WO1998057215A1 - Optical adaptor couplable to any diffusing screen pertaining to a single conventional reproduction device, capable of producing tridimensional effects - Google Patents
Optical adaptor couplable to any diffusing screen pertaining to a single conventional reproduction device, capable of producing tridimensional effects Download PDFInfo
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- This invention is about the reproduction of two images separated from each other in space. A first one will be formed in the air in front of the device and separated from it and the second one inside the device itself.
- the system described in this invention also differs from that described by Dolfoff and Tullo because one of the images is formed outside the device as in the system described by Summer.
- the system described here differs from the one described by Summer because, in the first place, both images are generated in a single reproductive device, secondly, the optical device is simpler since it uses a single converging mirror and thirdly it is cheaper since using a single player device does not need additional synchronization elements between player devices.
- the present invention is based on two long-known physical phenomena; the ability of a simple mirror or converging lens to generate three-dimensional images in space and the possibility of a semi-transparent sheet to mix two three-dimensional images together.
- the mirror in front of the lens has been selected for its construction because it lacks chromatic aberration, its construction is simple, has a better light transfer coefficient and can have a larger size compared to its focal length, which allows reproductions with greater vision angle.
- a single convergent mirror is used to generate three-dimensional images in real space with the rays, reflected on it, coming from a real object.
- the light rays from an image generated on a diffusing surface located at an optical distance equal to twice its focal length of this converging mirror, after being reflected, form an image in space, separated from the mirror the same distance.
- anterior optic that is, twice the focal length and will be the same size as that image.
- the semi-transparent sheet is used in this invention to mix the image produced in space by the converging mirror with another image also generated on the anterior diffusing surface but elsewhere in it.
- the second image will be generated at the bottom of the diffuser surface. This image will undergo three reflections along the optical path that will make it arrive from the place where it is actually located, to the place where it will be formed again after crossing the optical system.
- the first reflection is produced in a flat rectangular mirror located in front of the second image, covering it completely, and forming 45 ° with it and 90 ° with the semi-transparent sheet.
- the lower image formed on the diffuser surface acts as an object for this flat mirror.
- the image of this object formed by this flat mirror is perpendicular to the diffusing surface that generated it.
- the second reflection is produced in a convergent mirror, perpendicular to the diffuser surface of the player and therefore parallel to the image generated after the first reflection, placed on top of the reproduction diffuser surface.
- the optical distance from the converging mirror to its object is twice the focal length of said mirror.
- the resulting effect is that the observer in front of the device sees a first image, floating in the space between it and the reproductive device identical to that reproduced in the lower part of the diffuser surface. Away from it and from the previous one you will see a second image corresponding to the one reproduced in the upper part of the diffuser screen.
- the light rays from this space can be reflected first in the semi-transparent sheet; secondly in the convergent mirror and return through a third reflection in the eyes of the observer, producing very annoying reflections.
- a semi-transparent sheet capable of circularly polarizing the light can be used. This sheet will polarize, for example, the light that goes through it levógirrait (dextrógirrait) and the light that reflects dextrógirrait (levógirrait).
- the ambient light after being reflected for the first time on the semi-transparent sheet is polarized, for example, dextrotically (or levógirrait) in the total reflection in the convergent mirror rotates its polarization that is to say it leaves polarized levógirrait (or dextrógicNonetheless) and cannot be reflected again in the semitransparent sheet because this one polarizes the light dextrógicêt (or levógirrait). In this way the reflection of the ambient light in the optical device is eliminated.
- the device object of this invention can also place the image that will be seen farther away, in the lower part of the reproduction diffusing surface. It will also be necessary to invert the placement of the semi-transparent sheet with that of the flat mirror, and place the convergent mirror in the lower part of said diffuser surface.
- the device object of this invention is an optical adapter that can be attached to any diffuser screen belonging to a single ordinary reproduction device, such as a cathode ray tube, a rear projection device, a liquid crystal or any other type of screen on that two images are generated next to each other in such a way that when coupling the adapter on the screen produces the optical effect that these images are seen one in front of the other, being the closest to the observer floating in the air and separate from the reproductive device, characterized by:
- a first flat mirror located in front of the second image forming 45 ° with it and 90 ° with the previous semi-transparent sheet that will send the rays coming from the second image through the semi-transparent sheet to
- a second converging mirror perpendicular to the diffusing reproduction surface and located on the side of the diffusing screen opposite to the first flat mirror, which acts so that the light rays reflected in this second converging mirror after being reflected in the semi-transparent sheet will form an image in the air, located between the reproduction device and the observer that will be an exact replica of the second image generated on the diffuser surface.
