Circular Patents (Class 349/98)
  • Patent number: 11948923
    Abstract: A display device including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel is provided. The first sub-pixel includes a first light emitting unit and a first wavelength conversion layer disposed thereon. The first sub-pixel provides a first light emitted from the first light emitting unit and converted by the first wavelength conversion layer. The first light includes a first main-peak and a first sub-peak. The second sub-pixel includes a second light emitting unit and a second wavelength conversion layer disposed thereon. The second sub-pixel provides a second light emitted from the second light emitting unit and converted by the second wavelength conversion layer. The second light includes a second main-peak and a second sub-peak. A first wavelength difference between the first main-peak and the second main-peak is less than 20 nm, and the first wavelength difference is less than a second wavelength difference between the first sub-peak and the second sub-peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Jui-Jen Yueh, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 11835744
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor having a high SN ratio. The sensor includes a light source, a band pass filter, and a light-receiving element, in which the band pass filter includes two cholesteric liquid crystal layers and a discontinuous layer disposed between the two cholesteric liquid crystal layers, in the two cholesteric liquid crystal layers, helical twisted directions and helical pitches are the same, and in a case where the discontinuous layer is a layer other than a cholesteric liquid crystal layer and a wavelength having a lowest reflectivity in a selective reflection wavelength range of the band pass filter is represented by ?m [nm], a thickness [nm] is in a range of “30×(?m/550) to 150×(?m/550)”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Katsumi Sasata, Yukito Saitoh
  • Patent number: 11754874
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display panel, including: first and second substrates; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; a first linear polarizer provided at a side of the first substrate facing away from the liquid crystal layer and having an absorption axis extending along a first direction; a second linear polarizer provided at a side of the second substrate facing away from the liquid crystal layer and having an absorption axis extending along a direction perpendicular to the first direction; a first quarter-wave plate provided at the side of the first substrate facing away from the liquid crystal layer; a second quarter-wave plate between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer; and a first half-wave plate provided at the side of the first substrate facing away from the liquid crystal layer, and/or a second half-wave plate between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanying Wang, Jun Zhou, Fan Tian, Yuefeng Gu
  • Patent number: 11747672
    Abstract: A display system includes a backlight configured to project light. A first display unit is disposed proximate the backlight. A second display unit is disposed proximate the first display unit. A microcontroller is in communication with one or more of the backlight, the first display unit and the second display unit. The microcontroller executes instructions to adjust the first display unit between a first transmissive state and a second transmissive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf, David Whitton
  • Patent number: 11644705
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus including a first display panel, a second display panel, and at least one light-absorbing layer. The first display panel has a first splicing surface. The second display panel has a second splicing surface opposite to the first splicing surface. The at least one light-absorbing layer is disposed on at least one of the first splicing surface and the second splicing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hao-Shiun Yang, Chien-Chi Chen, Shang-Chiang Lin
  • Patent number: 11630362
    Abstract: A one-way glass with switching modes includes an absorbing layer located on a weak light side, a reflecting layer located on an intense light side, and a converting layer stacked between the absorbing layer and the reflecting layer. The absorbing layer absorbs first polarized light and allows second polarized light to pass through. The reflecting layer reflects the first polarized light and allows the second polarized light to pass through. Unpolarized light incident from the weak light side or from the intense light side is respectively converted into the polarized light. During the process of gradually adjusting the converting layer from a twisted state to a vertical state, rotated angles of polarization directions of the first polarized light and the second polarized light gradually decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tsung-Hsien Lin, Chun-Ta Wang, Heng-Yi Tseng, Cheng-Chang Li, Li-Min Chang, Kuan-Wu Lin, Hung-Chang Jau
  • Patent number: 11526053
