Screen for a free and a restricted viewing mode and application thereof

US10768355B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• siOPTICA GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Markus Klippstein · Jena, DE
• Jurgen Schwarz · Bremerhaven, DE
• Ambrose Peter Nari · Jena, DE
• Uwe Schröter · Camburg, DE
• Stepan Alkhimenko · Jena, DE
• Uwe Jahrmarkt · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 10, 2018
• Grant date: Sep 8, 2020
• Expiry date: Aug 10, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02F1/133626
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A display screen operable on at least a partial area A in two operating modes, free-viewing mode B1, and restricted-viewing modeB2, with the residual display area of the screen outside the area A maintaining a free viewing mode; comprising a first backlight arranged below the residual display area; a second backlight arranged below the area A; a transmissive image generator in front of the backlights; a plate-shaped transparent light guide arranged between the image generator and the backlights that outcouples, through one of its large surfaces, light coupled in through one of its edges; light sources arranged laterally an edge of the light guide, wherein the light guide is transparent to at least 70% of the light emitted by the backlights, and wherein in the B1 mode, the light sources are switched on, and in the B2 mode, the backlights are on and the light sources are off.