Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100091234 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - A liquid crystal display device is provided, suppressing formation of defect such as bubbles within a liquid crystal layer, to enhance yield. The liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate to configure a plurality of pixels; a plurality of color filters formed on the first substrate, each of the plurality of color filters being divided into individual filter elements corresponding to the pixels, respectively; main spacers provided on one color kind of color filter of the plurality of color filters to control a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate; and sub spacers, which are lower than the main spacers in height, provided on the same color kind of color filter as the one color kind of color filter where the main spacers are provided thereon. | 04-15-2010 |
20100225682 | Display device - A display device includes: a panel portion, on which a plurality of sub-pixels with a discrete bus line form each individual pixel, the plurality of sub-pixels that form the individual pixel being sequentially arranged in a horizontal and a vertical direction, the panel portion displaying a two-dimensional image or a three-dimensional image by application of a signal via the bus line; and a filter portion, provided on a front surface of the panel portion, that alternately changes, for each of predetermined horizontal regions, a polarization state of light passing through the panel portion. A boundary of each of the horizontal regions of the filter portion is positioned within a range of a first sub-pixel of each of the plurality of sub-pixels. The first sub-pixel displays a different image when the two-dimensional image is displayed on the panel portion to when the three-dimensional image is displayed on the panel portion. | 09-09-2010 |
20100225750 | Image display apparatus, image display observation system, and image display method - An image display apparatus of present invention includes a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for displaying each of a right eye image and a left eye image at least two times continuously; and a display panel, input with the signal converted by the signal control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image continuing two or more times, and the left eye image continuing two or more times. | 09-09-2010 |
20100231697 | Image display apparatus, image display observation system, and image display method - There is provided an image display apparatus including a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for alternately displaying a right eye image and a left eye image, a display panel, input with the signal converted by the control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image and the left eye image, a surface light source for radiating the panel from a rear surface, a shutter control unit for generating a timing signal indicating a switching timing of the right eye image and the left eye image with respect to viewing eyeglasses including a right and a left eye shutters, and a surface light source control unit for causing the surface light source to emit light in a period shorter than an open period of the shutter according to the switching of the right eye image and the left eye image. | 09-16-2010 |
20100231698 | Image display apparatus, image display observation system, and image display method - There is provided an image display apparatus including a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for alternately displaying a right eye image and a left eye image, a display panel, input with the signal converted by the signal control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image and the left eye image, a surface light source for radiating the display panel from a rear surface, and a surface light source control unit for causing the surface light source to emit light according to switching of the right eye image and the left eye image. | 09-16-2010 |
20100245400 | Display device and display method - There is provided a display device that includes a display portion and a drive compensation portion. The display portion line-sequentially displays, in an image display region, a first image based on a first image signal and a second image based on a second image signal, by sequentially switching the first image and the second image at a predetermined interval. The drive compensation portion performs predetermined drive compensation on the first image signal and the second image signal input to the display portion, in accordance with a position of the image display region, a luminance of the first image and a luminance of the second image. The predetermined drive compensation is performed such that an average luminance of the first image or the second image becomes substantially uniform in the image display region during a predetermined period that is shorter than the predetermined interval. | 09-30-2010 |
20100259601 | Liquid crystal shutter and image display observation system - A liquid crystal shutter includes a plurality of liquid crystal layers arranged in a light-incident direction; and a plurality of polarizers attached to each of the plurality of liquid crystal layers, polarization axes of 2 adjacent polarizers that have a liquid crystal layer therebetween being crossed at an angle of 90°, the accumulated value of degrees of polarization of polarizers that have polarization axes in a first direction being identical to that of degrees of polarizations of polarizers that have polarization axes in a second direction that crosses the first direction at an angle of 90°. | 10-14-2010 |
20100265222 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method therefor - A liquid-crystal display device including a plurality of pixels, each thereof including a liquid crystal element, a first TFT element and a second TFT element, an auxiliary capacitive element, one end thereof being connected to the liquid crystal element, and a temporal capacitive element, one end thereof being connected to the second TFT element and connected to the auxiliary capacitive element through the first TFT element; an auxiliary capacitance line configured to be connected to the other end of the auxiliary capacitive element; and a temporal capacitance line configured to be a line different from the auxiliary capacitance line and connected to the other end of the temporal capacitive element. | 10-21-2010 |
20100309297 | Display device and display system - Disclosed herein is a display device, including: a display unit configured to display images each corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of shutter mechanisms that carry out opening and closing operation at timings different from each other, in such a manner as to switch the images in a time-division manner; and a shutter controller configured to set a respective one of the shutter mechanisms to an opened state in a display period of the image corresponding to the respective one of the shutter mechanisms, and variably control at least one of start time and length of an opened-state period of the shutter mechanism. | 12-09-2010 |
