The present application claims benefit of Chinese patent application CN 201410837422.4, entitled “A Liquid Crystal Display Panel and A Display Device” and filed on Dec. 26, 2014, the entirety of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display, and in particular to a liquid crystal display panel and a display device.
Flat panel display device, such as a liquid crystal display panel (LCD panel for short), has the advantages of light weight, power saving, radiation free, and the like, and thus has been gradually replacing traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) display device and becomes the mainstream display device. Currently, liquid crystal panels are widely used in various electronic equipment, such as digital television, computer, personal digital assistant, mobile phone, and digital camera, and the like.
At present, liquid crystal display devices mainly use twist nematic (TN) liquid crystal display panel, in-plane switching (IPS) liquid crystal display panel, and vertical alignment (VA) liquid crystal display panel.
The existing VA liquid crystal panel, which can satisfy the large viewing angle characteristics, suffers from low usage rate of light emitted from a backlight thereof. In order to guarantee sufficient brightness of the VA liquid crystal display device, the intensity of the light from the backlight must be enhanced, whereby the power consumption of the liquid crystal display device is increased.
The objective of the present disclosure is to provide a liquid crystal display panel and a display device, so that the light usage rate of the VA liquid crystal display panel can be increased, and at the same time the large viewing angle characteristics thereof can be satisfied.
According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, a liquid crystal display panel is provided, comprising a plurality of pixel units arranged as an array, each pixel unit comprising at least three sub pixels of different colors, wherein in each pixel unit, a primary region of each of a part of the sub pixels has a higher brightness than a secondary region thereof, and each of the rest sub pixels has a same brightness.
Each of the rest sub pixels having the same brightness is achieved through enabling that a primary region of each of the rest sub pixels has the same brightness with a secondary region thereof.
Each pixel unit comprises three sub pixels, each having a primary region and a secondary region. A primary region of one of the three sub pixels has a same brightness with a secondary region thereof, and a primary region of each of the other two sub pixels has a larger brightness than a secondary region thereof.
Each pixel unit comprises three sub pixels, each having a primary region and a secondary region. A primary region of each of two of the three sub pixels has a same brightness with the secondary region thereof, and a primary region of the other sub pixel has a larger brightness than a secondary region thereof.
The primary region of each of a part of the sub pixels having a larger brightness than the secondary region thereof is achieved through enabling that the primary region is provided with a primary region pixel electrode and the secondary region is provided with a secondary region pixel electrode, an area ratio of the primary region pixel electrode to the primary region being larger than that of the secondary region pixel electrode to the secondary region.
The primary region of each of a part of the sub pixels having a larger brightness than the secondary region thereof is achieved through enabling that a thickness of a liquid crystal cell corresponding to the primary region is smaller than that of a liquid crystal cell corresponding to the secondary region.
The primary region of each of a part of the sub pixels having a larger brightness than the secondary region thereof is achieved through enabling that each sub pixel is provided with a first switching element corresponding to the primary region and a second switching element corresponding to the secondary region.
An area of the secondary region accounts for 60% of that of an aperture region of a sub pixel, and an area of the primary region accounts for 40% of that of the aperture region of the sub pixel.
The liquid crystals in the liquid crystal display panel are arranged in a vertical alignment mode.
The present disclosure has the following beneficial effects. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, only a part of the sub pixels in each pixel unit each comprise a primary region and a secondary region respectively having different brightnesses, and the rest sub pixels each have the same brightness. The area of the low brightness region in each pixel unit is reduced, so that the usage ratio of light from the backlight of each pixel unit can be improved, whereby the power consumption of the backlight can be reduced. In the meantime, due to the sub pixel comprising a primary region and a secondary region of different brightnesses, the large viewing angle characteristics of the liquid crystal panel can be improved, the user experience can be enhanced, and the liquid crystal panel can be popularized.
In a second aspect of the present disclosure, a display device comprising said liquid crystal display panel is provided.
