Display device, viewing angle control device, electronic display device, and multiple image display device
US7486350B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 23, 2005 |
| Grant date | Feb 3, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 1, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02F1/1323
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A display device includes: a main LCD; a SW LCD, disposed on an optical path of light transmitting through the main LCD, for electrically switching a visible image between a single image display mode and a multiple image display mode; a first polarizer; and a second polarizer. The major axis direction of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer of the SW LCD is always substantially parallel to the polarization direction of light after transmission through the first polarizer when projected from the normal to the substrates. At least some of the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are controlled in terms of alignment direction so that the major axis direction of the liquid crystal molecules is substantially parallel to the substrates in the single image display mode and tilted from the substrates in the multiple image display mode.
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