Multiview backlight, display, and method employing active emitters

A multiview display comprising:

• an array of active emitters spaced apart from one another on a planar substrate, active emitters of the active emitter array being configured to provide directional light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to different view directions of a multiview image;
• and
• an array of light valves configured to modulate the directional light beams and provide the multiview image, the array of light valves being arranged as a plurality of multiview pixels,
• wherein a size of an active emitter of the active emitter array is between one-half and two times a size of a light valve of the light valve array, and wherein a distance between adjacent active emitters is commensurate with a distance between adjacent multiview pixels.

A method of multiview display operation, the method comprising:

• emitting a plurality of directional light beams using an array of active emitters spaced apart on a planar substrate, directional light beams of the directional light beam plurality having different principal angular directions corresponding to respective different view directions of a multiview image;
• and
• modulating the plurality of directional light beams using an array of light valves arranged as a plurality of multiview pixels to display the multiview image,
• wherein a size of an active emitter of the active emitter array is comparable to a size of a light valve of the light valve array and a distance between adjacent active emitters in the active emitter array is commensurate with a distance between adjacent multiview pixels.