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20110038044 | LENS ARRAY AND 3-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A lens array according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a first upper lattice plate including a plurality of first upper lattices; a first lower lattice plate including a plurality of first lower lattices; a first membrane disposed between the first upper lattice plate and the first lower lattice plate; a transparent liquid filled in the first lower lattice plate; and a hydraulic pressure controller positioned in the first lower lattice plate, wherein the first upper lattice and the first lower lattice are engaged with each other, thereby forming a plurality of first regions. | 02-17-2011 |
20110102560 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel and an optical lens assembly. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The display panel temporally divides M view images corresponding to M viewing spaces to display the temporally divided image on a display panel. ‘M’ is a natural number of no less than two. The optical lens assembly converts the view image displayed on the display panel into N stereoscopic images in which directions of the view images are different from each other to emit the converted view image toward a viewing space corresponding to the view image displayed on the display panel. ‘N’ is a natural number no less than two. | 05-05-2011 |
20110109964 | LIQUID ELASTIC MEMBRANE PRISM AND 3 DIMENSION DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A stereoscopic display is provided. The stereoscopic display is able to control a viewing position and make a viewing angel wide. On top of a display panel, an image is provided through a plurality of pixels and is separated to a left-eye image and a right-eye image by a lenticular lens. An elastic membrane prism array controls an angle of emitted light. An elastic membrane prism array is disposed on the lenticular lens or on and under the lenticular lens. The elastic membrane prism array includes a prism body having a first chamber and a second chamber, a wall disposed between the first and second chamber, a prism plate connected to the wall, a piston adapted for moving back-and-forth and a transporting tube disposed between the piston and the prism body. | 05-12-2011 |
20110164318 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND LENTICULAR SHEET OF THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display panel on which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix in a first direction and in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a lenticular sheet which is disposed above the display panel and includes a plurality of polygonal prism lenses that are arranged in the second direction. Each of the polygonal prism lenses extends in a third direction intersecting the second direction, and includes a plurality of flat surfaces or curved surfaces. | 07-07-2011 |
20110175857 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING STEREO-SCOPIC IMAGE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method for displaying a stereoscopic image of a display apparatus, the display apparatus can divide a received frame image corresponding to the preset column areas to generate M sub-frame images. In this example, the display apparatus may include a plurality of lenticular lenses disposed over a display panel to divide the display panel into a plurality of column areas. Each of the lenticular lenses may include a lenticular plate converting a flat image displayed on each of the column area into K stereoscopic images having directions different from each other. The M sub-frame images may be displayed on the display panel in a time division method. M shutters disposed over the M lenticular lenses according to the sub-frame image displayed on the display panel may selectively be opened and closed. Herein, K and M are natural numbers. | 07-21-2011 |
20110228181 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING DIFFRACTIVE LENS - The present invention relates to an image display device using a diffractive lens. An image display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a display panel displaying an image, and a diffractive lens for the image of the display panel to be recognized as a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image, wherein the diffractive lens modifies a path of light by using an optical principle of a Fresnel zone plate. | 09-22-2011 |
20120013602 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY - A stereoscopic image display includes; a display panel including a pixel including; a first subpixel, and a second subpixel disposed adjacent to the first subpixel, wherein the first subpixel and the second subpixel are adjacent along a subpixel border line which is a virtual line disposed at an interface between the first subpixel and the second subpixel, and a lenticular lens disposed on the display panel, the lenticular lens having a lens axis, in which the lens axis and a subpixel border line may intersect each other, or a portion of the subpixel border line may be substantially parallel with the lens axis. | 01-19-2012 |
20120062559 | Method for Converting Two-Dimensional Image Into Stereo-Scopic Image, Method for Displaying Stereo-Scopic Image and Stereo-Scopic Image Display Apparatus for Performing the Method for Displaying Stereo-Scopic Image - In a method for displaying a stereo-scopic image a border for each of multi-viewpoint images is formed around an edge of a display region, and each bordered multi-viewpoint image is converted into a synthetic image. The synthetic image is displayed as a stereo-scopic image in the display region through a lenticular lens inclined by a predetermined angle with respect to a display panel. Therefore, a two-dimensional image may be effectively converted into the stereo-scopic image decreasing saw-edged shapes at the border of the stereo-scopic image, improving display quality. | 03-15-2012 |
