Abstract: A representative display system includes: a pixel array having a plurality of pixels, a plurality of select lines, and a plurality of data lines; a first of the plurality of pixels having a first metal-insulator-metal (MIM) diode, a second MIM diode, a first storage capacitor, and a first light emitting diode (LED), the first MIM diode and the second MIM diode being electrically coupled in series between a first of the plurality of select lines and a second of the plurality of select lines, the first storage capacitor and the first LED being electrically coupled, in parallel, between a first of the plurality of data lines and between the first MIM diode and the second MIM diode; wherein the first LED is selectively controllable to emit light in response to corresponding select signals simultaneously provided on the first of the plurality of select lines and the second of the plurality of select lines and in response to data signals on the data lines.

Abstract: A display panel includes a pixel structure, a receiver antenna structure and a transmitter antenna structure. The pixel structure includes multiple pixels arranged in an array. The receiver antenna structure provides first signals to the pixels, and includes multiple receiver antennas. Each receiver antenna has a resonance frequency. The transmitter antenna structure transmits wireless signals to the receiver antenna structure such that the receiver antenna structure generates the first signals, and includes multiple transmitter antennas. Each transmitter antenna one-to-one corresponds to one receiver antenna and has an identical resonance frequency. The receiver and transmitter antennas are correspondingly divided into multiple receiver and transmitter antenna loop groups, and each antenna loop group includes at least 3 antennas.

Abstract: A representative display system includes: a pixel array having a plurality of pixels, gate lines, and data lines; a first of the pixels having a first TFT, a second TFT, a storage capacitor, and an LED; the first TFT having a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode, the first gate electrode coupled to a first of the gate lines, the first source electrode and the first drain electrode coupled between a first of the data lines and a first terminal of the storage capacitor; the second TFT having a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode, the second gate electrode coupled between the first TFT and the storage capacitor; the LED coupled to the second TFT; wherein the storage capacitor is configured to store a data voltage corresponding to a data signal, coupled to the first terminal, from the first of the data lines during an on-time of the first TFT; and wherein the LED is controllable to emit light at a brightness corresponding to duratio

Abstract: A display cell structure includes a first structure and a second structure disposed on the first structure. In the first structure, a liquid crystal layer is disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, defining multiple pixels. A color filter layer is disposed on the first substrate. In each pixel, the color filter layer includes a blue (B) color filter in a first sub-pixel and a yellow (Y) color filter in a second sub-pixel. In the second structure, a polymer networked liquid crystal (PNLC) or polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer is disposed between a third substrate and a fourth substrate. Multiple first and second transparent electrodes are correspondingly disposed on the third and fourth substrates. A quantum material layer is disposed between the third substrate and the first transparent electrodes. The quantum material layer includes a red quantum material (R-quantum material) and a green quantum material (G-quantum material).

Abstract: Display systems and related methods involving bus lines with low capacitance cross-over structures are provided. A representative display system includes: a first structure comprising: a plurality of scan lines extending in a first direction; and a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction and crossing over the scan lines at respective cross-over locations, each of the plurality of data lines having a pair of side walls spaced apart from each other at each of the cross-over locations, with each of the side walls exhibiting a height higher than portions of the data lines not located at the cross-over locations.

Abstract: A display cell structure is provided. A first substrate and a second substrate are spaced apart from each other, and a wire grid polarizer layer is disposed therebetween, forming a first cell gap between the first substrate and the wire grid polarizer layer and a second cell gap between the second substrate and the wire grid polarizer layer. A first display structure is disposed in the first cell gap, and includes multiple first pixel electrodes and a polymer liquid crystal layer. A polarizer layer is disposed on the second substrate and facing an opposite side to the wire grid polarizer layer. A second display structure is disposed in the second cell gap, and includes multiple second pixel electrodes and a liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A representative device includes: first and second substrates spaced to define a gap; a liquid crystal layer, positioned in the gap, having a plurality of display pixels configured to be switchable between an on state and an off state; a quantum dot layer positioned between the liquid crystal layer and the second substrate; a first shielding layer positioned between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer, the first shielding layer having a plurality of first shield portions configured to prevent propagation of blue light therethrough; and a second shielding layer positioned between the liquid crystal layer and the second substrate, the second shielding layer defining a plurality of openings configured to permit propagation of the blue light therethrough; wherein each of the display pixels of the liquid crystal layer corresponds to at least one of the openings, and each of the openings corresponds to one of the first shield portions.

Abstract: A large-panel liquid crystal display uses wireless data transmission to provide display data to the pixels arranged in a two-dimensional array of pixel rows and pixel columns in the display area. Pixels are also arranged into pixel groups with each group having a plurality of pixel blocks. Antennas arranged in a two-dimensional array are used to receive wireless signals indicative of the display data from a wireless signal source and to provide display data to the pixels. Each antenna is connected to a different data line in a pixel group for providing display data to the pixel group. Antennas are embedded in the electronic layers on upper surface of the lower substrate and the wireless signal source is embedded in the backlight unit of the display. With wireless data transmission, data lines can be confined within the display area and not connected to conventional semiconductor data drivers.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is formed from a first display panel and a second display panel in a stack configuration. Each of the first display panel and the second display panel has a TFT substrate. A signal circuit is disposed on the TFT substrate of the first display panel to provide data signals and timing signals. A signal connector is used to covey the data signals and timing signals from the first display panel to the second display panel. Each of the first display panel and the second display panel has a plurality of gate lines, including a first gate line and a last gate line. In the stacked configuration, the last gate line of the first display panel and last gate line of the second display panel are adjacent to the signal connector.

Abstract: A representative device includes: first and second substrates defining a gap; a liquid crystal layer, in the gap, having display pixels; and transparent electrode stacks disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer; wherein each of the stacks has a first common electrode, a pixel electrode, and a second common electrode, with the first common electrode being positioned between the first substrate and the pixel electrode, and the pixel electrode being positioned between the first common electrode and the second common electrode; and wherein, in plan view, a width of the pixel electrode is wider than a width of the second common electrode as measured along a first direction, and the second common electrode is positioned to expose a first portion of the pixel electrode at a first side of the second common electrode and a second portion of the pixel electrode at a second opposing side of the second common electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) system comprising: an LCD panel having a plurality of pixels arranged in an array having a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows; a sensor configured to detect a position of an observer in relation to the LCD panel; pixel control circuitry configured supply electrical signals to drive the plurality of pixels; and gamma correction circuitry associated with the pixel control circuitry, the gamma correction circuitry configured to implement gamma correction upon the electrical signals that drive the plurality of pixels that is based on a detected position of the observer with relation to the LCD panel. Associated methods are also described.

Abstract: A display cell structure and a display device using quantum dot structures are provided. The display cell structure includes a first polarizer and a second polarizer spaced apart from each other, and a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween, defining red (R), green (G) and blue (B) subpixels. A color plate structure is disposed on the second polarizer, and multiple cavities or indents are formed on the color plate structure, including first cavities or indents aligned to the red (R) subpixels and second cavities or indents aligned to the green (G) subpixels. The first cavities or indents are filled with a red quantum dot or quantum rod material, and the second cavities or indents are filled with a green quantum dot or quantum rod material. A filter layer is partially disposed to be located adjacent to the first cavities or indents and the second cavities or indents.

Abstract: A pixel structure in a pixel for used in a display panel has a plurality of grooves made on a substrate and a plurality of conducting lines formed in the grooves. The conducting line can be made from a silver or copper conductive ink to provide a low-resistance line served as a gate line, common line or source line. In a pixel having a storage capacitor and a TFT with a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode, the gate electrode is connected to a gate line and a source electrode and one of the capacitor electrodes in the storage capacitor is connected to a common line. At least part of one or more of the gate electrode and the source electrode is disposed on top of and in contact with the surface of one or more conducting lines.

