Patents Examined by Alexander P Gross
  • Patent number: 12158644
    Abstract: An electronic device, including a display module, a viewing angle switchable panel, a switching element, and a driving element, is provided. The display module has multiple first units and multiple second units. The first units have a first color, and the second units have a second color. The first color and the second color are different. The switching element is used to switch the viewing angle switchable panel between a first viewing angle mode and a second viewing angle mode. The driving element is used to provide a first data voltage to at least one of the first units of the display module in the first viewing angle mode, and provide a second data voltage to the at least one of the first units in the second viewing angle mode. The first data voltage and the second data voltage are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Hao-Yu Chen, Hong-Sheng Hsieh, Hsin-Chih Wu
  • Patent number: 12153313
    Abstract: The display device includes an image display panel emitting linearly polarized light from a display area, a retardation plate on the image display panel, a variable phase difference element located on the retardation plate and providing phase difference to an incoming light, and a liquid crystal diffraction element on the variable phase difference element. The variable phase difference element is switchable between an on state, an off state, and an intermediate state, and the phase change of the intermediate state is smaller than the phase change of the on state. A first emission direction of a first emitted light in the on state, a second emission direction of a second emitted light in the off state, and a third emission direction of a third emitted light in the intermediate state are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takeo Koito, Junji Kobashi
  • Patent number: 12147123
    Abstract: A method for influencing light propagation directions of a plurality of illuminated surfaces, comprising: arranging switchable absorbers on the light-exit side of the surfaces, such that light only exits through portions of the surfaces which are in front of the surfaces; switching on the absorbers for a first operating state so that a portion of the light emanating from the surfaces is absorbed, while the rest of the light exits at the surface portions of the light-exit side of the surface substrates at which no switchable absorbers are applied, resulting in light only being visible from a limited viewing angle which is defined by the shape of the switchable absorber, the shape of the surface, refractive index conditions in, and thickness of, the substrates of the surfaces; and switching off the absorbers for a second operating state so that light from the surfaces is visible from an unrestricted viewing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: siOPTICA GmbH
    Inventors: André Heber, Andreas Bregulla
  • Patent number: 12147140
    Abstract: An anti-peeping display device including a display panel and a viewing angle control module, which are stacked, is provided. The viewing angle control module includes a first polarization layer, a first liquid crystal layer, a second polarization layer, a second liquid crystal layer and a third polarization layer that are sequentially stacked. The phase retardations of the first liquid crystal layer and the second liquid crystal layer are within 700 nm to 1200 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: AUO Corporation
    Inventors: Min-Hsuan Chiu, Wei-Ming Cheng
  • Patent number: 12125836
    Abstract: A display device includes a first conductive layer disposed on a substrate, a passivation layer disposed on the first conductive layer, a second conductive layer disposed on the passivation layer, a via layer disposed on the second conductive layer, a third conductive layer disposed on the via layer, the third conductive layer including a first electrode, a second electrode, a connection pattern, the first electrode, the second electrode, and the connection pattern being spaced apart from each other, and a light emitting element, a first end and a second end of the light emitting element being disposed on the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively, wherein the connection pattern electrically connects the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer through a first contact hole penetrating the via layer and the passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Jin Jeon, So Young Koo, Eok Su Kim, Hyung Jun Kim, Yun Yong Nam, Jun Hyung Lim
  • Patent number: 12124120
    Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid display device and a peep-proof control method thereof. The method includes: receiving and detecting a screen display signal required by the liquid crystal display device, and the screen display signal includes a brightness signal and a peep-proof signal; and in response to detecting that the peep-proof signal in the screen display signal is a partial peep-proof information, controlling a first switching timing of a backlight working state of a lamp panel in the liquid crystal display device to adapt to a second switching timing of a film working state of an electronically controlled liquid crystal film according to the brightness signal, so as to realize a partial peep-proof display of the liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Ye Wan, Baohong Kang
  • Patent number: 12124142
