Wide-viewing-angle dual-view one-dimensional integral imaging display

Abstract

We propose a wide-viewing-angle integral dual-view one-dimensional integral imaging display. It is composed of a display panel, a orthogonal polarizer parallax barrier, a lenticular lens array and two pairs of polarizer glasses. Two kinds of elemental images captured from two different scenes are alternately arranged on the display panel. Two kinds of polarizer units are also alternately aligned on the orthogonal polarizer parallax barrier which is attached to the lenticular lens array. The polarization directions of the adjacent units of the orthogonal polarizer parallax barrier are orthogonal. The pitch of the polarizer unit is equal to the pitches of the elemental images and the lenticular lens. The polarization directions of two pairs of polarizer glasses are the same as those of the two kinds of polarizer units of the orthogonal polarizer parallax barrier, respectively. Therefore, the lights emitted from two kinds of elemental images are respectively modulated by the corresponding polarizer units and lenticular lenses. Two different three-dimensional images are reconstructed and split by using two pairs of polarizer glasses. A prototype of the proposed dual-view one-dimensional integral imaging display is developed, and good experimental results agree well with the theory.