Abstract: A display device using low capacitance bus lines having gate lines and data lines on different substrates. The display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate spaced apart from each other, and a liquid crystal layer is disposed in the cell gap between the first substrate and the second substrate. The data lines of the display device are formed on the first substrate, and the gate lines of the display device are formed on the second substrate. The data lines formed on the first substrate and the gate lines formed on the second substrate are spaced apart by a gate insulator layer and the liquid crystal layer, which increases the gap distance between the data lines and the gate lines. Accordingly, a cross capacitance between each of the data lines and each of the gate lines can be reduced.

Abstract: A pixel structure for use in a display panel includes a switching element and a storage capacitor. The switching element has a drain electrode and a source electrode disposed on a high-k dielectric layer with k being equal to or higher than 8. The storage capacitor has a first capacitor electrode, a second capacitor electrode and a third capacitor electrode, wherein a passivation layer is disposed between the second an third capacitor electrodes and the high-k dielectric layer is also disposed between the first and second capacitor electrodes. The pixel structure also has a common line connected to the first capacitor electrode, a source line, and a gate line arranged such that the source line, the gate line and the common line may cross over each other over a low-k dielectric layer at a cross-over area where k is equal to or lower than 5.

Abstract: Display devices and related methods involving patterned phase retarding are provided. A representative display device includes: a backlight unit, having a light source and a color conversion layer having an alignment direction, the light comprising a first light exhibiting a first upstream polarization ratio, a second light exhibiting a second upstream polarization ratio, and a third light exhibiting a third upstream polarization ratio; and a patterned phase retarder positioned to receive the light, having a plurality of half-wave regions to alter polarization of light passing therethrough, and a plurality of free regions to pass light without altering the polarization; wherein polarization ratio (PR) is defined by PR=(I??I?)/(I?+I?); and wherein the first upstream polarization ratio exhibits a first sign, and both the second upstream polarization ratio and the third upstream polarization ratio exhibit a second sign opposite the first sign.

Abstract: An in-plane switching liquid crystal display having a plurality of protrude electrodes of a special shape is disclosed. Each of the protrusion electrodes has a protrusion body with a surface coated with an electrically conductive material. The protrusion body has flat side located on the lower substrate of the liquid crystal display, defining the basewidth of the protrusion electrodes. The protrusion body has a top portion with a round head and a bottom portion with a waist portion, smaller than the basewidth. It has been found that, the round head of the top portion and the waist portion of the bottom portion can improve the efficiency of the optical transmissivity of the liquid crystal layer as well the contrast between the bright state and the dark state of the display.

Abstract: An in-plane switching liquid crystal display has a plurality of protrusion electrodes. Each of the protrusion electrodes has a protrusion body with a surface coated with an electrically conductive layer made from a metal oxide. An adhesion-enhancement medium is provided between the electrically conductive layer and the surface of the protrusion body. The adhesion-enhancement medium comprises a metal such as aluminum or molybdenum or a metal alloy containing molybdenum and at least one of niobium, tantalum, titanium, zirconium, tungsten, aluminum and nitride or a metal alloy containing aluminum and at least one of niobium, tantalum, titanium, zirconium, tungsten, molybdenun and nitride. The protrusion body can have the shape of a rectangle, triangle, bell, rectangle with a round top, or a cross sectional area having a top portion with a round or flat head and a bottom portion with a waist portion, smaller than the basewidth.

Abstract: A display device using overlapped data lines to dim the Mura defect. The display device includes multiple pairs of data lines, and each pair of data lines includes a top data line and a bottom data line. The top data line and the bottom data line overlap in a center area, and each of the pixels in the center area includes two subpixels respectively connected to the corresponding top and bottom data lines. For each pixels in the center area, each of the two subpixels has a corresponding weighting factor. From top to bottom of the center area, the weighting factors of the top subpixels gradually decrease, and the weighting factors of the bottom subpixels gradually increase.

Abstract: A pixel structure having a light transmitting region and a light shielding region usable in an liquid crystal display includes a first substrate having a counter electrode, a second substrate having a plurality of signal lines, a pixel electrode, a thin-film transistor (TFT) and a bottom black matrix, a liquid crystal layer having liquid crystal molecules and formed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a holding member formed in the light shielding region and attached to the first substrate and the second substrate.