Abstract: According to one embodiment, a device includes first and second substrate units, a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate unit includes a first substrate, first and second electrodes, an extraction electrode, and a dielectric material layer. The second substrate unit includes a second substrate and a third electrode. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the first and second substrates. The first electrodes are provided on the first substrate to extend in a first direction. The second electrodes are provided on the first substrate and extend along the first direction. The extraction electrode is for electrically connecting the second electrodes. The third electrode is provided on the second substrate to extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video display device comprising: a display comprising a video display module and a frame; an optical element; and a spacer member comprising a flat plate and a supporter, wherein an expression of “t1/t2=1/(2×n)” is established when a thickness of the supporter at a boundary of the flat plate and the supporter is denoted by t1, a distance between the boundary and the optical element is denoted by t2, and a refractive index of the flat plate is denoted by n.

Abstract: A flat panel display device has a plurality of display panels arranged adjacent to one another on a display screen. Each display panel has an image-forming substrate having a display part and a non-display part disposed around the display part and a transparent member disposed on the image-forming substrate so as to cover the display part and the non-display part. Among the display panels, two adjacent display panels are arranged in a manner that non-display parts of the two adjacent display panels are at least partially overlapped with each other. The transparent member of each of the two adjacent display panels has a magnifying optical part to magnify an image displayed in part of a display area located in a region from a border between the display part and the non-display part toward the display part.

Abstract: An image display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a plurality of panels arranged in a matrix form, each panel having, on its display surface, a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form; a first junction portion provided between the panels adjacent to each other in a horizontal direction; a second junction portion provided between the panels adjacent to each other in a vertical direction; a first optical member covering the first junction portion, and magnifying or diffusing the pixels of the panels in the vicinity of the first junction portion with an anisotropy in a first direction; and a second optical member covering the second junction portion, and magnifying and diffusing the pixels of the panels in the vicinity of the second junction portion with an anisotropy in a second direction.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a display unit including pixels arranged in a matrix form; and an optical plate opposed to the display unit, the optical plate functioning as a plurality of optical apertures which are extended nearly in a straight line manner in a second direction and arranged in a first direction. Each of the pixels is divided into M sub-pixels respectively comprising M color components arranged in the first direction where M is an integer of at least 1, and Q/B is an integer N, M×P/A is a non-integer, and (Q/B)/(P/A) is a non-integer, where P is a period of the optical apertures in the first direction, Q is a period of the optical apertures in the second direction, A is a period of the pixels in the first direction, and B is a period of the pixels in the second direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video display device includes a display, an optical element, and a spacer member. The display has a video display section and a frame section. The optical element is provided so as to cover the frame section and an outer edge area provided on an outer edge side within the video display section. The spacer member is provided between the video display section and the optical member and between the frame section and the optical element. The spacer member has an inner surface positioned between the frame section and the optical element. The inner surface is provided with a first inclined surface inclined toward the frame section more on the video display section side than on the optical element side.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical device for a display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus include a display surface having a pixel area composed of a plurality of pixels, and a frame area that surrounds the pixel area. The optical device includes a lens array facing a plurality of pixels adjacent to at least a part of the frame area; and a lens facing at least a part of the frame area and a plurality of pixels adjacent to the lens array.

Abstract: If areas corresponding to the address electrodes in the second row have an area to be stereoscopic display and an area not to be stereoscopic display and an area of the connecting wire of the far electrode corresponding to the area to be stereoscopic display in the second column is included in the area not to be stereoscopic display in the first column, then a third address voltage obtained by inverting the first address voltage in positive-negative polarity is applied to the address electrodes in the second row, a third column voltage obtained by inverting the first column voltage in positive-negative polarity is applied to the far electrode corresponding to the area to be stereoscopic display, and a fourth column voltage obtained by inverting the second column voltage in positive-negative polarity is applied to the far electrode corresponding to the area not to be stereoscopic display.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a bezel, a display, and a transparent lens member. The display includes a display screen surrounded by the bezel. The transparent lens member is arranged in front of the bezel and the display screen so as to cover at least the display screen, and is capable of displaying an image displayed on the display screen in an enlarged manner of a size equal to or larger than an outer shape of the bezel. The transparent lens member includes an anisotropic magnification lens portion and a non-lens portion. The anisotropic magnification lens portion is provided to a periphery of the transparent lens member. The non-lens portion has a flat plate configuration and is arranged at a center portion of the transparent lens member.

Abstract: In an apparatus for displaying a three-dimensional image, sub-pixels having color components are arranged in a longitudinal direction and in a lateral direction in a matrix form, in a display section for displaying a flat image, and a light ray control element is disposed so as to be opposed to the display section. In the light ray control element, linear optical openings extending in a vertical direction are arranged in the lateral direction. A sum of opening area lengths of opening areas of a plurality of sub-pixels adjacent to each other in a horizontal direction is varied in a single row, and the sum thereof in a plurality of rows becomes constant. Further, an arrangement of the sub-pixels is a color arrangement of a mosaic arrangement or a lateral stripe arrangement.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus according an embodiment includes: an elemental image display unit having a display face in which pixels having sub-pixels are arranged in a matrix form, the display face being divided into a plurality of elemental images for display; and an optical plate provided on a viewer side of the elemental image display unit, the optical plate having a plurality of lenses arranged periodically with respect to the display face to be respectively associated with the plurality of elemental images, each of the lenses controlling light rays from the pixels which display an associated elemental image. In each lens, the sub-pixels which display an elemental image associated with the lens differing in isolation degree between adjacent sub-pixels depending upon whether a location is in a central portion of the lens or in a peripheral portion of the lens.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video display device includes a display module, a frame, and an optical element. The frame is provided to an outer circumference of the display module. The optical element is provided on the frame and to a portion of an area on the display module including a border between the frame and the display module. The optical element is configured to enlarge a video image output from the display module in a direction from the display module towards the frame for an outer circumferential area including the frame, and to enlarge the video image output from the display module in a direction from the frame towards the display module for an inner circumferential area on an inner side with respect to the outer circumferential area.

