US 12,413,702 B2
Display device
Beom Shik Kim, Yongin-si (KR); Jeong Woo Park, Yongin-si (KR); Hyun Jin Cho, Yongin-si (KR); and Su Jung Huh, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Feb. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/174,584.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0049144 (KR), filed on Apr. 20, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0344980 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 13/356 (2018.01); G02B 5/30 (2006.01); G02B 30/27 (2020.01)
CPC H04N 13/356 (2018.05) [G02B 5/3016 (2013.01); G02B 30/27 (2020.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device, comprising:
a display panel that includes a pixel;
a variable light transmission layer disposed on the display panel and that includes liquid crystal molecules; and
a lens layer disposed on the variable light transmission layer and that includes lenses and a polarization pattern,
wherein the polarization pattern overlaps a boundary area between adjacent lenses,
the display device operates in a 2D image mode that displays a 2D image or a 3D image mode that displays a 3D image, and
the polarization pattern transmits light when the display device operates in the 2D image mode, or blocks light when the display device operates in the 3D image mode.