IP Library Granted Patent US 9,030,507
Granted Patent B2
US 9,030,507 · App. 13/344,389 · Granted May 12, 2015

Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus

Inventor: Akihiko Ito (Tatsuno-machi, JP)
Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
G02B27/2242G02B27/2264G09G3/003G09G3/3611H04N13/0018H04N13/0438H04N13/0497G09G2310/0205
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Patent No.
US 9,030,507
App. No.
13/344,389
Granted
May 12, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A plurality of pixel circuits include liquid crystal elements which are arranged corresponding to each intersection of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines, and display a gradation corresponding to a gradation signal of the signal line at the time of selecting the scanning line. A driving circuit sequentially selects the plurality of scanning lines as a selection unit in a first writing period of a right eye period, supplies a gradation signal corresponding to a specified gradation of a right eye image which corresponds to a specified scanning line in the selection unit to each pixel circuit, and sequentially selects a scanning line other than the specified scanning line, and supplies a gradation signal which corresponds to the specified gradation corresponding to the specified gradation to each pixel circuit, in a second writing period.

Claims (24)

1. An electro-optical device which displays a right eye image in a right eye period and a left eye image in a left eye period following the right eye period, comprising:

a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines which intersect each other;

a scanning line driving circuit which, in a first writing period of the left eye period and a first writing period of the right eye period, selects two scanning lines of the plurality of scanning lines and, in a second writing period of the left eye period and a second writing period of the right eye period, selects a one scanning line of the two scanning lines the second writing period of the left eye period following the first writing period of the left eye period and the second writing period of the right eye period following the first writing period of the right eye period, the right eye period and the left eye period being alternately set, and the right eye image and the left eye image being parallax; and

a signal line driving circuit which supplies a first gradation signal corresponding to a first pixel selected by a other scanning line of the two scanning line in the first writing period of the right eye period, which supplies a second gradation signal corresponding to a second pixel selected by the one scanning line in the second writing period of the right eye period, which supplies a third gradation signal corresponding to the first pixel selected by the other scanning line in the first writing period of the left eye period, and which supplies a fourth gradation signal corresponding to the second pixel selected by the one scanning line in the second writing period of the left eye period.

2. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a stereoscopic glasses which includes a right eye shutter and a left eye shutter;

a glasses control circuit which puts the left eye shutter and the right eye shutter into a closed state in the first writing period of the right eye period, which puts the left eye shutter into a opened state in the second writing period of the right eye period, which puts the left eye shutter and the right eye shutter into the closed state in the first writing period of the left eye period, and which puts the right eye shutter the opened state in the second writing period of the right eye period.

3. The electro-optical device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the glasses control circuit changes the right eye shutter from the closed state to the opened state at the ending point of the first writing period among the right eye period, and changes the left eye shutter from the closed state to the open state at the ending point of the first writing period among the left eye periods.

4. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first writing period and the second writing period composes a unit period, the right eye period and the left eye period are include two the unit period, the signal line driving circuit supplies the first and second and third and forth gradation signal have a reverse polarity in each of the unit period neighboring each other, in each of the right eye period and left eye period.

5. The electro-optical device according to claim 4 ,

wherein each of the right eye period and left eye period includes an even number of unit periods.

6. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the scanning line driving circuit sequentially changes a combination of the two scanning line which are selected in the first writing periods of the right eye period and the left eye period.

7. The electro-optical device according to claim 6 ,

wherein one of the combination of the two scanning line which are selected in the first writing periods of the right eye period and the left eye period and other of the combination of the two scanning line which are selected in the first writing periods of the right eye period and the left eye period in a relationship of being deviated by one row.

8. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the scanning line driving circuit selects a combination of the two scanning lines which are neighboring each other as the selection unit.

9. An electronic apparatus, comprising the electro-optical device according to claim 1 .

10. An electro-optical device which displays a first image in a first period and a second image in a second period following the first period, comprising:

a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines which intersect each other;

a scanning line driving circuit which, in a first writing period of the first period and a first writing period of the second period, selects two scanning lines of the plurality of scanning lines and, in a second writing period of the first period and a second writing period of the second period, selects a one scanning line of the two scanning lines, the second writing period of the first period following the first writing period of the first period and the second writing period of the second period following the first writing period of the second period, the first period and the second period being alternately set; and

a signal line driving circuit which supplies a first gradation signal corresponds to a first pixel selected by a other scanning line of the two scanning line in the first writing period of the first period, which supplies a second gradation signal corresponding to a second pixel selected by the one scanning line in the second writing period of the first period, which supplies a third gradation signal corresponds to the first pixel selected by the other scanning line in the first writing period of the second period, and which supplies a fourth gradation signal corresponding to the second pixel selected by the one scanning line in the second writing period of the second period.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 17, 2024
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: 138 EAST LCD ADVANCEMENTS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 067131/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 6, 2012
From: ITO, AKIHIKO
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 027496/0754 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-003057 · Jan 11, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
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