Abstract:
The present invention is a method and a system for obtaining a digital hologram of a three-dimensional (3-D) scene. The method is performed by illuminating the scene (10) with incoherent white-light, recording multiple projections of the 3-D scene, and finally, computer processing of the projections by the performance of a predetermined sequence of mathematical operations. The method and the system of the current invention are characterized in that a microlens array (MLA, 14) is used to create the multiple projections in an image plane (16) which is projected onto the imaging sensor of a camera (20). This allows the obtaining of all of the multiple projections in a single camera shot.
Abstract:
A three dimensional display apparatus includes a diffraction panel for displaying a computer generated hologram and a look-up table. The look-up table includes a plurality of phase entries corresponding to a plurality of image points within a three dimensional image replay volume of the computer generated hologram. The apparatus further includes one or more processors configured to notionally divide the computer generated hologram into one or more hogels and to calculate diffraction fringe information for at least one of the hogels based on a selection of the phase entries.
Abstract:
A method of computing a hologram by determining the wavefronts at the approximate observer eye position that would be generated by a real version of an object to be reconstructed. In normal computer generated holograms, one determines the wavefronts needed to reconstruct an object; this is not done directly in the present invention. Instead, one determines the wavefronts at an observer window that would be generated by a real object located at the same position of the reconstructed object. One can then back-transforms these wavefronts to the hologram to determine how the hologram needs to be encoded to generate these wavefronts. A suitably encoded hologram can then generate a reconstruction of the three-dimensional scene that can be observed by placing one's eyes at the plane of the observer window and looking through the observer window.
Abstract:
The data defining an object to be holographically reconstructed (3D-S) is first arranged into a number of virtual section layers (Lm), each layer defining a two-dimensional object data sets (OSm), such that a video hologram data set (HS) can be calculated from some or all of these two-dimensional object data sets. The first step is to transform each two-dimensional object data set to a two-dimensional wave field distribution. This wave field distribution is calculated for a virtual observer window (OW) in a reference layer (RL) at a finite distance (Dm) from the section layer (Lm). Next, the calculated two-dimensional wave field distributions for the virtual observer window, for all two-dimensional object data sets of section layers, are added to define an aggregated observer window data set. Then, the aggregated observer window data set is transformed from the reference layer (RL) to the video hologram layer (HL), to generate the video hologram data set (HS) for the computer-generated video hologram.
Abstract:
Generating a three-dimensional image of a three-dimensional scene by generating projection data and projecting light rays based on the projection data to generate the three-dimensional image. Sampling of the data is based on at least one physical parameter associated with the projection of light rays by a projection system used to project the light rays.
Abstract:
A holographic printer is disclosed which produces an intermediate hologram H3 and uses the intermediate hologram H3 to produce a white light viewable hologram H2.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing holograms for encoding in a spatial light modulation device for a holographic display for displaying a two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional scene. The two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional scene is split into object points and is encoded in a hologram divided into sub-holograms in the spatial light modulation device. The object points of the scene are encoded in encoding regions on the spatial light modulation device. A size and/or a shape of the encoding region is selected in comparison with a size and/or a shape of a subhologram associated with the encoding region in such a way as to reduce crosstalk of higher orders of diffraction in a virtual visibility region.
Abstract:
The invention relates to holographic head-up displays, to holographic optical sights, and also to 3D holographic image displays. We describe a holographic head-up display and a holographic optical sight, for displaying, in an eye box of the display/sight, a virtual image comprising one or more substantially two-dimensional images, the head-up display comprising: a laser light source; a spatial light modulator (SLM) to display a hologram of the two-dimensional images; illumination optics in an optical path between said laser light source and said SLM to illuminate said SLM; and imaging optics to image a plane of said SLM comprising said hologram into an SLM image plane in said eye box such that the lens of the eye of an observer of said head-up display performs a space-frequency transform of said hologram on said SLM to generate an image within said observer's eye corresponding to the two-dimensional images.
Abstract:
The object is to largely eliminate the errors which arise in the reconstruction of a hologram, calculated point by point, as a result of the encoding of said hologram into pixels of finite extent. The invention achieves the object by means of a method in which the common wavefront calculated from the object sectional planes (6, 7, 8) is multiplied by the inverse transform of the pixel shape and pixel transparency in the viewer's window (11) before the wavefront modified by the multiplication is transformed to the hologram plane (14) and encoded as an amplitude and/or phase distribution of the hologram in the pixels of the light modulator (9, 91). This method is implemented in a corresponding apparatus which contains an additional memory unit for providing a Fourier transform or its inverse Fourier transform and also a multiplication unit.
Abstract:
A three dimensional display apparatus includes a diffraction panel (2) for displaying a computer generated hologram and means comprising a look-up table. The look-up table includes a plurality of phase entries corresponding to a plurality of image points within a three dimensional image replay volume (40) of the computer generated hologram. The apparatus further includes one or more processors configured to notionally divide the computer generated hologram into one' or more hogels and to calculate diffraction fringe information for at least one of the hogels based on a selection of the phase entries.