Display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12282234-B2
Application number	US-202017434670-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 9, 2020
Priority date	Nov 9, 2020
Publication date	Apr 22, 2025
Grant date	Apr 22, 2025

Abstract

A display device is provided. The display device includes: a plurality of sub-pixels and a light splitting structure including a plurality of light splitting portions. Each of the plurality of sub-pixels includes a plurality of display units, the plurality of sub-pixels are arranged as a plurality of sub-pixel row groups, each of the plurality of sub-pixel row groups includes at least two rows of sub-pixels, a gap is provided between two adjacent sub-pixels in each row of sub-pixels, and two adjacent rows of sub-pixels in each sub pixel row groups are shifted from each other in a row direction so that a sub-pixel in one row and the gap between two adjacent sub-pixels in another row are shifted from each other; a ratio of a size of each light splitting portions along the row direction to a pitch of the sub-pixels is in a range from 0.9 to 1.1.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display device, comprising:
a base substrate;
a plurality of sub-pixels, located on the base substrate; and
a light splitting structure, configured to split image light emitted from the plurality of sub-pixels to different viewpoint regions, the light splitting structure comprising a plurality of light splitting portions arranged along a row direction and extending along a column direction,
wherein each of the plurality of sub-pixels comprises a plurality of display units arranged along the row direction, the plurality of sub-pixels are arranged as a plurality of sub-pixel row groups, the plurality of sub-pixel row groups extend along the row direction and are arranged along the column direction, each of the plurality of sub-pixel row groups comprises at least two rows of sub-pixels, a gap is provided between two adjacent sub-pixels in each row of sub-pixels, and two adjacent rows of sub-pixels in each of the plurality of sub-pixel row groups are shifted from each other in the row direction so that a sub-pixel in one row of sub-pixels and the gap between two adjacent sub-pixels in another row of sub-pixels are shifted from each other, and
a ratio of a size of each of the plurality of light splitting portions along the row direction to a pitch of the plurality of sub-pixels is in a range from 0.9 to 1.1,
wherein each of the plurality of sub-pixel row groups comprises a plurality of first color sub-pixels, a plurality of second color sub-pixels, and a plurality of third color sub-pixels, and a plurality of viewpoint regions formed after image light emitted from each of the plurality of sub-pixel row groups passing through the light splitting structure are continuously arranged along the row direction,
wherein the light splitting structure comprises a plurality of light splitting portion column groups, each of the plurality of light splitting portion column groups comprises at least two light splitting portions, and sub-pixels with a same color corresponding to a same light splitting portion column group and located in a same sub-pixel row group respectively correspond to different regions in different light splitting portions, and
for sub-pixels corresponding to a same light splitting portion column group and located in a same sub-pixel row group, one gap, which is located in the same row as and adjacent to each color sub-pixel corresponding to one light splitting portion, corresponds to a region relative to the one light splitting portion, the same region relative to another light splitting portion is overlapped in the column direction with a sub-pixel with the same color as the each color sub-pixel and corresponding to the another light splitting portion.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein, for sub-pixels with a same color corresponding to a same light splitting portion and located in a same sub-pixel row group, one gap located in the same row as and adjacent to a sub-pixel is overlapped in the column direction with a sub-pixel with the same color from a different row.

3. The display device according to claim 2 , wherein sub-pixels arranged along the row direction are sub-pixels with a same color, and a first color sub-pixel row, a second color sub-pixel row, and a third color sub-pixel row are arranged sequentially and repeatedly along the column direction, and each of the plurality of sub-pixel row groups comprises 3N rows of sub-pixels, where N is a positive integer.

4. The display device according to claim 3 , wherein, in each of the plurality of sub-pixel row groups, one gap located in the same row as and adjacent to each color sub-pixel is overlapped, in the column direction, with a sub-pixel located in a different row and of a color different from that of the each color sub-pixel.

5. The display device according to claim 3 , wherein each of the plurality of sub-pixel row groups comprises M rows of sub-pixels, and a shifted direction of a (m+1)-th row of sub-pixels relative to an m-th row of sub-pixels is the same as a shifted direction of a (m+2)-th row of sub-pixels relative to the (m+1)-th row of sub-pixels, where M≥3, M≥ (m+2), and m is a positive integer.

6. The display device according to claim 2 , wherein the plurality of first color sub-pixels, the plurality of second color sub-pixels, and the plurality of third color sub-pixels are arranged sequentially and repeatedly along the row direction, sub-pixels located in different rows and with a same color are overlapped in the column direction, sub-pixels located in different rows and of different colors are not overlapped in the column direction, in two adjacent rows of sub-pixels which are respectively located in adjacent sub-pixel row groups, a right edge of one row of sub-pixels is aligned with a left edge of the other row of sub-pixels of a color different from that of the one row of sub-pixels, and each of the plurality of sub-pixels comprises the left edge and the right edge which are opposite to each other in the row direction and extend in the column direction.

7. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of first color sub-pixels, the plurality of second color sub-pixels, and the plurality of third color sub-pixels are arranged sequentially and repeatedly along the row direction, and in each of the plurality of sub-pixel row groups, one gap located in the same row as and adjacent to each color sub-pixel is overlapped, in the column direction, with a sub-pixel located in a different row and of a color different from that of the sub-pixel adjacent to the gap.

8. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein adjacent display units are closely arranged in each of the plurality of sub-pixels.

9. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of light splitting portions comprises a lenticular lens.

10. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising: an eye tracker and an image adjusting portion, the eye tracker being connected with the image adjusting portion, the image adjusting portion being connected with a display panel, and the display panel comprising the base substrate and the plurality of sub-pixels,
wherein the eye tracker is configured to track a position of an eye and transmit information of the position to the image adjusting portion, and the image adjusting portion is configured to control corresponding viewpoint image information displayed by the plurality of sub-pixels according to the information.

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhou Chunmiao
• Peng Kuanjun
• Hong Tao
• Gu Xin
• Guo Kang
• Dong Xue

Classifications

• G02F1/133526 Primary

  Lenses, e.g. microlenses or Fresnel lenses · CPC title

• H04N13/383

  for tracking with gaze detection, i.e. detecting the lines of sight of the viewer's eyes · CPC title

• H04N13/305

  using lenticular lenses, e.g. arrangements of cylindrical lenses · CPC title

• H04N13/351

  for displaying simultaneously · CPC title

• G02F1/133512

  Light shielding layers, e.g. black matrix (G02F1/136209 takes precedence) · CPC title