Wide field of view tabletop light field display based on piece-wise tracking and off-axis pickup

A wide field of view (FOV) tabletop light field display (LFD) based on piece-wise tracking and off-axis pickup is presented to display the floating three-dimensional (3D) scene, which is 360°surrounding viewable. The demonstrated LFD is specially designed with an integral imaging display (IID) with 83 × 83 viewpoints and a full-parallax holographic functional screen (HFS). To improve the FOV, a piece-wise tracking based FOV enhancement method is proposed. The relationship between the viewing zone and the elemental images (EIs) is formulated. A ray-tracing based method using off-axis pickup instead of parallel pickup directly is adopted to render the 3D scene to EIs. Then the piece-wise tracking method of varying the viewing zone by placing the EIs according to the position of viewer is analyzed. The floating 3D scene with a FOV of 70°× 70°is experimentally demonstrated with a good 3D perception.