Patents Examined by Charles S Chang
  • Patent number: 11977288
    Abstract: A touch display panel includes first and second substrates that are disposed opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of data lines, at least two touch wirings, at least two touch electrodes, and a pixel electrode. The data lines and the touch wirings are disposed on the base substrate. The touch electrodes are provided at a side of the data lines away from the base substrate. There is a gap between two adjacent touch electrodes. In a direction perpendicular to the base substrate, the gap overlaps with at least a portion of the touch wirings, the data lines overlap with the touch electrodes, and the data lines do not overlap with the gap. The pixel electrode is disposed at a side of the touch electrodes away from the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haosen Ge, Mang Zhao, Xiaoxu Lian, Qiang Gong
  • Patent number: 11971634
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for the regulation of light transmission. In particular, switchable windows and methods for their preparation are disclosed. The switchable windows include electrically switchable devices which in one optical switching state are capable of portraying closed patterns or images without the need for providing complex electrical contacting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GmbH
    Inventors: Chuan Nie, Ties De Jong, Johan Osenga
  • Patent number: 11968870
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a display region; the display region includes a first display region and a second display region arranged in a second direction; each scanning signal line in the first display region is electrically connected with less pixels than each scanning signal line in the second display region; the first display region is divided into a first sub-display region and a second sub-display region arranged in the second direction; and the first sub-display region is located at the side far away from the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yonglin Guo, Kai Zhang, Yunsheng Xiao, Tingliang Liu
  • Patent number: 11966121
    Abstract: An electronic window is provided for adjusting light and includes a first panel, a second panel, and an intermediate layer. The first panel includes a first alignment layer. The second panel includes a second alignment layer. The intermediate layer is disposed between the first panel and the second panel. The angle of orientation of the first alignment layer is between 25 degrees and 65 degrees, and the angle of orientation of the second alignment layer is between 115 degrees and 155 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: En-Hsiang Chen, Chih-Chin Kuo, Mao-Shiang Lin, Hsu-Kuan Hsu
  • Patent number: 11966112
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection apparatus includes: an optical sensor including a sensor base member and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are provided on the sensor base member and each of which is configured to output a signal corresponding to light emitted to the photoelectric conversion element; and a lighting device including a plurality of first light-emitting elements configured to emit first light having a first maximum emission wavelength and a plurality of second light-emitting elements configured to emit second light having a second maximum emission wavelength. Each of the photoelectric conversion elements has responsivity in a wavelength region including a wavelength region of the first light and a wavelength region of the second light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Higano, Kazuhiro Nishiyama, Genki Asozu, Kazuki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11960079
    Abstract: To provide an image display device for enabling a polarization axis direction of a reflection type polarizing plate to be identified with simplicity and accuracy, and enabling an adjustment in the polarization reflection axis direction to be made with high accuracy, a wire grid polarizing plate for enabling the polarization axis direction to be examined simply, and the like, a head-up display device (1) in the present invention is an image display device provided with an image display (14) that outputs image light which is polarized light, a reflection type polarizing plate (15) having an reflecting surface (28) that reflects the image light, and a projection plate (11) onto which the image light reflected by the reflection type polarizing plate is projected, and is characterized in that the reflection type polarizing plate allows a bright line (B) as an indicator indicative of the polarization axis direction of the reflecting surface to be observed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaru Sugiyama, Naoki Inoue, Nao Kitamichi
  • Patent number: 11953795
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present application discloses a pixel unit of a display panel and a display panel, wherein data lines are covered with a light shielding matrix element, two light shielding strips of the light shielding matrix element shield the two data lines respectively. Each light shielding strip comprises a first light shielding section and a second light shielding section in different widths overlap side edges of the main pixel electrode portion and side edges of the sub-pixel electrode portion respectively to effectively shield light leakage regions between the data lines and the pixel electrode, which solves the technical issue of the conventional pixel unit of a display panel forming light leakage regions between data lines and the pixel electrode, causing light leakage in a dark state, and resulting lowered display quality of the display panel and improves display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chengcai Dong, Ding Li, Yi Liu
  • Patent number: 11953773
