Patents Assigned to Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation
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Patent number: 6987311Abstract: A method for fabricating thin film transistors (TFT) of a TFT-LCD. The method first forms a gate electrode of the TFT in a transistor area of a substrate. Then a first dielectric layer, a light shielding layer, a second dielectric layer, a semiconductor layer, a doped silicon conductive layer and a second metal layer are sequentially formed on the gate electrode so as to form the TFT in the transistor area. A channel area is defined in the TFT for separating the second metal layer and the doped silicon conductive layer so as to respectively form a source electrode and a drain electrode of the TFT. Finally, a passivation layer and a transparent conductive layer are sequentially formed on the drain electrode, and the transparent conductive layer is connected with the drain electrode through a first via hole of the passivation layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2003Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventors: Chung-Hsien Yang, Rung-Nan Lu
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Patent number: 6986983Abstract: A reflection-type light diffuser is fabricated on a glass substrate, which has a pixel matrix array disposed thereon. The pixel matrix array includes a plurality of adjacent pixel regions, and each of the pixel regions has a pair of side edges that are parallel and opposite. A photoresist pattern is formed on the glass substrate, and the photoresist pattern includes a plurality of wave-shaped straight protrusions formed on the side edges of each of the pixel regions and a plurality of bump structures formed on each of the pixel regions. A reflective metal layer is formed on the photoresist pattern.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2003Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventors: Chung-Kuang Wei, Cheng-Jen Chu, Chia-Liang Lin
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Publication number: 20060007105Abstract: A displaying method and device. The display device includes a back light module and a display panel. The back light module emits at least M color lights. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel areas arranged in array structure, wherein each pixel area comprises N color filters, and at least one of the color filters is for passing through a plurality of primary color lights. In the displaying method, the back light module provides at least M color lights in a frame time, and a frame is displayed by arranging the M color lights and the N color filters in each pixel area, wherein M?2 and N?2. Moreover, the display panel may include an active component array substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a color filter substrate. In addition, any two adjacent pixel areas can share at least one color filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2005Publication date: January 12, 2006Applicant: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventors: Fu-Cheng Chen, Chao-Lien Lin, Cheng-Jen Chu, Chung-Kuang Wei
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Patent number: 6982775Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) having reduced flicker includes a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of scanning lines, and a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a liquid crystal cell having a pixel electrode, a storage capacitor, and a switching transistor. The switching transistor includes a gate electrode connected to one of the scanning lines, a drain electrode connected to one of the signal lines, and a source electrode connected to the pixel electrode. An overlapping region is between the gate electrode and the source electrode. The area of the overlapping region increases by increasing the distance between an input end of the scanning line corresponding to the overlapping region and the pixel electrode corresponding to the overlapping region.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2002Date of Patent: January 3, 2006Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventors: Hsin-Ta Lee, Chao-Wen Wu
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Patent number: 6977136Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent display is disclosed; the method utilizes only one photo mask to produce the cathode ramparts and insulating layer so as to simply the manufacturing procedure, reduce the time and the cost required for manufacture and reduce the inaccuracy of alignment. The manufacturing method according to the present invention firstly forms a plurality of first display electrodes arranged in parallel on a substantially transparent substrate, and forms a non-photosensitive and a photosensitive insulating layer thereon. After proceeding a photolithography process, developing processes, the cathode ramparts and the insulating layer are formed simultaneously and the first display electrodes are exposed partially. An organic electroluminescent material is then formed on the exposed first display electrodes and a plurality of second display electrodes are formed on the organic electroluminescent material to complete an organic electroluminescent display.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2000Date of Patent: December 20, 2005Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventors: Chia-Tin Chung, Su-Jen Chang, Andrea Hwang, Chen-Ze Hu
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Patent number: 6943781Abstract: A liquid crystal display module and its scanning circuit board therein. There are a first scanning circuit and a second scanning circuit located at both ends of each of the scanning lines in the LCD panel. While scanning, both the first scanning circuit and the second scanning circuit drive the same scanning line simultaneously, so as to equivalently reduce the delay effect caused by the RC time constant. The first scan driving circuit and the second scan driving circuit could be placed on different scanning circuit boards with the same layout. The scanning circuit board has two connectors at the both ends and a scanning interface at a side. The scanning circuit board could be used at both sides of the LCD panel by the rotation of 180°.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2000Date of Patent: September 13, 2005Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventors: Tien-Jen Lin, Biing-Seng Wu
