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US 11,933,978 · App. 14/772,089 · Granted Mar 19, 2024

Electronic display designed for reduced reflections

Inventors: Errikos Amarilio (Kiryat Ata, IL); Yolanda Landesberg (Haifa, IL)
Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 11,933,978
App. No.
14/772,089
Granted
Mar 19, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical system that reduces reflections from an electronic display is provided herein. The optical system may include an electronic display; and a light directing medium configured to steer a plurality of viewing cones into an eye motion box facing said display so that said viewing cones overlap at least partially at the eye motion box plane, wherein a viewing cone is a geometric location only within which a viewer can see light coming from said electronic display.

Claims (10)

1. A system comprising:

an electronic display comprising a backlight unit, an optical medium, a Fresnel lens, and liquid crystal display (LCD) cells,

wherein the optical medium comprises an array of micro louvers, wherein the optical medium steers light coming from the backlight unit into light cones by limiting an exit angle of the backlight so as to meet dimensions of an eye motion box of a viewer facing said electronic display, wherein the optical medium is designed to allow a dispersion of the light cones, sufficient so that the viewing from the eye motion box allows viewing light coming of the entire display,

wherein the Fresnel lens is located between the optical medium and the LCD cells and designed to focus the light cones to a specific distance and angle from the surface of the Fresnel lens, being the plane of the eye motion box defined by borders thereof, ensuring that said light cones do not stray away from borders defined by the eye motion box,

wherein the center of said Fresnel lens is vertically and horizontally offset relative to the center of the electronic display, and

wherein said electronic display is a large area display (LAD).

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein said dimensions of said eye motion box are dynamically controllable.

3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein said specified dimensions of said eye motion box are controlled in real time based on predefined parameters, wherein said predefined parameters include at least one of: viewer preferences, external lighting conditions, and airplane orientation.

4. The system according to claim 1 , wherein said display is a liquid crystal display (LCD).

5. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the area of said display is at least 50 times larger than the area of said eye motion box.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 22, 2016
From: LANDESBERG, YOLANDA
To: ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD.
Reel/Frame 037784/0419 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 8, 2015
From: AMARILIO, ERRIKOS
To: ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD.
Reel/Frame 036503/0471 →
Priority Claims (1)
IL 226434 · May 19, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160062114A1 · Mar 3, 2016
Cited By (1)
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