Patents Examined by James A. Dudek
  • Patent number: 11874570
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel and an adhesive layer which adheres the first and second display panels. The first display panel includes a first scanning line, a first signal line, a first pixel electrically connected to the first scanning line and the first signal line, and the first pixel includes a first pixel electrode including first line portions extending parallel to the first signal line. The second display panel includes a second scanning line, a second signal line, and a second pixel electrically connected to the second scanning line and the second signal line, and the second pixel includes a second pixel electrode including second line portions intersecting the second signal line in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yosuke Hyodo, Shinichiro Oka, Hirofumi Ohira
  • Patent number: 11874536
    Abstract: A polarizing plate and an optical display device comprising same are provided. The polarizing plate comprises: a polarizer; and a pattern layer disposed on the upper surface of the polarizer. The pattern layer includes a first resin layer, wherein the first resin layer has one or more intaglio patterns formed on the lower surface thereof. The intaglio pattern has side surfaces, and a first surface and a second surface having different base angles with respect to the maximum width of the intaglio pattern are continuously formed on the side surfaces. The first and second surfaces satisfy Equation 1, and when h1 is a height projected on the first surface and h2 is a height projected on the second surface, among the maximum heights of the intaglio pattern, h1 and h2 satisfy Equation 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Ho Lee, Dong Ho Wee
  • Patent number: 11877100
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device including a first substrate including an organic film, a first recess and a second recess formed in the organic film, and a first projection having the organic film, a second substrate, and a sealing member located in a second area around a first area, and bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together, wherein the first substrate includes a mounting portion, the first recess and the second recess extend in the second area, a first leading end portion of the first recess is separated from a second leading end portion of the second recess, and the first projection, the first recess and the second recess overlap the sealing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Hitomi Hasegawa, Masaru Nakakomi
  • Patent number: 11867990
    Abstract: An electronic device including a panel and a light control unit is provided. The panel includes a first light-emitting region and a transparent region disposed adjacent to the first light-emitting region. The light control unit is disposed on the panel, wherein the light control unit is overlapped with the first light-emitting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Chia Huang, Jui-Jen Yueh, Tsung-Han Tsai, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 11869900
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a substrate, a light-emitting unit, and a circuit layer. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface, and the second surface is opposite the first surface. The light-emitting unit is disposed on the first surface, and the circuit layer is disposed on the second surface. The circuit layer includes a first layer and a second layer. The second layer is disposed on the first layer. The first layer includes a plurality of first wirings. The second layer includes a plurality of second wirings. The plurality of first wirings intersect with the plurality of second wirings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chun-Hsien Lin
  • Patent number: 11868014
    Abstract: Provided is an array substrate, a manufacturing method for an array substrate, and a display panel. The array substrate includes a first substrate base, common electrode lines, a color filter layer, and a planarization layer; the color filter layer includes first color filters and a second color filters, forming color filter channels therebetween on the common electrode lines, so as to avoid overlapping between the first color filters and the second color filters. The width of the common electrode lines is relatively small, ensuring a high aperture rate of the array substrate. Additionally, the array substrate further includes a planarization layer filled in the color filter channels, this minimizes the color filter channels to ensure flatness between the first color filters and the second color filters, so that etching residues in the color filter channels can be avoided when forming the pixel electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shishuai Huang, Bing Han, Baohong Kang
  • Patent number: 11860459
    Abstract: A display device includes a first emitting area and a second emitting area which is spaced apart from the first emitting area, a first electrode facing a second electrode with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, each of the first electrode, the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer corresponding to the first emitting area, a third electrode facing a fourth electrode with a light emitting layer therebetween, each of the third electrode, the fourth electrode and the light emitting layer corresponding to the second emitting area, and the fourth electrode defining an opening in the fourth electrode which corresponds to the first emitting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Seok Kim, Youngchan Kim, Minhee Son
  • Patent number: 11860487
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first area, second area, liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of pixels. Each subpixel includes an opening area including a first opening area and a second opening area. The pixels include a first pixel positioned in the first area and a second pixel positioned over a boundary of the first area and the second area. The opening area of the second pixel is smaller than the opening area of the first pixel when opening areas of subpixels of same color are compared. An each imaginary line showing the boundary of the first opening area and the second opening area is a same straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masato Nakamura, Daichi Hosokawa, Yuki Kuramoto, Hideyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11852921
    Abstract: An alignment deviation detection method and apparatus of a display panel, a data compensation method and apparatus. The method includes: providing a first data signal for causing the dimming screen to display an alignment dimming picture including a first alignment pattern; providing a second data signal for causing the display screen to display an alignment display picture including a second alignment pattern; under a control of the first data signal, making the dimming screen display the alignment dimming picture, and under a control of the second data signal, making the display screen display the alignment display picture; according to a display situation of the second alignment pattern, determining an alignment state between the display screen and the dimming screen. An orthographic projection of the second alignment pattern on the dimming screen is preset to be at least partially aligned with and at least partially deviated from the first alignment pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanhui Xi, Tiankuo Shi, Yan Sun, Xiaomang Zhang, Yifan Hou, Xin Duan, Wei Sun, Ming Chen, Wenchieh Huang, Shaoru Zhang
  • Patent number: 11852846
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) display device includes a display panel which operates in a first mode for displaying a first image or a second mode for displaying a second image and a liquid crystal lens panel disposed on the display panel, where the liquid crystal lens panel refracts the first image in a way such that the first image has a first viewing angle and refracts the second image in a way such that the second image has a second viewing angle greater than the first viewing angle. The liquid crystal lens panel includes an upper substrate, a first lens layer including a plurality of first lenses, a lower substrate, a second lens layer including a plurality of second lenses, and a liquid crystal layer. A first pitch of each of the plurality of first lenses is less than a second pitch of each of the plurality of second lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sujung Huh, Hyun Jin Cho, Rangkyun Mok
  • Patent number: 11852933
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display region, and includes a first liquid crystal panel including a color filter layer, an illumination device provided on a back face side of the first liquid crystal panel, and a second liquid crystal panel arranged between the first liquid crystal panel and the illumination device and not including a color filter layer. The second liquid crystal panel includes a first dimming region defined by a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns and facing the display region, and a second dimming region that is defined by a plurality of additional pixels each including an unshaded opening region, and is located outside the first dimming region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehisa Yoshida, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Shigeyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11853127
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. A first main support column and an auxiliary support column are provided between the first substrate and the second substrate in the frame area, and a length of the first main support column is greater than a length of the auxiliary support column. The second substrate includes the base, and further includes the first surface and the second surface located on a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate in the frame area. A height from the second surface to the base is greater than a height from the first surface to the base. An orthographic projection of the first main support column on the base is located within an orthographic projection of the first surface on the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhuo Deng, Poping Shen
  • Patent number: 11852931
    Abstract: A display unit of the present disclosure includes: a first plate-like member including a display device; a second plate-like member including a drive circuit, the drive circuit configured to control the display device; and one or two or more wiring sections having flexibility, the wiring sections configured to connect the first plate-like member and the second plate-like member to each other, in which a curvature of the second plate-like member is larger than 0 and equal to or smaller than a curvature of the first plate-like member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Seiji Shibahara
  • Patent number: 11846846
    Abstract: A display panel includes a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the TFT array substrate and the opposite substrate. The TFT array substrate includes a first substrate. The opposite substrate includes a second substrate. The display panel further includes a first viewing-angle improving layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first viewing-angle improving layer adjoins one film layer on the first substrate or the second substrate. The first viewing-angle improving layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate so that the first viewing-angle improving layer can be a stacked part manufactured integratedly with other film layers of the display panel. Thus, manufacture of the first viewing-angle improving layer can overcome a size limitation of a mold in a nanoimprinting technology, effectively improving a large-viewing-angle-display effect of a large-size display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuan Shao, Ji Li, Fang Tan, Jiacong Guo, Guang Zeng, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11848333
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate, a first signal line, a second signal line, and a third signal line. The first signal line, the second signal line, and the third signal line are disposed in a peripheral region of the substrate, arranged along a first direction, and extending along a second direction. The second signal line has a line portion and an end portion. The end portion has a first end point adjacent to the first signal line and a second end point adjacent to the third signal line. In the first direction, the first distance between the first signal line and the line portion is greater than the second distance between the line portion and the third signal line, and the third distance between the first end point and the line portion is greater than the fourth distance between the second end point and the line portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Tony Li, Lavender Cheng, Joe Liu
  • Patent number: 11846855
    Abstract: A color filter substrate and an in-cell touch type display device including the same, in which a low-reflective high-resistance film is disposed on a top face of the color filter substrate. Due to the low-reflective high-resistance film, a finger capacitance is generated, an antistatic path is formed, and reflectance of the display device is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sujeong Lee, Sunghee Kim, Changeun Kim
  • Patent number: 11846856
    Abstract: An array substrate has a plurality of sub-pixel regions. The array substrate includes a base substrate, gate lines disposed on a side of the base substrate and extending in a first direction, pixel electrodes each disposed in a respective one of the sub-pixel regions, and common electrodes disposed on a side, facing away from the base substrate, of the pixel electrodes and the gate lines. An orthographic projection of at least one common electrode on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of at least one gate line adjacent to the at least one common electrode on the base substrate, or a border of an orthographic projection of at least one common electrode on the base substrate partially overlaps with a border of an orthographic projection of at least one gate line adjacent to the at least one common electrode on the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianhua Huang, Zhihua Sun, Yingying Qu, Ting Dong, Yifu Chen, Lingdan Bo
  • Patent number: 11848334
    Abstract: This disclosure proposes a display panel, a manufacturing method, an electronic device and a display device. The display panel includes a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The display panel includes a display substrate, a plurality of signal lines located on the display substrate, and the plurality of signal lines all extending from the peripheral area on one side of the display area to the peripheral area on the other side of the display area across the display area, at least one first compensation capacitor located in the peripheral area on the one side of the display area and corresponding to at least one of the plurality of signal lines, and at least one second compensation capacitor located in the peripheral area on the other side of the display area and corresponding to at least one of the plurality of signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Liu, Zihua Li
  • Patent number: 11841571
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged so as to face each other; a display region included in each of the first substrate and the second substrate; a transparent region formed inside the display region in a planar view; a frame region formed between the display region and the transparent region so as to surround the transparent region along an outer edge of the transparent region in a planar view; a polarizer formed in either the first substrate or the second substrate and having an opening overlapping the transparent region; a first transparent conductive film formed in a first conductive layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a second transparent conductive film formed in a second conductive layer between the first conductive layer and the second substrate. The second transparent conductive film is in the frame region in a planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Shinji Horie
  • Patent number: 11841593
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transparent display device including a first substrate and a second substrate, and the second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The light blocking element is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the light blocking element has a light transmitting opening. The light blocking element further has another light transmitting opening, and the another light transmitting opening and the light transmitting opening have different areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventor: Shu-Ming Kuo