Continuous adjustable 3DEEPS filter spectacles for optimized 3DEEPS stereoscopic viewing and its control method and means

• US 8,864,304 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2014
• Issued: 10/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kenneth Jacobs, VDPP LLC
• Original Assignee: Kenneth Martin Jacobs, Ronald Steven Karpf
• Inventors: Karpf, Ronald Steven, Jacobs, Kenneth Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): DANG, HUNG XUAN
• Application Number:
  US14/155,505
• Publication Number:
  US 20140177050A1
• Time in Patent Office: 279 Days
• Field of Search: 351/49, 351/158, 351/41, 351/163, 351/51, 351/52, 351/159.39, 349/13, 349/96, 359/465, 359/490, 359/63, 359/83
• US Class Current: 351/49
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/026 based on the rotation of particles under the influence of an external field, e.g. gyricons, twisting ball displays based on orientable dipolar particles G02F1/172; based on electrophoresis G02F1/167
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0172 characterised by optical features
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/23 using wavelength separation, e.g. using anaglyph techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/24 involving temporal multiplexing, e.g. using sequentially activated left and right shutters
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/34 Stereoscopes providing a stereoscopic pair of separated images corresponding to parallactically displaced views of the same object, e.g. 3D slide viewers
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/40 giving the observer of a single two-dimensional [2D] image a perception of depth
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/10 Electronic devices other than hearing aids
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/00 Optical parts characterised by the material G02B1/00
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/101 having an electro-optical light valve electro-optical elements per se G02F
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/144 for flicker reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/261 with monoscopic-to-stereoscopic image conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/324 Colour aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/327 Calibration thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/332 Displays for viewing with the aid of special glasses or head-mounted displays [HMD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/334 using spectral multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/337 using polarisation multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/341 using temporal multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/359 Switching between monoscopic and stereoscopic modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 : Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/0077 : Colour aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/0096 : Synchronisation or controlling aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2213/002 : Eyestrain reduction by processing stereoscopic signals or controlling stereoscopic devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2213/008 : Aspects relating to glasses for viewing stereoscopic images

Abstract

Significantly faster state transitioning time between the optimal optical density for viewing 2D Movies as 3D movies through Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles can be achieved by using multiple layers (multi-layer) of electronically controlled variable tint materials to fabricate the right and left lenses of the 3Deeps spectacles. The use of multi-layered lenses may result in as much as a 50% decrease in transition time between states. The invention also relates to Multi-Use Electronically Controlled Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles that house within a single spectacle frame several layers of optoelectronic material in which each layer of electronically controlled relates to a different method of viewing.

Claims

1. An electrically controlled spectacle for viewing a video, comprising:

a spectacle frame;

optoelectronic lenses housed in the frame, the lenses comprising a left lens and a right lens, each of the lenses having a dark state and a light state, wherein the state of the left lens is independent of the state of the right lens;

a control unit housed in the frame, the control unit being adapted to control the state of the each of the lenses independently.

2. The spectacle of claim 1, wherein when viewing a video with the lens, the control unit controls both the left lens and the right lens to the dark state.

3. A method for viewing a video, the method comprising:

wearing the spectacles of claim 2; and

showing to the wearer a video having dissimilar bridge frames and similar image frames.

4. The electrically controlled spectacle of claim 1, wherein each of the optoelectronic lenses comprises a plurality of layers of optoelectronic material.

5. The electrically controlled spectacle of claim 4, wherein the control unit is further adapted to control the state of the each of the lenses based on a level of ambient light and a direction of motion on a screen being viewed.

6. The electrically controlled spectacle of claim 4, wherein the control unit is further adapted to:

cause the left lens to be in the light state and cause the right lens to be in the dark state, at a first time; and

cause the left lens to be in the dark state and cause the right lens to be in the light state, at a second time.

7. The electrically controlled spectacle of claim 6, wherein the control unit is further adapted to:

cause the left lens to be in the dark state and cause the right lens to be in the dark state, simultaneously, at a third time.

8. The electrically controlled spectacle of claim 4, wherein:

the left lens includes a first layer of optoelectronic material that comprises a neutral density electrochromic material and a second layer of optoelectronic material that comprises an electrochromic material adapted to allow transmission of light in a clear or visible red spectrum; and

the right lens includes a first layer of optoelectronic material that comprises a neutral density electrochromic material and a second layer of optoelectronic material that comprises an electrochromic material adapted to allow transmission of light, in a clear or visible blue spectrum.

9. An electrically controlled spectacle for viewing a video, comprising:

a spectacle frame;

optoelectronic lenses housed in the frame, the lenses comprising a left lens and a right lens, each of the optoelectrical lenses having a dark state and a clear state, wherein the state lens is independent of the state of the right lens; and

a control unit housed in the frame, the control unit being adapted to control the state of each of the lenses independently such that when viewing a video the control unit places both the left lens and the right lens to a dark state.

10. A method for viewing a video, the method comprising:

wearing the electrically controlled spectacle of claim 9; and

showing the wearer a video having dissimilar bridge frames and similar image frames.