Abstract: The stereoscopic display device includes a display unit including a first pixel group for displaying a first image and a second pixel group for displaying the second image, a barrier having transparent regions and opaque regions such that the first image and the second image are observed through the transparent regions at different points and a light source for supplying light to =the display unit. The light source has the different brightness between the first mode and the second mode.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes an image display portion for time-sharing a left eye image and a right eye image, and a parallax barrier for separating the left and right eye images provided from the image display portion into a direction of a left eye and a right eye of a user, respectively, by using a first and a second electrode set. A method includes applying a first driving voltage to the first electrode set during a first period, and applying a second driving voltage to the second electrode set during a second period. The second driving voltage has a level different from that of the first driving voltage.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes an image display portion displaying a left eye image and a right eye image; and a parallax barrier facing the image display portion and directing the left eye image and the right eye image displayed by the image display portion towards a left eye and a right eye of a user, respectively. The parallax barrier may be formed with a liquid crystal display of a normally black mode of transmission.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes an image display portion displaying left and right eye images, and a parallax barrier directing the left and right eye images respectively towards left and right eyes of a user. The parallax barrier includes first electrodes located on a first substrate, a first connection electrode electrically connecting the first electrodes, a first terminal electrode connected to an end of the first connection electrode, a first connection terminal connected to the first terminal electrode, second electrodes located between the first electrodes, a second connection electrode electrically connecting the second electrodes, a second connection terminal connected to an end of the second connection electrode, a common electrode located on a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates. The first terminal electrode has a lower electric resistance than the first electrodes and the second electrodes.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device according to the present invention includes a panel that time-shares images and displays left and right eye images, a panel control unit for controlling the panel by applying a display control signal that includes vertical and horizontal signals to the panel, a barrier facing the panel and separating the images of the panel into user left and right eye images, and a barrier control unit for controlling the barrier. The panel can be converted between a first mode of a portrait-type view and a second mode of a landscape-type view, and the barrier may be operated corresponding to the mode conversion of the panel.

Abstract: A system and method for driving a stereoscopic image display device includes, during a first period wherein no image is displayed, writing a first data signal corresponding to a first image on a first display cell and writing a second data signal corresponding to a second image on the second display cell. During a second period, the first image and the second image are displayed by driving the barrier to become a first format. During a third period in which no image is displayed, the second data signal is written on the first display cell and the first data signal is written on the second display cell. During a fourth period, the first and second images are displayed by driving the barrier to become a second format. The barrier intercepts and transmits light at different angles in the first format than in the second format.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes an image display unit and a light control unit facing the image display unit. The light control unit includes first and second substrates facing each other, a 2-viewpoint electrode layer and a multi-viewpoint electrode layer located between the first and second substrates, and a liquid crystal layer located between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes an image display portion including sub-pixels corresponding to left eye images and right eye images and a light control portion facing the image display portion. The light control portion may include light interception portions and light transmission portions alternately and repeatedly arranged along a first direction of the image display portion. The range of the width M of the sub-pixels may be equal or greater than ½ times the pitch L of the sub-pixels and less than the pitch L of the sub-pixels. The range of the width b of the light transmission portions may be equal or greater than (L?M) and equal or less than (L/0.62?M).

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device displays a stereoscopic image by generating stereoscopic image data based on 3D graphics data. The stereoscopic image display device includes a display unit for displaying an image, a driver, and a controller. The controller receives a synchronization signal, the 3D graphics data, and a user selection parameter for modifying a stereoscopic effect level, and outputs a control signal based on the synchronization signal and a stereoscopic image data signal, which is generated by combining left eye image data and right eye image data generated through performing matrix operations on the 3D graphics data and the user selection parameter, to the driver. The driver drives the display unit based on the control signal and the stereoscopic image data signal to display the stereoscopic image on the display unit.

