TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING 3D SERVICE USING THE CONTENT AND ADDITIONAL IMAGE SEPERATELY TRANSMITTED WITH THE REFERENCE IMAGE TRANSMITTED IN REAL TIME

• US 20140160238A1
• Filed: 07/27/2012
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, University-Industry Cooperation Group of KyungHee University
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, University-Industry Cooperation Group of KyungHee University
• Inventors: Yim, Hyun Jeong, Yun, Kug Jin, Lee, Gwang Soon, Cheong, Won Sik, Hur, Nam Ho, Park, Jong Hwan, Park, Gwang Hoon, Kwon, Hyoung Jin, Jung, Kwang Hee, Kim, Kyu Heon, Lee, Jang Won, Kang, Jeon Ho, Seo, Duk Young
• Application Number:
  US14/235,490
• Publication Number:
  US 20140160238A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/18 Arrangements for synchronising broadcast or distribution via plural systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/40 Arrangements for broadcast specially adapted for accumulation-type receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/161 Encoding, multiplexing or demultiplexing different image signal components for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/194 Transmission of image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/597 specially adapted for multi-view video sequence encoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/236 Assembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. transport stream, by combining a video stream with other content or additional data, e.g. inserting a URL [Uniform Resource Locator] into a video stream, multiplexing software data into a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Insertion of stuffing bits into the multiplex stream, e.g. to obtain a constant bit-rate; Assembling of a packetised elementary stream multiplexing of data packets for data networks, e.g. RTP/UDP H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2362 Generation or processing of Service Information [SI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2381 Adapting the multiplex stream to a specific network, e.g. an Internet Protocol [IP] network transmission of MPEG streams over ATM H04L12/5601
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43072 of multiple content streams on the same device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4344 Remultiplexing of multiplex streams, e.g. by modifying time stamps or remapping the packet identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/816 involving special video data, e.g 3D video

Abstract

According to the present invention, a transmission apparatus and method and a reception method and apparatus for providing a 3D service are disclosed. The transmission method for providing the 3D service while making a reference image transmitted in real-time interwork with an additional image transmitted separately from the reference image includes a real-time reference image stream generating step of generating a real-time reference image stream based on the reference image and transmitting the generated real-time reference image stream to a receiving side in real-time and an additional image transmitting step of transmitting the additional image providing the 3D service in interworking with the reference image to the receiving side separately from the reference image stream, wherein the real-time reference image stream includes a linkage information, which is information relating to the additional image to be interworking with the reference image and synchronization information for synchronization with the reference image and the additional image and content.

Claims

1. An electrophoretic display device comprising:

a substrate on which image gate lines and image signal lines are formed to intersect one another;

an image switching thin-film transistor (TFT) formed on the substrate and electrically connected to the image gate lines and the image signal lines;

a sensing TFT formed on the substrate and configured to sense infrared (IR) light and generate an IR sensing signal;

an output switching TFT formed on the substrate and connected to the sensing TFT, the output switching TFT configured to output position information from the IR sensing signal;

an IR filter insulating layer formed on the substrate to cover the sensing TFT and configured to transmit only the IR light;

a pixel electrode formed on the IR filter insulating layer and electrically connected to the image switching TFT;

an electrophoretic film formed on the pixel electrode and including a plurality of micro-capsules having pigment particles with positive and negative electrical charges; and

a common electrode formed on the electrophoretic film.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein a through hole is formed through top and bottom surfaces of the pixel electrode and formed over the sensing TFT to allow incidence of IR light to the sensing TFT.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein the pixel electrode is formed of a light reflective material to serve as a light blocking layer with respect to the image switching TFT and the output switching TFT.

4. The display device of claim 1, wherein the IR filter insulating layer includes first insulating layers and second insulating layers formed in an alternating fashion,

wherein the first insulating layers have a relatively high refractive index, and the second insulating layers have a relatively low refractive index.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein the first insulating layers are formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of titanium oxide (TiO₂), tantalum oxide (Ta₂O₅), zirconium oxide (ZrO₂), and zinc sulfide (ZnS), and the second insulating layers are formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon oxide (SiO₂), magnesium fluoride (MgF₂), and sodium aluminum iron (Na₃AlFe).

