Patents Examined by Hoan C. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11762201
    Abstract: According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a wearable display device having good background visibility, a wide visual angle capable of viewing projected images, and a simple structure. The wearable display device includes at least a transparent screen and a projection device which projects an image on the transparent screen, in which a magnifying lens for viewing the image reflected from the transparent screen is disposed on a viewing side to cover at least a part of the transparent screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yujiro Yanai
  • Patent number: 11754873
    Abstract: Provided is a novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable, a novel data processor that is highly convenient or reliable, or a method for manufacturing a novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable. The display panel includes a pixel and a terminal electrically connected to the pixel. The pixel includes a first insulating film, a first contact portion in a first opening provided in the first insulating film, a pixel circuit electrically connected to the first contact portion, a second contact portion electrically connected to the pixel circuit, a first display element electrically connected to the first contact portion, and a second display element electrically connected to the second contact portion. The first insulating film includes a region lying between the first display element and the second display element. The terminal includes a surface at which contact with other component can be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Kusunoki, Yoshiharu Hirakata
  • Patent number: 11754895
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a substrate, a pixel electrode disposed at the substrate, and a pixel circuit portion disposed between the substrate and the pixel electrode. The pixel circuit portion includes a scanning line disposed along a first direction, a data line disposed along a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first constant potential line disposed along the scanning line, a second constant potential line disposed along the data line, and a transistor disposed corresponding to an intersection position of the scanning line and the data line and including a gate electrode electrically coupled to the scanning line, a source region electrically coupled to the data line, and a drain region electrically coupled to the pixel electrode. The pixel circuit portion also includes a coupling portion disposed corresponding to the intersection position and configured to electrically couple the first constant potential line and the second constant potential line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 11747680
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, pixel structures, a second substrate, a display medium, a first sealant, and a second sealant. The first substrate includes an active area and a peripheral area outside the active area. The pixel structures are disposed on the active area of the first substrate. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The first sealant is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and is located on the peripheral area of the first substrate. The second sealant is disposed on a side wall of the first substrate and a side wall of the second substrate. The second sealant includes a convex surface overlapped with the side wall of the first substrate and the side wall of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Hsin Lin, Chao-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11742360
    Abstract: A gate driver on array (GOA) array substrate, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device including the same, which include a GOA driving circuit. The GOA driving circuit includes a plurality of GOA units. Each of the GOA units includes a thin film transistor array layer, a first metal layer, an insulating layer, and a second metal layer. The first metal layer has a patterned signal line at a position crossing the second metal layer. The signal line includes a trunk portion and side walls formed of two opposite sides of the trunk portion. The side walls are shaped as arc-shaped grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventor: Bangqing Xiao
  • Patent number: 11740535
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multifocal lens. The multifocal lens may include N liquid crystal panels in a stacked manner. The N liquid crystal panels may include an n-th liquid crystal panel, and the n-th liquid crystal panel may include an n-th converging element having an n-th focal length. N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, n is a positive integer, and 1?n?N. The n-th liquid crystal panel may be configured to be switchable between a converging state and a non-converging state. The N liquid crystal panels may be configured to make the multifocal lens to have switchable CN1+CN2+CN3+ . . . +CNN focal lengths, and the CN1+CN2+CN3+ . . . +CNN focal lengths are all different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Gao, Xianqin Meng
  • Patent number: 11719872
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, a method of manufacturing an electronic device includes the steps of: providing a display panel; providing a polarizer including a polarizer layer at an outermost layer thereof on the display panel; irradiating a laser beam onto a portion of the polarizer layer; and providing a substantially neutral solution having a temperature from about 5° C. to about 40° C. onto the portion of the polarizer layer irradiated with the laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngki Chai, Seonggeun Won, Kwanhee Lee, Youngji Kim, Yiseul Um, Younghoon Lee, Young Seo Choi
  • Patent number: 11719988
