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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2000
Tewe H. Heemstra, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A screen having a dotted structure of apertures in a black matrix and electroluminescent material in the apertures is produced on a panel for a color display device. A photosensitive material on the panel is exposed to light emitted by a point source. The light is passed through a segmented lens and a mask. The segmented lens has an array of facets with boundaries between them. At least two of the facets have respective top surfaces inclined at mutually different angles. Each facet of the array of facets is provided with a light-refracting means having a base surface coinciding with its top surface and at least a first and a second light-refracting surface disposed at predetermined angles with respect to the base surface, thereby creating a number of virtual light sources corresponding to the number of light-refracting surfaces. Simultaneously with the exposure of the photosensitive material, the relative position between the segmented lens and the panel is changed in a direction oblique to the boundaries of the facets. The extent and direction of changing the relative position our such that, in moving from one extreme position to another extreme position, an image of a first facet on the panel occupies substantially an extreme position previously occupied by an image of a second facet obliquely adjacent to the first facet.