STEREOSCOPIC METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTATION THEREOF
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Abstract
The invention relates to stereoscopic video equipment and can be used to design stereoscopic TV sets and monitors with a possibility to observe stereo images both glasses-free and with use of passive glasses while keeping a possibility to observe monoscopic images. These possibilities are provided in the method and in the device by means of a light flux elliptical polarization modulator with polarization modulation parameters determined by inverse trigonometric functions such as arctg, arcctg, arccos and arcsin (or their combinations) from algebraic relations between squared amplitudes of image temporal scanning signals, that permits with help of spatially-periodic polarization selector to obtain the images of the left and the right views in the left and right observation areas.
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27 Claims
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1-8. -8. (canceled)
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9. A stereoscopic apparatus, comprising:
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(A) a matrix polarization encoding device, that has M rows and N columns; and (B) a polarization selector, that is arranged sequentially on the same optical axis as the matrix polarization encoding device; wherein (a) outputs of the selector are optically connected with left and right observation areas, (b) a transfer characteristic for a mn-th element of the matrix polarization encoding device is determined by an inverse trigonometric function of a ratio of an algebraic relation of BLmn and BRmn, which are intensity values in a mn-th pixel of left and right views of a projected 3-dimensional image respectively, wherein m=1, 2, . . . , n=1, 2, . . . , N, (c) the matrix polarization encoding device comprises a working medium that has mutually orthogonal directions of optical anisotropy for each pair of adjacent columns of the matrix polarization encoding device; and (d) the polarization selector comprises a working medium comprising electrically addressable columns such that one of the following conditions is satisfied; (i) an initial optical anisotropy state of the polarization selector is such that all the columns of the working medium of the polarization selector have the same optical anisotropy direction, and a subsequent optical anisotropy state of the polarization selector is such that each two adjacent columns of the working medium of the polarization selector have mutually orthogonal anisotropy directions;
or(ii) an initial optical anisotropy state of the polarization selector is such that each two adjacent columns of the working medium of the polarization selector have mutually orthogonal anisotropy directions; - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A stereoscopic method comprising:
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(A) forming using a first device, that has M rows and N columns, a modulated light flux that has a complex modulation of intensity and polarization, such that a mn-th element of a cross section of the light flux presents jointly BLnn and BRmn, which are intensity values in a mn-th pixel of left and right views of a projected 3-dimensional image, whereas polarization modulation parameters of the modulated light flux are set as an inverse trigonometric function of an algebraic relation between BLmn and BRmn, wherein m=1, 2, . . . , M, n=1, 2, . . . , N, are respectively numbers of rows and columns of the first device;
said forming comprises forming N groups of the modulated light flux, wherein an n-th group of the N groups, that is formed on an nth column of the first device, comprises a left and right partial light fluxes, which carry respectively information about an n-th column for the left and right views of the projected 3-dimensional image, whereas the polarization modulation parameters of the modulated light flux are mutually orthogonal (i) between the left and the right partial light fluxes for each of the N groups and (ii) between a partial light flux of the nth group and a partial flux of the (n+1) th group, which is adjacent to the nth group; and(B) for each of the N groups, separating from the formed modulated light flux, using a second device, the left partial light flux and the right partial light flux and directing the left and right partial light fluxes to left and right observation areas respectively;
said second device comprises a decoder and a polarization filter;
wherein said separating comprises;(i) decoding left and right views of the modulated light flux at a decoding plane of the decoder and (ii) filtering the decoded light flux, wherein the decoding plane of the decoder is divided into columns, each of which has a symmetry axis at an intersection of central axes of partial light fluxes with identical elliptical polarization modulation parameters, wherein said columns of the decoding plane of the decoder are such that one of the following two conditions is satisfied; (a) a phase shift between each pair of adjacent columns in the decoding plane is π
/4 multiplied by a positive integer; and(b) adjacent columns of the decoding plane produce mutually orthogonal changes of a polarization state. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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22. The method of claim 19, wherein:
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(a) said forming the modulated light flux comprises encoding an elliptical polarization modulation in the modulated light flux using a matrix electrically addressable optical modulator with a controlled birefringence, which comprises N columns, such that a phase shift Δ
δ
m(2n−
1) between ordinary and extraordinary beams in each odd (2n−
1)-th column and a phase shift Δ
δ
m(2n) between ordinary and extraordinary beams in each even column 2n-th column are set respectively to be arccos and arcsin functions of a ratio of an algebraic relation of BLmn and BRmn with addition of π
/4 multiplied by a non-negative integer;
wherein an intensity of light in an mn-th element of a cross section of the formed modulated light flux corresponds to a sum of BLmn and BRmn, and(b) said decoding is performed using an electrically addressable by column optical modulator with a controlled birefringence by setting a value of a difference in a phase shift between ordinary and extraordinary beams for each pair of adjacent columns to be π
/4 multiplied by a positive integer.
