Patents Examined by Mariam Qureshi
  • Patent number: 12044938
    Abstract: A pixel structure, a display panel and a display device. The pixel structure includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The pixel electrode and the common electrode each is one of a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The common electrode includes a plurality of first branch portions. The pixel electrode includes second branch portions and a plurality of trunk portions. The second branch portions and the first branch portions are alternately arranged at intervals. In the present application, portions of the pixel electrode within an orthographic projection range of an offset of a spacer are extended to form a plane by configuring a height of each first trunk portion to be higher than a height of each second trunk portion along a linear direction in which the second branch portions are located, thereby increasing the pressure-bearing capacity of the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Min Chen, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 12032193
    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: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kenta Sekikawa, Hiromichi Nagayama, So Ishido
  • Patent number: 12034013
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, and an electronic device are provided. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; a first electrode arranged on the base substrate; a gate line arranged on the base substrate, wherein the gate line is electrically insulated from the first electrode; a second electrode arranged on a side of the gate line away from the base substrate, wherein at least one first sub-pixel unit provided on the base substrate includes: a first connection portion arranged in a same layer as the second electrode and a second connection portion arranged in a same layer as the gate line, wherein the second connection portion is electrically connected to the first electrode, and an orthographic projection of the second connection portion on the base substrate at least partially overlaps an orthographic projection of the first connection portion on the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chongyang Zhao, Yingmeng Miao, Zhihua Sun, Feng Qu, Xiaochun Xu
  • Patent number: 12025882
    Abstract: Provided is a film for a wavelength conversion sheet that can suppress a change in color with time when applied to a wavelength conversion sheet. A film for a wavelength conversion sheet, comprising a primer layer and a first base material film in presented order, wherein a refractive index of the primer layer is defined as n1, a thickness of the primer layer is defined as t1, and a refractive index of the first base material film is defined as n2, and the following condition 1 or the following condition 2 is satisfied: Condition 1: n1<n2, and d1 represented by the following expression 1 represents a range of x±0.10 wherein x is an odd integer; Condition 2: n1>n2, and d1 represented by the following expression 1 represents a range of x±0.10 wherein x is an even integer; Expression 1: d1=n1×t1/112.5 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sakamoto, Ryutaro Harada, Shuichi Tamura, Akihito Haruki, Shota Yamanishi, Yuko Fujioka
  • Patent number: 12013613
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a first light guide element and a light-emitting element. The liquid crystal layer contains stringy polymers and liquid crystal molecules. The first light guide element includes a third transparent substrate including a side surface and a main surface, and a transparent layer disposed on the main surface and having a refractive index lower than that of the third transparent substrate. The light-emitting element opposes the side surface, and the third transparent substrate is adhered to the second transparent substrate while interposing the transparent layer therebetween. The light-emitting element is disposed on the second transparent substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Tenfu Nakamura, Kentaro Okuyama, Zhengyi Gou, Hisanori Kawakami
  • Patent number: 12013603
    Abstract: A switchable backlight for a switchable privacy display apparatus comprises a collimated waveguide, first and second light sources and an optical turning film comprising elongate prismatic elements with facet orientations that pupillate the output of the waveguide in two orthogonal directions for each of first and second light sources. High luminance uniformity is achieved for a head-on user in privacy and public viewing modes and high uniformity of security factor is achieved for off-axis snoopers, with increased speed of privacy switch-on in privacy mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: ReaID Spark, LLC
    Inventors: Michael G. Robinson, Graham J. Woodgate, Jonathan Harrold
  • Patent number: 12007663
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display panel, a camera module, and a diffraction suppression device is provided. The display panel is provided with multiple signal lines and multiple display pixels. The signal lines and the display pixels are alternately arranged along at least one direction. The camera module has a light receiving surface facing the display panel. The light receiving surface is overlapped with the display panel. The diffraction suppression device is disposed between the display panel and the camera module, and has multiple first light-transmitting regions and multiple second light-transmitting regions alternately arranged along the at least one direction. The first light-transmitting regions are respectively overlapped with the display pixels. The second light-transmitting regions are respectively overlapped with the signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Jui-Chieh Hsiang, Chih-Chiang Chen
