Liquid crystal display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9472157-B2
Application number	US-201414516994-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 17, 2014
Priority date	Apr 18, 2012
Publication date	Oct 18, 2016
Grant date	Oct 18, 2016

Abstract

A device according to an embodiment includes an array substrate including electrodes corresponding to pixels arranged in a matrix, a color filter substrate opposed to the array substrate and including color filters corresponding to the pixels, a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates, a backlight, and a controller which controls the substrates and the backlight. The pixels are configured to each have a parallelogrammatic shape elongated in a lateral direction, such that identical colors are arranged in the lateral direction, and different colors are arranged in a vertical direction. Pixels neighboring in the lateral direction are in line-symmetry with respect to a center line of the neighboring pixels. Liquid crystal molecules have negative dielectric constant anisotropy, and rotate horizontally relative to a substrate plane in a direction of the line-symmetry with respect to the center line when the voltage is applied to the electrodes of the neighboring pixels.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:
an array substrate including a plurality of pixel electrodes corresponding to a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix;
a color filter substrate opposed to the array substrate and including color filters corresponding to the plurality of pixels;
a liquid crystal layer provided between the array substrate and the color filter substrate;
a backlight unit provided on a back surface side of the array substrate, the back surface side being opposite to a liquid crystal layer side of the array substrate;
a controller configured to control an application timing of a liquid crystal driving voltage to the pixel electrodes, and a light emission timing of the backlight unit; and
a light reception element configured to detect light incident from an observer side,
wherein the plurality of pixels are configured to each have a plan-view shape of a parallelogram which is elongated in a lateral direction, and configured such that identical colors are arranged in the lateral direction, and different colors are arranged in a vertical direction,
pixels neighboring in the lateral direction of the plurality of pixels have shapes of line-symmetry with respect to a center line of the pixels neighboring in the lateral direction,
the plurality of pixels include a picture element composed of two red pixels that are neighboring in the lateral direction, two green pixels that are neighboring in the lateral direction, and two blue pixels that are neighboring in the lateral direction,
the plurality of pixels are parallelogrammatic with a long side having an angle γ to the lateral direction, and a short side parallel to the vertical direction,
two pixels neighboring in the lateral direction are of the same color and have a V shape or an inverted-V shape, and a pattern of the V shape or the inverted-V shape is repeated in the lateral direction,
the color filter substrate includes a black matrix which partitions the pixels,
the backlight unit is an edge-lit-type unit including a solid-state light-emission element array,
the controller is configured to execute, based on a video signal, synchronization control between the application timing of the liquid crystal driving voltage to the pixel electrodes, and the light emission timing of the backlight unit,
the controller is configured to apply a voltage to one or two of the pixel electrodes corresponding to the pixels neighboring in the lateral direction to switch between a three-dimensional image display and a two-dimensional image display,
the black matrix is formed between pixels neighboring in the vertical direction and is not formed between pixels neighboring in the lateral direction,
liquid crystal molecules of the pixels neighboring in the lateral direction have a negative dielectric constant anisotropy, and, when the liquid crystal driving voltage is applied to the pixel electrodes corresponding to the pixels neighboring in the lateral direction, the liquid crystal molecules rotate horizontally relative to a substrate plane in a direction of the line-symmetry with respect to the center line, and
the controller is configured to detect a position of the observer based on data measured by the light reception element and to adjust an emission angle of light emitted by the backlight unit based on the detected position of the observer.

2. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of active elements which are electrically connected to the plurality of pixel electrodes and are formed of an oxide semiconductor using a composite metal oxide as a transparent channel material.

3. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1 , wherein the pixel electrode includes a plurality of comb-tooth portions each having a longitudinal direction parallel to a long side of the pixel, and has a comb shape of line-symmetry with respect to the center line of the neighboring pixels.

4. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1 , wherein the color filter substrate includes a transparent electrode film and the color filters on a transparent substrate.

5. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1 , wherein the color filter substrate includes the black matrix, a transparent electrode film and the color filters on a transparent substrate.

6. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1 , further comprising an optical control element disposed between the array substrate and the backlight unit and including an array of a plurality of triangular prisms and an array of a plurality of semicylindrical lenses,
wherein a predetermined angle is provided between a longitudinal direction of the plurality of triangular prisms and a longitudinal direction of the plurality of semicylindrical lenses.

7. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1 , further comprising an optical control element disposed between the array substrate and the backlight unit and including an array of a plurality of triangular prisms and an array of a plurality of semicylindrical lenses,
wherein a longitudinal direction of the plurality of triangular prisms is parallel to a longitudinal direction of the plurality of semicylindrical lenses, and
a width of the triangular prism is double a length of the pixel in the lateral direction.

8. The liquid crystal display device of claim 7 , wherein a width of the semicylindrical lens is an integer number of times of a width of two pixels in the lateral direction.

Assignees

• Toppan Printing Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shima Yasuhiro
• Nakada Hisashi
• Fukuyoshi Kenzo

Classifications

• H04N13/0454

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G02F2001/13712

  Physics · mapped topic

• G02F1/137

  characterised by the electro-optical or magneto-optical effect, e.g. field-induced phase transition, orientation effect, guest-host interaction or dynamic scattering · CPC title

• G02F1/133707

  Structures for producing distorted electric fields, e.g. bumps, protrusions, recesses, slits in pixel electrodes · CPC title

• H04N13/0468

  Electricity · mapped topic