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公开(公告)号:US20250004357A1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-02
申请号:US18701193
申请日:2022-10-14
Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Inventor: John David Jackson , Nathan Shawn Wainwright , Frank Joseph Poradish , Darren Hennigan , Duane Scott Dewald , Juan Pablo Pertierra , Martin J. Richards , Barret Lippey , Jon Scott Miller , Trevor Davies , Peter Francis Van Kessel , Douglas Reid Boyd Campbell
IPC: G03B21/20
Abstract: Light projection systems using white light illumination. One embodiment provides a projection system using white light illumination. The projection system includes an illumination assembly configured to receive a white light input. A prism is configured to separate the white light input into color light inputs, redirect the color light inputs to respective modulators, and combine modulated color light inputs from the respective modulators into a white light output. An optical filter is configured to spatially Fourier transform the white light output to generate a filtered white light output. A projection lens assembly is configured to project the filtered white light output.
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公开(公告)号:US12075021B2
公开(公告)日:2024-08-27
申请号:US17793864
申请日:2021-01-28
Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
IPC: H04N13/363 , H04N9/31
CPC classification number: H04N13/363 , H04N9/3182
Abstract: A projection system and method therefore related to a first projection device; a second projection device; at least one spatial modulator; and an electronic processor configured to: receive a two-dimensional video data, generate a first plurality of intensity values of a first color gamut and a second plurality of intensity values of a second color gamut, subtract a luminance threshold from a plurality of pixel values of the second color gamut to yield a plurality of positive pixel values and a plurality of negative pixel values, set respective ones of the plurality of pixel values to predetermined values to obtain a residual of the second color gamut, add the residual to the first color gamut, add maximized pixel values to the first color gamut and the second color gamut to create an output gamut, and blend the output gamut with a native color gamut to generate a blended gamut.
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公开(公告)号:US20240073357A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-29
申请号:US17589736
申请日:2022-01-31
Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
Inventor: Martin J. Richards
CPC classification number: H04N5/7458 , H04N9/312 , H04N9/3126 , H04N9/3152 , H04N9/3161 , H04N9/3164 , H04N2005/7466
Abstract: Dual or multi-modulation display systems comprising a first modulator and a second modulator are disclosed. The first modulator may comprise a plurality of analog mirrors (e.g. MEMS array) and the second modulator may comprise a plurality of mirrors (e.g., DMD array). The display system may further comprise a controller that sends control signals to the first and second modulator. The display system may render highlight features within a projected image by affecting a time multiplexing scheme. In one embodiment, the first modulator may be switched on a sub-frame basis such that a desired proportion of the available light may be focused or directed onto the second modulator to form the highlight feature on a sub-frame rendering basis.
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公开(公告)号:US11582432B2
公开(公告)日:2023-02-14
申请号:US16910044
申请日:2020-06-23
Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Inventor: Jerome Shields , Martin J. Richards , Juan P. Pertierra
IPC: H04N9/31 , G03B21/20 , G03B21/00 , B65B11/04 , B65B11/48 , B65B11/58 , B65B49/08 , B65B51/06 , B65B55/00 , B65B61/06 , B65B61/26 , G03B21/13
Abstract: Dual and multi-modulator projector display systems and techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, a projector display system comprises a light source; a controller, a first modulator, receiving light from the light source and rendering a halftone image of said the input image; a blurring optical system that blurs said halftone image with a Point Spread Function (PSF); and a second modulator receiving the blurred halftone image and rendering a pulse width modulated image which may be projected to form the desired screen image. Systems and techniques for forming a binary halftone image from input image, correcting for misalignment between the first and second modulators and calibrating the projector system—e.g. over time—for continuous image improvement are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US11457185B2
公开(公告)日:2022-09-27
申请号:US17154694
申请日:2021-01-21
Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
Inventor: Martin J. Richards , Barret Lippey
IPC: H04N9/31 , H04N13/334 , H04N13/356 , H04N13/337 , H04N13/359 , H04N13/363 , H04N13/332 , H04N13/339 , H04N13/341 , H04N13/351
Abstract: A novel projection system includes first and second light sources (e.g., sets of lasers), a spatial light modulator (SLM) that receives light from the first light source, and a beam steering device that receives light from the second light source and steers the light to highlight regions of the SLM. The SLM then modulates the light from both light sources to generate a highlighted imaging beam which can then be projected on a viewing surface. The highlighted imaging beam can represent a highlighted 2D image or a highlighted left- or right-eye view of a 3D image. The projection system thus improves peak brightness in the displayed highlighted images without incorporating a separate highlight projector or other expensive equipment. Methods for highlighting projected images are also described.
