Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100195190 | LENS ARRAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A lens array device and an image display device using the lens array device, which allow a lens effect characteristic different from that of a single variable lens array to be easily obtained, are provided. The lens array device includes a variable lens array and a fixed lens array. The variable lens array includes a plurality of variable lenses each having electrically-adjustable refracting power. The fixed lens array includes a plurality of fixed lenses each provided in correspondence to each of the plurality of variable lenses. Each of the fixed lenses has a refracting power which, once a corresponding variable lens has come to have a first refracting power, allows the first refracting power to be cancelled out. | 08-05-2010 |
20100238277 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic display device includes: a display panel having a display screen on which two-dimensional image is displayed, and configured to polarize image light of the image-displaying into a particular polarization direction; and a lens array element disposed to oppose the display screen of the display panel, and having a liquid crystal layer which includes liquid crystal molecules having a refractive index anisotropy and aligned in a predetermined orientation direction under no application of voltage. The lens array element is configured to electrically change the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules to generate a lens effect, and configured to selectively change a state of passing therethrough of the image light exiting from the display panel. The predetermined orientation direction of the liquid crystal molecules of the lens array element and the polarization direction of the image light are parallel to each other. | 09-23-2010 |
20100259697 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A stereoscopic display includes: a display panel configured to display an image in either one of two or more arrangement states including a first arrangement state and a second arrangement state which are switchable with each other; and a lens array device arranged to face a display surface of the display panel. The lens array device produces a lens effect in a direction, the direction of effect being changed between in the first arrangement state and in the second arrangement state. The display panel includes an array of a plurality of sub-pixels, and a combination of sub-pixels used as a unit pixel is changed between in the first arrangement state and in the second arrangement state. | 10-14-2010 |
20110181827 | Lens array element and image display device - A stereoscopic display device includes a display panel performing image display, and a lens array element including a first electrode, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the lens array element being configured in such a manner that a lens effect on display image light from the display panel is controlled depending on a voltage applied to the first electrode and a voltage applied to the second electrode. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is structured to allow an electric field to be applied to the liquid crystal layer for each of a plurality of predetermined sub-regions, individually. | 07-28-2011 |
20110310320 | LENS ARRAY ELEMENT AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a lens array element, including: first and second substrates; a first electrode group; a first switch group; a second electrode group; a second switch group; and a liquid crystal layer, wherein the lens effect of an arbitrary area of the liquid crystal layer changes with change in the statuses of the first and second switch groups. | 12-22-2011 |
20120008057 | Lens array unit and image display device - A lens array unit includes: first and second substrates disposed to be opposite to each other with a distance interposed therebetween; first and second electrode groups respectively formed on the surfaces of the first and second substrates facing the second and first substrates and having a configuration in which electrodes extending in first and second directions are arranged in parallel in the width direction at intervals; first and second switch groups respectively connecting first and second voltage generators applying a voltage to the first and second electrode groups to the electrodes of the first and second electrode groups; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, containing liquid crystal molecules having refractive anisotropy, and causing a lens effect by changing the alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules depending on the voltages applied to the first and second electrode groups. | 01-12-2012 |
20120105753 | LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS ARRAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal lens array device includes: a first electrode; a plurality of second electrodes arranged to face the first electrode, to which drive voltages having waveforms with phase differences therebetween are applied; and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first electrode and the plural second electrodes, generating lens effects in accordance with potential differences between the drive voltage applied to the first electrode and drive voltages applied to the plural second electrodes. | 05-03-2012 |
20120113159 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD FOR STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes: a display section that is driven to perform line sequential scanning and display a plurality of different viewpoint video images; a backlight that includes a plurality of sub-light emitting areas separated in the line sequential scanning direction; a light barrier that has a plurality of open/close unit groups each of which is formed of a plurality of open/close units, the open/close units in different groups opened or closed at different timings; and a backlight controller that controls light emission from the sub-light emitting areas in the backlight in synchronization with the line sequential scanning in the display section, wherein the backlight controller separately controls intensities of the light emitted from the sub-light emitting areas. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113319 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes: a display unit including plural display sections divided in a first direction and performing line sequential scanning in the first direction; and an interpolation picture generation unit generating an interpolation picture in accordance with a timing at which each display section is scanned based on supplied frame pictures, wherein the display unit displays the interpolation picture corresponding to the display section in each display section. | 05-10-2012 |
20120120121 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is an image display apparatus including: a transmissive display panel; an illuminator configured to illuminate a rear surface of the transmissive display panel; an optical separator which includes a plurality of switchers capable of switching between a light transmitting state and a light blocking state, for separating an image displayed on the transmissive display panel by bringing one of the switchers into the light transmitting state and the other switchers into the light blocking state; and a light regulator capable of switching between a light diffusing state and a light transmitting state. | 05-17-2012 |
20120127286 | 3D DISPLAY DEVICE AND 3D DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes: an optical barrier unit which includes a plurality of gate groups each including a plurality of gates, and in which gates in different groups perform a gating operation individually at different timings; a combined image generator which generates a plurality of sequences of combined images each corresponding to the plurality of gate groups based on a plurality of different viewpoint images in accordance with an opening timing of the respective gate groups; and a display unit which displays the corresponding sequence of combined images in synchronization with the gating operation of the respective gate groups, wherein the combined image generator generates at least one sequence of combined images through interpolation. | 05-24-2012 |
