3d stereo oled display

Abstract

A switchable stereoscopic display system, wherein the switchable stereoscopic display system can display two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, includes: an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device; Electronics that rapidly updates individual OLEDs; and a linearly polarizer for the OLED display device. Additionally, a circular polarizing layer changes light from linearly polarized light to circular polarized light. A polarization layer, on top of the circular polarization layer, switches a polarization direction of emitted light within the OLED display device. Other electronics switches the polarization direction within independent segments of the polarization layer. Refreshed OLEDs are synched with the independent segments of the polarization layer.

1 . A high-resolution switchable stereoscopic display system that synchronously presents portions of a pair of stereoscopic images to each eye of an observer, comprising: 
 a) a source of image data for providing a stereoscopic image, wherein the stereoscopic image includes a right eye image and a left eye image;    b) a display device having a two-dimensional array of independently addressable pixels for displaying at least portions of both the right eye image and the left eye image;    c) a switchable segmented device for sequentially selecting the independently addressable pixels of the display device that provide light to each eye of the observer.    d) a driver that temporally synchronizes the display of the image data on the display and the switchable segmented device.    
     
     
         2 . The high-resolution switchable stereoscopic display system of  claim 1 , wherein the switchable segmented device includes a layer for switching the polarization direction of the light.  
     
     
         3 . The high-resolution switchable stereoscopic display system of  claim 1 , wherein segments of the switchable-segmented device are aligned in columns.  
     
     
         4 . The high-resolution switchable stereoscopic display system of  claim 1 , wherein the spatial pattern provided by the segments of the switchable-segmented device, has a spatial frequency along either a horizontal or vertical dimension greater than or equal to 10 cycles per degree of a viewer's visual angle.  
     
     
         5 . The high-resolution switchable stereoscopic display system of  claim 1 , wherein the display device is a flat panel display.  
     
     
         6 . The high-resolution switchable stereoscopic display system of  claim 5 , wherein the flat panel display is a plasma display.  
     
     
         7 . The high-resolution switchable stereoscopic display system of  claim 5 , wherein the flat panel display is an OLED display.  
     
     
         8 . The high-resolution switchable stereoscopic display system of  claim 1 , wherein the pixels are refreshed in the range of 15 to 70 hertz.  
     
     
         9 . The high-resolution switchable stereoscopic display system of  claim 1 , wherein the source of image data for providing a stereoscopic image comprises an image buffer for storing the left eye image, an image buffer for storing the right eye image, and a pixel clock for synchronizing the retrieval of portions of the left and right eye images.  
     
     
         10 . A switchable stereoscopic display system, wherein the switchable stereoscopic display system can display three-dimensional images, comprising: 
 a) a display device including a two-dimensional array of light emitting elements;    b) a segmented, switchable polarization layer, capable of switching a polarization direction of emitted light in at least two independent segments of the display device to either a right handedness circular polarization or a left handedness circular polarization; and    c) an electronic driver that rapidly updates individual light emitting elements with image data and synchronously switching polarization handedness of the independent segments.    
     
     
         11 . A method for displaying a high-resolution stereoscopic image, comprising: 
 a) segmenting an image into a first and second array of image segments;    b) presenting the first array of image segments to the left eye of the observer and the second array of image segments to the right eye of the observer within a first time interval; and    c) presenting the second array of image segments to the left eye of the observer and the first array of image segments to the left eye of the observer within a second time interval.    
     
     
         12 . A method of  claim 11  wherein each time interval is 1/30 th  of a second or less in duration.