    Abstract: The display device includes: a color display element including pixels that are arranged in a row direction and in a column direction and each include sub-pixels of different colors; and a liquid crystal display panel stacked with the color display element, the liquid crystal display panel including a TFT substrate, a counter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer, the TFT substrate including first bus lines extending in a first direction, second bus lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and display electrodes each at a position corresponding to an intersection of one of the first bus lines and one of the second bus lines, at least one of the first bus lines and at least one of the second bus lines each overlapping at least some sub-pixels of all colors among the sub-pixels of different colors of the color display element in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 12117683
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate and heating wires located at least in a display area of the substrate. The heating wires extend along a first direction and are arranged along a second direction. The first direction intersects with the second direction. Each heating wire includes a first signal end and a second signal end. The first signal end and the second signal end of the same heating wire are located on two sides of the same heating wire along the first direction. First signal ends of the plurality of heating wires are located on a first side of the display area along the first direction. Second signal ends of the plurality of heating wires are located on a second side of the display area along the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhidan Su, Jian Zhao, Hong Zhang
  • Patent number: 12114420
    Abstract: An LCD display module includes a polygon flexible printed circuit to produce a thinner display. The polygon flexible printed circuit connects a driver integrated circuit to a printed circuit board assembly and a glass substrate. The polygon flexible printed circuit has a narrow minor end connected to the glass substrate and a wider major end connected to the printed circuit board assembly. Because the polygon flexible printed circuit has different end widths, the polygon flexible printed circuit permits reduced spacing of electronic components in proximity of the narrower minor end. The LCD display module also includes a shielding can in physical communication with the printed circuit board assembly to reduce electromagnetic interference between the printed circuit board and the polygon flexible printed circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Tsung-Chin Cheng, Chin-Chung Wu, Hong-Ji Huang
  • Patent number: 12111551
    Abstract: A display device includes an array substrate including a display region arranged with pixels and a peripheral region outside the display region, a counter substrate facing the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate. The display region includes a plurality of scanning signal lines extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a plurality of data signal lines extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction. The peripheral region includes a first wiring pattern arranged with a plurality of first wirings connecting a scanning signal line driver circuit and the plurality of scanning signal lines, and a second wiring pattern arranged with a plurality of second wirings being supplied with a certain electric potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Kentaro Kawai
  • Patent number: 12105365
    Abstract: A light reflecting device includes two substrates and a liquid crystal layer. The two substrates are parallel to each other and respectively electrically connected to a voltage source to generate an electric field therebetween. Each of the two substrates has an inner surface having a horizontal orientation. The liquid crystal layer is formed by liquid crystal materials filled between the two substrates. The liquid crystal materials include liquid crystal molecules and ions of salt species. The liquid crystal molecules are at least formed by negative liquid crystals and chiral molecules. The liquid crystal layer is respectively switched to a diffuse reflection state and a specular reflection state by applying the electrical field generated by the voltage source in a first frequency and a second frequency. The second frequency is higher than the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tsung-Hsien Lin, Cheng-Chang Li, Li-Min Chang, Duan-Yi Guo, Kuan-Wu Lin
  • Patent number: 12099279
    Abstract: A light adjustment device includes a plurality of liquid crystal cells each including a light adjustment region that polarizes light emitted from a light source, the liquid crystal cells being stacked in a direction in which the light is emitted. The liquid crystal cells each include a first substrate in which a plurality of first metal wires are provided, and a second substrate in which a plurality of second metal wires are provided and that sandwiches a liquid crystal layer with the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ochiai, Shunpei Takeuchi, Osamu Kobayashi, Hiroya Morimoto, Takeo Koito, Koichi Nagao
  • Patent number: 12085815
    Abstract: A substrate module, a display apparatus, and a liquid crystal antenna are provided in the present disclosure. The substrate module includes a first substrate. The first substrate includes a first sub-region and a second sub-region; the second sub-region includes a binding region; and the binding region includes first pins. The first sub-region includes first loads, and a first sub-pin is electrically connected to the first load. The second sub-region includes at least one second load, and a second sub-pin is electrically connected to the second load. The second load includes a capacitor including a first capacitor. The first substrate includes a first base substrate, a first electrode layer, a first insulating layer and a second electrode layer. Along a direction perpendicular to a plane of the base substrate, an overlapping portion of a first electrode portion and a second electrode portion forms the first capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Jia, Kerui Xi, Ping Su, Baiquan Lin, Linzhi Wang, Qingsan Zhu, Xiaonan Han, Yifan Xing, Xin Li, Feng Qin
