G03B33/00

Illumination system and projection apparatus
10684540 · 2020-06-16 · ·

An illumination system including a first excitation light source, a wavelength conversion element, and a scattering element is provided. The first excitation light source emits a first excitation beam. The wavelength conversion element includes a wavelength conversion material. The wavelength conversion element has a first region and a second region. A concentration of the wavelength conversion material in the first region is greater than a concentration of the wavelength conversion material in the second region. The scattering element is disposed on a transmission path of the first excitation beam. A projection apparatus with the illumination system is also provided.

Illumination system and projection apparatus
10684540 · 2020-06-16 · ·

An illumination system including a first excitation light source, a wavelength conversion element, and a scattering element is provided. The first excitation light source emits a first excitation beam. The wavelength conversion element includes a wavelength conversion material. The wavelength conversion element has a first region and a second region. A concentration of the wavelength conversion material in the first region is greater than a concentration of the wavelength conversion material in the second region. The scattering element is disposed on a transmission path of the first excitation beam. A projection apparatus with the illumination system is also provided.

VEHICLE CAPABLE OF DISPLAYING INFORMATION ON ROAD AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR
20200047807 · 2020-02-13 ·

Disclosed are a vehicle capable of projecting visual information used to guide driving or parking on a road and a control method therefor. The method of displaying information on a road for a vehicle includes recognizing a traveling state, determining at least one of a location or a curvature of a laser assistance line that is to be projected on a road from a front laser projector or a rear laser projector based on the recognized traveling state and a steering angle of the vehicle, and projecting the laser assistance line based on a result obtained from the determining.

Imaging apparatus and imaging method

The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program capable of obtaining a color image even in a case where photographing is performed in a dark place. The apparatus includes: an infrared light emission unit that emits infrared light; a sensor array in which a plurality of pixels is arranged, the plurality of pixels including a first pixel that includes a period during which the infrared light is emitted by the infrared light emission unit as an exposure duration, a second pixel that does not include a period during which the infrared light is emitted as the exposure duration, and an infrared light pixel that receives infrared light contained in ambient light; an acquisition unit that obtains an infrared light image captured by the first pixel, a visible image captured by the second pixel, and an ambient infrared light image captured by the infrared light pixel; and an image generation unit that generates an image as a result of removing the infrared light contained in the ambient light from the infrared light image and the visible image using the ambient infrared light image. The present technology is applicable to a surveillance camera, for example.

MEANS AND PROCESS FOR CREATING WORKS HAVING THE CHARACTERISTIC LOOK AND FEEL OF FILMS GENERATED VIA THE TECHNICOLOR® PROCESS
20200026158 · 2020-01-23 ·

An apparatus for the creation of works having the same creative look and feel as works filmed via the original Technicolor three-strip filming process comprising: a camera, a lens mounted on said camera, a step-up, lens-filter adapter ring mounted on said lens of said camera, a diffusion filter mounted on said step-up, lens-filter adapter ring, said diffusion filter capable of mimicking the effect of traditional silver nitrate film used in the Technicolor process, and an optical band-stop filter mounted on said the diffusion filter, said optical band-stop filter capable of preventing the transmission of light having a 570-600 nm wavelength and permitting no more than 20% light from being transmitted through it.

A wide angle dispersing light fixture comprising a clear bowl-shaped outer housing having an inner surface, and an outer surface mirrorized with RUSTOLEUM MIRROR EFFECT, silver, SKU NO. 26772, and a candelabra style fixture capable of receiving a multiplicity of light bulbs, said light bulbs being Hypericon A21 LED BULBS having an extended CRI of 94 or higher, and capable of providing R-9 and an unbroken spectrum of light capable of working in daylight balance between 4800 and 5600 kelvin.

A chromatic exposure meter comprising an eyecup and a spectroscope having multiple glass-prisms, a nanometer scale and a control that can open and close the iris/slit to change the amount of light that enters the spectroscope, said spectroscope further uprising an ISO Wheel having a scale for 12, 25, 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, and 6400, a free-moving Shutter Speed Wheel equipped with a Shutter Speed scale of 1/800, 1/400, 1/200, 1/100, 1/50, 1/25, 1/12, 1/6, 1/3, and 1/1.6 of a second, a free moving F-Stop Wheel equipped with an f-stop scale of 1.4, 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22, and 32 and a Rainbow Calibrator scale, and a fixed Foot Candle Wheel correlating to the Iris-loot Candle Measure, and equipped with a scale of 3, 6, 12, 25, 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, and 6400-foot candles.

LOW-PROFILE MULTI-BAND HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING FOR MACHINE VISION

A novel imaging system is provided for capturing imaging data. According to the disclosed embodiments, the imaging system comprises one or more cameras configured to capture the same scene within each camera's field of view. The imaging system also includes a plurality of bandpass filters that may be positioned in front of one or more cameras. Each bandpass filter may allow the transmission of incident electromagnetic signals between different pairs of first and second wavelengths. Accordingly, when the bandpass filters are positioned in front of the one or more cameras, each camera captures a different spectral image, i.e., containing only certain frequency components of the same scene being imaged in the cameras. The bandpass filters may be selectively aligned with one or more cameras by rotating and/or translating the filters relative to the cameras' positions in the imaging system.

PROJECTOR
20190394432 · 2019-12-26 ·

A first image display element modulates first illumination light in which red illumination light and infrared illumination light are alternately switched, based on an image signal for visible light image and an image signal for infrared light image, and emits first image light in which red image light and infrared image light are alternately switched. A second image display element modulates green illumination light based on a green image signal, and emits green image light. A third image display element modulates blue illumination light based on a blue image signal, and emits blue image light. A synthesizer synthesizes the first image light, the green image light, and the blue image light with one another, and obtains synthesized image light. A projection unit projects the synthesized image light.

COLOR CORRECTION DETECTION APPARATUS AND COLOR CORRECTION SYSTEM HAVING EXTERNAL FLASH
20240064882 · 2024-02-22 ·

A color correction processing apparatus comprises a first communication circuit, a color correction processing circuit and a second communication circuit, wherein the first communication circuit is used for receiving digital quantity data of light-emission information of an external flash; the color correction processing circuit is electrically connected to the first communication circuit, so as to receive the digital quantity data of the light-emission information by means of the first communication circuit, and carries out color correction processing according to the digital quantity data of the light-emission information to generate color correction result information; and the second communication circuit is used for electrically connecting to the external flash, and the second communication circuit transmits the color correction result information to the external flash, so as to correct light emission of the external flash.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SKIN COLOR, METHOD FOR GENERATING ICC PROFILE, AND IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE

The present invention provides a method and system for determining skin color, method for generating an ICC profile and an image capturing device. The method for determining a skin color includes: providing an image capturing device including a light sensing module and a light distributing module, in which the light distributing module includes a light source and a light isolation tube, the light isolation tube has a first end connected to the light sending module and a second end away from the light source, the light source is disposed on the first end, and the second end has an opening; capturing a first image of an area under test of a human body using the image capturing device, wherein the opening adheres to the area under test such that the image capturing device forms a darkroom environment with respect to the area under test.

Video projector system

Some embodiments provide for a modular video projector system having a light engine module and an optical engine module. The light engine module can provide narrow-band laser light to the optical engine module which modulates the laser light according to video signals received from a video processing engine. Some embodiments provide for an optical engine module having a sub-pixel generator configured to display video or images at a resolution of at least four times greater than a resolution of modulating elements within the optical engine module. Systems and methods for reducing speckle are presented in conjunction with the modular video projector system.