Additive color means for the calibration of stereoscopic projection

• US 4,472,037 A
• Filed: 08/24/1981
• Issued: 09/18/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Real D
• Original Assignee: Stereographics Corporation (RealD Incorporated)
• Inventors: Lipton, Lenny
• Primary Examiner(s): Hayes, Monroe H.
• Application Number:
  US06/295,401
• Time in Patent Office: 1,121 Days
• Field of Search: 352/39, 352/40, 352/41, 352/42, 352/45, 352/57, 352/67
• US Class Current: 352/57
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/00 Stereoscopic photography
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/18 by simultaneous viewing
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/24 using apertured or refractive resolving means on screens or between screen and eye
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 43/00 Testing correct operation of photographic apparatus or parts thereof

Abstract

Right and left projected image fields of stereoscopic images must have even illumination. If audiences are subjected to uneven illumination intensity of right and left pairs of stereoscopic images, the result for most people will be discomfort. Complimentary colored filters are used in the optical paths of the right and left projected fields, and the resultant additive color mixture is used for evaluation of symmetrical illumination. A means is thus presented for quickly, accurately, and inexpensively calibrating right and left image fields for both equal and even illumination intensity.

Claims

1. In a stereoscopic projection system which includes the projection of left and right images on a screen, a method of providing uniform illumination of both images across the entire field of the screen comprising the steps of:

projecting a complementary first color on the screen to define the left image;

projecting a second, different complementary color on the screen to define the right image in a manner such that the combination of the left and right images generate a third color; and

adjusting the illumination intensity of portions of the left and right image fields to produce uniformity of the third color over the field thereby achieving uniform illumination intensity of both left and right images across the field.

2. A process as recited in claim 1 wherein each projecting steps are carried out by placing a colored filter in the optical path of a projector.

3. A process as recited in claim 2 wherein one of the filters is red and the other filter is green such that the generated third color is yellow.

4. A process as recited in claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

providing a transparency tinted to the shade of the desired third color;

comparing the shade of the transparency to the generated third color.