Head-Mounted Light Field Display
OwnerPaul Lapstuninventor
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Abstract
A head-mounted light field display device, the device comprising at least one multiplexed light field display module adapted to face an eye of a viewer wearing the device, the multiplexed light field display module comprising a light field view image generator and a waveguide with a set of shutters, the light field view image generator operable to generate, over time, a set of beams of light from a different one of a set of light field view images, the shuttered waveguide operable to transmit the set of beams and to open, over time, a different subset of the set of shutters, the subset corresponding to a position associated with the view image, thereby to emit the set of beams via the subset, thereby to display to the viewer a time-varying optical light field representative of the set of view images.
Claims20
A head-mounted light field display device, the device comprising at least one multiplexed light field display module adapted to face at least one eye of a viewer wearing the device, the multiplexed light field display module comprising a light field view image generator, a first waveguide comprising a set of first shutters spatially distributed in a two-dimensional array across, and a second waveguide optically coupled to the view image generator and to one edge of the first waveguide, the light field view image generator operable to generate, over time, a set of beams of light from a different one of a first set of light field view images, the second waveguide operable to transmit the set of beams from the view image generator to the first waveguide, the first waveguide operable to transmit the set of beams along its length and past any closed first shutters, and to open, over time, a different subset of the set of first shutters, the subset of the set of first shutters corresponding to a position associated with the view image, thereby to emit the set of beams via the subset of the set of first shutters, thereby to display to the viewer a time-varying optical light field representative of the first set of view images.
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