Patents Assigned to LG.Philips LCD Co.
  • Patent number: 7358125
    Abstract: A thin film transistor substrate and a fabricating method thereof wherein a contacting size between an electrode and an active layer can be reduced to provide a small and light panel. In the thin film transistor substrate, a conductive layer is formed on the substrate. A first insulating layer for insulating the conductive layer overlies the conductive layer. A second insulating layer this is different from the first insulating layer overlies the first insulating layer. A third insulating layer overlies the second insulating layer. A contact through the first, second, and third insulating layers exposes a portion of the conductive layer and has a trapezoidal section. An electrode is connected to the conductive layer and overlies a portion of an inclined face of the contact hole. The inclined face of the contact hole includes a protrusion formed by a portion of the second insulating layer and creates an overhang structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD. Co., Ltd
    Inventor: You Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 7358955
    Abstract: There is disclosed a liquid crystal display for a mobile phone that is adaptive for minimizing horizontal flicker. A liquid crystal display for a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a liquid crystal display panel where liquid crystal cells are each arranged in a matrix at each intersection part of data lines and gate lines; and a driver supplying a data signal to the data line and, in addition, supplying a gate signal to the adjacent gate lines in a different direction from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joo Soo Lim
  • Patent number: 7358687
    Abstract: A method for driving backlight unit includes generating at least one pulse, after generating the at least one pulse, generating a driving signal having a constant state, supplying a predetermined capacitor voltage to a lamp assembly, wherein the predetermined capacitor voltage corresponds to the at least one pulse, and supplying a second voltage to the lamp assembly supplied with the predetermined capacitor voltage, wherein the second voltage corresponds to the driving signal and wherein the lamp assembly emits light in response to the supplied second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kang Ju Lee, Sin Kyun Park
  • Patent number: 7359027
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first substrate having an active region and a non-active region along a peripheral portion of the active region, a second substrate facing and spaced apart from the first substrate, and having an active region and a non-active region along a peripheral portion of the active region, a seal pattern between the first and second substrates disposed along a border of the active and non-active regions, a gate line on an interior surface of the first substrate and crossing the seal pattern, a data line crossing the gate line and the seal pattern, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, a common electrode on an interior surface of the second surface, a first step-compensating pattern adjacent to the seal pattern and the gate line, a second step-compensating pattern adjacent to the seal pattern and the data line, and a liquid crystal material layer between the pixel electrode and the common el
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Tae Kim, Jae-Seok Park
  • Patent number: 7355581
    Abstract: An analog buffer circuit for a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a first capacitor and an inverter connected in series between an input terminal and an output terminal, a first reset switch connected between the input terminal and the first capacitor to reset the first capacitor, a first feedback switch connected to a first node between the first capacitor and the first reset switch, a second capacitor and a second feedback switch connected in series between a second node and a third node, the second node connected between the first capacitor and the inverter, and the third node connected between the inverter and the output terminal, a second reset switch connected between the second node and the third node to reset the inverter, and a third reset switch connected to a fourth node between the second capacitor and the second feedback switch to reset the second capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kee Jong Kim
  • Patent number: 7354328
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a substrate for an organic electroluminescent device includes forming a first electrode on a substrate having a pixel region; forming an insulating layer on the first electrode at a boundary of the pixel region; forming an electroluminescent layer on the first electrode in the pixel region by printing a solution type electroluminescent material; forming a second electrode material layer on an entire surface of the substrate having the electroluminescent layer and the insulating layer; and oxidizing or ablating by laser the second electrode material layer at the boundary of the pixel region to form a second electrode in the pixel region and a metal oxide layer at the boundary of the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Yoon Lee
  • Patent number: 7354784
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a color-filter on transistor (COT) type LCD device, to improve the yield by simplifying the fabrication process with diffraction exposure, which includes the steps of forming a gate line, a gate electrode, a gate pad and a data pad on a substrate; depositing a gate insulating layer and an active layer; forming a data line intersecting the gate line to define a unit pixel region, source and drain electrode on the active layer, and first and second connection conductive layers forming an insulating interlayer on the remaining portions except the first and second connection conductive layers and the drain electrode; forming a color filter layer and a black matrix layer on the insulating interlayer; forming an overcoat layer on the remaining portions of the color filter layer except the first and second connection conductive layers and the drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD. Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Seung Ryull Park, Sang Hee Yu
  • Patent number: 7355661
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display module includes a light source that generates light. A light guide panel has a first refractive index. Light from the light source propagates through the light guide panel. A low refractive index layer is disposed on the light guide panel and has a second refractive index which is lower than that of the light guide panel. A transmissive liquid crystal display panel is disposed on the upper part of the lower refractive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD. Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hyung Ki Hong
  • Patent number: 7355592
    Abstract: A display device integrated with a touch panel is disclosed, which can use various types of input devices. Thus, in addition to conductive devices, a gloved hand or a non-conductive stylus pen can be used as an input. The touch panel includes a supporting substrate; a first transparent conductive layer having a first electrode for applying a voltage to the supporting substrate; a second transparent conductive layer having a second electrode and facing the first transparent conductive layer; an adhesive for attaching the first and second transparent conductive layers to each other; and a passivation film on an outer surface of the second transparent conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Jung Hong, Hee Jeong Park
  • Patent number: 7354807
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a fabricating method thereof for reducing the number of data lines and the capacitance of a parasitic capacitor between pixel electrodes are disclosed. A first switching part has at least two thin film transistors for applying a first pixel signal that is supplied to a first data line to a first pixel electrode under control of the second control line and the gate line. A second switching part has at least two thin film transistors for applying a second pixel signal supplied to the second data line to the second pixel electrode under control of the first control line and the gate line. A turn-on current value of wither of the two thin film transistors, in each of the first and second switching parts, is more than that of the other thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sang Hee Yu, Won Seok Kang
