Multiview display and method with dynamically reconfigurable multiview pixels

A multiview display comprising:

• a light guide configured to guide light along a length of the light guide as guided light;
• a plurality of multibeam elements configured to scatter out from the light guide a portion of the guided light as directional light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to different view directions of the multiview display;
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• an array of light valves configured to modulate the directional light beams as a multiview image,
• 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) based on a condition of the multiview display,
• 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.

A method of multiview display operation, the method comprising:

• providing directional light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to different view directions of a multiview image using a plurality of multibeam elements spaced apart from one another;
• modulating the directional light beams to display the multiview image using an array of light valves, 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;
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• dynamically reconfiguring the tiling of the array of light valves according to a condition of the multiview display to provide the dynamic field of view (FOV) based on the condition of the multiview display.