Stereoscopic two-dimensional image display apparatus and stereoscopic two-dimensional image display method

• US 20050185276A1
• Filed: 02/18/2005
• Published: 08/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Amai, Masatoshi, Ishikawa, Masaru, Tomisawa, Isao
• Application Number:
  US11/060,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20050185276A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/472
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/27 involving lenticular arrays
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/307 using fly-eye lenses, e.g. arrangements of circular lenses
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/356 having separate monoscopic and stereoscopic modes

Abstract

In a stereoscopic two-dimensional image display apparatus 100, there are provided a display unit 27 for displaying a two-dimensional image on an image display surface 31a; an image transmission panel 29 which stereoscopically displays a two-dimensional image by causing the light emitted from the image display surface 31a to form an image by a microlens array 43 disposed in spaced-apart relation to the image display surface 31a; and a two-dimensional image direct viewing panel 23 whose image display surface 23a is disposed in an arbitrary one of upper, lower, left, and right planes relative to the stereoscopic two-dimensional image (formed image), and on which an image associated with the stereoscopic two-dimensional image (formed image) is displayed.

Claims

1. A stereoscopic two-dimensional image display apparatus comprising:

a display unit having an image display surface for displaying a two-dimensional image;

an image transmission panel which has a microlens array disposed in spaced-apart relation to the image display surface, and forms a stereoscopic two-dimensional image by allowing the light emergent from the image display surface by the microlens array; and

a two-dimensional image direct viewing panel having an image display surface disposed in an arbitrary space on at least one of upper, lower, left, and right sides relative to the stereoscopic two-dimensional image.

2. The stereoscopic two-dimensional image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the two-dimensional image direct viewing panel is disposed on an opposite side of the image transmission panel to the display unit, thereby allowing only a two-dimensional image to be visible by the two-dimensional image direct viewing panel shielding the image transmission panel.

3. The stereoscopic two-dimensional image display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the two-dimensional image direct viewing panel is provided movably by a rotating shaft oriented in the same direction as an arbitrary side portion.

4. The stereoscopic two-dimensional image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an angle formed by the stereoscopic two-dimensional image and the two-dimensional image direct viewing panel is not less than 90 degrees and not more than 135 degrees.

5. A stereoscopic two-dimensional image display method comprising:

causing a two-dimensional image displayed on an image display surface of a display unit to form an image by a microlens array disposed in spaced-apart relation to the image display surface, so as to display a stereoscopic two-dimensional image in front of the image display surface; and

displaying an image on an image display surface of a two-dimensional image direct viewing panel disposed in an arbitrary space on at least one of upper, lower, left, and right sides relative to the stereoscopic two-dimensional image.