3Dwalkthroughs.com picked up a story on the Techon website about the Seiko Epson Corporation's newly developed 3D display that is targeted at mobile phones. The technology allows high-resolution 3D images to be visible to the naked eye with no special glasses.
According to the article the commercial version of the display will be available in 2010. To display 3D images, a special lens called "lenticular lens" is placed on pixels so that different images can be seen from different angles. A lenticular lens is composed of an array of many hog-backed convex lenses, each of which is as large as a few pixels.
Several cameras are used to shoot images from slightly different angles. Then, the images are resolved into pixels and arrayed on the pixels of the display based on a certain calculation (rendering).
Source: Technon Website
By the time 2010 rolls around I am sure that displays for mobile phones in general will be significantly improved. With the movie industry making such a push into the 3D arena, how cool would it be if you watch them directly from a mobile device.
In general, the resolution of the 2D images shown by 3D displays deteriorates when the amount of information for 3D images is increased by, for example, using many cameras. It is because more pixels are used for 3D-related information. To solve this problem, Seiko Epson adopted the following measures.
As for (1), the original pixel count was drastically increased. And concerning (2), the company utilized the pixels in the direction in which human eyes are not very sensitive to resolution (vertical direction).
In regard to (3), Seiko Epson reduced by half the cycle in which images change depending on angles (viewing image width).
"So far, in our industry, it has been indisputable that 62-65mm, the distance between right and left eyes, is the best," Hamagishi said. "This time, we cut it by half to 31-32.5mm (to enhance 3D images)."
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