Patent ID: 8459797

Claim:
An image viewing system comprising: a screen including a reflective diffuser with a microstructured surface to provide diffuse reflection in a specular scattering direction and an integrated lens to image an extent of the reflective diffuser into the specular scattering direction, the microstructured surface comprising grooves defined by one or more sinusoidal wave patterns, the grooves extending in a horizontal direction across the screen and exhibiting sinusoidal undulations that are oriented in a vertical direction and are coplanar with the microstructured surface; and an array of projectors, wherein each projector is positioned to project an image onto the screen with a particular angle of incidence such that each image is to pass through the integrated lens and is to be reflected back though the integrated lens by the reflective diffuser with a horizontal scattering angle determined by the microstructured surface, wherein the integrated lens is to direct each reflected image to a particular viewing area in the specular scattering direction with a size of the reflected image being defined by the horizontal scattering angle so that a viewer located in at least one viewing area receives a reflected image that is to enter one or both of the viewer's eyes when the viewer looks at the screen.