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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2023
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Stephen J. Etzkorn, Woodbury, MN (US);
Michael L. Steiner, New Richmond, WI (US);
Kevin W. Gotrik, Hudson, WI (US);
Luke A. Schroeder, Maplewood, MN (US);
Nicholas A. Johnson, Burnsville, MN (US);
John A. Wheatley, Stillwater, MN (US);
3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a display system. The display system includes a backlight configured to emit substantially collimated polarized light from an emission surface thereof. The emitted polarized light is polarized along a polarization direction. The display system further includes a display panel configured to receive an illumination light and form an image. The display system further includes a grating system substantially coextensive in length and width with the display panel and the emission surface. The grating system includes a plurality of substantially parallel elongated features extending along an in-plane first direction and arranged along an orthogonal in-plane second direction. The grating system is configured to receive and transmit an incident polarized light as a first transmitted light having different first and second polarization states in response to different respective first and second signals applied to the grating system.