Crosstalk elimination in multi-view autostereoscopic display based on polarized lenticular lens array**Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2012AA03A301), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60932007), the Postdoctoral Science Programs Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. 0110032110029), and the Key Projects in the Tianjin Science

Abstract

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.