Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display panel and an apparatus including the same, the liquid crystal display panel including: a first substrate which includes a first incident surface to receive light and a first emission surface to emit the light; a second substrate which includes a second incident surface to receive the light from the first emission surface of the first substrate, and a second emission surface to emit the light from the second incident surface, and spaced from the first substrate at an interval; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a wire grid layer which is disposed in at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate and focuses and polarizes the light.

Abstract: A 3D image display apparatus includes a first display panel which alternately displays a left eye image and a right eye image, a second display panel having a plurality of pixels including a left eye pixel and a right eye pixel, a backlight unit which is disposed at a back side of the second display panel, a lens array which is disposed at a front side of the second display panel and has a plurality of lenticular lenses dividing light emitted from the backlight unit into a left eye visual field and a right eye visual field and emitting the divided light, and a control unit which controls on and off of the left eye pixel and the right eye pixel of the second display panel according to a time when the left eye image and the right eye image are displayed.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel; a light guide plate disposed at a rear side of the liquid crystal panel; at least one LED module disposed in at least one side of the light guide plate and including a plurality of LEDs; a driver which drives the plurality of LEDs; an image analyzer which analyzes an input image; and a switch unit which turns off at least one LED among the plurality of LEDs while a remainder of the plurality of LEDs are being driven by the driver, according to a result of the analyzing the input image, wherein the at least one LED is disposed closer to a corner of the liquid crystal panel than the remainder of the plurality of LEDs.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display module includes fastening members which fix a printed circuit board to a bottom chassis via support members including receipt parts into which the fastening members are inserted such that head parts of the fastening members are not protruded from an upper surface of the printed circuit board, thereby preventing the fastening members from damaging structures provided around the fastening members.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel, a light guide plate disposed below the liquid crystal panel, and a light source unit which emits light to at least one side surface of the light guide plate. The light source unit includes light source elements which are disposed adjacent to the at least one side surface of the light guide plate, and which emit light that is incident on the at least one side surface of the light guide plate. A printed circuit board is disposed adjacent to a lower surface of the light guide plate and supports the light source elements.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display module, including: a bottom chassis having a bottom side on which an open hole is formed, a printed circuit board adjacent to the open hole and supported at an inner face of the bottom side on which a plurality of light emitting diodes are is mounted, and a coupling part which extends from the printed circuit board, passes through the open hole and contacts an outer face of the bottom side of the bottom chassis, so as to maintain coupling between the bottom chassis and the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A direct viewing type stereoscopic image display apparatus which can remove a moiré pattern is provided. The direct viewing type stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: a first memory which has a first field image signal divided from an image signal of one frame; a second memory which has a second field image signal divided from the image signal of one frame; a display device which forms a first field image and a second field image according to the first field image signal and the second field image signal; an image shift unit which sequentially shifts the first field image and the second field image; and a viewing zone dividing unit which divides the viewing zones of the first field image and the second field image. Thereby, the second field image is shifted from the first field image by a predetermined distance and thus a moiré pattern is removed and image quality is improved.

Abstract: A thin projection type image display device with a low chin height includes a cabinet, a screen, a projection optical system, an optical path changing unit, and a reflecting unit. The screen is disposed on a front side of the cabinet. The projection optical system enlarges and projects an image formed by a display element, and the optical path changing unit is disposed on the bottom of the cabinet to reflect the image enlarged and projected by the projection optical system. The reflection unit is disposed obliquely to the screen and below the screen to reflect the image reflected by the optical path changing unit toward the screen. The projection optical system is disposed in a space above a horizontal plane perpendicular to the screen, behind the front side of the cabinet, and below an optical path of light incident on a bottom of the screen.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display and method for controlling brightness of an image on a liquid crystal display are provided, in which, a liquid crystal display panel displays an image, a light generating unit provides a laser beam to illuminate the liquid crystal display panel, a scanning unit scans the liquid crystal display panel with the laser beam, and a controller controls a speed of the scanning unit depending on a brightness of the image. Thus, the liquid crystal display is capable of improving a contrast of an image displayed on a liquid crystal panel using a laser as a backlight.

Abstract: A back light unit and an image display device are disclosed. The image display device includes a first reflection pattern and a second reflection pattern which are disposed on a plate at a predetermined interval from a light source and which pass light having an acute angle emitted by the light source.

