Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080266487 | Liquid crystal display and television apparatus - A display device includes: a panel; a light source provided on a surface disposed with facing at an interval of a predetermined distance from the back of the panel of said panel; and at least one optical sheet placed in front of said light source; wherein said optical sheet is placed with predetermined inclination angle to the above back of the panel so that it becomes closer from the top end to the bottom end of the back of the panel of said panel. | 10-30-2008 |
20090021178 | Apparatus and method for driving backlight unit - The present invention is directed to a drive apparatus for a backlight unit ( | 01-22-2009 |
20090115720 | Liquid crystal display, liquid crystal display module, and method of driving liquid crystal display - A liquid crystal display includes: a light source section including a plurality of lighting sections; a light source driving section for determining a light intensity of each lighting section according to the image signal inputted and driving the light source section so that each lighting section is independently activated with the light intensity determined; a liquid crystal display panel; and a display driving section for driving the liquid crystal display panel based on the image signal. In a case that a display region corresponding to the lighting section includes a high-luminance part and a low-luminance part, the display driving section corrects the image signal in the low-luminance part so that the display luminance of the low-luminance part results in the same level as the display luminance under a maximum light intensity of the corresponding lighting section, and drives the low-luminance part according to the image signal corrected. | 05-07-2009 |
20090153464 | DISPLAY UNIT AND BACKLIGHT UNIT - The screen is exempt from variation in brightness due to uneven temperature distribution. | 06-18-2009 |
20090207613 | LIGHT SOURCE SYSTEM, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING LIGHT SOURCE - Light intensity may be locally increased in light intensity distribution without increasing number of light sources or drive current. A light source system includes a light source, and a diffusion unit varying diffusibility in incident light so that light intensity in a light intensity distribution in a plane, resulted from light emitted from the light source, is locally enhanced. | 08-20-2009 |
20090213573 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A light source unit is used in a multiply combined manner, and includes a light source element having a substrate and one or more light emitting elements disposed on the substrate. The light source unit is configured such that when a plurality of the light source units are arranged in cascade, the light source element in the light source unit comes to in electric connection with another light source element in an adjacent light source unit. Thereby, the plurality of light source units may emit light at the same time. Thus, the structure similar to rod-shaped light source such as CCFL is achieved. | 08-27-2009 |
20090295707 | Illuminating apparatus and display apparatus - The present invention provides an illuminating apparatus locally reducing light intensity without depending on the configuration of a light source itself. An illuminating apparatus used as a backlight of a display apparatus having a liquid crystal display panel with a pair of first polarizers, including a light source and a liquid crystal light control panel. The liquid crystal light control panel has a pair of second polarizers and suppresses amount of transmission of light from the light source, thereby allows the light from the light source to have such a light intensity distribution along a plane that light intensity is locally reduced. The polarization degree in the second polarizers is optimized so that transmission light amount ratio of the second polarizers is lower than that of the first polarizers. | 12-03-2009 |
20090295839 | Display device, drive method therefor, and electronic apparatus - A display device includes: a light source section having multiple light sources to emit light in illumination colors including three primary colors of light; a display section for displaying an image in monochrome color by modulating the light emitted from the light source section; and a display control section for driving the light source section and the display section in a field sequential system. The display control section includes a determining section for determining a degree of white or a degree of complementary color of the light sources on the basis of an amount of lighting of each of the illumination colors of the light sources, a setting section for setting white components or complementary-color components of a color determined by a mixing ratio of the illumination colors, and an allocating section for allocating the set white components or the complementary-color components to the fields. | 12-03-2009 |
20100156926 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display device is provided, with less color breaking in the field sequential method. A color component image with a relatively high luminance level is extracted as a fundamental image from an input image. A differential image is obtained by subtracting color component of the fundamental image from an input image, and is decomposed into a plurality of color components. The differential image for each color component is divided into two. The fundamental image is displayed at a middle timing of a frame period. The half-divided differential images are displayed at timings before and after the middle timing for the fundamental image so that the half-divided differential image with higher luminance level with consideration for visibility characteristic is displayed at a timing closer to the middle timing for the fundamental image. | 06-24-2010 |
20100181921 | Apparatus and method for driving backlight unit - The present invention is directed to a drive apparatus for a backlight unit ( | 07-22-2010 |
