Patents Examined by Charles Chang
  • Patent number: 10142619
    Abstract: A device for 3D wide angle viewing, comprising of goggles installed with a set of Vector Light Sources (VLSs) which emit narrow light beams each pointing only in one direction. The set of VLSs is divided into two hemispherical concentric subsets. All the VLSs included in each subset are pointed towards the center location of their subset. The device enables viewing of a pair of stereoscopic images when the center locations are adjusted to fit the locations of the user's pupils. Viewing of each pixel of the stereoscopic images is focused because it is emitted by VLS. The VLSs are constructed by installing each light source behind a lens which focuses the light into a narrow beam. The light sources could emit color using Red-Green-Blue triplets of Light Emitting Diodes, Organic Light Emitting Diodes, Liquid Cristal Displays or Laser diodes. Similar technique could be used also for flat screen displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Inventor: Jezekiel Ben-Arie
  • Patent number: 10133107
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a face housing, a touch device and a protective cover plate. The face housing includes a bottom wall and a side wall; a cavity is formed by the surrounding of the bottom wall and the side wall; the side wall includes a first positioning surface which is a curved surface. The touch device is within the cavity and the protective cover plate is arranged to be attached to the touch device. The protective cover plate includes a second positioning surface which is a curved surface; and the second positioning surface is attached to the first positioning surface, so that the protective cover plate is attached to the face housing. The first positioning surface is set on the face housing and curved surface, the second positioning surface is correspondingly set on the protective cover plate and curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: YULONG COMPUTER TELECOMMUNICATION SCIENTIFIC
    Inventor: Yun Hu
  • Patent number: 10126603
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area which is arranged outside the display area; a first dam which is disposed in the non-display area of the first substrate and which includes a first stopper having a recessed groove at a surface thereof; and a first alignment layer which covers the display area of the first substrate, the first alignment layer defining a first portion thereof which extends to the non-display area and terminates at the surface of the first stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Gyun Kim, Jin Lak Kim, Se Hee Han
  • Patent number: 10109661
    Abstract: An object is to provide a pixel structure of a display device including a photosensor which prevents changes in an output of the photosensor and a decrease in imaging quality. The display device has a pixel layout structure in which a shielding wire is disposed between an FD and an imaging signal line (a PR line, a TX line, or an SE line) or between the FD and an image-display signal line in order to reduce or eliminate parasitic capacitance between the FD and a signal line for the purpose of suppressing changes in the potential of the FD. An imaging power supply line, image-display power supply line, a GND line, a common line, or the like whose potential is fixed, such as a common potential line, is used as a shielding wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Aoki, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa, Takayuki Ikeda, Hikaru Tamura
  • Patent number: 10101607
    Abstract: A display device may include a first substrate having a predetermined radius of curvature, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a plurality of gate line and a plurality of data lines intersecting each other on the first substrate, a black matrix disposed on the second substrate and at least part of the black matrix overlapping the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines so as to define a plurality of pixel areas, a plurality of pixel electrode in the plurality of pixel areas on the first substrate, and a plurality of color filters in the plurality of pixel areas on the second substrate. A distance between adjacent color filters is different depending on where the pixel areas are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kye Uk Lee, Dong Hyun Yoo, Seong Young Lee, Kyung Hoe Lee
  • Patent number: 10098244
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a display unit which includes a display panel that displays an image on a front face, and a chassis disposed on a back face of the display panel and holding the display panel; and a first frame member disposed along at least a portion of a front periphery of the display panel, wherein the first frame member includes: a front portion disposed on the front face of the display panel; and a folding portion connected to the front portion, and having an end portion which is disposed at a back face side of the chassis by being bent, the end portion being a distal end portion relative to the front portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 10088706
    Abstract: A surface light source device includes a laser beam source, a laser beam guide rod for converting a laser beam into first linear light, an LED light source, an LED light guide rod for converting LED light into second linear light extended in the same direction as the first linear light, a reflecting bar for reflecting the first linear light and the second linear light, and a light reflecting portion formed in a box shape and having an opening portion with an emission side opened and a reflecting surface on an inside of the box shape. The first linear light and the second linear light are reflected by the reflecting bar and the reflecting surface, and are emitted from the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nami Okimoto, Saki Maeda, Eiji Niikura, Tomohiko Sawanaka, Masaaki Takeshima, Ikuo Nagashima
  • Patent number: 10088714
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate having pixel regions and a counter substrate opposed thereto. One of the pixel regions is defined by a pair of gate lines extending in a first direction and a pair of data lines extending in a second direction. A first insulating layer is disposed on the substrate corresponding to the pixel region. A first common electrode is continuously disposed on the first insulating layer and overlaps the data lines. A pixel electrode pattern is disposed above the first common electrode. A second insulating layer is interposed between the first common electrode and the pixel electrode pattern. A second common electrode is disposed above one of the data lines and electrically connected to the first common electrode. A projection of the second common electrode on the substrate overlaps a projection of the one of the data lines on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Minoru Shibazaki
  • Patent number: 10088723
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pixel structure, comprising scan lines, data lines and pixel areas, and the scan lines are separately arranged in parallel along a horizontal direction, and the data lines are separately arranged in parallel along a vertical direction, and the scan lines and the data lines overlap with each other to form the pixel areas, and the pixel structure further comprises a connection electrode employed to coupled to pixel areas, and the connection electrode comprises a first connection layer and a second connection layer, and the first connection layer is in the same pattern layer with the scan lines and intersects with the scan lines, and the first connection layer at an intersecting position with the scan line is disconnected, and the second connection layer is in the same pattern layer with the data lines and crosses with the scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Xing Ming, Zhiyuan Shen
  • Patent number: 10082613
    Abstract: A directional backlight has a directional backplane that has a plurality of directional pixels configured to scatter a plurality of input planar lightbeams into a plurality of directional lightbeams. Each directional lightbeam has a direction and angular spread controlled by characteristics of a directional pixel in the plurality of directional pixels. A modulation layer having a plurality of modulators configured to modulate the plurality of directional lightbeams. The directional backlight is configured to generate a 3D image with multiple views by specifying the characteristics of the directional pixels in the directional backplane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: LEIA INC.
