Method, system and apparatus for projecting visible and non-visible images

摘要

A method (600), apparatus (105) and system (100) for projecting visible (113) and non-visible (114) images is provided. The system (100) and apparatus (105) include: a visible light source (106) and a non-visible light source (107); at least one light modulator (115) enabled for receiving and modulating the visible light and non-visible light to respectively form visible images (113) and non-visible images (114), the non-visible images (114) formed independent of the visible images (113); and projection optics (116) enabled for receiving and co-projecting the visible (113) and non-visible (114) images in alignment. Furthermore, video data (127) for projection is formed by replacing a portion of visible bits (135) with at least a portion of non-visible bits (136) in a data stream, such that the visible images (113) and the non-visible images (114) can be co-projected upon processing the video data (127).