For Synthetically Generating A Hologram Patents (Class 359/9)
  • Publication number: 20150116800
    Abstract: The phase of laser light is modulated by a phase modulating array, and a hologram image is projected on a rotating screen. Light emission of the laser light is driven by PWM modulation so that a light emission period and a non-light emission period following the light emission period are repeated. In a case where the luminance of the hologram image is changed, the duty ratio of the light emission period is changed. In a case where the luminance is significantly reduced, the light emission intensity of the laser light is reduced without changing the duty ratio. Since the duty ratio is not reduced, a light diffusion condition on the rotating screen can be randomized even in a case where the luminance is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Toru Yoshida, Satoshi Terashita, Tsukasa Mizusawa, Yoshihiro Someno
  • Publication number: 20150116798
    Abstract: A holographic display system for generating a super hologram with full parallax in different fields of view in the horizontal and vertical directions. The display system includes assemblies or subsystems each adapted to combine holographic displays and coarse integral displays to produce or display a coarse integral hologram. The display system is adapted to combine such displays or display systems to add more detail or information. For example, the display system can be assembled as if it were made up of “holographic bricks” that can be stacked and combined to provide a unique image/output. Briefly, the display system described herein teaches techniques for combining coarse integral holographic (CIH) displays in a seamless and scalable manner, e.g., a display system where multiple spatial light modulators (SLMs) can be placed or provided behind coarse integral optics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: QUINN Y. SMITHWICK
  • Patent number: 9019584
    Abstract: A holographic image display system comprises a screen, a first and a second light source, a scanning mechanism, and a controller. The screen includes a photochromic material arranged thereon. The photochromic material has light absorption characteristics which change depending on illumination with a wavelength of an ultraviolet light beam. The first light source directs a visible light beam with a sufficiently large diameter onto the screen, whereas the second light source directs an ultraviolet light beam onto the screen through the scanning mechanism. The controller controls emissions and scanning of the ultraviolet light beam based on a holographic signal so that the ultraviolet light beam can be scanned across the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Eiji Yamaichi
  • Publication number: 20150085331
    Abstract: A holographic display apparatus is provided. The holographic display apparatus may include an input optical unit to illuminate coherent parallel light to a spatial light modulator (SLM), the SLM to generate a plurality of hologram-modulated diffraction beams by illuminating the coherent parallel light in a plurality of directions, or to generate hologram-modulated higher-order diffraction beams by illuminating the coherent parallel light in a single direction, and an optical imaging unit to reproduce at least one holographic three-dimensional (3D) image with different viewpoints on a single imaging area, using the generated at least one diffraction beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Byung Gyu CHAE
  • Publication number: 20150085069
    Abstract: Technologies are generally related to holographic imaging. In some examples, techniques are described for generating a holographic image of an object using a plurality of light sources, a shutter, and an image sensor array. Each of the light sources is configured to generate a light beam using a respective wavelength in a different range. In various examples, an apparatus as described here may be configured to control the shutter to receive the light beams from the plurality of light sources and selectively pass each of the received light beams to provide a selected light beam. The apparatus may further include a beam splitter and a mirror unit configured to generate an object light beam and a reference light beam from the selected light beam. The apparatus may include an image sensor array configured to detect an image of interference caused by the reference light beam and the object light beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Eiji Yamaichi
  • Publication number: 20150077818
    Abstract: Fast processing of information represented in digital holograms is provided to facilitate converting a complex Fresnel hologram into a single phase-only hologram, which can be called a bidirectional error diffusion (BERD) hologram, for displaying 3-D holographic images representative of a 3-D object scene on a display device. The BERD hologram can be capable of representing a 3-D object scene and preserving favorable visual quality on the reconstructed holographic image. A holographic generator component (HGC) can receive or generate a complex Fresnel hologram representing a 3-D object scene. The HGC can directly apply the BERD process to the complex Fresnel hologram to facilitate converting the complex Fresnel hologram into a phase-only hologram. Alternatively, the HGC can directly apply a unidirectional error diffusion process to the complex Fresnel hologram to facilitate converting the complex Fresnel hologram into a phase-only hologram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventor: Peter Wai Ming Tsang
