Display apparatus, 3D glasses, and control method thereof

• US 8,836,759 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2013
• Issued: 09/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Seo, Je-hwan, Hwang, Tae-don, Kang, Yong-jin, Jung, Do-sung
• Primary Examiner(s): Perungavoor, Sath V
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A
• Application Number:
  US13/870,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20130235052A1
• Time in Patent Office: 509 Days
• Field of Search: 348/43, 348/56
• US Class Current: 348/43
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/341 using temporal multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2213/008 Aspects relating to glasses for viewing stereoscopic images

Abstract

Disclosed are a display apparatus, three-dimensional (3D) glasses and a control method thereof. The method of controlling three-dimensional (3D) glasses for a display apparatus includes: synchronizing clocks for communicating with the 3D glasses; generating drive timing information for driving shutters of the 3D glasses from the synchronized clocks and a frame sync signal of a displayed image; and transmitting a glasses control message, comprising the drive timing information, to the 3D glasses.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a display apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving, from active glasses, a scanning message for pairing with the active glasses;

transmitting, to the active glasses, a response message for pairing, the response message comprising identification information of the display apparatus; and

in response to the transmitting the response message, receiving from the active glasses an acknowledge message for pairing, the acknowledge message comprising information about identification of the active glasses.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the response message from the display apparatus further comprises threshold received signal strength indication (RSSI) value information.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

synchronizing clocks for communicating with the active glasses;

generating drive timing information for driving shutters of the active glasses from the synchronized clocks; and

transmitting a glasses control message, comprising the drive timing information, to the active glasses,

wherein the generating the drive timing information comprises generating the drive timing information using the synchronized clocks and a frame sync signal for displaying images thereon.

4. The method according to claim 3,

wherein the clocks are Bluetooth clocks,

wherein the synchronizing the clocks further comprises transmitting a count value of the Bluetooth clocks of the display apparatus to the active glasses, and

wherein the count value of the Bluetooth clocks is transmitted using a reconnection train message for paring between the display apparatus and the active glasses.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the glasses control message further comprises shutter-operation delay information of the active glasses,

wherein the shutter-operation delay information comprises delay information regarding a timing between a reference time determined by the drive timing information and a time when a shutter is to be opened or closed.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein the glasses control message is transmitted in a longer cycle than the frame sync signal to prevent the active glasses from active mode off.

7. The method according to claim 3, further comprising

acquiring information about a display unit of the display apparatus;

and

modifying duty of the drive timing information based on the acquired information about the display unit.

8. A display apparatus comprising:

a display unit;

a communication unit which communicates with active glasses; and

a controller which controls the communication unit to receive, from the active glasses, a scanning message for pairing with the active glasses, to transmit, to the active glasses, a response message for pairing, the response message comprising identification information of the display apparatus and, in response to the transmitting the response message, to receive from the active glasses an acknowledge message for pairing, the acknowledge message comprising information about identification of the active glasses.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the response message from the display apparatus further comprises threshold received signal strength indication (RSSI) value information.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

a signal generator which generates drive timing information for driving shutters of the active glasses using clocks for communicating with the active glasses,

wherein the controller controls the communication unit to synchronize the clocks for communicating with the active glasses and to transmit a glasses control message comprising the drive timing information to the active glasses, and

wherein the controller controls the signal generator to generate the drive timing information using the synchronized clock and a frame signal for displaying images thereon.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the clocks are Bluetooth clocks,

wherein the communication unit transmits a count value of the Bluetooth clocks of the display apparatus to the active glasses so as to synchronize the clocks, and

wherein the count value is transmitted using a reconnection train message for paring between the display apparatus and the active glasses.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the glasses control message further comprises shutter-operation delay information of the active glasses, and

the shutter-operation delay information comprises delay information regarding a timing between a reference time determined by the drive timing information and a time when a shutter is to be opened or closed.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the glasses control message is transmitted in a longer cycle than the frame sync signal to prevent the active glasses from active mode off.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the controller acquires information about the display unit, and modifies duty of the drive timing information based on the acquired information about the display unit.

15. A method of controlling active glasses, the method comprising:

transmitting a scanning message for pairing with a display apparatus;

receiving a response message for pairing, from the display apparatus, the response message comprising identification information of the display apparatus; and

in response to the receiving the response message, transmitting an acknowledge message for pairing, to the display apparatus, the acknowledge message comprising information about identification of the active glasses.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising, if two or more response messages are received from two or more display apparatuses, selecting a display apparatus that transmitted a response message having a highest received signal strength indication (RSSI) value of RSSI values of the two or more response messages,

wherein the transmitting the acknowledge message comprises transmitting the acknowledge message to the selected display apparatus.

