Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Seung Jun Jeong

Il-Joo Kim

Jin Hwan Kim

Hyun Seung Seo

Min Woo Kang

Seung-Hoon Lee

Hae-Young Yun

Hae Young Yun

Kyung-Bae Kim

Jung-Hyun Cho

Soo Hee Oh

Sei Young Kang

Hwi Dae Kim

Hee-Seop Kim

Jinhwan Kim

Kyung-Ho Jung

Jung-Hwan Yi

Kwan Sik Min

Jae Jeong Lee

Yoonkyung Park

Dong Jun Lee

Jin-Hwan Kim

Nam Seok Roh

Sung Woo Lee

Kyung Ho Jung

Hyunseung Seo

Joo Won Lee

Hyungwoo Yim

Il-Yong Yoon

Seong Min Cho

Ki Hyung Kang

Jinoh Song

KyungHo Jung

Yoon Kyung Park

Moon Jung Baek

Young Chol Lee

Byoung-Jin Cho

Nae-Won Jang

Haeyoung Yun

Goro Hamagishi

Kang-Min Kim

Kang-min Kim

Sang Woo Whangbo

Jeongmin Sung

Jeong Min Sung

Jun Sung Choi

Se Huhn Hur

Hyung Woo Yim

Hyeon Yong Jang

Jin Oh Song

Hyeonyong Jang

Disclosed herein is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a backlight unit configured to emit light, a display panel positioned in front of the backlight unit, and an optical film positioned in front of the display panel. The optical film includes a base layer positioned adjacent to the display panel, a first refractive layer positioned in front of the base layer and having a pattern including a first inclined portion totally reflecting some of light waves emitted from the backlight unit, and a second refractive layer positioned in front of the first refractive layer and having a lower refractive index than the first refractive layer.

Display apparatus

Disclosed herein is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a backlight unit configured to emit light, a display panel positioned in front of the backlight unit; and an optical film positioned in front of the display panel, and the optical film includes a base layer, a first refractive layer positioned in front of the base layer, a second refractive layer positioned in front of the first refractive layer and having a lower refractive index than the first refractive layer, a third refractive layer positioned at the rear of the base layer, and a fourth refractive layer positioned at the rear of the third refractive layer and having a lower refractive index than the third refractive layer.

A display device includes a backlight unit configured to emit light, a display panel disposed in front of the backlight unit, and an optical sheet disposed between the backlight unit and the display panel. The optical sheet may include a first prism sheet including a plurality of first prisms arranged in a first direction, a second prism sheet including a plurality of second prisms arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and disposed in front of the first prism sheet; and a third prism sheet including a plurality of third prisms arranged in the first direction, and disposed in front of the second prism sheet.

Display device

A display panel and a display apparatus including the display panel are provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel; and a backlight unit configured to supply light to the display panel, wherein the display panel includes: a liquid crystal layer; a first polarizing plate disposed between the backlight unit and the liquid crystal layer; and a second polarizing plate facing the first polarizing plate with the liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween, and containing a light absorbing agent for absorbing light of a specific wavelength band, wherein the first polarizing plate includes: a first polarizing layer including a plurality of refracting layers having different refractive indexes; and at least one second polarizing layer disposed on the first polarizing layer.

Display panel with polarizing plates and display apparatus including the same

A display device includes a display panel for displaying an image, a light source module including a plurality of light sources, and an optical sheet provided between the display panel and the light source module for guiding light radiated by the light source module to the display panel. The optical sheet includes a first transparent layer including a plurality of grooves provided on a first surface of the optical sheet that is opposite to the display panel, and having a first refraction index, a second transparent layer provided in each of the plurality of grooves and having a second refraction index that is different from the first refraction index, and a reflective layer including a light reflective material provided in each of the plurality of grooves and covering the second transparent layer, and including a light-reflective material.

A backlight unit capable of implementing matrix local dimming using cholesteric liquid crystal and a polarizing portion, and a display apparatus including the backlight unit are provided. A display apparatus may include: a backlight unit; and an image forming unit configured to create an image by performing at least one from among transmitting and blocking light emitted from the backlight unit. The backlight unit may include: a waveguide plate; a cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed in front of the waveguide plate, and configured to perform at least one from among transmitting and circularly polarizing the light emitted from the waveguide plate, to generate at least one from among transmitted light and circularly polarized light; and a polarizing portion disposed in front of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and configured to transmit the transmitted light in a front direction, and to block the circularly polarized light.

