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Multi-color holographic stereograms

US4067638A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 29, 1975
Grant dateJan 10, 1978
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Expiry dateAug 29, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S359/90
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A plurality of multicolored transparencies or pictures having different parallactic views of a scene are aligned with each other and illuminated by red, green, and blue coherent beams. The resulting images are focused on a holographic recording medium through an aperture elongated along the direction of the alignment of the pictures. A hologram is recorded by red, green, and blue coherent reference beams directed at the recording medium. The images are reconstructed with a white reconstructing beam or a reconstructing beam composed of quasi-monochromatic colors and observed through an aperture corresponding to the first aperture and arranged in the same position. The hologram has recorded thereon a focused image hologram of the pictures and a Fresnel hologram of the aperture. The reconstructed image may be expanded by a screen which is directive in one direction, i.e. retroreflective horizontally, and dispersive in another direction, i.e. vertically dispersive.

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