Patents Examined by Nathanael R Briggs
  • Patent number: 10884291
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transparent display device, including a transparent display panel and at least one full color light source. The transparent display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate provided opposite to each other, and a polymer liquid crystal mixed layer located therebetween. The light source is located at a side of the first substrate distal to the second substrate, and an orthographic projection of the light source on a plane where the first substrate is located is outside the first substrate. The light source is configured to emit light of at least two colors toward the transparent display panel in a time division manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nanfang Jia, Long Wang, Guangkui Qin
  • Patent number: 10877312
    Abstract: Provided is a reflection system including a windshield and a feeder. The windshield includes an upper transparent layer, an upper electrode, a liquid crystal layer, a lower electrode array, and a lower transparent layer, and the feeder is configured to apply a voltage pattern to the lower electrode array. A refractive index of the liquid crystal layer varies across the liquid crystal layer according to the voltage pattern applied by the feeder to the lower electrode array, and the feeder is configured to apply a first voltage pattern to cause a first change in the refractive index of the liquid crystal layer such that parallel light rays incident to the windshield and reflected from the upper transparent layer and the lower transparent layer, respectively, meet at a virtual focal point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoonsun Choi, Dong Kyun Nam, Jinho Lee
  • Patent number: 10877309
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel having first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; a first polarizing film and an optical film sequentially disposed on an outer surface of the first substrate; a backlight unit under the liquid crystal panel; a first frame under the backlight unit; a second frame surrounding a side surface of the backlight unit; a pad on the second frame; and an adhesive layer between the liquid crystal panel and the pad, wherein the optical film is separated from the pad, and wherein the first polarizing film overlaps the pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Dae Han, Sung-Rae Lee
  • Patent number: 10877340
    Abstract: A TFT array substrate, a fabrication method thereof and a LCD panel are provided. The TFT array substrate adopts the transparent silicon-based nanolines to form the semiconductor layer of the TFT, adopts the transparent material to form the gate electrode of the TFT, and has the pixel electrode covering the region occupied by the TFT, such that the illumination emitted by the backlight can pass through the whole TFT and the pixel electrode, i.e. the pixel portion occupied by the TFT 20 is also transparent, and thus the aperture ratio can be significantly increased to enhance transmittance and display effect of high PPI LCD panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hongyuan Xu
  • Patent number: 10859864
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device including: a first liquid crystal cell including a first electrode layer, a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer, and a first array substrate, wherein the first array substrate includes a second electrode layer, the second electrode layer includes a plurality of first pixel electrodes, and a light source is disposed at a side of the first liquid crystal cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventors: Yong Yang, Xin Zhang, Guowei Zha, Guiyang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10859760
    Abstract: A light guide plate has a light-incident surface, a bottom surface, a light-emitting surface, first microstructures and second microstructures. The bottom surface is opposite to the light-emitting surface, the light-incident surface is connected between the bottom surface and the light-emitting surface. The first microstructures protrude from the bottom surface and are arranged at intervals along a direction parallel to the light-incident surface and extend from the light-incident surface in a predetermined direction. The second microstructures are disposed between the first microstructures away from the light-incident surface, and each them includes light-adjusting blocks protruding from the bottom surface and arranged along the predetermined direction. Each first microstructure has a first height, and each light-adjusting block has a second height smaller than the first height. The light guide plate has a reduced horizontal viewing angle and a maintained luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Nano Precision Taiwan Limited
    Inventors: Chao-Hung Weng, Ming-Dah Liu, Hung-Tse Lin
  • Patent number: 10852592
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, and a plurality of grooves periodically spaced apart from each other over the first substrate. The liquid crystal display device also includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode spaced apart from each other over the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystal capsules on the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Im Hwang, Hyun-Sook Jeon
  • Patent number: 10852590
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes substrates, a liquid crystal layer between the substrates, a seal member between the substrates and surrounding the liquid crystal layer, an electrode in a first region of one of the substrates, the first region overlapping a region surrounded by the seal member, a first conductive film in a second region of the one substrate, the second region being a region outside the seal member, a second conductive film in the one substrate and extending from the electrode toward the first conductive film, a first insulating film disposed between the first and second conductive films, including a contact hole in a portion of the second region overlapping the first conductive film, and the first conductive film and the second conductive film being electrically connected to each other through the contact hole, and a second insulating film that covers the contact hole and is moisture-proof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihito Hara
  • Patent number: 10852459
    Abstract: Provided are a reflective sheet having selective reflection in a wide wavelength range and a small change in tint depending on angles at which light is visually recognized, a decorative sheet, and a method of manufacturing a reflective sheet, the reflective sheet including a pitch gradient layer in which a helical pitch changes in a thickness direction of the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ishiguro, Nobuhiko Ichihara, Michio Nagai
  • Patent number: 10852578
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display panel. The display panel includes a color filter substrate. The color filter substrate includes a color resist layer. The color resist layer includes a first color resist region and a second color resist region. The first color resist region is arranged corresponding to a display region. The second color resist region is arranged corresponding to a non-display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 10843536
