IP Library Granted Patent US 9,057,937
Granted Patent B2
US 9,057,937 · App. 13/816,922 · Granted Jun 16, 2015

Image projection device and color correction method

Inventor: Kenji Yamamoto (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
G03B21/147G03B21/206G09G3/002G09G3/3413G09G2320/0633G09G2320/064G09G2320/0666G09G2320/0693G09G2330/021G09G2360/145H04N9/3182
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Patent No.
US 9,057,937
App. No.
13/816,922
Granted
Jun 16, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image projection device includes a light source that emits a plurality of colored lights and a projection section that modulates each colored light emitted by the light source according to image data and projects an image onto a projection surface, a storage section that stores projection surface information indicating a spectral reflectance of the projection surface, and a correction section that determines, when the image data is received, a correction value for correcting a color shift in the image on the projection surface using the projection surface information, and corrects an intensity value of a colored light emitted by the light source by controlling the light source according to the correction value.

Claims (17)

1. An image projection device including a light source that emits a plurality of colored lights, and a projection section that modulates each colored light emitted by said light source according to image data and projects an image onto a projection surface, the image projection device comprising:

a storage section that stores projection surface information indicating a spectral reflectance of the projection surface;

a correction section that determines, when the image data is received, a correction value for correcting a color shift in the image on the projection surface using the projection surface information, and corrects intensity values of the plurality of colored lights emitted by said light source by controlling said light source according to the correction value; and

a measurement section that measures the spectral reflectance of the projection surface and outputs the projection surface information indicating the spectral reflectance to said correction section,

wherein said correction section includes

a calculator that determines a correction value using the projection surface information output by said measurement section, and calculates, based on the correction value and predetermined values of intensity of the plurality of colored lights, intensity values of a plurality of colored lights after correction, and

a dimmer that adjusts the intensity values of the plurality of colored lights emitted by said light source to the intensity values of the plurality of colored lights calculated by the calculator.

2. The image projection device according to claim 1 ,

wherein said storage section stores, for each piece of projection surface information, the projection surface information and a correction value determined using the projection surface information in association with each other, and

wherein the calculator calculates the intensity values of the plurality of colored lights after correction, based on a correction value that is associated with the projection surface information output by said measurement section and the predetermined values of intensity of the plurality of colored lights.

3. A color correction method of an image projection device including a light source that emits a plurality of colored lights, and a projection section that modulates each colored light emitted by the light source according to image data and projects an image onto a projection surface, the color correction method comprising:

storing projection surface information indicating a spectral reflectance of the projection surface;

determining, when the image data is received, a correction value for correcting a color shift in the image on the projection surface using the projection surface information, and correcting intensity values of the plurality of colored lights emitted by the light source by controlling the light source according to the correction value; and

measuring the spectral reflectance of the projection surface and outputting the projection surface information indicating the spectral reflectance,

wherein said measuring includes

determining a correction value using the projection surface information output in said measuring, and calculating, based on the correction value and predetermined values of intensity of the plurality of colored lights, intensity values of a plurality of colored lights after correction, and

adjusting the intensity values of the plurality of colored lights emitted by the light source to the intensity values of the plurality of colored lights calculated in the calculating.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 8, 2021
From: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
To: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 055256/0755 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 15, 2013
From: YAMAMOTO, KENJI
To: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 030012/0405 →
Continuity (1)
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