# US 10,873,743 B2 · Stereoscopic display device and stereoscopic display control method

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- Number: US 10,873,743 B2
- Document ID: US10873743B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/392,011
- Filed: 2019-04-23
- Published: 2020-01-16
- Granted: 2020-12-22
- Earliest claimed: 2018-07-13
- Assignees: Beijing Boe Display Technology Co., Ltd.; Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Beijing Boe Display Technology Co., Ltd.; Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Sha Liu; Hongshu Zhang
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10873743B2

## CPC

- H04N 13/322: using varifocal lenses or mirrors
- H04N 13/398: Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
- G06F 3/147: using display panels
- G09G 3/003: {to produce spatial visual effects}
- H04N 13/305: using lenticular lenses, e.g. arrangements of cylindrical lenses
- H04N 13/395: with depth sampling, i.e. the volume being constructed from a stack or sequence of two-dimensional [2D] image planes
- G09G 3/3208: organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]
- G09G 3/36: using liquid crystals
- G09G 2300/023: Display panel composed of stacked panels
- H04N 2013/0081: {Depth or disparity estimation from stereoscopic image signals}
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00)

## Abstract

A stereoscopic display device and a stereoscopic display control method are provided. The stereoscopic display device includes a display unit and a layering-control unit on a light exiting side of the display unit, wherein, the layering-control unit comprises a microlens drive electrode array and a microlens array being controllable, and wherein microlenses in the microlens array being controllable are driven by drive electrodes of the microlens drive electrode array and exhibit respective focal lengths corresponding to voltages of the drive electrodes of the microlens drive electrode array.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A stereoscopic display control method for performing a display control to a stereoscopic display device comprising a display unit and a layering-control unit on a light exiting side of the display unit, wherein the layering-control unit comprising a microlens drive electrode array and a microlens array being controllable, and wherein microlenses in the microlens array being controllable are driven by drive electrodes of the microlens drive electrode array and exhibit respective focal lengths corresponding to voltages of the drive electrodes of the microlens drive electrode array; the microlens array comprises a plurality of microlens sets, each microlens set being used to independently image different display regions of the display unit respectively,
the stereoscopic display control method comprises steps as follows:
acquiring a multi-plane stereoscopic display signal of the current frame, the multi-plane stereoscopic display signal comprises a display signal of N layers of sub-images for realizing multi-plane stereoscopic display which are obtained by an image split of the current frame, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and the sub-image comprises effective display pixels and non-effective display pixels;
determining, according to the multi-plane stereoscopic display signal, a microlens set Li, i∈[1, N] which is in correspondence with the effective display pixel positions contained in each layer of sub-image Mi;
dividing a display time of the current frame into N time segments;
performing following time-sharing driving operations in each time segment Ti:
controlling the display unit to display the sub-image Mi corresponding to the current time segment Ti;
controlling the focal length of the microlens in the microlens set Li such that the display unit is imaged on a image plane Pi through the microlens set Li; the image plane Pi is a display plane corresponding to the sub-image Mi when a multi-planar stereoscopic display is realized.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The stereoscopic display control method according to claim 1, wherein the step of the acquiring the multi-plane stereoscopic display signal of the current frame comprises:
obtaining an image of the current frame;
determining a depth of field of each pixel location in the image according to the image of the current frame;
performing an image split to the pixel points according to a preset range of depth of field, and dividing the pixel points into N sets depending on respective range of the depth of field to which the depth of field of each of the pixel points belongs;
taking the pixel points in each set as effective pixel points in the sub-image of a corresponding layer.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The stereoscopic display control method according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining, according to the multi-plane stereoscopic display signal, a microlens set Li which is in correspondence with the effective display pixel positions contained in each layer of sub-image Mi comprises:
determining a position distribution pattern Pi of the effective display pixels contained in each layer of sub-image Mi;
determining, according to the position distribution pattern Pi of the effective display pixels, a microlens set Li corresponding to the positions of the effective display pixels.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The stereoscopic display control method according to claim 1, wherein the step of controlling the display unit to display the sub-image Mi corresponding to the current time segment Ti:
controlling the display unit to normally display the effective display pixels in the sub-image Mi;
displaying the non-effective display pixels in the sub-image Mi in following manner:
controlling to perform a full dark display of the lowest brightness of the non-effective display pixels when the display unit is a liquid crystal display unit having a backlight;
controlling the position corresponding to the non-effective display pixel not to be displayed and to be in a transparent state when the display unit is an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display unit without a backlight.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium in which a computer program has been stored, wherein the stereoscopic display control method according to claim 1 is implemented when the computer program is executed by a computer processor.