Autostereoscopic display with LCD for viewing a 3-D animation based on the moiré effect

Abstract

Autostereoscopic displays based on the moiré effect in LCD have the advantage of being able to display 3D animations without reversed vision, but their practical use is greatly limited due to the low and fixed pixel density of the LCD. We propose a 3D display device with LCD, which resolves this issue by generating a periodic pattern with high resolution as the virtual intermediate image. The final image is obtained by selecting and rearranging specific pixels of this virtual image. Experiments reveal that 3D images with almost the same image quality and parallax as a printed matter with abundant pixels could be displayed.