Patent ID: 6307585
Filing Date: 2001-10-23
Classification: G02B,H04N

Abstract:
Position-adaptive autostereoscopic monitor (PAM) comprising: an image screen selected of a group of screens including conventional color image tubes, displays and panel back projections, said screen having a plurality of color sub-pixels of three-different colors, said subpixels being located horizontally one beside the other in a same given sequential order for defining image pixels; and a means selected of a group of means including lenticular prism grids and barrier stripe grids, said means being positioned in front of said image screen; wherein right and left image pixels are position-adaptively generated such that an area only being visible from a direction of a right eye of a viewer, an area only being visible from a left eye of a viewer, empty areas which are not visible at all from both eyes and interference areas which are at the same time visible from a direction of the right eye as well as from a direction of the left eye are obtained and that those neighbored ones of said sub-pixels are set dark which are located in said interference areas and said empty areas, and wherein said image pixels within each of said areas being visible from the directions of the right and left eye are chosen such that they contain three different ones of said color sub-pixels with a sequential order being dependent upon a viewing direction of said viewer, and wherein right and left images are presented at the same time continuously.