Abstract: A system to capture a plurality of two dimensional digital source images of a scene by a user, including a smart device having a memory device for storing an instruction, a processor in communication with the memory and configured to execute the instruction, a plurality of digital image capture devices in communication with the processor and each image capture device configured to capture a digital image of the scene, the plurality of digital image capture devices positioned linearly in series within approximately an interpupillary distance, wherein a first digital image capture devices is centered proximate a first end of the interpupillary distance, a second digital image capture devices is centered on a second end of the interpupillary distance, and any remaining the plurality of digital image capture devices are evenly spaced therebetween, and a display in communication with the processor, the display configured to display a multidimensional digital image.

Abstract: A gaming system and method where at least two player terminals, each including a seat, a display, inputs/outputs, a reader system, and an electro-mechanical component that provides a first gaming event unique to the terminal on which wagers can be placed and resolved based on a random event outcome. The system and method also includes a communal gaming system connected to terminals and including a processor and memory for storing code that executes a second gaming event that is common to each terminal and displayed on a display visible to each player of the terminals. The first gaming events are carried out on the terminals during or between each second gaming event.

Abstract: A detection method and system are used for a moving target based on multiple sensors on the same platform. N mutually independent image sensors arranged on a monolithic planar array sensor compose an image sensor group, which has a layout where n image sensors are arranged equidistantly on the same line in a travelling direction of a satellite. The method includes respectively collecting image data by the multiple sensors, performing on-board pre-processing to the image data collected by each image sensor, acquiring an image from the received pre-processed image data, and performing operation to the image from different image sensors, to recognize the moving target. The system includes sequentially connected sensor groups, an image data pre-processing device and a wireless transmitting device, a wireless receiving device wirelessly connected with the wireless transmitting device, and a moving target recognition device connected with the wireless receiving device.

Abstract: A method of generating an image to be observed as a stereoscopic image when viewed binocularly through an eye-side surface of a lenticular lens, in which a plurality of parallax images are arranged on a back surface of each of lenses of the lenticular lens or light beams corresponding to the plurality of images are input to the back surface, the method including parallax per unit length is made relatively smaller, in at least part, at a position closer to each edge of each lens in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the lens.

Abstract: A method for correcting images acquired via an asynchronous triggered acquisition, wherein image acquisition is triggered by a trigger signal based on the motion and/or position of the sample to be imaged by an image sensor, the method including: measurement of the motion and/or position of the sample; determination of an exposure time based on the aforementioned measurement; and correction of an acquired image based on the determined exposure time and a desired exposure time.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for sensing by a linear image sensor a two-dimensional image of an object to be sensed includes detecting a position of the object by a position sensor having a first resolution, picking up an image of the object being projected in a direction (V-scan direction) generally perpendicular to an internal scan (H-scan) direction of the linear image sensor in synchronism with relative movement between the object and the linear image sensor, periodically switching a pixel size along the V-scan direction between a plurality of predefined pixel sizes during the relative movement between the object and the linear image sensor in accordance with information of the relative movement detected by the position sensor, and producing from an output of the linear image sensor a two-dimensional image of the projected image having a second resolution of the object to be sensed. The second resolution is a higher resolution than the first resolution.

Abstract: Computerized method, processor and computer-readable medium are provided for stereoscopically and seamlessly imaging on a generally cylindrical screen. The method allows to configure imaging data for a plurality of selectable sub-screens encompassing the cylindrical screen. Each sub-screen includes a plurality of selectable strips axially extending relative to a corresponding sub-screen in the cylindrical screen. The method further allows to render two channels imaging data increments for each strip based on a parallax model with a reference line selectively rotatable to be in parallel alignment relative to each respective plane defined by each strip. The method allows to combine each imaging data increment corresponding to each strip in a respective sub-screen to generate stereoscopic imaging data for that respective sub-screen, and further combines each sub-screen imaging data to generate stereoscopic imaging data substantially encompassing the angular span of the cylindrical screen.

