Patents Examined by Edmond Lau
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Patent number: 10209591Abstract: According to one embodiment, a projection type liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a bezel. The liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate, an opposed substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the array substrate and the opposed substrate. The liquid crystal display panel has a first surface on one side of the array substrate and the opposed substrate, and a second surface on another side of the array substrate and the opposed substrate. The bezel covers a part of the liquid crystal panel. The bezel includes a first opening provided on a side of the first surface and a second opening provided on a side of the second surface. The second opening has a larger size than the first opening.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Fumiaki Nihei
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Patent number: 10209531Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical device includes a first light-modulating element transmitting or scattering light, and a second light-modulating element transmitting or scattering the light passing through the first light-modulating element, a driving module alternately performing a first mode of making the first light-modulating element scatter the light and making the second light-modulating element transmit the light, and a second mode of making the first light-modulating element transmit the light and making the second light-modulating element scatter the light.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Kentaro Okuyama
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Patent number: 10209555Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device, including a first insulating, a first common electrode located on a side of the first insulating layer, a second common electrode being adjacent to the first common electrode, and a second insulating, wherein the first insulating layer is in contact with the second insulating layer at a position corresponding to the first boundary portion, the second common electrode is contact with any one of the first and second insulating layers at a position corresponding to the second boundary portion, and being in contact with both the first and second insulating layers at a position corresponding to the third boundary portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Yuji Maede
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Patent number: 10197846Abstract: A display device includes a display component (1), which includes a liquid crystal panel and a backlight source (11) with the liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal cell, a first polarizing sheet (12) located on a side of the liquid crystal cell near the backlight source, and a second polarizing sheet (16) located on a side of the liquid crystal cell away from the backlight source. One of the first polarizing sheet (12) and the second polarizing sheet (16) is movable.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yupeng Wang, Xiaolong Li, Lifeng Lin, Chao Tian, Hongming Zhan
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Patent number: 10200665Abstract: The present invention involves a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a display surface for displaying images, and the display surface is concave when being viewed in front of the display surface. The display panel can provide a good sense of presence when displaying images.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yanbing Wu
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Patent number: 10199610Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display layer, an encapsulation layer, and a reflective layer. The display layer is on a substrate and includes a non-emission area adjacent to an emission area. The encapsulation layer is over the display layer. The reflective layer is on the encapsulation layer and includes a first opening corresponding to the emission area and a reflecting area adjacent the first opening and corresponding to the non-emission area. The reflective layer transmits light in a first mode and reflects light in a second mode different from the first mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Heesoo Yoo, Mugyeom Kim, Junggun Nam
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Patent number: 10199600Abstract: A display device may include a display panel that includes a plurality of display elements. The display device may further include a protective member overlapping the display panel. The display device may further include an optical member disposed between the display panel and the protective member and configured to prevent light reflected by the display panel from reaching the protective member. The optical member may include a plurality of directional members. The plurality of directional members may have an optic axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Innam Lee, Suk Choi, Youngkuil Joo, Kyung Woo Han
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Patent number: 10191330Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel, a fabrication method thereof and a display device are provided. The liquid crystal display panel comprises: an opposed substrate (10) and an array substrate (20) arranged opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer (30) filled between the opposed substrate (10) and the array substrate (20). Alignment films (40) having opposite friction directions are provided on opposing surfaces of the opposed substrate (10) and the array substrate (20), respectively. The liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of pixel units which are arranged in array, and each of the pixel units comprises two pixel regions (A, B) along the friction direction of the alignment film.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Heecheol Kim, Hyun Sic Choi
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Patent number: 10191318Abstract: Disclosed is a transparent display device in which a light shield rate is not lowered by partition walls in a light shield mode, and moreover, a light transmittance is not lowered in a transmissive mode. The transparent display device includes a transparent display panel including a plurality of transmissive areas transmitting incident light and a plurality of emissive areas emitting light, and a light control device disposed on a rear surface of the transparent display panel. The light control device is configured to be driven in a transmissive mode where the incident light is transmitted and a light shield mode where the incident light is blocked.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sunyoung Park, JiYoung Ahn, Moonsun Lee, Jae-Hyun Kim, Pureum Kim, Kihan Kim, Seokwon Ji
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Patent number: 10185193Abstract: A liquid crystal pixel structure is disclosed. The liquid crystal pixel structure includes: a pixel electrode, located in a pixel aperture. The pixel electrode has two or more display domains applied with the same voltage level. The pixel electrode extends in different directions in the display domains. A gate line is located at an intersection of the display domains. An edge of the intersection of the display domains overlaps the gate line. A data line is located at an edge of the pixel aperture. The pixel electrode is controlled by the gate line and the data line via a transistor. The aperture of the pixel structure is divided by the gate lines. Therefore, the edge of the display domains overlaps the gate lines. The dark line can be covered by the gate lines and thus the aperture rate and the transparent rate can be raised.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventor: Peng Du
