DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRIC APPARATUS

• US 20110025731A1
• Filed: 11/26/2008
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hayashi, Keiji
• Granted Patent: US 8,791,966 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/690
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0068 Arrangements of plural sources, e.g. multi-colour light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133603 with LEDs
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133613 characterized by the sequence of light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133614 using photoluminescence, e.g. phosphors illuminated by UV or blue light
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133615 Edge-illuminating devices, i.e. illuminating from the side
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133621 providing coloured light G02F1/133617, G02F1/133533 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133622 Colour sequential illumination
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0235 Field-sequential colour display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/08 Details of timing specific for flat panels, other than clock recovery
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0242 Compensation of deficiencies in the appearance of colours
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2003 Display of colours specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2025 the sub-frames having all the same time duration
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3413 Details of control of colour illumination sources
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3426 the different display panel areas being distributed in two dimensions, e.g. matrix
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3607 for displaying colours or for displaying grey scales with a specific pixel layout, e.g. using sub-pixels display of colours in flat matrix panels other than liquid crystal displays G09G3/2003; grey scales specific for television H04N3/127
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device in which the color purity of red display can be improved and also to provide an electric apparatus using the same. A controller (19) of the display device is provided with an illumination control part (22) that turns on a light-emitting diode (first light source) (9C) to emit a cyan light during the former half of one frame time period and turns on a light-emitting diode (second light source) (9M) to emit a magenta light during the latter half of the one frame time period. In addition, a video signal converting part (21b) is provided to a panel control part (display control part) 21. The video signal converting part 21b converts an inputted video signal to video signals for the former half and the latter half of the one frame time period, on the basis of the inputted video signal and the colors of the lights in the former half and the latter half of the one frame time period. The present invention is applicable to, for example, a television receiver having a transmission type liquid crystal display device.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a first light source having a blue illuminant that emits blue light and a green phosphor provided to cover the blue illuminant,

a second light source that emits light in a complementary relationship with the light from the first light source,

a display element comprising pixels of plural colors that display colors different from each other, configured to be capable of displaying white color with the pixels of plural colors, where lights from the first light source and the second light source enter,

an illumination control part configured to be capable of controlling lighting of the first light source and the second light source independently from each other, and

a display control part that conducts a drive control of the display element for each pixel with use of an inputted video signal,

the display control part converts the inputted video signal to a video signal for the former half of one frame time period and a video signal for the latter half of the one frame time period, on the basis of the inputted video signal and the colors of lights from the first light source and the second light source in the former half and the latter half of the one frame time period, and outputs the video signals toward the display element.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein when the display control part converts an inputted video signal to a video signal for the former half of the one frame time period and a video signal for the latter half of the one frame time period, the display control part uses transmittances of the respective pixels of the plural colors during the one frame time period, the transmittances being determined on the basis of the inputted video signal, so as to determine the respective transmittances of the corresponding pixels in the former half and the latter half of the one frame time period.

3. The display device according to claim 2, wherein the display control part uses values other than zero as the values for respective transmittances in the former half and the latter half of the one frame time period, at the respective pixels of plural colors.

4. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

pixels of red, green and blue are used for the pixels of plural colors,

the illumination control part turns on one of the first light source and the second light source and the other of the first light source and the second light source during one of the former half and the latter half of the one frame time period and during the other of the former half and the latter half of the one frame time period, respectively,

the display control part sets the transmittances of the pixels of red, green and blue as y, g and b2 respectively during the first light source is turned on in either the former half or the latter half of the one frame time period, and sets the transmittances of the pixels of red, green and blue as r, m and b1 respectively during the second light source is turned on in the other of the former half and the latter half of the one frame time period, and

when the transmittances of the pixels of red, green and blue in the one frame time period determined on the basis of the inputted video signal are set as TR, TG and TB respectively and when min(A, B) indicates that the lower value of the values A and B is selected, the transmittances y, g, b2, r, m, and b1 are determined to satisfy inequalities (1), (2) and (3) below:

b2≦

min(TB,TG) 

 

(1)

m≦

min(TR,TB) 

 

(2)

y≦

min(TG,TR) 

 

(3)

and to satisfy equalities (1), (2) and (3) below including coefficients α

, β

, γ and

δ

that satisfy inequalities (4), (5), (6) and (7) below;

TR=r+α

y+β

m 

 

(1)

TG=(1+δ

)g+α

y+β

m+γ

b2 

 

(2)

TB=(b1+b2)/2+δ

g+γ

b2 

 

(3)

0<

α

≦

0.5 

 

(4)

0<

β

≦

0.5 

 

(5)

0<

γ

≦

0.25 

 

(6)

0<

δ

≦

0.25 

 

(7).

5. The display device according to claim 4, wherein the display control part determines the transmittances y, g, b2, r, m, and b1 for satisfying equalities (4) and (5) below when the transmittances TR, TG and TB are equal to each other:

r=g=(b1+b2)/2 

 

(4)

b2=y=m 

 

(5).

6. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first light source and the second light source are provided to face the display element, and the first light source and the second light source are placed within a predetermined distance from each other.

7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein a blue illuminant that emits blue light and a red phosphor provided to cover the blue illuminant are used for the second light source.

8. The display device according to claim 1, wherein a light-emitting diode that emits light having spectra mainly in wavelength regions of blue and green is used for the first light source, and a light-emitting diode that emits light having spectra mainly in wavelength regions of blue and red is used for the second light source.

9. An electric apparatus comprising a display part that displays information including characters and images, wherein the display device according to claim 1 is used for the display part.