阅读说明：本技术 一种基于投射光非对称分布的裸眼光场显示方法 (Naked eye light field display method based on asymmetric distribution of projection light ) 是由 刘立林 滕东东 于 2021-08-05 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及三维图像显示技术领域,更具体地,涉及基于投射光非对称分布的裸眼光场显示方法,本专利所述方法,由显示器件各像素或子像素对应调控单元引导该像素或子像素投射光指向、约束该像素或子像素投射光的角分布特性,通过各像素或子像素投射光于观察面上非对称分布区域的空间排列,构建各像素或子像素沿第一方向间距大于观察者瞳孔直径且小于观察者双瞳最小间距、沿第二方向间距小于观察者瞳孔直径的视区分布。基于该设计,利用沿第二方向小间距分布的视区,实现向观察者各瞳孔均多于一个的待显示场景二维图像的投射,从而实现裸眼光场三维显示。进一步结合指向性背光和/或瞳孔追踪单元,为观察者提供更大的观察区域。(The invention relates to the technical field of three-dimensional image display, in particular to a naked eye light field display method based on projection light asymmetric distribution. Based on the design, the projection of more than one two-dimensional image of the scene to be displayed to each pupil of an observer is realized by utilizing the visual areas which are distributed at small intervals along the second direction, so that the naked eye light field three-dimensional display is realized. Further in combination with a directional backlight and/or pupil tracking unit, provides a larger viewing area for the observer.)

1. A naked eye light field display method based on projection light asymmetric distribution is characterized in that:

the display system used by the naked eye light field display method based on projection light asymmetric distribution comprises a display device (10), a regulation and control device (20) and a control device (30) connected with the display device (10), wherein the display device (10) comprises a plurality of pixels or a plurality of sub-pixels, the regulation and control device (20) comprises a plurality of regulation and control units, each regulation and control unit of the regulation and control device (20) corresponds to each pixel of the display device (10) one by one, or each regulation and control unit of the regulation and control device (20) corresponds to each sub-pixel of the display device (10) one by one;

when each regulation unit of the regulation device (20) corresponds to each pixel of the display device (10) in a one-to-one correspondence mode, the naked eye light field display method based on the asymmetric distribution of the projection light comprises the following steps:

s1, each regulating and controlling unit regulates and controls the angle distribution characteristic of the emergent light of the corresponding pixel to ensure that: on the observation surface, the size of the light distribution area of the projection light of each pixel, which is more than 50% of the maximum value of the light intensity, is larger than the diameter D of the pupil of the observer along the first direction_pAnd is smaller than the minimum distance D between the two pupils of the observer_pmAlong the firstTwo directions are smaller than the diameter D of the pupil of the observer_pAnd the light distribution area is used as a corresponding pixel viewing area of the pixel;

s2: each regulating and controlling unit guides projection light of corresponding pixels to spread along respective corresponding directions, so that arrangement of pixel visual areas corresponding to the pixels meets the following requirements: for any observer pupil (60) on the observation surface, at least two groups of pixels are corresponding to each other along the second direction, all pixels of the two groups of pixels can project light to the pupil (60) through the respective corresponding pixel visual area, wherein the pixels of each pixel group are distributed all over the display device (10), different pixel groups have no common pixel and belong to the pixels of different pixel groups corresponding to the same pupil (60) on the observation surface, the distance between the corresponding pixel visual areas is larger than zero and smaller than the diameter D of the observer pupil along the second direction_p；

S3, the control device (30) controls each pixel of the display device (10) to load light information, and the loaded light information is as follows: projection light information of a scene to be displayed along a propagation direction of a projection light beam of the pixel;

or when each regulating unit of the regulating device (20) corresponds to each sub-pixel of the display device (10) in a one-to-one correspondence mode, the naked eye light field display method based on the projection light asymmetric distribution comprises the following steps:

SS1 Each regulating and controlling unit regulates and controls the angle distribution characteristic of the emergent light of the corresponding sub-pixel to ensure that: on the observation surface, the size of the light distribution area of the projection light of each sub-pixel, which is larger than 50% of the maximum value of the light intensity, is larger than the diameter D of the pupil of the observer along the first direction_pAnd is smaller than the minimum distance D between the two pupils of the observer_pmIn a second direction smaller than the diameter D of the pupil of the observer_pAnd the light distribution area is used as a corresponding sub-pixel viewing area of the sub-pixel;

SS 2: each regulating and controlling unit guides projection light of the corresponding sub-pixel to spread along the corresponding direction of each sub-pixel, so that the arrangement of the pixel visual area corresponding to each sub-pixel meets the following conditions: for any observer pupil (60) on the observation surface, at least two groups of sub-pixels are corresponding along the second direction, all the sub-pixels of the two groups of sub-pixels can project light to the observer pupil (60) through the viewing area of the corresponding sub-pixels, wherein the sub-pixels of each sub-pixel group are distributed on the display device (10), and different sub-pixels are distributed on the display deviceThe pixel groups do not have shared sub-pixels, and belong to sub-pixels of different sub-pixel groups corresponding to the same pupil (60) on the observation surface, and the distance between the vision areas of the corresponding sub-pixels is larger than zero and smaller than the diameter D of the pupil of an observer along the second direction_p；

SS3 the control device (30) controls each sub-pixel of the display device (10) to load light information, the loaded light information is: along the propagation direction of the projected light beam at the sub-pixel, projected light information of the scene to be displayed.

2. The naked eye light field display method based on the asymmetric distribution of the projected light according to claim 1, wherein the display system further comprises a pupil tracking unit (40) connected with the display device (10), the pupil tracking unit (40) is used for determining the position of the pupil (60) of the observer in real time;

wherein, when each of the control units of the control device (20) corresponds to each of the pixels of the display device (10), step S3 further includes: according to the position of the observer pupil (60) determined by the pupil tracking unit (40), the control device (30) controls the loading light information to be as follows for each pixel of the observer pupil (60) where the projection light enters: projection light information of a scene to be displayed along a propagation direction of a light beam projected by the pixel to a pupil (60) of an observer;

or when each of the modulating units of the modulating device (20) corresponds to each of the sub-pixels of the display device (10), step SS3 further includes: according to the position of the observer pupil (60) determined by the pupil tracking unit (40), the control device (30) controls the loading light information to be as follows for each sub-pixel of the observer pupil (60) where the projection light enters: projection light information of the scene to be displayed is along the propagation direction of the light beam projected by the sub-pixel to the pupil (60) of the observer.

