Patents Examined by Nathanael R Briggs
  • Patent number: 10962854
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chung-Wen Yen, Yu-Tsung Liu, Chao-Hsiang Wang, Te-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 10955708
    Abstract: A curved display panel comprises a curved color filter substrate, a curved array substrate, and a plurality of pixel modules. In each pixel module in the side area of the curved display panel, distances from an orthographic projection of the pixel electrode on the curved color filter substrate to the two light shielding blocks are D1 and D2, when the curved display panel is in a flat state, D1 is not equal to D2, and when the curved display panel is in a curved state, D1 is equal to D2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventors: Xueyun Li, Yuejun Tang
  • Patent number: 10955696
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a display panel including a liquid crystal layer interposed between a pair of substrates, and in the electro-optical device, a normal display mode and a refresh mode serving as a specific display mode in which the display panel is set to have a predefined temperature higher than ordinary temperature and lower than an Ni point of the liquid crystal layer and is energized in display where brightness becomes homogeneous in a screen are selectable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Aoki, Ai Koike, Hiroaki Mochizuki, Noriaki Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 10948739
    Abstract: A display device and a control method of a display device are provided. The display device includes: a display assembly including a plurality of rows of pixel units; a phase retarder; a polarizer; and a visible range adjuster between the display assembly and the polarizer, the visible range adjuster having two electrode layers and a liquid crystal layer divided into at least one first region and at least one second region, and the visible range adjuster is configured to apply a voltage to the first region of the liquid crystal layer through the two electrode layers in response to a first signal, to provide a first visible range for the display device, the first visible range being greater than a second visible range of the display device with the two electrode layers electrically de-energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chunmiao Zhou
  • Patent number: 10948785
    Abstract: An electro-optical device according to the present disclosure includes an insulating base having translucency and insulating properties, a pixel electrode disposed apart from the insulating base, and a switching element electrically coupled to the pixel electrode. The insulating base includes a base portion, and a lens portion that is located between the base portion and the pixel electrode and includes a lens overlapping the pixel electrode in plan view when viewed from a thickness direction of the pixel electrode. The base portion and the lens are disposed with a space therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 10948786
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a base material having translucency, a pixel electrode having translucency, a switching element electrically coupled to the pixel electrode, and a circuit configured to drive the switching element. The base material includes a first recessed portion, a second recessed portion, a first light-shielding body that is disposed in the first recessed portion, comes into contact with the base material, and overlaps the switching element in plan view from a thickness direction of the base material, and a second light-shielding body that is disposed at the second recessed portion, comes into contact with the base material, and overlaps the circuit in the plan view. A thickness of the first light-shielding body and a thickness of the second light-shielding body are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 10948793
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes a first substrate; a scan line extending in a first direction in a lengthwise direction of the scan line based on an overall shape of the scan line, on the first substrate; first and second pixel electrodes adjacent to each other in a second direction crossing the first direction, on the first substrate; first and second signal lines each extending in the second direction; and a thin film transistor that extends along the scan line and the first signal line and that is coupled to the scan line, the first signal line, and the first pixel electrode, wherein the first and second pixel electrodes are disposed between the first and second signal lines, the scan line is disposed between the first and second pixel electrodes, the scan line includes: a main portion; a first extending portion; and a second extending portion, and a distance in the second direction to the second pixel electrode from a main portion edge is shorter than each of distances in the second direction to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Gen Koide
  • Patent number: 10948768
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a backlight device includes a case having a bottom plate, a light guide having an emission surface, a second main surface and an incidence surface and arranged on the bottom surface, and a light source unit including a wiring board and light-emitting elements on the wiring board. Each light-emitting element has a mounting surface, a first side surface opposed to the mounting surface, and a light-emitting surface between the mounting surface and the first side surface. Each light-emitting surface faces the incidence surface, and the first side surfaces are arranged parallel to the second main surface, and the light source unit is fixed to the light guide with a fixing tape attached over each first side surface and the second main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Sugiyama, Kosuke Matsubara, Takeshi Kaneki
  • Patent number: 10948712
    Abstract: A head-mounted light field display device, the device comprising at least one multiplexed light field display module adapted to face an eye of a viewer wearing the device, the multiplexed light field display module comprising a light field view image generator and a waveguide with a set of shutters, the light field view image generator operable to generate, over time, a set of beams of light from a different one of a set of light field view images, the shuttered waveguide operable to transmit the set of beams and to open, over time, a different subset of the set of shutters, the subset corresponding to a position associated with the view image, thereby to emit the set of beams via the subset, thereby to display to the viewer a time-varying optical light field representative of the set of view images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventor: Paul Lapstun
  • Patent number: 10943840
    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 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Eunhye Park, Hyangyul Kim, Hyoungjoon Kim, Joohyung Lee
  • Patent number: 10942390
