Title :
A compact silicon microdisplay for virtual reality applications
Author :
Yip, C.K. ; Cheung, H.L. ; Lee, K.C. ; Cheng, P.W. ; Huang, H.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., China
Abstract :
We have developed a highly integrated liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplay for virtual reality applications. The silicon panel of 704/spl times/576 spatial resolution was designed and fabricated by a custom 0.35 /spl mu/m CMOS technology. The pixel pitch was 9.6 /spl mu/m and the fill factor was 88%. A three-dimensional (3D) video stream in an interlaced format was generated by a 3D modeling code for test and demonstration. A color sequential technique and control logic was implemented to obtain full color and extract video frames for the display. With two silicon microdisplays and eyepieces for each eye, we have demonstrated a 3D stereoscopic display.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; color displays; elemental semiconductors; silicon; three-dimensional displays; video signal processing; virtual reality; 0.35 mum; 3D modeling code; 3D stereoscopic display; 3D video stream; 9.6 mum; Si; color sequential technique; compact silicon microdisplay; control logic; custom CMOS technology; elemental semiconductor; eyepieces; fill factor; integrated liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplay; interlaced format; pixel pitch; silicon microdisplays; silicon panel; spatial resolution; video frames extraction; virtual reality applications; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS technology; Displays; Microdisplays; Semiconductor device modeling; Silicon; Spatial resolution; Streaming media; Testing; Virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics, 2000. ICCE. 2000 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Los Angles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6301-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE.2000.854595
