title: Luminance addition of a stack of multidomain liquid-crystal displays and capability for depth-fused three-dimensional display application.
abstract: A stack of liquid-crystal displays is expected to reduce visual fatigue caused by a flat-panel three-dimensional (3D) display. We previously developed a compact depth-fused 3D (DFD) display by using a stack of two twisted-nematic (liquid-crystal) LC panels, but its viewing-angle characteristics and color reproducibility were not so good. Therefore recent wide-view LC panels should be used. We report calculated and measured luminance addition characteristics, which are essential for evaluating 3D display characteristics, of a stack of two multidomain LC panels. We found that LC panels with super in-plane switching, patterned vertical alignment, multiple vertical alignment, and continuous pinwheel alignment modes are suitable for DFD display application.
authors.affiliation: NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8585, Japan. date.munekazu@lab.ntt.co.jp
authors.forename: Munekazu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Date
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hisaki
authors.forename: Hideaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takada
authors.forename: Shiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suyama
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakazawa