Display device

• US 8,488,085 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2008
• Issued: 07/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2007
• 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: Nakamura, Kozo, Ueki, Shun, Miyazaki, Akiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Won, Bumsuk
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHANG, CHARLES S
• Application Number:
  US12/531,671
• Publication Number:
  US 20100066956A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,951 Days
• Field of Search: 349106-109, 349/144
• US Class Current: 349/108
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/201 in the form of arrays
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133514 Colour filters
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/52 RGB geometrical arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/351 comprising more than three subpixels, e.g. red-green-blue-white [RGBW]

Abstract

A display device which has a wide color gamut and is able to display bright red,

• • includes a plurality of pixels each defined by a plurality of subpixels. The plurality of subpixels include first and second red subpixels for displaying red, a green subpixel for displaying green, a blue subpixel for displaying blue, and a yellow subpixel for displaying yellow. The blue subpixel and the yellow subpixel are contiguous with each other.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a plurality of pixels each defined by a plurality of subpixels;

wherein

each and every one of the plurality of pixels respectively include first and second red subpixels to display red, a green subpixel to display green, a blue subpixel to display blue, and only one yellow subpixel to display yellow; and

the blue subpixel and the only one yellow subpixel in each and every one of the plurality of pixels are contiguously arranged;

wherein

the blue subpixel, the only one yellow subpixel, and the first or second red subpixel are contiguously arranged in this order in a straight-line direction.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the green subpixel, the blue subpixel, the only one yellow subpixel, and the first or second red subpixel are contiguously arranged in this order in the straight-line direction.

3. The display device of claim 1, wherein, in each of the plurality of pixels, at least one of the blue subpixel and the only one yellow subpixel is interposed between other subpixels.

4. The display device of claim 1, wherein, in each of the plurality of pixels, the blue subpixel and the only one yellow subpixel are disposed contiguous, and the blue subpixel and the only one yellow subpixel being disposed contiguous are interposed between other subpixels.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein the blue subpixel and the only one yellow subpixel that are contiguously arranged are located near a center of the pixel.

6. The display device of claim 1, wherein the display device is a liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal layer.

7. A display device comprising:

a plurality of pixels each defined by a plurality of subpixels;

wherein

each and every one of the plurality of pixels respectively include first and second red subpixels to display red, a green subpixel to display green, a blue subpixel to display blue, and a yellow subpixel to display yellow;

the blue subpixel and the yellow subpixel in each and every one of the plurality of pixels are contiguously arranged; and

the plurality of subpixels further include a cyan subpixel to display cyan, and one of the first and second red subpixels, the green subpixel, the blue subpixel, the yellow subpixel, the other of the first and second red subpixels, and the cyan subpixel are contiguously arranged in this order.

8. A display device comprising:

a plurality of pixels each defined by a plurality of subpixels;

wherein

each and every one of the plurality of pixels respectively include first and second red subpixels to display red, a green subpixel to display green, a blue subpixel to display blue, and a yellow subpixel to display yellow;

the blue subpixel and the yellow subpixel in each and every one of the plurality of pixels are contiguously arranged; and

the plurality of subpixels further include a cyan subpixel to display cyan, and the cyan subpixel, the green subpixel, the blue subpixel, the yellow subpixel, one of the first and second red subpixels, and the other of the first and second red subpixels are contiguously arranged in this order.

9. A display device comprising:

a plurality of pixels each defined by a plurality of subpixels;

wherein

each and every one of the plurality of pixels respectively include first and second red subpixels to display red, a green subpixel to display green, a blue subpixel to display blue, and a yellow subpixel to display yellow;

the blue subpixel and the yellow subpixel in each and every one of the plurality of pixels are contiguously arranged; and

the plurality of subpixels further include a cyan subpixel to display cyan, and the cyan subpixel, the blue subpixel, the yellow subpixel, and the first or second red subpixel are contiguously arranged in this order.

10. The display device of claim 9, wherein one of the first and second red subpixels, the cyan subpixel, the blue subpixel, the yellow subpixel, the other of the first and second red subpixels, and the green subpixel are contiguously arranged in this order.

11. The display device of claim 9, wherein the green subpixel, the cyan subpixel, the blue subpixel, the yellow subpixel, one of the first and second red subpixels, and the other of the first and second red subpixels are contiguously arranged in this order.

12. A display device comprising:

a plurality of pixels each defined by a plurality of subpixels;

wherein

each and every one of the plurality of pixels respectively include first and second red subpixels to display red, a green subpixel to display green, a blue subpixel to display blue, and a yellow subpixel to display yellow;

the blue subpixel and the yellow subpixel in each and every one of the plurality of pixels are contiguously arranged; and

the green subpixel, one of the first and second red subpixels, the blue subpixel, the yellow subpixel, and the other of the first and second red subpixels are contiguously arranged in this order in a straight-line direction.

13. The display device of claim 12, wherein the plurality of subpixels further include a cyan subpixel to display cyan, and in each of the plurality of pixels, one of the first and second red subpixels, the cyan subpixel, the green subpixel, the other of the first and second red subpixels, the blue subpixel, and the yellow subpixel are contiguously arranged in this order in the straight-line direction.

14. A display device comprising:

a plurality of pixels each defined by a plurality of subpixels disposed in one row by multiple columns, the plurality of subpixels in each of the plurality of pixels including only the same color subpixels;

wherein

the plurality of subpixels include first and second red subpixels to display red, a green subpixel to display green, a blue subpixel to display blue, and only one yellow subpixel to display yellow; and

between two pixels adjoining along a column direction, an arrangement between all of the plurality of subpixels in one of the two pixels adjoining along the column direction is different from an arrangements of all of the plurality of subpixels in another one of the two pixels adjoining along the column direction.

15. The display device of claim 14, wherein, between two pixels adjoining along the column direction, at least one of the green subpixel and the only one yellow subpixel belongs to different columns.

16. The display device of claim 15, wherein, between two pixels adjoining along the column direction, both of the green subpixel and the only one yellow subpixel belong to different columns.

17. A display device comprising:

a plurality of pixels each defined by a plurality of subpixels disposed in multiple rows by multiple columns, the plurality of subpixels in each of the plurality of pixels including only the same color subpixels;

wherein

each and every one of the plurality of pixels respectively include first and second red subpixels to display red, a green subpixel to display green, a blue subpixel to display blue, and only one yellow subpixel to display yellow; and

between two pixels adjoining along a row direction, an arrangement between all of the plurality of subpixels in one of the two pixels adjoining along the row direction is different from an arrangements of all of the plurality of subpixels in another one of the two pixels adjoining along the row direction.

18. The display device of claim 17, wherein between two pixels adjoining along the row direction, at least one of the green subpixel and the only one yellow subpixel belongs to different rows.

19. The display device of claim 18, wherein, between two pixels adjoining along the row direction, both of the green subpixel and the only one yellow subpixel belong to different rows.