THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY

• US 20110149392A1
• Filed: 10/22/2010
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
• Inventors: Liao, Ren-Wei, Tsai, Meng-Chieh, Chen, Chih-Wen, Shih, Chih-Hung
• Granted Patent: US 8,593,608 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/463
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1333 Constructional arrangements; Manufacturing methodsG02F1/135, G02F1/136 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136286 Wiring, e.g. gate line, drain line
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/305 using lenticular lenses, e.g. arrangements of cylindrical lenses
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/31 using parallax barriers

Abstract

A three-dimensional display includes a display panel having a plurality of first pixels arranged in the odd row, and a plurality of second pixels arranged in the even row. Each first pixel has a first and a second transparent regions and a first semiconductor pattern. Each second pixel has a third and a fourth transparent regions and a second semiconductor pattern. In any two adjacent first and second pixels, the first and the third transparent regions are mirror images of each other, and the second and the fourth transparent regions are mirror images of each other. In the adjacent first and second pixels arranged in any two rows, the loss of the light transmittance at any position along the row direction due to overlapping of the first semiconductor and the first transparent region and overlapping of the second semiconductor and the fourth transparent region remains unchanged.

Claims

1. A three-dimensional display, comprising:

a lenticular lens array comprises a plurality of lenticular lenses extending along directions parallel to each other;

a display panel configured under the lenticular lens array, wherein the display panel includes;

a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, wherein the scan lines interlace the data lines to define a plurality of non-rectangular pixel regions;

a plurality of first pixels configured on odd rows of the non-rectangular pixel regions, wherein each of the first pixels has a first transparent region, a second transparent region and a first semiconductor pattern partially overlapping the first transparent region; and

a plurality of second pixels configured on even rows of the non-rectangular pixel regions, wherein each of the second pixels has a third transparent region, a fourth transparent region and a second semiconductor pattern partially overlapping the fourth transparent region, and, in any two adjacent first pixel and second pixel, the first transparent region and the third transparent region are mirror images of each other and the second transparent region and the fourth transparent region are mirror images of each other, and, in the adjacent first pixel and second pixel in any two rows, a transmittance loss at any position along a row direction of the odd rows and the even rows due to a portion of the first semiconductor pattern overlapping the first transparent region and due to a portion of the second semiconductor pattern overlapping the fourth transparent region remains unchanged.

2. The three-dimensional display of claim 1, wherein an extending direction of each of the lenticular lenses is perpendicular to the row direction.

3. The three-dimensional display of claim 1, wherein the display panel includes a liquid crystal display panel.

4. The three-dimensional display of claim 1, wherein the data lines tortuously extend along the row direction and the scan lines tortuously extend along a column direction perpendicular to the row direction.

5. The three-dimensional display of claim 1, wherein the first transparent regions, the second transparent regions, the third transparent regions and the fourth transparent regions are trapezoid-like transparent regions.

6. The three-dimensional display of claim 1 further comprising a plurality of common lines, wherein each of the common lines is configured between two adjacent scan line.

7. The three-dimensional display of claim 1, wherein each of the first semiconductor patterns is electrically connected to one of the data lines, and each of the second semiconductor patterns is electrically connected to one of the data lines.

8. The three-dimensional display of claim 7, wherein each of the first semiconductor patterns has a first capacitor electrode, and each of the second semiconductor patterns has a second capacitor electrode, and the first capacitor electrode and the second capacitor electrode respectively is coupled to the common line to form a storage capacitor.

9. The three-dimensional display of claim 1, wherein the first pixel configured between the Nth data line and the (N−

1)th data line is electrically connected to the (N+1)th data line.

10. The three-dimensional display of claim 9, wherein the second pixel configured between the Mth data line and the (M−

1)th data line is electrically connected to the (M+1)th data line, and N is even number when M is odd number, and N is odd number when M is even number.

11. A three-dimensional display, comprising:

a parallax barrier including a plurality of slits extending along directions parallel to each other;

a display panel configured under the parallax barrier, wherein the display panel includes;

a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, wherein the scan lines interlace the data lines to define a plurality of non-rectangular pixel regions;

a plurality of first pixel configured on odd rows of the non-rectangular pixel regions, wherein each of the first pixels has a first transparent region, a second transparent region and a first semiconductor pattern partially overlapping the first transparent region; and

a plurality of second pixel configured on even rows of the non-rectangular pixel regions, wherein each of the second pixels has a third transparent region, a fourth transparent region and a second semiconductor pattern partially overlapping the fourth transparent region, and, in any two adjacent first pixel and second pixel, the first transparent region and the third transparent region are mirror images of each other and the second transparent region and the fourth transparent region are mirror images of each other, and, in the adjacent first pixel and second pixel in any two rows, a transmittance loss at any position along a row direction of the odd rows and the even rows due to a portion of the first semiconductor pattern overlapping the first transparent region and due to a portion of the second semiconductor pattern overlapping the fourth transparent region remains unchanged.

12. The three-dimensional display of claim 11, wherein an extending direction of each of the slits is perpendicular to the row direction.

13. The three-dimensional display of claim 11, wherein the display panel includes a liquid crystal display panel.

14. The three-dimensional display of claim 11, wherein the data lines tortuously extend along the row direction and the scan lines tortuously extend along a column direction perpendicular to the row direction.

15. The three-dimensional display of claim 11, wherein the first transparent regions, the second transparent regions, the third transparent regions and the fourth transparent regions are trapezoid-like transparent regions.

16. The three-dimensional display of claim 11 further comprising a plurality of common lines, wherein each of the common lines is configured between two adjacent scan liens.

17. The three-dimensional display of claim 11, wherein each of the first semiconductor patterns is electrically connected to one of the data lines, and each of the second semiconductor patterns is electrically connected to one of the data lines.

18. The three-dimensional display of claim 17, wherein each of the first semiconductor patterns has a first capacitor electrode, and each of the second semiconductor patterns has a second capacitor electrode, and the first capacitor electrode and the second capacitor electrode respectively is coupled to the common line to form a storage capacitor.

19. The three-dimensional display of claim 11, wherein the first pixel configured between the Nth data line and the (N−

1)th data line is electrically connected to the (N+1)th data line.

20. The three-dimensional display of claim 19, wherein the second pixel configured between the Mth data line and the (M−

1)th data line is electrically connected to the (M+1)th data line, and N is even number when M is odd number, and N is odd number when M is even number.