Apparatus for relief illusion
First Claim
1. A system for forming a representation having three-dimensional characteristics of an object comprising,energy source means for directing energy onto said object from a plurality of points spaced apart from one another whereby said energy may be reflected and detected to form an image of said object having shadows formed by said energy eminating from said plurality of points,means for detecting said reflected energy in the form of said image, with the energy from different ones of said points defining separable shadows,and means for optically segregating for viewing separately by each of a viewer'"'"'s eyes said separable shadows of said detected image.
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Abstract
A means and method of generating disparate information for imparting depth perception to an image. An image is formed with a shadow from a plurality of energy sources. The energy sources each having a different locus. In one embodiment, using only two energy sources the image is detected by an image detector which permits the portion of the shadow formed by one energy source to be distinguished from the portion of the shadow formed by another source. In either a static-imaging system such as a still photograph or a dynamic system, such as television, means are provided for optically segregating the shadows viewed by each eye. In a monocular version of the dynamic imaging system, such as a motion picture film, a three-dimensional illusion is created by successively displaying images formed with different shadows.
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13 Claims
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1. A system for forming a representation having three-dimensional characteristics of an object comprising,
energy source means for directing energy onto said object from a plurality of points spaced apart from one another whereby said energy may be reflected and detected to form an image of said object having shadows formed by said energy eminating from said plurality of points, means for detecting said reflected energy in the form of said image, with the energy from different ones of said points defining separable shadows, and means for optically segregating for viewing separately by each of a viewer'"'"'s eyes said separable shadows of said detected image.
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13. A method of reresenting an object with enhanced depth perception comprising:
forming an image element of said object with said image element comprising an image of the object and shadow thereof formed by energy sources directed onto said object from different locations, said shadow having a first and second portions with said first portion of the shadow being formed from one direction, and said second portion of the shadow being formed from a second direction, said first and second portions being capable of being visually segregated from each other and thereafter viewing said image element while segregating in one eye of the viewer the portion of the shadow formed from one direction and in the other eye the portion of the shadow formed from the other direction.
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