1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a stereoscopic image display technology, and more particularly, to a display panel of a stereoscopic image display.
2. Description of Prior Art
As liquid crystal displays grow vigorously, stereoscopic image displays or 3D displays which can show stereoscopic images or three-dimensional images have been marketed. The 3D displays can show distance relationship of respective parts of an object and that is consistent with human visual perception. Hence, the 3D displays may well become a development trend of next-generation displays.
The pair of the polarized light eyeglasses 16 that is arranged with the stereoscopic display consists of λ/4 wave plates 161, 162 and vertical polarizers 163, 164. The λ/4 wave plates 161, 162 can be respectively attached to the vertical polarizers 163, 164 to construct the polarized light eyeglasses 16. The λ/4 wave plates 161 corresponding to a left eyeglass for a left eye may have a 45° transmission axis. The λ/4 wave plates 162 corresponding to a right eyeglass for a right eye may have a 135° transmission axis. The vertical polarizers 163, 164 have transmission axes that are perpendicular to the horizontal direction H. Accordingly, the left-handed circularly polarized light from the 1/4λ pattern retarder plate 14 can pass the right eyeglass and then go into the right eye of a viewer. The left-handed circularly polarized light will be blocked or absorbed by the left eyeglass and thus will not go into the left eye of the viewer. The right-handed circularly polarized light from the 1/4λ pattern retarder plate 14 can pass the left eyeglass and then go into the left eye of the viewer. The right-handed circularly polarized light will be blocked or absorbed by the right eyeglass and thus will not go into the right eye of the viewer.
Consequently, the viewer's left eye may only receive the images provided for the left eye and the viewer's right eye may only receive the images provided for the right eye through the polarized light eyeglasses 16 as long as image pixels of the right-eye images and the left-eye images are arranged respectively corresponding to the transmission axes 45°, 135° of the 1/4λ pattern retarder plate 14 appropriately such that the right-eye images may correspond to the left-handed circularly polarized light and the left-eye images may correspond to the right-handed circularly polarized light, and vice versa, after emitted from the 1/4λ pattern retarder plate 14. In such a manner, the viewer can sense a three-dimensional image while the left eye receives the left-eye images and the right eyes receives the right-eye images.
Moreover, when a user uses a display device, the user may dislike a situation that the displayed content (e.g., all kinds of documents) is seen by any other person. Therefore, developing a technology for keeping information secure and preventing the information from being leaked out is also an important issue for the 3D displays.
The 3D displays inherently have a problem with image crosstalk and originally have small viewing angles. Hence, the 3D displays have a certain ability to prevent the information from being leaked out but there is still much room to improve it. The so-called image crosstalk is that one eye sees the signals that ought to be provided to another eye. For example, the viewer's right eye receives the images that are predetermined to be provided for the left eye and the viewer's left eye receives the images that are predetermined to be provided for the right eye. The interference signals are overlapped with original data signals and hence this causes a ghost image. The more serious the image crosstalk is, the smaller the viewing angle will be.
In another aspect,
Above all, how to improve information security for the 3D displays is an important issue in this industry.
An objective of the present invention is to provide a display panel of a stereoscopic image display for reducing a viewing angle for the display panel, improving the ability to keep the displayed content safe, and preventing information from leaked out.
To solve the above problem, the present invention provides a display panel of a stereoscopic image display, comprising: a backlight plate for providing backlight; a thin-film transistor array substrate comprising a plurality of pixel areas, each pixel area at least comprises a red sub pixel, a green sub pixel, and a blue sub pixel, the thin-film transistor array substrate has a plurality of scan lines and data lines disposed thereon, each sub pixel is defined by areas formed by interlacing the scan lines with the data lines; a color filter substrate having red, green, and blue filters disposed respectively corresponding to the red, green, and blue sub pixels on the thin-film transistor array substrate; and a first polarizer and a second polarizer disposed respectively at a rear side and a front side of the display panel, light rays emitted from the backlight plate become polarized light rays having two different polarization directions after passing the first polarizer and then the second polarizer; wherein the red, green, and blue sub pixels of one pixel area are arranged in series along a vertical direction, and in every pixel area, the blue sub pixel is located at a central position while the red and the green sub pixels are located at upper and lower positions.
