Solar Powered 3D Glasses

• US 20110221876A1
• Filed: 12/08/2010
• Published: 09/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ami Dror, Boyd Macnaughton, David W. Allen, Rodney W. Kimmell
• Original Assignee: Ami Dror, Boyd Macnaughton, David W. Allen, Rodney W. Kimmell
• Inventors: Allen, David W., MacNaughton, Boyd, Dror, Ami, Kimmell, Rodney W.
• Application Number:
  US12/963,373
• Publication Number:
  US 20110221876A1
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2213/008 Aspects relating to glasses for viewing stereoscopic images

Abstract

A viewing system for viewing video displays having the appearance of a three dimensional image.

Claims

1. 3D glasses, comprising:

left and right viewing shutters;

a controller operably coupled to the left and right viewing shutters;

a rechargeable battery operably coupled to the controller; and

a power scavenging device operably coupled to the rechargeable battery.

2. The 3D glasses of claim 1, wherein the power scavenging device is adapted to scavenge one or more of radio-frequency, thermal, biomechanical, vibration, and/or sonic energy.

3. A method of operating 3D glasses that include left and right viewing shutters, comprising:

scavenging local energy for operating the left and right viewing shutters.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the scavenged local energy comprises one or more of radio-frequency, thermal, biomechanical, vibration, and/or sonic energy.

5. A system for operating 3D glasses that include left and right viewing shutters, comprising:

means for scavenging local energy for operating the left and right viewing shutters; and

means for storing the scavenged local energy for operating the left and right viewing shutters.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the scavenged local energy comprises one or more of radio-frequency, thermal, biomechanical, vibration, and/or sonic energy.