Display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018106940-A1
Application number	US-201715635713-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 28, 2017
Priority date	Oct 18, 2016
Publication date	Apr 19, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A display apparatus includes a light source which generates a first light, a display module which displays an image, a light guide plate disposed under the display module, and an optical filter disposed under the light guide plate to face the display module. The optical filter includes a filter layer which transmits a portion of the first light from the light guide plate and reflects a remaining portion of the first light except for the portion and an absorbing layer disposed under the filter layer to absorb the first light transmitted thereto through the filter layer. As an incident angle of the first light incident to the filter layer with respect to a normal line of an upper surface of the filter layer increases, an overlapping bandwidth between a reflection wavelength bandwidth of the filter layer and a wavelength bandwidth of the first light increases.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A display apparatus comprising:
a light source which generates a first light; a display module which displays an image; a light guide plate disposed under the display module, wherein the light guide plate guides the first light from the light source; and an optical filter disposed under the light guide plate, wherein the optical filter comprises:
a filter layer which transmits a portion of the first light incident thereto from the light guide plate, and reflects a portion of a remaining portion of the first light incident thereto from the light guide plate except for the portion; and
an absorbing layer disposed under the filter layer and which absorbs the transmitted portion of the first light through the filter layer, wherein
an angle between the first light incident to the filter layer from the light guide plate and a normal line of an upper surface of the filter layer is defined as an incident angle, and an overlapping bandwidth between a reflection wavelength bandwidth of the filter layer and a wavelength bandwidth of the first light increases as the incident angle increases.

2 . The display apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a light condensing member disposed between the display module and the light guide plate, wherein the light condensing member comprises a plurality of inverse prisms.

3 . The display apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the display module comprises:
a first substrate; a plurality of pixels arranged on the first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a light conversion layer arranged on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the light conversion layer converts the first light to a second light or a third light, and each of the second light and the third light has a wavelength bandwidth different from the wavelength bandwidth of the first light.

4 . The display apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the light conversion layer comprises:
a first conversion filter which converts the first light to the second light; a second conversion filter which converts the first light to the third light; and a light blocking layer disposed between the first conversion filter and the second conversion filter when viewed in a plan view.

5 . The display apparatus of claim 4 , wherein
the first conversion filter comprises a plurality of first quantum dots, the second conversion filter comprises a plurality of second quantum dots, and each of the first quantum dots has a size different from a size of each of the second quantum dots.

6 . The display apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the display module further comprises:
a first polarizing layer disposed under the second substrate; and a second polarizing layer disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the light conversion layer.

7 . The display apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the overlapping bandwidth between the reflection wavelength bandwidth of the filter layer and the wavelength bandwidth of the first light has a minimum value when the incident angle is about zero degree.

8 . The display apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the reflection wavelength bandwidth of the filter layer includes the wavelength bandwidth of the second light when the incident angle is about zero degree.

9 . The display apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the filter layer comprises:
a plurality of first insulating layers, each having a first refractive index; and a plurality of second insulating layers, each having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index, wherein the first insulating layers are alternately stacked with the second insulating layers.

10 . The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first light is a blue light.

11 . The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the absorbing layer has a black color.

12 . The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a color of the absorbing layer is a complementary color to a color of the first light.

13 . A display apparatus comprising:
a light source which generates a first light; a display module which displays an image; a light guide plate disposed under the display module and which receives the first light from the light source; and an optical filter disposed to face the display module such that the light guide plate is disposed between the optical filter and the display module, wherein the optical filter comprises:
a filter layer disposed under the light guide plate and which selectively transmits or reflects the first light from the light guide plate; and
an absorbing layer disposed under the filter layer and which absorbs a transmitted first light, which is transmitted through the filter layer and incident thereto,
wherein an angle between the transmitted first light and a normal line of an upper surface of the filter layer is defined as an incident angle, and
a reflectance of the filter layer with respect to the transmitted first light increases as the incident angle increases.

14 . The display apparatus of claim 13 , further comprising a light condensing member disposed between the display module and the light guide plate and comprising a plurality of inverse prisms.

15 . The display apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the display module comprises:
a first polarizing layer disposed at a lowermost position of the display module and having an absorbing axis; a second polarizing layer disposed on the first polarizing layer and having a transmitting axis; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first polarizing layer and the second polarizing layer; and a light conversion layer disposed on the second polarizing layer, wherein the light conversion layer comprises a plurality of quantum dots.

16 . The display apparatus of claim 13 , wherein a reflection wavelength bandwidth of the filter layer does not overlap a wavelength bandwidth of the first light when the incident angle is about zero degree.

17 . The display apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the filter layer has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of insulating layers having different refractive indices from each other are alternately stacked one on another.

18 . A display apparatus comprising:
a display module comprising a light conversion layer disposed therein, wherein the light conversion layer comprises a plurality of quantum dots; and a backlight unit disposed under the display module, wherein the backlight unit provides a light to the display module, wherein the backlight unit comprises:
a light source which generates the light;
a light guide plate which guides the light from the light source to the display module;
a light condensing member disposed between the light guide plate and the display module, wherein the light condensing member comprises a plurality of inverse prisms; and
an optical filter disposed under the light guide plate,
wherein the optical filter comprises:
a filter layer disposed under the light condensing member and which selectively transmits or reflects the light incident thereto from the light guide plate; and
an absorbing layer disposed under the filter layer and which absorbs the light transmitted thereto through the filter layer,
wherein an angle between the light incident to the filter layer from the light guide plate and a normal line of an upper surface of the filter layer is defined as an incident angle, and
a reflection wavelength of the filter layer decreases as the incident angle increases.

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Kyung-Min
• Kim Hyuk-Hwan
• Kim Youngchun

Classifications

• G02F1/133514

  Colour filters · CPC title

• G02F1/133512

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

• G02F1/133621

  providing coloured light (G02F1/133617, G02F1/133533 take precedence) · CPC title

• G02F2202/36

  Micro- or nanomaterials · CPC title

• G02B6/0053 Primary

  Prismatic sheet or layer; Brightness enhancement element, sheet or layer · CPC title