Patent ID: 8625183

Claim:
An apparatus for a holographic volumetric display comprising a programmable patterned lighting device and a passive holographic screen, wherein said screen includes a representative matrix of holographic tiles, each tile having a set of holographic sub-tiles, and the screen further comprises a set of uniformly spatially sampled holographic interference pattern, or sub-holograms, which is spatially interleaved with other sub-holograms across the screen and stored within the same sub-tiles across the surface of the holographic screen, where each sub-hologram in the set of spatially sampled holographic interference patterns is capable of reconstructing a holographic volumetric element in three dimensional space outside the plane of the holographic screen when these respective sub-holograms are selectively illuminated by the programmable patterned lighting device illuminating the same sub-tile within each tile across the tiled array and other sub-holograms are capable of reconstructing different holographic volumetric element(s) in three dimensional space outside the plane of the holographic screen when those respective sub-holograms are selectively illuminated by the programmable patterned lighting device illuminating the respective same sub-tile within each tile across the tiled array.