The invention provides an
integral imaging three dimensional display apparatus and method. The
integral imaging three dimensional display apparatus successively includes a
microlens array, a single shaft
crystal slab, a TN box, a lower polaroid, a display panel, a first center
depth plane and a second center
depth plane, wherein when the TN box is in the open state, emergent light passes through the single shaft
crystal slab; as the light emitted from an image primitive of the display panel passes through the
microlens array, an image distance is formed and is lo; the first center
depth plane is located at the image distance lo; when the TN box is the
closed state, after the emergent
linearly polarized light passes through the TN box, the polarization direction of the emergent
linearly polarized light changes, and the polarization direction of the emergent
linearly polarized light is parallel to the
optical axis direction of the single shaft
crystal slab; when the emergent light passes through the single shaft crystal slab, the light emitted from the image primitive of the display panel passes through the
microlens array and then an image distance le is formed; and the second center depth plane is located at the image distance le. For the
integral imaging three dimensional display apparatus and method, by means of formation of the two center depth planes, the center depth plane are the focusing image planes that the image primitive array on the display panel are imaged through the
lens array, and the three dimensional image depth can be enhanced.