Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of improving display quality of moving images. In the liquid crystal display device, every time a driving pulse voltage is generated by a backlight driving circuit in synchronization with a timing signal fed from a lighting timing control section and is applied to a backlight and a scanning signal is applied to each scanning electrode of a liquid crystal panel, the backlight is turned OFF during a period before completion of a response of each liquid crystal molecule to application of a display signal and is turned ON at time of the completion of the response. When displacement of each of the liquid crystal molecules is large and therefore the change in light transmittance is large, the backlight is turned OFF and, therefore, no change in luminance on a display screen occurs, as a result, contrast of images can be improved.
Abstract:
A backlight for a color liquid crystal display apparatus in which light of the three primary colors of red, blue, and green is directly incident on the corresponding pixels of a liquid crystal layer, the backlight comprising a first light-guide plate; a first incidence part for receiving light of a first primary color from among the light of the three primary colors in a first area on a first lateral surface of the first light-guide plate; a second incidence part for receiving light of a second primary color light from among the light of the three primary colors in a second area on a second lateral surface that is opposite to the first lateral surface of the first light-guide plate; and a third incidence part for receiving light of a third primary color from among the light of the three primary colors in a third area on a rear surface of the first light-guide plate. The number of superposition steps is thereby reduced, light-guide plates can easily be superposed onto an LCD panel with high accuracy, and a lightweight and inexpensive backlight for a color liquid crystal display apparatus can be obtained.