Autostereoscopic display apparatus
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorsCornelis van Berkel, John A. Clarke
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Abstract
An autostereoscopic display apparatus comprises means (10) for producing a display consisting of display pixels (12) in rows and columns, for example, an LC matrix display panel having a row and column array of display elements, and an array (15) of parallel lenticular elements (16) overlying the display, in which the lenticular elements are slanted with respect to the display pixel columns. The reduction in display resolution experienced in such apparatus, particularly in the case of a multi-view type display, is then shared between both horizontal and vertical resolution. Examples of full colour display apparatus using advantageous colour display pixel lay-out schemes are also described.
Claims20
An autosteroscopic display apparatus comprising means for producing a display which comprises an array of display pixels arranged in rows and columns, and an array of elongate lenticular elements extending parallel to one another overlying the display pixel array and through which the display pixels are viewed, the lenticular elements being slanted at an angle to the display pixel columns so as to create repeating groups of display pixels each of which groups is constituted by adjacent pixels in r adjacent rows where r is a number greater than one and the angle of slant of the lenticular elements being substantially equal to tan.sup.-1 H.sub.p /(V.sub.p.r) where H.sub.p and V.sub.p are the pitches of the display pixels in the row and column direction respectively.
An autostereoscopic display apparatus comprising means for producing a display which comprises an array of display pixels arranged in rows and columns, and an array of elongated lenticular elements extending parallel to one another overlying the display pixel array and through which the display pixels are viewed, the lenticular elements acting as optical director means to provide separate images to a viewer's eyes to thereby provide an autostereoscopic display to the viewer, the lenticular elements being slanted at an angle to the display pixel columns and having a pitch greater than the pitch Hp of the display pixels in the row direction.
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