Display system

• US 7,956,940 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Issued: 06/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Takahiro, Morishita, Katsuhiko, Kataoka, Yoshiharu, Sakai, Takehiko, Tsukamura, Chikanori, Chiba, Dai, Okazaki, Tsuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Peace; Rhonda S
• Application Number:
  US12/294,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20090102989A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,629 Days
• Field of Search: 902/1, 902 4- 6, 902/30, 902/31, 902/35, 902/34, 362/85, 362/561, 349/11, 349/12, 349/17
• US Class Current: 349/12
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1323 Arrangements for providing a switchable viewing angle
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133504 Diffusing, scattering, diffracting elements associated to illuminating devices G02F1/133606
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133553 Reflecting elements associated to illuminating devices G02F1/133605
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133562 on the viewer side
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133616 Front illuminating devices
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13476 in which at least one liquid crystal cell or layer assumes a scattering state
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1393 the birefringence of the liquid crystal being electrically controlled, e.g. ECB-, DAP-, HAN-, PI-LC cells G02F1/1396, G02F1/141 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/205 Housing aspects of ATMs

Abstract

A display system includes a liquid crystal display (10) including a backlight (3), a liquid crystal display panel (1), and a viewing angle control panel (2) for controlling the viewing angle of the display panel (1), the display system causing the amount of external light reflected by the liquid crystal display (10) to be relatively larger than the amount of light leaked from the backlight (3) onto the liquid crystal display panel (1). This provides a display system having an enhanced blocking effect.

Claims

1. A display system comprising a display device, said display device comprising:

a backlight;

a liquid crystal display panel; and

a separate viewing angle control liquid crystal panel for controlling a viewing angle of the liquid crystal display panel,

said display system further comprising

a reflected light amount relative increasing section for increasing an illuminance of external light to be received at the display device, so as to cause an amount of the external light reflected in the display device to be relatively larger than an amount of light leaked from the backlight in the display device, which amount of the light is obtained after the light has been transmitted through the liquid crystal display panel and the separate viewing angle control liquid crystal panel, the reflected light amount relative increasing section including a lighting section for turning on a light for increasing the amount of light reflected in the display device, the lighting section including the light provided on at least one of four sides surrounding, along a display surface of the display device, the display surface.

2. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the display device further includes a touch panel which is provided on a front surface of the display panel and which allows signal input to be entered when part of the touch panel is touched, and

the lighting section turns on the light when the tough panel is touched.

3. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the reflected light amount relative increasing section includes a human sensor for sensing presence of a person, and the lighting section turns on the light when the human sensor senses presence of a person.

4. The display system as set forth in claim 3, wherein the human sensor senses the presence of a person with use of infra-red radiation.

5. The display system according to claim 4, wherein the human sensor senses presence of a person operating the display device.

6. The display system according to claim 4, wherein the human sensor senses presence of a person present behind a person operating the display device.

7. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the display device is provided in a cash dispenser, and the lighting section turns on the light when a cash card is inserted in the cash dispenser.

8. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the reflected light amount relative increasing section further includes an ambient illuminance sensor for sensing ambient illuminance of the display device, and the lighting section turns on the light when illuminance sensed by the ambient illuminance sensor is not more than a set value.

9. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the reflected light amount relative increasing section further includes an ambient illuminance sensor for sensing ambient illuminance of the display device, and a backlight luminance reducing section in the reflected light amount relative increasing section reduces the luminance of the backlight when illuminance sensed by the ambient illuminance sensor is not more than a set value.

10. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the reflected light amount relative increasing section includes a polarizing plate, provided on a front surface of the display device, which has been subjected to a diffusion treatment.

11. The display system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the reflected light amount relative increasing section further includes, in at least a part of an area surrounding the display device, a reflective member for increasing the amount of light reflected in the display device.

12. The display system according to claim 11, wherein the reflective member is provided so as to face a viewer using the display device.

13. The display system according to claim 11, wherein the reflective member is a reflective plate which faces, at a variable angle, the display device.

14. The display system according to claim 1, wherein

the viewing angle control panel includes:

a liquid crystal cell comprising;

a pair of transparent substrates; and

a liquid crystal layer provided between the transparent substrates, the liquid crystal layer having liquid crystal molecules aligned vertically, and

a driving circuit for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer,

the liquid crystal cell being provided between two polarizing plates which are provided to face each other so that polarizing transmission axes are substantially at right angle, and

the driving circuit changes an alignment of the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal cell so that a display state is switched between a first viewing angle range and a second viewing angle range which is within the first viewing angle range and is narrower than the first viewing angle range.

15. The display system as set forth in claim 1, wherein a human sensor in the reflected light amount relative increasing section senses the presence of a person with use of infra-red radiation.

16. The display system according to claim 15, wherein the human sensor senses presence of a person operating the display device.

17. The display system according to claim 15, wherein the human sensor senses presence of a person present behind a person operating the display device.