Display and display system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12433140-B2
Application number	US-202319004811-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2023
Priority date	Jul 21, 2022
Publication date	Sep 30, 2025
Grant date	Sep 30, 2025

Abstract

A display includes a plurality of blue, green, and red light emitting elements having respective blue, green, and red emission spectra including respective blue, green, and red emission peaks at respective blue, green, and red peak wavelengths with respective blue, green, and red full width at half maxima (FWHMs). The display includes a display panel and an optically collimating film. For a substantially collimated incident light and for each of mutually orthogonal polarization states, an optical transmittance of the optically collimating film includes substantially distinct blue, green, and red transmission bands having respective blue, green, and red FWHMs that overlap at least 30% of the respective blue, green, and red FWHMs at a first incident angle of less than about 10 degrees and overlap less than 15% of the respective blue, green, and red FWHMs at a second incident angle of greater than about 30 degrees.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A display comprising:
a plurality of blue, green, and red light emitting elements having respective blue, green, and red emission spectra comprising respective blue, green, and red emission peaks at respective blue, green, and red peak wavelengths with respective blue, green, and red full width at half maxima (FWHMs);
a display panel disposed on the plurality of blue, green, and red light emitting elements and configured to receive light emitted by the plurality of blue, green, and red light emitting elements and form an image, the display panel configured to display a virtual image of the formed image to a viewer; and
an optically collimating film disposed between, and substantially co-extensive in length and width with, the display panel and the plurality of blue, green, and red light emitting elements, the optically collimating film comprising a plurality of microlayers numbering at least 10 in total, each of the microlayers having an average thickness of less than about 500 nm, such that for a substantially collimated incident light and for each of mutually orthogonal polarization states, an optical transmittance of the optically collimating film comprises substantially distinct blue, green, and red transmission bands having respective blue, green, and red FWHMs that:
overlap at least 30% of the respective blue, green, and red FWHMs of the emission spectra at a first incident angle of less than about 10 degrees; and
overlap less than 15% of the respective blue, green, and red FWHMs of the emission spectra at a second incident angle of greater than about 30 degrees.

2. The display of claim 1 , wherein the second incident angle is less than about 60 degrees.

3. The display of claim 1 , wherein for each of at least one blue-green wavelength disposed between the blue and green FWHMs of the emission spectra and at least one green-red wavelength disposed between the green and red FWHMs of the emission spectra, and for the first incident angle, the optically collimating film has an optical transmittance of less than about 10%.

4. The display of claim 1 further comprising a lens assembly disposed on the display panel opposite the optically collimating film and comprising at least one of a lens, a partial reflector, and a reflective polarizer.

5. The display of claim 4 , wherein the lens assembly comprises at least one lens.

6. The display of claim 4 , wherein the lens assembly comprises a partial reflector, such that for a substantially normally incident light and for each of the mutually orthogonal polarization states, the partial reflector reflects at least 30% of the incident light and transmits at least 30% of the incident light.

7. The display of claim 4 , wherein the lens assembly comprises a reflective polarizer, such that for a substantially normally incident light, the reflective polarizer reflects at least 60% of the incident light polarized along a first in-plane direction and transmits at least 60% of the incident light polarized along an orthogonal second in-plane direction.

8. The display of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of microlayers of the optically collimating film comprises a plurality of alternating first and second microlayers having respective indices of refraction nx 1 and nx 2 along a same in-plane first direction, nx 1 greater than nx 2 by at least 0.1 for at least one wavelength within 490-560 nm.

9. The display of claim 1 , wherein each of at least some of the plurality of blue, green, and red light emitting elements comprises an organic light emitting diode (OLED).

10. A display for displaying a magnified virtual image of an image formed by a display panel to a viewer, the display comprising:
a plurality of blue, green, and red light emitting elements configured to emit light at least mostly within respective 420-480 nm, 490-560 nm, and 590-670 nm wavelength ranges;
a display panel configured to receive light emitted by the plurality of blue, green, and red light emitting elements and form the image;
a lens assembly configured to form the magnified virtual image of the image formed by the display panel and comprising at least one lens comprising at least one curved major surface, a partial reflector, and a reflective polarizer; and
an optically collimating film, such that for a substantially collimated incident light, a first incident angle of less than about 10 degrees, a second incident angle of greater than about 30 degrees, a blue wavelength within 420-480 nm, a green wavelength within 490-560 nm, and a red wavelength within 590-670 nm:
for each of the first and second incident angles, and for each of the blue, green, and red wavelengths, the reflective polarizer reflects at least 60% of the incident light polarized along a first in-plane direction and transmits at least 60% of the incident light polarized along an orthogonal second in-plane direction;
for each of the first and second incident angles, for each of the blue, green, and red wavelengths, and for each of the first and second in-plane directions, the partial reflector reflects at least 30% of the incident light and transmits at least 30% of the incident light; and
for each of the blue, green, and red wavelengths, and for each of the first and second in-plane directions, the optically collimating film transmits at least 50% of the incident light for the first incident angle, and transmits less than about 10% of the incident light for the second incident angle.

11. The display of claim 10 , wherein the optically collimating film comprises a plurality of microlayers numbering at least 10 in total, each of the microlayers having an average thickness of less than about 500 nm.

12. The display of claim 10 , wherein the plurality of blue, green, and red light emitting elements, in combination, are configured to emit substantially white light.

13. The display of claim 10 , wherein for each of the blue, green, and red wavelengths, and for each of the first and second in-plane directions, the optically collimating film reflects more than about 60% of the incident light that is not transmitted at the second incident angle.

14. A display system for displaying a magnified virtual image of an image formed by a pixelated display to a viewer, the display system comprising:
a pixelated display configured to form the image and comprising a plurality of blue, green, and red light emitting pixels configured to emit light at least mostly within respective 420-480 nm, 490-560 nm, and 590-670 nm wavelength ranges;
a lens assembly configured to form the magnified virtual image of the image formed by the pixelated display and comprising at least one lens comprising at least one curved major surface, a partial reflector, and a reflective polarizer; and
an optically collimating film disposed between the lens assembly and the pixelated display, such that for a substantially collimated incident light, a first incident angle of less than about 10 degrees, a second incident angle of greater than about 30 degrees, a blue wavelength within 420-480 nm, a green wavelength within 490-560 nm, and a red wavelength within 590-670 nm:
for each of the first and second incident angles, and for each of the blue, green, and red wavelengths, the reflective polarizer reflects at least 60% of the incident light polarized along a first in-plane direction and transmits at least 60% of the incident light polarized along an orthogonal second in-plane direction;
for each of the first and second incident angles, for each of the blue, green, and red wavelengths, and for each of the first and second in-plane directions, the partial reflector reflects at least 30%

Assignees

• 3M Innovative Properties Company

Inventors

• Le John D
• Benoit Gilles J
• Haag Adam D
• Aastuen David J W
• Zhao Lin
• Steiner Michael L
• Wong Timothy L

Classifications

• H10K59/35

  comprising red-green-blue [RGB] subpixels · CPC title

• G09F13/00

  Illuminated signs; Luminous advertising (G09F9/00, G09F11/00 take precedence; control of displays in general using static means to present variable information G09G) · CPC title

• H10K59/8791 Primary

  Arrangements for improving contrast, e.g. preventing reflection of ambient light · CPC title

• G09F9/00 Primary

  Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements (in which the variable information is permanently attached to a movable support G09F11/00; abacus G06C1/00; slide-rules G06G1/00) · CPC title