Patents Assigned to Chimei-InnoLux Corporation
  • Patent number: 8400075
    Abstract: An illumination circuit includes a series circuit including light sources connected in series between a high voltage node and a low voltage node, and break-protecting circuits. Each break-protecting circuit includes a control circuit and a bypass circuit. The bypass circuit is connected in parallel to at least one corresponding light source of the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Guo, Yaw-Shing Tseng, Chu-Jung Shih, Chen-Hsun Liao
  • Patent number: 8400421
    Abstract: A multi-touch detecting method is adapted for detecting locations of touched points on a touch panel including first and second conductive films, and includes following steps. First measuring points of the first conductive film distributed along X-axis of a Cartesian plane are scanned, and x-components are determined accordingly. Second measuring points of the second conductive film distributed along Y-axis of the Cartesian plane are scanned, and y-components are determined accordingly. A first voltage is applied to the first conductive film, and A second voltage is applied to at least one of the second measuring points with the location on the Y-axis adjacent to or overlapping one of the y-components. Voltages at the first measuring points with the locations on the X-axis adjacent to or overlapping the x-components are measured sequentially and one of the y-components and one of the x-components are outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Yang Chen, Po-Sheng Shih, Chih-Han Chao, Chien-Yung Cheng
  • Publication number: 20130057817
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a manufacturing method of a photo-alignment film including: providing a photo-alignment material layer having at least one portion corresponding to a pixel; and performing a full exposure process and a partial exposure process with an alignment direction different from that of the full exposure process to the portion, wherein the full exposure process includes exposing the potion fully to light, and the partial exposure process includes exposing the portion partially to light, wherein the portion processed by the exposure processes has a single exposure region exposed to light one time and a dual exposure region exposed to light two times, and the portion exposed in the partial exposure process is located in the dual exposure region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung-Yi WANG, An-Chang WANG, Shiang-Ruei OUYANG
  • Patent number: 8390575
    Abstract: An exemplary touch-sensitive liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate (21), a second substrate (22) disposed opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer (20) interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Scan lines (212) and data lines (213) are formed at the first substrate. The scan lines and the data lines cross each other thereby defining pixel regions. Conductive pads (203) are arranged corresponding to and electrically coupled to the scan lines. A conductive layer (280) is arranged between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer. Conductive protrusions (202) are arranged on the conductive layer, each of the conductive protrusions is opposite to a corresponding conductive pad with a predetermined gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Kai Meng
  • Patent number: 8390595
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of sensors, and a position detection device is disclosed. The first substrate includes a plurality of pixel electrodes. The second substrate includes at least one opposite electrode and passed through by light. A liquid crystal component is enclosed between the first and the second substrates, and a voltage between the first and the second substrates is controlled to display an image. The sensors are disposed on peripheral portions of the first and the second substrates and output signals corresponding to relative positions of the first and the second substrates. The position detection device receives the signals output from the sensors to determine a touched position on the glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Masahide Inoue
  • Patent number: 8390655
    Abstract: An active matrix liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof is provided, in which two different gamma voltage signals can be generated for two pixels of a sub-pixel without extra source lines or gate lines. In a sub-pixel having a first pixel and a second pixel, the switching on/off of the first pixel is controlled by one gate line and that of the second pixel is controlled by one gate line and one source line. The first pixel has a first thin film transistor (TFT) and an electrostatic capacitor. The second pixel has second and third TFTs serially connected. Gate electrodes of the two serially-connected TFTs are connected to the gate line and the source line, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshiga
  • Patent number: 8390555
    Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixel units arranged in rows, a scanning circuit configured to activate the pixel units row by row by outputting a plurality of corresponding scanning signals, a data circuit configured to provide data voltage signals to the activated pixel units, and a common voltage circuit. Each pixel unit includes a coupling member. When a row of pixel units is activated, all the coupling members in the row of pixel units cooperatively generate a coupling signal according to the data voltage signals applied to the activated row of pixel units, and superpose the coupling signal to the corresponding scanning signal so as to form a feedback signal. The common voltage circuit adjusts a reference voltage signal according to the feedback signal, and provides at least one common voltage signal to the pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Shun-Ming Huang
