Patents Assigned to Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11385512
    Abstract: To form a sufficiently large storage capacitor, a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal held between the first substrate and the second substrate, the liquid crystal display panel having multiple pixels arranged in matrix. The first substrate has, in a transmissive display area provided in each of the pixels, a laminated structure containing a first transparent electrode, a first insulating film, a second transparent electrode, a second insulating film, and a third transparent electrode which are laminated in this order. The first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode are electrically insulated from each other and together form a first storage capacitor through the first insulating film, and the second transparent electrode and the third transparent electrode are electrically insulated from each other and together form a second storage capacitor through the second insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: JAPAN DISPLAY INC., PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tohru Sasaki, Takahiro Ochiai
  • Patent number: 11385508
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a display region and a peripheral region, the display panel including a TFT substrate, a counter substrate fixed to the TFT substrate by seal material formed at the peripheral region, and liquid crystal interposed between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate. The TFT substrate includes an inorganic film and an organic film, with first column spacers being formed on the counter substrate. The organic film includes a first part which has an island-like shape formed at the peripheral region and a second part formed at the display region, and the seal material covers at least one of the first column spacers and the first part of the organic film, and is in contact with the inorganic film. The first part of the organic film is separated from the second part of the organic film of the organic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Nagami
  • Patent number: 11385513
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first liquid crystal display panel; and a second liquid crystal display panel opposed to the first liquid crystal display panel, wherein each of the first liquid crystal display panel and the second liquid crystal display panel includes a video signal line, a scanning line, a transistor provided in each pixel, and a pixel electrode provided in each pixel, and at least one of the video signal line, the scanning line, a semiconductor layer of the transistor, and the pixel electrode is patterned in an identical shape in the first liquid crystal display panel and the second liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventor: Teruhisa Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11367413
    Abstract: A display device for displaying image data includes: a gradation conversion circuit that converts a gradation of input image data; a display panel that displays the image data with the gradation converted by the gradation conversion circuit; an illuminance sensor that detects illuminance of an environment where the display device is placed; and a gamma characteristic corrector that controls a gradation conversion circuit so as to convert the gradation by use of a gamma characteristic corresponding to the detected illuminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Tsubokura, Takao Imaoku, Takashi Kato
  • Patent number: 11353986
    Abstract: A display device with a touch panel includes a display panel, and a touch panel formed above the display panel. The touch panel includes X electrodes which extend in a first direction, and Y electrodes which extend in a second direction different from the first direction. The X electrodes and the Y electrodes respectively include intersection portions each formed where the X electrodes and the Y electrodes overlap each other, and electrode portions each formed between the intersection portions, wherein the electrode portions of one of the X electrodes is smaller in area than the electrode portions of one of the Y electrodes, and wherein floating electrodes are formed close to the electrode portion of the one of the X electrodes or Y electrodes, and over a reduced portion of the X electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kouichi Anno
  • Patent number: 11347117
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix; a plurality of pixel electrodes and a plurality of transistors provided in each of the plurality of pixels; and a scanning line connected to the plurality of transistors in each of the plurality of pixels arranged in a first direction. In each of the plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixel electrodes and the plurality of transistors are arranged in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventor: Daisuke Kajita
  • Patent number: 11347100
    Abstract: A color display device comprises an array of a plurality of sub-pixels including a red sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel, a first green sub-pixel and a second green sub-pixel. The first green sub-pixel and the second green sub-pixel are smaller than that of the red sub-pixel or the blue sub-pixel. The two adjacent first green sub-pixels are arranged in a first direction, the two adjacent second green sub-pixels are arranged in the first direction. The blue sub-pixel is directly adjacent to the red sub-pixel in a second direction; the blue sub-pixel is directly adjacent to the two first green sub-pixels and the two second green sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Hirota, Shinichi Komura, Yoshifumi Sekiguchi, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Masaya Adachi
  • Patent number: 11340484
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first display panel; a first flexible substrate on which a first driver IC outputting a driving signal to the first display panel is mounted; a second flexible substrate being apart from the first flexible substrate, at least a part of the second flexible substrate overlapping the first flexible substrate; and an insulating material disposed between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate. The first flexible substrate is connected to the first display panel so that the first driver IC is on a side of the second flexible substrate. The insulating material is disposed between the first driver IC and the second flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke Katagiri, Masaki Tsubokura
  • Patent number: 11340500
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a spacer, wherein the first substrate includes a first pixel row, a second pixel row, a first source line and a second source line that extend in the second direction, a first gate line that extends in the first direction between the first pixel row and the second pixel row, a first thin film transistor to which the first source line, and the first gate line are electrically connected, and a second thin film transistor to which the second source line, and the first gate line are electrically connected, and the spacer is disposed so as to overlap with at least a portion of the first thin film transistor and at least a portion of the second thin film transistor in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Teruhisa Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11333935
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix, the liquid crystal display panel comprising: a plurality of first signal lines extending in a row direction or a column direction; a transistor provided in each of the plurality of pixels; and a pixel electrode provided in each of the plurality of pixels and connected to the first signal line corresponding to the pixel via the transistor corresponding to the pixel, wherein, in each of the plurality of pixels, the pixel electrode includes a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode that are separated across the first signal line corresponding to the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventor: Teruhisa Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11333942
