Liquid crystal display apparatus, portable device, and drive method for liquid crystal display apparatus

Abstract

In a liquid crystal display apparatus, one display pixel has a total of six sub pixels, namely, a red sub pixel for a left eye, a green sub pixel for the left eye, a blue sub pixel for the left eye, a red sub pixel for a right eye, a green sub pixel for the right eye, and a blue sub pixel for the right eye. Those sub pixels are arranged in a square area, two in a horizontal direction along which gate lines extend, three in a vertical direction along which data lines extend. The polarity of the data lines with respect to a potential of a common electrode is inverted every time three gate lines are scanned and every frame.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display apparatus in which display pixels each comprising a plurality of sub pixels are arranged in a matrix form, a portable device equipped with the liquid crystal display apparatus, and a drive method for the liquid crystal display apparatus. [0003] 2. Description of the Related Art [0004] Display apparatuses capable of displaying a stereoscopic image have been studied. As described in Literature “Three-dimensional Display” by Chihiro Masuda, published by Sangyo Tosho Publishing Co., Ltd., for example, Euclid, a Greek mathematician, contemplated in 280 B.C. that a stereoscopy is a feeling obtained as both the right and left eyes simultaneously see different images of a same object as seen from different directions. That is, a stereoscopic image display apparatus should have the function of providing the right and left eyes with images having parallax. [0005] As on...

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Benefits of technology

[0037] It is an object of the present invention to provide a liquid crystal display apparatus whose resolution does not drop when displaying different images to plural view points, a portable device equipped with the liquid crystal display apparatus, and a drive method for the liquid crystal display apparatus.

Problems solved by technology

As a user of the glass using type cannot avoid annoyance of wearing glasses, intensive studies have recently been made on the glass-less type which does not use glasses.

The parallax barrier type, when conceived, had the parallax barrier located between the pixels and the eyes, which brought about an annoyance and a low visibility.

The frame inversion drive method however has the following problem.

As capacitive coupling is made between the opposing electrode and the data line or the like and the opposing electrode itself has a resistance, it is difficult to make the potential of the opposing electrode uniform over the entire screen.

This undesirably increases power consumption.

The conventional technique however has the following problem.

Consequently, the visibility of character display significantly drops.

This problem becomes noticeable as the number of view points increases.

According to the prior art technologies concerning the stereoscopic image display apparatus, switching between stereoscopic display and two-dimensional display is carried out over the entire screen, and it is not possible to display a mixture of a stereoscopic image and a two-dimensional image at an arbitrary position.

A similar problem, which is not inherent only to the stereoscopic image display apparatus, generally occurs in display apparatuses which display images of plural view points.

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