StereoBright

Innovative technology from Advanced Visual Solutions (Patent Pending)

Yitzhak Weissman
Ver. 1.02

Advantages

Create large stereoscopic images by using two commercial mini-projectors Obtain twice the amount of light compared to conventional systems Reduce cost, size, weight, noise and heat generation by half

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Principle

Exploit the native polarization properties of LCD projectors to achieve near 100% optical efficiency

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Polarization structure of LCD projector

Liquid-crystal image generators create linearly-polarized images In modern commercial LCD projectors, the green component is polarized perpendicularly to the blue and the red components

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Polarization structure of LCD projector (ctd.)

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Prior-art generation of orthogonal images

Mount polarizers on both projection lenses Polarizers are aligned at 45 to the polarization directions of the beam and at 90 to each other Result: two orthogonal images with light intensity reduced by 50%
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Prior-art generation of orthogonal images (ctd.)

Projector beams incident on polarizers

Orthogonally polarized beams with intensity reduced by 50%

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Polarization-rotated beams
Original polarizations

Polarization states rotated by 45

Left eye view Right eye view
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Viewing polarization-rotated beams

If the green content of the stereo pair is switched, each eye sees the correct image Switching can be done either by hardware, or by a simple preprocessing of the content

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Switching the green component by hardware

R(1) G(1) B(1) R(1) G(2) B(1)

Image source 1

Projector Stacked image

Image source 2

R(2) G(2) B(2)

R(2) G(1) B(2)

Projector

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Switching the green component by preprocessing

R left G left R right G right

B left

B right

Original

R left G right B left

R right G left B right Processed

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Manipulation of polarization

Polarization states can be manipulated with retardation films Half-wavelength retardation films are used to rotate the state of polarization Quarter-wavelength retardation films are used to convert linear polarization to circular polarization and vice-versa
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StereoBright versus polarizing filters

Polarizing filter

StereoBright filter

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Comments

Same method can be used to create circularly-polarized images StereoBright does not offer any advantage when using DLP projectors, since their light is unpolarized

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Summary

Smart utilization of native polarization properties of LCD projectors to achieve a stereoscopic image with nearly 100% optical efficiency Allows the use of mini presentation projectors to create bright stereoscopic display No extra cost and complexity
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