Patents Examined by David Y. Chung
  • Patent number: 11360347
    Abstract: A window substrate integrated with a polarizing plate and a method of preparing the same is provided. A window substrate integrated with a polarizing plate comprises a base substrate, a non-display pattern disposed on a non-display part of one surface of the base substrate, and a liquid crystal polarizing layer disposed on a display part of the same surface as the non-display pattern. A display device having a reduced thickness and a colored non-display pattern is achieved using the widow substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hun Cha, Jong Min Kim, Il Woo Park, Han Bae Lee, Jin Gyu Cha
  • Patent number: 11333934
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels and a covering layer. The substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area. The peripheral area is adjacent to the display area. The sub-pixels are disposed in the display area and arranged along a first direction. The sub-pixels have a first color, and two adjacent one of the sub-pixels have a first pixel pitch along the first direction. The covering layer is disposed in the peripheral area and has a first recess. The first recess has a first portion extended along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first portion has a first width along the first direction. A ratio of the first width to the first pixel pitch is greater than or equal to 0.05 and less than or equal to 0.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Pai-Chiao Cheng
  • Patent number: 11333920
    Abstract: A display panel is provided and includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a light shielding layer, a scattering pattern, a sealant, and a display medium layer. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The light shielding layer is disposed on a top surface of the first substrate away from the second substrate. The scattering pattern is disposed underneath the light shielding layer. The sealant is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and shielded by the light shielding layer. The display medium layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and surrounded by the sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Himax Display, Inc.
    Inventor: Po-Hung Pan
  • Patent number: 11327212
    Abstract: A polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display including the same are provided. A polarizing plate includes: a polarizer; and a pattern layer on a light exit surface of the polarizer, the pattern layer including a first resin layer and a second resin layer sequentially arranged on the polarizer, a pattern portion being located at an interface between the first resin layer and the second resin layer and being composed of at least two pattern groups repeatedly arranged therein, each of the pattern groups including at least two engraved optical patterns; and at least two of the engraved optical patterns in each of the pattern groups having different aspect ratios and different base angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Ho Wee, Jeong Ho Lee, Young Oh
  • Patent number: 11327375
    Abstract: A reflective cholesteric liquid crystal display includes a display unit. The display unit includes a upper transparent substrate, a lower substrate, a upper transparent electrode pattern formed on the upper transparent substrate, a lower transparent electrode pattern formed on the lower substrate, a cholesteric liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the upper transparent electrode pattern and the lower transparent electrode pattern, and a light absorbing layer formed on the upper transparent substrate. The cholesteric liquid crystal layer is used for generating a visible light including a wavelength range. The light absorbing layer is used for absorbing light outside the wavelength range, so that the visible light in the wavelength range passes through the light absorbing layer and the upper transparent substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Iris Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-Chang Liao, Chun-Kang Ku
  • Patent number: 11320680
    Abstract: A viewing angle switch module including a viewing angle limiting device and a first electrically controlled viewing angle switch device is provided. A plurality of first block walls of the viewing angle limiting device are arranged along a first direction and extended in a second direction. The first electrically controlled viewing angle switch device has a first liquid crystal layer, a first polarizer and a second polarizer. An angle of 90±20 degrees is included between an optical axis of the first liquid crystal layer and the first direction. The first polarizer and the second polarizer are respectively located at two opposite sides of the first liquid crystal layer. An absorption axis of the first polarizer and a, absorption axis of the second polarizer are parallel to or perpendicular to the first direction. A display apparatus adopting the viewing angle switch module is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Yang Fang, Ping-Yen Chen, Yang-Ching Lin, Jen-Wei Yu, Yu-Fan Chen
  • Patent number: 11307447