3. The naked eye light field display method based on the asymmetric distribution of the projection light is characterized in that when each regulation unit of the regulation device (20) corresponds to each pixel of the display device (10) one by one, the centers of pixel visual areas of the pixels of the same pixel group are overlapped, and the overlapped area is a pixel group visual area corresponding to the pixel group;

or when each regulation unit of the regulation device (20) corresponds to each sub-pixel of the display device (10) one by one, the centers of sub-pixel visual areas of the sub-pixels of the same sub-pixel group are overlapped, and the overlapped area is the sub-pixel group visual area corresponding to the sub-pixel group.

4. The naked eye light field display method based on asymmetric distribution of projection light according to claim 2, wherein the display device (10) is a passive light emitting device, the display system further comprises a directional backlight unit (50), and the directional backlight unit (50) can project directional backlight to the display device (10) along different directions.

5. The naked eye light field display method based on the asymmetric distribution of the projected light as claimed in claim 4, wherein when each modulating unit of the modulating device (20) corresponds to each pixel of the display device (10), the step S3 further comprises: at each time point, according to the real-time position of the pupil (60) of the observer determined by the pupil tracking unit (40), the control device (30) controls the directional backlight unit (50) to project backlight along the corresponding direction, so that when the backlight is incident along the direction, at least two groups of pixel groups exist for each pupil (60) on the observation surface, and the pixel projection light of the pixel groups is incident to the pupil (60) of the observer;

or when each of the modulating units of the modulating device (20) corresponds to each of the sub-pixels of the display device (10), step SS3 further includes: at each time point, according to the real-time position of the pupil (60) of the observer determined by the pupil tracking unit (40), the control device (30) controls the directional backlight unit (50) to project backlight along the corresponding direction, so that when the backlight is incident along the direction, at least two groups of sub-pixel groups exist for each pupil (60) on the observation surface, and the sub-pixel projection light is incident on the pupil (60) of the observer.

6. The naked eye light field display method based on the asymmetric distribution of the projected light as claimed in claim 4, wherein when each modulating unit of the modulating device (20) corresponds to each pixel of the display device (10), the step S3 further comprises: at M time points of any time period, the control device (30) controls the directional backlight unit (50) to project backlight along M different directional time sequences, so that the arrangement of pixel viewing areas corresponding to the M time points covers a larger space, wherein M is ≧ 2;

or when each of the control elements of the control device (20) corresponds to one of the sub-pixels of the display device (10), step SS3 further includes: at M time points of any time period, the control device (30) controls the directional backlight unit (50) to project backlight along M different directional time sequences, so that the arrangement of the M time points corresponding to the sub-pixel viewing area covers a larger space, wherein M is ≧ 2.

7. The naked eye light field display method based on the asymmetric distribution of the projection light as claimed in claim 1, wherein each regulating unit of the regulating device (20) is a nano-imprint grating, a holographic grating or a super-surface structure capable of regulating and controlling the angular distribution characteristic and the propagation direction of the projection light of the corresponding pixel or sub-pixel.

8. The naked eye light field display method based on the asymmetric distribution of the projection light as claimed in claim 1, wherein when each regulating unit of the regulating device (20) corresponds to each pixel of the display device (10) one by one, the pixel viewing areas of each pixel of the same pixel group are arranged in a staggered manner.

9. The naked eye light field display method based on the asymmetric distribution of the projection light as claimed in claim 1, wherein when each of the modulating units of the modulating device (20) corresponds to each of the sub-pixels of the display device (10) one by one, the sub-pixel viewing zones of each of the sub-pixels of the same sub-pixel group are arranged in a staggered manner.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the distribution of the corresponding pixel viewing zones of each pixel is arranged such that more than one light beam incident on any one of the observer's pupils (60) through each display object point is arranged with the corresponding pixel viewing zones equally spaced from the observer's pupils (60).

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the distribution of the sub-pixel viewing zones corresponding to each sub-pixel is arranged such that more than one beam incident on any one of the observer's pupils (60) through each display object point has its corresponding sub-pixel viewing zones equally spaced from the observer's pupils (60).

12. A display system based on asymmetric distribution of projection light, characterized in that it comprises a display device (10), a modulation device (20), and a control device (30) connected to the display device (10), wherein the display device (10) comprises a plurality of pixels or a plurality of sub-pixels, the modulation device (20) comprises a plurality of modulation units,

wherein each regulating unit of the regulating device (20) corresponds to each pixel of the display device (10) one by one, and each regulating unit regulates and controls the angular distribution characteristic of emergent light capable of corresponding to the pixel;

each regulating and controlling unit can guide projection light of the corresponding pixel to spread along the corresponding direction;

the control device (30) is capable of controlling each pixel of the display device (10) to be loaded with optical information, the loaded optical information being: projection light information of a scene to be displayed along a propagation direction of a projection light beam of the pixel;

or

Each regulating unit of the regulating device (20) corresponds to each sub-pixel of the display device (10) one by one, and each regulating unit regulates and controls the angle distribution characteristic of emergent light which can correspond to the sub-pixels;

each regulating and controlling unit can guide projection light of the corresponding sub-pixel to spread along respective corresponding directions;

the control device (30) is capable of controlling each sub-pixel of the display device (10) to load optical information, the loaded optical information being: along the propagation direction of the projected light beam at the sub-pixel, projected light information of the scene to be displayed.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of three-dimensional image display, in particular to a naked eye light field display method based on asymmetric distribution of projection light.

