UNILATERAL BACKLIGHT, MULTIVIEW DISPLAY, AND METHOD EMPLOYING SLANTED DIFFRACTION GRATINGS

    公开(公告)号:US20200033526A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-30

    申请号:US16584819

    申请日:2019-09-26

    Applicant: LEIA INC.

    Abstract: A unilateral backlight and a unilateral multiview display employ an array of unilateral diffractive elements configured to provide directional light beams having a unilateral direction. A unilateral diffractive element of the unilateral diffractive element array comprises a slanted diffraction grating configured to provide a directional light beam by diffractive scattering of light guided in a light guide. The unilateral multiview display further includes light valves configured to modulate a plurality of directional light beams as multiview image having the unilateral direction.

    MODE-SELECTABLE BACKLIGHT, METHOD, AND DISPLAY EMPLOYING DIRECTIONAL SCATTERING FEATURES

    公开(公告)号:US20200018886A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-16

    申请号:US16336100

    申请日:2017-09-28

    Applicant: LEIA INC.

    Abstract: A mode-selectable backlight and display employ a plurality of directional scattering features to provide emitted light. The mode-selectable backlight includes a light guide, a first directional scattering feature to provide first emitted light from guided light having a first propagation direction within the light guide in a first operational mode, and a second directional scattering feature to provide second light from guided light having a second propagation direction within the light guide in a second operational mode. The second emitted light comprises a plurality of directional light beams having different principal angular directions from one another and the first propagation direction differing from the second propagation direction. The mode-selectable display further includes a plurality of light sources to provide the guided light and an array of light valves configured to modulate the emitted light as a displayed image.

    MODE-SWITCHABLE BACKLIGHT, PRIVACY DISPLAY, AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200005718A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-02

    申请号:US16568155

    申请日:2019-09-11

    Applicant: LEIA INC.

    Inventor: David A. Fattal

    Abstract: A mode-switchable backlight and mode-switchable privacy display provide narrow-angle emitted light during a first mode and broad-angle emitted light in a second mode, the broad-angle emitted light being a combination of the narrow-angle emitted light and bidirectional emitted light. The mode-switchable backlight includes a first directional backlight and a second directional backlight. The first directional backlight is configured to provide the narrow-angle emitted light during both of the first mode and second mode, while the second directional backlight is configured to provide the bidirectional emitted light exclusively during the second mode. The mode-switchable privacy display includes an array of light valves configured to modulate the narrow-angle emitted light as a private displayed image during the first or privacy mode and to modulate broad-angle emitted light as a public displayed image during the second or public mode.

    Supersampled 3D display with improved angular resolution

    公开(公告)号:US10484674B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-19

    申请号:US15755696

    申请日:2016-07-25

    Applicant: LEIA INC.

    Inventor: David A. Fattal

    Abstract: In a supersampling technique, an adjacent pair of pixels in a three-dimensional (3D) electronic display is driven based on angular combinations. In particular, a pixel in the pair is driven by an angular combination of a pixel in a 3D view of a 3D image and at least one product of a pixel in an intermediate 3D view and an associated weight. Moreover, the 3D views applied to the pair have different associated angular ranges with different principal angular directions, and the intermediate 3D view has an associated intermediate angular range with an intermediate principal angular direction that is between the principal angular directions. When viewing the 3D electronic display along a principal angular direction in the principal directions of the 3D view, a viewer sees the 3D view, and when viewing the 3D electronic display along the intermediate principal angular direction, the viewer sees the intermediate 3D view.

    MULTIVIEW BACKLIGHTING EMPLOYING PLASMONIC MULTIBEAM ELEMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20190339452A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-07

    申请号:US16517585

    申请日:2019-07-20

    Applicant: LEIA INC.

    Abstract: Multiview backlighting employs a plasmonic multibeam element having a color-tailored emission pattern to provide directional light beams corresponding to a plurality of different views of a multiview image. A multiview backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light as guided light and a plasmonic multibeam element. The plasmonic multibeam element includes a plasmonic material and is configured to provide emitted light having a color-tailored emission pattern from the guided light. The emitted light includes a plurality of directional light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to respective different view directions of a multiview display and the color-tailored emission pattern corresponds to an arrangement of color sub-pixels of a view pixel in the multiview display.

