Patents Examined by Charles S Chang
  • Patent number: 11640094
    Abstract: A display device includes a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate, an isolation structure, and a front panel laminate (FPL) structure. The TFT array substrate has pixel electrodes. The isolation structure is between the pixel electrodes to form a first resistance between adjacent pixel electrodes. The front panel laminate structure is located on the isolation structure and the pixel electrodes adhesive layer, and has a display medium layer therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Chang-Cheng Lo, Shi-Lin Li, Ji-Yuan Li, Yi-Lung Wen
  • Patent number: 11640093
    Abstract: The present invention provides an array substrate including a substrate, a transparent insulating layer, a light-absorbing layer, a thin film transistor layer, a first protective layer, and a color filter layer. Since structures of the transparent insulating layer and the light-absorbing layer are added to the array substrate, the problem of high reflectivity of display panels with light emitting from sides of the array substrate can be solved and the image quality of the display panel is improved, so that the display panel can better adapt to a full screen demand of the market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaoping Yu
  • Patent number: 11635663
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel and a drive circuit. A transistor provided in a pixel portion or a peripheral portion of the display panel includes a semiconductor layer having a first end and a second end, first and second gate electrodes overlapping the semiconductor layer, a source electrode connected to the first end, and a drain electrode connected to the second end. The first and second gate electrodes are disposed in a first layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode are disposed in a second layer. The source electrode is formed to cover at least a first channel region in planar view. The drain electrode is formed to cover at least a second channel region in planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Ozeki
  • Patent number: 11630341
    Abstract: A display panel, a touch display panel, and a display device are provided. The touch display panel includes a first polarizer, a liquid crystal cell, and a backlight assembly, wherein a pencil hardness of the first polarizer is not less than 3H and not greater than 9H; the first polarizer is arranged at a side of the liquid crystal cell distal to the backlight assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Miao Liu, Shixin Geng, Bochang Wang, Zhanchang Bu
  • Patent number: 11630360
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a transistor, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode. The transistor includes a first gate electrode on a first substrate, a second gate electrode having a region overlapping the first gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode, a first insulating layer between the first gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer, a second insulating layer between the oxide semiconductor layer and the second gate electrode, and a first oxide conductive layer and a second oxide conductive layer disposed between the first insulating layer and the oxide semiconductor layer and disposed with the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode sandwiched from both sides. The pixel electrode is disposed between the first and the second insulating layer; the common electrode is disposed a region overlapping with the pixel electrode and on the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MIKUNI ELECTRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sakae Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11624952
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes a substrate, a plurality of light source assemblies disposed on the substrate, each of the light source assemblies including first to k-th light sources, where the k is a natural number greater than or equal to two, a plurality of sensing lines disposed on the substrate, the sensing lines respectively connected to the first light sources of the light source assemblies, a connection line disposed on the substrate, the connection line connecting the first to k-th light sources of each of the light source assemblies in series, and a controller connected to the sensing lines, and a width of the connection line is greater than a width of each of the sensing lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mi-Sun Lee
  • Patent number: 11619846
    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: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byoung Jin Cho, Young Man Ahn, Dae Hee Lee, Nae Won Jang, Hyeong Sik Choi
  • Patent number: 11619830
    Abstract: To enable a display to display different content to different viewers, a display may include a time-sequential directional backlight unit. The backlight unit may emit light in different directions in different configurations. In a first state, the backlight unit emits light at maximum brightness in a first direction. In a second state, the backlight unit emits light at maximum brightness in a second direction that is different than the first direction. The backlight unit may repeatedly and rapidly switch between the different states. The first direction may be towards a first viewer whereas the second direction may be towards a second, different viewer. Therefore, each viewer receives backlight in one of the configurations and does not receive backlight in the other configuration. In synchronization with the backlight unit, the liquid crystal display panel may repeatedly switch between displaying content for the first viewer and displaying content for the second viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Juan He, Rong Liu, ByoungSuk Kim, Jun Qi, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 11614657
    Abstract: A full-screen optical component, applied to an electronic device comprising a display screen, comprising a backlight module, an active light sensor including a sensor and a light emitter, and a dimmer. The display screen and the active light sensor are located on two opposite sides of the backlight module. The backlight module includes a first prism film and a second prism film stacked on the first prism film. The first prism film includes several first prisms. The second prism film includes several second prisms. The first prism includes a first in-light surface, and the second prism includes a second in-light surface. A display surface of the display screen, the first in-light surface, and the second in-light surface are disposed in parallel. The dimmer is configured to direct light emitted by the light emitter to the first in-light surface at an incident angle that is inclined relative to a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minchang Wang, Wenxiong Wei, Yi Hu, Yonghao Zhu
  • Patent number: 11609470
    Abstract: A writing device includes a liquid crystal layer including reflective cholesteric liquid crystal material. There are electrically conductive layers between which the liquid crystal layer is disposed. At least one of the electrically conductive layers includes at least two conductive sections. There is a front substrate that is flexible and a back substrate between which the electrically conductive layers and the liquid crystal layer are disposed. Neither the front substrate nor the back substrate includes separated sections. Application of pressure to the front substrate changes a reflectivity of a portion of the cholesteric liquid crystal material to form an image. In one aspect, there is electronic erase circuitry including at least one actuator that independently applies an erase voltage waveform to each of at least two of the conductive sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Kent Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Ernst, Don Davis, Duane Marhefka, Nathan Hirt, Anthony Daniels, Clinton Braganza
