Patents Assigned to Chi Mei Optoelectronics
  • Patent number: 7619641
    Abstract: A color display comprises a plurality of first pixel groups and a plurality of second pixel groups. Each first pixel group includes three color pixels and each color pixel has at least two subpixels. Each first pixel group has a first arrangement of subpixels. The first pixel groups and the second pixel groups are alternately disposed in at least one direction. Each second pixel group includes three color pixels and each color pixel has at least two subpixels. Each second pixel group has a second arrangement of subpixels. The second arrangement is different from the first arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ming-Chia Shih, Ying-Hao Hsu
  • Patent number: 7619704
    Abstract: A display device has a lower substrate, an upper substrate located above and generally parallel with the lower substrate, and a plurality of pixel units located between the lower and upper substrates. Each pixel unit of the display device includes a transmissive area and a transreflective area. The transmissive area allows light to pass through, while the transreflective area includes a light selecting membrane to selectively allow light having a first characteristic to pass through, and reflect light having a second characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng-Jen Chu, Fu-Cheng Chen
  • Publication number: 20090278785
    Abstract: A display includes a glass substrate, a source driver and a gate driver. The glass substrate includes multiple pixels. The source driver is used to drives the pixels, and the gate driver disposed on the glass substrate enables the pixels. The gate driver has (N+1) shift registers. The nth shift register includes an input unit, an output unit, an output pull-down unit and a threshold voltage memory unit. When an output signal of the (n+1)th shift register is at a high voltage level, the threshold voltage memory unit turns on the output pull-down unit such that an output signal of the nth shift register is changed to and maintained at a low voltage level. The threshold voltage memory unit stores a characteristic voltage relating to a threshold voltage of the output pull-down unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation
    Inventor: Tsai Chin-Cheng
  • Patent number: 7616172
    Abstract: In a 3D display having a plurality of display regions and corresponding backlight regions, the image data is sequentially sent to the display regions. The respective light source(s) of the corresponding backlight region is/are turned ON after a response time of each display region, without waiting for a response time or times in the other display regions. The light source(s) is/are then turned OFF after a predetermined time period. The process repeats for further image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chao Lien Lin, Chien-Chih Huang
  • Patent number: 7612499
    Abstract: An image display according to one aspect of the present invention includes a light emitting unit that is located in each unit pixel area in each, emits light corresponding to an injected electric current, and includes a plurality of light emitting layers which are horizontally divided into. The plurality of light emitting layers are electrically connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Tsujimura, Atsushi Tanaka, Shinya Ono
  • Patent number: 7612747
    Abstract: A display having voltage-driven organic light-emitting pixel circuits. Each pixel circuit includes an organic light-emitting diode, a data writing circuit, a capacitor, three transistors, and a switch. The pixel circuit can compensate the threshold voltage variations of low temperature poly silicon thin film transistors. This increases the stability of the voltage-driven organic light-emitting pixel circuits, improves the uniformity of the luminance of the display, and provides a larger aperture ratio for the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignees: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation, Chi Mei EL Corporation
    Inventors: Chien Hsiang Huang, Hong-Ru Guo, Ming-Chun Tseng
  • Patent number: 7612749
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a light emitting device, a storage device configured to represent a level of illumination, and a driving device used to drive the light emitting device. Configuring the storage device includes changing a voltage difference across the storage device to a level larger than a threshold voltage of the driving device. The driving device reduces driving of the light emitting device while the storage device is being configured. After the storage device has been configured, the driving device is permitted to drive the light emitting device to emit light having a luminance level corresponding to the level of illumination represented by the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignees: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation, Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Frank Robert Libsch, James Lawrence Sanford
  • Publication number: 20090267530
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a light-emitting unit, and a controller to receive a first control signal and generate a second control signal to control the light-emitting unit. The controller controls a frequency of the second control signal according to a duty cycle of the first control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Feng Yang, Cheng-I Wu, Shih-Pin Huang
  • Patent number: 7605897
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate with a color filter, an over-coating and a common electrode. The second substrate includes an insulating layer surface facing the first substrate, a pixel electrode, a plurality of common and pixel domain guides formed on the common and the pixel electrodes, a plurality of electric shields on one of the common or pixel electrodes and a liquid crystal layer vertically aligned between the first and second substrates. The panel also includes a drive circuit for applying a voltage to generate an electric field to control liquid crystal molecule orientation corresponding to the plurality of domain guides and electric shields to form a multi-domain liquid crystal display panel device. The plural domain guides are either protrusions or slits formed in the common electrode and the pixel electrode to form the multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignees: University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc., Chi Mei Optoelectronics, Corp.