Other features and advantages of the present disclosure will be further explained in the following description and partially become self-evident therefrom, or be understood through the embodiments of the present disclosure. The objectives and advantages of the present disclosure will be achieved through the structure specifically pointed out in the description, claims, and the accompanying drawings.
In order to illustrate the technical solutions of the examples of the present disclosure more clearly, the accompanying drawings needed for describing the examples will be explained briefly. In the drawings:
The present disclosure will be explained in detail with reference to the examples and the accompanying drawings, whereby it can be fully understood how to solve the technical problem by the technical means according to the present disclosure and achieve the technical effects thereof, and thus the technical solution according to the present disclosure can be implemented. It is important to note that as long as there is no structural conflict, all the technical features mentioned in all the examples may be combined together in any manner, and the technical solutions obtained in this manner all fall within the scope of the present disclosure.
A liquid crystal display panel is provided according to an example of the present disclosure, comprising a plurality of pixel units arranged as an array. As shown in
In each pixel unit, a primary region 2 of each of a part of the sub pixels 1 has a higher brightness than a secondary region 3 thereof, and a brightness over each of the rest sub pixels 1 is the same.
In a pixel unit comprising only three sub pixels 1 as shown in
Color cast tends to occur to a traditional liquid crystal display panel viewed at a large viewing angle. That is, the color of an image observed by a user at large viewing angle would deviate from that observed at a center viewing angle. As shown in
In order to alleviate color cast under a large viewing angle, in the prior art, each sub pixel 1 in a pixel unit is usually divided into a primary region 2 and a secondary region 3, as shown in
However, due to the relatively large area of the secondary region 3, which occupies over half of an aperture region of the entire sub pixel 1, the usage ratio of light from the backlight of the entire sub pixel 1 is reduced. In order for the backlight to provide sufficient brightness, the power consumption thereof will inevitably be increased. This is not an environment-friendly design.
According to a technical solution of an example of the present disclosure, only a part of the sub pixels in each pixel unit each have a primary region and a secondary region with different brightnesses, and the rest sub pixels each have a uniform brightness. Therefore, an area of a region with lower brightness in each pixel unit is reduced, so that the improvement of the usage ratio of light from the backlight of each pixel unit can be facilitated, whereby the power consumption of the backlight can be reduced. In the meantime, due to the sub pixel or sub pixels comprising the primary region and the secondary region with different brightnesses, the large viewing angle characteristics of the liquid crystal display panel can be improved, the user experience thereof can be enhanced, and the popularization thereof can be facilitated.
In a common liquid crystal display panel, each pixel unit comprises a red sub pixel, a green sub pixel, and a blue sub pixel. Human eyes are more sensitive to the skin color in an image displayed on the liquid crystal display panel. A color cast of skin color (usually whitened skin color) under a large viewing angle is largely caused by a blue ray from the liquid crystal display panel. Under such circumstances, in an example according to the present disclosure, a blue sub pixel should be adjusted. Preferably, a primary region 2 of each blue sub pixel has a different brightness from a secondary region 3 thereof, with the brightness of the primary region 2 being larger than that of the secondary region 3. Red sub pixels and green sub pixels each have uniform brightness. Moreover, sub pixels 1 of each color can be adjusted in a different manner as per the requests of different manufacturers. For example, if a manufacturer requires a warm-toned display effect, when a pixel is designed, both the blue sub pixel and the green sub pixel are adjusted. In other words, the green sub pixel is also divided into a primary region 2 and a secondary region 3, with the primary region 2 having a larger brightness than the secondary region 3. For another example, if a manufacturer uses purple-ish polarizer, when a pixel is designed, both the blue sub pixel and the red sub pixel can be adjusted. In other words, the red sub pixel is divided into a primary region 2 and a secondary region 3, with a brightness of the primary region 2 being larger than that of the secondary region 3. As a result, the amount of purple light can be reduced, thereby the color cast caused by the polarizer can be compensated. As per the request of manufacturers, special circumstances, such as only the red sub pixels, or only the green sub pixels, or both the red and the green sub pixels are adjusted, might also be feasible. The present disclosure does not set limit to such circumstances.
