Thomas A Tracy

US Patent:

6720961, Apr 13, 2004

Filed:

Nov 6, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/008345

Inventors:

Thomas M. Tracy - Uxbridge MA 01569

International Classification:

G06T 1500

US Classification:

345419

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for displaying a three-dimensional image of an object. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of providing a plurality of data sets, referred to as data slices, each said data slice representing a corresponding two-dimensional view of the object, providing a display system comprising a plurality of TOLED displays arranged one behind the other wherein one of the TOLED displays defines a front TOLED display and another one of the TOLED displays defines a rear TOLED display and wherein the plurality of TOLED displays defining three dimensions, and displaying a particular one of said data slices on a corresponding TOLED display so that when the plurality of TOLED displays are viewed through either the front or rear TOLED display, a three-dimensional image of the object appears.