Himax Display, Inc.

Himax Technologies, Inc.

Chi-Wen Lin

Yuet-Wing Li

Kuan-Hsu Fan-Chiang

Kuan-Yu Chen

Kuan-Hsu Fan Chiang

Biing-Seng Wu

Wen-Hsu Chen

Mao-Jung Chung

Chien-Tang Wang

Yi Cheng

Che-Yung Shen

Shang-Hao Huang

Shang-Ting Wu

Shuo-En Lin

Yi-Pai Huang

Kuan-Chung Huang

An embodiment of the invention provides a display module including a plurality of light sources, a light guide plate, a reflective element, a reflective display unit, and a reflective polarizer. The light sources are configured to provide a plurality of illumination beams. The light guide plate has a first surface, a second surface, and a plurality of incident surfaces. The illumination beams enter the light guide plate through the incident surfaces. The reflective element is configured to change a propagation direction of at least one part of the illumination beams. The reflective element includes a plurality of reflective surfaces, and the reflective surfaces reflect the illumination beams having a first polarization direction. The reflective display unit is capable of modulating a polarization state of the illumination beams to form modulated beams. The reflective polarizer filters the modulated beams into an image beam.

Display device including polarizing beam splitter, sub-reflective elements, reflective polarizer, and reflective display unit

A light-emitting module including a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting elements, a window plate, and an encapsulant is provided. The light-emitting elements are disposed on the substrate and have a plurality of light colors. The window plate is disposed on light-emitting surfaces of the light emitting elements. The encapsulant wraps the light-emitting elements and surrounds the window plate. A front-lit liquid-crystal-on-silicon module is also provided.

Light-emitting module and front-lit liquid-crystal-on-silicon module

A light source module includes a light-emitting device, a light guide pipe, a wave plate, and a polarizer. The light-emitting device emits a beam. The light guide pipe includes a recessed curved surface, an output surface, a first convex surface, and a second convex surface. The recessed curved surface faces the light-emitting device. The output surface is opposite to the recessed curved surface. The first convex surface connects the recessed curved surface with the output surface. The second convex surface connects the recessed curved surface with the output surface and is opposite to the first convex surface, wherein the beam enters the light guide pipe through the recessed curved surface, and leaves the light guide pipe through the output surface. The wave plate is disposed on a path of the beam from the output surface. The polarizer is disposed on a path of the beam from the wave plate.

Light source module that can reduce the volume of an optical system and light loss

A projection apparatus including a liquid crystal on silicon panel and a processor is provided. The liquid crystal on silicon panel is configured to display a plurality of phase images. The phase images include a first phase image and a second phase image. The processor is coupled to the liquid crystal on silicon panel. The processor is configured to generate and output the phase images to drive the liquid crystal on silicon panel to display the phase images. The processor generates the first phase image according to a first phase information, and the processor generates the second phase image according to the first phase image.

Projection apparatus

A display apparatus includes a coherent light source, a display unit, a light-diffusing element, and at least one optical element. The coherent light source is configured to provide coherent light beams. The display unit is configured to form a three-dimensional image beam based on interference of the coherent light beams, wherein the three-dimensional image beam is imaged on an intermediate imaging surface after passing through the display unit. The light-diffusing element is located on the intermediate imaging surface, wherein a diffusion angle of the three-dimensional image beam is sequentially changed by passing through the light-diffusing element. The at least one optical element is located on a transmission path of the three-dimensional image beam from the light-diffusing element, and is configured to project the three-dimensional image light beam passing through the display unit out of the display apparatus to display a three-dimensional image.

Display apparatus

A three-dimensional (3D) holographic display system includes a projector that generates an image with a form of spatially varying modulation on a light beam; holographic processor that performs a holographic method on the image generated by the projector; and memory device that stores holographic data generated in a process of performing the holographic method by the holographic processor. An amplitude of a light field is adaptively replaced by the holographic processor according to significance of respective areas of the image.

Adjustably multifocal 3D holographic display system

The projection device includes a light source, a liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) panel, and a circuit. The circuit is configured to obtain a target image including a target pattern, and generate two content images. Each content image includes a duplicated pattern of the target pattern, and the duplicated patterns are off-axis shifted to the same coordinate when performing a computer-generated hologram (CGH) algorithm, so as to generate a phase image. The LCoS panel is driven according to the phase image to display a reconstructive image at a reconstructive distance.

Projection device and method with liquid crystal on silicon panel

A head mounted display (HMD) apparatus is provided. The HMD apparatus includes a first lens, a second lens, a first micro-display disposed on the first lens, a second micro-display disposed on the second lens, a first light source, a second light source, and an eyeglass frame. A first side of the first micro-display corresponding to a first rubbing alignment processing direction and a first side of the second micro-display corresponding to a second rubbing alignment processing direction are symmetric with respect to a center line of the eyeglass frame between the first lens and the second lens. A first incident light emitted by the first light source is obliquely emitted from the first side of the first micro-display toward the first micro-display and a second incident light emitted by the second light source is obliquely emitted from the first side of the second micro-display toward the second micro-display.

Head mounted display apparatus

A projection apparatus and a projection method of the projection apparatus are provided. A control unit adjusts a grayscale characteristic of a light valve according to a temperature of the light valve, so as to improve a contrast and grayscale accuracy of a screen image.

Projection apparatus and projection method for optimization of contrast and grayscale accuracy of projected image

A display module is provided. A light source is configured to provide an illumination beam. A light guide plate has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and an incident surface connecting the first surface and the second surface. The illumination beam enters the light guide plate through the incident surface. A reflective element is connected to the light guide plate and has a plurality of first reflective surfaces inclined with respect to the second surface. A reflective display unit is capable of modulating a polarization state of the illumination beam to form a modulated beam. The second surface is disposed between the reflective display unit and the first surface. The first surface is disposed between the second surface and a reflective polarizer, and the reflective polarizer filters the modulated beam into an image beam.

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Tainan, Taiwan

Chi-Wen Lin