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical assembly, a liquid crystal display device, and an electronic equipment. The optical assembly includes: a linear polarizer, a half-wave plate, and a quarter-wave plate stacked in sequence. An absorption axis of the linear polarizer is substantially perpendicular to a first direction, and the first direction is parallel to a surface of the linear polarizer; an angle between an in-plane slow axis of the half-wave plate and the first direction is in a range of 100° to 110°; an angle between an in-plane slow axis of the quarter-wave plate and the first direction is in a range of 160° to 170°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuan Zhong, Hongliang Yuan, Jian Wang, Qi Zheng, Wei Zhao, Xiaojuan Wu, Zhangxiang Cheng, Jiaxing Wang
  • Patent number: 11360319
    Abstract: Described examples include a light tunnel of a material, the light tunnel including: a first section having a first surface and an opposing second surface, a second section having a third surface and an opposing fourth surface, a third section having a fifth surface and an opposing sixth surface, and a fourth section having a seventh surface and an opposing eighth surface; a first crease between the first section and the second section, a second crease between the second section and the third section, a third crease between the third section and the fourth section, and an intersection between an end of the first section and the fourth section; and a reflective coating forming a reflective surface on the first, third, fifth and seventh surfaces, the reflective surface being continuous across at least one of the creases, and the reflective coating being discontinuous at the intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Zhongyan Sheng, Don Holamon, Steven Edward Smith
  • Patent number: 11313975
    Abstract: An add-on device configured to reduce the power level of reflected paths of GNSS signals reaching a GNSS receiver's antenna, the associated GNSS receiver set, some equipment embedding the add-on device, and the associated method to reduce the power level of reflected GNSS signals are provided. The GNSS signals are transmitted according to a first polarization, and the add-on device comprises a material configured to be transparent to the first polarization and to reflect GNSS signals polarized according to a second polarization orthogonal to the first polarization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
    Inventors: Nicolas Capet, François-Xavier Marmet
  • Patent number: 11307337
    Abstract: The present invention provides: (I) a display device including a display panel, a retardation layer, and a polarizer which are stacked in the stated order from a back surface side to a viewing surface side and integrated without an adhesive layer; and (II) a method for producing a display device including: forming a first alignment film on a display panel, applying a solution containing first polymerizable liquid crystal to the first alignment film, and curing the first polymerizable liquid crystal to produce a retardation layer; and forming a second alignment film on the retardation layer, applying a solution containing second polymerizable liquid crystal and a dichroic material to the second alignment film, and curing the second polymerizable liquid crystal to produce a polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Masahiro Hasegawa, Atsushi Ban, Koji Murata, Yuichi Kawahira, Kiyoshi Minoura, Takako Koide, Kozo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11286423
    Abstract: A laminate is provided having excellent adhesiveness between a light absorption anisotropic film and a barrier layer, a manufacturing method of the laminate, and an image display device using the laminate. A laminate having: a barrier layer A; and a light absorption anisotropic film B, in which the barrier layer A is adjacently provided on the light absorption anisotropic film B, a relationship between a highest content of a compound A1 contained in the barrier layer A and a highest content of a compound B1 contained in the light absorption anisotropic film B satisfies a relationship in which a value of distance calculated from Hansen solubility parameters and represented by Formula (I) is within a range of 0.0 to 5.0, and the light absorption anisotropic film B contains a component same as the compound A1. distance={4×(?D(B1)??D(A1))2+(?P(B1)??P(A1))2+(?H(B1)??H(A1))2}0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yumi Katou, Jun Takeda
  • Patent number: 11275272
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a light reflective portion, a first polarizing plate located on a display surface-facing side, a half-wavelength plate and a first quarter-wavelength plate disposed between the liquid crystal display panel and the first polarizing plate. A liquid crystal layer corresponding to the light reflective portion exhibits a retardation which is less than one-half of a retardation of the half-wavelength plate. The first quarter-wavelength plate has a slow axis which intersects a liquid-crystal molecular orientation axis at a time of no electric field application. The expression nx1>nz1>ny1 is satisfied, where nx1, ny1 and nz1 are the refractive indices at each orientation of the half-wavelength plate, and the expression nx2>nz2=ny2 is satisfied, where nx2, ny2 and nz2 are the refractive indices at each orientation of the first quarter-wavelength plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Soda
  • 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: 11061270
    Abstract: To provide a decorative film capable of applying a visual effect of making a pattern not visually recognizable, in a case where it is seen from the front, and making it visually recognizable, in a case where it is obliquely seen. a circular polarization plate including a linear polarization plate, and a laminate of a uniaxial retardation layer or a biaxial retardation layer; and a circularly polarized light reflection layer which reflects circularly polarized light having a revolution direction opposite to that of light transmitted through the circular polarization plate in a vertical direction from the linear polarization plate side are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeaki Nimura, Hiroshi Inada, Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 10910544
    Abstract: Superconducting circuits and memories that use a magnetic Josephson junction (MJJ) device as a pi inverter are disclosed. The MJJ device includes superconducting layers configured to allow a flow of a supercurrent through the MJJ device. The MJJ device further includes a magnetic layer arranged between the superconducting layers, where the magnetic layer has an associated magnetization direction, and where the first state of the MJJ device corresponds to a zero-phase of a supercurrent flowing through the MJJ device and the second state of the MJJ device corresponds to a ?-phase of the supercurrent flowing through the MJJ device. In response to an application of a magnetic field, without any change in the magnetization direction of the magnetic layer, the MJJ device is configured to switch from the first state to the second state responsive to a change in a phase of the supercurrent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas F. Ambrose, James M. Murduck
  • Patent number: 10890805
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes sequentially from a viewing surface side: a first polarizer; an out-cell retardation layer; a first substrate; an in-cell retardation layer; a horizontally aligned liquid crystal layer; a second substrate; and a second polarizer. The liquid crystal display device includes a viewing angle compensation film between the first polarizer and the out-cell retardation layer or between the second substrate and the second polarizer. The out-cell retardation layer is a laminate including sequentially from a viewing surface side: a first retardation layer having an NZ coefficient of 1.0-1.1 and an Re of 120 nm or greater and smaller than 137.5 nm; and a second retardation layer having an Re of 0-10 nm and an Rth of 80-150 nm. The in-cell retardation layer is a third retardation layer having an NZ coefficient of 0.7-1.4 and an Re of 120 nm or greater and smaller than 137.5 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Hasegawa, Akira Sakai, Takako Koide, Yuichi Kawahira, Koji Murata, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Patent number: 10890777
    Abstract: Disclosed is a selectively reflective member which can uniformly reflect only a desired wavelength with high efficiency even in a large area and, at the same time, is highly cost effective. Specifically, there is provided an electromagnetic wave reflecting member that reflects electromagnetic waves with a specific wavelength, the electromagnetic wave reflecting member comprising a first selectively reflective layer that reflects only a clockwise or counterclockwise circularly polarized light component with wavelength ? in incident electromagnetic waves, a phase difference layer, and a second selectively reflective layer that reflects only a clockwise or counterclockwise circularly polarized light component with wavelength ?, provided in that order, the phase difference layer having a retardation satisfying the following equation: Re={(2n+1)/2±0.2}×? wherein Re represents average retardation; ? represents wavelength; and n is an integer of 1 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kuroda, Satoru Hamada, Keiji Kashima
  • Patent number: 10816709
    Abstract: A light reflection film includes at least one light reflection layer RPRL in which a cholesteric liquid crystal phase of a right-handed helical structure having right circularly polarized light reflection ability is fixed; and at least one light reflection layer LPRL in which a cholesteric liquid crystal phase of a left-handed helical structure having left circularly polarized light reflection ability is fixed. A total of three or more layers of the light reflection layer(s) RPRL and the light reflection layer(s) LPRL are laminated. The light reflection layer(s) RPRL and the light reflection layer(s) LPRL laminated each have a selective reflection center wavelength shifted by an interval of 10 nm or more and 160 nm or less between two light reflection layers adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hayasaki, Hitoshi Asami, Yoshiyuki Yahagi, Kouichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10768351
    Abstract: Provided is an optical laminate including a resin layer and an adhesive layer, and being excellent in adhesiveness between these layers. The optical laminate includes: a resin layer; an adhesive layer arranged on at least one side of the resin layer; and an intermediate layer formed between the resin layer and the adhesive layer, the intermediate layer containing at least part of a material constituting the resin layer and at least part of a material constituting the adhesive layer, in which the intermediate layer has a thickness of from 20 nm to 200 nm. In one embodiment, the resin layer includes a resin film having optical anisotropy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuru Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10718889
