Rear projection screen

• US 4,936,652 A
• Filed: 03/08/1989
• Issued: 06/26/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Inventors: Clausen, Erik, Clausen, Johannes
• Primary Examiner(s): WINTERCORN, RICHARD
• Application Number:
  US07/320,437
• Time in Patent Office: 475 Days
• Field of Search: 350/127, 350/128
• US Class Current: 359/456
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/625 Lenticular translucent screens

Abstract

A transparent rear-light projection screen with V-shaped grooves is described, where the rear side of the screen, i.e. the side turned towards the projector is supplied with outwardly extending, elongate parallel lenses, the focal point of which is congruent with the front plane of the screen which is made up of outwardly extending elongate projections on whose tops the light can emit, and where--between the tops of the projections--there are grooves which are covered with material impenetrable to light, such as black color, for the purpose of increasing the contrast.

Claims

1. A transparent rear light projection screen comprising a picture forming element having on its rear side outwardly extending, parallel elongate convex lenses the focal length of each of which is equal to the thickness of the screen element and which lenses transmit light coming from behind to the front of the screen, which light is only deflected at the convex lenses, and having on its front side outwardly extending elongate projections parallel to said convex lenses, said projections having tops from which the light transmitted from said convex lenses can emit, said front side having V-shaped grooves between the tops of said projections, said grooves being covered or filled up with material impenetrable to light to increase contrast, and having a depth which is at least twice the width of the width of said tops of said projections, and which is greater than one fourth the thickness of the picture forming element.

2. The screen of claim 1, wherein a picture forming refractive powder is placed under said tops of said projections.

3. The screen of claim 1, wherein a light diffusing picture forming medium is coated on said tops of said projections.

4. The screen of claim 1, wherein the grooves are filled up with said material impenetrable to light.

5. The screen of claim 1 wherein the sides of the projections are covered with said material impenetrable to light.

6. The screen of claim 1 wherein the sides of the projections are not even.

7. The screen of claim 1, wherein the tops of said projections are glossy, mat or half-mat.

8. The screen of claim 1, wherein the top of each projection is lens-shaped.

9. The screen of claim 1, wherein the screen comprises the following measurements:

projection top width=0.3 mm, groove depth=1.6 mm, thickness of the picture forming element=3.4 mm, convex lens radius=1.2 mm, distance between convex lenses=1.2 mm, angle formed by the sides of the projections=24°

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