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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2022
Leia Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
David A. Fattal, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Thomas Hoekman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Colton Bukowsky, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ming Ma, Menlo Park, CA (US);
LEIA INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A multiview backlight, multiview display, and method of multiview backlight operation include reflective multibeam elements configured to provide emitted light having directional light beams with directions corresponding to view directions of a multiview image. The multiview backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light and an array of the reflective multibeam elements, each reflective multibeam element including a plurality of reflective sub-elements and being configured to reflectively scatter out a portion of the guided light as the emitted light. The multiview display includes the multiview backlight and an array of light valves to modulate the directional light beams to provide the multiview image.