Abstract:
An optical modulation device includes a first panel that includes a plurality of lower-panel electrodes, a second panel facing the first panel and that includes at least one upper-panel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first panel and the second panel. A method of driving the optical modulation device includes applying a voltage to the upper-panel electrode; forming a forward phase slope by applying a first driving signal to at least one lower-panel electrode corresponding to a first region; forming a backward phase slope by applying a second driving signal different from the first driving signal to at least one lower-panel electrode corresponding to a second region; and forming a flat phase slope by applying a third driving signal different from the first and second driving signals to at least one lower-panel electrode corresponding to a third region between the first and second regions.
Abstract:
A three dimensional image display includes a display panel and a liquid crystal lens positioned on the top of the display panel. The liquid crystal lens comprises a lower substrate, an upper substrate, a lens, and an electrode voltage applying IC. The lower substrate includes a first electrode. The upper substrate includes a second electrode. The upper substrate faces the lower substrate. The lens liquid crystal layer is positioned between the lower substrate and the upper substrate. The electrode voltage applying IC is configured to form a plurality of zones on the first electrode of the lower substrate by sequentially applying first voltage and second voltage to the first electrode. The first voltage includes an overshoot voltage level. The second voltage has an inverted polarity of the first voltage.
Abstract:
A three-dimensional (“3D”) image display device includes a display panel, and a liquid crystal lens part disposed on the display panel and which selectively provides a two-dimensional (“2D”) image and a 3D stereoscopic image, where the liquid crystal lens part includes: a lower substrate including a plurality of linear electrodes which are disposed in different layers; an upper substrate including a plate electrode; and a lens liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, where the linear electrodes in the to different layers are alternately arranged in a unit zone of the liquid crystal lens part, and where two adjacent linear electrodes of the linear electrodes are spaced apart from each other when viewed from a top view.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal lens unit is provided as follows. Lower plate electrodes are positioned on a first substrate. The lower plate electrodes are extended in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction crossing the first direction. An upper plate electrode is positioned on the lower plate electrodes. A second substrate is positioned on the upper plate electrode. A liquid crystal layer is positioned between the lower plate electrodes and the upper electrode. A first voltage is applied to at least two outermost lower plate electrodes and then, a second voltage lower than the first voltage is applied to at least two second outermost lower plate electrodes.
Abstract:
A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes a display panel including pixels arranged in row and column directions and displaying an image using a light. A switching panel, which controls liquid crystal molecules to allow the image displayed on the display panel to be recognized as a two or three-dimensional image, is disposed on the display panel. The switching panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate while being coupled to the first substrate, and spacers interposed between the first and second substrates. Each pixel has a first width in the row direction and has a second width in the column direction, and the spacers are arranged in the row direction at a first distance and arranged in the column direction at a second distance. The first distance is different from the first width, and the second width is different from the second distance.
Abstract:
A display device includes a display panel including a display surface defined by first and second directional axes perpendicular to each other, a first polarizer disposed on the display panel and having a first optical axis parallel to the first directional axis, a liquid crystal lens including lower electrodes disposed on the first polarizer and extending in a third directional axis crossing the first directional axis, an upper electrode spaced apart from the lower electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower electrodes and the upper electrode and aligned between a lower alignment axis and an upper alignment axis, and a second polarizer disposed on the liquid crystal lens and having a second optical axis parallel to the first directional axis, where the lower alignment axis is defined between the first directional axis and the third directional axis on the display surface.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal lens panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first base substrate and a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the first base substrate. The second substrate includes a second base substrate disposed to face the first base substrate, the second substrate further including a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the second base substrate. Each of the first base substrate and the second base substrate are rectilinearly shaped to comprise corresponding first sides and second sides, the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes are inclined with respect to the corresponding first sides or second sides, and the plurality of first electrodes comprise a first inclination angle different from a second inclination angle associated with the plurality of second electrodes.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an image display device using a diffractive lens. An image display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a display panel displaying an image, and a diffractive lens for the image of the display panel to be recognized as a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image, wherein the diffractive lens modifies a path of light by using an optical principle of a Fresnel zone plate.
Abstract:
An image display device includes a display panel and a liquid crystal lens. The liquid crystal lens includes first and second zones equally distant from a center of the liquid crystal lens. The first zone, positioned at a left of the center, includes first linear electrodes. The second zone, positioned at a right of the center, includes second linear electrodes. A number of the first linear electrodes is equal to a number of the second linear electrodes. Bus lines are electrically connected to the first and second linear electrodes. A number of the plurality of bus lines is less than a sum of the number of the first linear electrodes and the number of the second linear electrodes.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal lens includes: a lower substrate; a plurality of driver pad wires positioned at an edge of the lower substrate; a lower lens electrode positioned at a center of the lower substrate; a plurality of wires of a wiring on the lower substrate positioned between the plurality of driver pad wires and the lower lens electrode; an upper substrate positioned facing the lower substrate; an upper lens electrode formed at a bottom surface of the upper substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate; a plurality of first electrodes connecting the lower lens electrode and the plurality of wires of the wiring; and a plurality of second electrodes connecting the plurality of driver pad wires and the plurality of wires of the wiring, and a difference between a driver pad wiring period and a second electrode period is less than 1 μm