Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

André Filipe Marques Da Silva

Takayuki Yamada

Nathan James Smith

Takehiro Murao

Ryoh Kikuchi

Andrew Acreman

Martin Paul Buckthorpe

Provided is a display device capable of high-quality three-dimensional displaying. During three-dimensional displaying for a viewing position &#x3b2;, in a first term, an entirety of a first predetermined region of a second liquid crystal panel takes on a light-blocking state and a first adjacent region, which is adjacent to the first predetermined region in the first direction, takes on a light-transmitting state. In a second term, at least one of two side regions in the first predetermined region takes on the light-transmitting state, a remaining region of the first predetermined region takes on the light-blocking state, and at least part of the first adjacent region takes on the light-transmitting state.

Display device and liquid crystal panel driving method

A reconfigurable parallax barrier panel, for use in a display system with a 3D mode, includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and an electro-optic material positioned between the first and second substrates. The first and second substrates each respectively has a plurality of first and second electrodes, the electrodes being independently addressable from one another and comprising a plurality of electrode portions extending along a first direction and laterally spaced from one another along a second direction different from the first direction. The electrode portions of the first electrodes are arranged in a cyclic arrangement having a first pitch, and the electrode portions of the second electrodes are arranged in a cyclic arrangement having a second pitch that is different to the first pitch. The first and second electrodes are driven to generate different reconfigurable parallax barrier arrays corresponding to different viewing distances in a 3D mode of operation.

Dual-pitch parallax barrier

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Oxford, United Kingdom

André Filipe Marques Da Silva