摘要:
Picture element electrodes (30) and common electrodes (36) are provided in one of two substrates facing each other. Each picture element (20) has a plurality of sub picture elements (22). In a range in which a signal voltage of an image signal is low, a display is carried out only in a first sub picture element (22a) having narrower electrode spacing, whereas in a range in which the signal voltage of the image signal is high, a display is carried out in both of the first sub picture element (22a) and a second sub picture element (22b) having wider electrode spacing.
摘要:
A liquid crystal panel (10) includes a liquid crystal layer formed with a p-type liquid crystal. The liquid crystal layer exhibits homogeneous orientation while no voltage is applied. Further, an electric field is applied to the liquid crystal layer in a direction same as dipole moments (μ) of liquid crystal molecules (3a) to which no voltage is applied. With these arrangements, it is possible to provide a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display device, each of which adopts a new display mode that can achieve a wide viewing angle equivalent to an IPS mode, can achieve a high-speed response like an OCB mode or exceeding the OCB mode, and does not require an initial operation for orientation conversion to the bend orientation.
摘要:
Surface light source device includes: point light sources (13); light guide plate (1) having (i) two end parts in length direction, one of which serves as incident surface (2), and (ii) two end parts in thickness direction which serve as exit surface (7) and back surface (8), light guide plate (1) directing light, emitted from point light sources (13), incident on incident surface (2), so as to cause light to exit from substantially entire area of exit surface (7); and reflector (14) which reflects, toward incident surface (2), part of light which is emitted from point light sources (13) and is then reflected from incident surface (2). Incident surface (2) has elliptic arc (10) which is concave part having surface shape along elliptic arc identical to elliptic arc which is part of ellipse (31) having two focal points corresponding to point light sources (13) and reflector (14). Point light sources (13) and reflector (14) are provided on ellipse focal point lines (11 and 12) obtained by moving two focal points in width direction of light guide plate (1).
摘要:
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device providing uniform display without lowering the transmissivity.The present invention is a liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate positioned to face the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer contains liquid crystal molecules having positive dielectric anisotropy, the liquid crystal molecule is aligned in a direction vertical to a surface of the first substrate when voltage is not applied, the first substrate comprises a pixel electrode and a common electrode, each comprising a core portion and a comb-tooth portion, the comb-tooth portions of the pixel electrode and of the common electrode are arranged in parallel with each other and alternately engaged at a constant interval, the core portion of the common electrode comprises two parallel portions that are in parallel with the longitudinal direction of the comb-tooth portion of the common electrode, the two parallel portions are each positioned outside the outermost comb-tooth portions of the pixel electrode, and (W−S)/(L+S) satisfies “2n+1”, in which “W” represents a distance between the two parallel portions, “L” represents the width of each of the comb-tooth portions of the pixel electrode and the common electrode, “S” represents a distance between a comb-tooth portion of the pixel electrode and an adjacent comb-tooth portion of the common electrode and also represents a distance between one of the outermost comb-tooth portions of the pixel electrode and one of the two parallel portions, and “n” represents the number of the comb-tooth portions of the common electrode.
摘要:
According to a conventional backlight device for use in a thin full-color display device in which pixels are subjected to a color separation by colored lights, a large chromatic aberration occurs, thereby causing a deterioration in image quality. A thin backlight system in accordance with the present invention includes: a light emitting section (1) for emitting lights that have different dominant wavelengths; and a plurality of light transmitting parts (4) arranged in a predetermined manner, the thin backlight system deflecting the lights and then converging the lights on the plurality of light transmitting parts (4), said thin backlight system, further including: an imaging optical system (3) provided so as to face surfaces, of the plurality of light transmitting parts (4), on which the lights are to be converged, the imaging optical system (3) (i) having a plurality of identical lenses arranged in a vertical and/or a horizontal direction at a pitch found by multiplying a pitch at which the plurality of light transmitting parts (4) are arranged in a vertical and/or a horizontal direction by the number of types of the different dominant wavelengths and (ii) being configured so as to converge the lights from the light emitting section (1) on light transmitting parts (4) to which the different dominant wavelengths of the lights correspond; and an irradiating optical system (2) provided so as to face (a) the light emitting section (1) and (b) a surface, of the imaging optical system (3), through which the lights enter the imaging optical system (3), the irradiating optical system (2) being configured such that (I) the lights from the light emitting section (1), which lights have the different dominant wavelengths, are deflected by the irradiating optical system (2) by at least being reflected by the irradiating optical system (2) so as to be separate from each other, (II) the lights thus deflected leave the irradiating optical system (2) so as to travel in substantially parallel to a normal to each of the plurality of light transmitting parts (4) and (III) the lights enter the plurality of identical lenses of the imaging optical system (3) through a surface, of the imaging optical system (3), which is opposite to the plurality of light transmitting parts (4).
