The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the University of Oklahoma patent No. 7,858,913 for CSpace, a volumetric, 3D projection and display technology with potential applications in medical and dental imaging.
The patent was awarded to the university under its sponsored research agreement with 3DIcon. The company signed the agreement with the university in 2006 to develop the technology now known as CSpace and has provided the school with nearly $2 million in research funding on the project.
CSpace is a pure, static 3D display that doesn't require mechanical rotational movement and has the potential to generate 3D images with resolution up to 800 million voxels -- eight times that achieved by a typical mechanical swept-volume display, the company explained in a press release. The display does not require special viewing aids or glasses, does not cause viewer fatigue during prolonged use, and is capable of producing translucent images for viewing the inside of images -- all of which are beyond the capabilities of other current display methodologies, 3DIcon noted.
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