20120075434 | Three dimensional image display - A liquid crystal lens unit is provided for use in an autostereoscopic 3D image display. Light passing through the liquid crstyal lens unit is refracted by a liquid crystal layer arranged by an electric field. The voltage levels applied to the to the liquid crystal layer are periodically changed thereby periodically oscillating the position of the focus profile of the liquid crystal lens unit. As a result, moiré patterns are removed and display quality is improved. | 03-29-2012 |
20120229452 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE USING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a lens plate and a lens driver. The display panel includes a plurality of unit pixels. The display panel is driven by dividing a single frame into N sub frames. N is a natural number. The lens plate is on the display panel. The lens plate includes a plurality of lenses which convert a two dimensional (“2D”) image displayed on the display panel into a three dimensional (“3D”) image. The lens driver disposes the lenses at a first position during a first sub frame. The lens driver moves the lenses to a second position from the first position and disposes the lenses at the second position during a second sub frame. The second position is shifted by 1/N of a width of the unit pixel from the first position. | 09-13-2012 |
20120300042 | LENS MODULE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A lens module includes a lens panel and a lens driving part. The lens panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes first electrodes and second electrodes alternately disposed thereon that partially overlap each other and are electrically insulated from each other. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The lens driving part provides a substantially equal voltage to both ends of each of the first and second electrodes. | 11-29-2012 |
20130176203 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE USING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel and a liquid crystal lens. The display panel includes a first pixel displaying an N-th portion of a left image corresponding to an N-th position in the left image and a second pixel displaying an N-th portion of a right image corresponding to the N-th position in the right image. The second pixel is spaced apart from the first pixel with additional pixels disposed between the second and first pixels. The liquid crystal lens includes a unit lens directing the N-th left image to a left eye of an observer and the N-th right image to a right eye of the observer where N is a positive integer. | 07-11-2013 |
20130208020 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE USING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel including a three-dimensional (“3D”) pixel, including multiple subpixels corresponding to multiple viewpoints, a viewpoint detecting part configured to detect a target viewpoint, a display panel driver configured to generate grayscale data of the subpixels based on the detected target viewpoint, and a light converting element including a light converting axis sequentially corresponding to central regions of the subpixels including colors different from one another And configured to convert an image on the display panel into a 3D image. | 08-15-2013 |
20140267961 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING DIFFRACTIVE LENS - The present invention relates to an image display device using a diffractive lens. An image display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a display panel displaying an image, and a diffractive lens for the image of the display panel to be recognized as a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image, wherein the diffractive lens modifies a path of light by using an optical principle of a Fresnel zone plate. | 09-18-2014 |
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20110063533 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES MIXED WITH MONOSCOPIC IMAGES AND MONO/STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PERFORMING THE METHOD - An image display apparatus is provided that can display one or both of 2D imagery and 3D imagery in respective but randomly selectable display areas of the apparatus. The apparatus a display panel, a driving circuit part, a polarization switch panel and a lens. The driving circuit part processes received frame image data representing two-dimensional (2D) imagery and three-dimensional (3D) imagery to thus provide the display panel with the processed frame image. The polarization switch panel is disposed above the display panel. The polarization switch panel is switched into a first polarization mode in correspondence with 2D imagery being displayed by the display panel and it is switched into a second polarization mode in correspondence with 3D imagery being displayed by the display panel. The lens is reacts differently to light rays having the effect of the first polarization mode imparted to them and to light rays having the effect of the second polarization mode imparted to them. More specifically, the lens strongly refracts light rays that are imparted with the second polarization mode (3D imagery light) and weakly or not at all refracts light rays that are imparted with the first polarization mode (2D imagery light). Thus, both the 2D image and the 3D image may be displayed on one screen. | 03-17-2011 |