    Abstract: Exemplary thin-film optical devices have first and second layer groups disposed as a layer stack on a substrate. The first layer group comprises a first PPN layer, a first LCP layer, and a first barrier layer all superposed. The second layer group is superposed relative to the first layer group, and includes a second PPN layer, a second LCP layer, and a second barrier layer all superposed. The first and second layer groups cooperate to polarize multiple wavelengths of an incident light flux in a broadband and/or wide-angle manner Each of the layer groups has an alignment layer, a respective liquid-crystal polymer layer, and a barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
    Inventors: Stanley Pau, Wei-Liang Hsu
  • Patent number: 10658447
    Abstract: A display device including a plurality of light emitting elements including first, second, and third light emitting elements; and a color filter including first, second, and third color filters corresponding to respective first, second, and third light emitting elements, wherein first and second light-shielding members are disposed at a light emission direction, first ends of the first and second color filters overlap with the first light-shielding member in a cross sectional view, a first distance between the first end of the first color filter and a first side surface of the first light-shielding member and a second distance between the first end of the second color filter and a second side surface of the second light-shielding member are different in the cross sectional view, a thickness of the first color filter and a thickness of the second color filter are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Motoyama, Reo Asaki
  • Patent number: 10466541
    Abstract: A display device including a first substrate, a pixel unit disposed on the first substrate and including a first sub-pixel electrode, a second sub-pixel electrode and a third sub-pixel electrode, the first through third sub-pixel electrodes being adjacent to one another, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a first wavelength conversion layer disposed on a surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate, and overlapping the first sub-pixel electrode, a second wavelength conversion layer disposed on the surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate, and overlapping the second sub-pixel electrode, a transmissive layer disposed on the surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate, and overlapping the third sub-pixel electrode, a first cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed on a surface of the first wavelength conversion layer facing the first substrate, a second cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed on a surface of the second wavelength conversion layer facin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ki Chul Shin, Ho Kil Oh
  • Patent number: 10429703
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes substrates facing each other, plural pixels, a liquid crystal layer between the substrates, and a pixel electrode in each pixel. The pixel electrode defines: a first stem extending in a first direction, a second stem extending in a second direction, first edge bars extending in the first direction and connected to the second stem, second edge bars extending in the second direction and connected to the first stem, and plural branches extending from the first or second stem and inclined with respect to the first or second directions and terminating spaced apart from the first and second edge bars. Distal ends of each of the first edge bars are spaced apart from distal ends of each of second edge bars, and in the second direction, each of the first edge bars overlaps lines along which the second edge bars respectively lengthwise extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wan Namgung, Ik Han Oh, Seung Kyu Lee, Ho Jun Lee, Ki Pyo Hong
  • Patent number: 10354597
    Abstract: An optical device is described. The device has a sensor having a light incident side, wherein the sensor is designed to convert light that is incident upon the light incident side into an electrical signal. In one embodiment, the device further has at least one lens and a liquid crystal device which is arranged in front of the light incident side of the sensor in such a manner that the at least one lens is situated between the liquid crystal device and the sensor, wherein the liquid crystal device comprises at least one region whose light transmission is electronically controllable. There are further described an electronic device, a method of controlling an optical device, and a computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: e.solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Christmann, Thomas Franke
  • Patent number: 10254453
    Abstract: Exemplary thin-film optical devices have first and second layer groups disposed as a layer stack on a substrate. The first layer group comprises a first PPN layer, a first LCP layer, and a first barrier layer all superposed. The second layer group is superposed relative to the first layer group, and includes a second PPN layer, a second LCP layer, and a second barrier layer all superposed. The first and second layer groups cooperate to polarize multiple wavelengths of an incident light flux in a broadband and/or wide-angle manner. Each of the layer groups has an alignment layer, a respective liquid-crystal polymer layer, and a barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
