Abstract: Multiview backlighting employs a fluorescent multibeam element having a color-tailored emission pattern to provide directional light beams corresponding to a plurality of different views of a multiview image. A multiview backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light as guided light and a fluorescent multibeam element. The fluorescent multibeam element includes a fluorescent material and is configured to provide emitted light having a color-tailor emission pattern from the guided light. The emitted light includes a plurality of directional light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to respective different view directions of a multiview display and the color-tailored emission pattern corresponds to an arrangement of color sub-pixels of a view pixel in the multiview display.

Abstract: A multiview display, system and method includes an array of light valves having a repeating plurality of color sub-pixels and arranged as a plurality of multiview pixels configured to modulate directional light beams as color pixels of views of a multiview image, and an array of multibeam emitters configured to provide the directional light beams. A location of a multiview pixel relative to a location of color sub-pixels is configured to be shifted as a function of a position of a user of the multiview display to provide dynamic color sub-pixel remapping.

Abstract: A multiview display system employs a multiview display configured to provide a plurality of views representing a multiview image and a view-terminus indicator associated with a terminal view of the view plurality. The view-terminus indicator is configured to alert a user of the multiview display system to an angular terminus of the view plurality.

Abstract: A multiple view-zone static multiview display employs diffraction gratings configured to provide directional light beams having principal angular directions for views of multiview images of the static multiview display. The multiple view-zone static multiview display includes a light guide that guides light from a light source. The light source may include an optical emitter, which may be offset in a longitudinal direction. The optical emitter of the light source provides within the light guide a collimated guided light beam having a propagation angle determined by the longitudinal offset of the optical emitter. Moreover, different sets of diffraction gratings scatter or diffract out different portions of the collimated guided light beam as different pluralities of directional light beams representing the multiview images into different view zones. These view zones may have different, non-overlapping angular ranges, which may be separated by a blank zone.

Abstract: A multiview display includes a multiview backlight configured to emit directional light beams configured to converge at points within a convergence plane, and an array of light valves configured to modulate the directional light beams at the convergence plane. A distance between the multiview backlight and the light valve array is configured to be adjustable to shift a corresponding location of the convergence plane relative to the multiview display.

Abstract: A static multiview display and method of static multiview display operation provide a static multiview image using diffractive gratings to diffractively scatter light from guided light beams having different radial directions provided by a horizontal diffuser. The static multiview display includes a light guide configured to guide the light beams; the horizontal diffuser configured to provide the guided light beams with the different radial directions using light from a directional light source; and a plurality of diffraction gratings configured to scatter out light from the guided light beam plurality as directional light beams representing the static multiview image. The method of static display operation includes providing and diffusing directional light to provide guided light beams having different radial directions, and further scattering out light from the guided light beam as directional light beams representing the static multiview image.

Abstract: A grating-coupled light guide includes a plate light guide and a grating coupler at an input to the plate light guide. The grating coupler is to receive light from a light source and to diffractively redirect the light into the plate light guide at a non-zero propagation angle as guided light. Characteristics of the grating coupler determine a spread angle of the diffractively redirected guided light.

Abstract: A multiview display and a method of multiview display operation employ an array of light valves having a repeating plurality of color sub-pixels and an array of multibeam emitters providing directional light beams. The array of light valves having the repeating plurality of color sub-pixels is configured to modulate the directional light beams as color pixels of views of a multiview image. A first multibeam emitter and a second multibeam emitter of the multibeam emitter array are offset from one another with respect to the array of light valves. The offset is configured to direct to a color pixel of the multiview image a modulated directional light beam from each of the first multibeam emitter and the second multibeam emitter having an equivalent angular direction relative to one another. The equivalent angular direction may mitigate color fringing within the color pixel.

Abstract: A contextual lightfield display system and contextual lightfield multiview display provide a plurality of lightfield display modes based on a display context. The contextual lightfield display system includes a multiview display configured to provide the lightfield display modes and a lightfield mode selector configured to determine the display context and to select a lightfield display mode using the determined display context. The contextual lightfield multiview display includes multibeam elements configured to provide directional light beams and light valves configured to modulate the directional light beams as a multiview image. Selectable lightfield display modes may include a stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) display mode, a unidirectional parallax display mode, a full parallax display mode, and a two-dimensional (2D) display mode.

Abstract: A multiview backlight and multiview display employ an optical mask element having a first portion and a laterally displaced second portion to mitigate Moiré associated with the optical mask element. The multiview backlight includes an array of multibeam unit cells distributed across a light guide. Each multibeam unit cell has a multibeam element configured to scatter out a portion of guided light as a plurality of directional light beams having different directions corresponding to different views of the multiview display. Each multibeam unit cell further includes an optical mask element having the first portion aligned and co-extensive with the multibeam element and the second portion laterally displaced within the multibeam unit cell from the first portion. One or both of the lateral displacement and an overall size of the optical mask element is configured to mitigate Moiré associated with the optical mask element.

