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Color LCD system of projection type
Assignee: Samsung Display Co Ltd
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Filing: 1992-11-25
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Granted: 1994-02-15
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Expires: 2012-11-25
Abstract
Abstract A projection color liquid crystal display (LCD) system uses a large reflecting liquid crystal (LC) panel as a screen. The system includes three unicolor light sources for emitting lights of the colors red, green and blue, respectively, the light sources being disposed remote from the screen; three light shutters for permitting the red, green, and blue light beams to successively and periodically pass to the screen; and three diffusing lenses for diffusing the respective beam which is passing to the screen. Each respective light shutter permits the passage of a corresponding light beam. The color driving signal corresponding to the light beam from the image controlling circuit is applied to the driver to drive the LC panel. As a result, the red, green and blue light beams are successively reflected from the reflection type LC panel according to the color driving signal. Since the reflecting frequency of successive three color light beams is under 1/30 of a sec and, a person who is looking at the front side of the screen recognizes successive three color light beams as the composite color screen.
Inventors
- 👤 Jongcheon Lee
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 18:58
CPC Classifications
G; G02; G02F; G02F1/00; G02F1/01; G02F1/13; G02F1/133; G02F1/1333; G02F1/1335; H; H04; H04N; H04N9/00; H04N9/12; H04N9/31; H04N9/3102; H04N9/3111; G09; G09G; G09G3/00; G09G3/20; G09G3/34; G09G3/3406; G09G3/36; G09G3/3607; G09G2310/00; G09G2310/02; G09G2310/0235
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
108 words
A color LCD system of a projection type comprising a reflecting liquid crystal panel screen; a plurality of unicolor light sources; a plurality of light shutters, one disposed in front of each corresponding light source to permit the unicolor light from the corresponding light source to alternately pass therethrough and be blocked thereby; and a plurality of diffusing lenses, one disposed in front of each corresponding light shutter to project an incident unicolor light beam to the reflecting liquid crystal panel screen, the screen being disposed at a predetermined distance from the diffusing lenses in order to selectively reflect the light beams according to information to be displayed.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
108 words
A color LCD system of a projection type comprising a reflecting liquid crystal panel screen; a plurality of unicolor light sources; a plurality of light shutters, one disposed in front of each corresponding light source to permit the unicolor light from the corresponding light source to alternately pass therethrough and be blocked thereby; and a plurality of diffusing lenses, one disposed in front of each corresponding light shutter to project an incident unicolor light beam to the reflecting liquid crystal panel screen, the screen being disposed at a predetermined distance from the diffusing lenses in order to selectively reflect the light beams according to information to be displayed.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
37 words
The color LCD system of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of focusing lenses for focusing the unicolor light emitted from each light source, each lens being disposed between a corresponding unicolor light source and light shutter.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
63 words
The color LCD system of claim 1, wherein the light shutters alternate between positions where light passes through and light is blocked such that the light from each light source is on the panel screen alternately and successively, so that due to an afterimage phenomenon, an illusion that the respective unicolor lights which alternately pass to the panel screen from composite color light.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
18 words
The color LCD system of claim 1, further comprising n different sources each having a different unicolor light.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
36 words
The color LCD system of claim 3, further comprising n different light sources each having a different unicolor light, wherein each light shutter has a ratio of light passing to light blocking of 1 to (n-1).
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
29 words
The color LCD system of claim 1, further comprising means for synchronizing each of the light shutters with an application of color display information for the liquid crystal panel.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
165 words
A color LCD system of a projection type comprising: a reflecting liquid crystal panel screen; a plurality of white light sources for emitting light; a plurality of focusing lenses for focusing the light emitted from each corresponding light source; a plurality of color filters for filtering only a specific color light corresponding to the respective focusing lens; a plurality of light shutters for periodically permitting passage of incident light beams of the specific color light corresponding to a respective one of the color filters, such passage of each specific color light being successive; and a plurality of diffusing lenses, each disposed in front of a respective corresponding light shutter to project incident unicolor light beams to the reflecting liquid crystal panel screen, the screen being disposed at a predetermined distance apart from the diffusing lens in order to selectively reflect the light beams according to information to be displayed of the same color as that of the unicolor light beam projected through the diffusing lens.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
165 words
A color LCD system of a projection type comprising: a reflecting liquid crystal panel screen; a plurality of white light sources for emitting light; a plurality of focusing lenses for focusing the light emitted from each corresponding light source; a plurality of color filters for filtering only a specific color light corresponding to the respective focusing lens; a plurality of light shutters for periodically permitting passage of incident light beams of the specific color light corresponding to a respective one of the color filters, such passage of each specific color light being successive; and a plurality of diffusing lenses, each disposed in front of a respective corresponding light shutter to project incident unicolor light beams to the reflecting liquid crystal panel screen, the screen being disposed at a predetermined distance apart from the diffusing lens in order to selectively reflect the light beams according to information to be displayed of the same color as that of the unicolor light beam projected through the diffusing lens.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
50 words
The color LCD system of claim 7, wherein the respective light shutter and color filter comprises a shutter used as a light filter having one body and the shutter used as the light filter comprises a plate provided with a light beam passing part and a light beam blocking part.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
57 words
The color LCD system of claim 8, wherein each of the shutters being used as the light filter has a frequency under 1/30 sec and, if the number of shutters used as the light filters is n, an area of the light beam passing part of the plate is 1/n of an area of the whole plate.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
17 words
The color LCD system of claim 9, wherein the shutters are formed one of optically and electronically.
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