  • Publication number: 20150077819
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for imaging a phase or amplitude that characterizes a scattered field emanating from a physical medium. A local probe is stepped to a plurality of successive probe positions and illuminated with an illuminating beam, while a specified phase function is imposed on a reference beam relative to the illuminating beam. A field associated with the scattered field is superimposed with the reference beam and the detection of both yields a detected signal which is recorded as a function of probe position in order to obtain a hologram. The holograph is transformed, filtered, and retransformed to generate an image. Alternatively, the illuminating beam may directly illuminate successive positions of the physical medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Martin Schnell, Rainer Hillenbrand, Paul Scott Carney
  • Patent number: 8982438
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a recording light source configured to emit recording beams, an EASLM configured to time sequentially modulate the recording beams emitted from the recording light source according to hologram information corresponding to a 3-dimensional image spatially divided into a plurality of portions, an OASLM configured to include a plurality of regions corresponding to the plurality of the divided portions of the 3-dimensional image and images on a region corresponding to the portions using the modulated recording beams to form a hologram, a scanning optical unit configured to reproduce the hologram formed by the recording beams serially modulated by the EASLM on a reduced scale and transmit the hologram to the regions of the OASLM corresponding to the portions, and a reproducing light source configured to produce a surface light and emit the surface light to the OASLM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyu-hwan Choi, Hoon Song, Hong-seok Lee, Yoon-sun Choi, Jung-mok Bae, Seung-hoon Han
  • Patent number: 8958137
    Abstract: A holographic display including light sources (LS1, LS2, . . . ) in a 2D light source array, lenses (L1, L2, . . . ) in a 2D lens array, a spatial light modulator (SLM) and a beamsplitter, in which there are m light sources per lens, and the light sources are in m-to-one correspondence with the lenses. The beamsplitter splits the rays leaving the SLM into two bundles, one of which illuminates the virtual observer windows for m left eyes and the other illuminates the virtual observer windows for m right eyes. In one example, m=1. An advantage is 2D-encoding with vertical and horizontal focusing and vertical and horizontal motion parallax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Seereal Technologies S.A.
    Inventor: Ralf Haussler
  • Publication number: 20150036199
    Abstract: A method of computing a hologram by determining the wavefronts at the approximate observer eye position that would be generated by a real version of an object to be reconstructed. In normal computer generated holograms, one determines the wavefronts needed to reconstruct an object; this is not done directly in the present invention. Instead, one determines the wavefronts at an observer window that would be generated by a real object located at the same position of the reconstructed object. One can then back-transforms these wavefronts to the hologram to determine how the hologram needs to be encoded to generate these wavefronts. A suitably encoded hologram can then generate a reconstruction of the three-dimensional scene that can be observed by placing one's eyes at the plane of the observer window and looking through the observer window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Norbert LEISTER, Ralf HAUSSLER, Armin SCHWERDTNER
  • Publication number: 20150029566
    Abstract: A method for coding at least one holographic pattern recording a light signal representative of light received by a perspective object in a scene. The method includes: determining, from the light signal and for each point xj(1?j?M) of the holographic pattern, a set of N light rays passing through the point and corresponding respectively to N different viewing positions for viewing the pattern; generating from the M sets of N determined light rays, a plurality N of two-dimensional views of the object corresponding respectively to the N viewing positions of the pattern, by causing M determined rays to intersect at each of the viewing positions that are contained in a viewing plane parallel to a plane containing the holographic pattern; arranging the N generated views as a multi-view image of the object, the N views corresponding respectively to sub-images of the multi-view image; and compressing the multi-view image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Patrick Gioia
  • Publication number: 20150029565
    Abstract: Provided are a device and a method for feedback based digital holographic content reconstruction verification. The device may include a generator to generate a holographic content by receiving a first parameter value, a reconstructor to reconstruct a hologram from the holographic content, and a feedback based interface to adjust the first parameter value to be a second parameter value by receiving feedback on the hologram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Wook Ho SON
