Patents Examined by Jia X Pan
  • Patent number: 11921396
    Abstract: A viewing angle adjustment device and a display device including the same are discussed. The viewing angle adjustment device can include a first protective layer, a second protective layer disposed on the first protective layer, a light conversion layer disposed between the first protective layer and the second protective layer and including dispersion liquid having dispersed floating particles, and an auxiliary light conversion layer disposed on the second protective layer. The auxiliary light conversion layer can include first patterns where a light absorbing layer and a transparent layer are disposed in a center area, and second patterns where the light absorption layer, the transparent layer and a reflective layer are disposed in an edge area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Youngki Song
  • Patent number: 11914155
    Abstract: An augmented reality device includes an eyeglass frame and a combiner mounted on the eyeglass frame. The combiner includes an inner surface and an outer surface disposed opposite the inner surface. The device further includes an active shutter lens mounted on the combiner and an image projector mounted on the eyeglass frame and configured to project display light to the combiner such that a first portion of the display light is emitted from the inner surface of the combiner and a second portion of the display light is emitted from the outer surface of the combiner. The device additionally includes a processor coupled to the image projector and the active shutter lens. The active shutter lens is configured to shield the display light emitted from the outer surface of the combiner. The combiner is configured to emit ambient light from the inner surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuaishuai Zhu, Jiuxing Wang, Cheng Lo
  • Patent number: 11914242
    Abstract: An optical path control member according to an embodiment comprises: a first substrate; a first electrode disposed on the first substrate; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate; a second electrode disposed under the second substrate; and a photoconversion unit disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the second substrate includes at least one hole penetrating the second substrate, and an electrode connection part connected to a side surface of the second electrode is disposed inside the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Gyeong Park, Chan Mi Ju, Byung Sook Kim
  • Patent number: 11913636
    Abstract: A light source module includes a circuit substrate, a plurality of light-emitting diodes, a cover layer and a plurality of first scattering particles. The plurality of light-emitting diodes is disposed on the circuit substrate. The cover layer covers the plurality of light-emitting diodes, and an upper surface of the cover layer has a plurality of recesses, wherein orthogonal projections of the plurality of recesses on the circuit substrate overlap the circuit substrate between the plurality of light-emitting diodes. The plurality of first scattering particles is located in the plurality of recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: AUO Corporation
    Inventors: Hui-Chuan Chen, Chia-Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 11906840
    Abstract: Optical film stacks are described. More particularly, optical film stacks including a half-wave retardation layer are described. Achromatic half-wave retardation layers, including achromatic half-wave layers formed from a quarter-wave and a three-quarters-wave retardation layer, are described. Film stacks including reflective polarizers tuned to reduce wavelength dispersion of the half-wave retardation layer are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Sun-Yong Park, Song-Geun Lee, Matthew B. Johnson, Adam D. Haag
  • Patent number: 11886067
    Abstract: An optical device includes an optical member having an optical area on which light incidents, the optical area having a rectangular shape in a plan view, a first actuator configured to displace the optical member around a first axis which passes through the center of the optical area in the plan view, and which forms an angle smaller than 90° with a first side of the optical area, and a second actuator configured to displace the glass plate around a second axis which passes through the center of the optical area, and which is perpendicular to the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Wakabayashi, Masatoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 11880100
    Abstract: An electronic device including a flexible substrate, a plurality of light emitting units, and a plurality of supporting elements is provided. The flexible substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The light emitting units are disposed on the first surface. The supporting elements are disposed on the second surface. The supporting element includes an arc-shaped structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Tsang Wu, Jia-Sin Li, Chia-Chieh Fan
  • Patent number: 11874559
    Abstract: A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a direct-lit backlight unit. The backlight unit may include an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on a printed circuit board. The display may have a notch to accommodate an input-output component. Reflective layers may be included in the notch. The backlight may include a color conversion layer with a property that varies as a function of position. The light-emitting diodes may be covered by a slab of encapsulant with recesses in an upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Meizi Jiao, Joshua A. Spechler, Jie Xiang, Zhenyue Luo, Chungjae Lee, Morteza Amoorezaei, Mengyang Liang, Xinyu Zhu, Mingxia Gu, Jun Qi, Eric L. Benson, Victor H. Yin, Youchul Jeong, Xiang Fang, Yanming Li, Michael J. Lee, Marianna C. Sbordone, Ari P. Miller, Edward J. Cooper, Michael C. Sulkis, Francesco Ferretti, Seth G. McFarland, Mary M. Morrison, Eric N. Vergo, Terence Chan, Ian A. Guy, Keith J. Hendren, Sunitha Chandra
  • Patent number: 11860473
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a liquid crystal layer, a light adjustment layer, and a reflection layer. The liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The light adjustment layer includes a plurality of light adjustment portions, and each of the light adjustment portions and a corresponding one of the liquid crystal molecules include a contact interface. The reflection layer is disposed on a side of the liquid crystal layer and the light adjustment layer away from a display side and corresponds to the light adjustment portions. An incident light is totally reflected at the contact interface or passes through the contact interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pengfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11860504
    Abstract: Provided is an optical scanning device having a stable scanning direction corresponding to a temperature fluctuation of a semiconductor laser by being provided with a predetermined liquid crystal optical element utilizing a characteristic of a linear expansion coefficient of a support of a liquid crystal diffraction element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yukito Saitoh, Hiroshi Sato
  • Patent number: 11852911
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Yasuhiro Haseba, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Kimiaki Nakamura, Mariko Honda, Atsuko Kanashima, Tadashi Hasegawa, Shinji Shimada
