Sight controllable display device and terminal having the same
View Patent ↗To provide a sight controllable display device that is capable of switching a regular display and a concealed display easily. A display panel and a modulator are disposed between two polarizing plates. The display panel performs a regular display drive. Meanwhile, the modulator drives to operate at a speed faster than twice the speed of the display panel and modulate the display image of the display panel. When displaying an image that is desired to be concealed, the period where the modulator is not in action is selected and viewed by a shutter. By stopping the action of the modulator, the regular display can be viewed as it is without the shutter.
1. A sight controllable display device, comprising:
two polarizing plates;
a display panel provided between the two polarizing plates;
a modulator provided between the display panel and either one of the two polarizing plates; and
an observing shutter,
wherein:
light is received by a first one of the two polarizing plates and then transmitted from a second one of the two polarizing plates to the observing shutter the display panel forms an image by changing transmittance of the light that transmits through the two polarizing plates;
the modulator repeats an inversion mode for inverting the image formed on the display panel and a noninversion mode for not inverting the image; and
the observing shutter is for observing the display panel, which repeats a translucent mode for transmitting the light and a shielding mode for not transmitting the light in connection with an action of the modulator.
2. The sight controllable display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the observing shutter turns to the shielding mode when the modulator is in the inversion mode and turns to the translucent mode when the modulator is in the noninversion mode.
3. The sight controllable display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the modulator repeats the inversion mode and the noninversion mode by modulating a birefringence amount or optical rotation property, which is added to the light prior to being provided to the display panel or the light that has been transmitted through the display panel.
4. The sight controllable display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the modulator repeats the inversion mode and the noninversion mode by modulating a depolarization characteristic that is added to the light prior to being provided to the display panel or the light that has been transmitted through the display panel.
5. The sight controllable display device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the modulator is constituted with a compound of a liquid crystal and a polymer.
6. The sight controllable display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the modulator is divided into a plurality of segments, and repeats the inversion mode and the noninversion mode for each of the segments.
7. The sight controllable display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the modulator repeats the inversion mode and the noninversion mode in accordance with a sequence of two values or more.
8. A terminal, comprising the sight controllable display device as claimed in claim 1 .
9. The sight controllable display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the modulator includes a plurality of segment patterns.
10. The sight controllable display device as claimed in claim 9 , wherein modulation amounts in each of the plurality of segment patterns differ from each other.
11. The sight controllable display device as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the modulation amounts differ with time.