TRI-VIEWING ANGLE DISPLAY

• US 20140300712A1
• Filed: 12/07/2012
• Published: 10/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: You, Jaegeon, Ma, Xiaofeng
• Application Number:
  US14/126,924
• Publication Number:
  US 20140300712A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/54
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/27 involving lenticular arrays
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/30 involving parallax barriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/31 using parallax barriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/351 for displaying simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2213/001 Constructional or mechanical details

Abstract

A tri-viewing angle display comprises a display panel and a parallax barrier located in front of the display panel, the parallax barrier comprises light transmitting strips and light shielding strips that are arranged alternately and parallel to each other, and the display panel is provided with three pixel areas arranged successively and periodically thereon, each of the light shielding strips is positioned right above two adjacent pixel areas and a width of the light shielding strip is greater than the sum of widths of the two adjacent pixel areas. Provision of three sets of image presentation areas on the display panel increases contents that can be simultaneously displayed by the liquid crystal display, and improves the displaying efficiency of the display; further, viewers in all the watching zones can watch the images displayed in the corresponding image presentation area, without being interfered by the images displayed in other image presentation areas, thus increasing the areas of visual regions and improving display quality.

Claims

1. A tri-viewing angle display comprising a display panel and a parallax barrier located in front of the display panel , the parallax barrier comprising light transmitting strips and light shielding strips that are arranged alternately and parallel to each other,

wherein the display panel is provided with three pixel areas successively and periodically arranged thereon, each of the light shielding strips is located right above two adjacent pixel areas of the three pixel areas, and

wherein a width of the light shielding strip is greater than the sum of widths of the two adjacent pixel areas, and each of the light transmitting strips is located right above the one pixel area of the three pixel areas other than the two adjacent pixel areas.

2. The tri-viewing angle display according to claim 1, wherein a distance H between the parallax barrier and the display panel ranges from 1 μ

m to 200 μ

m.

3. The tri-viewing angle display according to claim 1, wherein widths L of the three pixel areas are equal to each other, where L is in a range from 20 μ

m to 500 μ

m, and a width of the light transmitting strip is less than L.

4. The tri-viewing angle display according to claim 3, wherein the width l of the light transmitting strip meets 100 μ

m≦

l≦

(L−

5) μ

m,

where 100 μ

m≦

L≦

200 μ

m, and the distance H between the parallax barrier and the display panel meets 20 μ

m≦

H≦

120 μ

m.

5. The tri-viewing angle display according to claim 1, wherein widths of the three pixel areas are not all equal to each other, and each of the widths is within a numeric range between 20 μ

m and 500 μ

m.

6. The tri-viewing angle display according to claim 5, wherein a width l of the light transmitting strip meets 100 μ

m≦

l≦

(L1−

5) μ

m,

where L1 is a width of the pixel area located right below the light transmitting strip, satisfying 100 μ

m≦

L1≦

200 μ

m, and the distance H between the parallax barrier and the display panel meets 20 μ

m≦

H≦

120 μ

m.

7. The tri-viewing angle display according to claim 1, wherein widths, by which both ends of the light shielding strip in the width direction extend beyond the edges of the adjacent two pixel areas, are equal to each other.

8. The tri-viewing angle display according to claim 1, wherein each of the three pixel areas comprises a black matrix for separating the image presentation areas in different pixel areas from each other.

9. The tri-viewing angle display according to claim 1, wherein the tri-viewing angle display is a liquid crystal display, an OLED display or an electronic paper display.