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US 8,063,931 · App. 11/785,869 · Granted Nov 22, 2011

Stereoscopic display apparatus

Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
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Patent No.
US 8,063,931
App. No.
11/785,869
Granted
Nov 22, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A stereoscopic display apparatus includes a display having pixels arrayed in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction to form a matrix, each pixel including sub-pixels with color components, and a control element opposed to the display and having linear openings extending in the longitudinal direction and arrayed in the lateral direction. The openings of any two sub-pixels adjacent in the lateral direction always overlap regardless of a position in the lateral direction. The sum of the longitudinal components of the opening ratios of s adjacent in the lateral direction is constant.

Claims (10)

1. A stereoscopic display apparatus comprising:

a display including pixels arrayed in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction in a matrix shape, each of the pixels comprising sub-pixels with color components, openings of any two adjacent sub-pixels in the lateral direction always overlapping regardless of a position in the lateral direction, and the sum of longitudinal components of opening ratios being constant; and

a control element opposed to the display, including optical openings extending linearly in the longitudinal direction and arrayed in the lateral direction, for controlling beams from the sub-pixels, wherein when an aspect ratio of a shape of the sub-pixels satisfies lateral : longitudinal=1:N, a longitudinal wiring line between the openings of two sub-pixels adjacent in a right-and-left direction comprises M substantially straight lines (M>=1) forming an angle θ with a vertical direction that satisfies θ> arctan (M/N).

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a color arrangement of the sub-pixels with color components comprises a mosaic array.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a color arrangement of the sub-pixels with color components comprises a lateral stripe array.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the longitudinal components of the opening ratios changes in value monotonically with respect to the position in the lateral direction.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the display includes light-shielding portions corresponding to longitudinal wiring lines and extending in a zigzag fashion in a column direction.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the light-shielding portions extend in a zigzag fashion within each row.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein each of the openings of the sub-pixels comprises two segments separated at a central portion thereof.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each vertex of each of the openings of the sub-pixels is located on the same vertical line as a vertex of an opening of a sub-pixel that is adjacent in the right-and-left direction, and each endmost vertex of each of the openings of the sub-pixels is located on the same vertical line as an endmost vertex of an opening of a sub-pixel that is apart by one sub-pixel in the right-and-left direction.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 20, 2007
From: SAISHU, TATSUO; FUKUSHIMA, RIEKO; TAIRA, KAZUKI; HIRAYAMA, YUZO
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2006-272090 · Oct 3, 2006 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20080079662A1 · Apr 3, 2008