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US 12,333,972 · App. 18/613,511 · Granted Jun 17, 2025

Projection-type display apparatus and method for controlling projection-type display apparatus

Inventors: Kazuhisa Mizusako (Shiojiri, JP); Toru Aoki (Shiojiri, JP); Yusuke Komuro (Azumino, JP)
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
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Patent No.
US 12,333,972
App. No.
18/613,511
Granted
Jun 17, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A projection-type display apparatus including a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of panel pixels, an optical path shifting element configured to shift a position of a projection pixel for each of unit periods, included in one frame period, and a display control circuit configured to control the liquid crystal panel and the optical path shifting element. The display control circuit supplies a data signal to the plurality of panel pixels per the unit period, supplies a signal based on pixel data, as the data signal, to a peripheral panel pixel arranged at a periphery among the plurality of panel pixels in a unit period as a part in one frame period, and supplies a signal having a gray scale level equal to or less than a threshold value as the data signal in a unit period other than the unit period as the part in the one frame period.

Claims (29)

1. A projection-type display apparatus, comprising:

a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of panel pixels;

an optical path shifting element configured to shift a position of a projection pixel projected from the plurality of panel pixels for each of k unit periods from a first unit period to a k-th unit period, where k is an integer equal to or greater than 2, included in one frame period; 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 to the plurality of panel pixels per the unit period,

supplies a signal based on pixel data of a video pixel constituting a video image, as the data signal, to a peripheral panel pixel arranged at a periphery among the plurality of panel pixels in a unit period as a part in one frame period of a first frame period and a second frame period, and

supplies a signal having a gray scale level equal to or less than a threshold value as the data signal in a unit period other than the unit period as the part in the one frame period.

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

the display control circuit,

when the peripheral panel pixel expresses the video pixel in one unit period, supplies a pixel signal based on pixel data of the video pixel as the data signal in the one unit period, and

when the peripheral panel pixel does not express the video pixel in another unit period, supplies a signal having the gray scale level equal to or less than a threshold value as the data signal to the peripheral panel pixel in the other unit period.

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

the peripheral panel pixel is arranged at four peripheral sides of a rectangular region in which the plurality of panel pixels are arranged.

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

the peripheral panel pixel is arranged at two sides adjacent to each other in a periphery of a rectangular region in which the plurality of panel pixels are arranged.

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

one panel pixel displays a video pixel in which

k video pixels expressed in a first unit period to a k-th unit period of the first frame period, and

k video pixels expressed in a first unit period to a k-th unit period of the second frame period

are arrayed point-symmetrically with respect to one common video pixel.

6. A method for controlling a projection-type display apparatus including

a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of panel pixels,

an optical path shifting element that shifts a position of a projection pixel projected from the plurality of panel pixels for each of k unit periods from a first unit period to a k-th unit period, where k is an integer equal to or greater than 2, included in one frame period, and

a display control circuit that controls the liquid crystal panel and the optical path shifting element,

the method comprising:

supplying a data signal to the plurality of panel pixels per the unit period,

supplying a pixel signal based on pixel data of a video pixel constituting a video image, as the data signal, to a peripheral panel pixel arranged at a periphery among the plurality of panel pixels in a unit period as a part in one frame period of a first frame period and a second frame period, and

supplying a signal having a gray scale level equal to or less than a threshold value as the data signal in a unit period other than the unit period as the part in the one frame period.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 11, 2024
From: MIZUSAKO, KAZUHISA; AOKI, TORU; KOMURO, YUSUKE
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2023-046433 · Mar 23, 2023 · national
Continuity (1)
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