Patents Examined by Mariam Qureshi
  • Patent number: 12265304
    Abstract: Some implementations related to a display device that includes a display surface and a monochromatic image generator. The generator may be designed to produce monochromatic visual information for display, incorporating a primary light source and a transflective spatial light modulator. The display device may include a spatially addressable backlight generator configured to backlight the transflective spatial light modulator. This generator may include an array of colored light sources, which are driven to selectively emit light towards a non-reflective side of the modulator, infusing colored light into the monochromatic visual information. This may result in infused color information being presented at the display surface with the monochromatic visual information. The display device may include one or more processors configured to effectuate the presentation of the infused color information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Daylight Computer Co.
    Inventors: Anjan Katta, Ibrahim Iskender Kushan
  • Patent number: 12265306
    Abstract: A light adjustment device includes a panel unit including a plurality of light adjustment panels stacked in a first direction. The light adjustment panels each include a first substrate, a second substrate overlapping the first substrate in a first direction, a first alignment film provided on the first substrate, a second alignment film provided on the second substrate and overlapping the first alignment film in the first direction, a liquid crystal layer filling a gap between the first alignment film and the second alignment film, a seal material provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and on the outer side of the first alignment film and the second alignment film, and a conductive member providing conduction between a first electrode provided on the first substrate and a second electrode provided on the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Hiroya Morimoto, Shunpei Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12265292
    Abstract: A display module and a seamless splicing display device are disclosed. The display module includes: a display panel including a central display area and a bezel area adjacent to the central display area, wherein the display panel is provided with a bezel driving circuit and an array substrate driving circuit; a compensation display component disposed on the display panel, located in the bezel area, and electrically connected with the bezel driving circuit; and a metal wiring located on a lateral surface of the display panel and connected with the bezel driving circuit and the array substrate driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juncheng Xiao, Bin Zhao, Ji Li, Hongquan Wei
  • Patent number: 12259617
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and an electrode, the electrode includes a main electrode and a secondary electrode, the main electrode surrounds and is spaced apart from the secondary electrode, the main electrode receives a first voltage signal, and the secondary electrode receives a second voltage signal, so that deflection directions of liquid crystals located in a main electrode region and in a secondary electrode region are different, thereby effectively improving the color cast of a multi-domain liquid crystal display panel and improving the display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wanchun Wu
  • Patent number: 12235480
    Abstract: In some implementations, an optical device includes a one-way mirror formed by a polarization selective mirror and an absorptive polarizer. The absorptive polarizer has a transmission axis aligned with the transmission axis of the reflective polarizer. The one-way mirror may be provided on the world side of a head-mounted display system. Advantageously, the one-way mirror may reflect light from the world, which provides privacy and may improve the cosmetics of the display. In some implementations, the one-way mirror may include one or more of a depolarizer and a pair of opposing waveplates to improve alignment tolerances and reduce reflections to a viewer. In some implementations, the one-way mirror may form a compact integrated structure with a dimmer for reducing light transmitted to the viewer from the world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Chulwoo Oh, Ravi Kumar Komanduri, David Kleinman, Vaibhav Mathur, David Manly
  • Patent number: 12235533
    Abstract: Embodiments of a curved display assembly are disclosed. The assembly includes a glass sheet having first and second major surfaces. The second major surface defines a first curvature of the glass sheet, and the first curvature has a bend axis. The assembly also includes a curved display having a second thickness between first and second display surfaces. The display has a display region and two overhanging edges adjacent to the display region and parallel to the bend axis. A first adhesive bonds the second display surface to the second major surface in the display region. A second adhesive is disposed between each of the two overhanging edges and the second major surface. The second adhesive has a higher elastic modulus than the first adhesive. The overhanging edges each extend a distance outside of the display area that is at least three times the second thickness of the curved display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Steven Roy Burdette
  • Patent number: 12235458