摘要:
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that suppress moiré generated when a voltage is applied in a liquid crystal mode that drives a vertical alignment liquid crystal by using at least a pair of comb-shaped electrodes. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention comprises: a liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal layer and a pair of substrates sandwiching the liquid crystal layer; and a backlight unit disposed on a back side of the liquid crystal display panel, one of the pair of substrates including a pair of comb-shaped electrodes each having comb teeth, the comb teeth of one of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes and the comb teeth of the other of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes being disposed alternately and spaced apart from each other, the liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules with positive dielectric anisotropy, the liquid crystal molecules being aligned in a direction perpendicular to a surface of one of the pair of substrates when no voltage is applied, the backlight unit having an optical sheet with multiple folds parallel to one another on a surface, the pitch width of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes being different from an integral multiple of the pitch width of the folds of the optical sheet.
摘要:
A display element has a arrangement that allows the pixel to have at least two domains in which the medium shows optical anisotropies of different directions when a force (for example, an electric field) is applied or when no force is applied. It is preferable that directions of the optical anisotropies occurred in the respective domains when the electric field is applied respectively have 45 degrees±10 degrees with absorption axes of polarizers, and that the directions of the optical anisotropies occurred in the respective domains when the electric field is applied make 90 degrees±20 degrees.
摘要:
There are disclosed methods for driving liquid crystal display apparatuses for certainly completing in a short time to performing a transition of liquid crystal molecules to a displayable alignment in liquid crystal display apparatuses such that an initial alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is different from the displayable alignment, typically an optically compensated bend mode liquid crystal display apparatus. A voltage is applied to a liquid crystal layer until display area in the liquid crystal layer is transformed to the displayable alignment. After the completion of the transition, a backlight is switched on to shift to a display-driving mode. In order to complete the transition in a short time, voltage pulse under the conditions (such as a frequency and a voltage value) determined in accordance with a temperature of a liquid crystal panel is applied to the liquid crystal layer.
摘要:
A liquid crystal display according to the invention includes a liquid crystal display element (100) having a liquid crystal layer (4) containing liquid crystal molecules oriented so as to assume a bend alignment when an image display is being made, and at least one retardation plate for compensating for a retardation of the liquid crystal layer, wherein the display is made by varying the retardation of the liquid crystal layer in accordance with video signals inputted from outside to vary the transmittance of the liquid crystal display element to light for display, characterized in that: the liquid crystal display element (100) includes a plurality of red pixels for displaying a red color, a plurality of green pixels for displaying a green color, and a plurality of blue pixels for displaying a blue color; and a thickness (53B) of the liquid crystal layer (4) associated with the blue pixels is larger than a thickness (53R, 53G) of the liquid crystal layer associated with the red pixels and/or the green pixels.
摘要:
An active matrix liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal cell including an army substrate provided with a pixel electrode, a signal electrode line, and a gate electrode line and an opposing substrate provided with a common electrode, in which pretilt angles of liquid crystal at upper and lower interfaces of a liquid crystal layer disposed between the army substrate and the opposing substrate have opposite signs having splay alignment formed by parallel alignment process while no voltage is applied. The active matrix liquid crystal display device is subjected to an initialization process for transitioning the splay alignment to bend alignment by application of voltage before liquid crystal display driving and adapted to perform the liquid crystal display driving in the bend alignment. In addition the pixel electrode is provided with a protrusion at a periphery thereof in a plane parallel to a plane defined by an upper surface of the array substrate, and in a region where the protrusion does not overlap with the signal electrode line and the gate electrode line in a vertical direction relative to the, and voltage is applied continuously or intermittently applied to the pixel electrode and the common electrode.