Background

In a real three-dimensional world, two-dimensional display is imperfect due to loss of third-dimensional depth information, and three-dimensional display technology for presenting a stereoscopic scene is receiving increasing attention. The stereoscopic three-dimensional display technology based on grating light splitting is compatible with a main flow flat panel display, and is the three-dimensional technology which is most widely applied at present. Through the light splitting function of the one-dimensional grating, the traditional grating type three-dimensional display technology guides pixel emergent light of different groups of the display screen to be respectively visible in different visual areas which are arranged in a one-dimensional mode and the distance between adjacent visual areas is larger than the diameter of a pupil, so that double pupils of an observer in different visual areas respectively receive images projected by different pixel groups, and the three-dimensional images are presented based on binocular parallax. Limited by the space bandwidth product of the display screen, the number of visual areas which can be presented by the stereoscopic technology is limited; while to ensure that both eyes of the observer receive different views, a limited number of viewing zones need to spatially cover both pupils of the observer, thereby resulting in a larger separation between adjacent viewing zones (greater than the pupil diameter). This large adjacent viewing zone separation means that each pupil of the observer can only receive one two-dimensional image (monocular view) of the scene to be displayed. In order to see a respective two-dimensional image, the eyes of the viewer must be focused on the display screen on which the two-dimensional image is presented. When three-dimensional vision is obtained based on the principle of binocular parallax, binocular viewing directions of an observer converge to a display scene in space, thereby causing disparity between a binocular convergence distance and a monocular focus distance, i.e., focus-convergence conflict, which may cause dizziness and various visual discomfort of the observer.

By projecting at least two different two-dimensional images of a scene to be displayed to each pupil of an observer (monocular multiview) along different directions respectively, at least two light beams entering each pupil of the observer through each display object point along different propagation directions can realize the natural focusing of each eye of the observer on the display object point when the superposed light distribution at the display object point is strong enough, and the problem of focusing-converging conflict is solved. Through the light splitting of the one-dimensional grating, in order to realize the projection of at least two-dimensional images to each pupil of an observer, the distance between corresponding visual areas is required to be smaller than the diameter D of the pupil of the observer_pWhile all viewing zones should cover at least the spatial area containing the observer's double pupils. The requirements are met, the grating is required to split light to generate a large number of small-distance visual areas, and the resolution of the two-dimensional image corresponding to each visual area is greatly reduced. Chinese invention patent name "three-dimensional display method based on grating (publication number CN110035274A, published 2018 year 01)12 th month) "using a display device for projecting different images to each pupil of the observer as an image input device, then passing through a one-dimensional grating, projecting corresponding pixels of any image projected by the image input device, splitting light twice, and projecting light to a direction vertical to the line of the two pupils, wherein the distance between the two pupils is smaller than the diameter D of the pupil of the observer_pDifferent viewing zones. Then, the distance between the two pupil connecting lines is larger than the diameter D of the pupil_pIs smaller than the diameter D of the pupil along the vertical direction of the connecting line of the two pupils_pI.e. asymmetrically distributed viewing zones in both directions, the projection of at least two different two-dimensional images at each pupil of the viewer is achieved with a smaller total amount of viewing zones, thereby overcoming the focus-convergence conflict problem on a monocular multiview basis. The display device that projects different images to the two eyes of the observer can be various existing display devices, such as a directional display screen with a control microstructure attached to each pixel; at the moment, the pixels of the display screen are divided into a plurality of pixel groups, and in the same pixel group, the projection light of each pixel is converged to form a visual area corresponding to the pixel group under the regulation and control of the corresponding regulation and control microstructure; one view each is projected onto each pupil of the viewer through a viewing zone spaced further apart than the diameter of the pupil along the line of the two pupils. As another example, the "display device that projects different images binocular-respectively to the observer" described in the patent is a combination of the "image input device display screen" described in embodiment 3 thereof and the "inherent raster attached to the image input device display screen"; in this case, the intrinsic grating and the one-dimensional grating are two one-dimensional gratings arranged in different directions; when the two one-dimensional gratings arranged along different directions are combined into a device, a possible unit structure is shown in fig. 1. Obviously, each light splitting unit structure in the chinese invention patent name "three-dimensional display method based on grating (publication No. CN110035274A, publication No. 2018, 01, 12) corresponds to more than one pixel. Meanwhile, it is obvious that the chinese invention patent name "three-dimensional display method based on raster (publication No. CN110035274A, published 2018, 01 month, 12 days)" may also use sub-pixels as basic display units.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to regulate and control the asymmetrical distribution of projection light of each pixel or sub-pixel and guide the direction of the projection light of each pixel or sub-pixel by utilizing a regulating and controlling unit which is in one-to-one correspondence with each pixel or sub-pixel of a display device. And generating a two-dimensional distribution visual area which is sparsely arranged along the first direction and densely arranged along the second direction based on the regulation and control of each regulation and control unit. The first direction is the connecting line direction of the two pupils of the observer or the direction with a smaller included angle with the connecting line direction of the two pupils of the observer; the second direction is a direction perpendicular to the connecting line of the two pupils of the observer or a direction having a smaller included angle with the perpendicular to the connecting line of the two pupils of the observer. Aiming at the physiological characteristic that the distance between the two pupils of an observer is far larger than the diameter of the pupils of the observer, monocular multi-view projection is carried out by utilizing the asymmetric distribution visual area, and naked eye three-dimensional display without focusing-converging conflict is realized by using a reasonable number of visual areas. The technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:

a naked eye light field display method based on projection light asymmetric distribution comprises a display device, a regulation and control device and a control device, wherein the control device is connected with the display device and the regulation and control device;

when each regulating unit of the regulating device corresponds to each pixel of the display device one by one, the naked eye light field display method based on projection light asymmetric distribution comprises the following steps:

s1, each regulating and controlling unit regulates and controls the angle distribution characteristic of the emergent light of the corresponding pixel to ensure that: on the observation surface, the size of the light distribution area of the projection light of each pixel, which is more than 50% of the maximum value of the light intensity, is larger than the diameter D of the pupil of the observer along the first direction_pAnd is smaller than the minimum distance D between the two pupils of the observer_pmIn a second direction smaller than the diameter D of the pupil of the observer_pAnd the light distribution area is used as a corresponding pixel viewing area of the pixel;

s2: each toneThe control unit guides projection light of corresponding pixels to spread along respective corresponding directions, so that arrangement of pixel visual areas corresponding to the pixels meets the following conditions: for any observer pupil on the observation surface, at least two groups of pixels are corresponding to each other along the second direction, all pixels of the two groups of pixels can project light to the pupil through the respective corresponding pixel visual areas, wherein the pixels of each pixel group are distributed all over the display device, different pixel groups have no shared pixel and belong to the pixels of different pixel groups corresponding to the same pupil on the observation surface, and the distance between the corresponding pixel visual areas is larger than zero and smaller than the diameter D of the observer pupil along the second direction_p；

