Abstract: A three-dimensional imaging system based on a stereo hologram is disclosed. Images composed of sub-images having the same vertical-horizontal resolutions which are generated at plural image projection modules having a two-dimensional arrangement structure are projected to a prism array plate or a transmission-type diffusion plate, and are converted into light points, i.e., image points through a microlens array unit. A diffusion plate used as an image display screen is mounted to a position at which images diffused from the light points intersect with images diffused from the adjacent light points.

Abstract: A three-dimensional imaging system based on a stereo hologram is disclosed. Images composed of sub-images having the same vertical-horizontal resolutions which are generated at plural image projection modules having a two-dimensional arrangement structure are projected to a prism array plate or a transmission-type diffusion plate, and are converted into light points, i.e., image points through a microlens array unit. A diffusion plate used as an image display screen is mounted to a position at which images diffused from the light points intersect with images diffused from the adjacent light points.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying a multiview autostereoscopic image are provided. The apparatus, for displaying an autostereoscopic image, includes: a light source unit; and a display panel which displays an image by modulating light from the light source unit and having a plurality of pixel groups, wherein each of the pixel groups comprises a plurality of whole pixels and at least one fraction pixel, and in each of the whole pixels and the fraction pixel, image information of a viewpoint different from each other is displayed.

Abstract: A method of removing a Moire pattern in a 3D image display apparatus using complete parallax. The method of removing a Moire pattern in a 3D image displaying system with an image display device having an image display panel and a unit for providing complete parallax, by intersecting the image display panel and the unit with each other at a predetermined angle. The unit is an intersection lenticular plate or a micro lens array plate located at a front or rear of the image display panel.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying a multiview autostereoscopic image are provided. The apparatus, for displaying an autostereoscopic image, includes: a light source unit; and a display panel which displays an image by modulating light from the light source unit and having a plurality of pixel groups, wherein each of the pixel groups comprises a plurality of whole pixels and at least one fraction pixel, and in each of the whole pixels and the fraction pixel, image information of a viewpoint different from each other is displayed.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel; a light source unit including a plurality of first point light sources and a plurality of second point light sources, wherein the point light sources supply light to the display panel; an optical film including a plurality of openings, wherein each opening exposes a first point light source, and is provided between the display panel and the light source unit at a distance from the light source unit; and a light source driver which supplies a driving power to the first point light sources if a three-dimensional image is displayed on the display panel, and supplies the driving power to the second point light sources if a two-dimensional image is displayed on the display panel.

Abstract: A 3D image displaying unit in which 2D and 3D images are interchangeable. The 3D image displaying unit includes an image display panel which displays 2D or 3D images, and an optical plate which is provided behind the image display panel and refracts an incident light to the image display panel. Also, the 3D image displaying unit includes a first flat display device which displays a multi-viewpoint image in a case where the 3D image is displayed, and is transparent in a case where the 2D image is displayed, an optical plate which refracts lights that are incident from the first flat display device and provides parallax in a predetermined direction, and a display unit which provides the lights that pass through the optical plate with a parallax in the vertical direction to a parallax provided by the optical plate in the case where the 3D image is displayed, and displays the corresponding 2D image in the case where the 2D image is displayed.

Abstract: A method of forming pixel cell for three-dimensional image display is provided. The method of forming pixel cell according to this invention relates to a method of forming pixel-cell in a three-dimensional image display system including an image display panel in which a plurality of unit patterns are arranged in a vertical direction and horizontal direction and an optical plate having repetitive pattern. The method according to this invention comprising regarding each side of rhombus pattern having an arbitrary vertex angle as a straight line having a predetermined slant; calculating a number of unit pattern in vertical direction and a number of unit pattern in horizontal direction, corresponding to said predetermined slant; approximating said predetermined slant to stepped patterns with said number of unit pattern in vertical direction and said number of unit pattern in horizontal direction; and forming said pixel cell using said stepped patterns.

Abstract: A method of producing a big size holographic screen for projection of the stereoscopic or multiview 3-dimensional color images is proposed, where a narrow and elongate slit-shaped diffuser is recorded on the hologram as an object to ensure the well defined viewing zone forming in course of the image projection. As compared with the previous art the diffuser length is increased by the calculated value to provide undistorted color reproduction on whole screen surface. The parameters required for the recording of the holographic screen, including the position of a photoplate with respect to the diffuser, the position of a reference wave point source with respect to the diffuser, the distance from which an image is observed and so on are determined by consideration of the phase relationships between the reference, object, projector and reconstructed waves on the photoplate surface.

Abstract: A method of removing a Moire pattern in a 3D image display apparatus using complete parallax. The method of removing a Moire pattern in a 3D image displaying system with an image display device having an image display panel and a unit for providing complete parallax, by intersecting the image display panel and the unit with each other at a predetermined angle. The unit is an intersection lenticular plate or a micro lens array plate located at a front or rear of the image display panel.

