System for 3D image projections and viewing
54 claims: 11 independent, 43 dependent
- 1REIVINDICAÇÕES 1. Filtros de visualização compreendendo filtros espectralmente complementares, compreendendo:- um primeiro filtro tendo uma primeira passa banda configurada para passar apenas uma primeira cor de luz, uma segunda passa banda configurada para passar apenas uma segunda cor de luz, e ainda uma região de transmissão configurada para passar apenas uma terceira cor de luz, e - um segundo filtro tendo uma primeira passa banda compreendendo a primeira cor de luz e a segunda cor de luz, e uma segunda passa banda compreendendo a segunda cor de luz e a terceira cor de luz, sendo que - o segundo filtro essencialmente bloqueia qualquer luz visível com comprimentos de onda maiores que a contida na segunda passa banda do segundo filtro.
- 2Filtros de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 1, em que o segundo filtro tem ainda uma região de transmissão configurada para passar apenas uma primeira cor de luz.
- 3Filtros de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 1 ou 2, em que a primeira cor de luz é azul, a segunda cor de luz é verde, e a terceira cor de luz é vermelha.
- 4Filtros de visualização, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 1 a 3, em que os filtros compreendem um substrato não-plano.
- 5Filtros de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 4, em que o substrato não-plano compreende uma superfície curva configurada para reduzir um deslocamento de comprimento de onda que ocorre ao se visualizar uma imagem em um outro ângulo diferente de um ângulo normal através dos filtros.
- 6Filtros de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 5, em que a superfície curva compreende raios de aproximadamente 40 mm a 200 mm.
- 7Filtros de visualizaçao, de acordo com a reivindicação 5, em que a superfície curva compreende raios de aproximadamente 90 mm.
- 8Filtros de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 4, em que o substrato não-plano inclui pelo menos uma curvatura de prescrição.
- 9Óculos especiais 3D, compreendendo:- um primeiro filtro disposto em uma primeira lente dos óculos, e um segundo filtro que é espectralmente complementar ao primeiro filtro disposto em uma segunda lente dos óculos;em que - os filtros espectralmente complementares são responsáveis por um deslocamento azul que ocorre ao se visualizar imagens em ângulos fora do normal, tanto através de uma combinação de bandas de guarda entre as passa bandas do primeiro filtro e as passa bandas do segundo filtro, como também através de uma curvatura das lentes.
- 10Óculos especiais, de acordo com a reivindicação 9, em que a curvatura das lentes compreende um raio de aproximadamente 40 mm a 200 mm.
- 11Filtros de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 9 ou 10, em que pelo menos um dos filtros espectralmente complementares compreende uma única passa banda configurada para passar duas cores de luz diferentes.
- 12Filtros de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 9 ou 10, em que:- os filtros espectralmente complementares compreendem um primeiro filtro tendo um conjunto de passa bandas primárias compreendendo: - uma primeira passa banda configurada para passar tanto uma banda de luz verde como uma banda de luz vermelha, e - uma segunda passa banda configurada para passar tanto um banda de luz azul como uma banda de luz verde.
- 13Filtros de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 9 ou 10, em que os filtros espectralmente complementares compreendem um primeiro filtro tendo um conjunto de N passa bandas configuradas para passar um conjunto de mais de N bandas de luz de cores primárias.
- 14Filtros de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 9 ou 10, em que:- os filtros espectralmente complementares compreendem um primeiro filtro que compreende um primeiro conjunto de passa bandas configurado para passar um primeiro conjunto de bandas de luz primária e um segundo filtro que compreende um segundo conjunto de passa bandas configurado para passar um segundo conjunto de bandas de luz primária, sendo que o primeiro conjunto de bandas de luz primária é mutuamente exclusivo ao segundo conjunto de bandas de luz primária;- pelo menos uma das passa bandas abrange, pelo menos, duas das bandas de luz primária, e - o primeiro conjunto de passa bandas e o segundo conjunto de passa bandas são separados por bandas de guarda tendo uma largura calculada para manter a separação entre as bandas de luz primária quando visualizadas através dos filtros de visualização e compensar o deslocamento azul devido a um ângulo de visão das bandas de luz primária através dos filtros de visualização.
- 15Filtros de visualização, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 1 a 14, em que os filtros espectralmente complementares são configurados para visualizar uma imagem em 3D.
- 16Filtros de visualização, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 1 a 15, em que a característica de transmissão de cada filtro compreende pelo menos um platô de transmissão.
- 17Filtros de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 16, em que a característica de transmissão de cada filtro de visualização tem uma pluralidade de bordas de banda com uma agudeza de borda de banda Delta T o ,5 para T = 0,5% de menos que aproximadamente 23 nm.
- 18Filtros de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 16 ou 17, em que a característica de transmissão de cada filtro de visualização tem uma pluralidade de bordas de banda com uma agudeza de borda de banda Delta Tg 0 para T = 90% de menos que aproximadamente 6 nm.
- 19Filtros de visualização, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 16 a 18, em que o platô de transmissão tem uma transmissão de luz de mais de 80%.
- 20Filtros de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 19, em que o platô de transmissão tem uma transmissão de luz de pelo menos 90%.
- 21Filtros de visualização, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 1 a 20, em que pelo menos um dos filtros é configurado para ter pelo menos uma passa banda configurada para passar duas cores espectrais adjacentes que são separadas por uma banda de rejeito.
- 22Filtros de visualização, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 1 a 21, em que a característica de transmissão de cada filtro compreende passa bandas pronunciadas.
- 23Filtro compreendendo três passa bandas de luz visível mutuamente exclusivas, uma primeira passa banda configurada para passar apenas uma primeira cor de luz, uma segunda passa banda configurada para passar duas cores de luz espectrais adjacentes compreendendo a primeira cor de luz e uma segunda cor de luz, e uma terceira passa banda configurada para passar duas cores de luz espectrais adjacentes compreendendo a segunda cor de luz e uma terceira cor de luz.
- 24Filtro, de acordo com a reivindicação 23, em que a primeira cor de luz é azul, a segunda cor de luz é verde, e a terceira cor de luz é vermelha.
- 25Filtro, de acordo com a reivindicação 23 ou 24, em que pelo menos uma das cores de luz espectrais adjacentes é separada por uma banda de rejeito.
- 26Filtro, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 23 a 25, em que o filtro é instalado em um sistema de projeção em 3D compreendendo um servidor que realiza uma correção de cor usando as cores de luz espectrais adjacentes.
- 27Filtro, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 23 a 26, em que:- o filtro compreende um primeiro filtro disposto em uma primeira lente de um par de óculos especiais 3D, e um segundo filtro que é espectralmente complementar ao primeiro filtro;- os filtros espectralmente complementares sendo responsáveis por um deslocamento azul que ocorre quando as imagens de visualização estão em ângulos fora do normal através de uma combinação de bandas de guarda entre as passa bandas do primeiro filtro e as passa bandas do segundo filtro, e uma curvatura das lentes;e - a curvatura das lentes compreende um raio de aproximadamente 40 mm a 200 mm.
- 28Filtro, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 23 a 27, em que a primeira passa banda varia de abaixo de aproximadamente 430 nm a aproximadamente 442 nm, a segunda passa banda varia de aproximadamente 486 nm a aproximadamente 528 nm, e a terceira passa banda varia de aproximadamente 571 nm a aproximadamente 624 nm.
- 29Sistema de filtro compreendendo um primeiro filtro e um segundo filtro, em que:- o primeiro filtro é um filtro como definido em qualquer uma das reivindicações 23 a 28, e - o segundo filtro tem uma primeira passa banda configurada para passar apenas a primeira cor de luz, e uma segunda passa banda configurada para passar apenas a segunda cor de luz.
- 30Sistema de filtro, de acordo com a reivindicação 29, em que o segundo filtro tem ainda uma região de transmissão que passa a terceira cor de luz.
- 31Sistema de filtro, de acordo com a reivindicação 30, em que a primeira passa banda varia de aproximadamente 458 nm a aproximadamente 472 nm, a segunda passa banda varia de aproximadamente 540 nm a aproximadamente 557 nm, e a outra região de transmissão varia de aproximadamente 637 nm a acima de aproximadamente 700 nm.
- 32Sistema de visualização, compreendendo:- óculos compreendendo um par de filtros de visualização esquerdo e direito espectralmente complementares dispostos nos óculos;e - um sistema de exibição configurado para exibir imagens esquerda e direita espectralmente separadas, respectivamente configuradas para serem visualizadas através dos filtros de visualização esquerdo e direito espectralmente complementares;- sendo que o sistema de exibição compreende um par de filtros de projeção esquerdo e direito espectralmente complementares, e sendo que pelo menos uma banda de luz que é bloqueada por um dos filtros de projeção é passada pelo seu filtro de visualização correspondente.
- 33Sistema de visualização, compreendendo:- óculos compreendendo um par de filtros de visualização esquerdo e direito espectralmente complementares dispostos nos óculos;e - um sistema de exibição configurado para exibir imagens esquerda e direita espectralmente separadas, respectivamente configuradas para serem visualizadas através dos filtros de visualização esquerdo e direito espectralmente complementares, - sendo que pelo menos uma banda de luz que o sistema de exibição não exibe em nenhuma das imagens esquerdas é passada pelos filtros de visualização esquerdos, e/ou pelo menos uma banda de luz que o sistema de exibição não exibe em nenhuma das imagens direitas é passada pelo filtro de visualização direito.
- 34Sistema de visualização, de acordo com a reivindicação 33, em que o sistema de exibição compreende um par de filtros de projeção esquerdo e direito espectralmente complementares, e sendo que pelo menos uma banda de luz que é bloqueada por um dos filtros de projeção é passada pelo seu filtro de visualização correspondente.
- 35Sistema de visualização, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 32 a 34, em que a pelo menos uma banda de luz ausente fica entre cores adjacentes e não é passada pelo outro filtro de visualização.
- 36Sistema de visualização, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 32 a 35, em que a pelo menos uma banda de luz ausente é uma banda de luz entre pelo menos uma das bandas de luz azul ou verde e das bandas de luz verde ou vermelha.
- 37Sistema, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 32 a 36, em que o sistema de exibição compreende um projetor configurado para exibir as imagens esquerda e direita espectralmente separadas com uma quantidade predeterminada de um pré-deslocamento azul.
- 38Sistema de visualização em 3D compreendendo um primeiro conjunto de filtros compreendendo um filtro de projeção e um filtro de visualização, sendo que o filtro de projeção tem um número de passa bandas diferente do filtro de visualização.
- 39Sistema de visualização em 3D, de acordo com a reivindicação 38, em que as larguras de banda e o número de passa bandas de cada filtro não são iguais.
- 40Sistema de visualização em 3D, de acordo com a reivindicação 38 ou 39, compreendendo ainda um segundo conjunto de filtros, sendo que o primeiro conjunto de filtros é posicionado em uma trajetória óptica do sistema e configurado para passar comprimentos de onda de um primeiro canal do sistema e o segundo conjunto de filtros é configurado para passar os comprimentos de onda de um segundo canal do sistema.
- 41Sistema de visualização em 3D, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 38 a 40, em que o filtro de visualização inclui passa bandas que aproximadamente abrangem passa bandas do filtro de projeção;e as passa bandas do filtro de projeção são pré-deslocadas para azul em comparação às passa bandas do filtro de visualização.
