Imaging quality of a retroreflective screen in head-mounted projection displays

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1240-1249

  Zhang, Rui ^a   Hua, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CORNER CUBE REFLECTOR; CORNER CUBES; DIFFRACTION EFFECTS; IMAGING ARTIFACTS; IMAGING EFFECTS; IMAGING PROPERTIES; IMAGING QUALITY; KEY ELEMENTS; MICROBEADS; POTENTIAL TECHNIQUES; PROJECTION DISPLAYS; PROJECTION OPTICS; QUALITY DEGRADATION; RAY-TRACING METHOD; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOLERANCE RANGE;

PROJECTION SCREENS;

EID: 67249108690     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.26.001240     Document Type: Article

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