Seoul National University

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Other

Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.

Snu Rdb Foundation

Byoungho Lee

Seokil Moon

Changkun Lee

Hongseok Lee

Geeyoung Sung

Youngmo Jeong

Dukho Lee

Jinsoo Jeong

Dongheon Yoo

Kiseung Bang

Wontaek Seo

Younggeun Roh

Jae-Hyeung Park

Siwoo Lee

Seungwoo Nam

Sung-Wook Min

Chanhyung Yoo

Seung-Woo Nam

Gang Li

Minseok Chae

Ki-Hyun Kim

Sunil Kim

Sang-Ho Kim

Bongsu Shin

Sungwoo Hwang

Yongsung Kim

Yeonsang Park

Byungchoon Yang

Jaesoong Lee

Changwon Lee

Jong-Young Hong

Kyookeun Lee

Jonghyun Kim

Jeonggeun Yun

JaeBum Cho

Taeeun Kim

Juhyun Lee

Young-yoon Lee

Jongyoung Hong

Yoonchan Jeong

Sungyong Jung

Sung-Yong Jung

Yeoreum Yoon

Jiyong Jang

Hanjin Cho

Changwon Jang

Jiwoon Yeom

A method and apparatus for filtering noise for a holographic display are provided. The noise filtering apparatus includes a first filter implemented using a volume grating for filtering DC noise in light modulated by a spatial light modulator or a second filter implemented using a volume grating or a thin-film filter, which filters high-order noise in the light.

Method and apparatus for filtering noise for holographic display

A holographic display apparatus and a hologram optimization method for the apparatus are provided. The holographic display apparatus includes a focus-forming optical element configured to form a plurality of foci by receiving plane waves; a collimating lens configured to propagate, as plane waves, light incident through the plurality of foci; and a spatial light modulator configured to generate a holographic image by overlapping a plurality of plane waves incident from the collimating lens.

Holographic display apparatus and hologram optimization method therefor

Provided are holographic display systems and methods for generating a hologram by compensating for aberrations of a holographic display device. The holographic display system may include a holographic display device and a hologram generating device. The hologram generating device may generate a hologram by propagating hologram segments, using kernels generated by modeling each aberration corresponding to each of hologram plane segments to compensate for aberrations.

Holographic display system and method for generating hologram by compensating for aberration of holographic display device

A display apparatus including a volume grating-based combiner is disclosed. The display apparatus includes: an image providing device; and a combiner, wherein the combiner includes a plurality of volume gratings configured to diffract light containing an image, which is emitted from the image providing device, each volume grating has a first surface and a second surface facing each other, and each volume grating is further configured to diffract light incident on the first surface and transmit therethrough light incident on the second surface without diffraction.

Display apparatus including volume grating based combiner

Provided is a waveguide-type display device including a waveguide, an input coupler provided on the waveguide and configured to transmit an image to travel into the waveguide, an output coupler provided on the waveguide and configured to output the image traveling in the waveguide to an outside of the waveguide, and a field-of-view (FOV) expander configured to output an image having an expanded FOV by deflecting and outputting the image output from the output coupler in a certain direction based on polarization characteristics of the image.

Waveguide-type display device

A hologram display device includes a light generator generating light, a spatial light modulator forming an interference pattern to interfere with the light, and a controller providing interference data to the spatial light modulator to form the interference pattern. The spatial light modulator includes a first area in which pixels are arranged in a first pattern, and a second area in which pixels are arranged in a second pattern. The controller includes a data generator generating first interference data for the first area and second interference data for the second area, a compensator generating first correction data based on the first interference data and second correction data by correcting the second interference data, and an output unit generating the interference data based on the first correction data and the second correction data.

Hologram display device and method of driving the same

A retinal projection display device is provided. The retinal projection display device includes a light source configured to emit light, a spatial light modulator configured to generate diffracted light by diffracting the emitted light, a holographic optical element configured to reflect the diffracted light by duplicating the diffracted light into a plurality of complex wavefronts, and a field lens configured to focus the plurality of complex wavefronts to a plurality of respective focal points in an eye-box, wherein the plurality of complex wavefronts overlap each other.

