Stereoscopic Image Display Apparatus Capable Of Wirelessly Transmitting and Receiving Power

• US 20110285830A1
• Filed: 09/14/2010
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Hwang, Shin Hwan, KIM, Eung Ju, Kim, Jeong Hoon
• Application Number:
  US12/881,875
• Publication Number:
  US 20110285830A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/341 using temporal multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/63 Generation or supply of power specially adapted for television receivers

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a stereoscopic image display apparatus capable of wirelessly transmitting and receiving power. The stereoscopic image display apparatus includes a stereoscopic image display unit and shutter glasses. The stereoscopic image display unit divides stereoscopic images into images for the left eye and images for the right eye and displays the resulting stereoscopic images, generates a signal of opening/closing a right eye shutter and a left eye shutter, and generates a power signal and then wirelessly transmits power in a magnetic resonance coupling manner. The shutter glasses wirelessly receives the power signal from the stereoscopic image display unit in the magnetic resonance coupling manner, and provides the images for the left eye and the images for the right eye by alternatively opening and closing the left eye shutter and the right eye shutter in response to the signal of opening/closing the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter.

Claims

1. A stereoscopic image display apparatus capable of wirelessly transmitting and receiving power, comprising:

a stereoscopic image display unit for dividing stereoscopic images composed in a frame unit or a field unit into images for a left eye and images for a right eye and displaying the resulting stereoscopic images, generating a signal of opening/closing a right eye shutter and a left eye shutter which are respectively synchronized with the images for the left eye and the images for the right eye, and generating a power signal and wirelessly transmitting power in a magnetic resonance coupling manner; and

shutter glasses for wirelessly receiving the power signal from the stereoscopic image display unit in the magnetic resonance coupling manner, and providing the images for the left eye and the images for the right eye by alternatively opening and closing the left eye shutter and the right eye shutter in response to the signal of opening/closing the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter from the stereoscopic image display unit.

2. The stereoscopic display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the stereoscopic image display unit comprises:

a display for displaying the stereoscopic images;

a stereoscopic image control unit for dividing the stereoscopic images composed in the frame unit or the field unit into the images for the left eye and the images for the right eye, generating the signal of opening/closing the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter which are respectively synchronized with the images for the left eye and the images for the right eye, and controlling the images for the left eye and the images for the right eye so that they are displayed on the display in response to a vertical synchronization signal and a horizontal synchronization signal;

an opening/closing signal transmission unit for transmitting the signal of opening/closing the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter from the stereoscopic image control unit to the shutter glasses; and

a power transmission unit for converting Alternating Current (AC) power input from an outside into Direct Current (DC) power, amplifying the DC power into power which is necessary to drive the shutter glasses, wirelessly transmitting the amplified power signal to the shutter glasses in the magnetic resonance coupling manner, determining whether the shutter glasses exist by detecting output power and reflected power, and cutting off the amplification of the DC power when the shutter glasses do not exist.

3. The stereoscopic display apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein the power transmission unit comprises:

an adaptor configured to convert the AC power input from the outside into the DC power;

a frequency generation unit configured to convert the power from the adaptor into a predetermined frequency so as to wirelessly transmit the power received from the adaptor;

a power amplifier configured to amplify the DC power into power which is necessary to drive the shutter glasses;

a first resonant antenna configured to convert the power signal amplified by the power amplifier into magnetic energy and wirelessly transmit the magnetic energy to the shutter glasses in the magnetic resonance coupling manner;

a variable transformer provided between the power amplifier and the first resonant antenna, and configured to match impedance of the power amplifier and the first resonant antenna;

a power pad switch provided between the frequency generation unit and the power amplifier, configured to connect the frequency generation unit to the power amplifier depending on existence/non-existence of the shutter glasses, and configured to provide a bypass path so that the frequency generation unit is connected to the variable transformer;

an output power detection unit configured to detect output power of the variable transformer;

a reflected power detection unit configured to detect reflected power reflected into the first resonant antenna;

a coupler provided between the variable transformer and the first resonant antenna, configured to transmit the output power from the variable transformer to the first resonant antenna and the output power detection unit, and configured to transmit the reflected power reflected into the first resonant antenna to the reflected power detection unit; and

a power transmission control unit configured to control the functions of the frequency generation unit, the power pad switch, the power amplifier, the variable transformer, and the first resonant antenna using the output power and the reflected power respectively detected by the output power detection unit and the reflected power detection unit.

4. The stereoscopic display apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein the opening/closing signal transmission unit wirelessly transmits the signal of opening/closing the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter to the shutter glasses using a Radio Frequency (RF) communication method or an infrared communication method.

5. The stereoscopic display apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein the opening/closing signal transmission unit transmits the signal of opening/closing the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter to the shutter glasses through a cable connected between the stereoscopic image display unit and the shutter glasses.

6. The stereoscopic display apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein the variable transformer comprises:

N first switches provided between a primary coil and an output terminal of the primary coil in order to adjust a turn ratio of the primary coil to a secondary coil; and

M second switches provided between the secondary coil and an output terminal of the secondary coil.

7. The stereoscopic display apparatus as set forth in claim 6, wherein the N first switches and the M second switches are turned on or turned off in response to an impedance control signal from the power transmission control unit, so that a turn ratio of an input side to an output side is adjusted, thereby adjusting impedance between the power amplifier and the first resonant antenna.

8. The stereoscopic display apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein the shutter glasses comprise:

a power reception unit configured to receive the power signal from the power transmission unit in the magnetic resonance coupling manner; and

a shutter driving unit driven depending on the power from the power reception unit, configured to receive the signal of opening/closing the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter from the opening/closing signal transmission unit, and configured to alternatively open and close the left eye shutter and the right eye shutter in response to the signal of opening/closing the right eye shutter and the left eye shutter.

9. The stereoscopic display apparatus as set forth in claim 8, wherein the power reception unit comprises:

a second resonant antenna for receiving the magnetic energy from the first resonant antenna in the magnetic resonance coupling manner and converting the magnetic energy into the power signal;

a rectification unit for rectifying the power signal received by the second resonant antenna;

a DC/DC conversion unit for converting the power signal rectified by the rectification unit into DC voltage; and

a power reception control unit for controlling functions of the second resonant antenna, the rectification unit, and the DC/DC conversion unit.

10. The stereoscopic display apparatus as set forth in claim 9, wherein the first resonant antenna and the second resonant antenna respectively comprise:

N capacitors connected in parallel;

N inductors connected in serial;

N third switches connected in serial to the respective N capacitors; and

N fourth switches connected in parallel to the respective N inductors.

11. The stereoscopic display apparatus as set forth in claim 10, wherein the third switches and the fourth switches are turned on or turned off in response to impedance control signals from the power transmission control unit and the power reception control unit, so that impedance of imaginary components of the first resonant antenna and the second resonant antenna is matched.