Optics: image projectors inventions 10/08

20080259281 - Apparatus and method for displaying three-dimensional image: A three-dimensional-image display apparatus includes a projecting unit having a projection plane and a plurality of projecting elements for projecting images having parallax therebetween through the projection plane; a display for displaying a three-dimensional image by receiving the images projected from the plurality of projecting elements; and a common lens... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080259282 - Projection image generation apparatus, method and program: Projection is performed in such a manner that the same point on a moving internal organ can be constantly observed, thereby improving the accuracy of diagnosis. Motion information about the motion of a projection target between one set of three-dimensional volume data in a group of sets of three-dimensional volume... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259280 - System and method for improved 3-d rendering in 3-d rendering volume: A wiremap projector apparatus for projecting moving three-dimensional images within a three-dimensional viewing space. The wiremap projector apparatus includes an array of wires disposed within a three-dimensional viewing space defined between a first and second sheet. A digital projector is positioned with respect to said array of wires such that... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080259283 - Illumination apparatus and projection display apparatus: An illumination apparatus includes: a first dichroic mirror; a second dichroic mirror which separates the combined light into a red component light R and the green component light G; and a polarization adjuster provided on an optical path of the combined light between the dichroic mirrors. The polarization adjuster adjusts... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080259284 - Illumination device and projection video display device: An illumination device includes a first light source unit having a plurality of first light sources, and a first reflection unit for guiding light beams emitted respectively from the first light sources in an identical direction. The illumination device further includes a second light source unit having at least one... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080259285 - Illumination optical system and image projection device: An illumination optical system has: a light source, a first optical member, a second optical member, and a rod integrator, and illuminates an image display surface of a display element. The light source emits illumination light having a flat beam cross section. The first optical member reduces flatness of the... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080259286 - Projection display apparatus: A projection display apparatus includes a light source, a plurality of light modulating elements that respectively modulate different color components of light emitted from the light source, a plurality of light diffusing elements that are disposed on sides near the light source with reference to the respective light modulating elements,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080259287 - Projection apparatus: A projection apparatus includes a prism set, a light source, a reflective element, a light valve and a projection lens. The prism set includes a first prism having a first surface, a second surface and a third surface, and a second prism having a fourth surface opposite to the second... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080259288 - Rear projection display: A rear projection display includes a projector for projecting light from a light source as an optical image, an exterior cabinet for enclosing the projector, a projection screen provided for the exterior cabinet on which the optical image is projected, and two or more optical sensors provided in a region... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259289 - Projector device, portable telephone and camera: A projector device that generates a projection image, photographs this projection image and performs various adjustments to the projection image.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259290 - Projection apparatus: A projection apparatus including an illumination system, a reflective light valve, at least one field lens and, an imaging system is provided. The illumination system is for providing an illumination beam and the reflective light valve is on a transmission path of the illumination beam to convert the illumination beam... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080259281 - Apparatus and method for displaying three-dimensional image: A three-dimensional-image display apparatus includes a projecting unit having a projection plane and a plurality of projecting elements for projecting images having parallax therebetween through the projection plane; a display for displaying a three-dimensional image by receiving the images projected from the plurality of projecting elements; and a common lens... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080259282 - Projection image generation apparatus, method and program: Projection is performed in such a manner that the same point on a moving internal organ can be constantly observed, thereby improving the accuracy of diagnosis. Motion information about the motion of a projection target between one set of three-dimensional volume data in a group of sets of three-dimensional volume... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259280 - System and method for improved 3-d rendering in 3-d rendering volume: A wiremap projector apparatus for projecting moving three-dimensional images within a three-dimensional viewing space. The wiremap projector apparatus includes an array of wires disposed within a three-dimensional viewing space defined between a first and second sheet. A digital projector is positioned with respect to said array of wires such that... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080259283 - Illumination apparatus and projection display apparatus: An illumination apparatus includes: a first dichroic mirror; a second dichroic mirror which separates the combined light into a red component light R and the green component light G; and a polarization adjuster provided on an optical path of the combined light between the dichroic mirrors. The polarization adjuster adjusts... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080259284 - Illumination device and projection video display device: An illumination device includes a first light source unit having a plurality of first light sources, and a first reflection unit for guiding light beams emitted respectively from the first light sources in an identical direction. The illumination device further includes a second light source unit having at least one... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080259285 - Illumination optical system and image projection device: An illumination optical system has: a light source, a first optical member, a second optical member, and a rod integrator, and illuminates an image display surface of a display element. The light source emits illumination light having a flat beam cross section. The first optical member reduces flatness of the... