Patent Grant
10768355
The present application is a National Phase entry of PCT Application No. PCT/EP2018/071765, filed Aug. 10, 2018, which claims priority from German Patent Application 10 2017 007 669.3, filed Aug. 14, 2017, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.
In recent years, great strides have been made in enlarging the visual angle of LCDs. Frequently, however, there are situations in which such a very large angular viewing range of a display screen can be a disadvantage. Increasingly, information such as banking data or other private particulars and sensitive data is becoming available on mobile devices such as notebooks and tablet PCs. Accordingly, users require some control of who is allowed to see such sensitive data; they must be able to choose between a wide viewing angle in order to share displayed information with others, e.g., when looking at vacation snaps or reading advertisements, and, on the other hand, a narrow viewing angle needed to keep displayed information private.
A similar problem is encountered in vehicle manufacturing: Here, when the motor is running, the driver must not be distracted by image contents such as digital entertainment shows, whereas a front-seat passenger would like to watch them during the ride. This requires a display screen that can be switched between corresponding display modes.
Accessory films based on micro-louvers have already been used on mobile display screens to provide optical data protection in what is known as a privacy mode. However, such films are not capable of being switched between modes but have to be applied and removed manually. Also, they have to be carried separately from the display screen when not in use. Another substantial disadvantage is the light loss accompanying the use of such louver films
U.S. Pat. No. 6,765,550 B2 describes such privacy protection provided by micro-louvers. Here, the biggest disadvantages are the need to mechanically attach or remove the filter, and the light loss in the protected mode.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,993,940 A describes the use of a film the surface of which is provided with small, regularly arranged prismatic strips to create a privacy mode. The development and fabrication of this film are quite complicated.
In WO 2012/033583 A1, switching between free and restricted viewing is effected by the triggering of liquid crystals arranged between so-called “chromonic” layers. This involves a light loss, and implementation is rather complicated, too.
U.S. 2009/0067156 A1 discloses a great number of ideas to configure an illuminating system and a display device. In particular, the version illustrated there in
Regarding the configuration shown in
In the embodiment according to FIG. 7 of U.S. 2009/0067156 A1, a phosphorus layer that converts UV light into visible light is an absolute must. This is rather laborious to do; and given the aim to get sufficient light from the backlight to illuminate an LCD so that it can be read, one needs very high UV intensities. Therefore, this configuration is expensive and complicated; shielding off the UV radiation alone makes it impracticable.
U.S. 2012/0235891 A1 describes a highly complex backlight in a display screen. According to FIGS. 1 and 15, this design employs not only several light guides but also other complex optical elements such as microlens elements 40 and prism structures 50, which convert the light coming from the posterior illumination on the way to the anterior illumination. This is expensive and complicated to implement, and it involves a light loss. According to the version shown in FIG. 17 in U.S. 2012/0235891 A1, both light sources 4R and 18 produce light having a narrow illuminating angle, with the light radiated by the posterior light source 18 first being laboriously converted into light with a large illuminating angle. This complex conversion greatly diminishes brightness, as noted already above.
According to JP 2007-155783 A, special optical surfaces 19 that are difficult to compute and to manufacture are used to deflect light into varied narrow or broad regions depending on the light incidence angle. These structures are similar to Fresnel lenses. Furthermore, there exist inactive edges, which deflect light into unwanted directions. Thus, it remains uncertain whether really useful light distributions can be achieved.
For achieving restricted vision as taught by GB 2428128 A, additional light sources, which are arranged at a conspicuous distance from the display screen and illuminate a hologram attached to the display screen, are used to overlay the lateral view with special wavelengths. The disadvantages here are the necessary spacing of the light sources from the display screen, and the complexity of making suitable holograms.
U.S. 2013/0308185 A1 describes a special light guide provided with steps, which radiates light on a large area into various directions, depending on the direction in which it is illuminated from an edge. In interaction with a transmissive imager, e.g., an LC display, a display screen that is switchable between a free and a restricted viewing mode can be produced. Here, a disadvantage, among others, is that the restricted view effect can only be created either for a left/right or a top/bottom direction, but not for left/right and top/bottom directions simultaneously as needed for certain payment actions. In addition, some residual light is still visible from blocked viewing angles even in the restricted viewing mode.
