ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,258, issued on April 7, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).
"Display device" was invented by Shinichi Komura (Tokyo) and Kazutaka Nagaoka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a display device includes an illumination device, a display panel opposed, a first retardation film, a holographic optical element, a second retardation film, a reflection polarizer spaced apart from the holographic optical element, and configured to transmit first linearly polarized light and reflect second linearly polarized light orthogonal to the first linearly polarized light, and a polarization conversion element loc...