20120268671 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a display section including a plurality of display pixels; and a barrier section including a plurality of sub-regions that allow light to transmit therethrough and block the light. The barrier section includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates, and a plurality of spacers interposed between the substrates. An array direction of the spacers adjacent to each other of the plurality of spacers is different from an array direction of the display pixels. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268672 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND BARRIER DEVICE - A barrier device includes: liquid crystal barriers extending in a first direction and disposed away from a display plane of a display section that displays an image. The liquid crystal barriers include a liquid crystal layer and sub-electrodes and allow light to transmit therethrough and block the light. The liquid crystal barriers structure at least one group of the liquid crystal barriers. The sub-electrodes, belonging to a first liquid crystal barrier of a pair of the liquid crystal barriers, adjoin, in a second direction, the sub-electrodes belonging to a second liquid crystal barrier in the pair of the liquid crystal barriers. The pair of the liquid crystal barriers are adjacent to each other in the at least one group of the liquid crystal barriers, and the second direction is different from both of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction within the display plane of the display section. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268673 | DISPLAY UNIT AND BARRIER DEVICE - A display unit includes: a display section displaying an image; and a liquid crystal barrier section having a plurality of liquid crystal barriers extending in a predetermined direction, each of the liquid crystal barriers including a liquid crystal layer and a barrier electrode to transmit and block light, wherein the barrier electrode includes a stem portion extending in the predetermined direction, and a plurality of branch portions extending from the stem portion, and the liquid crystal barrier section includes one or more groups of the liquid crystal barriers, the one group of the liquid crystal barriers including the barrier electrodes with patterns different from each other. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268697 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a display section including a plurality of display pixels; and a liquid crystal barrier section including a plurality of barrier regions. Each of the barrier regions extends in a first direction inclined with respect to an arrangement direction of the display pixels, and allows light to transmit therethrough and blocks the light. The liquid crystal barrier section includes: a liquid crystal layer; and a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer interposing the liquid crystal layer in between. The first electrode layer includes an electrode pattern having a slit provided along the first direction in the barrier regions. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268704 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a display section including display pixels; and a liquid crystal barrier section including barrier regions. Each of the barrier regions extends in a first direction that is inclined with respect to an array direction of the display pixels, and allows light to transmit therethrough and blocks the light. The liquid crystal barrier section includes a liquid crystal layer, and a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer interposing the liquid crystal layer in between. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of line-shaped electrodes. The line-shaped electrodes extend in the first direction and arranged side-by-side in a second direction different from the first direction, and one or more of the line-shaped electrodes includes first slits and second slits extending in respective directions different from the array direction of the display pixels. | 10-25-2012 |
20130021329 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a display unit respectively displaying respective pixel information of plural viewpoint images different from one another by arranging the pixel information in a circulating order in the plural viewpoint images on a display surface; and a barrier unit having plural liquid crystal barriers capable of being switched between an open state and a closed state, extending in a first direction as well as arranged side by side in a second direction intersecting the first direction, in which each barrier includes plural branch electrodes arranged side by side. A pitch āsā of the branch electrodes in the second direction satisfies the following expression (A). | 01-24-2013 |
20130128162 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A stereoscopic display includes: a display panel configured to display an image in either one of two or more arrangement states including a first arrangement state and a second arrangement state which are switchable with each other; and a lens array device arranged to face a display surface of the display panel. The lens array device produces a lens effect in a direction, the direction of effect being changed between in the first arrangement state and in the second arrangement state. The display panel includes an array of a plurality of sub-pixels, and a combination of sub-pixels used as a unit pixel is changed between in the first arrangement state and in the second arrangement state. | 05-23-2013 |
20140009705 | DISPLAY UNIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display unit includes: a liquid crystal display section including first electrodes, a liquid crystal layer, and a second electrode, the first electrodes corresponding to a plurality of unit pixels, the second electrode being disposed to face the first electrodes with the liquid crystal layer in between; a backlight; and a light-ray control section inserted between the liquid crystal display section and the backlight, in which each of the unit pixels includes a plurality of domains or a single domain, the plurality of domains in which liquid crystal alignment differs between the domains, and each of the first electrodes is uniformly formed in each of the plurality of domains or the single domain. | 01-09-2014 |
20140016049 | DISPLAY UNIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display unit includes: a light-ray control section including first structures, the first structures being arranged at a first pitch; a liquid crystal display section including second structures, the second structures being arranged at a second pitch; and a backlight, in which one in which a structure arrangement pitch is smaller of the liquid crystal display section and the light-ray control section is disposed between the other one of the liquid crystal display section and the light-ray control section, and the backlight. | 01-16-2014 |
20140036360 | DISPLAY UNIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display unit includes: a display section including a plurality of pixels and a black matrix formed between the adjacent pixels, and displaying n-number of perspective images having respective perspectives through allocating the n-number of perspective images to n-number of adjacent pixels, respectively, where n is an integer of 2 or larger; and a parallax device including a plurality of separation elements, two or more adjacent separation elements of the plurality of separation elements being arranged in correspondence with the n-number of adjacent pixels, the parallax device separating the n-number of perspective images into respective n-number of directions. A single specific separation element of the two or more adjacent separation elements allows a single specific perspective image of the plurality of perspective images to be viewed from a specific perspective position, and the rest allow the black matrix to be viewed from the specific perspective position. | 02-06-2014 |