In WO 2015/121398, the applicant discloses a switchable illuminating apparatus and its application. This technology, however, does not disclose any possible way to switch only part of the display screen between a free and a restricted viewing mode.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,608,614 B1 describes an LED-based backlight with an extended color space, wherein a variable color mix for a backlight is achieved through an optical element into which light of LEDs of various color values is coupled. However, the document does not disclose any teaching of how to switch between a free and a restricted viewing mode, and, especially, how to effect such switching of part of the display screen.
WO 2011/124599 A1 discloses an arrangement for light output comprising several light sources and a transparent light emission element. Here again, varied light is mixed in an optical element. That document, too, lacks any teaching of how to switch between a free and a restricted viewing mode, and, especially, how to effect such switching of part of the display screen.
In DE 10 2015 016 134 B3, finally, the present applicant discloses a display screen and a method for a free and a restricted viewing mode. Here, switching between the viewing modes is accomplished by blanketing the image at the restricted angles, rather than varying the backlight, which would make part of the display screen switchable.
The methods and arrangements mentioned above have, as a rule, the common disadvantages that they distinctly reduce the brightness of the basic display screen, and/or require an active, but at least a special, optical element for switching between the modes, and/or are complicated and expensive to fabricate, and/or degrade resolution in the free viewing mode. Especially, none of the embodiments known is capable of switching only part of the display screen between a private and a public viewing mode, except with a highly complex configuration.
Departing therefrom, the problem of the invention is to describe a display screen by which private presentation of information can be implemented by way of an optionally restricted viewing angle, with a second operating mode enabling free vision with a viewing angle that is as unrestricted as possible. In particular, it should be possible to switch merely part of the display area of the display screen. Moreover, the invention is intended to be implementable by simple means and as low-prized as possible. In both operating modes, the highest possible resolution is to be visible, with particular preference of the native resolution of the display screen used. Further, the invented solution is to cause the least possible light loss.
According to the invention, this problem is solved by a display screen that can be operated in two operating modes, viz B1 for a free viewing mode and B2 for a restricted viewing mode, on at least a partial area A of its display area (with the partial area A being a genuine partial area, i.e. smaller than, rather than equal to, the total display area of the display screen), wherein the residual display area of the display screen outside the partial area A permanently maintains a free viewing mode, comprising
The said restricted angular range may be configured symmetrically or asymmetrically about the vertical bisector of the image generator.
The second backlight is, for the greater part, arranged below the at least one partial area A, whereas the first backlight is. For the greater part, arranged below the residual display area, outside the at least one partial area A that can be operated in two operating modes. “For the greater part” means, as a rule, more than 90%, or, in most cases, even more than 95%, because feasible applications include cases—for example, oblique viewing of a display installed in a vehicle by the driver and a front-seat passenger—where a slight overlap between the first and the second backlight may be of advantage, or the common boundaries of the backlights are displaced. This applies analogously to screens possibly having several partial areas A1, A2, . . . .
The said light guide is preferably at least of the same size as the entire display area.
It is advantageous if the light guide has, on at least a partial surface area equal to that of the partial area A, but preferably on its full surface, an average haze value below 7%, or preferably below 2%, or, with particular preference, below 1%, measured according to ASTM D1003. That way, at least in mode B2, the light emitted by the second backlight in a restricted angular range is but slightly scattered when it passes the light guide, i.e. the focusing effected on the partial surface A for the B2 mode is almost not, or virtually not, cancelled by scattering in the light guide, this exactly being desired and necessary.
The light guide may consist of some thermoplastic or thermoelastic material or of glass. The light guide or its substrate may, for example, contain at least 40 wt.-%, or preferably 60 wt.-%, of polymethylmethacrylate, related to its weight. Alternatively, the material contained may be polycarbonate (PC) or PET, e.g. Other configurations are possible as well.
Advantageously, the light guide is, on at least one of its large surfaces and/or within its volume, provided with outcoupling elements for the outcoupling of light. Preferably but not necessarily, these are distributed over at least one of the large surfaces of the light guide and/or within its volume in such a way that outcoupling from the light guide of at least 80% of the light emitted by the light sources is effected on (only) one of the large surfaces of the light source.
