Monitor for showing high-resolution and three-dimensional images and method
First Claim
1. A display system, comprising a pair of displays, each operable to provide respective images, a beam splitter, the beam splitter having optical polarization characteristics to provide different light transmission and light reflection effect based on optical polarization of light incident on the beam splitter, the displays and beam splitter being positionally related such that the beam splitter transmits light from one display and reflects light from the other display whereby the transmitted and reflected light are provided via the beam splitter in substantially the same direction, and wherein light that is incident on the beam splitter representing images that are provided by the displays is optically polarized in coordination with the optical polarization characteristics of the beam splitter.
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Abstract
A display system or monitor arrangement and method for stereoscopic displaying of images includes a pair of displays for providing respective left eye and right eye images and arranged in intersecting planes, a polarization sensitive beam splitter for combining the images from the displays in a common light path, and a viewing device to discriminate between respective images to present the respective left and right eye images to the eyes of a viewer for viewing. The polarization sensitive beam splitter preferentially reflects or transmits light based on polarization direction of the incident light thereon. A control tunes the intensity of light from the displays to balance the intensity thereof. Twisted nematic liquid crystal cells may be used as the displays, and optical retarders may be used in respective optical channels to rotate the plane of polarization of light and to compensate for optical dispersion.
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29 Claims
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1. A display system, comprising
a pair of displays, each operable to provide respective images, a beam splitter, the beam splitter having optical polarization characteristics to provide different light transmission and light reflection effect based on optical polarization of light incident on the beam splitter, the displays and beam splitter being positionally related such that the beam splitter transmits light from one display and reflects light from the other display whereby the transmitted and reflected light are provided via the beam splitter in substantially the same direction, and wherein light that is incident on the beam splitter representing images that are provided by the displays is optically polarized in coordination with the optical polarization characteristics of the beam splitter.
- 15. A display method, comprising directing respective images to a beam splitter that has optical polarization characteristics to provide different light transmission and light reflection effect based on optical polarization of light incident on the beam splitter, wherein the displays and beam splitter are positionally related such that the beam splitter transmits light from one display and reflects light from the other display whereby the transmitted and reflected light are provided via the beam splitter in substantially the same direction, and wherein light that is incident on the beam splitter representing images that are provided by the displays is optically polarized in coordination with the optical polarization characteristics of the beam splitter.
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16. A method of display including providing respective images using light having optical polarization characteristics to a beam splitter that has optical polarization characteristics to provide different light transmission and light reflection effect based on optical polarization of light incident on the beam splitter, wherein the beam splitter transmits light representing one image and reflects light representing the other image.
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19. A system for images, comprising
a polarizing beam splitter receiving respective images, which have plane polarized light characteristics, along respective first and second light paths and directing the images to a common light path by reflection and transmission substantially without changing the direction of optical polarization, a viewer to receive the images in the common light path to discriminate the images based on plane polarized light characteristics, the viewer having first and second viewing channels to provide for viewing the images from the first and second light paths, respectively, wherein the viewer includes a pair of plane polarizers having the same polarization direction, a first optical retarder introducing optical retardation in one light path optically upstream of the beam splitter to rotate the plane of polarization of light in the one light path to a crossed relation relative to light from the other light path, and a second optical retarder introducing optical retardation in the second viewing channel to rotate the plane of polarization of light to a crossed relation to light in the first viewing channel and to compensate for dispersion by the first optical retarder.
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22. A display system, comprising
a pair of liquid crystal displays, a polarization sensitive beam splitter, the displays and beam splitter being relatively positioned such that light from one display is reflected by the beam splitter in a first direction and light from the other display is transmitted by the beam splitter in substantially the same direction, and wherein the beam splitter is a polarizing beam splitter that has increased transmission or reflection for one direction of polarization of light incident thereon.
- 26. A display method, comprising using a polarization sensitive beam splitter to transmit and to reflect in a common light path respective images that have crossed optical plane polarization such that the beam splitter that has increased transmission or reflection for one direction of polarization of light incident thereon relative to the other direction of polarization of light.
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