The present disclosure generally relates to the field of display technologies, and more particularly, to a display system and a display method.
In the existing field of display, when a user wears or views a 3D display device, a displayed 3D object is a stereoscopic vision formed by respectively displaying different images to the left and right eyes of the user. The problem of convergence-accommodation conflict existing in the 3D display based on binocular stereoscopic vision causes eye fatigue and dizziness when the user wears the 3D display device for a long time, which is a problem to be solved urgently in stereoscopic display. Therefore, it is a technical problem to be solved urgently at present to design a new display system and a new display method.
The above-mentioned information disclosed in this Background section is only for the purpose of enhancing the understanding of background of the present disclosure and may therefore include information that does not constitute a prior art that is known to those of ordinary skill in the art.
Other features and advantages of the present disclosure will become apparent from the following detailed description, or in part, be acquired by practice of the present disclosure.
According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is disclosed a display system, which includes:
an optical waveguide, having a first surface and a second surface in parallel with the first surface, the first surface comprising a light incident region and a light emergent region, wherein incident light from the light incident region is propagated in the optical waveguide and then is emitted from the light emergent region; and
a squeezed light field module, configured to synthesize a squeezed light field comprising a displayed image and emit the squeezed light field to the light incident region.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the squeezed light field module includes a beam splitter, a first spatial light modulator, and a second spatial light modulator.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, an included angle between a surface where the first spatial light modulator is and a surface where the beam splitter is is 45 degrees, and the second spatial light modulator is positioned at a location a preset distance away from the first spatial light modulator with respect to a mirror image location of the beam splitter.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the squeezed light field module includes a first display panel and a second display panel arranged in parallel with the light incident region and sequentially arranged along a light incident direction.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the squeezed light field module includes a display panel and a varifocal lens arranged in parallel with the light incident region and sequentially arranged along a light incident direction.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the incident light from the light incident region being propagated in the optical waveguide and then being emitted from the light emergent region include: the incident light perpendicular to the light incident region being propagated in the optical waveguide and then being emitted from the light emergent region along a direction perpendicular to the light emergent region.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the display system also includes:
an incident holographic reflecting film arranged on the second surface and corresponding to the light incident region; and
an emergent holographic reflecting film arranged on the second surface and corresponding to the light emergent region.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the incident holographic reflecting film or the emergent holographic reflecting film is red-green-blue holographic reflecting film sequentially laminated.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the display system further includes a microlens array formed between the light emergent region and a human eye and paralleling to the first surface.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the microlens array is a double-layer microlens array.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the double-layer microlens array is formed into a Keplerian telescope ocular.
According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, there is disclosed a display method, which is applied to the foregoing display system. The display method includes:
synthesizing a squeezed light field comprising a displayed image by means of the squeezed light field module;
projecting and coupling the squeezed light field into the optical waveguide through the light incident region; and
coupling the squeezed light field out of the optical waveguide through the light emergent region.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the squeezed light field module includes a beam splitter, a first spatial light modulator, and a second spatial light modulator.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the squeezed light field module includes a first display panel and a second display panel arranged in parallel with the light incident region and sequentially arranged along a light incident direction.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the squeezed light field module includes a display panel and a varifocal lens arranged in parallel with the light incident region and sequentially arranged along a light incident direction.
It should be understood that the above general description and the detailed description below are merely exemplary and explanatory, and do not limit the present disclosure.
The above and other objectives, features and advantages of the present disclosure will become more apparent by describing in detail the exemplary embodiments thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The accompanying drawings herein are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments conforming to the present disclosure and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the present disclosure. Apparently, the accompanying drawings in the following description show merely some embodiments of the present disclosure, and persons of ordinary skill in the art may still derive other drawings from these accompanying drawings without creative efforts.
Exemplary embodiments will be described more comprehensively by referring to accompanying drawings now. However, the exemplary embodiments may be carried out in various manners, and shall not be interpreted as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In the following description, numerous specific details are provided to provide a thorough understanding of the embodiments of the present disclosure. Those skilled in the art will recognize, however, that the technical solution of the present disclosure may be practiced without one or more of the specific details described, or that other methods, components, materials, etc. may be employed. It is to be pointed out that in the accompanying drawings, sizes of layers and regions may likely be exaggerated for clarity of illustration. In addition, it may be understood that when an element or layer is referred to as being “on” another element or layer, it may be directly on the other element, or intervening layers may be present. Furthermore, it may be understood that when an element or layer is referred to as being “beneath” another element or layer, it may be directly beneath the other element, or at least one intervening layer or element may be present. Moreover, it also may be understood that when a layer or element is referred to as being “between” two layers or two elements, it may be unique layer between the two layers or two elements, or at least one intervening layer or element may be present. Throughout the specification, similar reference numerals indicate similar elements.