The outcoupling of at least 80% of the light emitted by the light sources from one of the large surfaces of the light guide inherently means that maximally 20% of all the light outcoupled is outcoupled from the respective other large surface. This fact not necessarily means that in every case more than 80% of the light emitted by the light sources and coupled into the light guide is outcoupled from the one large surface, but related to more than 80% of the total quantity of light outcoupled by both large surfaces together. This clarification is necessary, since, due to losses, it is never the total light fed to the light guide that is outcoupled through the large surfaces. However, in advantageous embodiments of the invention it is actually possible, though not a necessary condition, that more than 80% of the light fed into the light guide by the light sources is outcoupled through a large surface in a planar fashion.
The outcoupling elements may be, e.g., microlenses and/or microprisms and/or diffractive structures and/or structural elements and have maximum dimensions of 100 μm, but preferably between 1 μm and 15 μm. Diffractive structures employed may be a hologram or a grating/diffraction grating. The structural elements may have a three-dimensional extension, e.g. be of a prismatic shape.
Thus, if they are provided on at least one of the large surfaces of the light guide, the outcoupling elements are advantageously formed from some plastic structured by means of a tool. This is possible in mass production, e.g., by applying a UV-curing material (e.g., a lacquer or varnish, a monomer, etc.) onto a light guide substrate, structuring the said material by means of a tool and curing it by UV radiation, e.g., polymerization. Other materials curable by radiation may also be used. In that way, e.g., grating structures, microprisms or microlenses (convex, with the plastic parts protruding from the surface and/or concave (embossed or recessed within the surface layer of the structured plastic) can be mass-produced at low cost.
Alternatively, the outcoupling elements may consist, e.g., of nanoparticles, titanium dioxide, barium sulfate, silsesquioxane particles and/or cross-linked polystyrene particles of a mean particle size of 150-500 nm, which are used in a concentration, relative to the weight of the light guide, of 0.01-300 wt.-ppm (ppm=parts per million, related to the weight).
It is further possible that
The first backlight in a display screen according to the invention may consist, e.g., of
The neutral filter serves for the defined, essentially wavelength-independent attenuation of the light intensity. This is helpful to make the brightnesses perceived in the partial area A and its complementary display areas homogeneous or equally bright, and to avoid, or at least reduce, any visible transitions between the two backlights in viewing the image.
The first backlight in a display screen according to the invention may consist, for example, of
Both backlights preferably use a planar emitter in common.
Accordingly, the planar emitter can basically have a design similar to that of a backlight, being, for example, a side light, edgelight, direct LED backlight, edge LED backlight, OLED or some other planar emitter, on which the other components mentioned are applied.
It is further possible to for the second backlight to be a directed backlight.
Furthermore, the top surface of the image generator and/or at least one of the large surfaces of the light guide may be provided with means that reduce reflections, e.g., an antiglare or antireflection coating.
Finally it is possible to provide more than one partial surface A on which the said switching between the operating modes B1 and B2 can be done. In addition, further backlights may be provided.
A display screen according to the invention may be used, e.g., in a vehicle for displaying image content optionally on the partial area A to the front-seat passenger only in B1 mode, or simultaneously for driver and front-seat passenger in B1 mode, whereas the partial area(s) complementary to the partial area A of the display screen's display area are permanently visible to driver and front-seat passenger. Thus, it is possible to display, e.g., visual entertainment data such as digital TV, videos or Internet data can be presented on partial area A without offering them visually to the driver. This helps compliance with regulations for preventing distraction of the driver from his driving tasks. The display area complementary to the partial area A can display contents relevant for the driver, such as navigation images and texts, operating interfaces for the radio, air conditioning or the like.
A display screen according to the invention can just as well be used for entering or displaying confidential data, e.g., PINs, e-mails. SMSs or passwords at ATM machines, payment terminals or mobile devices. Many other applications are feasible.
In another favorable embodiment of the invention, in mode B1, as a function of specified limiting angles σ, γ, the outcoupled light exiting from the light guide at an angle β will, at every point of the light guide surface in angular ranges satisfying the conditions of 80°>β>γ and/or −80°<β<−σ, with 10°<γ<80° and 10°<σ<80° and preferably with γ=σ=40° or γ=σ=20°, measured normal to the light guide surface and in at least one of the two preferred directions, have maximally 80%, preferably 60% or, with particular preference, maximally 50% of the light intensity of the light exiting from such a point of the light guide surface along the surface normal.
