Patents Examined by Jia Pan
  • Patent number: 10268088
    Abstract: A display device includes a first color pixel, a second color pixel neighboring the first color pixel in a first direction, a third color pixel neighboring the second color pixel in the first direction, a fourth color pixel neighboring the first color pixel in a second direction, a fifth color pixel neighboring the second color pixel in the second direction, and a sixth color pixel neighboring the third color pixel in the second direction, wherein each of the first color pixel, the second color pixel, the fourth color pixel and the fifth color pixel has a first long-side length, the third color pixel has a second long-side length which is greater than the first long-side length, and the sixth color pixel has a third long-side length which is less than the first long-side length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Arihiro Takeda, Keiji Tago, Kayoko Miyazaki, Ayumi Mori
  • Patent number: 10247989
    Abstract: A TFT array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device. The TFT array substrate includes: a plurality of pixel units; where each of the pixel units includes a first electrode comprising a V-shaped electrode with an angle; the plurality of pixel units include a first pixel unit and a second pixel unit, and where, the first pixel unit is closer to an edge of the TFT array substrate than the second pixel unit, and an angle of the V-shaped electrode in the first pixel unit is smaller than an angle of the V-shaped electrode in the second pixel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhipeng Liu, Xianxiang Zhang, Shaofa Lan
  • Patent number: 10209546
    Abstract: Display panel and display device, and fabrication methods are provided. The method for fabricating the display panel includes forming a protective layer at least on a bending region, the bending region being in a non-display region containing peripheral circuits of the display panel, to cover the peripheral circuits, and folding the display panel at the bending region towards a back surface of the display panel. When the display panel is folded at the bending region towards the back surface of the display panel, the protective layer coated on the bending region provides protection for the peripheral circuits formed on the surface of the bending region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liqiang Chen, Wenyue Fu
  • Patent number: 10209575
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device prevents an alignment film between an inorganic insulating film and a sealant from peeling off the inorganic insulating film in a seal portion. The device has a TFT substrate and a counter substrate bonded together by the sealant in the seal portion with liquid crystal sandwiched therebetween. The TFT substrate has pixels in a matrix pattern along with the alignment film, and the TFT substrate and the counter substrate are rectangular in external shape. The TFT substrate has a display area and a terminal area. The display area is formed surrounded by the sealant. The counter substrate is absent over the terminal area. The alignment film is disposed under the sealant on the TFT substrate. An oxide conductive film, disposed under the alignment film, is formed up to the edge of the TFT substrate and is in an electrically floating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Fumihito Shibano, Hidemasa Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10209592
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes an insulating substrate in which light-transmitting areas and a light-shielding area are formed. The active matrix substrate further includes: a light-shielding film formed in the light-shielding area on the insulating substrate, with a transparent base material containing carbon particles, the light shielding film being colored with the carbon particles; an inorganic film formed on the light-shielding film; light-transmitting films formed in the light-transmitting areas on the insulating substrate, with a transparent base material containing transparent oxidized carbon particles; gate lines provided on the inorganic film; a gate insulating film provided on the gate lines; thin film transistors provided in matrix on the gate insulating film; and data lines provided on the light-shielding film to intersect with the gate lines. The data lines are electrically connected with the thin film transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Hirohiko Nishiki, Takeshi Hara, Tomohiro Kosaka, Izumi Ishida, Shogo Murashige
  • Patent number: 10197855
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel which displays an image, an accommodating frame in which the display panel is accommodated, the accommodating frame including a bottom portion, a plurality of light source units arranged in a matrix form on the bottom portion, and a plurality of partitions dividing the plurality of light source units based on a row or column direction, wherein each of the plurality of light source units includes a plurality of light sources having different wavelengths, and the partition is spaced apart from the display panel and the bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunmin Cho, Jonghyuk Kang, Jaebyung Park, Hyundeok Im, Jaewoong Kang, Sungjin Hong
  • Patent number: 10191329
    Abstract: A reflective light control film includes a transparent film having a plurality of protruded line patterns formed on one surface of the base film, each of the protruded line patterns including a first side having an inclination angle with respect to the one surface of the base film and a second side, and a light reflection layer provided on the first side. The reflective light control film has excellent visibility for the screen even if it is not provided with a separate shade, and the screen is prevented from being reflected on the windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bong Jin Choi, Gi Hwan Ahn, Joong Han Kum, Jeung Hoon On, Han Young Choi
  • Patent number: 10180601
    Abstract: The present application discloses a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display apparatus. The liquid crystal display panel includes a color filter substrate, and an array substrate, formed opposite and space apart from the color filter substrate, and a photo spacer disposed between the color filter substrate and the array substrate, a side of the array substrate toward the color filter substrate is set up a contact hole, a side of the color filter substrate toward the array substrate is disposed a projection, the height of the projection is larger than the height of the photo spacer, and the top of the projection is inserted into the contact hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Qipei Zhang, Caiqin Chen
  • Patent number: 10180597
    Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal display device, as well as a polarizer and a protective film suitable for the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device comprises a backlight light source, two polarizers, and a liquid crystal cell disposed between the two polarizers; the backlight light source being a white light-emitting diode light source; each of the two polarizers comprising a polarizing film and protective films laminated on both sides of the polarizing film; at least one of the protective films being a polyester film having an adhesion-facilitating layer; the polyester film having a retardation of 3,000 to 30,000 nm; and the adhesion-facilitating layer comprising a polyester resin (A) and a polyvinyl alcohol resin (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Murata, Mitsuharu Nakatani, Yasushi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10175494
    Abstract: Provided is a polarizer whereby screen brightness does not become zero regardless of the direction in which a viewer faces when the polarizer is used in a liquid crystal display device capable of displaying three-dimensional images, in which three-dimensional images are visible through a polarizing filter. The polarizer comprises a polarizing film and protective films disposed on both sides of the polarizing film; at least one of the protective films being an oriented film; and the tilt of the orientation axis or an axis orthogonal to the orientation axis of the oriented film relative to the polarization axis of the polarizing film being 1° or more and less than 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Murata, Yoshitomo Ikehata
