Patents Assigned to Infovision Optoelectronics (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11315509
    Abstract: A driving method for a liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device has a wide viewing angle mode and a narrow viewing angle mode. The driving method includes: in the wide viewing angle mode, all the frames of the liquid crystal display device have the same display brightness; in the narrow viewing angle mode, the odd frames and the even frames of the liquid crystal display device have different display brightness. In the narrow viewing angle mode of the liquid crystal display device, by using an alternate driving method of bright frames and dark frames, the mura degree is significantly reduced, and the smoothness of dynamic picture display is improved, thereby improving the use experience of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanbing Qiao, Xiaoneng Yan, Te-Chen Chung, Chia-Te Liao
  • Patent number: 11294209
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel with a switchable viewing angle and a driving circuit for driving the display panel. The display panel can switch between wide and narrow viewing angles. The driving circuit includes a display control unit, a viewing angle control unit, a viewing angle control voltage generating circuit, and a gamma voltage generating circuit. The viewing angle control unit is connected to the display control unit, the viewing angle control voltage generating circuit and the gamma voltage generating circuit. The display control unit is used to control the display panel to realize picture display. The viewing angle control unit is used to control the display panel to switch between wide viewing angle display and narrow viewing angle display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weifeng Fan, Hsin-Chieh Lai, Jia He, Dalei Zhang, Peiyang Lin
  • Patent number: 11289033
    Abstract: A display device with switchable viewing angle includes a display panel, a backlight source, a timing controller, a source driver chip and an LED driver module. The backlight source includes a plurality of LEDs. The timing controller is connected to the source driver chip. The source driver chip is connected to the plurality of data lines. The LED driver module is connected to the plurality of LEDs. The display panel has a narrow viewing angle mode and a wide viewing angle mode. In the narrow viewing angle mode, the luminous brightness of the plurality of LEDs is adjusted to gradually decrease from the middle to both sides of the display panel. In the wide viewing angle mode, the luminous brightness of the plurality of LED is adjusted to gradually increase from the middle to both sides of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hung-Ming Lee, Hsin-Chieh Lai, Pei-Yang Lin, Chunyun Wu
  • Patent number: 11269204
    Abstract: A viewing angle switchable liquid crystal display device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate is provided with a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is a common electrode, and the second electrode is a pixel electrode. The first substrate is provided with a third electrode for controlling the switching of the viewing angle. A periodic alternating voltage is applied to the third electrode when the viewing angle of the liquid crystal display device is switched, and a period of the periodic alternating voltage is an even multiple of a refresh period of each frame of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Te-Chen Chung, Chia-Te Liao, Zifang Su, Limei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11188169
    Abstract: A touch display panel with switchable viewing angles includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate is provided with a viewing angle control electrode. The second substrate is provided with a common electrode and a sensing circuit layer. The common electrode includes a plurality of electrode blocks arranged in an array and insulated from each other. The sensing circuit layer includes a plurality of sensing lines insulated from each other. The sensing lines are electrically connected to the electrode blocks in a one-to-one correspondence, respectively. Each frame of the display panel is divided into a display period and a touch period. The electrode blocks of the common electrode are used for image display during the display period, and the electrode blocks of the common electrode are used for touch sensing during the touch period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Te-Chen Chung, Chia-Te Liao, Yuying He, Erlong Qi
  • Patent number: 11187928
    Abstract: A method for driving a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a wide viewing angle and a narrow viewing angle. In a first viewing angle mode, a direct-current common voltage is applied to a common electrode and voltage signals are applied to a first bias electrode and a second bias electrode. In a second viewing angle mode, a direct-current common voltage is applied to the common electrode, a first alternating-current voltage is applied to the first bias electrode and a second alternating-current voltage is applied to the second bias electrode. In addition, in the second viewing angle mode, pixel units covered by each first electrode strip of the first bias electrode have alternating positive and negative polarities, and pixel units covered by each second electrode strip of the second bias electrode have alternating positive and negative polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Te-Chen Chung, Chia-Te Liao, Zifang Su, Limei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11126299
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for recognizing multiple active capacitive styluses, a touch control unit, a touch panel, and a touch system. The method includes the steps of: obtaining recognization signals sent by multiple active capacitive styluses, and recognizing coordinates of each active capacitive stylus and its report point removing ghost point coordinates from the report point coordinates in a mutual capacitive mode of a work cycle of a touch panel, to obtain actual coordinates of each active capacitive stylus. The present invention accurately recognizes the specific positions of the multiple active capacitive styluses by eliminating the coordinates of the ghost points and has the advantages of high positioning accuracy and strong user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengching Chiu, Pengfei Wang
