Speaker: Dr. Philip Bos, Ph.D., Professor & Associate Director of the Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
Title: 3-D displays using Liquid Crystal Lenses: Can we solve the accommodation/convergence problem?
Abstract: For desktop 3D displays: the cues of relative motion, stereopsis , and focus are all significant. While the first two have ready solutions for single viewer systems, the focus cue is generally lacking. Electronic lenses, based on liquid crystals, can be considered to solve this problem. This talk with briefly review the accommodation / convergence problem, and provide an overview of liquid crystal lens technology for solving it. Detailed results on liquid crystal lens performance will also be discussed.
Speaker Biography: Dr. Philip Bos is a Professor of Chemical Physics & Associate Director of the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University. Before joining Kent State in 1994, he was a principle scientist in the Display Research Laboratory of Tektronix Inc. He received his Ph.D in Physics from Kent State in 1978. He has authored over 100 papers in the field of liquid crystals and liquid crystal displays, and has over 25 issued patents. His field of interest include applications of liquid crystals, with contributions to fast liquid crystal electro-optical effects including the invention of the pi-cell. He is active in the field of displays and was twice the general chair of the International Display Research Conference. He is a Fellow of the SID, and has received the Distinguished Scholar Award from Kent State University. At Tektronix, his focus was optical components for 3D field sequential stereoscopic displays. His current research focus is liquid crystal optical devices.