Production of digitized stereoscopic polarizing images by ink jet printing
AssigneeRowland Institute for Science
InventorJulius J. Scarpetti
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Abstract
Digitized stereoscopic polarizing images of an object can be formed with a system containing a memory element, a data processor, and a printer for applying dichroic inks to molecularly oriented sheets. The memory element stores digital data representative of a left-eye image and a right-eye image of the object. The data processor can modify the digital representations of the left and right-eye images to enhance clarity, and orients the images for printing and stereoscopic alignment.
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An apparatus for producing a digitized stereoscopic polarizing image from a first image of an object and a second image of the object taken from a point of view different from the first image, the apparatus comprising:
- memory means for storing and retrieving a first digital data set representative of the first image and a second digital data set representative of the second image,
- a data processing element coupled with said memory means, said data processing element including flipping means for generating a flipped data set representative of a picture formed when the image represented by the first digital data set is flipped about an imaginary axis,
- printing means coupled with said data processing element for applying a dichroic ink in a pattern forming a flipped image associated with the flipped data set to a first substrate molecularly oriented primarily along a polarizing axis, such that a first polarizing image is formed, and for applying a dichroic ink in a pattern forming a second image associated with the second data set to a second molecularly oriented substrate, such that a second polarizing image is formed, and
- such that a superimposing image of the flipped image on the first polarizing image with the second image on the second polarizing image produces the digitized stereoscopic image.
A method for producing a digitized stereoscopic polarizing image from a first image of an object and a second image of the object taken from a point of view different from the first image, the steps comprising:
- storing a first digital data set representative of the first image and a second digital data set representative of the second image in a memory element,
- generating a flipped data set representative of a picture formed when the image represented by the first digital data set is flipped about an imaginary axis,
- printing with dichroic ink a flipped image associated with the flipped data set onto a first substrate molecularly oriented primarily along a polarizing axis, such that a first polarizing image is formed,
- printing with dichroic ink a second image associated with the second output data set onto a second molecularly oriented substrate, such that a second polarizing image is formed, and
- superimposing the flipped image on the first polarizing image with the second image on the second polarizing image to produce the digitized stereoscopic polarizing image.
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