    Abstract: A varifocal liquid lens includes a body filled with two different fluids separated by an interface of a variable curvature across a clear aperture of the varifocal liquid lens. At least one of the first or second fluids is birefringent, such that a refractive index difference between the first and second fluids and resulting optical power of the varifocal liquid lens is dependent on polarization of impinging light. At a first light polarization, the first and second fluids may be matched in refractive index, while at a second, orthogonal light polarization, the first and second fluids may be mismatched in refractive index, whereby the first interface between the first and second fluids may have a variable, non-zero optical power for the second polarization while having a substantially non-variable, zero optical power for the first polarization of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Afsoon Jamali, Changwon Jang, Sandro Pintz
  • Patent number: 12235527
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate and a first common electrode layer, a pixel electrode layer and a second common electrode layer which are stacked on the substrate in turn; wherein an orthographic projection of the first common electrode layer on the substrate is at least partially overlapped with an orthographic projection of the pixel electrode layer on the substrate, and a first storage capacitor is formed on an overlapping portion of the first common electrode layer and the pixel electrode layer; an orthographic projection of the second common electrode layer on the substrate is at least partially overlapped with the orthographic projection of the pixel electrode layer on the substrate, and a second storage capacitor is formed on an overlapping portion of the second common electrode layer and the pixel electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Peirong Huo, Lei Yao, Xiaogang Zhu, Jingyi Xu, Bo Li
  • Patent number: 12228835
    Abstract: A display device comprising a spatial light modulator having a display polariser arranged on one side of the spatial light modulator is provided with an additional polariser arranged on the same side as the display polariser and polar control retarders between the additional polariser and the display polariser. The polar control retarders include a liquid crystal retarder having two surface alignment layers disposed adjacent to a layer of liquid crystal material on opposite sides. The surface alignment layers provide alignment in the adjacent liquid crystal material with an in-plane component, wherein the angle of said in-plane component changes monotonically along a predetermined axis across the display device, providing reduction of luminance in directions that are offset from a viewing axis, increasing uniformity in the reduction of luminance in directions that are offset from a viewing axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ReaID Spark, LLC
    Inventors: Michael G. Robinson, Graham J Woodgate
  • Patent number: 12222532
    Abstract: An optical element includes a three-dimensional structure having a curved surface; and a retardation plate bent along the curved surface. The retardation plate includes a transparent substrate and a liquid crystal layer formed over the transparent substrate. The retardation plate has a slow axis and a fast axis. A glass-transition temperature, Tgne, in a slow axis direction of the retardation plate is higher than a glass-transition temperature, Tgno, in a fast axis direction of the retardation plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kenta Sekikawa, Hiromichi Nagayama, So Ishido
  • Patent number: 12222594
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to display systems and, more particularly, to augmented reality display systems including diffraction grating(s), and methods of fabricating same. A diffraction grating includes a plurality of different diffracting zones having a periodically repeating lateral dimension corresponding to a grating period adapted for light diffraction. The diffraction grating additionally includes a plurality of different liquid crystal layers corresponding to the different diffracting zones. The different liquid crystal layers include liquid crystal molecules that are aligned differently, such that the different diffracting zones have different optical properties associated with light diffraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Chulwoo Oh
  • Patent number: 12216348
    Abstract: A display device is provided. A liquid crystal display panel has a first display area and a second display area. When the display device displays, a brightness of the first display area is lower than a brightness of the second display area. The liquid crystal display panel includes a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and an insulating layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. A thickness of at least part of the insulating layer in the first display area is greater than a thickness of at least part of the insulating layer in the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaobin Hu
  • Patent number: 12216368
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, including: a first panel and a second panel opposite to the first panel; the first panel includes: gate lines extending along a first direction and data lines extending along a second direction, and the gate lines and the data lines intersect to define pixel regions; the second panel includes: a plurality of support column periodic units arranged in an array along the first direction and the second direction, each support column periodic unit includes a plurality of support columns, and at least a part of the support columns each satisfy: a connection line between the support column and a support column closest thereto extends along a third direction, and an included angle between the third direction and the first direction is not equal to 0°. The present disclosure further provides a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Wang, Yuqi Liu, Qianqian Zhang, Yanni Liu, Yijun Wang, Sheng Wang, Junsheng Chen