Abstract: A projection-type 3-D image display includes a light source, a single display element, an image shift member, a projection lens unit, and a screen unit. The display element produces an image using light emitted from the light source. The image shift member time-sequentially shifts the image. The projection lens unit enlarges and projects the time sequentially shifted image. The screen unit includes an image separation unit. The image separation unit separates the time sequentially shifted image into images for a left eye and images for a right eye. The projection-type 3-D image display can realize a 3-D image using a single projector by having the image shift member to sequentially shift the images produced by the display element.

Abstract: A backlight unit and an image display module are provided. The backlight unit includes a micro-lens unit, and a light source unit, wherein the direction in which the plurality of lenses are arranged is at an oblique angle relative to the direction in which the plurality of light sources are arranged. Accordingly, uniform brightness is provided to a display apparatus.

Abstract: A slim optical projection system and an image display apparatus employing the same. The optical projection system includes: a relay lens group to produce an intermediate image from an image created by a display and to generate a first distortion in the intermediate image, a projection lens group to enlarge and project the intermediate image that passes through the relay lens group and to generate a second distortion in the projected image, and a reflector to reflect the image enlarged by the projection lens group to a screen at a wide viewing angle. The first and second distortions are used to compensate for a third distortion caused by the reflector.

Abstract: A multi-display apparatus includes flat panel display devices and an optical path changing unit. The flat panel display devices include adjacent sides connected to each other. The optical path changing unit has an inclined surface symmetrical to a boundary surface of the flat panel display devices and shifting light emitted from the flat panel display devices toward a boundary surface between the flat panel display devices to display an image without a non-display area.

Abstract: A highly efficient lighting system, a scrolling unit, and a projection system adopting the highly efficient lighting system and the scrolling unit are provided. The scrolling unit has at least one lens cell. From the viewpoint of light incident upon the at least one lens cell, the rotation of the at least one lens cell is converted into a rectilinear motion of a lens array, such that incident light is scrolled. The projection system includes a light source, an optical splitter, at least one scrolling unit, and a light valve. The optical splitter splits light emitted from the light source according to wavelength. The at least one scrolling unit has at least one lens cell. The lens cell has an incident side and an emitting side and divides incident light into light beams. The rotation of the lens cell causes a rectilinear motion of the light beams, thereby scrolling incident light.

Abstract: An optical data storage system writes or reads information with respect to an optical storage medium using an optical pickup including a solid immersion optical system or a solid immersion lens for generating a near-field and emitting a light beam. The optical storage medium includes a recording layer which is formed on a surface of an optical transmissive layer opposite to another surface of the optical transmissive layer which opposes the solid immersion optical system or solid immersion lens. The thickness of the optical transmissive layer is larger than one wavelength of the light beam. The interval between the surfaces of the solid immersion lens or solid immersion optical system and the optical transmissive layer is smaller than one wavelength of the light beam. Thus, the light beam reflected from the inside of an air gap and the inside of the optical storage medium between the air gap and the recording layer does not function as noise with respect to the light reflected from the recording layer.

Abstract: A display device is provided, including: a display panel; a hologram part that is disposed behind the display panel; and a laser light source part that is behind the hologram part and provides light to the hologram part.

Abstract: A projection display system includes a screen, an illumination projecting system to form an image using light radiated by a light source, to magnify the image, and to project the image along a rear side of the screen, and a reflection unit having an array of unit mirrors to reflect the image received from the illumination projecting system onto the screen, each of the unit mirrors having a first sloped reflection surface and a second reflection surface adjacent to the first reflection surface having a predetermined angle therebetween.

Abstract: A display device includes a light source, a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, a dimming panel provided between the light source and the LCD panel, having a plurality of cells, and transmitting light received from the light source to the LCD panel at an individual light transmission rate for each cell, and a control unit calculating the light transmission rate for the each cell using image brightness information on each pixel in an area of the LCD panel corresponding to the each cell of the dimming panel, transmitting a control signal to the dimming panel so that the each cell has the individual light transmission rate, and transmitting image information for each pixel to the LCD panel.

Abstract: A 3-D image display comprising a backlight, a liquid crystal shutter array having an opening and a mask alternately formed therein and selectively passing light emitted from the backlight by switching the opening and the mask. A display device having left eye image information and right eye image information at a plurality of viewpoints, in which the left eye image information and the right eye image information are changed along the movement of the opening. An image according to the left eye image information and the right eye image information of a plurality of viewpoints is sequentially displayed through the opening.