Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Noritoshi Kako

Yasukuni Yamane

Masaki Takakura

Masayuki Katagiri

Yoji Noguchi

Toshio Nomura

Takao Tagawa

Keisuke Iwasaki

Kengo Takahama

Kiyoshi Kumata

Kazunari Okamura

Hideto Hayasaki

Tomoko Aono

Hiroyuki Katata

Chuji Suzuki

Aoi Kitaura

Hideo Takemura

Masaki Kobayashi

Masao Izumi

Akihiko Kuriyama

A surround surveillance system mounted on a mobile body for surveying surroundings around the mobile body includes an omniazimuth visual system, the omniazimuth visual system includes at least one omniazimuth visual sensor including an optical system capable of obtaining an image with an omniazimuth view field area therearound and capable of central projection transformation of the image into an optical image, and an imaging section including an imaging lens for converting the optical image obtained by the optical system into image data, an image processor for transforming the image data into at least one of panoramic image data and perspective image data, a display section for displaying one of a panoramic image corresponding to the panoramic image data and a perspective image corresponding to the perspective image data and a display control section for controlling the display section.

Surround surveillance apparatus for mobile body

An omniazimuthal visual system includes: an optical system capable of obtaining an image of 360&#xb0; view field area therearound and capable of central projection transformation for the image: an imaging section for converting the image obtained through the optical system into image data; an image transformation section for transforming the image data into display data; a display section for displaying a transformed image based on the display data from the image transformation section; and a display control section for controlling the transformed image to be displayed on the display section, wherein the image transformation section includes at least one buffer memory for temporarily storing the image data and the display data, an arithmetic/logic circuit for performing coordinate transformation when the image data is transformed into the display data, a lookup table of a trigonometric function for use in the arithmetic/logic circuit, and a CPU for controlling the at least one buffer memory, the arithmetic/logic circuit, and the lookup table.

Omniazimuthal visual system

An imaging device includes a convex mirror for reflecting incident light representing an object, the convex mirror having a shape of solid of revolution; an imaging mechanism for taking an image represented by reflected light from the convex mirror; and an optical member for guiding the incident light toward the convex mirror and guiding the reflected light toward the imaging mechanism, the optical member being in close-contact with the convex mirror.

Imaging device and method for producing the same

A stereoscopic image capture device of this invention includes: an image capturing face on which light from an object is incident; an optical element disposed on a side of the image capturing face on which the light is incident, the optical element converting an angle at which the light is incident thereon to a distance from an optical axis the optical element; and an afocal optical system including a plurality of lenses, wherein the afocal optical system forms, on the optical element, an image of the object formed on one of the plurality of lenses which is closest to the object.

Stereoscopic image capture device

A three-dimensional display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel 1 for displaying a discrete Fourier transformed image and a slit panel 2 having a convex lens function in a horizontal direction and a plurality of slits 3 arranged in a zig-zag manner, which is disposed in front of the liquid crystal panel 1. Since a spatial image is generated by such a configuration, a wide viewing region can be obtained. Since the number of slits positioned in the horizontal direction is increased as that of a slit pattern of a conventional slit array, the deterioration of resolution in the horizontal direction is reduced. Furthermore, since the slits are arranged in a zig-zag manner, the area of each light-shielding portion between sampling positions is reduced, thereby preventing an optical means from obstructing the observation of images.

Three-dimensional display apparatus with a wide viewing angle and

A detection and hold circuit outputs a reference signal having a level proportional to an x-coordinate detection pulse input from an X-coordinate signal amplifier. A delay element delays the reference signal. An adder adds the x-coordinate detection pulse from the X-coordinate signal amplifier and a delayed signal from the delay element. Comparators obtain a coordinate detection pulse making a detection signal from another detection and hold circuit for an LCD voltage inversion pulse serve as a reference signal. Thus noise following the x-coordinate detection pulse is removed to generate a coordinate detection pulse with a reference value corresponding to the level of the LCD voltage inversion pulse to allow a stable coordinate detection to be achieved. A correction signal generation circuit reads out correction data stored in an internal memory and transmits the data as a correction signal to a correction voltage generation circuit in an x-coordinate detection period when the segment electrode placed in the lower position is scanned. The correction voltage generation circuit generates a correction voltage for canceling a voltage induced at the common electrode placed in the upper position based on the input correction signal and a bias power source input from a DC power supply circuit.

Display-integrated type tablet device

Displacement between an actual designation position designated by a detection pen and a detection coordinates is corrected. A correction calculation section includes a plurality of processing mode determination modules, a propagation delay correction module, an inward displacement correction module, a waveform distortion correction module, and a periodical fluctuation correction module. The processing mode determination module determines a correction module according to a detection coordinate value input. Each of the correction modules includes a correction formula or a lookup table inherent to each area. According to the correction formula or the lookup table, input detection coordinate value is corrected to thereby correct the displacement between the actual designation position and the detection coordinate value.

