WO2001014790A1 - Diffuse lighting arrangement - Google Patents
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- G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
- G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
- G02B6/0001—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems
- G02B6/0011—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems the light guides being planar or of plate-like form
- G02B6/0033—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide
- G02B6/005—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide provided by one optical element, or plurality thereof, placed on the light output side of the light guide
- G02B6/0051—Diffusing sheet or layer
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- G02—OPTICS
- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
- G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
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- G02F1/13—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour based on liquid crystals, e.g. single liquid crystal display cells
- G02F1/133—Constructional arrangements; Operation of liquid crystal cells; Circuit arrangements
- G02F1/1333—Constructional arrangements; Manufacturing methods
- G02F1/1335—Structural association of cells with optical devices, e.g. polarisers or reflectors
- G02F1/1336—Illuminating devices
- G02F1/133602—Direct backlight
- G02F1/133603—Direct backlight with LEDs
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- G—PHYSICS
- G02—OPTICS
- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
- G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
- G02F1/01—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour
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- G02F1/133—Constructional arrangements; Operation of liquid crystal cells; Circuit arrangements
- G02F1/1333—Constructional arrangements; Manufacturing methods
- G02F1/1335—Structural association of cells with optical devices, e.g. polarisers or reflectors
- G02F1/1336—Illuminating devices
- G02F1/133602—Direct backlight
- G02F1/133606—Direct backlight including a specially adapted diffusing, scattering or light controlling members
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F21—LIGHTING
- F21Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO THE FORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT EMITTED
- F21Y2115/00—Light-generating elements of semiconductor light sources
- F21Y2115/10—Light-emitting diodes [LED]
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- G—PHYSICS
- G02—OPTICS
- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
- G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
- G02F1/01—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour
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- G02F1/133—Constructional arrangements; Operation of liquid crystal cells; Circuit arrangements
- G02F1/1333—Constructional arrangements; Manufacturing methods
- G02F1/1335—Structural association of cells with optical devices, e.g. polarisers or reflectors
- G02F1/1336—Illuminating devices
- G02F1/133602—Direct backlight
- G02F1/133611—Direct backlight including means for improving the brightness uniformity
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- G—PHYSICS
- G02—OPTICS
- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
- G02F2203/00—Function characteristic
- G02F2203/22—Function characteristic diffractive
Definitions
- THIS INVENTION relates to an arrangement for providing a diffuse light source, for example, as a back-lighting arrangement for LCD displays, such as are utilised in portable computers.
- back-lighting arrangements for LCD displays in portable computers and the like have comprised edge-lit reflector blocks, generally edge-lit by a linear light source such as a fluorescent tube, the reflector blocks being configured internally so that light entering the block from the source along one edge is reflected by reflective surfaces bounding the block and/or by total internal reflection at angled surfaces contrived within the block, to emerge from a front face of the block at various locations on that front face and along various exit paths.
- An alternative back-lighting arrangement which has been used in the past comprises a cold-cathode fluorescent tube in a sinuous shape to provide an array of laterally parallel bars, interconnected by bends, backed by a reflector.
- a diffuser is normally disposed in front of the edge-lit reflector block or the sinuous discharge tube in an attempt to provide as far as possible an evenly light-emitting source with no perceptible "hot spots".
- the diffusers required in either case must generally have a strong diffusive effect to avoid perception of the shape and configuration of the underlying light source or reflector arrangement, and consequently most of the light passing through the diffuser passes in directions too far removed from the normal viewing angle to serve usefully to illuminate the display.
- Coloured LEDs have been available for several years. However, white LEDs have been created and are now commercially available with increasing brightness and lower cost such that they are now considered cost effective when compared with incandescent and fluorescent sources of similar brightness. LEDs have the added advantage of low operating voltage.
- an LCD display which is back-lit by a lighting arrangement utilising one or more light- emitting diodes (LEDs) as a light source.
- a lighting arrangement comprising one or more LEDs as a light source suitable for domestic or commercial lighting or as a light box for the detailed examination of light transparent images such as X-ray photographs.
- a diffusive lighting arrangement comprising at least one localised light source, at least one diffraction grating spaced in front of said light source and at least one diffuser spaced in front of the diffraction grating.
- the diffused lighting arrangement may, for example, be a back-lighting arrangement for an LCD display or the like.
- the effect of the diffraction grating is to create from a single or point light source such as a laser, pixel or LED a diffracted light pattern comprising zero, first and subsequent orders.
- a multi wavelength or "white" light source is used, the grating will also tend to split the light into the primary colours.
- a secondaiy function is to combine colours from separate coloured LEDs or recombine the light from white LEDs such that the lighting anangement exliibits both uniform colour and brightness.
- FIGURE 1 is a schematic perspective exploded view illustrating a back-lighting arrangement in accordance with the invention applied to an LCD display, for example of a portable computer,
- FIGURE 2 is a schematic cross sectional view of such a display
- FIGURE 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating the effect of the diffraction grating in an anangement in accordance with the invention.
- reference 10 represents a back plane, which may, for example, simply be a rear wall of a display structure supporting an anay of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) 12, the anay comprising rows and columns of LEDs 12.
- the LEDs 12 have, of course, conductors which are connected in manner known per se with an electrical power supply (not shown).
