IP Library Granted Patent US 9,729,848
Granted Patent B2
US 9,729,848 · App. 15/179,412 · Granted Aug 8, 2017

Display device

Inventors: Yasunori Niwano (Tokyo, JP); Toshiaki Fujino (Tokyo, JP); Yoshimitsu Ishikawa (Tokyo, JP); Syuichi Kira (Tokyo, JP); Shingo Nagano (Tokyo, JP); Kazuhiro Ishiguchi (Tokyo, JP); Kazunori Okumoto (Tokyo, JP); Akimasa Yuuki (Tokyo, JP); Tetsuya Satake (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
H04N13/0033G02B27/2214G09G3/3607H04N13/0413H04N13/0422H04N13/0475H04N13/0497G09G2300/0452H04N2213/002
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Patent No.
US 9,729,848
App. No.
15/179,412
Granted
Aug 8, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

The display device includes a display panel on which sub-pixel pairs are arranged in a lateral direction, and a parallax barrier shutter panel on which sub-openings that can be changed between a light transmittance state and a light-shielding state are arranged in a lateral direction. Arbitrary allocated number of adjacent sub-openings among the plural sub-openings belonging to a reference parallax barrier pitch are put into a light transmittance state, and the remaining sub-openings are put into a light-shielding state, so that a general opening is formed on the parallax barrier shutter panel. A sub-opening pitch of the sub-opening on the boundary part between the adjacent common driving areas is different from the sub-opening pitch of the other sub-openings.

Claims (16)

1. A display device that can simultaneously display left and right images, the device comprising:

a display panel on which a sub-pixel pair including two sub-pixels for displaying said left and right images, is arranged in a longitudinal direction and in a lateral direction; and

an optical induction member having openings which are arranged in a vertical stripe, and guide light emitted from said sub-pixel displaying said left image and light emitted from said sub-pixel displaying said right image in different directions, wherein

a first main color, a second main color, a third main color, and a fourth main color, decreasing the brightness in this order, are assigned on one-to-one basis to four sub-pixels in each row in said sub-pixels of a 4×4 matrix repetitively arranged in the longitudinal direction and in the lateral direction,

one of said sub-pixels to which said third main color or said fourth main color is assigned is arranged between said sub-pixel to which said first main color is assigned and said sub-pixel to which said second main color is assigned, as for said four sub-pixels in each row,

said sub-pixels in a first row to which said first main color and said second main color are assigned and said sub-pixels in a third row to which said second main color and said first main color are assigned are arranged on same lines, respectively, and

said sub-pixels in a second row to which said first main color and said second main color are assigned and said sub-pixels in a fourth row to which said second main color and said first main color are assigned are arranged on same lines, respectively.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

in said 4×4 sub-pixels in the matrix, said sub-pixels in the first row to which said third main color and said fourth main color are assigned and said sub-pixels in the third row to which said fourth main color and said third main color are assigned are arranged on same lines, respectively, and

said sub-pixels in the second row to which said third main color and said fourth main color are assigned and said sub-pixels in the fourth row to which said fourth main color and said third main color are assigned are arranged on same lines, respectively.

3. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

said first main color is white.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

said sub-pixels to which a plurality of said first main colors are assigned are obliquely arranged with respect to the lines and the rows of said sub-pixels, said sub-pixels to which said plurality of first main colors are assigned being adjacent to each other.

5. The display device according to claim 3 , wherein

said sub-pixels to which a plurality of said first main colors are assigned are obliquely arranged with respect to the lines and the rows of said sub-pixels, said sub-pixels to which said plurality of first main colors are assigned being adjacent to each other.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 7, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
To: TRIVALE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Reel/Frame 062668/0461 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 10, 2016
From: NIWANO, YASUNORI; FUJINO, TOSHIAKI; ISHIKAWA, YOSHIMITSU; KIRA, SYUICHI; NAGANO, SHINGO; ISHIGUCHI, KAZUHIRO; OKUMOTO, KAZUNORI; YUUKI, AKIMASA; SATAKE, TETSUYA
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 038880/0892 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-213600 · Sep 27, 2012 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 14034392 · Sep 23, 2013
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