There is reproduced a three-dimensional image in which there is no dimness or no cross talk and which is light and high in resolution, by a three-dimensional information reproducing apparatus comprising a liquid crystal panel for displaying a discrete Fourier transform image, a light source array which is disposed to the rear of the liquid crystal panel and which emits parallel light, and a synchronous control device for switching, with time division, the discrete Fourier transform image that is displayed in the liquid crystal panel and also an angle of the parallel light that is emitted from the source light array. No color dislocation occurs in a reproduced image, resolution is enhanced, and a light three-dimensional image is reproduced, by a three-dimensional information reproducing apparatus comprising a liquid crystal panel for displaying with time division a discrete Fourier transform image resolved into color components, an illumination device for changing a color of emitted light with time division, and a synchronous control device for synchronizing and switching the image that is displayed on the liquid crystal panel, and the color of the illumination device.

Three-dimensional information reproducing apparatus

An apparatus for producing a railroad symbol and a road symbol, includes a CPU, a coordinates input device, an external storage device and a display. The CPU has an operation unit for performing a drawing operation, an interface circuit and a memory for storing data and a program. The railroad symbol is produced by continuous drawing of figure parts. The road symbol is produced by overlapping curved line drawn with a circle in a color and curved line drawn with smaller circle in another color.

Image producing apparatus

A three-dimensional display unit has a liquid crystal panel for simultaneously displaying a plurality of different parallax images and an optical characteristic variable lens attached to the liquid crystal panel. The optical characteristic variable lens is formed by an array of cylindrical lenses such that a transparent substance having high flexibility is supported by transparent electrodes from both substance sides and optical characteristics of each of the cylindrical lenses can be changed by applying a voltage to the transparent substance to change at least one surface shape of the transparent substance. The three-dimensional display unit may have a head detecting section for detecting a spatial position of an observer's head; and a control section connected to the head detecting section and controlling an operation of the optical characteristic variable lens based on position information of the observer's head detected by the head detecting section such that a stereoscopic image is regenerated in an optimum position of the observer's head. Another three-dimensional display unit is also shown.

Three-dimensional display unit with a variable lens

There is provided an image input device-integrated type display device concurrently having an image display function, a document image input function, and a pen input function. A common electrode of the image input device-integrated type display unit is formed on a glass plate. A segment electrode is formed on a micro lens of a glass plate. An island electrode located at each pixel is connected to the segment electrode via a photoconductor. Liquid crystals are interposed between the common electrode and the island electrode. In an image input mode, light reflected on a document is applied to the photoconductor to control a voltage applied to the liquid crystals. In a pen input mode, light from an input pen is applied to the photoconductor to control a voltage applied to the liquid crystals. In an image display mode, a voltage applied to the liquid crystals is controlled according to image data of each pixel. Thus brightness data of the document, position data of the input pen, and image data corresponding to a display signal are written into the image input device-integrated type display unit.

Image input device-integrated type display device

A image processing apparatus for coloring an original image includes a unit for inputting an original image to be painted and a color image, a unit for dividing the original image input by the inputting unit into a plurality of areas corresponding to the original image and for generating area information data corresponding to the plurality of areas, a unit for selecting the same number of colors as the number of the plurality of areas based on data of the color image input by the inputting unit, and a unit for allocating the colors selected by the selecting unit to the plurality of divided areas based on the area information data.

Image processing apparatus

An image processing apparatus comprises a liquid modulator having a photoconductive material including an image-writing plane, a liquid crystal layer laminated on the photoconductive material, a pair of electrodes sandwiching the photoconductive material and the liquid crystal layer, and a spacer inserted between the photoconductive material and one of the electrodes. Also provided are an analog writing system for analogously writing an original image in the light modulator; a digital reading system for digitally reading the image written in the light modulator; a processing section for image-processing the read image data; a digital writing system for digitally writing processed image data in the light modulator; and, an analog reading system for analogously reading an image written in the light modulator. The liquid crystal layer is either a phase-transition type liquid crystal, a p-type smectic A liquid crystal providing a storage function, or a ferroelectric liquid crystal providing a storage function. The phase-transition type liquid crystal is selected from a group consisting of (1) a p-type cholesteric liquid crystal and (2) a mixture of p-type cholesteric liquid crystal and p-type nematic liquid crystal. The ferroelectric liquid crystal is selected from a group consisting of (1) a chiral smectic C liquid crystal, (2) a mixture of chiral smectic C liquid crystal and non-chiral smectic C liquid crystal, and (3) a mixture of chiral smectic C liquid crystal and a photoactive material.

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Nara, Japan

Noritoshi Kako