- 42Sistema de visualização em 3D, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 38 a 41, em que o filtro de projeção compreende pelo menos um canal configurado para passar múltiplas passa bandas primárias para a mesma luz colorida.
- 43Sistema de visualização em 3D, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 38 a 42, em que o filtro de projeção compreende pelo menos um canal compreendendo pelo menos duas passa bandas de luz nas cores adjacentes.
- 44Sistema de visualização em 3D, de acordo com a reivindicação 43, em que as passa bandas de luz nas cores adjacentes são separadas por um entalhe de bloqueio.
- 45Sistema de visualização em 3D, de acordo com a reivindicação 44, em que os filtros de visualização compreendem canais de passa banda que aproximadamente abrangem as passa bandas do filtro de projeção que incluem o entalhe de bloqueio, de tal forma que, se o entalhe de bloqueio não estiver presente, a luz que passa pelo filtro de projeção nos comprimentos de onda do entalhe de bloqueio também passaria através dos óculos especiais.
- 46Sistema de filtro, compreendendo:- um filtro de projeção, compreendendo: - um conjunto de primeiras passa bandas de canal e um conjunto de segundas passa bandas de canal configurado para passar luz, - um conjunto de bandas de guarda configurado para bloquear a luz entre passa bandas adjacentes de diferentes canais;e - pelo menos uma banda de rejeito entre cores adjacentes de uma mesma passa banda de canal configurada para bloquear a luz entre as cores adjacentes.
- 47Sistema de filtro, de acordo com a reivindicação 46, compreendendo ainda um conjunto de filtros de visualização, incluindo um primeiro filtro de visualização de canal e um segundo filtro de visualização de canal, sendo que o filtro de visualização correspondente ao canal da banda de rejeito passa comprimentos de onda de luz correspondentes à banda de rejeito.
- 48Sistema de filtro, de acordo com a reivindicação 46 ou 47, em que o filtro de projeção é disposto em um disco configurado para ser instalado em um projetor de cinema D, e a pelo menos uma banda de rejeito compreende um dentre uma banda de rejeito azul e verde e uma banda de rejeito verde e vermelha.
- 49Sistema de filtro, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 46 a 48, no qual a pelo menos uma banda de rejeito compreende pelo menos duas banda de rejeitos compreendendo uma banda de rejeito azul e verde e uma banda de rejeito verde e vermelha.
- 50Sistema de filtro, de acordo com a reivindicação 49, em que pelo menos duas dentre as banda de rejeitos estão no mesmo canal.
- 51Sistema de filtro, de acordo com a reivindicação 49, em que pelo menos uma dentre as banda de rejeitos está em cada canal.
- 52Sistema de filtro, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindi5 cações 46 a 51, em que o primeiro conjunto de passa bandas de canal tem um número diferente de passa bandas primárias que o segundo conjunto de passa bandas de canal.
- 53Sistema de filtro, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 46 a 52, em que as primeiras passa bandas de canal compreendem 10 comprimentos de onda de aproximadamente 400 a 440 nm, 484 a 498 nm, 514 a 528 nm, 567 a 581 nm, e 610 a 623 nm.
- 54Sistema de filtro, de acordo com qualquer uma das reivindicações 46 a 53, em que as segundas passa bandas de canal compreendem comprimentos de onda de aproximadamente 455 a 471 nm, 539 a 556 nm, e 15 634 a 700 nm. 1/15 Fia ΊΑ 2/15 3/15 4/15 FIG^4A 5/15 492A-S F/G. 4B 6/15 605Α 610Α 635Β 630Β 605Β 610Β j 1=IG~6 705B 7/15 7=ΪΟ8Α 8/15 9/15 900 900A 1050 1040 Fia io 10/15 % de Transmissão Transmissividade 11/15 Espaço de cores com filtros de 0.0 0.2 1.0 Fia 13 12/15 % de Transmissão F/G. 16 13/15 1760,. 1750 1760, ·// 1755 1700
Independent claims54
186 paragraphs in 4 sections, as filed
(54) Title: PROJECTION SYSTEM AND (57) Summary:
3D IMAGE VIEWING (30) Unionist Priority: 05/09/2007 us 11 / 801,574,
5/18/2007 US 11 / 804,602, 5/21/2007 US 60 / 931,320 (73) Holder (s): Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation (72) Inventor (s): Gary. D. Gomes, Martin John Richards, Wilson Heaton Allen (74) Attorney (s): Dannemann. Siemsen, Bigler & Ipanema Moreira (86) International Request: pct US2008006007 of 05/09/2008 (87) International Publication: wo 2008 / i40787de 11/20/2008
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Descriptive Report of the Invention Patent for SYSTEM FOR PROJECTING AND VIEWING 3D IMAGES
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A portion of the presentation of this patent document contains material subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to facsimile reproduction of the patent document or patent filing, as it appears in the patent files or registrations of the Trademark and Patent Office, but otherwise, without distinction, if reserves all copyrights. TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to visualization systems and products for the projection and visualization of spectrally separate three-dimensional (3D) images. The present invention also refers to the visualization systems used in digital cinema rooms (Cinema D) and improves the current methods of projection and visualization of a stereoscopic 3D film.
PREVIOUS TECHNIQUE
3D stereoscopic projection methods include the Anaglyph, Linear Polarization, Circular Polarization, Shutter Glasses, and Spectral Separation methods. The Anaglyph method is the oldest technology, and provides left / right eye separation by filtering light through a two-color filter, usually red for one eye, and cyan for the other eye. On the projector, the left eye image is (usually) filtered through a red filter, and the right image is filtered through a cyan filter. The glasses include, for example, a red filter for the left eye, and a cyan filter for the right eye. This method works best on original black and white images and is not suitable for color images.
The 3D method of Linear Polarization allows separation in the projector by filtering the left eye by a linear polarizer (usually) vertically oriented, and filtering the right eye by a linear polarizer oriented horizontally. The glasses include a linear polarizer oriented vertically to the left eye and a polarizer oriented horizontally to the right eye. The projection screen must be of the polarization preservation type, commonly referred to as the silver screen because of its distinct color. The Linear Polarization method allows a full color image to be displayed with little color distortion. The method presents several problems, these include the need for a silver screen, which is expensive, fragile, and non-uniform. Another problem is that the viewer must keep his head oriented vertically to avoid interference from one eye to the other.
The 3D Circular Polarization method was invented to solve the problem of requiring the viewer to keep the head oriented vertically. The Circular Polarization method allows separation on the projector by filtering the left eye image through a circular (usually) left-handed polarizer, and filtering the right eye image by a right-handed circular polarizer. The glasses include a left-handed circular polarizer for the left eye and a right-handed circular polarizer for the right eye. The silver screen is also required in this method.
The Shutter Glasses method provides separation by multiplexing the left and right images over time. A separation filter on the projector is not necessary. The glasses include the shutter glasses. These are active glasses that electronically shut the lens in sync with the projector's frame rate. The left eye image is displayed first, followed by the right eye image, etc. Since a direct wired connection to glasses in a projection room is impractical, a wireless or infrared signaling method is used to provide a synchronization reference to the left / right eye filling. This method requires an IR (infrared) or RF (radio frequency) transmitter in the auditorium. Shutter glasses are expensive and difficult to fit, require frequent battery changes, and are limited in their switching rate. Shutter Glasses are only practical for use in a Cinema D or other electronic projection systems, since very few film projectors provide the signal necessary to synchronize shutter glasses with the frame rate. The method does not require a silver screen.
The Spectral Separation method allows separation on the projector by filtering the left and right eye spectrally. The system differs from the anaglyph in that the filters for the left and right eye pass a portion of the red, green and blue spectrum, providing a full color image. The pass-through spectrum of the left eye filter is complementary to the pass-through spectrum of the right eye filter. The glasses include filters with the same general spectral characteristics as those used in the projector. Although this method provides a full color image, it requires color compensation in order to match the colors of the left and right eye with the colors present in the original image, and there is a small reduction in the color range compared to projector range.
All of the above methods for providing a left / right eye separation for a stereoscopic 3D presentation can also be used with two projectors (one for the left eye and one for the right eye), or can be used with a projector system single from Cinema D. In the double projection system, the projection filter is generally static, and is located in front of the projection lens. In a single Cinema D projector system, the left and right images are multiplexed over time. With the exception of shutter glasses, in which case no projection filters are required, this means that the projection filters must change at the E / D multiplex frequency (left / right). This can be done with a filter wheel on the projector synchronized to the multiplex frequency, or with an electronically switched filter.
PRESENTATION OF THE INVENTION
The present inventors realized the need for improvements in spectrally separated visualization systems and devices. The present invention offers several techniques to remove and compensate for the blue shift that occurs when viewing images through filters at off-axis angles (non-normal angles). The blue offset is undesirable, as it can result in interference between left and right images in a 3D image presentation.
The present inventors also realized the need for improvements in spectral separation filters, and in particular those used in 3D Cinema D applications. A perceived problem is that typical 3D projection systems have low luminance efficiency, in the sense that the color spaces, the color range, and the effective brightness are insufficient. Another perceived problem is that the imbalance between the luminance levels in the 3D projection channels decreases the luminal efficiency. Thus, as described in more detail below, the present invention also provides techniques for increasing the color space and luminal efficiency of projected images, which can be used alone or in combination with techniques to compensate for blue displacement.
The present invention includes one or more techniques to increase the color space of spectrally separated images that can be combined with one or more techniques to compensate for the blue shift that occurs when viewing spectrally separated images through filters from different angles than normal angles. The individual techniques are described in more detail in this document. When used together, the present invention is a system comprising a 3D projection device using asymmetric projection filters and special glasses comprising non-planar lenses, with complementary spectral filters.
Generally described, in one embodiment, the present invention provides a pair of 3D spectral separation filters (eye filters) arranged on the left and right lenses of a pair of special glasses, the eye filters comprising a combination of bands of enlarged (and proportional to the wavelength), and properly curved lenses to reduce interference, color shift, and reflections at the edge of the field of view. A color filter shifted to blue from a projector that projects images for viewing through glasses can also be used. While the present invention encompasses a combination of enhancements to special glasses and preparation of images for viewing (e.g., image projection), the present invention can be practiced with less than all improvements in combination.
In one embodiment, the present invention comprises visualization filters comprising a non-flat substrate and spectrally complementary filters.
In one embodiment, the present invention provides special spectral separation glasses comprising a first lens having a first spectral filter, and a second lens having a second spectral filter complementary to the first spectral filter, the first lens and the second lens being curved to in order to reduce the wavelength shift that occurs when viewing an image at an angle other than normal in a filter through which the image is being viewed. An amount of curvature of the lenses (and therefore of the filters) is calculated in such a way that the viewing angles through a viewing screen are closer to the normal angles through the lenses. The curvature is implemented, for example, as a spherical curve.
In another embodiment, the present invention is incorporated as special spectral separation glasses comprising a first lens comprising a first spectral filter, and a second lens comprising a second spectral filter complementary to the first spectral filter, the first spectral filter and the second spectral filter have at least one guard band between adjacent spectral parts of the filter spectrum. The guard band has enough bandwidth to remove interference from spectrally separated images seen through glasses, and, for example, is calculated based on the amount of wavelength shift that occurs when viewing portions of images spectrally separated at an angle through the filters.
