Image display device and image display method
An image display device displays a stereoscopic image by using a parallax barrier method and includes a transmissive image display surface on which images of left-eye image data and right-eye image data are alternately displayed; an image forming unit including optical members having strip-shaped patterns with optical properties arranged on a surface located on a back surface side of the image display surface; and strip-shaped light sources arranged on an illumination arrangement surface, which is a surface located on a back surface side of the image forming unit, and configured to irradiate the image display surface with illumination light. A slit area of the parallax barrier method is formed by an image obtained by forming an image of the illumination light from the strip-shaped light sources on the back surface side of the image display surface by using the optical members of the image forming unit.
1. An image display device for displaying a stereoscopic image by using a parallax barrier method, the image display device comprising:
an image display surface on which an image of left-eye image data and an image of right-eye image data are alternately displayed, the image display surface being transmissive;
an image forming unit including a plurality of optical members having a plurality of strip-shaped patterns with optical properties arranged on a surface located on a back surface side of the image display surface; and
a plurality of light sources having a strip shape adjacent to each other in a width direction of an illumination arrangement surface arranged on the illumination arrangement surface, which is a surface located on a back surface side of the image forming unit, and configured to irradiate the image display surface with illumination light, wherein
a slit area of the parallax barrier method is formed by an image obtained by forming an image of the illumination light from the light sources having a strip shape on the back surface side of the image display surface by using the optical members included in the image forming unit,
a focal length of the optical member is substantially equal to a distance between a position at which the optical member is arranged and a position at which the slit area of the parallax barrier method is arranged; and
the plurality of light sources having a strip shape are arranged on the illumination arrangement surface so that, out of the plurality of light sources having a strip shape arranged adjacent to each other in the width direction of the illumination arrangement surface, the images are in the same position for the light sources having a strip shape every predetermined number based on the parallax barrier method.
2. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein
the parallax barrier method is a parallax barrier method based on time division,
the image display device further comprises:
an illumination arrangement surface control unit configured to change an arrangement of a light emitting region on the illumination arrangement surface in which the illumination light is generated by changing any of the plurality of light sources having a strip shape to emit light; and
an image display surface control unit configured to control the image display surface based on the left-eye image data and the right-eye image data,
the image display surface control unit controls, in accordance with an arrangement of the slit area that changes according to the arrangement of the light emitting region, each area of a left image region on the image display surface in which an image of the left-eye image data is displayed and a right image region on the image display surface in which an image of the right-eye image data is displayed.
3. The image display device according to claim 2 , further comprising
a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information indicating an observer distance, which is a distance between at least one eye of eyes of an observer observing the image display surface and the image display surface, wherein
the image display surface control unit controls each area of the left image region and the right image region based on the observer distance indicated by the position information acquired by the position information acquisition unit.
4. The image display device according to claim 2 , wherein a distance D that is a distance between at least one of the plurality of light sources and the image forming unit, a distance d that is a distance between the image forming unit and the back surface side of the image display surface, a slit width w that is a width of the slit area, and a pitch W 1 that is a distance between centers of the plurality of optical members adjacent to each other arranged in the image forming unit have a relationship represented by Equation (2), where the number of divisions in the time division is a number n
D :( D+d )= W l :nw (2).
5. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein an arrangement of a light emitting region on the illumination arrangement surface in which the illumination light is generated does not change over time.
6. An image display method of an image display device for displaying a stereoscopic image by using a parallax barrier method,
the image display device comprising:
an image display surface on which an image of left-eye image data and an image of right-eye image data are alternately displayed, the image display surface being transmissive;
an image forming unit including a plurality of optical members having a plurality of strip-shaped patterns with optical properties arranged on a surface located on a back surface side of the image display surface; and
a plurality of strip-shaped light sources adjacent to each other in a width direction of an illumination arrangement surface arranged on the illumination arrangement surface, which is a surface located on a back surface side of the image forming unit, and configured to irradiate the image display surface with illumination light,
wherein a focal length of the optical member is substantially equal to a distance between a position at which the optical member is arranged and a position at which a slit area of the parallax barrier method is arranged; and
the plurality of light sources having a strip shape are arranged on the illumination arrangement surface so that, out of the plurality of light sources having a strip shape arranged adjacent to each other in the width direction of the illumination arrangement surface, images obtained by forming an image of the illumination light from the strip-shaped light sources on the back surface side of the image display surface by using the optical members included in the image forming unit are in the same position for the light sources having a strip shape every predetermined number based on the parallax barrier method,
the image display method comprising:
causing, of the plurality of strip-shaped light sources, a light source corresponding to a light emitting region on the illumination arrangement surface in which the illumination light is generated to emit light;
forming the slit area of the parallax barrier method with the image; and
controlling the image display surface based on the left-eye image data and the right-eye image data.
7. The image display device according to claim 3 , wherein a distance D that is a distance between at least one of the plurality of light sources and the image forming unit, a distance d that is a distance between the image forming unit and the back surface side of the image display surface, a slit width w that is a width of the slit area, and a pitch W 1 that is a distance between centers of the plurality of optical members adjacent to each other arranged in the image forming unit have a relationship represented by Equation (2), where the number of divisions in the time division is a number n
D :( D+d )= W l :nw (2).