Active grating, three-dimensional display device and three-dimensional display method

• US 10,200,682 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2014
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co Ltd (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co Ltd (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Meng, Zhiming, Hu, Weihao, Ma, Zhimin
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Dung
• Application Number:
  US14/773,012
• Publication Number:
  US 20160198150A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,517 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/27 involving lenticular arrays
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/31 involving active parallax barriers involving directional light or back-light sources G02B30/33
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13306 Circuit arrangements or driving methods for the control of single liquid crystal cells G02F1/132, G02F1/133382 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134309 characterised by their geometrical arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/155 Electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/163 Operation of electrochromic cells, e.g. electrodeposition cells; Circuit arrangements therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/29 for the control of the position or the direction of light beams, i.e. deflection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/305 using lenticular lenses, e.g. arrangements of cylindrical lenses
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/31 using parallax barriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/366 using viewer tracking

Abstract

An active grating, a three-dimensional display device and a three-dimensional display method are provided. The three-dimensional display device comprises: a display panel (1) and an active grating (2) disposed oppositely; a face recognition module, configured to acquire a distance from a current viewer to the active grating (2); a first calculating module, in signal connection with the face recognition module, configured to calculate a theoretical horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions (21) when the current viewer see an ideal 3D image at a current position, according to the distance acquired by the face recognition module and a first corresponding relationship between the distance from the current viewer to the active grating and the theoretical horizontal width of each of the light shielding region of the active grating when the current viewer see the ideal 3D image; and an adjusting module, in signal connection with the first calculating module and a driving circuit of the active grating respectively, configured to send a corresponding first control instruction to the driving circuit according to the theoretical horizontal width calculated by the first calculating module so as to adjust an actual horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions (21) of the active grating, so that the actual horizontal width equals to the theoretical horizontal width. The three-dimensional display device provided by embodiments of the invention can change the viewing region position according to position coordinates of the viewer, so that the ideal 3D image can be seen by the viewer not positioned at a fixed viewing region position, thus, improving practicality of the three-dimensional display device obviously.

Claims

1. An active grating, comprising:

a first substrate and a second substrate disposed oppositely;

a plurality of first strip electrodes disposed to be spaced from each other with an equal interval on a side of the first substrate facing the second substrate;

a common electrode disposed on a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate, the common electrode comprising a plurality of second strip electrodes disposed corresponding to the plurality of the first strip electrodes one by one;

a light control layer disposed between the plurality of first strip electrodes and the common electrode; and

a driving circuit electrically connected to the common electrode and each of the first strip electrodes respectively,

wherein the driving circuit enables a part of the first strip electrodes to be energized and another part of the first strip electrodes not to be energized, so as to form a plurality of light transmitting region and a plurality of light shielding regions arranged alternately, and

the plurality of light shielding regions correspond to the energized first strip electrodes.

2. The active grating according to claim 1, wherein the light control layer is a liquid crystal layer or an electrochromism layer.

3. A three-dimensional display device, comprising:

a display panel and an active grating disposed oppositely, wherein the active grating comprises;

a first substrate and a second substrate, disposed oppositely;

a plurality of first strip electrodes, disposed to be spaced from each other with an equal interval on a side of the first substrate facing the second substrate;

a common electrode, disposed on a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate;

a light control layer, disposed between the plurality of first strip electrodes and the common electrode; and

a driving circuit, electrically connected to the common electrode and each of the first strip electrodes respectively, wherein the driving circuit enables a part of the first strip electrodes to be energized and another part of the first strip electrodes not to be energized, so as to form a plurality of light transmitting region and a plurality of light shielding regions arranged alternately;

a face recognition module, configured to acquire a distance from a current viewer to the active grating;

a first calculating module, in signal connection with the face recognition module, configured to calculate a theoretical horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions when the current viewer see an ideal 3D image at a current position, according to the distance acquired by the face recognition module and a first corresponding relationship between the distance from the current viewer to the active grating and the theoretical horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions of the active grating when the current viewer see the ideal 3D image; and

an adjusting module, in signal connection with the first calculating module and the driving circuit of the active grating respectively, configured to send a corresponding first control instruction to the driving circuit according to the theoretical horizontal width calculated by the first calculating module so as to adjust an actual horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions of the active grating, so that the actual horizontal width equals to the theoretical horizontal width, wherein the actual horizontal widths of the light shielding regions are equal, and the theoretical horizontal widths of the light shielding regions are equal.

4. The three-dimensional display device according to claim 3, wherein the first corresponding relationship is:

5. The three-dimensional display device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a second calculating module, in signal connection with the face recognition module and the adjusting module respectively.

