3D Display Supplementary Information Visibility

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing three-dimensional display technologies using parallax barriers or lenticular lenses struggle to make supplementary information visible without disrupting the three-dimensional image when viewed with one eye, as it becomes less noticeable or invisible when both eyes are open.

Innovation Solution

Integrating supplementary information into one of the two-dimensional images used to create a three-dimensional image, such that it becomes more visible when the user closes one eye, utilizing techniques like color blending and information cancellation, or employing an eye sensor to detect the user's eye state and adjust the image accordingly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If supplementary information is integrated into one of the two-dimensional images in a three-dimensional display, then the supplementary information becomes visible when viewing with one eye, but the three-dimensional image quality deteriorates when both eyes are open

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisibility of supplementary informationVSAvoidthree-dimensional image quality

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The display is divided into multiple two-dimensional images (left eye image and right eye image) that are interleaved to form a three-dimensional image. Supplementary information is integrated into one of these segmented images, allowing it to be visible when viewing with one eye while maintaining the three-dimensional experience when both eyes are open.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different regions of the display have different properties: some regions contain supplementary information while others contain only three-dimensional image content. The filter is configured to block supplementary information from one eye while allowing it to pass to the other eye, creating localized differences in image content based on eye position.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Adaptability or versatility

If a filter is used to create three-dimensional images from two-dimensional images, then three-dimensional viewing is enabled, but supplementary information becomes less noticeable or invisible when both eyes are open

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvethree-dimensional viewing capabilityVSAvoidvisibility of supplementary information

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts the filter configuration based on which eye is open or closed. When one eye is closed, the filter is adjusted to allow supplementary information to be visible to the open eye. This dynamic adaptation ensures that supplementary information remains visible across different viewing conditions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from eye detection (either through sensors or user input) to adjust the filter configuration and image rendering in real-time. This feedback mechanism ensures that supplementary information is visible when needed while maintaining three-dimensional image quality when both eyes are open.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS9071833B1Two-dimensional supplementary information in a three-dimensional image

Publication Date: 2015.06.30 T MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC

AI summary

What is disclosed is an apparatus, method, and system for integrating supplemental information into one image of a three-dimensional image such that the integrated information is generally more clearly visible when viewing the three-dimensional image with only one eye.