Patents Examined by Charles S Chang
  • Patent number: 12169330
    Abstract: An operation display device includes: a touch panel including a transparent base and an electrostatic capacitance sensor sheet, the transparent base having an operation surface in a front surface thereof to which or with which an operation body approaches or comes into contact, the sensor sheet being provided on a back surface of the transparent base to detect the approach or the contact of the operation body; a liquid crystal panel facing a back surface of the touch panel; an outer cover covering a portion of the touch panel other than a front surface of the touch panel; and a sealing member sealing a gap between the touch panel and the liquid crystal panel, the outer cover including a spacer between the touch panel and the liquid crystal panel, and the sensor sheet being not to be interposed between the transparent base and the spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Reo Kojima
  • Patent number: 12167538
    Abstract: A flexible circuit film including a first flexible film, a second flexible film facing the first flexible film, and a plurality of wirings arranged between the first flexible film and the second flexible film. The wirings have different widths and bend in different directions, and a guide film including a material more rigid than the first and second flexible films is arranged on ends of the first flexible film. The guide film includes a tear-preventing portion overlapping with a bending portion of a shortest one of the wirings while covering portions of an inner edge near inner corners of a U-shaped flexible circuit film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Ho Hwang, Jang Mi Lee
  • Patent number: 12158664
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and an electro-optical layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and having an optical characteristic changeable in accordance with an electrical field. The first substrate includes a substrate, an inorganic insulating layer, a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode spaced apart from each other, and an alignment layer. The inorganic insulating layer, the first pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode, and the alignment layer are arranged in this order from the substrate toward the electro-optical layer. The cover layer includes a first portion filling an area of the inorganic insulating layer between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. The alignment film includes a second portion that is in contact with the first portion and of which a surface opposite to the first portion is a planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukihiro Sugiura
  • Patent number: 12158670
    Abstract: Various arrangements described herein relate to a dual-sided display with improved light scattering. In one embodiment, a display is disclosed. The display includes an inside transparent layer disposed parallel to and spaced apart from an outside transparent layer. The display also includes a liquid crystal (LC) layer disposed between the inside transparent layer and the outside transparent layer and together forming a waveguide that is planar. The display includes ground electrodes disposed between the LC layer and the outside transparent layer and arranged in strips along the transparent layer, the strips being spaced apart and parallel. The display includes inside electrodes and outside electrodes disposed between the inside transparent layer and the LC layer and defining a geometric pattern that is in plane with the waveguide and a light source disposed at an edge surface of the waveguide and providing light along the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Kent State University
    Inventors: Sean P. Rodrigues, Suman Halder, Deng-Ke Yang
  • Patent number: 12153308
    Abstract: A display panel is provided by the present application. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixel opening regions, the display panel includes a light concentrating layer, including a plurality of light concentrating structures and a plurality of light isolating structures; the plurality of the light concentrating structures are disposed in the plurality of the sub-pixel opening regions in a one-to-one correspondence, and any adjacent two of the light concentrating structures are provided with one of the light isolating disposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiuhui Zhu
  • Patent number: 12149649
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving control module, a driving control method, a double-layer panel, and a display device. The driving control module is applied to the double-layer panel, the double-layer panel includes a first panel and a second panel, the first panel is a touch display panel, the second panel is a display panel, and the driving control module includes a control circuitry. The control circuitry is electrically coupled to the first panel and the second panel, and configured to control a touch stage of the first panel to be arranged within a spacing stage of the second panel, the first panel is configured to perform touch detection in the touch stage, and the spacing stage includes at least one of a scanning blank stage, a frame start time of image display time period, and a frame end time of the image display time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengtao Li, Rui Han, Jie Yu, Qing Ma, Daekeun Yoon, Dong Cui, Li Tian
  • Patent number: 12147104
    Abstract: A display device includes a driver circuit on a display panel, a conductive frame that is disposed behind the display panel and supplies a frame ground, a control printed board disposed behind the conductive frame, and a conductive shield cover covering at least a part of the back face of the control printed board. The control printed board includes a front ground pad and a backside ground pad. The front ground pad is electrically connected to the back face of the conductive frame. The backside ground pad is electrically connected to the conductive shield cover. A part of an end of the conductive shield cover is electrically connected to the partial region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Okuzono, Hitoshi Hiratsuka, Katsuhiro Ito
  • Patent number: 12140834
    Abstract: An optical system includes a display, a backlight configured to emit at least a light in a first wavelength range extending between about 400 nm and about 500 nm, and an optical film disposed adjacent the backlight and configured to absorb a light in a second wavelength range extending between about 415 nm to about 455 nm, wherein a ratio of the light in the second wavelength range transmitted by the optical film to the light in the first wavelength range transmitted by the optical film is less than or equal to 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Hideaki Shirotori, Naota Sugiyama, Taiki Ihara, Hiroki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12142617
    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: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Aoki, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa, Takayuki Ikeda, Hikaru Tamura
  • Patent number: 12135475
    Abstract: A display device includes a display layer emitting light. An infrared reflective layer is disposed on the display layer. An optical pattern is disposed on the infrared reflective layer. The optical pattern absorbs at least a portion of infrared light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Young Lee, Da Som Gu, Ki Jun Roh, Gil Yeong Park, Sung Guk An, So Yeon Han
  • Patent number: 12130432
