Patents Examined by Hoan C. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10495921
    Abstract: A flexible liquid crystal Fresnel lens is provided that may realize a lens using a polymer thin film substrate, so that it may provide the same electro-optical characteristics irrespective of polarization of light incident on a lens, and provide flexible characteristics and high image quality. The flexible liquid crystal Fresnel lens includes a liquid crystal layer formed between an upper substrate and a lower substrate in which a Fresnel region pattern is formed, wherein the lower substrate and the upper substrate may respectively include a first substrate and a second substrate including a transparent and flexible material while having a birefringent index, optical axes of the lower substrate and the upper substrate may be perpendicular to each other, and optical axes respectively forming an angle of 45° with respect to the lower substrate and the upper substrate may be formed in the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jonghoo Park, Jin Hyuk Bae, Jihoon Jung, Daekyeong Kang
  • Patent number: 10488726
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a dual passivation layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The dual passivation layer includes a first passivation layer and a second passivation layer. A refractive index of the first passivation layer is different from a refractive index of the second passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jang-Kun Song, Yeon-Sik Ham, Kang-Woo Kim, Yeon-Mun Jeon, Jeong Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 10481426
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a color filter substrate, a color substrate and a display panel in the field of display technology. The method includes: forming a color resistance layer on a basal substrate; forming a conversion layer on the basal substrate with the color resistance layer, wherein the thickness of the conversion layer is greater than the thickness of the color resistance layer and the conversion layer is convertible in color under the irradiation of preset light rays; and irradiating the conversion layer with the preset light rays so that the conversion layer is converted to a two-layer structure consisting of a black matrix (BM) pattern and a transparent over cover, wherein the BM pattern is disposed at the side of the conversion layer close to the basal substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Rui Yin, Sang Man Yuk, Jian Ma, Ya Yu, Guoqiang Zhong
  • Patent number: 10453869
    Abstract: A load related to a scanning line is decreased and a load related to a common electrode is decreased without decrease in an aperture ratio of each pixel. A display apparatus has a red sub-pixel and a green sub-pixel. A distance in the Y-axis direction between a pedestal electrode and a scanning line that drives a transistor in a plan view in the red sub-pixel is longer than a distance in the Y-axis direction between a pedestal electrode and a scanning line that drives a transistor in a plan view in the green sub-pixel. Furthermore, a superposed width of a light shielding film with a red pixel region in the Y-axis direction is larger than a superposed width of the light shielding film with a green pixel region in the Y-axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Tadayoshi Katsuta
  • Patent number: 10451947
    Abstract: A Pancharatnam Berry Phase (PBP) liquid crystal structure for adjusting or focusing light of a plurality of color channels emitted by a display of a head-mounted display (HMD) comprises a plurality of PBP active elements. Each PBP active element of the structure is configured to act as a half waveplate for light of a corresponding color channel, such that light of the corresponding color channel is adjusted by a predetermined amount. In addition, each PBP active element acts as a one waveplate for light of the remaining color channels, such that light of the remaining color channels passes through the PBP active element substantially unaffected. As such, the PBP structure is able to adjust incident light of the plurality of color channels uniformly in an apochromatic fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lu Lu, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Scott Charles McEldowney, Pasi Saarikko
  • Patent number: 10429699
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a display area and a border area at least partially surrounding the display area, where the display area displays images for viewing and the border area displays display-protection images, which are used to control ion migration in the liquid crystal layer. In a more particular embodiment, the border area displays a series of checkerboard pattern(s), where the checkerboard patterns can alternate between initial and inverted values. The display-protection images protect the liquid crystal display from migrating ions accumulating in particular regions of the pixel array and causing permanent defects in the display area. A liquid crystal display that includes a liquid crystal alignment layer having a plurality of liquid crystal alignment directions is also disclosed. The customized liquid crystal alignment director(s) over the border area promote ion migration away from the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Morgan Walker, Libo Weng, Oray Orkun Cellek, Ming Zhang, Yin Qian, Dyson Hsin-Chih Tai, Regis Fan
  • Patent number: 10423037
