Patent ID: 8611006

Claim:
A method comprising: emitting, using a display, a plurality of light rays, wherein the display comprises a plurality of first and second sub-regions arranged in an alternating configuration; selectively blocking light, using a light blocking layer, wherein the light blocking layer comprises a first polarizing layer, a rotating layer, and a second polarizing layer; polarizing, using the first polarizing layer, light emitted by the plurality of first and second sub-regions of the display in a first direction; rotating, using the rotating layer, light from the first polarizing layer to a second direction when the rotating layer is active, wherein the rotating layer is not active to change a polarization orientation of polarized light passing therethrough in a first phase, and wherein the rotating layer is active to change the polarization orientation of polarized light passing therethrough in a second phase; polarizing, using the second polarizing layer, light from the rotating layer, wherein a plurality of first subareas polarize light in the first direction and a plurality of second subareas polarize light in the second direction, wherein the first and second directions are perpendicular; alternating, using a coordinating element, between the first phase and the second phase, wherein light from the first sub-regions of the display is directed to a first eye of a viewer and blocked from a second eye of the viewer and light from the second sub-regions of the display is directed to the second eye and blocked from the first eye in the first phase, wherein light from the first sub-regions of the display is blocked from the first eye and directed to the second eye and light from the second sub-regions of the display is blocked from the second eye and directed to the first eye in the second phase; expanding, using a diverging lens, light from the light blocking layer; and halting, using a converging lens, an expansion of light from the diverging lens, wherein the light from the converging lens presents a continuous image without blank areas, and wherein the blank areas are caused by the light blocking layer.