Patents Examined by Nathanael R Briggs
  • Patent number: 12147111
    Abstract: A thin image display device is provided which is free from display defects caused by the deformation of an image display part and can display high brightness and high contrast images. The image display device includes an image display part, a light-transmitting protective part arranged on the image display part, and a cured resin layer interposed between the image display part and the protective part. The cured resin layer has a light transmittance in the visible region of 90% or more and a refractive index (nD) of 1.45 or more and 1.55 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Shinya, Yusuke Kamata
  • Patent number: 12140840
    Abstract: A light control sheet includes transparent electrode layers including first and second transparent electrode layers, a light control layer formed between the first and second transparent electrode layers, a first transparent support layer formed on the first transparent electrode layer on the opposite side of the light control layer, and a second transparent support layer formed on the second transparent electrode layer on the opposite side of the light control layer. The first transparent support layer has a support surface supporting the first transparent electrode layer, and the first transparent electrode layer includes a first electrode element and a second electrode element such that the first and second electrode elements are formed along the support surface and electrically insulated from each other by a groove extending along the support surface and having a depth passing through the first transparent electrode layer and not passing through the first transparent support layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOPPAN Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yamamoto, Takashi Oonishi
  • Patent number: 12099275
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes an edge backlight including a transparent light guide plate and light-emitting elements of multiple colors that are disposed such that the light-emitting elements of multiple colors are adjacent to each other, a dimming liquid crystal layer that is disposed such that the dimming liquid crystal layer overlaps at least an end portion of the transparent light guide plate that faces the light-emitting elements of multiple colors in a plan view and that has a degree of haze that increases or decreases by applying a voltage, and a transmissive liquid crystal display panel that includes pixels. With the backlight on, the dimming liquid crystal layer is in a diffusion state, and the liquid crystal display panel performs the color display. With the backlight off, the dimming liquid crystal layer is in a transmission state, and the liquid crystal display panel performs the transparent display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohichi Aso
  • Patent number: 12092907
    Abstract: A transmittance-variable device is provided in the present application. The present application provides a transmittance-variable device, which can be applied to various applications without causing problems such as a crosstalk phenomenon, a rainbow phenomenon or a mirroring phenomenon, while having excellent transmittance-variable characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Jung Lim, Sergey Belyaev, Min Jun Gim, Dong Hyun Oh, Jung Sun You, Nam Gyu Kim, Jin Hong Kim, Hyun Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 12085828
    Abstract: Described herein are liquid crystal (LC) assemblies that are dimmable and techniques for manufacturing LC assemblies. In one example, an LC assembly comprises: a first curved glass panel, a second curved glass panel, and a liquid crystal panel having a first outer surface and a second outer surface, a layer of a liquid adhesive attaching the first curved glass panel and the first outer surface of the liquid crystal panel, and a film adhesive attaching the second curved glass panel and the second outer surface of the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventors: Martin Hainfellner, Fenghua Li
  • Patent number: 12072566
    Abstract: Eyewear having electrochromic lenses for controlling a light transmissive property/tinting for a user's eye and a camera. The electrochromic lenses have an eye region for controlling light transmission to a user's eye, and a separate camera region for controlling light transmission to a camera. Two or more electrochromic lenses are provided to independently control the tinting for each of the user's eye, and two or more cameras. The electrochromic lenses comprise of multiple lens layers forming a single stack. Each layer has an opening configured to receive a fill material, such as a dye, such that the fill material can have different chemistries. The displays may also have different dye chemistries to allow for different tint ranges (wavelengths of light passed).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Singh, Stephen Andrew Steger, Samuel Bryson Thompson
  • Patent number: 12066707
