Optics: image projectors inventions 10/07

20070247591 - Digital light processing projection apparatus: A digital light processing (DLP) projection apparatus including an illumination system, a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) and an imaging system is provided. The DMD having a common plane and micro mirrors disposed on the common plane is disposed on a transmission path of the illumination beam to convert an illumination... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070247593 - Projector and heat dissipating device thereof: A projector includes a housing, an optical engine module, a light source, a system fan and a lamp cooling fan. The housing includes a air vent and an intake. The optical engine module is disposed in the housing. The light source is disposed on one end of the optical engine... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247594 - Rear-projection type display apparatus, control method for rear-projection type display apparatus, and program: In order to provide a display apparatus with high image quality which can detect a change in light on an entire display frame without any influence on user's appreciation, a rear-projection type display apparatus which projects irradiating light from a light source unit onto a fresnel screen through a light... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070247597 - Apparatus for adjusting position of mirror: An image forming apparatus includes a casing, a mirror, and an adjustment device for adjusting a position of the mirror. The adjustment device is disposed within the casing and includes a frame, a plate, a connection unit, a first adjustment unit, a connection element, and a first adjustment element. The... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070247590 - Autostereoscopic multi-user display with directed illumination: The invention relates to autostereoscopic multi-user displays with a sequential representation consisting of a sweet-spot unit and an image matrix. The sweet-spot unit, configured from an illumination and focusing matrix and positioned in front of the image matrix, focuses approximately parallel light bundles in sweet spots onto the eyes of... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070247592 - Projection apparatus: A projection apparatus having a temperature controlling system is provided. The projection apparatus comprises at least a heat generating element, while the temperature controlling system comprises a liquid flow system, a heat generating device, and a heat transferring device. The liquid flow system is disposed along the heat generating element.... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070247595 - Light surface display for rendering a three-dimensional image: A light surface display for providing a three-dimensional image including a plurality of particles suspended within a volumetric display. A first projection system projects sequential slices of electromagnetic energy of one or more wavelengths along the length and width of the volumetric display energizing particles to form a two-dimensional image.... Agent: Dunlap Codding & Rogers, P.C.

20070247596 - Projection-type display device: A projection-type display device includes: a light source 21; a spatial light modulation element 25 which modulates incident light according to an applied image signal and emits the modulated light; an illumination optical system 23 which condenses light from the light source 21 and illuminates the spatial light modulation element... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070247598 - Volumetric liquid crystal display for rendering a three-dimensional image: A volumetric liquid crystal display for producing a three-dimensional image is disclosed. The volumetric liquid crystal display includes a volumetric image space having at least two layers of LCD sheeting wherein each layer of LCD sheeting is selectively energized to form image slices. At least one projection system projects at... Agent: Dunlap Codding & Rogers, P.C.

20070247599 - Projector having variable throw distance for variable magnification: There is disclosed a projector supportable on a support surface which is defined as at least a surface coplanar with or parallel to a projection surface, for use in projecting imaging light representative of a display image onto the projection surface, to thereby display the display image on the projection... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070242229 - Method and apparatus for blocking laser beams using human body sensor in image projector: An apparatus and method for blocking laser beams using a human body sensor in an image projector includes the steps of: monitoring, using the human body sensor, in a projected direction in which the image projector projects on a screen laser beams corresponding to a predetermined image; when an obstacle... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070242230 - Beam combiner for projection system: A beam combiner and a projection system are disclosed. The projection system includes at least two light sources, a beam combiner, a light tunnel, a light modulator, and a screen. The beam combiner includes at least two prisms. Each prism includes a reflective surface and at least a combining surface.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070242231 - Illumination system and projection apparatus: An illumination system including a light integration rod, light source modules and a light guide element is provided. The light integration rod has a light incident end and a light exit end. The light source modules are disposed adjacent to the light incident end, and each light source module is... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070242232 - Electronic device and guiding device: An electronic device comprises a body having a side portion, a first heat source disposed in the body, a first heat dissipation unit generating a first initial airflow to substantially pass through the first heat source, a second heat source generating a second initial airflow to pass through the second... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070242235 - Projector: A projector has a function to suppress unnecessary radiation (EMI) from a digital substrate even in a narrow space. To this end, the projector includes an input/output substrate arranged at the upper portion of the rear side of the digital substrate, being approximately in parallel to the bottom surface of... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20070242237 - System and methods for angular slice true 3-d display: Systems and methods for generating a true 3-D display, where each of a viewer's eyes not only sees a different scene, but the scene changes continuously as the viewer moves his/her head or change his/her position from one angular location to another angular location with respect to the display screen.... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20070242238 - Projector using laser as light source: A projector includes a laser source, a collimate lens, a deflection reflector, and a deflection controller coupled to the deflection reflector. The laser source generates a laser beam, which transmits through and is converted by the collimate lens into a collimated laser beam, which is then directed toward the deflection... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070242227 - Method for aerial display of images: The present invention relates generally to optical imaging and specifically to methods and systems for generating observable real images. The method consists of steps in configuring an image source and optical components, and defining the position of an observer in such a way that a binocular observation leads to a... Agent: Stephen R. Robinson

