Optics: image projectors inventions 01/07

20070019162 - System and method for selectively displaying data: An apparatus and method for selectively displaying data. The apparatus includes an aerial support mechanism, such as a helium balloon, adapted to be positioned at a desired location, which may be changed based on a user preference. The apparatus also includes a processor, coupled to the aerial support mechanism, which... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070019163 - Color separating unit and projection type video display apparatus provided with the same: A projection type video display apparatus having improved color separating ability is provided. The projection type video display apparatus includes a color separating unit including an entrance plate provided with an aperture through which light beams emitted by a light source travel, an optical integrator, and a plurality of dichroic... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070019164 - Projector device: A liquid crystal projector device of the present invention includes an optical system for receiving light from a lamp unit. The optical system is provided with a polarization beam splitter for extracting only an S wave out of P and S waves of the light emitted from the lamp unit,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070019165 - Tir prism for a projection display apparatus having a partially masked surface: A projection display apparatus has: a TIR prism having a first prism surface, a second prism surface, and a third prism surface; a projection lens which is disposed opposite to the first prism surface; and an image display device which is disposed opposite to the second prism surface. The image... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070019166 - Projection apparatus and three-dimensional-shape detection apparatus: There is provided a projection apparatus, which is provided with a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements for emitting light, a spatial modulation element that performs spatial modulation of light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting element and outputting image signal light, and a projection unit that projects the image signal light... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070019167 - Projecting apparatus: A projecting apparatus for protecting an image onto a screen includes an image module, a first light reflection device and a lens. The image module is for providing a beam of first light, The first light reflection device has a first reflection surface disposed movably relative to the image module... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070019168 - Projector device: A liquid crystal projector device of the present invention includes a casing having disposed therein a lamp unit, an optical system for receiving light from the lamp unit to generate image light, and a power unit. An exhaust system for cooling an inside of the casing is attached to a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070019169 - Apparatus and method for driving light source of projector: An apparatus and a method for driving the light source of a projector are provided. The apparatus includes an adjustment unit, a lamp driver, a phase lock loop (PLL) and a mercury lamp. The adjustment unit provides an enabling signal and regulates the frequency of the enabling signal according to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070013872 - Illuminating device and projection type video display apparatus: An illuminating device includes a discharge lamp, a condenser lens, an integrator lens, a polarization conversion system, an electromagnetic wave shielding plate, and an electromagnetic wave shielding wall. A light given out from each lens in the light-incident-side fly's eye lens becomes two light fluxes via respective polarizing beam splitters... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070013871 - Light-emitting diode (led) illumination in display systems using spatial light modulators (slm): System and method for enhancing performance in an SLM display system using LED illumination. A preferred embodiment comprises computing a set of spectral characteristics, analyzing the set of spectral characteristics, and modulating a light produced by a light source of a display system based upon the analysis, wherein the light... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070013873 - Low cost portable computing device: A very low cost computer comprising a motherboard socketed to receive selected components including a processor, memory modules, and interface controllers for connecting to peripheral devices, in combination with a micro-projection display system. The display system employs a low resolution imaging device such as a transmissive or reflective spatial light... Agent: Charles G. Call

20070013874 - Heat dissipation device of projector: A heat dissipation device of a projector for transmitting the heat from a lamp out of the projector, the heat dissipation device comprises a fan, a diversion duct, and a division vane. The diversion duct is used for changing the direction of the air flow that generated by the fan... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070013876 - Projecting device: A projecting device includes a first projective optical system forming an intermediate image having trapezoidal distortion from light emitted by a display unit displaying a rectangular image, a second projective optical system projecting the light from the intermediate image obliquely onto a screen so that an enlarged image in which... Agent: Pitney Hardin LLP

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20070013877 - Systems and methods for projection mirror adjustment: Systems and methods for adjusting a projection mirror of a rear projection device, that may be utilized to properly align an image projected by an image source within a desired projection area of the projection screen by adjusting the positional orientation of an image reflected by the adjustable projection mirror... Agent: William W. Enders O'keefe, Egan & Peterman