    Inventors: Ruibo Lu, Seung Hee Lee, Shin-Tson Wu, Wang-Yang Li, Chung-Kuang Wei
  • Publication number: 20090253233
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a bonding structure having compliant bumps includes first providing a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes first bonding pads. The second substrate is disposed on one side of the first substrate and includes second bonding pads and compliant bumps disposed thereon. The second bonding pads are opposite to the first bonding pads. Next, a non-conductive adhesive layer and ball-shaped spacers are formed between the first and the second substrates. Finally, the first substrate, the non-conductive adhesive layer, and the second substrate are compressed, such that the compliant bumps on the second bonding pads of the second substrate pass through the non-conductive adhesive layer and are electrically connected to the first bonding pads of the first substrate, respectively. The ball-shaped spacers are distributed in the non-conductive adhesive layer sandwiched between the first and the second substrates for maintaining the gap therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicants: Taiwan TFT LCD Association, Chunghwa Picture Tubes, LTD., AU Optronics Corporation, Hannstar Display Corporation, CHI Mei Optoelectronics Corporation, Iindustrial Technology Research Institute, TPO Display Corp.
    Inventors: Shyh-Ming Chang, Sheng-Shu Yang
  • Patent number: 7589808
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods and systems for a transmissive liquid crystal display including a plurality of pixel circuits, each pixel circuit including a reflective region and a transmissive region. The reflective region includes a polarization dependent reflector for reflecting ambient light. The reflective and transmissive regions include an initially homogeneously aligned liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a first and a second substrate. Each pixel further includes at least one first transparent electrode as the common electrode and at least one second transparent electrode as the pixel electrode both formed on one of the same first and second substrates, wherein substantial fringe fields with rich horizontal electric fields are generated in the liquid crystal layer when voltage is applied to the pixel electrode, making the liquid crystal molecules rotate mainly in the horizontal direction to achieve wide viewing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignees: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Zhibing Ge, Thomas Xinzhang Wu, Shin-Tson Wu, Wang-Yang Li, Chung-Kuang Wei
  • Patent number: 7586565
    Abstract: A color filter of a liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a first black matrix resin film, a second black matrix resin film and a light shield layer. The substrate has a border region surrounding an array region thereof. The first and second black matrix resin films are disposed in the border region and the array area respectively. Color photoresist patterns are formed within the array region. Every two adjacent color photoresist patterns partially overlap each other to completely cover the second black matrix resin film. The light shield layer is located at the first black matrix resin film to substantially cover the first black matrix resin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Wei-Chih Kao
  • Patent number: 7583346
    Abstract: A multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display (MVA-LCD) panel includes an active element array substrate, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the two substrates. The active element array substrate has scan lines, data lines, active elements, and pixel electrodes formed thereon. Each pixel electrode has first main slits. The first main slits may have a bent configuration. The opposite substrate has a common electrode layer that faces the active element array substrate. The common electrode layer has second main slits. The second main slits may also have a bent configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics, Corp.