- the back plane or support 10 preferably has a reflective coating on its front surface, (i.e. on the side on which the LEDs are exposed) to ensure that any light emitted or scattered in the rearward direction is reflected forwards towards the LCD cell (see below).
- the back plane 10 may, for example, comprise a printed circuit board on which the LEDs are soldered and which connects the LEDs to a power supply.
- the reflecting coating may be applied to the front of that printed circuit board or may be provided by a separate reflective sheet mounted slightly in front of the printed circuit board and having apertures to receive the LEDs.
- the individual LEDs may have a light-emitting area of around 2 mm squared and may be a ⁇ anged 5 to 10 mm apart.
- a two-dimensional light diffracting sheet 14 which for convenience will be refe ⁇ ed to hereafter as a diffraction grating.
- the grating 14 may indeed simply be a sheet of glass or transparent plastics having a surface on which is formed by a rectangular grid comprising two sets of mutually perpendicular grid lines, scored, etched or impressed upon such surface.
- a diffracting sheet 14 such as described in GB-2314943 comprising a plastics sheet having on one surface thereof a regular array of upstanding cylinders, conical frustums or other geometrical features taking advantage of the possibility afforded for tailoring the relative intensities of the different diffraction orders, for example, by appropriate design of the individual upstanding features.
- the individual cylinders or like features in such a diffracting sheet may be 25 ⁇ in height and diameter and spaced 40 ⁇ apart.
- Such diffraction sheets or gratings may be readily produced by embossing plastics for example.
- the relief features may be covered or the regions between features filled, by a medium of different refractive index to afford a diffracting sheet smooth on both sides).
- a diffusing screen 16 Disposed in front of the grating 14, spaced therefrom and parallel therewith, is a diffusing screen 16, which may be of conventional form or may be of the kind disclosed, for example, in European Patent Application No. 0294122 and comprising an anay of minute graded refractive index lenses or like optical features.
- a conventional LCD cell structure 18, (represented in Figure 2 as a single sheet since the structure of such cells is well known), is spaced in front of the diffuser 16 and again is ananged parallel with the back plane 10, sheet 14, and diffuser 16. It will be appreciated that where the display is intended for a portable computer or the like, the LCD cell 18 comprises an array of individually activatable elements providing respective "pixels" of a display.
- a given beam from the LED 12 to a given point, A, on the diffraction grating 14 will be diffracted by the latter to form, in addition to a zero order beam I 0 , transmitted through the grating, first, second, third, etc. order beams I ls I 2 , I 3 etc. as illustrated, diverging from the grating at different angles. Because of the two-dimensional nature of the diffraction grating 14, the beam I will be diffracted into first, second, third, etc.
- Co ⁇ esponding effects are, of course, provided by each of the LEDs, with the result that, from the perspective of the diffuser 16, the diffraction grating 14 acts as an a ⁇ ay of a veiy large number of individual light sources.
- the effect is in some ways analogous to the effect of a random diffuser, but because of the organised and "tailored” nature of the grating 14, the "spread" of light from each LED after diffraction by grating 14, can be engineered to be predominantly in the desired direction towards the LCD cell.
- the grating 14 is thus more efficient than and provides more unifonn illumination than would a conventional diffuser.
- the intensity of the first-order diffracted beams is substantially the same as that of the zero order beam transmitted through the grating whilst the intensity of high order diffracted beams is significantly reduced.
- design teclmiques, and appropriate selection of the spacing between the diffraction grating and the LED a ⁇ ay it is possible in effect to multiply the number of light sources and reduce their spacing, from a point of view in front of the grating, and to approach the ideal of an infinite number of uniformly arranged light sources, of the same intensity spaced apart infinitesimally.
- the diffraction grating or gratings 14 may take any of many different forms.
- GB2314943 describes various diffraction gratings or diffraction arcays which may be formed for example, by embossing plastics, and which are described in GB2314943 as being of use as depixellators. Both planar and surface relief diffracting arrays are disclosed.
- the diffuser 16 serves to disperse only slightly the diffracted rays striking it from the diffraction grating 14, with the result that, from the perspective of the LCD cell 18, the diffuser 16 is effectively a uniform diffusive light source.
- the diffuser 16 is preferably a relatively weak "random" diffuser and thus has little or no tendency to absorb light or scatter it back unduly.
- the LCD screen should be illuminated by white light rather than by monochromatic light.
- the LEDs 12 may comprise red, green and blue LEDs interspersed with one another on the supporting plane 10. However, more preferably, the LEDs 12 may be white light LEDs of the sort which have recently become available.
- two or more gratings 14 may be provided, one spaced in front of the other, instead of the single grating 14.
- different such gratings may comprise each a single set of mutually parallel grid lines, with the grid lines of each grating being perpendicular to or at a selected different angle to the grid lines of the other grating or gratings.
- several random diffusers may be provided instead of the diffuser 16 or one diffuser may be interposed between two gratings 14, according to the properties desired.
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JP2001518627A JP2003507864A (en) | 1999-08-19 | 2000-08-16 | Diffuse lighting device |
AU67068/00A AU6706800A (en) | 1999-08-19 | 2000-08-16 | Diffuse lighting arrangement |
EP00954707A EP1210548A1 (en) | 1999-08-19 | 2000-08-16 | Diffuse lighting arrangement |
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