Micro-projection dynamic backlight for multi-view 3D display

A micro-projection dynamic backlight for multi-view three-dimensional(3 D) display is proposed. The proposed backlight includes a light emitting diodes(LEDs) array, a lenticular lens array, and a scattering film. The LED array, the lenticular lens,and the scattering film construct a micro-projection structure. In this structure, the LEDs in the array are divided into several groups. The light from each LED group can be projected to the scattering film by the lenticular lens and forms a series of bright stripes. The different LED groups have different horizontal positions, so these bright stripes corresponding to different LED groups also have different horizontal positions. Therefore, they can be used as a dynamic backlight.Because the distance between the LEDs array and the lenticular lens is much larger than the distance between the lenticular lens and the scattering films, the imaging progress will make the width of the bright stripes much smaller than that of the LEDs, and the pitch of the stripes is also decreased. According to the 3 D display theory, the bright stripes with small width and pitch help to increase the number of views. Therefore, the proposed micro-projection dynamic backlight is very suitable for multi-view 3 D display. An experimental prototype was developed, and the experimental results show that the micro-projection dynamic backlight can correctly complete the directional projection of the parallax images to form a 3 D display.     

狭缝光栅、柱面透镜光栅及其新构型在三维显示中的应用

介绍了三维显示技术的研究现状,综述了狭缝光栅和柱面透镜光栅在自由立体显示技术中的重要应用。回顾了各种光栅式自由立体显示系统的结构和原理;提出了如何根据狭缝光栅和柱面透镜光栅的特殊光学性质,在传统的立体显示系统中添加各种光栅形成灵活组合结构来提高立体显示效果,强调了它们在减小串扰、增大视场角、避免摩尔条纹以及提供更全面的三维信息等方面的作用。最后指出基于两种光栅的叠加构成面积大、参数均匀、价格低廉的新型透镜可实现全视差立体显示,对探索自由立体显示技术的研究很有意义。     

Effect of thickness of parallax barrier on viewing angle of one-dimensional integral imaging display

A parameter design of a parallax barrier is one of the most important keys to design a one-dimensional integral imaging (1DII) display using parallax barrier. The relationship between the thickness of the parallax barrier and the viewing angle of the 1DII display is studied, and the maximal value of the thickness is also obtained. When the thickness of the parallax barrier is greater than the maximal value, the viewing angle of the 1DII display is decreased with increasing the thickness of the parallax barrier. A prototype of the 1DII display using parallax barrier is developed, and the experimental results agree well with the theory.     

Shared pixel based parallax barrier 3D display with high brightness

The parallax barrier 3D display is an autostereoscopic display with low cost. However, the conventional parallax barrier 3D display has a disadvantage of low brightness. Therefore, a parallax barrier 3D display based on shared pixels is proposed. The shared pixels have adapted pixel values which limit crosstalk in a low level, so that they can be displayed simultaneously in both two parallax images. These pixels increase aperture ratio of the parallax barrier. Therefore, they can bring high brightness. A prototype of the proposed 3D display is developed and it has higher brightness than those based on the conventional one.     

狭缝光栅、柱面透镜光栅及其新构型在三维显示中的应用

介绍了三维显示技术的研究现状,综述了狭缝光栅和柱面透镜光栅在自由立体显示技术中的重要应用。回顾了各种光栅式自由立体显示系统的结构和原理;提出了如何根据狭缝光栅和柱面透镜光栅的特殊光学性质,在传统的立体显示系统中添加各种光栅形成灵活组合结构来提高立体显示效果,强调了它们在减小串扰、增大视场角、避免摩尔条纹以及提供更全面的三维信息等方面的作用。最后指出基于两种光栅的叠加构成面积大、参数均匀、价格低廉的新型透镜可实现全视差立体显示,对探索自由立体显示技术的研究很有意义。     

Combined lenticular lens for autostereoscopic three dimensional display

When an autostereoscopic three dimensional (3D) display based on a single lenticular lens keeps working for a long period, the thermal expansion of lenticular lens results in serious crosstalk and 3D image deterioration. To overcome this problem, a combined lenticular lens is proposed. The combined lenticular lens is composed of a single lenticular lens used in the traditional autostereoscopic 3D display, a transparent glue layer and a glass substrate. The design method of the combined lenticular lens and analysis of thermal expansion effect is given. A 42-inch autostereoscopic 3D display based on the combined lenticular lens is developed. The experiment results verify that the proposed combined lenticular lens effectively avoids the crosstalk and 3D image deterioration happened in the traditional autostereoscopic 3D display.     

