Large, Ultra-Thin And Ultra-Light Connectable Display For A Computing Device

• US 20110098083A1
• Filed: 12/31/2010
• Published: 04/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Peter Lablans
• Original Assignee: Peter Lablans
• Inventors: Lablans, Peter
• Application Number:
  US12/983,168
• Publication Number:
  US 20110098083A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/00 Stereoscopic photography
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/239 using two 2D image sensors having a relative position equal to or related to the interocular distance H04N13/243 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/246 Calibration of cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/698 for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2624 for obtaining an image which is composed of whole input images, e.g. splitscreen

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to create and display screen stereoscopic and panoramic images are disclosed. Methods and apparatus are provided to generate multiple images that are combined into a stereoscopic or a panoramic image. An image may be a static image. It may also be a video image. A controller provides correct camera settings for different conditions. An image processor creates a stereoscopic or a panoramic image from the correct settings provided by the controller. A plurality of lens/sensor units is placed on a carrier. Lens/sensor units are rotationally aligned. A controller rotationally aligns images of lens/sensor units that are rotationally misaligned. The camera is enabled to communicate via a wired or via a wireless connection, with a separate, mobile, ultrathin, ultralight, display with a large display screen not smaller than 25 by 20 cm in a first embodiment of the present invention and not smaller than 20 by 15 cm in a second embodiment of the present invention to provide color images including video images in real-time. A compact controllable platform to hold and rotate a device with a lens/sensor unit is also provided.

Claims

1. A large, thin, portable and mobile display communicatively connectable to a portable and mobile computing device, comprising:

a housing, having a thickness not greater than 7 mm;

a receiver to receive a signal generated by the computing device;

a processor authorized to process the signal generated by the computing device;

a screen in the housing enabled to display a video image in real-time in response to the signal generated by the portable computing device received by the display, the screen having a size not smaller in area than 300 cm²; and

the display having a weight that does not exceed 12 ounces.

2. The display of claim 1, wherein the housing has a thickness not greater than 5 mm.

3. The display of claim 1, wherein the housing has a thickness not greater than 4 mm.

4. The display of claim 1, wherein the screen has a size not smaller in area than 500 cm2.

5. The display of claim 1, wherein a communication connection with the portable computing device is a wireless connection.

6. The display of claim 1, wherein a communication connection with the portable computing device is a wired connection.

7. The display of claim 6, wherein the portable computing device powers the display through the wired connection.

8. The display of claim 1, wherein the computing device has a volume that is not larger in volume than 50 cm³.

9. The display of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a stand alone camera.

10. The display of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a mobile camera phone.

11. The display of claim 1, further comprising:

a positional sensor to generate a signal corresponding to a change of position of the display;

a portable and mobile platform that is enabled to be removably attached to a structure or an object, the platform containing;

a holder to hold the computing device; and

at least one actuator that is controlled by a signal corresponding to the signal generated by the positional sensor.

12. A computing system, comprising:

a mobile computing device containing a processor, data memory, at least one lens/sensor unit, and a communication interface;

a mobile computer display separate from the mobile computing device with a screen size that is not smaller in area than 300 cm² enabled to display a video image in color in real-time generated by the at least one lens/sensor unit, the computer display having a body with a thickness not exceeding 7 mm and a communication interface; and

wherein

the communication interface of the mobile computing device is enabled to communicate directly and uniquely with the communication interface of the mobile computer display.

13. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the communication interface of the mobile computing device is enabled to communicate wirelessly with the communication interface of the mobile computer display.

14. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the communication interface of the mobile computing device is enabled to communicate via a wired connection with the communication interface of the mobile computer display to provide power from the mobile computing device to the mobile computing display.

15. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the mobile computing device is a stand alone camera.

16. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the mobile computing device is a mobile camera phone.

17. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the mobile computing device contains at least two lens/sensor units enabled to generate a single image composed from at least two images.

18. The computing system of claim 12, further comprising:

a mobile platform rotatable in at least one plane of rotation that is separate from the mobile computer display, that is enabled to hold the mobile computing device and that is attachable to an object or structure and; and

an actuator in the mobile platform that is controlled by a positional sensor attached to the mobile computer display.

19. The computing system of claim 18, further comprising:

a processor programmed to track an image recorded by the mobile computing device of a moving object and programmed to control the actuator in the mobile platform to maintain an image of the object on the screen of the mobile computer display.

20. A mobile platform, comprising:

a fixture enabled to be removably attached to an object or a structure;

a housing containing circuitry to process a signal associated with a signal generated by a positional sensor attached to a remote computer display with a screen;

at least one remotely controlled actuator;

an arm that is enabled to be rotatably moved by the at least one remotely controlled actuator based on the signal associated with the signal generated by the positional sensor attached to the remote computer display; and

a device holder attached to the arm enabled to hold a computing device that includes at least one lens/sensor unit that is enabled to provide a video image to be displayed in real-time on the screen of the remote display.