6. The display device of claim 1, wherein a channel region of the sensing TFT is formed of a material capable of absorbing light having an IR wavelength.

7. The display device of claim 6, wherein the channel region of the sensing TFT is formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si), single crystalline Si, indium antimony (InSb), germanium (Ge), indium arsenide (InAs), indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs), cadmium telluride (CdTe), cadmium selenide (CdSe), gallium arsenide (GaAs), gallium indium phosphide (GaInP), indium phosphide (InP), and aluminum gallium arsenide (AlGaAs).

8. The display device of claim 6, wherein a channel region of each of the image switching TFT and the output switching TFT is formed of amorphous silicon (a-Si), and the channel region of the sensing TFT is formed of poly-Si.

16. The display device of claim 1, wherein the common electrode is formed of a conductive material that transmits light.

17. The display device of claim 16, wherein the common electrode is formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of ITO, AZO, IZO, carbon nanotubes, and graphene.

9. An electrophoretic display device comprising:

a substrate on which image gate lines and image signal lines are formed to intersect one another;

an image switching thin-film transistor (TFT) formed on the substrate and electrically connected to the image gate lines and the image signal lines;

a sensing TFT formed on the substrate and configured to sense IR light and generate an IR sensing signal;

an output switching TFT formed on the substrate and connected to the sensing TFT, the output switching TFT configured to output position information from the IR sensing signal;

an insulating layer formed on the substrate to cover the image switching TFT, the sensing TFT, and the output switching TFT;

an IR filter formed as a single layer on the insulating layer and configured to transmit only the IR light;

a pixel electrode formed on the IR filter and electrically connected to the image switching TFT;

an electrophoretic film formed on the pixel electrode and including a plurality of micro-capsules having pigment particles with positive and negative electrical charges; and

a common electrode formed on the electrophoretic film.

11. The display device of claim 9, wherein the IR filter is a single thin layer formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of chromium oxides (CrO and Cr₂O₃) and manganese oxides (MnO, Mn₃O₄, Mn₂O₃, MnO₂, and Mn₂O₇).

12. The display device of claim 9, wherein the pixel electrode is formed of a light reflective material to serve as a light blocking layer with respect to the image switching TFT and the output switching TFT,

and a through hole is formed through top and bottom surfaces of the pixel electrode and formed over the sensing TFT to allow incidence of the IR light to the sensing TFT.

13. The display device of claim 12, wherein a channel region of the sensing TFT is formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of poly-Si, single crystalline silicon, InSb, Ge, InAs, InGaAs, CdTe, CdSe, GaAs, GaInP, InP, and AlGaAs.

14. The display device of claim 9, wherein the pixel electrode is formed of a conductive material that transmits light, and

a channel region of each of the image switching TFT and the output switching TFT is formed of a-Si, and a channel region of the sensing TFT is formed of poly-Si.

15. The display device of claim 14, wherein the pixel electrode is formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of indium tin oxide (ITO), Al-doped zinc oxide (AZO), indium zinc oxide (IZO), carbon nanotubes, and graphene.

10. An electrophoretic display device comprising:

a substrate on which image gate lines and image signal lines intersect one another;

an image switching TFT formed on the substrate and electrically connected to the image gate lines and the image signal lines;

a sensing TFT formed on the substrate and configured to sense IR light and generate an IR sensing signal;

an output switching TFT formed on the substrate and connected to the sensing TFT, the output switching TFT configured to output position information from the IR sensing signal;

an insulating layer formed on the substrate to cover the image switching TFT, the sensing TFT, and the output switching TFT;

a pixel electrode formed on the insulating layer and electrically connected to the image switching TFT;

an IR filter formed as a single layer on the pixel electrode and configured to transmit only the IR light;

an electrophoretic film formed on the IR filter and including a plurality of micro-capsules having pigment particles with positive and negative electrical charges; and

a common electrode formed on the electrophoretic film.