Image display device and portable terminal device

• US 7,420,741 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2005
• Issued: 09/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ikeda, Naoyasu, Uehara, Shin-Ichi, Takanashi, Nobuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Dang; Hung
• Assistant Examiner(s): PATEL, VIPIN
• Application Number:
  US11/168,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20060001974A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,161 Days
• Field of Search: 359/619, 359/455, 359/427
• US Class Current: 359/619
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/27 involving lenticular arrays
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133526 Lenses, e.g. microlenses or Fresnel lenses
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235

Abstract

An image display device is including a display panel in which a plurality of display units including at least pixels for displaying an image for a first point of view and a second point of view are arrayed in a matrix shape, a lens for distributing lights transmitted through pixels for the first point of view and lights transmitted through pixels for the second point of view into mutually different directions, and an illuminating member which is arranged on a back of the display panel and on whose face toward the display panel a plurality of convexes or concaves are formed, wherein a following formula is satisfied regarding the distance V between adjoining convexes or concaves in the illuminating member, where S is the distance between the pixels and the convexes or concaves, f is the focal distance of the lens, and L is the array cycle of the lens
V≦L×S/f.

Claims

1. An image display device comprising:

a display panel in which a plurality of display units including at least pixels for displaying an image for a first point of view and a second point of view are arrayed in a matrix shape;

a lens for distributing lights transmitted through pixels for said first point of view and lights transmitted through pixels for said second point of view into mutually different directions; and

a backlight which has a plurality of convexes or concaves which refract lights, wherein;

a following formula is satisfied regarding a distance V between adjoining convexes or concaves in said backlight, where S is a distance between said pixels and said convexes or concaves, f is a focal distance of said lens, and L is an array cycle of said lens;

V≦

L*S/f.

2. The image display device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein said focal distance f is shorter than the distance between said lens and said pixels.

3. The image display device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein said distance V is a minimum of possible distances between adjoining convexes or concaves.

4. The image display device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein said lens comprises a lenticular lens in which a plurality of cylindrical lenses are so arrayed as to be in parallel with one another in their lengthwise direction.

5. The image display device, as claimed in claim 4, wherein said convexes or concaves extend in one direction, and an extending direction of said convexes or concaves and the lengthwise direction of said cylindrical lenses are parallel to each other.

6. The image display device, as claimed in claim 4, wherein said convexes or concaves are formed in a matrix shape.

7. The image display device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein said lens comprises a fly-eye lens in which a plurality of convex lenses are arrayed in a matrix shape.

8. The image display device, as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a light dispersing member disposed between said display panel and said backlight.

9. The image display device, as claimed in claim 1, which comprises a three-dimensional image display device.

10. The image display device, as claimed in claim 1, which comprises a two-dimensional image display device.

11. The image display device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein said display panel comprises a liquid crystal display panel.

12. A portable terminal device having the image display device claimed in claim 1.

13. The image display device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pixels are positioned at a distance from said lens equal to said focal distance f of said lens.

16. The image display device, as claimed in claim 4, wherein said lens comprises a fly-eye lens in which a plurality of convex lenses are arrayed in a matrix shape.

14. An image display device, comprising:

a display panel in which a plurality of display units including at least pixels for displaying an image for a first point of view and a second point of view are arrayed in a matrix shape;

a lens for distributing lights transmitted through pixels for said first point of view and lights transmitted through pixels for said second point of view into mutually different directions; and

a backlight which has a plurality of convexes or concaves which refract lights,

wherein a distance between adjoining convexes or concaves on said backlight is not longer than 0.6 mm.

15. The image display device, as claimed in claim 14, wherein said lens comprises a lenticular lens in which a plurality of cylindrical lenses are so arrayed as to be in parallel with one another in their lengthwise direction.

17. An image display device comprising:

a display panel in which a plurality of display units including at least pixels for displaying an image for a first point of view and a second point of view are arrayed in a matrix shape;

a lenticular lens provided with cylindrical lenses for distributing lights transmitted through pixels for said first point of view and lights transmitted through pixels for said second point of view into mutually different directions; and

a backlight which has a plurality of convexes or concaves which refract lights, inclined by an angle θ

to a lengthwise direction of said cylindrical lenses, wherein;

a following formula holds true regarding a distance V between adjoining convexes or concaves in said backlight, where;

S is a distance between said pixels and said convexes or concaves,

f is a focal distance of said lens,

L is an array cycle of said lens, and

Pv is a pixel pitch in the lengthwise direction of said cylindrical lenses;

V≦

L*S*cos θ

/f+Pv*sin θ

.

18. The image display device, as claimed in claim 17, wherein said lenticular lens is arranged so that one side of said display panel and the lengthwise direction of said cylindrical lenses are parallel to each other.

19. The image display device, as claimed in claim 17, wherein said focal distance f is shorter than a distance between said lenticular lens and said pixels.

20. An image display device, comprising:

a display panel in which a plurality of display units including at least pixels for displaying an image for a first point of view and a second point of view are arrayed in a matrix shape;

a lenticular lens provided with cylindrical lenses for distributing lights transmitted through pixels for said first point of view and lights transmitted through pixels for said second point of view into mutually different directions; and

a backlight which has a plurality of convexes or concaves which refract lights, wherein;

following formulas hold true respectively regarding a distance Vv between adjoining convexes or concaves in said backlight in a direction inclined by an angle θ

to a lengthwise direction of said cylindrical lenses and a distance V between adjoining convexes or concaves in said backlight in a direction orthogonal to the direction inclined by the angle θ

to the lengthwise direction of said cylindrical lenses, where;

S is a distance between said pixels and said convexes or concaves,

f is a focal distance of said lens,

L is an array cycle of said lens, and

Pv is a pixel pitch in the lengthwise direction of said cylindrical lenses;

Vv≦

Pv/cos θ

V≦

L*S*cos θ

/f+Pv*sin θ

.

21. The image display device, as claimed in claim 20, wherein said lenticular lens is arranged so that one side of said display panel and the lengthwise direction of said cylindrical lenses are parallel to each other.

22. The image display device, as claimed in claim 20, wherein said focal distance f is shorter than a distance between said lenticular lens and said pixels.

23. An image display device, comprising:

a lens for distributing a plurality of image;

a means for displaying said plurality of image; and

a means for illuminating said displaying means, on whose face a plurality of convexes or concaves are formed, wherein;

a following formula is satisfied regarding a distance V between adjoining convexes or concaves in said illuminating means, where S is the distance between said displaying means and said convexes or concaves, f is a focal distance of said lens, and L is an array cycle of said lens;

V≦

L*s/f.

24. A method of reducing a thickness of an image display device without sacrificing display quality, said image display device comprising a display panel in which a plurality of display units including at least pixels for displaying an image for a first point of view and a second point of view are arrayed in a matrix shape, a lens for distributing lights transmitted through pixels for said first point of view and lights transmitted through pixels for said second point of view into mutually different directions, and a backlight which has a plurality of convexes or concaves which refract lights, wherein said method comprises:

forming said backlight such that a distance V between adjoining convexes or concaves in said backlight is less than or equal to (L*S/f), where S is a distance between said pixels and said convexes or concaves, f is a focal distance of said lens, and L is an array cycle of said lens.