LIGHT FIELD DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD

• US 20140125957A1
• Filed: 04/05/2013
• Published: 05/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Jin Ho, PARK, Ju Yong, CHOI, Seo Young, NAM, Dong-Kyung
• Application Number:
  US13/857,644
• Publication Number:
  US 20140125957A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 353/37
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/24 involving temporal multiplexing, e.g. using sequentially activated left and right shutters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/351 for displaying simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/363 using image projection screens volumetric display H04N13/388

Abstract

A light field display apparatus includes a plurality of projectors to emit rays, and a screen to display the rays emitted by the plurality of projectors. Positions of the plurality of projectors may be controlled so that intervals or angles between the rays displayed on the screen are substantially the same.

Claims

1. A light field display apparatus comprising:

a plurality of projectors to emit rays,

wherein positions of each of the plurality of projectors are controlled so that intervals between the rays displayed on the screen are substantially the same.

2. The light field display apparatus of claim 1, wherein arrangement orders of each of the plurality of projectors are different between even number rows and odd number rows.

3. The light field display apparatus of claim 1, wherein rows on which each of the plurality of projectors are arranged are repeatedly changed according to a predetermined row interval.

4. The light field display apparatus of claim 21, wherein projection distances of each of the plurality of projectors is controlled according to a size of the screen.

5. The light field display apparatus of claim 1, wherein positions of each of the plurality of projectors are controlled such that angles between the rays emitted toward the screen by each of the plurality of projectors are substantially the same.

6. The light field display apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a reflection mirror tilted by a predetermined angle with respect to the screen to reflect the rays emitted by the plurality of projectors.

21. The light field display apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a screen to display the rays emitted by each of the plurality of projectors.

7. A light field display apparatus comprising:

a plurality of projectors to emit rays,

wherein positions of each of the plurality of projectors are controlled so that angles between the rays emitted toward the screen by each of the plurality of projectors are substantially the same.

8. The light field display apparatus of claim 7, further comprising:

a first reflection mirror disposed at one side of the screen and tilted with respect to the screen by a predetermined angle, to reflect the rays emitted by each of the plurality of projectors; and

a second reflection mirror disposed at an opposite side of the screen and tilted with respect to the screen by a predetermined angle, to reflect the rays emitted by each of the plurality of projectors.

9. The light field display apparatus of claim 22, wherein projection distances of each of the plurality of projectors are controlled according to a size of the screen.

10. The light field display apparatus of claim 9, wherein positions of each of the plurality of projectors are controlled such that intervals between the rays displayed on the screen are substantially the same.

22. The light field display apparatus of claim 7, further comprising a screen to display the rays emitted by each of the plurality of projectors.

25. The light field display apparatus of claim 7, wherein the angles between the rays are controlled to be substantially the same based on a center angle of an imaginary focus at which an imaginary extension line of the first reflection mirror and an imaginary extension line of the second reflection mirror meet.

11. A light field display apparatus comprising:

a plurality of projectors to emit rays,

wherein projection distances of each of the plurality of projectors are controlled according to a size of the screen.

12. The light field display apparatus of claim 11, wherein the projection distances of each of the plurality of projectors are controlled such that each of the plurality of projectors are arranged on an imaginary circle having an arc length equal to a horizontal length or vertical length of the screen.

13. The light field display apparatus of claim 11, wherein

the projection distances are controlled such that each of the plurality of projectors are directed toward the screen or opposite to the screen according to a tilting value of the plurality of projectors, and

the tilting value includes tilt of each of the plurality of projectors with respect to at least one projector among the plurality of projectors arranged parallel toward the screen.

14. A light field display method comprising:

emitting rays from a plurality of projectors; and

displaying the rays emitted from each of the plurality of projectors on a screen,

wherein positions of each of the plurality of projectors are controlled such that intervals between the rays displayed on the screen are substantially the same.

15. The light field display method of claim 14, wherein arrangement orders of each of the plurality of projectors are different between even number rows and odd number rows.

16. The light field display method of claim 14, wherein rows on which each of the plurality of projectors are arranged are repeatedly changed according to a predetermined row interval.

17. The light field display method of claim 14, wherein projection distances of each of the plurality of projectors are controlled according to a size of the screen.

18. The light field display method of claim 14, wherein positions of each of the plurality of projectors are controlled such that angles between the rays emitted toward the screen by each of the plurality of projectors are substantially the same.

19. A light field display method comprising:

emitting rays from a plurality of projectors; and

displaying the rays emitted by each of the plurality of projectors on a screen,

wherein positions of each of the plurality of projectors are controlled so that angles between the rays emitted toward the screen by each of the plurality of projectors are substantially the same.

26. The light field display method of claim 19, wherein the angles between the rays are controlled to be substantially the same based on a center angle of an imaginary focus at which an imaginary extension line of a first reflection mirror disposed at one side of the screen and tilted with respect to the screen by a predetermined angle and an imaginary extension line of a second reflection mirror disposed at an opposite side of the screen and tilted with respect to the screen by a predetermined angle meet.

20. A light field display method performed by a light field display apparatus, comprising:

emitting rays from a plurality of projectors; and

displaying the rays emitted by each of the plurality of projectors on a screen,

wherein projection distances of each of the plurality of projectors are controlled according to a size of the screen.

23. A light field display method comprising:

emitting rays from a plurality of projectors; and

displaying the rays emitted from each of the plurality of projectors on a screen,

wherein arrangement orders of each of the plurality of projectors are different between even number rows and odd number rows.

24. A light field display method comprising:

emitting rays from a plurality of projectors; and

displaying the rays emitted from each of the plurality of projectors on a screen,

wherein rows on which each of the plurality of projectors are arranged are repeatedly changed according to a predetermined row interval.