摘要:
A directional display comprises a display arrangement such as a spatial light modulator 2 and a rear parallax barrier 6 illuminated by a suitable backlight 1. The spatial light modulator 2 and the parallax barrier 6 cooperate to produce Fresnel diffraction which results in spatially non-uniform brightness across viewing windows of the display. Also, where the spatial light modulator 2 has pixels of non-constant vertical aperture, further variations in the intensity profile at the windows occurs. In order to compensate for this, a mask 21 is provided, for instance between the parallax barrier 6 and the backlight 1. The mask 21 cooperates with the parallax barrier 6 to produce an intensity pattern having variations which are the inverse of the variations in intensity pattern produced by the parallax barrier 6 and the spatial light modulator 2. The variations are superimposed and substantially cancel each other out so as to result in viewing windows which have substantially uniform light intensities.
摘要:
A stereoscopic 3D display comprises a light source 2 and condenser optics 4 which direct light through a spatial light modulator 41 and a polarisation modulator 42. Each of the devices 41 and 42 is pixellated with the pixels of one device being optically aligned with respective pixels of the other device. Each pixel of the spatial light modulator 41 is controlled so as to provide a light amplitude which is equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the corresponding pixels of the stereoscopic images. Each pixel of the polarisation modulator 42 is controlled so as to supply output light with a polarisation angle given by the arc-tangent of the quotient of the pixel amplitudes of the stereoscopic images. Polarising glasses 40 with suitably aligned polariser lenses allow an observer to perceive the 3D effect, for instance on a polarisation preserving screen 1 on which the encoded stereoscopic image is projected by projection optics 8.
摘要:
A liquid crystal spatial light modulator comprises columns and rows of picture elements (24-26). The columns are arranged as groups of columns, for instance under respective parallax generating elements in an autostereoscopic 3D display. The picture elements (24-26) are arranged as sets to form colour picture elements such that the picture elements (24-26) of each set are disposed at the apices of a polygon, such as a triangle (21), and are disposed in corresponding columns of the groups of columns.
摘要:
A 3D camera comprises at least two detector heads 15 and 16 which are moveable laterally with respect to each other but whose optical axes 17 and 18 are maintained parallel. Each of the detector heads 15, 16 comprises a zoom lens (19, 20) and a detector (21, 22). A user selects the separation between the detector heads 15, 16 and the camera electronics 24 automatically select the field of view by controlling the zoom lenses (19, 20) as a function of the detector head separation.
摘要:
The present invention provides a polarisation separation element comprising a first array of prisms (20) having a wedge-shaped cross-section, and a second array of prisms (21) also having a wedge-shaped cross section. One of the prism arrays is an array of birefringent prisms. The present invention also provides a polarisation conversion system having a polarisation separation element (16) of the above type for directing light having a first polarisation in a first direction and for directing light having a second polarisation different from the first polarisation in a second direction different from the first direction; and one or more polarisation conversion elements (19a,19b) for converting light having the first and second polarisations to light having a substantially common output polarisation. The polarisation conversion system of the invention is suitable for use in a projection display system.
摘要:
A 3D camera comprises at least two detector heads 15 and 16 which are moveable laterally with respect to each other but whose optical axes 17 and 18 are maintained parallel. Each of the detector heads 15, 16 comprises a zoom lens (19, 20) and a detector (21, 22). A user selects the separation between the detector heads 15, 16 and the camera electronics 24 automatically select the field of view by controlling the zoom lenses (19, 20) as a function of the detector head separation.
摘要:
A spatial light modulator 1 of the LCD type comprises picture elements 20, 21 arranged as rows extending horizontally and columns extending vertically. The picture elements are arranged in groups such that the picture elements of each group are substantially contiguous with each other in the horizontal direction. It is thus possible to provide continuous horizontal parallax of the 2D views and an increased number of such 2D views, for instance by converting to directional information by means of a lenticular screen 6.
摘要:
A spatial light modulator comprises a plurality of picture elements arranged as rows and columns. The columns are arranged as adjacent groups, for instance for association with an element of a parallax device to provide an autostereoscopic 3D display. Adjacent picture elements disclosed in each row and in adjacent columns of each group overlap horizontally so that there are overlapping regions (13) and non-overlapping regions (12). The vertical extent of each picture element is substantially constant throughout the non-overlapping region (12) and is substantially equal to the sum of the heights of the adjacent picture elements throughout the overlapping regions (13). The overlapping regions may be of right-angled triangular shape.
摘要:
A liquid crystal spatial light modulator comprises columns and rows of picture elements (24-26). The columns are arranged as groups of columns, for instance under respective parallax generating elements in an autostereoscopic 3D display. The picture elements (24-26) are arranged as sets to form colour picture elements such that the picture elements (24-26) of each set are disposed at the apices of a polygon, such as a triangle (21), and are disposed in corresponding columns of the groups of columns.
摘要:
An observer tracking display is provided in which the image data displayed by at least three display devices (30, 32) along respective different directions is divided depending on the position of an observer. Each eye of the observer can see only some regions (L1, L2, L3, R1, R2, R3) of the display devices (30, 32). The positions and sizes of those regions are calculated for the position of the observer and the display devices (30, 32) are then controlled such that the observer's left eye only receives left view data and the observer's right eye only receives right eye view data.