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Display device

US4969732A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 23, 1989
Grant dateNov 13, 1990
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Expiry dateFeb 23, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B21/10
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A display device includes equipment for projecting light onto a surface. The equipment includes a beam-splitter for effecting partial reflection and partial transmittance of an incident beam. On one side of the beam-splitter are a light source for directing light onto the beam-splitter and a mirror for directing back towards the beam-splitter light reflected therefrom. On the other side of the beam-splitter is a louvre for permitting passage therethrough of light of incident angle relative to a normal to the beam-splitter with in a predetermined restricted range.

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