Patent ID: 8427532

Claim:
A three-dimensional image display apparatus comprising: a display device to display an image on a display area, the display device having an array of elemental areas that includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array of rows and columns; a light control unit facing to the display unit, and including a plurality of lenses or apertures to control directions of light rays emitted from each of the elemental areas; and a generating unit configured to generate the image to be displayed on the display area, the image including a plurality of elemental images, each of the elemental images corresponding to the lens or the aperture and including a plurality of parallax component images, the elemental images being assigned on the elemental areas in such a manner that each of the elemental images is configured to display at least two parallax component images corresponding to substantially same parallax component in at least two adjacent continuous regions in the elemental area, and light rays emerged from the elemental images being projected to different directions via the lens or the aperture.