Liquid crystal display device

• US 9,323,103 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2011
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2010
• 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: Mori, Tomohiko, Tomizawa, Kazunari, Hasegawa, Makoto, Yoshida, Yuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Nicholas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Adediran, Abdul-Samad A
• Application Number:
  US13/808,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20130113847A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,881 Days
• Field of Search: 345/82, 345/88, 345/214, 345/690, 345/691, 345/694, 348/189, 348/674, 349/109, 438/7
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133514 Colour filters
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133603 with LEDs
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/52 RGB geometrical arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0452 Details of colour pixel setup, e.g. pixel composed of a red, a blue and two green components
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3413 Details of control of colour illumination sources
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3426 the different display panel areas being distributed in two dimensions, e.g. matrix
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3607 for displaying colours or for displaying grey scales with a specific pixel layout, e.g. using sub-pixels display of colours in flat matrix panels other than liquid crystal displays G09G3/2003; grey scales specific for television H04N3/127
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/202 Gamma control circuits for controlling camera response irrespective of the scene brightness H04N23/82

Abstract

The liquid crystal display device (100) of the present invention includes a liquid crystal panel (10) having a plurality of pixels (P), and a backlight (20) having at least one light source (22) that emits light to the liquid crystal panel (10). Each of the plurality of pixels (P) includes four or more sub-pixels (R, G, B, Ye), and the light source unit (22) includes a red light source (22R), a green light source (22G), and a blue light source (22B). According to the present invention, a liquid crystal display device which can perform display of wide color reproduction range with low power consumption is provided.

Claims

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixels;

a backlight having at least one light source unit that emits light to the liquid crystal panel; and

a control circuit that controls the liquid crystal panel and the backlight based on an input video signal;

wherein

each of the plurality of pixels has four or more sub-pixels;

the four or more sub-pixels include a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel, and a yellow sub-pixel;

the light source unit includes a red light source, a green light source, and a blue light source; and

a magnitude correlation between relative intensities of the red light source, the green light source, and the blue light source has a same magnitude correlation between respective relative intensities of red, green, and blue grayscale levels indicated in the input video signal.

2. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein the red light source, the green light source, and the blue light source are a red light emitting diode, a green light emitting diode, and a blue light emitting diode, respectively.

3. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein the control circuit includes:

an active drive processing portion that generates a light source signal and a liquid crystal data signal based on the input video signal;

a multi primary color converting portion that generates a panel signal from the liquid crystal data signal;

a panel driving circuit that drives the liquid crystal panel based on the panel signal; and

a backlight driving circuit that drives the backlight based on the light source signal.

4. The liquid crystal display device of claim 3, wherein the active drive processing portion generates a backlight signal from the light source signal, and the multi primary color converting portion generates the panel signal based on the backlight signal and the liquid crystal data signal.

5. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein relative intensities of the red light source, the green light source, and the blue light source of the light source unit are varied depending on a color of a pixel indicated in the input video signal.

6. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein among the red light source, the green light source, and the blue light source of the light source unit, a light source corresponding to grayscale levels of red, green, and blue having the minimum value of the input video signal is turned off, and a light source corresponding to grayscale levels of red, green, and blue having a value higher than the minimum value of the input video signal is turned on.

7. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein in a case where the input video signal indicates yellow, the red light source and the green light source are turned on, and the blue light source is turned off.

8. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein in the case where the red, green, and blue grayscale levels indicated in the input video signal are higher than the minimum value, respectively, respective relative transmittances of the four or more sub-pixels in the liquid crystal panel exhibit a maximum value.

9. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein in a case where the input video signal indicates orange or yellowish green, the blue light source is turned off.

10. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein in a case where the input video signal indicates orange or yellowish green, respective relative intensities of the red light source and the green light source are higher than a relative intensity of the blue light source.

11. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein in a case where the input video signal indicates green, a relative intensity of the green light source is higher than a relative intensity of the red light source and a relative intensity of the blue light source.

12. The liquid crystal display device of claim 11, wherein in a case where the input video signal indicates yellow, relative transmittances of the red sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel, and the yellow sub-pixel in the liquid crystal panel exhibit a maximum value.

13. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein in a case where the input video signal indicates green, the green light source is turned on, and relative transmittances of the green sub-pixel and the yellow sub-pixel are higher than relative transmittances of the red sub-pixel and the blue sub-pixel in the liquid crystal panel.

14. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein in a case where the input video signal indicates green, the red light source and the green light source are turned on, and relative transmittances of the green sub-pixel and the yellow sub-pixel are higher than relative transmittances of the red sub-pixel and the blue sub-pixel in the liquid crystal panel.

15. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein

in a case where the red light source is turned on, a relative transmittance of the red sub-pixel in the liquid crystal panel exhibits a maximum value,

in a case where the green light source is turned on, a relative transmittance of the green sub-pixel in the liquid crystal panel exhibits a maximum value, and

in a case where the blue light source is turned on, a relative transmittance of the blue sub-pixel in the liquid crystal panel exhibits a maximum value.

16. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein

in a case where the red light source is turned on and the green light source is turned off, relative transmittances of the red sub-pixel and the yellow sub-pixel are higher than a minimum value, and

in a case where the green light source is turned on and the red light source is turned off, relative transmittances of the green sub-pixel and the yellow sub-pixel are higher than a minimum value.

17. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1, wherein the four or more sub-pixels further include a cyan sub-pixel.