Display device, driving method thereof, terminal device, and display panel
View Patent ↗To provide a plural-viewpoint display device having an image separating optical element such as a lenticular lens or a parallax barrier, which is capable of arranging thin film transistors and wirings while achieving substantially trapezoid apertures and high numerical aperture, and to provide a driving method thereof, a terminal device, and a display panel. A neighboring pixel pair arranged with a gate line interposed therebetween is connected to the gate line placed between the pixels, each of the pixels configuring the neighboring pixel pair is connected to the data line different from each other, and each of the neighboring pixel pairs neighboring to each other in an extending direction of the gate lines is connected to the gate line different from each other.
1. A display device comprising:
data lines for supplying display data to pixels;
pixel switches for transmitting display data signals from the data lines to the pixels; and
gate lines for controlling the pixel switches,
wherein a neighboring pixel pair arranged with the data line interposed therebetween is supplied with the display data by the data line that is provided those pixels,
wherein each of the pixels configuring the neighboring pixel pair is connected to the gate line different from each other, wherein each of the neighboring pixel pairs neighboring to each other in an extending direction of the data lines is supplied with the display data by the data line different from each other, and
wherein, when arranging each of the pixels configuring the neighboring pixel pairs vertically in top and bottom with a common data line interposed therebetween, there are arranged the neighboring pixel pairs each having an upper-side pixel controlled by a left-side gate line and the neighboring pixel pairs each having an upper-side pixel controlled by a right-side gate line.
2. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, when one of the neighboring pixel pairs neighboring to each other in an extending direction of the data lines shows an image for a first viewpoint, the other neighboring pixel pair shows an image for a viewpoint different from the first viewpoint.
3. The display device as claimed in claim 2 , further comprising an optical element for distributing light from a pixel showing the image for the first viewpoint and light from a pixel showing the image for the viewpoint different from the first viewpoint towards different directions.
4. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a display area of the pixel is in a substantially trapezoid shape.
5. The display device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the pixel switch is disposed in an upper-bottom side of the trapezoid display area of the pixel.