This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no. 104102834, filed on Jan. 28, 2015. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
The present disclosure relates to a pixel structure, and more particularly, to a pixel structure that the color shift problem at the side view is improved.
The liquid crystal display panel, with its good spatial utilization, low power consumption and radiation-free and other distinguished features, has gradually become the mainstream in the display device market. For better display quality of the liquid crystal display panel, various liquid crystal display panels with wide view angles have been developed on the market. However, among these wide view angle liquid crystal display panels, a portion of these wide view angle liquid crystal display panels adopts a special design for the electrode, such that the light transmittance is not the same and is a dependent variable of the view angle. Therefore, the brightness displayed by the liquid crystal display panel is not the same when the user is at the frontal view and at the side view of the displayed image such that the color shift and the inadequate color saturation phenomenon of the displayed image will happen.
To improve above-mentioned problems, the prior art divide each sub-pixel into two regions by using the space arrangement, and these regions are configured to have one pixel electrode, respectively. By the adjustment of the voltage value, two types of brightness rendered at the same time from these two regions are different from each other. Therefore, a middle brightness is rendered from these two types of brightness so that when the user is at front view or at side view of the displayed image, the user can see the displayed image with similar brightness. However, because a gap is kept between the two pixel electrodes of each sub-pixel to maintain electrical independency, the liquid crystal molecules at the gap can not be driven, thus forming a dark region. Hence, the pixel structure adopting above-mentioned design can easily cause a low aperture ratio and is not suitable for applying to the high resolution display panel.
To improve above-mentioned problems, a method of adjusting the frame rate has been proposed to cut one original frame time into two frame times under the configuration that a single region (a single pixel electrode) architecture is still applied for the sub-pixels. By the adjustment of voltage value, two displayed images with different brightness are rendered sequentially to human eyes by using different frame times, such that the same effect as the above-mentioned space arrangement method is achieved by the persistence of vision theory. Although this development can improve the problem that the gap affects the aperture ratio, the color shift effect at the side view still needs to be enhanced.
Since the display apparatus is becoming more popular and the desire of people about the displayed image with high resolution and high color saturation, the aperture ratio and the color shift problems of the pixel structure need to be further improved. Hence, how to further improve the color shift at the side view problem under the ideal aperture ratio condition will become a tendency in the future.
The present disclosure is directed to a pixel structure, in which the color shift at the side view problem is improved under the ideal aperture ratio condition.
The pixel structure of the present disclosure includes a plurality of sub-pixels that are arranged in array. Each of the sub-pixels includes an active device and a pixel electrode that is electrically connected to the active device, respectively. Each of the pixel electrodes includes a plurality of stripe patterns, respectively. Spacings of at least one portion of the stripe patterns of at least one of the sub-pixels are larger than spacings of the stripe patterns of the other sub-pixels.
Based on the above, the spacings of at least one portion of the stripe patterns of the pixel structure of the present disclosure are enlarged such that the hue of the displayed image at the side view may be adjusted by increasing the light transmittance of the at least one portion of the sub-pixels, thus improving the color shift problem of the displayed image at the side view. Since the design of spacing adjustment is helpful for reducing the lost in aperture ratio, the color shift at the side view problem is improved under the ideal aperture ratio condition in the pixel structure of the present disclosure.
To make the above features and advantages of the present disclosure more comprehensible, several embodiments accompanied with drawings are described in detail as follows.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the disclosure, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.
Specifically, the sub-pixels SP include a first sub-pixel SP1, a second sub-pixel SP2, and a third sub-pixel SP3. The first sub-pixel SP1, the second sub-pixel SP2, and the third sub-pixel SP3 are respectively the red sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel, and the blue sub-pixel, but are not limited thereto. The first sub-pixel SP1 includes a first active device AD1 and a first pixel electrode PE1 electrically connected to the first active device AD1, and the first pixel electrode PE1 includes a plurality of first stripe patterns PP1. The second sub-pixel SP2 includes a second active device AD2 and a second pixel electrode PE2 electrically connected to the second active device AD2, and the second pixel electrode PE2 includes a plurality of second stripe patterns PP2. The third sub-pixel SP3 includes a third active device AD3 and a third pixel electrode PE3 electrically connected to the third active device AD3, and the third pixel electrode PE3 includes a plurality of third stripe patterns PP3.
