Backlight module and display panel

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backlight module and a display device, which increase the brightness range of the lateral entrance backlight module, thereby improving the HDR display effect of the display device. The backlight module in the embodiment of the present disclosure includes at least two lateral entrance light guide plates, each lateral entrance light guide plate is provided with a light bar. The number of light bars of the backlight module is increased, thereby increasing the maximum brightness of the backlight module. The overall brightness variation range of the backlight module is thus increased. In addition, the light bar of each lateral entrance light guide plate can be separately controlled, thereby increasing the brightness range of the backlight module. Therefore, the backlight module provided by this solution can effectively improve the HDR display effect of the display device.

RELATED APPLICATIONS

The present application is the U.S. national phase entry of the international application PCT/CN2017/098279, with an international filing date of Aug. 21, 2017, which claims the benefit of Chinese Patent Application No. 201720008398.2, filed on Jan. 4, 2017, the entire disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and particularly to a backlight module and a display device.

BACKGROUND

An HDR (high dynamic range) image generally refers to an image with a very wide range of display brightness, and people often refer to a technique for generating and displaying a high dynamic range image as HDR technology. When generating and displaying high dynamic range images, it is important to make the image have sufficient brightness, and the brightness of the image has a large dynamic range.

At present, HDR technology is used in products such as liquid crystal displays or LCD TVs, which can greatly improve the image quality. However, in order to make full use of the advantages of HDR, higher requirements have been placed on the backlight module of liquid crystal display devices. Since the lateral entrance backlight module meets the thin requirements of current display devices and can provide a high-brightness and uniform planar light source, most liquid crystal display devices apply lateral entrance backlight modules.

In the prior art, a lateral entrance backlight module generally includes a light guide plate and a light bar disposed on a light incident surface of the light guide plate. Since the installation space of the light bar is limited, in order to reduce the influence of heat concentration, the number of light emitting diodes of the light bar is limited. Therefore, the brightness range of the backlight module is limited, and the backlight module cannot meet the brightness requirement of HDR.

Therefore, how to increase the brightness range of the lateral entrance backlight module and improve the HDR display effect of the display device is a technical problem to be solved by those skilled in the art.

SUMMARY

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backlight to module and a display device, which increase the brightness range of the lateral entrance backlight module, thereby improving the HDR display effect of the display device.

The backlight module provided by the present disclosure includes at least two stacked lateral entrance light guide plates, and light bars respectively arranged on light incident surfaces of the lateral entrance light guide plates. A bottom surface of each lateral entrance light guide plate has optical lattice points.

Optionally, each lateral entrance light guide plate has a light incident surface, and the light incident surfaces of two adjacent lateral entrance light guide plates are perpendicular to each other.

In this optional solution, the light incident surfaces of two adjacent lateral entrance light guide plates are perpendicular to each other, and mutually perpendicular light rays can form a plurality of cross points. The brightness of each cross point can be separately adjusted, which is favorable for increasing the brightness range of the entire display screen.

Optionally, a top surface of each lateral entrance light guide plate has a plurality of strip-shaped microstructures arranged in parallel, and an extending direction of the strip-shaped microstructures is perpendicular to the light incident surface of the lateral entrance light guide plate.

In this optional solution, the stripe-shaped microstructure has a good light-gathering property, which can accurately adjust the brightness of the target area and further improve the HDR display effect.

Optionally, in a plane perpendicular to the extending direction, a cross-sectional shape of the strip-shaped microstructure is a circular segment, a semicircle, or a triangle.

Optionally, each lateral entrance light guide plate has two opposite light incident surfaces, and light incident surfaces of two adjacent lateral entrance light guide plates are perpendicular to each other.

Specifically, the number of the lateral entrance light guide plates is two.

Optionally, the thicknesses of the lateral entrance light guide plates to are the same.

Optionally, the materials of the lateral entrance light guide plates are the same.

The present disclosure also provides a display device including the backlight module described in any of the above mentioned solutions.

The display device in this embodiment includes the backlight module described above. The display device has a large brightness range and therefore has a good display effect.

Specifically, the display device is an HDR display device.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DISCLOSURE

In order to increase the brightness range of the lateral entrance backlight module and further improve the HDR display effect of the display device, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backlight module and a display device. To make the objectives, technical solutions, to and advantages of the present disclosure more clear, the following embodiments further illustrate the present disclosure in detail.