17. The method according to claim 15, further comprising:

synchronizing clocks for communicating with the display apparatus;

receiving a glasses control message, generated using the synchronized clocks and comprising drive timing information for driving the shutters of the active glasses, from the display apparatus; and

controlling the shutters to be opened or closed in sync with the drive timing information,

wherein the drive timing information corresponds to a frame sync signal for displaying images thereon.

18. The method according to claim 17,

wherein the clocks are Bluetooth clocks, and the synchronizing the clocks further comprises receiving a count value of the Bluetooth clocks of the display apparatus from the display apparatus, and

wherein the count value is received using a reconnection train message for paring between the display apparatus and the active glasses.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein the glasses control message further comprises shutter-operation delay information of the active glasses, and

wherein the shutter-operation delay information comprises delay information regarding a timing between a reference time determined by the drive timing information and a time when a shutter is to be opened or closed.

20. The method according to claim 17, wherein the receiving the glasses control message comprises receiving the glasses control message in a longer cycle than a frame sync signal for displaying images thereon to prevent the active glasses from active mode off.

21. The method according to claim 19, wherein the controlling the shutters to be opened or closed comprises controlling an operation timing and a duty of the shutters based on information about shutter-open delay and information about shutter-close delay.

22. The method according to claim 17, wherein the controlling the shutters to be opened or closed comprises

generating a first clock signal having a frequency which is half of a shutter operating frequency;

generating a second clock signal having a phase which is different from a phase of the first clock signal by a quarter cycle;

generating a shutter operation driving signal by inverting an XOR value about logic levels of the first and second clock signals; and

controlling a duty of the shutter operation driving signal by shifting the first clock signal or the second clock signal in accordance with the shutter-operation delay information.

23. Active glasses comprising:

a communication unit which communicates with a display apparatus;

a shutter unit which comprises a left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter to be alternately opened and closed; and

a controller which controls the communication unit to transmit a scanning message for pairing with a display apparatus, to receive a response message for pairing from the display apparatus, the response message comprising identification information of the display apparatus and, in response to the receiving the response message, to transmit an acknowledge message for pairing to the display apparatus, the acknowledge message comprising information about identification of the active glasses.

24. The active glasses according to claim 23, wherein, if two or more response messages are received from two or more display apparatuses, the communication unit selects a display apparatus that transmitted a response message having a highest received signal strength indication (RSSI) value of RSSI values of the two or more response messages, and transmits the acknowledge message to the selected display apparatus.

25. The active glasses according to claim 23, wherein the control unit synchronizes clocks for communicating with the display apparatus, controls the communication unit to receive a glasses control message, generated using the synchronized clocks and comprising drive timing information for driving shutters of the active glasses, from the display apparatus, and controls the shutters to be opened or closed in sync with the received drive timing information, and

wherein the drive timing information corresponds to a frame sync signal of a displayed image.

26. The active glasses according to claim 25,

wherein the clocks are Bluetooth clocks,

wherein the controller synchronizes the Bluetooth clocks by receiving a count value of the clocks of the display apparatus from the display apparatus, and

wherein the count value is received using a reconnection train message for paring between the display apparatus and the active glasses.

27. The active glasses according to claim 25, wherein the glasses control message further comprises shutter-operation delay information of the active glasses, and

wherein the shutter-operation delay information comprises delay information regarding a timing between a reference time determined by the sync signal and a time when a shutter is opened or closed.

28. The active glasses according to claim 25, wherein the glasses control message is received in a longer cycle than the frame sync signal of the displayed image to prevent the active glasses from active mode off.

29. The active glasses according to claim 27, wherein the controller controls the shutters to be opened or closed by controlling an operation timing and a duty of the shutters based on information about shutter-open delay and information about shutter-close delay.

30. The active glasses according to claim 25, wherein the controller controls the shutters to be opened or closed by

generating a first clock signal having a frequency which is half of a shutter operating frequency;

generating a second clock signal having a phase which is different form a phase of the first clock signal by a quarter cycle;

generating a shutter operation driving signal by inverting an XOR value about logic levels of the first and second clock signals, and

controlling a duty of the shutter operation driving signal by shifting the first clock signal or the second clock signal in accordance with the shutter-operation delay information.