20070013878 - Projector: A projector for maintaining a bulb of the projector to generate a light at a constant luminance, the projector comprises a power gain data comprising a plurality of power values corresponding to a plurality of using-time durations, wherein the power value such as a voltage is supplied to the bulb... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070013879 - Illumination apparatus, and image capturing apparatus and projector apparatus using this illumination apparatus: An illumination apparatus comprises a plurality of luminous bodies as light sources, luminous body drive portions configured to drive to light each of the plurality of luminous bodies, an optical member configured to lead and apply light exiting from a luminous body lighted by the luminous body drive portion to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070013880 - Projection type display apparatus, rear projector and multi-vision system: The present invention provides a small projection type display apparatus capable of suppressing an optical path of incident light and an optical path of output light in a reflection type light valve from being overlapped with each other and obtaining a projected image of high quality; a rear projector and... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070013881 - Integration rod: An integration rod used in a projector. The integration rod includes a plurality of lenses that form the integration rod; a layer of high temperature hot-setting UV adhesive applied on the lenses to bond the lenses into a hollow rod structure; and a layer of ceramic adhesive applied on the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070013882 - Method of manufacturing projection objectives and set of projection objectives manufactured by that method: In a method of manufacturing projection objectives including defining an initial design for a projection objective and optimizing the design using a merit function, a set of related projection objectives including a first projection objective and at least one second projection objective is defined. Further, a plurality of merit function... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070008494 - Projection display and optical integrator: A projection display makes it possible to minimize the costs of a polarization conversion element, and concurrently makes it possible to improve illuminance nonuniformity and optical utilization efficiency and to accomplish physical apparatus compactness. An optical integrator used in the projection display is configured such that, in comparison to the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070008495 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus includes an indicating element which modulates or emits light as a pixel in accordance with image information. A displacement unit optically displaces a position of the pixel for each of two or more sub-fields constituting an image field corresponding to the image information. A projection unit... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070008496 - Image display: An image display, includes: an image display section for forming and displaying an image in accordance with image information to be input; and a casing for housing the image display section, in which the casing includes: a lateral portion visible from an outside, the image display section being exposed from... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070008497 - Projector with sealed light valve: A projector incorporating a prism and a plurality of light valves for modulating light that passes though the prism, wherein a dust-sealed airspace is provided between an imaging surface of each light valve and the prism for providing air channels to cool respective ones of the light valves.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070008498 - Projection display device: A projection display device is provided with a semi-transparent screen provided on a front surface of the projection display device, an image formation unit that emits light carrying an image to be projected on the screen, and a first reflector and a second reflector provided on an optical path between... Agent: Pitney Hardin LLP

20070008499 - Image combining system, image combining method, and program: A data processing device calculates an image conversion parameter corresponding to each partial image. According to the image conversion parameter calculated, a partial image which has been imaged according to the current partial image is geometrically converted. The images are combined to generate a mosaic image. Moreover, the current partial... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070008500 - Dynamically adjustable fold-mirror assembly for projection device: An apparatus, system, and method for a fold-mirror assembly with a dynamically adjustable mirror element for use in a projection device are disclosed herein.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070008501 - Image display device and method of controlling image display device: An image display device for displaying an image by a light beam modulated according to an image signal includes: a light source unit that supplies the light beam; a scanning unit for performing scanning with the light beam from the light source unit; a screen that transmits the light beam... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070008502 - Light quantity adjustment apparatus: A light quantity adjustment apparatus is disclosed. A light quantity adjustment apparatus, comprising a rotation part having an aperture for adjusting the quantity of light from a light source, a support part rotatably supporting the rotation part, a driving part rotating the rotation part left and right in a predetermined... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070008503 - Dual image projection system: A dual image projection system separates a single image projected from a single projector into two images vertically or horizontally, inputs the separated images by reversing the left and right sides of the separated images, and completely separates the separated images using a separation mirror disposed in front of a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070008504 - Projector with light-shading device and method for blocking scattering light thereof: A projector with a light-shading device is provided. The projector includes an illuminating system, a micromirror device and a projection lens, wherein the illuminating system includes a light source producing a light, a condenser lens condensing the light from the light source, and a reflection device reflecting the light from... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070008505 - Image projection apparatus: An image projection apparatus is disclosed with which problems, caused by performing focusing control in a state in which the light amount of a light source is insufficient, can be avoided. The image projection apparatus comprises a controller, performing focusing control of a projection optical system, and a brightness detector... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

