Implementation of design simulator for integral photography-based 3D imaging and display system

The 3D imaging and display system based-on the integral photography(IP) method has been actively researched. But, It is a little bit difficult to implement the IP-based 3D display system to have the satisfiable 3D image resolution by using the conventional optical devices. Besides, it has some problems of limited viewing angle and observation distance. Accordingly, to alleviate these kind of problems, some sort of the design simulator for implementing the practical IP-based 3D display system is needed, in which the system parameters of the conventional optical devices can be optimized for given environments. Therefore, in this paper, the design simulator for the IP-based 3D display system is implemented by using the various display and design parameters through Visual C++ program in GUI(graphic user interface) environment. From the analysis of relationship between the design and display parameters by using the implemented design simulator, the optimized design parameters for the cases of the various conditions can be derived. From some computer simulation, it is suggested that the optimum design parameters for any kind of given situations can be derived by using the IP-based 3D display design simulator.