EP3405832A1 - Method and system using refractive beam mapper having square element profiles to reduce moire interference in autosteroscopic display - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to a multi-display system (e.g., a display including multiple display panels/display layers), where at least first and second displays (e.g., display panels or display layers) are arranged substantially parallel to each other in order to display three-dimensional (3D) features to a viewer(s).
- first and second displays e.g., display panels or display layers
- this invention relates generally to displays and, more particularly, to display systems and methods for displaying three-dimensional features.
- Multi- component displays including multiple display screens in a stacked arrangement have been developed to display real depth.
- Each display screen may display its own image to provide visual depth due to the physical displacement of the display screens.
- multi-display systems are disclosed in U.S. Patent Publication Nos. 2015/0323805 and 2016/0012630, the disclosures of which are both hereby incorporated herein by reference.
- moire interference occurs.
- the moire interference is caused by interactions between the color filters within the layers when projected onto a viewer's retina. For example, when green color filters overlap, light is transmitted making for a comparative bright patch. When a green filter is over say a red filter, not as much light will be transmitted making for a dark region. Since the rear and front displays or display layers have slightly different sizes when projected onto the retina, the pixels will slowly change from being in phase to out of phase. This has the effect of producing dark and bright bands otherwise known as moire interference.
- the MLD system includes first and second displays.
- a refractive beam mapper may be utilized in order to reduce or eliminate moire interference. It has been found that square profile diffuser elements improve image quality in such MLD systems.
- a display device comprising: a first display in a first plane for displaying a first image; a second display in a second plane for displaying a second image, wherein said first and second planes are approximately parallel to each other; a beam mapping element located between the first and second displays and comprising a plurality of microlenses configured to direct rays output from the second display through sub-pixels of the first display and toward a viewer, wherein the microlenses each have a substantially square profile as viewed from above in order to improve image quality.
- a display device comprising: a first display in a first plane for displaying a first image; a second display in a second plane for displaying a second image, wherein said first and second planes are approximately parallel to each other; and a beam mapping element (e.g., refractive beam mapper) located between the first and second displays and comprising a plurality of microlenses configured to direct incident rays from the second display in a pseudo random manner through sub-pixels of the first display and toward a viewer.
- a beam mapping element e.g., refractive beam mapper
- display device comprising: a first display in a first plane for displaying a first image; a second display in a second plane for displaying a second image, wherein said first and second planes are approximately parallel to each other; a refractive beam mapper located between the first and second displays and comprising an array of beam mapping elements configured to direct rays output from the second display through sub-pixels of the first display and toward a viewer, wherein the beam mapping elements each have a substantially square profile.
- a refractive beam mapper may or may not be used in combination with other techniques for reducing moire interference (e.g., color filter offset or dissimilar color filter patterns on the respective displays, diffuser techniques, and/or subpixel compression) in various embodiments of this invention.
- moire interference e.g., color filter offset or dissimilar color filter patterns on the respective displays, diffuser techniques, and/or subpixel compression
- FIGURE 1 is a top plan view of color filters of a liquid crystal display (LCD) where pixels are the same color in each column (or row);
- LCD liquid crystal display
- FIGURE 2 is a top plan view of color filters of another liquid crystal display (LCD) where pixels are the same color in each column (or row);
- LCD liquid crystal display
- FIGURE 3 is a top plan view of a MLD system resulting from the combination of LCDs of Figs. 1 and 2 where the LCD of Figs. 1 and 2 are overlapped with each other in a stacked relationship, which results in moire interference;
- FIGURE 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating pseudo random mapping of pixels of a rear display to pixels in a front display of a MLD system
- FIGURE 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating a mapping element that may be used in connection with the pseudo random mapping of Fig. 4 in order to reduce moire interference (this may or may not be used in combination with sub- pixel compression embodiments in various embodiments of this invention);
- FIGURE 6 is a schematic side cross sectional view of a MLD according to an example embodiment of this invention, which may be used with the embodiments of any of the figures herein;
- FIGURE 7 illustrates a bandwidth limited implementation of a RBM having refractive optics
- FIGURE 9 is a graph illustrating that bigger microlenses will typically have better anti-moire diffuser profiles
- FIGURE 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example fabrication processes for a RBM that may be used in various embodiments of this invention.
