Thin high efficiency illumination system for display devices
First Claim
1. An illumination system for a display screen device having a screen composed of multicelled pixels for selectively controlling the intensity of light wherein said illumination system comprises:
- means for remotely energizing a plurality of parallel luminescent stripe areas; and
reflective means for concentrating the emitted light from said stripe areas in a vertical plane which is perpendicular to said stripe areas and also perpendicular to said display screen while maintaining a non-directive emission pattern of said light in a horizontal plane which is also perpendicular to said display screen whereby a wide horizontal viewing angle is preserved for ease of viewing by a group of side-by-side observers.
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Abstract
An illumination system for a display device includes an array of cylindrical lenslets for imaging an adjacent array of different color monochromatic emitting phosphor stripes onto the display device. Also included is a microcollimator reflector for each stripe which partially collimates emitted light from each phosphor stripe with respect to at least one axis of the display. An edge-irradiated energy distributor plate efficiently distributes ultra-violet energy by total internal reflection to the phosphor stripes that act as scattering and absorbing centers for the ultra-violet energy.
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13 Claims
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1. An illumination system for a display screen device having a screen composed of multicelled pixels for selectively controlling the intensity of light wherein said illumination system comprises:
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means for remotely energizing a plurality of parallel luminescent stripe areas; and reflective means for concentrating the emitted light from said stripe areas in a vertical plane which is perpendicular to said stripe areas and also perpendicular to said display screen while maintaining a non-directive emission pattern of said light in a horizontal plane which is also perpendicular to said display screen whereby a wide horizontal viewing angle is preserved for ease of viewing by a group of side-by-side observers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An illumination system for a display device having a screen composed of multicelled pixels for intensity modulating the primary colors of light, and a light source for illuminating said screen, said illumination system comprising:
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means for energizing different color phosphor stripes in alignment with multicelled pixel control elements; and reflective means for concentrating the emitted light from said phosphor stripe toward said screen in one dimension in a vertical plane while maintaining a non-directional emission pattern in the orthogonal horizontal plane whereby a wide horizontal viewing angle is preserved for ease of viewing by a group of side-by-side observers. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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