AUTO-STEREOSCOPIC 3D DISPLAY AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120105497A1
• Filed: 09/23/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
• Inventors: Wu, Chun-Wei, Chang, Lee-Hsun, Lu, Pei-Hua, Lin, Hong-Shen
• Application Number:
  US13/244,090
• Publication Number:
  US 20120105497A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/690
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/023 Display panel composed of stacked panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/31 using parallax barriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/315 the parallax barriers being time-variant
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/359 Switching between monoscopic and stereoscopic modes

Abstract

An auto-stereoscopic 3D display and a display method thereof are provided. The auto-stereoscopic 3D display includes a display module and a scanning barrier. The display module displays a 2D image. The scanning barrier is attached on the display module. The scanning barrier coordinates with the 2D image displayed by the display module to provide a switching of a plurality of alternate vertical slits and vertical barriers, so that a parallax is produced between a left eye and a right eye and accordingly a 3D image is sensed, wherein a constant opaque area exists between each of a pair of the slit and the barrier.

Claims

1. An auto-stereoscopic 3D display, comprising:

a display module, for displaying a 2D image; and

a scanning barrier, attached on the display module, for coordinating with the 2D image displayed by the display module to provide a switching of a plurality of alternate transmissive slits and non-transmissive barriers, wherein and to provide a constant opaque area between each of a pair of the slit and the barrier during the time for displaying a 3D image.

2. The auto-stereoscopic 3D display according to claim 1, wherein the display module is a liquid crystal display (LCD) module or an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display module.

3. The auto-stereoscopic 3D display according to claim 1, wherein a width of each of the pair of the slit and the barrier forms a barrier pitch of the scanning barrier.

4. The auto-stereoscopic 3D display according to claim 1, wherein the scanning barrier is a liquid crystal (LC) scanning barrier.

5. The auto-stereoscopic 3D display according to claim 4, wherein the scanning barrier comprises:

a plurality of non-display pixels, arranged as an array and categorized into a plurality of groups.

6. The auto-stereoscopic 3D display according to claim 5, wherein the groups comprise:

a first sub group;

a second sub group; and

a third sub group, located between the first sub group and the second sub group,

wherein each of the non-display pixels in the first sub group and each of the non-display pixels in the second sub group serve as one slit or one barrier and are switched respectively between the slit and the barrier in response to a first driving signal set and a second driving signal set, and one of the non-display pixels in the first sub group and one of the non-display pixels in the second sub group adjacent to the one of the non-display pixels in the first sub group consist of the pair of the slit and the barrier; and

wherein each of the non-display pixels in the third sub group serves as the constant opaque area between each of the pair of the slit and the barrier in response to a third driving signal set.

7. The auto-stereoscopic 3D display according to claim 6, wherein

the display module comprises a display module controller;

the scanning barrier further comprises a switching barrier controller; and

the display module controller provides a synchronization signal to the switching barrier controller such that the switching barrier controller generates the first driving signal set, the second driving signal set, and the third driving signal set and accordingly the scanning barrier and the display module are controlled to display synchronously the 3D image.

8. A method for displaying an auto-stereoscopic 3D image, comprising:

displaying a 2D image by a display module;

coordinating with the 2D image to provide a switching of a plurality of alternate transmissive slits and non-transmissive barriers by a scanning barrier attached on the display module; and

producing a constant opaque area between each pair of the slit and the barrier.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the scanning barrier comprises a plurality of non-display pixels arranged as an array and categorized into a first to a third sub groups, the third sub group is located between the first sub group and the second group, and the switching of the plurality of vertical alternate slits and barriers is produced by:

providing a first driving signal set and a second driving signal set to respectively switch the first sub group and the second sub group,

wherein each of the non-display pixels in the first sub group and each of the non-display pixels in the second sub group serve as one slit or one barrier and are switched respectively between the slit and the barrier in response to the first driving signal set and the second driving signal set, and one of the non-display pixels in the first sub group and one of the non-display pixels in the second sub group adjacent to the one of the non-display pixels in the first sub group consist of the pair of the slit and the barrier.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the step of producing a constant opaque area between each pair of the slit and the barrier by the scanning barrier comprises:

providing a third driving signal set to the third sub group,

wherein each of the non-display pixels in the third sub group serves as the constant opaque area between each of the pair of the slit and the barrier in response to the third driving signal set.

11. An auto-stereoscopic 3D display, comprising:

a display module, for displaying a 2D image; and

a plurality of non-display pixels, disposed on the display module, for coordinating with the 2D image displayed by the display module to provide a switching of a plurality of alternate transmissive areas and non-transmissive areas, and to provide a constant opaque area between each of a pair of the transmissive area and the non-transmissive area in response to several driving signal sets.

12. The auto-stereoscopic 3D display according to claim 11, wherein

the non-display pixels are arranged as an array and categorized into a first to a third sub groups, and the third sub group is located between the first sub group and the second group;

and

the driving signal sets comprises a first to a third driving signal sets.

13. The auto-stereoscopic 3D display according to claim 12, wherein

each of the non-display pixels in the first sub group and each of the non-display pixels in the second sub group serve as one transmissive area or one non-transmissive area and are switched respectively between the transmissive area and the non-transmissive area in response to the first driving signal set and the second driving signal set, and one of the non-display pixels in the first sub group and one of the non-display pixels in the second sub group adjacent to the one of the non-display pixels in the first sub group consist of the pair of the transmissive area and the transmissive area;

and

each of the non-display pixels in the third sub group serves as the constant opaque area between each of the pair of the transmissive area and the non-transmissive area in response to the third driving signal set.

14. The auto-stereoscopic 3D display according to claim 12, wherein

non-display pixels are formed as an LC scanning barrier.

15. The auto-stereoscopic 3D display according to claim 11, wherein the display module is a liquid crystal display (LCD) module or an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display module.