  • Patent number: 11846845
    Abstract: An example of an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a display portion and a camera. In addition, the apparatus includes a thin film transistor substrate extending over the display portion and the camera. Furthermore, the apparatus includes an image generation layer disposed under the thin film transistor substrate within the display portion. Also, the apparatus includes a polymer dispersed liquid crystal disposed between the thin film transistor substrate and the camera. The polymer dispersed liquid crystal is to be switched between an opaque state and a clear state. The opaque state is to block the camera from receiving imaging light. The clear state allows light to pass through the polymer dispersed liquid crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Hsing-Hung Hsieh, Alexander Wayne Clark, Ann Alejandro Villegas
  • Patent number: 11841581
    Abstract: A reflective sheet and a manufacturing method thereof, a backlight module, and a display device are provided, the reflective sheet includes: a partition structure provided on a side surface of the reflective sheet, where the reflective sheet includes partition structures arranged on a side surface of the reflective sheet, the partition structures bend the side surface of the reflective sheet at a preset slope, and the partition structures include a plurality of dotted lines arranged horizontally or vertically in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: K-Tronics (Suzhou) Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hailong Dai, Cheng Ma
  • Patent number: 11835814
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a polarizing plate includes: preparing a polarizer including a dichroic material, the polarizer being configured to polarize incident light; forming a protective film on at least one surface of the polarizer; and forming at least one transmission region by selectively radiating a femtosecond laser onto the polarizer, a group transmittance of the at least one transmission region being 80% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Yun Byun, Hak Sun Kim, Nam Seok Roh, Seung Beom Park
  • Patent number: 11829036
    Abstract: An optically anisotropic multi-layered product including an optically anisotropic layer (Sm), and an optically anisotropic layer (N), wherein: the optically anisotropic layer (Sm) is an optically anisotropic layer that contains a liquid crystal compound (A-Sm) fixed in a state in which a smectic liquid crystal phase is exhibited; the optically anisotropic layer (N) is an optically anisotropic layer that contains a liquid crystal compound (A-N) fixed in a state in which a nematic liquid crystal phase is exhibited; and the optically anisotropic layer (Sm) and the optically anisotropic layer (N) have a common in-plane slow axis direction. A method for producing the optically anisotropic multi-layered product is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Ito
  • Patent number: 11812564
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a panel, a first support component, and a second support component. The panel includes a bottom surface, a first corner and a second corner, and the bottom surface is connected between the first corner and the second corner. The first support component includes a first side portion that supports the first corner of the panel. The first side portion has a first length and a first Young's modulus. The second support component includes a second side portion that supports the second corner of the panel. The second side portion has a second length and a second Young's modulus. The first length and the second length satisfy the following inequalities: 10 × W 2 ? ? k ? ? 1 × tan ? ? 1 ° ? L ? ? 1 < P 2 , and 10 × W 2 ? ? k ? ? 2 × tan ? ? 1 ° ? L ? ? 2 < P 2 , .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Yujun Chiu, Joe Huang
  • Patent number: 11803089
    Abstract: To achieve a display device that is suitable for increasing in size and to provide a high-resolution display device. In the display device, three or more adjacent gate lines are supplied with the same selection signal. Three or more pixels that adjoin in the column direction are connected to different source lines. In each of the pixels, a transistor including a semiconductor layer is disposed. An inner source line among three or more source lines is disposed to overlap with a conductive layer that functions as a pixel electrode. Part of the semiconductor layer of the transistor is provided between the outer source line and a source line adjacent to the outer source line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11803088
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of display, and discloses an electrode structure, a capacitor, a GOA circuit, an array substrate, a display panel and a display device, wherein the electrode structure includes a body and a first opening formed in the body, the first opening has a half-enclosed shape, and a part, enclosed by the first opening, of the body has a tip structure. Each of the capacitor, the GOA circuit, the array substrate, the display panel and the display device includes the above-mentioned electrode structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongfei Cheng, Jianbo Xian, Hui Li
  • Patent number: 11789316
    Abstract: A front light module includes a foldable light guide plate, a light source, an upper insulating layer, an upper optical adhesive layer, a lower insulating layer, and a lower optical adhesive layer. The top surface and the bottom surface of the foldable light guide plate adjoin the light incident surface of the foldable light guide plate. The light source faces toward the light incident surface. The upper insulating layer is located on the top surface. The upper optical adhesive layer is located on the upper insulating layer, and a storage modulus of the upper optical adhesive layer is less than a storage modulus of the upper insulating layer. The lower optical adhesive layer is located on a bottom surface of the lower insulating layer, and a storage modulus of the lower optical adhesive layer is less than a storage modulus of the lower insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Kun-Hsien Lee, Sheng-Chieh Tai, Yi-Yu Tsai, Hsin-Tao Huang
  • Patent number: 11789300
    Abstract: Embodiments described and discussed herein generally relate to flexible or foldable display devices, and more specifically to flexible cover lens assemblies. In one or more embodiments, a flexible cover lens assembly contains a glass layer, an impact absorption layer disposed on the glass layer, a moisture barrier layer disposed on the impact absorption layer, a substrate disposed on the moisture barrier layer, a wet hardcoat layer having a nano-indentation hardness in a range from about 0.4 GPa to about 1.5 GPa and disposed on the substrate, an adhesion promotion layer disposed on the wet hardcoat layer, an anti-reflectance layer disposed on the adhesion promotion layer, a dry hardcoat layer having a nano-indentation hardness in a range from about 1 GPa to about 5 GPa and disposed on the anti-reflectance layer, and an anti-fingerprint coating layer disposed on the dry hardcoat layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Manivannan Thothadri, Harvey You, Helinda Nominanda, Neil Morrison, Daniel Paul Forster, Arvinder Chadha