Hogel Display using Optical Beam Oscillators

• US 20130050786A1
• Filed: 03/29/2012
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zebra Imaging, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Zebra Imaging, Inc.
• Inventors: Lucente, Mark E.
• Application Number:
  US13/433,305
• Publication Number:
  US 20130050786A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/9
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/101 with both horizontal and vertical deflecting means, e.g. raster or XY scanners colour television using laser beams scanning a display screen H04N9/3129

Abstract

Methods and systems for generating a holographic light field, the method including converting provided hogel data into optical beam oscillator data, and generating a plurality of light beams using a plurality of optical beam oscillators. The optical beam oscillators are configured to receive the optical beam oscillator data and to oscillate in corresponding oscillating patterns to generate a light field such as a representation of a 3D image. The optical beam oscillator data is adapted to match the oscillating patterns of the optical beam oscillators, and the optical beam oscillators are configured to generate at least subsets of the light beams serially in time.

Claims

1. A method for generating a light field, the method comprising:

being provided with hogel data;

converting the hogel data into optical beam oscillator data;

generating a plurality of light beams using a plurality of optical beam oscillators, where the optical beam oscillators are configured to receive the optical beam oscillator data and to oscillate in corresponding oscillating patterns;

where;

the optical beam oscillator data is adapted to match the oscillating patterns of the optical beam oscillators, and

the optical beam oscillators are configured to generate at least subsets of the light beams serially in time.

2. The method of claim 1, where all of the oscillating patterns correspond to a common oscillating pattern.

3. The method of claim 1, where each of the optical beam oscillators is configured to generate a single hogel using a single oscillating light beam.

4. The method of claim 1, where each of the optical beam oscillators is configured to generate two or more light beams simultaneously.

5. The method of claim 1, where two or more of the optical beam oscillators are configured to generate a single hogel.

6. The method of claim 1, where one or more of the optical beam oscillators comprise at least one of:

an oscillating mirror assembly; and

an oscillating fiber assembly.

7. A system for generating a holographic light field, the system comprising:

a data adapting unit, the data adapting unit comprising one or more processors coupled to one or more memory units, where the data adapting unit is configured to be provided with and convert hogel data into optical beam oscillator data;

a plurality of optical beam oscillators coupled to the adapting unit and configured to;

receive the optical beam oscillator data,

oscillate in corresponding oscillating patterns, and

generate a plurality of light beams,

where the adapting unit is further configured to adapt the optical beam oscillator data to match the oscillating patterns of the optical beam oscillators, and where the optical beam oscillators are further configured to generate at least subsets of the light beams serially in time.

8. The system of claim 7, where all of the oscillating patterns correspond to a common oscillating pattern.

9. The system of claim 7, where each of the optical beam oscillators is configured to generate a single hogel using a single oscillating light beam.

10. The system of claim 7, where each of the optical beam oscillators is configured to generate two or more light beams simultaneously.

11. The system of claim 7, where two or more of the optical beam oscillators are configured to generate a single hogel.

12. The system of claim 7, where one or more of the optical beam oscillators comprise at least one of:

an oscillating mirror assembly; and

an oscillating fiber assembly.

13. A computer program product embodied in a computer-readable medium, the computer program product comprising logic instructions, the logic instructions being effective to:

be provided with hogel data; and

convert the hogel data into optical beam oscillator data,

where

the optical beam oscillator data is adapted to be provided to a plurality of optical beam oscillators, where the optical beam oscillators are configured to;

receive the optical beam oscillator data,

oscillate in corresponding oscillating patterns, and

generate a plurality of light beams,

the optical beam oscillator data is adapted to match the oscillating patterns of the optical beam oscillators, and the optical beam oscillators are configured to generate at least subsets of the light beams serially in time.

14. The product of claim 13, where all of the oscillating patterns correspond to a common oscillating pattern.

15. The product of claim 13, where each of the optical beam oscillators is configured to generate a single hogel using a single oscillating light beam.

16. The product of claim 13, where each of the optical beam oscillators is configured to generate two or more light beams simultaneously.

17. The product of claim 13, where two or more of the optical beam oscillators are configured to generate a single hogel.

18. The product of claim 13, where one or more of the optical beam oscillators comprise at least one of:

an oscillating mirror assembly; and

an oscillating fiber assembly.