Patent ID: 7342721

Claim:
A method of displaying a three-dimensional image, said method comprising: determining at least one viewing zone located in front of a composite liquid crystal display panel, said composite liquid crystal display panel containing at least two independent liquid crystal cell layers capable of imaging two different images, said cell layers spaced one in front of another relative to said viewing and adapted to independently produce different images from one another; selecting a pair of source stereopair images; producing two calculated images derived from said source stereopair images and positioning of said viewing zone and said layers, said calculated images being derived by a processor so that they act as a mask for each other when imaged on said layers, a first one of said calculated images being adapted for a front one of said layers and a second one of said two calculated images being adapted for a rear one of said layers; displaying said calculated images on each said cell layer; and backlighting said cell layers with an illumination source to display a stereoscopic image visible in said at least one viewing zone wherein said visible image corresponds to a selected pair of source stereopair images.