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes first substrate; first line extending in first direction on first substrate; second line extending in a second direction crossing the first lines; pixel electrode on the first substrate; insulating film on the pixel electrode; common electrode on the insulating film, including a first electrode arranged in a second direction and a plurality of second electrodes connected to the first electrode; second substrate facing first substrate; liquid crystal layer provided between first and second substrates; and wherein, in plan view, pixel electrode is rectangular in shape, and in plan view, part of first electrode overlaps second line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiharu Matsushima
  • Patent number: 11953783
    Abstract: Display apparatus includes LEDs, bottom chassis to accommodate the LEDs; and reflective member disposed on the bottom chassis. The reflective member includes a reflective bottom portion, and a reflective inclined portion obliquely formed to face a rear surface of the display panel which includes first regions that respectively correspond to LEDs located adjacent to the reflective inclined portion, and second regions each provided between two neighboring first regions and has a reflective characteristic different from a reflective characteristic of a neighboring first region. Second regions and neighboring first regions are on the reflective inclined portion having a uniform incline angle with respect to a side edge of the reflective bottom portion, the first regions include a group of light adjusting members, and the group of light adjusting members of each of the first regions is disposed to correspond to one of the LEDs disposed adjacent to the reflective inclined portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byoung Jin Cho, Young Man Ahn, Dae Hee Lee, Nae Won Jang, Hyeong Sik Choi
  • Patent number: 11947214
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus using a liquid crystal display device, a display control method used in the liquid crystal display device, and a non-transitory recording medium for storing a display control program, sets a region having a larger area of an information display region and a background region as a transmission region and a region having a smaller area as a shielding region. A tint change of the shielding region caused by a TN type liquid crystal and a light source for backlight is reduced, and thus, it is possible to make the tint change depending on the viewing direction unremarkable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11947203
    Abstract: A display device includes a first backlight, a viewing angle control assembly disposed on the first backlight, a second backlight disposed on the viewing angle control assembly, and a display panel disposed on the second backlight. In a security mode, only the first backlight may be operable with the viewing angle control assembly having light blocking areas that limit light transmission to the display panel to within a predetermined range to limit a viewing angle of images displayed on the display panel. In a sharing mode, the second backlight is operated and the viewing angle control assembly does not limit light transmission, thus widening the viewing angle of images on the display panel. The display device may also include an anti-condensation layer on the second backlight to improve durability in high temperature and high humidity environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: SungHee Kim
  • Patent number: 11940703
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. The display device includes a transistor, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a third insulating layer, a first conductive layer, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer in a pixel. The first insulating layer is positioned over a channel formation region of the transistor. The first conductive layer is positioned over the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is positioned over the transistor, the first insulating layer, and the first conductive layer. The pixel electrode is positioned over the second insulating layer, the third insulating layer is positioned over the pixel electrode, the common electrode is positioned over the third insulating layer, and the liquid crystal layer is positioned over the common electrode. The common electrode includes a region overlapping with the first conductive layer with the pixel electrode positioned therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouhei Toyotaka, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Kei Takahashi, Koji Kusunoki, Masataka Nakada, Ami Sato
  • Patent number: 11934065
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a first light emitting element, a second light emitting element, and an optical film sheet. The first light emitting element and the second light emitting element are disposed on the substrate. The first light emitting element emits a first light, and the first light has a first wavelength range. The second light emitting element emits a second light, and the second light has a second wavelength range. The optical film sheet is disposed above the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element. The optical film sheet includes a first zone and a second zone. The first zone includes a first cholesteric liquid crystal, and the first cholesteric liquid crystal reflects light in at least the first wavelength range. The second zone includes a second cholesteric liquid crystal, and the second cholesteric liquid crystal reflects light in at least the second wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AUO Corporation
    Inventors: Wan Heng Chang, Min-Hsuan Chiu, Syuan-Ying Lin, Wei-Ming Cheng
  • Patent number: 11937451