  • Patent number: 8941902
    Abstract: A method of computing a hologram for reconstructing an object using a display device. The display device enables a holographic reconstruction of the object. The display device includes a light source and an optical system to illuminate a hologram-bearing medium being encodable with the hologram. The method includes the steps of: (a) computing the hologram by determining the wavefronts at an approximate observer eye position that would be generated by a real version of the object to be reconstructed; and (b) encoding the computed hologram in the hologram-bearing medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: SeeReal Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Schwerdtner
  • Patent number: 8941903
    Abstract: A laser processing apparatus including a laser light source, a phase modulation type spatial light modulator, a driving unit, a control unit, and an imaging optical system. A storage unit that is included in the driving unit stores a plurality of basic holograms corresponding to a plurality of basic processing patterns and a focusing hologram corresponding to a Fresnel lens pattern. The control unit arranges in parallel two or more basic holograms selected from the plurality of basic holograms stored in the storage unit, overlaps the focusing hologram with each of the basic holograms arranged in parallel to form the whole hologram, and presents the formed whole hologram to the spatial light modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Yuu Takiguchi, Naoya Matsumoto, Norihiro Fukuchi, Takashi Inoue, Tamiki Takemori, Naohisa Mukozaka
  • Patent number: 8937759
    Abstract: A modular routing node includes a single input port and a plurality of output ports. The modular routing node is arranged to produce a plurality of different deflections and uses small adjustments to compensate for wavelength differences and alignment tolerances in an optical system. An optical device is arranged to receive a multiplex of many optical signals at different wavelengths, to separate the optical signals into at least two groups, and to process at least one of the groups adaptively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Melanie Holmes
  • Publication number: 20150015928
    Abstract: Method of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) Analysis for collecting waveforms and other vibrational intelligence and modulating or embedding same into one or more coherent reference beams of an n-dimensional holographic recording device for producing one or more holograms of objects, including singularity points in space. The result provides wholesale differentiation of waveforms distinguishable from others based on their spectral characteristics. When said holograms are presented with reference beams of vibrational waveforms having similar characteristics to those which were present during recording of the original objects, phantoms of the original objects or subjects will reconstruct themselves in space with an energy glow of intensity that varies thusly with the degree of similarity between the waveform modulations of the reconstructing wavefronts and those of that same which were used to originally record said objects. Said n-dimensional description space can be sampled of the said glowing phantoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Eric John Dluhos, Bradley Lloyd Wilk
  • Publication number: 20150009546
    Abstract: This invention relates to holographic film for recording multicolor volume holograms, especially full color volume reflection holograms, and to manufacturing techniques for such film, and to corresponding methods of recording multicolor and full-color volume, in particular volume reflection holograms. We describe a holographic film for recording a multicolor volume hologram, the film comprising: a carrier; a first photosensitive recording layer sensitive to one or both of red and green laser light; and a second photosensitive recording layer sensitive to blue laser light. Both the first and second photosensitive recording layers comprise silver halide and have a grain size of less than 30 nm, and at least one of the photosensitive recording layers has a thickness of greater than 3 ?m and less than 5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: John David Wiltshire
  • Patent number: 8917431
    Abstract: A color filter with parallel, vertical color strips of the RGB base colors associated with the image separating element, the color strips repeating horizontally within the color filter in periodic fashion. The light modulator contains a sequence of two registered holograms for each base color interlaced into six pixel columns for a left observer eye and for a right observer eye, and the sequence is repeated horizontally in periodic fashion. The periods of the color filter and the hologram are arranged relative to one another with the same degree of expansion, with a color strip and at least two pixel columns with holograms of the base color of the color strip are associated with a separating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Seereal Technologies S.A.