Abstract: Multiview backlighting having a color-tailored emission pattern provides directional light beams corresponding to a plurality of different views of a multiview image. A multiview backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light as guided light and a color-tailored multibeam element. The color-tailored multibeam element is configured to provide emitted light having the color-tailored emission pattern from the guided light. The emitted light includes a plurality of directional light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to respective different view directions of a multiview display. The color-tailored emission pattern corresponds to an arrangement of color sub-pixels of a view pixel in the multiview display.

Abstract: A backlight and a multiview display employ a light guide having angle-preserving scattering feature and a grating spreader. The angle-preserving scattering feature is configured to scatter a portion of guided light out of the light guide as emitted light. The grating spreader includes a diffraction grating and is configured to convert light provided by a light source into spatio-angularly homogenous light to be guided as the guided light. The multiview display includes an array of light valves as well as the angle-preserving scattering feature that includes a multibeam element having a size that is comparable to a size of a light valve of the light valve array.

Abstract: A multiview display and method employ light valves configured to be driven according to a polarity inversion protocol along with multibeam emitters arranged in offset rows. The multiview display includes an array of the multiview pixels comprising the light valves and a multibeam backlight having a plurality of the multibeam emitters arranged in the offset rows. A method of multiview display operation includes emitting directional light beams using an array of multibeam elements in offset rows and modulating the directional light beams using an array of light valves to display an image. Sets of light valves of the light valve array correspond to multiview pixels of the multiview display and the light valve array is driven according to a polarity inversion protocol. In both the multiview display and the method, adjacent offset rows are offset by a distance between repeating polarities of the plurality inversion protocol in a row direction.

Abstract: Time-multiplexed backlighting includes a time-multiplexed light source to provide a light beam having a first non-zero propagation angle during a first time interval and a second non-zero propagation angle during a second time interval. A time-multiplexed backlight includes a light guide configured to guide the light beam and a diffraction grating configured to coupled out a portion of the guided light beam with a different principal angular direction in each of the first time interval and the second time interval. A multiview display includes the time-multiplexed light source and a multibeam backlight to provide coupled-out light beams during each of the first and second time intervals, wherein the principal angular directions of the coupled-out light beams correspond to different view directions of the multiview display.

Abstract: A holographic reality system and multiview display monitor a user position and provide virtual haptic feedback to the user. The holographic reality system includes a multiview display configured to display a multiview image, a position sensor configured to monitor the user position, and a virtual haptic feedback unit configured to provide the virtual haptic feedback. An extent of the virtual haptic feedback corresponds to an extent of a virtual control within the multiview image. The holographic reality multiview display includes an array of multiview pixels configured to provide different views of the multiview image by modulating directional light beams having directions corresponding to the different views and an array of multibeam elements configured to provide the directional light beams to corresponding multiview pixels.

Abstract: Multiview displays include a reflective support structure located between a backlight and a screen. The backlight includes a plate light guide configured to couple out light that propagates within the plate light guide using multibeam elements. The reflective support structure reflects light incident on a portion of the surface that abuts the reflective support structure back into the plate light guide. The screen includes an array of multiview pixels configured to modulate coupled out light to create a multiview image.

Abstract: A backlight and a multiview display employ a light guide having angle-preserving scattering feature and a tapered collimator. The angle-preserving scattering feature is configured to scatter a portion of guided light out of the light guide as emitted light. The tapered collimator is configured to collimate light provided by a light source as collimated light and to communicate the collimated light to the light guide to be guided as the guided light. The collimated light has a collimation factor configured to provide a predetermined angular spread of the guided light, the collimation factor being a function of a taper of the tapered collimator. The multiview display includes multiview pixels that include view pixels as well as the angle-preserving scattering feature that includes a multibeam element having a size that is comparable to a size of a view pixel.

Abstract: A light concentrating backlight includes a light guide to guide light and a diffraction grating configured to diffractively couple out a portion of the guided light as diffractively coupled-out light and to concentrate the diffractively coupled-out light into an eyebox. A near-eye display system includes the light guide and the diffraction grating, and further includes a light valve array configured to modulate the diffractively coupled-out light to form an image in the eyebox. The formed image is configured to be viewable within the eyebox by a user.

Abstract: Multiview backlighting employs a plasmonic multibeam element having a color-tailored emission pattern to provide directional light beams corresponding to a plurality of different views of a multiview image. A multiview backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light as guided light and a plasmonic multibeam element. The plasmonic multibeam element includes a plasmonic material and is configured to provide emitted light having a color-tailored emission pattern from the guided light. The emitted light includes a plurality of directional light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to respective different view directions of a multiview display and the color-tailored emission pattern corresponds to an arrangement of color sub-pixels of a view pixel in the multiview display.

Abstract: A user-tracking multiview display and a user-tracking multiview display system selectively provide a primary set of views and a secondary view according to a location of a user determined by a both a relative motion of the user-tracking multiview display and a periodic user location measurement. The user-tracking multiview display includes a multibeam backlight configured to provide directional light beams corresponding to different view directions of a multiview image and a light valve array configured to modulate the directional light beams to provide a plurality of views including the primary view set and the secondary view. The user-tracking multiview display system further includes a user tracker configured to determine a position of a user using both a periodic user location measurement and relative motion of the user-tracking multiview display system.