Naked-Eye 3D Screen Using Integrated Cylindrical Lens Pixels

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional stereoscopic displays, including LED screens, face issues with visual fatigue and incompatibility with flat panel displays due to reflection from cylindrical lenses, leading to decreased contrast and saturation.

Innovation Solution

A large stereoscopic screen with cylindrical lenses integrated into light-emitting pixels, allowing each pixel to transmit left and right images differently, eliminating the need for glasses and maintaining high definition and compatibility with flat panel displays.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a cylindrical lens plate is arranged in front of the large LED stereoscopic screen, then naked-eye stereoscopic display is realized, but the contrast and saturation of the display decrease due to serious reflection on the lens plate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenaked-eye stereoscopic displayVSAvoidreflection on lens plate
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the large LED screen into multiple sub-modules, each containing its own cylindrical lens. This segmentation eliminates the need for a single large lens plate, reducing reflection issues while maintaining stereoscopic display functionality across the entire screen surface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent integrates the cylindrical lens directly with each LED light-emitting unit, merging the lens function into the pixel structure itself. This combination eliminates the separate lens plate that causes reflection, while preserving the stereoscopic effect through the optical properties of the integrated lenses.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

If conventional stereoscopic shutter glasses are used, then stereoscopic display is achieved, but visual flashes and visual fatigue occur due to fast switching of images perceived by left and right eyes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestereoscopic displayVSAvoidvisual flashes and visual fatigue
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical shutter system in conventional glasses with a passive optical system using cylindrical lenses. This substitution eliminates the fast switching mechanism that causes visual fatigue, while still achieving stereoscopic display through the directional light transmission properties of the lenses.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Adaptability or versatility

If a cylindrical lens plate is used for large LED stereoscopic screen, then stereoscopic effect is achieved, but the device complexity increases due to the additional lens plate component

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestereoscopic effectVSAvoidlens plate component
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the cylindrical lens functionality directly into each LED pixel module, merging what would be a separate lens plate component into the existing pixel structure. This integration reduces device complexity by eliminating additional components while maintaining the stereoscopic effect.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The solution enables a high-definition, naked-eye stereoscopic display with increased contrast and saturation, without the need for glasses, while maintaining compatibility with flat panel displays.

Implementation Method 1

Each of the light-emitting pixels is provided with the cylindrical lens, respectively, to form a difference between visual images perceived by a left eye and a right eye according to a light-emitting principle of the cylindrical lens

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight transmission and refraction: Refraction

Data Source

PatentEP2708936B1Large 3D screen based on light tubes with cylindrical lens
Publication Date: 2021.07.07 LI CHAO
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AI summary

A large 3D screen based on light tubes with cylindrical lens(4) includes a controller and a display, wherein, a plurality of light emitting pixels are disposed on the display, the controller controls the light emitting pixels for lighting, and cylindrical lens(4) are provided on the light emitting pixels. The light emitting pixel is a light tube, the screen composed of the light tubes emits the light of left and right images separately, the left and right images enter the left and right eyes respectively, and the visual difference between the left and right images is generated according to the cylindrical light-emitting principle, finally 3D image is formed in the human brain. When people watch the large 3d screen, they needn't wear 3D glasses, and naked eyes 3D screen display is realized.