Display apparatus and display method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12124129-B2
Application number	US-202117754524-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 23, 2021
Priority date	Mar 23, 2021
Publication date	Oct 22, 2024
Grant date	Oct 22, 2024

Abstract

The disclosure provides a display apparatus and a display method thereof. The display apparatus includes: a display panel, including a plurality of pixel columns which extend in a first direction and are arranged in a second direction, wherein each of the pixel columns includes a plurality of pixel islands arranged in the first direction, each of the pixel islands includes at least four sub pixels which have the same color, and in the second direction, (odd number) th pixel columns are dislocated by a first preset distance relative to (even number) th pixel columns in the first direction; a light-transmitting pad layer, located on a light-emitting side of the display panel; and a cylindrical lens structure, located on one side of the light-transmitting pad layer face away from the display panel and including a plurality of cylindrical lenses.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display apparatus, comprising:
a display panel; wherein: the display panel comprises a plurality of pixel columns which extend in a first direction and are arranged in a second direction, and the first direction intersects the second direction; each pixel columns comprises a plurality of pixel islands arranged in the first direction; each of the pixel islands comprises at least four sub-pixels which have the same color; in each of the pixel columns, colors of sub-pixels in adjacent pixel islands in the first direction are different; and in the second direction, (odd number) th pixel columns are misaligned by a first preset distance in the first direction relative to (even number) th pixel columns;
a light-transmitting pad layer on a light-emitting side of the display panel; and
a cylindrical lens structure on one side of the light-transmitting pad layer away from the display panel; wherein the cylindrical lens structure comprises a plurality of cylindrical lenses arranged in an array;
wherein the plurality of sub-pixels in each of the pixel islands are arranged into a plurality of sub-pixel rows;
the plurality of sub-pixel rows are arranged in the first direction, and each of the sub-pixel rows comprises at least two sub-pixels arranged continuously in the second direction; and
in the first direction, sub-pixels in (odd number) th sub-pixel rows are misaligned by a second preset distance in the second direction relative to sub-pixels in (even number) th sub-pixel rows.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of sub-pixels in each of the pixel islands are arranged continuously in the second direction to form one sub-pixel row; or
the plurality of sub-pixels in each of the pixel islands are arranged continuously in the first direction to form one sub-pixel row.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein shapes of the sub-pixels are rectangular.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second preset distance is not smaller than a maximum width of a sub-pixel in the second direction.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein in each of the pixel islands, shapes of all the sub-pixels are the same; or
in each of the pixel islands, shapes of a first sub-pixel and a last sub-pixel arranged in the second direction are the same, shapes of the remaining sub-pixels are the same, and the shapes of the first sub-pixel and the last sub-pixel arranged in the second direction are different from the shapes of the remaining sub-pixels.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein in the second direction, a distance between two sub-pixels adjacent alternately in the different sub-pixel rows is smaller than a third preset distance.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein in the first direction, a distance between two sub-pixels adjacent alternately in the different sub-pixel rows is smaller than a fourth preset distance.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein a width of each of the pixel islands in the second direction is h1, and a width of each of the pixel islands in the second direction is h2, wherein h1 and h2 are positive values;
each of the pixel islands comprises m quantity of sub-pixel rows, and any two adjacent sub-pixel rows comprise i quantity of sub-pixels, wherein m and i are positive integers larger than 1; and
a maximum width of each sub-pixel in the second direction is h1/i, and a maximum width of each sub-pixel in the first direction is h2/m.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein in each of the pixel islands, each of sub-pixels of an sub-pixel row on a side, close to an adjacent sub-pixel row, of the sub-pixel row has a bevel edge; and an included angle between an extending direction of the bevel edge and the first direction and an included angle between the extending direction of the bevel edge and the second direction are both larger than 0.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein two sub-pixels adjacent alternately in the different sub-pixel rows have bevel edges parallel to each other, and a distance between the bevel edges parallel to each other is 0.5 to 3 microns.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein in the second direction, maximum widths of all the sub-pixels are the same;
in the second direction, a distance between any two adjacent sub-pixels in the same sub-pixel row is equal; and
in the first direction, maximum widths of all the sub-pixels are the same.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first preset distance is 0.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein colors of the sub-pixels in the pixel islands in the same row in the second direction are the same.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , the first preset distance is half of a maximum width of a sub-pixel in the first direction.

15. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each of the pixel islands comprises two sub-pixel rows.

16. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein an extending direction of an edge of the pixel island and an extending direction of edges of a part of sub-pixels are on the same straight line.

17. The display apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein each of the cylindrical lenses corresponds to one pixel island; or
each of the pixel islands corresponds to multiple cylindrical lenses.

18. The display apparatus according to claim 17 , wherein in a condition that each of the cylindrical lenses corresponds to one pixel island, in the second direction, a width of an orthographic projection of the pixel island on the display panel is the same as an aperture of the cylindrical lens; or
in a condition that each of the pixel islands corresponds to multiple cylindrical lenses, in the second direction, a width of an orthographic projection of the multiple pixel islands corresponding to one cylindrical lens on the display panel is the same as an aperture of the cylindrical lens.

19. The display apparatus according to claim 18 , wherein the display panel further comprises:
a driving element, configured to drive, in time division, the sub-pixels in the multiple pixel islands corresponding to each cylindrical lens to display a gray-scale image.

20. A display method of a display apparatus, wherein the display apparatus is according to claim 1 , and the method comprises:
obtaining position information of a human eye relative to a display panel through a human eye tracking system;
determining information about a view viewed by the human eye according to the position information;
determining a target sub-pixel in a pixel island corresponding to the information about the view; and
controlling the target sub-pixel to display a three-dimensional image, and controlling the remaining non-target sub-pixels to be turned off.

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sun Yanliu
• Liang Pengxia
• Dong Xue
• Li Hongpeng
• Han Jiahui
• Shi Ge
• Fang Zheng

Classifications

• G02F1/134336

  Matrix · CPC title

• G02B30/29

  characterised by the geometry of the lenticular array, e.g. slanted arrays, irregular arrays or arrays of varying shape or size · CPC title

• G02F1/133607 Primary

  the light controlling member including light directing or refracting elements, e.g. prisms or lenses · CPC title

• G02B30/27 Primary

  involving lenticular arrays · CPC title