  • Patent number: 12007662
    Abstract: A liquid crystal grating and a holographic display device are provided. The liquid crystal grating includes grating electrode groups. The grating electrode group includes grating electrodes. Operation states of the liquid crystal grating include a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, a first voltage of a first polarity is provided to the grating electrode, and an average voltage value of the first voltage is |V1|. In the second mode, a second voltage of a second polarity is provided to the grating electrode, and an average voltage value of the second voltage is |V2|, with |V1|<|V2|. In an operation period, light is modulated by the liquid crystal grating to obtain deflected light, the liquid crystal grating is switched between the first mode and the second mode, a quantity of the first mode is N1, and a quantity of the second mode is N2, with N1>N2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Zeng, Feng Lu
  • Patent number: 12007638
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a display panel and a preparation method thereof, and a display device. The display panel comprises a polymer liquid crystal cell and a light source. The polymer liquid crystal cell comprises a first region close to the light source and a second region away from the light source, and the second region has a higher haze than the first region, thereby reducing the light emitting intensity close to the light source region and increasing the light emitting intensity away from the light source region, so that light guide and light emitting in each region of the polymer liquid crystal cell uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qian Deng, Rui He, Wei Cheng
  • Patent number: 12001091
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to display systems and, more particularly, to augmented reality display systems. 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 have liquid crystal molecules that are aligned differently, such that the different diffracting zones have different optical properties associated with light diffraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Chulwoo Oh
  • Patent number: 12001035
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a plurality of repeat units. Each of the plurality of repeat units includes one first-color sub-pixel, one second-color sub-pixel pair and one third-color sub-pixel which are arranged in a first direction, the second-color sub-pixel pair includes two second-color sub-pixels arranging in a second direction. In three sub-pixels of different colors which are adjacent to each other, orthographic projections of light-emitting layers of at least two sub-pixels adjacent to each other on the base substrate are overlapped or connected, and a spacing is disposed between at least part of the light-emitting layers of two sub-pixels which are adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengli Ji, Chang Luo, Jianpeng Wu, Lujiang Huangfu
  • Patent number: 11994784
    Abstract: Resistive bridges can connect many ring electrodes in an electro-active lens with a relatively small number of buss lines. These resistors are usually large to prevent excessive current consumption. Conventionally, they are disposed in the same plane as the ring electrodes, which means that the ring electrodes are spaced farther apart or made discontinuous to accommodate the resistors. But spacing the ring electrodes farther apart or making them discontinuous degrades the lens's optical quality. Placing the ring electrodes and resistors on layers separated by an insulator makes it possible for the ring electrodes to be closer together and continuous with resistance high enough to limit current consumption. It also relaxes constraints on feature sizes and placement during the process used to make the lens. And because the resistors and electrodes are on different planes, they can be formed of materials with different resistivities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Van Heugten, Harry Milton
  • Patent number: 11985849
    Abstract: A polarizer and a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The polarizer includes a polarizing layer, and the polarizing layer includes a first polarizing region and a second polarizing region. A light transmittance of the first polarizing region is greater than a light transmittance of the second polarizing region, and a ratio of the light transmittance of the first polarizing region to the light transmittance of the second polarizing region is 1.1:1 to 2.6:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi Yu, Yu Zhang, Weiyun Huang, Zhenli Zhou
  • Patent number: 11982914
    Abstract: The present application relates to an array substrate and a display panel. In the present application, a first common line and a first sharing line are respectively disposed on two sides of a scan line, thereby preventing a situation in the prior art that the first sharing line penetrates a main pixel region and a sub-pixel region vertically, thereby improving an aperture ratio and a transmittance of the array substrate. The first common line, the first sharing line, and the scan line are disposed in a same layer, thereby further improving the transmittance of the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juncheng Xiao, Ji Li, Fen Long, Yingchun Zhao, Ru Ge
