Patents Assigned to Display It, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11983349
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a sensor includes: a substrate including a display region and a peripheral region on a periphery of the display region; detection electrodes arranged in a row-column configuration in the display region; and detection lines coupled to the respective detection electrodes. A shape of the substrate in a plan view includes a curve of a curved portion. The detection electrodes include a first electrode and a second electrode having a shape different from that of the first electrode in a plan view. The second electrode is juxtaposed with the curved portion. The detection lines each include a first line coupled to the first electrode and a second line coupled to the second electrode. The second line passes from the display region across the peripheral region and extends to a position overlapping with the second electrode in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Yoshinori Aoki, Kazune Matsumura, Masateru Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11982910
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate having a first transparent substrate and a pixel electrode, a second substrate having a second transparent substrate, a first common electrode, a second common electrode, and an insulating film disposed between the first common electrode and the second common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The first common electrode is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the insulating film, and includes a first opening and a first electrode portion. The second common electrode is disposed between the insulating film and the second transparent substrate, and includes a second electrode portion overlapping the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Tenfu Nakamura, Kentaro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 11982907
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel is provided and includes first and second substrates with liquid crystal layer therebetween; and first electrode in display region; second electrode disposed between first electrode and first substrate; and alignment film having alignment direction, wherein first electrode has: pair of electrode branches; slit between pair of electrode branches; first and second connections connecting pair of electrode branches; wherein first electrode has areas including first and second bent portions, main portion disposed between first and second bent portions, wherein first bent portion is adjacent to contact hole of first electrode, wherein first and second bent portions are bent relative to main portion, and wherein direction of first bent portion is substantially parallel to direction of second bent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sakurai, Hironao Tanaka, Harumi Okuno, Takeo Koito
  • Patent number: 11984454
    Abstract: The display device has a first substrate having a display area including pixels and a peripheral area surrounding the display area and including a peripheral circuit, a second substrate arranged facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of gate wirings spaced apart in a first direction in the peripheral circuit of the first substrate, and a plurality of signal lines spaced apart in a second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein the second substrate has a black matrix with a lattice area at a position facing the display area and the peripheral circuit, and the lattice area of the black matrix is arranged to overlap the plurality of gate wirings and the plurality of signal lines of the peripheral circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kawai, Yuuji Oomori, Yoshihide Ohue
  • Patent number: 11982825
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal optical element includes a transparent substrate including a main surface, an alignment film disposed on the main surface, and a liquid crystal layer overlapping the alignment film and including a cholesteric liquid crystal including liquid crystal molecules stacked helically and an additive exhibiting a liquid crystalline property. In the liquid crystal layer, a reflective surface along which alignment directions of the liquid crystal molecules are identical is inclined with respect to the main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Oaka University
    Inventors: Koichi Igeta, Shinichiro Oka, Yasushi Tomioka, Hiroyuki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11982900
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a camera, a liquid crystal panel including a display portion overlaid on the camera, a light guide having a first side surface and a main surface opposed to the liquid crystal panel and a first through hole, and a light source opposed to the first side surface. The camera is provided in the first through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Takimoto, Toshiki Kaneko, Takuo Kaitoh, Kazuhiro Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 11982893
    Abstract: A display device includes an array substrate including a display region and a peripheral region, a counter substrate opposite to the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate. The display region includes a plurality of data signal lines and a plurality of scanning signal lines, the peripheral region includes a first wiring pattern arranged with a plurality of wirings connected to each of the plurality of scanning signal lines and a second wiring pattern applied with a certain potential, the first wiring pattern includes a first straight portion extending along the first direction, a second straight portion extending along the second direction, and a bending portion connecting the first straight portion and the second straight portion, and the bending portion includes a first wiring having a staircase-like stepped shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Kentaro Kawai
  • Publication number: 20240151580
    Abstract: A light sensing apparatus includes a pixel array including Thin Film Transistors (TFTs) and an interface integrated circuit including silicon transistors. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixel circuits. Each of the plurality of pixel circuits includes a light sensitive device and a detection TFT connected to the light sensitive device. The pixel array may also include a plurality of correlated double sampling (CDS) circuits each including a current source configured to provide current that biases a detection TFT in one of the pixel circuits to be configured as a source-follower. The interface integrated circuit includes at least one receiver circuit configured to receive an output of at least one of the CDS circuits. The CDS circuits may also include a bypass TFT, and the interface integrated circuit may also include a current source that provides current that biases a detection TFT in one of the pixel circuits to be configured as a source-follower when the bypass TFT is active.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Chungkai CHEN, Naoki TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20240155903
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate, a display part including a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a transistor having an oxide semiconductor layer on the substrate, a first wiring electrically connected to the plurality of pixels, a terminal electrically connected to the first wiring, and a second wiring which is an oxide conductive layer having the same composition as the oxide semiconductor layer, has a cross-sectional surface along a periphery of the substrate, and is electrically connected to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Sho YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20240152007
