INTEGRATED IMAGE DISPLAY, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME

• US 20170023708A1
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Published: 01/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: ZHOU, Mingcai, WANG, Haitao, JIAO, Shaohui, HONG, Tao, LI, Weiming, WANG, Xiying, NAM, Dong Kyung
• Application Number:
  US15/124,940
• Publication Number:
  US 20170023708A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/27 involving lenticular arrays
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/305 using lenticular lenses, e.g. arrangements of cylindrical lenses
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/307 using fly-eye lenses, e.g. arrangements of circular lenses
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/324 Colour aspects

Abstract

An integrated image display, a method for operating the display, and a system including the display are provided. The integrated image display includes: a display panel including pixels; and a first lens array including a plurality of lenses, wherein each of the plurality of lenses is capable of displaying, in a beam direction, a subset of a plurality of subpixels included in at least one pixel from among the included pixels.

Claims

1. An integrated image display (IID), the display comprising:

a display panel comprising pixels; and

a first lens array comprising a first plurality of lenses,

wherein each lens from among the first plurality of lenses is configured to display, in a ray direction, a subset of a plurality of subpixels included in at least one pixel from among the pixels.

2. The display of claim 1, wherein the each lens from among the first plurality of lenses is further configured to display, in the ray direction, at least one subpixel from among the plurality of subpixels.

3. The display of claim 2, wherein for a particular lens from among the first plurality of lenses, each of neighboring lenses is configured to display subpixels included in a pixel from among the pixels, and a number of the neighboring lenses is equal to a number of the subpixels included in the pixel.

4. The display of claim 1, wherein the display panel is disposed within a preset distance range of a focal plane of the lenses.

5. The display of claim 3, wherein respective colors of the subpixels displayed by each of the neighboring lenses are different.

6. The display of claim 1, wherein the plurality of subpixels is arranged based on a standard red-green-blue (RGB) method.

7. The display of claim 1, wherein the plurality of subpixels is arranged based on a standard PenTile method.

8. The display of claim 1, wherein the plurality of subpixels is arranged based on a diamond PenTile method.

9. The display of claim 6, wherein lenses in two neighboring rows among the first plurality of lenses are arranged based on an interlace method.

10. The display of claim 6, wherein lenses in two neighboring rows among the first plurality of lenses are arranged in a parallel arrangement.

11. The display of claim 3, wherein the neighboring lenses comprise at least one from among neighboring lenses in a same row or neighboring lenses in a different row.

12. The display of claim 1, further comprising:

a second lens array comprising a second plurality of lenses,

wherein the second lens array is disposed in front of the first lens array with respect to the display panel or disposed between the first lens array and the display panel, and the second lens array is configured to be rotated 90 degrees with respect to the first lens array.

13. The display of claim 12, wherein rays emitted from neighboring lenses among the first plurality of lenses are converged to form a full color dot.

14. The display of claim 13, wherein a distance between adjacent pairs of lenses included in the second lens array is smaller than a distance between adjacent pairs of lenses included in the first lens array.

15. A method for manufacturing an integrated image display (IID), the method comprising:

forming pixels included in a display panel; and

forming a plurality of lenses such that each of the lenses is included in a lens array and is configured to display, in a ray direction, a subset of a plurality of subpixels included in at least one pixel from among the pixels.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein each of the lenses is further configured to display, in the ray direction, a subpixel from among the plurality of subpixels.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein for a particular lens from among the first plurality of lenses, each of neighboring lenses is configured to display subpixels comprised in a pixel from among the pixels, and a number of the neighboring lenses is equal to a number of the subpixels included in the pixel.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein respective colors of the subpixels displayed by each of the neighboring lenses are different.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the neighboring lenses comprise at least one from among neighboring lenses in a same row or neighboring lenses in a different row.