The two preferred directions are mutually perpendicular and lie in a plane on the light guide 3 or on the surface of the backlight 2. In operation, e.g. at a payment terminal or in a motor vehicle, the display screen is fixed relative to its outer environment, and the preferred directions, irrespective of a portrait or landscape orientation of the display screen, can be assigned, e.g., the terms “vertical” and “horizontal”, which actually relate to the outer coordinate system of the environment. “Vertical” corresponds to the top-to-bottom, and “horizontal” to the left-to-right direction on the display screen.
Often, the preferred direction selected is the vertical orientation. Without loss of generality, a negative angle is, in this case, assigned to the side on which the light is coupled in, an angle of −90° thus corresponding to a direction from which light is coupled in. The limiting angles σ, γ are firmly specified to in accordance with the optical performance desired for the respective application. In case of the preferred limiting angles γ=σ=40°, then, the luminous intensity condition applies only for angles between −40° and −80° and between 40° and 80°. The smaller the limiting angles σ, γ, the more the light in the respective preferred direction(s) is concentrated on the vertical bisector. In a car, for example, where in mode B1 the driver and the front-seat passenger look, with well definable viewing angles, at a display screen provided with the invented illuminating apparatus, the limiting angles σ, γ may rather be chosen to be smaller than 40°. In a laptop, by contrast, due to the hinged display screen and the universal using scenario regarding the viewing angles of different persons, limiting angles around 40° or larger may be useful. Possibly, the 80° limit may be 70°, instead.
Thereby, one achieves, e.g., a reduction of disturbing reflections in the windshield, especially in night-time driving, if the invented illuminating apparatus is installed in a vehicle. Furthermore, if the above-mentioned condition is satisfied, a distinct efficiency of outcoupling from the light guide is attained without the use of any focusing layers such as prism films or the like.
In all embodiments mentioned above, the said light sources may be LEDs or LED rows or laser diodes. Other versions are feasible and are within the scope of the invention.
Furthermore, the desired restricted angular ranges for a restricted view of the partial area A in mode B2 may be defined and implemented separately for the horizontal and vertical directions. In the vertical direction, for example, a larger angle than in the horizontal direction, or else no restriction at all, might be useful, say, if, at an ATM, persons of differing body heights are to see an image, whereas sideways viewing is to remain greatly or completely restricted. For POS payment terminals, on the other hand, safety regulations frequently necessitate viewing restrictions in mode B2 both in horizontal and vertical directions.
In a special embodiment, an additional light guide, which is provided with means for light outcoupling and into which light from additional light sources can be fed laterally, is arranged in front of the image generator (in viewing direction). This added light guide can be implemented, for example, with the same or similar means as the above-mentioned light guide below the image generator. Here, in operating mode B1 for a free viewing mode, the additional light sources are switched off so that the entire image remains essentially uninfluenced by them. In mode B2, by contrast, if lateral viewing of the partial area A is markedly reduced, the additional light sources are switched on, so that the added light guide radiates light, preferably towards one side (left or right), or simultaneously toward the left and the right. This light will blanket any residual artefacts that may otherwise be visible on the partial area A from an angle outside the restricted angle.
Preferably, the added light guide and/or the additional light sources are configured in such a way that the said blanketing is effective essentially only above the partial area A. Due to this configuration, then, any unintentional residual light in mode B2 in angular ranges that are actually intended to be protected from viewing can be outshone to such an extent that no contrast is perceived on the partial area A and, thus, no image can be seen from the non-enabled angles.
The additional light sources eligible are adapted to radiate colored or white light, and they can radiate light of a color that is not present in the image displayed by the transmissive image generator.
Alternatively it is possible for the additional light sources to radiate light of a color that is present in the image displayed by the transmissive image generator or is close to such a color in the color spectrum. Finally, it is feasible for the additional light sources to radiate light of a color approximately corresponding to a color complementary to a color present in the image displayed by the transmissive image generator. “Colored light” is understood especially to be visible light that is not white, e.g. light of red, green, blue, turquoise, cyan, magenta or yellow color. Further, this light can optionally be radiated at various brightness levels. Moreover, it is possible for the chromatic properties, e.g. the color and/or brightness, of the light emitted by the additional light sources to be modulated in time. Also, the additional light sources may comprise different light sources, such as, e.g., RGB LEDs in LED rows radiating light of different colors and/or different brightnesses either simultaneously or at different times, and/or staggered.