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公开(公告)号:US11269241B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-08
申请号:US16887314
申请日:2020-05-29
Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Inventor: Juan P. Pertierra , Martin J. Richards , Barret Lippey
IPC: G03B21/00 , G02B26/06 , H04N9/31 , G02B5/20 , G02B5/30 , G02F1/1335 , G02F1/1347 , G03H1/22 , G03B21/20
Abstract: A novel spatial light modulator (SLM) includes a cover glass, and modulation layer, and a plurality of pixel mirrors, and separates unwanted, reflected light from desired, modulated light. In one embodiment, a geometrical relationship exists between the cover glass and the pixel mirrors, such that light that reflects from the cover glass is separated from light that reflects from the pixel mirrors and is transmitted from the SLM. In one example, one of the cover glass or the pixel mirrors is angled with respect to the modulation layer. In another example embodiment, the cover glass has a particular thickness, which introduces destructive interference between light that reflects from the top and bottom surfaces of the cover glass. In another embodiment antireflective coatings are disposed between optical interfaces of the SLM. In another embodiment, light from the SLM is directed through an optical filter to remove unwanted light.
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公开(公告)号:US10694157B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-23
申请号:US15995017
申请日:2018-05-31
Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Inventor: Jerome Shields , Martin J. Richards , Juan P. Pertierra
Abstract: Dual and multi-modulator projector display systems and techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, a projector display system comprises a light source; a controller, a first modulator, receiving light from the light source and rendering a halftone image of said the input image; a blurring optical system that blurs said halftone image with a Point Spread Function (PSF); and a second modulator receiving the blurred halftone image and rendering a pulse width modulated image which may be projected to form the desired screen image. Systems and techniques for forming a binary halftone image from input image, correcting for misalignment between the first and second modulators and calibrating the projector system—e.g. over time—for continuous image improvement are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US20190258070A1
公开(公告)日:2019-08-22
申请号:US16397366
申请日:2019-04-29
Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Inventor: Martin J. Richards , Wilson Heaton Allen
IPC: G02B27/22 , G02C7/12 , G02C7/10 , G03B35/26 , H04N13/334 , H04N13/363
Abstract: Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses and spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved surface lenses configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. The spectrally complementary filters include guard bands to prevent crosstalk between spectrally complementary portions of a 3D image viewed through the shaped glasses. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters are disposed on the curved lenses with increasing layer thickness towards edges of the lenses. The projected complementary images may also be pre-shifted to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts occurring while viewing the images.
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公开(公告)号:US10368044B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-30
申请号:US15025536
申请日:2014-10-02
Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
Inventor: Martin J. Richards , Douglas J. Gorny
Abstract: Systems and methods of rendering DCI-compliant image data on Enhanced Dynamic Range (EDR) display systems are disclosed. One embodiment of an EDR projector system comprises a first modulator and a second modulator. One method for rendering DCI-compliant image data on an EDR projector system comprises: receiving input image data, said image data comprising a plurality of image formats; determining whether the input image data comprises DCI image data; if the input image data comprises DCI image data, then performing dynamic range (DR) processing on the DCI image data; and rendering the dynamic range processed DCI image data on the EDR projector system. One DR processing method is to set the first modulator to a desired luminance level—e.g., fully ON or a ratio of DCI max luminance to the EDR max luminance. In addition, a desired minimum level of luminance may be set for the EDR projector.
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公开(公告)号:US20180210220A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-26
申请号:US15927645
申请日:2018-03-21
Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Inventor: Martin J. Richards , Wilson Allen , Gary D. Gomes
Abstract: Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses with spectrally complementary filters disposed thereon. The filters curved surface lenses are configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. Complementary images are projected for viewing through projection filters having passbands that pre-shift to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts. At least one filter may have more than 3 primary passbands. For example, two filters include a first filter having passbands of low blue, high blue, low green, high green, and red, and a second filter having passbands of blue, green, and red. The additional passbands may be utilized to more closely match a color space and white point of a projector in which the filters are used. The shaped glasses and projection filters together may be utilized as a system for projecting and viewing 3D images.
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