Patent ID: 8717425

Claim:
A system for enabling a viewer to view three-dimensional television programs, or other pictorial displays on a display device, without the need for special means of preparation of visual material, the need for electronic alternation of the display device, and the need for special glasses for the viewer, the system comprising, in combination: the display device having an essentially flat visual display screen; a planar reflecting surface placed opposite to said visual display screen and so adjusted that a viewer may see complete view of a visual display displayed on said visual display screen reflected from said reflecting surface; means for reversing the visual display so reflected to provide a correct left to right perception of said visual display to the viewer; and means for approximately spacing said visual display screen and said planar reflecting surface such that the viewer's perception of the visual display displayed on the visual display screen is in the range of one quarter of to four times of the comfortable viewing distance of the viewer to the planar reflecting surface, thereby causing the viewer to focus his eyes on the more distant reflection of the visual display screen, rather than on the reflective surface, and requiring the viewer to perceive slightly offset reflections of the visual display screen in the reflective surface, accomplishing sufficient separation of the views received by the left and right eyes of the viewer to create the perception of depth in the pictures displayed on the visual display screen.