<title>Extraction and conversion of the 3D information for integral imaging</title>

Abstract

Integral imaging is one of the most attractive methods for displaying three-dimensional images. The lens array mismatch between the pickup and display systems or between different display systems is an important problem for the practical implementation of the three-dimensional display system based on integral imaging. In this paper, we provide a solution to that problem by extracting the three-dimensional information from the elemental images. The extracted three-dimensional information is modified to be suitable for the different lens arrays in the integral imaging display systems. Thus our method gives excellent flexibility on the system parameters of the various integral imaging systems and has additional advantage of reducing the required data size for the three-dimensional data storage or transmission.© (2004) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.