In one embodiment, the present invention provides a spectral separation visualization system comprising special glasses having curved lenses and enlarged guard bands, and a projection system configured to project the first and second spectrally separated images, the images being pre- shifted in wavelength in order to compensate for wavelength shifts that occur during image display and / or visualization. Such systems are preferably implemented in a commercial movie theater, but are also applicable to big screen televisions, computers, virtual reality systems, and other display devices.
The present invention includes a method, comprising the steps of projecting the first and second spectrally separated images on a display screen, viewing the projected images through a pair of glasses with a first lens having a first spectral filter corresponding to the first spectrally image separate, and a second lens having a second spectral filter corresponding to the second spectrally separated image, the spectral filters being configured to have a variable amount of wavelength shift effect, depending on an angle of view through the lens.
In one embodiment, the present invention is a 3D viewing system, comprising a means for projecting spectrally separated images, a means for viewing spectrally separated images through different ocular channels, and a means for compensating for wavelength shifts that occur due to the viewing angles in portions of the images. The means for compensating may include, for example, a means for adjusting an amount of spectral filtering performed on different parts of the image based on the viewing angle. The means for compensating includes, for example, a means for producing a wavelength mismatch between the projector filters and the eye filters that compensates for the amount of wavelength shift that occurs in the eye filters due to an angle of eyesight.
The present invention can also be described as special glasses, comprising a pair of spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved lenses of the glasses. The spectrally complementary filters can include guard bands between the adjacent spectra of the spectrally complementary filters. In one embodiment, the thickness of the dielectric layers of the spectrally complementary filters increases towards the edges of the lenses.
The present invention includes a method, comprising the steps of distributing special glasses to the audience, and projecting a first and second spectrally complementary images onto a projection screen within the field of view of the audience participants, with the special glasses comprising a first and second special lenses having a first and second spectrally complementary filters, respectively arranged thereon. In one embodiment, the first and second spectrally complementary filters correspond, respectively, in bandwidth, to the first and second spectral images projected complementarily. However, filters are not necessarily required to match the projected images of the filters exactly. Special glasses include, for example, special spherical lenses.
The present invention includes a storage medium having at least one visual performance stored therein, which, when loaded onto a media player coupled to a video device, causes the media player to transmit visual performance for display on the video device. video, and the visual performance, as displayed on the video device, is configured for viewing through a pair of special glasses. The storage medium is, for example, prepackaged, with at least one pair of special glasses and available for purchase at a point of sale.
In yet another modality, the present invention is a system for viewing 3D images, comprising the service of 3D content over a network to an electronic reception device, and the display of the content in 3D, the content being in 3D includes spectrally complementary images designed to be viewed with spectrally separated special glasses. The electronic reception device is, for example, a display system located in a movie theater.
The present invention addresses some of the problems relating to the spectral separation method for projecting 3D images, specifically an improvement in efficiency, an increase in the color gamut, and a reduction in the required color compensation. In some cases, color compensation may not be required. The present invention addresses the efficiency and color space problems by dividing the projector's primary colors into subparts. The division of primary colors into subparts is done partially through the filter installed in the projector, which is the main control factor in the system's color space. The efficiency and color range of the projected image will be greater when using the additional subparts of the split primary colors.
In one embodiment, the present invention provides a projection filter comprising a first filter having a first set of primary band pass, and a second filter having a second set of primary band pass, the first set of primary band pass having a number different from passing primary bands than the second filter. The first filter has, for example, at least two blue primary band passes and the second filter has at least one blue primary band pass. The first filter can also have, for example, at least two pass green primary bands and the second filter has at least one green primary. For example, the first filter can have bandpass wavelengths of approximately 400 to 440 nm and from 484 to 498 nm, from 514 to 528 nm, from 567 to 581 nm and from 610 to 623 nm, and the second filter can have bandpass wavelengths of approximately 455 to 471 nm, from 539 to 556 nm, and from 634 to 700 nm. The band passers of the first filter and second filter, for example, selected to maximize the reproduction of a color space of a D cinema projector.
The present invention can also be perceived as a spectrally separated 3D image projection system comprising a projection system configured to project left and right channel images for viewing by a viewer, a filter placed on at least one light path of the system projection system comprising a left channel filter and a right channel filter, at least one of the left or right channel filters has more than 3 primary band passes. In one embodiment, one of the left and right channel filters has at least 2 primary bands in blue wavelengths and one of the left and right channel filters has at least 2 primary bands in green wavelengths. Again, the primary bands of the filters are selected to maximize the reproduction of a color space of the projection system in images projected by the projection system. The system can include, for example, a color correction module configured to color the correct images projected by the projection system according to a color space of the filters.
The present invention can also be incorporated as a filter set, comprising a first filter having a first set of primary color band passes, a second filter having a second set of primary color band passes of different wavelengths, compared to first set of primary colors, with the first filter having more than one primary color in at least one color range.
The present invention can also be incorporated as a method comprising the steps of preparing a 3D image including a left image and a right image, filtering the left image with a left channel filter, filtering the right image with a right channel filter, and project the left and right images filtered on a screen, with at least one of the left channel filter and the right channel filter having more than 3 primary band passes. As in all of the modalities described above, the filters (for example, the filters used to perform the filtering steps) can also be incorporated in a set of electronically switchable filters, in filters fixed in a system of two projectors, or a wheel of filters, in which about half of the wheel has the filter characteristics of a left channel filter according to the present invention, and approximately half of the wheel has filter characteristics of a right channel filter, according to the present invention.
Portions of the present invention can be easily implemented in the programming of a general purpose computer, or networked computers, and the results can be displayed on an output device connected to any of the general purpose computers, networked computers, or transmitted to a remote device for output or display. In particular, the present invention includes the use of software that implements color processing separately in each eye channel. Any components of the present invention represented in a computer program, data streams and / or control signals can be incorporated as an electronic signal broadcast (or transmitted) at any frequency in any medium, including but not limited to, wireless broadcasts, and to transmissions by copper wires, fiber optic cables, or coaxial cables, etc.
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A more complete appreciation of the present invention and many of its resulting advantages will be easily obtained as it becomes better understood by reference to the following detailed description when considered in relation to the attached drawings, being that:
Figure 1A is an illustration of viewing angles;
Figure 1B is a graph illustrating the spectrum of the left projector filter and the right eye filter;
Figure 2 is a graph showing the spectrum of the left projector filter versus the right eye filter shifted to blue;
Figure 3 is a graph showing the spectrum of the projector filter shifted to blue versus the right eye filter shifted to blue;
Figure 4A is a diagram illustrating the geometry of the curved lenses centered on a spectator's pupil;
Figure 4B is an illustration of glasses with spherical lenses;
Figure 5 is a diagram that illustrates the geometry of curved lenses and showing the children's interpupillary distances;
Figure 6 is a diagram illustrating the geometry of the curved lenses at an angle of 20 degrees at one edge of the lenses;
Figure 7 is a diagram showing the geometry of the curved lenses with a non-spherical curve;
Figure 8A is a diagram illustrating the effect of the lens curvature on the light coming from behind a viewer;
Figure 8B is a drawing of dihedral angles for a pair of special glasses.
Figure 9 is a drawing illustrating the spectacle frames configured for use on different head sizes.
Figure 10 is a diagram illustrating the geometry of optimized dihedral glasses.
Figure 11 is a graph of conventional left and right spectral separation filters.
Figure 12 is a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram illustrating the color space of a typical digital cinema projector (Cinema D).
Figure 13 is a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram illustrating the color space of conventional spectral separation filters.
Figure 14 is a graph of left and right projector filters.
Figure 15 is a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram illustrating the color space of the color filters.
Figure 16 is a graph of left and right eyeglass filters that can be applied in conjunction with the projector filters described in Figure 4.
Figure 17A is a block diagram of a projection.
Figure 17B is a drawing of a filter wheel; e Figure 18 is a drawing of a set of filters fixed in a system of two projectors.
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The present invention addresses some of the problems with the spectral separation method for projecting 3D images, and, specifically, the present invention aims to improve the off-axis filter characteristics when thin film dielectric (interference) filters are used. (for example, the right eye and left eye filters) to implement the glasses for viewing spectrally separated images.
When light passes through an interference filter at a non-normal angle, the characteristics of the filter (response forms, not to be confused with the physical form of the filter) are changed and the entire response of the spectral filter is shifted to lengths shorter waveforms (for blue). The response forms characteristic of the filter are also adversely affected at greater angles. This is a fundamental attribute of interference filters, and can be compensated by designing the filter for a specific angle, if all rays are parallel. In cases where the light beam is not parallel, as in the case with the use of 3D glasses, solutions that involve only the design of the filter characteristics will be less practical.
The glasses currently used for spectral separation consist of flat interference filters located about 2 cm in front of the viewer's eyes. In a 3D cinema room (for example, 3D Cinema D), the light from the screen does not pass through the interference filters at a single angle. For a viewer located in the center and a screen width behind, when viewing the image in the center of the screen, the light from the center of the screen must pass through the glasses' interference filters at a normal (perpendicular) angle (assuming the viewer's head is positioned in such a way that the plane of the interference filters is parallel to the plane of the screen). Under similar conditions, light from the edge of the screen passes through the interference filters at an angle of approximately 26 degrees.
This viewing position is reasonably close to the screen, but it is not abnormal; many seats in a common audience are closer together, and 40 degree angles are possible. An angle of 26 degrees from the edge of the screen would have the effect of changing the filter's response to blue by about 14 nanometers (nm), and would slightly distort the shape of the filter. The resulting 3D image appears to have a permissible color shift and greater left / right eye interference towards the edges of the screen.
The present invention uses a combination of several techniques to reduce the effects of blue displacement, and to reduce the blue displacement that occurs from non-normal viewing angles. It should be remembered that the blue shift in the interference filters (for example, in the spectacle lenses with filters arranged in them) is especially important because it causes a mismatch between the spectral characteristics of the projector filter (for example, a filter wheel or an electronically switched filter) and the glasses, or more precisely, a mismatch between the spectra of light that form the images (regardless of their origin) and the characteristics of the glasses at a given viewing angle.
With reference to the drawings, in which similar reference numbers designate identical or corresponding parts, and more particularly to figure 1A, exemplary viewing angles are illustrated through spectacles 1110 for viewer 1100 of an image projected on a screen. cinema 1120. Viewing angles range from normal to slightly oblique (for example, about Θ<sub>Ί</sub> a θ<sub>3</sub>, respectively). The 1110 glasses include lenses with dielectric based interference filters. Non-normal viewing angles have an amount of blue offset associated with the viewed image that increases with the greater obliquity of the viewing angle through the interference filters. For example, the light that enters the user's eyes from the most oblique angles θ<sub>2</sub> and Θ3 will be shifted to blue wavelengths, while the more normal angle Θ1 will have little, if any, blue shift. The blue shift, or wavelength shift, thus describes the results of a shift in the properties of the interference filter in such a way that the bands of light that pass through the filter move to shorter wavelengths.
An effect of the blue shift of the light viewed at the edge of the screen (for example, the 1130 light) is the introduction of interference in the image. This can be reduced by increasing the guard bands between the left and right eye filter characteristics. Figure 1B illustrates the characteristics of exemplary filters used in 3D spectral separation. As shown in Figure 1B, the bandwidths of a left projection filter 100 and a right eye filter 110 include guard bands 120, 122, 124, 126 and 128 that appear as rejections between adjacent light bands (a figure 1B illustrates the right eye filter and the left projection filter, the right eye filter represents approximately the bandwidths of the right projection filter, and the left projection filter represents the bandwidths of the left eye filter). By increasing the width of the bounce (or guard band) between the left and right spectra on both the eye filters and the corresponding projector filters, the interference can be reduced. This also reduces the perceived color shift. This method also reduces the optical efficiency of the system, but this switch can be made.