An objective of the present disclosure is to provide a display system and a display method. The display system includes: an optical waveguide, which has a first surface and a second surface in parallel with the first surface, wherein the first surface includes a light incident region and a light emergent region, and incident light from the light incident region is propagated in the optical waveguide and then is emitted from the light emergent region; and a squeezed light field module, configured to synthesize a squeezed light field including a displayed image and emit the squeezed light field to the light incident region. The light field is projected and coupled into the optical waveguide, and then the light field is coupled out of the optical waveguide, such that the light field is visible to the human eyes. In this way, the near-eye display (for example, AR or VR) mode and the light field display may be implemented, the contradiction between focusing and focalizing may be avoided, making the human eyes feel natural and comfortable without dizziness, and thus solving the problems of dizziness and visual fatigue caused when the human eyes watch a stereoscopic 3D image formed by two parallactic two-dimensional images for a long time. In the meanwhile, the display effect of the light field is further enhanced by arranging a microlens array between the light emergent region of the optical waveguide and the human eyes. Furthermore, while the display effect of the light field is further enhanced, the field angle is increased by arranging, between the light emergent region of the optical waveguide and the human eyes, a double-layer microlens array formed into a Keplerian telescope ocular.
The display system of the present disclosure is described below with reference to
The light field display provides a feasible method to solve the problems of a user's eye fatigue and dizziness. By simulating the light field of a natural 3D object, natural 3D display is implemented, and thus the human eye fatigue and dizziness are reduced. There are a variety of ways to implement the light field display. Implementations of the light field display adopted in the present disclosure are respectively introduced below.
First, the light field display based on the microlens array is introduced. Integrated imaging display using the microlens array is one of the ways to implement the light field display. As shown in
Next, principles of laminated light field display based on a multi-layer screen are introduced as below. Liquid crystal screens or other types of display panels/display screens are used as spatial light modulating units for multi-layer light field display. Light intensities of incident rays (from a backlight source) are modulated by adjusting gray values of corresponding pixels or even sub-pixels between layers. The gray values of the pixels corresponding to each layer of liquid crystal screen determine light intensity transmission rate. As shown in
I
OUT(α1,β1)=Iin×TA(α1)+β×TB(β1)
I
OUT(α2,β1)=Iin×TA(α2)+β×TB(β1)
wherein TA (α1) and TA (α2) respectively represent the light intensity transmission rate of the Ath layer at the positions of α1 and α2. Likewise, TB (β1) represents the light intensity transmission rate of the Bth layer at the position of β1. Therefore, the two beams of light rays have different light intensities. Based on this model, although different light rays may pass through the same pixel of a certain layer of liquid crystal screen, they necessarily will pass through different pixels of another layer of screen spaced at a certain distance. Therefore, information on different light field intensities is implemented. Based on this principle, regulation and control of the light field may be implemented by controlling displayed images of different layers of liquid crystal screens. The key to reconstructing the light field is to calculate the gray value of each pixel in each layer of images, and compare the reconstructed light field with the target light field, such that the optimal solution is found by providing an initial structure and using an iterative algorithm. The specific algorithm is not described any more here. In simple terms, the direction of the light rays may be determined by uniquely determining a point on two planes respectively. The light intensities of the light rays in different directions may be determined by modulating gray scales of pixel points on a double-layer screen. Likewise, it may be extended to a multi-layer screen or a multi-layer screen plus directional backlight, and then time division multiplexing is carried out. In this way, tensor light field display or multi-layer screen light field display may be implemented. In the present disclosure, it is only needed to consider multiframe display of a double-layer display screen.
As shown in
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the squeezed light field module 52 includes a beam splitter 5213, a first spatial light modulator 5211, and a second spatial light modulator 5212.
