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Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2013
Applicant:

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Syuuichi Kira, Tokyo, JP;

Akio Nakayama, Tokyo, JP;

Kazushi Yamayoshi, Kumamoto, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/1335 (2006.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01); G02B 27/22 (2006.01); H04N 13/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/1335 (2013.01); G02B 27/2214 (2013.01); G02F 1/1333 (2013.01); G02F 1/133512 (2013.01); H04N 13/0409 (2013.01);
Abstract

A liquid crystal display includes: first and second transparent substrates located such that inner main surfaces face each other with a gap being provided therebetween and a liquid crystal layer is held between the substrates; a parallax barrier provided on an outer main surface of the first transparent substrate and optically separating pixels displaying an image into pixels visually recognized in a specific direction and pixels visually recognized in another specific direction; and a plurality of switching elements, arrayed on the inner main surface of the second transparent substrate, for applying voltage to drive the liquid crystal; wherein the parallax barrier includes a plurality of transmissive portions arrayed to transmit light and a plurality of light blocking portions provided respectively around the transmissive portions to block light, and each of the light blocking portions includes two or more layered light blocking films.


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