Multi-view image display system
AssigneeKorea Institute of Science and Technology
InventorsJung Young Son, Yong Jin Choi, Ji Eun Ban, Vladimir Saveliev, Eugene F. Pen
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Abstract
A multi-view image display system provides a plurality of multi-view three-dimensional (3-D) images, using the mask type of image arrangement plate where the images grouped by corresponding pixels are arranged in a same order as that of the pixels. Each pixel cell is provided with an image display region which is divided into a plurality of subcells arranged depending on arrangement structure of the viewing zones, and each of the subcells transmits or reflects the lights from point light sources using its whole area, thereby allowing the transmitted or reflected lights to be collected in each of the viewing zones to form each of the view images.
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A multi-view image display system for providing a plurality of view images having different view points to a viewer, the plurality of view images forming individual viewing zones, respectively, and the viewing zones being arranged two-dimensionally to form a reference viewing zone, the system comprising:
- a point light source array having M×N point light sources;
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- an image display mask disposed between the reference viewing zone and the point light source array,
- wherein the image display mask has M×N pixel cells, each of the pixel cells being illuminated by each of the point light sources,
- wherein each pixel cell has an image display region which is divided into a plurality of subcells arranged depending on an arrangement structure of the viewing zones,
- wherein each of the subcells transmits or reflects lights from the point light sources using a whole area of each subcell, thereby allowing the transmitted or reflected lights to be collected in each of the viewing zones to form each of the view images, and
- wherein a horizontal width of a pixel cell is determined based on a position of the image display mask and a first triangle including one of most outer viewing zones and two adjacent point light sources.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.