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US 9,977,281 · App. 15/040,306 · Granted May 22, 2018

Liquid crystal display device

Inventors: Shinichi Morishima (Kanagawa, JP); Koshin Matsuoka (Kanagawa, JP); Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi (Kanagawa, JP); Akio Tamura (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
G02F1/133528G02B5/30G02F1/133514G02F1/133621G02F2001/133614
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Patent No.
US 9,977,281
App. No.
15/040,306
Granted
May 22, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device having excellent color reproducibility. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a non-white light source, a rear polarizer, a liquid crystal layer, and a front-side polarizer in this order, in which a light conversion layer that converts a wavelength of light transmitted through the front-side polarizer is provided on a viewer side of the front-side polarizer.

Claims (25)

1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising:

a non-white light source, a rear polarizer, a liquid crystal layer, and a front-side polarizer in this order,

wherein a light conversion layer that converts a wavelength of light transmitted through the front-side polarizer is provided on a viewer side of the front-side polarizer;

wherein, out of the rear polarizer and the front-side polarizer, at least the front-side polarizer is a monochromatic polarizer corresponding to a light source wavelength of the non-white light source;

wherein the monochromatic polarizer is a dichromatic organic dye polarizer; and

wherein a correspondence relationship between the non-white light source and the monochromatic polarizer is a correspondence relationship satisfying Expression (1) below:

A <{( B/ 2)+( C/ 2)}  (1)

herein, in Expression (1), A represents a wavelength difference between peak tops of a light source wavelength of the non-white light source and of an absorption wavelength of the monochromatic polarizer, B represents a full width at half maximum of the light source wavelength of the non-white light source, and C represents a full width at half maximum of the absorption wavelength of the monochromatic polarizer.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the light conversion layer is a layer in which individual quantum dots corresponding to blue light, red light, and green light are dispersed and which is capable of converting light transmitted through the front-side polarizer to white light formed from mixing of blue light, red light, and green light.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein light emitted from the non-white light source is monochromatic light made of any one of blue light, red light, and green light.

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2 ,

wherein light emitted from the non-white light source is monochromatic light made of any one of blue light, red light, and green light.

5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein, in a case in which light transmitted through the front-side polarizer is predetermined monochromatic light of any one of blue light, red light, and green light,

the light conversion layer is a layer in which individual quantum dots corresponding to, out of blue light, red light, and green light, light that is not the predetermined monochromatic light are dispersed and which is capable of transmitting the predetermined monochromatic light and mixing, out of blue light, red light, and green light, light that is not the predetermined monochromatic light with the predetermined monochromatic light, so as to convert mixed light to white light.

6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2 , comprising:

a color filter on a viewer side of the light conversion layer.

7. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 3 , comprising:

a color filter on a viewer side of the light conversion layer.

8. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 4 , comprising:

a color filter on a viewer side of the light conversion layer.

9. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 5 , comprising:

a color filter on a viewer side of the light conversion layer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 23, 2016
From: MORISHIMA, SHINICHI; MATSUOKA, KOSHIN; ICHIHASHI, MITSUYOSHI; TAMURA, AKIO
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 037800/0215 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-167972 · Aug 13, 2013 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2014069441 · Jul 23, 2014
Related Publication 20160161799A1 · Jun 9, 2016