US Patent Issued to LEIA on June 10 for "Multiview display and method using effective light sources" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,580, issued on June 10, was assigned to LEIA Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Multiview display and method using effective light sources" was invented by Thomas Hoekman (Menlo Park, Calif.) and David A. Fattal (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiview display and method employ an array of lenses to provide effective light sources from semi-collimated light. The multiview display includes a semi-collimated backlight configured to provide the semi-collimated light, an array of light valves arranged as multiview pixels, and an array of lenses disposed between the semi-collimated backlight and the array of lenses. Each...