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Stereoscopic three dimensional large screen liquid crystal display

US4647966A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 22, 1985
Grant dateMar 3, 1987
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Expiry dateNov 22, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N13/243
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A three dimensional large screen liquid crystal projection display utilizes wo liquid crystal light valves in tandem to produce polarization-type stereoscopic images in a large screen display format. Each light valve, driven separately by video input derived either from live scenes or computer generated data, presents one view of a stereoscopic image pair. Using one projection lamp, one projection lens, and a polarizing beamsplitter cube, the two images are optically combined and projected simultaneously onto a non-depolarizing screen. The particular optical geometry used results in orthogonal linear polarizations for the two images, so they can be viewed stereoscopically using polaroid glasses with appropriately oriented polarizing axes.

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