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Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2019
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Robert Arthur Sprague, Saratoga, CA (US);

Jerry Yee-Ming Chung, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/13357 (2006.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01); G02F 1/1335 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/133615 (2013.01); G02B 6/0031 (2013.01); G02F 1/133524 (2013.01); G02F 1/133553 (2013.01); G02F 1/133616 (2021.01);
Abstract

Devices, systems, and methods are provided for generating a wide angle frontlight for use with reflective displays. A display device may include a first end and a second end opposite the first end, and a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The display device may include a first light source, and a first light guide able to receive first light from the first light source. The display device may include a reflective display, the first light guide including a first refractive device, the first refractive device refracts a first portion of the first light toward the reflective display in a first direction toward the first side and to refract a second portion of the first light toward the reflective display in a second direction toward the second side, and the first direction separated from the second direction by a first angle of at least forty degrees.


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