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a display panel that includes four sides. One of the four sides has a cut edge. The display panel includes a display region in which an image is to be displayed; a non-display region that surrounds the display region and that includes a non-light transmitting layer that restricts light transmission therethrough; and a plurality of slits disposed in the non-light transmitting layer. An edge of the non-light transmitting layer is co-planar with the cut edge. The plurality of slits are parallel to the cut edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryouichi Ootsu, Hiroaki Iwato
  • Patent number: 11328680
    Abstract: An image processing device that generates a second output image signal output to a second liquid crystal panel that is disposed to be superposed on a first liquid crystal panel, includes: a first corrector that generates a gamma correction signal in which a gradation value of an input image signal is corrected; a detector that receives the gamma correction signal and detects an image region brighter than surroundings as a first high-frequency portion from the gamma correction signal; and a second corrector that receives the gamma correction signal and a detection result of the detector and performs correction to decrease the gradation value of the first high-frequency portion in the gamma correction signal. The second output image signal is generated based on the gamma correction signal corrected by the second corrector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nakanishi, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Takenobu Nishiguchi, Tatsuo Itoman
  • Patent number: 11314010
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a LCD panel having a first polarizer, a first substrate, a second substrate and a second polarizer are sequentially provided from a front surface side, a frame which surrounds the LCD panel and has a first opening having first to fourth sides, a planar light source disposed on the rear surface side of the LCD panel in the first opening, a plurality of optical sheet groups which are disposed between the planar light source and the LCD panel, and an adhesive layer which has a second opening formed along the first to fourth sides of the frame. A front surface side of the adhesive layer is adhered to the LCD panel along at least the first side, and a rear surface side of the adhesive layer is adhered to the plurality of optical sheet groups and the frame along at least the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiji Oohira
  • Patent number: 11302719
    Abstract: A thin film transistor substrate includes: a plurality of gate signal lines extending in a first direction; a plurality of gate lead-out lines and a plurality of dummy gate lead-out lines extending in a second direction; a plurality of common lines extending in at least one of the first direction and the second direction in the pixel region; and a common electrode provided opposite to a pixel electrode and electrically connected to the plurality of common lines. The plurality of gate lead-out lines are connected to the gate signal lines at least at one point of a plurality of intersections between the plurality of gate signal lines and the plurality of gate lead-out lines, and the common potential is applied to the plurality of dummy gate lead-out lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yugo Takeda, Masafumi Hirata, Hiroaki Iwato
  • Patent number: 11294526
    Abstract: An electrostatic capacitive coupling type touch panel including an input region having four sides, a peripheral region around the input region, terminals formed in the peripheral region along a first side of the input region, wirings formed in the peripheral region along second, third and fourth sides of the input region, and the input region having X and Y electrodes crossing. The wirings are connected between corresponding X or Y electrodes and wiring terminals plurality of terminals. A dummy wiring, which is not connected to any of the X electrodes or Y electrodes, is provided outside the wiring formed in a farthest position from the input region, and the dummy wiring extends through the peripheral region along the second, third and fourth sides of the input region, and electrically connects to at least one dummy wiring terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Esaka, Shouji Ikeda, Kouichi Anno
  • Patent number: 11287709
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes: a signal line provided in an image display region; and a terminal provided in a frame region and electrically connected to the signal line. The terminal includes: a metal layer; a first contact layer located closer to one side in a lamination direction than the metal layer, and electrically connected to the metal layer, a first interlayer insulating layer located closer to the one side in the lamination direction than the first contact layer; and a second contact layer located closer to the one side in the lamination direction than the first interlayer insulating layer, and electrically connected to the first contact layer through a first through-hole formed in the first interlayer insulating layer. The first contact layer is made of a transparent metal oxide or a semiconductor material doped with impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Fukami, Kenichirou Nishida, Ryuuta Watanabe, Masahiro Ishii
  • Patent number: 11287922
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and an electrostatic capacitive type touch panel which is formed in an overlapping manner with the display panel. A plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes intersecting with the X electrodes. A first signal line supplies signals to the X electrodes, a second signal line supplies signals to the Y electrodes, and the first signal line and the second signal line are formed on a flexible printed circuit board. A dummy electrode is formed adjacent to an electrode portion of each X electrode and electrode portion of each Y electrode, the dummy electrode does not overlap the X electrode and the Y electrode, and the dummy electrode does not electrically connect with the first and second signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11275283
    Abstract: A display device comprising: a first pixel row including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode arranged in a first direction; a second pixel row including a third pixel electrode and a fourth pixel electrode arranged in the first direction; a third pixel row including a fifth pixel electrode and a sixth pixel electrode arranged in the first direction; a first source line and a second source line extending in the second direction between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode; a first gate line extending in the first direction between the first pixel row and the second pixel row; a second gate line extending in the first direction between the second pixel row and the third pixel row; and a gate lead line extending in the second direction and connected to the first gate line and the second gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Teruhisa Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11262608
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a liquid crystal display device having a first substrate, a second substrate bonded to the first substrate, with liquid crystal material held between the first substrate and the second substrate, and an upper polarizing plate affixed to the second substrate. A protective member is disposed over the upper polarizing plate, and an adhesive member is disposed between the protective member and the upper polarizing plate without an air layer between the protective member and the upper polarizing plate. The protective member is configured as a protective cover of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koichi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11209684
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: first and second liquid crystal cells; first and second circuit boards connected to the first and second liquid crystal cells through first and second flexible wiring boards, respectively; a frame disposed on an opposite side to the first liquid crystal cell with respect to the second liquid crystal cell; and a holder that holds the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The first circuit board and the second circuit board are disposed on an opposite side to the second liquid crystal cell with respect to the frame. The second circuit board is located closer to the frame than the first circuit board, and the holder sandwiches the first circuit board, and stores the second circuit board between the frame and the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Yabuki