Depth perception by image isolation
First Claim
1. For use in conjunction with a picture source to be displayed to viewers within a predetermined angular viewing area, a picture source border substantially surrounding at least the laterally opposite sides of the picture source and having a concave portion opening outwardly toward the viewing area with the surface portions thereof relatively positioned so that any light entering the region of the concave portion which is incident to and reflected from a surface thereof must also be incident to and reflected from another surface of the concave portion prior to exiting the region into the viewing area.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed for displaying a single flat two dimensional picture in a lighted room where the area surrounding the picture has its stereoscopic cues suppressed to minimize the observer'"'"'s two-eyed stereoscopic judgement of the location of the plane of the picture, whereby a binocular two-eyed observer can sense the inherent psychological depth indicators in the picture, and see the psyhically flat two dimensional picture as a three dimensional scene, much like a one-eyed observer sees it.
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- 1. For use in conjunction with a picture source to be displayed to viewers within a predetermined angular viewing area, a picture source border substantially surrounding at least the laterally opposite sides of the picture source and having a concave portion opening outwardly toward the viewing area with the surface portions thereof relatively positioned so that any light entering the region of the concave portion which is incident to and reflected from a surface thereof must also be incident to and reflected from another surface of the concave portion prior to exiting the region into the viewing area.
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