  • Publication number: 20080079875
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes: disposing a transparent substrate on a stage of a laser apparatus; irradiating a laser beam having a predetermined power onto the transparent substrate to form a light shielding region in the transparent substrate surrounding first to third light transmitting regions; and forming a color filter layer including red, green and blue sub-color filters respectively in the first to third light transmitting regions, wherein boundaries of the red, green and blue sub-color filters correspond to the light shielding region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: LG.PHILIPS LCD CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae-Young Oh
  • Patent number: 7351621
    Abstract: An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a plurality of thin film transistors formed on the substrate, each thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a first gate insulation layer, a second gate insulation layer, an active layer, an ohmic contact layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines disposed orthogonal to the plurality of gate lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed at pixel regions defined by intersections of the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines, each pixel electrode electrically contacting each drain electrode of the plurality of thin film transistors, and a plurality of storage capacitors each including a portion of each gate line as a first capacitor electrode, the first gate insulation layer as a dielectric layer, and a capacitor electrode electrically communicating with each pixel electrode and functioning as a second capacitor electrode with a portion of each pixel e
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyo-Ho Moon
  • Patent number: 7352352
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes a histogram analyzer analyzing a histogram of an input image and determining the input image as being in one of a low brightness mode, a normal mode, and a high brightness mode based on the histogram analysis, a back light controller controlling a maximum brightness of a back light unit based on the mode determination, and a data modulator enlarging the histogram of the input image to modulate data of the input image. The histogram analyzer detects a most frequent value of gray scale occurring most frequently in the input image of one frame, compares the most frequent value with a predetermined low reference gray value and a predetermined high reference gray value, and determines the input image as in one of the low brightness mode, the normal mode, and the high brightness mode based on the compared result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eui Yeol Oh, Tae Ho You, Hee Jeong Park, Ki Duk Kim
  • Patent number: 7351600
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a gate line formed on a substrate; a data line to provide a pixel area by crossing the gate line with a gate insulating film therebetween; a common line formed in parallel to the gate line; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a passivation film formed to cover the thin film transistor; a contact hole which penetrates the passivation film; a pixel electrode connected with the thin film transistor; and a common electrode connected with the common line to form a horizontal electric field with the pixel electrode, and wherein at lease one of the gate line, the data line, the common line, the pixel electrode and the common electrode is composed of a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer which is formed to cover the first conductive layer by being extended more outward than the first conductive layer, and is formed to have a border with the passivation film within the contact
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD. Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Soon Sung Yoo, Oh Nam Kwon, Heung Lyul Cho, Seung Hee Nam
  • Patent number: 7352417
    Abstract: The present invention is an array substrate for use in a liquid crystal display device, which includes a gate electrode, a gate line and a gate pad electrode on a substrate, wherein all of the gate electrode, the gate line and the gate pad electrode have a first barrier metal layer, a first copper layer, and a first out-diffusion film that covers and surrounds the first copper layer. In the liquid crystal display device, the pixel electrode, gate pad terminal and data pad terminal are formed of a transparent conductive material on a passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-Ho Cho, Gyoo-Chul Jo, Gue-Tai Lee, Jin-Gyu Kang, Beung-Hwa Jeong, Jin-Young Kim
  • Patent number: 7352351
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a pixel region, a graphic interface unit generating a first data enable signal having first and second time intervals, a signal modulating unit generating a second data enable signal by using the first data enable signal, the second data enable signal having third and fourth time intervals, and a timing controller generating the data signals by using the second data enable signal, wherein data signals are not input to the pixel region during the third time interval and are input to the pixel region during the fourth time interval, and the forth time interval is shorter than the second time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Ho Jang, Kyung-Eon Lee
  • Patent number: 7351623
    Abstract: A thin film transistor substrate of a LCD device and a fabricating method thereof are disclosed for simplifying a fabricating process and enlarging a capacitance value of a storage capacitor without any reduction of aperture ratio. The LCD device includes: a double-layered gate line having a first transparent conductive layer and a second opaque conductive layer, the second opaque conductive layer have a step coverage; a gate insulation layer film on the gate line; a data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region; a TFT connected to the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode connected to the TFT via a contact hole of a protective film on the TFT; and a storage capacitor overlapping the pixel electrode and having a lower storage electrode formed of the first transparent conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byung Chul Ahn
  • Patent number: 7352423
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display using a compensating film includes a liquid crystal panel having upper and lower substrates, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between; a first compensating film formed over an inner surface of at least one of the upper substrate lower substrates; a second compensating film formed over an outer surface of at least one of the upper and lower substrates; and first and second polarizing plates attached over the second compensating film and on an outer surface of the other one of the upper lower substrates such that a first optical transmission axis of the first polarizing plate is perpendicular to a second optical transmission axis of the second polarizing plate. The compensating film is formed inside the liquid crystal panel, thereby preventing light leakage at a viewing angle and improving the viewing angle characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Man Hoan Lee, Ku Hyun Park, Un Nyoung Sa
  • Patent number: 7350935
    Abstract: A backlight assembly includes at least two light sources. Each of the at least two light sources includes a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portions of the at least two light sources are adjacent to each other. The second end portions of the at least two light sources are adjacent to each other. The backlight assembly also includes a voltage supplier for applying a high voltage to the adjacent first end portions of the at least two light sources and a low voltage to the adjacent second end portions of the at least two light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sun Young Kwon
  • Patent number: 7351127
    Abstract: A liquid crystal dispensing apparatus having a multipart, separable needle that can be easily repaired should the needle becomes distorted or damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyug-Jin Kweon, Hae-Joon Son