Patents Examined by Lauren Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11980068
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The display panel includes a first display region and a second display region which are adjacently arranged. A light transmittance of the first display region is greater than a light transmittance of the second display region. The display panel further includes a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines extending along the second direction. One first sub-pixel row is electrically connected to at least two of the plurality of scan lines. The plurality of data lines includes first data lines, where one of the first data lines is electrically connected to the first sub-pixel column, and at least a part of the first data lines is made of a transparent conductive material. In the first display region, at least two of the first data lines are connected through a connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingping Liu, Junyi Li, Guozhao Chen
  • Patent number: 11966138
    Abstract: A projector includes a beam homogenizer receiving light from a light source and creating a predetermined illumination, and a spatial light modulator including grating stages to receive the predetermined illumination. Each grating stage may include a plurality of pixels where corresponding pixels in the grating stages are aligned with one another. Each of the pixels may include a liquid crystal layer disposed between two substrates, where a pixel is switchable by applying a voltage thereto, with a grating period of the pixel selected such that, when the voltage is applied to the pixel and light is passed therethrough, optical energy from the light in plus and minus first orders is deflected toward sides of the pixel and optical energy from a zero order of the light is allowed to pass through the pixel, with a polarization state of the light maintained through the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Joshua Lentz
  • Patent number: 11960165
    Abstract: A display device comprises a waveguide configured to guide light in a lateral direction parallel to an output surface of the waveguide. The waveguide is further configured to outcouple the guided light through the output surface. The display device additionally comprises a broadband adaptive lens assembly configured to incouple and to diffract therethrough the outcoupled light from the waveguide. The broadband adaptive lens assembly comprises a first waveplate lens comprising a liquid crystal (LC) layer arranged such that the waveplate lens has birefringence (?n) that varies in a radially outward direction from a central region of the first waveplate lens and configured to diffract the outcoupled light at a diffraction efficiency greater than 90% within a wavelength range including at least 450 nm to 630 nm. The broadband adaptive lens assembly is configured to be selectively switched between a plurality of states having different optical powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Chulwoo Oh, Ravi Kumar Komanduri, Roy Matthew Patterson, Charles Scott Carden, Michael Nevin Miller, Vikramjit Singh
  • Patent number: 11960178
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: an array substrate comprising a plurality of pixel electrodes; a counter substrate comprising a common electrode in a position at least overlapping the pixel electrodes; a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and a light source disposed so as to emit light into a side surface of the array substrate or a side surface of the counter substrate. The array substrate includes, in a display region: a plurality of signal lines arranged in a first direction with spaces between the signal lines; a plurality of scanning lines arranged in a second direction with spaces between the scanning lines; and common potential wiring provided outside the display region. The counter substrate comprises light-blocking coupling wiring that couples the common electrode to a conductive first power feeding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihide Ohue
  • Patent number: 11961849
    Abstract: A display device includes a base layer; a first pattern disposed on the base layer; an insulating layer disposed on the first pattern and including layers; and a second pattern disposed on the insulating layer. At least two of the layers of the insulating layer include a same material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keum Hee Lee, Dong Hoon Shin, June Whan Choi, Seung Sok Son, Woo Geun Lee
  • Patent number: 11963404
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including an organic film layer, a first lower pattern which is disposed on the substrate, includes overlap patterns, first bridges, and second bridges, and has a mesh shape, a second lower pattern which is disposed in a same layer as the first lower pattern, is connected to the first lower pattern, and surrounds the first lower pattern, a first active pattern disposed on the first lower pattern, and a plurality of gate electrodes disposed on the first active pattern and overlapping the overlap patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changho Yi, Jung-Woo Ha, Jong-Ryuk Park, Ji-Eun Lee, Sungho Kim, Joonhyoung Park, Seokje Seong
  • Patent number: 11934057
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer including polymers and liquid crystal molecules, and a light-emitting element. The first substrate includes a transparent substrate, a scanning line, a signal line crossing the scanning line, a switching element electrically connected to the scanning line and the signal line, an organic insulating film overlapping the switching element, and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element. A thickness of the organic insulating film located between the transparent substrate and the pixel electrode is less than a thickness of the organic insulating film overlapping the switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Yoshihide Ohue, Hiroki Sugiyama, Tomoyuki Tada
  • Patent number: 11929370
    Abstract: Embodiments of the current disclosure to provide a display device which can reduce the number of intersections of scan lines and data lines. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a display device comprises: a substrate; scan lines extending along a first direction; data lines extending along a second direction that intersect the first direction; a first switching element; a first pixel electrode connected to a first source electrode of the first switching element; a second switching element; and a second pixel electrode connected to a second source electrode of the second switching element. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are disposed along the second direction, and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode of the first switching element extend along the second direction in an area overlapping a first active layer of the first switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Young Lee, Kyung Ho Kim, Ki Won Park, Soo Hong Cheon
  • Patent number: 11927869
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor substrate, comprising, a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer that overlap a scanning line, an insulating layer that covers the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a signal line, wherein the insulating layer has a first opening including a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides, the long sides of the first opening are parallel to the second direction, and the short sides of the first opening are parallel to the first direction, and the signal line is connected to the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer via the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11929369
