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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 1988
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1987
Lenny Liptoh, Greenbrae, CA (US);
Arthur Berman, San Jose, CA (US);
Lawrence D Meyer, Mill Valley, CA (US);
James L Fergason, Atheyton, CA (US);
SteroGraphics Corporation, San Rafael, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method employing a push-pull modulator for stereoscopic image selection. The modulator includes a pair of surface mode liquid crystal cells having orthogonal rub axes, and a linear polarizer having absorption axis bisecting the orthogonal rub axes, and has high speed, good transmission, and symmetrical dynamic range characteristics. A field-sequential steroscopic video image may be transmitted from a video display screen (or video projector) through the modulator as the cells of the modulator are driven so that fields of alternately left-handed circularly polarized light and right-handed circularly polarized light will emerge. The transmitted circularly polarized light may be viewed using passive spectacles incorporating circular polarizing filters.