Referring toFIG. 1, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a backlight module. The backlight module provided by the present disclosure includes at least two stacked lateral entrance light guide plates1, and light bars2respectively arranged on the light incident surfaces4of the lateral entrance light guide plates1. A bottom surface6of each lateral entrance light guide plate1has optical lattice points5. For a lateral entrance light guide plates1, a top surface7of the lateral entrance light guide plates1is a light exit surface of the lateral entrance light guide plates1. The bottom surface6is opposite to the top surface7.

The light incident surface of the lateral entrance light guide plate is a lateral surface of the guide light plate and is used to input light into the light guide plate. The optical lattice points on the bottom surface of the lateral entrance light guide plate can be designed according to the optical specifications of the light incident surface and the light bar of the lateral entrance light guide plate.

The backlight module in the embodiment of the present disclosure includes at least two lateral entrance light guide plates1, each lateral entrance light guide plate1is provided with a light bar2. The number of light bars2of the backlight module is increased, thereby increasing the maximum brightness of the backlight module. The overall brightness variation range of the backlight module is thus increased. In addition, the light bar2of each lateral entrance light guide plate1can be separately controlled, thereby increasing the brightness range of the backlight module. Therefore, the backlight module provided by this solution can effectively improve the HDR display effect of the display device.

With continued reference toFIG. 1, in an optional embodiment, each lateral entrance light guide plate1has a light incident surface4, and the light incident surfaces4of two adjacent lateral entrance light guide plates1are perpendicular to each other.

In this optional embodiment, the light incident surfaces of two adjacent lateral entrance light guide plates1are perpendicular to each other, and the mutually perpendicular light rays entering from the light incident surfaces are staggered to form a plurality of cross points, and the brightness of each cross point can be adjusted separately. Brightness adjustment of a cross point has little influence on the surrounding brightness. Specifically, as shown inFIG. 4a, when there is no light in two mutually perpendicular directions (indicated with “X” and “Y” inFIGS. 4a-4c), the brightness of the cross point (indicated with “C” inFIGS. 4a-4c) is 0 brightness; as shown inFIG. 4b, when there is light in one direction of two mutually perpendicular directions, the brightness of the cross point is 50% brightness; as shown inFIG. 4c, when there is light in both of the mutually perpendicular directions, the brightness of the cross point is 100% brightness. Combined with the control of the surrounding light, the grayscale of respective cross points can be adjusted.

To obtain 100% brightness at a cross point, combination of two light rays is required. In some embodiments, the light incident surfaces of two adjacent lateral entrance light guide plates are perpendicular to each other, so that the beam propagation directions inside the adjacent two lateral entrance light guide plates are perpendicular to each other. The mutually perpendicular beams can enhance the brightness of the cross point, and affect the brightness of the area outside the cross point as little as possible.

Those skilled in the art can understand that an optical structure such as a lens can be used to increase the directivity of the light beam emitted from the light bar2, thereby obtaining a cross point with a high-brightness.

Referring toFIG. 2andFIG. 3, a top surface of each lateral entrance light guide plate1has a plurality of strip-shaped microstructures3arranged in parallel, and an extending direction of the strip-shaped microstructures3is perpendicular to the light incident surface of the lateral entrance light guide plate1.

In this optional solution, the stripe-shaped microstructure3has a good light-gathering property, which can accurately adjust the brightness of the target area and further improve the HDR display effect.

In the above mentioned solution, in a plane perpendicular to the extending direction, a cross-sectional shape of the strip-shaped microstructure3is a circular segment, a semicircle, or a triangle, which can be selected according to actual conditions.

In another embodiment, each lateral entrance light guide plate1has two opposite light incident surfaces, and light incident surfaces of two adjacent lateral entrance light guide plates1are perpendicular to each other.

In an embodiment, the number of the lateral entrance light guide plates1is two. In this way, the thinness requirement of the display module can be satisfied, and it can also meet the HDR display requirements to some extent.

In an optional embodiment, the thicknesses of the lateral entrance light guide plates1are the same, and the materials of the lateral entrance light guide plates1are the same. Applying the lateral entrance light guide plates1with the same specification can facilitate the manufacture.

The present disclosure also provides a display device including the backlight module described in any of the above mentioned solutions.

The display device in this embodiment includes the backlight module described above. The display device has a large brightness range and therefore has a good display effect.

Further, the display device is an HDR display device. In this way, it takes full advantage of the backlight module, providing a good HDR display effect and high-quality images.

Apparently, the person skilled in the art may make various alterations and variations to the invention without departing the spirit and scope of the invention. As such, provided that these modifications and variations of the invention pertain to the scope of the claims of the invention and their equivalents, the invention is intended to embrace these alterations and variations.