  • Patent number: 10175399
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a mirror with an image display function including, in this order: an image display device; a ¼ wavelength plate; a circular polarization reflection layer; and a front surface plate made of glass or plastic, in which the circular polarization reflection layer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a central wavelength of selective reflection in a visible light region. The mirror with an image display function of the invention is capable of displaying a bright image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Anzai, Kazuhiro Oki, Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi, Takao Taguchi
  • Patent number: 10168586
    Abstract: An electrically tunable optical phase modulation element is provided comprising a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a plurality of first stripe electrodes, a first anti-mosaic layer, a first insulating layer, a plurality of second stripe electrodes, a second anti-mosaic layer, a second insulating layer and a controlling circuit. The first stripe electrodes and the first anti-mosaic layer are disposed in between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The second stripe electrodes and the second anti-mosaic layer are disposed in between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer, wherein an extension direction of the first stripe electrodes intersects with an extension direction of the second stripe electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LIQXTAL TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Hung-Shan Chen, Ming-Syuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10168574
    Abstract: A light source device comprises: a light source; a light-transmissive plate having a side surface or a main surface facing the light source; a holding frame having a frame-shaped surface holding a peripheral edge portion of the light-transmissive plate, the holding frame having a frame shape; and a spacer provided between the peripheral edge portion of the light-transmissive plate and the frame-shaped surface of the holding frame. The holding frame comprises: a first rib provided on the frame-shaped surface, at a position closer to an outer edge of the holding frame than a contact position of the frame-shaped surface in contact with the spacer is, the first rib extending along the frame shape; and a first recessed portion provided between the first rib and the contact position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 10163992
    Abstract: A mirror display device includes a mirror module and a display module. The mirror module includes a transparent substrate and a plurality of first mirror patterns. The transparent substrate has a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region. The first mirror patterns are disposed on a surface of the transparent substrate in the first region. The display module includes a display part that emits a light and a plurality of second mirror patterns. The display module is combined with the mirror module on the surface of the transparent substrate in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Mo Chung, Byoungki Kim, Hojin Yoon, Dae Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 10151953
    Abstract: An in-plane switching liquid crystal display has a plurality of protrusion electrodes. Each of the protrusion electrodes has a protrusion body with a surface coated with an electrically conductive layer made from a metal oxide. An adhesion-enhancement medium is provided between the electrically conductive layer and the surface of the protrusion body. The adhesion-enhancement medium comprises a metal such as aluminum or molybdenum or a metal alloy containing molybdenum and at least one of niobium, tantalum, titanium, zirconium, tungsten, aluminum and nitride or a metal alloy containing aluminum and at least one of niobium, tantalum, titanium, zirconium, tungsten, molybdenun and nitride. The protrusion body can have the shape of a rectangle, triangle, bell, rectangle with a round top, or a cross sectional area having a top portion with a round or flat head and a bottom portion with a waist portion, smaller than the basewidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: A. U. Vista, Inc.
    Inventor: Yi-Fen Lan
  • Patent number: 10146082
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device and a color filter. The color filter includes a dielectric layer and wire grid structures on the dielectric layer, each of the wire grid structures includes a first wire grid unit, a second wire grid unit, a third wire grid unit, and a fourth wire grid unit. The first wire grid unit, the second wire grid unit, the third wire grid unit, and the fourth wire grid unit respectively includes a plurality of wire grids spaced apart from each other. Grid-spaces of the first wire grid unit, the second wire grid unit, the third wire grid unit, and the fourth wire grid unit are different. With such configuration, the white CIE composited by the R sub-pixel, the G sub-pixel, and the B sub-pixel may be matched with the white CIE of the W sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Guowei Zha, Hongqing Cui
  • Patent number: 10139534
    Abstract: An optical film includes a polarization film including a polymer resin and a dichroic dye, and a phase delay layer disposed on the polarization film and including a liquid crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang ah Gam, Hye Young Kong, Hyung Jun Kim, Hyun-Seok Choi, Myung Sup Jung
  • Patent number: 10139548
    Abstract: An optical apparatus is configured to introduce light from an object to an image pickup element, and includes first, second, and third retardation plates, a polarizer, and a setter. The first retardation plate, the second retardation plate, and the polarizer are arranged in this order from a side of the object to a side of the image pickup element. The slow axis direction or the fast axis direction of the second retardation plate tilts to the slow axis direction or the fast axis direction of the first retardation plate. The setter sets the retardation of the second retardation plate according to the polarization component of the light from the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yutaka Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10126477
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides an optical compensation film, its manufacturing method, a polarizer, a liquid crystal display panel and a display device. The optical compensation film includes a first substrate, a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate, a first alignment layer arranged at a side of the first substrate opposite to the second substrate, a second alignment layer arranged at a side of the second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a first liquid crystal layer arranged between the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer, wherein the first liquid crystal layer is provided with a predetermined pretilt angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongcan Wang, Hongming Zhan, Lifeng Lin
  • Patent number: 10126474
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a mirror with an image display function including, in this order: an image display device; a circular polarization reflection layer; and a front surface plate made of glass or plastic, in which the circular polarization reflection layer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a central wavelength of selective reflection in a visible light region, and the central wavelength is different from an emission peak wavelength of the image display device by 5 nm or greater. The mirror with an image display function of the invention is capable of displaying a bright image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Anzai, Kazuhiro Oki, Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi, Takao Taguchi