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a liquid crystal display panel, including: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer arranged therebetween; the first substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixels, the sub-pixels are divided into a plurality of repeat units arranged in an array, each repeat units includes a plurality of sub-units arranged in an array; in each repeat units, a first sub-unit, a second sub-unit and a third sub-unit are arranged in both a row direction and a column direction; and each of the first sub-unit, the second sub-unit and the third sub-unit includes at least two color sub-pixels and at least two highlight sub-pixels; in each sub-unit, a total number of the color sub-pixel is equal to a total number of the highlight sub-pixel; a total number of the first, second and third color sub-pixel in each sub-unit is the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huiping Chai, Lingxiao Du, Kang Yang, Hong Ding, Yan Zhuang
  • Patent number: 10416491
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a panel structure, its manufacturing method and a projection system, which can improve optical efficiency of the projection system and reduce the volume of the projection system. The panel structure includes: a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a reflective electrode at a side of the first substrate facing the second substrate; a transparent beam-splitting film disposed between the reflective electrode and the liquid crystal layer; and a common electrode disposed at a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kang Guo
  • Patent number: 10411208
    Abstract: A display device includes: a spacer; a flexible substrate having flexibility, the flexible substrate being provided with a display area for performing image display, a picture-frame area, a bent area, and a terminal area including a terminal, the display area, the picture-frame area, the bent area, and the terminal area being arranged in this order, the terminal area being disposed on a rear surface side of the spacer due to the bent area being bent so as to follow the shape of the spacer; and a reinforcing film including a first reinforcing portion attached to the rear surface side of the display area, a second reinforcing portion attached to a display surface side of the terminal area, and a bent reinforcing portion attached to an inner surface side of the bent area at a portion in a width direction of the flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Naohisa Andou, Kazuto Tsuruoka
  • Patent number: 10394095
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept includes a first substrate including a plurality of first color filters, a plurality of second color filters, a plurality of third color filters and a plurality of gate electrodes extending in a first direction; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer formed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the plurality of first color filters include a plurality of first portions extending in a first direction, and a plurality of second portions extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction and crossing the plurality of first portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Kil Park, Kyung-Ho Park, Chang Il Tae, Jae Won Kim, Yoo Mi Ra
  • Patent number: 10394092
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a sensing electrode layer located on one side of the base substrate, the sensing electrode layer comprising a sensing electrode and a dummy pattern that comprises dummy sub-patterns arranged into columns, each dummy sub-pattern having a first border defining the dummy sub-pattern in a column direction, and first borders of the dummy sub-patterns being non-periodically arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Zhang, Xiaozhou Zhan
  • Patent number: 10386665
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes increasing a maximum angle of incidence and a maximum angle of output, of an optical element package, with respect to an optical element contained therein, the optical element being reflective. A sealing resin (5) is filled into a gap between an LCOS element (2) and a package housing (1). The sealing resin (5) covers side surfaces (2s) and a rear surface (2b) of the LCOS element (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Wada
  • Patent number: 10386684
    Abstract: A semiconductor device (100A) includes a thin film transistor (10), an inter-layer insulation layer (22) covering the thin film transistor, and a transparent conductive layer (24) formed on the inter-layer insulation layer. The metal oxide layer (16) of the thin film transistor includes a first portion (16a) overlapping the gate electrode (12) via a gate insulation layer (14) and a second portion (16b) not overlapping the gate electrode (12). The second portion (16b) crosses a different edge (e2) different from an edge (e1) of the drain electrode (18d) on a side of the first portion when viewed in the normal direction of the substrate (11). The inter-layer insulation layer has a contact hole (22a) disposed to overlap a part of the drain electrode (18d) and at least a part of the second portion (16b) of the metal oxide layer when viewed in the normal direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuniaki Okada, Seiichi Uchida, Naoki Ueda, Sumio Katoh
  • Patent number: 10359675
