Patent ID: 8102413

Claim:
A stereoscopic imaging apparatus for providing images from a display for viewing by a first and second eye of a viewer, the display having a two-dimensional array of pixels, such pixels including a first set of sub-pixels controllable to project light in a first spectral color, a second set of sub-pixels controllable to project light in a second spectral color, and a third set of sub-pixels controllable to project light in a third spectral color, the apparatus comprising: a parallax barrier having an area substantially coextensive with the display and operably positioned a prescribed distance from the display, wherein the parallax barrier includes a first barrier having a repeating pattern of three vertically oriented regions, the regions of the first barrier including first regions configured to transmit light from the first set of sub-pixels to the first eye and to transmit light from the third set of sub-pixels to the second eye; second regions configured to block transmission of light from the third set of sub-pixels to the first eye and to transmit light from the second set of sub-pixels to the second eye; and third regions configured to block light transmission from the second set of sub-pixels to the first eye and to block light transmission from the first set of sub-pixels to the second eye.