Three dimensional image projector stabilization circuit

• US 9,016,873 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2013
• Issued: 04/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: DeCusatis, Casimer M.
• Primary Examiner(s): CHOWDHURY, SULTAN U.
• Application Number:
  US14/062,920
• Publication Number:
  US 20140049754A1
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 353/20, 353/30, 353/31, 353/122, 353/85, 353/94, 353/99, 372/29.011, 372/29.015, 372/30, 348744-747, 348/769, 348/E9.026, 315/368.15, 315/368.18, 315/370, 315/371
• US Class Current: 353/99
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/2073 Polarisers in the lamp house peculiar to electronic spatial light modulators H04N9/3197
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/16 by sequential viewing
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/26 using polarised or coloured light separating different viewpoint images
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0286 Details of a shift registers arranged for use in a driving circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/337 using polarisation multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/363 using image projection screens volumetric display H04N13/388
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3129 scanning a light beam on the display screen scanning a light beam on a screen in displays other than projection devices G09G3/02; scanning systems in general G02B26/10; projectors using laser light sources in general H04N9/3161

Abstract

A method for providing a feedback circuit for a three dimensional projector. First and second input devices and a sensor for determining the rotational speed of the second input device are provided. A control device for controlling the rotational speed of the second input device and a phase locked loop (PLL) are provided. A phase reference signal is created based on the signal rate of the first input device. A phase signal is created based on the rotational speed of the second input device. The PLL compares the phase reference signal and the phase feedback signal to determine whether the first input device and the second input device are synchronized. A signal is sent to the control device for the second input device to change the rotational speed of the second input device in response to determining that the first input device and the second input device are not synchronized.

Claims

1. A projector system for a portable electronic device, the projector system comprising:

an input device;

a digital mirror device (DMD), the DMD having a plurality of rotating minors;

a sensor operably coupled to measure a rotational speed of the plurality of rotating mirrors;

a control device configured for controlling the rotational speed of the plurality of rotating mirrors;

a phase locked loop (PLL) electrically coupled to the sensor; and

wherein the phase locked loop is configured for receiving a phase reference signal from the first input device, for receiving the phase feedback signal from the sensor, for comparing the phase reference signal and the phase feedback signal to determine whether the input device and the DMD are synchronized, and for sending a first signal to the control device to change the rotational speed of the plurality of minors in response to determining that the input device and DMD are not synchronized.

2. The projector system of claim 1 further comprising a quiescence delay device electrically coupled between the sensor and the PLL, the quiescence delay device configured to delay the transmission of a phase feedback signal.

3. The projector system of claim 2 wherein the input device is a light source.

4. The projector system of claim 3 wherein the light source includes three laser light generators.

5. The projector system of claim 4 wherein each of the three laser light generators includes a pair of monochromatic laser diodes.

6. The projector system of claim 5 wherein each of the pair of monochromatic laser diodes have orthogonal polarizations relative to each other.

7. The projector system of claim 6 wherein the three laser light generators includes a first laser generator having a pair of red laser diodes, a second laser generator having a pair of green laser diodes, and a third laser light generator having a pair of blue laser diodes.

8. The projector system of claim 4 further comprising three dichroic minors arranged to reflect and direct light from the three laser light generators toward the DMD.

9. The projector system of claim 8 wherein the three dichroic mirrors cooperate to blend the light from the three laser light generators to form white light.

10. The projector system of claim 9 further comprising a mirror adjacent the DMD and arranged to reflect light from the three dichroic mirrors onto the DMD.

11. A projector system for a portable electronic device, the projector system comprising:

a first input device;

a second input device;

a polarizing beam splitter (PBS), the PBS configured to rotate about a first axis;

a sensor operably coupled to measure a rotational speed of the PBS;

a control device configured for controlling a rotational speed of the plurality of minors;

a phase locked loop (PLL) electrically coupled to the sensor; and

wherein the phase locked loop is configured for receiving a phase reference signal from the first input device, for receiving the phase feedback signal from the sensor, for comparing the phase reference signal and the phase feedback signal to determine whether the first input device and the second input device are synchronized, and for sending a first signal to the control device to change the rotational speed of the PBS in response to determining that the first input device and second input device are not synchronized.

12. The projector system of claim 11 further comprising a quiescence delay device electrically coupled between the sensor and the PLL, the quiescence delay device configured to delay the transmission of a phase feedback signal.

13. The projector system of claim 12 wherein the first input device is a light source and the second input device is an image generating device, the image generating device arranged to receive light reflected from the PBS.

14. The projector system of claim 13 wherein the PLL is further configured to generate a second signal in response to determining that the light source and the PBS are not synchronized, and the quiescence delay device changes a delay period of the phase feedback signal in response to receiving the second signal.

15. The projector system of claim 14 wherein the light source comprises:

a first light source emitting a first light along an optical axis;

a second light source emitting a second light along the optical axis in a direction substantially opposite the first light source; and

the PBS being disposed between the first light source and the second light source.

16. The projector of claim 15 wherein the first light source and the second light source each include three monochromatic light emitting diodes (LED'"'"'s).

17. The projector of claim 16 wherein the three monochromatic LED'"'"'s include a red LED, a green LED and a blue LED.

18. The projector of claim 17 wherein first light source and second light source each include a dichroic color combiner, the dichroic color combiner arranged to reflect light toward the PBS.

19. The projector of claim 18 further comprising a first pre-polarizer lens disposed between the first light source and the PBS, and a second pre-polarizer lens disposed between the second light source and the PBS.

20. The projector of claim 19 wherein the image generating device is an LCoS display.