Japan Display Inc.

Sony Corporation

Japan Display West Inc.

Tsuyoshi Ohyama

Masato Imai

Kazuyuki Endo

Daisuke Takama

Yingbao Yang

Takeo Koito

Tsutomu Tanaka

Ryoichi Tsuzaki

Koji Ishizaki

Koji Noguchi

Masaaki Kabe

Masaya Tamaki

Akira Sakaigawa

Hidemasa Yamaguchi

Motoharu Nishida

Kotaro Yoneda

Setsuo Suzuki

A display device includes a display unit in which pixels having first and second regions are arrayed in a matrix, the first region emitting first color light for displaying a stereoscopic image including images of a plurality of viewing points and the second region emitting second color light in order to display the stereoscopic image. A separation unit separates optically the images of the respective viewing points from each other so that the images of different viewing points are observed by different eyes of a viewer, wherein in a region on the display unit in which the image of a predetermined viewing point is displayed, widths of the first and second regions in a parallax direction of the stereoscopic image are approximately the same and widths of the first and second regions in a vertical direction, which is approximately perpendicular to the parallax direction, are different.

Display device

A stereoscopic image displaying device includes an outer surface that a detection target object approaches; a stereoscopic image generating unit that generates a three-dimensional stereoscopic image based on an input video signal, and a proximity sensor unit that is disposed on a side of the outer surface that is opposite to a side that the detection target object approaches and detects proximity of the detection target object to the outer surface based on a height that is a distance from the outer surface and is set based on parallax information included in the video signal.

Stereoscopic image displaying device, object proximity detecting device, and electronic apparatus

A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a light blocking barrier, and a sensor. The apparatus has a barrier driving controlling unit, a display controlling unit, and a display mode decision unit to decide a display mode of an image to be displayed on the panel. The barrier driving controlling unit controls, when it is decided that the display mode is a first mode, driving of the barrier so that the position of the light blocking section of the barrier is moved in response to the position of the viewer detected by the sensor. The display controlling unit controls, when it is decided that the display mode is a second mode, the display of the panel so that the display position of the left-eye and the right-eye images on the panel is moved in response to the position of the viewer detected by the sensor.

Liquid crystal display device and driving method therefore as well as electronic apparatus

A display control apparatus includes a conversion and synthesis unit that converts an array of pixels constituting each of planar images for multiple view points and synthesize the planar images in which the array of the pixels is converted to generate a three-dimensional display image, the unit including a correspondence control unit that associates view point image sub pixels with three-dimensional display sub pixels, a sub pixel value decision unit that decides a value of the sub pixel before the conversion for each color of the sub pixels on the basis of the view point image sub pixel extracted from the planar image for each view point, and a sub pixel generation unit that obtains a value of the sub pixel after the conversion on the basis of the decided value of the sub pixel before the conversion to generate the associated three-dimensional display sub pixels.

Display control apparatus and method, and display apparatus

A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a two-dimensional image; and a variable lens array disposed to face the display unit, wherein the variable lens array includes a first substrate having a transparent first common electrode, a second substrate having a transparent second common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and forming liquid crystal lens columns, the liquid crystal layer is processed in such a way that liquid crystal molecules are so oriented that each of the liquid crystal lens columns produces refracting power in a state in which no potential difference is present between the first common electrode and the second common electrode, and a voltage applied between the first common electrode and the second common electrode controls the refracting power of each of the liquid crystal lens columns.

Display apparatus and variable lens array

The present disclosure provides a display apparatus and an electronic apparatus wherein appropriate stereoscopic display can be carried out irrespective of the viewpoint position. The display apparatus includes a display section configured to have a plurality of pixels and display a plurality of viewpoint images allocated to different ones of the pixels; a detection section configured to detect an observation angle of an observer; and a display controlling section configured to change displaying positions of the viewpoint images at the pixels in response to the observation angle.

Display apparatus and electronic apparatus

A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel which displays a left eye image and a right eye image; and an optical device which generates a lens effect of a lens group which causes binocular parallax, wherein the optical device includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed opposed to each other with an interval therebetween, a first electrode which is formed on the first substrate so as to be opposed to the second substrate, a second electrode which is formed on the second substrate so as to be opposed to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer which is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and includes liquid crystal molecules, the alignment direction of which is changed in accordance with a voltage which is applied to the first electrode and the second electrode.

Liquid crystal display device, electronic apparatus, and optical device

A liquid crystal optical device includes: a first substrate having transparent plural strip electrodes formed to make groups in respective given areas; a second substrate having a transparent common electrode; and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, in which a retardation distribution is controlled in respective given areas according to voltages to be applied between the common electrode and the strip electrodes, wherein wall spacers are provided at portions corresponding to boundaries of given areas between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a shield electrode to which a fixed value voltage is applied is provided on at least one of two wall surfaces of each spacer.

Liquid crystal optical device

A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel which displays a left eye image and a right eye image; and a light-shielding barrier which has a slit section and a light-shielding section to cause binocular parallax, wherein the liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate which has a pixel electrode formed thereon, a second substrate which is separated from and opposed to the surface of the first substrate which has the pixel electrode formed thereon, and a liquid crystal layer which is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the pixel electrode has a plurality of strip-shaped parts which are arranged with intervals therebetween, and an extending direction of the strip-shaped parts is substantially perpendicular to an opening direction of the slit section.

Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus

A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a two-dimensional image; and a variable lens array disposed to face the display unit, wherein the variable lens array includes a variable phase difference layer that receives incident linearly polarized light polarized in a first direction and allows the linearly polarized light polarized in the same direction to exit or allows linearly polarized light polarized in a second direction switched from the first direction and different therefrom to exit, and an optically anisotropic layer that receives the light having exited out of the variable phase difference layer and works as a lens array for one of the light polarized in the first direction and the light polarized in the second direction whereas working as a transparent layer for the other light.

A liquid crystal display includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates and has a reflective area and a transmissive area. At least one of the substrates is provided with a retardation film whose phase difference differs between the reflective area and the transmissive area. Alternatively, at least one of the substrates is provided with a retardation film whose slow axis differs between the reflective area and the transmissive area.

Liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing the same related application data

A stereoscopic image displaying apparatus is provided. The stereoscopic image displaying apparatus, including: an image generation section having a plurality of pixels for a plurality of colors arranged in a two-dimensional matrix and adapted to drive the pixels for the colors to generate a color image; and a parallax applying section adapted to apply a parallax to the image to allow color display of a three-dimensional image and capable of changing over a parallax direction between a first direction of the color image and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The parallax applying section has a first parallel state and a second parallel state. The image generation section and the parallax application section are configured so that the rates of the colors at the pixels for the colors corresponding to light transmission regions between adjacent ones of the parallax barrier regions are uniform or got closer in both of the parallel states.

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Tsuyoshi Ohyama