Digital hologram display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9442460-B2
Application number	US-201313949443-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 24, 2013
Priority date	Oct 31, 2012
Publication date	Sep 13, 2016
Grant date	Sep 13, 2016

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a digital hologram display device displaying 3D image as a hologram by using a complex modulation. The digital hologram display device comprising a spatial light modulator including a first pixel outputting a first modulation light by modulating a phase of a first plane-polarized light and a second pixel outputting a second modulation light by modulating the phase of the first plane-polarized light, wherein the second pixel is adjacent to the first pixel; and a light combiner changing a path of the first modulation light outputted from the first pixel so that the path of the first modulation light corresponds to a path of the second modulation light outputted from the second pixel for combining the first modulation light with the second modulation light, wherein a phase of the first modulation light is different from a phase of the second modulation light.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A digital hologram display device comprising:
a spatial light modulator including a first pixel outputting a first modulation light by modulating a phase of a first plane-polarized light and a second pixel outputting a second modulation light by modulating the phase of the first plane-polarized light, wherein the second pixel is adjacent to the first pixel; and
a light combiner changing a path of the first modulation light outputted from the first pixel so that the path of the first modulation light is parallel to a path of the second modulation light outputted from the second pixel to complex modulate the first modulation light with the second modulation light,
wherein a phase of the first modulation light is different from a phase of the second modulation light.

2. The digital hologram display device of claim 1 further comprising:
a backlight unit including light sources illuminating the first plane-polarized light to the spatial light modulator, wherein the spatial light modulator is disposed on the backlight unit; and
a phase retardation plate including a light pass layer passing the first modulation light outputted from the first pixel as it is and a half wave layer retarding the phase of the second modulation light outputted from the second pixel.

3. The digital hologram display device of claim 2 ,
wherein the light pass layer is opposite to the first pixel and the half wave plate is opposite to the second pixel.

4. The digital hologram display device of claim 2 , further comprising a polarizer disposed on the light combiner, wherein a difference between a transmission layer of the polarizer and the polarization direction of the first modulation light is 45° and a difference between the transmission layer and the polarization direction of the second modulation light is 45°.

5. The digital hologram display device of claim 4 , wherein the first modulation light is a horizontal polarized light,
wherein the second modulation light is a vertical polarized light,
wherein the transmission layer of the polarizer transmits +45° or −45° polarized light.

6. The digital hologram display device of claim 2 , wherein the light combiner includes:
a first light conversion film changes the path of the first modulation light to the direction of the path of the second modulation light; and
a second light conversion film changes the path of the first modulation light so that the first modulation light is outputted parallel to the second modulation light.

7. The digital hologram display device of claim 6 , wherein the light combiner further includes a spacer between the first light conversion film and the second light conversion film.

8. The digital hologram display device of claim 6 , wherein a black pattern is formed opposite to the first pixel on the second light conversion film for blocking the first modulation light.

9. The digital hologram display device of claim 1 , wherein the first plane-polarized light, the first modulation light, and the second modulation light is parallel rays.

10. The digital hologram display device of claim 9 , wherein the light sources emit a laser beam.

11. The digital hologram display device of claim 1 , wherein the first pixel is formed on odd lines of the spatial light modulator and the second pixel is formed on even lines of the spatial light modulator.

12. The digital hologram display device of claim 1 , wherein the spatial light modulator includes a liquid crystal layer between an upper substrate and a lower substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer changes the phase of the first plane-polarized light within a range of 0 to 2π.

13. The digital hologram display device of claim 1 further comprising a controller calculates digital conversion data adding compensation data to input digital video data, controls to supply the input digital video data to the first pixel, and supplies the digital conversion data to the second pixel,
wherein the compensation data is calculated for retarding a phase of the second modulation light in consideration of a travel range of the first modulation light and a travel range of the second modulation light.

14. The digital hologram display device of claim 3 , wherein the light pass layer is not opposite to the second pixel, and the half wave plate is not opposite to the first pixel.

15. The digital hologram display device of claim 8 , wherein the black pattern is not formed opposite to the second pixel on the second light conversion film.

Assignees

• Lg Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yoon Minsung
• Kim Sunwoo
• Shin Minyoung

Classifications

• G03H2225/32

  Phase only · CPC title

• G03H2225/22

  Electrically addressed SLM [EA-SLM] · CPC title

• G03H2001/0224

  Active addressable light modulator, i.e. Spatial Light Modulator [SLM] · CPC title

• G03H1/2294

  Addressing the hologram to an active spatial light modulator · CPC title

• G03H1/0841

  Encoding method mapping the synthesized field into a restricted set of values representative of the modulator parameters, e.g. detour phase coding · CPC title