SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC IMAGE WITH N POINTS OF VIEW ON A MOBILE DISPLAY SCREEN

• US 20190324623A1
• Filed: 04/24/2019
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alioscopy Co.
• Original Assignee: Alioscopy Co.
• Inventors: Allio, Pierre, Maingreaud, Flavien
• Granted Patent: US 10,817,131 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/26 of the autostereoscopic type
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/27 involving lenticular arrays
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/30 involving parallax barriers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/305 using lenticular lenses, e.g. arrangements of cylindrical lenses
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/31 using parallax barriers

Abstract

A method for displaying an N-view autostereoscopic image formed of N elementary images interlaced according to a predetermined mixing scheme on a mobile display screen includes pivoting the screen; detecting a pivot angle α of the screen; rotating the N elementary images by an inverse angle of the detected pivot angle α, interlacing the N elementary images rotated according to the mixing scheme of the N elementary images in an initial direction, and displaying the N elementary images rotated on the display screen.

Claims

1. A method of displaying an autostereoscopic image comprising a series of N points of view numbered successively from 1 to N and formed of N elementary images interlaced according to a predetermined mixing scheme, on a mobile display screen rotating around a virtual or real axis extending perpendicularly to the display plane of the screen, said screen comprising an array of pixels arranged by rows and columns, each pixel being composed of multiple different sub-pixels of different colors each forming one point of view of the image, said screen being further overlaid by an optical component, of the cylindrical lenticular network or parallax barrier type, with a main axis inclined at an angle α

o with respect to the direction of the columns, and configured to allow, when said screen is oriented in a preferred direction of observation, the projection of predetermined pairs of different points of view formed from two points of view separated from each other, in the series of N points of view, of at least one point of view, respectively to the left eye and the right eye of an observer, located at a nominal distance from the screen, called the flat tint distance, said method further comprising;

pivoting of the display screen from an initial position corresponding to said preferred direction of observation to a position, called the rotated position,

detecting the pivot angle of said display screen between said initial position and said rotated position,

rotating of said N elementary images forming the N points of view of an inverse angle of said detected pivot angle,

interlacing of the N elementary images rotated according to said mixing scheme of the N elementary images in said initial position,

displaying said N pivoted elementary images on said display screen so that an observer can perceive, on said rotated screen, a relief image extending along said preferred direction, formed of pairs of different successive points of view in said series of points of view, and projected to the right eye and the left eye of the observer, respectively.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said pairs of points of view are projected towards said observer in said preferred direction depending on a distance, corresponding to the distance to be traveled along said preferred direction by the observer to said flat tint distance, to pass from one point of view to the other, the method further comprising calculating a modified stereoscopic base depending on said detected pivot angle so that the pairs of points of view projected towards the observer by said optical component in said rotated position are identical to those projected in the initial position in said preferred direction, so as to be able to maintain for the observer an identical sensation of relief in front of the rotated screen of said pivot angle in front of the screen before pivoting, except for pivoting of the screen which causes the axis of the observer'"'"'s eyes to coincide with the axis of the lenses of the lenticular network.

3. The method of claim 1, furthering comprising detecting the axis between the eyes of an observer so as to define said preferred direction with respect to this axis.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said detecting the pivot angle of said display screen between said initial position and said rotated position comprises detecting, at each moment, of the axis between the eyes of an observer so as to be able to define the angle between said initial direction and the axis between the eyes of the observer, the defined angle forming the pivot angle.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said predetermined mixing scheme consists of shifting from one line to another of the pixel matrix each point of view of a sub-pixel of different color with respect to its position on the preceding line and wherein said angle ao is in the order of 18°

with respect to the preferred direction.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said predetermined mixing scheme consists of shifting from one line to another of the pixel matrix each point of view of two sub-pixels of different colors relative to its position on the preceding line and wherein said angle α

o is in the order of 33°

with respect to the preferred direction.

7. A system for displaying an autostereoscopic image comprising a series of N points of view numbered successively from 1 to N and formed of N elementary images interlaced according to a predetermined mixing scheme, the system comprising:

a mobile display screen in rotation about a virtual or real axis extending perpendicularly from the display plane of the screen, said screen comprising an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns, each pixel being composed of multiple subpixels of different colors each assigned to a point of view of the image characterized in that it further comprises;

an optical component mounted on said screen, of the cylindrical lens network or parallax barrier type, with a main axis inclined at an angle α

o with respect to the direction of the columns, and configured to allow, when said screen is oriented according to a preferred direction of observation in a position, called the initial position, the projection of predetermined pairs of different points of view formed from two points of view separated from each other, in the series of N points of view, by at least one point of view, respectively to the left eye and the right eye of an observer, located at a nominal distance from the screen, called the flat tint distance, means for detecting a pivot angle of said display screen between said initial position and a rotated position,

a module for the rotation of said N elementary images forming the N points of view of an inverse angle of said detected pivot angle,

a module for the mixing of said N elementary images rotated according to said mixing scheme of the N elementary images in said initial position,

a module for the display of said N elementary images rotated on said display screen so that an observer can perceive, pivoted on said screen, a relief image extending along said preferred direction, formed of pairs of successive different perspectives in said series of points of view and projected to the right eye and the left eye of the observer, respectively.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein said pairs of points of view projected towards said observer in said preferred direction depending on a distance, called the stereoscopic base, corresponding to the distance to be traveled along said preferred direction by the observer to said flat tint distance, to pass from one point of view to the other;

it further comprises a module to calculate a modified stereoscopic base depending on said detected pivot angle so that the pairs of points of view projected towards the observer by said optical component in said rotated position are identical to those projected in the initial position in said preferred direction, so as to be able to maintain for the observer an identical sensation of relief in front of the rotated screen of said pivot angle in front of the screen before pivoting to the initial position.

9. The system according to claim 7, further comprising a means for detecting the axis between the eyes of an observer so as to define said preferred direction with respect to this axis.

10. The system according to claim 7, wherein said means for detecting a pivot angle comprises a device for detecting, at each moment, the position of the observer'"'"'s eyes in such a way that the angle between said initial direction and the axis between the eyes of the observer may be defined, this angle forming the pivot angle and defining said preferred direction of observation.

11. The system according to claim 7, wherein said means for detecting a pivot angle of said display screen between said preferred position and a rotated position comprises an inertial unit integral with said screen display.

12. The system according to claim 7, wherein said display screen is an 8-point screen.

13. The system according to claim 7, wherein said display screen is a display screen of a touch tablet or smartphone.