Patents Assigned to Chimei-InnoLux Corporation
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Publication number: 20140090313Abstract: A raised floor includes a base plate, a raised plate, a support frame, and a transfer structure, in which the raised plate is parallelly disposed above the base plate; the support frame is disposed between the base plate and the raised plate; and the transfer structure that is configured with a first terminal and a second terminal is arranged by fixing the first terminal to the base plat and the second terminal to the raised plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Chin-Lian Tsai, Ming-Che Chen, Wei-Jen Lin, Chih-Hsien Lin, Chih-Ming Chang
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Patent number: 8686983Abstract: A voltage regulator for controlling a reference pulse-voltage comprising a sequence of positive-negative pulses which defines an active range and a dummy range is disclosed. The voltage regulator includes an acquisition unit adapted to receive each pulse of the reference pulse-voltage and determine whether an alteration of the pulse is needed according to a predetermined calculation, and generate a result message when it is determined that an alteration of the voltage pulse is needed, and a voltage control unit adapted to generate an output pulse-voltage corresponding to the reference pulse-voltage. When no result message is generated, the voltage control unit is configured to output an output pulse having the same polarity as that of the received pulse of the reference pulse-voltage, and when the result message is generated, the voltage control unit is configured to output an output pulse having an opposite polarity to that of the received pulse.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventor: Jeng-Lung Tsai
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Patent number: 8679878Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming array substrates having a peripheral wiring area and a display area. The method is processed by only three lithography processes with two multi-tone photomasks and one general photomask. In the peripheral wiring area, the top conductive line directly contacts the bottom conductive line without any other conductive layer. The conventional lift-off process is eliminated, thereby preventing a material (not dissolved by a stripper) from suspending in the stripper or remaining on the array substrate surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventor: Cheng-Hsu Chou
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Patent number: 8681118Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a touch panel and a method of locating a touch point. An insulating layer is disposed between a first insulating substrate and a second insulating substrate. A first conductive film with anisotropic impedance is disposed between the first insulating substrate and the insulating layer, and a second conductive film with anisotropic impedance is disposed between the insulating layer and the second insulating substrate. Multiple first pads are disposed on a peripheral region of the first conductive film along a first direction, and multiple second pads are disposed on a peripheral region of the second conductive film along a second direction. The first conductive film has least impedance along the second direction, and the second conductive film has least impedance along the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Tai-Shun Liao, Hsuan-Lin Pan, Po-Sheng Shih
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Patent number: 8674956Abstract: A touch detection method includes: scanning the row electrodes or the column electrodes in sequence to obtain touch data of the touch sensor; labeling a plurality of coordinates as a touch image according to the touch data; mirror copying the touch data of the touch image corresponding to at least one column electrode and at least one row electrode which are adjacent to an edge of the pixel active area in the x-direction and the y-direction, respectively, to at least one corresponding location which is outside of the touch sensor active area with respect to the edge of the pixel active area; calculating a location (xave, yave) of the central point of the touch image by a weighted average; and outputting the location (xave, yave) of the central point of the touch image.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Naoki Sumi, Yoshikazu Matsui
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Publication number: 20140063378Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) image display apparatus includes a display panel and a 3D image optical structure. The display panel has pixels arranged in an array and the pixels have a first region and a second region disposed adjacent to each other. The 3D image optical structure includes a plurality of first optical units disposed along a first direction. Each first optical unit has at least one first portion corresponding to the first region and at least one second portion corresponding to the second region. The first portion has a first curvature radius and a plurality of corresponding first circle centers, and the second portion has a second curvature radius and a plurality of corresponding second circle centers. The first curvature radius is different from the second curvature radius, and the first circle centers are not overlapped with the second circle centers in the vertical projection direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki SUMI, Toshihiko Araki
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Patent number: 8664051Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a manufacturing method of a thin-film transistor includes: providing a substrate; sequentially forming a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, and an active layer on the substrate; forming an insulating metal oxide layer covering the active layer, wherein the insulating metal oxide layer including a metal oxide of a first metal; forming a metal layer covering the active layer, wherein the metal layer includes a second metal; forming a source electrode and a drain electrode on the metal layer with a trench separating therebetween; removing the metal layer exposed by the trench; and performing an annealing process to the metal layer and the insulating metal oxide layer, such that the metal layer reacts with the insulating metal oxide layer overlapping the metal layer to form a conducting composite metal oxide layer including the first metal and the second metal.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignees: Innocom Technology(Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimei Innolux CorporationInventor: Kuan-Feng Lee
