Display device, position adjustment pattern display program, recording medium, polarized glasses, and method of adjusting position of filter of the display device

• US 7,215,302 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2002
• Issued: 05/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sekizawa, Hidehiko, Satoh, Seiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Hjerpe; Richard
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dinh; Duc Q
• Application Number:
  US10/344,181
• Publication Number:
  US 20030227450A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,798 Days
• Field of Search: 345/905, 345 6- 8, 348/51, 359/502, 359/559, 349/15
• US Class Current: 345/7
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/25 using polarisation techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/286 having separate monoscopic and stereoscopic modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/31 using parallax barriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/324 Colour aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/327 Calibration thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/337 using polarisation multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/356 having separate monoscopic and stereoscopic modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof

Abstract

Even if a divided wavelength plate filter is mounted, it is possible to reliably display a three-dimensional image or perform a displaying operation on from one screen to a plurality of screens. In a display device, the relative positions of an image display section and a divided wavelength plate filter for rotating polarized light from image information at a first segment in a direction that is different from the direction of polarized light from image information at a second segment can be adjusted. At the time of positional adjustment, the display device displays a position adjustment pattern (112) having colors, figures, characters, symbols, diagrams, or designs, or combinations thereof which differ from each other depending on the segment.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

an image display section for displaying image information at a first segment and a second segment; and

a divided wavelength plate filter for rotating polarized light from the image information at the first segment in a direction that is different from the direction of polarized light from the image information at the second segment, the divided wavelength plate filter being rotationally adjustable in a plane that is parallel to a display surface of the image display section;

wherein the display device displays a position adjustment pattern having at least one of colors, figures, characters, symbols, diagrams, and designs, the position adjustment pattern varying to a viewer depending upon the relative positions of the image display section and the divided wavelength plate filter when the divided wavelength plate filter is adjusted.

2. A display device according to claim 1, wherein the first segment and the second segment are divided into lines and alternately positioned.

3. A display device according to claim 2, wherein the segments are divided horizontally or vertically.

4. A display device according to claim 1 comprising the divided wavelength plate filter and a position adjusting means, the filter comprising a frame and being disposed close to the first and second segments of the image display section for rotating the polarized light from the image information at the first segment in a direction that is different from the direction of the polarized light from the image information at the second segment;

and the position adjusting means acting upon the frame of the divided wavelength plate filter for adjusting the relative positions of the image display section and the divided wavelength plate filter.

5. A display device according to claim 4, wherein the first segment and the second segment are divided into lines and alternately positioned horizontally or vertically, and wherein the divided wavelength plate filter has half wavelength plates that are formed to be located corresponding to the lines of the first segment or the lines of the second segment.

6. A display device according to claim 5, wherein the position adjusting means is capable of moving the frame in a direction substantially perpendicular to the borders of the lines of the half wavelength plates.

7. A display device according to claim 4, wherein the position adjusting means comprises a resilient member, mounted to the frame, and a threaded member for moving the frame towards and away from the resilient member by coming into contact with the frame.

8. A display device according to claim 1, wherein, after positional adjustment, an image in accordance with parallax is displayed.

9. A display device according to claim 1, wherein, after positional adjustment, an image for two screens is displayed as one image information.

10. A position adjustment pattern display program for displaying a position adjustment pattern for adjusting the position of a divided wavelength plate filter for rotating polarized light from image information at a first segment in a direction that is different from the direction of polarized light from image information at a second segment, the position adjustment pattern display program performing a method comprising the steps of:

displaying the position adjustment pattern having at least one of colors, figures, characters, symbols, diagrams, and designs which vary to a viewer depending upon the relative positions of an image display section and the divided wavelength plate filter when the divided wavelength plate filter is adjusted,

wherein the divided wavelength plate filter is rotationally adjustable in a plane that is parallel to a display surface of the image display section that displays the position adjustment pattern.

11. A recording medium which is capable of being subjected to a reading operation by a display device, wherein, in order to adjust the position of a divided wavelength plate filter for rotating polarized light from image information at a first segment in a direction that is different from the direction of polarized light from image information at a second segment, the recording medium stores a position adjustment pattern display program performing a method comprising the steps of:

displaying a position adjustment pattern having at least one of colors, figures, characters, symbols, diagrams, and designs which vary to a viewer depending upon the relative positions of a display surface of the display device and the divided wavelength plate filter when the divided wavelength plate filter is adjusted,

wherein the divided wavelength plate filter is rotationally adjustable in a plane that is parallel to the display surface of the display device that displays the position adjustment pattern.

12. Polarized glasses for viewing a display image through a divided wavelength plate filter for rotating polarized light from image information at a first segment of an image display section in a direction that is different from the direction of polarized light from image information at a second segment of an image display section of a display device,

wherein the polarization directions of polarizing filters formed at lenses of both eyes are the same, and wherein the divided wavelength plate filter is rotationally adjustable in a plane that is parallel to a display surface of the display device that displays a position adjustment pattern, and

wherein the display device displays the position adjustment pattern having at least one of colors, figures, characters, symbols, diagrams, and designs, the position adjustment pattern varying to a viewer depending upon the relative positions of the image display section and the divided wavelength plate filter when the divided wavelength plate filter is adjusted.

13. A method of adjusting the position of a filter of a display device which comprises an image display section for displaying image information at a first segment and a second segment, the method comprising the steps of:

displaying a position adjustment pattern having at least one of colors, figures, characters, symbols, diagrams, and designs, which differ from each other depending on the first or second segment being visible, on the image display section through a divided wavelength plate filter for rotating polarized light from image information at the first segment of the image display section in a direction that is different from the direction of polarized light from image information at the second segment of the image display section;

detecting the positional shift between the position adjustment pattern and the divided wavelength plate filter in accordance with the state of the position adjustment pattern through the divided wavelength plate filter; and

adjusting the relative positions of the image display section and the divided wavelength plate filter in order to reduce the detected positional shift, the divided wavelength plate filter being rotationally adjustable in a plane parallel to a display surface of the display device that displays the position adjustment pattern.

14. A method of adjusting the position of a filter of a display device according to claim 13, wherein the position adjustment pattern is automatically displayed on the image display section before image information in accordance with parallax or an image for two screens to be displayed as one image information is displayed.

15. A method of adjusting the position of a filter of a display device according to claim 13, wherein the display of the position adjustment pattern is viewed through polarized glasses in which the polarization directions of polarizing filters formed at lenses of both eyes are the same.