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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2009
Applicants:
Martin David Tillin, Oxford, GB;
Jonathan Mather, Oxford, GB;
Emma Jayne Walton, Oxford, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 5/00 (2006.01); G02F 1/1335 (2006.01); G02B 27/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A display comprises: a single-view image display panel (); and a parallax optic () disposed over a display face of the image display panel for restricting the angular spread of light output from the display face of the image display panel. This enables light to be concentrated in a desired viewing angle range (), and avoids a user () seeing unwanted reflections that may occur as a result of a greater viewing angle range () if the parallax optic () is not provided. The display may be used, as an example, in a motor vehicle to prevent unwanted reflections from the windscreen () of the vehicle.