4-Views display system for collaborative tasks on round table

Abstract

This paper describes 4-views display system that can be viewed from any direction (i.e., the display has four viewing zones so as to perceive a screen view of the display at all directions around a table). The authors have ever researched information display systems involving 3D imaging. However, a conventional monitor display is viewed from one direction, that is, the display has narrow viewing angle and observers cannot view the screen from the opposite side. Hence we developed a tabletop display system for collaborative tasks cooperated by two users. This tabletop display can provide different images to two users surrounding the system utilizing the image splitting technologies for displaying a stereoscopic 3D image. The viewing zones of this display are generated at both sides in front of observers' eyes. But screens on the monitor cannot be viewed correctly by all users from any direction. Thus, conventional display systems enable users not to do collaborative tasks on the round table. To solve this problem, we developed new viewing systems. © 2009 Springer.