Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Seoul National University

Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation

Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University

Myongji University Industry and Academia Cooperation

Epic Optix, Inc.

Iucf-hyu

Changkun Lee

Geeyoung Sung

Hongseok Lee

Wontaek Seo

Bongsu Shin

Seokil Moon

Sunil Kim

Byoungho Lee

Jungkwuen An

Jangwoo You

Yuntae Kim

Daeho Yang

Jaeseung Chung

Juwon Seo

Jong-Young Hong

Youngil Kim

Dongheon Yoo

Byeongsoo Son

Gyewon Seo

Hoon Song

Jesung Koh

Jinsoo Jeong

Yongmin Park

Seungwoo Nam

Kyujin Cho

Jongyoung Hong

Young Shin Kim

Chilsung Choi

Young Ju Kim

Kanghee Won

Byonggwon Song

Seokho Song

Woojun Han

Jaisoon Kim

Minseok Chae

Sunpil Jeong

Seunga Lim

A holographic display apparatus including a freeform curved surface and an operating method of the holographic display apparatus are provided. The holographic display apparatus includes: an image generator configured to generate a hologram image by modulating light; an optical system including a freeform curved surface for forming the hologram image generated by the image generator in a predetermined depth; and a processor configured to generate a computer-generated hologram (CGH) based on three-dimensional image information by using a phase map including information about an optical aberration with respect to the freeform curved surface and to control the image generator to modulate the light based on the CGH.

Holographic display apparatus including freeform curved surface and operating method thereof

An image processing method and apparatus include: obtaining a plurality of input optical images and a plurality of output optical images for a near-eye display apparatus; training a neural network for modeling the waveguide optical system by using a training set including the obtained input and output optical images; and obtaining a uniformity correction image to be input to the trained neural network such that the trained neural network then outputs a target uniformity image having certain brightness uniformity.

Image processing apparatus and method for processing image to be provided to near-eye display apparatus

A multi-degree of freedom (DOF) moving stage includes: an end-effector; three driven links pivotably connected to the end-effector at angular intervals from each other; three driving links pivotably connected to the three driven links, respectively; and three actuators configured to drive the three driving links, respectively. Each of the three driven links includes first to fourth arms arranged at intervals; and a flexible member that connects the first to fourth arms to each other in a parallelogram shape across the intervals and forms pivotable joints at the intervals.

Multi-DOF moving stage and display apparatus including the same

An image display apparatus includes a display device configured to modulate light to form an image; a driver configured to drive the display device such that a position of the display device varies; a light transmitter configured to transmit the image formed by the display device to an observers eye and comprising a focusing member; and a processor configured to generate a light modulation signal and a driving signal according to image information and control the display device and the driver according to the light modulation signal and the driving signal, respectively.

Image display device capable of expressing multiple depth

Provided is a display apparatus including a combiner having asymmetric magnification. The display apparatus may include: an image forming device configured to form a virtual image; and a combiner configured to mix the virtual image with light containing an outside landscape and provide a viewer with the virtual image and the light that are mixed with each other, wherein the combiner may include a curved surface that varies a size of the virtual image with a first magnification in a first direction and a second magnification in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the second magnification being less than the first magnification.

Display apparatus including combiner having asymmetric magnification

A display apparatus includes a waveguide; an input coupler on the waveguide and configured to introduce light containing an image into the waveguide; and an output coupler on the waveguide and configured to output light traveling in the waveguide to the outside of the waveguide, wherein the output coupler includes a plurality of first diffraction grating elements arranged apart from each other and configured to diffract a first light portion in a first wavelength band among the light traveling in the waveguide.

Waveguide-type display apparatus

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

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

Provided is a multi-image display apparatus including a light source configured to emit light, a spatial light modulator configured to provide a first image by modulating the light emitted from the light source, and an optical system configured to transmit the first image provided by the spatial light modulator to a viewer, wherein the optical system is configured such that a travelling path of the first image provided by the spatial light modulator includes a first optical path in a first direction, a second optical path in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a third optical path in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction, respectively, and wherein the optical system is configured such that the first image and a second image provided from an optical path different from the travelling path of the first image are provided to the viewer.

Multi-image display apparatus providing holographic image

An image display device includes a main light source configured to emit a first light; a display panel configured to modulate the first light to add image information to the first light; a holographic optical element (HOE) configured to diffract the first light emitted from the display panel to make the first light travel to a first region to generate a main image; a first optical system provided on a traveling path of the first light between the main light source and the HOE, the first optical system being configured to change the traveling path of the first light to be incident on the HOE along a first path; an auxiliary light source configured to emit a second light; and a second optical system provided on a traveling path of the second light, the second optical system being configured to change a traveling path of the second light to be incident on the HOE along a second path different from the first path.

Image display device and augmented reality device including the same

A foveated display apparatus includes a first display panel configured to form a two-dimensional (2D) image; a second display panel configured to form a hologram image comprising a three-dimensional (3D) image; a light guide plate configured to transmit the 2D image at a first angle of view to an eye of a user; and a holographic optical element configured to transmit the hologram image at a second angle of view to the eye of the user, the second angle of view being smaller than the first angle of view.

Foveated display apparatus

Disclosed are a method and a system for processing a computer-generated hologram (CGH). The system for processing a CGH includes a CGH generation apparatus and a display apparatus. The CGH generation apparatus repeatedly performs a process of propagating object data from a first depth layer to a second depth layer, changing amplitude data of the object data to second predefined amplitude data, back-propagating the object data from the second depth layer to the first depth layer, and changing the amplitude data of the object data to first predefined amplitude data, and generates a CGH by using the object data.

Method and apparatus for generating computer-generated hologram

A multi-degree of freedom (DOF) moving stage includes a plurality of joint portions. At least one of the plurality of joint portions has a joint structure including a first flexible member and first and second rigid members, the first and second rigid members being arranged apart from each other with a first gap therebetween such that the first gap exposes a first surface of the first flexible member. Castellated patterns having shapes complementary to each other are respectively provided at a first end portion of the first rigid member adjacent to the first gap and a second end portion of the second rigid member adjacent to the first gap.

Multi-DOF moving stage and display apparatus using the same

A display apparatus includes: a display device configured to output a first image; an optical coupler configured to: combine the first image received through a first path from the display device with a second image received through a second path that is different from the first path, output, through an exit surface of the optical coupler, a first light corresponding to the first image in a first polarization and a second light corresponding to the second image in a second polarization; and a polarization selection optical system arranged on the exit surface of the optical coupler and configured to have different refractive power with respect to the first light of the first polarization and the second light of the second polarization.

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Seoul, South Korea

Changkun Lee