US 12,216,296 B2
Multiview display and method with dynamically reconfigurable multiview pixels
David A. Fattal, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to LEIA INC., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed by LEIA INC., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 19, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/128,099.
Application 17/128,099 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2018/040420, filed on Jun. 29, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0149213 A1, May 20, 2021
Int. Cl. G02B 30/33 (2020.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01); G02F 1/13 (2006.01); G02F 1/133 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 30/33 (2020.01) [G02B 6/0038 (2013.01); G02F 1/1323 (2013.01); G02F 1/13306 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multiview display comprising:
a plurality of multibeam elements spaced apart from one another and configured to provide directional light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to different view directions of the multiview display; and
an array of light valves configured to modulate the directional light beams as a multiview image to be displayed by the multiview display,
the array of light valves being tiled into mutually exclusive sets with a tiling that is dynamically reconfigurable to provide the multiview image having a dynamic field of view (FOV),
each light valve of each set of light valves being located to modulate a single directional light beam from a corresponding single multibeam element of the plurality of multibeam elements.