OCB LCD panel for 3D glasses from Toshiba

Toshiba has developed an OCB (Optically Compensated Bend) Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panel for 3D glasses suitable for watching 3D television, enjoying 3D movies, or playing 3D games.

In recent years, increasing demands for more realistic images has been the catalyst for 3D displays in various applications, such as movies, TV broadcasts, games, and mobile phones.

Providing slightly different images to your left and right eyes results in a 3D image. Two methods that are used to separate a picture into left and right images one using special glasses and the other is without glasses called auto-stereoscopy. The with-glasses approach is based on two methods, one using polarizing filters and the other is based on time division. The with-glasses approach is applied to movies and TV and. The new LCD panel employs the latter time-based, with-glasses approach.

In the time-division with-glasses method, images for the left and right eyes appear alternately, with the special glasses working as a synchronous shutter, i.e. when the left image appears, the left liquid crystal shutter opens while the right shutter closes. Repeating this operation at high speed allows the user to synthesize the left and right images in their brain and to recognize them as a 3D image.

If the left eye senses the right image, or if the right eye senses the left image, double vision occurs which is called 3D crosstalk. This phenomenon degrades the quality of the resulting image and causes eye fatigue.

This LCD panel has used OCB technology to achieve both high-speed response and a wide viewing angle while maintaining high contrast. Glasses adopting these panels feature high-speed shutter opening and closing, yielding low 3D crosstalk. The wide viewing angle provides vivid 3D images across a wide field of view.

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