    Inventors: Stanley Pau, Wei-Liang Hsu
  • Patent number: 10256253
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses that an array substrate, including a base substrate having a circular or oval horizontal section, wherein the base substrate comprises a display region and a non-display region, wherein a plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of second signal lines crossing the plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of thin film transistors and a plurality of pixel electrodes are arranged in the display region, and the plurality of thin film transistors and the plurality of pixel electrodes are arranged in a plurality of pixel regions defined by the plurality of first signal lines and the plurality of second signal lines, wherein a connection wire connected to the plurality of first signal lines and the plurality of second signal lines is arranged in the non-display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenbo Li
  • Patent number: 10241241
    Abstract: A light controlling film comprises a light reflecting film and a light controlling layer that are laminated. The light reflecting film comprises at least two laminated light reflecting layers including at least one of light reflecting layers PRL-1 to PRL-3 that a central reflection wavelength of 400 nm-500 nm, 500 nm-600 nm, and 600 nm-700 nm, respectively, and a reflectance to ordinary light at the central reflection wavelength of 5%-25%. The at least two light reflecting layers have central reflection wavelengths that are different from each other. All of the at least two laminated light reflecting layers have a property of reflecting polarized light having the same orientation. The light controlling layer comprises two quarter wave plates, and the light reflecting film is laminated so as to be interposed between the two quarter wave plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kouichi Tanaka, Chihiro Takahashi, Yui Yokoyama, Tomoyuki Hayasaki
  • Patent number: 10203555
    Abstract: There are provided a phase difference control component, which can realize a liquid crystal display device having a wide angle of visibility, has excellent phase difference symmetry and can realize optical compensation, and a process for producing the same. The phase difference control component comprises a base material; and a phase difference control layer formed of a fixed liquid crystal material provided on the base material through an aligning film and is characterized in that the angle of liquid crystal molecules, present at the interface of the aligning film and the phase difference control layer, to the base material being substantially 0 (zero) degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihisa Moriya, Kanami Ikegami
  • Patent number: 10151864
    Abstract: An optical film having a positive C-plate sandwiched by circular polarization reflection layers with different center wavelength of reflection band, wherein the circular polarization reflection layer closest to a light exit side of the optical film does not have the shortest center wavelength of reflection band among the circular polarization reflection layers, can suppress an oblique tint change when the optical film is incorporated into a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kotaro Yasuda
  • Patent number: 10132974
    Abstract: The present invention provides a circularly polarizing plate that improves the visibility of black color in an oblique direction when being applied to a display device and having a small thickness, the display device including a circularly polarizing plate. The circularly polarizing plate is a circularly polarizing plate including, in this order, a polarizer, a ?/2 plate, and a ?/4 plate, in which the ?/2 plate is a laminate of a first A-plate and a first C-plate, the ?/4 plate is a laminate of a second A-plate and a second C-plate, one of the first C-plate and the second C-plate is a cellulose acylate film having a predetermined Rth, and the other of the first C-plate and the second C-plate is an optically anisotropic layer including a liquid crystal compound having a predetermined Rth or a cellulose acylate film having a predetermined Rth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Furuki, Naoyoshi Yamada, Masakane Muto
  • Patent number: 10120200
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a backlight assembly configured to emit light; and a display panel configured to display a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image using the light, wherein the backlight assembly includes: a first backlight unit configured to emit light for creating the 2D image; a second backlight unit configured to emit light for creating the 3D image; and a first polarizing panel disposed between the first backlight unit and the second backlight unit, and configured to prevent at least a portion of leakage light leaking from the second backlight unit from being incident to the second backlight unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Kuen Yang, Keun-Bae Jeon, Sang Hyun Sohn
  • Patent number: 10073198
