Patents Examined by James A. Dudek
  • Patent number: 11143920
    Abstract: A display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a display medium layer, a pixel array structure, and a first spacer that are disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate is provided. The pixel array structure includes a first signal line, and has a first platform region located on the first signal line, a first display region and a first support region located between the first platform region and the first display region. A first platform top surface of the first platform region and the first substrate are spaced by a first distance. A support top surface of the first support region and the first substrate are spaced by a second distance. A display top surface of the first display region and the first substrate are spaced by a third distance. A terminal surface of the first spacer contacts the first platform top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chi-Ho Chang, An-Cheng Chou, Yu-Chang Wen
  • Patent number: 11137656
    Abstract: A flexible bistable light modulating device includes a first flexible transparent conductive film and a second flexible transparent conductive film; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first flexible transparent conductive film and the second flexible transparent conductive film. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal mixture and a sealing structure to seal the liquid crystal mixture within the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal mixture includes at least one bimesogenic compound, at least one nematic liquid crystal compound and at least one chiral compound; and a plurality of supporting structures dispersing inside the liquid crystal layer. The weight percentage of the supporting structures over the liquid crystal mixture is 0.1%-4.5%. The flexible bistable light modulating device has two states that are stable without application of an external electric field, thus saving energy, simplifying the production process, saving cost and improving product yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Smart Liquid Crystal Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mengchao Zhou, Fei Wang, Hongwei Zhang, Hui Xu, Dong Li
  • Patent number: 11137653
    Abstract: A display device includes a base, a semiconductor layer on the base and including source, drain and channel regions, a first insulating layer on the semiconductor layer, a gate line on the first insulating layer and overlapping the channel region, a second insulating layer on the gate line, a data line on the second insulating layer, a third insulating layer on the data line, a drain electrode disposed on the third insulating layer and in contact with the drain region through a contact hole in the first, second and third insulating layers, a first protective electrode on the drain electrode to overlap the drain electrode, a fourth insulating layer on the third insulating layer where the first protective electrode is formed, and a pixel electrode on the fourth insulating layer and in contact with the first protective electrode through a contact hole in the fourth insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Young Lee, Yong Seok Kim, Dong Chul Shin, Hyun Sup Lee, Gye Hwan Lim
  • Patent number: 11137649
    Abstract: A display device includes a display substrate including a display area and a pad area, which is disposed on the periphery of the display area; and a display panel including at least one wire pad, which is disposed in the pad area of the display substrate, where the wire pad includes a main pad portion, which extends in a first direction, a first protruding pad portion, which protrudes from a first side, in a second direction intersecting the first direction, of the main pad portion, and a second protruding pad portion, which protrudes from a second side, in the second direction, of the main pad portion, and the first protruding pad portion is disposed closer than the second protruding pad portion to the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Myong Hoon Roh
  • Patent number: 11137655
    Abstract: A tunable liquid crystal (LC) device includes an LC layer between a pair of reflectors forming an optical cavity. The reflectors include conductive layers for applying an electrical signal to the LC layer. One of the conductive layers may include an array of conductive pixels for spatially selective control of the effective refractive index of the LC layer. The phase delay introduced by the LC layer may be greatly increased or magnified by placing the LC layer into the optical cavity. This enables a substantial reduction of the LC layer thickness, which in its turn enables very tight pitches of the LC pixels, with a reduced inter-pixel crosstalk caused by fringing electric fields, as well as faster switching times. A tight-pitch, fast LC device may be used as a configurable hologram or a spatial light modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Maxwell Parsons, Shane Colburn, Yingfei Jiang, Andrew Maimone, Erik Shipton, Guohua Wei, Oleg Yaroshchuk
  • Patent number: 11137631
    Abstract: A fabrication method of a display panel, a display panel and a display device are provided. The method includes: forming a piezoelectric sensing layer on a first substrate; forming a surface acoustic wave driver to excite a surface acoustic wave on the piezoelectric sensing layer; forming a passivation layer on the piezoelectric sensing layer where the surface acoustic wave driver has been formed; forming grooves in the passivation layer; dropping polymer material into the passivation layer; driving the polymer material into the grooves by the surface acoustic wave; performing a first curing, so that the polymer material is fixedly connected with the grooves; and cell-assembling the first substrate and a second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Zhu, Hua Huang, Changhan Xie, Weikang Xiao
  • Patent number: 11131892