    Abstract: A display device includes a display layer disposed on a substrate and divided into an emission area from which light is emitted and a non-emission area adjacent to the emission area, a refractive layer disposed on the display layer and including a first light blocking pattern and a second light blocking pattern disposed on the first light blocking pattern, and a window disposed on the refractive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jongbeom Hong, Gunshik Kim, Yongsub Shim, Younho Han
  • Patent number: 11933987
    Abstract: Provided are an optical filter, an optical device, and a head-mounted display which have a high light transmittance in a front direction and a wide real field of view. The optical filter includes a first anisotropic absorption layer, a first retardation layer, and a second anisotropic absorption layer in this order, each of the first anisotropic absorption layer and the second anisotropic absorption layer contains a dichroic colorant, an absorption axis of the dichroic colorant is perpendicular to a main surface, and the first retardation layer has polar angle dependence of retardation that has asymmetry about a normal direction with respect to incident light hitting at least one incident surface including a normal of a layer surface of the first retardation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Ishiyama, Fumitake Mitobe, Yujiro Yanai
  • Patent number: 11934053
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a liquid crystal panel configured to adjust light transmittance; a light emitting element configured to apply detection light; a first light receiving element configured to receive first detection light transmitted through the liquid crystal panel in the detection light, and to output a first output value related to a light amount of the first detection light; a second light receiving element configured to receive second detection light not transmitted through the liquid crystal panel in the detection light, and to output a second output value related to a light amount of the second detection light; a transmittance calculator configured to calculate a liquid crystal transmittance of the liquid crystal panel based on the first output value and the second output value; and an imaging element configured to image imaging light transmitted through the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Morita, Masaya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11927849
    Abstract: A backlight includes a substrate, a plurality of light sources, a light guide plate, and a plurality of rectangular reflectors including rounded corners. The plurality of light sources are proximate the substrate. The light guide plate is proximate the plurality of light sources. The plurality of rectangular reflectors including rounded corners are in a plane parallel to the light guide plate and each reflector corresponds to a light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Songfeng Han, Dmitri Vladislavovich Kuksenkov
  • Patent number: 11927860
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor layer, an interlayer insulating layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged above the interlayer insulating layer, a common electrode arranged between the pixel electrode and the interlayer insulating layer and also configured to function as a touch sensor electrode, a first dielectric layer arranged between the interlayer insulating layer and the common electrode, a second dielectric layer arranged between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, a plurality of touch wiring lines arranged between the interlayer insulating layer and the common electrode and formed of a third conductive film, and a plurality of pixel contact portions, in which each of the plurality of pixel contact portions includes a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, a connection electrode formed of the third conductive film and electrically connected to the drain electrode in a lower opening formed in the interlayer i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito Hara, Tohru Daitoh, Hajime Imai, Teruyuki Ueda, Masaki Maeda, Tatsuya Kawasaki, Yoshiharu Hirata
  • Patent number: 11923376
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a sustaining layer, multiple substrates, multiple photoelectric units, multiple signal layers, multiple driving structures, and a constraining structure. The substrates are arranged on a contact surface of the sustaining layer. A first end edge of at least one substrate approaches a first end edge of the sustaining layer, and a first side edge of one substrate is adjacent to a second side edge of another substrate. The photoelectric units are arranged on the first or/and second surfaces of the substrates. The signal layers are arranged on the substrates and electrically connected to the photoelectric units. The driving structures are electrically connected to the substrates and disposed close to the first or second end edge of the sustaining layer. The constraining structure constrains the first or second end edge of the sustaining layer, and at least one driving structure is accommodated in the constraining structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PANELSEMI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chin-Tang Li
  • Patent number: 11921386
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a first wiring board mounted on the display panel, and a backlight unit located on a back surface side of the display panel to illuminate the display panel. The backlight unit includes a casing which includes a bottom plate including a first slit and a side plate standing at the bottom plate, and a light guide arranged in the casing. The first wiring board passes between the side plate and the light guide and through the first slit and is bent toward a back surface side of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Watanabe, Yoshikatsu Imazeki, Yoichi Kamijo, Koichi Miyasaka, Shuichi Osawa