摘要:
The present invention provides, at a reasonable price, a lighting device for lighting up an object to be illuminated at uniform and high efficiency for light utilization, and a device for displaying images excellent in hue, visual recognition observability, brightness and uniformity. The present invention also provides, at a reasonable price, an excellent image display device or the like using such a lighting device as a light source. Therefore, a diffractive optics is particularly used for condensing a bundle of light from a lamp, deflecting an image light or the like. In particular, scattering anisotropy due to the incident angle and the wavelength, change in the diffraction efficiency, change in the transmission characteristic or the like is utilized. Moreover, an optical element such as Fresnel lens is also used together with the diffractive optics.
摘要:
An optical medium of liquid crystal mixed with a polymer precursor is arranged between a pair of glass substrates 1202, and heated to for example about 50 C to 70 C and exposed for about 5min by interference fringes using laser light of about 515nm wavelength from, for example, an Ar laser. When the exposure begins (first stage), the polymer precursor begins to cure, and, as shown in Fig. 10(a), polymer columns 1203 are formed in a periodic arrangement. When the exposure is continued (second stage) liquid crystal polymers that have accumulated in the dark portions align themselves macroscopically in a direction that is perpendicular with respect to the walls of the cured polymer columns 1203, as shown in Fig. 10(b). The obtained diffractive optical element has high polarization selectivity and diffraction efficiency, and using such a diffractive optical element, it is possible to devise polarized illumination systems and image display systems that can display bright images with high contrast.
摘要:
In a display device according to a first aspect of the invention, luminance is not made substantially uniform over the entire display screen but rather imparted a luminance gradient such that luminance substantially monotonously decreases from the center of the screen towards the peripheral portion using a luminance gradient forming means, whereby power consumption is reduced compared to cases in which the entire screen shows substantially uniform luminance. In a second aspect of the invention, by optimizing gray level characteristics and thereby improving a viewer's impression of brightness, luminance gradient is made even less perceivable without increasing power consumption. These configurations provide large screen, low power consumption display devices.