WO2003085627A2 - Color separator for emissive display - Google Patents
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- WO2003085627A2 WO2003085627A2 PCT/US2003/009559 US0309559W WO03085627A2 WO 2003085627 A2 WO2003085627 A2 WO 2003085627A2 US 0309559 W US0309559 W US 0309559W WO 03085627 A2 WO03085627 A2 WO 03085627A2
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- H04N9/00—Details of colour television systems
- H04N9/12—Picture reproducers
- H04N9/31—Projection devices for colour picture display, e.g. using electronic spatial light modulators [ESLM]
- H04N9/3129—Projection devices for colour picture display, e.g. using electronic spatial light modulators [ESLM] scanning a light beam on the display screen
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- G—PHYSICS
- G02—OPTICS
- G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
- G02B27/00—Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups G02B1/00 - G02B26/00, G02B30/00
- G02B27/10—Beam splitting or combining systems
- G02B27/1006—Beam splitting or combining systems for splitting or combining different wavelengths
- G02B27/102—Beam splitting or combining systems for splitting or combining different wavelengths for generating a colour image from monochromatic image signal sources
- G02B27/1026—Beam splitting or combining systems for splitting or combining different wavelengths for generating a colour image from monochromatic image signal sources for use with reflective spatial light modulators
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
- H01J29/00—Details of cathode-ray tubes or of electron-beam tubes of the types covered by group H01J31/00
- H01J29/02—Electrodes; Screens; Mounting, supporting, spacing or insulating thereof
- H01J29/10—Screens on or from which an image or pattern is formed, picked up, converted or stored
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
- H01J29/00—Details of cathode-ray tubes or of electron-beam tubes of the types covered by group H01J31/00
- H01J29/02—Electrodes; Screens; Mounting, supporting, spacing or insulating thereof
- H01J29/10—Screens on or from which an image or pattern is formed, picked up, converted or stored
- H01J29/18—Luminescent screens
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- the present invention relates generally to image displays.
- Image displays include emissive displays, such as phosphor displays used in cathode tube-based television and computer monitors, and transmissive
- An emissive display works by emitting visible light from pixels that are excited by, e.g., electron beams or fluorescent lamps.
- the electron beam is scanned across the pixels as appropriate to excite the pixels to produce a demanded image.
- fluorescent lamp-based displays such as plasma displays
- ultraviolet light from a gas discharge is directed to appropriate pixels that are physically shielded from each other, with the pixel illumination pattern necessary to produce the demanded image not being established by scanning the UV light, which is simply a discharge from the lamp, but by appropriately blocking the UV light to impinge only on the desired pixels.
- Both of the above-mentioned emissive displays require the presence of a vacuum within the device, which can complicate manufacturing and raise costs.
- a projection display works by projecting pixellated light from a relatively small source onto a relatively large projector, which "transmits" the light toward the viewers.
- the present invention recognizes that it would be desirable to provide a large screen emissive display to overcome the image quality drawback of many large transmissive displays.
- a color separator configured for an image display apparatus includes a substrate having phosphor-based red, green, and blue subpixels, and at least one refraction layer covering the subpixels.
- a mask layer is on the refraction layer, with the mask layer being configured to shield the blue and green subpixels from a first beam, shield the red and green subpixels from a second beam, and shield
- the display is a large screen phosphor display that operates at atmospheric pressure.
- the mask can be ink-jet printed onto the refraction layer.
- the preferred mask defines plural excitation light apertures that in turn define variable pitches established based on the locations of the respective excitation light apertures relative to the display.
- a separator for producing a demanded image includes a mask that is juxtaposed with a phosphor display. The mask has apertures defining pitches between adjacent apertures. At least one pitch is different from
- Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the present emissive display, using a phosphor screen
- Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the variable pitch mask
- Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of an alternate phosphor screen assembly.
- a display apparatus is shown, generally
- the display 12 is a large screen phosphor display, the pixels of which may be composed of, e.g., Zinc Sulfide.
- Large screen is meant that the operational "D" of the display 12 is at least forty inches (40") (about one hundred centimeters) and can be sixty inches (60") (about one hundred fifty centimeters) or more.
- the principles advanced herein, however, can be applied to smaller displays, as well as to other emissive displays, such as plasma displays.
- the display 12 operates at atmospheric pressure, i.e., the display 12 does not require a vacuum in which to operate.
