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Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2013
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Hiroaki Yanai, Matsumoto, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 21/00 (2006.01); G02F 1/13 (2006.01); G02F 1/01 (2006.01); H04N 13/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/1313 (2013.01); G02F 1/0136 (2013.01); H04N 13/0434 (2013.01); H04N 13/0459 (2013.01); H04N 13/0497 (2013.01);
Abstract

A polarization controller adapted to output respective projection lights for a right-eye image and a left-eye image that are incident from a projector to a screen in different polarization directions, includes: a liquid crystal device adapted to change the polarization directions of the projection lights; and a controller adapted to control the liquid crystal device so that the respective projection lights for the right-eye image and the left-eye image have different polarization directions, wherein the controller performs control for mirror-reversing the polarization directions of the projection lights in the liquid crystal device according to a control signal indicating whether the projector performs mirror reversal of the right-eye image and the left-eye image, input from the projector.


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