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.     

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.     

A 3D image interleaving method for real-time autostereoscopic display based on GPU

Multiview autostereoscopic systems display three-dimensional (3D) images interleaved from parallax images to provide adequate viewing zones for viewers. A 3D image interleaving method based on parallel processing with Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) is proposed to accelerate the image interleaving for real-time autostereoscopic displays. The proposed method is implemented with Direct3D Application Programming Interface (API) library. Masks used to interleave the 3D images are generated according to some particular principles. Both multiple texture blending and alpha blending operations are used to interleave a 3D image. The experiments prove that high interleaving efficiency and good stereoscopic sense can be obtained. The proposed method meets the requirement of real-time multiview autostereoscopic displays and avoids extra shader program.     

反射式多路投影立体显示系统的研究

设计了一种反射式多路投影立体显示系统,并介绍了该系统的成像原理及特性。系统将12幅视差图同时投影在柱面栅上,观察者仅凭肉眼就可看到具有双眼视差和运动视差的立体图像。系统成像视域较大,可以同时供多人观看。     

平行摄像机阵列移位法获取视差图像的研究

平行摄像机阵列移位法是一种摄像机阵列获取三维场景的视差图像的新方法.该方法在平行摄像机阵列法的基础上,将获取的视差图像进行平移处理,获得了立体显示所需的具有正、负水平视差的视差图像,且这些视差图像没有楔形失真和垂直视差.该方法集中了会聚摄像机阵列法和平行摄像机阵列法两种常规方法各自的优点并摒弃了其缺点.实验证实,所获取的视差图像在光栅式自由立体显示器上得到了三维场景的清晰逼真再现显示效果.     

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.     

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,...     

Stereo viewing zone in parallax-barrier-based autostereoscopic display

A well-designed parallax barrier autostereoscopic display can produce high-quality stereo images with little crosstalk or even without crosstalk in the stereo viewing zones. The concept of stereo image quality factor was defined to indicate the stereo viewing zone of an autostereoscopic display. According to the structure and principle of the display, the formulae of stereo image quality factor were deduced. Simulated program was developed to calculate stereo image quality factor. The simulated results of stereo image quality factor for a 19-in autostereoscopic display monitor show that stereo image quality factor can indicate the stereo viewing zone of autostereoscopic displays. The simulated results also show that the value of stereo image quality factor is equal to 1 at only few positions where viewers can see very good stereo images without crosstalk. And the viewers who stay at the optimal viewing distance can see the best stereo images on the display screen. The research of the stereo viewing zone helps in the design of such autostereoscopic display devices with little or without crosstalk.     

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。     

Advances in the light field displays based on integral imaging and holographic techniques(Invited Paper)

Light field displays comprise three-dimensional （3D） visual information presentation devices capable of providing realistic and full parallax autostereoscopic images. In this letter, the recent advances in the light field displays based on integral imaging （II） and holographic techniques are presented. Several advanced approaches to demonstrate the light field displays including viewing angle enhancement techniques of the II display, a fast hologram generation method using graphics processing unit （GPU） and multiple WRPs, and a holographic microscopy to display the living cells are reported. These methods improve some important constraints of the light field displays and add new features.     

裸眼3D LED显示的全息透镜板在线拼接的检测方法

全息透镜板的高精度拼接与装配是基于全息透镜技术的大屏幕LED裸眼3D显示系统搭建中的关键问题。理论计算与实验结果表明,全息透镜板与LED显示模组横向相对位置误差小于1.332mm时,可以满足显示的要求。基于裸眼3D显示系统的投射条纹,提出了基于投射条纹的全息透镜板位置实时调整方法。依据此方法提出了基于极大值测量条纹中心间距的图像处理算法,并结合LabView编写了图像处理程序。实验结果表明,使用该方法测得的亮暗条纹间距的测量精度为0.1mm,反算出全息透镜板与LED屏之间的位置误差小于0.03mm,满足实时调整全息透镜板位置的要求,可以作为全息透镜板在线拼接的检测方法。     

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.     

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.     

三维显示中基于彩色叠栅条纹的视差障栅参数设计

为确定三维显示中视差障栅(PB)的最优参数,提出一种基于彩色叠栅条纹的PB参数设计方法。液晶显示器(LCD)和PB简化为相应参数的黑白光栅模型,而具有特定参数的特定辐射光栅作为周期和倾角变化的PB模型,通过序数方程和傅里叶分析方法分析特定辐射光栅和LCD单色等效黑白光栅的叠加图样,由此推断出不同PB周期的低频主导条纹频率组项,然后利用傅里叶理论的部分和提取方法(PSE)分析不同PB周期的低频主导叠栅条纹的强度轮廓,得出PB的最佳节距和相应倾斜角度。实验结果表明,所设计的PB三维显示系统没有出现降低像质的叠栅条纹,具有较好的三维显示效果。     

自由立体显示器中锯齿状交错狭缝光栅的设计

光栅式自由立体显示由于易存在莫尔条纹和串扰的问题而影响其显示效果.利用斜光栅可减轻莫尔条纹但增加了视点间的串扰.本文提出一种减轻莫尔条纹的光栅设计方法,同时对可视区域影响较小.设计中对光栅进行分段,并将相邻两段狭缝错开一定距离.该方法能减小通过同一狭缝看到两相邻子像素之间的黑条的比例,获得较宽且较淡的莫尔条纹,从而减轻了视觉干扰.仿真结果表明该光栅相比传统垂直光栅,莫尔条纹亮度下降了108.1%,而可视区域仅减小32.8%,具有较高的实用价值.     

自由立体显示器中锯齿状交错狭缝光栅的设计

光栅式自由立体显示由于易存在莫尔条纹和串扰的问题而影响其显示效果.利用斜光栅可减轻莫尔条纹但增加了视点间的串扰.本文提出一种减轻莫尔条纹的光栅设计方法,同时对可视区域影响较小.设计中对光栅进行分段,并将相邻两段狭缝错开一定距离.该方法能减小通过同一狭缝看到两相邻子像素之间的黑条的比例,获得较宽且较淡的莫尔条纹,从而减轻了视觉干扰.仿真结果表明该光栅相比传统垂直光栅,莫尔条纹亮度下降了108.1％,而可视区域仅减小32.8％,具有较高的实用价值.     

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.     

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.     

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。     

Autostereoscopic Multiview Full-Resolution Imaging Based on Amplitude-Polarization Imager with Passive-Polarization and Active-Amplitude Parallax Barriers

The method of multiview full-resolution autostereoscopic imaging based on a temporal alternation of polarization-coded pairs of the full-screen resolution view images is suggested. In general, autostereoscopic K-view (K > 2) image without flicker can be formed with a K/2-fold increase in a frame rate as compared with the minimum (60 Hz) one. The corresponding optical layouts comprise an amplitude-polarization matrix imager, a passive polarization parallax barrier, and an active amplitude parallax barrier. The characteristic requirements are indicated for the liquid crystal components of the layouts depending on the order of their mutual location.