Abstract: A parallax image input apparatus for acquiring a plurality of images seen from different viewpoints, comprises an image forming device for forming images of the external world, and a parallax image pickup device for selectively imaging pieces of image information, which have passed through different positions in the image forming device, and converting the pieces of image information into image signals. The apparatus also comprises an image recording device for recording the image signals, which have been obtained from the parallax image pickup device. The apparatus has a simple constitution and easily obtains parallax images seen from many viewpoints.

Abstract: The invention is a method and apparatus for generating an autostereo image. The apparatus comprises at least one light source generating at least two views of an image, a parallax or "slit"-type barrier screen and at least one light-transmitting elements projecting the at least two different views provided by the light source at one or more apertures in the barrier screen. A viewer viewing the screen perceives an autostereo image as a result of the left and right eyes of the viewer seeing different views of the image. In one embodiment, the light source comprises at least one digital projector. In one embodiment, the light-transmitting elements comprise fiber optic strands. A first end of the strand is arranged to receive light projected by one of the light sources. A second end of the strand is arranged to project at a rear side of the barrier screen.

Abstract: A lens aperture of an autostereoscopic camera is moved in a parallax scanning pattern through a plurality of disparity positions offset from the optical axis of the camera lens. Images of a scene being photographed, as viewed through the lens aperture in its various disparity positions, are recorded for subsequent display, which produces a three dimensional illusion when viewed on a conventional display with the unaided eye. The size of the lens aperture and the parallax scanning pattern are adjustable to suit conditions. The lens aperture may be defined by a through-hole in an opaque card, a plurality of interleaved leaf elements, or a planar array of cells switched between transparent and opaque states. In addition to stereoscopic imaging, the moving lens aperture principle of the present invention may be utilized in range-finding and camera image stabilization applications.

Abstract: A cylindrical three dimensional picture capable of being viewed through an angle of 360.degree. includes a cylinder surrounded by a photograph, in turn surrounded by a lenticular lens or parallax barrier strip. The photograph is made from a photo emulsion that is exposed and subsequently developed for viewing. The photo emulsion is exposed to the subject, or images of the subject, through the lenticular lens or parallax barrier strip.

Abstract: The improved method and apparatus for recording a stereoscopic image read a plurality of original images photoelectrically, split each original image into linear images of a desired pitch, perform any necessary image processing operations such as arranging the linear images in the recording order, and record the linear images by scan exposure on a lenticular light-sensitive material having a lenticular sheet and a recording layer. The method and apparatus permit the lenticular light-sensitive material to be scan exposed from the rear side and they also enable the linear images to be recorded with increased line width and a stereoscopic image to be formed with satisfactory registration between the principal objects of the original images. The improved lenticular light-sensitive material has an anti-halation layer provided between the lenticular sheet and the recording layer, thus permitting scan exposure to be effected from the rear side.

Abstract: Process for the reproduction of three-dimensional static or moving images, in which the stills, in number greater than three, are positioned on a single film, projection is carried out in groups of stills which are projected through a single optical projection system, the optical path taken by the rays from the central still of each of these groups is not split by any lateral reflection, the remainder of the light rays from the remainder of the stills undergoes as many lateral reflections as indicated by the number of its position with respect to the central still, the stills on the film with an odd number of reflections being specularly inverted with respect to the stills which occupy even sites and the central one.

Abstract: A lens aperture of an autostereoscopic camera is moved in a parallax scanning pattern through a plurality of disparity positions offset from the optical axis of the camera lens. Images of a scene being photographed, as viewed through the lens aperture in its various disparity positions, are recorded for subsequent display in three dimensional illusion when viewed with the unaided eye. The size of the lens aperture and the parallax scanning pattern are adjustable to suit conditions. The lens aperture may be defined as a through-hole in an opaque card or a planar array of cells switched between transparent and opaque states. In addition to stereoscopic imaging, the moving lens aperture principle of the present invention may be utilized in range-finding and camera image stabilization applications.