    Inventors: David A. Fattal, James A. Brug, Charles M. Santori, Marco Fiorentino, Zhen Peng
  • Patent number: 10082719
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a liquid crystal lens, including an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a spacer, the liquid crystal layer and the spacer are disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. A surface of the spacer is coated with a first antireflection film and a second antireflection film in turn. An index of refraction of the liquid crystal layer is n0. An index of refraction of the first antireflection film is n2, a thickness of which is d2. An index of refraction of the second antireflection film is n1, a thickness of the second antireflection film is d1. An index of refraction of the spacer is n3, and n 1 = n 0 2 3 ? n 3 1 3 , n 2 = n 0 1 3 ? n 3 2 3 , n1d1=n2d2=?/6, where ? is a wavelength of light. The liquid crystal lens and the 3D display can reduce light intensity of the reflective rays on the spacer and increase contrast of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Chang Xie
  • Patent number: 10082696
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a liquid crystal panel, including an array substrate and a color filter substrate formed oppositely to the array substrate and a LC layer sandwiched between the array substrate and the color filter substrate, and a seal formed around the LC layer. A wall is formed on a position of the array substrate next to the seal and toward the LC layer. Multiple color resister units are sequentially connected on a coplanar face to form the wall. The color resister A is formed by more than three color resisters sequentially arranged and the adjacent color resisters the two color resister units A are different. The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Shin-Hsun Lo, Jinbo Guo, Jinjie Wang
  • Patent number: 10078163
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a polarizing plate including an alignment layer applicable to various types of substrates, and having excellent light polarization properties. A polarizing plate 1 of the present invention includes an alignment layer 3, and a polarizing layer 4 disposed on the alignment layer 3, and containing an organic dye having lyotropic liquid crystallinity, wherein the organic dye in the polarizing, layer 4 is in a form of supramolecular aggregates, and the alignment layer 3 contains a cycloolefin based resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Asanoi, Kazumasa Okada, Shoichi Matsuda, Hiroyuki Takemoto
  • Patent number: 10073215
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: a light source; an optical component provided separately from the light source; a holding member holding the light source and the optical component; and a variable pressing member variably pressing the optical component against the holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Abe
  • Patent number: 10061149
    Abstract: Disclosed is a nanocapsule liquid crystal display device. The display includes a liquid crystal panel having a substrate and a nanocapsule liquid crystal layer over the substrate; a first polarizing plate on an outer surface of the substrate and including a first polarizing layer; and a second polarizing plate directly on an outer surface of the nanocapsule liquid crystal layer and including a second polarizing layer and a phase difference layer, wherein a retardation of the nanocapsule liquid crystal layer is compensated by the phase difference layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-Na Jeon, Kyeong-Jin Kim, Min-Geon Choi
  • Patent number: 10048548
    Abstract: A pixel array substrate structure includes: first and second planarizing films sequentially stacked on a substrate where a circuit unit is formed; and a relay wire formed between the first and second planarizing films, in which the relay wire electrically connects a first contact portion formed on the first planarizing film and connected to the circuit unit with a second contact portion formed at a position different from the first contact portion when seen from above, on the second planarizing film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi Nagasawa, Masaya Tamaki, Shuji Hayashi, Masaaki Kabe, Yoko Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 10042110
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a display panel having a lower substrate, an upper substrate disposed opposite to the lower substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower and upper substrates, a light source which emits light, a glass light guide plate which diffuses the light from the light source to the display panel, and a first bonding member which bonds the lower substrate to the glass light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Se-Ki Park
  • Patent number: 10036918
    Abstract: The inventive concept relates to a light unit and a diffuser separated from the light source at a predetermined distance and having a cylindrical structure, and a cylindrical structure display device including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., ltd.
    Inventors: Seon Uk Lee, Nam Seok Roh, Woo Jae Lee, Hee-Keun Lee, Don Chan Cho
  • Patent number: 10031370
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer between the pair of substrates; and an alignment film between at least one of the pair of substrates and the liquid crystal layer, wherein the alignment film includes a first and second component, wherein the first component is a polymer in which at least two types of liquid crystal orientation side chains are bonded to a polysiloxane main chain, wherein the second component is made of at least one of a polyamic acid and a polyimide, wherein the at least two types of liquid crystal orientation side chains include a first side chain having on an end thereof a fluorine atom, and a second side chain that does not have on an end thereof a fluorine atom, wherein a proportion of the first component to a total amount of the second component is 2 mass % or greater, and wherein, in the liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal is sealed between the pair of substrates by a One Drop Fill scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuko Teraoka, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Patent number: 10025145
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the sub-pixels is arranged around center of the corresponding pixel and divided into a plurality of display regions to perform N-bit area coverage modulation by a combination of the display regions. The display regions are arranged in such a manner that: a display region corresponding to a least significant bit of the area coverage modulation is arranged closest to the center of the corresponding pixel; and a display region corresponding to a higher significant bit of the area coverage modulation is arranged around the center of the pixel and further from the center of the corresponding pixel (N is a natural number of 2 or more).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya Tamaki, Yoko Fukunaga