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23. The method of claim 19, wherein said forming the modulated light flux comprises encoding an elliptical polarization modulation of the modulated light flux using the following elements that are sequentially positioned and optically connected:
- (i) a polarizer, (ii) a first matrix electrically addressable optical modulators with a controlled birefringence, that has M rows and N columns, and (iii) a second matrix electrically addressable optical modulators with a controlled birefringence, that has M rows and N columns, wherein a resulting phase shift Δ
δ
1m(2n−
1)−
Δ
δ
2m(2n−
1) between ordinary and extraordinary beams in each odd (2n−
1)-th column and a resulting phase shift Δ
δ
1m(2n)−
Δ
δ
2m(2n) between ordinary and extraordinary beams in each even column 2n-th column of both the first and the second optical modulators are set respectively to be arccos and arcsin functions of a ratio of an algebraic relation of BLmn and BRmn with addition of π
/4 multiplied by a non-negative integer.
- (i) a polarizer, (ii) a first matrix electrically addressable optical modulators with a controlled birefringence, that has M rows and N columns, and (iii) a second matrix electrically addressable optical modulators with a controlled birefringence, that has M rows and N columns, wherein a resulting phase shift Δ
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24. The method of claim 19, wherein said forming the modulated light flux is performed using the following elements that are sequentially positioned and optically connected:
- (i) a polarizer, (ii) a first matrix electrically addressable optical modulators with a controlled polarization plane rotation, that has M rows and N columns and (iii) a second matrix electrically addressable optical modulator with a controlled polarization plane rotation, that has M rows and N columns, wherein a resulting angle of polarization plane rotation φ
1m(2n−
1)−
φ
2m(2n−
1) in each odd (2n−
1)-th column and a resulting angle of polarization plane rotation φ
1m(2n)−
φ
2m(2n) in each even column 2n-th column of both the first and the second optical modulators are set respectively to be
- (i) a polarizer, (ii) a first matrix electrically addressable optical modulators with a controlled polarization plane rotation, that has M rows and N columns and (iii) a second matrix electrically addressable optical modulator with a controlled polarization plane rotation, that has M rows and N columns, wherein a resulting angle of polarization plane rotation φ
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25. The method of claim 19, wherein said forming the modulated light flux is performed using the following elements that are sequentially positioned and optically connected:
- (i) a polarizer, (ii) a first matrix electrically addressable optical modulators with a controlled polarization plane rotation, that has M rows and N columns and (iii) a second matrix electrically addressable optical modulators with a controlled birefringence, that has M rows and N columns.
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26. The method of claim 19, wherein said decoding is performed using a controlled or static polarization filter that creates mutually orthogonal polarization states between adjacent columns of the decoding plane.
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27. The method of claim 26, wherein said polarization filter is (a) a linear polarization filter that creates mutually orthogonal linear polarization states between adjacent columns of the decoding plane or (b) a circular polarization filter that creates mutually orthogonal circular polarization states between adjacent columns of the decoding plane.
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