Abstract: A cylindrical three dimensional picture capable of being viewed through an angle of 360.degree. includes a cylinder surrounded by a 3D photograph, in turn surrounded by a flexible lenticular lens through which a film strip, subsequently developed into the photograph, is exposed and the subsequent photograph viewed, resulting in an image of a subject which appears to have been shrunken and enclosed within the cylinder. The film strip is exposed to sequential multiple images taken of a subject by a multiple imaging camera as the subject rotates 360.degree.. The film strip is exposed to the multiple images through a lenticular lens as the lens and film are rotated 360.degree. in a first embodiment, and is exposed to the multiple images linearly through a flat lenticular lens as the lens moves linearly across the projection beam of the multiple images in a third embodiment of the invention.

Abstract: In the improved method for projection a stereoscopic image, an additional lenticular sheet that has an appropriate level difference and a different pitch of lenticular lenses than a lenticular recording material such as a lenticular light-sensitive material is either placed directly on top of said lenticular recording material or inserted above and in the vicinity of said lenticular recording material, with said additional lenticular sheet being preferably moved either in one direction or reciprocally in a direction generally perpendicular to its own generatrix. This method can be implemented with the improved apparatus for printing a stereoscopic photograph. Using the improved method and apparatus, the development of moire can be suppressed and, at the same time, the line width of linear image elements to be recorded can be easily expanded.

Abstract: Integrated process for three-dimensional taking, copying and reproducing of still and moving pictures, in which (a) the taking of still or moving three-dimensional pictures is done using conventional cameras which expose as many two-dimensional pictures as there are cameras, there are n cameras which are distributed in groups or supergroups, there being inserted between each two horizontal camera groups which have their optical axes mutually perpendicular a semitransparent plate forming 45.degree.

Abstract: In processing a plurality of original images from different viewpoints through a lenticular sheet having a plurality of lenticular lenses to form a plurality of corresponding linear picture elements that are to be projected on a picture element recording or display medium, the following steps are taken: launching the beams of light from the respective original images into one or a corresponding number of projection lenses; separating the transmitted beams for the respective original images by means of a mirror optical assembly consisting of mirror units each composed of at least two mirrors for each original image; adjusting the optical pathlengths of the beams to the picture element recording or display medium by means of the mirror assembly; adjusting the key subject matter in the mirror assembly so that it will register among the projected views of all original images; allowing the beams to be incident on lenticular lenses at predetermined projecting angles; and imaging those beams as linear picture elemen

Abstract: A sign having an array of elements each comprising a first lens, a second lens and an optical object in registry with the first and second lenses such that the virtual image of the optical object formed in the second lens lies in the focal surface of the first lens. The optical objects are a representation of the information which the sign is to present. The image of the optical objects seen by a viewer moving past the sign appears to be stationary with respect to the viewer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the provision of stereoscopic three-dimensional images applicable in visual representations such as photographs, paintings, pictures and other patterns or diagrams on a surface which could be produced by other means; to kinematic images which might, for example, be employed in a cinema; to projected still images; to advertisements in these mediums; to book illustrations and decorations such, for example, as murals, and upholstered curtains. This invention provides a swopping over or reversal of positions of two stereoscopic images as compared to the presentation of stereoscopic images which has been heretofore employed. This presentation permits a viewer to see a three-dimensional image without any optical aids being necessary, merely by "squinting" the eyes slightly.

Abstract: A method for high-speed and simultaneous printing of a number of 3-D photographs by utilizing a printer with a wide field of coverage so that all of the 2-D views required to produce a 3-D photograph are projected simultaneously onto the number of 3-D photographs corresponding to the number of 2-D negatives utilized. All of the 3-D print materials advance to the next position for printing until all of the image bands are filled with a portion of the appropriate 2-D view. A high speed printer with a wide field of coverage capable of simultaneously projecting all of the 2-D views required to produce a 3-D picture onto a number of 3-D prints which may have a computer or microprocessor controlling the exposure and moving the 3-D print material between exposures.