Retinal projection display device and phase profile optimization method thereof

A method of designing an optical system including a dome light and coaxial light, includes: determining a distance between the dome light and the coaxial light based on a radius reduction according to a hole of the dome light; determining a size of the coaxial light based on an optical path of a light ray emitted from the coaxial light; and determining a structure of a printed circuit board (PCB) in the dome light based on an optical path through which the light ray emitted from the coaxial light is reflected by an object.

Optical system including dome light and coaxial light and method for designing optical system

A holographic aberration correction method and apparatus are provided. The holographic aberration correction apparatus includes: generating a plurality of sub-holograms in a hologram, as a matrix; calculating a plurality of eigenmodes and an eigenvalue and a weight corresponding to each of the eigenmodes by performing singular value decomposition on the matrix; selecting a predefined number of eigenmodes in the order of largest eigenvalues; calculating a plurality of first results which are obtained by multiplying a plurality of identical images by respective weights corresponding to the plurality of selected eigenmodes; calculating a plurality of second results by performing convolution of the plurality of first results and the plurality of selected eigenmodes, respectively; and generating an aberration-corrected hologram by adding the plurality of second results.

Holographic aberration correction method and apparatus

Provided is a method of generating a hologram, the method including generating a kernel and a neural network configured to model an aberration of a holographic display device, obtaining second image data output from the neural network to which first image data obtained by propagating a first hologram based on the kernel is input, updating the kernel and the neural network based on comparing the second image data and predetermined image data, and generating a second hologram based on the kernel and the neural network.

Holographic display system and method of generating hologram

Provided is a multi-image display apparatus including an image forming device configured to form a first image, a first polarization plate configured to transmit a first polarization component of the first image provided from the image forming device, a second polarization plate configured to transmit a second polarization component of a second image that is provided from a path different from the first image, the second polarization component being different from the first polarization component, a screen configured to reflect and diffuse the first image, and transmit the second image, and a polarization selective lens configured to focus the first image having the first polarization component, and transmit the second image having the second polarization component without refraction.

Multi-image display apparatus including polarization selective lens and screen

A multi-image display apparatus includes a light source configured to emit a first wavelength light, a second wavelength light, and a third wavelength light, a spatial light modulator configured to modulate the first wavelength light, the second wavelength light, and the third wavelength light to form a first image including a first color holographic image, a second color holographic image, and a third color holographic image, a polarization selective lens configured to focus the first image having only a first polarization component and transmit a second image having only a second polarization component without refraction, the second image being provided to the polarization selective lens along a different path from the first image, wherein chromatic aberration of the polarization selective lens is offset by adjusting a depth of the first color holographic image, the second color holographic image, and the third color holographic image.

Multi-image display apparatus providing holographic image

An optical apparatus and a near-eye display apparatus including the same are provided. The optical apparatus includes a display panel configured to form an image, a first polarization rotator configured to electrically control a light emitted from the display panel to have a first polarization state, a first &#xbc; wave plate configured to convert the first polarization state of a light transmitted from the first polarization rotator to a second polarization state, and an optical element group configured to display a first image having a first viewing angle and a second image having a second viewing angle that is greater than the first viewing angle based on the second polarization state of a light transmitted from the first &#xbc; wave plate.

Optical apparatus and near-eye display apparatus including the same

An apparatus for manufacturing a hologram includes a holographic optical element on which a first interference pattern of a first signal beam and a first reference beam is recorded and a second interference pattern of a second signal beam modulated by a Fourier lens and a second reference beam is recorded. Also, an apparatus for reconstructing a hologram by using the holographic optical element is provided.

Apparatus for manufacturing holographic optical element, and apparatus for reconstructing holograms

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Byoungho Lee