The first sub-pixel SP1, the second sub-pixel SP2, and the third sub-pixel SP3 are respectively disposed on the substrate SUB and are alternately arranged along one direction, for example. A plurality of scan lines SL, a plurality of data lines DL, and a common electrode CE can be further disposed on the substrate SUB (only one scan line SL is shown in
To be more specific, each of the active devices AD (including the first active device AD1, the second active device AD2, and the third active device AD3) is respectively adapted to be electrically connected to the corresponding scan line SL and the corresponding data line DL, and each of the active devices AD respectively includes a gate electrode GE, a gate insulating layer GI, a channel layer CH, a source electrode SE, and a drain electrode DE, wherein the gate electrode GE is connected to the scan line SL and the source electrode SE is connected to the data line DL. As shown in
The first sub-pixel SP1, the second sub-pixel SP2, and the third sub-pixel SP3 may further include an insulating layer IN. The insulating layer IN covers the first active device AD1, the second active device AD2, and the third active device AD3, and the insulating layer IN is adapted to provide a flat bearing surface for the first pixel electrode PE1, the second pixel electrode PE2, and the third pixel electrode PE3. In addition, the insulating layer IN includes a plurality of openings O exposing the drain electrodes DE, such that the first pixel electrode PE1, the second pixel electrode PE2, and the third electrode PE3 may be connected to the drain electrodes DE through the corresponding openings O, respectively. Thus, the first pixel electrode PE1 is electrically connected to the first active device AD1, the second pixel electrode PE2 is electrically connected to the second active device AD2, and the third pixel electrode PE3 is electrically connected to the third active device AD3.
Each of the pixel electrodes PE (including the first pixel electrode PE1, the second pixel electrode PE2, the third pixel electrode PE3) can further include trunk portions MP (including a first trunk portion MP1, a second trunk portion MP2, a third trunk portion MP3), respectively, wherein each of the pixel electrodes PE is divided into a plurality of display fields AA by the corresponding trunk portion MP. As shown in
The stripe patterns PP (including the first stripe patterns PP1, the second stripe patterns PP2, and the third stripe patterns PP3) are respectively arranged in the display fields AA, and the stripe patterns PP at the same display field AA are arranged along the same direction. In addition, the stripe patterns PP are, for example, respectively extended outwardly and inclinedly from the trunk portion MP. In other words, the extension direction of the stripe patterns PP is neither horizontal nor vertical to the first extension portion MPa and the second extension portion MPb.
In addition, spacings of at least one portion of the stripe patterns PP of at least one of the sub-pixels SP are larger than spacings of the stripe patterns PP of the other sub-pixels SP. Specifically, the spacings of at least one portion of the stripe patterns PP in the embodiment are enlarged, such that light transmittance of the corresponding sub-pixels SP is increased, thus enhancing the brightness of the sub-pixels SP at the side view. As a result, the hue rendered by the displayed image at the side view is adjusted, and the color shift problem is also improved.
As shown in
In this embodiment, the width L is 4 micron, and each of the spacings S is 2 micron, and each of the spacings S′ is between 3 micron and 4.5 micron. In addition, within the third stripe patterns SP3, an area occupied by the portion of the third stripe patterns PP3 having the spacings S is I, and an area occupied by the portion of the third stripe patterns PP3 having the spacings S′ is I′, and I and I′ satisfy the following condition:
0.33≦[I′/(I+I′)]≦0.66
By increasing a portion of spacings of the third stripe patterns PP3 (the spacings S′ are larger than the spacings S), the light transmittance of the blue sub-pixel (the third sub-pixel SP3) is increased at the side view. Since the blue light and the yellow light are mixed together to become white light, the phenomenon that the image of middle to high gray scale shifts towards yellow at the side view can be improved. As shown by the thick solid line and the thick dashed line in
In this embodiment, the width L is 4 micron, and each of the spacings S is 2 micron, and each of the spacings S′ is between 3 micron and 4.5 micron. In addition, within the third stripe patterns SP3, an area occupied by the diamond shape patterns OP3 is II, and an area occupied by the third stripe patterns PP3 having the spacings S′ is II′, and II and II′ satisfy the following condition:
0.50≦[II′/(II+II′)]≦0.90
By the disposition of the diamond shape patterns OP3 and the adjustment of the area occupied by the diamond shape patterns OP3 in the third sub-pixel SP3 (
In the embodiment in
In the aforesaid embodiments, light transmittance of different sub-pixels are adjusted by enlarging the spacings of at least one portion of the stripe patterns PP, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. In another embodiment, light transmittance of different sub-pixels may be adjusted by changing widths of at least one portion of the stripe patterns PP.
In the embodiments in
In summary, the spacings of at least one portion of the stripe patterns are enlarged in the pixel structure of the present disclosure such that the hue of the displayed image at the side view may be adjusted by adjusting light transmittance of different sub-pixels, thus improving the color shift problem at the side view. Since the design of spacing adjustment is helpful for reducing the lost in aperture ratio, the color shift at the side view problem is improved under the ideal aperture ratio condition in the pixel structure of the present disclosure.
Although the present disclosure has been described with reference to the above embodiments, it will be apparent to one of the ordinary skill in the art that modifications to the described embodiment may be made without departing from the spirit of the present disclosure. Accordingly, the scope of the present disclosure will be defined by the attached claims not by the above detailed descriptions.
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