In one embodiment of the present invention, in every pixel area of the thin-film transistor array substrate, the red sub pixel is located at the upper position, the blue sub pixel is located at the central position, and the green sub pixel is located at the lower position.
In one embodiment of the present invention, in every pixel area of the thin-film transistor array substrate, the green sub pixel is located at the upper position, the blue sub pixel is located at the central position, and the red sub pixel is located at the lower position.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the first polarizer is a polarization filter, of which a transmission axis is perpendicular to a horizontal direction; and the second polarizer is a pattern retarder film, which consists of a plurality of 1/4λ retarder blocks and −1/4λ retarder blocks, light rays emitted from the backlight plate become left-handed circularly polarized light and right-handed circularly polarized light after passing the polarization filter and then the pattern retarder film.
In another aspect, the present invention provides a display panel of a stereoscopic image display, comprising: a backlight plate for providing backlight; a thin-film transistor array substrate comprising a plurality of pixel areas, each pixel area at least comprises a red sub pixel, a green sub pixel, and a blue sub pixel, the thin-film transistor array substrate has a plurality of scan lines and data lines disposed thereon, each sub pixel is defined by areas formed by interlacing the scan lines with the data lines; a color filter substrate having red, green, and blue filters disposed respectively corresponding to the red, green, and blue sub pixels on the thin-film transistor array substrate; a polarization filter disposed at a side of the thin-film transistor array substrate, a transmission axis of the polarization filter is perpendicular to a horizontal direction; and a pattern retarder film disposed at a side of the color filter substrate, the pattern retarder film consists of a plurality of 1/4λ retarder blocks and −1/4λ retarder blocks, light rays emitted from the backlight plate become left-handed circularly polarized light and right-handed circularly polarized light after passing the polarization filter and then the pattern retarder film; wherein the red, green, and blue sub pixels of one pixel area are arranged in series along a vertical direction, and in every pixel area, the blue sub pixel is located at a central position while the red and the green sub pixels are located at upper and lower positions.
In one embodiment of the present invention, in every pixel area of the thin-film transistor array substrate, the red sub pixel is located at the upper position, the blue sub pixel is located at the central position, and the green sub pixel is located at the lower position.
In one embodiment of the present invention, in every pixel area of the thin-film transistor array substrate, the green sub pixel is located at the upper position, the blue sub pixel is located at the central position, and the red sub pixel is located at the lower position.
In yet another aspect, the present invention provides a display panel of a stereoscopic image display, in which the display panel has a first polarizer and a second polarizer respectively disposed at a rear side and a front side thereof, backlight of the display panel becomes polarized light having two different polarization directions after passing the first polarizer and then the second polarizer, said display panel comprising: a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines; and a plurality of pixel area, each pixel area at least comprises a red sub pixel, a green sub pixel, and a blue sub pixel, each sub pixel is defined by areas formed by interlacing the scan lines with the data lines, each pixel area corresponds at least three scan lines and one data line, said three scan lines provide scan signals respectively to the red, green, and blue sub pixels, the red, green, and blue sub pixels receive data signals through the same data line; wherein the red, green, and blue sub pixels of one pixel area are arranged in series along a vertical direction, and in every pixel area, the blue sub pixel is located at a central position while the red and the green sub pixels are located at upper and lower positions.
In one embodiment of the present invention, in every pixel area, the red sub pixel is located at the upper position, the blue sub pixel is located at the central position, and the green sub pixel is located at the lower position.
In one embodiment of the present invention, in every pixel area, the green sub pixel is located at the upper position, the blue sub pixel is located at the central position, and the red sub pixel is located at the lower position.
