Japan Display Inc.

Magnolia White Corporation

Hiroaki Kijima

Ken Onoda

Shinichi Komura

Koichi Okuda

Yuji Maede

Ken Kagabu

Yoichi Asakawa

Koji Fujisawa

Nobuyuki Suzuki

Takashi Ota

Youichi Asakawa

Junji Kobashi

According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light guide including an upper surface, a lower surface and a light entering surface, a first light emitting portion, a second light emitting portion, and a third light emitting portion. A first surface, a second surface, a third surface and a fourth surface of the upper surface are arranged in this order in a first direction. A width of the first surface is less than a width of the second surface, and the width of the second surface is less than a width of the third surface. An angle between the light entering surface and the first surface is an acute angle. The first light emitting portion, the second light emitting portion and the third light emitting portion face the light entering surface.

Illumination device

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a holographic element which reflects light having a specific incident angle and transmits light having an incident angle different from the specific incident angle, a retardation film provided between the display panel and the holographic element, a transflective element which reflects, of the light which passed through the holographic element, first circularly polarized light, and transmits second circularly polarized light rotating in an opposite direction of the first circularly polarized light, and a lens element which has a lens effect of condensing the second circularly polarized light which passed through the transflective element.

Display device for head-mounted display

A backlight includes: a light guide plate including a front surface and a back surface, the light guide plate including an end face that connects one edge of the front surface and one edge of the back surface, at least part of the end face being inclined at an angle other than a right angle relative to the front surface; and a light source that emits light, the light source being set in an arrangement enabling emission of the light parallel to the front surface towards the at least part of the end face of the light guide plate, wherein the light is incident on and refracted at the at least part of the end face, propagates inside a material of the light guide plate, is reflected off the back surface, and is surface-emitted from the front surface.

Backlight and display device

According to an embodiment, an illumination device includes a light guide having a first plane, a second plane opposed to the first plane and substantially parallel to the first plane, and a tilted plane opposed to the first plane and tilted to the first plane, the tilted plane and the second plane being arranged in a first direction, and a light emitting device including a first light emitting part, a second light emitting part, and a third light emitting part which are located directly below the tilted plane, arranged in the first direction, and configured to emit light having wavelengths different from each other.

Illumination device including light guide with tilted portion

According to one embodiment, an illumination device comprises a light guide, a light source, a reflective layer, a first prism and a second prism, wherein the light guide has a thickness in a second direction increasing toward a second side surface, the first prism and the second prism have cross-sectional shapes being formed in a triangle shape, a first height of the first prism in the second direction is smaller than a second height of the second prism in the second direction.

Illumination device and display device

According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a display panel including a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a blue sub-pixel and an illumination device including a red light-emitting element, a green light-emitting element and a blue light emitting element and irradiating a mixture of light emitted by the light emitting elements onto the display panel. Further, of the red sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel and the blue sub-pixel, an aperture area of a sub-pixel having a lowest wall plug efficiency of the light emitting element of a respective color is greater than aperture areas of the sub-pixels of other colors.

Liquid crystal display device having pixels with different aperture areas

According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a first light guide, a second light guide and a plurality of light sources. The first light guide includes a first main surface, a second main surface facing the first main surface, and a first side surface connected to the second light guide. The first side surface further includes a first connection surface and a second connection surface. The first connection surface extends from an end portion of the first main surface to the second main surface and obliquely extends so as to move away from the second side surface. The second connection surface perpendicularly extends from an end portion of the first connection surface to an end portion of the second main surface.

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a first light guide, and a second light guide. In the first light guide, a first main surface includes a first plane and first grooves between the first plane and a first side surface, a second main surface includes second grooves orthogonal to the first grooves, and a second plane between the second grooves and the first side surface. In the second light guide, a third main surface includes a third plane and third grooves located between the third plane and a fourth side surface, a fourth main surface includes fourth grooves orthogonal to the third grooves, and a fourth plane located between the fourth grooves and the fourth side surface.

Display device

According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a first light guide having a first side surface, a second side surface located on a side opposite to the first side surface in a first direction, a first main surface, and a first opposed surface located on a side opposite to the first main surface in a second direction intersecting the first direction and a first light source opposed to the first side surface to emit first P-polarized light to the first side surface, the first side surface is inclined to the first main surface and the first opposed surface, the first light source is inclined to a first straight line perpendicular to the first side surface.

According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light guide having a first plane, a second plane, a side plane, a first tilted plane, and a second tilted plane, an angle formed between the side plane and the first tilted plane and an angle formed between the side plane and the second tilted plane being acute angles, a first semiconductor laser element including a first light emitting part, and a second semiconductor laser element including a second light emitting part. The first light emitting part is opposed to a first intersection part of the side plane and the first tilted plane, and the second light emitting part is opposed to a second intersection part of the side plane and the second tilted plane.

According to one embodiment, an illumination device, in which a plurality of light guides include a plurality of light guide pairs, each of the plurality of light guide pairs includes a first light guide and a second light guide, the plurality of light guide pairs are connected with their long sides opposed to each other, a plurality of laser light source elements include a plurality of first light source elements arranged to be opposed to a first side surface on a short side of the first light guide of the light guide pair, and a plurality of second light source elements arranged to be opposed to a second side surface of the second light guide of the light guide pair.

According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light guide including a first main surface, a second main surface, a first side surface, and a second side surface, a plurality of convex portions provided on the second main surface, and a first light source element and a second light source element opposing the first side surface and the second side surface, respectively, and when an incident angle of a main ray of the light propagating in the light guide is expressed by &#x3b8;, a diffusion angle of the light is &#x3b4;, an angle of the convex portion of the light guide is &#x3b1;, a critical angle of the light guide is &#x3b8;c, and an angle which satisfies (90&#xb0;&#x2212;&#x3b8;c) is &#x3b2;0, a relationship: ((&#x3b2;0+&#x3b4;)/3)&#x3c;&#x3b8;&#x3c;((&#x3b2;0&#x2212;&#x3b4;)/2) is satisfied.

According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a first light guide including a first main surface, a second main surface, a first side surface and a second side surface, a first light source and a first layer including a first prism provided on the second side surface. The first prism protrudes from the second main surface toward the opposite side to the first main surface and has a cross-sectional shape of a triangle with a first slope and a second slope. The incident angle of light emitted from the first light source and entering the first light guide from the second side surface, the angle between the first slope and the first direction, and the angle between the first slope and the second slope are set to values that satisfy the predetermined conditions, respectively.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroaki Kijima