BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 shows an example scanning laser display system having a fluorescent screen made of laser-excitable fluorescent materials (e.g., phosphors) emitting colored lights under excitation of a scanning laser beam that carries the image information to be displayed.
FIGS. 2A and 2B show one example screen structure with parallel fluorescent stripes and the structure of color pixels on the screen in FIG. 1.
FIG. 2C shows another example for a fluorescent screen with fluorescent stripes formed by placing parallel optical filters over the layer of a uniform fluorescent layer which emits white light under optical excitation.
FIGS. 3 and 4 show two different scanning beam displays.
FIG. 5 shows an example implementation of the laser module in FIG. 3 having multiple lasers that direct multiple laser beams on the screen.
FIG. 6 shows one example for time division on each modulated laser beam 120 where each color pixel time is equally divided into three sequential time slots for the three color channels.
FIG. 7 shows one example for simultaneously scanning consecutive scan lines with multiple excitation laser beams.
FIG. 8 shows one example of a scanning display system using a servo feedback control and an on-screen optical sensing unit.
FIG. 9 shows one example of a fluorescent screen with on-screen optical servo detectors.
FIG. 10 shows one example of a scanning display system using a servo feedback control and an off-screen optical sensing unit.
FIG. 11 shows an example of a fluorescent screen having peripheral reference mark regions that include servo reference marks that produce feedback light for various servo control functions.
FIG. 12 shows a start of line reference mark in a peripheral reference mark region to provide a reference for the beginning of the active fluorescent area on the screen.
FIG. 13 shows an example of a vertical beam position reference mark for the screen in FIG. 11.
FIGS. 14A and 14B show a servo feedback control circuit and its operation in using the vertical beam position reference mark in FIG. 13 to control the vertical beam position on the screen.
FIGS. 15 and 16 show another example of a vertical beam position reference mark for the screen in FIG. 11 and a corresponding servo feedback control circuit.
FIG. 17 shows an example of a laser actuator that controls the vertical direction of the laser beam for the servo control of the vertical beam position on the screen.
FIG. 18 shows an example of a beam focus sensing mark for the screen in FIG. 11 to provide a servo feedback for controlling the beam focus on the screen.
FIG. 19 shows one implementation of the screen in FIG. 11 that includes various reference marks including a power sensing mark for monitoring the optical power of the excitation beam on the screen
FIGS. 20A, 20B, 20C and 20D illustrate an operation of the servo feedback control in scanning display system in FIG. 8 based on detecting a test pattern for red, green and blue colors.
FIG. 21 shows one example of a scanning display system with servo feedback control based on servo reference marks on the screen and a temporal variation on the timing of the optical pulses in the excitation beam.
FIGS. 22, 23 and 24 show examples of fluorescent screens having servo reference marks that produce feedback light for the servo control.
FIG. 25 shows timing of optical pulses and beam positions on a fluorescent screen with fluorescent stripes.
FIGS. 26A, 26B and 26C illustrate operations of servo reference marks on stripe dividers in a fluorescent screen when the pulse is turned on at different beam positions along the horizontal scan direction perpendicular to the fluorescent stripes.
FIG. 27 shows spatial dependency of reflected excitation signals by servo reference marks on stripe dividers in a fluorescent screen.
FIG. 28 illustrates three regions within a subpixel that have three different power levels for the reflected excitation signals, where servo reference marks are formed on stripe dividers.
FIGS. 29, 30, 31 and 32 illustrate operations of the servo reference marks formed on stripe dividers in response to a periodic temporal delay signal on the timing of the optical pulses in the excitation beam.
FIG. 33 illustrates generation of error signals from the reflected signals from the servo reference marks on stripe dividers based on the periodic temporal delay signal on the timing of the optical pulses in the excitation beam shown in FIGS. 20, 30, 31 and 32.
FIGS. 34, 35 and 36 illustrate examples of calibrating a fluorescent screen by scanning the screen in a CW mode to obtain measurements of a detected reflected feedback light as a function of the scan time for a portion of one horizontal scan, the respective output of the peak detector and the sampling clock signal.
FIG. 37 illustrates scanning of the vertical scanner (e.g., the galvo mirror) in the scanning display shown in FIG. 5.
FIGS. 38, 39A and 39B illustrates an effect of a pyramidal error of the polygon scanner on the beam position on the screen.
FIG. 40 illustrates a dithering operation of the vertical scanner in the scanning display in FIG. 5.
FIGS. 41 and 42 illustrate use of vertical reference marks in a peripheral region of the screen to detect pyramidal errors of facets of the polygon scanner in a scanning display system.
FIG. 43 shows an example of a scanning beam display system that implements a pyramidal error monitor mechanism and a pyramidal error correction mechanism.
FIG. 44 shows correction of pyramidal errors in display one video frame in an example system based on the design in FIG. 43.
Patent Application
20070187616