  • Patent number: 10809551
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having switchable viewing angles includes a display panel and a display control module. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The display control module is used for controlling the display panel to display images. The first substrate is provided with a first electrode. The second substrate is provided with a second electrode and a third electrode. The liquid crystal display device further includes a viewing angle control module. The display control module is further used to provide a synchronization signal to the viewing angle control module. According to the synchronization signal, when a next frame following a current frame on which a viewing angle switching signal is received starts to display, the viewing angle control module outputs a periodic alternating voltage for switching viewing angle to the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Te-Chen Chung, Weifeng Fan, Peiyang Lin, Huilong Zheng
  • Patent number: 10649283
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel, a display control module and a voltage output module. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate is provided with a viewing angle control electrode. In a wide viewing angle mode, the image refresh frequency of the display panel is the same as the data input frequency of the image data inputted to the display control module, and the voltage output module outputs a direct current voltage to the viewing angle control electrode. In a narrow viewing angle mode, the image refresh frequency of the display panel is twice or four times the data input frequency of the image data inputted to the display control module, and the voltage output module outputs a periodic alternating voltage to the viewing angle control electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Techen Chung, Peiyang Lin, Dalei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10473964
    Abstract: A touch display panel includes a TFT substrate, a CF substrate disposed above the TFT substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the TFT substrate and the CF substrate, and a touch sensor formed on the CF substrate. The touch sensor includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of third electrodes, a plurality of bridges and an insulating layer. Each of the second electrodes is continuous, each of the first electrodes is interrupted by the second electrodes to form a plurality of electrode sections, and two adjacent electrode sections of the first electrode are electrically connected via a bridge. A plurality of blank areas are defined and surrounded by the first electrodes and the second electrodes, and the third electrodes are respectively disposed within the blank areas. The first electrodes, the second electrodes and the third electrodes are electrically insulated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Binbin Song, Fengching Chiu, Liwei Kung
  • Publication number: 20190179180
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having switchable viewing angles includes a display panel and a display control module. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The display control module is used for controlling the display panel to display images. The first substrate is provided with a first electrode. The second substrate is provided with a second electrode and a third electrode. The liquid crystal display device further includes a viewing angle control module. The display control module is further used to provide a synchronization signal to the viewing angle control module. According to the synchronization signal, when a next frame following a current frame on which a viewing angle switching signal is received starts to display, the viewing angle control module outputs a periodic alternating voltage for switching viewing angle to the first electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: TE-CHEN CHUNG, WEIFENG FAN, PEIYANG LIN, HUILONG ZHENG
  • Patent number: 10288914
    Abstract: An LCD with switchable viewing angle includes a first substrate, second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate is provided with a first electrode and a second electrode. In an embodiment, the first electrode is a pixel electrode, and the second electrode is a common electrode. The second substrate is provided with a third electrode. Liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are positive liquid crystal molecules. When a first bias voltage is applied to the third electrode, the LCD is displayed with a wide viewing angle; and when a second bias voltage greater than the first bias voltage is applied to the third electrode, the LCD is displayed with a narrow viewing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Te-Chen Chung, Zifang Su, Limei Jiang
  • Patent number: 10203769
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a display panel disposed on a front side of the portable electronic device and a back-side keyboard disposed on a rear side of the portable electronic device. The back-side keyboard includes an icon layer and a touch sensing layer. The icon layer provides a plurality of icons. The touch sensing layer is utilized to sense the exact positions of fingers at the rear side of the portable electronic device. Each of the icons is triggered to realize an input operation of the icon when the icon is pressed by a finger from the rear side towards the front side of the portable electronic device. A user is allowed to use their longer fingers to perform an input operation from the rear side of the portable electronic device, for avoiding the drawback of using the thumbs to input and increasing the user experiences for input operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuhong Wang
  • Publication number: 20190033632