As can be seen in figure 1B, as a pair, the left and right eye filters are complementary in that the filter properties of the left eye filter (approximately represented by the left projection filter 100) complement the filter properties of the 110 right eye filter. This is not a complete complement, in the sense that the guard bands prevent the combined filters from passing through the entire spectrum between the shortest and longest wavelengths passed by the filters. In addition, additional differences in bandwidth within the ranges of the various bands passed through the filters can be made to accommodate engineering decisions regarding color space issues that need to be addressed for a given application.
Another approach is to pre-shift the characteristics of the projector filter to blue, or to shift the eye filters to red, in such a way that, to view at a normal angle of incidence through the eye filters, the characteristics of filter are shifted to red relative to the projector filter. This increases interference and color shift for normal (on-axis) viewing, but this can be adjusted in such a way that, for a viewing on the axis, interference and color shift are not an objectionable issue. For the off-axis case, performance is improved as long as the difference between the projector's filters and the eye (off-axis) filters shifted to blue is smaller.
Figure 2 and figure 3 describe this situation. As shown in figure 2, a left projector filter 200, and a blue shifted right eye filter 210 have guard bands that include guard band 220 that separates adjacent bands of light. As shown in Figure 3, a projector filter shifted to blue 300 and a right eye filter shifted to blue 310 have guard bands including guard band 320 that separates adjacent bands of light. As seen, when comparing figure 2 and figure 3, the rejection (guard bands 210 and 310) that separates the adjacent bands of light is greater in figure 3.
Applying this to the case described above, the offset of 14 nm at the edges of the screen can be reduced to an effective offset of 11 nm when the projector filter moves 3 nm to blue. There will be a 3 nm red offset in the center of the screen.
Another approach is to bend the filters, which can be implemented, for example, by placing the eye filters on the curved lenses of special glasses. This has the advantage of having the potential to actually reduce blue displacement.
Figure 4A describes the geometry of the curved lenses with a radius centered on the pupil of the eye. The lenses shown (lens 405A having an optical axis 410A and lens 405B with an optical axis 410B) are 50 mm wide and the string is located 20 mm from a respective pupil (and center of curvature) (for example, 400A and 400B). The measurements were made for the inventor's eyes, but are representative of the general situation that can be implemented for anyone wearing a 3D glasses. The use of glasses with lenses with a spherical section with a radius centered on the entrance pupil of the eye practically eliminates any blue displacement in the filters because the light passes through the lenses (and, therefore, the filters) virtually normal to the lens / filter for viewing all parts of the screen.
Some distortion occurs when the viewer rolls his eyes to look at different parts of the screen, but for the geometry shown, this is not significant. Figure 4B illustrates two views of a pair of glasses 490 having curved lenses 492A and 492B, both spherically special and having spectrally complementary dielectric filters disposed on them (the left eye filter 496A and the right eye filter 496B).
The curvatures of the lenses thus implemented are different from those of prescription glasses in that the implemented curvatures are not intended to correct vision. However, in one embodiment, the curvature of the present invention can be implemented on or in addition to other lens characteristics designed to meet a spectator's recipe needs.
The curved lens solution still has some limitations. First, the radius of curvature of 30 mm resulting from the geometry described above looks very bulging and would be aesthetically unpleasant. Second, this curvature produces glasses whose weight is centered right in front of the nose, and they become unbalanced. Third, this radius may be too short to allow an even coating of an interference filter.
Fourth, the interpupillary distance from the eyes varies significantly, and this means that glasses designed for the average would be unduly curved for someone with a different distance from the average distance. For example, with a child the situation can result in an angle of approximately 10 degrees for viewing the center of the web. As shown in figure 5, the location of a child's pupils (510A and 510B) and the resulting optical axis of a child's eye (530A and 53OB) would be displaced out of the corresponding optical axis of the glasses (520A and 520B, respectively, positioned in the center of curvatures 500A and 500B).
Even considering the limitations associated with the curvature of the lenses and / or filters, this technique is valuable. Although, in general cases or productions for the mass audience, the attempt to make the radius of curvature center directly at the entrance of the pupil of the eye may not make sense. When making the spherical lenses, but with a radius of curvature centered behind the entrance of the pupil of the eye, most of the problems are removed (for example, placing the center of gravity back towards the viewer, and a less bulging appearance) and the advantages are significantly maintained.
In an alternative, the lenses can use a non-spherical curvature, such as a cylindrical curvature in which the lenses are only curved from left to right, and there is no curvature in the vertical direction. This is possible because the screens always have an aspect ratio such that the horizontal extension (for example, the width) is almost twice the vertical extension (for example, the height). Another alternative is to use a non-spherical curvature in both directions, as a surface with multiple radii, or one that follows a certain mathematical function. These have the advantage of allowing greater interpupillary variation. An additional advantage of curved lenses includes the reduction of reflections from shiny surfaces behind the viewer, as these reflections are not directed at the eye.
A final approach involves designing interference filters. This approach requires a change in the thickness of the dielectric layers as a function of the distance from the center of each eye filter. When the thickness of the dielectric layers is greater at the edges of the filters, in such a way as to cause a red shift in the characteristics of the filter, this can be used to compensate for the blue shift caused by the angle change at the edges of the field of view through the filters. .
When filters are implemented in flat glasses, the thickness of the dielectric layers can increase manufacturing costs due to the difficulty of implementing greater thicknesses in different points of flat glasses. However, when coating a curved surface, a certain thickening occurs during the coating process. This approach, therefore, becomes a practical adjunct to the solution of curved lenses.
The best method for achieving high performance with interference filters incorporates the four techniques described above as follows. First, the guard bands between the left and right eye filters must be greater than approximately 2% (for example, 2.2%) of the wavelength of that filter band. For example, for a filter with a left / right cross at 640 nm, the guard band should be approximately 14 nm. Second, the projector filter must be designed to be shifted to blue (with respect to spectacle filters) more than 0.6% of the wavelength of the filter band. In the same example, the center of the guard band for the projector filter will be 640 - 3.8 = 636.2 nm. The combination of these will produce nominally manufactured lenses and eye filters (when used with a projector lens and nominally manufactured projector filters) to be tilted in such a way that an 18 nm blue shift occurs before a series of image degradation occurs.
However, the combined manufacturing tolerance of projector filters and eye filters reduces this to around 9 nm. The remaining 9 nm guard band can be used to accommodate the blue shift caused by the light passing through the left and right eye filters at an angle. The angle through the left and right eye filters that causes a displacement of 9 nm is about 20 degrees. When the curvature of the eye filters (for example, the curvature of the lenses in which the eye filters are arranged or incorporated) is adjusted to allow the light from the edge of the eye filters to pass through the eye a maximum of 20 degrees with respect to the normal of the eye filters on the edge, in which case there will be no strong degradation in the eye filters.
For a simple sphere, with the eye straight in the center of the screen (for example, a normal primary stare at a tangent to the lens), the radius of curvature required to obtain this result will be approximately 50 mm. As shown in figure 6, lenses 605A and 605B have respective curvature centers 610A and 610B; the adult pupil sites 615A, 615B and a corresponding optical axis of the lenses and adult eye 630A and 630B; the pupillary sites of a child 620A, 620B and the corresponding optical axis of a child's eye 635A and 635B). In practice, the radius of curvature can be slightly greater than 50 mm to accommodate pupillary displacement when the eye turns to look at the side of a movie screen.
Although special spherical lenses are preferred, non-spherical lenses have some advantages. Figure 7 shows the left and right 705A and 705B lenses with a non-spherical curve (adult pupils 700A, 700B; the optical axis of the lenses 715A, 715B; the child pupils 710A, 710B, and the corresponding optical axis of the child 720A, 720B). The left and right lenses incorporate corresponding left and right eye filters. Filters are, for example, arranged on one or more surfaces of the lenses. The advantages of a non-spherical curve are found in accommodating variations in interpupillary distances between different spectators. Finally, a non-uniform dielectric coating can be used to shift the filter characteristics at the edges of the filters to red, further improving performance.
A more important advantage is that the viewer's rear reflections are reduced by the curvature. This is important, since the interference filters placed on the glasses' lenses reflect the light that is not transmitted, and are therefore very reflective. Without the curve, the audience behind the viewer is visible far behind the rear side of the lens. With the curve, only a portion (or none) of the lens has a reflection from behind the viewer. Figure 8 illustrates this advantage when comparing a curved lens 705 having a center of curvature at 708 and a piana lens 710. With respect to the flat lens 710, a relatively wide angled beam of light 725 from behind the viewer is reflected out of the lens flat into the 700A viewer's pupil. With respect to the curved lens 705, it is shown that only a relatively narrow angle (the light beam 720) can reach the viewer's pupil 700B through the reflection of the curved lens. In addition, the viewer's temple 730 prevents most of the sufficiently narrow rays of light from entering the viewer's temple.
Another optimization of the presented techniques can be obtained by accommodating a variation of interpupillary distance between people. In general, interpupillary spacing is directly related to head width and circumference. Adults have a larger width and circumference, and a larger interpupillary spacing, while children are smaller in these dimensions. Ideally, a spectator wears the glasses with the left and right eye filters arranged in the corresponding left and right glasses of the glasses when the interocular lens spacing is optimized for the spectator's particular interpupillary distances.
In a room or other high volume application, it is difficult to stock different sizes of glasses. As an optimization for curved glasses, it is possible to incorporate an aspect into the design of the glasses frame that automatically adjusts a dihedral angle between the curved lenses in order to accommodate a wider or narrower interpupillary spacing. The adjustment of the dihedral angle ensures an incidence of light close to normal when viewing the screen with a primary stare. This adjustment is made by exploring the flexibility and curvature resistance properties of molded thermoplastic frames, or other frames with similar strength and flexibility properties (for example, metals, fiberglass, composites, etc.).
In this design, there is an external convexity to the shape of the frames that creates a dihedral angle between the lenses. In one embodiment, the eyeglass bridge is designed to flex slightly according to the variation in size of the head due to pressure on the frame (for example, the pressure exerted on the temple portion of the frame). This flexion results in changes in dihedral angle. As shown in figure 8B, larger heads 875 with a larger (statistically) interpupillary spacing have a greater dihedral angle o<sub>THE</sub>. In this context, the dihedral angle is defined as the angle between a plane that extends through the end points at the opposite ends of the lens (see the dotted line in figure 8B). Smaller heads 880 have a dihedral angle me21 nor θβ. With a smaller head and correspondingly smaller dihedral angle between the lenses, the distance between the rays directed towards the front of the curved lenses is reduced in order to correspond more closely to the smaller interpupillary spacing.
Figure 9 illustrates both cases. The 900 glasses are illustrated in a 900A first position as when worn by an adult with a relatively larger head size. The interpupillary spacing of the adult is represented by Y. A temple or portion around the ear of the spectacle frame has a spacing represented by Y 'in order to accommodate the size of an adult's head, causing a flexion of the 910 spectacle bridge and resulting in a greater dihedral angle between the lenses.