High dense views auto-stereoscopic three-dimensional display based on frontal projection with LLA and diffused screen

We present a high dense views auto-stereoscopic three-dimensional display method with the projectors array and lenticular lens array(LLA) screen. The principle and configuration are demonstrated. This display method utilizes lenticular screen to modulate the information of projectors. To increase the dense of views, we propose a novel arrangement way of projectors array. In the experiment, the viewer can obtain smooth motion parallax and evident stereo feeling at optimal distance. Through analyzing and observation, the maximum display depth is found to be more than 50 cm.     

Crosstalk reduction in multi-view autostereoscopic three-dimensional display based on lenticular sheet

A method to reduce crosstalk in multi-view autostereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) displays based on the lenticular sheet is proposed. Correcting the luminance values of each parallax image displayed on the display screen is employed. We analyze the causes of crosstalk. We deduce the formulas of crosstalk reduction according to the relationship between crosstalk coefficients of each parallax image observed through the lenticular sheet, luminance values of each parallax image displayed on the display screen,...     

平面三维显示技术的研究现状

平面三维显示技术是近年来最新出现的虚拟现实显示技术,其最大的特点是观察者无需使用任何辅助附加设备,直接用肉眼就可看到屏幕上显示的三维图像。为推进三维显示技术的发展,进一步研究了视差立体成像原理,并据此介绍几种平面三维显示方法及其工作原理,包括障栅立体显示、微柱透镜阵列立体显示、偏振片立体显示和基于微柱透镜立体显示原理的多视点系统,阐述并分析了系统的优缺点。以日本三洋公司的四视角立体显示装置、南京大学的多视点三维显示系统和NEC液晶科技的HDDP三维显示系统为例,描述了国内外该项技术近期的研究现状,分析了存在的技术难点,展望了该应用领域的发展前景。     

Autostereoscopic 3D projection display based on two lenticular sheets

We propose an autostereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) projection display. The display consists of four projectors, a projection screen, and two lenticular sheets. The operation principle and calculation equations are described in detail and the parallax images are corrected by means of homography. A 50-inch autostereoscopic 3D projection display prototype is developed. The normalized luminance distributions of viewing zones from the simulation and the measurement are given. Results agree well with the designed values. The proposed prototype presents full-resolution 3D images similar to the conventional prototype based on two parallax barriers. Moreover, the proposed prototype shows considerably higher brightness and efficiency of light utilization.     

Autostereoscopic three-dimensional display with high dense views and the narrow structure pitch

An auto-stereoscopic three-dimensional （3D） display method with the narrow structure pitch and high dense viewpoints is presented. Normally, the number of views is proportional to the structure pitch of the lenticular lens array. Increasing the density of views will decrease the spatial display resolution. Here a lenticular lens array with one pitch covering 5.333 subpiexels and a novel subpixel arrangement method are designed, and a 32 view 3D display is demonstrated. Compared with the traditional 6-view 3D display, the angular resolution and the displayed depth of field are significantly improved.     

Crosstalk elimination in multi-view autostereoscopic display based on polarized lenticular lens array

An autostereoscopic display composed of a directional backlight,an image display panel,a striped half-wave plate,and a polarized lenticular lens array is proposed.The directional backlight emitting the parallel light can redirect the cones of light to lenticular lens array and reduce the chromatic spatial-interference effect.The striped half-wave plate,located in front of the image display panel,transformed the polarization direction of the lights from the directional backlight into two mutually perpendicular directions.The polarized lenticular lens array not only can divide the light from the left and right view images to send to left and right eyes but also can reduce the crosstalk of the stereoscopic images.The proposed autostereoscopic display can produce high quality stereoscopic images without crosstalk at the optimal viewing distance.     

Autostereoscopic display based on multi-layer lenticular lens

An autostereoscopic display based on a multi-layer lenticular lens was proposed. The autostereoscopic display is composed of a flat panel display and a multi-layer lenticular lens sheet, which includes a traditional single lenticular lens and an additional transparent layer. The focal length of the multi-layer lenticular lens can be changed by choosing the refractive index of the additional transparent layer to adjust the stereoscopic depth, and it is an easier and much more flexible way than changing lenticular lens's curvature radius. A 22-in. 9-view autostereoscopic display prototype was developed. The image crosstalk of the prototype is very small and it has good presentation to several viewers without wearing eyeglasses.     

