Three-dimensional image display apparatus
First Claim
1. A three-dimensional image display apparatus comprising:
- an image display device for displaying an image;
a transparent body enclosing said image display device;
a support for supporting said image display device in movable fashion relative to said transparent body;
an orientation controller for maintaining said image display device in a prescribed orientation;
positional change detecting means for detecting one of a change in position and a change in orientation of said transparent body from a prescribed initial position of said transparent body; and
image display altering means for altering an image displayed on said image display device in accordance with the result of the detection.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
The orientation of an image display device is maintained fixed relative to the viewer, the image display device is enclosed in a transparent body, and by detecting rotation angles of the image display device with respect to the transparent body, an image that is to be viewed when the transparent body is held in a hand or the like is displayed on the image display device, thereby enabling the viewer to view a displayed object from any desired direction as if he is holding the object in his hand. The three-dimensional image display apparatus has an image display device whose display surface is held fixed relative to the viewer, a transparent body for accommodating the image display device therein, an encoder for detecting rotation angles of the image display device with respect to the transparent body, an orientation detector for calculating the difference between the orientation of the transparent body and the orientation of the image display device on the basis of the output of the encoder, and an image generator for generating an image for display on the image display device in accordance with the output of the orientation detector.
-
Citations
30 Claims
-
1. A three-dimensional image display apparatus comprising:
-
an image display device for displaying an image; a transparent body enclosing said image display device; a support for supporting said image display device in movable fashion relative to said transparent body; an orientation controller for maintaining said image display device in a prescribed orientation; positional change detecting means for detecting one of a change in position and a change in orientation of said transparent body from a prescribed initial position of said transparent body; and image display altering means for altering an image displayed on said image display device in accordance with the result of the detection. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 23, 25, 28)
-
-
5. A three-dimensional image display apparatus comprising:
-
an image display device for displaying an image; a transparent body enclosing said image display device; a support for supporting said image display device in movable fashion relative to said transparent body; an orientation controller for maintaining said image display device in a prescribed orientation; positional change detecting means for detecting one of a change in position and a change in orientation of said transparent body from a prescribed initial position of said transparent body; viewer position detecting means for detecting the position of a viewer; and image display altering means for altering an image displayed on said image display device in accordance with the detected viewing position of the viewer and with the change of the position or orientation detected by said positional change detecting means. - View Dependent Claims (6, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 21, 26, 29)
-
-
7. A three-dimensional image display apparatus comprising:
-
an image display device for displaying an image; a transparent body enclosing said image display device, said transparent body constructed from a material of low light transmittance in order to obscure everything except the displayed image; viewer position detecting means for detecting the position of a viewer; image display altering means for altering said image displayed on said image display device so that said displayed image matches the detected viewing position of the viewer; and display direction controlling means for turning said image display device toward the direction of the viewer detected by said viewer position detecting means by moving said image display device with at least horizontal and vertical rotation. - View Dependent Claims (8, 19, 22, 24, 27, 30)
-
Specification