    Dual surface collimator and 3D electronic display employing grating-based backlighting using same

    公开(公告)号:US10459147B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-29

    申请号:US15894565

    申请日:2018-02-12

    Applicant: LEIA INC.

    Abstract: Dual-direction collimation and a dual surface collimator provide dual-direction collimated light at a non-zero propagation angle. The dual surface collimator includes an entrance surface and a reflector surface each having a curved shape. The entrance surface is configured to refract incident light and the reflector surface is configured to reflect the refracted light back toward the entrance surface. The entrance surface is further configured to re-reflect the reflected light by total internal reflection toward an output aperture. Curved shapes and relative orientation of the entrance and reflector surfaces, in combination, are configured to convert the incident light into dual-direction collimated light having the non-zero propagation angle. A three-dimensional (3D) display includes the dual surface collimator, a plate light guide and an array of multibeam diffraction gratings to provide a plurality of light beams corresponding to different 3D view of the display.

    TRANSPARENT DISPLAY AND METHOD
    87.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190227335A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-25

    申请号:US16371072

    申请日:2019-03-31

    Applicant: LEIA INC.

    Inventor: David A. Fattal

    Abstract: A transparent display and a transparent multiview display an image while enabling a background scene to be visible through the display. The transparent display includes a light guide having a scattering feature and an array of light valves configured to modulate emitted light scattered from the light guide to provide modulated emitted light representing a displayed image. Transparency of a combination of the light guide and the array of light valves is configured to enable the background scene to be visible through the transparent display. The transparent multiview display includes the light guide and a plurality of multibeam elements configured to scatter guided light from the light guide as a plurality of directional light beam. The transparent multiview display further includes an array of light valves to modulate the directional light beams to provide the display image as a multiview image.

    MULTIBEAM ELEMENT-BASED BACKLIGHTING HAVING CONVERGING VIEWS

    公开(公告)号:US20180306965A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-25

    申请号:US16024838

    申请日:2018-06-30

    Applicant: LEIA INC.

    Inventor: David A. Fattal

    CPC classification number: G02B6/0036 G02B6/0035 G02B6/0038

    Abstract: A multiview backlight and a multiview display employ multibeam elements configured to provide a tilted plurality of light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to different view directions of a plurality of views of the multiview display. Further, the tilted plurality of light beams has a tilt toward a center of a view zone of the multiview display to provide converging views. The multiview backlight includes a light guide and an array of the multibeam elements. The multiview display further includes multiview pixels that include view pixels to modulate the tilted plurality of light beams having the tilt and the different principal angular directions.

    MULTIBEAM DIFFRACTION GRATING-BASED HEAD-UP DISPLAY

    公开(公告)号:US20180292647A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-11

    申请号:US16001895

    申请日:2018-06-06

    Applicant: LEIA INC.

    Inventor: David A. Fattal

    Abstract: A head-up display and a three-dimensional (3D) head-up display system provide a plurality of different views of an image combined with a view of a physical environment to an eye box as a combined image to be viewed by a user. The head-up display includes a multibeam diffraction grating-based display configured to provide the different views and an optical combiner configured to relay the different views to the eye box along with the physical environment view. The different views provided by the 3D head-up display system represent different perspective views of a 3D image.

    MULTIVIEW DISPLAY WITH HEAD TRACKING
    90.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180278923A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-27

    申请号:US15756960

    申请日:2016-09-04

    Applicant: LEIA INC.

    Inventor: David A. Fattal

    Abstract: A head-tracking multiview display and a head-tracking multiview display system selectively provide a primary set of views and a secondary view representing a perspective view of a scene that is angularly adjacent to the primary view set. The head-tracking multiview display includes a multibeam backlight configured to provide a plurality of light beams corresponding to different view directions of a multiview image and a light valve array configured to modulate the light beams to provide a plurality of views including the primary view set and the secondary view. The head-tracking multiview display system further includes a head tracker configured to determine a position of a user. At a first determined position the head-tracking multiview display is configured to provide the primary view set and at a second determined position the head-tracking multiview display being configured to provide the augmented view set.

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