Patents Assigned to Display Technologies
  • Publication number: 20080197768
    Abstract: An organic light emissive device, which comprises: an anode; a cathode; and an organic light emissive region between the anode and the cathode, which region comprises: a layer of blue light electroluminescent organic material which emits light having first CIE co-ordinates by exciton radiative decay; and a layer of longer wavelength electroluminescent organic material which intrinsically emits light having second CIE co-ordinates by exciton radiative decay; wherein the layers of blue light and longer wavelength materials are selected so that the organic light emissive region emits white light falling within a region having a CIE X coordinate equivalent to that emitted by a black body at 3000-9000K and CIE ? co-ordinate of said light emitted by a black body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicants: CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, CDT OXFORD LIMITED
    Inventors: Natasha M. Conway, Nalinkumar Patel, Richard Wilson, Ilaria Grizzi
  • Publication number: 20080198124
    Abstract: There is provided an liquid crystal display apparatus configured to invert a pixel voltage and a common voltage on a frame to frame basis while setting a transition voltage Vt in such a manner that the polarity of the pixel voltage to be applied to a pixel electrode of each display pixel and the polarity of the common voltage to be applied to a common electrode of a common substrate are differentiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya KOJIMA, Tetsuo Fukami, Kazuhiro Nishiyama, Kenji Nakao
  • Patent number: 7413333
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus including a light guiding plate, and a light source including a plurality of light-emitting elements which emit light at a plurality of brightness levels. The light emitting elements is provided opposite to a side edge of the light guiding plate and arranged along the side edge of the light guiding plate. The light-emitting elements are divided into a plurality of sets according to the brightness levels, and light-emitting elements in each of the sets are connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Ota
  • Publication number: 20080192162
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including gate wiring parts for supplying a scanning signal to switching elements formed in a matrix form in a display area, and source wiring parts for supplying a video signal to the switching elements, the liquid crystal display device having a plurality of inspection switching elements arranged in an area outside the display area, and connected to the gate wiring parts or the source wiring parts and a wiring part for electrically and mutually connecting source electrodes of the inspection switching elements by high resistance elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Hayakawa, Koji Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20080176104
    Abstract: An electroluminescent device comprising:—a first electrode for injection of positive charge carriers;—a second electrode for injection of negative charge carriers; and—an electroluminescent layer located between the first and second electrodes comprising a host material and a metal complex, wherein the host material comprises a polymer having a first repeat unit of formula (I): wherein each Ar is the same or different and independently represents an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl and any two Ar groups may be directly linked by a single bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicants: CDT Oxford Limited, Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Carl Towns, Ilaria Grizzi, Stephen O'Connor, Annette Steudel, Jonathan Pillow, Michael Frampton
  • Patent number: 7402091
    Abstract: A display device comprising: a light switching unit comprising an array of pixels each operable to vary the transmission of light therethrough; and a backlight comprising a first series of regions of organic light-emissive material having a first emission color and a second series of regions of organic light-emissive material having a second emission color, each region of organic material being located so as to lie behind a plurality of pixels of the array in the viewing direction for backlighting those pixels; and at least one of the regions of organic light-emissive material being formed by a process of ink-jet deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen Karl Heeks, Julian Charles Carter
  • Patent number: 7402939
    Abstract: An organic EL display includes an insulating layer with light-transmission property, an organic EL element located on a back side of the insulating layer, a diffraction grating located on the back side of the insulating layer, and an optical film disposed on a front side of the insulating layer and including optically isotropic first portions and optically anisotropic second portions, the first and second portions forming boundaries inclined with respect to a main surface of the optical film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kubota, Satoshi Okutani, Tsuyoshi Uemura
  • Patent number: 7400090
    Abstract: A light-emissive device including: a light-emissive region (12); a first electrode (10) located on a viewing side of the light-emissive region for injecting charge carriers of a first type; and a second-electrode (11) located on a non-viewing side of the light-emissive region for injecting charge carriers of a second type; and wherein there is a reflectivity-influencing structure (13) located on the non-viewing side of the light-emissive region and having a light absorbent layer including graphite and/or a fluoride or oxide of a low work function metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Paul Berger, Jeremy Henley Burroughes, Julian Charles Carter, Stephen Karl Heeks
  • Publication number: 20080164461
    Abstract: An organic transistor comprising source and drain electrodes; a gate electrode; an organic insulating layer between the gate electrode and the source and drain electrodes; and an organic semiconductive region between the insulating layer and the source and drain electrodes; wherein the organic semiconductive region comprises (a) a high mobility layer of an organic semiconductor and (b) a blocking layer of organic material positioned between the high mobility layer and the source and drain electrodes, in which the ionization potential of the organic material of the blocking layer exceeds the workfunction of the source and drain electrodes so as to inhibit charge injection from the source electrode into the blocking layer in the off-state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Richard Wilson
  • Patent number: 7397525
    Abstract: A first phase plate and a third phase plate, which constitute a polarizer structure, cooperate to impart a phase difference of a ¼ wavelength to linearly polarized light that emerges from a first polarizer plate. A second phase plate and a fourth phase plate cooperate to impart a phase difference of a ¼ wavelength to linearly polarized light that emerges from a second polarizer plate. Slow axes in planes of the first phase plate and the second phase plate are substantially parallel. A crossed-axes angle between slow axes in planes of the first phase plate and the third phase plate is 60°, a crossed-axes angle between slow axes in planes of the second phase plate and the fourth phase plate is 60°, and a crossed-axes angle between slow axes in planes of the third phase plate and fourth phase plate is 60°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chigusa Tago, Yuzo Hisatake, Akio Murayama
  • Patent number: 7397452
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided which can perform display of high visibility with the load on a power supply for supplying power to display elements. A display screen is provided with a plurality of pixels arranged in an array. Each pixel includes a display element and a driving circuit for supplying the display element with a current corresponding to a video signal. A display state detection circuit detects the display state of the display screen twice or more within a one-frame period. A dimming circuit varies a current supply time to supply a current from the driving circuit to the display element, in accordance with an output from the display state detection circuit, and performs dimming control twice or more within a one-frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Norio Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7394105
    Abstract: There is provided an active matrix display including pixels arrayed in a matrix form and each including a display element and a thin film transistor. In each of columns which the pixels form, the pixels are divided into a first pixel group in which the thin film transistors are arranged along a first straight line parallel with the column, and a second pixel group in which the thin film transistors are arranged along a second straight line parallel with the column and spaced apart from the first straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasumasa Goto
  • Patent number: 7394093
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device, comprising: a substrate; a first conductive layer formed over the substrate; at least one layer of a light-emissive organic material formed over the first conductive layer; a barrier layer formed over the at least one organic layer which acts to protect the at least one layer of organic material; and a second conductive layer, preferably a patterned sputtered layer, formed over the barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Ltd.
