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Head-mounted stereoscopic image display apparatus

  • US 5,754,344 A
  • Filed: 10/09/1996
  • Issued: 05/19/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/12/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A head-mounted stereoscopic image display apparatus to be mounted on a head portion of an observer, comprising:

  • display means for displaying a stripe image formed by dividing right and left parallax images that constitute a stereoscopic image into stripe pixels, and alternately arranging the right and left stripe pixels in a predetermined order;

    an image separation optical system disposed in front of said display means and adapted to separate light beams outgoing from the right and left stripe pixels; and

    a concave mirror adapted to reflect the light beams from said image separation optical system so as to allow the observer to observe virtual images of the parallax images,wherein said image separation optical system comprises a lenticular lens or a parallax barrier corresponding to the right and left stripe pixels, and further wherein said image separation optical system comprises a toric lens on the light beam outgoing side.

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