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device comprises a display panel, a control circuit board, a driving circuit board and one or multiple electrostatic discharge structures. The display panel has a first ground terminal. The control circuit board has a second ground terminal. The driving circuit board coupled to the display panel and the control circuit board, and the driving circuit board is a COF flexible printed circuit board, and the control circuit board drives the display panel through the driving circuit board. The one or multiple electrostatic discharge structures is coupled to the display panel and the control circuit board, and is electrically connected to the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal. In a projection direction of the driving circuit board, the driving circuit board and the one or multiple electrostatic discharge structures are at least partially overlapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bin Qiu
  • Patent number: 11131893
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display substrate including a base substrate, and gate lines, data lines, common electrode lines and common electrodes on the base substrate; the gate lines and the data lines intersect to define pixel areas; the common electrodes are located in the pixel areas; the gate lines and the common electrode lines are alternately arranged one by one; each common electrode lines includes target wire segments and non-target wire segments, the target wire segments are wire segments where the common electrode lines and the data lines intersect, and the non-target wire segments are wire segments on the common electrode line except the target wire segments; and for each common electrode line, a distance between any position point on the target wire segment and a target gate line is less than a distance between the non-target wire segment and the target gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Ouyang, Bingyang Yu, Jinwei Zhu, Namin Kwon, Guibing Wang, Tongju Bai, Zhirui He, Bin Yang, Qun Liu, Guobin Xue
  • Patent number: 11126042
    Abstract: A horizontal electric field type display panel, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device are provided in embodiments of the disclosure, the horizontal electric field type display panel including: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a first compensation film layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first compensation film layer is configured to compensate for a phase delay of an axial light in a condition that the display panel is subjected to a non-uniform external force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deqiang Liu, Xibin Shao, Feifei Wang, Hongming Zhan, Kaixuan Wang, Hao Liu, Lifeng Lin
  • Patent number: 11119366
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a pixel electrode which is disposed on the first substrate and comprises a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode adjacent to the first sub-pixel electrode along a first direction, and a shielding electrode which is disposed on the same layer as the pixel electrode and comprises a first area having a first width and a second area having a second width which is smaller than the first width along a second direction which crosses the first direction, and the first sub-pixel electrode may be adjacent to the first area along the second direction, and the second sub-pixel electrode may be adjacent to the second area along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Kil Oh, Hoon Kim, Ki Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 11112667
    Abstract: A display device includes: a liquid crystal layer between a first substrate and a second substrate; a contact region electrically connecting one of horizontal gate lines to one of vertical signal lines; a plurality of data lines; and a plurality of pixels including transistors that are electrically connected to the horizontal gate lines and the data lines, wherein: the plurality of pixels includes a kickback pixel defined as a pixel that is affected by a kickback voltage caused by the one vertical signal line, and a normal pixel defined as a pixel that is less affected by the kickback voltage caused by the one vertical signal line than the kickback pixel, and the liquid crystal layer in the kickback pixel having a first cell gap, and the liquid crystal layer in the normal pixel having a second cell gap greater than the second cell gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung Hwan Hwang
  • Patent number: 11112651
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device provided by the present invention includes a backlight source, a light path modulation box and a liquid crystal display panel. The light path modulation box is disposed on the backlight source. The light path modulation box is configured to modulate light emitted out from the backlight source such that backlight is emitted out along a direction perpendicular to the light path modulation box. The liquid crystal display panel is disposed on the light path modulation box. The backlight emitted by the backlight source passes through the light path modulation box and enters the liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Zhang, Hu Dou, Chunchi Chen
  • Patent number: 11106085
    Abstract: A base film for a light diffusion film includes a transparent polymer layer, which comprises a plurality of nanopores, and liquid crystal filled in the plurality of nanopores. A light diffusion film, a display device, and production methods thereof are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE DISPLAY LIGHTING CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xihong Zhong, Yong Yang, Shijun Zhao, Yujiao Jin, Yu Gong
  • Patent number: 11106075