20070242228 - Compensation schemes for lcos projection systems using form birefringent polarization beam splitters: An LCoS projection system provides a form birefringent polarization beam splitter (PBS) having an output modulator port, a light modulating panel, and a biaxial compensation element between the output modulator port and the light modulating panel. In one embodiment, the biaxial compensation element is a biaxial quarter wave plate. In... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070242233 - Relating to image projecting: A projector screen is shown comprising one or more markers arranged to be used by projection processing circuitry to calculate a user perceived distortion in an image to be projected on the projector screen. A related method, computer program and projection processing circuitry are also shown.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070242234 - Projector based on tunable individually-addressable fabry-perot filters: A projection system includes a display apparatus comprising a plurality of tunable Fabry-Perot filters, each of the filters being configured for shifting between a state in which the filter transmits radiation in a bandwidth in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum and a state in which the filter transmits... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070242236 - Projection-type display apparatus: In a projection-type display apparatus that projects images onto a screen through a projection lens, even when images, such as setting images of the projection-type-apparatus main unit, that do not need to be displayed on the screen are projected to display, it is also necessary to turn on an expensive... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070242239 - Method and apparatus for placing light modifying elements in a projection lens: An optical element (e.g., wavelength dependent retarder (ColorSelect), dichroic, and/or optical shutter) is disposed in a projection lens at a point in the projection lens where the area of the light beam being projected is minimized. The optical element(s) is utilized for polarization control and/or brightness leveling or other optical... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070242240 - System and method for multi-projector rendering of decoded video data: The present invention relates to multi-projector image rendering systems and methods for their operation. According to the present invention, a plurality of image projectors are coupled to an image processor and the system utilizes specialized image processing methodology to render an output image that is composed of pixels collectively rendered... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20070236668 - Projector: A lamp unit and an intake fan are connected together by a duct, and a partition plate is formed within the duct so as to extend between the two ends of the duct, thus dividing the interior of the duct into a plurality of blocks, and thereby venting between the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070236669 - Projector light source and projection type image display device using the same: A projector light source which facilitates molding of a reflector for obtaining a complicated reflecting surface and provides an improved cooling efficiency, which is characterized by molding the reflector of the light source using heat resistant plastic mixed with a high heat conductive material, whereby a molding accuracy is drastically... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070236670 - Space light modulating apparatus, projector including same, process for manufacturing microstructure element used in same, and microstructure element manufactured by the same process: A space light modulating apparatus and a projector offer a smooth image without a light-shielding part. The projector includes a space light modulating apparatus that modulates incident light based on an image signal, and that outputs modulated light, and a group of prisms installed on output-side of the space light... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070236671 - Method and apparatus for projecting image patterns and colors for planning an interior improvement project: A system and method for projecting an image with predetermined characteristics includes a projector configured to project light on a surface, and a photo sensor configured to analyze light reflected from the surface. A controller is configured to compare the reflected light with a selected characteristic. The controller is configured... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070236672 - Projector keyboard: A computer keyboard with a keyboard housing having an aperture, a light source of adjustable position and angle, the light source located within the keyboard housing, an image insert located over the aperture and a reflector of adjustable angle located within the keyboard housing. The light source directs light to... Agent: Mark Manley

