Patent ID: 8587641

Claim:
An autostereoscopic display system comprised in part of an array of vertically oriented, narrow light source strobe lights, and a transparent image panel, or a spatial light modulator, (SLM), disposed between the array of strobe lights and a viewing region containing one or more viewers, the display system including: a) means for selecting and causing to briefly emit light, one or more of the light sources, in the direction of the SLM panel; b) means for tracking a position of the left eye and the right eye, respectively of each of the one or more viewers; c) means for selecting, in response to the position of each left eye and right eye of each of the one or more viewers, and to positions of a currently illuminated one of the strobe lights the single and separate full height vertical picture lines (VPL) aligned with the light and eye positions, for transmissivity, in the SLM, of width of one or more pixels, while the remainder of the SLM remains dark, the aligned VPL chosen to be the closest aligned to the respective light source in instances of multiple alignment, in order to project individually selected vertically oriented sheets of light through the selected VPL's of the SLM, which are coplanar with the selected VPL's and the selected one of the strobe lights, toward an eye in the viewing region whereby said sheet of light rays is sufficiently narrow so as to aim toward and enter a left eye or a right eye of the one or more viewers but not both the left eye and the right eye of each of the one or more viewers concurrently, and to render visible the entire height of the selected VPL to the left eye or the right eye; and d) means for repeatedly cycling through the briefly lit light sources and respective selected VPL's so as to cycle through all the strobe lights and all the VPLs, thereby cycling through one entire image for the left eye or the right eye in succession resulting in an auto stereoscopic view.