Patents Examined by James A. Dudek
  • Patent number: 11550196
    Abstract: A display device in the present disclosure includes the following: a substrate; a plurality of source bus lines extending in a first direction above the substrate; a plurality of semiconductor layers extending in the first direction above the plurality of source bus lines; and a first groove-shaped recess extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, the first groove-shaped recess constituting a first contact hole extending from above the plurality of source bus lines to the plurality of source bus lines. Each of the plurality of semiconductor layers is disposed along a surface of the first groove-shaped recess so as to cross the first groove-shaped recess, and each of the plurality of semiconductor layers is electrically connected to each of the plurality of source bus lines on the bottom surface of the first groove-shaped recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuniaki Okada, Atsushi Hachiya
  • Patent number: 11550192
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device including a single or a plurality of pixel elements is provided. Each pixel element includes: a first substrate, a second substrate parallel to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first plurality of electrodes formed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer, a second plurality of electrodes formed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The first plurality of electrodes and the second plurality of electrodes are composed to generate electric fields in three orthogonal directions, and the electric fields in two of the three orthogonal directions are in-plane electric fields, while the other electric field of the three orthogonal directions is an out-of-plane electric field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Masahito Ohe, Deng-Yun Zheng
  • Patent number: 11550194
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes multiple data signal line connection wires that are disposed near a first end portion and multiple divided common electrode wire connection wires that are disposed near a second end portion. A distance between end portions of the multiple data signal line connection wires facing multiple data signal terminals is shorter than a distance between end portions of the multiple data signal line connection wires facing a pixel region. A distance between end portions of the multiple divided common electrode wire connection wires facing divided common electrode terminals is shorter than a distance between end portions of the multiple divided common electrode wire connection wires facing the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yohsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11543715
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display panel are provided. The display substrate includes: a display region; a frame region at least partially surrounding the display region; a black matrix including a first part in the display region and a second part in the frame region; and an alignment mark which is in the frame region and at a side of the second part of the black matrix away from the display region, and is spaced apart from the black matrix. A planar shape of the second part of the black matrix has a corner part, the alignment mark is opposite to the corner part, and an outer contour of the corner part opposite to the alignment mark includes a concave part which is concave towards the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaona Liu
  • Patent number: 11537018
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate, including a plurality of substrate via holes located in a display area of the display panel; and a plurality of driving signal lines and a plurality of bonding terminals, respectively located on different sides of the base substrate. At least one of the plurality of driving signal lines is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of bonding terminals through the substrate via hole(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Chen, Minghua Xuan, Dongni Liu, Haoliang Zheng, Li Xiao, Zhenyu Zhang, Hao Chen, Ke Wang
  • Patent number: 11537015
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device including a first substrate, a second substrate, a light blocking element, and a transmittance controlling element. 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 transmitting opening has at least four sides, and adjacent two sides form a round corner. The light transmitting opening overlaps the transmittance controlling element in a normal direction of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventor: Shu-Ming Kuo
  • Patent number: 11531242
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate and a color filter substrate. Each of the pixel units includes a thin film transistor layer and a pixel electrode disposed on the thin film transistor layer. The pixel electrode includes a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode, and a spacing region disposed between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qi Zhang, Wu Cao
  • Patent number: 11526045
    Abstract: The purpose is to suppress a temperature rise in the LED and the driver IC for a reliable transparent liquid crystal display device. An example of concrete structure to attain the purpose is: A display area is formed in an area where the TFT substrate and the counter substrate overlap, a terminal area is formed in an area where the TFT substrate and the counter substrate do not overlap, an LED is disposed in the terminal area opposing to a side surface of the counter substrate, the LED is connected to a printed wiring substrate, a driver IC to drive the liquid crystal display device is disposed in the terminal area, a metal plate is disposed between the driver IC and the printed wiring substrate, the metal plate contacts the printed wiring substrate via a first heat dissipation sheet, and contacts the driver IC via a second heat dissipation sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto Miyao
  • Patent number: 11528814
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a data line selection circuit positioned on a display region side, a first terminal group, a second terminal group, a first video signal line electrically connected to a first terminal of the first terminal group, and a second video line electrically connected to a second terminal of the second terminal group. The first video signal line includes a first portion extending from the first terminal toward the second terminal group, a second portion extending from the first portion in a direction intersecting the first portion, and a third portion extending from the second portion toward the data line selection circuit. The second video signal line includes a fourth portion extending from the second terminal toward the first terminal group, a fifth portion extending from the fourth portion along the second portion, and a sixth portion extending from the fifth portion toward the data line selection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11520190
    Abstract: An electronic device including a substrate, transversal signal lines, a first vertical signal line, a second vertical signal line, and a first shielding vertical line is provided. The transversal signal lines, the first vertical signal line, the second vertical signal line, and the first shielding vertical line are disposed on the substrate. The first vertical signal line and the second vertical signal line are intersected with the transversal signal lines. The second vertical signal line is connected to one of the transversal signal lines. An orthogonal projection of the first shielding vertical line on the substrate is between an orthogonal projection of the first vertical signal line on the substrate and an orthogonal projection of the second vertical signal line on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yueh-Hung Chung, Min-Tse Lee, Sheng-Yen Cheng, Ping-Wen Chen, Jia-Hong Wang, Ti-Kuei Yu, Ya-Ling Hsu, Chen-Hsien Liao
  • Patent number: 11520022
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) light modulator, an optical sensing system, and an optical sensing method. The optical sensing system includes a transmitter configured to emit an optical signal toward an environment surrounding the optical sensing system, and a receiver configured to receive the optical signal returning from the environment. The receiver further includes the LCOS light modulator and a receiving lens. The LCOS light modulator is configured to spatially modulate a polarization of the optical signal in order to allow only a spatially-selected portion of the optical signal to pass through the LCOS light modulator at one time. The receiving lens is configured to focus the spatially-selected portion of the optical signal received from the LCOS light modulator on a photodetector of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING VOYAGER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Lu, Youmin Wang
  • Patent number: 11513623
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a substrate, a gate line on the substrate, a sub-pixel, two data lines, a touch signal line, a functional electrode, and a touch electrode unit. The orthographic projection of the touch signal line on the substrate partially overlaps orthographic projection of an opening area of the sub-pixel on the substrate; the touch electrode unit is coupled to the touch signal line; the extension directions of the first and second sub-function electrode portions of the functional electrode are the same as that of the data line, the first/second sub-functional electrode portion is located on a first/second side of the sub-pixel opening area; along the extending direction of the gate line, a distance between the first/second sub-functional electrode portion and the touch signal line is smaller than a distance between the data line on the first/second side and the touch signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiao Wang, Yan Yan, Yu Ma
  • Patent number: 11506929
    Abstract: Embodiments of a display device are described. A display device includes a backlight unit having a light source and a liquid crystal display (LCD) module. The light source is configured to emit a primary light having a first peak wavelength. The LCD module includes a first sub-pixel having a phosphor film and a second sub-pixel having a non-phosphor film. The phosphor film is configured to receive a first portion of the primary light and to convert the first portion of the primary light to emit a secondary light having a second peak wavelength that is different from the first peak wavelength. The non-phosphor film is configured to receive a second portion of the primary light and to optically modify the second portion of the primary light to emit an optically modified primary light having a third peak wavelength that is different from the first and second peak wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Nanosys, Inc.
