Patents Examined by Lucy Chien
  • Patent number: 9588378
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display panel having a display region and a non-display region, comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate oppositely provided and a layer of liquid crystal molecule located between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate each are provided with an alignment film at a position corresponding to the display region, and each are provided with a sealant region for applying sealant at a position corresponding to the non-display region, wherein: the sealant region on a surface of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal molecule layer is provided with a first raised layer by which the sealant region of the first substrate is higher than the display region thereof; and the sealant region on a surface of the second substrate facing the liquid crystal molecule layer is provided with a second raised layer by which the sealant region of the second substrate is higher than the display region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenxia Chen, Ni Jiang, Junrui Zhang, Junhwan Lim
  • Patent number: 9581869
    Abstract: There are provided an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device and a fabrication method of the in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device which has a low pretilt angle by applying a three-electrode structure to an in-plane switching display and mixing a photocurable polymer into an alignment film by a rubbing process, and includes: an upper substrate having an upper plate conductive electrode; a lower substrate having a lower plate conductive electrode and a pattern electrode formed on the lower plate conductive electrode with an insulating layer therebetween; the liquid crystal layer disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate; and an alignment film formed on the upper substrate having the upper plate conductive electrode and the lower substrate having the pattern electrode and configured to align liquid crystals in an in-plane manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: PUSAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Taehoon Yoon, Seungwon Oh, Junhee Park
  • Patent number: 9581821
    Abstract: Compact and low mass augmented and fully virtual head mounted display designs are disclosed. The disclosed displays employ a display located between the eye and the main optical element of the head mounted display. These designs additionally afford the ability to support augmented reality displays because the user can see both the virtual image from the display and the real world if desired. The designs use semi-transparent displays where either the display emits circularly polarized light or the displays which emits light from one surface or the view of the display directly from the eye is obscured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Fakespace Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian McDowall, Mark Bolas
  • Patent number: 9575376
    Abstract: A TFT array substrate for a TFT LCD includes a plurality of pixels each consisting of a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel and a white sub-pixel arranged in a 2×2 matrix. Two data lines are located between each two neighboring columns of the sub-pixels. A scan line is located between two neighboring rows of the sub-pixels. The sub-pixels are driven by column inversion. The scan lines in electrical connections with different rows of the pixels are turned on successively along a vertical direction. Two neighboring same colored sub-pixels in a same row of the sub-pixels and two neighboring same colored sub-pixel in a same column of the sub-pixels respectively have opposite polarities when the TFT LCD is operated to output a screen having a color the same as the color of the two neighboring same colored sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Century Technology (Shenzhen) Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Chih-Chung Liu, Ming-Tsung Wang, Li-Fang Wang, Jian-Xin Liu
  • Patent number: 9568768
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes an optical component including one or more microstructures configured to diffuse light incident thereto from within the optical component. The microstructures are provided at least on a light input surface of the optical component provided in a bottom cavity of its body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Radiant Choice Limited
    Inventors: Nguyen The Tran, Jiun-Pyng You
  • Patent number: 9557621
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided with a liquid crystal cell member, a light regulating member, a reflective polarizing member, and a control unit. The liquid crystal cell member has a first liquid crystal layer. An optical transmittance of the light regulating member changes with the application state of a second voltage. The reflective polarizing member transmits specific polarized light and reflects other polarized light. The polarization direction of light that is incident on the reflective polarizing member from the first liquid crystal layer is the same as the polarization direction of light transmitted by the reflective polarizing member. The control unit alters the application state of the second voltage in such a manner that the transmittance of the light regulating member when a backlight unit is on is higher than the transmittance of the light regulating member when the backlight unit is off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Nagase, Yoshikazu Yaji, Tomohiro Sasagawa, Atsushi Michimori
  • Patent number: 9551905
