Claims
- 1. A light shutter device comprising:
a substrate made of a material with an electro-optical effect; a plurality of electrodes on the substrate; a plurality of light shutter elements which are located between the electrodes and which are driven by application of a voltage between the electrodes, wherein the shutter elements form a shutter array which extends in a specified direction; and a driver for driving the light shutter elements, wherein an electrical field applied by the driver does not operate essentially simultaneously on light shutter elements as to which the cross-talk phenomenon occurs in their respective electrical fields.
- 2. A light shutter device according to claim 1,
wherein the driver divides one cycle into at least two periods and the driver turns the light shutter elements that experience mutual cross-talk on alternately in each period, said one cycle corresponds to a term in which one line shutter array is driven.
- 3. A light shutter device according to claim 2,
wherein the shutter array include plurality of rows of the light shutter elements.
- 4. A light shutter device according to claim 3,
wherein the shutter array include two rows of the light shutter elements and the two rows are arranged at a {fraction (1/2)} line pitch difference.
- 5. A light shutter device according to claim 1,
wherein the driver supplies a large number of pulses per line cycle and the driver turns the light shutter elements that experience mutual cross-talk on alternately by each pulse.
- 6. A light shutter device according to claim 1,
wherein the driver drives the light shutter elements such that adjacent elements are not turned ON at the same time.
- 7. A light shutter device according to claim 6,
wherein the driver divides one cycle into at least two periods and the driver turns the adjacent light shutter elements on alternately in each period, said one cycle corresponds to a term in which one line shutter array is driven.
- 8. A light shutter device according to claim 7,
wherein the shutter array includes two rows of the light shutter elements and the two rows are arranged at a {fraction (1/2)} line pitch difference.
- 9. A light shutter device according to claim 1,
wherein the driver supplies a large number of pulses per line cycle and the driver turns the adjacent light shutter elements on alternately by each pulse.
- 10. A light shutter device according to claim 1,
wherein the driver drives the light shutter elements alternately in every other shutter elements.
- 11. Alight shutter device according to claim 10,
wherein the driver divides one cycle into at least two periods and the driver turns the light shutter elements on alternately in every other shutter elements in each period, said one cycle corresponds to a term in which one line shutter array is driven.
- 12. A light shutter device according to claim 11,
wherein the shutter array includes two rows of the light shutter elements and the two rows are arranged at a ½ line pitch difference.
- 13. A light shutter device according to claim 1,
wherein the driver supplies a large number of pulses per line cycle and the driver turns the light shutter elements on alternately in every other shutter elements by each pulse.
- 14. A driving method for a light shutter device including multiple light shutter elements located on a substrate made of a material having an electro-optical effect, wherein the ON/OFF control of light is carried out through the action on each light shutter element of an electrical field generated from a pair of electrodes, said method comprising the steps of:
(a) driving a first group of the light shutter elements; and (b) driving a second group of the light shutter elements, said second group of the light shutter elements leads to cross-talk phenomenon with the first group of the light shutter elements by their respective electrical fields when first and second group of the light shutter elements are driven at the same time, wherein said steps of (a) and (b) are repeated alternately.
- 15. A driving method for a light shutter device according to claim 14,
wherein one cycle corresponding to a term in which one line shutter array is driven are divided into at least two periods and the steps of (a) and (b) are repeated alternately by each period.
- 16. A driving method for a light shutter device according to claim 15,
wherein the shutter array include two rows of the light shutter elements and the two rows are arranged at a {fraction (1/2)} line pitch difference.
- 17. A driving method for a light shutter device according to claim 14,
wherein a large number of pulses are supplied per line cycle corresponding to a term in which one line shutter array is driven and the steps of (a) and (b) are repeated alternately by each pulse.
- 18. A driving method for a light shutter device including multiple light shutter elements located on a substrate made of a material having an electro-optical effect, wherein the ON/OFF control of light is carried out through the action on each light shutter element of an electrical field generated from a pair of electrodes, said method comprising the steps of:
(a) driving a first group of the light shutter elements; (b) driving a second group of the light shutter elements; and (c) repeating the steps of (a) and (b) alternately, wherein the light shutter elements of the first group is next to the light shutter elements of the second group.
- 19. A driving method for a light shutter device according to claim 18,
wherein a large number of pulses are supplied per line cycle corresponding to a term in which one line shutter array is driven and the steps of (a) and (b) are repeated alternately by each pulse.
- 20. A driving method for a light shutter device including multiple light shutter elements located on a substrate made of a material having an electro-optical effect, wherein the ON/OFF control of light is carried out through the action on each light shutter element of an electrical field generated from a pair of electrodes, said method comprising the steps of:
(a) driving a first group of the light shutter elements, said light shutter elements of the first group are arranged in every other shutter elements; (b) driving a second group of the light shutter elements, said light shutter elements of the second group is remaining the light shutter elements except for the light shutter elements of the first group; and (c) repeating the steps of (a) and (b) alternately.
Priority Claims (1)
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Date |
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2000-125703 |
Apr 2000 |
JP |
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Parent Case Info
[0001] This application is based on application No. JP 2000-125703 filed in Japan, the contents of which is hereby incorporated by reference.