Position-adaptive autostereoscopic monitor (PAM)

Position-adaptive autostereoscopic monitor (PAM) comprising:

• an image screen selected of a group of screens including conventional color image tubes, displays and panel back projections, said screen having a plurality of color sub-pixels of three-different colors, said subpixels being located horizontally one beside the other in a same given sequential order for defining image pixels;
• and a means selected of a group of means including lenticular prism grids and barrier stripe grids, said means being positioned in front of said image screen;
• wherein right and left image pixels are position-adaptively generated such that an area only being visible from a direction of a right eye of a viewer, an area only being visible from a left eye of a viewer, empty areas which are not visible at all from both eyes and interference areas which are at the same time visible from a direction of the right eye as well as from a direction of the left eye are obtained and that those neighbored ones of said sub-pixels are set dark which are located in said interference areas and said empty areas, and wherein said image pixels within each of said areas being visible from the directions of the right and left eye are chosen such that they contain three different ones of said color sub-pixels with a sequential order being dependent upon a viewing direction of said viewer, and wherein an adaptation range is magnified by decreasing said screen as compared with said grid.

Position-adaptive autostereoscopic monitor (PAM) comprising:

• an image screen selected of a group of screens including conventional color image tubes, displays and panel back projections, said screen having a plurality of color sub-pixels of three-different colors, said subpixels being located horizontally one beside the other in a same given sequential order for defining image pixels;
• and a means selected of a group of means including lenticular prism grids and barrier stripe grids, said means being positioned in front of said image screen;
• wherein right and left image pixels are position-adaptively generated such that an area only being visible from a direction of a right eye of a viewer, an area only being visible from a left eye of a viewer, empty areas which are not visible at all from both eyes and interference areas which are at the same time visible from a direction of the right eye as well as from a direction of the left eye are obtained and that those neighbored ones of said sub-pixels are set dark which are located in said interference areas and said empty areas, and wherein said image pixels within each of said areas being visible from the directions of the right and left eye are chosen such that they contain three different ones of said color sub-pixels with a sequential order being dependent upon a viewing direction of said viewer, and further comprising an atostereospopic adaptation coder is provided for generating said left and right image pixels by processing said color sub-pixels in real-time and in dependence upon predetermined or detected position data of the viewer, and wherein said autostereoscopic adaptation coder is automatically trained by using a two camera processing system for placing said cameras thereof at expected positions of the right and left eyes of the viewer and for storing respective position-dependent sub-pixel processing data obtained in a training sequence.