20100309381 | Image processing apparatus, image display apparatus and image display system - Disclosed herein is a video-image processing apparatus including: a video-image processing section configured to execute output control on video-image streams each including unitary video images appearing along the time axis so as to output every unitary video image pertaining to each of the video-image streams repeatedly a plurality of times by sequentially switching the video-image streams to be output on a time-division basis; a frame memory for temporarily storing an immediately preceding unitary video image as it is or after replacing the luminance gradation of the immediately preceding unitary video image with a post-replacement luminance gradation where the immediately preceding unitary video image is defined as a unitary video image which immediately leads ahead of a current unitary video image being output by the video-image processing section and is selected; and an overdrive processing section configured to carry out overdrive processing on the current unitary video image. | 12-09-2010 |
20110001806 | Image displaying device and image displaying system - An image displaying device includes: a display section cyclically switching a plurality of image streams, thereby time-divisionally displaying the plurality of image streams, each of the plurality of image streams being provided for corresponding one of a plurality of shutter mechanisms performing opening-closing operations at timings different from each other; and a dithering processing section performing a dithering process on a plurality of input images by using a plurality of masks, each of the plurality of masks having a pattern of two-dimensionally-arranged grayscale values, the pattern differing from a pattern of another mask, and then supplying a plurality of resultant images produced through the dithering process to the display section. The dithering processing section controls the dithering process in such a manner that the plurality of masks are sequentially and cyclically switched in synchronization with shutter open timings for each of the shutter mechanisms. | 01-06-2011 |
20110007140 | Video display device and system - In a video display device and system, a timing control section performs timing control for right- and left-eye video signals and to each have a blanking period whose length (Duty) is longer than that of a first-time blanking period Tb | 01-13-2011 |
20110032343 | Liquid crystal shutter device and picture display system - A liquid crystal shutter glass includes: two shutter mechanisms and a drive section. Each of the shutter mechanisms includes a liquid crystal device and is configured so as to alternately perform an opening action and a closing action in a time-divisional manner, the opening action allowing incident light to pass through corresponding one of the shutter mechanisms, the closing action allowing the incident light to be blocked. The drive section controls a switching operation between the opening action and the closing action for each of the shutter mechanisms, while driving the liquid crystal device in each of the shutter mechanisms by means of a polarity inversion method in which a polarity of a drive voltage is alternately inverted. The drive section inverts the polarity of the drive voltage in a period of the opening action. | 02-10-2011 |
20110074937 | Image displaying apparatus, image display observing system and image displaying method - An image displaying apparatus includes a signal control unit for receiving an input image signal and converting the signal into a signal for alternately displaying a right-eye image and a left-eye image, display panel into which the signal converted in the signal control unit is input for the right-eye image and the left-eye image, a surface light source for illuminating the display panel from its back, a shutter control unit for generating a timing signal indicating a period in which the right-eye and left-eye shutters are opened for a pair of viewing glasses with the right-eye and left-eye shutters, and for relatively changing the shutter-opened period for the emission timing of the surface light source, and a surface light source control unit for emitting the surface light source in a shorter period than the shutter-opened period in response to the switching between the right-eye image and the left-eye image. | 03-31-2011 |
20110074938 | Image display device, image display viewing system and image display method - An image display device of present invention includes a signal control portion that receives input of an image signal, and outputs a signal that causes an image for a right eye and an image for a left eye to be displayed alternately, a display panel to which the signal converted by the signal control portion is input, and which alternately displays the image for the right eye and the image for the left eye, and a polarity reversing portion that performs polarity reversal of a drive voltage of the display panel due to the signal, at least every time both the image for the right eye and the image for the left eye are displayed. | 03-31-2011 |
20110090321 | Display device, display method and computer program - A display system and display method in which a gradation difference between a first frame and a second frame of a video signal is detected, a determination is made as to whether the gradation difference is of a first state or a second state, and a target value of an output of a display is changed based on the result of the determination. | 04-21-2011 |
20110096058 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels each including a liquid crystal element of VA mode and a drive section. The drive section space-divisionally or time-divisionally performs a display drive operation so that the operation includes first and second divisional-drive operation groups. The drive section performs an operation in the first or second divisional-drive operation group, or both thereof. In the former, the output voltage exceeds the input voltage in the intermediate luminance range, whereas in a highlight luminance range, exceeds the input voltage but shows a tendency to be lower compared to in the intermediate luminance range. In the latter, the output voltage is lower than the input voltage in the intermediate luminance range, whereas in a lowermost luminance range, equal to or lower than the input voltage but shows a tendency to be higher compared to in the intermediate luminance range. | 04-28-2011 |
