Method and adjusting device for projection-type display

• US 7,265,765 B1
• Filed: 07/02/1999
• Issued: 09/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Akaiwa, Shoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chauhan; Ulka
• Assistant Examiner(s): Woods; Eric
• Application Number:
  US09/508,640
• Time in Patent Office: 2,986 Days
• Field of Search: 345660-671, 345569-570, 348553-555, 348569-570, 715710-711, 715717-718, 715/810, 715/817
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/06 Adjustment of display parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• 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 3/3611 Control of matrices with row and column drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 17/04 for receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3191 Testing thereof testing of displays in general G09G3/006

Abstract

An image display device including an image signal input terminal to which image signals are input, an image display system for forming an optical image based on the image signals, and a device adjusting system for adjusting internal conditions of the image display device is provided with an adjusting operation support device for supporting an operation of the device adjusting system. Because the adjusting operation support device is provided, a user may easily adjust the image display device while confirming adjusting operation support information displayed by the adjusting operation support device.

Claims

1. An image display device comprising:

an image signal input terminal configured to receive a plurality of types of image input signals;

an image display unit that forms an optical image based on the input signals received from the image signal input terminal;

a detecting unit that detects an internal condition of the image display device, the internal condition of the image display device including a condition other than signal mode;

a device adjusting unit that adjusts the internal conditions of the image display device detected by the detecting unit;

an adjusting operation support control program that supports an operation of the device adjusting unit;

an information display determining control program that confirms a type of each of the received input signals, prohibits the display of any adjustment assist information associated with a different type of input signal; and

the information display determining control program, based on the detected internal condition, restricting the display of adjustment assist information associated with the internal condition.

2. The image display device as set forth in claim 1,

the adjusting operation support control program displaying adjusting operation support information thereof by the image display unit, and

the adjusting operation support information displayed by the image display unit being switchably displayed by a switch mounted on at least one of the image display device and a remote controller that controls the image display device.

3. The image display device as set forth in claim 1, the adjusting operation support control program executing the device adjusting unit based on the adjusting operation support information displayed by the image display unit.

4. The image display device as set forth in claim 2,

the adjusting operation support information including a plurality of support information items, and

the image display device further comprising an information display determining device that regulates a display of support information items discriminated as unnecessary to be displayed from the support information items.

5. The image display device as set forth in claim 4, the adjusting operation support control program displaying the support information items in a hierarchical structure.

6. The image display device as set forth in claim 1, the adjusting operation support control program displaying the internal condition of the image display device by the image display unit.

12. The image display device as set forth in claim 1, the internal condition of the image display device including operating time of a light source.

13. The image display device as set forth in claim 1, the internal condition of the image display device including number of illuminations of a light source.

14. The image display device as set forth in claim 1, the internal condition of the image display device including remaining lifetime of a light source.

7. An adjusting method for an image display device including an image signal input terminal configured to receive a plurality of types of image input signals, an image display unit for forming an optical image based on the input signals received from the image signal input terminal, a detecting unit that detects an internal condition of the image display device, the internal condition of the image display device including a condition other than signal mode;

and a device adjusting unit for adjusting the internal condition of the image display device, the adjusting method comprising;

providing item information classifying an object to be adjusted by the device adjusting unit;

selecting an item from the item information provided;

providing event information for the object to be adjusted in accordance with the item selected;

selecting an event from the event information provided; and

providing, based on the event selected, adjusting operation support information that supports an adjusting operation, which adjusts an internal condition detected by the detecting unit, by the device adjusting unit;

providing an information display determining control program that confirms a type of each of the input signals, prohibits the display of any adjustment assist information associated with a different type of input image signal; and

the information display determining control program, based on the detected internal condition, restricting the display of adjustment assist information associated with the internal condition,

the image display device being adjusted based on the adjusting operation support information provided.

8. The adjusting method for an image display device as set forth in claim 7,

the item information, the event information, and the adjusting operation support information being provided on a display screen by the image display unit, and

item selecting and event selecting being executable by an operation switch mounted on at least one of the image display device and a remote controller for controlling the image display device.

9. The adjusting method for an image display device as set forth in claim 8, further comprising executing the device adjusting unit on the display screen based on the adjusting operation support information provided.

10. The adjusting method for an image display device as set forth claim 7, wherein item information providing and event information providing includes obtaining information about an interior of the image display device, such as the input signal that is input to the image signal input terminal, and regulating information discriminated as unnecessary to be displayed from the provided item information and the provided event information.

11. The adjusting method for an image display device as set forth in claim 10, wherein event information providing includes displaying the obtained information about the interior of the device as well as the event information.