And S3, the control device controls each pixel of the display device to load light information, wherein the loaded light information is as follows: projection light information of a scene to be displayed along a propagation direction of a projection light beam of the pixel;

or when each regulating unit of the regulating device corresponds to each sub-pixel of the display device one by one, the naked eye light field display method based on projection light asymmetric distribution comprises the following steps:

SS1 Each regulating and controlling unit regulates and controls the angle distribution characteristic of the emergent light of the corresponding sub-pixel to ensure that: on the observation surface, the size of the light distribution area of the projection light of each sub-pixel, which is larger than 50% of the maximum value of the light intensity, is larger than the diameter D of the pupil of the observer along the first direction_pAnd is smaller than the minimum distance D between the two pupils of the observer_pmIn a second direction smaller than the diameter D of the pupil of the observer_pAnd the light distribution area is used as a corresponding sub-pixel viewing area of the sub-pixel;

SS 2: each regulating and controlling unit guides projection light of the corresponding sub-pixel to spread along the corresponding direction of each sub-pixel, so that the arrangement of the pixel visual area corresponding to each sub-pixel meets the following conditions: for any observer pupil on the observation surface, at least two groups of sub-pixels are corresponding along the second direction, all the sub-pixels of the two groups of sub-pixels can project light to the pupil through the sub-pixel visual regions corresponding to the sub-pixels, wherein the sub-pixels of each sub-pixel group are distributed all over the display device, different sub-pixel groups have no shared sub-pixel, the sub-pixels belong to the sub-pixels of different sub-pixel groups corresponding to the same pupil on the observation surface, and the distance between the corresponding sub-pixel visual regions is greater than zero and smaller than the diameter Dp of the observer pupil along the second direction;

SS3 control device controls each sub-pixel of display device to load light information, the loaded light information is: along the propagation direction of the projected light beam at the sub-pixel, projected light information of the scene to be displayed.

Furthermore, the display system also comprises a pupil tracking unit connected with the display device, wherein the pupil tracking unit is used for determining the position of the pupil of the observer in real time;

wherein, when each of the control units of the control device corresponds to one of the pixels of the display device, the step S3 further includes: according to the pupil position of the observer determined by the pupil tracking unit, for each pixel of the pupil of the observer, which is incident with the projection light, the control device controls the loading light information to be: projection light information of a scene to be displayed along the propagation direction of the light beam projected by the pixel to the pupil of the observer;

or when each regulating unit of the regulating device corresponds to each sub-pixel of the display device, step SS3 further includes, according to the pupil tracking unit determining the pupil position of the observer, for each sub-pixel of the pupil of the observer into which the projection light enters, the control device controlling the loading light information to be: projection light information of the scene to be displayed is projected along the propagation direction of the light beam projected by the sub-pixel to the pupil of the observer.

Furthermore, when each regulation unit of the regulation device corresponds to each pixel of the display device one by one, the centers of pixel visual areas of the pixels of the same pixel group are overlapped, and the overlapped area is a pixel group visual area corresponding to the pixel group;

or when each regulating unit of the regulating device corresponds to each sub-pixel of the display device one by one, the centers of the sub-pixel visual areas of the sub-pixels of the same sub-pixel group are overlapped, and the overlapped area is the sub-pixel group visual area corresponding to the sub-pixel group.

Further, the display device is a passive light emitting device, and the display system further includes a directional backlight unit that may project directional backlight to the display device in different directions.

Further, when each of the control units of the control device corresponds to one of the pixels of the display device, step S3 further includes: at each time point, according to the real-time pupil position of the observer determined by the pupil tracking unit, the control device controls the directional backlight unit to project backlight along the corresponding direction, so that when the backlight is incident along the direction, at least two groups of pixel groups exist for each pupil on the observation surface, and the pixel projection light of the pixel groups is incident into the pupil;

or when each of the modulating units of the modulating device corresponds to each of the sub-pixels of the display device, step SS3 further includes: at each time point, according to the real-time position of the pupil of the observer determined by the pupil tracking unit, the control device controls the directional backlight unit to project backlight along the corresponding direction, so that when the backlight is incident along the direction, at least two groups of sub-pixel groups exist for each pupil on the observation surface, and the sub-pixel projection light of the sub-pixel groups carries corresponding light information about the pupil to be incident on the pupil.

Further, when each of the control units of the control device corresponds to one of the pixels of the display device, step S3 further includes: at M time points of any time period, the control device controls the directional backlight unit to project backlight along M different directional time sequences, so that the arrangement of pixel viewing areas corresponding to the M time points covers a larger space, wherein M is larger than or equal to 2;

or when each of the control units of the control device corresponds to one of the sub-pixels of the display device, step SS3 further includes: and at M time points of any time period, the control device controls the directional backlight unit to project backlight along M different directional time sequences, so that the arrangement of the sub-pixel viewing zones corresponding to the M time points covers a larger space, wherein M is larger than or equal to 2.

Furthermore, each regulating unit of the regulating device is a nano-imprint grating, a holographic grating or a super-surface structure which can regulate and control the angular distribution characteristic and the propagation direction of projection light of corresponding pixels or sub-pixels.

Further, the naked eye light field display method based on projection light asymmetric distribution is characterized in that when each regulating unit of the regulating device corresponds to each pixel of the display device one by one, pixel visual areas of the pixels of the same pixel group are arranged in a staggered mode.

Further, when each regulation unit of the regulation device corresponds to each sub-pixel of the display device one by one, the pixel viewing areas of the sub-pixels of the same pixel group are arranged in a staggered mode.