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display module and an electronic device, and the display module includes a backlight module, with a light source disposing on one side of a light guide plate; a liquid crystal display panel; a housing, wherein an interior of the housing accommodates the backlight module and the liquid crystal display panel, a light-absorbing layer is disposed at least on an inner surface of a first side of the housing, and a position of the light-absorbing layer corresponds at least to a position of the light guide plate, and wherein the first side is a side facing the light source and distant from the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shiyuan Xiao
  • Patent number: 11109014
    Abstract: A privacy display comprises a liquid crystal spatial light modulator, a switchable retarder and a passive compensation retarder arranged between a pair of polarisers. In a privacy mode of operation, on-axis light from the spatial light modulator is directed without change of image contrast, whereas off-axis light has reduced contrast to reduce the visibility of the display to off-axis snoopers over a wide polar angular range. In a wide angle mode of operation, the retardance of the switchable retarder is adjusted so that off-axis contrast is substantially unmodified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: RealD Spark, LLC
    Inventors: Michael G. Robinson, Graham J. Woodgate, Jonathan Harrold, Robert A Ramsey, Ben Ihas
  • Patent number: 11099423
    Abstract: A display device includes a backlight module, a liquid crystal display panel and an optical module. The liquid crystal display panel is disposed on the backlight module. The liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate, an opposite substrate, a display medium layer, an upper polarizing pattern, and a lower polarizing pattern. The upper polarizing pattern is disposed on the opposite substrate. The lower polarizing pattern is disposed on the array substrate and has a first transmission axis. The optical module is disposed between the backlight module and the liquid crystal display panel. The optical module includes a dual brightness enhancement film. The dual brightness enhancement film has a second transmission axis. The polarization direction of the light after passing through the optical module is different from the polarization direction of the light after passing through the lower polarizing pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Zong-Huei Tsai, Yu-Wen Lee
  • Patent number: 11092829
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device and a display method thereof. The display device includes: a plurality of sub-pixels each including a light emitting element and a liquid crystal spatial light modulator, wherein the liquid crystal spatial light modulator is located on a light emission side of the light emitting element, and a phase of light emitted by the light emitting element is modulatable after passing through the liquid crystal spatial light modulator; a first control circuit configured to control a light emission intensity and chromaticity of the light emitting element; and a second control circuit configured to control deflection of liquid crystal in the liquid crystal spatial light modulator so as to modulate the phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: Fuzhou BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Wang, Xi Chen, Zongxiang Li, Jiamin Liao, Wenchang Tao, Zhendian Wu, Dahai Li, Changhong Shi, Zuwen Liu
  • Patent number: 11086180
    Abstract: A display panel having a plurality of subpixels. Each of the plurality of subpixels includes a first light emitting portion and a second light emitting portion. The display panel includes a black matrix on a base substrate. The black matrix defines a plurality of subpixel apertures. The first light emitting portion is outside the plurality of subpixel apertures. The second light emitting portion is in a respective one of the plurality of subpixel apertures. An orthographic projection of the black matrix on the base substrate covers an orthographic projection of the first light emitting portion of each of the plurality of subpixels on the base substrate, and is substantially non-overlapping with an orthographic projection of the second light emitting portion of each of the plurality of subpixels on the base substrate. The first light emitting portion includes a plurality of electronic ink microcapsules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingyang Liu, Dongchuan Chen, Xueqiang Qian, Dan Wang, Xinli Ma
  • Patent number: 11086143
    Abstract: A pair of eyeglasses may include one or more adjustable lenses that are each configured to align with a respective one of a user's eyes. The adjustable lenses may each include electrically modulated optical material such as one or more liquid crystal cells. The liquid crystal cells may include arrays of electrodes that extend along one, two, three, four, or more than four directions. Control circuitry may apply control signals to the array of electrodes in each liquid crystal cell to produce a desired phase profile. Each lens may be foveated such that portions of the lens within the user's gaze exhibit a different phase profile than portions of the lens outside of the user's gaze. The control circuitry may adjust the location of the optically distinct area so that it remains aligned with the user's gaze.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick R. Gill, Miikka M. Kangas, Jeffrey G. Koller, Alexander A. Miles, Yu Horie
  • Patent number: 11079641
    Abstract: A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a substrate having a semiconductor film layer structure which is provided with an active area, a plurality of data lines disposed on the active area of the transparent substrate, a plurality of scan lines disposed on the active area of the transparent substrate, wherein the scan lines are perpendicular to the data lines, and a plurality of leads electrically connected to the corresponding scan lines, and the leads parallel to the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zesheng Chen