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Patent number: 10185191Abstract: A panel carrier includes a substrate, a die-attach region, a short sidewall, and a conductor. The die-attach region is on a top substrate surface of the substrate for supporting the LCoS panel. The short sidewall is on a first side of the die-attach region and has a top sidewall surface at a first height above the top substrate surface exceeding 0.4 millimeters and an aperture spanning the top sidewall surface and the top substrate surface. The conductor at least partially fills the aperture for electrically connecting to the conductive layer. A method for mechanically and electrically connecting a LCoS panel to a panel carrier having a short sidewall includes electrically connecting a transparent conductive layer of the LCoS panel to a conductive material, within the short sidewall, with a conductive adhesive having a thickness, between the transparent conductive layer and the short sidewall, less than two-hundred micrometers.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.Inventors: En-Chi Li, Chi-Chih Huang
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Patent number: 10170528Abstract: Provided is a novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable. The display device has two display modes: a reflective display mode and a light-emitting display mode. In the light-emitting display mode, light display is performed by transmitting light from a light-emitting element overlapping with an opening in a pixel electrode of a reflective display element. A switching element of the reflective display element and a switching element electrically connected to the light-emitting element are formed over one substrate. They are each a transistor whose channel formation region is formed in a silicon-containing film, specifically a polysilicon film.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideaki Kuwabara
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Patent number: 10162211Abstract: The present subject matter relates to display devices. In an example implementation, a display device comprises a display unit having color pixels and tracks of a black matrix covering spaces between the color pixels. The display device also comprises a display control layer over the display unit. The display control layer has longitudinal channels separated by transparent substrates and overlapping the tracks of the black matrix in one direction. The longitudinal channels comprise a first set of channels filled with undoped bi-stable liquid crystals to control a view angle of a display from the display unit, and a second set of channels filled with doped bi-stable liquid crystals to control absorption of blue/ultraviolet (UV) light from the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Kuan-Ting Wu, Wei-Kuang Chu, Cheng-Hua Yu
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Patent number: 10156753Abstract: A backlight module and a display device are provided. The backlight module includes a light source, a plate-shaped light intensity splitting component and a reflecting sheet, wherein, the plate-shaped light intensity splitting component and the reflecting sheet are oppositely arranged to form an empty light guide space therebetween, and the plate-shaped light intensity splitting component is configured to split incident light from the light source into reflected light facing to the reflecting sheet and transmission light passing through the plate-shaped light intensity splitting component. The backlight module without adopting a light guide plate can save cost for manufacturing the backlight module and is advantageous to improve light utilization efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shang Wang
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Patent number: 10151943Abstract: An irregular shape display having a hole according to the present disclosure may insert a cylinder-shaped guide member with the same material as that of a light guide plate within a hole to reduce a luminance difference between the front and the back of the hole, thereby improving a dark portion in the vicinity of the hole. Furthermore, the present disclosure may attach a reflection sheet to an upper portion of the guide member to block light leaked out between the light guide plate and the guide member.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seunghyun Ahn, Miok Kim
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Patent number: 10139645Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to beamsplitters useful in color combiners, and in particular color combiners useful in small size format projectors such as pocket projectors. The disclosed beamsplitters and color combiners include a tilted dichroic reflective polarizer plate having at least two dichroic reflective polarizers tilted at different angles relative to incident light beams, with light collection optics to combine at least two colors of light.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Yarn Chee Poon, Andrew J. Ouderkirk, Philip E. Watson, Xiaohui Cheng, Kim Leong Tan, Stephen J. Willett
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Patent number: 10139673Abstract: Provided is a display panel including a base substrate which includes a display area and a non-display area, a polarizing member disposed on a surface of the base substrate and including a plurality of grid patterns overlapping the display area and a reflective pattern overlapping the non-display area, and a pixel array layer which overlaps the polarizing member and is insulated from the polarizing member, wherein a first height from the surface of the base substrate to an upper surface of the reflective pattern is different from a second height from the surface of the base substrate to upper surfaces of the grid patterns.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung Won Park, Dae Young Lee, Dong Eon Lee, Dae Hwan Jang, Gug Rae Jo
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Patent number: 10139688Abstract: In an FFS liquid crystal display in which a dummy pixel in a dummy pixel region is smaller than a display pixel in a display region, a slit is formed in a common electrode in the display pixel while no slit is formed in the common electrode in the dummy pixel.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takafumi Hashiguchi, Naruhito Hoka, Naoya Hirata
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Patent number: 10134766Abstract: The number of photolithography steps used for manufacturing a transistor is reduced to less than the conventional one and a highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. The present invention relates to a semiconductor device including a circuit including a transistor having an oxide semiconductor layer over a first substrate and a second substrate fixed to the first substrate with a sealant. A closed space surrounded by the sealant, the first substrate, and the second substrate is in a reduced pressure state or filled with dry air. The sealant surrounds at least the transistor and has a closed pattern shape. Further, the circuit is a driver circuit including a transistor having an oxide semiconductor layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Hayakawa, Yuta Moriya, Junya Goto, Yasuyuki Arai
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Patent number: 10126584Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a metal layer formed on an interlayer insulating film, arranged in contact with at least one of common electrodes adjacent to each other via a slit, and covering at least a part of the slit. The metal layer is at least partly opposed to a signal line located in correspondence with the slit and is arranged closer than the signal line to a liquid crystal layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yuji Maede, Jin Hirosawa, Hidemasa Yamaguchi