Patent Document ID: 20120224038
Application ID: 13314350
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An autostereoscopic display system comprised in part of an array of vertically oriented, narrow light sources, hereinafter also referred to as strobe lights, and a transparent image panel, or spatial light modulator, (SLM), disposed between the array of strobe lights and a viewing region, whereby the SLM has a vertical dispersion panel in close proximity which vertically disperses light rays originating from the strobe lights and passing through the SLM toward the viewers, wherein a) means are provided to select, and cause to briefly emit light, or to flash, one or several of the light sources, thus sending light in the direction of the SLM image panel, b) and other means are provided to select single and separate full height vertical picture lines, VPL's, for transmissivity, in the SLM, of width of one or several pixels, while the remainder of the SLM remains dark, in order to project individually selected vertically oriented sheets of light through the selected VPL's of the SLM, which are coplanar with the selected VPL's and the selected briefly lit light source, toward an eye in the viewing region whereby said sheet of light rays is sufficiently narrow so as to enter a person's left or right eye but not both, and to render visible the entire height of the selected VPL due to said vertical dispersion, c) and by rapidly cycling through briefly lit strobe lights, and selected VPL's, entire scenes on the SLM are made visible to all left eyes and different ones to all right eyes resulting in an autostereoscopic view.