Liquid crystal display device and control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11257448-B2
Application number	US-201916627788-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 24, 2019
Priority date	Dec 6, 2019
Publication date	Feb 22, 2022
Grant date	Feb 22, 2022

Abstract

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device and a control method thereof. The liquid crystal display device includes a first liquid crystal panel and a second liquid crystal panel disposed thereon. The control method of the liquid crystal display device includes following steps of: disposing an applied pixel voltage level of a first liquid crystal panel, selecting a pixel voltage level of the first liquid crystal panel, and displaying grayscale.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising:
a first liquid crystal panel comprising a plurality of first pixel units wherein the first pixel units have a first brightness at a first pixel voltage and have a second brightness at a second pixel voltage; and
a second liquid crystal panel disposed on the first liquid crystal panel and comprising:
a plurality of second pixel units disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the first pixel units and having same external dimensions as the first pixel units, wherein the second pixel units realize a first numerical grayscale display at the first brightness, realize the first numerical grayscale display at the second brightness, and realize a second numerical grayscale display under a combination of the first brightness and the second brightness; and
a color filter layer comprising a plurality of red filter layers, a plurality of green filters layer, and a plurality of blue filter layers, wherein each of the second pixel units comprises a first sub-pixel unit, a second sub-pixel unit, and a third sub-pixel unit respectively corresponding to one red filter layer, one green filter layer, and one blue filter layer.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first pixel units have a third brightness at a third pixel voltage, and the second pixel units realize the first numerical grayscale display at the third brightness.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein when the second pixel units realize the first numerical grayscale display, the first pixel units are limited to have the first brightness.

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first liquid crystal panel uses a horizontal electric field display mode.

5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first liquid crystal panel further comprises:
a first substrate provided with a first pixel structure layer comprising the first pixel units;
a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; and
a first liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate and comprising a plurality of first liquid crystals, wherein the first pixel structure layer is configured to drive deflections of the first liquid crystals.

6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 5 , wherein the second liquid crystal panel further comprises:
a third substrate provided with a second pixel structure layer comprising the second pixel units;
a fourth substrate disposed opposite to the third substrate and provided with the color filter layer; and
a second liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the third substrate and the fourth substrate and comprising a plurality of second liquid crystals, wherein the second pixel structure layer is configured to drive deflections of the second liquid crystals.

7. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a backlight module disposed under the first liquid crystal panel.

8. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 7 , further comprising:
a first polarizer disposed between the first liquid crystal panel and the backlight module;
a second polarizer disposed between the first liquid crystal panel and the second liquid crystal panel; and
a third polarizer disposed on a surface of the second liquid crystal panel away from the first liquid crystal panel.

9. A control method of the liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , comprising:
setting pixel voltages of different levels applied to the first liquid crystal panel, wherein the pixel voltages comprise the first pixel voltage and the second pixel voltage;
selecting one of the pixel voltages, wherein the first pixel units have the first brightness at the first pixel voltage and have the second brightness at the second pixel voltage; and
displaying grayscale, wherein the second pixel units realize the first numerical grayscale display at the first brightness, realize the first numerical grayscale display at the second brightness, and realize the second numerical grayscale display under the combination of the first brightness and the second brightness.

10. The control method according to claim 9 , wherein the pixel voltages further comprise a third pixel voltage, the first pixel units have a third brightness at third pixel voltage, and the second pixel units realize the first numerical grayscale display at the third brightness.

Assignees

• Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Jiangchuan

Classifications

• G09G2300/023

  Display panel composed of stacked panels · CPC title

• G02F1/13306

  Circuit arrangements or driving methods for the control of single liquid crystal cells (G02F1/132, G02F1/133382 take precedence) · CPC title

• G02F1/133528

  Polarisers · CPC title

• 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

• G02F1/133514

  Colour filters · CPC title