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An ultra-thin digital imaging device has a thickness of several millimeters and is capable of producing data for creating images of 3 Mp and higher. The device comprises a multi-channel imaging unit that contains a plurality of optical channels formed by microlens objectives and a pixilated image sensor unit with a plurality of sensing elements. Each individual identical image obtained through each optical channel is pixilated and converted into electrical signals that are processed into data sets which can be stored in the imaging device and either reproduced on the display of the device or transmitted to an external image-reproducing device where the obtained data of individual images are transformed into a single, high-resolution megapixel image by means of a technique known in the art.

A video / computer game machine maps external images onto animated game players in a game program. An image of a person's face may be mapped onto the head of an animated game player. The person may then play the game using the animated game player having a face that appears to be that of the person. Similarly, images of other persons can be mapped on other animated game players that appear in the video game program. Improved realism of video games is obtained by enabling individuals to create animated game players that have features, e.g., a facial image, of the individual or that were selected and imported by the individual.

A system on chip processor for a multimedia device includes: a pre-processing circuit to convert an external image signal into a compressed input signal for compressing; an encoder / decoder circuit to generate compressed data by compressing the compressed input signal and outputting a coded image signal by decompressing the compressed data; a post-processing circuit to convert the coded image signal into a signal that can be used by an image displaying device; a first system bus connected with pre-processing circuit and post-processing circuit; a second system bus connected with the encoder / decoder circuit; a first bridge DMA circuit to mutually transmit data between first system bus and second system bus; and a controller to control the operation of the circuits.

There is provided a wearable display comprising at least one Switchable Bragg Grating (SBG) device recorded in at least one Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal (HPDLC) layer. Each HPDLC layer is sandwiched between first and second transparent plates to which transparent electrodes have been applied. Each SBG device is characterised in that it provides a grating in a separate switchable region and is clear elsewhere. Each SBG device has a diffracting state and a non diffracting state. The transparent plates and HPDLC layers form a laminar structure which functions as a light guide. In one embodiment of the invention the display magnifies and forms a virtual image of information provided by an external image generator. In one embodiment of the invention the display and forms a virtual image of an image of information encoded in the SBG device.

Provided is an image display device used by being mounted to a head or a face of a user, including a first display unit that displays an internal image seen from a side of the user, a second display unit that displays an external image seen from outside the image display device, and a control unit that controls display of the internal image and the external image.

A head-mount type display device adapted to allow a user to visually recognize a virtual image in a state of being worn on the head of the user includes an image display section having an image light generation section adapted to generate an image light representing an image, a light blocking section adapted to transmit external light at a predetermined transmittance, and a virtual image forming section adapted to transmit the external light transmitted through the light blocking section and to form the virtual image in an eye of the user with the image light, and configured to allow the user to visually recognize the virtual image and an external image, an operation section with which the user inputs operation data, and a control section adapted to perform control of changing the transmittance of the light blocking section in accordance with operation data from the operation section.

A mobile, wearable imaging system, having operator eyewear with a plurality of semi-transparent lenses, a microphone, a video capture device, and an accelerometer, wherein the semi-transparent lenses provide the operator a full-forward head's up view and a view of an external image superposed on the full-forward head's up view. The system also includes a mobile multifunction controller including an image processor that receives the external image and produces the view of an external image superposed on the full-forward head's up view in the operator eyewear, an audio signal processor, a motion signal processor, a gesture sensor, a manual input device, and a general processor unit, which executes a received system command, and where symbolic data received by the controller is selectively combined with the external image superposed on the full-forward head's up view.

A video / computer game machine is disclosed that maps external images onto animated game players in a game program. An image of a person's face may be mapped onto the head of an animated game player. The person may then play the game using the animated game player having a face that appears to be that of the person. Similarly, images of other persons can be mapped on other animated game players that appear in the video game program. Accordingly, the invention improves the realism of video games by enabling individuals to create animated game players that have features, e.g., a facial image, of the individual or that were selected and imported by the individual.

Disclosed herein is a camera module. The camera module includes: a lens barrel with a built-in lens collecting external images; a housing that has a receiving space in which the lens barrel is received; a driving part that is configured to include a magnet and a coil and provides a first driving force that drives the lens barrel upward and a second driving force that drives the lens barrel downward by an electromagnetic force that is generated from the magnet and the coil; a guide ball that is provided between the lens barrel and the housing and guides the motion of the lens barrel; and a position detection part that senses the position of the lens barrel, wherein the driving part drives the lens barrel upward and downward so that a preload part that provides preload returning the lens barrel to its initial position is not required.