The 900B position is similar to that when used by a child with a relatively smaller head size, and the child's interpupillary distance is represented by X. The 910 bridge is less flexed, as the temple or spacing around the ear is reduced to X ', resulting in a smaller dihedral angle between the lenses. The smaller dihedral angle accommodates the child's smaller interpupillary spacing, as described above.
Figure 10 illustrates the details of the lenses. In numerical reference 1005, an adult right eye pupil 1010A is shown with respect to a child eye pupil 1015A, with lens 1020 having a center of curvature in numerical reference 1025A. As seen in figure 10, comparing the position of lens 1020 with that of lens 1030 in position 1030A, there will be a greater dihedral angle between the lenses. This is an appropriate lens configuration for an adult.
When worn by a child (or a person with a relatively smaller head size), an amount of flexion from the eyeglass bridge causes the 1030 and 1020 lenses to decrease in dihedral as illustrated in numerical reference 1050 for the left eye (according with figure 9, a similar dihedral decrease (not shown) occurs in the right eye of the 1020 lens). The center of the radius of curvature (1040 for lens 1030 in position 1030B) moves from an alignment corresponding to the pupil of an adult 1010B to an alignment corresponding to that of an infant 1015B.
Figures 8B, 9, and 10 illustrate an accommodation for both adult and child size heads and interpupillary distances. However, it must be understood that interpupillary distances and head sizes vary across an entire population. Although an almost perfect alignment may occur in some viewers, this alignment is not necessary, and the illustrated modalities work to accommodate varying head sizes and interpupillary distances by improving alignment of the viewing angle in most cases.
The lenses shown in figure 10 have a radius of curvature of 50 mm and the dihedral angle is 2 degrees. With conventional size frames, the change in dihedral angle in the average adult versus the child is about 5 degrees (approximately 2.5 degrees on each side of the frames for a total of about 5 degrees). This technique works best with lenses with a radius of curvature of about half the temple portion of the glasses.
As noted above, the present invention addresses some problems with the spectral separation method for projecting 3D images, specifically improving efficiency, increasing the color gamut, and reducing the amount of color compensation required. In some cases, color compensation may not be a necessary issue.
Referring once again to the drawings, and more particularly to Figure 11, a set of left and right spectral separation filters representative of those normally used in Cinema D's three-dimensional (3D) presentations is illustrated. As shown in figure 11, conventional spectral separation filters provide three primary colors for each eye by dividing a projector's red, green and blue color channels into two sets of primary colors, one set for the left eye23 (the colors primary colors 1110R, 110G, and 110B) and a set for the right eye (primary colors 1112R, 1112G, and 1112B). For example, the left eye is illustrated as having bands of blue, green, and red wavelength smaller than the right eye. Following a conventional design, the left eye can have, for example, bandpass wavelengths of approximately 400 to 445 (blue), 505 to 525 (green), and 595 to 635 (red). The right eye can have, for example, bandpass wavelengths of approximately 455 to 495 (blue), from 535 to 585 (green), and from 645 to 700 (red).
Although a filter configuration like the one illustrated in figure 11 provides all three colors for each eye, the resulting image has a slightly different shade in each eye. In order for the images to correspond more closely to the colors of each eye, and to correspond to the colors of the original image, a color correction is applied. Color correction reduces the overall efficiency of the system (as it enhances some primary colors over others). In addition, even with a color correction, the new primary colors left and right do not have a color space as large as that of a projector, and thus only produces a portion, but not each color that would be present if projected. without the filters of a 2D system.
Figure 12 is a 1931 CIE chromaticity diagram illustrating the unfiltered color space 1200 and the white point P3 1210 of a typical digital Cinema projector (Cinema D). The projector's unfiltered color space represents the color space available for projecting images.
Figure 13 is a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram illustrating the color space of conventional spectral separation filters used to separate left eye channel 1320 and right eye channel 1330 in a Cinema D projector. The intersection of color spaces the left and right eye channel represents the potential color space of the images projected through the filters. As can be seen in figure 13, the potential color space that conventional filters use is restricted compared to the projector's color space (1200, figure 2). In addition, the white dot P3
1310 is an important factor in the overall result of the projected image, and significantly shifted compared to that of the projector alone - see white point P3 1315 for the left eye and white point P3 1325 for the right eye and compare with white point 1210 of the projector P3, shown with reference to figure 13.
The present invention concerns the filter installed in the projector, which becomes the main control factor in the color space of the system. The present invention refers to both efficiency and color space issues by dividing at least one of the projector's primary colors into subparts. In one embodiment, the primary colors blue and green of the projector are divided into three subparts each. The exact wavelengths of when the primary color is divided can be chosen in a way taking into account the particular color space to be reproduced.
For example, as shown in figure 14, in a potential configuration, a right channel projection filter has blue bandpass wavelengths from 400 to 440 (410-BI) and from 484 to 498 nm (410-B2) , green from 514 to 528 (1410-G1) and from 567 to 581 nm (1410-G2), and red from 610 to 623 nm (1410-R). A left channel projection filter has bandwidth wavelengths of blue from 455 to 471 nm (1412-B), green from 539 to 556 nm (1412-G), and red from 634 to 700 nm (1412-R) ). Of course, there are other permutations, such as, for example, the switching of the left and right channel wavelengths, or the switching of the green and blue wavelengths, etc. In addition, bandwidth wavelengths are approximate and each band can vary, for example, by ± 5 nm or more. These variations can occur when moving the entire bandpass and / or selecting one or more ends for the bandpass. An important consideration is that such variances should not reduce the guard band between band passes to a level where a system using filters incurs unacceptable levels of interference between the channels.
The selection of bandwidth wavelengths is made in such a way that when an image is projected with a Cinema D Projector with a white dot P3 1210 and color space 1200 as, for example, shown in figure 12, the space of resulting color in the channels, and, more particularly, the combined color space of the projected images, have a color space and white point that more closely correspond to color space 1200 and white point P3 1210 compared to the color space and white point that occur when using a conventional spectral separation, as shown in figure 13. The band passes they are also chosen in order to maximize efficiency when selecting band passes that will result in approximately equal or balanced luminance levels in each channel. As long as sufficient bandwidth is available in each band pass in order to obtain the improvements presented (as, for example, proven by experimental results), there are no theoretical limits on the variances that can occur above the band pass wavelengths copies described in this document.
It is observed that there are gaps in the color spectrum that did not exist in the previous drawings (for example, between 498 nm and 514 nm for a transition from blue to green in the right channel, and between 581 nm and 610 nm for the transition from green to red on the right channel). These bounces are designed to increase the color space to match the P3 color space on Cinema D Projectors. The filter response required to obtain the correct P3 result was derived using the true spectral response (measured) of the Cinema D Projector, which is reflected in the wavelengths chosen for the above described band passes.
Note also that in the illustrated example, the three subparts are structured in such a way that they are interlaced in the right and left channels. From a practical point of view, this means that the three subparts are arranged in such a way that a filter has at least one lower subpart and one higher subpart than the other filter's subpart. For example, in figure 14, the blue bands of the right channel projection filter pass through the blue band of the left channel projection filter. Such interlacing is preferably maintained in the various modalities, including the modalities that divide the band passes into more than 3 subparts. Although there is theoretically no limit to the number of subparts into which any bandwidth can be divided, due to cost and other factors, a point of diminishing returns is quickly reached and 3 subparts each of blue and green and 2 subparts of red appear have the greatest return at a reasonable cost. With improved components and / or reduced component costs, a different economic analysis may result and 4, 5, or more subparts, including additional subparts in red, may be justified for further incremental increases in color space. Such incremental improvements can also be justified from the perspective of current economic and cost models for the markets for higher end equipment.
Figure 15 shows color space diagrams for the filters described above of the present invention. As can be seen in figure 15, the intersection, or product, of the color space of the left channel projection filter and the right channel projection filter results in a color space more closely corresponding to the 1200 color space (figure 12 ) than with conventional spectral separation. Some portions of the color space are reduced and other portions of the color space are increased. Although some areas of the color space are reduced, the reduced areas are less important to viewers. The areas of the color space to which viewers are most sensitive showed significant gains with the present invention with respect to conventional spectral separation.
The glasses used to view the projected images need not be as complex as the projector filter, as the rejections that provide the improved color space have no impact on the separation of the left / right eye (or left / right channel) ), and therefore rejections do not need to be reproduced in the glasses' viewing filters (the projector filter has more bands, and therefore more complexity than the viewing filters). As shown in figure 16, in one configuration, the lens of the right eye of the glasses has a filter with bandwidth wavelengths of approximately 430 to 440 nm (part of the blue band), from 484 to 528 nm (part of the blue band , and part of the green band), from 568 to 623 (part of the green band and the red band), which cover the pass bands of the right channel project filter. The lens of the left eye glasses has a filter with bandpass wavelengths from 455 to 471 (blue), from 539 to 555 nm (green), and from 634 to 700 nm (red) that cover the filter band passages channel projector. The wavelengths below the initial wavelengths in the blue (approximately 430 nm) and the wavelengths above the final wavelengths in the red (approximately 700 nm) are beyond the visible spectrum and can still be included or excluded from the bandpass. . There are other exchanges, as described above (including changing the left / right channel), but the lenses in the left and right eye of the glasses include corresponding exchanges that cover or correspond to the filter exchanges of the left and right channel.
Along with other factors, such as the color space and white point of the projector, the final images seen through the glasses are a product of the projection filters and the viewing filters (for example, the glasses filters used to view the images) . In the described modalities, the reception filters are less important with regard to the design of the bandpass, since they have less rejection and, in general, cover more wavelengths in at least some of the bandpass. The important function performed by the glasses is the separation of all images as a whole and as projected, and not the specific bands within each image as described for the projection filters.
The overall response (color space and white point) to the eye is the product of the spectral response of the projector filters, the lens / glasses filters, and the base response of the Cinema D projector (the color space and white point of the Cinema D projector without the left and right channel projector filters). However, the color space is more defined by the position of the band passes and the notches on the yellow and blue and green bands, and so the general response is more of a function of the projector filter (since the glasses do not need and preferably have no notches).
In part, because of the lower complexity of spectacle (or viewing) filters, spectacle filters are also comparatively less expensive to produce compared to projection filters. This is a benefit, since spectacle filters are generally incorporated as a pair of spectacles worn by spectators (including the general public), and are therefore less subjected to intensive care, whereas equipment projector including projector filters are generally kept in safer and more stable environments. In addition, glasses are usually purchased in larger quantities than projector filters.
Another aspect of the different complexities of glasses (or visualization) filters compared to projector filters is that they create an asymmetric filtering system. That is, each visualization filter and its corresponding projection filter of the same channel are not symmetrical in bandwidth and / or number of band passers. The display filter bandwidths can also fully cover the projection filter bandwidths (and, in some embodiments, the projector filter bandwidths can be shifted to blue with respect to the viewing filter bandwidths to give account of the blue offsets relative to the viewing angle of the viewing filters). Regardless of whether the projection filters are fully covered by the viewing filter bandpass, the projection and viewing filter bandpassing preference is different. Therefore, a preferred result is an asymmetric filtration system.
