Super multi-view three-dimensional display through spatial-spectrum time-multiplexing of planar aligned OLED microdisplays

Abstract

Existing super multi-view (SMV) technologies depend on ultra-high resolution two-dimensional (2D) display panel or large number of 2D display panels to obtain dense sub-viewing-zones for constructing more natural three-dimensional (3D) display by pure spatial-multiplexing. Through gating the spatial-spectrum of each OLED microdisplay, the present work proposes a new SMV technology combining time- and spatial-multiplexing based on planar-aligned OLED microdisplays. The inherent light emission characteristics of OLED, i.e. large divergence angle, guarantees a homogeneous light intensity distribution on the spectrum plane, which is a necessary condition for successful time multiplexing. The developed system bears with low requirements on the number of 2D display panels. The factors influencing the lateral display resolution limit are discussed and the optimum value is deduced. Experimentally, a prototype system with 60 sub-viewing-zones is demonstrated by 12 OLED microdisplays. The horizontal interval between adjacent sub-viewing-zones is 1.6mm.