On principle, the performance of this invention remains unaffected even if the parameters described above are varied within certain limits.
It is understood that the features mentioned before and those to be explained below are applicable not only in the combinations stated but also in other combinations or as stand-alone features without leaving the scope of the present invention.
Below, the invention will be explained in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which also show features essential to the invention, among others, and in which:
The drawings are not to scale and illustrate principles only.
In the B2 mode shown in
The said restricted angular range may be arranged either symmetrically or asymmetrically relative to the surface normal of the image generator 5. With an asymmetric arrangement, the image in the B2 mode can be made well visible to a front-seat passenger who, due to his/her seated position, looks at the display screen 1 obliquely.
Advantageously, the light guide 3, on a partial area whose surface area is the same size as that of partial area A but preferably on its entire area, has an average haze value below 7%, preferably below 2%, or particularly preferably below 1%, measured according to ASTM D1003, whereby the light radiated by the backlight at least in B2 mode in a restricted angular range is only negligibly, if at all, scattered at angles outside the said angular range when it passes the light guide; i.e., the bundle of light formed on partial area A for the B2 mode is almost not, or virtually not, spread out again by scattering in the light guide 3, which is exactly what is desired and required.
The light guide 3 may consist of some thermoplastic or thermoelastic material or of glass. The light guide or its substrate may, for example, contain at least 40 wt.-%, or preferably 60 wt.-%, of polymethylmethacrylate, related to its weight. Alternatively, the material contained may be polycarbonate (PC) or PET, e.g. Other configurations are possible as well.
Advantageously, the light guide 3 has outcoupling elements 6 for the outcoupling of light disposed on at least one of its large surfaces and/or within its volume. Preferably, but not necessarily, these elements are distributed on at least one of the large surfaces and/or within the volume of the light guide 3 in such a way that at least 80% of the light originating from the light sources 4 is coupled out of the light guide 3 through one of its large surfaces.
Light, then, is coupled in laterally into light guide 3 by the light sources 4, e.g., by LEDs. Due to total reflection, rays of the coupled-in light (represented by bold rays) are reflected by the outer wall and thrown back into the light guide 3 until they finally (probably after repeated hits) hit an outcoupling element 6 to undergo the desired outcoupling. The outcoupling is represented by the thin rays. For better understanding, the representation in
By contrast,
Outcoupling at least 80% of the light emitted by the light sources 4 from one of the large surfaces of the light guide 3 inherently means that maximally 20% of the total light outcoupled is outcoupled from the respective other large surface. This fact does not necessarily mean that in any case more than 80% of the light coupled into the light guide 3 by the light sources 4 is coupled out through the one large surface, but refers to more than 80% of the total light coupled out. This clarification is necessary, since, due to losses, it is never the total light fed to the light guide 3 that is outcoupled through the large surfaces. However, in advantageous embodiments of the invention it is actually possible, though not a necessary condition, that more than 80% of the light fed into the light guide 3 by the light sources 4 is outcoupled through a large surface in a planar fashion.
The outcoupling elements 6 may consist, e.g., of microlenses and/or microprisms and/or diffractive structures and/or structural elements and have maximum dimensions of 100 μm, or preferably between 1 μm and 15 μm. The diffractive structures may, for example, be a hologram or a grating/diffraction grating. The structural elements may have a three-dimensional extension, e.g. a prism shape.
Thus, if they are provided on at least one of the large surfaces of the light guide 3, the outcoupling elements 6 are advantageously formed from some plastic structured by means of a tool. This is possible in mass production, e.g., by applying a UV-curing material (e.g., a lacquer or varnish, a monomer, etc.) onto a light guide substrate, structuring the said material by means of a tool and curing it by UV radiation, e.g., polymerization. Other materials curable by radiation may also be used.
In that way, e.g., grating structures, microprisms or microlenses (convex, with the plastic parts protruding from the surface and/or concave (embossed or recessed within the surface layer of the structured plastic) can be mass-produced at low cost.
Alternatively, the outcoupling elements 6 may consist, e.g., of nanoparticles, titanium dioxide, barium sulfate, silsesquioxane particles and/or cross-linked polystyrene particles of a mean particle size of 150-500 nm, which are employed in a concentration of 0.01-300 wt.-ppm (ppm=parts per million, referred to the weight of the light guide 3).