Further, when each regulating unit of the regulating device corresponds to each pixel of the display device one by one, the distribution of the pixel visual area corresponding to each pixel is set to make more than one light beam incident to any observer pupil through each display object point, and the corresponding pixel visual areas are arranged at equal intervals on the observer pupil;

when each regulating unit of the regulating device corresponds to each sub-pixel of the display device one by one, the distribution of the sub-pixel visual area corresponding to each sub-pixel is set to enable more than one beam of light which enters the pupil of any observer through each display object point to be arranged at equal intervals on the pupil of the observer.

The invention also provides a display system based on projection light asymmetric distribution, which comprises a display device, a regulation device and a control device connected with the display device, wherein the display device comprises a plurality of pixels or a plurality of sub-pixels, the regulation device comprises a plurality of regulation units,

wherein each regulating unit of the regulating device (20) corresponds to each pixel of the display device (10) one by one, and each regulating unit regulates and controls the angular distribution characteristic of emergent light capable of corresponding to the pixel;

each regulating and controlling unit can guide projection light of the corresponding pixel to spread along the corresponding direction;

the control device can control each pixel of the display device to load optical information, and the loaded optical information is as follows: projection light information of a scene to be displayed along a propagation direction of a projection light beam of the pixel;

or

Each regulating unit of the regulating device corresponds to each sub-pixel of the display device one by one, and each regulating unit regulates and controls the angle distribution characteristic of emergent light which can correspond to the sub-pixels;

each regulating and controlling unit can guide projection light of the corresponding sub-pixel to spread along respective corresponding directions;

the control device can control each sub-pixel of the display device to load optical information, and the loaded optical information is as follows: along the propagation direction of the projected light beam at the sub-pixel, projected light information of the scene to be displayed.

Further, each regulation and control unit can regulate and control the angular distribution characteristic of emergent light of corresponding pixel to guarantee: on the observation surface, the size of a light distribution area which is larger than 50% of the maximum value of the light intensity in the projection light of each pixel is larger than the pupil diameter Dp of an observer and smaller than the minimum interval Dpm of the two pupils of the observer along the first direction, and is smaller than the pupil diameter Dp of the observer along the second direction, and the light distribution area is taken as a corresponding pixel visual area of the pixel;

each regulating and controlling unit guides projection light of corresponding pixels to spread along respective corresponding directions, so that arrangement of pixel visual areas corresponding to the pixels meets the following requirements: for any observer pupil on the observation surface, at least two groups of pixels are corresponding to each other along the second direction, all pixels of the two groups of pixels can project light to the pupil through respective corresponding pixel visual areas, wherein the pixels of each pixel group are distributed all over the display device, different pixel groups have no shared pixel and belong to the pixels of different pixel groups corresponding to the same pupil on the observation surface, and the distance between the corresponding pixel visual areas is greater than zero and smaller than the diameter Dp of the observer pupil along the second direction;

or each regulating and controlling unit can regulate and control the angle distribution characteristic of the emergent light of the corresponding sub-pixel so as to ensure that: on the observation surface, the size of a light distribution area which is larger than 50% of the maximum value of the light intensity in the projection light of each sub-pixel is larger than the pupil diameter Dp of an observer and smaller than the minimum interval Dpm of the two pupils of the observer along the first direction, and is smaller than the pupil diameter Dp of the observer along the second direction, and the light distribution area is taken as a corresponding sub-pixel visual area of the sub-pixel;

each regulating and controlling unit guides projection light of the corresponding sub-pixel to spread along the corresponding direction of each regulating and controlling unit, so that the arrangement of the sub-pixel visual area corresponding to each sub-pixel meets the following conditions: and for any observer pupil on the observation surface, at least two groups of sub-pixels are corresponding along the second direction, all the sub-pixels of the two groups of sub-pixels can project light to the pupil through the sub-pixel visual regions respectively corresponding to the sub-pixels, wherein the sub-pixels of each sub-pixel group are distributed all over the display device, different sub-pixel groups have no shared sub-pixel, the sub-pixels belong to the sub-pixels of different sub-pixel groups corresponding to the same pupil on the observation surface, and the distance between the corresponding sub-pixel visual regions is greater than zero and smaller than the diameter Dp of the observer pupil along the second direction.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

the projection light of each pixel or sub-pixel is controlled to be asymmetrically distributed by utilizing the control units which are in one-to-one correspondence with the pixels or sub-pixels of the display device, and the direction of the projection light of each pixel or sub-pixel is guided. Based on the design, along the first direction, the two pupils of the observer respectively receive the light information projected by different pixel groups (or different sub-pixel groups); along the second direction, each pupil of the observer receives light information projected by at least two groups of pixels (or two groups of sub-pixels). Therefore, aiming at the characteristic that the distance between the two pupils of an observer is far larger than the diameter of the pupils, the naked eye three-dimensional display of the monocular multi-view is realized by utilizing the visual zones which are sparsely distributed along the first direction and densely distributed along the second direction. The invention designs the regulating and controlling units which correspond to each pixel or sub-pixel of the display screen one by one, and forms a novel asymmetric visual area generating method so as to realize monocular multi-view naked eye three-dimensional light field display based on a reasonable number of visual areas.

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Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a possible grating unit for use in the comparison patent of the background.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a pixel passing through a corresponding adjusting unit to generate a corresponding pixel viewing area.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating the generation principle of the asymmetric viewing zone of the two-dimensional distribution according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary view distribution of neighboring paxels along the second direction.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the distribution of light intensity corresponding to the viewing zone of the pixel group along the second direction.

FIG. 6 shows exemplary tile field spacing design I along the first direction.

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram showing another relationship between the two pupils of the observer and the viewing zones of the pixel groups along the first direction.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating exemplary paxel view space design II along a first direction.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a viewing area spatial position of a pixel group and an incident backlight direction.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram showing an exemplary distribution of viewing zones of pixel groups corresponding to different directional backlights incident at a time sequence.

FIG. 11 shows an example of non-overlapping viewing zones corresponding to different pixels of the same pixel group.

