In virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) display, the vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC) is a significant issue. Thus, true-3D display technologies has been proposed to solve the VAC problem. Integral imaging (II) display, one of the most critical true-3D display technologies, has received increasing research recently. Significantly, anachromatic metalens array has realized a broadband metalens-array-based II (meta-II). However, the past micro-scale metalens arrays were incompatible with commercial micro-displays. Additionally, the elemental image array(EIA)rendering is slow. These device and algorithm problems prevent meta-II from being used for practical video-rate near-eye displays (NEDs). This research demonstrates a II-based NED combining a commercial micro-display and a metalens array. We make efforts in the hardware and software to solve the bottlenecks of video-rate metalens array II-based NED. The large-area nanoimprint technology fabricates the metalens array, and a novel real-time rendering algorithm is proposed to generate the EIA. We also build a see-through prototype based on our meta-II NED, demonstrating the effect of depth of field in AR, and the 3D parallax effect on the real mode. This work verifies the feasibility of nanoimprint technology for mass preparation of metalens samples, explores the potential of video-rate meta-II displays, which we can be applied in the fields of VR/AR and 3D display.
The light field display (LFD) can provide realistic 3D content with feasible implementation but is encountering low spatial resolution, requiring higher-resolution picture generation units. The mini-LED backlight LCD is a strong competitor due to its high contrast, small form factor, and mature fabrication. We remove the color filter array for tripled resolution and light efficiency, namely, the field sequential color (FSC) LCD. This study reports an LFD prototype based on a 240-Hz FSC-LCD. The unique issue in FSC-LCDs, color breakup, is addressed by using three fields for one frame, but not traditional 4-field driving. The low-color-breakup driving is achieved using multi-objective optimization (MOO) to create a training set for a lightweight neural network. The MOO guarantees our system’s color breakup and image distortion are simultaneously invisible, and the lightweight neural network realizes real-time driving.
In this presentation, we briefly review the development of optical metalenses from the single metalens to the metalens array and to the metalens systems, especially focusing on the progress of silicon nitride metalenses. We then show the optical properties of silicon nitride films with different refractive index in our lab. With such silicon nitride films, we introduce our researches on the broadband achromatic metalens array, and the microscope meta-objectives with cascade metalenses, showing the visible imaging applications on noncoherent 3D integral imaging and high-resolution biological imaging.
Virtual mouse based on IR source, lens array and light sensor was designed and implemented. Optical architecture including lens amount, lens pitch, baseline length, sensor length, lens-sensor gap, focal length etc. was carefully designed to achieve low detective error, high resolution, and simultaneously, compact system volume. System volume is 3.1mm (thickness) × 4.5mm (length) × 2, which is much smaller than that of camera-based device. Relative detective error of 0.41mm and minimum resolution of 26ppi were verified in experiments, so that it can replace conventional touchpad/touchscreen. If system thickness is eased to 20mm, resolution higher than 200ppi can be achieved to replace real mouse.
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Advances in Display Technologies XV
27 January 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Advances in Display Technologies XIV
29 January 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
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