Feedback control of display systems with light-emitting screens having excitation light source and phosphor layer

• US 9,467,668 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2016
• Issued: 10/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Prysm Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Prysm, Inc.
• Inventors: Hajjar, Roger A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sohn, Seung C
• Application Number:
  US14/990,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20160119597A1
• Time in Patent Office: 278 Days
• Field of Search: 353/29
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/506 measuring the colour produced by screens, monitors, displays or CRTs
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/513 having fixed filter-detector pairs
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/101 with both horizontal and vertical deflecting means, e.g. raster or XY scanners colour television using laser beams scanning a display screen H04N9/3129
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/105 with one or more pivoting mirrors or galvano-mirrors G02B26/101 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/12 using multifaceted mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/123 Multibeam scanners, e.g. using multiple light sources or beam splitters
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/127 Adaptive control of the scanning light beam, e.g. using the feedback from one or more detectors G02B27/0031 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/567 for colour projection G03B21/58, G03B21/60 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/60 characterised by the nature of the surface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3135 Driving therefor

Abstract

Scanning beam display systems that scan one servo beam and an excitation beam onto a screen that emits visible light under excitation of the light of the excitation beam and control optical alignment of the excitation beam based on positioning of the servo beam on the screen via a feedback control.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display system including

one or more excitation light sources configured to independently controllably generate light for a plurality of pixels, and

a phosphor layer configured to absorb light of the one or more excitation light sources to emit fluorescent light, the phosphor layer including a first region corresponding to a first subset of the plurality of pixels and configured to emit red emissions, a second region different from the first region corresponding to a second subset of the plurality of pixels and configured to emit green emissions, and a third region different from the first and second regions corresponding to a third subset of the plurality of pixels and configured to emit blue emissions,

wherein the display system comprises a plurality of light-emitting diodes; and

one or more detector assemblies configured to separately measure intensities of the emitted red, green, and blue emissions and to adjust the one or more excitation light sources based on the measured intensities in real time during a normal display mode of the display system.

2. The display system of claim 1, wherein:

the first region comprises red phosphor dots configured to emit red emissions;

the second region comprises green phosphor dots configured to emit green emissions; and

the third region comprises blue phosphor dots configured to emit blue emissions.

3. The display system of claim 2, wherein each of the plurality of light-emitting diodes corresponds to each of the plurality of phosphor dots.

4. The display system of claim 1, wherein:

the first region comprises red phosphor stripes configured to emit red emissions;

the second region comprises green phosphor stripes configured to emit green emissions; and

the third region comprises blue phosphor stripes configured to emit blue emissions.

5. The display system of claim 1, wherein the one or more detector assemblies comprises:

a red sensor configured to measure red emissions;

a green sensor configured to measure green emissions; and

a blue sensor configured to measure blue emissions.

6. The display system of claim 4, wherein the red sensor, green sensor and blue sensor each comprise a photodiode and comprise a red filter, green filter and blue filter, respectively.

7. The display system of claim 1, wherein the one or more detector assemblies are configured to separately measure intensities of the emitted red, green, and blue emissions and to adjust the excitation light source based on the measured intensities during a calibration mode of the display system.

8. The display system of claim 1, wherein the one or more detector assemblies are configured to compare power levels of different colors.

9. The display system of claim 1, wherein the one or more detector assemblies are configured to compare power levels of adjacent subpixels.

10. The display system of claim 1, wherein the one or more detector assemblies are positioned on a viewer side of the phosphor layer.

11. The display system of claim 10, wherein the one or more detector assemblies are configured and positioned to have a field of view of an entirety of the phosphor layer.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein adjusting the one or more excitation light source comprises comparing power levels of different colors.

14. The method of claim 11, comprising directing light onto the phosphor layer from an excitation side of the phosphor layer and measuring intensities of the red, green, and blue emissions from a side of the phosphor layer opposite the excitation side.

12. A method of operating a display system, comprising:

directing light from one or more excitation light sources to a phosphor layer, the phosphor layer including a first region configured to emit red emissions, a second region different from the first region and configured to emit green emissions, and a third region different from the first and second regions and configured to emit blue emissions, wherein directing light from one or more excitation light sources comprises generating excitation light from a plurality of light-emitting diodes;

absorbing the excitation light at the phosphor layer and emitting fluorescent light according to the region in which the excitation light is absorbed;

separately measuring intensities of the emitted red, green, and blue emissions with one or more detector assemblies; and

adjusting the one or more excitation light sources based on the measured intensities in real time during a normal display mode of the display system.