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Granted Patent B2
US 12,198,587 · App. 18/239,926 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

Projection-type display apparatus

Inventors: Toru Aoki (Shiojiri, JP); Hiroyuki Hosaka (Matsumoto, JP); Yusuke Komuro (Azumino, JP)
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
G09G3/007G09G3/002G09G2340/0407
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Patent No.
US 12,198,587
App. No.
18/239,926
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A projection-type display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel including a panel pixel, an optical path shifting element that shifts a projected pixel projected from the panel pixel, and a display control circuit that controls the liquid crystal panel and the optical path shifting element. The display control circuit supplies, to the liquid crystal panel, the same data signal and controls the projected pixel to be at a same position in a unit period f 1 - 1 and a unit period f 2 - 1 period, and controls the optical path shifting element to cause the position of the projected pixel in each of a unit period f 1 - 2 to a unit period f 1 - 4 , to be different from the position of the projected pixel in a respective one of a unit period f 2 - 2 to a unit period f 2 - 4.

Claims (21)

1. A projection-type display apparatus comprising:

a liquid crystal panel including a panel pixel;

an optical path shifting element configured to shift a position of a projected pixel projected from the panel pixel in each of n unit periods from a first unit period to a second unit period and through an n-th unit period, in a time sequence, included in one frame period, n being an integer of two or greater, the first unit period being an initial first unit period at a beginning of the time sequence of the frame period, the second unit period through the n-th unit period being subsequent to the initial first unit period in the time sequence; and

a display control circuit configured to control the liquid crystal panel and the optical path shifting element, wherein

the display control circuit:

supplies a data signal corresponding to pixel data constituting video data, to the panel pixel in each of the unit periods,

controls the shift of the position of the projected pixel with respect to the optical path shifting element in each of the unit periods,

supplies, to the liquid crystal panel, the data signal corresponding to the same pixel data and controls the position of the projected pixel to be at a same position in each of the initial first unit period of the n unit periods in a first frame period and the initial first unit period of the n unit periods in a second frame period subsequent to the first frame period, and

controls the optical path shifting element to cause the position of the projected pixel in each of the second unit period to the n-th unit period of the first frame period, to be different from the position of the projected pixel in a respective one of the second unit period to the n-th unit period of the second frame period.

2. The projection-type display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the pixel data constituting the video data is arrayed along a first axis and a second axis and

the optical path shifting element shifts the projected pixel in a direction along the first axis or a direction along the second axis in each of the unit periods.

3. The projection-type display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein

n is 4 and

the optical path shifting element shifts the position of the projected pixel:

in one direction along the first axis from the first unit period to the second unit period of the first frame period,

in one direction along the second axis from the second unit period to the third unit period of the first frame period,

in the other direction along the first axis from the third unit period to the fourth unit period of the first frame period, and

in the other direction along the second axis from the fourth unit period of the first frame period to the first unit period of the second frame period.

4. The projection-type display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

an array of the pixel data corresponding to the first unit period to the n-th unit period of the first frame period, and an array of the pixel data corresponding to the first unit period to the n-th unit period of the second frame period have a rotational symmetry relationship about the pixel data corresponding to the first unit period of the first frame period and the first unit period of the second frame period.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 30, 2023
From: AOKI, TORU; HOSAKA, HIROYUKI; KOMURO, YUSUKE
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 064752/0263 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-137620 · Aug 31, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240071270A1 · Feb 29, 2024
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