- the display 12 is irradiated by plural moving light beams 14.
- first through third beams 14 are used.
- a first one of the beams 14 can
- the beams 14 are ultraviolet (UV) beams and more preferably are UV laser beams that originate at a laser 16.
- a source beam 18 is emitted by the laser 16 that is split into the three beams 14 by a beamsplitter 20 device.
- beamsplitter device. 20 can include two beamsplitters, one of which splits the source beam 18 in two and another of which splits one of the resulting two beams into two beams, to establish the preferred three beam arrangement shown.
- the three beams 14 then propagate toward respective light valves 22.
- the light valves 22 are grating light valves (GLVs).
- the GLVs may be those disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,311 ,360, incorporated herein by reference, or in [insert Sony patents here].
- the light valves 22 reflect their respective beams 14 in accordance with light valve principles known in the art.
- each light valve 22 can include a one-dimensional row of movable mirrors which can reflect
- a processor 24 is operably engaged with the light valves 22 to cause each valve 22 to modulate its respective beam 14 in accordance with a demanded image received from, e.g., a television tuner, a computer, or other video source. That is, the mirrors of the light valves 22 are moved as appropriate to reflect or not the respective beam 14, to thereby establish the position of the beam 14 in the dimension defined by the light valves 22 for any given frame of the
- each beam 14 propagates from its respective light valve 22 to a respective scanning mirror 26, each of which oscillates about its axis as driven by a respective motor 28 in a dimension that is orthogonal to the dimension of the light valves 22.
- the scanning mirrors 26 need not be controlled in accordance with the demanded image; rather, only the light valves 22 need be controlled to produce the demanded image, with the processor 24 taking account of the orthogonal scanning of the beams 14 provided by the scanning mirrors 26.
- a mask 30 can be interposed between the scanning mirrors 26 and the display 12 to establish a light barrier between adjacent pixels.
- the mask 30 defines a two-dimensional grid of differently-sized excitation light apertures 32.
- the mask 30 can include an opaque substrate and the apertures 32 can be established by openings in the substrate.
- the mask 30 can include a transparent substrate and the apertures can be established by ink-jet printing an opaque pattern on the substrate, with non-printed portions of the substrate establishing the apertures.
- the sizes of the excitation light apertures 32 and/or pitch that is, the spacing between adjacent excitation light apertures 32
- the sizes of the excitation light apertures 32 and/or the spacing between excitation light apertures 32 that are near the center of the display 12 can be smaller than the sizes of the excitation light apertures 32 and/or the spacing between excitation light apertures 32 that are nearer the edges of the display 12.
- the particular excitation light aperture size/pitch variation is established based on the geometry
- Figure 3 shows an alternate display, generally designated 40, which includes a transparent, e.g., glass, substrate 42 and plural red, green, and blue subpixels 44 that are established on the substrate 42. It is to be understood that
- a transparent light refracting layer 46 covers the pixels and is opposed to the substrate 42 as shown. If desired, the layer 46 can be made of plural sublayers, i.e., a first sublayer for refracting a beam that is to excite only red subpixels, a second sublayer for refracting a beam that is to excite only green subpixels, and a third sublayer for refracting a beam that is to excite only blue subpixels.
- the UV beams 14 are directed against the refracting layer 46.
- the location and configuration of the light valves 22 relative to the display 12 and the light valve control afforded by the processor 24 ensures that the light valve 22 that is to reflect the beam for exciting only red
- the light valve 22 that is to reflect the beam for exciting only green subpixels reflects the beam at a set of angles ⁇
- the light valve 22 that is to reflect the beam for exciting only blue subpixels reflects the beam at a set of angles y, with the angles a, ⁇ , and y for any one pixel being different from each other. Consequently, the three beams are refracted at differing angles by
- the refracting layer 46 only onto respective red, green, and blue subpixels 44.
- a color selection mask layer 48 can be juxtaposed with the refracting layer 46 for shielding the blue and green subpixels from the first beam, shielding the red and
- the color selection mask layer 48 can be deposited onto the refracting later 46 as one or more thin films by, e.g., ink jet printing the film onto the refracting layer 46.
- the color selection mask layer 48 can define apertures 50 that have a variable pitch and/or variable size, based on the positions of the apertures 50 relative to the center of the substrate 42.
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