Abstract: A three-dimensional video display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a display panel comprising pixels in a matrix form along a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; an optical plate having a plurality of optical apertures in the first direction and extending in a straight line form with inclination from the second direction, the inclination of the optical apertures being changeable; a detection unit detecting a face and eyes of a viewer; an angle calculation unit calculating an inclination angle of a straight line coupling the detected eyes from the first direction; a control unit controlling the optical plate to change over the inclination of the optical apertures when the inclination angle is greater than a threshold; and a pixel mapping generation unit changing mapping of the pixels in response to the changeover in the optical plate.

Abstract: A three-dimensional video display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a display unit having pixels arranged in a matrix form along a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, each of the pixels being divided into M (?1) sub-pixels respectively having M color components arranged in the first direction; an optical control element functioning as a plurality of optical apertures extended in a straight line manner at a constant angle from the second direction; and a driving circuit conducting mapping of rearranging a multiple viewpoint video having a number N? of viewpoints to a video to be output to the display unit, N? being an integer satisfying ((M?1)/M) N?0.5?N?<N or N<N??(M/(M?1)) N+0.5, N being equal to Q/B, Q and B being intervals of the optical apertures and the pixels respectively.

Abstract: Certain embodiments provide a display device a plurality of subpixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to form a matrix, and each having an aperture provided with a color component; and an optical controller provided to be opposed to the display device having a plurality of rectilinear optical apertures extending in the second direction are arranged in the first direction. A shape of the aperture in the subpixel is depending upon a condition that the apertures in the subpixels adjacent to each other in the first direction have a nonoverlapping region which is a nonoverlapping region in the second direction and a condition that an aperture ratio indicating a ratio of the aperture to the subpixel in length in the second direction is substantially constant in one line in the second direction irrespective of a position in the first direction.

Abstract: An image display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a plurality of panels arranged in a matrix form, each panel having, on its display surface, a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form; a first junction portion provided between the panels adjacent to each other in a horizontal direction; a second junction portion provided between the panels adjacent to each other in a vertical direction; a first optical member covering the first junction portion, and magnifying or diffusing the pixels of the panels in the vicinity of the first junction portion with an anisotropy in a first direction; and a second optical member covering the second junction portion, and magnifying and diffusing the pixels of the panels in the vicinity of the second junction portion with an anisotropy in a second direction.

Abstract: When displaying one of a three-dimensional image and a two-dimensional image on a background and displaying the other image in a window, a flag bit indicating whether the first and second electrodes overlap the window is set. Waveforms differing according to the flag bit are applied to the first and second electrodes as pulses applied to the opposed first and second electrodes of a variable polarization cell. As a result, three-dimensional image display is partially conducted in the window and two-dimensional image display is conducted in areas other than the window. Or two-dimensional image display is partially conducted in the window and three-dimensional image display is conducted in areas other than the window.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a device includes first and second substrate units, a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate unit includes a first substrate, first and second electrodes, an extraction electrode, and a dielectric material layer. The second substrate unit includes a second substrate and a third electrode. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the first and second substrates. The first electrodes are provided on the first substrate to extend in a first direction. The second electrodes are provided on the first substrate and extend along the first direction. The extraction electrode is for electrically connecting the second electrodes. The third electrode is provided on the second substrate to extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, pixel processor includes: storage module; first adder; and second adder. Storage module stores initial parallax, initial coordinate, parallax difference, and coordinate difference. Initial parallax represents parallax of predetermined pixel. Initial coordinate represents coordinate of parallax image information of the predetermined pixel. Parallax difference is for calculating, from parallax of one pixel, parallax of other pixel. Coordinate difference is for calculating, from coordinate of parallax image information of one pixel, coordinate of parallax image information of other pixel. First adder adds the parallax difference to the initial parallax to calculate parallax of other pixel, and repeats adding the parallax difference to the calculated parallax to calculate parallax of each pixel.

Abstract: An autostereoscopic image display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a plane display device including pixels arranged in a matrix form; and an optical plate provided in front of the plane display device to control light rays illuminated from the pixels. The optical plate includes: first and second substrates, each being transparent to light; liquid crystal sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; first electrodes arranged periodically on a first plane of the first substrate opposed to the second substrate; second electrodes disposed on the first plane of the first substrate and between the first electrodes adjacent to each other; a third electrode provided on a second plane of the second substrate opposed to the first substrate; and at least one spacer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate to hold a space between the first substrate and the second substrate. The spacer is disposed on the first electrode.