In an example according to the present disclosure, in order to facilitate the manufacturing of an array substrate, a pixel unit comprising a red sub pixel, a blue sub pixel, and a green sub pixel can have a structure as shown in
Preferably, an area of the secondary region 3 accounts for 60% that of an aperture region of the sub pixel, and an area of the primary region 2 accounts for 40% that of the aperture region of the sub pixel. That is, an area ratio of the secondary region 3 to the primary region 2 is 6:4. Based on different requirements for display, the area ratio of the secondary region 3 to the primary region 2 can also be 5:5 or 4:6, to which the present disclosure sets no limit.
Further, in an example according to the present disclosure, a sub pixel is divided into a primary region 2 and a secondary region 3, the primary region 2 having a larger brightness than the secondary region 3. The sub pixel can have a structure selected from, but not limited to, the following structures.
A first structure is as shown in
As shown in
In addition, if the liquid crystals in the liquid crystal display panel are arranged in a manner of vertical alignment, i.e., the liquid crystal display panel is a VA display panel, the primary region pixel electrode 4 and the secondary region pixel electrode 5 each are provided with a plurality of parallel cutouts 6 arranged in a certain angle. In order to guarantee that the capability of the primary region 2 to drive the liquid crystals is larger than that of the secondary region 3, the size of the cutouts 6 of the primary region pixel electrode 4 should be smaller than that of the cutouts 6 of the secondary region pixel electrode 5. As shown in
Apparently, in the structure as shown in
It should be noted that the primary region pixel electrode 4 and the secondary region pixel electrode 5 as shown in
A second structure is as shown in
Specifically, in order for the thickness of the liquid crystal cell corresponding to the primary region 2 to be smaller than that corresponding to the secondary region 3, a thickness of an insulation layer 8 or each of insulation layers 8 corresponding to the primary region 2, such as an insulation layer 8 under the primary region pixel electrode 5, can be increased. Alternatively, an insulation layer 8 corresponding to the secondary region 3 can be reduced, forming a stepped structure between the primary region 2 and the secondary region 3 as shown in
Furthermore, the second structure can also be realized by increasing a thickness of the color filter layer 7 corresponding to the primary region 2, or reducing a thickness of the color filter layer 7 corresponding to the secondary region 3. In this case, the color filter layer 7 is presented as a stepped structure as shown in
It should be noted that the abovementioned four structures with adjustable liquid crystal cell thickness can exist simultaneously. For example, as shown in
A third structure is as shown in
Specifically, as shown in
The primary region pixel electrode 4 can form a primary region liquid crystal capacitor Clc1 with a common electrode (not shown) on a color filter substrate, and an overlap section between the primary region pixel electrode 4 and the common electrode line 11 forms a primary region storage capacitor Cst1. The secondary region pixel electrode 5 can form a secondary region liquid crystal capacitor Clc2 with the common electrode (not shown) on the color filter substrate, and an overlap section between the secondary region pixel electrode 5 and the common electrode line 11 forms a secondary region storage capacitor Cst2. That is, the structure of the sub pixel as shown in
In the structure as shown in
Further, as shown in
Specifically, as shown in
In the structure as shown in
It should be noted that the abovementioned three structures can be combined in any manner. Any structure of the liquid crystal display panel, in which the brightness of the primary region 2 is larger than that of the secondary region 3, can be applied to the present disclosure.
Further, a display device is comprises the above liquid crystal display panel provided according to the present disclosure. The display device can be a liquid crystal television, a liquid crystal display device, a cell phone, or a tablet PC.
The above embodiments are described only for better understanding, rather than restricting, the present disclosure. Any person skilled in the art can make amendments to the implementing forms or details without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. The scope of the present disclosure should still be subjected to the scope defined in the claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201410837422.4 | Dec 2014 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2015/070509 | 1/12/2015 | WO | 00 |