    Abstract: An optical element includes a light guide plate, an incidence portion, and an emission portion, in which each of the incidence portion and the emission portion includes diffraction portions, the diffraction portion includes diffraction elements, the diffraction element includes a liquid crystal diffraction layer in which a direction of an optical axis of a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in one in-plane direction, and in a case where the direction in which the direction of the optical axis changes is set as an in-plane rotation direction and a length over which the optical axis rotates by 180° is set as an in-plane period, in-plane rotation directions of liquid crystal diffraction layers of incidence diffraction elements in at least two of a plurality of the incidence diffraction portions are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Sasata, Fumitake Mitobe, Hiroshi Sato, Yukito Saitoh
  • Patent number: 12061405
    Abstract: A method includes receiving first dimensions of an electrochromic device and second dimensions of one or more obstructions of the electrochromic device. The method further includes generating, based on the first dimensions and the second dimensions, an obstruction map that indicates at least one of an obstructed portion or an unobstructed portion of the electrochromic device. The method further includes determining, based the obstruction map, a first desired tinting state of the electrochromic device. The method further includes causing a current tinting state of the electrochromic device to correspond to the first desired tinting state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Halio, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew McNeil, Tanguy Timmermans
  • Patent number: 12055741
    Abstract: An optical article that includes an optical element and an anisotropic coating layer formed over at least a portion of the optical element. The anisotropic coating layer can include a first light-influencing zone comprising at least one first anisotropic material and a second light-influencing zone comprising at least one second anisotropic material. The at least one of the first light-influencing zone and the second light-influencing zone further include at least one dichroic material and/or at least one photochromic-dichroic material such that the first light-influencing zone and the second light-influencing zone exhibit a different color property, a different photochromic-dichroic reversible change, a different amount of polarization, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Transitions Optical, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Kumar, David John Park, Brian Smyth, Delwin S. Jackson, Henry Nguyen, John S. Ligas, Linda K. Anderson
  • Patent number: 12050386
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal device includes a first liquid crystal cell, a second liquid crystal cell, a first flexible wiring board including a first terminal and connected to the first liquid crystal cell, a second flexible wiring board including a second terminal and connected to the second liquid crystal cell, and a circuit board including a first connector connected to the first terminal and a second connector connected to the second terminal. The first flexible wiring board and the second flexible wiring board are arranged without overlapping each other in plan view. A first distance from an edge of the circuit board to the first connector and a second distance from the edge to the second connector are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Kanesaka, Koichi Nagao, Tomohide Oohira, Takayuki Imai
  • Patent number: 12048223
    Abstract: A display device with improved viewing angle characteristics is provided. A display device with suppressed mixture of colors between adjacent pixels is provided. The display device includes a first coloring layer, a second coloring layer, and a structure body therebetween. The structure body has a portion closer to a display surface side than a bottom surface of the first coloring layer or a bottom surface of the second coloring layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Aoyama, Ryu Komatsu, Daiki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12013998
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a sensor includes: a first substrate; detection electrodes arrayed in a matrix in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction above the first substrate; sensor wires coupled to one of the detection electrodes; pixels each including sub-pixels and arrayed in a matrix in the first and second directions; scanning lines scanning switching elements of the sub-pixels and extending in the first direction; and signal lines coupled to the switching elements and extending in the second direction. One of the sensor wires overlaps one of the signal lines. The sensor wires each have, at a part thereof, a coupling part coupled to the corresponding detection electrode. The pixels include a first pixel with the coupling part and a second pixel without the coupling part. The first and second pixels are alternately disposed in the first and second directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Aoki, Yuji Maede, Jin Hirosawa, Yuzo Kanari
  • Patent number: 12007664
    Abstract: A transparent display panel has a plurality of sub-pixel regions, which are divided into at least two display unit groups. The transparent display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate assembled with each other, and a light exit control layer disposed therebetween. The first substrate includes a first base and a dimming component disposed on a side of the first base. The dimming component includes a plurality of dimming lenses. Each dimming lens is configured to transmit exit light of one sub-pixel region to human eyes and focus the exit light on a corresponding focal plane. The plurality of dimming lenses are configured to focus exit light of the at least two display unit groups on different focal planes. The focal planes are located at a side of the transparent display panel away from the human eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yujiao Guo, Wei Wang, Xianqin Meng, Qiuyu Ling, Meng Yan, Yishan Tian, Gaolei Xue, Weiting Peng, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11997890