  • Patent number: 8390611
    Abstract: An image display system includes a gate driving circuit. The gate driving circuit includes several stages of gate drivers each for generating a gate driving signal to drive a row of pixels. Each stage of the gate driver receives a clock signal and a first reset signal. A first stage of the gate driver receives a vertical start pulse as an input signal of the first stage. The remaining stages of the gate drivers respectively receive the gate driving signal generated by a previous stage of the gate driver as the input signal of the remaining stages. Each stage of the gate drivers further receives the gate driving signal generated by a next stage of the gate driver as a second reset signal, and generates the corresponding gate driving signal according to the clock signal, the first reset signal, and the corresponding input signal and second reset signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Fu-Yuan Hsueh, Tzu-Yu Cheng
  • Publication number: 20130050817
    Abstract: Disclosed is a 3D image display device, comprising an image display device including a plurality of right eye pixels and a left eye pixels arranged staggered. Each of the right and left eye pixels includes a sub-pixel region having a light shielding element, and at least one dummy sub-pixel region having a dummy light shielding element. The light shielding element and the dummy light shielding element have a same shape. A 3D element such as a lenticular lens layer (or a 3D barrier) is disposed on the image display device. The light shielding element of the sub-pixel region can be a TFT and/or a storage capacitor, and the dummy light shielding element of the dummy sub-pixel region can be a dummy TFT and/or a dummy storage capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki SUMI
  • Patent number: 8384291
    Abstract: A backlight protection circuit includes a driving circuit, two lamps, a pulse modulator, and a feedback circuit. The pulse modulator controlling the operating state of the driving circuit includes an over-voltage sampling end. Each of the two lamps includes a high voltage end connected to the driving circuit, and a low voltage end connected to the over-voltage sampling end through the feedback circuit. The pulse modulator stops the operation of the driving circuit when the voltage of the low voltage end exceeds a reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei InnoLux Corporation
    Inventor: Ching-Chung Lin
  • Patent number: 8384652
    Abstract: A method of operating a display includes providing light having a luminance that varies periodically, overdriving a pixel circuit of the display, and modulating the light using the pixel circuit to generate modulated light. The amount of overdrive and the phase of the light relative to the overdriving of the pixel circuit are controlled such that the modulated light has a predetermined level of uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Ching-Wen Shih, Hung-Yu Lin, Yu-Yeh Chen
  • Patent number: 8384073
    Abstract: A system for displaying images is provided. The system includes a full-color organic electroluminescent device having an anode. A first emitting layer and a second emitting layer are sequentially disposed on the anode. A cathode is disposed on the second emitting layer. The first and second emitting layers include, respectively, a first dopant and a second dopant, wherein the energy gap of the first dopant is different from that of the second dopant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Jui-Hsiang Yen, Hsiang-Lun Hsu, Ryuji Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 8384868
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting with the scan lines, a plurality of pixel areas defined by the scan lines and the data lines, and a plurality of electrodes. Each electrode is positioned in a corresponding pixel area. Each pixel area has an inner surface. The electrode includes a branch portion, a frame connected to the branch portion, and a plurality of first slits defined by the frame and the branch portion, away from the inner surface of the pixel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Rui-Jie Hsiang, Chih-Lung Lin, I-An Yao, Ying-Ling Chen, Chueh-Ju Chen
  • Patent number: 8384631
    Abstract: An active matrix display panel comprises a substrate, an array of pixel circuits being arranged in a matrix of at least one column and a plurality of rows on the substrate, each pixel circuit comprising a light-emitting element, capable of emitting light of an intensity determined by the value of a current passed through it, and at least one column line, each column line arranged to conduct a reference current, provided by a current driving circuit, when connected to the panel. The pixel circuits in a column are divided into a plurality of groups of at least one pixel circuit. The active matrix display panel comprises at least one current mirror circuit associated with a first group, comprising a first current mirror, arranged to mirror a reference current flowing through a column line to a first current mirror output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Adrianus Sempel, Gerben J. Hekstra, David A. Fish, Alan G. Kanpp, Andrea Giraldo, Mark T. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8382356
