Ultimate 3D TV

                        A simple one camera & no-glasses system
                             for Television & Cinema


As everybody here knows, many companies around the world are carrying out
experiments with 3D television. Some have even been trying to market
products, with limited success up to now. Most of them use high but
expensive technologies, prohibiting their use for consumer products.

Today, I am proud to introduce a new and original technology : The Alioscopy=
..

The inventor, Pierre Allio, is French.
He acts as a private individual.

As a sculpture restorer for France national museums, he once felt the need
for a three-dimensional representation of the sculptures. He then began
making stereoscopic still pictures and soon got the idea of a 3D television
system.

One of the main common objectives of the researchers was to conceive a
light and easy to use camera system enabling live transmission. He did it.

It was also necessary to make an ergonomical system: allow the viewer to
move freely, get rid of the usual glasses and improve the visual comfort of
the viewer. He did it.

Above all, He thought companies needed a low cost and easy to industrialise
system. He did it.

To put it bluntly, his process surpasses every other known system. At the
very least, it does  anything other systems do, only better and cheaper.
And it can do much more. Actually, it opens a new page in the history of
three-dimensional visualisation.

Pierre Allio has now taken out eight patents in Europe, North America,
Japan and Korea.

As it is frequent with very innovative technologies the first licensees, in
1995 and 1996, were from the military sector (National Defence Ministry
/DRET, for teleguidance in mobile terrestrial robotics and Sextant
Avionics, for aviation simulation and display systems).

Today, the Alioscopy system is ready to leave the lab and Pierre Allio is
ready to talk business.

He is currently adapting his invention to cinema, making it easy to
implement in existing movie theaters ! 3D movies without glasses,everywhere
!

In fact, we sincerely believe that the Alioscopy will revolutionise the way
people look at a screen, making it more than ever like a window on the
world. It's just a matter of time.

I am at your disposal to evaluate the possibilities of business
relationships in every conceivable field, from video games to endoscopy.

Just keep in mind that he is not selling products but licences.

But I am certainly not a specialist in 3D myself, especially compared to
most of this group readers. I can probably not give more explanations about
the Alioscopy system than what you will find bellow.

                                                                   Eric Mull=
er

                             THE ALIOSCOPY IN BRIEF

More than a technique, the Alioscopy is a system. It's encode/decode logic
is very different from the usual stereo vision one (2 eyes/ 2 cameras).

Independent from technical standards, the system was developed and
validated on low tech basis (1 standard CCD camera, 1 VHS VCR, 1 cathode
ray tube display=8A). Many high tech hardware configurations can also be
imagined, according to the expected results.

The use of already existing equipment also enables technicians to operate
the system without any special know-how.

The Alioscopy is hard to believe (and understand) as long as one hasn't
seen it with it's own eyes. Sorry. Here are some key aspects :

- The Alioscopy is a no-glasses (auto stereoscopic) system using special
lenticular sheets both at capture and image display.

- It needs only one standard single-lens camera to provide at least four
self-converging points of view. Among many advantages, this enables
Alioscopic images to be viewed by many people moving freely in front of the
screen, without any head tracking system.

- Alioscopic images can be easily generated by computer.
  The system also gives the possibility to extract and visualise the third
dimension from real 3D data bases (simulation, medical imagery, games=8A).

- Taking into account the expectations of the vision neurophysiology, the
Alioscopy offers a surprisingly satisfying resolution and great visual
comfort.
  It avoids the side effects, like nausea, often reported with some systems
and virtual reality HMDs.

- Alioscopic images keep their original definition when viewed in 2D.

- The Alioscopy does not interfere with VCRs, cable or transmission equipmen=
t.
  It works with any TV broadcast signal standard and on the Internet.

- The Alioscopy works in any light conditions and in infrared.

Eric Muller
35, Rue du Professeur Victor Pauchet
92420 Vaucresson
=46rance
Tel/Fax: (33-1) 47 95 19 15
emuller@xxxxxxxxxxx




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