MONOCULAR DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20120176296A1
• Filed: 01/10/2011
• Published: 07/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Inventors: Singhal, Amit, Border, John Norvold
• Granted Patent: US 8,816,939 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/8
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0143 the two eyes not being equipped with identical nor symmetrical optical devices
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/34 Stereoscopes providing a stereoscopic pair of separated images corresponding to parallactically displaced views of the same object, e.g. 3D slide viewers
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects

Abstract

An apparatus for viewing of an image of a scene, including a monocular device worn by a viewer which includes a first display for displaying a first two-dimensional image of the scene with a first perspective to one eye of the viewer. a second display for displaying a second two-dimensional image of the scene with a second perspective to the other eye of the viewer, wherein the first perspective of the scene is different from the second perspective of the scene so that the viewer perceives a three dimensional image of the scene, while another viewer of the second display, that is not wearing a monocular device, views the two-dimensional image of the scene.

Claims

1. An apparatus for viewing of images of a scene, comprising:

(a) an image delivery system for providing first and second two dimensional images of the scene wherein the first and second images respectively have first and second different perspectives of the scene;

(b) a monocular device wearable by a viewer which includes a first display for displaying the first two-dimensional images of the scene to one eye of the viewer; and

(c) a second display, located remotely to the first display, for displaying the second two-dimensional images of the scene to the other eye of the viewer, so that the viewer perceives three dimensional images of the scene, while another viewer of the second display, that is not wearing a monocular device, views two-dimensional images of the scene.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 further including providing synchronized first and second two-dimensional images with first and second different perspectives to the monocular device and the second display respectively.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the second display is a television, a cell phone display, a computer monitor, or a head mounted display.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the image delivery system further includes a wireless communication system between the image delivery system and the monocular device to provide the first two-dimensional images to the monocular device.

5. The apparatus of claim 2 further including providing a series of synchronized sequential first and second two-dimensional images to the monocular device and the second display.

6. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the wireless image delivery system is a radio system, a wifi system, a bluetooth system or an infrared system.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the monocular device is an opaque display device.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the monocular device is a see-through display device.

9. A method for viewing of images of a scene on a display comprising:

(a) providing a viewer with a monocular device including a first display for viewing first two-dimensional images of the scene with a first perspective with one eye; and

(b) providing a second display, that is remote from the first display, for viewing second two-dimensional images of the scene with a second perspective with the other eye, wherein the second perspective is different from the first perspective so that the viewer perceives three dimensional images of the scene, whereby one or more other viewers, that are not wearing monocular devices, can simultaneously view the second display with both eyes so that they see two-dimensional images of the scene.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the second display is a television, a cell phone display, a computer monitor, a tablet display, a billboard display, a hardcopy image or any other two-dimensional display.

11. The method of claim 9 further including providing synchronized first and second two-dimensional images for simultaneous viewing on the first and second displays respectively.

12. The method of claim 11 further including providing a series of synchronized sequential first and second two-dimensional images to the monocular device and the second display.

13. The method of claim 9 further including providing synchronized alternating first and second two-dimensional images for viewing in a repeating alternating fashion on the first display and the second display respectively.

14. The method of claim 9 further including providing wireless communication to the monocular device.

15. The method of claim 9 wherein the first two-dimensional images have a lower resolution than the second two-dimensional images.

16. The method of claim 9 wherein the first two-dimensional images have a lower bit depth than the second two-dimensional images.

17. The method of claim 9 wherein the first display is a see-through display.

18. The method of claim 9 further including providing the monocular device with a camera for capturing images of the second display and a portion of an environment adjacent to the second display, whereby the viewer views combination images on the first display comprised of the first two-dimensional images of the scene along with images of the portion of the environment adjacent to the second display.