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080259286 - Projection display apparatus: A projection display apparatus includes a light source, a plurality of light modulating elements that respectively modulate different color components of light emitted from the light source, a plurality of light diffusing elements that are disposed on sides near the light source with reference to the respective light modulating elements,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080259287 - Projection apparatus: A projection apparatus includes a prism set, a light source, a reflective element, a light valve and a projection lens. The prism set includes a first prism having a first surface, a second surface and a third surface, and a second prism having a fourth surface opposite to the second... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080259288 - Rear projection display: A rear projection display includes a projector for projecting light from a light source as an optical image, an exterior cabinet for enclosing the projector, a projection screen provided for the exterior cabinet on which the optical image is projected, and two or more optical sensors provided in a region... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259289 - Projector device, portable telephone and camera: A projector device that generates a projection image, photographs this projection image and performs various adjustments to the projection image.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259290 - Projection apparatus: A projection apparatus including an illumination system, a reflective light valve, at least one field lens and, an imaging system is provided. The illumination system is for providing an illumination beam and the reflective light valve is on a transmission path of the illumination beam to convert the illumination beam... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080252853 - Color-mixing laser module and projectors using the same: A color-mixing laser module is disclosed, which is comprised of a laser unit capable of emitting red, blue and green laser beams; a beam combiner, for receiving and converging the laser beams emitted from the laser unit and then directing the converged laser light to illuminate on a light pattern... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080252854 - Illumination system: An illumination system includes a light source module, a chromaticity-adjusting light source and a light-combining element. The light source module provides a first color light beam, a second color light beam and a third color light beam. The chromaticity-adjusting light source provides a chromaticity-adjusting light beam. The light-combining element is... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080252855 - Projection optical system: Provided is a projection optical system. The projection optical system includes: A projection optical system comprising: a first optical part that comprises at least one optical lens, and projects and displays light beams; a second optical part that comprises an image forming element and at least one optical lens, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080252856 - Wireless presentation multi-proportion scaling method: A wireless presentation multi-proportion scaling method in which the user operates a wireless remote control device to transmit a multi-proportion scale signal through a transmitter side wireless transmission interface to a receiver side wireless transmission interface for converting into a predetermined format scaling instruction for output to a presentation player... Agent: Raytac Corp.

20080252857 - Projector: A projector having optical components, a power source unit, and a light source unit. The projector is capable of lowering its internal temperature utilizing: a first, second, and third fan (41, 42, 43) provided near the optical components for introducing external air from outside the projector to cool the optical... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080252858 - Projector: A projector (1) has: a LAN card (800) having thereon an IC; liquid crystal panels (34) for modulating red, green, and blue light; optical components that includes polarization beam splitter (PBS) (23); and fans for cooling the optical components. The projector is provided with cooling ducts, which include a first... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080252859 - Projection display device: A projection display device includes: a housing; a fan disposed within the housing, the fan having a vane portion and a fan case accommodating the vane portion so as to be rotatable; and multiple vibration-proofing members having at least one of elasticity and viscosity, the vibration-proofing members being disposed at... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080252860 - Projector and image correction method: A projector displays an image on a projection surface. The projector has a zoom adjusting module and a keystone correcting module. The zoom adjusting module adjusts zoom level of a zoom lens for enlarged projection of image light. The keystone correcting module corrects trapezoidal distortion of the image displayed on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080252861 - Rear projection type display apparatus: A rear projection type display apparatus includes a base in which an optical unit and an electrical circuit are accommodated and which has an opening at a rear side thereof, and a cabinet which supports a mirror and a screen and which is mounted to an upper side of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080252862 - Light reflector, method for manufacturing the same and projector: A light reflector which can be manufactured easily by using a plastic base material that is light weight and low cost and has high reflectivity, and a method for manufacturing the same. The light reflector comprises a plastic base material 50 of which thermal deformation temperature is 130° C. or... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080252863 - Projection display apparatus: An illuminating optical system propagates a coherent light flux from at least one light source into a predetermined optical path to guide the light flux to a screen. A light bulb forms an image to be displayed on the screen on an illumination area illuminated with the light flux that... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080246923 - Fixing mechanism for fixing a light valve and a thermal module of an optical engine and related optical engine: A fixing mechanism includes a first fixing component, a second fixing component, a first elastic component, a second elastic component, and a third elastic structure. The first fixing component has a first end, and a second end where a first holding surface is disposed. The second fixing component has a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080246925 - Projection type image display apparatus: A first exhaust fan 17 for mainly discharging exhaust air from a light source lamp 19 to exterior and a second exhaust fan 18 for mainly discharging exhaust air from parts other than the light source lamp 19 are arranged to be parallel to each other. An end of the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080246924 - Projector: A projector includes an exterior casing that includes an air intake port for introducing outside air into the interior thereof; and a cooling device that cools the interior of the exterior casing by the outside air introduced via the air intake port, in which the cooling device includes a first... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080246926 - Method for operating a high-intensity discharge lamp, lamp driver and projection system: There is described a method for operating a high-intensity discharge lamp (2), in which the high-intensity discharge lamp (2) is acted upon by an AC current (I) which commutates between positive pulses (Ip) and negative pulses (In) with a predefined current amplitude (IA), wherein a pulse width ratio between the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080246927 - Projection display apparatus: A projection display apparatus includes: a light amount sensor which detects an amount of light emitted from an array light source; a deterioration rate calculator which acquires an amount of light of a measurement target light source from the amount of light detected by the light amount sensor; a reference... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080246928 - Projector and control method therefor: Disclosed herein is a projector for projecting an image to a screen, including: a lamp configured to emit light; an elliptic reflecting mirror configured to reflect and condense the light from the lamp; an image display device configured to modulate the light reflected and condensed by the elliptic reflecting mirror... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080246929 - Projection type image display apparatus: In a projection type image display apparatus, a noise removal filter portion 15 is separated from a power source unit body 14. The separated noise removal filter portion 15 is provided in the vicinity of a side wall of a housing on which a power source inlet is provided, and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080239242 - Visible laser beam projection system and method of mounting visible laser beam projection device: A visible laser beam projection system for a vehicle projects visible laser beam onto an instrument panel in a vehicle compartment. The instrument panel is provided with highly reflecting portions, which are scattered on the upper surface of the instrument panel. The highly reflecting portions having a diffuse reflectivity for... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080239243 - Image display system and method, and screen device: An image display system that includes: a projector; and a screen device that displays a projection image being a projection result from the projector. In the image display system, the screen device includes a plurality of light diffusion units each having characteristics of light transmission and characteristics of light diffusion,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080239244 - Hologram element, illumination device, projector, and method of manufacturing hologram element: A hologram element that forms a predetermined illumination pattern on an irradiated surface by diffracting incident light is disclosed. The illumination pattern is formed by making light in a first wavelength region diffracted in a first region, and the illumination pattern is formed by making light in a second wavelength... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080239245 - Medical apparatus: A medical apparatus according to the present invention includes a first heating area in which a first heating unit is provided, a second heating area that is arranged to be superimposed on the first heating area and in which a second heating unit is provided, a first cooling fan that... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080239246 - Projector: A projector is provided which includes a distance measuring unit which can accurately measure distances to a plurality of points on a surface of a screen using light rays. The projector of the invention has the distance measuring unit for measuring distances to the plurality of points on the surface... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080239247 - Light source and projector: A light source device includes a discharge lamp and a reflection mirror having a plurality of concave curved surfaces. Each of the plurality of concave curved surfaces is an ellipsoidal surface. A first focal point of each of the ellipsoidal surfaces is disposed at the light emitting center of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080239248 - Display illumination apparatus: According to one embodiment, an illumination apparatus for a display includes first and second light sources, a lighting control unit which lights the first and second light sources successively, and a light path switching unit which switches light paths between each of the light sources and a projection lens among... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080239249 - Light emitting diode (led) illumination control system and method: An LED illumination system includes control circuitry and first, second and third colored LEDs. The control circuitry sequentially drives the first, second and third colored LEDs in a color cycle frame with relative duty cycles having a known relationship that achieves a color balance. The control circuitry also operates to... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080239250 - Computer projector method and apparatus: A method includes detecting a person located between a projector and a surface on which a first image is projected by the projector, and automatically blacking out a portion of the first image, so that light from the projector does not fall on the face of the person.... Agent: Duane Morris LLPIPDepartment (agere)

20080239252 - Image projector: An object of the present invention is to provide an image projector capable of projecting a high-quality image while realizing small size. In the image projector, a light flux is deflected two-dimensionally by turning a reflector for reflecting a light flux emitted from a light source around a second axis... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080239251 - Optical system for a thin, low-chin, projection television: A micro-mirror based projection display system in an enclosure with minimum chin and depth measurements is disclosed. A solid-state laser light source generates light of multiple primary colors that is modulated by a digital micro-mirror device. The projection optics of the system include a telecentric rear group of glass lenses... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080239253 - Optical element and projection system using the same: An optical element and a projection system using the same are provided. The optical element comprises a light-condensing part for condensing lights from a light source, and the light-condensing part includes a reflecting surface and a refracting surface, and a light-guide part, coupled to an output end of the light-condensing... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080239254 - Projector with enhanced grounding effect: A projector comprises a light machine, a housing accommodating the light machine, a circuit board disposed above the light machine, a semi-sealed shell covering the circuit board, a copper post supporting the semi-sealed shell and connecting the housing and the semi-sealed shell, and at least one contact element contacting the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC