Liquid crystal display device, substrate for liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method of substrate for liquid crystal display device

• US 9,971,185 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2015
• Issued: 05/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (TOPPAN Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (TOPPAN Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kimura, Yukihiro, Fukuyoshi, Kenzo
• Primary Examiner(s): Dudek, James
• Application Number:
  US14/754,099
• Publication Number:
  US 20150301400A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,051 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/27 involving lenticular arrays
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13318 Circuits comprising a photodetector
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133345 Insulating layers G02F1/1335, G02F1/1337, G02F1/135, G02F1/136 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133512 Light shielding layers, e.g. black matrix G02F1/136209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133514 Colour filters
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133516 Methods for their manufacture, e.g. printing, electro-deposition or photolithography
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133602 Direct backlight
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133615 Edge-illuminating devices, i.e. illuminating from the side
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133623 Inclined coloured light beams
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134309 characterised by their geometrical arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134318 having a patterned common electrode
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134345 Subdivided pixels, e.g. for grey scale or redundancy
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134381 Hybrid switching mode, i.e. for applying an electric field with components parallel and orthogonal to the substrates
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13439 characterised by their electrical, optical, physical properties; materials therefor; method of making
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1368 in which the switching element is a three-electrode device G02F1/136277 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/00 Stereoscopic video systems; Multi-view video systems; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/30 Image reproducers optical systems for producing stereoscopic or other three-dimensional effects G02B30/00

Abstract

A liquid crystal display device includes a counter substrate facing an array substrate via a liquid crystal layer, and a backlight unit provided on a back side of the array substrate. The counter substrate includes a first light shielding layer formed on a first transparent substrate, a transparent resin layer formed on the first transparent substrate, and a second light shielding layer formed on the transparent resin layer. The first light shielding layer has openings corresponding to polygonal pixels having a polygonal shape in which at least two edges are parallel in a planar view. The first light shielding layer includes a first linear pattern having a center line that overlaps with a center line of a second linear pattern of the second light shielding layer in a planar view. The first linear pattern has a line width different from a line width of the second linear pattern.

Claims

1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising:

an array substrate;

a liquid crystal layer;

a counter substrate facing the array substrate via the liquid crystal layer; and

a backlight unit provided on a back side of the array substrate opposite to a side where the liquid crystal layer is formed, wherein

the array substrate has a plurality of polygonal pixels including side edge portions and has two pixel electrodes in a polygonal pixel positioned to have line symmetry with respect to a pixel center line that divides the plurality of polygonal pixels in a longitudinal direction,

the counter substrate includes

a first transparent substrate,

a first light shielding layer formed on the first transparent substrate,

a transparent resin layer formed on the first transparent substrate, and

a second light shielding layer formed on the transparent resin layer,

the first light shielding layer has a plurality of openings formed in the side edge portions and corresponding to the plurality of polygonal pixels having a polygonal shape in which at least two edges thereof are parallel in a planar view,

the first light shielding layer includes a first linear pattern having a center line in a direction along which the first linear pattern is extended,

the second light shielding layer includes a second linear pattern having a center line in a direction along which the second linear pattern is extended,

the first and second linear patterns are formed such that the center line of the first linear pattern overlaps with the center line of the second linear pattern in the side edge portions in a planar view, and that the first linear pattern has a line width that differs from a line width of the second linear pattern within a range of 0.5 μ

m to 10 μ

m, and

the backlight unit includes a first solid emitting element configured to emit a visible light and a second solid emitting element configured to emit an infrared light, and the array substrate further includes

a first optical sensor configured to detect the visible light,

a second optical sensor configured to detect the infrared light, and

a detection processor configured to synchronize a light emission timing of the second solid emitting element and a detection timing of the second optical sensor, and change an angle of light emitted from the first solid emitting element based on data detected by the second optical sensor.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein

the array substrate includes

a second transparent substrate,

a plurality of common electrodes positioned in line symmetry with respect to the pixel center line, and

an insulation layer formed on the second transparent substrate on which the plurality of common electrodes are formed,

the two pixel electrodes are formed on the insulation layer, and

the common electrodes protrude towards outside the side edge portions of the polygonal pixels from the two pixel electrodes in a planar view.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the backlight unit is an edge-light type backlight unit, and a light emission processor is configured to synchronize a timing at which a voltage is applied to the two pixel electrodes and a light emission timing of the backlight unit.

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an angle control unit configured to control the angle of the light emitted from the backlight unit, and

an optical control element configured to adjust an emitting angle of an emitting light emitted from a liquid crystal display.

5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the second optical sensor is a silicon photo diode.