- FIGURE 11 illustrates a microlens according to an example
- FIGURE 12 is an angle of incidence vs. transmission coefficient graph that shows curves illustrating the transmission coefficient for S and P waves vs. angle of incidence;
- FIGURE 13 is a graph showing system contrast (contrast(0i, nl, n2, N), wherein 0i is the angle of incidence, nl is the refractive index of the material between LCDs, n2 is the refractive index of glass, and N is the number of interfaces;
- FIGURES 14-16 are side cross sectional views of a MLD system according to embodiments of this invention where a moire reducing element (e.g., RBM) is placed in various locations of a stack in a MLD system according to various embodiments of this invention (this may or may not be used in
- a moire reducing element e.g., RBM
- FIGURE 17 is a plan view of a diffuser including square profile microlenses that may be used as a moire reducing element (e.g., RBM) in any embodiment herein such as in any of Figs. 4-7, 14-16.
- a moire reducing element e.g., RBM
- FIGURE 18 is a plan view representative of a perfect circular filter kernel.
- FIGURE 19 varies the radius of a circular kernel with respect to image quality.
- FIGURE 20 is a graph comparing square and circular kernel comparisons (for microlens profiles) with respect to image quality.
- This invention relates to a multi-display system (e.g., a display including multiple display panels), where at least first and second displays (e.g., display panels or display layers) are arranged substantially parallel to each other in order to display three-dimensional (3D) features to a viewer(s).
- the displays may be flat or curved in different embodiments.
- embodiments of this invention relate generally to displays and, more particularly, to display systems and methods for displaying three-dimensional features.
- MLDs according to example
- embodiments of this invention may be used, for example, as displays in vehicle dashes in order to provide 3D images (e.g., for speedometers, vehicle gauges, vehicle navigation displays, etc.).
- 3D images e.g., for speedometers, vehicle gauges, vehicle navigation displays, etc.
- the color moire interference problem is caused by the pattern regularity of both liquid crystal display (LCD) color filter arrays as, for example, RGB pixels are aligned into RGB columns in both displays of a MLD system. Color moire interference may be largely prevalent in the horizontal direction.
- LCD liquid crystal display
- Figs. 1 -3 illustrate an arrangement in a MLD system which experiences moire interference.
- Fig. 1 is a top plan view of color filters/pixels of a first liquid crystal display (LCD) where pixels or subpixels are the same color in each column.
- Fig. 1 shows a LCD having a conventional red-green-blue (R-G-B) repeating pattern or arrangement, wherein the pixels or subpixels are the same color in each column.
- R-G-B red-green-blue
- the color filter stripes are arranged in vertical lines in a BGR order, and this BGR order repeats itself over and over moving from left to right across the display of Fig. 1.
- a subpixel may be considered the area of a given pixel electrode in an area of a particular color filter. For instance, R, G and B subpixels may make up a pixel. Alternatively, a subpixel may be considered to be a pixel.
- FIG. 1 is shown without color mask rotation. Conventionally, both panels of a multiple layered display (MLD) may be configured similarly with such a R- G-B arrangement.
- the repeatable pattern may be R-G-B, or R-B-G, or any other combination.
- Fig. 2 is a top plan view of color filters/pixels/subpixels of a second LCD where pixels or subpixels are also the same color in each column.
- the color filter stripes are arranged in vertical lines in a RGB order, and this order repeats itself over and over moving from left to right across Fig. 2.
- the repeatable pattern may be R-G-B, or R-B-G, or any other combination involving these colors.
- green (G) columns are located between blue (B) and red (R) colored columns.
- Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a MLD system resulting from the
- Fig. 3 shows the mixing of the color filter and pixel/subpixel patterns shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
- Fig. 3 illustrates the emergence of moire interference given an instance where both LCDs have a similar R-G-B column arrangement, where the pixels are the same color in each column.
- green color filter lines overlap (e.g., see the left portion of Fig. 3), and light in this green filter line overlap area is transmitted through the MLD system making for a comparatively bright green patch.
- Embodiments of this invention address, and reduce or solve, this moire interference problem.
- Certain example embodiments of the instant invention provide solution(s) that make moire interference in MLD systems vanish or substantially vanish, but without significantly sacrificing the rear display resolution and contrast.
- a beam mapping element such as diffractive optical element (DOE) or a refractive beam mapper (RBM) composed of many micro-lenses may be used to reduce moire interference.
- DOE diffractive optical element
- RBM refractive beam mapper
- pseudo random mapping may be provided in order to not introduce extra moire effects.
- the divergence of individual beams may be limited so that any point on the rear LCD is not diverted more than one pixel distance from a straight line by the time it reaches the front LCD in certain example embodiments.
