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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1997
Shigeru Omori, Nakai-machi, JP;
Tomohiko Hattori, Nakai-machi, JP;
Kunimasa Katayama, Nakai-machi, JP;
Sadayuki Sakuma, Nakai-machi, JP;
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Screen images for the right eye are displayed upside down on an image display device 10a, and screen images for the left eye are displayed inverted upside down and right-to-left on an image display device 10b. Light of the screen images for the right eye and for the left eye are polarized so that polarization directions of the light for the right eye and for the left eye are perpendicular to each other. Right half images of viewers' faces, picked up by an image sensing device 14, are displayed on liquid crystal display elements 11. The displayed images functions as light transmission images, and by observing them through a lens 11 having directivity characteristics, the screen images for the right eye and screen images for the left eye of images combined by a half mirror 15 are respectively seen by the right and the left eyes of the viewers.