A display apparatus for a mixed reality environment includes an image processor for mixing an actual image of an object around a user and a artificial stereo images to produce multiple external image signals, a user information extractor for extracting the user's sight line information including the user's position his / her eye position, direction of a sight line and focal distance; an image creator for creating a stereo image signal based on the extracted user's sight line information; an image mixer for synchronously mixing the multiple external image signals and the stereo image signal; and an image output unit for outputting the mixed image signal to the user.

A method of driving an electroluminescent (EL) display having a plurality of light-emitting display elements having outputs that change with time or use, comprising the steps of: a) providing an external image signal with a first image aspect ratio; b) providing an EL display having light-emitting display elements formed in a two-dimensional array having a second display aspect ratio different from the first image aspect ratio; c) driving all of the two-dimensional array of display elements with a composite signal comprising the external image signal and an internal aging signal, wherein a subset of the display elements is driven by the external image signal and the remainder of the display elements that are not driven by the external image signal are driven with the internal aging signal; and d) changing the location of the subset of display elements within the two-dimensional array driven by the external image signal over time.

The invention discloses a robot automatic charging device and a robot automatic charging method. The robot automatic charging device comprises a power supply connecting module, a moving module, a battery monitoring module, an external image acquisition module, a storage module and a master control module, wherein after receiving a charging request signal, the master control module controls the external image acquisition module to acquire images in the ambient environment of the robot, searches images matched with reference images of an external power supply socket from the acquired images and judges whether the external power supply socket exists or not, if yes, the position of the power supply connecting module relative to the external power supply socket is calculated, and the moving module is controlled to drive a robot to move toward the external power supply socket so as to enable the power supply connecting module and the external power supply socket to be aligned and connected with each other. According to the invention, the robot can complete charging automatically without manual intervention when the electricity quantity of a charging battery is not enough. The robot automatic charging device is suitable for any existing alternating-current power supply socket.

An embodiments of the invention discloses a terminal, which comprises a display screen and a camera, wherein the camera is arranged at the back side of the display screen; the display screen comprises a first display area and a second display area which are used for displaying information, and the first display area is a transparent display area; and the camera collects external images through the transparent display area. According to the terminal, the camera can be arranged in the display area and a non-display area is omitted, so that the display effect of the large screen is realized.

There is provided a wearable display comprising at least one Switchable Bragg Grating (SBG) device recorded in at least one Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal (HPDLC) layer. Each HPDLC layer is sandwiched between first and second transparent plates to which transparent electrodes have been applied. Each SBG device is characterized in that it provides a grating in a separate switchable region and is clear elsewhere. Each SBG device has a diffracting state and a non diffracting state. The transparent plates and HPDLC layers form a laminar structure which functions as a light guide. In one embodiment of the invention the display magnifies and forms a virtual image of information provided by an external image generator. In one embodiment of the invention the display and forms a virtual image of an image of information encoded in the SBG device.

The invention discloses an image processing method and apparatus based on filter special efficacies. The method comprises the following steps: when a real-time special efficacy preview instruction triggered by a user is detected, obtaining an image to be previewed, and according to multiple preset filter special efficacies, generating multiple special-efficacy previews of the image to be previewed; entering a real-time special-efficacy preview mode, and displaying the special-efficacy previews in a screen; detecting gesture operation of a user, if the gesture operation is preset gesture operation, obtaining at least two special-efficacy previews oriented by the gesture operation; obtaining target filter special efficacies in one-to-one correspondence with the at least two special-efficacy previews; and applying the target filter special efficacies to the image to be previewed in a combined mode to generate a combined special-efficacy preview of the image to be previewed, and displaying the combined special-efficacy preview. According to the invention, the special-efficacy previews with multiple filter special-efficacy effects can be obtained through a mode of combining the filter special efficacies without scheduling an external image editor, and thus convenience and image processing and viscosity of a product are improved.

