Patent ID: 7068241

Claim:
A stereoscopic picture image forming system for forming a picture image of an object separated into a first sub-object for a left eye and a second sub-object for a right eye, the stereoscopic picture image forming system comprising: a display device for displaying the picture image of the object; a first linear polarization filter and a first quarter-wavelength plate disposed at a display surface of the display device; a common image-forming means; a first image pick-up means for picking up the displayed picture image for the left eye, the picture image being introduced by way of the common image-forming means; a second image pick-up means for picking up the displayed picture image for the right eye, the picture image being introduced by way of the common image-forming means; a liquid crystal sealing body associated with the first and second image pick-up means having separate shutters associated with each of said first and second image pick-up means; and a second linear polarization filter disposed at one of a front and a rear surface of each of said image pick-up means, a second ciuarter-wavelength plate disposed at the front surface of each of said image pick-up means, wherein the separate shutters have a function of shutting off an area covered by a viewing angle which corresponds to a display area of the display device.