    Abstract: In an electro-optical device, a first light shielding wall and a second light shielding wall pass through sides of a semiconductor layer of a transistor respectively, and reach a scan line on a lower layer side. In a second interlayer insulating layer, a first contact hole and a second contact hole that reach a first source drain region and a second source drain region of the semiconductor layer respectively are provided. Respective widths of the first source drain region and the second source drain region are equal to or less than respective widths of the first contact hole and the second contact hole. Accordingly, the first light shielding wall and the second light shielding wall extend to sides of the first contact hole and the second contact hole respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kikuya Morita
  • Patent number: 11709403
    Abstract: Provided is a display panel, including an array substrate, a color filter substrate, and a back light module. The back light module includes a light source, and the light emission spectrum of the light source has a first blue peak and a second blue peak. The color filter substrate is provided with multiple pixel units which are periodically and repeatedly disposed, and at least one pixel unit includes a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a first blue sub-pixel and a second blue sub-pixel. The first blue sub-pixel and the second blue sub-pixel have different transmittance spectrums; a peak wavelength of a transmittance spectrum of the first blue sub-pixel matches a peak wavelength of the first blue peak of the light source, and a peak wavelength of a transmittance spectrum of the second blue sub-pixel matches a peak wavelength of the second blue peak of the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shixin Geng, Yu Zhang, Tengfei Wang
  • Patent number: 11709406
    Abstract: A thin-film transistor array includes an insulating substrate and pixels each including a thin-film transistor, a pixel electrode, and a capacitor electrode, the pixels being formed in a matrix and located at positions where column wirings extending in a column direction intersect row wirings perpendicular to the column wirings and extending in a row direction. The thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a semiconductor pattern formed between the source electrode and the drain electrode. The pixel electrode includes two electrically conductive layers which are a lower layer electrode serving as a lower pixel electrode, and an upper layer electrode serving as an upper pixel electrode. The corresponding one of the column wirings is at a position which has no overlap with the capacitor electrode and the lower pixel electrode, and has an overlap with the upper pixel electrode, in the lamination direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mamoru Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 11709386
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including: a liquid crystal display panel for displaying an image; a backlight unit for irradiating light toward a rear surface of the liquid crystal display panel; a cover bottom formed therein with a space in which the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit are installed; and a glass attached to a front surface of the liquid crystal display panel to protect the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit are spaced apart from each other so that air moves through a space between the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit. Accordingly, a sealed space is formed inside the liquid crystal display device, and the air inside the sealed space is circulated, so that thermal equilibrium is induced inside the sealed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NEW OPTICS, LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Ki Ahn, Dong Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11703729
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device including: a display panel having a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region, the display panel including: an array substrate, an opposite substrate and a liquid crystal layer, wherein the array substrate and the opposite substrate are opposite to each other, the liquid crystal layer is between the array substrate and the opposite substrate, a light shielding layer is on a side of at least one of the array substrate and the opposite substrate proximal to the liquid crystal layer, and an orthographic projection of the light shielding layer on the array substrate is located in the peripheral region; and a light source configured to emit light to a lateral side of the display panel, the light being incident into the liquid crystal layer from the lateral side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yao Bi, Xiaojuan Wu, Jinshuai Duan, Jiaxing Wang, Wei Zhao, Hongliang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11698562
    Abstract: A controllable privacy structure, such as a window or door, may include an electrically controllable optically active material connected to a driver. The driver can control the application and/or removal of electrical energy to the optically active material to transition from a scattering state in which visibility through the structure is inhibited to a transparent state in which visibility through the structure is comparatively clear. The driver may need to be located in relatively close physical proximity to the privacy structure the driver is intended to control. Devices, systems, and techniques are described for discretely positioning a driver relative to a privacy structure to be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Cardinal IG Company
    Inventors: Eric Bjergaard, Andrew DeMiglio, Chad Peters
  • Patent number: 11675237