Lenticular arrays based on liquid crystals

Lenticular array products have experienced a growing interest in the last decade due to the very wide range of applications they can cover. Indeed, this kind of lenses can create different effects on a viewing image such as 3D, flips, zoom, etc. In this sense, lenticular based on liquid crystals (LC) technology is being developed with the aim of tuning the lens profiles simply by controlling the birefringence electrically. In this work, a LC lenticular lens array has been proposed to mimic a GRIN lenticular lens array but adding the capability of tuning their lens profiles. Comb control electrodes have been designed as pattern masks for the ITO on the upper substrate. Suitable high resistivity layers have been chosen to be deposited on the control electrode generating an electric field gradient between teeth of the same electrode. Test measurements have allowed us to demonstrate that values of phase retardations and focal lengths, for an optimal driving waveform, are fairly in agreement. In addition, results of focusing power of tuneable lenses were compared to those of conventional lenses. The behaviour of both kinds of lenses has revealed to be mutually similar for focusing collimated light and for refracting images.     

3D display with uniform resolution and low crosstalk based on two parallax interleaved barriers

The resolution of the parallax image is inversely proportional to the view number in the horizontal direction for the traditional autostereoscopic display based on a parallax barrier. To balance the resolution in the vertical and horizontal directions, two parallax interleaved barriers are designed. The liquid crystal display panel provides the synthetic image with square pixel units, and the pixels in a unit are distributed to different horizontal views. Two parallax interleaved barriers work together to modulate pixels in vertical and horizontal directions. 3D display with uniform resolution and low crosstalk is demonstrated.     

Aberration improvement of the floating 3D display system based on Tessar array and directional diffuser screen

The floating 3D display system based on Tessar array and directional diffuser screen is proposed. The directional diffuser screen can smoothen the gap of lens array and make the 3D image’s brightness continuous. The optical structure and aberration characteristics of the floating three-dimensional (3D) display system are analyzed. The simulation and experiment are carried out, which show that the 3D image quality becomes more and more deteriorative with the further distance of the image plane and the increasing viewing angle. To suppress the aberrations, the Tessar array is proposed according to the aberration characteristics of the floating 3D display system. A 3840?×?2160 liquid crystal display panel (LCD) with the size of 23.6 inches, a directional diffuser screen and a Tessar array are used to display the final 3D images. The aberrations are reduced and the definition is improved compared with that of the display with a single-lens array. The display depth of more than 20 cm and the viewing angle of more than 45° can be achieved.     

基于视场拼接的全视差三维显示系统

提出了一种新的基于视场拼接的全视差三维显示方法及图像生成方案.系统核心部分由一个微投影机阵列、一个反射光路和一个散射屏组构成,图像生成方案采用基于OpenGL的算法实现.为了验证所提出的基于视场拼接理论的正确性,利用液晶显示器、菲涅耳镜组、定向散射屏和背投式反射光路搭建了实验样机.该装置可以在更紧凑的系统结构下显示包括横向视差和纵向视差在内的三维图像,并且通过图像生成算法的配合实现了动态三维显示效果.     

A full resolution autostereoscopic 3D display based on polarizer parallax barrier

A full resolution autostereoscopic three-dimensional （3D） display prototype is developed. It is composed of a time division thin film transistor liquid crystal display panel with an optical controlled birefringence liquid crystal polarization switch and a polarizer parallax barrier. Fast driving circuits operating at 120-Hz frame rate are fabricated. The 3D images on the display have the same resolution as the corresponding two-dimensional images, which is significantly different from conventional parallax barrier autostereoscopic 3D displays having degraded 3D image resolution.     

基于插值算法的立体显示的图像合成与嵌入式实现

在多视点自由立体显示中,针对柱透镜光栅参数与显示器像素不匹配造成的串扰问题,提出利用图像插值的合成方法对图像进行缩放处理。以9视点为例,提出缩放比例系数k,实现双线性插值算法的改进。嵌入式样机测试结果表明,该方法能够满足显示器像素宽度与柱透镜参数的完全匹配,串扰度从13.55%降低到1.40%,降低了12.15%,图像分辨率明显提高,立体显示效果更好。     

基于人眼视觉的集成成像三维显示分辨率的比较

为了对不同集成成像系统三维显示应用中的视觉分辨效果进行表征, 提出了一种基于人眼视觉的集成成像三维显示分辨率的分析比较方法. 通过分析集成成像三维显示系统的分辨率与人眼在最佳显示观看距离下分辨本领的关系, 定义了相对分辨率参数, 分析了其与集成成像三维显示实际观看时视觉分辨效果的关系. 研究结果表明, 透镜阵列的大小对集成成像三维显示的视觉分辨效果有重要的影响. 针对两个系统实例的理论计算结果表明, 系统间的相对分辨率参数差异是传统分辨率差异的1.75倍, 实验结果与理论分析一致. 该研究方法对三维显示分辨率的评价有一定的指导意义.