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a viewing angle switching method are provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a display panel, a backlight source, and a light adjustment liquid crystal film disposed between the display panel and the backlight source. The light adjustment liquid crystal film includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate disposed opposite to the upper substrate, and a liquid crystal layer located between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The upper substrate is provided with an upper electrode on a side thereof facing the lower substrate. The lower substrate is provided with a lower electrode on a side thereof facing the upper substrate. The light adjustment liquid crystal film is configured to change a backlight exit angle of the light emitted by the backlight after passing through the display panel by applying a voltage between the upper electrode and the lower electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Infovision Optoelectronics (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: HUNG-MING LEE, HSI-CHIEN LIN, LI WEI KUNG, XIAO MENG, YUN XU
  • Patent number: 10191310
    Abstract: A power conversion circuit for switching the viewing angle of an LCD, includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a switching unit, an isolating unit, an output unit, a first power supply, a second power supply, and a third power supply. When the input terminal is provided with a low level voltage, the switching unit is switched on, the voltage of the second power supply is provided as a first DC voltage to the output terminal via the switching unit and the isolating unit. When the input terminal is provided with a high level voltage, the switching unit is switched off, the voltage of the third power supply is provided as a second DC voltage to the output terminal via the output unit and the isolating unit, wherein the second DC voltage is higher than the first DC voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dalei Zhang, Yongxin Ruan, Qingbai Lv
  • Patent number: 10002578
    Abstract: An LCD device includes a color filter (CF) substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The CF substrate includes a first transparent substrate, a CF layer, a black matrix and a shielding layer. The TFT substrate includes a second transparent substrate, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and an insulating layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. A control signal in the form of an AC voltage is provided to the shielding layer of the CF substrate, and a DC common voltage is provided to the common electrode. An alternating electric field is generated between the AC voltage of the control signal of the shielding layer and the DC common voltage of the common electrode to push impurity ions existed in the liquid crystal layer to swing up and down in the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Te-Chen Chung, Dalei Zhang, Zifang Su, Yongxin Ruan
  • Patent number: 9983422
    Abstract: An LCD panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate is provided with a first electrode thereon. The first electrode is provided with a plurality of stripe-like control electrodes for controlling a viewing angle of the LCD panel. The second substrate is provided with a second electrode and a third electrode thereon. The second electrode is a common electrode for inputting a common voltage to the LCD panel. The third electrode is a pixel electrode formed in each pixel of the LCD panel. When no bias voltage is applied to the stripe-like control electrodes of the first electrode, the LCD panel is displayed with a wide viewing angle; and when a bias voltage is applied to the stripe-like control electrodes of the first electrode, the LCD panel is displayed with a narrow viewing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Te-Chen Chung, Zifang Su, Mengqing Zhu
  • Patent number: 9927935
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a transparent substrate and a sensing pattern formed on the transparent substrate. The sensing pattern is in the form of a mesh structure. The mesh structure includes a plurality of conductive wires intersecting with each other to form a plurality of grids and a plurality of nodes connected between the grids. The grids are formed by the conductive wires intersecting with each other, and the nodes are formed at the intersection points of the conductive wires. The node has an annular shape with a center hole being defined in a center portion of the node. Due to the nodes having an annular shape, the surface resistance at the nodes is decreased and the signal attenuation is accordingly reduced. The conductive wires are connected firmly without the risk of breakage after the sensing pattern is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Binbin Song, Fengching Chiu, Pengfei Wang
  • Patent number: 9835886
    Abstract: An LCD includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate is provided with a first electrode. The first electrode is provided with a plurality of first elongated electrodes. The second substrate is provided with a second electrode and a third electrode. The second electrode is a common electrode and the third electrode is a pixel electrode. The second electrode is provided with a plurality of second elongated electrodes. The first elongated electrodes and the second elongated electrodes are arranged alternately, and the first elongated electrodes have no overlap with the second elongated electrodes. When no bias voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, the LCD is displayed with a wide viewing angle; and when a bias voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, the LCD is displayed with a narrow viewing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Limei Jiang, Xuemei Jiang, Tingting Wu, Rui Liu
  • Patent number: 9798169
    Abstract: An LCD with switchable viewing angle includes a first substrate, second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate is provided with a first electrode and a first alignment film. The second substrate is provided with a second electrode, a third electrode and a second alignment film. The liquid crystal molecules adjacent to the first alignment film are tilted at a first pretilt angle. The liquid crystal molecules adjacent to the second alignment film are tilted at a second pretilt angle. The second pretilt angle is in the range of 30° to 50°, and the first pretilt angle is in the range of 0° to 5°. When no bias voltage is applied to the first electrode, the LCD is displayed with a narrow viewing angle; and when a bias voltage is applied to the first electrode, the LCD is displayed with a wide viewing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zifang Su, Limei Jiang