IP Library Granted Patent US 10,764,543
Granted Patent B2
US 10,764,543 · App. 16/366,499 · Granted Sep 1, 2020

Image display system, image display method, and movable object

Inventors: Yukihiro Chokyu (Osaka, JP); Fumihito Inukai (Kyoto, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
H04N9/3129G03B21/2013G03B21/2033G03B21/2066G06F9/30003
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Patent No.
US 10,764,543
App. No.
16/366,499
Granted
Sep 1, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

The image display system forms an image by scanning with light from a light source of a luminaire. The image display system includes: an input unit configured to receive an image signal indicative of an instruction value of luminance of the light source; and a control unit configured to determine a target value of luminance of the light source based on the instruction value indicated by the image signal received by the input unit. The control unit is configured to perform an adjusting process of setting the target value to an adjusted value different from the instruction value when allowing the light source to emit light based on the image signal.

Claims (51)

1. An image display system for forming an image by scanning with light from a light source of a luminaire, the system comprising:

an input circuit configured to receive an image signal indicative of an instruction value of luminance of the light source; and

a control circuit configured to determine a target value of luminance of the light source based on the instruction value indicated by the image signal received by the input circuit,

the control circuit being configured to perform an adjusting process of setting the target value to an adjusted value different from the instruction value when allowing the light source to emit light based on the image signal, wherein:

the luminaire includes a plurality of light sources emitting light with different wavelengths;

at least one of the plurality of light sources having an adjusted value different from one or more adjusted values of other light sources among the plurality of light sources;

the image signal includes a plurality of the instruction values individually corresponding to each of the plurality of light sources; and

the control circuit is configured to perform the adjusting process for the at least one of the plurality of light sources so that an initial rise of light of each of the plurality of light sources is made to be close to one another.

2. The image display system according to claim 1 , wherein

the adjusted value is larger than the instruction value.

3. The image display system according to claim 1 , wherein

the adjusted value is smaller than the instruction value.

4. The image display system according to claim 1 , wherein

the light source is a laser.

5. The image display system according to claim 1 , wherein

the control circuit is configured to, in the adjusting process, set the target value to the instruction value when emission of light from the light source continues for a predetermined time period.

6. The image display system according to claim 5 , wherein

the predetermined time period is a time period corresponding to an integral multiple of a unit time period corresponding to each one of pixels constituting the image.

7. The image display system according to claim 6 , wherein

the control circuit is configured to change the target value from the adjusted value to the instruction value in a stepwise manner in the adjusting process.

8. The image display system according to claim 7 , wherein

the control circuit is configured to change the target value at a timing synchronized with the unit time period.

9. The image display system according to claim 1 , wherein

the control circuit is configured not to perform a preliminary light emission process of allowing the light source to emit light before allowing the light source to emit light based on the image signal.

10. The image display system according to claim 1 , wherein

in the adjusting process, the adjusted value is determined so that a light source which is one of the plurality of light sources and to which the adjusting process is applied shows an initial rise of light corresponding to a reference light source.

11. The image display system according to claim 10 , wherein

the reference light source is a light source which is one of the plurality of light sources and shows a fastest initial rise.

12. The image display system according to claim 10 , wherein

the reference light source is a light source which is one of the plurality of light sources and shows a slowest initial rise.

13. The image display system according to claim 10 , wherein

the control circuit is configured to perform, for the reference light source, a normal process of setting the target value to the instruction value even when allowing the light source to emit light based on the image signal.

14. The image display system according to claim 1 , wherein

the control circuit is configured to perform the adjusting process for each of the plurality of light sources.

15. The image display system according to claim 14 , wherein

adjusting values of adjusting processes for the plurality of light sources are determined so that initial rises of the plurality of light sources are identical to each other.

16. The image display system according to claim 1 , wherein

the control circuit is configured to, in the adjusting process, change a relation between adjusted values and instruction values in accordance with a wavelength of light emitted from a light source which is one of the plurality of light sources and to which the adjusting process is applied.

17. The image display system according to claim 16 , wherein

the relation is set so that an adjusted value for an instruction value increases with decrease in a wavelength of light from a light source.

18. A movable object comprising:

the image display system according to claim 1 ; and

a body on which the image display system is installed.

19. An image display method for forming an image by scanning with light from a light source of a luminaire, the method comprising:

receiving an image signal indicative of an instruction value of luminance of the light source; and

setting a target value of luminance of the light source to an adjusted value different from the instruction value indicated by the image signal when allowing the light source to emit light based on the image signal,

wherein:

the luminaire includes a plurality of light sources emitting light with different wavelengths;

at least one of the plurality of light sources having an adjusted value different from one or more adjusted values of other light sources among the plurality of light sources;

the image signal includes a plurality of the instruction values individually corresponding to each of the plurality of light sources; and

the control circuit is configured to perform the adjusting process for the at least one of the plurality of light sources so that an initial rise of light of each of the plurality of light sources is made to be close to one another.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 28, 2024
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 066703/0252 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 30, 2019
From: CHOKYU, YUKIHIRO; INUKAI, FUMIHITO
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 050571/0411 →