title: Grayscale performance enhancement for time-multiplexing light field rendering.
abstract: One of the common approaches to compensate for the grayscale performance limitation in time-multiplexing light field displays is to employ a halftone technique. We propose an ordered-dithering halftone algorithm based on a 3-dimension super-mask to increase the gray levels of the time-multiplexing light field display. Our method makes full use of the overlapping perceived pixels which are caused by the time-multiplexing design, such that effectively trading-off the spatial resolution and color performance. A real-time rendering time-multiplexing display prototype is built to validate the proposed halftone algorithm. We conducted a user study to evaluate the quality of display scenes dithered by different super-mask configuration, which showed the consistency with the parameters we pre-calculated. The 3D ordered-dithering algorithm is able to present better visual perception than the conventional halftone algorithms with respect to grayscale representation, and flexible to be applied in different time-multiplexing light field display systems.
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: Yifan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Haifeng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu