Patents Examined by Nathanael R Briggs
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Patent number: 11036095Abstract: A display panel includes a base substrate. A semiconductor layer is disposed on the base substrate. A source electrode and a drain electrode are disposed on the semiconductor layer. A first insulating layer is disposed on both the source electrode and the drain electrode. A data line is disposed on the first insulating layer. The data line is electrically connected to the source electrode via a contact hole penetrating through the first insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kwang Ho Lee, Yeo Geon Yoon, Joong Gun Chong, Yong Hwan Shin
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Patent number: 11036074Abstract: A color film substrate having a plurality of pixel areas includes a base substrate, a color resistance, a black matrix and protruding structures. The color resistance layer is arranged on the base substrate and including a plurality of color resistances arranged in an array. The black matrix is arranged between any adjacent color resistances. The protruding structure is arranged on at least a portion of the black matrix and surrounding at least one of the color resistances. Wherein a surface of the protruding structure away from the base substrate does not exceed a surface of the color resistance away from the base substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hui Li, Xinyin Wu, Yong Qiao, Yongda Ma
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Patent number: 11016230Abstract: Provided is an optical element including a wavelength selective reflective polarizer and a ?/2 plate in which the ?/2 plate includes an optically anisotropic layer which has an optical axis in a direction parallel to a surface and is formed of a cured layer of a liquid crystal composition and has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which an orientation of the optical axis changes while continuously rotating in at least one direction in a plane of the optically anisotropic layer, and light in the specific wavelength range which is circularly polarized light oriented in a direction opposite to that of the specific circularly polarized light among light incident on a surface of the optical element on the ?/2 plate side is reflected in a direction different from a regular reflection direction of the incident light.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yukito Saitoh, Hiroshi Sato
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Patent number: 11018201Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoya Aoyama, Ryu Komatsu, Daiki Nakamura
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Patent number: 11016318Abstract: A privacy display comprises a spatial light modulator and a compensated switchable liquid crystal retarder arranged between first and second polarisers arranged in series with the spatial light modulator. In a privacy mode of operation, on-axis light from the spatial light modulator is directed without loss, whereas off-axis light has reduced luminance. The visibility of the display to off-axis snoopers is reduced by means of luminance reduction over a wide polar field. In a wide angle mode of operation, the switchable liquid crystal retardance is adjusted so that off-axis luminance is substantially unmodified.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: RealD Spark, LLCInventors: Michael G. Robinson, Graham J. Woodgate, Robert A. Ramsey, Jonathan Harrold
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Patent number: 11016328Abstract: Provided is a display panel in which a first pixel region, a second pixel region, a third pixel region, and a light-blocking region may be defined. The first substrate may include a base layer; a first color filter layer overlapping the light-blocking region and the first pixel region; a light blocking layer overlapping the light-blocking region; a second color filter layer overlapping the second pixel region; a third color filter layer overlapping the third pixel region; and a step compensation layer disposed on one surface of the light-blocking layer and configured to cover at least a portion of the light-blocking region adjacent to the first pixel region when viewed in a plane.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Inventors: Jangil Kim, Jeongki Kim, Jong-hoon Kim, Jeaheon Ahn, Myoungjong Lee, Seok-joon Hong
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Patent number: 11009765Abstract: A varifocal block includes, in optical series, a switchable half waveplate (SHWP) and a plurality of liquid crystal (LC) lenses. The SHWP outputs circularly polarized light, and a handedness of the circularly polarized light is controlled by the SHWP being in an active state or a non-active state. Each LC lens of the plurality of LC lenses has a plurality of optical states, the plurality of optical states including an additive state that adds optical power to the LC lens and a subtractive state that removes optical power from the LC lens. The plurality of optical states of each of the plurality of the LC lenses compounded in optical series provides a range of adjustment of optical power for the varifocal block.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Lu Lu, Scott Charles McEldowney, Pasi Saarikko