    Inventor: Ralf Haussler
  • Patent number: 8908249
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a master for producing a hologram device is provided. The holographic image reconstructs when the photosensitive film of the hologram device is struck by a beam of light from a wide angle being defined relative to a perpendicular line to a surface of the photosensitive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Claudelli Productions, Inc
    Inventors: Joseph J. Ciaudelli, Thomas Cvetkovich
  • Publication number: 20140355086
    Abstract: The instant application discloses a display device including a pattern generator configured to generate a diffraction pattern from an image; a light source configured to emit emission light; an optical condenser which condenses the emission light to generate illumination light; and a spatial light modulator which diffracts the illumination light according to the diffraction pattern to generate diffracted light. The diffracted light passes through the optical condenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Keiji Sugiyama, Kenichi Kasazumi
  • Publication number: 20140355085
    Abstract: A holographic structure, system and method project a grey-scale image in a narrow IR spectral band that is related to a broadband thermal signature of an object. The projected grey-scale image, when integrated over the broadband, forms either a decoy that approximates the thermal signature of the object or a mask that obscures the thermal signature of the object. The projected image is a tuned phase recording of a desired far field projection. In different embodiments, the projected image is a “positive” or a “negative” image of the object's thermal signature, a difference image between the thermal signatures of a false object and the object or a camouflage image of random features having approximately the same spatial frequency as the object's thermal signature. The goal being to confuse or fool, even for a short period of time, the warfighting or surveillance system or human observer that uses a broadband IR sensor to acquire and view thermal images of the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Rigel Quinn Woida-O'Brien, Stephanie Barnes
  • Patent number: 8903207
    Abstract: A Head Up Display can be utilized to find light from an energy source. The Head Up Display includes a first waveguide having a first input coupler and a first output coupler. The Head Up Display can also include a second waveguide having a second input coupler and a second output coupler. The first waveguide has a first major surface and the second waveguide has a second major surface, which are disposed approximately parallel to each other. The first waveguide and the second waveguide are positioned as a combiner and allowing viewing an outside feed and information from an image source. The first input coupler diffracts light in the first field of view into the first waveguide and light in a second field of view reaches the second input coupler and is diffracted into the second waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Brown, Kurt A. Stahl, Robert B. Wood
  • Publication number: 20140333977
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device includes a backlight unit generating a plurality of flat lights and a spatial light modulator (SLM) unit generating an interference pattern by using the plurality of lights according to hologram data and displaying a hologram based on the generated interference pattern. The backlight unit is manufactured as an organic light emitting diode including a plurality of quantum dots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Chi-Sun HWANG, Hye Yong CHU, Jong Sool JEONG
  • Patent number: 8885237
    Abstract: A method of preparing a hologram where an original image is recorded as interference fringes on a predetermined recording surface by arithmetic operations using a computer, the method including: a step of defining an original image formed as a three-dimensional image, a hologram recording plane for recording the original image, and reference light to be irradiated onto the hologram recording plane, a step of defining a large number of arithmetic operation points on the hologram recording plane and arithmetically determining the intensity of the interference wave formed by an object light beam emitted from each object and the reference light for each of the arithmetic operation points and a step of preparing physical interference fringes on a medium on the basis of the intensity distribution of interference wave obtained on the recording plane in the arithmetically determining step, the front-most part of the three-dimensional image being arranged near the hologram recording plane at the time of defining the o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuru Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20140327942
    Abstract: Two original images to be recorded are prepared as data (S10). A plurality of unit regions, each having an adequate area to record interference fringes of visible light, are defined and positioned on a hologram recording surface (S20). A gradation pattern, with which appearance probabilities of two record attributes gradually change in space, is overlapped onto the recording surface, and to each unit region, one of either record attributes is assigned according to the appearance probabilities of the respective record attributes at each individual position (S30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kitamura, Hidekazu Okuno, Masato Taninaka
  • Publication number: 20140327944
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hologram, or holographic intensity data, processing method and system. The system implements the method which comprises receiving holographic intensity data comprising at least a holographic intensity pattern or image at a discrete location in a propagation space, the propagation space comprising the three-dimensional space over which light waves or illumination forming the holographic intensity pattern propagates. The method comprises determining one or more data key-points of at least one potential object of interest (19) in the received holographic intensity data, and also comparing the determined one or more data key-points to at least one pre-determined propagation space invariant object descriptor associated with an object to determine a match in order to identify or detect the object and determine its location in the propagation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Thegaran Naidoo, Johan Hendrik Swart, Suzanne Hugo, Pieter Van Rooyen
  • Publication number: 20140327943
