Liquid crystal display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10446072-B2
Application number	US-201715821204-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2017
Priority date	Nov 25, 2016
Publication date	Oct 15, 2019
Grant date	Oct 15, 2019

Abstract

A liquid crystal display device comprises: a first display panel displaying a color image; a second display panel displaying a monochrome image; and an image processor generating first image data corresponding to the color image and second image data corresponding to the monochrome image based on an input video signal. The image processor generates the first image data and the second image data such that a graph representing transmittance of the first display panel for input gradation corresponding to the input video signal and a graph representing transmittance of the second display panel for the input gradation corresponding to the input video signal intersect each other at predetermined input gradation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A liquid crystal display device, in which a plurality of display panels overlap each other and an image is displayed on each of the plurality of display panels, the liquid crystal display device comprising:
a first display panel that displays a color image;
a second display panel that displays a monochrome image; and
an image processor that generates first image data corresponding to the color image and second image data corresponding to the monochrome image based on an input video signal,
wherein the image processor generates the first image data and the second image data such that a graph representing transmittance of the first display panel for input gradation corresponding to the input video signal and a graph representing transmittance of the second display panel for the input gradation corresponding to the input video signal intersect each other at predetermined input gradation, and
wherein the transmittance of the first display panel is larger than the transmittance of the second display panel in a region lower than or equal to the predetermined input gradation, and the transmittance of the second display panel is larger than the transmittance of the first display panel in a region higher than the predetermined input gradation.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein
the graph representing the transmittance of the first display panel has a first inflection point and changes to an upwardly convex state in a region lower than or equal to the predetermined input gradation, and
the graph representing the transmittance of the second display panel has a second inflection point and changes to a downwardly convex state in the region lower than or equal to the predetermined input gradation.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2 , wherein
the graph representing the transmittance of the first display panel has a third inflection point and changes to a downwardly convex state in a region higher than the predetermined input gradation, and
the graph representing the transmittance of the second display panel has a fourth inflection point and changes to a upwardly convex state in the region higher than the predetermined input gradation.

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein
the image processor includes a first image data generator that decides first gradation corresponding to the first image data and a second image data generator that decides second gradation corresponding to the second image data,
the second image data generator decides the second gradation lower than the first gradation based on the input gradation corresponding to the input video signal in the region lower than or equal to the predetermined input gradation, and
the first image data generator decides the first gradation based on the second gradation decided by the second image data generator.

5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 4 , further comprising a correction table in which the second gradation is correlated with a correction value to be used for correcting the input gradation,
wherein the first image data generator refers to the correction table to obtain the correction value, which is correlated with the second gradation decided by the second image data generator, and corrects the input gradation to calculate the first gradation based on the obtained correction value.

6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 5 , wherein the correction value is set such that a compound transmittance in which the transmittance of the first display panel and the transmittance of the second display panel are compounded comes close to transmittance corresponding to a predetermined gamma value.

7. A liquid crystal display device, in which a plurality of display panels overlap each other and an image is displayed on each of the plurality of display panels, the liquid crystal display device comprising:
a first display panel that displays a color image;
a second display panel that displays a monochrome image; and
an image processor that generates first image data corresponding to the color image and second image data corresponding to the monochrome image based on an input video signal,
wherein the image processor generates the first image data such that a graph representing transmittance of the first display panel for input gradation corresponding to the input video signal has a first inflection point and changes to an upwardly convex state in a region lower than or equal to predetermined input gradation.

8. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 7 , wherein the graph representing the transmittance of the first display panel has a second inflection point and changes to a downwardly convex state in a region higher than the predetermined input gradation.

9. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 8 , wherein the image processor generates the second image data such that a graph representing transmittance of the second display panel for input gradation corresponding to the input video signal has a third inflection point and changes to a downwardly convex state in the region lower than or equal to the predetermined input gradation.

10. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 9 , wherein the graph representing the transmittance of the second display panel has a fourth inflection point and changes to an upwardly convex state in the region higher than the predetermined input gradation.

11. A liquid crystal display device, in which a plurality of display panels overlap each other and an image is displayed on each of the plurality of display panels, the liquid crystal display device comprising:
a first display panel that displays a color image;
a second display panel that displays a monochrome image; and
an image processor that generates second first image data corresponding to the color image and second image data corresponding to the monochrome image based on an input video signal,
wherein the image processor generates the second image data such that a graph representing transmittance of the second display panel for input gradation corresponding to the input video signal has a first inflection point and changes to a downward convex state in a region lower than or equal to predetermined input gradation.

12. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 11 , wherein the graph representing the transmittance of the second display panel has a second inflection point and changes to an upward convex state in a region higher than the predetermined input gradation.

13. A liquid crystal display device, in which a plurality of display panels overlap each other and an image is displayed on each of the plurality of display panels, the liquid crystal display device comprising:
a first display panel that displays a color image;
a second display panel that displays a monochrome image; and
an image processor that generates first image data corresponding to the color image and second image data corresponding to the monochrome image based on an input video signal,
wherein the image processor generates the first image data and the second image data such that a graph representing transmittance of the first display panel for input gradation corresponding to the input video signal and a graph representing transmittance of the second display panel for the input gradation corresponding to the input video signal intersect each other at predetermined input gradation,
wherein the image processor includes a first image data generator that decides first gradation corresponding to the first image data and a second image data generator that decides seco

Assignees

• Panasonic Liquid Crystal Displ

Inventors

• Koudo Toshikazu
• Ishii Masahiro
• Kikuchi Katsuhiro
• Mori Ikuko

Classifications

• G09G3/3607 Primary

  for displaying colours or for displaying grey scales with a specific pixel layout, e.g. using sub-pixels (display of colours in flat matrix panels other than liquid crystal displays G09G3/2003; grey scales specific for television H04N3/127) · CPC title

• G09G2320/066

  for control of contrast · CPC title

• G09G3/3426

  the different display panel areas being distributed in two dimensions, e.g. matrix · CPC title

• G09G2300/0452

  Details of colour pixel setup, e.g. pixel composed of a red, a blue and two green components · CPC title

• G09G2300/023

  Display panel composed of stacked panels · CPC title