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Patent number: 11009759Abstract: A transparent display panel, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device are disclosed, where the transparent display panel includes a light source, an optical waveguide, a first liquid crystal layer, a first group of electrode layers, and a color rendering component, wherein the optical waveguide is on a side of the first liquid crystal layer and has its first surface comes into contact with the first liquid crystal layer; the color rendering component is on another side of the first liquid crystal layer, and configured to render a color upon being excited by light emitted by the light source; the light source is on the side surface of the optical waveguide; and the first group of electrode layers is configured to provide the first liquid crystal layer with an electric field.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Wei Wei
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Patent number: 10996497Abstract: A display device includes a display, a protective layer, and a bonding layer. The display has a polarizing plate configuring an image display plane of a display. The protective layer faces the polarizing plate. The bonding layer is disposed between the polarizing plate and the protective layer and is directly bonded to the polarizing plate and the protective layer. The bonding layer contains a hygroscopic agent.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuuki Namekata
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Patent number: 10989954Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes in the following order from a viewing surface side a first polarizer, a first positive A plate having an in-plane retardation of 120 nm or greater and 155 nm or smaller, a positive C plate having a thickness retardation of 80 nm or greater and 100 nm or smaller, a first substrate, a second positive A plate having an in-plane retardation of 120 nm or greater and 155 nm or smaller, a horizontally aligned liquid crystal layer, a second substrate, a viewing angle compensation layer, and a second polarizer. The device further includes between the first polarizer and the first positive A plate a positive C plate having a thickness retardation of 30 nm or greater and 80 nm or smaller.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Hasegawa, Akira Sakai, Takako Koide, Yuichi Kawahira, Koji Murata, Kiyoshi Minoura
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Patent number: 10983383Abstract: An optical film, a color filter substrate, manufacturing methods thereof and display devices are provided, in the field of liquid crystal display technology. The color filter substrate includes a base, a color resistant layer and a diffusion layer. The color resistant layer and the diffusion layer are arranged on the base, and the color resistant layer and the base are arranged at the same side of the diffusion layer. The color resistant layer comprises a plurality of color resistant blocks which are arranged in an array. The diffusion layer comprises a plurality of diffusion structures which are arranged to be in one-to-one correspondence to the plurality of color resistant blocks. Each of the plurality of diffusion structures is configured to diffuse light vertically emitted from the color filter substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Xu, Qing Zhang
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Patent number: 10983402Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first insulation substrate, a gate line, a data line configured to cross the gate line while being insulated therefrom, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode configured to include a first subpixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor and a second subpixel electrode, a second insulation substrate configured to face the first insulation substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second insulation substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first insulation substrate and the second insulation substrate to include a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, where each of the first subpixel electrode and the second subpixel electrode includes a unit pixel electrode including a plurality of minute branches that is extended from a horizontal stem and a vertical stem.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Su Wan Woo, Min Wook Park, Young Goo Song, Ki Chul Shin
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Patent number: 10983386Abstract: A wide viewing angle liquid crystal display includes color filters having a quantum dot and scattering particles and liquid crystal layer disposed in a microcavity, a distance between the color filter and the liquid crystal layer being sized to minimize display deterioration due to parallax.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae Byung Park, Sung Sik Yun, Jong Hyuk Kang, Hae Il Park, Hyun Min Cho
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Patent number: 10976618Abstract: A transparent display panel and a transparent display device are provided. The transparent display panel includes multiple display regions arranged in an array along a first direction and a second direction. Each of the display regions includes a non-transmissive region, a first light transmissive region and a second light transmissive region. In a same display region, the non-transmissive region and the first light transmissive region are arranged sequentially in the first direction, and the non-transmissive region and the second light transmissive region are arranged sequentially in the second direction. Lengths of the display regions in the first direction change non-periodically among multiple display regions arranged along the first direction; and/or, the first light transmissive regions of any two adjacent display regions are misaligned in the first direction among multiple display regions arranged along the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jialing Li
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Patent number: 10976594Abstract: A light guide plate, a light source assembly, a display panel and a display device are provided. The light guide plate includes a light-emitting surface, a bottom surface opposite to the light-emitting surface and a light-entering surface intersecting with the light-emitting surface and the bottom surface; at least one of the light-emitting surface of the light guide plate and the bottom surface of the light guide plate includes a horizontal portion and an inclined portion protruding out of a plane where the horizontal portion is located along a direction away from both of the light-emitting surface and the bottom surface; the inclined portion is at an end, which is close to the light-entering surface, of the light guide plate, and the inclined portion has an included angle with respect to the horizontal portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Junjie Ma, Zhen Wang, Jian Sang, Haiwei Sun, Mang Fu, Gongtao Zhang, Shubai Zhang, Jianbiao Ding, Zhonghua Li
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Patent number: 10976630Abstract: The display device includes a first substrate; an active layer disposed on the first substrate; a first insulation layer disposed on the active layer; a first electrode layer disposed on the first insulation layer including a gate electrode line extending along a first direction and a protruding portion extending along a second direction; a second insulation layer disposed on the first electrode layer; and a second electrode layer disposed on the second insulation layer. The second electrode layer includes a date line extending along the second direction and a conductive layer. The conductive layer includes a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion, wherein the first conductive portion has a first maximum width A along the first direction, and the second conductive portion has a second maximum width B along the first direction. The first maximum width A is less than the second maximum width B.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Chung-Wen Yen, Yu-Tsung Liu, Chao-Hsiang Wang, Te-Yu Lee
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Patent number: 10976612Abstract: The present invention provides a curved liquid crystal display panel and a display device. The curved liquid crystal display panel includes a middle region, an edge region, and has a cross-sectional structure including a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a compensation layer disposed on a side of the second substrate in the middle region away from the liquid crystal layer, and compensating liquid crystal molecules filling a space between the second substrate and the compensation layer. A difference between a middle thickness of the middle region of the curved liquid crystal display panel and an edge thickness of the edge region of the curved liquid crystal display panel is less than or equal to a preset value. The present invention can improve transmittance and reduce color shift, thereby improving display effects.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Baolin Chi
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Patent number: 10965086Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an optical resonant cavity and a display panel. The optical resonant cavity includes a light conversion layer, the optical resonant cavity is configured to emit light with a specific wavelength range, and the light conversion layer is arranged at at least one wave node of a center wavelength of the light with the specific wavelength range in the optical resonant cavity.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Ming Zhu, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Shiyu Zhang, Meili Wang, Xuan Liang, Yingtao Wang
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Patent number: 10962704Abstract: A display device includes: a light source; a light guide plate having a light input end face that is at least a portion of an outer peripheral end surface and a light-exit surface that is one of two plate surfaces of the light guide plate and through which the light exits the light guide plate; a display panel including two substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween and configured to display an image by using light from the light-exit surface; a first display section included in the display panel and located relatively away from the light source and in which the liquid crystal layer has a relatively large thickness; and a second display section included in the display panel and located relatively near the light source and in which at least a portion of the liquid crystal layer has a relatively small thickness.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohji Inui, Hiromi Enomoto
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Patent number: 10962825Abstract: A display panel is provided, including an organic electroluminescent device including an anode layer, a liquid crystal cell on a light exit side of the organic electroluminescent device. The liquid crystal cell includes a liquid crystal layer, a linear polarizer on a side of the liquid crystal cell facing away from the organic electroluminescent device and configured to convert ambient light into a first polarized light, and an electrode assembly configured to control deflection of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer to convert reflected light from the anode layer into a second polarized light. A second polarization direction of the second polarized light is different from a first polarization direction of the first polarized light. The display panel may decrease the intensity of reflected light perceived by the user when viewing the displayed image in an ambient environment.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Wei Qin, Kuanjun Peng, Xiaolong Li, Tieshi Wang, Xueling Gao, Jintao Peng, Shengnan Li