3m Innovative Properties Company

3m Innovation Properties Company

Lisa A DeNicola

William Blake Kolb

Gilles J Benoit

Carl A Stover

Matthew S Stay

Tri Dinh Pham

Bharat R Acharya

David T Yust

Robert D Taylor

Anthony M Renstrom

Matthew S Cole

Quinn D Sanford

Jason S Petaja

Jeremy O Swanson

Matthew E Sousa

Lin Zhao

David A Rosen

Benjamin J Forsythe

Joseph P Attard

Qunyi Chen

Matthew R D Smith

Matthew Rd Smith

A display system for sensing a finger of a user applied to the display system includes a display panel; a sensor for sensing the finger; a sensing light source configured to emit a first light having a first wavelength W1; and a reflective polarizer disposed between the display panel and the sensor. For a substantially normally incident light, an optical transmittance of the reflective polarizer versus wavelength for a first polarization state has a band edge such that for a first wavelength range extending from a smaller wavelength L1 to a greater wavelength L2 and including W1, where 30 nm≤L2−L1≤50 nm and L1 is greater than and within about 20 nm of a wavelength L3 corresponding to an optical transmittance of about 50% along the band edge, the optical transmittance has an average of greater than about 75%.

Display system with finger sensing

A display system for sensing a finger of a user applied to the display system includes a display panel; a sensor for sensing the finger; a sensing light source configured to emit a first light having a first wavelength W; and a reflective polarizer disposed between the display panel and the sensor. For a substantially normally incident light, an optical transmittance of the reflective polarizer versus wavelength for a first polarization state has a band edge such that for a first wavelength range extending from a smaller wavelength Lto a greater wavelength Land including W, where 30 nm≤L−L≤50 nm and Lis greater than and within about 20 nm of a wavelength Lcorresponding to an optical transmittance of about 50% along the band edge, the optical transmittance has an average of greater than about 75%.

An optical construction includes a reflective polarizer and an optically diffusive film disposed on the reflective polarizer. The reflective polarizer includes an outer layer including a plurality of first particles partially protruding from a first major surface thereof to form a structured major surface. A first optically diffusive layer is conformably disposed on the structured major surface. The optically diffusive film includes a second optically diffusive layer including a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed therein, and a structured layer including a structured major surface. For a substantially normally incident light and a visible wavelength range from about 450 nm to about 650 nm and an infrared wavelength range from about 930 nm to about 970 nm, the second optically diffusive layer has an average specular transmittance Vs in the visible wavelength range and an average specular transmittance Is in the infrared wavelength range, where Is/Vs≥2.5.

Optical construction and display system

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Saint Paul, MN, United States of America

Lisa A DeNicola