Method of Showing Images at Different Depths and Display Showing Images at Different Depths

• US 20080122865A1
• Filed: 11/29/2007
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Arthur Vanmoor
• Original Assignee: Arthur Vanmoor
• Inventors: Vanmoor, Arthur
• Application Number:
  US11/947,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20080122865A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/023 Display panel composed of stacked panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3208 organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3611 Control of matrices with row and column drivers

Abstract

The invention is a method of showing images at different depths and a display that shows images at different depths. The method includes disposing one or more display screens, which are at least partly transparent, in front of a further display screen so that a viewer sees images displayed at different depths on the different display screens.

Claims

1. A method of showing images at different depths, which comprises:

disposing at least one display screen, which is at least partly transparent, in front of a further display screen so that a viewer sees images displayed on the at least one display screen and on the further display screen.

2. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises:

providing the at least one display screen as a transparent organic light emitting diode display screen.

3. The method according to claim 2, which further comprises:

providing the further display screen as a transparent organic light emitting diode display screen.

4. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises:

showing an image on the at least one display screen shifted in time with respect to a related image shown on the further display screen.

5. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises:

compensating for an attenuation of an image emitted by the further display screen by increasing a light intensity of the image shown on the further display screen with respect to a light intensity of a related image shown on the at least one display screen;

the attenuation of the image emitted by the further display screen being caused by the at least one display screen.

6. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises:

disposing the at least one display screen in front of the further display screen by a distance enabling a viewer to perceive that an image emitted by the at least one display screen originates from a different depth than a depth at which an image emitted by the further display screen originates.

7. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises:

disposing a plurality of at least partly transparent display screens in front of the further display screen at a plurality of distances enabling a viewer to perceive that a plurality of images emitted by the plurality of display screens originate from a plurality of different depths;

the at least one display screen being one of the plurality of display screens.

8. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises:

allowing an image emanating from behind the at least one display screen to pass through the at least one display screen by constructing the at least one display screen with transparent pixel locations.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the images combine to form a three-dimensional image.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

a common axis extends perpendicularly through the at least one display screen and the further display screen.

11. A display for showing images at different depths, comprising:

at least one display screen and a further display screen;

said at least one display screen being at least partly transparent; and

said at least one display screen disposed in front of said further display screen so that a viewer sees images displayed on said at least one display screen and on said further display screen.

12. The display according to claim 11, wherein said at least one display screen is a transparent organic light emitting diode display screen.

13. The display according to claim 12, wherein said further display screen is a transparent organic light emitting diode display screen.

14. The display according to claim 11, wherein an image on said at least one display screen is shifted in time with respect to a related image shown on said further display screen.

15. The display according to claim 11, further comprising:

a controller compensating for an attenuation of an image emitted by said further display screen, the attenuation caused by said at least one display screen;

said controller performing the compensating by increasing a light intensity of the image shown on said further display screen with respect to a light intensity of a related image shown on said at least one display screen.

16. The display according to claim 11, wherein:

said at least one display screen is disposed in front of said further display screen by a distance enabling a viewer to perceive that an image emitted by said at least one display screen originates from a different depth than a depth at which an image emitted by said further display screen originates.

17. The display according to claim 11, further comprising:

a plurality of at least partly transparent display screens disposed in front of said further display screen at a plurality of distances enabling a viewer to perceive that a plurality of images emitted by said plurality of display screens originate from a plurality of different depths;

said at least one display screen being one of said plurality of display screens.

18. The display according to claim 11, wherein:

said at least one display screen includes a plurality of transparent pixel locations formed therein;

said plurality of transparent pixel locations allowing an image emanating from behind said at least one display screen to pass through said at least one display screen.

19. The display according to claim 11, wherein:

the images combine to form a three-dimensional image.

20. The display according to claim 11, wherein:

a common axis extends perpendicularly through said at least one display screen and said further display screen.