3D display device and operating method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9664919-B2
Application number	US-201213979094-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2012
Priority date	Mar 27, 2012
Publication date	May 30, 2017
Grant date	May 30, 2017

Abstract

A 3D display device and an operating method thereof, the 3D display device comprising: a display screen ( 10 ), for displaying two-dimensional left and right eye pictures; a magnetic field device ( 20 ), disposed right in front of the display screen ( 10 ) on a light emitting side of the display screen and generating a magnetic field having a varying frequency in synchronization with a refresh frequency of the two-dimensional left and right eye pictures of the display screen ( 10 ), thus rotating a direction of a polarization plane of polarized light emitted from the display screen ( 10 ).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A 3D display device, comprising:
a display screen, for displaying two-dimensional left and right eye pictures;
a magnetic field device, disposed right in front of the display screen on a light emitting side of the display screen and generating a magnetic field having a varying frequency in synchronization with a refresh frequency of the two-dimensional left and right eye pictures of the display screen, thus rotating a direction of a polarization plane of polarized light emitted from the display screen,
a signal module, connected with the magnetic field device and providing a varying current signal for the magnetic field device such that the magnetic field device produces a varying magnetic field in accordance with the varying current signal,
wherein the direction of the polarization plane of the linear polarized light rotated by the magnetic field device changes with refreshment of the picture of the display screen and is back and forth switched between a direction in parallel with and perpendicular to a direction of the polarization plane of the linear polarized light before rotation;
wherein the current signal is a pulse current signal.

2. The 3D display device according to claim 1 , wherein the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field device rotates a direction of a polarization plane of linear polarized light emitted from the display screen such that the direction of the polarization plane of the linear polarized light for the left eye picture after rotation and the direction of the polarization plane of the linear polarized light for the right eye picture after rotation are orthogonal to each other.

3. The 3D display device according to claim 1 , wherein the magnetic field device comprises a coil and a transparent medium, the transparent medium completely covering an effective display region of the display screen, the coil disposed to surround thin sides of the transparent medium.

4. The 3D display device according to claim 3 , wherein the coil is disposed on an outside peripheral frame of the display screen to act as an external frame of the display screen.

5. The 3D display device according to claim 3 , wherein the transparent medium is a transparent magnetic medium or a transparent non-magnetic medium.

6. The 3D display device according to claim 5 , wherein the Verdet constant of the transparent magnetic medium or the transparent non-magnetic medium has an absolute value greater than 0.33 min/Oe·cm.

7. The 3D display device according to claim 5 , wherein the transparent magnetic medium is a transparent magneto-optical glass, a transparent diluted magnetic semiconductor thin film or a transparent magneto-optical thin film.

8. The 3D display device according to claim 3 , wherein the transparent medium is disposed without an interval from an outside surface on a light emitting side of the display screen.

9. The 3D display device according to claim 1 , wherein the 3D display device further comprises a X/4 wave plate disposed right in front of the magnetic field device on a light emitting side of the magnetic field device.

10. The 3D display device according to claim 9 , wherein the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field device rotates a direction of a polarization plane of linear polarized light emitted from the display screen such that the direction of the polarization plane of the linear polarized light for the left eye picture after rotation and the direction of the polarization plane of the linear polarized light for the right eye picture after rotation are orthogonal to each other, and the rotated linear polarized light for the left eye picture and the rotated linear polarized light for the right eye picture become left-handed and right-handed circular polarized light after passing through the λ/4 wave plate.

11. An operating method for a 3D display device,
the 3D display device, comprising:
a display screen, for displaying two-dimensional left and right eye pictures;
a magnetic field device, disposed right in front of the display screen on a light emitting side of the display screen and generating a magnetic field having a varying frequency in synchronization with a refresh frequency of the two-dimensional left and right eye pictures of the display screen, thus rotating a direction of a polarization plane of polarized light emitted from the display screen;
a signal module, connected with the magnetic field device and providing a varying current signal for the magnetic field device such that the magnetic field device produces a varying magnetic field in accordance with the varying current signal;
the operating method for the 3D display device, comprising:
providing a varying current signal by the signal module for the magnetic field device;
the magnetic field device producing a varying magnetic field in accordance with the varying current signal, the magnetic field having a varying frequency in synchronization with a refresh frequency of the left and right eye pictures of the display screen;
the magnetic field rotating a direction of a polarization plane of linear polarized light emitted from the display screen such that the direction of the polarization plane of the linear polarized light after rotation is back and forth switched between the directions in parallel with and perpendicular to the direction of the polarization plane of the linear polarized light before rotation,
wherein the direction of the polarization plane of the linear polarized light after rotation rotated by the magnetic field device changes with refreshment of the picture of the display screen and is back and forth switched between a direction in parallel with and perpendicular to a direction of the polarization plane of the linear polarized light before rotation;
wherein the current signal is a pulse current signal.

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd
• Chengdu Boe Optoelect Tech Co

Inventors

• Zuo Xiongcan
• Lim Junhwan
• Zhang Junrui

Classifications

• H04N13/315

  the parallax barriers being time-variant · CPC title

• H04N13/337 Primary

  using polarisation multiplexing · CPC title

• G02B30/25 Primary

  using polarisation techniques · CPC title

• G02B30/24

  involving temporal multiplexing, e.g. using sequentially activated left and right shutters · CPC title

• G02B27/2264

  Physics · mapped topic