Patent ID: 8072484

Claim:
A structure of three-dimensional image data for a three-dimensional image display apparatus, said the apparatus displaying a three-dimensional image in a viewing area by providing parallaxes in a horizontal direction and not in a vertical direction, and comprising: a display section having a display surface on which pixels are arranged in the horizontal direction at a first horizontal pitch to display a parallax synthetic image for three-dimensional display; and a parallax barrier placed opposite the display surface and having linear optical openings arranged in the horizontal direction at a second horizontal pitch that is n (an integer) times as large as the first horizontal pitch, the parallax barrier parallelizing and directing rays from every n pixels arranged on the display surface along the horizontal direction, toward the viewing area; said structure of three-dimensional image data comprising data on n or more parallax component images in each of which pixel columns allowing the pixels to generate parallel rays in the same parallax direction in the viewing area are accumulated, the parallax component images having different numbers of horizontal pixels, and every n connected images each obtained by combining one or more parallax component images corresponding to n-th adjacent parallax directions being converted into a parallax synthetic image, the connected images having substantially the same number of vertical pixels and substantially the same number of horizontal pixels.