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display module and a cover lens. The display module has a display area and a non-display area aside the display area. The cover lens which is disposed on the display module and covers the same includes a convex lens portion and a cover portion, wherein the convex lens portion has a convex cover surface facing the display area, the cover portion is connected to a side of the convex lens portion opposite to convex cover surface; the cover portion also has a fringe extending outsides the convex lens portion. The cover portion has an outer surface which includes a central area and a cambered surface connected to the central area and corresponding to the fringe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tzu-Ling Niu
  • Patent number: 9946124
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes substrates facing each other, plural pixels, a liquid crystal layer between the substrates, and a pixel electrode in each pixel. The pixel electrode defines: a first stem extending in a first direction, a second stem extending in a second direction, first edge bars extending in the first direction and connected to the second stem, second edge bars extending in the second direction and connected to the first stem, and plural branches extending from the first or second stem and inclined with respect to the first or second directions and terminating spaced apart from the first and second edge bars. Distal ends of each of the first edge bars are spaced apart from distal ends of each of second edge bars, and in the second direction, each of the first edge bars overlaps lines along which the second edge bars respectively lengthwise extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wan Namgung, Ik Han Oh, Seung Kyu Lee, Ho Jun Lee, Ki Pyo Hong
  • Patent number: 9910197
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical member including a reflection layer and an information presentation layer, the reflection layer comprising one or more circularly-polarized light reflection layers selected from the group consisting of a right circularly-polarized light reflection layer and a left circularly-polarized light reflection layer, the circularly-polarized light reflection layer consisting of a layer obtained by fixing a cholesteric liquid-crystalline phase, the reflection layer having a reflection wavelength at which a specular reflectance for non-polarized light is more than 20% in a wavelength region in which the circularly-polarized light reflection layer exhibits selective reflection, a diffuse reflectance for non-polarized light at the reflection wavelength less than 50%, the reflection wavelength being in an infrared wavelength region, and the information presentation layer having a pattern of a material that absorbs or reflects light of the reflection wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Oki, Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi, Wataru Majima
  • Patent number: 9817262
    Abstract: The problem is to provide a front plate of a TN liquid crystal panel capable of inhibiting occurrence of color unevenness caused by retardation of a polycarbonate resin sheet, even when a liquid crystal panel is observed through polarizing glasses or liquid crystal shutter glasses for 3D, while having excellent impact resistance, heat resistance and transparency. The solution means is the front plate 1 of a TN liquid crystal panel provided with the polycarbonate resin sheet 10, wherein the direction of the slow axis X or the fast axis Y of the polycarbonate resin sheet 10 is inclined by 45° with respect to the lengthwise direction L of a liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., MGC FILSHEET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koshi Koide, Osamu Kakinoki
  • Patent number: 9793444
    Abstract: One object of the invention is to provide a display device that can display an image which causes a viewer less strain associated with viewing and gives a viewer a sense of great depth and an electronic device for enjoying the image. The present inventors have focused on a sense of depth obtained by monocular viewing and have conceived a display device in which pixels each include a light-emitting module capable of emitting light having a spectral line half-width of less than or equal to 60 nm in a response time of less than or equal to 100 ?s and are provided at a resolution of higher than or equal to 80 ppi; the NTSC ratio is higher than or equal to 80%; and the contrast ratio is higher than or equal to 500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yoshiharu Hirakata
  • Patent number: 9709831
    Abstract: An electronic window is disclosed. The electronic window comprises: base substrate, first polarizing device, and second polarizing device disposed on the same side or on different sides of the base substrate; in an OFF state, first polarizing device configured to convert an incident light into a first polarized light and emitting the first polarized light, a polarization direction of the first polarized light is perpendicular to a polarization direction of the second polarizing device, and the second polarizing device configured to prevent the first polarized light from emitting; and in an ON state, first polarizing device configured to transmit the incident light, the second polarizing device configured to transmit the incident light or to convert the incident light into a third polarized light and emit the third polarized light, a polarization direction of the third polarized light is the same as a polarization direction of the second polarizing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guanghui Liu