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to produce a hologram of a cross-section of an object includes an electromagnetic radiation assembly configured to receive a received electromagnetic radiation, such as light, from the object. The electromagnetic radiation assembly is further configured to diffract the received electromagnetic radiation and transmit a diffracted electromagnetic radiation. An image capture assembly is configured to capture an image of the diffracted electromagnetic radiation and produce the hologram of the cross-section of the object from the captured image. The hologram of the cross-section includes information regarding a single cross-section of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: CellOptic, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph ROSEN
  • Patent number: 8878759
    Abstract: A method of displaying a video image comprises receiving sequential image frames at a processor. Each image frame is processed to obtain a kinoform. A programmable diffractive element such as an SLM represents the sequence of kinoforms allowing reproduction of the image using a suitable illumination beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Cambridge Enterprise Limited
    Inventors: William Crossland, Neil Collings, Edward Buckley, Adrian Cable, Nicholas Lawrence, Peter Mash, Timothy Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 8873120
    Abstract: A numerical method of recording a two or three dimensional object scene in a binary hologram. When the binary hologram is illuminated with a reference beam, the original object scene can be reconstructed and observed by a viewer. As the hologram is binary, i.e. composed of black or white pixels, it can be printed with commodity printers. The process is simple, fast, and economical, hence decreasing the cost and time for hologram design and production. In addition, with binary holograms, the ability to store the holograms is enhanced and binary holograms facilitate efficient transmission of the holograms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Wai Ming Tsang, Wai Keung Cheung
  • Patent number: 8873119
    Abstract: A system and a method perform buoyance of a 3D hologram image on a hologram display screen in a projection mode. A system of displaying a digital hologram includes: a composite hologram unit configured to generate a hologram array by receiving hologram data of a fringe pattern and by compositing background image and a foreground image using the received fringe pattern; a hologram projection unit configured to project a hologram image through a wide-angle lens by applying a light to the hologram array; and a hologram display unit configured to perform space buoyance of the hologram image projected by the hologram projection unit on a 3D hologram display screen. The digital hologram content is managed in real time, and transmission of the digital hologram content to a remote place and site adaptive display of hologram image media may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Beom Ryeol Lee, Wook Ho Son, Seung Taik Oh, Ho Yong Seo, Il Kwon Jeong
  • Publication number: 20140313555
    Abstract: Provided are a digital hologram synthesis method and apparatus based on an angular spectrum. The digital hologram synthesis method includes representing an input digital hologram as at least one angular spectrum region by applying Fourier transformation to the input digital hologram, registering the at least one angular spectrum region by projecting the at least one angular spectrum region onto a spherical surface, and generating a synthesis digital hologram based on the registered at least one angular spectrum region. Accordingly, it is possible to generate a new digital hologram with a different orientation or at a different distance using an angular spectrum of a digital hologram generated in advance, without geometric information of an object. In addition, it is possible to readily and intuitively synthesize a new digital hologram while viewing an image visualized in a 3D space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Taik OH, Ho Yong SEO, Wook Ho SON
  • Publication number: 20140307298
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a hologram pattern using depth quantization may generate a hologram pattern corresponding to a three-dimensional (3D) object in a hologram plane using color image information of the 3D object and a point of the 3D object included in a quantized depth layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok LEE, Ho Cheon Wey, Dong Kyung Nam
  • Publication number: 20140300941
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for generating a hologram based on a multi-view image. The method of generating a hologram image may include receiving a multi-view image and calculating depth information about an image at each view of the multi-view image, calculating an integrated 3-D space datum based on the multi-view image and the pieces of depth information, and generating hologram information from the integrated 3-D space datum. Accordingly, a natural 3-D image can be played because a 3-D image corresponding to an observer view is reproduced without a process of generating in-between view images and pieces of corresponding depth information when the observer moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Eun Young CHANG, Kyung Ae MOON, Jin Woong KIM
  • Publication number: 20140293386
    Abstract: Disclosed are a holographic image display device and a method for driving the same which may stabilize luminance of a holographic image and reduce flicker. The holographic image display device includes a laser backlight unit, a surface light converter converting laser light emitted from the laser backlight unit into surface light-type laser light and emitting the surface light-type laser light, a spatial light modulator (SLM) implementing an input holographic interference pattern and projecting a holographic image at a viewing point using the surface light-type laser light, and an optical switching unit located between the laser backlight unit and the SLM and controlling polarization of the laser light. The optical switching unit blocks laser light emitted to the SLM in a blocking mode, and transmits the laser light emitted to the SLM in a transmission mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Jun Choi, Ju-Seong Park, Woo-Young Choe
  • Publication number: 20140293387
