The parallax images captured by a toed-in camera have positive and negative horizontal parallax for stereoscopic displays, but they also have parallax distortions including horizontal and vertical distortions. The virtual toed-in camera method can eliminate the horizontal distortion and reduce the vertical distortion. The parallax formulae for the corrected-parallax images were deduced. The experiments were carried out and the results proved that the method was accurate. Good stereoscopic images without horizontal distortion and with little vertical distortion were presented on an autostereoscopic display.

The methods of pixel arrangement for autostereoscopic liquid crystal displays based on conventional vertical parallax barriers are summarized. A novel method of pixel arrangement for autostereoscopic liquid crystal displays based on step parallax barriers is proposed. The pixel arrangements are given for different 10 inclined angles of parallax barriers and different column numbers of images. A demo of the autostereoscopic liquid crystal display using the new method of pixel arrangement presents very good stereo images. The results help to solve the process, storage and transmission of stereo images of autostereoscopic liquid crystal displays based on parallax barriers.

The structure and fabrication of a photo-luminescent screen for an optically written display based on upconversion of near infrared light is presented. Some of the rare earth doped fluoride crystals upconversion photo-luminescent materials are given. A uniform screen with a densely packed layer for high-resolution projection display was语developed using the settling screening method.

An optically written display based on up-conversion of near-infrared light is a newly emerging display technology. For filtering out unwanted colors from this light generator, multilayer dielectric color filters are designed for red, green, and blue screens, respectively. Layer-symmetric films are used in the designed filters and the conjugate gradient method is used to optimize the design. It is observed that the characteristics of the filters are good in the whole visible wavelength range when the incident angle is less than 40. The encompassed color triangle of the display with the color filters is larger than that without the color filters, and images with more saturated colors are obtained.

This paper proposes a method called Jump method for optimization of optical thin films. The method is the combination of local search strategy using modified Coordinate-Wise Algorithm and global search strategy using modified Evolutionary Algorithm. Jump method can evolve the designs of optical thin films for good performances. The design of a dielectric beam splitter and an edge filter as examples is carried out and the results indicate that Jump method is a very robust algorithm for optical thin film designs.