公开(公告)号：US12210248B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-28

申请号：US17708166

申请日：2022-03-30

Applicant: Japan Display Inc.

Inventor： Shunichi Kimura ,  Toshiharu Matsushima ,  Shinichi Komura

IPC: G02F1/1343 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1347

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a high contrast display with liquid crystal display device using a liquid crystal light valve. A representative structure is as follows. A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight, and a liquid crystal light valve; the light valve includes a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction and formed on the first substrate; a first insulating film is formed on the first electrode; a plurality of second electrodes are formed in a matrix at predetermined intervals on the first insulating film; a second insulating film is formed on the second electrodes; a plurality of third electrodes extending in a second direction are formed on the second insulating film; the liquid crystal is sandwiched between the third electrodes and the second substrate; the predetermined interval between the second electrodes is 2 to 10 μm.

公开(公告)号：US12105316B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-01

申请号：US18542788

申请日：2023-12-18

Applicant: Japan Display Inc.

Inventor： Yuji Maede ,  Shinichi Komura ,  Hiroaki Kijima

IPC: F21V8/00

CPC classification number: G02B6/0061 ,  G02B6/0036 ,  G02B6/0068

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device comprises a light guide, a light source, a reflective layer, a first prism and a second prism, wherein the light guide has a thickness in a second direction increasing toward a second side surface, the first prism and the second prism have cross-sectional shapes being formed in a triangle shape, a first height of the first prism in the second direction is smaller than a second height of the second prism in the second direction.

公开(公告)号：US12038648B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-16

申请号：US18342841

申请日：2023-06-28

Applicant: Japan Display Inc.

Inventor： Masafumi Okada ,  Shinichi Komura ,  Ken Onoda

IPC: G02F1/13357 ,  G02F1/1335

CPC classification number: G02F1/133621 ,  G02F1/133609 ,  G02F1/133613 ,  G02F1/133603

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes red light emitting elements, green light emitting elements and blue light emitting elements opposing a first side surface of a first light guide, and the red light emitting elements, the green light emitting elements and the blue light emitting elements are disposed along the first side surface in a third direction that intersects the first direction and the second direction, and, arranged to be symmetrical with respect to a central axis of the third direction of the first side surface.

公开(公告)号：US11870211B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-09

申请号：US17657379

申请日：2022-03-31

Applicant: Japan Display Inc.

Inventor： Shinichi Komura ,  Koichi Okuda ,  Ken Onoda ,  Hiroaki Kijima

IPC: H01S5/00 ,  F21V8/00 ,  H01S5/40

CPC classification number: H01S5/0071 ,  G02B6/002 ,  G02B6/0031 ,  G02B6/0068 ,  H01S5/4093

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light guide having a first plane, a second plane, a side plane, a first tilted plane, and a second tilted plane, an angle formed between the side plane and the first tilted plane and an angle formed between the side plane and the second tilted plane being acute angles, a first semiconductor laser element including a first light emitting part, and a second semiconductor laser element including a second light emitting part. The first light emitting part is opposed to a first intersection part of the side plane and the first tilted plane, and the second light emitting part is opposed to a second intersection part of the side plane and the second tilted plane.

公开(公告)号：US11693171B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-04

申请号：US17970578

申请日：2022-10-21

Applicant: Japan Display Inc.

Inventor： Ken Onoda ,  Shinichi Komura ,  Koichi Okuda ,  Hiroaki Kijima

IPC: F21V8/00

CPC classification number: G02B6/0038 ,  G02B6/0068 ,  G02B6/0076

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a first light guide, and a second light guide. In the first light guide, a first main surface includes a first plane and first grooves between the first plane and a first side surface, a second main surface includes second grooves orthogonal to the first grooves, and a second plane between the second grooves and the first side surface. In the second light guide, a third main surface includes a third plane and third grooves located between the third plane and a fourth side surface, a fourth main surface includes fourth grooves orthogonal to the third grooves, and a fourth plane located between the fourth grooves and the fourth side surface.

公开(公告)号：US10935834B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-02

申请号：US16727542

申请日：2019-12-26

Applicant: Japan Display Inc. ,  Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shoichi Hirota ,  Shinichi Komura ,  Yoshifumi Sekiguchi ,  Tsunenori Yamamoto ,  Masaya Adachi

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  H01L27/32 ,  G09G3/36 ,  G02F1/1343 ,  G02F1/1362 ,  G09G3/20

Abstract: A color display device comprises an array of a plurality of sub-pixels including a red sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel, a first green sub-pixel and a second green sub-pixel. The first green sub-pixel and the second green sub-pixel are smaller than that of the red sub-pixel or the blue sub-pixel. The two adjacent first green sub-pixels are arranged in a first direction, the two adjacent second green sub-pixels are arranged in the first direction. The blue sub-pixel is directly adjacent to the red sub-pixel in a second direction; the blue sub-pixel is directly adjacent to the two first green sub-pixels and the two second green sub-pixels.

公开(公告)号：US10551550B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-04

申请号：US15700606

申请日：2017-09-11

Applicant: Japan Display Inc.

Inventor： Toshihiko Fukuma ,  Shinichi Komura ,  Youichi Asakawa ,  Ken Onoda

IPC: F21V8/00

Abstract: In one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light guide, a light source and prisms. The light guide has a side surface and first and second main surfaces. The light source emits light to the side surface in a first emission direction. The prisms are provided on the second main surface. The second main surface has first and second areas. The prisms include first prisms in the first area and second prisms in the second area. A first virtual line connecting apexes of the first prisms is inclined with respect to the first main surface. A distance between the second area and the first main surface is greater than a distance between the first area and the first main surface.

