Touch Sensitive Holographic Displays
First Claim
1. A touch sensitive holographic image display device for holographically projecting a touch sensitive displayed image at an acute angle onto a surface on which the device is placed, the device comprising:
- holographic image projection optics comprising at least one coherent light source;
a remote touch sensing system to remotely detect a touch of a location within or adjacent to said displayed image and having a touch data output to provide detected touch data; and
a configuration having a first input coupled to receive said detected touch data wherein said control system is configured to control said device responsive to remote detection of a touch of a said location within or adjacent to said displayed image; and
wherein the device further comprises;
a device data input to receive data defining an image for display;
wherein said holographic image projection optics comprises a spatial light modulator (SLM) illuminated by said coherent light source and output optics to project modulated coherent light from said SLM onto said surface at said acute angle; and
wherein said control system includes memory for storing said data defining said image for display and has a second input coupled to receive said data defining said image for display and an output for driving said SLM to display hologram data on said SLM to replay said displayed image on said surface.
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Abstract
We describe a touch sensitive holographic image display device for holographically projecting a touch sensitive image at an acute angle onto a surface on which the device is placed. The device includes holographic image projection optics comprising at least one coherent light source illuminating a spatial light modulator (SLM), output optics to project a hologram onto an acute angle surface, and a remote touch sensing system to remotely detect a touch of a location within or adjacent to the holographically displayed image. A control system is configured to provide data defining an image for display, to receive detected touch data, and to control the device responsive to remote detection of a touch of a the displayed image.
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38 Claims
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1. A touch sensitive holographic image display device for holographically projecting a touch sensitive displayed image at an acute angle onto a surface on which the device is placed, the device comprising:
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holographic image projection optics comprising at least one coherent light source; a remote touch sensing system to remotely detect a touch of a location within or adjacent to said displayed image and having a touch data output to provide detected touch data; and a configuration having a first input coupled to receive said detected touch data wherein said control system is configured to control said device responsive to remote detection of a touch of a said location within or adjacent to said displayed image; and wherein the device further comprises; a device data input to receive data defining an image for display; wherein said holographic image projection optics comprises a spatial light modulator (SLM) illuminated by said coherent light source and output optics to project modulated coherent light from said SLM onto said surface at said acute angle; and wherein said control system includes memory for storing said data defining said image for display and has a second input coupled to receive said data defining said image for display and an output for driving said SLM to display hologram data on said SLM to replay said displayed image on said surface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A restaurant menu display and food ordering device comprising a touch sensitive holographic image display device, memory storing data for a plurality of menus for display together with menu link data defining links between the menus, and price data, and further comprising a bidirectional communications link for receiving said price data and for transmitting a customer order, and a system controller configured to display selected said menus response to a said customer touching menu link regions of said displayed menus, a said menu link region being associated with said link data to define selected menu to display in response to detection of touching of a said link region, and to input an order for one or both of food and drink by detection of said customer touching one or more touch sensitive order regions of a said menu displayed by the display device, and to transmit said order to a remote computer system for output for fulfilling the order.
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33. A touch sensitive holographic image display device for holographically projecting a touch sensitive displayed image onto a curved display surface, the device comprising:
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a spatial light modulator (SLM) to display a hologram; an illumination system to illuminate said displayed hologram; projection optics to project light from said illuminated displayed hologram onto said display surface to form said image; and a processor having an input to received image data for display and having an output for driving said SLM, and wherein said processor is configured to process said image data to generated hologram data for display on said SLM to form said image on said display surface; non-volatile data memory coupled to said processor to store wavefront correction data for said display surface; wherein said processor is configured to apply a wavefront correction responsive to said stored wavefront correction data when generating said hologram data to correct said image for aberration due to a shape of said display surface; a touch sensing system to detect touch of said display surface and having a touch data output to provide detected touch data; and a control system configured to control said device responsive to detection of a touch of said displayed image. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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