It is further possible that
Here, in mode B1 for a free viewing mode, the further light sources 7a are switched off, so that the entire image remains essentially unaffected by the further light guide 7. In mode B2, however, where lateral perceptibility on the partial area A is markedly reduced, the additional light sources 7a are switched on, whereby the added light guide 7 radiates light, preferably towards one side (left or right), or simultaneously toward the left and the right (or up and down) (as indicated in
Preferably, the added light guide 7 and/or the additional light sources 7a are configured only to an extent needed to ensure this blanketing above the partial area A, as indicated in
Alternatively, it is possible for the additional light sources 7a to emit light of a color that is present in the image displayed by the transmissive image generator 5 or is close to such a color in the color spectrum. Finally, it is feasible that the additional light sources 7a emit light of a color approximately corresponding to the color complementary to a color present in the image displayed by the transmissive image generator. The term “colored light” especially designates visible light that is not white, e.g., light of the colors red, green, blue, turquois, cyan, magenta or yellow. Further, this light may optionally be emitted at varied brightness levels. Also, it is possible to modulate the chromaticity, e.g., the color and/or brightness, of the light emitted by the light sources 7a in time. Moreover, the light sources 7a can be implemented with individual light sources 7a1, 7a2, . . . of different kinds, such as RGB-LEDs in LED rows, that emit light of varied colors and/or brightness simultaneously or at temporal and/or spatial intervals.
In a display screen 1 according to the invention, the first backlight 2a shown may consist, e.g., of
The neutral filter 2a4 serves for the defined, essentially wavelength-independent attenuation of the light intensity. This is helpful for attaining the best possible homogeneity of the brightnesses perceived in the partial area A and the display areas complementary to it.
In a display screen 1 according to the invention, the second backlight 2a shown in
Both backlights 2a, 2b preferably use a planar emitter 2ab1 in common, as shown in
Accordingly, the planar emitter 2ab1 may basically be designed like a backlight, e.g., a sidelight, edgelight, direct LED backlight, edge LED backlight, OLED or other planar emitter, on which the other components mentioned are applied.
Further, the backlight 2b may also be a directed backlight.
A display screen 1 according to the invention can be used, e.g., in a vehicle for the selective presentation of image contents on the partial area A either visible only to a front-seat passenger in B2 mode, or simultaneously to the driver and a front-seat passenger in B1 mode, whereas the partial display area(s) of the display screen 1 that is/are complementary to the partial area(s) A is/are permanently visible to the driver and the front-seat passenger. Thus, e.g., visual entertainment data such as digital TV, videos or Internet data can be presented to the front-seat passenger on the partial area A without presenting them visually to the driver. This helps compliance with regulations for preventing distraction of the driver from his driving tasks. A display screen according to the invention can just as well be used for entering or displaying confidential data, e.g., PINs, e-mails. SMSs or passwords at ATM machines, payment terminals or mobile devices. Many other applications are feasible.
In all embodiments described above, the said light sources may be LEDs or LED rows or laser diodes. Other versions are feasible and are within the scope of the invention.
Furthermore, the desired restricted angular ranges for a restricted view of the partial area A in mode B2 may be defined and implemented separately for the horizontal and vertical directions. In the vertical direction, for example, a larger angle than in the horizontal direction, or else no restriction at all, might be useful, say, if, at an ATM, persons of differing body heights are to see an image, whereas sideways viewing is to remain greatly or completely restricted. For POS payment terminals, on the other hand, safety regulations frequently necessitate viewing restrictions in mode B2 both in horizontal and vertical directions.
The invented display screen described above solves the problem of the invention: It permits well-implementable practical solutions providing the private-proof presentation of information by means of an optionally restricted viewing angle, whereas enabling free viewing without any restriction of the viewing angle in a separate operating mode. Switching the display screen between modes can also be selected to act on part of the display screen's display area only. The invention can be put into practice by simple means and at affordable cost. In both operating modes, the native resolution of the image display device employed can be utilized. Moreover, the solution causes but little light loss.
The invention described above can be used to advantage wherever confidential data are displayed and/or entered, such as in entering PINs or passwords, data display at ATMs or payment terminals, or reading e-mails on mobile devices. As also described above, the invention can also be used to advantage in cars.
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