Monocular 3D Vision with Correct Depth Using Polypyrrole Film Actuator for Light-weight Display Unit

The human vision system has visual functions for viewing 3D images with a correct depth. These functions are called accommodation, vergence and binocular stereopsis. Most 3D display system utilizes binocular stereopsis. The authors have developed a monocular 3D vision system with accommodation mechanism, which is useful function for perceiving depth. This vision unit needs an image shift optics for generating monocular parallax images. But conventional image shift mechanism is heavy because of its linear actuator system. To improve this problem, we developed a lightweight 3D vision unit for presenting monocular stereoscopic images using a polypyrrole linear actuator.