Abstract: A 3D image displaying unit in which 2D and 3D images are interchangeable. The 3D image displaying unit includes an image display panel which displays 2D or 3D images, and an optical plate which is provided behind the image display panel and refracts an incident light to the image display panel. Also, the 3D image displaying unit includes a first flat display device which displays a multi-viewpoint image in a case where the 3D image is displayed, and is transparent in a case where the 2D image is displayed, an optical plate which refracts lights that are incident from the first flat display device and provides parallax in a predetermined direction, and a display unit which provides the lights that pass through the optical plate with a parallax in the vertical direction to a parallax provided by the optical plate in the case where the 3D image is displayed, and displays the corresponding 2D image in the case where the 2D image is displayed.

Abstract: A method of forming pixel cell for three-dimensional image display is provided. The method of forming pixel cell according to this invention relates to a method of forming pixel-cell in a three-dimensional image display system including an image display panel in which a plurality of unit patterns are arranged in a vertical direction and horizontal direction and an optical plate having repetitive pattern. The method according to this invention comprising regarding each side of rhombus pattern having an arbitrary vertex angle as a straight line having a predetermined slant; calculating a number of unit pattern in vertical direction and a number of unit pattern in horizontal direction, corresponding to said predetermined slant; approximating said predetermined slant to stepped patterns with said number of unit pattern in vertical direction and said number of unit pattern in horizontal direction; and forming said pixel cell using said stepped patterns.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a stereoscopic image display system using polarization characteristics of a liquid crystal display panel, which realizes a stereoscopic image by disposing in an entrance pupil or in an exit pupil of a projection lens a polarization plate arranged for two polarization plates of an circular polarization opposite to each other in polarization directions or two linear polarization plates having a polarization direction of a 90 degree difference to each other to be fitted in the left and right sides on a center line, projecting left and right images of a display device panel on a screen through a projection lens in the left and right polarization directions of the polarization plate, splitting an image of the polarization plate, that is, the left and right images through viewing zones, and forming the viewing zones which can view images corresponding to the left and right eyes having the same polarization as the polarization plate.

Abstract: One embodiment of a back lighting apparatus of a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a light source for generating light, a plurality of optical fibers having both ends optically connected with the light source and a part of the optical fibers attached to the back surface of the liquid crystal display panel. Each optical fiber has one or more diffusion lines for scattering light from the light source to a pixel line of the liquid crystal display panel, thereby lighting the entire portion of the back surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The apparatus has a support plate for fixing the optical fibers to the back surface of the liquid crystal display panel, and an optical diffusing unit for optically connecting the light source to the optical fibers. The present invention can improve the resolution of a liquid crystal display apparatus and allow implementation of a 3D image.

Abstract: The present invention employs a beam dividing prism corresponding to a size of a single pixel on a screen in order to create a plurality of viewing zones for multi-viewer, in which a prism panel having an 1-dimensional or 2-dimensional arrangement of a prism cell for dispersing beam in various directions is coupled to the 3-dimensional image projection screen in order to increase the number of the viewing zones, and in which the number and position of the available viewing zones are determined by the number and a relative position of disperse surfaces in the prism cell. By using the present invention, the desired number of the viewing zones can be created by selectively adopting the prism cells, so realizing the 3-dimensional image display system for multi-viewer.

Abstract: A multi-view image display system provides a plurality of multi-view three-dimensional (3-D) images, using the mask type of image arrangement plate where the images grouped by corresponding pixels are arranged in a same order as that of the pixels. Each pixel cell is provided with an image display region which is divided into a plurality of subcells arranged depending on arrangement structure of the viewing zones, and each of the subcells transmits or reflects the lights from point light sources using its whole area, thereby allowing the transmitted or reflected lights to be collected in each of the viewing zones to form each of the view images.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a multiview 3D image display device which decreases the size of system and has a high resolution of images, and which can thus improve the quality of images.

Abstract: A multi-layer image display system and method thereof, in which liquid crystal type image display units for displaying the images according to depth necessary for obtaining the stereoscopic image are arranged according to layers at a predetermined interval without overlapping each other along the rotary axis and rotated as displayed the layer image corresponding to each image display unit, by which the screen is on to express the stereoscopic image when each image display unit arrives at the user's position; and another method in which the reflector or half mirror is installed instead of the image display unit and the layer image corresponding to the relative depth of the reflector or half mirror is synchronized with the rotation speed to express the stereoscopic image in the fixed high speed display device.

Abstract: A multi-layer image display system and method thereof, in which liquid crystal type image display units for displaying the images according to depth necessary for obtaining the stereoscopic image are arranged according to layers at a predetermined interval without overlapping each other along the rotary axis and rotated as displayed the layer image corresponding to each image display unit, by which the screen is on to express the stereoscopic image when each image display unit arrives at the user's position; and another method in which the reflector or half mirror is installed instead of the image display unit and the layer image corresponding to the relative depth of the reflector or half mirror is synchronized with the rotation speed to express the stereoscopic image in the fixed high speed display device.

Abstract: An optical sensing apparatus for use in a ring laser interferometer measuring a physical quantity of an object includes a ring laser cavity formed by several internal mirrors, of which at least two internal mirrors are partly light-transmitting. The ring laser cavity generates two laser beams of an identical wavelength, the two laser beams propagating in counter direction to each other in the ring laser cavity. External mirrors are disposed at a distance from the ring laser cavity, whereby portions of the two laser beams, which pass through the internal mirrors and travel on optical paths toward the external mirrors, are reflected back into the ring laser cavity. The apparatus further includes at least one platform for mounting the external mirrors.