THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY PANEL STRUCTURE

• US 20130182319A1
• Filed: 07/20/2011
• Published: 07/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyunin Chung
• Original Assignee: Hyunin Chung
• Inventors: Chung, Hyunin
• Application Number:
  US13/812,115
• Publication Number:
  US 20130182319A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/463
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/27 involving lenticular arrays

Abstract

The present invention relates to a structure of a multi-viewpoint stereoscopic image display panel using an integral photography method, which can expand an effective viewing angle by changing an array of an interlaced flat image pattern, and enhance sharpness of an image by removing an image jump phenomenon. An integral photography display panel includes a lens array layer on which unit convex lenses are arranged to offset each other, an interlace layer positioned at a focal distance below the lens array layer, and a focal distance securing layer for positioning the interlace layer at the focal distance of the lens array layer, wherein the interlace layer is stacked in a “brick layering” structure in which a center of a unit image is arranged to be aligned with a center of a unit convex lens using an image photographed from multi-viewpoints and interlaced into a rectangle as the unit image.

Claims

1. A structure of an integral photography display panel comprising:

a lens array layer on which unit convex lenses are arranged to be offset each other,

an interlace layer positioned at a focal distance below the lens array layer,

and a focal distance securing layer for positioning the interlace layer at the focal distance of the lens array layer,

wherein the interlace layer is stacked in a structure of so-called brick layering in which a center of a unit image is arranged to be aligned with a center of a unit convex lens using an image photographed from multi-viewpoints and interlaced into a rectangle as the unit image.

2. The structure according to claim 1, wherein the convex lens has a vertical cross section of a hemisphere shape and a layer cross section of a polygon shape more than a triangle.

3. The structure according to claim 1, wherein the convex lens is a polygon having a curvature and a length that are different in horizontal and vertical directions.

4. The structure according to claim 1, wherein the convex lens is a lens having a refractive index higher than that of a medium of the focal distance securing layer, and a convex portion of the lens formed on a plate is arranged toward the interlace layer.

5. The structure according to claim 1, wherein the convex lens is a pinhole.

6. The structure according to claim 1, wherein the convex lenses of the lens array layer are arranged in horizontal and vertical directions, and a straight line passing through centers of adjacent lenses intersects with a vertical line at a slope of 45 or 60 degrees in a shape so as to form an array of a so-called honeycomb shape.

7. The structure according to claim 6, wherein horizontal and vertical sizes of the unit image arranged on the interlace layer are such that the horizontal size is a distance between two points where two vertical lines vertically passing through centers of left and right lenses adjacent to a reference convex lens intersect with a horizontal line horizontally passing through a center of the reference convex lens, and the vertical size is one half of a distance connecting centers of vertically arranged adjacent lenses.

8. The structure according to claim 7, wherein the unit image is an image of a display device printed or displayed by an electrical signal.

9. The structure according to claim 8, wherein the focal distance securing layer includes an image jump blocking means for preventing penetration of adjacent unit images.

10. The structure according to claim 9, wherein the image jump blocking means is a view angle induction mask provided with a perspective blocking stripe around a slit.

11. The structure according to claim 10, wherein a position and a width of the perspective blocking stripe can be adjusted by an electrical signal.

12. The structure according to claim 9, wherein the image jump blocking means is a total reflection induction layer.

13. The structure according to claim 12, wherein the total reflection induction layer is a low refractive resin layer or a cavity layer.

14. The structure according to claim 9, wherein the image jump blocking means is a view angle induction mask and a total reflection induction layer.

15. The structure according to claim 9, wherein the image jump blocking means is a blind mask.

16. The structure according to claim 9, wherein the lens array layer is formed with a low refractive resin coating layer having a refractive index lower than that of the convex lens on a surface.

17. The structure according to claim 8, further comprising a low refractive resin coating layer and a blind mask for blocking image jump on a surface of the lens array layer.

18. The structure according to claim 16, wherein the low refractive resin coating layer is bonded with a surface protection layer on the surface.

19. The structure according to claim 9, wherein a size or a position of the pinhole is controlled by an electrical signal.

20. The structure according to claim 9, wherein the lens array layer is formed with a residual image removal mask on a surface of a space between the convex lenses.

21. The structure according to claim 9, wherein the focal distance securing layer is formed as a cavity layer so that a space between the lens array layer and the interlace layer may be adjusted.

22. The structure according to claim 21, wherein the cavity layer is filled with a transparent liquid material.