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel having a top surface, a side surface, a light shielding component, and an optical film is provided. The side surface is adjacent to the top surface. The light shielding component has a first part and a second part. The first part is disposed on the top surface of the display panel. The second part is disposed on the side surface of the display panel. The optical film at least covers the border between the top surface of the display panel and the first part of the light shielding component. The width of the first part of the light shielding component is less than 1 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yung-Chih Chen, Ming-Feng Hsieh, Yen-Shuo Chen, Chung-Cheng Huang
  • Patent number: 11294226
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a backlight layer, a filter layer, and an image display element. The backlight layer is formed with a first light transmitting hole. The filter layer is formed with a colorless region corresponding to the first light transmitting hole. The image display element is disposed at the first light transmitting hole, and light of the image display element is projected on the liquid crystal display and corresponds to the colorless region. The liquid crystal display can realize the full screen display effect, and image capturing functions of the lens suitable for the full screen display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianglin Gu, Chiafu Yen
  • Patent number: 11287686
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal unit, a pair of polarizers and an optical compensation film. The liquid crystal unit comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The polarizers clamp the liquid crystal unit. The optical compensation film is disposed between the polarizers and the liquid crystal unit. The optical compensation film comprises a first film layer, a second film layer, a third film layer and a fourth film layer which are stacked together, and respectively have a first refractive index, a second refractive index, a third refractive index and a fourth refractive index with different values. The first refractive index is smaller than the second refractive index. The third refractive index is smaller than the fourth refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huailiang He
  • Patent number: 11280946
    Abstract: A polarizing sheet includes a base layer, and a polarizing layer attached to the base layer. The polarizing layer includes, in a same plane, a combination of any two or more of a first region, a second region, or a third region. The first region, the second region and the third region have different light transmission properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Zhiwen Xu, Jiwei Chen
  • Patent number: 11269225
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display apparatus and a control method thereof. The display apparatus includes a light-transmitting substrate, a backlight source, a liquid crystal layer and a grate-like structure. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the light-transmitting substrate and the backlight source. The grate-like structure is disposed on a side of the light-transmitting substrate proximal to the liquid crystal layer. The grate-like structure is reused as both an electrode configured to control an equivalent refractive index of the liquid crystal layer and a grating. The backlight source includes a light guide plate and a collimated light source which is disposed on a side of the light guide plate. The grate-like structure is disposed on a side of the liquid crystal layer distal from the light guide plate and reused as both an electrode configured to control the refractive index of the liquid crystal and a grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiandong Meng, Wei Wang, Zhongxiao Li, Xiaochuan Chen, Xianqin Meng, Jifeng Tan, Jian Gao, Fangzhou Wang
  • Patent number: 11262612
    Abstract: A transparent display panel and a transparent display device are disclosed. The transparent display panel comprises a color filter substrate, an electrode layer, a blue phase liquid crystal layer configured to modulate an incident collimated natural light, and a light guide plate. The color filter substrate comprises a black matrix and pixel regions which are surrounded by the black matrix and arranged in a matrix, and each of the pixel regions on the color filter substrate is provided with a light shielding part at a central position, and an opening region surrounded by the light shielding part and the black matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jifeng Tan, Haiyan Wang, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11249365
    Abstract: Various embodiments set forth liquid crystal (LC) patterning control systems in which LCs are aligned using locally applied magnetic fields. The index of refraction experienced by light propagating through an anisotropic LC is dependent on orientation. As a result, a phase difference may be imparted to an optical beam that is passed through, or reflected from, an array of LCs whose orientations are controlled via locally applied magnetic fields. In some embodiments, the locally applied magnetic fields may be generated by driving currents through wires that intersect at micro or nanomagnetic particles or at magnetic domains, or by applying voltages to micro or nanocoils wrapped around high-permeability cores, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Erik Shipton, Oleg Yaroshchuk
  • Patent number: 11237320