- Figure 1. Schematically represents the formation of an image by a converging mirror.
- Figure 2. Represents the behavior of a semi-transparent sheet.
- Figure 3 Schematically represents the behavior of a semi-transparent sheet together with a converging mirror.
- Figure 4. Schematically shows the device object of this invention composed of a single reproductive device capable of generating on its diffusing surface two different images, a flat mirror in front of one of these images forming 45 ° with it, a semi-transparent sheet in front of the other image forming 45 ° with it and 90 ° with the anterior flat mirror, and a convergent mirror perpendicular to the diffusing surface.
- Figure 1 schematically shows the formation in the air of image 2.1, produced by converging mirror 3, with the light rays generated by object 1.1
- the distance at which the object of the converging mirror is normally located is twice its focal length. Being at this distance the object of the mirror, Gauss's formula tells us that the distance of the mirror at which the image will be formed will be the same, that is also twice the focal length. In spherical mirrors this distance coincides for paraxial rays with their radius of curvature. In other words, the object is located in the vicinity of the center of curvature of the spherical mirror and the image will be formed in the vicinity of it center. In these circumstances the sizes of the object and the image will be approximately equal and the deformations, consequence of the optical aberrations of the mirror, will be minimized.
- the observer 0 is usually placed in front of the image 2.1 and the object 1.1 can be hidden from his eyes by a box-shaped baffle 4. Said observer 0 will see the image 2.1 floating in the space and separated from the mirror a distance approximately equal to the radius of curvature
- Figure 2 schematically shows the behavior of a semi-transparent sheet 5.
- a first object 1.2 is placed in front of the observer 0 which it can see directly through the semi-transparent sheet. Perpendicular to said object 1.2 is located another object 2.2 at a distance from the semitransparent sheet 5 different, in this case superior, at the distance at which object 1.2 of the same sheet is located.
- the semi-transparent sheet 5 forms 45 ° with each of the objects 1.2 and 2.2.
- Figure 3 shows the schematic behavior of an optical system composed of a converging mirror that works in the manner described in Figure 1 and a semi-transparent sheet that works in the manner described in Figure 2.
- the object 2.3 in front of the converging mirror 3, the object 2.3 is located near its center of curvature, that is, at a distance approximately equal to twice its focal length.
- the light rays that start from the object 2.3 and are directed to the converging mirror 3 pass through the semi-transparent sheet 5 since this, acting by transparency, allows its passage without modifying its trajectory.
- the light rays After reflected in the converging mirror 3, the light rays form the image 3.3 at an approximate optical distance equal to twice the focal length. In their optical path, these light rays find again the semi-transparent sheet 5 which this time acts as a mirror.
- the end result is that the observer 0 sees the image 3.3 of the object 2.3 in front of the reproductive device, separated from it and floating in space.
- the semi-transparent sheet 5 is a sheet capable of circularly polarizing the light.
- FIG. 4 schematically shows the device object of this invention.
- This figure 4 is the result of adding a new optical element, a mirror plane, 6, to the system shown in figure 3.
- the objects from which the rays start are called 1.3 and 2.3 that are in planes perpendicular to each other which prevents both of them from being generated on the diffuser surface in a single playback device
- a new flat mirror 6 of total reflection that forms 90 ° with the semi-transparent sheet is added.
- the objects 1.4 and 2.4 are formed on the same diffusing surface of a single reproduction device 7.
- the flat mirror 6 forms the image 3.4 of the object 2.4 in the same place as the one occupied in Figure 3 the object 2.3.
- the rest of the operation is analogous to that explained for figure 3.
- the observer 0 sees two images, the first 4.4 in front of the device at an intermediate distance between the reproductive device and the observer and floating in the air, and the second 1.4 separated from the previous one and inside the device.
- Image 4.4 corresponds to size and color with object 2.4. Both object 1.4 and 2.4 are generated on the diffuser surface of a single ordinary image player; cathode ray tube screen, computer monitor or TV or cinema overhead projector.
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