Abstract: Device for reproducing stationary or three-dimensional images by projection, the photographing being effected through several objectives, each located at a different position in space; in the reproduction system, the different images, if not reproduced on a diffusion surface, do not need to be distinguished by their position on it; the projection is effected directly onto a transparent optical system, the images being distinguished from each other by their angle of projection; this optical system is formed of a sheet of vertical cylindrical lenses, the transverse size of which is not conditioned by the number of images and the aperture of which is independent of the orthoscopic viewing angle, and of a sheet of horizontal cylindrical lenses of short focal length and arbitrarily small size constituting a reproduction system which is easy to manufacture and can be adapted to any viewing angle, giving a different image at each point of viewing.

Abstract: System capable of reproducing high quality moving three-dimensional images with a non limited orthoscopic viewing angle consisting of the projection of several images PR.sub.1. PR.sub.2 . . . PRn, taken from several different spatial positions onto a transparent optical system; this transparent optical system is composed, in its front part, of an optical sheet of vertical cylinders (1) of small enough transverse dimensions so as to be imperceptible, such that the relationship between its transverse dimensions d and its focal length f is at least greater than the value obtained when dividing the distance between two adjacent projectors K.sub.

Abstract: A system of three-dimensional projection comprising in combination a screen and a viewer, said viewer embodying a mask containing see-through slits, means for projecting at least two different perspectives on the screen and means for effecting movement of the viewer to traverse the mask from left to right and from right to left such that from a given vantage point, each of the beholder's eyes sees a different perspective view, each of which is formed by the scanning motion of the screen at a rate such as to provide the illusion of an image continuous in both time and space.

Abstract: My invention is a threee-dimensional motion picture capture and reproduction method and apparatus that allows multiple viewers to simultaneously watch the reproduction of recorded or real time 3-D pictures without the need for any special optical aids at their eyes. The playback system is compatible with all current forms of film format, television cameras, video recorders and computer graphic signls and synthesizes three-dimensional images from several lateral vantage points in the scene. Scene capture is achieved by computer graphic synthesis, a single translating camera, a few cameras or multiple stationary cameras. The playback equipment consists or multiple stationary projectors with active (light emitting) image planes, astigmatic low f-number projection lenses and a semi-specular screen. The screen vertically scatters the light and either horizontally retro-reflects or plane-mirror reflects the projected light.

Abstract: Three-dimensional display apparatus including the combination of a cathode ray tube having a viewing face, and a line screen assembly positioned in a predetermined relationship with the viewing face. The line screen assembly includes a first line screen disposed towards the viewing face and has a number of blocking portions spaced by transparent portions. The line screen assembly also includes a second line screen positioned substantially parallel to and spaced from first line screen. The second line screen also has a number of blocking portions spaced by transparent portions. The blocking portions of the second line screen are in alignment with the transparent portions of the first line screen. Three-dimensional projection display apparatus is also disclosed.

Abstract: An autostereoscopic picture is produced in which the width of the lineiform image bands of the stereo pairs within each lenticule are varied and adjusted to compensate for the visual parallax between the stereo pairs of the 3-D photograph according to the depth of field of each 3-D photograph in order to accommodate the interoccular distance and viewing angle of the eyes to improve the depth-of-field and 3-D effect of each 3-D photograph.

Abstract: My invention is a three-dimensional motion picture capture and reproduction method and apparatus that allows multiple viewers to simultaneously watch the reproduction of recorded or real time 3-D pictures without the need for any special optical aids at their eyes. The playback system is compatible with all current forms of film format, television cameras and video recorders and synthesizes three-dimensional images from several lateral vantage points in the scene. The playback equipment uses a single lamp and a circular and slowly rotating platform upon which several identical projectors are affixed. The angular velocity of each projection lens node and its corresponding image surface is identical to achieve image motion compensation. Multiple images are simultaneously projected in the direction of a concaved screen through the rotation axis or another point closer to the screen. The screen is semi-specular with horizontal reflecting and vertical scatter properties.

