Display device and use thereof

• US 9,046,711 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2010
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Barco NV
• Original Assignee: Barco NV
• Inventors: Vetsuypens, Arnout, Woestenborghs, Wouter
• Primary Examiner(s): PARDO, THUY N
• Application Number:
  US13/144,102
• Publication Number:
  US 20110273413A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,966 Days
• Field of Search: 345/207, 345/156, 345/166, 345/173, 345/690, 257/79
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13324 Circuits comprising solar cells
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133603 with LEDs
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/58 Arrangements comprising a monitoring photodetector
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0233 Improving the luminance or brightness uniformity across the screen
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/141 the light conveying information used for selecting or modulating the light emitting or modulating element
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/147 the originated light output being determined for each pixel
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3406 Control of illumination source illumination devices structurally associated with liquid crystal cells G02F1/1336
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3611 Control of matrices with row and column drivers

Abstract

The display device includes a sensor system with at least one sensor for detecting the intensity or color of light emitted from at least one display area of the display device into the viewing angle of the display device. The sensor system further includes in one embodiment an at least partially transparent sensor. The sensor system includes in another embodiment at least one optical coupling device including a light guide member and a incoupling member for guiding or directing, e.g. deflecting, reflecting, bending, scattering, diffracting, at least one part of the light emitted from the display area to the corresponding sensor, wherein the sensor is located outside or at least partially outside the viewing angle of the display device.

Claims

1. A display device comprising at least one display area provided with a plurality of pixels, further comprising:

for each display area, an at least partially transparent sensor for detecting a property of light emitted from the said display area into a viewing angle of the display device,

wherein said at least partially transparent sensor is partially transparent, said partially transparent referring to a reduction by the at least partially transparent sensor of impinging light intensity of at most 50%,

which partially transparent sensor is located in a front section of said display device in front of said display area.

2. The display device as claimed in claim 1, comprising at least partially transparent electrical conductors for conducting a measurement signal from said sensor within said viewing angle for transmission to a controller.

3. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises an organic photoconductor.

4. The display device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the organic photoconductor is a bilayer structure with an exciton generation layer and a charge transport layer, said charge transport layer being in contact with a first and a second electrode.

5. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises at least partially transparent electrodes.

6. The display device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the at least partially transparent electrodes comprise an electrically conductive oxide.

7. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one partially transparent sensor is configured to reduce the impinging light intensity by a reduction of light intensity selected from the group consisting of:

at most 25%, at most 10%, and at most 5%.

8. A display device comprising:

a plurality of display areas provided with a plurality of pixels;

for each display area there is provided;

at least one partially transparent sensor for detecting a property of light emitted from the said display area into a viewing angle of the display device, wherein said at least one partially transparent sensor is partially transparent, said partially transparent referring to a reduction by the at least one partially transparent sensor of impinging light intensity of at most 50%, said sensor being located outside or at least partially outside the viewing angle;

an at least partially transparent optical coupling device located in a front section of said display device and comprising a light guide member for guiding at least one part of the light emitted from the said display area to the corresponding sensor; and

wherein said coupling device further comprises an incoupling member for coupling the light into the light guide member.

9. The display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the light guide member is included in a plane which extends parallel to a front surface of the display device and wherein the incoupling member comprises an incoupling member for laterally coupling the light into the light guide member of the coupling device.

10. The display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the light guide member is provided with a spherical or rectangular cross-sectional shape when viewed in a plane normal to the front surface and normal to a main extension of the light guide member.

11. The display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the incoupling member is cone-shaped.

12. The display device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the incoupling member is formed as a laterally prominent incoupling member, which is delimited by two laterally coaxially aligned cones, said cones having a mutual apex and different apex angles.

13. The display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the incoupling member is a diffraction grating.

14. The display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the incoupling member further transforms a wavelength of light emitted from the display area into a sensing wavelength.

15. The display device as claimed in claim 14, wherein the sensing wavelength is in the infrared range.

16. The display device as claimed in claim 14, wherein the incoupling member is provided with a phosphor for said transformation.

17. The display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the coupling device is part of a cover member having an inner face and an outer face opposed to the inner face, said inner face facing the at least one display area, wherein the coupling device is present at the inner face.

18. The display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein said at least one partially transparent sensor is configured to reduce the impinging light intensity by a reduction of light intensity selected from the group consisting of:

at most 25%, at most 10%, and at most 5%.

19. A method of simultaneous display of an image using a display device comprising at least one display area provided with a plurality of pixels, comprising the steps of:

providing for each display area, an at least partially transparent sensor for detecting a property of light emitted from the said display area into a viewing angle of the display device,

locating said at least partially transparent sensor in a front section of said display device in front of said display area, wherein said partially transparent sensor is partially transparent, said partially transparent referring to a reduction by the at least partially transparent sensor of impinging light intensity of at most 50%, and

sensing a light property in at least one display area.

20. Method of claim 19, wherein the light property is the luminance and wherein color measurements are sensed by the at least one sensor of the display device in a calibration mode.

21. A method of simultaneous display as claimed in claim 19, wherein said at least one partially transparent sensor is configured to reduce the impinging light intensity by a reduction of light intensity selected from the group consisting of:

at most 25%, at most 10%, and at most 5%.

22. A method of simultaneous display using a display device comprising a plurality of display areas provided with a plurality of pixels, comprising the steps of:

providing for each display area at least one sensor for detecting a property of light emitted from the said display area into a viewing angle of the display device,

locating said sensor outside or at least partially outside the viewing angle of the display device;

coupling by an at least partially transparent optical coupling device located in a front section of said display device at least one part of the light emitted from the said display area to the corresponding sensor, the coupling comprising a light guide member for guiding said at least one part of the light emitted from the said display area to the corresponding sensor; and

wherein said coupling device further comprises the incoupling by an incoupling member the light into the light guide member, and

sensing a light property in at least one display area.

23. Method of claim 22, wherein the light property is the luminance and wherein color measurements are sensed by the at least one sensor of the display device in a calibration mode.