6. The three-dimensional display device according to claim 5, wherein the face recognition module is further configured to acquire a horizontal interval between adjacent viewers in a same row at a light exiting side of the display panel, the second calculating module calculates an offset amount of each of crosstalk regions of the active grating when the current viewers see ideal 3D images according to the horizontal interval between the adjacent viewers and a second corresponding relationship between a maximum horizontal interval of the adjacent viewers and the offset amount of each of the crosstalk regions of the active grating when the current viewers see the ideal 3D images, the adjusting module sends a corresponding second control instruction to the driving circuit according to the offset amount calculated by the second calculating module so as to adjust a relative position of each of the light shielding regions in the active grating, so that each of the crosstalk regions of the active grating corresponds to a middle position between two adjacent viewers.

7. The three-dimensional display device according to claim 6, wherein the second corresponding relationship is:

s=n−

[N+1/2D]

wherein s is the offset amount of each of the crosstalk regions of the active grating, n is the number of viewpoints of the display panel, N is a viewpoint corresponding to one of two adjacent viewers with the maximum horizontal interval, D is a horizontal interval between two viewpoints respectively corresponding to the two adjacent viewers with the maximum horizontal interval.

8. The three-dimensional display device according to claim 5, wherein the first calculating module, the adjusting module and the second calculating module are integrated in same information processing unit.

9. The three-dimensional display device according to claim 3, wherein the face recognition module is disposed at an edge of the display panel and/or an edge of the active grating.

10. The three-dimensional display device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a notification module, in signal connection with the adjusting module and configured to send notification information to the viewers who cannot see the ideal 3D image and inform the viewers of moving to a certain position in order to see the ideal 3D image.

11. The three-dimensional display device according to claim 10, further comprising:

a display module, in signal connection with the notification module and configured to display the notification information to the viewers.

12. A three-dimensional display method for the three-dimensional display device according to claim 3, comprising:

acquiring the distance from the current viewer to the active grating;

calculating a theoretical horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions when the viewer see an ideal 3D image at a current position, according to the distance from the current viewer to the active grating and the first corresponding relationship between the distance from the viewer to the active grating and the theoretical horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions of the active grating when the viewer see the ideal 3D image, wherein the theoretical horizontal widths of the light shielding regions are the same;

sending the corresponding first control instruction to the driving circuit of the active grating, according to the calculated theoretical horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions, and adjusting an actual horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions of the active grating, so that the actual horizontal width equals to the theoretical horizontal width, wherein the actual horizontal widths of the light shielding regions are the same.

13. The three-dimensional display method according to claim 12, wherein the first corresponding relationship is:

14. The three-dimensional display method of claim 12, wherein the sending the corresponding first control instruction to the driving circuit of the active grating, according to the calculated theoretical horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions, and adjusting an actual horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions of the active grating, so that the actual horizontal width equals to the theoretical horizontal width, wherein the actual horizontal widths of the light shielding regions are the same, comprises:

generating the corresponding first control instruction according to the theoretical horizontal width calculated by the first calculating module and sending the corresponding first control instruction to the driving circuit by an adjusting module;

energized a part of first strip electrodes of the active grating and being not energized another part of the first strip electrodes of the active grating according to the first control instruction by the driving circuit, so that a plurality of light shielding regions and a plurality of light transmitting regions arranged alternately are formed, and the actual horizontal width of the generated light shielding region equals to the theoretical horizontal width.

15. The three-dimensional display method according to claim 12, further comprising:

acquiring a horizontal interval between adjacent viewers in a same row at a light exiting side of the display panel;

calculating a offset amount of each of crosstalk regions of the active grating when the viewers see ideal 3D images, according to the horizontal interval between the adjacent viewers and a second corresponding relationship between a maximum horizontal interval between the adjacent viewers and the offset amount of each of the crosstalk regions of the active grating when the viewers see the ideal 3D images;

sending a corresponding second control instruction to the driving circuit according to the calculated offset amount of each of the crosstalk regions, adjusting a relative position of each of the light shielding regions in the active grating , so that each of the crosstalk regions of the active grating corresponds to a middle position between the two adjacent viewers.

16. The three-dimensional display method according to claim 15, wherein the second corresponding relationship is:

s=n−

[N+1/2D]

wherein s is the offset amount of each of the crosstalk regions of the active grating, n is the number of viewpoints of the display panel, N is a viewpoint corresponding to one of two adjacent viewers with the maximum horizontal interval, D is a horizontal interval between two viewpoints respectively corresponding to the two adjacent viewers with the maximum horizontal interval.

17. The three-dimensional display method according to claim 15, wherein the sending a corresponding second control instruction to the driving circuit according to the calculated offset amount, adjusting a relative position of each of the light shielding regions in the active grating, so that each of the crosstalk regions of the active grating corresponds to a middle position between the two adjacent viewers, comprises:

generating the corresponding second control instruction and sending the second control instruction to the driving circuit of the active grating according to the offset amount calculated by the second calculating module by the adjusting module;

energized a part of first strip electrodes of the active grating and being not energized another part of the first strip electrodes of the active grating according to the second control instruction by the driving circuit, so that a plurality of light shielding regions and a plurality of light transmitting regions arranged alternately are formed, the light shielding regions formed after the second control instruction is received are moved left or moved right entirely compared with the light shielding regions formed before the second control instruction is received.