    Inventors: Ernest Chung-Wei Lee, Charles Hotz
  • Patent number: 11502148
    Abstract: A display panel includes a display region and a non-display region. The display region includes a first display region and at least one second display region. The first display region at least partially surrounds the at least one second display region. Each second display region of the at least one second display region includes at least two semi-transparent regions and a spacing region disposed between adjacent semi-transparent regions. The display region is provided with a plurality of sub-pixels and pixel driving circuits electrically connected to the plurality of sub-pixels. Pixel driving circuits electrically connected to the sub-pixels in each semi-transparent region of the at least two semi-transparent regions are at least partially disposed in the first display region and the spacing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Cai, Zhiqiang Xia, Yangzhao Ma
  • Patent number: 11493811
    Abstract: In an electro-optical device, at a position overlapping in plan view with a data line, a groove is provided that extends through a first interlayer insulating film provided in a layer between a scan line and a transistor, and a second interlayer insulating film provided in a layer between the transistor and a pixel electrode, and reaches a substrate body. A capacitance element includes a first element portion provided between the second interlayer insulating film and the pixel electrode, and a second element portion provided along an inner wall of the groove. The groove reaches an intermediate position in a thickness direction of the substrate body, and a depth is 3 ?m or greater. Therefore, capacitance of the capacitance element is large. A contact hole that electrically couples a gate electrode and the scan line is provided on a side of a semiconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yohei Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11493814
    Abstract: Discussed is a display device including a display panel, first gate lines located on the display panel, second gate lines separated from the first gate lines and located on the display panel, first data lines provided on the display panel corresponding to a first display area to cross the first gate lines and defining first pixel areas configuring the first display area, second data lines provided on the display panel corresponding to a second display area to cross the second gate lines and second pixel areas configuring the second display area, wherein the first pixel areas and the second pixel areas have the same size, and wherein a separation area is interposed between the first gate lines and the second gate lines, and a width of the separation area is equal to or wider than a width of a thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Bong Ha, Moon-Soo Kang, Jun-Yong Choi, Shi-Hyung Park
  • Patent number: 11487171
    Abstract: In an electro-optical device, a light shielding layer is provided at a first substrate between a second capacitance electrode and a second interlayer insulating layer, in a layer between the second capacitance electrode of a capacitance element and the pixel electrode. The light shielding layer includes a first portion stacked on the second capacitance electrode, and a second portion that protrudes from an end portion of the first portion, through a side of the first capacitance electrode of the capacitance element, toward both sides in a width direction of a semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kikuya Morita
  • Patent number: 11487165
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a first metal layer arranged on a substrate; a first insulating layer arranged on the first metal layer and the substrate; a second metal layer arranged on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer arranged on the second metal layer and the first insulating layer, covering the first metal layer and the second metal layer; and a sealant arranged on the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhongnian Liu
  • Patent number: 11487172
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, a color resist layer disposed on a side of the substrate, and a black matrix layer disposed on a side of the color resist layer away from the substrate. The color resist layer includes a plurality of color resists of different colors. The black matrix layer includes a plurality of light-shielding strips and a plurality of openings. An orthographic projection of an opening on the substrate overlaps an orthographic projection of a color resist on the substrate. The array substrate also includes a light-converging layer disposed between the color resist layer and the black matrix layer. The light-converging layer includes a plurality of light-converging portions, and a light-converging portion converges light incident on the light-converging portion to a light-shielding strip of the plurality of light-shielding strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiao Gao, Yingzhang Qiu
  • Patent number: 11487175
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a dimming liquid crystal panel and a display panel. The array substrate includes: a first transparent electrode layer with a plurality of slit structures, wherein the first transparent electrode layer includes a plurality of domains with an equal area, the plurality of domains include at least two types of domains, the at least two types of domains are arranged in a mosaic shape; a plurality of gate lines extending along a row direction and a plurality of data lines extending along a column direction, the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines crossing to define a plurality of dimming regions arranged in an array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Du, Yuntian Zhang, Liangliang Jiang, Lei Guo, Ke Dai, Jiaqing Liu