- One may also laminate such a beam mapping element to the front display and optically match the media between the two LCDs with a non- birefringent material in certain example embodiments, and such embodiments may or may not be used in combination with subpixel compression techniques discussed herein.
- Displays or display layers herein may be LCDs, OLEDs, or the like. Twisted nematic (TN) LCDs may follow a fairly generic pixel layout, such as a square divided into three portions running horizontally (or vertically) with red green and blue sub-pixels. The sub-pixels may be separated by a black mask in the horizontal and vertical directions. There is often a square protrusion in the corner of the sub-pixel to cover the drive transistor.
- pixel technology that enable wide screen viewing and temporal performance required for modern desktop monitors and televisions.
- Embodiments of the present invention are compatible with all of these LCDs, since the backplanes are designed to follow the basic RGB stripe pixel layout. As such, the backplane layout required for each pixel not need to change.
- pixel type displays by manufacturer include: Panasonic (IPS Pro), LG Display (H-IPS & P-IPS), Hannstar (S-IPS), AU Optronics (A- MVA), Samsung (AFFS), S-LCD (S-PVA), and Sharp Corporation (ASV and MVA).
- both displays or display layers may be OLEDs, or one display may be an OLED and the other an LCD. Note that in OLEDs, respective sub-pixels or pixels would be filled with red, green, and blue material as the color filter material (as opposed to having LCD type color filters).
- Fig. 6 illustrates a MLD according to an example embodiment of this invention, in which the stacked overlapping layers/displays of any of the figures herein may be provided and utilized.
- the displays shown in any of Figs. 4-5 and 14-16 may be the front 1 and rear 2 displays in Fig. 6, respectively.
- the first display or display layer of the MLD may be element 1 (or 2), and the second display or display layer of the MLD may be element 2 (or 1 ).
- Display or display layer 2 is closest to the backlight of the MLD, and it may be desirable to have its backplane facing the backlight system to recycle light that may pass through row drivers, column drivers, transistors, and storage capacitance lines into the backlight.
- a two polarizer configuration may be used, as shown in the figure, and gaps may be designed to include air or material having birefringence designed to maintain black state of the display when desired.
- the gap may include material having a refractive index matched closely to glass or the layers on either side to reduce internal reflection and/or depolarization effects.
- its backplane may be oriented opposite to that of display or display layer 2.
- its backplane may be oriented to face the viewer to reduce internal reflections.
- the color filter layers (each of which may be made up of one or more layers) of the respective displays 1 and 2 may be designed to face each other, with no liquid crystal layer from either display being located between the color filter layers of the first and second displays in certain example embodiments.
- an antireflective system at the front such as that shown in Fig. 6 made up of quarter wave retarder and an antireflective polarizer, so that ambient light that would normally be reflected would undergo a quarter wave rotation on the first pass through the AR polarizer, is reflected by the backplane elements, undergoes a second rotation through the quarter wavelength retarder.
- AR antireflective coating(s) may be applied to the interior surfaces in certain example embodiments of this invention.
- the AR coating may, for example, operate in the visible range, e.g., moth eye, single layer interference, multi-layer interference, etc.
- a beam mapping element is made up of, or includes, a plurality of micro ⁇ lenses and may be used as a stand-alone element for reducing moire interference via pseudo random mapping (e.g., see Figs. 4-6 and 14-16).
- pseudo random mapping embodiments e.g., Figs. 4-5
- each of the refractive microDlenses of an RBM may be designed to direct incident rays from the back LCD 2 to an observer in a defined path, each ray passing through a different sub ⁇ pixel in the front LCD 1 according to a pseudo random mapping.
- the RBM may be laminated to the top LCD 1 (see Figs. 5, 14 and 16), and optionally matched or substantially matched optically to media between the two LCDs with a nonDbirefringent material.
- the refractive beam mapper can be placed anywhere within the LCD stack.
- Fig. 5 shows the beam mapping element (e.g., RBM including a micro-lens array) located between the front and rear LCDs and laminated to an interior side of the front display.
- RBM including a micro-lens array
- the micro-lenses of an RBM may be fabricated using gray- scale lithography, to produce arbitrary surface structures in a micro-lens format.
- Each lens element may configured for directing light in a controlled direction enabling arbitrary and asymmetric scattering angles as shown in Figs. 4-5. It is possible to make a master to replicate the RBM using a variety of high-volume manufacturing processes and materials as in the replication of micro-lens features, profile slope angle is more important than profile height.
- Figs. 4-5 show how the refractive beam mapper superimposes rays from the back LCD 2 onto the front LCD 1 from an observer's point of view. The beam paths are mapped in a pseudo random fashion so not to introduce other artifacts such as extra moire.