Abstract: This invention is an improved synchronized autostereoscopic display device whereby luminous images originating from any transmittance media capable of pictoral image display are both projected from separate fixed positions, each originating from its respective barrier grid cylinder, which said images are gathered by an optical assembly and conveyed by a rotating mirror assembly to a rear-view screen. This vertical picture plane rotates horizontally at high speed enabling each observer the reception of an autostereoscopic image when a complete left and right eye image is viewed by each appropriate eye at interocular distance through a spinning synchronized image separating barrier.The invention provides full freedom and choice of seating arrangement within a volumetric audience viewing zone which is perceptually devoid of psuedoscopy.

Abstract: My invention relates to photographing scenes with a standard motion picture camera in which there is a relative motion between the scene and camera with the purpose of stereoscopic viewing of the motion picture without the need for viewing aids at the eye. The system is compatible with scenes photographed without this relative motion but the reproduction is flat. The film (or other appropriate media) is arrayed in a vertical plane and constrained to move horizontally around a segment of a circle of radius 2R. At the center of the film circle is a film motion compensator which can be a multi-faceted mirror drum of radius R. The film is rapidly scanned about the center of this circle by a scan projector. Projection optics on the projector, project the sequential film frames onto a relatively large circular cylindrical semi-specular screen.

Abstract: A stereoscopic picture viewing system having pairs of precisely aligned stereoscopic images arranged in rows on image carriers, with at least two pairs of images on each row, and with one image of each pair located between the two images of a different pair. In one embodiment, the image carriers are circular disks, with the image rows extending radially, and preferably having supplementary key indications at the inner radial ends of each row and in the spaces between the outer ends of successive rows. In another embodiment, the image carriers are long strips of wide film, either still film strips or motion picture film, with the image rows extending transversely across the width of the film strip.

Abstract: 3-D television without glasses having horizontal parallax and operating over standard single channel bandwidth is implemented by using two television cameras aligned in the same plane, a 2:1 bandwidth compression and a receiver that processes the two views one scan line at a time using successive element correlation within common scan lines to synthesize N views in-between the two received views. The television receiver/projector contains an optical scanner with a central projection lamp, N+2 small full frame Charge Couple Device Liquid Crystal Light Valve (CCDLCLV) television modulation array surfaces and is driven by N+2 views of the scene. N+2 views are sequentially projected by the optical scanner to a semi-specular screen that returns all projected light to a horizontally moving vertical aerial exit slit (having no physical properties) resulting in the accurate reconstruction of continuous scene horizontal parallax for simultaneous view by several observers.

Abstract: My invention relates to stereoscopic television using relative camera to scene translating motion and does not require optical aids at observer's eyes, presents a horizontal parallax (Hologram like) 3-D full motion scene to a wide audience, has no dead zones or pseudo 3-D zones over the entire horizontal viewing field and operates on standard broadcast television signals requiring no changes to the television studio equipment or the home television antenna. The only change required at the receiving end is a special television projector. The system is compatible with prerecorded standard color television signals. The cathode ray tube is eliminated by substituting an array of solid state charge couple device liquid crystal light valves which have the property to receive television fields in parallel from memory and which are arrayed in an arc for scanning purposes. The array contains a scrolled sequence of successive television frames which serve as the basis for 3-D horizontal viewing parallax.

Abstract: My invention relates to photographing scenes with a standard motion picture camera in which there is a relative motion between the scene and camera with the purpose of stereoscopic viewing of the motion picture without the need for viewing aids at the eye. The system is compatible with scenes photographed without this relative motion but the reproduction is flat. The film (or other appropriate media) is arrayed in a vertical plane and constrained to move horizontally around a segment of a circle of radius 2R. At the center of the film circle is a film motion compensator which can be a multi-faceted mirror drum of radius R. The film is rapidly scanned about the center of this circle by a scan projector. Projection optics on the projector, project the sequential film frames onto a relatively large circular cylindrical screen having its vertical axis coincident with the projector axis.