公开(公告)号：US10073207B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-11

申请号：US15371380

申请日：2016-12-07

Applicant: Japan Display Inc.

Inventor： Youichi Asakawa ,  Toshihiko Fukuma ,  Ken Onoda ,  Shinichi Komura

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  F21V8/00 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/13363 ,  G02F1/1343

CPC classification number: G02B6/0025 ,  G02B6/003 ,  G02B6/0036 ,  G02B6/0041 ,  G02B6/0043 ,  G02B6/0068 ,  G02F1/133308 ,  G02F1/133345 ,  G02F1/133502 ,  G02F1/133504 ,  G02F1/133512 ,  G02F1/133514 ,  G02F1/133528 ,  G02F1/133553 ,  G02F1/133615 ,  G02F1/133617 ,  G02F1/13362 ,  G02F1/13363 ,  G02F1/134309 ,  G02F2001/133314 ,  G02F2001/13332 ,  G02F2001/133519 ,  G02F2001/133562 ,  G02F2001/133567 ,  G02F2001/133618 ,  G02F2001/133638 ,  G02F2001/134345 ,  G02F2201/121 ,  G02F2201/123 ,  G02F2202/28 ,  G02F2202/36 ,  G02F2203/01 ,  G02F2203/055 ,  G02F2203/09

Abstract: In one embodiment, a display device includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer, a polarizing element, a light source, and a bending member. The first substrate includes first and second surfaces and a side surface. The second substrate includes third and fourth surfaces. The polarizing element is provided on the fourth surface side of the second substrate. The light source irradiates the side surface with polarized parallel light. The bending member bends a path of the light entering the first substrate from the light source such that the light goes to the second substrate. No polarizing element is provided between the first substrate and the light source, and the bending member is provided on the second surface side of the first substrate.

公开(公告)号：US09601071B2

公开(公告)日：2017-03-21

申请号：US14510471

申请日：2014-10-09

Applicant: Japan Display Inc.

Inventor： Daiichi Suzuki ,  Yukio Tanaka ,  Kenji Nakao ,  Kazuhiro Nishiyama ,  Shinichi Komura ,  Shinichiro Oka ,  Mika Oiwa

IPC: G09G3/36 ,  G02F1/1343

CPC classification number: G09G3/3648 ,  G02F1/1337 ,  G02F1/134363 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F2001/134372 ,  G09G3/3614 ,  G09G2300/0426 ,  G09G2320/0247 ,  G09G2330/021 ,  G09G2340/0435

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral electric-field type of liquid crystal display device includes a display panel and a controller, wherein a frame frequency falls within a range of 1 Hz to 10 Hz, an off-leak current of each of the TFTs has a value of 1×10−15 A or less, a resistivity of a liquid crystal and a resistivity of an alignment film both fall within one of a first range and a second range, the first range being 1×1013 to 5×1013 Ω·cm, the second range being 5×1013 to 5×1014 Ω·cm, and a relationship of “R1×C1≈R2×C2” is satisfied, where R1 is a resistance and C1 is a capacity with respect to each pixel, R2 is a resistance and C2 is a capacity with respect to each pixel.

公开(公告)号：US09030392B2

公开(公告)日：2015-05-12

申请号：US13771304

申请日：2013-02-20

Applicant: Japan Display Inc.

Inventor： Shinichiro Oka ,  Tomohiko Naganuma ,  Tatsuya Sugita ,  Shinichi Komura

IPC: G09G3/36 ,  G09G5/00 ,  G02F1/133 ,  G02F1/1347 ,  H04N13/04 ,  G02B27/22 ,  G02F1/1343 ,  G02F1/29

CPC classification number: G09G3/36 ,  G02B27/2214 ,  G02F1/1347 ,  G02F2001/134381 ,  G02F2001/294 ,  G02F2203/28 ,  H04N13/305 ,  H04N13/351 ,  H04N13/356

Abstract: A display device is provided with: a first display panel for displaying an image; and a second display panel for forming a parallax by controlling a refractive index in a form of cylindrical lenses that run in a first direction and are aligned in a second direction, wherein the second display panel is provided with a first substrate having a first electrode and a second substrate having second electrodes, the first substrate and the second substrate face each other with a liquid crystal layer in between so as to provide a liquid crystal display panel, and a thickness of the liquid crystal layer is equal to or smaller than such a thickness that makes a rotational angle in a direction of a deflection angle of liquid crystal directors in a center portion of the liquid crystal layer in the direction of the thickness be 90° during three-dimensional display.

Abstract translation: 一种显示装置具有：第一显示面板，用于显示图像; 以及第二显示面板，用于通过控制以第一方向延伸并沿第二方向排列的柱面透镜的形式的折射率来形成视差，其中第二显示面板设置有具有第一电极的第一基板和 具有第二电极的第二基板，所述第一基板和所述第二基板之间具有液晶层，以提供液晶显示面板，并且所述液晶层的厚度等于或小于所述液晶层的厚度 在三维显示中，在液晶层的中心部分的液晶方向的液晶指向矢的偏转角方向上的厚度为90度的厚度。