Patent ID: 7245430
Filing Date: 2007-07-17
Classification: G02B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying a three-dimensional image comprising the steps of: generating a plurality of input images, each of the input images corresponding to one of multiple viewpoints including a right-eye position and a left-eye position of a viewer; allocating in a time dividing manner two or more of the input images to each of different image display regions of an image display device; switching said two or more input images at a certain timing to display one of said two or more images in each of the image display regions such that at a first timing a first of the input images is presented at a respective image display region, and at a second timing a second of the input images is displayed at the same respective image display region; separating light images, for right-eye position and for left-eye position, output from the image display regions from one another using an image separator positioned on a viewpoint side of the image display device; and switching a deflection direction of deflected light in synchronization with the first and second timing of presenting the two or more input images to deflect a light path of each of the light images emitted from the image separator toward a different respective of the multiple viewpoints synchronized with the switching timing such that the first image from the respective image display region is deflected to a first of the multiple viewpoints at the first timing and the second image from the same repective image display region is deflected to a second of the multiple viewpoints at the second timing.