Patent ID: 9088791
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: G02B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of displaying a person or object to an observer, the method comprising the following steps: providing an image display apparatus having a transparent display layer and an image separation layer; capturing image data of the person or object with at least two separate cameras; capturing depth profile data of the person or object from a reference position; detecting, from the captured image data and the depth profile data, silhouette data representing a two-dimensional silhouette of the person or object; displaying images of the person or object on the display layer for the left and right eyes of the observer, based on the image data, such that the display layer is only active within the silhouette, and that the display layer is left essentially transparent in regions outside that silhouette; and controlling the image separation layer to separate the displayed images on the display layer into a first image for a left eye of the observer and into a second image for a right eye of the observer so as to make the image display apparatus autostereoscopic, the image separation layer being only active within the silhouette and being essentially transparent in regions outside the silhouette; wherein the images of the person or object are displayed in a way that its perspective to the observer corresponds to the perspective of the captured person or obiect from the reference position.