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Patent number: 6937232Abstract: An overdrive system for driving a display device. A host machine includes a display interface for connecting with the display device. The display interface includes a display chip and a video memory. The overdrive system includes a frame buffer for holding the display data of the previous frame. The frame buffer uses a portion of the video memory space. The overdrive system also includes an overdrive look-up table coupled to the display chip to provide a correspondence between the overdrive display data, the display data of the previous frame and the display data of the present frame. The display chip retrieves overdrive display data from the overdrive look-up table according to the display data of the previous frame obtained from the frame buffer and the display data of the present frame and transmits the overdrive display data to the display device so that an image is formed on the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventors: Wen-Tsung Lin, Yung-Yu Tsai, Hsin-Ta Lee
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Publication number: 20050170075Abstract: In evaporating thin film used in organic electro-luminescent (EL) display, a mask having a plurality of openings is placed below a display substrate, and a plane evaporation source is placed below the mask. The plane evaporation source has a plurality of evaporating material cells which are respectively aligned to the openings of the mask. Next, evaporating the evaporating material cells, a plurality of thin films is deposited on predetermined regions of the display substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2005Publication date: August 4, 2005Applicant: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventor: Chia-Tin Chung
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Patent number: 6897908Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, and a plurality of pixels located between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. Each of the pixels has at least a compensating capacitor for providing an approximately identical feed-through voltage for each of the pixels, thus reducing a flicker effect of the liquid crystal display device.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2002Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventors: Hsin-Ta Lee, Yuan-Liang Wu, Cheng-I Wu, Wen-Chieh Lin
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Patent number: 6894667Abstract: A LCD module and a scanning method of the LCD panel and its scanning circuit board. The main object is to configure a first scan driver circuit and a second scan driver circuit at both ends of each of the scanning line in the LCD panel respectively. During scanning, both the first scan driver circuit and the second scan driver circuit are used for carrying out the scanning procedure on every scanning line, therefore the delay effect caused by RC time constant is equivalently reduced. The first scan driver circuit and the second scan driver circuit allocated to the scanning circuit boards have the same circuit layout.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2000Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventor: Tien-Jen Lin
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Patent number: 6887730Abstract: A storage capacitor structure comprising a first capacitor electrode on a substrate, a capacitor dielectric layer on the first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode on the capacitor dielectric layer, a passivation layer on the second capacitor electrode and a pixel electrode layer on the passivation layer. The second capacitor electrode has an area smaller than the first capacitor electrode. The passivation layer has an opening that exposes a portion of the second capacitor electrode. The pixel electrode layer and the second capacitor electrode are electrically connected through the opening in the passivation layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventors: Yuan-Liang Wu, Tong-Jung Wang, Chin-Jung Kuo
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Patent number: 6882896Abstract: A method for classifying a substrate first provides the substrate and its corresponding inspection map. Then, a database having a plurality of specification data is provided. After that, the inspection map is compared with each of the specification data so as to find the specification data coinciding with the inspection map. Finally, the substrate is defined according to the layout of active areas coinciding with the inspection map, and then the substrate is classified and stored.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2002Date of Patent: April 19, 2005Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventors: Chin-Lung Ting, Chun-Bin Wen
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Patent number: 6878467Abstract: An organic electro-luminescence (EL) element used for a display device has a glass substrate having a luminescent device on the inner surface, a drying layer formed on the rim of the inner surface of the glass substrate, a sealing layer formed on the rim of the inner surface of the glass substrate and surrounding the drying layer, and a sealing case bonded to the rim of the glass substrate to form an airtight space.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2001Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignees: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation, Kyocera CorporationInventors: Chia-Tin Chung, Chen-Ze Hu, Andrea Hwang, Chen-Wei Huang
