A survey of 3DTV displays: Techniques and technologies

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1647-1657

  Benzie, Philip ^a,b   Watson, John ^a,b   Surman, Phil ^c   Rakkolainen, Ismo ^d,e   Hopf, Klaus ^f   Urey, Hakan ^a,g   Sainov, Ventseslav ^h   Von Kopylow, Christoph ⁱ  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e FogScreen Inc   (Finland)

^f FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^g KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^h CENTRAL LABORATORY OF OPTICAL STORAGE AND PROCESSING OF INFORMATION   (Bulgaria)

ⁱ BIAS BREMER INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE STRAHLTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 D displays; Holography; TV

Indexed keywords

3-D DISPLAYS; DIGITAL MICROMIRROR; MULTIPLE IMAGE DISPLAYS; NON-LAMBERTIAN INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION;

BINOCULARS; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 35648967603     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2007.905377     Document Type: Article

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