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a base substrate, a light-shielding pattern, a buffer pattern, an active layer, a gate insulating layer and a first passivation layer provided with a first via, a second via and a third via, and a source and a drain. An entire orthographic projection of the active layer on the base substrate coincides with an orthographic projection of at least part of the buffer pattern on the base substrate. The orthographic projection of the buffer pattern on the base substrate is within a border of an orthographic projection of the light-shielding pattern on the base substrate, and its area is less than an area of the orthographic projection of the light-shielding pattern on the base substrate. One of the source and the drain is coupled to the active layer through the first via, and another one is coupled to the active layer through the second via and the light-shielding pattern through the third via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Maokun Tian, Zhonghao Huang, Xu Wu, Chengjun Qi, Jun Wang, Dan Liu
  • Patent number: 11667561
    Abstract: A composition for a glass material comprising, on an oxide basis: one or more network formers chosen from the group of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and phosphorous pentoxide (P2O5); one or more alkali metal oxides chose from the group consisting of lithium oxide (Li2O) and sodium oxide (Na2O); 8 to 15 percent by weight zirconium oxide (ZrO2); and one transition metal oxide consisting of 9 to 45 percent by weight niobium pentoxide (Nb2O5). In an embodiment, the composition consists of: 35 to 60 percent by weight silicon dioxide (SiO2); 9.25 to 15.0 percent by weight lithium oxide (Li2O); 0.5 to 2 percent by weight sodium oxide (Na2O); 8 to 15 percent by weight zirconium oxide (ZrO2); 0 to 3.5 percent by weight phosphorous pentoxide (P2O5); and 9 to 45 percent by weight niobium pentoxide (Nb2O5). In an embodiment, the glass material is a light guide for an augmented reality device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Qiang Fu, Paulo Jorge Gaspar Marques
  • Patent number: 11671693
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a display module, a camera and a drive structure. The display module includes a backlight module and a liquid crystal display, the backlight module includes a fixed backlight component and a movable backlight component, the liquid crystal display includes a first base assembly, a second base assembly, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first base assembly and the second base assembly, the second base assembly is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the backlight module and includes a movable block, the movable block is disposed opposite to the movable backlight component, and the drive structure is connected with the camera, can drive the camera to move towards the movable backlight component, and can drive, via the camera, the movable backlight component and the movable block to squeeze the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Zhou
  • Patent number: 11656517
    Abstract: A display device according to the present disclosure comprises: a display panel; and a backlight for supplying light to the display panel, wherein the display panel includes: a base substrate having a plurality of thin film transistors; a color filter layer which includes a plurality of color filters arranged in a matrix shape and black matrices disposed between the plurality of the color filters, and is disposed on the base substrate; and a light-collecting layer disposed above or below the color filter layer and including a plurality of partition walls extending toward the black matrices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jeongshan Na
  • Patent number: 11656513
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of color filters. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel that display an identical color. The second pixel is disposed in a diagonal direction relative to the first pixel. Each of a first color filter corresponding to the first pixel and a second color filter corresponding to the second pixel includes a first filter part formed at a position overlapping an opening of a pixel corresponding to the color filter in plan view, and a second filter part formed at a position overlapping a non-opening area of the pixel in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Osamu Itou
  • Patent number: 11631272
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification module and a fingerprint identification device are provided. The fingerprint identification module includes a color filter substrate and a protective cover. The color filter substrate includes a first shading member. The protective cover is disposed on the color filter substrate and includes a second shading member. The second shading member faces the color filter substrate. There is a gap between the first shading member and the second shading member in a thickness direction of the fingerprint identification module, and the gap is within a range of 0.2 mm to 0.7 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiao Feng Liao, Chuan-Chi Chien, I-An Yao
  • Patent number: 11619605
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a first substrate including a display area and a peripheral area; a second substrate overlapping the first substrate; a sealing unit surrounding the display area and disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a first resistance measuring pattern located at an upper surface of the sealing unit, and a second resistance measuring pattern located at a lower surface of the sealing unit, wherein each of the first and second resistance measuring patterns extends along edges of the first substrate and has a rectangular shape including an open side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seoyeon Kim