MasterImage 3D is a company that develops stereoscopic 3D systems for theaters and auto-stereoscopic (glasses-free) 3D displays for mobile devices.

Technology

Stereoscopic viewing is based on delivery of slightly different images to each eye. MasterImage 3D's system for cinemas is based on the projector alternately flashing frames for each eye at high speed. This is similar to the system used by the competing brand RealD 3D. However, while RealD uses an electronic optical filter which "flips" back and forth between two types of polarization, MasterImage uses a large spinning filter, containing alternating segments of circularly polarized material, mounted in front of the projector lens and synchronized to the projected images. The filter wheel lowers out of the optical path for non-3D material. The MasterImage 3D filter wheel spins at a very high speed and it has been noted that an earlier version of this filter malfunctioned, but the problem has been addressed with an updated replacement filter which was supplied to all theaters using the system.

Auto-stereoscopic viewing

Autostereoscopy

Autostereoscopy is any method of displaying stereoscopic images without the use of special headgear or glasses on the part of the viewer. Because headgear is not required, it is also called "glasses-free 3D" or "glassesless 3D"...

 is also based on the ability to deliver slightly different images to each eye. MasterImage 3D's auto-stereoscopic displays deliver this effect without the use of 3D glasses to screens ranging from 3 inches to 10 inches. MasterImage 3D achieves the effect through its patented cell-matrix parallax barrier technology, which uses a cell gap approach that enables landscape and portrait modes, provides a 10 degree viewing angle, and reduces the Moire pattern that causes ghosting. MasterImage 3D's auto-stereoscopic display was used in one of the world's first glasses-free 3D mobile phones, the Hitachi Wooo, available in Japan in 2009. MasterImage 3D also develops a 3D camera ASIC that enables users to create 3D content.

See also

• MasterImage 3D Blog
• Digital 3D
  Digital 3D
  Digital 3D is a non-specific 3D standard in which films, television shows, and video games are presented and shot in digital 3D technology or later processed in digital post-production to add a 3D effect....
  
  
• Digital cinema
  Digital cinema
  Digital cinema refers to the use of digital technology to distribute and project motion pictures. A movie can be distributed via hard drives, optical disks or satellite and projected using a digital projector instead of a conventional film projector...
  
  
• 3-D film
  3-D film
  A 3-D film or S3D film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception...
  
  
• Polarized 3D glasses
• Stereoscopic 3D
• Autostereoscopy
  Autostereoscopy
  Autostereoscopy is any method of displaying stereoscopic images without the use of special headgear or glasses on the part of the viewer. Because headgear is not required, it is also called "glasses-free 3D" or "glassesless 3D"...
  
  
• Parallax barrier
• Movie theater
  Movie theater
  A movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....
  
  
• Mobile 3D
• List of 3D-enabled mobile phones
• Dolby 3D
  Dolby 3D
  Dolby 3D is a marketing name for a system from Dolby Laboratories, Inc. to show three-dimensional motion pictures in a digital cinema.- Technology :...
  
  
• RealD Cinema
• XpanD 3D
  XpanD 3D
  XPAND 3D is a brand name of a system for presenting three-dimensional films in a digital cinema, home theater, video games and other applications. XPAND utilizes active-shutter 3D glasses...
  
  

External links

• MasterImage 3D website
• Film-Tech (independent cinema technology web site)
• MarketSaw
• 3D-display-info.com