IMAGE PROJECTION SYSTEM AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

• US 20120182416A1
• Filed: 01/11/2012
• Published: 07/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Inventors: KAWAGUCHI, Hirofumi
• Application Number:
  US13/348,276
• Publication Number:
  US 20120182416A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/128
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0242 Compensation of deficiencies in the appearance of colours
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0693 Calibration of display systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/002 to project the image of a two-dimensional display, such as an array of light emitting or modulating elements or a CRT
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/02 characterised by the way in which colour is displayed details of colour display specific for CRTs G09G1/28; specific for flat matrix panels other than liquid crystal displays G09G3/2003; specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3185 Geometric adjustment, e.g. keystone or convergence optical or mechanical adjustment of convergence H04N9/317; using scanning means H04N3/22; optical or mechanical adjustments of projectors not peculiar to the presence of an electronic spatial light modulator G03B21/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3188 Scale or resolution adjustment scaling in general G06T3/40; resolution modifying circuits for displays in general G09G5/391
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3194 including sensor feedback

Abstract

An image projection system outputs an image from a lens and projects it onto a projection plane, and if resolution of the image projected onto the projection plane in each region is not uniform among respective regions, will correct resolutions of the respective regions of the image based on an inverse characteristic of the lens optical characteristic and will project the image onto the projection plane. Moreover, when the resolution of one region of the image falls lower than the resolutions of other regions by projecting the image onto the projection plane so that a shape of the image may not be distorted, the system projects an image whose resolution is deteriorated so that the resolutions of the other regions become substantially the same as the resolution of the one region.

Claims

1. An image projection system that projects an image from its lens and projects the image onto a projection plane, and if resolutions in regions of the image projected onto the projection plane are not uniform among the respective regions, corrects each of the resolutions of the image in each region based on an inverse characteristic of an optical characteristic of the lens and projects the image onto the projection plane.

2. An image projection system, wherein, when a resolution of one region of an image gets lower than resolutions of other regions by projecting the image onto a projection plane so that a shape of the image may not be distorted, the image projection system projects an image whose resolutions are deteriorated so that the resolutions of the other regions may become substantially the same as the resolution of the one region.

3. The image projection system, according to claim 2,

wherein the one region is a region whose resolution gas fallen to the lowest level in the image projected onto the projection plane.

4. The image projection system according to claim 2,

wherein the resolutions of the other regions are deteriorated by correcting the pixel values of pixels that the other regions contain using a filter coefficient used for the image being projected so that a shape of the image may not be distorted.

5. A semiconductor integrated circuit for outputting an image whose resolution is deteriorated so that resolutions of other regions may become substantially the same as a resolution of one region when the resolution of the one region of the projected image falls lower than the resolutions of other regions by projecting the image onto a projection plane so that a shape of the image may not be distorted.

6. An image projection system, comprising:

a projection part for projecting a target image onto a projection plane;

a photographing part for photographing the projection plane onto which the target image is projected;

an analysis part for analyzing a photographed image that is an image obtained by photographing the projection plane; and

a correction part for correcting the target image based on an analyzed result;

wherein the analysis part divides the photographed image into a plurality of regions and calculates the resolution for every region when a difference in shape between the target image and the photographed image is within a predetermined range,

wherein the correction part generates a first corrected image from the target image so that the resolutions among the regions may become uniform, and

wherein the projection part projects the first corrected image onto the projection plane.

7. The image projection system according to claim 6,

wherein the analysis part calculates the luminance for every region when a difference in resolution between the regions in the photographed image is within the predetermined range,

wherein the correction part generates a second corrected image from the first corrected image so that the luminances among the regions may become uniform, and

wherein the projection part projects the second corrected image onto the projection plane.

8. The image projection system according to either claim 6,

wherein the analysis part calculates a difference of the shape between the photographed image and the target image,

wherein the correction part generates a third corrected image by correcting the geometrical distortion of the target image based on the difference in the shape when the difference in shape is outside the predetermined range,

wherein the projection part projects the third corrected image onto the projection plane,

wherein the analysis part calculates the resolution for every region in the photographed image when the difference in the shape between the photographed image and the target image is within the predetermined range, and

wherein the correction part generates the first corrected image based on the third corrected image.

9. The image projection system according to claim 8,

wherein the target image includes a plurality of partial images of an identical shape, and

wherein the correction part generates the first corrected image by correcting the resolutions of the other regions so that the resolutions thereof may approach the resolution of the region, when the photographed image is photographed from the projection plane onto which the image is projected after the correction of the geometrical distortion, there exists a region containing the partial image whose size becomes large as compared with the partial image before the correction.

10. The image projection system according to claim 6,

wherein the projection plane has an uneven surface, and

wherein the correction part generates the first corrected image so that the resolutions among the regions may become uniform according to the uneven surface.

11. A semiconductor integrated circuit, comprising:

an analysis part for analyzing a photographed image that is an image obtained by photographing a projection plane onto which a target image is projected; and

a correction part for correcting the target image based on an analyzed result;

wherein the analysis part divided the photographed image into a plurality of regions and calculates a resolution for the every region when a difference in shape between the target image and the photographed image is within a predetermined range, and the correction part generates a first corrected image from the target image so that the resolutions among the regions may become uniform and projects the first corrected image onto the projection plane.

12. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 11, wherein the analysis part calculates the luminance for every region when a difference in resolution between the regions in the photographed image is within the predetermined range, and

wherein the correction part generates a second corrected image from the first corrected image so that the luminance among the regions may become uniform and projects the second corrected image onto the projection plane.

13. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 11,

wherein the analysis part calculates a difference in shape between the photographed image and the target image,

wherein the correction part generates a third corrected image by correcting distortion of the shape of the target image based on the difference in the shape, when the difference in the shape is outside the predetermined range, and makes the third corrected image project onto the projection plane,

wherein the analysis part calculates the resolution for every region in the photographed image when the difference in the shape between the photographed image and the target image is within the predetermined range, and

wherein the correction part generates the first corrected image based on the third corrected image.

14. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 13,

wherein the target image contains a plurality of partial images of an identical shape, and

wherein the correction part generates the first corrected image by correcting the resolutions of other regions so that they may approach the resolution of the region when the photographed image is one that is photographed from the projection plane onto which the image is projected after the correction of distortion of the shape and there exists a region including the partial image whose size becomes large compared with the partial image before the correction among the regions in the photographed image.

15. The semiconductor integrated circuit according to claim 11, wherein the projection plane has an uneven surface, and wherein the correction part generates the first corrected image so that the resolutions among the regions may become uniform according to the uneven surface.