Abstract:
Multiview displays include a backlight and a screen used to form a plurality of multiview pixels. Each multiview pixel includes a plurality of sets of light valves. The backlight includes a light source optically coupled to a plate light guide configured with a plurality of multibeam diffraction gratings. Each multibeam diffraction grating corresponds to a set of light valves and is spatially offset with respect to a center of the set of light valves toward a center of the multiview pixel. The plurality of multibeam diffraction gratings is also configured to diffractively couple out light beams from the plate light guide with different diffraction angles and angular offsets such that at least a portion of the coupled-out light beams interleave and propagate in different view directions of the multiview display.
Abstract:
A head-tracking multiview display and a system provide a plurality of views of a scene as a multiview image. The plurality of views includes a set of primary views of the scene and a secondary view representing a perspective view of the scene that is angularly adjacent to the primary view set. The display and system are multibeam diffraction grating-based and configured to selectively provide the primary view set and an augmented set of views that includes the secondary view and a subset of the views of the primary view set based on a tracked position of a user or a users head. At a first position the display is configured to provide the primary view set and at a second position the display is configured to provide the augmented view set.
Abstract:
Polychromatic backlighting employs a grating coupler to diffractively split and redirect collimated light coupled into a light guide. A polychromatic grating-coupled backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light and a light source to provide collimated polychromatic light. The polychromatic grating-coupled backlight further includes the grating coupler diffractively split and redirect to provide a plurality of light beams. Each light beam of the plurality represents a respective different color of the polychromatic light and is configured to propagate within the light guide as guided light at a color-specific, non-zero propagation angle corresponding to the respective different color of polychromatic light. An electronic display includes the polychromatic grating-coupled backlight and further includes a diffraction grating to diffractively couple out a portion of the guided light and a light valve array to modulate the coupled-out light as an electronic display pixel.
Abstract:
Vehicle monitoring employs three-dimensional (3D) information in a region adjacent to a vehicle to visually highlight objects that are closer to the vehicle than a threshold distance. A vehicle monitoring system includes a 3D scanner to scan the region adjacent to the vehicle and provide a 3D model including a spatial configuration of objects located within the scanned region. The vehicle monitoring system further includes an electronic display to display a portion of the scanned region using the 3D model and to visually highlight an object within the displayed portion that is located less than the threshold distance from the vehicle.
Abstract:
Dual light guide, grating-based backlighting redirects light guided in a first light guide in a first direction into a second light guide in a second direction of a grating-based backlight. A dual light guide, grating-based backlight includes the first light guide, the second light guide and a redirection coupler configured to redirect the guided light beam from the first light guide into the second light guide in the second direction. The dual light guide, grating-based backlight further includes a diffraction grating configured to diffractively couple out a portion of the redirected light beam from the second light guide as a coupled-out light beam directed away from a surface of the second light guide at a predetermined principal angular direction.
Abstract:
Three-dimensional (3-D) electronic displays provide different 3-D views and employ one or both of an array of multibeam diffraction gratings arranged in offset rows and light valves having color filters. The displays include a plate light guide configured to guide light beams at a non-zero propagation angle, a multibeam diffraction grating configured to couple out a portion of the guided light beams as a plurality of light beams having different principal angular directions representing the different 3-D views, and light valves configured to modulate the differently directed, coupled-out light beams. The multibeam diffraction grating may be a member of the array arranged in offset rows and the display may further include light valves having color filters. Alternately, the light valves include color filters and the display may further include the array of multibeam diffraction gratings arranged in offset rows.
Abstract:
A multiview backlight, multiview display, and method of multiview backlight operation include reflective multibeam elements configured to provide emitted light having directional light beams with directions corresponding to view directions of a multiview image. The multiview backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light and an array of the reflective multibeam elements. Each reflective multibeam element includes a plurality of reflective sub-elements and is configured to reflectively scatter out a portion of the guided light as the emitted light. The multiview display includes the multiview backlight and an array of light valves to modulate the directional light beams to provide the multiview image. Each reflective sub-element protrudes from a guiding surface of the light guide by a respective protrusion distance. At least some of the protrusion distances can vary as a function of distance along a length of the light guide.
Abstract:
Systems and methods are directed to multiview format detection. A multiview image that comprises a plurality of tiled view images is accessed. A cross-correlation map from the multiview image may be generated by autocorrelating the multiview image with a shifted copy of the multiview image. The cross-correlation map may be sampled at a plurality of predefined locations of the cross-correlation map to identify a set of cross-correlation values. A multiview format of the multiview image may be detected by classifying a feature set of the multiview image that comprises the set of cross-correlation values. The multiview image may be configured to be rendered on a multiview display based on the multiview format.
Abstract:
A multiview backlight, multiview display, and method employ arrays of active emitters arranged in columns to provide directional light beams having directions corresponding to view directions of a multiview display. The multiview backlight includes a first array of active emitters arranged in columns and configured to provide a first plurality of directional light beams and a second array of active emitters arranged in columns and configured to provide a second plurality of directional light beams. Columns of the second active emitter array are disposed between and alternate with the columns of the first active emitter array. The multiview display further includes an array of light valves configured to modulate the directional light beams to display a multiview image. The view directions of the multiview display are in a plane that crosses the columns of first and second active emitter arrays.
Abstract:
An adaptive background multiview image display system and method provides improved multiview image quality. Systems and methods may involve generating crosstalk data that reduces crosstalk between a first view of subject image and a second view of the subject image. The subject image may be a multiview image to be overlaid on a background image. A crosstalk violation may be detected in the subject image based on the crosstalk data. At least one of a color value or a brightness value of the background image is determined according to a degree of the crosstalk violation to generate the background image. The subject image may then be overlaid on the generated background image.