Patent ID: 8643684

Claim:
An automultiscopic display apparatus, comprising: a planar light modulating device selectively operable to display parallax barrier patterns; first and second planar emitting devices each selectively operable to emit received light; and a controller operating the first and second emitting devices to display first and second components of a light field and operating the modulating device to occlude a portion of the light field, further including an additional light modulating device operable to display parallax barrier patterns, the additional light modulating device being stacked and operably paired with the second emitting device and the light modulating device being stacked and operably paired with the first emitting device, the light modulating devices being substantially orthogonal and the apparatus further including a beam splitter positioned between the light modulating devices at differing first and second distances to receive light output from the light modulating devices, wherein the first and second components include view-dependent components extracted from the light field and the parallax barrier patterns are generated to mask view-dependent occlusions in the light field such that portions of view-dependent components of the light field are blocked by at least one of the modulating devices.