Wide-Angle Glasses-Free 3-D Image Display System Without Ghosting Providing Real Depth and Agreement between Accommodation and Convergence
First Claim
1. An image display system comprising:
- a composite image source, a first portion of the composite image source depicting foreground image elements, and a second portion of the composite image source depicting background image information;
a beam combiner; and
a background-image-occluding element;
wherein said first portion of said composite image source, said second portion of said composite image source, and said beam combiner are so disposed as to present to a viewer said foreground image elements from said one of said composite image portions at a shorter distance from the viewer than said background image information presented to the viewer from said other of the said composite image portions, andwherein said background-image-occluding element is located at a distance from the viewer that is optically equivalent to the distance between the viewer and said foreground image elements.
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Abstract
An image display system provides a viewer with an experience of three-dimensional imagery by presenting a composite image made up of at least two separate images. The system includes at least first and second image sources, a beam combiner, and a “background-image-occluding element” which prevents background imagery from being seen through foreground image elements. The system presents the image from one of the image sources, containing background image information, at a distance from the viewer which is greater than the distance from the viewer to the other image presented from the other image source, which contains foreground image elements. The “background-image-occluding element” is positioned at the same optical distance from the viewer as the image containing foreground image elements, eliminating any parallax error between them, enabling the foreground image elements to always occlude appropriate areas of the background image, regardless of the viewer'"'"'s position or the background image brightness relative to the brightness of foreground image elements.
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4 Claims
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1. An image display system comprising:
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a composite image source, a first portion of the composite image source depicting foreground image elements, and a second portion of the composite image source depicting background image information; a beam combiner; and a background-image-occluding element; wherein said first portion of said composite image source, said second portion of said composite image source, and said beam combiner are so disposed as to present to a viewer said foreground image elements from said one of said composite image portions at a shorter distance from the viewer than said background image information presented to the viewer from said other of the said composite image portions, and wherein said background-image-occluding element is located at a distance from the viewer that is optically equivalent to the distance between the viewer and said foreground image elements. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. An image display system comprising:
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at least two image sources, a first image source depicting foreground image elements, and a second image source depicting background image information; a beam combiner; and a background-image-occluding element; wherein said first image source, said second image source, and said beam combiner are so disposed as to present to a viewer said foreground image elements from said one of said image sources at a shorter distance from the viewer than said background image information presented to the viewer from the other of the said image sources, and wherein said background-image-occluding element is located at a distance from the viewer that is optically equivalent to the distance between the viewer and said foreground image elements. - View Dependent Claims (4)
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