20110222156 | Diffractive Element for Optical Pickup and Optical Module Including the Same - Provided are a diffractive element for optical pickup and an optical module including the diffractive element. The diffractive element includes a plurality of diffraction patterns, and the diffraction patterns include a main diffraction pattern for creating diffraction characteristics, and an alignment mark pattern for recognizing an alignment position, the alignment mark pattern having a different pitch from the main diffraction pattern. Also, the pitch of the alignment mark pattern is formed smaller than that of the main diffraction pattern. Further, a ratio of the pitch of the alignment mark pattern to that of the main diffraction pattern is ⅛ or greater to ½ or less. | 09-15-2011 |
20140085719 | DIPSLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A display panel includes a transmit-control portion and a light blocking portion. The pixel-transmit portion may include a pair of first sides and a pair of second sides and transmitting light, the pair of the first sides being inclined with respect to a horizontal-axis direction and substantially parallel with each other, the pair of the second sides being inclined with respect to a vertical-axis direction and substantially parallel with each other. The blocking portion may surround the pixel-transmit portion and block the light. | 03-27-2014 |
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20100007721 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A MULTI-VIEWPOINT IMAGE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method for displaying a multi-viewpoint image is capable of reducing display defects, and a display apparatus to perform the method includes a display part and a driving control part. The driving control part provides the display part with a plurality of multi-viewpoint images signals. The driving control part sequentially provides the display part with a first viewpoint image to a last viewpoint image and provides the display part with a compensation viewpoint image signal that replaces the last viewpoint image signal of a frame. | 01-14-2010 |
20100026920 | ELECTRO-OPTIC UNIT, DRIVING METHOD OF THE ELECTRO-OPTIC UNIT, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - The present invention provides an electro-optic unit. A lens unit disposed at an upper portion of a display panel has a plurality of lens part. An electro-optic unit is disposed between a display panel and a lens unit, and includes an electro-optic material layer formed as a graded refractive index lens in an electric field. A display device shows a two-dimensional and a three-dimensional image according to a mode of the electro-optic unit. A driving part may form the graded refractive index lens to have the same pitch as the pitch of the lens part. The graded refractive index lens may be formed as a convex lens or a Fresnel lens. The electro-optic unit is displayed to form the Fresnel lens. A driving method enhancing mode conversion velocity of the electro-optic unit is displayed. | 02-04-2010 |
20100026993 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided are a method and apparatus for manufacturing a display device, which can ensure precise alignment and attachment of a lenticular sheet onto a display panel. The method includes sequentially stacking a display panel and a lenticular sheet on a stage, irradiating light that is incident in parallel toward the display panel and the lenticular sheet from below the display panel, detecting the light that has passed through the display panel and the lenticular sheet, and determining an axial direction of a columnar lens formed on the lenticular sheet. | 02-04-2010 |
20100053749 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display device includes; a display panel, a lens substrate facing the display panel, an air layer disposed between the display panel and the lens substrate, and a light refraction portion disposed on a surface of the lens substrate facing the display panel, wherein an average refractive index of the light refraction portion taken along a plane substantially parallel to the display panel increases in a direction substantially parallel to a path of light from the display panel to the lens substrate. | 03-04-2010 |
20100265577 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic image display device, including a display unit comprising a plurality of pixel units, wherein at least one of the pixel units has a short side extended in a first direction and a long side extended in a second direction different from the first direction, and an image conversion unit comprising a lenticular lens overlapped with at least two of the pixel units arranged in the first direction, wherein the lenticular lens is extended in the second direction and a first prism corresponding to the lenticular lens is arranged in the second direction. | 10-21-2010 |
20110032438 | LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS PANEL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS PANEL - A liquid crystal lens panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a light-blocking member. The first substrate includes a plurality of individual electrodes. The individual electrode receives a voltage to have a light path length distribution of a Fresnel lens shape. The second substrate includes a common electrode opposition the individual electrodes. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and second substrates. The light-blocking member is disposed on an area in correspondence with the individual electrode in which a voltage discontinuously varied is applied thereto. Thus, a liquid crystal lens panel of a Fresnel lens type is realized to decrease a liquid crystal cell gap, so that a process efficiency of the liquid crystal lens panel may be enhanced and a manufacturing cost of the liquid crystal lens panel may be reduced. | 02-10-2011 |
