Connecting a projection-type display system to an opening and closing device

• US 9,451,244 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2015
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sasazaki, Yukihiro, Mizoe, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, BAO-LUAN Q
• Application Number:
  US14/680,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20150288954A1
• Time in Patent Office: 532 Days
• Field of Search: 353/7, 348/53, 348/55, 348/56, 359/464
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/24 involving temporal multiplexing, e.g. using sequentially activated left and right shutters
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/26 Projecting separately subsidiary matter simultaneously with main image
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/24 using apertured or refractive resolving means on screens or between screen and eye
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects
• 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 13/363 using image projection screens volumetric display H04N13/388
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof

Abstract

A projection-type display system includes: a projection-type display apparatus that alternately switches images for the left eye and images for the right eye and projects the images onto an object; and an opening and closing control device that receives a control signal based on the display states of the images projected onto the object by the projection-type display apparatus and controls switching apertures of stereoscopic image viewing glasses corresponding to left and right eyes, wherein the projection-type display apparatus is connected to one end of a LAN cable and the opening and closing control device is connected to the other end of the LAN cable.

Claims

1. A projection system, comprising:

a projector configured to project images onto a screen, the images including images for a left eye and images for a right eye, the projector comprising control circuitry and a first transmitter that is built into the projector, the first transmitter being configured to receive a control signal from the control circuitry and emit a first wireless signal that controls shutters of stereoscopic image viewing glasses corresponding to left and right eyes based on the control signal; and

a second transmitter, located external to the projector, configured to receive the control signal from the control circuitry and emit a second wireless signal that controls the shutters of the stereoscopic image viewing glasses based on the control signal;

wherein the control circuitry is configured to determine whether a user has put the projector in a first state or a second state and is further configured to transmit the control signal to the first transmitter in the case that the projector is determined to be in the first state and to transmit the control signal to the second transmitter in the case that projector is determined to be in the second state.

2. The projection system according to claim 1, wherein the projector is configured to project the images from behind a viewer to in front of the viewer.

3. The projection system according to claim 1, wherein the first and second transmitters are each configured to transmit infrared rays to the stereoscopic image viewing glasses.

4. The projection system according to claim 1, wherein the second transmitter is configured to transmit infrared rays to the stereoscopic image viewing glasses.

5. The projection system according to claim 1, wherein one of the projector and the second transmitter is configured to conform to a standard, the other of the projector and the second transmitter is configured to conform to a proprietary standard, and the projector and the second transmitter are adapted to be connected to each other via a LAN cable, a dedicated cable, and a junction cable that is configured to join the LAN cable and the dedicated cable.

6. The projection system according to claim 5, wherein the standard is a LAN standard.

7. The projection system according to claim 1, wherein:

the projector is disposed within a first housing comprising a first cable terminal; and

the transmitter is disposed within a second housing separate from the first housing and comprising a second cable terminal.

8. The projection system according to claim 7, wherein the first and the second terminals are adapted to allow an operational, hardwired connection to be formed therebetween via at least one LAN cable.

9. The projection system according to claim 8, wherein the operational, hardwired connection comprises a junction cable, configured to join two other cables together.

10. The projection system according to claim 1, wherein the projector and the second transmitter are adapted to be interconnected via a LAN cable.

11. The projection system according to claim 10, further comprising the LAN cable.

12. The projection system according to claim 1, further comprising the stereoscopic image viewing glasses.

13. The projection system according to claim 1, wherein the control circuitry comprises a central processing unit.