Toshiba Mobile Display announced today that they have developed a 21-inch autostereoscopic high-definition display. This means that the display does not need any type of glasses for the viewer to see in 3-D. Most of the time, a person needs a left eye and a right eye image in able to see in 3-D. However, Toshiba accomplishes it in a different way. They accomplish by using an imaging system with a 9-parallax design. That means that this new display creates image data viewed from nine directions. The high-definition display itself has a resolution of 1280 x 800, while the viewing angle of the display is ±15 degrees in the horizontal. From the company’s press release:
The integral imaging system offers a significant reduction in eye fatigue during long periods of viewing, and features a multi-parallax[1] design that enables motion parallax, which cannot be achieved by systems using glasses. The multi-parallax approach results in images that change depending on the viewer’s position. In addition, the viewing angle is wide, and the resulting stereoscopic image is natural and smooth.