The particular response of the projector filter used in the description of the present invention uses 3 divisions of the projector bands of blue and green colors. The red band is divided into two parts (part for the right channel and part for the left channel). Other divisions can be used for larger color spaces, however additional filter costs will be incurred. A careful selection of the optical band passes provides a strict correlation with the color space and white point of the original unfiltered projector. The design of the glasses is such that they have the same complexity as a conventional spectral separation design, but offer adequate selectivity in order to minimize interference between the images projected on the left and right channels.
17A is a block diagram of a 1700 projection system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The 1700 projection system includes a 1705 digital cinema projector that projects spectrally separate 3D images (a left channel image and a right channel image) through the 1730 projection filter and the 1720 projection lens onto a 1710 screen for viewing with the 1715 glasses. 1715 glasses include, for example, spectrally separate filters arranged as coatings over each lens of the glasses in such a way that the right lens comprises a filter that matches or encompasses the pass bands of the right channel filter and the left lens comprises a filter that matches or covers the pass bands of the filter. left channel (each of the left and right channel images is designed to be seen by the viewer's corresponding left or right eye through the corresponding lens / filter the left or right eye of the glasses). 1715 glasses and the 1700 system may, for example, include any of the aspects, systems, or devices described by Richards et al., In the U.S. Patent Application entitled METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHAPED GLASSES AND VIEWING 3D IMAGES, N ° 11/801 574, filed on May 9, 2007, the contents of which are incorporated into this document by way of reference as if specifically presented.
The 1705 projector receives image data for projection from a 1780 server. 3D content is provided to the 1780 server from, for example, a 1740 disk drive. Alternatively, 3D content can be transmitted for the 1705 projector over a secure 1755 network link from, for example, a 1750 warehouse or imaging studio. Multiple other projectors (for example, in rooms around the world, 1760ι ... 176O<sub>n</sub>) may also feed on a network or other similar electronic or wireless connections, including wireless networks, satellite transmission, or quality airwaves (for example, High Definition or better broadcast).
The 1780 server includes a 1775 color correction module that performs mathematical color transformations to be reproduced by the projector before image projection. The mathematical transformations use image data for each of the left and right channels and transform them into parameters consistent with the colors or pass primary bands of the corresponding left or right channel filter. Mathematical transformation, or color corrections, adjusts the tone of each image and maximizes the available color space and correlates the color space and white point of the 1705 projector as closely as possible. The amount of color correction required when using the present invention is significantly reduced compared to conventional spectral separation.
Color-corrected 3D content is transmitted to the 1705 projector. 3D content includes left and right channel images that switch at a rate fast enough for them to blend into a single 3D image when viewed by a viewer through of the 1715 glasses. At a certain point in the optical path of the projection system, the filters according to the present invention are used. For example, a 1730 filter wheel is placed at a point on the optical path closest to the light source. Figure 17B provides an illustrative example of the filter wheel 1730 in front, side, and angular views. The specifications for appropriate physical dimensions and the characteristics of the exemplary 1730 filter wheel include, for example: an external diameter (OD) 1732 of 125.00 mm ± 0.15 mm, an internal hole 1734 with a diameter (ID) of 15 , 08 mm ± 0.04 mm (that is, for example, decentralized no more than 0.075 mm), and a thickness of 1.00 mm to 1.20 mm. The exemplary filter wheel includes, for example, the material: Monolithic, Borosilicate or Fused Silica, 2-Section filter (eg, TYPE A, a first channel filter, and TYPE B, a second channel filter), Transition Maximum of 3 mm, Aperture
Clear: 1 mm OD diameter, 10 mm ID diameter, Surface Quality: 80 to 50 when a Temporary Number is Measured in Micron Width, Edge Finish: As Manufactured, Edge Shavings: Less than or Equal to 1 mm. All of these specifications are exemplary, and other combinations of materials, dimensions, and / or construction techniques, etc. can be used. Alternatively, an electronically switched filter 1725 is placed, for example, after the 1720 projection lens.
A 1735 controller provides signals that maintain synchronization between the 1730 filter and the image that is projected. For example, the features of a left channel filter according to the present invention are active when a left channel image is projected, and the features of a right channel filter according to the present invention are active when a channel image right is projected. In the case of the electronically switched filter, the controller signals a switch between left and right channel filters in sync with the left and right image projections. In the filter wheel mode, for example, the controller maintains a rotational speed and synchronization between the left and right channel images and the left and right channel filters, respectively. The mixed image as seen through the 1710 glasses has a color space and white point that closely correlate to a color space and white point of the 1705 projector without a 1730 filter.
The present invention includes a modality in which the filter wheel having left and right channel projection filters disposed therein is placed within a cinema projector between the light source and the cinema projector integration rod. The advantage of this placement is that the amount of light that passes through the other optical components is reduced and less likely to overload sensitive electronic equipment or other components (for example, a DLP, an LCOS, or other light processors or light valves on the projector ), but the amount of light coming out of the system's projection is equivalent to the modalities in which the projection filters are placed further downstream. Alternatively, the strength of the light source can be increased, resulting in a larger output without damaging the integration rod or other components downstream.
Other advantages to the described filter placement are that the filter can be smaller than at most other points in the light patch, and at a reduced cost compared to larger filters. And, the images formed after filtering are generally considered sharper than the images formed and then filtered.
In one embodiment, the projection filter is a filter wheel, in which approximately 1/2 of the wheel has the filter characteristics of a left channel filter according to the present invention, and approximately 1/2 of the wheel has the characteristics of filter of a straight channel filter according to the present invention. Table 1 presents a filter wheel specification for a multi-band filter having a left channel filter section and a right channel filter section. The values
Delta shown in Table 1 specify an inclination (sharpness) of the band edges. The T50 values specify the wavelength at the band edge when the light transmission is 50%. In bandwidth wavelengths, transmission is at least 90%, and in tailings bandwidth, transmission is less than
0.5%. The wheel may, for example, have a diameter of approximately 125 mm, which is well suited for installation in a Cinema D projector (for example, the 705 projector) between the light source and the integration rod. Table 1
Delta T<sub>O</sub>.5 T = 0.5% <8 nm <8 nm <8 nm <8 nm
Exemplary Filter Wheel Specification
Delta Tg<sub>Q</sub> Right
T = 90% T = 50%
Left
T = 50% <10 nm t <430 nm <2 nm 4 440 nm + - 2 nm <2 nm T 456 nm + - 2 nm <2 nm 4 470 nm + - 2.5 nm <2.5 nm f 484 nm + - 2.5 nm
498 nm + - 3 nm <3 nm
Exemplary Filter Wheel Specification
<td>Delta T<sub>O</sub>, 5 T = 0.5%</td><td>Delta Tg<sub>0 </sub>T = 90%</td><td>Right T = 50%</td><td>Left T = 50%</td>
<td><10 nm</td><td><3 nm</td><td>t 511 nm + - 3 nm</td><td></td>
<td><10 nm</td><td><2.5 nm</td><td>4- 526 nm + - 2.5 nm</td><td></td>
<td><10 nm</td><td><2.5 nm</td><td></td><td>t 538 nm + - 2.5 nm</td>
<td><10 nm</td><td><3 nm</td><td></td><td>4- 554 nm + - 2.5 nm</td>
<td><10 nm</td><td><3 nm</td><td>t 568 nm + - 2.5 nm</td><td></td>
<td><12 nm</td><td><3 nm</td><td>4 584 nm + - 3 nm</td><td></td>
<td><12 nm</td><td><3 nm</td><td>T 610 nm + - 3 nm</td><td></td>
<td><12 nm</td><td><3 nm</td><td></td><td>T 635 nm + - 3 nm</td>
<td> -</td><td> -</td><td></td><td>Φ> 690 nm</td>
The exemplary specifications above include a certain blue pre-offset consistent with the Richards et al. mentioned above. However, the inclusion of a blue pre-shift and other features is not necessary.
Table 2 specifies a correlation set of display filters (or the bandwidths of the comprehensive projector filters, but also including a small amount of red offset). The filters include a multi-band filter for the left channel (or left eye lens) and a multi-band filter for the right channel (or right eye lens). Delta values specify the slope (sharpness) of the band edges. The T50 values specify the wavelength of the band edge at which the light transmission is 50%. In passband wavelengths, the transmission is at least 90%, and in band rejection wavelengths, the transmission is less than 0.5%. These filters are, for example, placed on the left and right lenses of the 1715 glasses.
Table 2
Delta T<sub>O</sub> 5 T = 0.5% <12 nm <12 nm <16 nm <16 nm <16 nm <16 nm <20 nm <22 nm <23 nm
Exemplary View Filters
Delta T<sub>90</sub> Right
T = 90% T = 50%
Left
T = 50% <3 nm <3 nm <4 nm <4 nm <4 nm <4 nm <5 nm <6 nm <6 nm
T <430 nm 4 · 442 nm + - 3 nm
T 486 nm + - 3 nm 4 528 nm + - 3 nm
T 571 nm + - 3 nm 4- 624 nm + - 4 nm
T 458 nm + - 3 nm
T 540 nm + - 3 nm 4- 557 nm + - 3 nm
T 637 nm + - 5 nm 4 ·> 700 nm
Figure 18 is a drawing of a fixed filter arrangement in a system of two projectors 1800 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Left and right channel images are derived, decoded, retrieved, or reconstructed from data stored on the 1840 disk drive (or received from an appropriate network or broadcast reception) by the 1880 server. The color correction as described above it can also be applied (not shown).
The decoded left and right channel images, color corrected 10 (if applicable) are then projected simultaneously from the left and right channel projectors 1805A and 1805B on the 1810 screen for viewing with the 1715 glasses. An 1820A right channel filter having the bandpass characteristics as described above is used to filter the projected right channel image. An 1820B left channel filter having the bandpass characteristics as described above is used to filter the projected left channel image. Right and left channel filters are fixed filters (for example, filters with characteristics that do not change over time), and are made, for example, from a transparent substrate (for example, glass) coated with appropriate layers in order to to produce the band passes for the desired left or right channel filter characteristics. The fixed filter can be located on the projector at any point along the optical path, or it can be located outside the projector after the projection lens, as shown in figure 18.
Although the present invention has been basically described as a space of increasing color by increasing the number of bandwidths in the blue and green wavelengths (and interleaving these bandwidths between the left and right channels), the present invention should not be limited to increasing the number of band passes or the same number or wavelengths as specifically described in this document, and, it must include any number of more bandwidths at any wavelength capable of passing through the projection filter. For example, instead of dividing the primary blue into three subparts (2 subparts on one channel and one part on the other channel); the primary blue can be divided into four or more subparts (for example, 3 subparts in one channel and 2 subparts in the other channel). In addition, the division of subparts, as described in this document, can be done at any available wavelength, and can therefore be extended to red wavelengths. Furthermore, the presentation above should not limit the implementations of when additional subparts of blue and green bands must necessarily be on the same channel, since the present invention can be practiced by having two subparts of blue in a first channel, a subpart of blue on a second channel, two subparts of green on the second channel, and a subpart of green on the first channel. It also logically extends to modalities with more than three subparts, whose additional subparts can be bands of any color or any channels.
In yet another example, presentations relating to curved eyeglass lenses having a radius of 50 mm curvature are exemplary and any other radius can be used as long as the radius does not extend to infinity (making the glasses flat, or essentially plans). For example, a radius of 40 mm or a radius of 80 mm or more (for example, above 200 mm) may offer suitable alternatives and not derive an unacceptable amount of benefit from the 50 mm radius of curvature described. In one embodiment, the radius of curvature of the spectacle lens is 90 mm (alternatively, approximately 90 mm), which represents an acceptable exchange considering the cost and difficulty of coating lenses with a greater amount of curvature without decreasing very substantially the benefits of an optimally curved lens.