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises image signal lines, scanning signal lines, pixels, a display area, pixel electrodes, and common electrodes. The common electrodes are configured to detect an object and to display an image in the display area. The common electrodes include first and second common electrodes which are arranged in a first direction. A first slit is provided between the first and second common electrodes. The first and second common electrodes are supplied a signal different from each other. A second slit is provided in the first common electrode. Each of the first slit and the second slit overlaps one of the image signal lines and extends in an extension direction in which the image signal line extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Kenta SEKI, Gen KOIDE, Hayato KURASAWA
  • Publication number: 20240155877
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a base, a driving transistor placed on the base, a first insulating layer placed on the driving transistor, a cathode electrode placed on the first insulating layer, an organic layer including a light-emitting layer placed on the cathode electrode, an anode electrode that covers the organic layer, a second insulating layer placed on the first insulating layer and having an opening superposed on the cathode electrode, and a barrier wall placed on the second insulating layer. The anode electrode is electrically connected to the driving transistor through a first contact hole formed in the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroumi KINJO
  • Publication number: 20240153964
    Abstract: In a transistor substrate of a display device, a plurality of signal lines to which any one of drive signals of a gate signal and a video signal is supplied include a plurality of first signal lines to which the drive signal is supplied. The first signal line is connected to a driving driver, and is formed in an edge region positioned between an end portion of a substrate and a pixel region and in the pixel region. The first signal line is formed to pass through a first wiring formed in a first layer from a second wiring formed in a second layer in the edge region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Gen KOIDE, Masaki MURASE, Nobuyuki ISHIGE
  • Patent number: 11977294
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, in the display device, on the substrate opposed the liquid crystal panel, an element is formed by grooves having steps in a minute and periodic pattern, and the element separates the backlight from the light source unit into light of different color wavelengths and diffract them toward the corresponding color subpixels of the liquid crystal panel. In the light source unit, the first lens shapes the incident light from the light source according to the shape of the display surface of the panel, and the second lens irradiates the light incident surface of the substrate with the light shaped by the first lens as the backlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Chikyu Nakaoka
  • Patent number: 11977305
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a scanning line extending along a first direction, a signal line extending along a second direction, a switching element, a first connection electrode, a pixel electrode, and a feed line, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer containing polymer dispersed liquid crystal, and a light emitting module. The feed line includes an edge extending along the second direction. The first connection electrode is a transparent electrode formed of a same material as the feed line, extends along the first direction, and includes an end portion opposed to the edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsunori Muramoto, Kentaro Kawai, Yoshihide Ohue
  • Patent number: 11979549
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes a display device and an image display control circuit. The display device includes a display panel and a light controller. The light controller controls a direction of a light ray emitted from the display panel. The image display control circuit controls the display panel to display an image in which two or more parallax images having different parallax numbers are mixed, on a display surface of the display device. The image display control circuit displays a parallax image having a first parallax number in at least a first area and displays a parallax image having a second parallax number in a second area. The second parallax number is smaller than the first parallax number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Chikyu Nakaoka, Masaaki Kabe, Takeo Koito
  • Patent number: 11977303
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes, the first substrate including an insulating substrate, first and second light-shielding layers, a stacked layer film, first and second source lines, and a first insulating layer, the second substrate including first and second light-shielding materials. A first width of the first light-shielding layer along the first direction is equal to or greater than a second width of the first light-shielding material along the first direction, and a third width of the second light-shielding layer along the first direction is equal to or greater than a fourth width of the second light-shielding material along the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Funakoshi, Mototaka Eguchi, Tatsunori Muramoto
  • Patent number: 11980048
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a first area including a pixel and a second area different from the first area, wherein the pixel comprises a pixel electrode, an organic material layer including a light-emitting layer, a common electrode, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer having a refractive index lower than that of the first insulating layer, and a third insulating layer, the second area is an area not overlapping the light-emitting layer in plan view, the second area is a transparent area, and the second area comprises the first insulating layer provided therein, the second area does not comprise the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayata Aoki, Masashi Tsubuku, Toshinari Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11976970
    Abstract: An optical sensor includes at least one interferometer having a pair of semi-transparent mirrors spaced apart and oppositely arranged, and at least one position of the pair of semi-transparent mirrors can be displaced, at least one collimating element overlapping the at least one interferometer, and at least one photoelectric conversion element having sensitivity in the visible and near infrared light bands and receiving light passing through the interferometer and the collimating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Higano, Yasushi Tomioka, Kazuhiro Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20240142817
    Abstract: Used is a display device including: a first substrate having a first front surface and a first back surface located on an opposite side of the first front surface; a second substrate having a second back surface opposing the first front surface and a second front surface located on an opposite side of the second back surface; a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first front surface of the first substrate and the second back surface of the second substrate; a first light guide plate adhesively fixed onto the second front surface of the second substrate via a first adhesive layer; and a light source unit arranged at a position opposing a first side surface of the first light guide plate, in which refractive index of the first light guide plate is lower than refractive index of the first adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori TANAKA, Keita ONO, Keiji TAGO
  • Publication number: 20240142097
    Abstract: A light source system configured to provide an illumination beam and including at least one light source module is provided. Each of light source module is configured to emit a color beam and includes a plurality of light sources. Different light sources are configured to emit excitation lights of different wavelengths. The excitation lights are combined to form the color beam. The at least one color beam is combined to form the illumination beam. Differences in the wavelengths fall within a range of 5 nm to 10 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Himax Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Biing-Seng Wu, Kuan-Hsu Fan-Chiang