The spatial light modulator (SLM) can modulate a certain parameter of the light field through liquid crystal molecules under active control, for example, by modulating the amplitude of the light field, by modulating the phase through a refractive index, and by modulating a polarization state by means of rotation of a polarization plane, or implement conversion from incoherent light to coherent light, so that certain information is written into the optical wave to achieve the objective of optical wave modulation. The SLM can conveniently load information into a one-dimensional or two-dimensional light field, and can utilize advantages of wide bandwidth of light and multi-channel parallel processing to quickly process the loaded information. The most common spatial light modulator is a liquid crystal light valve, which is widely used in optical computing, pattern recognition, information processing, display, imaging and projection, etc. In this exemplary embodiment, two spatial light modulators are used and respectively arranged on two sides of the beam splitter to synthesize a 4D squeezed light field. Actually, the aforementioned principles of laminated light field display based on a multi(two)-layer screen are still adopted, and its optical principles are as shown in
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, an included angle between a surface where the first spatial light modulator is and a surface where the beam splitter is is 45 degrees, and the second spatial light modulator is positioned at a location a preset distance away from the first spatial light modulator 5211 with respect to a mirror image location of the beam splitter. That is, the first spatial light modulator and the second spatial light modulator are disposed symmetrically with respect to the beam splitter.
As shown in
As shown in
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the incident light from the light incident region being propagated in the optical waveguide and then being emitted from the light emergent region include: the incident light perpendicular to the light incident region being propagated in the optical waveguide and then being emitted from the light emergent region along a direction perpendicular to the light emergent region, such that the emergent light enters the human eyes at the best angle and it is ensured to reach the optimal visual effect.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the display system also includes: an incident holographic reflecting film 531 arranged on the second surface and corresponding to the light incident region, and an emergent holographic reflecting film 532 arranged on the second surface and corresponding to the light emergent region.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the incident holographic reflecting film or the emergent holographic reflecting film is red-green-blue (RGB) holographic reflecting film sequentially laminated. Light rays of RGB wavelengths in the light field are respectively coupled into the optical waveguide through the RGB holographic reflecting film, which may reflect light rays having a particular wavelength and a particular incident angle. On the other side of the optical waveguide, the holographic reflecting film couples the light rays of the light field out of the optical waveguide. However, the present disclosure is not limited thereto. As shown in
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the display system further includes a microlens array 54 formed between the light emergent region and a human eye and paralleling to the first surface of the optical waveguide. The integrated imaging display using the microlens array is one of methods for implementing the light field display. In this exemplary embodiment, the display effect of the light field is further enhanced by arranging a microlens array between the light emergent region of the optical waveguide and the human eyes.
In addition to using a single-layer microlens array, a double-layer microlens array also may be used. As shown in
In the following, reference is made to the display method of the present disclosure with reference to
In Step S1002, a squeezed light field containing a displayed image is synthesized by means of the squeezed light field module.
In Step S1004, the squeezed light field is projected and coupled into the optical waveguide through the light incident region.
In Step S1006, the squeezed light field is coupled out of the optical waveguide through the light emergent region.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the squeezed light field module includes a beam splitter, a first spatial light modulator, and a second spatial light modulator.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the squeezed light field module includes a first display panel and a second display panel arranged in parallel with the light incident region and sequentially arranged along a light incident direction.
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the squeezed light field module includes a display panel and a varifocal lens arranged in parallel with the light incident region and sequentially arranged along the light incident direction.
Through the above detailed description, those skilled in the art readily understand that the display system according the embodiments of the present disclosure have one or more of the following advantages.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the light field is projected and coupled into the optical waveguide, and then the light field is coupled out of the optical waveguide, such that the light field is visible to the human eyes. In this way, the near-eye display mode and the light field display may be implemented, and the contradiction between focusing and focalizing may be avoided, making human eyes feel natural and comfortable without dizziness, and thus solving the problems of dizziness and visual fatigue caused when the human eyes watch a stereoscopic 3D image formed by two parallactic two-dimensional images for a long time.
According to some other embodiments of the present disclosure, the display effect of the light field is further enhanced by arranging a microlens array between the light emergent region of the optical waveguide and the human eyes.
According to still some other embodiments of the present disclosure, while the display effect of the light field is further enhanced, the field angle is increased by arranging, between the light emergent region of the optical waveguide and the human eyes, a double-layer microlens array formed into a Keplerian telescope ocular.
Other embodiments of the present disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed here. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the present disclosure following the general principles thereof and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice in the art. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the present invention being indicated by the following claims.
It will be appreciated that the present disclosure is not limited to the exact construction that has been described above and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and that various modifications and changes can be made without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the present disclosure is only restricted by the appended claims.
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201710775474.7 | Aug 2017 | CN | national |
The present disclosure is based on International Application No. PCT/CN2018/081704, filed on Apr. 3, 2018, which claims the benefit and priority of Chinese Patent Application No. 201710775474.7 filed on Aug. 31, 2017, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference as a part of the present application.
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PCT/CN2018/081704 | 4/3/2018 | WO | 00 |