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Stereoscopy News brings us a short Press Release from “Zecotek” announcing their newly granted patent #7,944,465 for a “Apparatus and System for Reproducing 3-Dimensional Images”.

The new patent covers the use of equipment for the reproduction of static and moving 3D stereo representations with the capability of recording and transmitting stereo representations of 3D scenes.  Zecotek’s “patented” Real-Time 3D Display System is based on the auto-stereoscopic principle, but with substantial innovative.  It has the capability of simultaneously presenting to multiple users both 3D and 2D images on the same screen with separate views and at different viewing angles.  The 3D display system provides comfortable conditions for viewing a volumetric representation without eye strain.  The viewing of such 3D images does not require the use of any supplementary means such as glasses, does not drastically limit the position of the viewer with respect to the display, and allows simultaneous viewing of the 3D display by many viewers from a sufficiently wide field of view.

But where’s the Beef? From reading the legalese-encrypted claims, it seems their technology is a collection of micro-lenses that  separate the 2D screen behind it into 3D.  This way it can present a uniform 3D image to multiple viewers in multiple locations simultaneously, by letting the lenses separate the two eyes out.  It’s clever, but not altogether new, technology.

ZECOTEK strikes again.

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Autostereoscopic 3D Displays are regarded by many as the “holy grail” of 3D.  No glasses, multiple viewers, multiple angles, and high-resolution.  So far, various displays can hit certain aspects of this but none has hit all of them.  Zecotek has a new display that uses a ‘time sequencing’ approach to enable 40-90 simultaneous views through a 50-degree viewing angle.  I can’t find many details on what ‘time sequencing’ is, other than it apparently requires a display capable of a 2000Hz refresh rate or greater.

Nonetheless, they have a great whitepaper up on their site detailing the advantages and disadvantages of various technologies like Parallax barriers and shutter glasses, complete with some nice charts and visuals.

You can get the whitepaper here.

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