IP Library Granted Patent US 11,074,876
Granted Patent B2
US 11,074,876 · App. 14/976,635 · Granted Jul 27, 2021

Stereoscopic display device

Inventors: Takuya Asai (Kanagawa, JP); Koji Shigemura (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
G09G3/3607H04N13/305H04N13/31H04N13/317
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Patent No.
US 11,074,876
App. No.
14/976,635
Granted
Jul 27, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide a naked-eye type stereoscopic display device which can achieve a fine stereoscopic display property while achieving high-definition display and high yield. An aperture part includes overlapping regions which overlap with an aperture part or another aperture part neighboring to each other in a second direction and a non-overlapping region which does not overlap. Provided that a light amount emitted from a linear aperture of the aperture part in parallel to a second direction is “longitudinal light amount”, the non-overlapping region includes longitudinal light amount fluctuating regions where the longitudinal light amount changes continuously from roughly a center of the aperture part towards both ends of the first direction, respectively. The sum of the longitudinal light amounts of the two overlapping regions overlapping with each other at a same position in the first direction is larger than the longitudinal light amount in roughly the center of the aperture part.

Claims (27)

1. A stereoscopic display device, comprising:

a display panel including sub-pixels with optical aperture parts being disposed in a matrix form in a first direction and a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction; and

a light-ray control module which is provided to the display panel for controlling light rays towards the first direction, wherein:

provided that, for all the sub-pixels, two of the sub-pixels neighboring to each other in the first direction are defined as a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, respectively, each of the aperture parts of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel includes an overlapping region where the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel overlap with each other in the second direction and a non-overlapping region where the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel do not overlap with each other;

a longitudinal light amount emitted from a linear aperture of the aperture part in parallel to the second direction, the non-overlapping region includes a longitudinal light amount constant region where the longitudinal light amount is constant regardless of positions in the first direction and a longitudinal light amount fluctuating region where the longitudinal light amount changes continuously from the longitudinal light amount constant region towards both ends of the first direction, respectively; and

for all the first sub-pixels and the second sub-pixels arranged in the second direction, a sum of the longitudinal light amounts of the overlapping regions of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel located on a same straight line which is in parallel with the second direction is larger than the longitudinal light amount in the longitudinal light amount constant region.

2. The stereoscopic display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein

the sum of the longitudinal light amounts of the two overlapping regions overlapping with each other located at a same position in the first direction is same at any positions in the first direction.

3. The stereoscopic display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein

provided that a width of the aperture part in the second direction is defined as a longitudinal aperture width, the longitudinal aperture width in the longitudinal light amount fluctuating region continuously changes from roughly the center of the aperture part towards the both ends of the first direction, respectively.

4. The stereoscopic display device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a light dimming module that is provided by opposing to the display panel, wherein:

transmittance of the light dimming module is T 1 in the overlapping region, and changes from T 1 to T 2 in the longitudinal light amount fluctuating region; and

a relation of the transmittance satisfies T 1 >T 2 .

5. The stereoscopic display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein

provided that a width of the aperture part in the second direction is defined as a longitudinal aperture width and a maximum value of a difference between a position in the second direction at one end of the aperture part and a position in the second direction at other end of the aperture part is defined as a longitudinal aperture section, the longitudinal aperture section is larger than a maximum value of the longitudinal aperture width.

6. The stereoscopic display device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein

the positions at the one end and the other end in the second direction forming the longitudinal aperture section are same between the aperture parts that are neighboring to each other in the first direction.

7. A stereoscopic display device, comprising:

a display panel including sub-pixels with optical aperture parts being disposed in a matrix form in a first direction and a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction; and

a light-ray control module which is provided to the display panel for controlling light rays towards the first direction, wherein:

provided that, for all the sub-pixels, two of the sub-pixels neighboring to each other in the first direction are defined as a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel respectively, each of the aperture parts of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel includes an overlapping region where the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel overlap with each other in the second direction and a non-overlapping region where the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel do not overlap with each other;

a longitudinal light amount emitted from a linear aperture of the aperture part in parallel to the second direction, the non-overlapping region includes a longitudinal light amount constant region where the longitudinal light amount is constant regardless of positions in the first direction and a longitudinal light amount fluctuating region where the longitudinal light amount changes continuously from the longitudinal light amount constant region towards both ends of the first direction, respectively;

a sum of the longitudinal light amounts of the overlapping regions of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel located on a same straight line which is in parallel with the second direction is larger than the longitudinal light amount in the longitudinal light amount constant region;

each of the sub-pixels is an FFS mode liquid crystal display device and includes, inside the aperture part, a plurality of striped electrodes and slits provided in periphery of the electrodes;

an angle between a long-side direction of the slits and liquid crystal initial alignment is ψ 1 in the overlapping region, and changes from ψ 1 to ψ 2 in the longitudinal light amount fluctuating region; and

a relation of the angles satisfies ψ 1 ≠ψ 2 ,

wherein the relation satisfies: a sum of the longitudinal light amounts of the overlapping regions of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel located on a same straight line which is in parallel with the second direction is larger than the longitudinal light amount in the longitudinal light amount fluctuating region, which is larger than the longitudinal light amount in the longitudinal light amount constant region.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 17, 2019
From: TIANMA JAPAN, LTD.
To: TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 050395/0931 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 12, 2019
From: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
To: TIANMA JAPAN, LTD.
Reel/Frame 050359/0923 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 22, 2015
From: ASAI, TAKUYA; SHIGEMURA, KOJI
To: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 037347/0024 →