Backlight unit comprising a cholesteric liquid crystal layer and a polarizing portion having a waveplate and a polarizing film and display apparatus including the same

A 3D display device is provided. The 3D display device includes a display panel and a liquid crystal lens panel. The display panel operates in one of a 2D mode for displaying a 2D image, a 3D mode for displaying a 3D image, and a coincident mode for displaying the 2D image and the 3D image. The liquid crystal lens panel is disposed on the display panel. The liquid crystal lens panel is configured to refract the 3D image through a third region of the liquid crystal lens panel and to transmit the 2D image without refracting the 2D image when the display panel operates in the coincident mode.

Three-dimensional (3D) display device

A method of driving an optical modulation device includes applying a voltage to an upper electrode; forming a forward phase slope by applying a first driving signal to a lower electrode in a first area; forming a backward phase slope by applying a second driving signal different from the first driving signal to another lower electrode in a second area; forming an area without phase retardation by applying a third driving signal to two lower electrodes in a third area between the first area and the second area; and forming a flat phase slope by applying a fourth driving signal different from the first to third driving signals one lower electrode in a fourth area between the first area and the second area.

Optical modulation device and driving method thereof

A display device is provided. The display device includes: a backlight; and a display panel configured to create an image by selectively blocking light emitted from the backlight, the backlight including a light regulator configured to regulate emission of incident light; a light guide plate arranged behind the light regulator; and a plurality of adhesives arranged to bond the light regulator and the light guide plate, respective cross-section areas of the plurality of adhesives increasing as distance from a light source increases.

Backlight unit and display device having the same

An optical modulation device or an optical device including the same includes: a first plate and a second plate facing the first plate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first plate and the second plate and including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, wherein the first plate includes a plurality of first electrodes and a first aligner, the second plate includes at least one second electrode and a second aligner, and an alignment direction of the first aligner is substantially parallel to an alignment direction of the second aligner and wherein portions of the first plate, the second plate, and the liquid crystal layer between the first and second plates are individual units.

Optical modulator including liquid crystal, driving method thereof, and optical device using the same

A three-dimensional ('3D') image display device includes a display panel, and a liquid crystal lens part disposed on the display panel and which selectively provides a two-dimensional ('2D') image and a 3D stereoscopic image, where the liquid crystal lens part includes: a lower substrate including a plurality of linear electrodes which are disposed in different layers; an upper substrate including a plate electrode; and a lens liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, where the linear electrodes in the different layers are alternately arranged in a unit zone of the liquid crystal lens part, and where two adjacent linear electrodes of the linear electrodes are spaced apart from each other when viewed from a top view.

Image display and liquid crystal lens therefor

A display device includes a liquid crystal lens panel that includes a lower substrate, a upper substrate that faces the lower substrate, a lower lens electrode disposed on the lower substrate, an upper lens electrode disposed on the upper substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a spacer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, and an opening formed at a portion of the upper lens electrode which corresponds to the spacer, where the opening of the upper lens electrode and the spacer partially overlap.

Liquid crystal lens panel and display device including liquid crystal lens panel

A display device includes a display panel, a first polarizer, a liquid crystal lens, a first quarter-wave plate, and a second quarter-wave plate. The display panel displays an image. The first polarizer disposed on the display panel reflects a first light having a polarization direction parallel to a reflection axis of the first polarizer. The liquid crystal lens includes liquid crystal molecules and changes a phase of the first light or a second light according to a driving signal applied to the liquid crystal lens. The second and first lights travel in opposite directions with respect to each other. The first quarter-wave plate is disposed between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal lens. The second quarter-wave plate is disposed between the liquid crystal lens and a second polarizer. The display device operates in a mirror mode, a three-dimensional mode, and a two-dimensional mode according to the driving signal.

Display device and a driving method for the display device

An optical modulation device is provided. The optical modulation device includes first and second plates facing each other, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second plates, and first and second electrodes. The liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The first plate includes a first aligner. The second plate includes a second aligner. A first alignment direction of the first aligner and a second alignment direction of the second aligner are substantially parallel to each other. The first and second electrodes extend to cross each other. The first and second electrodes are insulated from each other. The second electrode extends to cross the second alignment direction. An angle &#x3b8;P formed between a vertical axis of the second alignment direction and an extending direction of the second electrode is a value between 5&#xb0; and 45&#xb0;.

Optical modulation device including liquid crystals, a driving method thereof, and an optical display device using the same

A stereoscopic image display device includes a viewpoint division unit that divides an image displayed in a plurality of pixels into images that correspond to k viewpoints, wherein the viewpoint division unit comprises a plurality of viewpoint division units inclined with an inclination angle that satisfies where Hp denotes a pitch of a row direction of the pixels, Vp denotes a pitch of a column direction of the pixels, and m and b are natural numbers, and a number of first pixels arranged in an area defined by a unit of m&#xd7;b among a plurality of first pixels emitting light transmitting the same viewpoint division unit among the plurality of viewpoint division units is n=b+m&#x2212;1.

Three-dimensional image display device

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Seung Jun Jeong