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The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the figures and the specific embodiments. The drawings are for illustrative purposes only and are not to be construed as limiting the patent; for the purpose of better illustrating the embodiments, certain features of the drawings may be omitted, enlarged or reduced, and do not represent the size of an actual product; it will be understood by those skilled in the art that certain well-known structures in the drawings and descriptions thereof may be omitted.

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The display system used in the naked eye light field display method based on projection light asymmetric distribution comprises a display device 10, a regulation and control device 20 and a control device 30 connected with the display device 10 and the regulation and control device 20, wherein the display device 10 comprises a plurality of pixels, the regulation and control device 20 comprises a plurality of regulation and control units, and each regulation and control unit of the regulation and control device 20 corresponds to each pixel of the display device 10 one by one (in other embodiments, the display device 10 comprises a plurality of sub-pixels, and each regulation and control unit of the regulation and control device 20 corresponds to each sub-pixel of the display device 10 one by one). The naked eye light field display method based on the asymmetric distribution of the projection light utilizes the regulating and controlling units which are in one-to-one correspondence with the pixels of the display device 10 to regulate and control the angular distribution characteristic of the projection light of each pixel, so that the projection light of each pixel is projected on an observation surface, the size of a light distribution area which is larger than 50% of the maximum value of the light intensity of each pixel is larger than the diameter D of the pupil of an observer along one direction_pAnd is smaller than the minimum distance D between the two pupils of the observer_pmIn another direction smaller than the diameter D of the observer's pupil_p. The two directions are named as a first direction and a second direction respectively in turn. Here, the observer has a minimum distance D between the two pupils_pmThe length of the shortest connecting line among all connecting lines connecting one point in one pupil and one point in the other pupil of the observer is referred to. All the regulatory units constitute a regulatory device 20. Each pixel projects light on the observation surface, and the area with the light intensity greater than 50% of the maximum value light intensity is the corresponding pixel visual area of the pixel. As shown in fig. 2, the pixel p_ijProjecting light through a corresponding control unit g_ijThe visual area of the corresponding pixel on the observation surface xy is VZ_ij. Pixel field of view VZ_ijIn the first direction x, the dimension is larger than the diameter D of the pupil of the observer_pBut less than the minimum separation D of the observer's two pupils_pm(ii) a In the second direction y direction, its size is less than the diameter D of the observer's pupil_p. The first direction x and the second direction y may be perpendicular to each other or non-perpendicular to each other. Meanwhile, each regulating and controlling unit also guides the transmission direction of the projection light of the corresponding pixel, namely the direction of the projection light of the corresponding pixel, so that the pixel visual areas corresponding to the pixels are arranged on the observation surface according to requirements. The arrangement requirement is illustrated in particular by the example shown in fig. 3, pixel p₁₁Projection light is controlled by a control unit g₁₁Corresponding to a pixel viewing zone of VZ_g1(ii) a Pixel p₁₂Projection light is controlled by a control unit g₁₂Corresponding to a pixel viewing zone of VZ_g5(ii) a Pixel p₁₃Projection light is controlled by a control unit g₁₃Corresponding to a pixel viewing zone of VZ_g3(ii) a Pixel p₂₁Projection light is controlled by a control unit g₂₁Corresponding to a pixel viewing zone of VZ_g4(ii) a Pixel p₂₂Projection light is controlled by a control unit g₂₂Corresponding to a pixel viewing zone of VZ_g2(ii) a Pixel p₂₃Projection light is controlled by a control unit g₂₃Corresponding to a pixel viewing zone of VZ_g6. The pixels of the display device 10 are divided into different groups. Fig. 3 takes 6 pixel groups as an example: pixel p₁₁、p₁₄、p₁₇、…；p₃₁、p₃₄、p₃₇、…；p₅₁、p₅₄、p₅₇…; … form a pixel group 1, the pixel view areas of all pixels in the pixel group 1 are overlapped with the pixel view area VZ under the guidance of the respective corresponding regulating units_g1Called the pixel viewing zone VZ_g1Is a pixel group1 corresponding to the view zone VZ of the pixel group_g1(ii) a Pixel p₂₂、p₂₅、p₂₈、…；p₄₂、p₄₅、p₄₈、…；p₆₂、p₆₅、p₆₈…; … form a pixel group 2, the pixel view areas of all pixels in the pixel group 2 are coincided with the pixel view area VZ under the guidance of the respective corresponding regulating units_g2Called the pixel viewing zone VZ_g2A pixel group view zone VZ corresponding to the pixel group 2_g2(ii) a Pixel p₁₃、p₁₆、p₁₉、…；p₃₃、 p₃₆、p₃₉、…；p₅₃、p₅₆、p₅₉…, respectively; … form a pixel group 3, the pixel view areas of all pixels in the pixel group 3 are overlapped with the pixel view area VZ under the guidance of the respective corresponding regulating units_g3Called the pixel viewing zone VZ_g3A pixel group view zone VZ corresponding to the pixel group 3_g3(ii) a Pixel p₂₁、p₂₄、p₂₇、…；p₄₁、p₄₄、p₄₇、…；p₆₁、p₆₄、 p₆₇…, respectively; … form a pixel group 4, the pixel view areas of all pixels of the pixel group 4 are overlapped with the pixel view area VZ under the guidance of the respective corresponding regulating units_g4Called the pixel viewing zone VZ_g4A pixel group view zone VZ corresponding to the pixel group 4_g4(ii) a Pixel p₁₂、p₁₅、p₁₈、…；p₃₂、p₃₅、p₃₈、…；p₅₂、p₅₅、p₅₈…, respectively; … form a pixel group 5, the pixel view areas of all pixels of the pixel group 5 are coincided with the pixel view area VZ under the guidance of the respective corresponding regulating units_g5Called the pixel viewing zone VZ_g5A pixel group view zone VZ corresponding to the pixel group 5_g5(ii) a Pixel p₂₃、p₂₆、p₂₉、…；

