IP Library Granted Patent US 7,542,110
Granted Patent B2
US 7,542,110 · App. 11/067,943 · Granted Jun 2, 2009

Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus

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Patent No.
US 7,542,110
App. No.
11/067,943
Granted
Jun 2, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide a liquid crystal display device having a high display quality and an excellent display characteristic and an electronic apparatus using the same. A liquid crystal display device includes color filter portions each having a plurality of colored layers in a unit pixel and a liquid crystal layer for controlling the amount of light passing through the color filter portions. The color filter portion has in the unit pixel first to third colored layers respectively having first and third peak wavelengths in a wavelength selection characteristic and a fourth colored layer having a peak wavelength between the first peak wavelength and the second peak wavelength, and a peak wavelength of a spectral characteristic of light passing through the liquid crystal layer corresponds to the fourth peak wavelength.

Claims (13)

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

color filter portions each having a plurality of colored layers in a unit pixel;

a liquid crystal layer for controlling the amount of light passing through the color filter portions; and

an illuminating unit for emitting light through the colored layers and the liquid crystal layer,

wherein the color filter portion has, in the unit pixel, blue, green, and red colored layers respectively having blue, green, and red transmittance peak wavelengths at blue, green, and red regions respectively, and a cyan colored layer having a cyan transmittance peak wavelength between the blue transmittance peak wavelength and the green transmittance peak wavelength, the cyan transmittance peak wavelength having a peak transmittance (%) that is greater than a peak transmittance (%) of the blue transmittance peak wavelength, and

the illuminating unit has a cyan emission brightness peak wavelength corresponding to the cyan transmittance peak wavelength in the spectral characteristic of the cyan colored layer, and an emission brightness at a blue emission brightness peak wavelength that is greater than an emission brightness at the cyan emission brightness peak wavelength.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a reflective portion for reflecting external light to the colored layers.

3. An electronic apparatus having the liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 .

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein

an order of transmittance peak wavelengths of the colored layers, from smallest to largest, is blue, cyan, green and red, and

an order of emission brightness peak wavelengths of the illuminating unit, from smallest to largest, is cyan, green, blue and red.

5. The liquid crystal device according to claim 1 , wherein

the emission brightness at the blue emission brightness peak wavelength is more than twice the emission brightness at the cyan emission brightness peak wavelength.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 15, 2018
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: 138 EAST LCD ADVANCEMENTS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 046153/0397 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 1, 2005
From: MAEDA, TSUYOSHI; CHINO, EIJI; NACHI, IKUTAKA
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 016341/0753 →