    Abstract: A display device is provided that includes a first substrate, a gate wiring formed on the first substrate and extending in a first direction, a data wiring insulated from and crossing the gate wiring and extending in a second direction, and a pixel electrode including a first subpixel electrode to which a first data voltage is applied from the data wiring and a second subpixel electrode to which a second data voltage different from the first data voltage is applied from the data wiring, wherein the first subpixel electrode is surrounded by the second subpixel electrode, and the second subpixel electrode includes a plurality of slit patterns formed in portions thereof which are adjacent to the first subpixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Rim Song, Mee Hye Jung, Sang Uk Lim, Sang Jin Jeon
  • Patent number: 9551897
    Abstract: A polarizing plate includes a polarizer, and a protective film on one side of the polarizer and including a reverse dispersion liquid crystal coating layer having ?/4 retardation. An optical display panel includes the polarizing plate. The polarizing plate has a depolarization function and allows for viewing of the display panel through polarizing sunglasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Woon Kim
  • Patent number: 9547203
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a first substrate, a pixel electrode on the first substrate and including a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode separated from the first subpixel electrode, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a common electrode on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first subpixel electrode includes a first plate-shaped portion and first branch electrodes extending from the first plate-shaped portion, wherein the second subpixel electrode includes a second plate-shaped portion configured to enclose surroundings of the first branch electrode and second branch electrodes extending from the second plate-shaped portion, and wherein a difference between a first voltage applied to the first subpixel electrode and a common voltage applied to the common electrode is larger than a difference between a second voltage applied to the second subpixel electrode and the common voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se Hyun Lee, Ka Eun Kim, Ki Chul Shin, Ho Kil Oh, Hak Sun Chang
  • Patent number: 9547195
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) and a display device are disclosed. The LCD is provided with a plurality of pixel units; each pixel unit includes a plurality of sub-pixel units for displaying different colors; quantum dot (QD) layers capable of allowing backlight to run through are disposed at positions of an array substrate, corresponding to the sub-pixel units of at least one color of the pixel units; the QD layers are excited by ultraviolet light in sunlight and emit light which at least is of the color of the sub-pixel units; and color filters are disposed between the QD layers and the opposing substrate. The LCD has enhanced display brightness and higher outdoor viewability in the case of outdoor display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Renwei Guo, Xue Dong, Jian Guo
  • Patent number: 9547192
    Abstract: A display device includes a front panel wholly bonded on a display part of a display module via OCR (a transparent optical elastomeric resin). If a dam for preventing the OCR from being infiltrated is overflowed, the OCR is inhibited from being infiltrated and diffused into an inside of the module. The display device includes a display module including upper and lower substrates, a case receiving the upper and lower substrates, and a bezel with an opened display part, mounted in the case part, and further including a front panel wholly bonded on a display part of the display module described above via a transparent optical elastomeric resin, and a resin dam disposed on a surface of the upper substrate along an open end of a reverse side of the bezel part, wherein at least a part of the resin dam is apart from the bezel part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Fujita
  • Patent number: 9541782
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display includes a position limiting structure, and further includes a TFT substrate, a CF substrate adhered to an internal surface of the TFT substrate, and an adhesive layer disposed at partial or entire area except a specific area on the internal surface of the TFT substrate. The TFT substrate is fixed on the position limiting structure through the adhesive layer. The internal surface of the CF substrate is adhered to the internal surface of the TFT substrate. The specific area on the internal surface of the TFT substrate includes an overlapped area of the internal surface of the TFT substrate and the internal surface of the CF substrate and an area, for connecting a flexible circuit board, on the internal surface of the TFT substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hebin Zhao, Honglin Zhang, Dan Wang, Xibin Shao
  • Patent number: 9541791
    Abstract: A display device includes a flexible display panel, a light module and an optical film. The flexible display panel has a first axis and curving about the first axis as an axis of curvature. The light module is located on one side of the flexible display panel. The optical film is located between the flexible display panel and the light module. The optical film includes a substrate and multiple first strip microstructures. The substrate has a first side and a second side that are opposite to each other. The first side faces the light module while the second side faces the flexible display panel. The first strip microstructures are located on the first side of the substrate, and the first strip microstructures extend along a second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Ming-Lung Chen, Kun-Hung Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9543334
    Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a substrate including a non-display region containing a thin film transistor, which includes a semiconductor layer; a first insulating layer; a first metal layer; a second insulating layer; a first and second via hole series disposed adjacent to the respective opposite sides of the first metal layer. The first via hole series includes a plurality of first via holes, and the second via hole series includes a plurality of second via holes. A second metal layer includes a first portion and a second portion. The minimum distance between an edge of the first portion and an edge of the first metal layer is a first distance, and the minimum distance between an edge of the second portion and another edge of the first metal layer is a second distance, and the second distance is greater than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chung-Wen Yen, Hsing-Yi Liang, Te-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 9535303
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device, the liquid crystal display device comprising an upper polarizer, a lower polarizer and a first liquid crystal cell arranged between the upper polarizer and the lower polarizer, wherein a second liquid crystal cell is further arranged between the upper polarizer and the first liquid crystal cell, the second liquid crystal cell comprising a first electrode, a second electrode and a first liquid crystal layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first liquid crystal layer being a blue phase liquid crystal layer, the first electrode and the second electrode being used for forming a vertical electric field. The present invention can realize switching between a wide view mode and a narrow view mode of the liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Weili Zhao
  • Patent number: 9535283
    Abstract: Provided is a display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The display device includes a reflective display part including a first cathode electrode and a first anode electrode and a liquid crystal layer, a light emitting display part including a second cathode electrode and a second anode electrode and a light emission film, and a thin film transistor part being electrically connected to the first and second anode electrodes. The light emitting display part further includes a bank disposed on one side of the second anode electrode between the second anode electrode and the light emission film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yong Hae Kim, Gi Heon Kim, Hojun Ryu, Chi-Sun Hwang, Jong-Heon Yang, Sang Chul Lim, Jae Bon Koo, Jonghee Lee, Jeong Ik Lee
  • Patent number: 9529142
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of light source packages each having a light-emitting portion for emitting light, a light guide plate which light emitted from the light source packages enters through the incidence surface, having a height and a width, and from which the light exits through the exit surface, and a liquid crystal display panel for controlling, for each pixel, the orientation of a liquid crystal material to control the transmission of the light exiting through the exit surface. Each light source package has two opposing long sides and two opposing short sides when viewed from the direction of the light emitted by the light-emitting portion. The plurality of light source packages are arranged long side to long side in the direction along the width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Norihiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9529230
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel to display images; a backlight unit disposed behind the liquid crystal display panel; and a chassis unit configured to accommodate the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit, and to emit at least some of light provided by the backlight unit behind the liquid crystal display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-kyun Im, Jun-mo Yoo, Cheon-seong Lee
  • Patent number: 9523888
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there are provided a liquid crystal display substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display substrate comprises: a base substrate; a planarizing layer disposed on the base substrate; and a liquid crystal aligning layer disposed on the planarizing layer. As regards the liquid crystal display substrate, in a place in the planarizing layer that is close to its edge, there is provided a recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Honglin Zhang, Dan Wang, Xibin Shao
  • Patent number: 9519198
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, which includes: a liquid crystal layer; and a first substrate and a second substrate that are arranged so as to face each other with the liquid crystal layer being sandwiched therebetween. On the liquid crystal layer side of the first substrate, there are provided: a plurality of first thin film transistors that are arranged in a display region; a peripheral drive circuit which includes a plurality of second thin film transistors and is arranged in the periphery of the display region so as to supply drive signals to the plurality of first thin film transistors; an organic insulating film that is formed so as to cover the plurality of first thin film transistors and the plurality of second thin film transistors; and an inorganic insulating film that is formed on the organic insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohiko Nishiki, Takeshi Hara, Tohru Okabe