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display panel includes: storage capacitors respectively provided for a plurality of pixels on a substrate; a plurality of storage capacitor lines 37 arrayed in a column direction and each connected to corresponding ones of the storage capacitors, each storage capacitor line 37 belonging to one of N groups (where N is an integer equal to or greater than 2), such that every Nth storage capacitor line 37 belongs to an identical group; a plurality of branch lines 38 arrayed in a row direction, each branch line 38 being connected to more than one of the plurality of storage capacitor lines 37 that belong to an identical group; a plurality of trunk lines 71 to 82 at a column-direction edge of the substrate, each supplying an identical signal to a number of storage capacitor lines 37 that belong to one of the N groups via one or more of the plurality of branch lines 38; and a plurality of signal sending sections 7 each being coupled to associated trunk lines among the plurality of trunk lines 71 t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10353259
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a semiconductor layer including a first extension portion and a second extension portion, a gate line, a first common electrode opposed to at least the second extension portion, a source line extending above the second extension portion, a pixel electrode including a main pixel electrode, a second common electrode including a second main common electrode opposed to the source line, and a first alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 10345642
    Abstract: An LCD apparatus is provided. The LCD apparatus includes the color film layer and a blue backlight module. The color film layer includes red, green, cyan and blue filter layer. The red filter layer includes a red filter film and a red QD film on the red filter film. The green filter layer includes a green filter film and a green QD film on the green filter film. The cyan filter layer includes a green QD film. The QD material is used to mix blue backlight and color film layer to realize four-color scheme, improving QD utilization and improving display color domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ji Li
  • Patent number: 10317759
    Abstract: The invention provides an array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel, by means of that colored photoresist layers of different colors disposed above metal wires are overlapped with each other to thereby form an opaque light shielding layer covering the metal wires so as to replace a black matrix, and therefore there is no need of a mask process for preparing the black matrix, so that it could reduce types and numbers of used masks, simplify manufacturing process and reduce production costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Shangcao Cao
  • Patent number: 10302992
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display apparatus including an image display portion for displaying an image, the image display portion emitting display light along a light propagating direction; and a light modulator assembly having a first light modulator and a second light modulator arranged in series along the light propagating direction. The second light modulator has at least a reflective optical state. The first light modulator is switchable between the reflective optical state and a transmissive optical state and is on a side of the second light modulator proximal to the image display portion. A total number of light modulators including the second light modulator and any light modulator on a side of the second light modulator proximal to the image display portion is N, N is an integer?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiantao Liu, Wenbo Li, Xuewen Lv
  • Patent number: 10303007
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a curved display panel, the curved display panel includes a first curved substrate, a second curved substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first curved substrate and the second curved substrate, a first pixel element array disposed on the first curved substrate, a second pixel element array disposed on the second curved substrate. The first pixel element array at least includes a plurality of first pixel elements arranged linearly on the flattened first curved substrate, the second pixel element array at least includes a plurality of second pixel elements arranged linearly on the flattened second curved substrate correspondingly. The plurality of first pixel elements or the plurality of second pixel elements of at least one of the first pixel element array and the second pixel element array are arranged with unequal intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Feng Zhao
  • Patent number: 10295865
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal panel structure and a manufacture method. Both the first alignment layer of the upper layer and the second alignment layer of the lower substrate employ the silicon nitride films, of which the surfaces are implemented with ion beam bombardment, and in comparison with the utilization of PI alignment film material, the alignment layers possess the physical, chemical properties of silicon nitride, which are more stable, and thus can provide the better reliability for the liquid crystal panel; besides, the proper pre-tilted angle provided by the surface of the silicon nitride films with ion beam bombardment can be adjusted in a certain range, and thus can provide the proper pre-tilted angle for the liquid crystal molecules, and compared with the present PSVA technology, the procedure of utilizing the UV light irradiation to provide the pre-tilted angle for the liquid crystal is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ji Li