In the present invention, the red, green, and blue sub pixels of one pixel area are arranged in series along a vertical direction, and in every pixel area, the blue sub pixel is located at a central position while the red and the green sub pixels are located at upper and lower positions. This arrangement can further reduce the viewing angle of the display panel of the stereoscopic image display, improve the ability to keep the displayed content safe, and prevent information from leaked out.
To make above content of the present invention more easily understood, it will be described in details by using preferred embodiments in conjunction with the appending drawings.
The following descriptions for the respective embodiments are specific embodiments capable of being implemented for illustrations of the present invention with referring to appended figures. In the descriptions of the present invention, spatially relative terms, such as “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “back”, “left”, “right”, “top”, “bottom”, “horizontal”, “vertical”, and the like, may be used herein for ease of description as illustrated in the figures. Therefore, it will be understood that the spatially relative terms are intended to illustrate for understanding the present invention, but not to limit the present invention.
The backlight plate 21 is used for providing backlight, for example, cold-cathode tubes and light emitting diodes (LEDs). The polarization filter 22 is disposed at a rear side of the display panel while the polarization filter 254 is disposed at a front side of the display panel. The polarization filters 22, 254 are used to polarize light rays. The light rays provided by the backlight plate 21 will be polarized after passing the polarization filter 22. Thin-film transistors disposed on the thin-film transistor array substrate 52 can control twisting angles of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer 54 so as to alter polarization of the light rays. The light rays having different polarization enter the polarization filter 254 after passing the red, green, and blue filter array 252 of the color filer substrate 56. The light rays from the polarization filter 254 have two different polarization directions. This can be designed appropriately such that the images provided for a viewer's left eye correspond to a first polarization direction and the images provided for the viewer's right eye correspond to a second polarization direction. The polarized light eyeglasses 30 are well designed such that the left eyepiece only allows the left-eye images corresponding to the first polarization direction to pass through and the right eyepiece only allows the right-eye images corresponding to the second polarization direction to pass through. In such a manner, when the viewer wears the polarized light eyeglasses 30, the viewer's left eye only sees the left-eye images provided by the display and the viewer's right eye only sees the right-eye images provided by the display. Hence, the viewer can get a three-dimensional image perception under a parallax principle.
For example, the polarization filter 22 is a linear polarization filter. The angle between a transmission axis of the linear polarization filter 22 and a horizontal direction is 90°. Hence, only the light rays polarized in a vertical direction can pass the linear polarization filter 22. The light rays able to pass the linear polarization filter 22 are vertically polarized light rays. The polarization filter 254 is a film-type patterned retarder (FPR), which is formed by a 1/4λ and −1/4λ composite retarder film. The 1/4λ retarder and the −1/4λ retarder are arranged alternatively along the vertical direction, e.g., one row for the 1/4λ retarder, next row for the −1/4λ retarder, and 1/4λ retarder again for the next, and so on (see
In one embodiment, the pattern retarder film 254 can be attached to the glass carrier 256 of the color filter substrate 25 and then the filter array 252 is formed thereon, as shown in
The pixel structure shown in
In the present invention, the red, green, and blue sub pixels of one pixel area are arranged in series along a vertical direction (i.e., the tri-gate type). In every pixel area, the blue sub pixel is located at a central position while the red and the green sub pixels are located at upper and lower positions. In one embodiment, in every pixel area, the red sub pixel is located at the upper position, the blue sub pixel is located at the central position, and the green sub pixel is located at the lower position, as shown in
Although the present invention has been explained by the embodiments shown in the drawings described above, it should be understood to the ordinary skilled person in the art that the invention is not limited to the embodiments, but rather various changes or modifications thereof are possible without departing from the spirit of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention shall be determined only by the appended claims and their equivalents.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201210203096.2 | Jun 2012 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/CN12/77288 | 6/21/2012 | WO | 00 | 7/20/2012 |