Several non-limiting embodiments, examples of the present invention will be described below, including, for example, special glasses comprising a non-flat substrate (for example, non-flat lenses), with spectrally complementary filters (alternatively, the filters are for two channels such that the filter of the first channel passes the light bands of the first channel and blocks the light bands of the second channel and vice versa). Special glasses may comprise, for example, a first lens having a first spectral filter, and a second lens having a second spectral filter complementary to the first spectral filter, and the first and second lenses are curved in order to reduce a length shift of wave that occurs when viewing an image at a different angle than normal through the lens. In various modalities, the curve of each lens comprises, for example, any of the following: a ray centered over the viewer's pupil, a ray centered behind the viewer's pupil, a non-spherical shape, a cylindrical shape, includes multiple rays, a predetermined mathematical function, prescription curves. In one embodiment, spectral filters have a thickness that varies by location on the lens.
In another embodiment, the spectral filters comprise a plurality of dielectric layers, and the dielectric layers have a greater layer thickness towards the edges of the lenses. In another embodiment, the present invention comprises visualization filters comprising a non-flat substrate and spectrally complementary filters. In one embodiment, at least one of the spectrally complementary filters comprises, for example, a single bandpass configured to pass through two bands of light of different colors. In one embodiment, at least one of the spectrally complementary filters comprises a single bandpass configured to pass two different colors of light. In one embodiment, spectrally complementary filters are configured to view a 3D image, which, for example, can comprise a reflection outside a cinema screen. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters comprise, for example, a first filter having a set of primary band pass comprising, a first band pass configured to pass both a green light band and the red light band, and a second band pass configured to pass both a blue light band and a green light band. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters comprise a first filter comprising a first set of primary bandpass comprising the bandpass configured to pass both a band of green light and a band of red light, and a second filter comprising a second set of bandpass primary bands comprising a bandpass configured to pass either a blue light band or a green light band. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters comprise a first filter having a set of 3 band passes configured to pass a set of more than 3 bands of primary color light. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters comprise a first filter comprising a first set of bandpass configured to pass a first set of bands of primary light and a second filter comprising a second set of bandpass configured to pass a second set of bandwidths primary light, the first set of primary light bands being mutually exclusive to the second set of primary light bands. In addition, the first bandpass set and the second bandpass set can, for example, be separated by the guard bands having a calculated width in order to maintain the separation between the primary light bands when viewed through the viewing filters. and compensate for the blue shift due to a viewing angle of the bands of primary light through the viewing filters. In one embodiment, at least one of the band passes covers at least two of the bands of primary light.
In another embodiment, the present invention comprises special spectral separation glasses, comprising, a first lens comprising a first spectral filter, and a second lens comprising a second spectral filter complementary to the first spectral filter, the first spectral filter and the second spectral filters have at least one guard band between adjacent portions of the spectrum of spectral filters, and the guard bandwidth is calculated based on the amount of blue shift that occurs when viewing portions of the images spectrally separated at an angle through the lens. In one embodiment, the guard band has sufficient bandwidth to reduce the interference of spectrally separated images seen through glasses. The guard band comprises, for example, approximately 2% or more of a wavelength at an intersection point of adjacent portions of the spectral filters.
In another embodiment, the present invention comprises a spectral separation visualization system comprising special glasses, comprising a first lens having a first spectral filter, and a second lens having a second spectral filter complementary to the first spectral filter, the spectral filters being include a guard band between adjacent portions of the spectrum of the first and second lenses, and the lens has a curvature configured to cause the angles of light incidence at the edges of the lenses to be closer to normal when compared to a flat lens. The curvature of the lenses is, for example, spherical. In one embodiment, spectral filters are not uniform across the lens. In various other embodiments, the visualization system further comprises, for example, a projection system configured to project spectrally separated first and second images, and the spectrally separated first and second images are respectively viewed through the spectral filters of special glasses. The visualization system can also comprise, for example, a plurality of pairs of said special glasses, each pair of special glasses being assigned to an individual viewer of a cinema audience, and the first and second filters are arranged on the spectacle lenses. each pair of glasses.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises a method, comprising the steps of projecting a first and second spectrally separated images onto a video screen, viewing the projected images through a pair of glasses having a first lens with a first spectral filter designed to be used with the first spectrally separated image and a second lens having a second spectral filter designed to be used with the second spectrally separated image, being that spectral filters are configured to have an amount of wavelength shift effect depending on the angle of view through the lens. In one embodiment, the adjacent portions of the spectrum of the first and second spectral filters are separated by a guard band comprising a bandwidth calculated for a central viewing position and sufficient to eliminate interference for normal viewing of the edges of the video screen. . In yet another embodiment, spectral filters comprise a plurality of guard bands, each separating a different set of adjacent spectra in the first and second filters, and the bandwidth of each guard band is determined based on the function of a crossing wavelength of the adjacent spectra and the viewing angle to an edge of the video screen. The video screen is, for example, a cinema screen.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises a 3D viewing system, comprising a means for projecting spectrally separated images, a means for viewing spectrally separated images through different eye channels, and a means for compensating for the length shift of waves that occur due to viewing angles for portions of the images. In one embodiment, the means for compensating includes, for example, a means for adjusting an amount of spectral filtering performed based on the viewing angle. In another embodiment, the means for compensating includes, for example, a means for producing a wavelength mismatch between the projector filters used to project the spectrally separated images and the eye filters used to view the spectrally separated images. , the mismatch compensating for the amount of wavelength shift that occurs in the eye filters due to incidental light over the eye filters at non-normal angles.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises a visualization system, comprising special glasses comprising a pair of left and right spectrally complementary filters respectively arranged on the left and right curved lenses of the glasses, and a display system configured to display left images. spectral and right, respectively configured to be viewed through the complementary left and right filters, each spectrally separated image comprising at least one bandwidth of light that correlates approximately to at least one bandpass of its corresponding filter. The display system further comprises, for example, a projector configured to display the left and right images spectrally separated with a predetermined amount of a blue pre-shift. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters comprise guard bands between adjacent spectra of the spectrally complementary filters. The special glasses of the visualization system are, for example, used to visualize the projections displaced in color of the spectrally complementary images. In one embodiment, the special glasses of the visualization system include frame temples and a bridge designed to flex, implementing an adjustable dihedral angle between the lenses. An amount of change in the dihedral angle due to bending is, for example, approximately 5 degrees.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises a method comprising the steps of: distributing special glasses to participants in an audience; and project a first and second spectrally complementary images on a video screen within the view of the audience participants, with the special glasses comprising a first and second special lenses having a first and second spectrally complementary filters respectively arranged on them, and the first and according to spectrally complementary filters correspond, respectively in bandwidth, to the first and second images projected spectral complementary. In one embodiment, matching the bandwidth of the first spectrally complementary filter passes colors in a first channel of a projection and blocks the colors in a second channel of the projection, and matching the bandwidth of the second spectrally complementary filter passes colors in a second channel of a projection and blocks the colors of a first channel of the projection.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises a storage medium having a visual performance stored therein, which, when loaded onto a media player coupled to a video device, causes the media player to transmit visual performance to display on the video device, the visual performance comprising spectrally separated images configured to be viewed respectively through independent eye channels using spectrally separated curved filters. The storage medium is, for example, prepackaged with at least one pair of glasses with curved lenses on which are spectrally separated curved filters. The spectrally separated images are, for example, displayed by the video device using filters that are shifted to blue in comparison to the filtering that occurs through a normal angle view of the spectrally separated curved filters. The spectrally separated images are, for example, separated by a guard band configured to compensate for the imbalance of spectra between the projected images and the properties of the filters used to view the projected images. The combination of blue pre-shift, curved lenses, and guard bands effectively eliminates interference when viewing images.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises, for example, a system for viewing 3D images comprising, the service of a 3D content over a network to a receiving electronic device, which projects the 3D content to a device video, and the 3D content comprises spectrally complementary images designed to be viewed with special glasses. The receiving electronic device comprises, for example, a display system located in a movie theater. In one embodiment, the content projected in 3D is projected with a predetermined amount of blue offset.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises a method for displaying a 3D image, comprising the steps of: project filtered left and right images onto a screen, and filter the left and right images for each of the spectrally specific properties corresponding to the image before displaying on the screen, the filtering being done with a filter having characteristics that are shifted in an amount configured to compensate for a wavelength shift that occurs when a viewer watches the screen. The wavelength shift comprises, for example, a blue shift that occurs due to viewing angles (which can be, for example, a blue shift that occurs in characteristics of an eye filter used to view images, or, as another example, a blue shift that occurs in filtered special glasses when viewing any of the images through special filtered glasses at a different angle than normal). The spectrally specific properties corresponding to the image comprise, for example, a set of wavelengths corresponding to the right images and the complementary set of wavelengths corresponding to the left images.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises a projector filter, comprising a first filter having a first set of primary band pass, and a second filter having a second set of primary band pass, the first set of primary band pass being has a different number of primary band passes than the second filter. In one embodiment, the first filter has, for example, at least two blue primary band passes and the second filter has at least one blue primary band pass. In another embodiment, the first filter has, for example, at least two green primary bands and the second filter has at least one green primary. In another embodiment, the first filter has, for example, two primary colors blue and two primary colors green and the second filter has a primary color blue and a primary color green. In another embodiment, the first filter has, for example, bandpass wavelengths of approximately 400 to 440 nm and from 484 to 498 nm, from 514 to 528 nm, from 567 to 581 nm, and from 610 to 623 nm . The second filter has, for example, bandpass wavelengths of approximately 455 to 471 nm, from 539 to 556 nm, and from 634 to 700 nm. The bandwidth wavelength specifications have a tolerance of, for example, approximately ± 5 nm. In one embodiment, the primary band passes the first filter excluding the wavelengths passed by the second filter. In one embodiment, the primary bands of the filters are selected in order to maximize the reproduction of a projector's color space. The projector color space is, for example, the color space of a Cinema D projector. In one embodiment, the projector filter is an electronically switchable filter that switches between the first and second filters according to a synchronization signal. of image.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises a system for projecting spectrally separated 3D images comprising a projection system configured to project left and right channel images for display to a viewer, a filter placed on at least one trajectory of projection system light comprising a left channel filter and a right channel filter, at least one of the left and right channel filters has more than 3 primary band passes. In one embodiment, one of the left and right channel filters has at least 2 primary bands in blue wavelengths. In one embodiment, one of the left and right channel filters has at least 2 primary bands in green wavelengths. In one embodiment, one of the left and right eye channel filters has at least 2 primary bands in blue wavelengths and at least 2 primary bands in green wavelengths. In one embodiment, the primary band passes of the filters are selected in order to maximize the reproduction of a color space of the projection system in images projected by the projection system. In one embodiment, the system also comprises a color correction module configured to correct the images projected by the projection system in color according to the color space of the filters. Alternatively, the color correction module is configured to color correct images based on a color space of light passed through the filter.