20070008506 - Projector apparatus having grounding components for protection against electromagnetic interference: A projector apparatus has an electrically conductive housing that includes a lower housing part and an upper housing part coupled to the lower housing part for covering the lower housing part, an internal projector module mounted in the housing, a first grounding component provided between the internal projector module and... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070002280 - Illuminator and projector: An illuminator includes a polarization converter that converts source light into first polarized light, a polarization separation member that separates the first polarized light of from the polarization converter and second polarized light different from the first polarized light, by reflection and transmission, a polarization switch member that reflects the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070002279 - Liquid crystal on silicon (lcos) kernel with 3d projection capability: Images to be displayed are produced for left-eye viewing and right-eye viewing in synchronization with a polarization device that alternately changes polarization of the viewed images. In one embodiment, a control mechanism synchronizes modulation performed by microdisplays in a reflective Liquid Crystal On Silicon (LCOS) kernel with an electronically controlled... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP

20070002281 - Projection screen and image display apparatus: A fresnel lens sheet has a fresnel center in the vicinity of a lower end, and includes first and second fresnel lens portions respectively formed into concentrically circular shapes. The first fresnel lens portion exists inside a reference circumference, and the second fresnel lens portion exists outside the reference circumference.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070002282 - Light source module and optical projection system: A light source module is provided. The light source module includes a reflector, a light source, a transparent cover, a fluorescent material layer, and an optical lens. The light source is disposed inside the reflector, and the light source is suitable for emitting light including white light. The light source... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070002283 - Projection display apparatus: A projection display apparatus comprises luminous bodies, a luminous body driving portion which drives to turn on each of the luminous bodies, light leading members which optically separately lead and project light beams exiting from the luminous bodies, a movable portion which enables relative movement of the light leading members... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070002284 - Method for manufacturing projection optical system and projection optical system: A projection optical system has lower and upper pedestal components to which a plurality of mirrors are attached. Of the mirrors, a concave mirror is placed closest to a DMD, and a convex mirror is next to the concave mirror. A position and an inclination of the convex mirror is... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070002285 - Color recapture for display systems: A sequential color display system using a white light source (202) to create a full color image projected onto an image plane (214). A dynamic filter (206), typically a series of moving dichroic filters, generates a series of primary colored light beams that are swept across the surface of a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070002286 - Light source driving method and projector: An object of the invention is to provide a light source driving method for supplying electric power to a light source of a projector, and and to provide a projector using this light source driving method. The projector has a lamp (2) as a light source for emitting light, a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070002287 - Light-source driving method and projector: To provide a light-source driving method for supplying power to a light source of a projector and a projector employing the light-source driving method there are provided a lamp-drive-power control section (3) as a light-source driving section for outputting a first drive waveform and a second drive waveform, and a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070002288 - Light source adjusting device: A light source adjusting device for a projector is provided. The light source adjusting device includes a base; an adjusting frame having a containing housing; a lamp disposed inside the containing housing as a light source of the projector; a connecting frame connected between the base and the adjusting frame;... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070002289 - Image projecting apparatus: An image projecting apparatus includes a housing in which at least one vibration generating component is disposed, a vibration-proof supporting bracket coupled to a side of the housing to support the housing against an installation surface to absorb vibrations generated by the at least one vibration generating component, and a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070002290 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus includes an apparatus body, a recording section for forming an image, a display panel assuming upright and laying posture with respect to the apparatus body by pivoting on a predetermined axis, and a covering member having a first end and a second end. The first end... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department