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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2011
Nicola V. Ranieri, Ennenda, CH;
Simon Heinzle, Zurich, CH;
Peter C. Barnum, Dallas, TX (US);
Wojciech Matusik, Lexington, MA (US);
Markus Gross, Uster, CH;
Nicola V. Ranieri, Ennenda, CH;
Simon Heinzle, Zurich, CH;
Peter C. Barnum, Dallas, TX (US);
Wojciech Matusik, Lexington, MA (US);
Markus Gross, Uster, CH;
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi-planar plenoptic display assembly is provided that includes multiple spatially-varying light emitting and light modulating planes. The display assembly includes at least one light emitting device and may include, but does not require, a modulating device used in conjunction according to display methods taught herein to display light field data. A display assembly controller may be used to render a light field with depth into a multi-planar plenoptic display assembly by assigning decomposed portions of the light field to the display assembly for display or presentation by differing ones of the emitting elements and by operating a modulating device to provide a parallax barrier. In one embodiment, a dynamic parallax barrier and a number of bi-state screens. Another embodiment uses a beam splitter to co-locate two pairs of autostereoscopic displays each including a projector projecting 3D content, a parallax barrier, and an emissive/projector element.