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises a pair of spectral separation projector filters configured to divide a projector blue primary color into three subparts, a green projector primary into three subparts, and a red projector primary into two subparts . One of the filters has, for example, two bandwidths in blue, two bandwidths in green, and a single bandwidth in red, and the other filter has one bandwidth in blue, one bandwidth in green, and one bandwidth in red. In another modality, one of the filters has, for example, two bandwidths in blue, two bandwidths in green, and only one bandwidth in red, and the other filter has only one bandwidth in blue, only one bandwidth in green, and only one band passes in red. In one mode, one of the filters has, for example, two bandpass in blue, one bandpass in green, and one bandpass in red, and the other filter has one bandpass in blue, two bandpass in green, and one band in red. In another modality, one of the filters has, for example, two bandpass in blue, only one bandpass in green, and only one bandpass in red, and the other filter has only one bandpass in blue, two bandpass in green, and only one band passes in red. In one mode, one of the filters has a bandpass in blue, two bands in green, and one band in red, and the other filter has two bands in blue, one band in green, and one band in red . In another modality, one of the filters has only one bandwidth in blue, two bands in green, and only one bandwidth in red, and the other filter has two bandwidths in blue, only one bandwidth in green, and only a red bandwidth. In one embodiment, the sub-part band passes are located in order to obtain a substantial correspondence with the original color space and white point of an unfiltered Cinema D projector.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises, for example, a set of color filters, comprising a first filter having a first set of primary color bandpass, a second filter having a second set of primary color bandpass different wavelengths compared to the first set of primary colors, with the first filter having more than one primary color in at least one color band. The filter set is incorporated, for example, as an electronically switchable filter set. In one embodiment, the color filter set is part of a 3D projection system and the primary bands of the first and second filters are selected in order to maximize the reproduction of a 3D projection system color space without the first and second filters.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises, for example, a method comprising the steps of: prepare a 3D image comprising a left image and a right image, filter the left image with a left channel filter, filter the right image with a right channel filter, and project the left and right images filtered onto a screen, at least one of the left channel filter and the right channel filter have more than 3 primary band passes. One of the left and right channel filters comprises, for example, 2 passes primary bands at blue wavelengths and 2 passes primary bands at green wavelengths. In one embodiment, the method also comprises, for example, the step of viewing the projected image in 3D through the left and right viewing filters having band passers that respectively exclude the band pass from the right channel filter and the left channel filter. In another modality, the method also includes, for example, the step of switching the left and right channel filters in sync with the projection of left and right channel images of the 3D image.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises, for example, a 3D display system comprising a first set of asymmetric filters comprising a projection filter and a display filter. In one embodiment, the 3D visualization system can also comprise, for example, a second set of asymmetric filters, the first set of asymmetric filters being positioned on an optical path of the system and configured to pass the wavelengths of a first channel of the system, and the second set of filters is configured to pass wavelengths of a second channel of the system. In another embodiment, the viewing filter includes bandpassing that encompasses the bandpassing of the projection filter. In yet another embodiment, the display filter includes, for example , bandpassing that approximately encompasses the bandpassing of the projection filter; and the projection filter bandwidths are shifted to blue compared to the viewing filter bandwidth.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises an asymmetric filter system, comprising, a first set of filters having a first set of optical bandpass, a second set of filters having a second set of optical bandpass different from the first set of optical bandpass and covering the first set of optical bandpass. In one embodiment, the first set of filters is upstream in an optical path with respect to the second set of filters. In another embodiment, the first set of filters comprises a projection filter and the second set of filters comprises a viewing filter. In another embodiment, the first optical bandpass set comprises a right optical bandpass channel set and a left optical bandpass channel set that excludes any portion of the right optical bandpass channel set. In another embodiment, the second set of optical bandpass includes a left channel set of optical bandpass and a set of right channel of optical bandpass that excludes any portion of the left band optical bandpass.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises a method comprising the steps of: provide a theater audience with a pair of special 3D glasses comprising left and right lenses, respectively comprising left and right view filters, and project left and right images onto a video screen using left and right projection filters, the left projection filter and the left view filter comprising a first set of asymmetric filters and the right projection filter and right view filter comprising a second set of asymmetric filters. In one embodiment, the total number of bandwidths on the display filters is less than the total number of bandwidths on the projection filters. In one embodiment, the projector filters comprise band passers that divide the wavelengths of blue light into at least three blue subparts and that divide the green wavelengths into at least two green subparts. In one embodiment, the display filter of one of the asymmetric filter sets comprises a bandpass that covers the wavelengths of the longest blue sub-part and the wavelengths of a green sub-part. In one embodiment, the projector filters comprise band passers that divide the wavelengths of green light into at least three subparts and divide the red light into at least two red subparts, and the viewing filter of one of the asymmetric filter sets comprises a flat pass that covers a green sub-part of greater wavelength and a red sub-part. In one embodiment, the projector filters comprise band passers that divide the wavelengths of blue light into at least three subparts and the wavelengths of green light into at least three subparts, and a viewing filter from one of the filter sets asymmetrical comprises a bandpass that comprises a blue subpart of greater wavelength and a green subpart of shorter wavelength. In one embodiment, the projector filters comprise band passers that divide the wavelengths of green light into at least three subparts and the wavelengths of red light into at least three subparts, and the viewing filter of one of the filter sets asymmetrical comprises a bandpass comprising a green subpart of the longest wavelength and a red subpart of the shortest wavelength. In one embodiment, each display filter comprises three bandpass exclusively comprising a bandpass including blue wavelengths, a bandpass including green wavelengths, and a bandpass including red wavelengths. In one embodiment, the projector filters comprise 3 band passes, each with wavelengths of green light and blue light, and two band passes in red wavelengths. In one embodiment, the visualization filters comprise, exclusively, three band passers, a blue bandwidth bandwidth, a green bandwidth bandwidth, and a red bandwidth bandwidth. Other exemplary modalities have been provided throughout this specification.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention comprises a configurable filter in a spectacle device of a spectrally separated 3D viewing system, comprising a set of bandpass and blocking bands configured to pass light, at least one of which is bands are able to pass bands of 2 different colors of light and the blocking bands are configured to block the light of at least one band of light in each of the 2 different colors. In one mode, the bandpass capable of passing bands of 2 different colors of light will not pass light in a third color. In one embodiment, the bands of 2 different colors of light are separated by a notch. The notch is, for example, a band (a rejection band) not used by the 3D visualization system for the transmission of light. In one embodiment, the rejection band is, for example, relatively narrow compared to bands of 2 different colors of light. In another embodiment, the bandwidth of the rejection band is similar to the bandwidth of at least one of the bands of 2 different colors of light. In one embodiment, the rejection band encompasses a transition from wavelengths from the first of the 2 different colors of light to wavelengths of a second from the two different colors of light. In one embodiment, the 2 different colors of light comprise blue light and green light and the third color comprises red. In one embodiment, the 2 different colors of light comprise red light and green light and the third color comprises blue. In one embodiment, the filter is arranged on a curved substrate. In one embodiment, the filter is arranged on a curved substrate having a radius of approximately 90 mm. In one embodiment, the filter is arranged on a curved lens having a radius of approximately 40 mm to 200 mm.
In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a filter comprising only 3 mutually exclusive bands of visible light, the first bandpass is configured to pass only a first color of light, the second bandpass is configured to pass 2 colors of spectrum light adjacent comprising the first color of light and a second color of light, and a third bandpass is configured to pass 2 colors of light from the adjacent spectrum comprising the second color of light and a third color of light. In one embodiment, the first, second, and third colors of light are, for example, blue, green, and red, respectively. In another mode, the first, second, and third colors of light are red, green, and blue, respectively. The filter is, for example, arranged on a lens configurable as a channel filter for a pair of special 3D glasses.
In describing the preferred embodiments of the present invention illustrated in the drawings, specific terminology is employed for the sake of clarity. However, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the specific terminology then selected, and it should be understood that each specific element includes all of its technical equivalents that operate in a similar manner.
For example, when describing a projector filter, any other equivalent device or device having an equivalent function or capacity, whether listed here or not, may replace it. In another example, when describing a dielectric layer, any other material used as a filter or that exhibits a significant wavelength shift (for example, nano-material coatings), whether used alone or in combination with other materials of in order to have an equivalent function or capacity, whether listed here or not, you can replace the dielectric layer. In another example, the flexible bridge part can be replaced by any suitable mechanism for adjusting a dihedral angle of the lens, including a ratchet mechanism, spring loaded latches, etc. In yet another example, the lenses, according to the present invention, can be made of glass, plastic, or any other material of the type that provides the appropriate shapes, as described above.
In addition, the inventors recognize that newly developed technologies not known at the moment may replace the described parts and still not depart from the scope of the present invention. All other items described, including, but not limited to, lenses, layers, filters, wheels, screens, video devices, band passes, coatings, glasses, controllers, projectors, video screens, networks or other transmission capabilities, etc. they should also be considered in the light of any or all available equivalents.
The present invention may suitably comprise, consist of, or consist essentially of, any element (the various parts or features of the present invention) and their equivalents as described herein. In addition, the present invention illustratively illustrated here may be practiced in the absence of any element, whether or not specifically presented here. Obviously, numerous modifications and variations of the present invention are possible from the perspective of the above teachings. Therefore, it should be understood that, within the scope of the appended claims, the present invention can be practiced differently than what is specifically described herein.
Parts of the present invention can be conveniently implemented using a conventional general-purpose computer or a specialized digital computer or microprocessor programmed in accordance with the teachings of the present invention, as will become apparent to those skilled in the computer technique (for example, by controlling a filter of electronically switched blue pre-displacement projection).
The present invention includes a computer program product, which becomes a storage medium (media) that includes, but is not limited to, any type of disk including floppy disks, mini-disks (MD), optical disks, DVD, HD-DVD, Blue-ray, CD-ROM, microdrives, and optical magnetic discs, ROM memory, RAM memory, EPROM memory, EEPROM memory, DRAM memory, VRAM memory, flash memory (including flash cards, memory sticks), magnetic or optical cards, SIM cards, MEMS systems, nanosystems (including molecular memory IC circuits), RAID devices, remote data warehousing / storage, or any type of media or suitable device for storing instructions and / or data. The present invention includes software for controlling aspects of the present invention including, for example, switching pre-shifted filters to blue or the color correction performance stored in any computer-readable medium (media).
In addition, such means may include or exclusively have content prepared or ready for display in accordance with the present invention. Such content is, for example, read from a medium and then transmitted electronically over a network, broadcast over the air, or transmitted over wire, cable, or any other mechanism. Finally, the content of such media can be provided for a video device and then viewed in accordance with one or more aspects of the present invention. The content is, for example, prepared or optimized in order to project images having optimized bandwidth for the display and visualization processes described in this document. Such media can also be packaged with the glasses and / or filters prepared according to one or more of the various aspects of the present invention, as described above.
The present invention may suitably comprise, consist of, or consist essentially of, any element (the various parts or characteristics of the present invention, for example, the special lenses, the different thicknesses of the dielectric layer, the projected or displayed images pre-displaced persons, etc., and / or any equivalent. In addition, the invention shown herein can be practiced in the absence of any element, whether or not it has been specifically presented in this document. Obviously, numerous modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the teachings presented above. It is, therefore, to be understood that, within the scope of the appended claims, the present invention may be practiced in ways other than those specifically described in this document.
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- SISTEMA DE PROJEÇÃO E VISUALIZAÇÃO DE IMAGEM EM 3D
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- 3D IMAGE PROJECTION AND VIEWING SYSTEM
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