Holographic 3D movie broadcasting using network streaming techniques

Recently, because the high-speed network system known as broadband internet has become wide-spread, it is now possible to transmit various forms of multimedia data using this system. We found several research reports for the transmitting visual images in the network streaming process. However, there seemed to be few reports on transmission of holographic 3D movies. We present a transmitting process of holographic 3D movies adopting network-streaming techniques and a hologram in which 3D objects were recorded as fringe patterns. When we applied this method, we could achieve excellent transmission of holographic 3D movies. Moreover, we could reconstruct good holographic images using transmitted streaming data. From this result, it seemed possible to develop new transmitting processes of 3D moving data using well-known conventional techniques.