20110109656 | Image display device and image display system using the same - A display system and method in which light is provided and images are generated by modulating the provided light. At least one of the timing or duty of the provided light may be controlled. By allowing for such control of the provided light an increase in system performance may be realized. | 05-12-2011 |
20110128259 | Display device and driving method - There is provided a display device including an array substrate including pixels arranged in a matrix manner and gate control circuits that scan gate lines of the pixels and that are provided on the array substrate such that the gate control circuits correspond to the respective gate lines of the pixels. Each of the gate control circuits includes a first output terminal that outputs a signal to each of the gate lines, and a second output terminal that outputs a signal that is supplied to a gate control circuit in a subsequent stage. When adjacent two of the gate lines are scanned simultaneously from an upper part of a screen by the signal output from the first output terminal of each of the gate control circuits, a gate on period is provided during which outputs from the first output terminals of adjacent two of the gate control circuits are the same. | 06-02-2011 |
20110141356 | Display device, display method and computer program - There is provided a display device including a video display portion that displays video, and a video signal control portion which performs signal control on an input signal such that a plurality of video streams formed of a plurality of chronologically arranged unit videos are input and there is a case in which display periods of the plurality of video streams are different with respect to an interval of the input signal that includes the plurality of video streams, and which sequentially switches in a time division manner the video streams included in the signal controlled input signal, and outputs the video streams to the video display portion. | 06-16-2011 |
20110292089 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided a display device including a display unit configured to include a liquid crystal panel, which displays an image by changing an orientation state of a liquid crystal, and a backlight, whose light emission state is independently controllable with respect to each of multiple regions within a screen, and to line-sequentially display in an image display region a first image based on a first image signal and a second image based on a second image signal, by alternately displaying the first image and the second image by one frame or two or more consecutive frames and sequentially switching the first image and the second image at a predetermined time interval, and a backlight control unit configured to control the light emission state of the backlight for each region in accordance with signal levels of the first image signal and the second image signal. | 12-01-2011 |
20120069164 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE PRESENTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A plurality of images are alternately switched and displayed on the screen in a very short cycle while preventing crosstalk between the images. | 03-22-2012 |
20120293500 | DISPLAY UNIT, BARRIER DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY UNIT - A display unit includes: a display section; a barrier section including a plurality of liquid crystal barriers switching an open state and a closed state; and a barrier driving section driving the barrier section with one or a plurality of barrier drive signals. Each of the barrier drive signals is a signal including a first waveform portion being configured of a series of waveforms allowing the liquid crystal barriers to be held in an open state over a plurality of frames, or a second waveform portion being configured of a series of waveforms to allowing the liquid crystal barriers to be switched between an open state and a closed state, and a third waveform portion being located just before the first or second waveform portion and having an average pulse height value smaller than a maximum value of a pulse height value of the first or second waveform portion. | 11-22-2012 |
20120299984 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAYING METHOD - A display device includes: a display section; a barrier section including a plurality of light barriers, wherein each of the light barriers is switched to be opened or closed; and a shutter control section switching each of a left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter of one or more shutter glasses to be opened or closed, in synchronization with timing of opening or closing of the light barriers. | 11-29-2012 |
20130250075 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a video-image processing apparatus including: a video-image processing section configured to execute output control on video-image streams each including unitary video images appearing along the time axis so as to output every unitary video image pertaining to each of the video-image streams repeatedly a plurality of times by sequentially switching the video-image streams to be output on a time-division basis; a frame memory for temporarily storing an immediately preceding unitary video image as it is or after replacing the luminance gradation of the immediately preceding unitary video image with a post-replacement luminance gradation where the immediately preceding unitary video image is defined as a unitary video image which immediately leads ahead of a current unitary video image being output by the video-image processing section and is selected; and an overdrive processing section configured to carry out overdrive processing on the current unitary video image. | 09-26-2013 |
20130278652 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a panel portion, on which a plurality of sub-pixels with a discrete bus line form each individual pixel, the plurality of sub-pixels that form the individual pixel being sequentially arranged in a horizontal and a vertical direction, the panel portion displaying a two-dimensional image or a three-dimensional image by application of a signal via the bus line; and a filter portion, provided on a front surface of the panel portion, that alternately changes, for each of predetermined horizontal regions, a polarization state of light passing through the panel portion. A boundary of each of the horizontal regions of the filter portion is positioned within a range of a first sub-pixel of each of the plurality of sub-pixels. The first sub-pixel displays a different image when the two-dimensional image is displayed on the panel portion to when the three-dimensional image is displayed on the panel portion. | 10-24-2013 |
20140043451 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, DISPLAY SYSTEM, VIDEO GENERATION APPARTUS, AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - A plurality of parallax images which are time-divisionally displayed are processed so that correct parallax can be displayed even during motion picture display. | 02-13-2014 |