Video image display apparatus and timing control method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7954960
APP PUB NO 20090141188A1
SERIAL NO

12315464

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A video image display apparatus for displaying a video image in accordance with a video image signal including: a light source for emitting an illumination light to a color wheel driven by a color wheel driving unit to rotate the color wheel for filtering and transmitting lights of different colors therefrom; a spatial light modulator (SLM) for receiving the lights of different colors projected from the color wheel; a master clock signal generation unit for generating a master clock signal constituting a reference for transferring data to the SLM; a frame start signal generation unit for generating, from the master clock signal, a frame start signal indicating the start of a frame; a wheel position detection unit for detecting an angular position of the wheel; a phase comparison unit for comparing a phase of the frame start signal with a wheel index signal generated from the wheel position detection unit indicating a position of the color wheel; and a motor control unit for receiving a phase comparison signal from the phase comparison unit for controlling a rotation speed of a motor for driving the color wheel to rotate at a controlled rotation speed.

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OLYMPUS CORPORATION2951 ISHIKAWA-MACHI HACHIOJI-SHI TOKYO 192-8507
SILICON QUEST KABUSHIKI-KAISHA1588-128 KOSHIGOE KAMAKURA-SHI KANAGAWA-KEN 248-0033

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Endo, Taro Chofu, JP 48 329
Ishii, Fusao Menlo Park, US 179 1203
Shirai, Akira Hino, JP 75 698
Sugimoto, Naoya Hino, JP 84 384

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