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first substrate including a first surface and a first side-surface adjacent to the first surface, a second substrate including a second surface and a second side-surface adjacent to the second surface, a plurality of first conductive wires disposed on the first surface, a plurality of dam walls disposed on the first surface and located between any adjacent two of the first conductive wires respectively and a plurality of second conductive wires disposed on the first side-surface and the second side-surface. The plurality of first conductive wires are electrically connected to the plurality of second conductive wires respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventor: Shuhei Hosaka
  • Patent number: 11916080
    Abstract: A driving substrate is provided. The driving substrate includes a substrate and a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate. The thin film transistor includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a semiconductor disposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The thin film transistor is divided into a first active block and a second active block, the first active block and the second active block are separated by a first gap in a first direction, and the first active block and the second active block are connected by a first bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: May Pan
  • Patent number: 11908874
    Abstract: An embodiment of a display device includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer, a first gate insulating layer, a gate electrode, a second gate insulating layer, a first storage electrode, a first interlayer insulating layer, a second interlayer insulating layer, a data line, and a driving voltage line. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate. The first gate insulating layer is disposed on the semiconductor layer. The gate electrode is positioned on the first insulating layer. The second gate insulating layer is disposed on the gate electrode. The first storage electrode is positioned on the second gate insulating layer. The first interlayer insulating layer is disposed on the first storage electrode and has an opening surrounding the semiconductor layer, the gate electrode, and the first storage electrode. The second interlayer insulating layer is disposed on the first interlayer insulating layer and fills the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seon Young Choi, Jae Hyung Cho, Jee Hoon Sim, Jun Ki Jeong
  • Patent number: 11899316
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polarization-independent terahertz wave control element, and provides a method for manufacturing a polarization-independent terahertz wave control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO, NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Sasaki, Hiroshi Ono, Nobuhiro Kawatsuki, Kohei Goto, Kimiaki Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 11884213
    Abstract: An anti-glare apparatus (100), includes a lens assembly (120) having an incident side and a reflective layer (110) on the side of the lens assembly opposite from the incident side. The lens assembly includes a layer of liquid crystal molecules, a first driving electrode (132) and a second driving electrode (131) respectively on both sides of the layer of the liquid crystal molecules; at least one of the first driving electrode or the second driving electrode comprises a plurality of sub-electrodes. The lens assembly is configured to change an optical axis direction of the lens assembly by adjusting a driving voltage of at least one of the plurality of sub-electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shan Gao, Ronghua Lan, Junrui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11876098
    Abstract: A display device capable of improving image quality is provided. A storage node is provided in each pixel and first data can be held in the storage node. Second data is added to the first data by capacitive coupling, which can be supplied to a display element. Thus, the display device can display a corrected image. A reference potential for the capacitive coupling operation is supplied from a power supply line or the like, and thus the first data and the second data can be supplied from a common signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Naoto Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11869453
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device including a narrowed bezel obtained by designing a gate driver circuit. A gate driver of a display device includes a shift register unit, a demultiplexer circuit, and n signal lines. By connecting the n signal lines for transmitting clock signals to one stage of the shift register unit, (n?3) output signals can be output. The larger n becomes, the smaller the rate of signal lines for transmitting clock signals which do not contribute to output becomes; accordingly, the area of the shift register unit part is small compared to a conventional structure in which one stage of a shift register unit outputs one output signal. Therefore, the gate driver circuit can have a narrow bezel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyake, Kouhei Toyotaka, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11860490
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a frame including a conduction part and a resin part, an electro-optical panel that is housed in the inner side of the resin part, and an exposure part that is formed by exposing the conduction part from the resin part. The exposure part is disposed to face at least a part of an end face of the electro-optical panel or protrude from a surface of the electro-optical panel over the end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Kazunori Takabayashi
  • Patent number: 11852925
    Abstract: A display panel includes an array substrate, a color filter substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of spacers located between the array substrate and the color filter substrate. The plurality of spacers include at least one first spacer, at least one second spacer and at least one third spacer. The at least one first spacer is on the array substrate, the at least one second spacer and the at least one third spacer are on the color filter substrate and respectively overlap the at least one first spacer in a direction perpendicular to the display panel. The at least one first spacer, the at least one second spacer and the at least one third spacer have a first height, a second height and a third height respectively along the direction perpendicular to the display panel, and the second height is different from the third height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hongfei Cheng
  • Patent number: 11835829
    Abstract: A display substrate is provided, including: a base substrate; a display area, and a peripheral area surrounding the display area on the base substrate, where a dummy pixel unit and a dummy data line are located in the peripheral area. The dummy pixel unit includes a thin film transistor including a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is one of a source electrode and a drain electrode and is electrically connected to the dummy data line, and the second electrode is another of the source electrode and the drain electrode and includes a first portion and a second portion separated by a first opening. A display panel including the display substrate and an electronic device including the display substrate or the display panel are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wu Wang, Meicun Jiang, Xiaoyuan Wang, Ruilin Bi, Wenlong Feng
  • Patent number: 11839130
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display device includes a substrate having a sub-pixel and a transparent region, a counter substrate facing into the substrate, and a light emitting diode and a light controlling element between the substrate and the counter substrate, the light controlling element transmitting or shielding a light. The light emitting diode overlaps the sub-pixel, and the light controlling element overlaps the transparent region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sun-Young Park