- the underlying LCD structure 2 is randomized and thus incapable of generating significant moire interference with the top LCD 1.
- a diffuser may instead be used for the construction of a moire suppression element. While the process can be adapted to make a refractive beam mapper, engineered diffusers can also be used as optimal diffuser elements for more reduction. Diffusers are not as desirable as a refractive beam element.
- the refractive beam mapper may exhibit various features.
- an RBM may exhibit achromatic performance.
- an RBM may exhibit arbitrary/asymmetric scattering angles.
- an RBM may exhibit controlled intensity distribution patterns (e.g., circular, square, rectangular, elliptical, line, ring, etc.).
- an RBM may exhibit controlled intensity profiles (e.g., flat top, Gaussian, batwing, custom, etc.).
- An RBM may also exhibit high optical transmission efficiency (e.g., 90 percent).
- an RBM may exhibit the preservation of polarization.
- An RBM may be of or include various materials, such as polymer injection molding, hot embossed polymers, polymer-on-glass components, etc.
- Moire interference in MLD is commonly suppressed by adding a diffuser element (as opposed to a beam mapping element) between the back LCD and the observer so that the pixel structure in the back LCD is blurred.
- Fig. 7 illustrates a bandwidth limited implementation of an RBM having custom refractive optics which are close to a flat top profile, such that the far field pattern is as close as possible to a flat top profile.
- the prescription for the set of lenses that comprise the distribution is defined, including feature sizes and slope angles based on the scatter requirements. These parameters may be defined in terms of probability distribution functions that specify the likelihood that a certain lens will assume a specific prescription.
- a spatial distribution of the microlenses to create the surface structure is designed to create the surface structure according to a desired distribution function. It is appreciated that any underlying periodicity in the spatial distribution of the microlenses may be eliminated in certain example embodiments.
- the careful pseudo randomization of the surface structure also creates a scatter distribution that is devoid of artifacts and induced moire. This may be significant as regular patterns can introduce additional moire interference.
- Fig. 9 shows that there is a tradeoff between microlens size and introduced image artifacts. Bigger microlenses will typically have better anti- moire diffuser profiles. If the microlenses become of a size that are visible to the naked eye, then extra image artifacts will become apparent. These include sparkle, pixel walking and more interference between the pattern and either or both LCDs.
- Fig. 9 illustrates PSF for a single microlens for various values of diameters (um). Minimizing feature size may also be utilized in the design of an LCD moire reduction element. The feature size should ideally be smaller than a sub pixel in order to remain substantially invisible to the naked eye as shown in Fig. 4.
- the feature size is given by the microlens diameter.
- miniature refractive elements are desired. If the microlenses become of a size that are visible to the naked eye then extra image artifacts will become apparent. These include sparkle, pixel walking, and moire interference between the pattern and either or both LCDs. Sparkle is most often seen in anti-glare displays where the display surface has been treated to produce a matte textured surface. These surface features act as refractive or diffractive elements and can either focus or defocus individual pixel elements depending on the viewer position leading to intensity variations or sparkle. Pixel walking is the result of the refractive distortion appearing to move and distort the individual pixels and the viewer moves position.
- Extra moire interference is introduced when regular features in the array of microlens "beat" with one or both of the LCDs. Randomization and reduction of lens size in an RBM or diffuser and placement reduce these extra moire artifacts. There are two factors to consider in this regard, sag and averaging. To ensure the best uniformity and reduction in moire, a large number of scatter centers should be illuminated within each pixel area as shown in Fig. 4. At the same time, for a certain set of parameters (e.g., spread angle, index of refraction, and conic constant), the lens depth decreases as the microlens diameter decreases. If the process continues, a diffractive regime is eventually reached where the lens depth only imparts a phase delay that is a small fraction of 2 ⁇ . In this respect, it is useful to define the phase number in the following equation:
- ymax represents the total lens sag
- ⁇ is the wavelength under consideration
- ⁇ n equals n( ⁇ )1, with n the index of refraction at wavelength ⁇ , for an element in air.
- the phase number M should be as large as possible.
- ⁇ is the halfwidth beam spread angle in degrees (in air).
- Embedding the refractor in a medium of higher refractive index (RI) such as silicon OCA, rather than air, allows for the effective use of a wider angle refractor, as the higher RI will reduce the refractive power of each microlens.
- RI refractive index
- embedding in high RI material effectively reduces the microlens diameter, which results in less image artifacts.