20110037838 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel, a temporal division plate and a lenticular lens. The display panel includes a gate line, a data line, and a unit pixel of a horizontal pixel structure in which a long side is parallel with the first direction and a short side is parallel with the second direction. The display panel displays a 2D image based on an image control signal. The temporal division plate includes a plurality of shutters disposed on the display panel extending in the second direction. The temporal division plate opens and closes m shutters corresponding to each unit pixel, in a sequence, ‘m’ being a natural number no less than 2). The lenticular lens is disposed on the temporal division plate to convert the 2D image passing the temporal division plate into a 3D image. | 02-17-2011 |
20140002775 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS | 01-02-2014 |
20140300961 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic image display device, including a display unit comprising a plurality of pixel units, wherein at least one of the pixel units has a short side extended in a first direction and a long side extended in a second direction different from the first direction, and an image conversion unit comprising a lenticular lens overlapped with at least two of the pixel units arranged in the first direction, wherein the lenticular lens is extended in the second direction and a first prism corresponding to the lenticular lens is arranged in the second direction. | 10-09-2014 |
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20130135545 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL/THREE-DIMENSIONAL SWITCHABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A two-dimensional/three-dimensional switchable display apparatus includes: a display panel; a first substrate disposed on the display panel; a first electrode layer disposed on the first substrate and including a plurality of first electrodes; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate; a second electrode layer disposed on the second substrate and including a plurality of second electrodes; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates. A plurality of lens units are formed in association with a first position of the liquid crystal layer when a lens forming voltage profile is applied to the first electrodes and a common voltage is applied to the second electrodes. When the common voltage is applied to the first electrodes and the lens forming voltage is applied to the second electrodes, the plurality of lens units are formed in association with a second position spaced apart from the first position. | 05-30-2013 |
20140118412 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes: a pixel part including a plurality of pixels arranged substantially in a matrix form, where the matrix form includes a unit matrix having X columns in a horizontal direction and Y rows in a vertical direction, where X and Y are natural numbers; and a plurality of light controlling parts inclined with respect to the vertical direction of the pixels on the pixel part at an inclined angle of θ, where the inclined angle of θ satisfies the following equation: θ=tan | 05-01-2014 |
20140118648 | LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS, A LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULE HAVING THE LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS AND A METHOD OF DRIVING THE LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULE - A liquid crystal lens includes a plurality of first sub liquid crystal portions having refractive indexes varied based on voltages applied thereto, a plurality of second sub liquid crystal portions having refractive indexes varied based on voltages applied thereto, where the second sub liquid crystal portions are adjacent to the first sub liquid crystal portions, respectively and a controller which controls the voltages applied to the first sub liquid crystal portions and the voltage applied to the second sub liquid crystal portions to provide a lens part. | 05-01-2014 |
20140146023 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE USING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a barrier part, a display panel driver and a barrier driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The barrier part is disposed on the display panel. The barrier part generates N viewpoint images using a plurality of barriers selectively transmitting and blocking a light. N is a natural number. The display panel driver provides image data to the display panel. The barrier driver controls the barrier part such that the different barriers have transmitting statuses in a first subframe and a second subframe. | 05-29-2014 |
20140340402 | THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - A time multiplexing multi-view point three dimensional image display device includes a display panel that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, where each pixel displays one color of a plurality of primary colors, and a view point division unit that divides the 3D image displayed by the display panel into two or more view points. The display panel includes a plurality of dots, each dot includes a set of pixels in which each pixel shows a different primary color. Each dot displays a 3D image for a view point during a frame set that includes a plurality of frames. The view point division unit moves in a row direction when the frame changes in the frame set, and at least one pixel one of the dot is selected in each frame of the frame set. | 11-20-2014 |