    Inventor: Karl Pichler
  • Publication number: 20080152787
    Abstract: An optical device comprising an anode, a cathode, an organic semiconducting material between the anode and the cathode, and an electron transport layer between the cathode and the organic semiconducting material wherein the organic semiconducting material comprises sulfur and the electron transport layer containing barium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Salvatore Cina
  • Patent number: 7392058
    Abstract: A communication terminal device includes a first display part configured to display streaming sub information, a second display part configured to display streaming main information related to the streaming sub information, a sub information reception unit configured to receive the streaming sub information sequentially transmitted from an information providing device and to display the received streaming sub information on the first display part, a request transmission unit configured to transmit to the information providing device an information request signal for requesting the streaming main information related to the streaming sub information displayed on the first display part, and a main information reception unit configured to receive the streaming main information and to display the streaming main information on the second display part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hirota, Masaki Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 7391053
    Abstract: In order to make it possible to easily detect an electrical defect by using an array tester, the present inspection substrate includes: plural scan lines and plural signal lines; plural storage capacitor lines arranged in parallel to the scan lines; storage capacitor elements, each of which uses a part of the storage capacitor line as one of electrodes thereof; storage capacitor upper electrodes formed of the same layer as that for the signal lines and electrically connected to the storage capacitor elements; switching elements arranged on intersection points of the signal lines and the scan lines and electrically connected to the storage capacitor elements; and dummy wiring lines formed by use of at least one of two types of metals constituting electrodes of the switching elements, and electrically connected to any of the scan lines, the signal lines, the storage capacitor lines and the storage capacitor upper electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Iizuka, Mitsuhiro Yamamoto, Hiroshi Tabatake
  • Publication number: 20080143899
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device having an OCB liquid crystal panel, the frame frequency is set at 0.5 to 10 Hz and a reverse transition prevention voltage is set at 1 V while the liquid crystal panel is in a standby state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Tomoyuki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20080146744
    Abstract: A method for forming a conjugated polymer which is doped by a dopant includes the steps of (a) adding a doping agent comprising a dopant moiety to a solution containing the conjugated polymer or a precursor thereof and, optionally, a second polymer, the dopant moiety being capable of bonding to the conjugated polymer, precursor thereof or the second polymer; (b) allowing the dopant moiety to bond to the conjugated polymer, precursor thereof or the second polymer to perform doping of the conjugated polymer, wherein the amount of doping agent added in step (a) is less than the amount required to form a fully doped conjugated polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Kian-Hoon Ho, Ji-Seon Kim, Richard Henry Friend
  • Patent number: 7385665
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which includes an effective display section, a flexible board which supplies a driving signal to the effective display section, a connection part at which the display panel and the flexible board are connected, and a plurality of connection wiring lines which connect the connection part and the effective display section. The connection part includes a first connection section including at least two connection pad groups, which are composed of connection pads that are connected to the effective display section via the connection wiring lines, and a dummy pad group which is disposed between the connection pad groups, and is composed of dummy pads, and a second connection section including connection terminal groups, which are composed of connection terminals corresponding to the connection pads, and a dummy terminal group which is composed of dummy terminals corresponding to the dummy pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 7375463
    Abstract: An optical device includes a first waveguide layer in which multiple-beam interference occurs, a second wavelength layer which includes a back surface facing the first waveguide layer and a front surface as a light output surface, and an outcoupling layer which is disposed on a back side of the second waveguide layer and faces the first wave guide layer, wherein the outcoupling layer includes a first portion as a layer with light transmission property and second portions which are dispersed in the first portion and differ in optical property from the first portion, and wherein an array of the second portions forms a triangular lattice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Uemura, Satoshi Okutani, Hirofumi Kubota, Muneharu Akiyoshi, Naotada Okada, Junichi Tonotani