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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2020
Leia Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ming Ma, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David A. Fattal, Mountain View, CA (US);
Francesco Aieta, Menlo Park, CA (US);
LEIA INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A multiview backlight and a multiview display employ a microlens to adjust directional light beams to have directions corresponding to respective different view directions of the multiview display. The multiview backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light as guided light, a multibeam element configured to scatter from the light guide a portion of the guided light as a plurality of directional light beams, and the microlens configured to adjust directions of the directional light beams. The multiview display further includes a multiview pixel configured to modulate the plurality of directional light beams and provide a plurality of different views of the multiview display, the microlens being between the multibeam element and the multiview pixel.