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Patent number: 8665231Abstract: A sensing method for a touch sensing device is provided. In one embodiment, for one set of interlaced receiving electrode and transmitting electrodes of the touch sensing device, an integrator coupled to the receiving electrode is reset only one time. In another embodiment, for each group of sensing electrodes, an integrator coupled to the sensing electrodes is reset only one time. Accordingly, the rate at which the touch sensing array is sensed may be increased. Noise reduced by the process of resetting the integrator due to charge injection effects may be decreased.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Martin John Edwards, John Richard Ayres
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Patent number: 8666210Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) display panel including a lower substrate with pixel structures, an upper substrate, and an LC layer is provided. Each of the pixel structures includes a transistor and a pixel electrode. The pixel electrode includes first and second pixel electrodes insulated from each other, respectively including a first pattern and a second pattern that different and complementary to each other. Each of the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode has at least a trunk with a width smaller than or equal to 10 microns and a plurality of branches. The LC layer is positioned between the upper and the lower substrates and includes a plurality of LC molecules and a plurality of polymers, which are formed on surfaces of at least one of the upper and the lower substrates to cause the plurality of LC molecules to have a pretilt angle.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Chien-Hong Chen, Jian-Cheng Chen, Rung-Nan Lu
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Publication number: 20140055332Abstract: A shift register is provided. In each of successively cascaded shift register units, for a first switch, control and output terminals are coupled to a first node and an output node respectively, and an input terminal receives a first clock signal. For a second switch, input and output terminals are coupled to the control terminal of the second switch and the first node respectively. For a third switch, a control terminal is coupled to the first node, and an input terminal receives the first clock signal. A first capacitor is coupled between an output terminal of the third switch and the first node. For a fourth switch, an input terminal is coupled to the first node, and an output terminal is coupled to a low voltage terminal. For a current shift register, a control terminal of the second switch receives an output signal generated by previous shift register unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Keitaro Yamashita
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Patent number: 8659219Abstract: A display panel includes a periphery area, an active display area adjacent to the periphery area and having two opposite sides connecting with the periphery area, a driving chip disposed at the periphery area for driving electrical elements in the active display area, and a plurality of wires electrically connecting the driving chip and the electrical elements in the active display area. The distance from a first part of the wires to the center of the driving chip is farther than the distance from a second part of the wires to the center of the driving chip, and the width of the first part of the wires on a reference line perpendicular to the opposite sides of the active display area is greater than the width of the second part of the wires on the reference line.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Chun-Chih Chiu, Wei-Chung Lu
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Image processing device using adding module for adding error diffusion value or error diffusion seed
Patent number: 8655065Abstract: An image processing device comprises a halftoning module, a detecting module, an adding module and a generating module. The halftoning module generates an error diffusion value. The detecting module detects an edge at a current pixel of an image. The adding module adds the pixel value of the current pixel with one of the error diffusion value and an error diffusion seed according to the detecting result. The generating module generates the error diffusion seed. The error diffusion seed is generated by a formula based on the pixel value and location of the current pixel and a random number, or the error diffusion seed is generated by a formula based on the pixel value of the current pixel and a looked-up value, and the looked-up value is retrieved from a look-up table according to the location of the current pixel.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2010Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Naoki Sumi, Yoshikazu Matsui, Satoshi Kawata, Masahiro Yoshiga -
Publication number: 20140043304Abstract: A shift register is provided. In the shift register, each of successively cascaded shift register units includes first and second switches and first and second capacitors. For the first switch, a control terminal is coupled to a first node, an input terminal receives a first clock signal, and an output terminal is coupled to an output node. The first capacitor is coupled between the first node and the output node. The second capacitor is coupled between the output node and a ground terminal. For the second switch, an input terminal receives a second clock signal, and an output terminal is coupled to the first node. A carry signal is generated at the first node. For the N-th shift register unit, a control terminal of the second switch receives the carry signal generated at the first node of the previous shift register unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Keitaro Yamashita