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a base, a voltage signal line, a driving circuit structure, a cathode overlapping layer and a cathode layer. The voltage signal line is located in the non-display region and is arranged around the display region. The driving circuit structure is located in the non-display region, and is located at a side of the voltage signal line proximate to the display region in a first direction. The cathode overlapping layer is located in the non-display region and is arranged around the display region. At least a part of a surface of a first portion of the cathode overlapping layer proximate to the base is in electrical contact with a corresponding part of the voltage signal line. An orthographic projection of a second portion of the cathode overlapping layer on the base at least partially overlaps an orthographic projection of the driving circuit structure on the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Xu, Jiangtao Deng, Weiwei Ding
  • Patent number: 11993741
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a liquid crystal layer, and an electrode layer configured to form an electric field in the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal composition in which an organic compound having a property of inhibiting a polymerization reaction caused by light action is added to a liquid crystal mixture as a polymerization inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: santec Holdings Corporation, SANYO-ONODA CITY PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuki Sakurai, Koki Takatou
  • Patent number: 11988925
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a driving backplate including a base substrate, and an insulation layer and a plurality of conductive structures on the base substrate. The insulation layer insulates the plurality of conductive structures from each other. The plurality of conductive structures includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer sequentially stacked along a direction away from the base substrate. At least one portion of a region in which the first conductive layer is in contact with the second conductive layer includes a flat contact region. An opening is formed at a position in the insulation layer corresponding to the conductive structure. An edge of the opening in the insulation layer is between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer and is correspondingly in edge regions of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min He, Jing Wang, Xiaodong Xie, Tianyu Zhang, Xue Zhao, Tengfei Zhong, Xinxiu Zhang, Huayu Sang, Feng Qu
  • Patent number: 11989059
    Abstract: An electronic display assembly includes a cover panel at a front portion of a housing, and an electronic display layer located rearward of the cover panel. At least a portion of a first airflow pathway is located rearward of the electronic display layer. At least a portion of a second airflow pathway extends along and adjacent to a rear surface of an access panel, which is located rearward of at least said portion of said first airflow pathway. An intake and an exhaust are in fluid communication with the first and second airflow pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventor: William Dunn
  • Patent number: 11984367
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a display area and a non-display area. A window is disposed on the display panel. A bezel portion is disposed on the window. The bezel portion at least partially overlaps the non-display area. An adhesive layer is disposed between the display panel and the window. An interlayer is disposed between the bezel portion and the adhesive layer. The interlayer has at least one ultrasound transmitting area overlapping the bezel portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eunhye Park, Hyangyul Kim, Hyoungjoon Kim, Joohyung Lee
  • Patent number: 11977290
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal diffraction element having a high diffraction efficiency irrespective of diffraction angles, an optical element including the liquid crystal diffraction element, and an image display unit, a head-mounted display, a beam steering, and a sensor including the liquid crystal diffraction element or the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Yukito Saitoh, Takashi Yonemoto, Makoto Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 11966044
    Abstract: This document relates to an optical device that uses adaptive optics as part of an optical system. The adaptive optics can be used to correct light rays that correspond to a portion of an eye box based on information received from an eye-tracking unit, and can also correct for aberrations in the optics in the optical device. The adaptive optics include corrective elements that can be modified using modifying elements to correct the angle of light rays, such that rays associated with a specific pupil position and gaze direction of a user's eye can be made parallel and ensure a high quality image is viewed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Georgiou, Alfonsus D. Lunardhi, Joel Steven Kollin, Bernard C. Kress, Ishan Chatterjee, Mario Possiwan