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US 6,674,493 B2Granted
Head mounted display using single display including only one liquid crystal shutter
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorJeff A. Shaw
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Abstract
A head mounted display may include a single liquid crystal display element. The display element may successively generate left and right image pairs. A beam slitter may be utilized to successively provide a first image to the left eye and a subsequent image to the right eye and so on so that a stereoscopic image may be produced from a single display element. As a result, the power consumption, cost, size and weight of the head mounted display may be reduced in some embodiments.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- generating an image from a single display;
- and
- successively providing that image through only one liquid crystal shutter in a head mounted display to the left and right eyes of a user.
A head mounted display comprising:
- a single display element;
- and
- a device to provide images from said display element to the left and right eyes of the user in different instances of time, wherein said device includes only one liquid crystal shutter.
A head mounted display comprising:
- a display element;
- a beam splitter to split light from said head mounted display into two light paths, one of said light paths to be directed to the user's left eye and the other of said light paths to be directed to the user's right eye;
- and
- a liquid crystal shutter arranged to control the transmission of light to said light paths for the left and right eyes, wherein the display includes only one liquid crystal shutter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.