p₄₃、p₄₆、p₄₉、…；p₆₃、p₆₆、p₆₉…, respectively; … form a pixel group 6, the pixel view areas of all pixels in the pixel group 6 are coincided with the pixel view area VZ under the guidance of the respective corresponding regulating units_g6Called the pixel viewing zone VZ_g6A pixel group view zone VZ corresponding to the pixel group 6_g6. Wherein, each pixel group viewing zone has a dimension Δ y along the second direction y<D_pDimension D in the first direction x_p<Δx<D_pm. The observer's double pupils are designed to lie substantially along the first direction x. In FIG. 3, paxel view area VZ_g1、VZ_g2、VZ_g3Corresponding to the viewer's left pupil 60L, the paxel viewing zone VZ_g4、 VZ_g5、VZ_g6Corresponding to the viewer's right pupil 60R. Specifically, the left pupil 60L and the viewing zone VZ of the corresponding pixel group_g1、 VZ_g2、VZ_g3For example. As shown in FIG. 4, the distance Δ dy between viewing zones of adjacent pixel groups along the second direction y is smaller than the diameter D of the pupil of the observer at the left pupil 60L positioned on the observation plane xy_pIn this case, the viewing zone VZ can be defined by the adjacent pixel group_g1And VZ_g2And receiving the images projected by the pixel groups corresponding to the two pixel group visual areas, thereby realizing monocular multi-view display. As the viewing zone pitch of adjacent pixel groups in the second direction y becomes smaller, more of the image projected by the pixel groups is incident on the corresponding pupil. In this process, the display information of each pixel is loaded under the control of the control device 30. The information loaded by each pixel is the projection light information of the scene to be displayed along the propagation direction of the light beam projected to the corresponding pixel viewing area (when the pixel viewing areas corresponding to the pixels of the same pixel group are superposed into the pixel group viewing area, the pixel group viewing area corresponding to the pixel group to which the pixel belongs). The propagation direction of any light ray included in the light beam projected by each pixel to the visual area of the corresponding pixel can be taken as the propagation direction of the light beam. In general, when the position of the observer is specified, the propagation direction of the light beam projected by each pixel to the viewing area of the corresponding pixel is the propagation direction of the light beam pointing to the center point of the corresponding viewing area. The pupil tracking unit 40 can be further introduced to track and determine the positions of the pupils of the observer in real time by considering the movement of the pupils of the observer; then, the control device 30 controls the synchronous loading of the light information corresponding to each pixel according to the determined position of the observer's pupil 60. In this case, the information to be loaded for each pixel where the projection light enters the corresponding pupil 60 is limited to be projected along the pixelThe direction of propagation of the light beam to the corresponding pupil 60, the projected light information of the scene to be displayed. Each regulatory unit g_ijThe structure can be a known structure such as a nano-imprinting grating, a holographic grating, a super-surface structure and the like, and other structures which are not designed yet, as long as the structure can realize the projection of a pixel visual area corresponding to a corresponding pixel.

In fig. 4, the pupil 60 is provided on the observation surface S_ob. In fact, pupil 60 may be offset from viewing plane S when the following premise is satisfied_obA certain distance. The premise is that the requirements for realizing monocular multiview display are as follows: at any display object point, light beams from two different pixels are incident on the pupil 60. Each pixel projects light with a light intensity distribution on the viewing surface in the second direction as indicated by the dashed line in fig. 5. Obviously, as the size Δ y of the pixel group viewing area in the second direction decreases, the crosstalk between the viewing areas of the adjacent pixel groups in the second direction decreases, which is beneficial to improving the quality of the displayed image. That is, the design of Δ dy ≧ Δ y is favorable for suppressing crosstalk between viewing zones of adjacent pixel groups in the second direction. In fig. 6, the dotted lines show the intensity distribution of the light projected by each pixel in the pixel group along the first direction x to the viewing area of the corresponding pixel group when each pixel projects the same intensity of light, and here, the two adjacent viewing areas of the pixel group correspond to the two pupils of the observer respectively. Along the first direction x, the viewer's left and right pupils 60L and 60R are respectively disposed in the adjacent viewing zones VZ_g2And VZ_g4In (1). Here, the viewing zone size Δ x of the pixel group along the first direction is slightly less than the minimum distance D between the two pupils of the observer_pm. When the viewer moves in the x-direction to the position shown in FIG. 7, left pupil 60L is seen in parallel with pixel group viewing zone VZ_g2And VZ_g4The two pixel groups are not intersected, but simultaneously can receive the light information projected by the pixel groups corresponding to the two pixel group visual areas. Then, to avoid obtaining inaccurate display information, the paxel viewing zone VZ_g2And VZ_g4The loaded information of each pixel of the two corresponding pixel groups is the projection light information of the scene to be displayed along the propagation direction of the light beam projected to the left pupil 60L by the pixel. While the right pupil 60R will be received simultaneously into the viewing zone VZ of the pixel group_g4Image information about the left pupil 60L projected by the corresponding pixel groupAnd thus, display errors are caused or large noise is brought. The solid lines in FIG. 7 represent the paxel viewing zone VZ_g2And VZ_g4The corresponding two pixel groups project superimposed light distribution intensities when the light is of the same intensity. To avoid this noise while ensuring that the pupil 60, which is located midway between two adjacent paxel viewing zones, can receive the correct image, more paxel viewing zones corresponding to smaller values of the paxel viewing zone dimension deltax are required in the first direction x. As shown in FIG. 8, the field of view size Δ x of the pixel groups along the first direction is about half of the observer's interpupillary distance, which is greater than D_pm. Adjacent viewing zones are arranged with a smaller gap (also end to end) in the first direction x. In this case, the paxel viewing zone VZ is designed_g2And VZ_g4Corresponding pixels project corresponding light information toward the viewer's left pupil 60L, the pixel group viewing zone VZ_g7And VZ_g10The corresponding pixels project the corresponding light information toward the viewer's right pupil 60R, which can achieve a good display effect.

