3D image display device

• US 8,416,341 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2006
• Issued: 04/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cha, Kyung-hoon, Kim, Dac-sik
• Primary Examiner(s): AGGARWAL, YOGESH K
• Application Number:
  US11/395,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20060227419A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,563 Days
• Field of Search: 348372-376, 352/52, 352/53, 352/243
• US Class Current: 348/372
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/27 involving lenticular arrays
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/305 using lenticular lenses, e.g. arrangements of cylindrical lenses
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/351 for displaying simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof

Abstract

A 3D image display device is provided. The 3D image display device can sense a posture change of a 3D display using a gyro-sensor and prevent an image for an LE and an image for an RE from being converted using a sensed posture change. The 3D image display device includes a main body a multi-view type display, a gyro-sensor, and an image-conversion controller. The multi-view type display provides a 3D image for an LE and a 3D image for an RE. The gyro-sensor is mounted in the main body to sense a posture change of the display and the image-conversion controller prevents conversion of a provided 3D image using the posture change of the display sensed by the gyro-sensor. Therefore, an image signal for an RE and an image signal for an LE are provided to viewing regions where an RE and an LE of a viewer are located, so that the viewer can view a 3D image properly.

Claims

1. A 3D image display device comprising:

a main body;

a multi-view type display which provides a 3D image for a left eye and a 3D image for a right eye;

a gyro-sensor which is mounted in the main body and senses a posture change of the display; and

an image-conversion controller which prevents conversion of a 3D image using the posture change of the display sensed by the gyro-sensor, so that a viewer views an image signal for the left eye and an image signal for the right eye in a viewing region where the right eye and the left eye of the viewer are positioned,

wherein the image-conversion controller comprises a signal-conversion part which converts an image signal for the left eye and an image signal for the right eye,

the controller senses a relative position change of the display with respect to the viewer using the gyro-sensor to judge whether the left eye and the right eye of the viewer are positioned in an initial viewing region for the right eye and an initial viewing region for the left eye, respectively, and

when the left eye is positioned in the viewing region for the right eye and the right eye is positioned in the viewing region for the left eye, an image signal for the left eye and an image signal for the right eye are converted to each other using the signal-conversion part so as to prevent left-right conversion of a provided 3D image.

2. The 3D image display device of claim 1, further comprising:

a reset part setting an initial value of the gyro-sensor that sets an arbitrary position of the display to an initial position by selection of a viewer.

3. The 3D image display device of claim 1, wherein the gyro-sensor is mounted within or on an exterior of the main body.

4. The 3D image display device of claim 1, wherein the display comprises:

a screen mounted within the main body and on which 3D image data selected by the controller is projected; and

a viewing region-separation part separating the 3D image projected on the screen into an image for a left eye and an image for a right eye.

5. The 3D image display device of claim 1, wherein the gyro-sensor is disposed within or on an exterior surface of the main body.

6. The 3D image display device of claim 2, wherein the gyro-sensor senses a rotational displacement of the main body in X, Y, and Z axes of the display, with respect to the initial position.

7. The 3D image display device of claim 6, wherein:

the viewing region comprises separate left eye viewing regions and right eye viewing regions, for the left eye image signal and the right eye image signal, respectively, and

the image-conversion controller prevents conversion of the left eye image into the right eye image and vice versa in the left eye viewing regions and the right eye viewing regions with respect to the viewer, based on the rotational displacement.

8. The 3D image display device of claim 7, wherein the signal-conversion part converts the left eye image signal and the right eye image signal to one another, if the rotational displacement indicates a position of the viewer with respect to the left eye viewing regions and the right eye viewing regions such that the left eye of the viewer is positioned in one of the right eye viewing regions and the right eye of the viewer is positioned in one of the left eye viewing regions.

9. The 3D image display device of claim 8, wherein the signal-conversion part omits converting the left eye image signal and the right eye image signal to one another, if the rotational displacement indicates the position of the viewer with respect to the left eye viewing regions and the right eye viewing regions such that the left eye of the viewer is positioned in one of the left eye viewing regions and the right eye of the viewer is positioned in one of the right eye viewing regions.