A visual interfacing apparatus for providing mixed multiple stereo images is provided. The visual interfacing apparatus includes: an external image processor receiving the actual image of the object and the external stereo images, dividing the received image into left / right viewing images, and outputting the left / right images; a viewing information extractor tracking a user's eye position, eye orientation, direction, and focal distance; an image creator creating predetermined 3D graphic stereo image information that is displayed to the user along with the images received by the external image processor as a mono image or a stereo image by left / right viewing, and outputting image information corresponding to each of the left / right viewing images according to the user's viewing information extracted by the viewing information extractor; and a stereo image processor combining the left / right image information received by the external image processor and the image creator based on the user's viewing information extracted by the viewing information extractor in 3D spatial coordinate space, and providing a user's view with combined multiple stereo images. Accordingly, the visual interfacing apparatus combines information of an external common stereo image apparatus and an internal personal stereo image apparatus, thereby overcoming a problem that a user can only use a single stereo image visualizing apparatus.

A concierge robot system, a concierge service method, and a concierge robot are provided. The system provides an antificial intelligence type of concierge service, and includes: a user interface device that receives an external image and an external voice, and outputs the received image or voice on a screen or by voice; a storage device where a program that provides data through the user interface device based on learning data generated by using a neural network model is stored; and a processor that executes the program, wherein the program includes instructions for recognizing an emotion of a user, identified from the external image based on the learning data, outputting data that represents an emotion according to the emotion recognition to the screen, generating a conversation sentence that corresponds to natural language of web data externally collected through web scraping based on the learning data and outputting it by voice, generating user recommendation data for the identified user based on the learning data, and outputting the user recommendation data on the screen or processing it into natural language and outputting a corresponding conversation sentence by voice.

An image sensor includes a sensor or a pixel array, a data memory, and a logic circuit, all fabricated on the same integrated chip. The sensor or pixel array outputs digital signals as pixel data representing an image of a scene. The data memory is coupled to the sensor or pixel array for storing the pixel data. The logic circuit is coupled to the data memory and provides a memory interface for exporting the pixel data. The memory interface can be one of a SRAM, a DRAM or a packet protocol synchronous DRAM interface. Including a memory interface in the image sensor allows the image sensor to be coupled directly to the memory interface port of an external image processing unit. The image processing unit can access the image sensor using conventional memory access protocols, thus improving the efficiency and reducing the operational complexity of the image processing unit.

A method for driving a display apparatus, according to one or more embodiments of the present invention, provides a luminance representative value of a unit light-emitting block that may be determined from an external image signal of a plurality of image blocks corresponding to the unit light-emitting block including a plurality of light sources. A luminance compensation value of the unit light-emitting block may be calculated by compensating the luminance representative value. Pixel data of the external image signal in a central area of the unit light-emitting block and a boundary area may be corrected based on the luminance compensation value. A driving signal may be provided to the unit light-emitting block based on the luminance compensation value. Accordingly, a phenomenon in which a boundary of the unit light-emitting block is visible is removed so that the display quality of all image may be enhanced.

The embodiment of the invention provides a terminal, comprising a cover plate and sensors which are arranged at one side of the cover plate at intervals. The side of the cover plate close to the sensors is equipped with an adhering layer. A through hole for a camera to collect an external image is arranged on the adhering layer. The sensors comprise a signal transmitter and a signal receiver. The signal transmitter is used for transmitting a detection signal. The detection signal is transmitted to the exterior through the through hole. The detection signal is reflected by an external object to form a reflection signal. The reflection signal enters the signal receiver through the through hole. According to the scheme, the external image can be collected by the camera and a proximity state of the terminal can be detected by a proximity detector only by arranging the through hole on the adhering layer of the cover plate, and multiple through holes do not need to be arranged on the adhering layer, so a manufacturing technology of the terminal can be simplified.

A display device includes a data driver; a scan driver; a compensation control signal unit configured to reset voltages of data signals transmitted to a plurality of pixels during a previous frame at a current frame, and configured to generate and transmit a first control signal to compensate for threshold voltages of driving transistors of the pixels and a second control signal to control simultaneous light emission of the pixels; a power controller configured to control and supply the voltage levels of a first and second power source voltages; a display unit including the plurality of pixels coupled to corresponding data lines, scan lines, first control lines, second control lines, first voltage lines, and second voltage lines; and a timing controller configured to generate a plurality of data signals by processing external image signals and generate a plurality of driving control signals for controlling driving of the drivers.

A cleaning robot, and more particularly a cleaning robot comprising a camera unit for photographing an external image containing the charging-stand image, converting it into electrical image information, and outputting externally; and a microprocessor for storing the image information inputted the camera unit, acquiring position information of the charging-stand from the external image on the basis of the image information of the charging-stand in detecting a return signal, and causing the cleaning robot to be returned to the charging-stand. The cleaning robot having an auto-return function to a charging-stand detects a direction and position of the charging-stand using image information of the charging-stand, and thereby correctly and rapidly returning to the charging-stand for the cleaning robot.