    Abstract: A backlight source, a liquid crystal module, and a display device are provided. The backlight source includes a back plate and a plurality of support structures. The back plate includes a side wall and a bottom plate, and the side wall and the bottom plate define a first groove. A plurality of the support structures are arranged along a circumferential direction of the side wall and spaced apart from each other. The support structure is detachably connected to the side wall, and extends toward a center of the accommodation groove to form a support plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaolong Liu, Zhihui Wang, Gang Chen, Changgong Zhu, Jianghong Wen, Keguo Liu, Xuefeng Wang, Yanli Zhao, Guang Wang, Yu Wang, Di Wang, He Sun
  • Patent number: 11226515
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided by this disclosure. The display panel comprises an imaging area and a main display area surrounding the imaging area, wherein the imaging area comprises a LED lamp plate, a light controlling layer disposed on the LED lamp plate, a diffusion layer disposed on the LED lamp plate, a liquid crystal structural layer disposed on the light controlling layer, and a groove extending from the LED lamp plate to a surface of the liquid crystal structural layer close to the diffusion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Yang
  • Patent number: 11221514
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a backlight layer, a colorless region, and a backlight layer. The backlight layer is configured to have a first light-transmission hole. The colorless region is provided between a liquid crystal layer and an outer polarizing layer, and corresponds to the first light-transmission hole. The backlight is disposed at the first light-transmission hole and its light is projected on liquid crystal display and corresponds to the colorless region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianglin Gu, Chiafu Yen
  • Patent number: 11204515
    Abstract: A display device includes a base substrate that comprises a display area and a peripheral area; a first circuit part that is located in the peripheral area of the base substrate; a first pixel that is located in the display area of the base substrate; and a second pixel that is located in the display area of the base substrate, wherein the first pixel is located between the first circuit part and the second pixel along a direction and comprises a first organic pattern that comprises a first portion located on the base substrate and a second portion protruding upward from the first portion, and the second pixel comprises a second organic pattern that comprises a third portion located on the base substrate and a fourth portion protruding upward from the third portion, wherein the first portion, the second portion, the third portion and the fourth portion are made of the same material, and a width of the second portion measured along the direction is different from a width of the fourth portion measured along th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Inventors: Hyung Jin Song, Dong Hee Shin, Yoo Mi Ra, Soo Hong Cheon
  • Patent number: 11194178
    Abstract: An ophthalmic device including liquid crystal alignment features is disclosed herein. An example device may include first and second optical elements. The first optical element may include first liquid crystal alignment features formed on a first surface. The second optical element may include a first optical diffraction grating formed on a second surface, and second liquid crystal alignment features formed on the second surface. The first surface of the first optical element may face the second surface of the second optical element, and a first liquid crystal material may be disposed between the first and second surfaces of the first and second optical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Christian Gutierrez, Dmytro Reznikov
  • Patent number: 11187934
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus including a liquid crystal panel, first and second polarizing plates coupled to the front and rear of the liquid crystal panel, respectively, and a light absorbing layer on which light passed sequentially through the first polarizing plate, the liquid crystal panel is incident, wherein the light absorbing layer is disposed on a front surface of the second polarizing plate positioned in the front of the liquid crystal panel. The light absorbing layer includes a first resin layer, a second resin layer on which light passed through the first resin layer is incident, the second resin layer having a refractive index higher than that of the first resin layer, and light absorbing portions disposed on the first resin layer and configured to absorb a part of light passing through the light absorbing layer. Through this configuration, a viewing angle of the display apparatus is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ii Yong Jung, Wook-Jae Jeon, Young Chul Lee, Jun Sung Choi
  • Patent number: 11181784
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device including a first substrate having a first end portion, a second substrate facing the first substrate and having a second end portion separated from the first end portion, a liquid crystal layer located between the first substrate and the second substrate, a light-emitting element facing the second end portion, a first sealing member bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together, and a low refractive area located between the first substrate and the second substrate, located between the second end portion and the first sealing member in planar view, and containing a material having a refractive index lower than that of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Hiroki Sugiyama, Yoshihide Ohue, Yudai Numata