20070229764 - Projector: A projector includes a lamp unit. This lamp unit includes a lamp which emits light, a shield member in which an opening portion is formed which allows light emitted by the lamp to radiate to the exterior, a cover glass fitted to the opening portion, and a retention member which... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070229766 - Modulation apparatus and projector: A modulation apparatus is disclosed. The modulation apparatus includes: first light-modulating elements installed for each of a plurality of illumination lights, a combining unit that combines the illumination light modulated by the respective first light-modulating elements and outputs as combined light; and a second light-modulating element that modulates the combined... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229767 - Display shelf and display shelf system: Transmission-type screens are placed corresponding to a display board at a front area of the display board, on which an article is placed. Each of the screens transmits and projects a projector image luminous flux projected from a backside of the screens to a front side of the screens. When... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070229768 - Projection apparatus: A projection apparatus including a projection module, a control unit, a housing, a wireless-receiving unit and a control panel is provided. The control unit is electrically connected to the projection module for controlling the projection module. The housing is suitable for accommodating the projection module and the control unit and... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070229770 - Electro-optic device fitting structure and projection type display device: A first fixing plate 51, which is bonded to a G light prism 29 and which holds a G light DMD unit 50, is formed of a metal plate having a liner coefficient of expansion, which is substantially the same as that of the G light prism 29. The G... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229771 - Projector system: A projector system is disclosed. The projector system includes an information processing apparatus supplying image data on which an image process is performed to a projector and the projector protecting an image based on the image data supplied from the information processing apparatus, wherein the projector includes a device connection... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229774 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus includes a light source that generates light-source light of a plurality of colors, at least one optical modulator that corresponds to the light source and modulates image light of each of the light-source light of the plurality of colors, a display drive unit that controls the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229775 - Projector: An object of the present invention is to provide a projector in which the fixing of a lamp door is prevented from being hindered by heat of a lamp, and the attachment and detachment of the lamp door can be easily performed. In a projector in which the lamp door... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070229776 - Projector: This projector includes a lamp unit including a lamp which emits light for projecting an image upon a screen. This lamp unit is provided with a projector main body. Moreover, the projector includes a metal plate which is disposed, between a bottom surface of the projector main body and the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070229777 - Projector using lamp, method and program for controlling discharge lamp light source: A projector comprises an alternating-current-drive lamp, a rotating color wheel which includes color segments for transmitting color lights and is disposed in an optical path from the lamp, the color segments including a transparent segment, a projection unit configured to form an optical image by the color lights transmitted through... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070229765 - Projection system and method: A light engine. The light engine can include an illumination source that produces light for projecting a still or motion video image. The light engine also can include a condenser configured to receive unpolarized light from the illumination source and output a focused beam of unpolarized light. A polarizing assembly... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20070229769 - Adjustable light-modulating device: An adjustable light-modulating device includes: a light valve disposed to receive colored light provided by a color separator of a projection display apparatus, and capable of modulating the colored light; an adjusting mechanism including a fixing frame to be disposed between the light valve and the color separator, and a... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070229772 - Handheld projection device: The present invention relates to a handheld projection system (10) comprising a projection device (14, 18, 20) arranged for projecting an image onto a projection surface (24). The projection device has at least two drive power modes associated with different qualities of the projected image. The handheld projection system further... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070229773 - Projector: This projector includes a lamp unit and a lamp unit housing unit. The lamp unit housing unit includes a substantially U-shaped insertion frame. And the lamp unit includes a lamp and a frame. Furthermore, the lamp unit includes an edge and a plate on the outside of the frame. The... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070229778 - Time-multiplexed 3d display system with seamless multiple projection: An image processing method eliminates the seams between adjacent projectors in a multi-projector autostereoscopic display system. The abutting views of two adjacent projectors are overlapped. The image generator shows the same image in the overlapped views, so that the viewer cannot see the seam.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070229779 - Image projector: According to the present invention, an image projector includes a reflecting light valve, a group of refracting lenses forming a projecting optical system that enlarges and projects an optical image given from the light valve, a power mirror having a power and forming the projecting optical system together with the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229780 - Projection apparatus: A projection apparatus comprising a projection module, a driver module, a power circuitry and a casing is provided. The driver module is electrically connected to the projection module. The power circuitry is electrically connected to the driver module and has a first port for connecting to a universal serial bus... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070229781 - Projector and supporting structure thereof: A projector and a supporting structure thereof are provided. The projector includes a main body and a supporting structure. The supporting structure is disposed at the main body. The supporting structure includes a sliding element and an elastic element. The sliding element is supported on a plane and can move... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070229782 - Project device: A projection device, having an optical engine device and an adjusting device is provided. The optical engine device has an optical engine and a fixing device coupled to the optical engine. A first thread hole is formed in the optical engine along a Z-axis direction. An image is projected parallel... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee