Multi‐planar plenoptic displays. Issue 10 (13th January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ranieri, Nicola; Heinzle, Simon; Barnum, Peter; Matusik, Wojciech; Gross, Markus
• Is Part Of: Journal of the Society for Information Display. Volume 21:Issue 10(2013:Oct.)
• Page Start: 451
• Page End: 459
• Publication Date: 2014-01-13
• Subjects: Information display systems -- Periodicals; 621.38154205
• DOI: 10.1002/jsid.201
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1071-0922

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>Multi‐planar plenoptic displays consist of multiple spatially varying light‐emitting and light‐modulating planes. In this work, we introduce a framework to display light field data on this new type of display device. First, we present a mathematical notation that describes each of the layers in terms of the corresponding light transport operators. Next, we explain an algorithm that renders a light field with depth into a given multi‐planar plenoptic display and analyze the approximation error. We show two different physical prototypes that we have designed and built: The first design uses a dynamic parallax barrier and a number of bi‐state (translucent/opaque) screens. The second design uses a beam splitter to co‐locate two pairs of parallax barriers and static image projection screens. We evaluate both designs on a number of different 3D scenes. Finally, we present simulated and real results for different display configurations.</p> </abstract>