- replacing the air between the two panels with an indexed matched medium will also allow smaller divergence angles as measured in air and thus smaller microlens diameters.
- Fig. 10 shows the fabrication process of an RBM, in accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure in the above respects, including the formation of microlenses on a wafer support.
- the RBM may be embedded in high RI material to reduce Fresnel depolarization, in order to improve image contrast of the MLD.
- Fig. 11 shows a microlens surface, which typically has a distribution of surface normals between 0 and approximately 20 degrees. The distribution of surface normals leads to contrast reduction because S and P polarizations are transmitted with different attenuations.
- Fig. 12 shows curves illustrating the transmission coefficient for S and P waves vs. angle of incidence
- Fig. 13 shows system contrast (contrast(9i, nl, n2, N), wherein 0i is the angle of incidence, nl is the refractive index of the material between LCDs, n2 is the refractive index of glass, and N is the number of interfaces. As shown the line to the far right with the RI at 1.4 and 1.5 shows the best contrast as the Fresnel depolarization is the least.
- Figs. 14-16 show various placements of the moire reduction element (e.g., refractive element such as RBM).
- the moire reduction element could be positioned on the top surface of the front display 1 as a laminatable film with the patterned surface facing downwards to get the feature size small, as previously described.
- These embodiments may or may not be used in combination with subpixel compression techniques.
- having the patterned surface facing upwards would also act as an anti-glaring mechanism, but it will be necessary to embed in optical coupling adhesive (OCA) with a refractive index of approximately 1.5 to achieve a feature size smaller than 70 ⁇ .
- OCA optical coupling adhesive
- the internal voids index matched with glass and OCA to reduce Fresnel polarization also improve contrast and reduce reflections.
- the FWHM width for this implementation may be about 1.8 degrees, with a square profile.
- a square profile diffuser such as shown in Fig. 17 may be used for any of the refractive beam mappers in this disclosure, in certain example embodiments of this invention.
- a beam mapping element including an array of square microlenses such as that shown in Fig. 17 may be made, for example, by projecting a shaped laser beam into a photoresist, so that each microlens is a copy of the prior, in certain example instances.
- the beam mapping element of Fig. 17 may be used in any embodiment herein, such as for the refractive beam mapper in any of Figs. 4-7, 14-16.
- Fig. 18 is, for purposes of comparison, representative of a perfect circular filter kernel - that is there is no energy outside the boundary of the circle.
- This kernel is convolved with an image of a pixel to determine the point spread of the system impulse response - a single black pixel.
- the radius of the circle is varied and applied to the image to determine the optimum.
- the blue line below is representative of total image quality and incorporates the blur and residual pixel moire. Note the minimum of the function is optimum.
- a circular kernel never completely quells the sub-pixel structure. This in turn would give rise to some residual moire in the MLD system.
- a square or substantially square shape (e.g., see Fig. 17) will completely or substantially remove any residual moire in a MLD system.
- the microlenses are characterized by a phase number M of 8 or more, more preferably of 16 or more, and it has been found that this improves image quality.
- a display device comprising: a first display in a first plane for displaying a first image; a second display in a second plane for displaying a second image, wherein said first and second planes are approximately parallel to each other; a beam mapping element located between the first and second displays and comprising a plurality of microlenses configured to direct rays output from the second display through sub-pixels of the first display and toward a viewer, wherein the microlenses each have a substantially square profile as viewed from above in order to improve image quality.
- the beam mapping element may comprise a refractive beam mapper.
- the beam mapping element may be configured to direct rays output from the second display in a pseudo random manner through sub-pixels of the first display and toward a viewer.
- the beam mapping element may have asymmetric scattering angles.
- the beam mapping element may substantially preserve polarization.
- the beam mapping element may have refractive optics for realizing substantially a flat top profile, such that a far field pattern of output is close to a flat top profile.
- the beam mapping element may limit divergence from any point on the second display to less than a distance of one pixel offset when the rays proceed through the first display.
- each of the microlenses may have a diameter no greater than a length and/or a width of a subpixel in the second display.
- the microlenses may be characterized by a phase number M of 8 or more.
- the microlenses may have a distribution of surface normals between 0 and 0
- the beam mapping element may be laminated to the second display.
- curved surfaces of the microlenses face a viewer and/or contact a refractive index material having a refractive index of at least 1.4.
- the second display may be a rear display, and the first display may be a front display, of the display device.
- rays from a given subpixel in the second display may be directed toward multiple different subpixels of the first display, and rays from a plurality of different subpixels of the second display may proceed through a given subpixel of the first display.
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