    Inventors: Ming-Feng Hsieh, Chih-Yung Hsieh, Che-Ming Hsu, Chien-Hong Chen
  • Patent number: 7583249
    Abstract: The present invention mainly relates to a backlight module for use in a liquid display device. The backlight module comprises a plurality of lamps located above a reflecting plate. Each lamp comprises two ends while each end comprises an electrode. Voltage required for the lamps is provided by at least one circuit board located at least one of two sides of the reflecting plate; wherein the electrodes electrically connect to the at least one circuit board directly. Sizes of the backlight can be reduced in the present invention. Furthermore, costs of material and manufacturing are also reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Kuo-Shu Fan, Ta-Chin Huang
  • Patent number: 7583439
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for a polarization converter comprising a polarization beam splitter for receiving an input light beam and allows a transverse magnetic to pass through the polarization beam splitter and reflects a transverse electric wave and a diffraction grating having a reflectivity and polarization convertible grating for receiving the transverse electric wave reflects back a reflected transverse electric wave having a polarization rotation. The broadband wide-angle polarization beam splitter can be alternative optical elements such as a prism or an optical device having multi-layered films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignees: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chang-Ching Tsai, Shin-Tson Wu, Wang-Yang Li, Chung-Kuang Wei
  • Publication number: 20090212293
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, comprising a substrate, a semiconductive layer and a gate electrode is provided. The semiconductive layer having a crystallization promoting material is formed over the substrate. The semiconductive layer has a channel region, a first doped region and a second doped region. The first doped region has a donor and an acceptor, and the second doped region has a dopant which is selected from one of the donor and the acceptor. The second doped region is disposed between the first doped region and the channel region. The gate electrode is insulated from the channel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicants: CHI MEI EL Corp., CHI MEI Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Seok-Woon Lee, Sung-Soo Park, Biing-Seng Wu
  • Patent number: 7576430
    Abstract: A bonding structure including a first substrate, a second substrate, a non-conductive adhesive layer, and ball-shaped spacers is provided. The first substrate has first bonding pads. The second substrate is disposed on one side of the first substrate, and includes second bonding pads and compliant bumps disposed on the second bonding pads, respectively. The second bonding pads on the second substrate are electrically connected to the first bonding pads on the first substrate through the compliant bumps, respectively. The non-conductive adhesive layer is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The ball-shaped spacers are distributed in the non-conductive adhesive layer to maintain the gap between the first and second substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignees: Taiwan TFT LCD Association, Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd., Au Optronics Corporation, Hannstar Display Corporation, Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation, Industrial Technology Research Institute, TPO Dispalys Corp.
    Inventors: Shyh-Ming Chang, Sheng-Shu Yang
  • Patent number: 7576364
    Abstract: A display device and its method of manufacture. The display device is formed to include a substrate having an upper surface, a recess region having a bottom surface and sidewalls, a light-emitting element and a switch element. The light-emitting element includes a first electrode disposed on the recess region, a light-emitting layer disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the light-emitting layer. The switch element is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the light-emitting element. The bottom surface of the recess region is lower than the bottom surface of the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignees: CHI MEI Optoelectronics Corp., CHI MEI EL Corp.
    Inventors: Seok-Woon Lee, Sung-Soo Park, Biing-Seng Wu
  • Patent number: 7573971
    Abstract: A shift register circuit has a plurality of shift registers connected in series, each shift register having a phase-shifting element and a pull-high element, wherein the phase-shifting element receives a first input signal, a first clock signal and a second clock signal, and the first clock signal and the second clock signal are complementary in phase. The pull-high element is used for pulling up an output signal to a high logic level, and includes a logic unit, wherein no current path is established in the pull-high element when the shift register is operated in any type of periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignees: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp., Chi Mei El Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Chun Tseng, Hong-Ru Guo, Chien-Hsiang Huang
  • Patent number: 7573545
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device reduces the color shift problem typically observed at wide viewing angles; the device includes a phase retardation compensation film, a biaxial compensation film, and a liquid crystal display panel between the two films. Refractive indexes of the phase retardation compensation film having a thickness d1 and the biaxial compensation film having a thickness d2 are nx1, ny1, nz1, nx2, ny2, and nz2 in a first, a second and a third directions perpendicular to each other. The third direction is parallel to the normal directions of the surfaces of the phase retardation compensation film and the biaxial compensation film. Optical compensation values of the phase retardation compensation film and the biaxial compensation film are Rth1 and Rth2 and derived from [(nx1+ny1)/2?nz1]×d1 and [(nx2+ny2)/2?nz2]×d2 respectively. Rth1 is not less than 50 nm, and the sum of Rth1 and Rth2 can be equal to 271 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Pei Shan Tu, Chun Jui Wang