  • Patent number: 11977308
    Abstract: An electrically controlled birefringence liquid crystal display device performs a normally black display. The display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal layer and a reflective portion to reflect light that is incident through a display surface of the liquid crystal display panel and that passes through the liquid crystal layer, a first polarizing plate on the display surface, and a half-wavelength plate between the liquid crystal display panel and the first polarizing plate. A phase difference ?nd?1 of the liquid crystal layer is less than a half of a phase difference ?nd?2 of the half-wavelength plate. The phase difference ?nd?2 of the half-wavelength plate indicates a positively dispersive wavelength, and a low axis of the half-wavelength plate intersects with an orientation axis of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer under no electric field being applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Soda
  • Patent number: 11977289
    Abstract: Provided are a wide-viewing-angle optical film, a manufacturing method of the wide-viewing-angle optical film, and a liquid crystal display device. The manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate and forming a first light-transmissive layer at one side of the substrate; performing light treatment on the first light-transmissive layer to form protrusions on a surface of the first light-transmissive layer; and forming a second light-transmissive layer on one side of the first light-transmissive layer away from the substrate, in which a refractive index of a material of the second light-transmissive layer is greater than a refractive index of a material of the first light-transmissive layer to obtain a wide-viewing-angle film including the first light-transmissive layer and the second light-transmissive layer stacked on each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Ji Li
  • Patent number: 11977301
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of strip-shaped spacers disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. In the liquid crystal display panel, there is an overlapping area between an orthographic projection of a first signal line on a target base and an orthographic projection of a second signal line on the target base, and an orthographic projection of the strip-shaped spacer on the target base is not overlapped with the overlapping area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinshuai Duan, Xiaojuan Wu, Hongliang Yuan, Wei Zhao, Yao Bi, Jiaxing Wang, Hao Yan, Li Tian, Liping Lei
  • Patent number: 11971626
    Abstract: Provided are a barrier film having superior close adhesion to a phosphor layer when used for a wavelength conversion sheet, a wavelength conversion sheet having the barrier film, and a backlight and a display device including the wavelength conversion sheet. A barrier film for a wavelength conversion sheet, comprising: a barrier layer; and a primer layer, wherein the primer layer comprises a cured product of a polyurethane-based resin composition, and when a surface of an opposite side of the primer layer from the barrier layer is subjected to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to obtain a C1s spectrum, P2/P1 is 0.55 or more, where P1 is an area of a peak assigned to a C—C bond in the C1s spectrum and P2 is an area of a peak assigned to a C—O bond in the C1s spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuji Nakajima, Shuichi Tamura, Takeshi Sakamoto, Ryutaro Harada
  • Patent number: 11960158
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a large display portion with improved portability is provided. The display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel, and an adhesive layer. The area of the second display panel is larger than the area of the first display panel. The first display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a reflective liquid crystal element and a first transistor each positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second display panel includes a first resin layer having flexibility, a second resin layer having flexibility, and a light-emitting element and a second transistor each positioned between the first resin layer and the second resin layer. The liquid crystal element has a function of reflecting light toward the second substrate side. The light-emitting element has a function of emitting light toward the second resin layer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Eguchi, Hideaki Kuwabara, Kazune Yokomizo
  • Patent number: 11963394
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a display element layer disposed on the substrate, where the display element layer includes a light emitting element which emits light; a polarizing film disposed on the display element layer, where the polarizing film includes a first polarizer having a first absorption axis extending to a first direction and a first transmission axis extending to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and a first layer disposed on one surface of the polarizing film, where the first layer has a first phase difference. Light emitted from the display element layer has a polarizing axis, and an angle between the polarizing axis and one of the first absorption axis and the first transmission axis is in a range of about 25 degrees to about 65 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Young Lee, Eun Mi Seo, Gil Yeong Park, Min Ju Oh