that most of the deflected beam from one of the generating means may substantially not enter the other generating means.

Projector provided with a plurality of image generators

There is disclosed a video projector provided with automatic focusing function. An image is generated on a liquid crystal light valve according to the video signal, and this image is projected through a projection lens system. The aberration between the focal plane of the projection lens system and the projection surface, such as a screen, is detected, and the focal plane is shifted according to thus detected aberration, in such a manner that the focal plane coincides with the projection surface or screen.

Liquid crystal television projector with automatic focus

A projector capable of compactizing the structure and improving the efficiency of light utilization is disclosed. The projector has an illuminating system, a light modulation device and a projection optical system. A first and a second lights of mutually different colors are emitted from the illumination optical system. The light modulating device has a first light modulator for modulating the first light according to a first image signal and a second light modulator for modulating the second light according to a second image signal. Each of the first and second light modulators is provided with a grating, a liquid crystal filled in the grooves of the grating and a driver for driving the molecules of the liquid crystal. The driver is adapted to drive the molecules of the liquid crystal in such a manner that the liquid crystal and the grating have mutually substantially matching refractive indexes in a certain state but have mutually unmatched refractive indexes in another state, thereby generating or substantially erasing a diffraction grating by the grating and the liquid crystal. A first and a second images of mutually different colors are projected on a screen by the first and second lights from the first and second light modulators.

Multicolor projector employing diffraction grating type liquid crystal

The present invention relates to an apparatus by which, in the image display corresponding to a image signal, image signal is processed to adjust the contrast of the picture so as to provide automatically the contrast adjustment most suitable for respective level of image signal, thereby improving the quality of the picture by regulating the level of the image signal according to the information showing the distribution status of the levels of image signals input during a specified period of time.

Image signal correction processing apparatus

A display apparatus comprises a projecting device for projecting an image, with the projecting device having a projection optical system having a limited pupil diameter and screen device arranged at a position where an image is substantially projected by the projecting device. The screen device has at least two sheets in each of which a number of prisms extending like a straight line or a curve are formed on the surface on the side opposite to the projecting device. Each of the prisms has an effective portion for allowing a light flux from the projecting device to be emitted in a predetermined direction and a non-effective portion which does not contribute to the emission of the light flux in the predetermined direction, and wherein the non-effective portions of another one or a plurality of the other sheets among the plurality of sheets excluding the sheet arranged at the nearest position on the projecting device side are formed so as to have an almost intermediate angle between the angle of a principal ray when a light flux from the projecting device progresses in the sheets and the emission angle of the principal ray when it is emitted from effective surfaces of the prisms of the sheets.

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Yokohama, Japan

Nobuo Minoura