    Abstract: Embodiments of a grey-scale holographic structure and system for generating a collimated wavefront in a compact range are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the grey-scale holographic structure comprising millimeter-wave transmissive material having a surface arranged to provide differing amounts of phase-delay to an incident millimeter-wave wavefront as the incident wavefront passes through the material. The grey-scale holographic structure may comprises a plurality of layers (N) to provide a phase total delay of lambda which results from a series tuned layers, each having a thickness of a wavelength/N. Each layer provides a predetermined amount of phase delay allowing the structure to operate as a phase-delay hologram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventor: Rigel Quinn Woida-O'Brien
  • Publication number: 20140293385
    Abstract: A holographic display system for generating a super hologram with full parallax in different fields of view in the horizontal and vertical directions. The system includes an array of holographic display devices, e.g., spatial light modulators (SLMs), operable to provide a plurality of holographic images of a scene from differing viewpoints of the scene. Each SLM is operated concurrently to output a narrow field of view, elemental hologram. The system includes coarse integral optics combining the holographic images into a single hologram (“super hologram”) viewable in a hologram image plane a distance from the course integral optics. The coarse integral optics combine the holographic images by providing angular tiling of the holographic images, e.g., bending the axes of parallel lenses. In this manner, the field of view, in one direction, of the super hologram is based on the number of holographic display devices provided in the array in one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventor: QUINN SMITHWICK
  • Publication number: 20140293388
    Abstract: In the control of light condensing irradiation of laser light using a spatial light modulator, the number of wavelengths, a value of each wavelength, and incident conditions of the laser light are acquired, the number of light condensing points, and a light condensing position, a wavelength, and a light condensing intensity on each light condensing point are set, and a distortion phase pattern provided in an optical system including the spatial light modulator to the laser light is derived. Then, a modulation pattern presented in the spatial light modulator is designed in consideration of the distortion phase pattern. Further, in the design of a modulation pattern, a design method focusing on an effect by a phase value of one pixel is used, and when evaluating a light condensing state, a propagation function to which a distortion phase pattern is added is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Naoya Matsumoto, Yuu Takiguchi, Taro Ando, Yoshiyuki Ohtake, Takashi Inoue, Tomoko Otsu, Haruyoshi Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20140253986
    Abstract: Submitted is an image photography play method which is suited to playing a stereoscopic video. The image photography method comprises: a step of forming a hologram pattern from a reference light and a subject light; a step of digitally processing the obtained hologram pattern; a step of writing the digitized hologram pattern as a magnetized vector pattern to a spatial lighting modulator which is formed from a magneto-optical material; and a step of inputting linearly polarized light into the spatial lighting modulator and playing an image according to the digitized hologram pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mitsuteru Inoue, Hiroyuki Takagi
  • Publication number: 20140253985
    Abstract: A system for order alignment of diffractively produced images is provided. The system comprises: a diffractive spatial light modulator (DSLM) configured to provide a computer generated hologram of an image; a substantially coherent light source configured to illuminate the DSLM which responsively produces the image along each of different diffractive order paths; and, at least one set of optical components located along respective diffractive order paths of the DSLM, the at least one set of optical components configured to align at least one respective image diffracted from the DSLM with at least another diffracted image at a common image plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Simon GUTHRIE, Michael PERKINS, John DOMM, John M. NIEMINEN
  • Publication number: 20140253987
    Abstract: An iterative method of retrieving phase information in the Fourier domain representative of the nth frame of a sequence of 2D image frames. The method comprises using at least one parameter related to retrieval of phase information Fourier domain of the (n?1) frame as a starting point for the iterative method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Two Trees Photonics Limited
    Inventor: Jamieson Christmas
  • Patent number: 8830549
    Abstract: An electroholographic display system (800, 900) for displaying a holographic image, includes a coherent light source (830, 930) producing a coherent, collimated, light beam; a spatial light modulator (SLM) (820, 920) adapted to receive and spatially modulate the coherent, collimated, light beam to produce therefrom a spatially modulated light beam including first portions having a first polarization and second portions having a second polarization orthogonal to the first polarization; and a processor and driver unit (810, 910) adapted to generate hologram data representing a holographic image and to apply appropriate voltages to the pixels of the SLM to cause the SLM to modulate the coherent collimated light beam with the hologram data. The spatially modulated light beam is projected to an image plane to produce the holographic image including the first portions having the first polarization and the second portions having a second polarization orthogonal to the first polarization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Alok Govil, Lucian Remus Albu
  • Patent number: 8824033
    Abstract: A color photographic hologram system is provided. The reference light wave is incident to the film at a fixed reference beam angle. By adjusting an included angle between the object light wave corresponding to respective monochromatic component images and the reference light wave, the reference light wave and the object light wave are interfered with each other to result in a plurality of interference fringes on the film. When a white light is projected on the film, the reconstructed image shows the color effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: E-Lon Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming Tang Yao
