DIRECTIONAL BACKLIGHT
    2.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:EP2850486A4

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-16

    申请号:EP13790141

    申请日:2013-05-15

    申请人: REALD INC

    IPC分类号: G02B27/22 G09G3/20 H04N13/04

    摘要: Disclosed is a light guiding valve apparatus including at least one transparent stepped waveguide optical valve for providing large area collimated illumination from localized light sources, and at least one further illumination source. A stepped waveguide may be a stepped structure, where the steps include extraction features hidden to guided light, propagating in a first forward direction. Returning light propagating in a second backward direction may be refracted, diffracted, or reflected by the features to provide discrete illumination beams exiting from the top surface of the waveguide. Such controlled illumination may provide for efficient, multi-user autostereoscopic displays as well as improved 2D display functionality. Light from a separate illumination source may pass through the transparent stepped waveguide optical valve to provide at least one further additional illumination function.

    SUPERLENS COMPONENT FOR DIRECTIONAL DISPLAY
    6.
    发明公开
    SUPERLENS COMPONENT FOR DIRECTIONAL DISPLAY 审中-公开
    SUPER透镜组成部分定向DISPLAY

    公开(公告)号:EP2936242A4

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-02

    申请号:EP13865893

    申请日:2013-12-20

    申请人: REALD INC

    IPC分类号: G02B27/22 F21V8/00 H04N13/04

    摘要: Disclosed is an imaging directional backlight apparatus comprising a waveguide, a light source array, and a further optical element for providing large area directed illumination from localized light sources. The imaging directional backlight may comprise a stepped waveguide that may include a stepped structure, in which the steps may further include extraction features optically hidden to guided light, propagating in a first forward direction. Returning light propagating in a second backward direction may be refracted, diffracted, or reflected by the features to provide discrete illumination beams exiting from the top surface of the waveguide. Viewing windows are formed through imaging individual light sources. The further optical element may comprise a superlens comprising first and second aligned lens arrays that may be arranged to modify the output viewing windows to achieve enhanced window imaging from the directional backlight.

    SOURCE CONDITIONING FOR IMAGING DIRECTIONAL BACKLIGHTS
    8.
    发明公开
    SOURCE CONDITIONING FOR IMAGING DIRECTIONAL BACKLIGHTS 审中-公开
    源处理对于图回头看灯

    公开(公告)号:EP2850359A4

    公开(公告)日:2016-02-24

    申请号:EP13790013

    申请日:2013-05-17

    申请人: REALD INC

    IPC分类号: F21S2/00 F21V8/00 G02F1/13357

    摘要: Disclosed is an imaging directional backlight apparatus for providing large area uniform directed illumination from localized light sources. Within an exemplary optical valve system, a waveguide comprises a stepped structure, where the steps comprise extraction features hidden to guided light, propagating in a first forward direction. Returning light propagating in a second backward direction may be refracted, diffracted, or reflected by the features to provide discrete illumination beams exiting from the top surface of the waveguide. Such controlled illumination may provide for efficient, multi-user autostereoscopic displays as well as improved 2D display functionality. Illumination uniformity is provided by the positioning, packaging, and optically modifying of individual input sources. The latter employs non-imaging and refractive optics.