An image signal processing apparatus includes an image pickup unit operable to take image information; an image signal-processing unit operable to process the image information; a display unit operable to display the image information on a display; a recording unit operable to record the image information onto a recording medium; a reproducing unit operable to reproduce the recorded image information; a communication unit operable to communicate with an external image display to display the image information on the external image display; an obtaining unit operable to obtain an adjustive image pattern used to adjust image quality so as to correspond to image-displaying performance of the external image display; an adjustive image display unit which permits the adjustment of the image quality by correcting parameters used by the image signal-processing unit to perform image signal processing based on the adjustive image pattern, the adjustive image display unit acting to display the adjustive image pattern representing an uncorrected state and a corrected state on the external image display; and a correcting unit operable to correct the image quality to match displaying characteristics of the external image display by correcting the parameters used by the image signal-processing unit to perform the image signal processing so as to correspond to the corrected adjustive image pattern displayed by the adjustive image display unit.

An digital picture frame capable of acquiring image of the picture independently, especially to digitalize the image of photos to a digital format and then display it on a display panel. The digital picture frame includes a display module which supports the image display, a scanning module which scans photos, and an input / output module for image delivery over external image processing / storing devices, such as the hard disk, camcorder, digital still camera and network image server.

An image sending / receiving device of the present invention includes: an image receiving section for receiving image data from an external image reproducing device connected to the image sending / receiving device; an image sending section for sending the image data to an external image display device connected to the image sending / receiving device; a first storage section for storing a set of resolutions to be read out by the image reproducing device; a second storage section in which a set of resolutions are pre-stored; a read-out section for reading out a set of resolutions pre-stored in the image display device from the image display device; and a resolution registration section for registering, in the first storage section, all of the resolutions read out by the read-out section or a subset of resolutions among those read out by the read-out section with which the image sending section is able to send data to the image display device.

The invention discloses an opto-electrical system which realize seamless matching of multiple CCDs with prism light splitting vignetting compensation; the invention comprises an imaging lens for receiving external image surface (namely external image data), a light splitting prism for receiving, cutting up and reflecting the image surface from the imaging lens as well as a CCD for receiving the image surface from the light splitting prism (equipped with a circuit board of the CCD). The opto-electrical system of the invention receives light energy with vignetting viewing field with the help of few overlapping of the CCD viewing field and the vignetting phenomenon is compensated by the overlapping part of the sub-image surface combined with algorithm of software. The imaging system of the opto-electrical system of the invention with no movement component, no deficiency of the imaging viewing field, no large vignetting viewing field and high pixel data has enormous significance. The invention is suitable for the field with requirement for the long-distance imaging system of large viewing field and high resolving capability, such as remote sensing by satellite, photo by seaplane, air defense with infrared reconnaissance, etc.

A vehicle control system captures an external image from the primary vehicle and stores templates for detecting the approach of the another vehicle in order to perform a collision avoidance action. A template is updated when a brake pedal is pressed by a driver, and the external image is compared with the template to determine, based upon the result of the comparison, whether the other vehicle is approaching the primary vehicle. The system instructs the primary vehicle to perform the collision avoidance action when the comparison exceeds a threshold value. When an image similar to the template is captured and the driver does not perform a collision avoidance action such as releasing an accelerator or pressing a brake pedal, throttle valve is forcibly closed to inhibit accelerator of control, and braking force is provided even if harsh braking is performed by the driver.

The present invention provides an apparatus for measuring a location and a distance of an object by using a camera including: a camera module for photographing an external image; a parameter setup unit for setting internal and external parameters of the camera module; an image processor unit for receiving a captured image of an image photographed from the camera module, extracting a target object within the captured image, and extracting specific point coordinates of the extracted target object; and a location and distance calculating unit for calculating three-dimensional object location information in a two-dimensional camera coordinate system through the internal and external parameters of the camera module and coordinates of the target object, and calculating distance information from the location information of the object.

Disclosed is a vehicle user interface apparatus including a display unit, an interface, and a processor configured to receive a vehicle external image via the interface, specify a first area corresponding to a preset Point of Interest (POI) in the vehicle external image, control the display unit to display a graphic object of augmented reality on the vehicle external image to point out the first area, and control the display unit to display the graphic object along a travel lane to point out the first area.