Abstract: A three dimensional display device includes an image display unit. The image display unit includes pixels having first sub-pixels corresponding to a left-eye image and second sub-pixels corresponding to a right-eye image. The three dimensional display device also includes a parallax barrier which is located proximately to the image display unit. The parallax barrier includes light interception portions and light transmission portions alternately and repeatedly arranged in a direction. The parallax barrier also includes color filters arranged between the light interception portions and the light transmission portions. The color filters control paths of lights from the pixels.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel including a plurality of left eye pixels and a plurality of right eye pixels, a memory including a left eye image section for storing data corresponding to the left eye pixels and a right eye image section for storing data corresponding to the right eye pixels, a geometric engine for converting an input 3D image data into left eye 3D image data corresponding to the left eye pixels or right eye 3D image data corresponding to the right eye pixels, and a rendering engine for calculating a coordinate value and a color information value to be stored in the left eye section or the right eye section by using coordinate and color information of the left eye 3D image data or the right eye 3D image data, and for storing the color information value in the memory based on the coordinate value.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device for displaying a three dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image in real-time by using a 3D graphic contained within a 2D image. The stereoscopic image display device includes a controller, a 3D graphic processor, a driver, and a display unit. The controller receives 3D graphic data and a synchronization signal, and outputs a control signal and the 3D graphic data. The 3D graphic processor generates a plurality of stereoscopic matrices used to generate 3D stereoscopic image data for a plurality of viewing points according to the control signal, and transforms the 3D graphic data into 3D stereoscopic image data using the plurality of stereoscopic matrices. The driver generates a driving signal based on the image data output from the 3D graphic processor and the output control signal. The display unit displays an image corresponding to the image data according to the driving signal.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix format, the pixels including left-eye and right-eye pixels alternately arranged in one direction; a memory including a left-eye image area for storing left-eye image data corresponding to the left-eye pixels and a right-eye image area for storing right-eye image data corresponding to the right-eye pixels; an address comparator for the respectively storing the left-eye and right-eye image data at corresponding addresses of the left-eye and right-eye image areas and making an arrangement of the left-eye and right-eye image areas in the memory in response to a first signal; a data synthesizer for synthesizing a stereoscopic image signal from the data stored in the memory; and a data driver for applying a data signal corresponding to a stereoscopic image signal to the display unit.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device is provided. The stereoscopic image display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, the respective pixels including right/left-eye pixels arranged in a row direction, an area detector for detecting first data respectively corresponding to at least a part of the pixels from a plurality of input data, a data converter for converting the first data to the right/left-eye data corresponding to the right/left-eye pixels, a data combiner for combining stereoscopic image data by arranging the right/left-eye data, and a data driver for applying a data signal corresponding to the stereoscopic image data to the display unit.

Abstract: A display device for selectively displaying any one of 2D and 3D images with a capacity of displaying the 3D image with the same resolution as that of the 2D image. The display device includes a light source radiating white colored light, and an image display unit receiving the light from the light source to display the desired images. A beam splitter is placed between the light source and the image display unit to split the light radiated from the light source in the directions of left and right eyes of the user, and feed the split light rays to the image display unit. An optical shutter is provided at any one of front and rear surfaces of the beam splitter. The optical shutter has a plurality of shutter members with variable light transmittance to control the light transmission such that at least one of the two-directional light rays split at the beam splitter reaches the user.

Abstract: A 3D image display device includes a display panel, a barrier, a controller, and a barrier driver. The barrier includes: a first substrate; a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the first substrate and extended in a first direction; a plurality of second electrodes respectively disposed between adjacent first electrodes; a second substrate opposing the first substrate; a plurality of third electrodes disposed on the second substrate and extended in a second direction crossing the first direction; a plurality of fourth electrodes respectively disposed between adjacent third electrodes; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates. The barrier driver receives a barrier control signal from the controller, and applies a reference voltage to the first electrodes, the second electrodes, the third electrodes, and/or the fourth electrodes, and applies a liquid crystal driving voltage to one or more other ones of the first to fourth electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a stereoscopic image display device including an active barrier for varying a barrier display pattern so as to display various stereoscopic images. In further detail, the stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel, a barrier, a barrier driver, and a controller. A stereoscopic image is displayed on the display panel. The barrier is placed corresponding to the display panel, and includes a plurality of liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix format. The barrier driver drives the barrier such that the barrier display pattern may be a display pattern corresponding to the image signal by controlling the respective plurality of liquid crystal cells to become selectively transparent or opaque based on the mode information signal.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device including a light source and a light controller for selectively transmitting or blocking light provided by the light source. The light controller includes a first substrate, and first and second electrodes alternatively formed on the first substrate along a first direction. The first and second electrodes are spaced apart from each other at a predetermined interval. The first and second electrodes are electrically connected, respectively, to first and second connection electrodes. The light controller also includes a second substrate which is substantially parallel to the first substrate, and third and fourth electrodes alternately formed on the second substrate along a second direction. The third and fourth electrodes are spaced apart from each other at a predetermined interval. The third and forth electrodes are electrically connected, respectively, to third and fourth connection electrodes.

Abstract: A stereoscopic display device and a driving method thereof. The stereoscopic display device includes a display unit including a first group of pixels for displaying a first image and a second group of pixels for displaying a second image, a barrier having transparent regions and non-transparent regions such that the first image and the second image are observed through the transparent regions at different points, and a data driver for providing gray scale data representing image signals to the first and second groups of pixels. The data driver provides the gray scale data to the first and second groups of pixels such that the first and second groups of pixels display an image having at least two colors during one frame.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device having a capacity to display three-dimensional images with a resolution level of two-dimensional images. The three-dimensional display device includes an image display unit where left sub-pixels corresponding to a left-eye image part and right sub-pixels corresponding to a right-eye image part are formed in a pattern in a sub-pixel array having rows and columns respectively arranged in a row direction and a column direction. A parallax barrier, which is adjacent to the image display unit, has a plurality of light interception portions and light transmission portions. Centers of the light transmission portions in the column direction of the sub-pixel array are offset from each other in the row direction of the sub-pixel array.