  • Publication number: 20140240806
    Abstract: This invention offers the construction of the holographic screen exposing and capturing three-dimensional video images. Exposing holographic screen is the construction comprising two screens placed on the certain distance from each another. The rear screen is the matrix of the light emitting elements. The front screen is the matrix of the light transmitting elements. In the certain moment the matrix of the rear screen provide the introjection of the image passing through the transparent point of the front screen making the anisotropic emission of the desired configuration. In the next time slice the introjection of the next image occurs through the neighboring point etc. The construction of the capturing holographic screen is the same with the construction of the exposing holographic screen, but the rear screen is the light absorbing matrix instead of the light emitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Igor Semenovich Chernov
  • Patent number: 8817349
    Abstract: A photographic hologram system is provided. The use of an image slicing process and/or the arrangement of half-cylindrical lens in the optical path of an optical light wave and upstream of the film is effective to reduce the times of multiple exposures of the film. As a consequence, the brightness of the reconstructed image is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: E-Lon Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming Tang Yao
  • Patent number: 8804220
    Abstract: A method of computing a hologram by determining the wavefronts at the approximate observer eye position that would be generated by a real version of an object to be reconstructed. In normal computer generated holograms, one determines the wavefronts needed to reconstruct an object; this is not done directly in the present invention. Instead, one determines the wavefronts at an observer window that would be generated by a real object located at the same position of the reconstructed object. One can then back-transforms these wavefronts to the hologram to determine how the hologram needs to be encoded to generate these wavefronts. A suitably encoded hologram can then generate a reconstruction of the three-dimensional scene that can be observed by placing one's eyes at the plane of the observer window and looking through the observer window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: SeeReal Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Leister, Ralf Häussler, Armin Schwerdtner
  • Patent number: 8804221
    Abstract: A synthetic hologram of a first image consists of an array of coding cells each comprising light and dark portions. A second visible image is superposed to the synthetic hologram, where the light and dark portions of selected coding cells in the second visible image are inverted and have a phase modified by an offset value relative to other coding cells of the rest of the hologram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Christophe Martinez
  • Patent number: 8797382
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to negative refractive index-based holograms that can be electronically controlled and dynamically reconfigured to generate one or more color three-dimensional holographic images. In one aspect, a hologram comprises a phase-control layer having a plurality of phase modulation elements. The phase-modulation elements are configured with a negative effective refractive index and selectively transmit wavelengths associated with one of three primary color wavelength. The hologram also includes an intensity-control layer including a plurality of intensity-control elements. One or more color three-dimensional images can be produced by electronically addressing the phase-modulation elements and intensity-control elements in order to phase shift and control the intensity of light transmitted through the hologram. A method for generating a color holographic image using the hologram is also provided, as is a system for generating a color holographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jingjing Li, Philip J. Kuekes
  • Publication number: 20140211286
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for generating a digital hologram for reproducing a 3D stereoscopic image, and more particularly, an apparatus and a method for generating a digital hologram, which generate the digital hologram by receiving a depth information pre-processing process of generating first depth map information constituted by a first depth level and second depth map information constituted a second depth level by receiving color image information from an imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Je Ho NAM, Eun Young CHANG, Min Sik PARK
  • Patent number: 8786399
    Abstract: A computer implemented method to display an industrial installation, which display may also display information about an event or an alarm in the installation. The method includes displaying an image which appears to the viewer to be a three dimensional holographic image including a view of the industrial installation. The image may also include one or more points in three dimensional space and which point or points are each mapped to a corresponding point or position in the industrial installation. A pointing device for actively indicating position on the image reflecting objects or positions in the installation is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Charlotte Skourup, Siri Breen, Nicolas-Alexander Hall
  • Publication number: 20140198361
    Abstract: The invention relates to apodization in a holographic direct view display. Known apodization functions are utilized/modified for an apodization mask such that the functions reduce the intensities of selected higher magnitudes of diffractions. The holographic direct view display comprises a controllable light modulator having modulator cells and modulating impinging coherent light into a phase and/or amplitude, and an array of apodization masks. The apodization masks have the same apodization function for a predetermined group of modulator cells, by means of which function a complex amplitude transparency can be set for the modulator cells. This transparency corresponds to an individually predefined course of intensity in a far field of the light modulator, wherein the predefined course of intensity includes a reducing of the light intensity of higher magnitudes of diffractions, and/or of the interfering light emitted by the light modulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SEEREAL TECHNOLOGIES S.A.
    Inventors: Norbert LEISTER, Stephan REICHELT