Imax Corporation

Paul D Panabaker

Anton Leonard Baljet

David M Dean

David M M Dean

Sayyid K Hassan

Systems including projection mechanisms, screens, and eyeglasses are detailed. The systems significantly reduce perceptible ghosting even when high contrast images (such as dark figures against a white background) are projected.

Method and apparatus for presenting stereoscopic images

Stereoscopic images are presented by alternately displaying corresponding left eye and right eye images in succession, substantially extinguishing transmission of light from the left eye images to the right eye of a viewer and from the right eye images to the left eye of the viewer, for example by the use of polarizing filters, and alternately and in synchronism with the alternate display of images, scattering unextinguished light from the left eye images that leaks through to the viewer's right eye and from the right eye images that leaks through to the viewer's left eye. In a preferred embodiment, scattering is achieved by using a liquid crystal scattering shutter that is electrically triggered in synchronism with the display of images. The shutter disperses the unextinguished light that leaks through the system so that no image information is perceived and the light appears merely as a slight increase in background illumination.

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Oakville, Canada

Paul D Panabaker