Patent ID: 6183089
Filing Date: 2001-02-06
Classification: G02B,H04N

Abstract:
A 3-D imaging system for projecting a 3-D panoramic illusion of an object to a viewer, the 3-D imaging system comprising:a first anamorphic lens having a red transparent color filter, the first anamorphic lens being horizontally spaced from a second anamorphic lens having a blue transparent color filter, the first anamorphic lens forming a red color filter image of the object and the second anamorphic lens forming a blue color filter image of the object;a means for forming a 2-D double-squeeze image of the object from the combination of the red color filter image and the blue color filter image;a means for capturing the 2-D double-squeeze image;a means for projecting the 2-D double-squeeze image as captured by the capturing means; andan image separator layer having a plurality of parallel vertical lenticules, each of the plurality of parallel vertical lenticules having a front convex surface and a rear planar surface, each of the rear planar surfaces having a red transparent color filter band and a blue transparent color filter band, each of the bands extending the vertical length of each of the plurality of parallel vertical lenticules,the image separator layer being operably positioned so that the projecting means projects the 2-D double-squeeze image through the red and blue transparent color filter bands of the plurality of parallel vertical lenticules, the red transparent color filter band reproducing the red color filter image and the blue transparent color filter band reproducing the blue color filter image, the front convex surface directing the red color filter image to one eye of the viewer and directing the blue color filter image to the second eye of the viewer, thereby causing the viewer to perceive the 3-D panoramic illusion of the object in front of the image separator layer.