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Patent number: 8646175Abstract: A method for making a conductive film exhibiting electric anisotropy comprises forming a nanomaterial on a substrate, the nanomaterial having a cluster of interconnected nanounits, each of which being substantially transverse to the substrate and having one end bonded to the substrate. The method further includes stretching the nanounits along a first direction to remove the nanomaterial from the substrate so as to form a conductive film having strings of interconnected nanounits, where the nanounits of the strings substantially extend in the first direction. A conductive plate and a method for making the same is also disclosed, where the method further comprises attaching the conductive film to a second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Jeah-Sheng Wu, Jia-Shyong Cheng, Chih-Han Chao
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Patent number: 8648986Abstract: A symmetric diffusion film (SDF) and a flat panel display applied with the same are provided. The SDF comprises at least two different materials of a first material having a first refractive index mixed with a second material having a second refractive index, and the first refractive index is different from the second refractive index. The flat panel display comprises a symmetric diffusion film (SDF) disposed at one side of the upper polarizer, and the upper polarizer adapting no compensation film.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventor: Minoru Shibazaki
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Patent number: 8638049Abstract: A driving device, a light emitting diode (LED) driving device and a method thereof are provided. The driving device includes a driving unit and a plurality of selection units. The driving unit produces a driving signal to drive a light emitting diode. The selection units are coupled to the driving unit and respectively correspond to a current value. The driving unit selects one of the selection units according a first pulse width modulation (PWM) signal. The current value corresponding to the selected selection unit is taken as the current value of the driving signal. The driving unit generates a duty cycle of a second PWM signal according to the duty cycle of the first PWM signal to serve as a duty cycle of the driving signal. In this way, power consumption of the LED is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Cheng-Feng Yang, Cheng-I Wu, Li-Wei Mao
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Publication number: 20140022634Abstract: A 3D display, at least comprising a display panel, a backlight module disposed beneath the display panel and a lens sheet disposed on the display panel is provided. The display panel comprises a display medium sandwiched between two substrates, and at least two alignment marks are formed at one of the substrates, and each alignment mark comprises an indicator and a reference mark. The lens sheet has an array of plural lenticular elements arranged in a lens direction, wherein the alignment marks are identifiable through the lens sheet and corresponding alignment mark images are presented on the lens sheet, and each alignment mark image comprises an indicator image and a reference mark image. Whether the alignment between the lens sheet and the display panel is accurate is determined by a correlation between the indicator image and the reference mark image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Satoru Takahashi
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Publication number: 20140022152Abstract: A pixel driving circuit is provided, including first, second, third, fourth, and fifth switching devices and first and second capacitors. The first switching device has a first terminal coupled to a first power source voltage, and a control terminal coupled to a first scan signal line. The second switching device has a first terminal coupled to a second terminal of the first switching device, a second terminal coupled to a first node and an emitting device, and a control terminal coupled to a second node. The third switching device has a first terminal coupled between the first terminal of the second switching device and a second terminal of the first switching device, a second terminal coupled to the second node, and a control terminal coupled to a second scan signal line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Hong-Ru GUO, Lien-Hsiang CHEN
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Patent number: 8633921Abstract: An exemplary data driving circuit includes a data register, a counter, and a comparator. The data register is configured for receiving serial gray level signals in turn, and outputting the plurality of gray level signals in parallel. The counter is configured for outputting counting signals. The comparator is configured for receiving the gray level signals and the counting signals, and outputting pulse voltage signals according to the gray level signals and the counting signals. A variety of duty ratios of the pulse voltage signals correspond to a variety of gray levels.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimei InnoLux CorporationInventors: Shun-Ming Huang, Deng-Tzung Tang
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Patent number: 8634037Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a casing and a liquid crystal panel accommodated in the casing. The casing includes a frame and a window surrounded by an inner side of the frame. The liquid crystal panel includes an outside surface essentially serving as a display screen for displaying images and a peripheral wall. The liquid crystal panel is attached to the frame, with the inner side of the frame contacting the peripheral wall of the liquid crystal panel, and the display screen exposed outside of the casing.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Chimei InnoLux CorporationInventors: Chih-Hao Chen, Chih-Wei Ho, Chao-Yi Hung, Tsau-Hua Hsieh