Image display apparatus, image display observation system, and image display method

• US 20100231697A1
• Filed: 03/04/2010
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nakahata, Yuji, Kamada, Tsuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/660,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20100231697A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/341 using temporal multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof

Abstract

There is provided an image display apparatus including a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for alternately displaying a right eye image and a left eye image, a display panel, input with the signal converted by the control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image and the left eye image, a surface light source for radiating the panel from a rear surface, a shutter control unit for generating a timing signal indicating a switching timing of the right eye image and the left eye image with respect to viewing eyeglasses including a right and a left eye shutters, and a surface light source control unit for causing the surface light source to emit light in a period shorter than an open period of the shutter according to the switching of the right eye image and the left eye image.

Claims

1. An image display apparatus comprising:

a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for alternately displaying a right eye image and a left eye image;

a display panel, input with the signal converted by the signal control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image and the left eye image;

a surface light source for radiating the display panel from a rear surface;

a shutter control unit for generating a timing signal indicating a switching timing of the right eye image and the left eye image with respect to viewing eyeglasses including a right eye shutter and a left eye shutter; and

a surface light source control unit for causing the surface light source to emit light in a period shorter than an open period of the shutter according to the switching of the right eye image and the left eye image.

2. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the signal control unit converts to a signal for displaying each of a right eye image signal and a left eye image signal at least two times continuously.

3. The image display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the surface light source control unit causes the backlight to emit light in at least one part of a second display period of the right eye image and the left eye image.

4. The image display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the surface light source control unit does not cause the backlight to emit light in at least one part of a first display period of the right eye image and the left eye image.

5. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the surface light source control unit causes the surface light source to scan light-emit from one end toward the other end of the display panel.

6. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the surface light source control unit causes the surface light source to emit light with a higher luminance than that in a normal two-dimensional image display when the surface light source control unit causes the surface light source to emit light according to the switching of the right eye image and the left eye image.

7. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the surface light source includes a phosphor of which decay characteristic is smaller than or equal to 4 ms.

8. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the surface light source includes a phosphor of which decay characteristic is the same in three colors of RGB.

9. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the surface light source is constituted by an LED.

10. An image display observation system comprising:

an image display apparatus including a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for alternately displaying a right eye image and a left eye image, a display panel, input with the signal converted by the signal control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image and the left eye image, a surface light source for radiating the display panel from a rear surface, a shutter control unit for generating a timing signal indicating a switching timing of the right eye image and the left eye image with respect to viewing eyeglasses including a right eye shutter and a left eye shutter, and a surface light source control unit for causing the surface light source to emit light in a period shorter than an open period of the shutter according to switching of the right eye image and the left eye image; and

three-dimensional image observation eyeglasses, including a right eye shutter and a left eye shutter, for alternately opening the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter based on the timing signal.

11. An image display method comprising the steps of:

receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for alternately displaying a right eye image and a left eye image;

alternately displaying the right eye image and the left eye image based on the converted signal;

generating a timing signal indicating a switching timing of the right eye image and the left eye image with respect to viewing eyeglasses including a right eye shutter and a left eye shutter; and

causing a surface light source of a display panel for displaying the right eye image and the left eye image to emit light in a period shorter than an open period of the shutter according to switching of the right eye image and the left eye image.