Patent ID: 8373617

Claim:
A stereoscopic display device comprising: a display panel for displaying a stereoscopic image corresponding to an inputted image signal, the display panel configured to provide at least two stereoscopic display modes corresponding to at least two different orientations for displaying the stereoscopic image; a barrier placed corresponding to the display panel and comprising a plurality of liquid crystal cells; a barrier driver for driving the barrier such that the respective liquid crystal cells of the barrier selectively become transparent or opaque; and a controller for controlling the barrier driver in accordance with the at least two stereoscopic display modes, wherein the barrier driver is configured to arrange transparent and opaque cells of the liquid crystal cells corresponding to an arrangement of a plurality of image pixels of the display panel, and a viewing position of the stereoscopic image corresponds to a center of a virtual viewing window of the stereoscopic display device in each of the at least two stereoscopic display modes.