In the above example, the modulation unit may be a light control device, such as a super-surface structure, a holographic grating structure, a micro-nano grating, etc. These structures, often have a dispersive effect. The display method described in this patent may also use the sub-pixels of the display device 10 as basic display units, and the modulation devices of the modulation device 20 and the sub-pixels of the display device 10 are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence. The design can avoid the dispersion effect when the light with different wavelengths emitted by one pixel passes through the modulation unit corresponding to the pixel. Based on the above process, the sub-pixels are used to replace the pixels, the sub-pixels emitting the same color light are divided into different sub-pixel groups, and each sub-pixel group corresponds to a respective sub-pixel group visual area, so that the monocular multi-view three-dimensional display can be realized in the same manner. When the sub-pixels are used as the basic display unit, in order to obtain an ideal color display, it is required that, for each pupil 60, at least one sub-pixel group projection light corresponding to each color enters the pupil 60 through the viewing zone corresponding to the sub-pixel group.

Through the time sequence incidence of the directional backlight, the method can further increase the presenting quantity of the pixel group visual area based on time sequence multiplexing so as to provide a larger observation area for an observer. Display deviceThe display device 10 is a passive light emitting device, and a directional backlight unit 50 projects a directional backlight to the display device 10. For example, as shown in FIG. 9, the directional backlight unit 50 projects parallel backlight along vect1 at a time point t of a time period t to t + Δ t, and the pixel p_ijCorresponding to a pixel viewing zone of VZ_ij1(ii) a At another time point t + Δ t/2 of the time period, the directional backlight unit 50 projects parallel backlight along the vect2 direction, and the pixel p_ijCorresponding pixel view region moves to VZ_ij2The position of the device. And the pixel visual areas corresponding to other pixels are correspondingly and spatially moved in the same way. When the pixel group visual area corresponding to each pixel group exists, the positions of the corresponding pixel group visual areas are correspondingly different when the pixel group visual areas are incident under different backlights. In this case, there are two paths. First path, M at any time period>At 1 time point, the directional backlight unit 50 projects backlight along M different directional time sequences, so that the arrangement of the pixel viewing zones corresponding to the M time points covers a larger space, as shown in fig. 10, which corresponds to 4 pixel group viewing zones sequentially arranged along the second direction and generated by two different time points. In this case, when the emergent light of each pixel passes through the corresponding regulating and controlling unit and has a high-order diffraction term, the space of the emergent light may cover the visual area of the non-corresponding pixel group, thereby introducing noise. A second path, in which, at each time point, the control device 30 controls the directional backlight unit 50 to project only the backlight corresponding to the real-time position according to the real-time position of each pupil 60 of the observer determined by the pupil tracking unit 40; the corresponding backlight is incident to generate pixel groups, so that any pupil 60 at the real-time position corresponds to at least two groups of pixel groups, and the projected pixel light of the pixel groups carries the corresponding light information about the pupil to be incident to the pupil 60. As the position of the observer's pupil 60 changes, the backlight projected by the directional backlight unit 50 changes accordingly, so as to ensure the tracking coverage of the observer's pupil 60 by the viewing area of the paxels. In this case, noise caused by the higher-order diffraction term of the control unit can be effectively suppressed. The vect1 direction and the vect2 direction shown in fig. 9 are different in the second direction y direction, they may be different in the first direction x direction, or different in other directions. Fig. 9 and 10 take M as 2 as an example, but M may take other values. The above process, likewiseThe method is suitable for the condition of the sub-pixel, the sub-pixel group and the sub-pixel visual area and the sub-pixel group visual area corresponding to the sub-pixel and the sub-pixel group.

In each of the above embodiments, in each pixel group, the pixel viewing areas of all the pixels overlap to form the pixel group viewing area corresponding to the pixel group. Corresponding sub-pixels are similar, and in each pixel sub-pixel group, sub-pixel viewing zones of all sub-pixels are overlapped to form a sub-pixel group viewing zone corresponding to the sub-pixel group. In fact, due to the individual control of the corresponding pixels or sub-pixels by each control unit, a certain misalignment may also occur in the pixel viewing area or sub-pixel viewing area corresponding to each pixel or sub-pixel in the same pixel group or sub-pixel group, instead of forcing the requirement to be overlapped into the corresponding pixel group viewing area or sub-pixel group viewing area. As shown in FIG. 11, the pixel p of the pixel group 1 shown in FIG. 3₁₁、p₁₄、p₃₁The corresponding pixel view area is designed to be arranged in a staggered mode. For clarity of illustration, the corresponding pixel views of only three pixels are shown in fig. 11. In this case, the conditions for achieving the incidence of at least two light beams in different directions to any one of the pupils 60 of the observer on the observation surface through each display point are: all pixels of at least two pixel groups can project light to the pupil through the vision area of the corresponding pixels. For better display effect, the distribution of each pixel corresponding to the viewing area of the pixel is preferably to ensure that more than one light beam incident on any one pupil 60 through each display object point is equally spaced on the pupil. The above method is also applicable to the case where the sub-pixels are used as the basic display unit.

The directional backlight unit 50 may be an existing or various optical structures that can provide sequential backlight in different directions, such as the backlight assembly of the optical waveguide structure described in the patent name "a display module with twice constrained beam divergence angle AND deflection aperture (publication No. CN112882248A, published 2021, 06/01)", or the backlight unit (backlight unit) described in 2017 by using Optics (Applied Optics) (LARGE REAL-TIME histogram 3D DISPLAYS: enable COMPONENTS AND systems (No.13of vol.36) ".

Based on the characteristic that the distance between the two pupils of an observer is far larger than the diameter of the pupils, the control of projection light of corresponding pixels or sub-pixels by utilizing each control unit generates visual areas which are sparsely distributed along the direction of the connecting line of the two pupils of the observer and are densely distributed along the vertical direction of the connecting line, so that the naked eye three-dimensional display of monocular multiple views is realized. The method solves the problem of focusing-converging conflict faced by the traditional monocular single-view technology (stereoscopic technology), and simultaneously relieves the high requirement of the prior light field technology (such as integrated imaging) for realizing monocular multi-view by densely distributing visual areas along two directions on the space bandwidth product of a display device.

The design concept of the present invention is not limited to the above preferred embodiments, and any insubstantial modifications of the present invention, such as those shown by the method of the present patent application, which only uses certain specific structures as controlling units, also fall within the scope of the present invention.