6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the array substrate includes liquid crystal drive elements which are thin film transistors each of which is electrically connected to the two pixel electrodes and includes a channel layer comprising an oxide of metals selected from the group consisting of gallium, indium, zinc, tin, hafnium, yttrium and germanium.

7. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein one of a red filter, a green filter and a blue filter is positioned in correspondence to each of the plurality of openings in the counter substrate.

8. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 7, wherein the counter substrate includes an overlap portion in which the second light shielding layer overlaps with one of the red filter, the green filter and the blue filter in a planar view, and the array substrate further includes a compensation optical sensor configured to detect incoming light via the overlap portion.

9. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein a liquid crystal molecule in the liquid crystal layer has negative dielectric anisotropy and has an initial alignment in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate.

14. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the line width of the first linear pattern is less than the line width of the second linear pattern.

15. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein

the second light shielding layer is disposed between the first light shielding layer and the backlight unit, and

the difference between the line widths of the first and second linear patterns is set such that light emitting directions of light emitted from the backlight unit at the side edge portions are angled away from the pixel center line and correspond to a right eye and a left eye, respectively, of an observer.

16. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the difference between the line width of the first linear pattern and the line width of the second linear pattern is within a range of 0.5 μ

m to 2 μ

m.

10. A substrate for a liquid crystal display device, comprising:

a transparent substrate;

a first light shielding layer formed on the transparent substrate and having a plurality of openings corresponding to a plurality of polygonal pixels in a planar view;

a transparent resin layer formed on the transparent substrate on which the first light shielding layer is formed; and

a second light shielding layer formed on the transparent resin layer, wherein

the polygonal pixels each have a polygonal shape in which at least two edges thereof are parallel in a planar view,

the first light shielding layer includes carbon pigment as a principal component of light shielding color material,

the second light shielding layer includes at least one organic pigment as a principal component of light shielding color material,

the first light shielding layer includes a first linear pattern having a center line in a direction along which the first linear pattern is extended,

the second light shielding layer includes a second linear pattern having a center line in a direction along which the second linear pattern is extended, and

the first and second linear patterns are formed such that the center line of the first linear pattern overlaps with the center line of the second linear pattern in a planar view, and that the first linear pattern has a line width that is smaller than a line width of the second linear pattern within a range of 0.5 μ

m to 10 μ

m.

11. The substrate according to claim 10, wherein one of a red filter, a green filter and a blue filter is positioned in correspondence to each of the plurality of openings in the first light shielding layer.

12. The substrate according to claim 11, wherein the first light shielding layer includes a portion in which the second light shielding layer overlaps with one of the red filter, the green filter and the blue in a planar view.

17. The substrate according to claim 10, wherein the difference between the line width of the first linear pattern and the line width of the second linear pattern is within a range of 0.5 μ

m to 2 μ

m.

18. The substrate according to claim 10, wherein the difference between the line widths of the first and second linear patterns is set such that light emitting directions of light emitted from a backlight unit are angled away from a pixel center line and correspond to a right eye and a left eye, respectively, of an observer.

13. A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display substrate, comprising:

forming, on a transparent substrate, at least one alignment mark and a first light shielding layer having a plurality of openings corresponding to a plurality of polygonal pixels in a planar view, the forming comprising coating a first black resist on the transparent substrate and exposing the first black resist via a photomask;

forming a color filter including a red filter, a blue filter and a green filter in the plurality of openings;

forming a transparent resin layer on the color filter;

coating a second black resist on the transparent resin layer;

detecting a position of the at least one alignment mark by infrared light;

aligning a position of a photomask and a position of the transparent substrate based on the position of the at least one alignment mark; and

forming an organic pigment light shielding layer, wherein

the first black resist includes carbon pigment as a principal component of light shielding color material, and the second black resist includes an organic pigment as a principal component of light shielding color material and includes C.I. Pigment Violet 23, and

the first light shielding layer includes a first linear pattern having a center line in a direction along which the first linear pattern is extended, the organic pigment light shielding layer includes a second linear pattern having a center line in a direction along which the second linear pattern is extended, and the first and second linear patterns are formed such that the center line of the first linear pattern overlaps with the center line of the second linear pattern in a planar view, and that the first linear pattern has a line width that is smaller than a line width of the second linear pattern within a range of 0.5 μ

m to 10 μ

m.

19. The method according to claim 13, wherein the difference between the line widths of the first and second linear patterns is set such that light emitting directions of light emitted from a backlight unit are angled away from a pixel center line and correspond to a right eye and a left eye, respectively, of an observer.