Display module with the divergence angle of outgoing beam constrained again by the corresponding deflection aperture

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12585134-B2
Application number	US-202117367445-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 5, 2021
Priority date	Jan 15, 2021
Publication date	Mar 24, 2026
Grant date	Mar 24, 2026

Abstract

The invention discloses a display module with the divergence angle of an outgoing beam constrained again by the corresponding deflection aperture, which includes a multi-view display structure, a deflection-aperture array and a control device. The multi-view display structure includes a display screen, a light-splitting device, and a backlight-source assembly for providing backlights when a backlit-type display screen is adopted. The light-splitting device guides light beams from each group of pixels or sub-pixels to the corresponding viewing zone. A deflection aperture with a small size is designed for constraining the divergence angle of deflected light beams. Multiple deflection apertures play the function of enlarging the field of view, which is very limited when only a single deflection aperture exists. With orthogonal characteristics being assigned to deflection apertures for suppressing noise and/or for projecting more views, three-dimensional display with natural focus will get implemented with large field of view and low noises.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A display module with a divergence angle of an outgoing beam constrained again by a corresponding deflection aperture, comprising:
a multi-view display structure arranged for a single eye of a viewer, comprising a display screen and a light-splitting device, wherein the light-splitting device guides light beams from different subpixel groups on the display screen to corresponding viewing zones, respectively, and subpixels of a same group are arranged throughout the display screen, and light beams from at least adjacent 3 subpixels are respectively guided to different viewing zones;a deflection-aperture array composed of deflection apertures, which respectively correspond to different viewing zones, wherein, each deflection aperture guides the projected light beams from the corresponding subpixel group, which corresponds to the viewing zone being corresponded by this deflection aperture, to transmit to the observing zone for the eye through deflecting an incident light beam, wherein, the deflection aperture corresponding to each viewing zone consists of N>2 sub-deflection apertures, which respectively allows N kinds of mutually different orthogonal characteristic lights to be deflected out, and the subpixel group corresponding to each viewing zone is divided into N sub-subpixel groups, which correspond to these N sub-deflection apertures in an one-to-one manner, and each sub-subpixel group only projects light of orthogonal characteristic capable of being deflected out by the corresponding sub-deflection aperture, and the orthogonal projection of a sub-deflection aperture on the plane perpendicular to the eye's visual direction is smaller than 2.5 mm along all directions, wherein at least two sub-deflection apertures from different viewing zones are turned on at a time point; and a control device connected with the multi-view display structure for refreshing the display screen, wherein the information displayed by a subpixel at a time point is a projection information of a scene to be displayed along a projection direction of the subpixel, wherein the projection direction of the subpixel is the propagation direction of a light beam which is from the subpixel and reaches the observing zone for the eye, wherein for a displayed object point, at least one passing-through light beam is guided into the pupil of the eye, wherein the light-splitting device is a single lenticular grating consisting of one-dimensional aligned cylindrical lenses, or a slit grating, or a microstructure array composed of microstructures, or a converging structure when a backlit-type display device with a backlight-source assembly is adopted, wherein said microstructures correspond to the subpixels of display screen in a one-to-one manner, and each microstructure deflects the propagation direction of the incident or exit beam to or from the corresponding subpixel, to guide light beams from a or subpixel group to the corresponding viewing zone, and wherein said backlight-source assembly projects a plurality of backlights sequentially, and said converging structure converges backlights to different viewing zones, with a backlight corresponding to only a viewing zone at a time point.

2 . The display module with the divergence angle of the outgoing beam constrained again by the corresponding deflection aperture according to claim 1 , wherein the display screen of the multi-view display structure is a backlit-type display device, with backlights provided by a backlight-source assembly.

3 . The display module with the divergence angle of the outgoing beam constrained again by the corresponding deflection aperture according to claim 1 , wherein the display screen is a backlit-type display device and a backlight-source assembly providing a plurality of backlights to the display screen is an optical waveguide structure, and
wherein the backlight-source assembly projects backlights along different directions at M time-points of a time period respectively, where M≥2.

4 . The display module with the divergence angle of the outgoing beam constrained again by the corresponding deflection aperture according to claim 3 , wherein the backlight-source assembly includes a light source, a collimating device, an entrance pupil, an optical waveguide body, a coupling-in device, reflective surfaces and, a coupling-out device, an exit pupil, and a timing deflector, and
wherein, the exit light from the light source is collimated by the collimating device, then enters the coupling-in device through the entrance pupil; the coupling-in device guides the light in the optical waveguide body to the coupling-out device, by reflections of the reflection surfaces and; the coupling-out device makes the light be coupled out of the optical waveguide body through the exit pupil at a parallel state; the timing deflector time-sequentially deflects the incident light from the exit pupil under the control of the control device, to provide backlights along different directions.

5 . The display module with the divergence angle of the outgoing beam constrained again by the corresponding deflection aperture according to claim 3 , wherein the backlight-source assembly includes multiple timing light sources which time-sequentially turned on under the control of the control device, a collimating device, an entrance pupil, an optical waveguide body, a coupling-in device, reflective surfaces and, a coupling-out device, and an exit pupil, and
wherein, a light exiting from a light source is collimated by the collimating device, then enters the coupling-in device through the entrance pupil; the coupling-in device guides the light in the optical waveguide body to the coupling-out device, by reflections of the reflection surfaces and; the coupling-out device makes the light be coupled out of the optical waveguide body through the exit pupil at a parallel state.

6 . The display module with the divergence angle of the outgoing beam constrained again by the corresponding deflection aperture according to claim 3 , wherein the display screen is attached with a unidirectional scattering film for scattering incident or exit light to or from a subpixel along an one-dimensional direction.

7 . The display module with the divergence angle of the outgoing beam constrained again by the corresponding deflection aperture according to claim 3 , wherein a converging device is located in front of or behind the display screen for converging the incident light.

8 . The display module with the divergence angle of the outgoing beam constrained again by the corresponding deflection aperture according to claim 3 , wherein the backlight- source assembly consists of more than one optical waveguide structures, with different optical waveguide structures projecting backlight to different segments of the display screen.

9 . The display module with the divergence angle of the outgoing beam constrained again by the corresponding deflection aperture according to claim 1 , wherein the orthogonal characteristic are two linear polarization states whose polarization directions are perpendicular to each other, or two polarization states of left-handed circular polarization and right-handed circular polarization, or color orthogonal states which respectively allow lights with different wavelengths being deflected out, or combination of two or more of the two linear polarization states, the two polarization states, temporal orthogonal states and color orthogonal states.

10 . The display module with the divergence angle of the outgoing beam constrained again by the corresponding deflection aperture according to claim 1 , wherein the display module comprises a relay device to guide the projected light from the

Assignees

• Univ Sun Yat Sen

Inventors

• Teng Dongdong
• Liu Lilin

Classifications

• G02B27/18

  for optical projection, e.g. combination of mirror and condenser and objective {(photographic, cine and overhead projectors G03B21/00; photographic projection printing G03B27/32; photolithographic projectors G03F7/20; projection television H04N5/74; colour projection television H04N9/31)} · CPC title

• G02B30/30 Primary

  involving parallax barriers · CPC title

• H04N13/10

  Processing, recording or transmission of stereoscopic or multi-view image signals · CPC title

• H04N13/363

  using image projection screens (volumetric display H04N13/388) · CPC title

• G02B2027/0112

  comprising device for genereting colour display · CPC title