    Abstract: There is provided a head-up display device including an indicator that emits display light, a concave mirror that is rotatable about a rotation shaft and reflects the display light from the indicator to project a display image, a motor that has a shaft portion disposed coaxially with the rotation shaft of the concave mirror and rotates the shaft portion about an axis when energized, a connecting member that connects the shaft portion of the motor and the rotation shaft of the concave mirror and rotates the concave mirror at the same rotation angle as a rotation angle of the rotation shaft, and a control board that controls the motor. The control board controls rotation of the motor by half-step drive or micro-step drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Fujimoto, Akira Yamanaka, Yuta Miyake
  • Patent number: 12117689
    Abstract: The present application provides a polarizer and a liquid crystal display device. The polarizer includes a resin layer, the resin layer includes a whisker, an acute angle is formed by a long-axis direction of each of the whiskers and a bottom surface of the resin layer, and the acute angle is greater than 0° and less than or equal to 40°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Li, Hanming Li, Guang Zeng, Fang Tan, Hongshan Yin, Kai Chen
  • Patent number: 12120935
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a pixel structure, a first optical filter, a first-color filter, a second optical filter, a second-color filter, and a second substrate. The pixel structure is disposed between the first substrate and each of the optical filters. The first-color filter is disposed on the first optical filter and has a first refractive index. The second optical filter is spaced from the first optical filter and includes a second-color pigment. The second-color filter is disposed on the second optical filter and has a second refractive index. The second substrate is disposed on the first color filter and the second color filter and has a third refractive index. A difference between the third refractive index and the second refractive index is less than a difference between the third refractive index and the first refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Inseok Song, Gak Seok Lee, Keunchan Oh, Byung-Chul Kim, Jang Wi Ryu, Halim Ji
  • Patent number: 12099269
    Abstract: An optically addressable light valve comprises a first transparent conductor layer, a layer of liquid crystal, and a photoconductor comprising an ultrawide band gap (UWBG) semiconductor. The liquid crystal is between the first transparent conductor layer and the semiconductor photoconductor. The optically addressable light valve is configured to apply a voltage across the liquid crystal and the UWBG semiconductor. A second transparent conductor may be formed in the UWBG semiconductor in some configurations, and the voltage may be applied across the first and second transparent conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Bikramjit Chatterjee, Lars F. Voss, Clint Frye
  • Patent number: 12092924
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel; and a light source device configured to provide light to the display panel, wherein the light source device may include: an optical member; a substrate including a first side facing the display panel and the optical member; a light source provided on the first side of the substrate; a driving element provided on the first side of the substrate and configured to drive the light source; a plurality of lines provided on the first side of the substrate, the plurality of lines including a first line and a second line that is connected to the driving element; and a jumper supporter provided on the first side of the substrate in an area where the first line intersects the second line, the jumper supporter being configured to support the optical member, to electrically connect the first line, and to guide the second line to be spaced apart from the first line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyukjun Jang, Sungyeol Kim, Hyungsuk Kim, Youngmin Lee, Junsung Choi
  • Patent number: 12092847
    Abstract: Provided is a circularly polarizing plate with which, in a case where a display device obtained by disposing the circularly polarizing plate on a display element is viewed from an oblique direction while the direction thereof is being changed, the display device exhibits little change in tint and has a low reflectivity; and an organic electroluminescent display device. The circularly polarizing plate includes a polarizer and an optically anisotropic layer, in which the optically anisotropic layer is a layer formed by fixing a liquid crystal compound having reverse wavelength dispersibility twist-aligned with a thickness direction as a helical axis, the molecular axis of the liquid crystal compound in the optically anisotropic layer is horizontal to the surface of the optically anisotropic layer, and the twisted angle of the twist-aligned liquid crystal compound is 15° to 360°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinpei Yoshida, Yuta Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12085826
    Abstract: An LCoS display pixel structure is disclosed. According to at least one embodiment, the present disclosure provides an LCoS display pixel structure which implements a pattern or geometry having an analog pixel structure in a display having micro-display LCoS structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: LIGAS TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Chang Man Khang
  • Patent number: 12078878
    Abstract: A viewing angle control liquid crystal panel includes: a first polarizer having a first absorption axis; a first liquid crystal panel including a first substrate, a first liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate; a second liquid crystal panel including a third substrate, a second liquid crystal layer, and a fourth substrate; and a third liquid crystal panel including a fifth substrate, a third liquid crystal layer, and a sixth substrate. The following equations are satisfied, where ?P1 is an azimuth angle of the first absorption axis and ?1, ?2, ?3, ?4, ?5, and ?6 are azimuth angles of directors of liquid crystal molecules on first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth substrate sides: 0°?|?1??2|?5° 0°?|?P1??1|?5° 0°?|?3??4|?5° 0°?|?5??6|?5°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Akira Hirai, Takashi Satoh, Akira Sakai, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Patent number: 12078887
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a liquid crystal panel; and a backlight unit configured to emit light to the liquid crystal panel is provided. The backlight unit includes a bottom chassis; a first interface board disposed on a front surface of the bottom chassis; a plurality of light source modules disposed on the front surface of the bottom chassis, arranged at predetermined intervals, and each of the plurality of light source modules having one end connected to the first interface board; and a second interface board disposed on a rear surface of the bottom chassis and connected to the first interface board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngmin Lee, Sungyeol Kim, Hyungsuk Kim, Seungyong Shin, Kyehoon Lee
  • Patent number: 12066731
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a transistor, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode. The transistor includes a first gate electrode on a first substrate, a second gate electrode having a region overlapping the first gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode, a first insulating layer between the first gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer, a second insulating layer between the oxide semiconductor layer and the second gate electrode, and a first oxide conductive layer and a second oxide conductive layer disposed between the first insulating layer and the oxide semiconductor layer and disposed with the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode sandwiched from both sides. The pixel electrode is disposed between the first and the second insulating layer; the common electrode is disposed a region overlapping with the pixel electrode and on the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: MIKUNI ELECTRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sakae Tanaka