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a display substrate, a fabricating method thereof, and a display panel. The display substrate includes a substrate, a display structure layer disposed on the substrate, and an alignment layer. A grating polarizing layer is disposed in the display structure layer, and an optical alignment direction of the alignment layer is parallel to or perpendicular to a transmission axis direction of the grating polarizing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xufei Xu, Na Zhao, Gangqi Huang, Chuanyan Wang, Gaofei Shi, Qiyu Shen
  • Patent number: 10935851
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su Wan Woo, Min Wook Park, Young Goo Song, Ki Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 10935852
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided, the display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first electrode layer between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer; and a second electrode layer between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer, wherein the liquid crystal layer at least includes a first liquid crystal layer and a second liquid crystal layer stacked on each other, and a spiral direction of liquid crystal in the first liquid crystal layer is opposite to a spiral direction of liquid crystal in the second liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Zhu, Yuyao Wang, Feng Liao, Xiaochuan Chen, Xue Dong
  • Patent number: 10935833
    Abstract: The present application provides a display apparatus having a display area and a black matrix area surrounding the display area. The display apparatus includes a first display substrate and a second display substrate opposite to each other and assembled together. The first display substrate includes a first base substrate, and a black matrix on the first base substrate and in the black matrix area. The second display substrate includes a second base substrate, and an array of a plurality of thin film transistors on the second base substrate for driving image display in the display apparatus. The black matrix has a serrated edge surrounding the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoyuan Wang, Yan Fang, Wu Wang, Ruilin Bi, Yajie Bai
  • Patent number: 10928690
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device comprises a substrate, a thin-film transistor (TFT) disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer disposed on the TFT, and a pixel electrode disposed on the insulating layer and connected to a drain electrode of the TFT via a contact hole formed in the insulating layer. The pixel electrode includes a stem electrode which extends in a first direction and a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, branch electrodes which extend from the stem electrode, and an extension electrode which is disposed to overlap the contact hole and which is connected to the branch electrodes. The extension electrode includes a slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Inventor: Hwa Sung Woo
  • Patent number: 10928670
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel and a circularly polarizing plate disposed on a viewing side of the liquid crystal panel. The circularly polarizing plate sequentially includes, from a viewing side, a linearly polarizing plate and an out-cell retarder. The liquid crystal panel includes a thin-film transistor substrate, a color filter substrate facing the thin-film transistor substrate and including black matrix, a horizontal alignment liquid crystal layer disposed between the thin-film transistor substrate and the color filter substrate, and an in-cell retarder disposed in one substrate disposed on the viewing side selected from the thin-film transistor substrate and the color filter substrate. The in-cell retarder is disposed outside a region between the black matrix and the horizontal alignment liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Kawahira, Takako Koide, Akira Sakai, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Patent number: 10928701
    Abstract: An optical beam deflection device includes a dual-twist Pancharatnam phase device (DTPPD) with first and second Pancharatnam layers each with an in-plane twist and a transverse twist that is at least 60° over the thickness of each Pancharatnam layer, and more preferably at least 75°, and still more preferably at least 90°, with the twist sense of the second Pancharatnam layer being opposite the twist sense of the first Pancharatnam layer. To provide switchable beam deflection, an electro-optic polarization element inputs a circularly polarized light beam to the DTPPD with left-handed circular polarization or right-handed circular polarization controlled by an electrical input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Kent State University
    Inventors: Hsien-Hui Cheng, Philip Bos, Achintya Bhowmik
  • Patent number: 10921507
    Abstract: A luminance equalization region is formed on one surface of an optical sheet incorporated into a liquid crystal display device to equalize luminance of a visible region of the liquid crystal display device. The luminance equalization region is in at least the visible region in a state in which the optical sheet is incorporated into the liquid crystal display device. The luminance equalization region in the visible region has a colored portion and a light-transmitting portion that surrounds the colored portion. The distance from an end of a display surface of the liquid crystal display device to an end of the visible region is 10 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KEIWA Inc.
    Inventor: Satoshi Shiba
  • Patent number: 10921631
    Abstract: A display device includes a display module, a lens module and a transparent cover. The display module is provided with a lens area and a display area disposed outside the lens area. The display module is provided with a prism layer surrounding the lens area. The lens module is disposed in the lens area. The transparent cover covers the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsing Lin, Yen-Hua Lo, Hsin-Chun Huang
  • Patent number: 10921652
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first base substrate (BS), a second BS facing the first BS, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first BS and the second BS, a color filter layer, pixel electrodes, a light-shielding column spacer, a common electrode, and trap electrodes. The first BS includes a display area and a non-display area. The color filter layer is disposed on the first BS in the display area. The pixel electrodes are disposed on the color filter layer. The light-shielding column spacer is disposed on the first BS in the non-display area and includes a light-shielding material. The common electrode is disposed on the second BS and faces the pixel electrodes. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes. The trap electrodes are disposed on a lower portion of the light-shielding column spacer and face the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Doyeong Park, Byoungsun Na, Yoomi Ra, Kyusu Ahn, Richard James, Kookhyun Choi