  • Patent number: 12210233
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel and a viewing angle control unit disposed opposite to the display panel. The viewing angle control unit includes a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; and a plurality of protrusions disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a transmittance of the plurality of protrusions is between about 0.006% and about 1.6%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: I-Kai Pan, Su-Chen Yen, Ying-Chieh Tsai
  • Patent number: 12203020
    Abstract: A color film substrate, a fabrication method therefor, and a display device. The color film substrate comprises a base substrate (1); a black matrix (2) is located on one side of the base substrate (1), the black matrix (2) having a plurality of pixel openings (21); a quantum dot color film layer (31, 32, 33) is located in the pixel openings (21) and comprises an ultraviolet light-curable quantum dot material; and a light conversion structure (4), which is located between a side wall of the black matrix (2) and a side wall of the quantum dot color film layer (31, 32, 33). When a quantum dot solution is UV cured, the light conversion structure (4) may convert ultraviolet light of 395 nm into ultraviolet light that has a shorter wavelength and higher energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qian Sun, Qian Jin, Tianhao Lu, Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 12204220
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel layer disposed on a base substrate, a first inorganic insulating layer disposed on the pixel layer, a first switch electrode disposed on the first inorganic insulating layer, a liquid crystal layer disposed on the first inorganic insulating layer and the first switch electrode, a second inorganic insulating layer disposed on the liquid crystal layer, and a second switch electrode disposed on the second inorganic insulating layer to face the first switch electrode. The liquid crystal layer converts light emitted from the pixel layer into about 90 degree linearly polarized light by an electric field formed between the first switch electrode and the second switch electrode in the private mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eon Seok Oh
  • Patent number: 12204199
    Abstract: An optical subassembly for switchably focusing or redirecting a light beam may include a polarization element having a polarization-selective beam redirection/focusing property, a first switchable polarization rotator upstream of the polarization element, and a second switchable polarization rotator downstream of the polarization element. A polarizer may be provided immediately downstream of the second switchable polarization rotator. The first and second switchable polarization rotators may be operated in counterphase, so as to mutually offset dependence of angle and wavelength characteristics of the polarization rotators on the switching state of the polarization rotators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yu-Jen Wang, Xinyu Zhu, Chulwoo Oh, Sawyer Miller
  • Patent number: 12204189
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a display device, the display device, and a spliced display device are disclosed. The display device includes a liquid crystal display panel (LCD display panel), a plurality of pad units, a plurality of conductive units, and a plurality of mini light-emitting diodes (mini-LEDs). The mini-LEDs are manufactured in a bezel area of the LCD display panel to allow the bezel area of the LCD display panel which does not emit light and display originally to display by the mini-LEDs, thereby improving a screen ratio of the display device and improving product competitiveness of the spliced display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Bin Zhao, Juncheng Xiao, Hongyuan Xu, Huajun Lu
  • Patent number: 12204218
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, sub-pixels, and shared common electrode lines. The sub-pixels are arranged in an array on the substrate, and each sub-pixel includes thin-film transistors. The shared common electrode lines are arranged at intervals on the substrate, and electrically connected to the thin-film transistors. An orthographic projection of each shared common electrode line on the substrate partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of a thin-film transistor on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Li
  • Patent number: 12204213
    Abstract: The present application discloses a pixel unit of a display panel, a lower substrate of a display panel, and a display panel. The present application by disposing a transparent shielding electrode element connected to a common signal line and extending into the aperture region and making an orthogonal projection of the transparent shielding electrode element on a plane where the common signal line is located at least partially overlap the common signal line, extends a shielding effect provided by the common signal line such that a parasitic capacitor between the pixel electrode and the data line is lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liu Yang, Yi Liu, Chengcai Dong