Multi-view Three-dimensional Display Research Articles

Super multi-view three-dimensional display based on near-eye timing-polarization-characteristics apertures

Super multi-view three-dimensional display based on near-eye timing-polarization-characteristics apertures

Head-Mounted Super Multi-View Three-Dimensional Display with Enlarged Field of View

Head-Mounted Super Multi-View Three-Dimensional Display with Enlarged Field of View

3D imaging scanner.

This paper proposes a multi-view three-dimensional display method based on a scanning imaging system with the light-intensity characteristic recorded by an improved flatbed scanner. Within the effective scanning depth of the imaging sensor, two transmission images are each simultaneously acquired by two linear CCD modules with different focal planes. Then the phase gradient information of the target can be obtained by an appropriate retrieval algorithm. Further, the multi-view three-dimensional effect is presented through dynamic angles of view. Theoretical analysis of this method is discussed, and experiments are carried out by building a scanner. The experiment results are presented with an algae specimen and transparent beads. We hope this method can be applied to present the three-dimensional effect of objects of flat translucent multilayer structure with a wide field of view.

Time-multiplexed multi-view three-dimensional display with projector array and steering screen.

A novel time-multiplexed multi-view three-dimensional (3D) display has been implemented using a projector array to provide the image source and an angular steering-screen module to generate multiple high density horizontal views. The liquid crystal (LC)-based steering screen was specially developed to deflect light beams over a small range and operate in synchronism with the projector array with the use of a customized FPGA driver. The prototype produces vivid color 3D scenes with smooth parallax to multiple viewers. The experimental results verify the proposed multi-projection time-multiplexed multi-view 3D display method that uses a steering screen to produce dense views. Displaying both static and dynamic 3D contents is achieved in our implemented 36-view 3D display prototype. The results of crosstalk measurements are given and analyzed to evaluate the display performance.

Super multi-view three-dimensional display technique for portable devices.

Portable display devices, such as intelligent telephones and panel PCs, have become parts of modern people's daily life. Their mainstream display interfaces are based on two-dimensional (2D) images. Although some three-dimensional (3D) technologies have been proposed for portable devices, comfortable visual effects are untouched until now. A super multi-view (SMV) system with comfortable 3D effects, constructed by a group of OLED microdisplay/projecting lens pairs, is proposed in this paper. Through gating different segments of each projecting lens sequentially and refreshing the virtual image of the corresponding microdisplay synchronously, the proposed SMV system greatly decreases the demand on the number of employed microdisplays and at the same time takes a thin optical structure, endowing great potential for portable devices.

Multiview three-dimensional display with continuous motion parallax through planar aligned OLED microdisplays.

Existing multiview three-dimensional (3D) display technologies encounter discontinuous motion parallax problem, due to a limited number of stereo-images which are presented to corresponding sub-viewing zones (SVZs). This paper proposes a novel multiview 3D display system to obtain continuous motion parallax by using a group of planar aligned OLED microdisplays. Through blocking partial light-rays by baffles inserted between adjacent OLED microdisplays, transitional stereo-image assembled by two spatially complementary segments from adjacent stereo-images is presented to a complementary fusing zone (CFZ) which locates between two adjacent SVZs. For a moving observation point, the spatial ratio of the two complementary segments evolves gradually, resulting in continuously changing transitional stereo-images and thus overcoming the problem of discontinuous motion parallax. The proposed display system employs projection-type architecture, taking the merit of full display resolution, but at the same time having a thin optical structure, offering great potentials for portable or mobile 3D display applications. Experimentally, a prototype display system is demonstrated by 9 OLED microdisplays.

Super multi-view three-dimensional display through spatial-spectrum time-multiplexing of planar aligned OLED microdisplays.

Existing super multi-view (SMV) technologies depend on ultra-high resolution two-dimensional (2D) display panel or large number of 2D display panels to obtain dense sub-viewing-zones for constructing more natural three-dimensional (3D) display by pure spatial-multiplexing. Through gating the spatial-spectrum of each OLED microdisplay, the present work proposes a new SMV technology combining time- and spatial-multiplexing based on planar-aligned OLED microdisplays. The inherent light emission characteristics of OLED, i.e. large divergence angle, guarantees a homogeneous light intensity distribution on the spectrum plane, which is a necessary condition for successful time multiplexing. The developed system bears with low requirements on the number of 2D display panels. The factors influencing the lateral display resolution limit are discussed and the optimum value is deduced. Experimentally, a prototype system with 60 sub-viewing-zones is demonstrated by 12 OLED microdisplays. The horizontal interval between adjacent sub-viewing-zones is 1.6mm.

Omnidirectional multiview three-dimensional display based on direction-selective light-emitting diode array

A volumetric display system based on a rotating light-emitting diode (LED) array panel can realize a three-dimensional (3-D) display truthfully in the space, but the drawback is missing the occlusion of a 3-D image. We propose an omnidirectional 3-D display with correct occlusion based on a direction-selective LED array panel, which is realized by setting a direction-convergent diaphragm array in front of the LED array. Every diaphragm restricts a light-emitting characteristic of every LED. By using direction-convergent diaphragm array, the observer around the display system can only see one image displayed by the LED array at the corresponding position. With the high-speed rotation of the LED panel, a series of views of a 3-D scene are displayed every angle patch in one circle. We set up an acquisition system to record 180 views of the 3-D scene with a rotating camera along a circle, and then the 180 images are displayed sequentially on the rotating direction-selective LED array to get a 360 deg 3-D display. This 3-D display technology has two main advantages: easy to get viewer-position-dependent correct occlusion and simplify the 3-D data preprocessing process which is helpful to real-time 3-D display.