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a light guide plate having a light input surface, a light source adjacent to the light input surface of the light guide plate, and a frame unit receiving the light guide plate and the light source. The frame unit includes a back plate and a light reflective layer. The back plate defines a plurality of openings, and the light reflective layer covers the back plate and fills the openings. A method for manufacturing the backlight module is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Tao Li, Sin-Tung Huang
  • Publication number: 20130044268
    Abstract: A display module includes a transparent substrate, a black matrix layer, several light-shielding elements and a phase retardation film. The transparent substrate includes left-eye pixel regions and right-eye pixel regions for respectively displaying left-eye images and right-eye images. Each left-eye pixel region is adjacent to each right-eye pixel region. The black matrix layer is disposed on one side of the transparent substrate and corresponds to each boundary between the left-eye and right-eye pixel regions. The light-shielding elements are disposed on the other side of the transparent substrate and respectively correspond to the boundaries between the left-eye and right-eye pixel regions. The phase retardation film is disposed on the other side of the transparent substrate, and has first-phase retardation regions and second-phase retardation regions with difference phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN)CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Sheng Chen
  • Publication number: 20130044077
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a touch panel, including: a substrate, wherein the substrate includes a viewing region and a border region at an edge of the viewing region; a patterned transparent conductive layer formed on the substrate, wherein the patterned transparent conductive layer formed on the viewing region has a touch sensitive function; and a patterned metal layer formed on the patterned transparent conductive layer and on the border region, wherein the patterned metal layer includes a contact region and a trace region connecting to the contact region, and at least a portion of the contact region overlaps with the patterned transparent conductive layer, and a shift range between a formation position of the contact region of the patterned metal layer and a formation position of the patterned transparent conductive layer is smaller than about 150 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chieh-Yu CHAO, Canone CHEN, Jia-Ming HSIEH, Wei-Lun LIAO
  • Publication number: 20130044145
    Abstract: A driving method is cooperated with a blue phase liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus having a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate. The first substrate has a first electrode layer, and the second substrate has a pixel electrode and a second electrode layer. The driving method includes the steps of: transmitting a first gray level voltage to the pixel electrode; transmitting a first black frame insertion voltage to the pixel electrode; and transmitting a first voltage to the first electrode layer, thereby providing a voltage gap between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. Accordingly, the dark-state light-leakage of the blue phase LCD apparatus can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung-Ping LI, Ming-Chuan CHIH, Hsu-Kuan HSU
  • Publication number: 20130043476
    Abstract: The invention provides a thin film transistor substrate and a display device including the same. The thin film transistor substrate includes: a substrate; a gate line, a gate insulating layer and an active layer sequentially formed on the substrate; a source and a drain simultaneously formed on the active layer to from a thin film transistor; an insulation layer formed on the thin film transistor, wherein a via is formed in the insulation layer, and the via is formed on a portion of the drain and a portion of the active layer to expose the portion of the drain and the active layer; and a pixel electrode formed in the via and on the insulation layer, wherein the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the drain through the via.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho-Tsung SUNG, Chih-Lung LIN
  • Patent number: 8377331
    Abstract: A blue phase liquid crystal composition and a LC display using the composition. The liquid crystal composition includes a first class including a highly polar compound and a second class including a highly conjugated liquid crystal compound. The blue phase liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates each with polarizer on the exterior surface and the blue phase liquid crystal composition sandwiched therebetween with and patterned electrodes on one of the substrates or both substrates. The patterned electrodes can be T-shaped, chevron or v-shaped, thin comb like shape and can also be flat or trapezoidal. The device outputs different light transmissions from the electrically controllable induced birefringence of the blue phase LC material for a low driving voltage, high transmittance blue phase liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignees: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastian Gauza, Shin-Tson Wu, Zhibing Ge, Linghui Rao, Hsu-Kuan Hsu, Chao-Lung Chin