Display device and display method

• US 10,598,948 B2
• Filed: 01/20/2017
• Issued: 03/24/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd. (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Yu, Yangbing, Ma, Qing, Yoon, Daekeun
• Primary Examiner(s): Lhymn, Sarah
• Application Number:
  US15/542,309
• Publication Number:
  US 20180224662A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,159 Days
• Field of Search: 345418, 345419, 345619
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/52 the 3D volume being constructed from a stack or sequence of 2D planes, e.g. depth sampling systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/395 with depth sampling, i.e. the volume being constructed from a stack or sequence of 2D image planes

Abstract

A display device and a display method are provided. The display device includes a plurality of transparent display units configured to emit imaging light along a same direction and arranged in sequence with spaces therebetween along a light-emitting direction of the imaging light; and a layer-by-layer scan circuit configured to respectively input a plurality of depth images of a same three-dimensional (3D) image into corresponding transparent display units in the plurality of transparent display units, wherein, the plurality of depth images have different depth ranges; and upon each transparent display unit displaying the inputted depth image, the layer-by-layer scan circuit is configured to control transparent display units on a display side of the each transparent display unit to be in a transparent state.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

a plurality of transparent display units configured to emit imaging light along a same direction and arranged in sequence with spaces therebetween along a light-emitting direction of the imaging light;

a layer-by-layer scan circuit configured to respectively input a plurality of depth images of a same three-dimensional (3D) image into corresponding transparent display units in the plurality of transparent display units, wherein, the plurality of depth images have different depth ranges; and

upon each transparent display unit displaying the inputted depth image, the layer-by-layer scan circuit is configured to control the remaining transparent display units to be in a transparent state without displaying image, so that the each transparent display unit can display all the pixels in the inputted depth image; and

a signal source configured to provide the plurality of depth images,

wherein the signal source includes a depth processing device configured to process the 3D image to acquire the plurality of depth images,

wherein the depth processing device is configured so that the plurality of transparent display units have a serial number of 1, 2, 3, . . . , n in sequence along the direction opposite to the propagation direction of the imaging light;

distances from the transparent display units 2, 3, . . . , n to the transparent display unit 1 is respectively d21, d31 . . . , dn1;

the depth image for the transparent display unit with the serial number of 1 has an image depth less than k·

d21, the depth image for the transparent display unit with the serial number of 2 has an image depth in a range from k·

d21 to k·

d31, . . . , the depth image for the transparent display unit with the serial number of n has an image depth larger than k·

dn1, in which k is a coefficient greater than 0, and an overall scaling of the 3D image is performed by adjusting a value of k.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein as a maximum depth of the plurality of depth images is sequentially increased, a distance from the transparent display units respectively corresponding to the plurality of depth images to a display surface of the display device is sequentially increased.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein a number of the plurality of depth images is equal to a number of the plurality of transparent display units.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the depth processing device includes a processor, a memory and computer program instructions stored into the memory;

and the computer program instructions are run by the processor so as to execute the following action;

dividing at least partial depth range of the 3D image into the different depth ranges so as to acquire the plurality of depth images.

5. The display device according to claim 1, wherein display regions of the plurality of transparent display units have a same size.

6. The display device according to claim 5, wherein a distance between adjacent transparent display units is not greater than a ratio of a maximum size of the display region to a number of the transparent display units.

7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein distances between adjacent transparent display units in the plurality of transparent display units are equal.

8. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of transparent display units are all transparent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display units or transparent polymer light-emitting diode (PLED) display units.

9. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the signal source includes a 3D image acquisition device which is configured to acquire light intensity of objects in a target scene and a distance from the objects to the 3D image acquisition device.

10. The display device according to claim 9, wherein the 3D image acquisition device includes a planar image acquisition device and a depth information measuring device.

11. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display device is a vehicle display device.

12. A display method, comprising:

respectively inputting a plurality of depth images based on a same 3D image into a plurality of transparent display units, wherein the plurality of depth images have different depth ranges, and the plurality of transparent display units emit imaging light along a same direction and are arranged in sequence with spaces therebetween along the same direction; and

controlling the plurality of transparent display units to sequentially display the inputted depth image, and controlling the remaining transparent display units in a transparent state without displaying image upon the each transparent display unit displaying the inputted depth image, so that the each transparent display unit can display all the pixels in the inputted depth image,

wherein the plurality of transparent display units are sequentially arranged along a direction opposite to a propagation direction of the imaging light and are configured to display the respective depth images with gradually increased maximum depths,

wherein the plurality of transparent display units have a serial number of 1, 2, 3, . . . , n in sequence along the direction opposite to the propagation direction of the imaging light;

distances from the transparent display units 2, 3, . . . , n to the transparent display unit 1 is respectively d21, d31 . . . , dn1;

the depth image for the transparent display unit with the serial number of 1 has an image depth less than k·

d21, the depth image for the transparent display unit with the serial number of 2 has an image depth in a range from k·

d21 to k·

d31, . . . , the depth image for the transparent display unit with the serial number of n has an image depth larger than k·

dn1, in which k is a coefficient greater than 0, an overall scaling of the 3D image is performed by adjusting a value of k.

13. The display method according to claim 12, wherein at least partial depth range of the 3D image is divided into different depth ranges to acquire the plurality of depth images.

14. The display method according to claim 12, wherein a number of the plurality of depth images is equal to a number of the plurality of transparent display units.

15. The display method according to claim 12, wherein a refresh rate of each transparent display unit is greater than or equal to 24 frames per second.

16. A display device, comprising:

a plurality of transparent display units configured to emit imaging light along a same direction and arranged in sequence with spaces therebetween along a light-emitting direction of the imaging light; and

a layer-by-layer scan circuit configured to respectively input a plurality of depth images of a same three-dimensional (3D) image into corresponding transparent display units in the plurality of transparent display units, wherein, the plurality of depth images have different depth ranges; and

upon each transparent display unit displaying the inputted depth image, the layer-by-layer scan circuit is configured to control the transparent display units on a display side of the each transparent display unit to be in a transparent state without displaying image, so that the each transparent display unit can display all the pixels in the inputted depth image; and

a signal source configured to provide the plurality of depth images,

wherein the signal source includes a depth processing device configured to process the 3D image to acquire the plurality of depth images,

wherein the depth processing device is configured so that the plurality of transparent display units have a serial number of 1, 2, 3, . . . , n in sequence along the direction opposite to the propagation direction of the imaging light;

distances from the transparent display units 2, 3, . . . , n to the transparent display unit 1 is respectively d21, d31 . . . , dn1;

the depth image for the transparent display unit with the serial number of 1 has an image depth less than k·

d21, the depth image for the transparent display unit with the serial number of 2 has an image depth in a range from k·

d21 to k·

d31, . . . , the depth image for the transparent display unit with the serial number of n has an image depth larger than k·

dn1, in which k is a coefficient greater than 0, and an overall scaling of the 3D image is performed by adjusting a value of k.