  • Patent number: 11609456
    Abstract: A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer; a carrier of the first substrate includes a plurality of carriers, a spacer layer of the second substrate includes a plurality of spacers, each carrier disposed corresponds to each spacer, wherein the carrier comprises a base and at least one sub-carrier disposed on the base. The present disclosure adopts different thickness of the carriers to form a step difference, thereby relieving surface pressure of the display panel and saving manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengpeng Xiong, Tianhong Wang
  • Patent number: 11598997
    Abstract: A liquid crystal apparatus includes a scan line extending in a ±X direction, a data line extending in a ±Y direction that intersects with the ±X direction, a TFT having a semiconductor layer in which, at a position overlapping with the scan line in plan view, one source drain region and a channel region extend along the ±X direction, and at a position overlapping with the data line in plan view, another source drain region extends along the ±Y direction, and a first upper capacitance element and a second upper capacitance element provided at a position overlapping with the data line, so as to overlap with the other source drain region in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yohei Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11592716
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first insulating substrate, a scanning line, a signal line, a switching, and a pixel electrode. The liquid crystal layer includes a polymer in a shape of a streak and a liquid crystal molecule. The scanning line includes a conductive layer located between the first insulating substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and a first reflective layer located between the first insulating substrate and the conductive layer and having a reflectance higher than a reflectance of the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Yudai Numata
  • Patent number: 11592717
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device, a liquid crystal display device, and an electronic device which have a wide viewing angle and in which the number of manufacturing steps, the number of masks, and manufacturing cost are reduced compared with a conventional one. The liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode formed over an entire surface of one side of a substrate; a first insulating film formed over the first electrode; a thin film transistor formed over the first insulating film; a second insulating film formed over the thin film transistor; a second electrode formed over the second insulating film and having a plurality of openings; and a liquid crystal over the second electrode. The liquid crystal is controlled by an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 11592705
    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: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11595627
    Abstract: A liquid crystal projector includes a liquid crystal panel having a pixel circuit that modulates light based on video data corresponding to each of pixels, and a shift device configured to shift the modulated light by the pixel circuit so that a position of a projected pixel on a screen by the modulated light is shifted for each of the pixels, wherein the pixel circuit modulates n pixels of a first group, n being an integer of 2 or more, from among pixels of an image specified by video data in first frame period, and modulates n pixels of a second group in second frame period next to the first frame period, and the n pixels of the first group are different from the n pixels of the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hosaka
  • Patent number: 11592719
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to apply a sufficient electrical field to a liquid crystal material in a horizontal electrical field liquid crystal display device typified by an FFS type. In a horizontal electrical field liquid crystal display, an electrical field is applied to a liquid crystal material right above a common electrode and a pixel electrode using plural pairs of electrodes rather than one pair of electrodes. One pair of electrodes includes a comb-shaped common electrode and a comb-shaped pixel electrode. Another pair of electrodes includes a common electrode provided in a pixel portion and the comb-shaped pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Hideki Uochi
  • Patent number: 11586064
    Abstract: A display apparatus can include a plurality of first display panels arranged in a grid, the plurality of first display panels including display areas having a plurality of first sub-pixels and bezel areas free of sub-pixels; and a second display panel stacked on the plurality of first display panels, and including emission areas and transparent transmission areas, in which the emission areas of the second display panel include a plurality of second sub-pixels arranged in a grid overlapping with the bezel areas of the first display panels, and the transparent transmission areas of the second display panel overlap with the plurality of first sub-pixels in the plurality of first display panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joo Bong Hyun, Hoon Kang, Sung Woo Kim, Ju Hoon Jang, Won Sik Lee
  • Patent number: 11578851
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device with reduced in-plane luminance variation. The light-emitting device includes a main substrate, a plurality of light sources, a plurality of lenses, and one or more light reflection members. The main substrate includes a central part and a peripheral part that surrounds the central part. The plurality of light sources are each disposed on the central part of the main substrate. The plurality of lenses are disposed to correspond to the plurality of light sources respectively. The plurality of lenses apply optical effects to beams of light from the plurality of light sources respectively. One or more light reflection members are each disposed on the peripheral part. The light reflection members each have reflectance that is higher than the reflectance of the main substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Takeshi Nishimura, Takuya Shima
  • Patent number: 11579480
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a base, a sensor and a sensor circuit. The sensor is interposed between the base and the liquid crystal layer in a display area including pixels. The sensor outputs a sensing signal corresponding to light incident from alongside the liquid crystal layer. The sensor circuit includes a plurality of switching elements. The pixels include first to third sub-pixels. At least some of elements of the switching elements are arranged in each of areas where the first to third sub-pixels are arranged. A signal line for the sensor, which outputs the sensing signal, is placed on a same layer as a feeding line connected to the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Masateru Morimoto, Akihiko Saitoh