Television – Stereoscopic – Stereoscopic display device
Reexamination Certificate
1999-05-17
2001-05-29
Le, Vu (Department: 2613)
Television
Stereoscopic
Stereoscopic display device
C348S042000, C348S059000, C345S006000, C345S182000, C359S466000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06239830
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is related to autostereo devices. More specifically, the present invention is related to autostereo devices that have a display which does not contact the viewer and the image seen by the viewer corresponds with the position of the viewer.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Imagine you could see a virtual animated object or figure standing right in front of you, with all the realism of an actual object in space. When you move your head, the animated figure knows where you are, and turns to look at you. If you get nearer or farther, the sense of reality and dimensionality is maintained.
Imagine further that the display device to support this fits easily on your desk top or mounted on your door or wall, does not require you to wear any special glasses or equipment over your eyes, has no moving parts, and can be made on the order of an inch or two thick from back to front. The spatial resolution would be fully equal to that of a modern LCD display.
This would open up many practical applications. Molecular biologists or CAD designers could work directly with their models, without needing to wear eye-apparatus that would otherwise impede their vision. Unlike existing autostereo displays, these users would not need to remain at a constant distance from the screen. A surgeon could see, in full stereo three dimensions, an interior view of the patient, without being required to wear any eye-apparatus that would otherwise hinder the view of the real patient. Video telephony could offer the immediacy and spatial depth of true face to face conversation. An interactive animated figure could be presented to the public in stores and other venues with the same immediacy as an animatronic figure, but without the latter's expense and physical limitations. Consumers could interact with games or animated characters at home which possess a complete sense of realism and dimensionality.
This technology would make possible a portable display, about the size of a notebook computer without the keyboard, which could be moved around freely in position and orientation. It would enable a person looking through it to see different views of a virtual object in the room.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention pertains to a displayer. The displayer comprises a sensor mechanism for identifying where N different eyes of V viewers are in space, where N is greater than or equal to 2 and is an integer and V is greater than or equal to 1 and is an integer. The displayer comprises a displaying mechanism for displaying N different images to N different eyes where each image is a function of where each eye is in space to which the respective image is associated. The displaying mechanism is remote and apart from and out of contact with the V viewers. The displaying mechanism is in communication with the sensor mechanism. The displaying mechanism includes a computer which receives information from the sensor mechanism identifying where each eye is in space and produces said images, the computer causes a first image of the N images and a second image of the N images associated with a first viewer of the V viewers to be shown interleaved on the first screen wherein spacing between the interleaved first image and second image varies as a function of where each eye is in space to which the respective image is associated.
The present invention pertains to a method for displaying. The method comprises the steps of viewing where a viewer is disposed in space with a camera. Then there is the step of determining where the viewer's first eye and second eye are disposed in space with a computer connected to the camera. Next there is the step of interleaving a first image and a second image onto a first screen. Then there is the step of coordinating a display of a mask pattern on a second screen disposed between the first screen and the viewer so the viewer only sees the first image of the first screen with the viewer's first eye and only sees the second screen with the viewer's second eye.
The present invention pertains to a displayer. The displayer comprises a sensor mechanism for identifying where N different eyes of the viewers are in space, where N is greater than or equal to 2 and is in integer and V is greater than or equal to 1 and is an integer. The displayer comprises a mechanism for displaying N different images to N different eyes where each image is a function of where each eye is in space to which the respective image is associated. The displaying mechanism has no moving parts. The displaying mechanism is in communication with the sensor mechanism.
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Le Vu
New York University
Schwartz Ansel M.
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