Abstract: The invention involves theatre size stereoscopic motion pictures without glasses and without restricted viewing zones and which can be photographed with a standard motion picture camera. Relative lateral motion is required between the camera and the scene. The film is run horizontally through a scan projector in which a given scene on the screen is constructed from several adjacent scenes on the film. The scanned stereoscopic picture can be viewed from different perspectives. A central 3-facet scanning projector of small mass and radius projects over a 120.degree. sector onto triangular elemental mirror scanners causing the node of the image of the projection lens to sweep a large radius about the projector center. From the scanner the sweeping optical axis of the projector passes through the rotation axis where the picture is imaged onto a concentric semi-specular screen. Three vertical concentrically moving aerial viewing slits are generated 120.degree.

Abstract: My invention relates to photographing scenes with standard motion picture photographic equipment where multiple views of a subject are photographed while the subject rests on a moving turntable and the stationary camera has its optical axis pointed at the turntable rotation axis or where the subject is stationary and the camera effectively moves in an arc about an axis located between the camera and scene.The surface of the processed film (or other appropriate media) is arrayed in a vertical plane and constrained to move horizontally around a portion of a circle. Film images are scanned by a light source and radially projected in a direction away from a vertical rotation axis. Concentric with the vertical axis are the semi-specular screen of radius R and the scanning projector circle of radius close to R/3. The screen reflects projected light in a horizontal plane and scatters projected light in a vertical plane.

Abstract: My invention relates to photographing scenes with standard motion picture photographic equipment in which there is a relative motion between the scene and camera with the purpose of stereoscopic viewing of the motion picture or stationary reproduction without the need for viewing aids at the eyes. The system is compatible with scenes photographed without this relative motion, where with the reproduction is viewed in conventional two dimensions.The surface of the processed film (or other appropriate media) is arrayed in a vertical plane and constrained to move horizontally around a segment of a circle of radius 2R. At the center of the film circle is a film motion compensator which can be a multi faceted mirror drum of radius R. The film is rapidly scanned about the center of this circle by a light source directed through the film and toward the center of the mirror drum.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for aiding a photographer in determining, coordinating and adjusting numerous variables which bear on the quality of a stereoscopic picture employing a lenticular screen. The variables may include, depending upon the photographic method employed and the scene to be photographed, the desired size of the stereoscopic picture, the resolving power and lenticule width of the lenticular screen; the number and size of two-dimensional picture negatives which are taken and included in the stereoscopic picture, the distance between adjacent camera vantage points from which the negatives are taken, the camera focal length, the distance from the camera to the nearest element or object of the photographed scene, the distance from the camera to the farthest element or object of the scene, and the distance from the camera to an element or object -- the "key subject matter" -- in the scene which is to lie in the plane of the stereoscopic picture.

Abstract: Photographic apparatus employing a single color filter for use in conjunction with a camera to produce a decodable composite image of a scene, which image has a three dimensional quality when decoded. The composite image is formed of two images, each image representing the scene from a different line of sight.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for aiding a photographer in determining, coordinating and adjusting numerous variables which bear on the quality of a stereoscopic picture employing a lenticular screen. The variables may include, depending upon the photographic method employed and the scene to be photographed, the desired size of the stereoscopic picture, the resolving power and lenticule width of the lenticular screen, the number and size of two-dimensional picture negatives which are taken and included in the stereoscopic picture, the distance between adjacent camera vantage points from which the negatives are taken, the camera focal length, the distance from the camera to the nearest element or object of the photographed scene, the distance from the camera to the farthest element or object of the scene, and the distance from the camera to an element or object -- the "key subject matter" -- in the scene which is to lie in the plane of the stereoscopic picture.