PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20100053569A1
• Filed: 08/11/2009
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: FURUI, Shiki
• Granted Patent: US 8,272,746 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 353/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3185 Geometric adjustment, e.g. keystone or convergence optical or mechanical adjustment of convergence H04N9/317; using scanning means H04N3/22; optical or mechanical adjustments of projectors not peculiar to the presence of an electronic spatial light modulator G03B21/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3194 including sensor feedback

Abstract

A projection display apparatus for displaying an image on a projection plane by projection, includes: an image capturing unit capturing an image; an angle calculator calculating an angle of the projection plane relative to the projection display apparatus; a straight line detector detecting a straight line in the captured image corresponding to a line perpendicular to a predetermined reference plane and a straight line in the captured image corresponding to a line parallel to the predetermined reference plane on the basis of the calculated angle; and a keystone corrector correcting a keystone distortion of an image to be displayed on the projection plane on the basis of the detection result in the straight line detector.

Claims

1. A projection display apparatus for displaying an image on a projection plane by projection, comprising:

an image capturing unit capturing an image;

an angle calculator calculating an angle of the projection plane relative to the projection display apparatus;

a straight line detector detecting a straight line in the captured image corresponding to a line perpendicular to a predetermined reference plane and a straight line in the captured image corresponding to a line parallel to the predetermined reference plane on the basis of the calculated angle; and

a keystone corrector correcting a keystone distortion of an image to be displayed on the projection plane on the basis of the detection result in the straight line detector.

2. The projection display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the straight line detector includes a vanishing point calculator calculating a vertical vanishing point through which a straight line in the captured image corresponding to a line perpendicular to the predetermined reference plane passes and a horizontal vanishing point through which a straight line in the captured image corresponding to a line parallel to the predetermined reference plane passes on the basis of the calculated angle.

3. The projection display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the line perpendicular to the predetermined reference plane is at a left side and a right side of a frame of the projection plane,

wherein the line parallel to the predetermined reference plane is a top side and a bottom side of the frame of the projection plane, and

wherein the straight line detector detects the straight lines in the captured image corresponding to the left side and the right side from the straight lines passing through the vertical vanishing point in the captured image by selection and detects the straight lines in the captured image corresponding to the top side and the bottom side from the straight lines passing through the horizontal vanishing point in the captured image by selection.

4. The projection display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the straight line detector detects, as the straight lines corresponding to the left side and the right side, two straight lines having the largest integrated value of values correlated with an edge amount along the corresponding straight line out of the straight lines passing through the vertical vanishing point in the captured image and detects, as the straight lines corresponding to the top side and the bottom side, two straight lines having the largest integrated value of values correlated with an edge amount along the corresponding straight line out of the straight lines passing through the horizontal vanishing point in the captured image.

5. The projection display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the angle calculator includes:

a measuring point position detector detecting positions of three or more predetermined measuring points on the projection plane relative to the projection display apparatus; and

a plane calculator calculating an approximate plane approximating the projection plane on the basis of the positions of the predetermined measuring points.

6. The projection display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the angle calculator further includes a pattern projector projecting a predetermined pattern image including three or more reference points onto the projection plane,

wherein the predetermined measuring points are the reference points of the pattern image displayed on the projection plane.

7. The projection display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined reference plane is a plane having a predetermined relation with the projection display apparatus.

8. The projection display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the predetermined reference plane is an installation plane of the projection display apparatus.

9. The projection display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a light source unit emitting light; and

an image forming panel unit forming an effective panel image, which is used to modulate the light emitted from the light source unit to an effective image beam indicating an image, in an image forming area of a panel surface,

wherein the keystone corrector corrects the keystone distortion of the image displayed on the projection plane by calculating a post-correction image forming area, which is a partial area of the image forming area, and forming the effective panel image in the post-correction image forming area of the image forming area on the basis of the detection result in the straight line detector.

10. A display method of displaying an image on a projection plane by projection, comprising:

(a) capturing an image;

(b) calculating an angle of the projection plane relative to the optical axis of the projection;

(c) detecting a straight line in the captured image corresponding to a line perpendicular to a predetermined reference plane and a straight line in the captured image corresponding to a line parallel to the predetermined reference plane on the basis of the calculated angle; and

(d) correcting a keystone distortion of an image to be displayed on the projection plane on the basis of the detection result of the straight lines.