  • Patent number: 12072522
    Abstract: The invention provides a display device including a display panel and a backlight module including a light guide plate, a light source, and an optical film. The light guide plate has light incident and exit surfaces. The light source is disposed at one side of the light incident surface. The optical film is overlapped with the light exit surface, and has first optical microstructures facing the light exit surface. The display panel includes a liquid crystal cell overlapped with the light exit surface, first and second polarizers respectively disposed at two opposite sides of the liquid crystal cell, and a phase retardation film disposed between the first and second polarizers. The first polarizer is located between the liquid crystal cell and the optical film. An axial direction of an optical axis of the phase retardation film is perpendicular to an axial direction of an absorption axis of the first polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Jen-Wei Yu
  • Patent number: 12072590
    Abstract: Provided is a curved liquid crystal display panel, including a color film substrate and an array substrate. An orthographic projection of the color film substrate on the array substrate is within the array substrate. The color film substrate includes a first side surface and a second side surface. The array substrate includes a third side surface and a fourth side surface. The first side surface is adjacent to and staggered from the third side surface. The second side surface is adjacent to and staggered from the fourth side surface. At positions where the third side surface and the fourth side surface are disposed, each of a side, proximal to the color film substrate, of the array substrate and a side, distal from the color film substrate, of the array substrate includes a structure formed by a grinding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE DISPLAY SCI-TECH CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanxue Zhang, Zhoushuo Chu, Yong Zeng, Yanru Guo, Chao Zhong, Lei Qin, Zeyu Qu, Shuai Li, Zhonglin Li, Yufeng Bao, Yuting Zhang
  • Patent number: 12050331
    Abstract: Patterned polarizers with reduced transition regions are formed using a directional etch. Multiple layers can be combined to produce filters for polarization cameras and displays as well as achromatic filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of he University of Arizona
    Inventors: Stanley Pau, Xingzhou Tu
  • Patent number: 12044873
    Abstract: A birefringence film is provided with a plurality of birefringence layers including a hybrid-aligned liquid crystalline polymer. The plurality of birefringence layers is stacked in a state in which the alignment directions of the liquid crystal polymer are identical, and the rising directions of the tilt angle of the liquid crystal polymer are identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sounosuke Takahashi, Tetsushi Sato, Tetsurou Tashiro
  • Patent number: 12044934
    Abstract: An optical element includes first to fourth liquid crystal cells. Each of the first to fourth liquid crystal cells includes a first substrate on which a first pair of comb-shaped transparent electrodes are arranged and a second substrate on which a second pair of comb-shaped transparent electrodes are arranged. An extending direction of the first pair of comb-shaped transparent electrodes is orthogonal to an extending direction of the second pair of comb-shaped transparent electrodes. Between two different liquid crystal cells of the first to fourth liquid crystal cells, one of the first pair of comb-shaped transparent electrodes of one liquid crystal cell and one of the second pair of comb-shaped transparent electrodes of the other liquid crystal cell are electrically connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Takeo Koito
  • Patent number: 12032234
    Abstract: Anti-peep display assembly and display device are provided. The anti-peep display assembly includes a backlight module, a first birefringence control type liquid crystal cell, a second birefringence control type liquid crystal cell, and a display liquid crystal cell. Along a thickness direction of the anti-peep display assembly, the first birefringence control type liquid crystal cell and the second birefringence control type liquid crystal cell are between the backlight module and the display liquid crystal cell, and the first birefringence control type liquid crystal cell is between the second birefringence control type liquid crystal cell and the backlight module. A first polarizer is arranged on a side of the display liquid crystal cell away from the second birefringence control type liquid crystal cell, and a second polarizer is arranged between the display liquid crystal cell and the second birefringence control type liquid crystal cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiyuan Zhang, Xintong Ling, Fan Tian, Xiongping Li
  • Patent number: 12025867
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device and an anti-peep state switching film driving method thereof. The display device has an anti-peep display function, and an anti-peep state switching film is also disposed on the display device. Selectively electrifying the anti-peep state switching film can change a display viewing angle of the display device. Specifically, a time control cooperatively supplies each of the release electrodes with a driving signal individually to achieve switching between an anti-peep state and a sharing state at will such that application scenarios of the anti-peep display become more extensive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wanchun Wu