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Patent number: 6872587Abstract: A semiconductor substrate with a control circuit and electrodes thereon is used in a method of fabricating a liquid crystal on silicon display panel. First, a transparent conductive layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate and a cell gap is formed between the semiconductor substrate and the transparent conductive layer. A liquid crystal filling process is performed to fill the cell gap with a liquid crystal material including liquid crystal molecules and monomers. A uniform magnetic field is formed to pass through the panel so that the liquid crystal molecules and monomers are aligned in a predetermined tilt direction along the direction of the magnetic field. Next, a curing process is performed so that the monomers form a polymer network with the predetermined tilt direction. Thus, when an electric field is formed between the electrodes and the transparent conductive layer, the liquid crystal molecules rotate along the predetermined tilt direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2003Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventors: Chung-Kuang Wei, Wang-Yang Li
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Patent number: 6869636Abstract: In evaporating thin film used in organic electro-luminescent (EL) display, a mask having a plurality of openings is placed below a display substrate, and a plane evaporation source is placed below the mask. The plane evaporation source has a plurality of evaporating material cells which are respectively aligned to the openings of the mask. Next, evaporating the evaporating material cells, a plurality of thin films is deposited on predetermined regions of the display substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2002Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignees: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation, Kyocera CorporationInventor: Chia-Tin Chung
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Patent number: 6867309Abstract: A red-emitting organic electroluminescent compound, the structure of the compound as follows: wherein n is an integer of 1˜6; Ar represents aryl or heteroaryl; R1 and R2 individually represent alkyl of from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, aryl, carbocyclic and other heterocyclic systems; R3 and R4 individually represent hydrogen, alkyl of from 1 to 10 atoms, branched or unbranched 5 or 6 member substituent ring connecting respectively with R1 and R2, or alkyl methyl silane group; R5 represents alkyl of from 1 to 20 atoms, aryl, or heteroaryl; and R6 represents alkyl of from 1 to 10 atoms, and a 5 or 6-member carbocyclic ring connecting with R5.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2002Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignees: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation, Kyocera CorporationInventors: Ruey-Min Chen, Jun-Wen Chung, Chun-Che Hsu
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Patent number: 6864963Abstract: A position measuring system is utilized for measuring a position of a stage positioned on a pedestal. As the stage is moved along a predetermined direction, a controlling device utilizes a first measuring apparatus to measure a moving direction of the stage during the first period. Then, the controlling device uses the moving direction measured by the first measuring apparatus to adjust the moving direction measured by the second measuring apparatus during the overlapping period of the first period and a second period. After adjusting the second measuring apparatus, the controlling device utilizes the second measuring apparatus to measure the moving direction of the stage during the second period.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2003Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventors: Hwei-Chi Chen, Chin-Lung Ting
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Patent number: 6861789Abstract: A backlight unit is disposed beneath a display panel. The backlight unit includes an illumination means, which is used to provide a light source, and a diffuser positioned between the illumination means and the display panel, which is used to scatter the light generated by the illumination means. The diffuser, which is composed of liquid crystal particles and polymer, has a plurality of regions. The region thatis closer to the illumination means has greater scattering effect. In addition, the region with the greatest scattering effect has a shape corresponding to the illumination means.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2002Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventor: Chung-Kuang Wei
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Publication number: 20040263460Abstract: An active matrix display device having a display region consisting of sub-pixels arrayed in a matrix fashion, the sub-pixels having switching elements, comprising a plurality of data and scan signal lines, and common voltage lines for sending signals and a reference voltage to the sub-pixels, test transistors, each of which is connected to one of the plurality of scan signal lines for sending test signals thereto, and a plurality of input terminals, each of which is connected to one of a plurality of the test transistors, wherein each gate of the test transistors and each of the common voltage lines are connected to one of the input terminals, the test transistors control inputs of the test signals to the sub-pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2003Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: Chi Mei Optoelectronics CorporationInventor: Rung-Nan Lu
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Patent number: 6836070Abstract: A top-emission organic electro-luminescent display (OLED) has a substrate with at least a anode layer, an organic fluorescent film, at least a cathode layer, a barrier layer and a protection layer. A transparent sealing structure is glued to the top of the substrate. Wherein, the transparent sealing structure has an adhesion layer glued to the protection layer, a plurality of organic resin layers formed on the adhesion layer, a plurality of inorganic barrier layers disposed between the organic resin layers, a flexible polymer film formed on the organic resin layer, and a hard coat formed on the flexible polymer film.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2001Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignees: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation, Kyocera CorporationInventors: Chia-Tin Chung, Hao Jung Huang, Chen Wei Huang