20100188322 | COLOR DISPLAY UNIT - A color display unit is provided, which allows color display to be performed with high efficiency in utilizing light as compared with a prior type using all of RGB color filters. The color display unit includes a light source section having plural kinds of color LEDs, and includes a display section controlling transmissivity of light from the light source section in synchronization with light emission control by the light source section, to achieve desired color display. The display section has a full-color transmittable region and a partially transmittable region. The full-color transmittable region allows all color components of the light to be transmitted, while the partially transmittable region inhibits passage of one or more in the color components of the light. The display section controls the transmissivity of the light independently for each of the full-color transmittable region and the partial transmittable region. | 07-29-2010 |
20100265281 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The image display device includes a light source section having light emitting subsections; a display panel; and a display control section performing a control. An input frame image is decomposed into a plurality of field images and the field images are displayed in a field sequential manner. A differential image for each of the three primary-color components is obtained by subtracting a common luminance portion from the subsection-drive frame image. The differential image and a common image configured of the common luminance portion are sequentially outputted to the display panel in a time-divisional manner. In the first field period for outputting the differential image of a primary color component, corresponding primary color light is emitted, and in a second field period for outputting the common image, multiple kinds of primary color light, corresponding to the primary-color components configuring the common luminance portion, are emitted together. | 10-21-2010 |
20110280002 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A lighting device includes: a first light source group having first light sources partitioned into sections and controlled to light for each section; and a second light source group having second light sources partitioned into sections and controlled to light for each section. The second light source has a light distribution different from the first light source. The first and second light source groups are allowed to light independently of each other. The first light sources are arranged in a first array pattern allowing a uniform in-plane-distribution of luminance at a predetermined distance therefrom when whole of the first light source group is under lighting condition. The second light sources are arranged in a second array pattern different from the first array pattern. The second array pattern allows a uniform in-plane-distribution of luminance at the predetermined distance therefrom when whole of the second light source group is under lighting condition. | 11-17-2011 |
20120062584 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image display apparatus and an image display method capable of suppressing the color breakup occurring during eye tracking of a picture with motion in a field-sequential display are provided. A display section (a display panel | 03-15-2012 |
20120188293 | LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT DRIVING CIRCUIT, LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND LIGHT EMISSION CONTROLLING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a light emitting element driving circuit including: a capacitive element; a current limiting section limiting a charging current for the capacitive element; a first constant current source stabilizing a discharging current supplied from the capacitive element to a light emitting element; and a switch controlling ON and OFF in supplying the discharging current to the light emitting element. The capacitive element is charged with electricity from the power source circuit in the preceding stage through the current limiting section. Also, the electric charges in the capacitive element are discharged in the form of a given discharging current for the discharging time period, and the light emitting element emits light in accordance with the given discharging current. In this case, the charging current for the capacitive element is limited by the current limiting section in such a way that the current value thereof becomes small. | 07-26-2012 |
20140139461 | DISPLAY UNIT, DISPLAYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A display unit includes: an image display panel; a backlight section disposed on a back surface of the image display panel, and including a light guide member and a polymer dispersed liquid crystal panel; a light source emitting light, the light being allowed to enter the light guide member of the backlight section; a polymer dispersed liquid crystal panel drive section driving the polymer dispersed liquid crystal panel of the backlight section in synchronization with writing of an image displayed on the image display panel to control a location that scatters light incident on the light guide member on the polymer dispersed liquid crystal panel; and a light source drive section allowing the light source to blink in synchronization with a period in which light is scattered by the polymer dispersed liquid crystal panel. | 05-22-2014 |
20140240642 | ILLUMINATION UNIT, DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Provided is an illumination unit capable of utilizing back light. Also provided are a display and an electronic apparatus each including this illumination unit. A display includes a display panel, and an illumination unit configured to illuminate the display panel. The illumination unit includes a light-guiding plate, a diffusion modulation device, and a reflection modulation device in this order, from the display panel side. The light-guiding plate has a light source on a side face thereof. The diffusion modulation device is capable of performing modulation between a first state of diffusing light from the light source, and a second state of allowing incident light from a back face side to pass to a front face side. The reflection modulation device is capable of performing modulation between a third state of reflecting transmitted diffused light of the diffusion modulation device to a front face side, and a fourth state of allowing incident light from a back face side to the front face side. | 08-28-2014 |