Near-eye display with sparse sampling super-resolution

A rendering system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• an input to receive data from at least one pose-related sensor, the data indicating a current viewpoint of a subject object relative to a near-eye display panel;
• and
• a storage component to store a set of executable instructions, the set of executable instructions configured to manipulate the at least one processor to render an integral lightfield frame comprising an array of elemental images based at least in part on a sparse sampling of the current viewpoint of the subject object to decrease an overlap of image data contained within each individual elemental image of the array of elemental images, wherein rendering the integral lightfield frame comprises identifying portions of the near-eye display panel exposed by a pixel aperture mask that includes apertures configured to decrease an effective fill-factor of the near-eye display panel relative to an actual fill-factor of the display panel.

In a near-eye display system, a method comprising:

• determining, using at least one pose-related sensor, a current viewpoint of a subject object relative to a display panel of the near-eye display system;
• generating an array of elemental images forming an integral lightfield frame based on a sparse sampling of the current viewpoint of the subject object to decrease an overlap of image data contained within each individual elemental image of the array, wherein the sparse sampling is achieved based on a physical arrangement of each light emitting element of a plurality of light emitting elements of the display panel;
• rendering the array of elemental images at a position within the integral lightfield frame;
• and
• displaying the integral lightfield frame at the display panel, comprising displaying portions of the integral lightfield using respective light emitting elements of the plurality of light emitting elements of the display panel, wherein the plurality of light emitting elements are separated by a plurality of gaps.