Claims
- 1. A three-dimensional picture image display apparatus comprising:
- picture image pickup means for picking up one-dimensional or two-dimensional picture images of an object;
- single picture image reproducing means;
- single picture image deflection means for deflecting each of the picture images reproduced by the picture image reproducing means in a predetermined deflection direction corresponding to a direction in which the picture image is picked up by the picture image pickup means, and
- a diffusion-transmission screen for displaying the deflected picture images having a transmission characteristic which is larger than a diffusion characteristic,
- wherein the picture image pickup means is
- (i) a picture image pickup means comprising a plurality of picture image pickup devices which are horizontally and/or vertically arranged, or
- (ii) a picture image pickup means comprising a plurality of mirrors and a picture image pickup device, the mirrors being horizontally and/or vertically arranged so that light beams from the object are respectively reflected in different directions by the mirrors to reach the picture image pickup device,
- said picture image pickup means (i) or (ii) picking up the one-dimensional or two-dimensional picture images of the object sequentially one by one from different directions of the plurality of picture image pickup devices or the plurality of mirrors and picture image pickup device at a predetermined time interval,
- said picture image reproducing means reproducing and displaying the one-dimensional or two-dimensional picture images, which are picked up sequentially one by one by the picture image pickup means at the predetermined time interval, sequentially one by one for less than 1/30 second in synchronism with the predetermined time interval,
- said picture image deflection means deflecting each of the displayed picture images in a predetermined deflection direction corresponding to the direction, in which the picture image is picked up, and
- wherein the deflected picture images are passed through the diffusion-transmission screen for display.
- 2. The three-dimensional picture image display apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein the picture image pickup device is a video camera.
- 3. The three-dimensional picture image display apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein the predetermined deflection direction of the picture image deflection means is in a direction of the mirror facing the object.
- 4. The three-dimensional picture image display apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein a shutter is disposed in front of each of the mirrors and the shutter is driven for opening and closing the surface of the mirror at the predetermined time interval.
- 5. The three-dimensional picture image display apparatus in accordance with claim 4, wherein the shutter is a mechanical shutter or a transmittance changeable shutter.
- 6. The three-dimensional picture image display apparatus in accordance with claim 5, wherein the transmittance changeable shutter is a liquid crystal shutter using twist nematic liquid crystal, a ferroelectric liquid crystal shutter, an antiferroelectric liquid crystal shutter, or a dynamic scattering mode liquid crystal shutter.
- 7. The apparatus in accordance with any one of claims 1-6, wherein the picture image reproducing means is selected from the group consisting of a cathode ray tube display device; a plasma display device; an electroluminescence display device; a liquid crystal display device using a twist nematic liquid crystal, a ferroelectric liquid crystal, an antiferroelectric liquid crystal, or a dynamic scattering mode liquid crystal; and a one-dimensional picture image reproducing device comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes in a combined form, a cathode ray tube, an electroluminescent element, and a liquid crystal reproducing element selected from the group consisting of a twist nematic liquid crystal, a ferroelectric liquid crystal, an antiferroelectric liquid crystal, and a dynamic scattering mode liquid crystal.
- 8. The apparatus in accordance with any one of claims 1-6, wherein the picture image deflection means is a movable mirror.
- 9. The apparatus in accordance with any one of claims 1-6, wherein the picture image deflection means is a movable mirror array.
- 10. The three-dimensional picture image display apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein the picture image deflection means is a device which deflects picture images in a plurality of directions by changing a refractive index of a light transparent medium.
- 11. The three-dimensional picture image display apparatus in accordance with claim 10, wherein the device is an acoustic optical element or a liquid crystal optical element.
- 12. The apparatus in accordance with any one of claims 1-6, 10 or 11, wherein the deflection angles of N output images are selected so that the region visible from behind the diffusion-transmission screen are divided into (2N-1) regions responding to the multiplicity of overlaps of the N visible regions, where N is an integer greater than 1.
- 13. The three-dimensional picture image display apparatus in accordance with claim 12, wherein the region where the N visible regions overlap is contained in the divided regions.
- 14. The apparatus in accordance with any one of claims 1-6, 10 or 11, wherein intensity modulation means for modulating the intensity of the picture image reproduced by the picture image reproducing means is provided between the picture image reproducing means and the picture image deflection means.
- 15. The three-dimensional picture image display apparatus in accordance with claim 14, wherein the intensity modulation means is a spatial light modulator having a light information writing side and a light information readout side in a separate form, and the spatial light modulator modulates the intensity of the written picture image and transfers to the light information readout side.
Priority Claims (2)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/328,426 filed Oct. 25, 1994, now abandoned.
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