  • Patent number: 9618795
    Abstract: The liquid crystal panel includes a liquid crystal cell, a first polarizer on one side of the liquid crystal cell, a second polarizer on the other side of the liquid crystal cell, a first optically anisotropic element disposed between the liquid crystal cell and the first polarizer, and a second optically anisotropic element disposed between the first optically anisotropic element and the liquid crystal cell. Absorption axes of the first and the second polarizers are perpendicular to each other. The first optically anisotropic element has a slow axis direction parallel to the absorption axis direction of the first polarizer. The second optically anisotropic element has a slow axis direction perpendicular to the absorption axis direction of the first polarizer. The first and the second optically anisotropic elements each have in-plane and thickness-direction retardation values within specific ranges, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Iida, Nao Murakami
  • Patent number: 9552777
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses for implementing a phase control backlight. A phase control backlight is configured to concentrate light to each pupil of a viewer of a display to cause images to be displayed to each pupil of the viewer. The phase control backlight can include an illuminator and a light guide that includes a diffraction grating. The light guide is configured to receive light rays from the illuminator, and to diffract light rays out of the light guide via the diffraction grating. In accordance with various embodiments, the light guide can be controlled to alter a phase of the light rays as the light rays are guided within the light guide to cause the diffracted light rays to converge to a concentration point that corresponds to a position in space of each pupil of the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Adrian R. L. Travis
  • Patent number: 9423543
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a first pressure sensitive adhesive positioned on the display panel, a quarter wavelength (?/4) wave plate positioned on the pressure sensitive adhesive, a linear polarizer positioned on the ?/4 wave plate, and a first base layer positioned on the linear polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wonjong Cho
  • Patent number: 9394465
    Abstract: Provided is a novel transparent adhesive sheet with which the cut edge is not sticky over time when a laminated body that has been bonded via the adhesive sheet is cut, which can be adhered without generating residual air bubbles, even when the surface of an adherend is uneven, and which can be adhered without foaming, even when the adherend is a material such as plastic that can generate outgas. Suggested is an adhesive sheet that has one or more layers of a first adhesive layer and one or more layer of a second adhesive layer that exhibit different viscoelastic behaviors, and has an integrated structure whereby these layers are laminated, with a dynamic shear storage modulus G? of 2×104 to 5×105 Pa for G?(20° C.) and 1×104 to 1×105 Pa for G?(150° C.) when measured with a 1 Hz frequency temperature dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventor: Makoto Inenaga
  • Patent number: 9383483
    Abstract: A diffuse reflector (100) uses a host layer (120) containing particles (122). The host layer (120) contains a cholesteric material that reflects a first frequency of light, and the particles (122) in the host layer (120) create separate cholesteric domains (126) that reflect light of the first frequency in different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mario Ariosto Matranga, Jana Heuer, Stephen Kitson
  • Patent number: 9213129
    Abstract: Disclosed is a brightness enhancing film, including a multilayered thin film wherein a plurality of first thin film layers which are optically anisotropic and a plurality of second thin film layers which are optically isotropic are alternately stacked, the multilayered thin film including a first wavelength reflection region which reflects a wavelength of 160˜451 nm, a second wavelength reflection region which reflects a wavelength of 451˜836 nm, and a third wavelength reflection region which reflects a wavelength of 836˜1040 nm, and a thickness of each of the first and second thin film layers in the first and second wavelength reflection regions is linearly increased from the short wavelength reflection side toward the long wavelength reflection side, and a thickness of each of the first and second thin film layers in the third wavelength reflection region is nonlinearly increased from the short wavelength reflection side toward the long wavelength reflection side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: KOLON INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: A Reum Han, Jeong Yeol Moon
  • Patent number: 9065707
