Abstract:
A backlight unit includes a light source for generating light and a light guide plate for guiding the light in an upward direction, a top surface of the light guide plate includes a plurality of first and second lens patterns which extend in a first direction, the first lens pattern and the second lens pattern are alternately arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a width the first lens pattern in the second direction increases gradually from a first width to a second width greater than the first width and then decreases gradually from the second width to the first width repeatedly along the first direction.
Abstract:
A backlight unit includes: a light guide member including an light incident surface which receives light, a light emitting surface bent from the light incident surface, and a rear surface bent from the light incident surface and parallel to the light emitting surface; a light source which provides light to the light incident surface; and a refractive index control member disposed on the rear surface and divided into a plurality of areas on a plane parallel to the light emitting surface, where an electric field is generated for each area. Each of the areas is in a first state to have a first refractive index or in a second state to have a second refractive index, which is different from the first state, based on the electric field generated therein.
Abstract:
A light guide plate includes a body and a light guide pattern. The body includes a glass doped with a dopant having photosensitivity and first regions spaced apart from each other are defined in the body. The light guide pattern includes a first pattern layer portion provided in plural inside the body to respectively correspond to the first regions. In addition, the first pattern layer has a higher refractive index than an intermediate portion of the body between two first pattern layer portions adjacent to each other.
Abstract:
A display device includes a display module, a light guide plate, a light source disposed at a side of the light guide plate in a first direction, the light source including light source units arranged in a second direction, and a condensing sheet including reverse prisms. The display module includes first and second polarizing plates facing each other, a display unit including a liquid crystal layer, and a light-conversion structure. In a plan view, the light source units include first and second light source units, which are parallel to third and fourth directions, respectively. The third and fourth directions are at angles of +45° and −45° to the first direction. Each reverse prism includes a base surface that is parallel to the plane and includes two sides parallel to the third and fourth directions, respectively.
Abstract:
A display device includes a base substrate, a plurality of pixels disposed on the base substrate, a light collecting member disposed on the plurality of pixels, and an encapsulation member disposed on the light collecting member and facing the base substrate to cover the plurality of pixels, where the light collecting member includes a light collecting layer including a protrusion pattern disposed on an upper surface of the light collecting layer and the protrusion pattern is protruded in one direction to change an optical path of a light passing through the light collecting layer.
Abstract:
A light guide plate receives light and guides the light to a display panel. The light guide plate includes a body and protruding portions. The body includes a first side surface disposed adjacent to the light source, a second side surface facing the first side surface, and an upper surface. Protruding portions are protruded from the upper surface. Each of the protruding portions includes first and second protruding portions sequentially arranged from the first side surface to the second side surface. A width of the first protruding portion in a direction substantially parallel to the first side surface becomes smaller as a distance from the first side surface becomes larger, and a width of the second protruding portion in the direction substantially parallel to the first side surface becomes larger as the distance from the first side surface becomes larger.
Abstract:
A back light unit includes a light source and a light guide unit having a first surface emitting light to a display panel, a second surface facing the first surface, and a plurality of connecting surfaces connecting the first surface and the second surface. The connecting surfaces includes a first side surface, a second side surfaces and a third side surface between the first side surface and a second side surface, A first included angle of the first incident surface and the first diffusion surface is equal to or greater than about 90 degree.
Abstract:
A display device includes a light guide plate which includes a light incident surface, a light exiting surface connected to the light incident surface, and an opposite surface facing the light exiting surface, a light source which faces the light incident surface and is configured to emit a light, a reflective sheet which faces the opposite surface and reflects the light, a first pattern which is unitary with the light guide plate and protruded from the opposite surface, a pressure sensitive adhesive which is on an upper surface of the reflective sheet and contacts the first pattern, and a display panel which is configured to receive the light exiting through the light exiting surface and display an image.
Abstract:
A display device includes a display panel curved with respect to a plane defined by a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction and about a first reference axis substantially parallel to the first direction, a light guide plate disposed under the display panel and including a first surface facing the display panel and a second surface facing the display panel such that the first surface is disposed between the second surface and the display panel, a light source which provides a light to the light guide plate, and a bottom chassis which accommodates the light guide plate and the light source. The first surface is curved with respect to the plane about a second reference axis substantially parallel to the first direction, and the second surface is substantially parallel to the plane.
Abstract:
A display device includes a display panel, a light guide plate disposed under the display panel, a light source which provides a side surface of the light guide plate with incident light, a reflective plate disposed under the light guide plate, a first optical adjustment member which includes first scattering particles which scatter a first color wavelength range of the incident light into a first value and scatter a second color wavelength range of the incident light into a second value, and a second optical adjustment member which includes second scattering particles which scatter the first color wavelength range of the incident light into a third value and scatter the second color wavelength range of the incident light into a fourth value.