Japan Display Inc.

Kazuhiko Sako

Tsutomu Harada

Naoyuki Takasaki

Kazunari Tomizawa

Tomoyuki Ishihara

Daichi Suzuki

Tae Kurokawa

Toshiyuki Nagatsuma

Kojiro Ikeda

Tatsuya Yata

Fumitaka Gotoh

Tadafumi Ozaki

Shigenori Aoki

Takayuki Nakanishi

Kentaro Okuyama

Masaaki Kabe

Yoshihiro Watanabe

Susumu Kimura

Junji Kobashi

Yasuo Saruhashi

According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display panel configured to display an image and including a display region that transmits external light, a light source unit, a camera opposed to the display region of the display panel, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to in a light emission period, permit irradiation of light by the light source unit, irradiate the display region with light, display the image in the display region, and prohibit capturing by the camera. The control unit is configured to in a capturing period, prohibit the irradiation of the light by the light source unit, set the display region to be transparent, permit the capturing by the camera, and take in the external light transmitted through the display region to the camera.

Electronic device

A display device includes a display panel comprising a display region for displaying an image, a light source device comprising a plurality of light sources configured to emit light toward the display panel, and a drive circuit configured to drive the display panel based on an image signal including information on the image.

Display device and display system with lighting control based on movement

According to one embodiment, a display system includes a display device, a rolling shutter camera, a shutter and a control device. The display device includes a display area and a light emitting element. The rolling shutter camera is arranged behind the display device. The shutter is arranged between the display device and the camera. The control device controls the operation of the shutter to block light traveling toward the camera during a first sub-frame period during which the light emitting element is turned on and an image is displayed on the display area, and to transmit light traveling toward the camera during a second sub-frame period during which the light emitting elements is not turned on and the display area is made transparent.

Display system

A display device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, and a control circuit configured to control drive of the light-emitting elements. The control circuit divides one frame period into a plurality of subframe periods having different lengths and controls light emission and non-emission of the light-emitting elements for each of the subframe periods.

Display device

According to an aspect, a display device includes a pixel including a first sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of red, a second sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of green, and a third sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of blue. The first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel are inorganic light-emitting diodes. A light emission intensity of the second sub-pixel is increased at a predetermined ratio with respect to a light emission intensity of the first sub-pixel when the first sub-pixel emits light at a light emission intensity within a low-luminance range equal to or lower than a predetermined level of luminance.

According to an aspect, a display device includes: an image display panel having an image display surface on which display is to be controlled based on an image signal; a light source device that includes light sources provided corresponding to divided partial areas of the image display surface, and is configured to illuminate the image display surface; and a signal processor configured to calculate a light quantity of each light source for each of the partial areas. The signal processor is configured to calculate the light quantity for each partial area based on the image signal, set one of the partial areas as an adjustment target partial area for the light quantity, and adjust the light quantity in the adjustment target partial area when the light quantity of an adjacent partial area located around the adjustment target partial area is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.

Display device with light adjustment for divided areas using an adjustment coefficient

A display device is provided and includes display panel comprising plurality of pixels; and light source device configured to emit light that illuminates display panel, wherein display panel is configured to control operation of light source device, display panel does not lower luminance of light for second predetermined time or longer after display panel has raised luminance of light by predetermined amount of luminance change or more within first predetermined time, and when image changes from first image other than raster image and ramp image to second image that is either of raster image and ramp image, display panel lowers luminance of light within time shorter than second predetermined time even after luminance of light has been raised by predetermined amount of luminance change or more within first predetermined time.

According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel that has a display area in which a plurality of pixels are arranged; a light source configured to illuminate the display area; a first control circuit configured to receive first signals corresponding to a first partial image to be displayed in a portion of the display area; and a second control circuit configured to receive second signals corresponding to a second partial image to be displayed in another portion of the display area. The light source has a plurality of light-emitting areas in each of which a light emission intensity is individually controllable. The first control circuit is configured to transmit lighting quantity information indicating the light emission intensity of each of the light-emitting areas to the second control circuit.

According to an aspect, a display device includes: a first liquid crystal panel; a second liquid crystal panel; a light source configured to emit light; and a controller configured to control the first liquid crystal panel and the second liquid crystal panel based on an image signal corresponding to a resolution of the second liquid crystal panel. The first liquid crystal panel includes dimming pixels, and the second liquid crystal panel includes pixels. More than one of the pixels is arranged within a region of each of the dimming pixels. The controller performs blurring processing and determination of dimming gradation values as processing related to operation of the second liquid crystal panel. Each of the dimming gradation values corresponds to a highest gradation value set after the blurring processing among gradation values set for the more than one pixel arranged within the region of each of the dimming pixels.

A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel having pixels with a first electrode and a second electrode; a control circuit; and a counter. The number and an arrangement of pixels where a potential of the second electrode is higher than that of the first electrode in a first mode equal the number and an arrangement of pixels where the potential of the first electrode is higher than that of the second electrode in a second mode. The counter increases a count while the panel operates in the first mode, and decreases the count while the panel operates in the second mode. The control circuit operates the panel in the first mode when the count at a determination timing is not greater than a first threshold, and operates the panel in the second mode when the count at the determination timing is not less than a second threshold.

Liquid crystal display device and display system

According to one embodiment, when displaying an image on a display panel, projecting an image which is displayed on the display panel, inclining the image which is projected from the display panel at a predetermined angle of bend, and reflecting the image which is projected from the display panel via a prism and guiding the image to a projection surface, a display device corrects input picture image of the prism based on characteristics contrary to the chromatic aberration characteristics of the prism.

Display device and display method of the same

According to an aspect, a display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels, a light source device that emits light that illuminates the display unit, and a controller that controls operation of the light source device. The controller does not lower luminance of the light for a second predetermined time or longer after the controller has raised the luminance of the light by a predetermined amount of luminance change or more within a first predetermined time.

A display device includes: a first controller that outputs an output image signal having the same resolution as that of pixels to an image display panel; and a second controller that transmits an input image signal to the first controller, generates second luminance distribution data divided into regions at a second density lower than a first density equal to the resolution, and transmits the second luminance distribution data to the first controller. The second controller generates first luminance distribution data divided into regions at a third density lower than the second density, controls an illuminator based on the first luminance distribution data, and generates the second luminance distribution data by applying a polynomial interpolation to the first luminance distribution data. The first controller generates third luminance distribution data having the resolution, and generates the output image signal by adjusting the input image signal based on the third luminance distribution data.

Display device and display module

According to an aspect, a display device includes a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels, a light guide plate, a light source configured to emit light from a lateral side of the light guide plate, a dimming panel, and a controller. The dimming panel comprises a plurality of dimming areas arranged in an emission direction of the light from the light source. The dimming areas are capable of individually changing transmittance of the light according to intensities of light required to display an image using the display panel. When adjacent two of the dimming areas differ in light transmittance from each other, the controller increases output gradation values of target pixels, the target pixels being located in a predetermined area extending from a boundary between the two dimming areas in one of the two dimming areas that has lower light transmittance.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuhiko Sako