    Abstract: Described herein is an optical phase modulator (20) including a liquid crystal element (22), disposed between a pair of opposing electrodes (24) and (26). The electrodes (24, 26) are electrically driven for supplying an electric potential V across the liquid crystal element (22) to drive the liquid crystals within element (22) in a predetermined configuration. Electrode (26) includes a grid of individually drivable pixel regions (28), at least some of which include a sub-wavelength grating structure that provides an anisotropic refractive index profile in orthogonal lateral dimensions, thereby creating an effective material form birefringence. Light incident through liquid crystal element (22) and onto electrode (26) is reflected and experiences a relative phase difference of 180° between its constituent orthogonal polarization components, thereby rotating each polarization component into the orthogonal orientation upon reflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Finisar Corporation
    Inventors: Steven James Frisken, Glenn Wayne Baxter, Qihong Wu
  • Publication number: 20150146141
    Abstract: A stereoscopic three-dimensional image display device is disclosed which includes: a liquid crystal display panel defined into a plurality of pixel regions; a data driver to supply data voltages to the pixel regions; a patterned retarder disposed on a front surface of the liquid crystal display panel to polarize light from the liquid crystal display panel. The patterned retarder includes a first patterned retarder, to circularly polarize light from the liquid crystal display panel in a first direction and formed in a height greater than that of a pixel region of the plurality of pixel regions, and second patterned retarder to circularly polarize light from the liquid crystal display panel in a second direction opposite the first direction and formed in a height greater than that of the pixel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Kwan Son KIM, Joo Hong LEE, Woong Ki MIN, Yoonsan PARK
  • Publication number: 20150124202
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel of the present invention, a second substrate comprises a second electrode, wherein the second electrode comprises a trunk portion and plurality of branch portions, and there is a first predetermined angle and a second predetermined angle between the trunk portion and the branch portions, and the predetermined angle is less than or greater than 45 degrees. Quarter wave retarder films are bonded to outer surfaces of a first substrate and the second substrate, respectively. The present invention can improve the color shift problem and the transmittance of the LCD panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chihtsung Kang
  • Patent number: 8994912
    Abstract: A transparent display device includes a cholesteric liquid crystal display (LCD) panel to display an image, a first polarized sheet arranged on one side of the cholesteric LCD panel, and a first ¼ phase delay sheet arranged between the first polarized sheet and the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Inventors: Chiachiang Hsiao, Chihwen Chen
  • Publication number: 20150085228
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a display apparatus using the same. The LCD panel comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer and quarter wave (?/4) retarder films. The liquid crystal layer is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate comprises a second electrode, wherein the second electrode comprises a trunk portion and plurality of branch portions, and there is a predetermined angle between the trunk portion and the branch portions, and the predetermined angle is less than or greater than 45 degrees. The ?/4 retarder films are bonded to outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate. The present invention can improve the color shift problem and the transmittance of the LCD panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronicas Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chihtsung Kang
  • Publication number: 20150085224
    Abstract: A display comprises a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, an electrode structure, and a light-emitting combination (LEC) layer positioned between the first and second substrates, wherein the LEC layer comprises a light emitting material and a LC material, and a horizontal or vertical electric field is generated when a voltage is applied to that electrode structure. One of exemplified displays has an electrode structure comprising a first electrode and a second electrode oppositely disposed, and the LEC layer is positioned between the first and second electrodes, wherein a vertical electric field is generated when a voltage is applied. The device can further comprise an electron injection layer and a hole transport layer. Another exemplified display has an electrode structure arranged on one side of the first substrate, and a horizontal electric field is generated when a voltage is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hsu-Kuan Hsu, Chien-Hung Chen, Hong-Yuan Chen, Mei-Chi Hsu, Pi-Ying Chuang, Chu-Hong Lai
  • Publication number: 20150062504
    Abstract: An identification medium can be affixed to cloth or leather products by sewing. A cholesteric liquid crystal layer on which an embossed surface for forming a hologram is formed, is sandwiched between a first supporting member and a second supporting member. A mounting region that can be affixed to clothing, etc., by sewing, is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hidekazu Hoshino, Itsuo Takeuchi, Tohru Ida, Seiya Shibuya