    Abstract: An adaptive screen including at least one liquid crystal shutter. At least one of the shutters includes at least two active zones which are addressed by a control signal which permits the switchover of the at least one corresponding shutter between a passing configuration, in which a transmittance is equal to a maximum value, and a blocking configuration, in which the transmittance is equal to a minimum value. A “principal” active zone covers a surface area of the adaptive screen which is equal to or lower than 60% of the surface area of the adaptive screen, in order to reduce the response time of the principal active zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: David Hue, Kedar Sathaye, Jean-Louis De Bougrenet, Emmanuel Daniel, Laurent Dupont, Samir Abbas, Samir Bentahar
  • Patent number: 10845647
    Abstract: A display device includes a backlight unit and a display panel disposed above the backlight unit, where the backlight unit includes a light guide plate, a housing which is disposed at one side of the light guide plate and accommodates a wavelength converting member, and a flexible glass film which covers one side of the housing, and a first laser welding part is disposed between the flexible glass film and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Seo, Sung Chul Kim, Won Jin Kim, Jung Hyun Kim, Seok Hyun Nam, Si Joon Song, Kwang Wook Choi
  • Patent number: 10838252
    Abstract: A light and thin display device is provided. The light and thin display device includes: an LED light bar disposed at a light-incident end of a light guide plate and attached to an inner side of a heat dissipation plate; a base connected with an outer side of the heat dissipation plate; a water cooling pipe including an inlet port, an outlet port, and multiple bending segments connected between the inlet port and the outlet port. The bending segments are attached to the heat dissipation plate for circulating coolant liquid. By making full use of the heat dissipation capacity of the heat dissipation plate and the heat conduction base, the area of the heat dissipation plate is reduced and heat dissipation fins are avoided. The display device is ensured light and thin and has a good heat dissipation effect. The cost of the heat dissipation structure is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingjun Zhou
  • Patent number: 10824024
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus having a display device including a display panel and a light source. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed oppositely, and a display medium layer disposed therebetween. The light source is disposed adjacent to the display panel. The display panel includes several display units, including a first display unit and a second display unit when light passes through the display medium layer. The second display unit is farther from the light source than the first display unit. It is designed that the second haze value is greater than the first haze value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshiga, Chi-Liang Chang
  • Patent number: 10816842
    Abstract: An array substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, a liquid crystal display panel, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a first substrate, signal lines and an insulating layer; the insulating layer is disposed on the first substrate, and grooves are disposed on a side of the insulating layer facing away from the first substrate and disposed in a region of the insulating layer corresponding to a non-display region of the array substrate; and the signal lines are disposed on inner walls of the grooves, a direction of the inner walls of the grooves is arranged such that at least a portion of light incident on the signal lines from a side of the first substrate facing away from the signal lines is reflected to a display region of the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Li, Zhe Li, Jaikwang Kim, Zhijian Qi, Keke Gu, Zhidan Sun, Xiaoji Li, Haoxiang Fan, Lan Xin, Junhong Lu, Xiaochen Cui
  • Patent number: 10818766
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of thin film transistors supported on a substrate and an inorganic insulating layer covering the plurality of thin film transistors. Each thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. At least one of the gate insulating layer and the inorganic insulating layer is an insulating layer stack having a multilayer structure including a silicon oxide layer and a silicon nitride layer. The insulating layer stack further includes an intermediate layer disposed between the silicon oxide layer and the silicon nitride layer, the intermediate layer having a refractive index nC higher than a refractive index nA of the silicon oxide layer and lower than a refractive index nB of the silicon nitride layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Suzuki, Hideki Kitagawa, Tetsuo Kikuchi, Toshikatsu Itoh, Setsuji Nishimiya, Teruyuki Ueda, Kengo Hara, Hajime Imai, Tohru Daitoh
  • Patent number: 10809561
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate, an opposite substrate opposite to the substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrate and the opposite substrate, a pixel array disposed between the substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and first polarized patterns. The pixel array includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of active devices, and a plurality of first electrodes. The active devices are electrically connected to the scan lines and the data lines. The first electrodes are disposed on the substrate. Each of the first electrodes includes a plurality of slits. The first polarized patterns overlap with the first electrodes in a direction perpendicular to the substrate. The first polarized patterns are disposed between the substrate and the opposite substrate. An extending direction of the first polarized patterns is different from an extending direction of the slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yen-Hua Lo, Hsin-Chun Huang, Wen-Rei Guo, Hsing-Yi Hsieh
  • Patent number: 10802346
    Abstract: A display panel includes a top substrate, a bottom substrate, a display medium layer disposed between the top substrate and the bottom substrate, and a sealant. The sealant includes a frame portion surrounding a region and the display medium layer distributing in the region, and an injection portion connected to the frame portion. The injection portion has a channel path, an inner opening and an outer opening. The channel path is communicated to the region at the inner opening, and the outer opening is at a distal end of the channel path away from the region. The injection portion includes a first wall, a second wall, and a third wall. The first wall is spaced from the second wall at a first direction to form the outer opening. The third wall is spaced from the second wall at a second direction and shields the outer opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Himax Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Po-Hung Pan, Hua-Hsin Wang
  • Patent number: 10802313
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display area and a center non-display area, a polarizing plate on an outer surface of the display panel, a curved outer shape part included in a part of an outer shape of one of the display panel and the polarizing plate and having a curved planar shape, a linear outer shape part included in a part of the outer shape of one of or both of the display panel and the polarizing plate and having a linear planar shape, and an alignment mark included in another one or both of the polarizing plate and the display panel and disposed at a position overlapping the center non-display area and including a linear indicator part having a linear planar shape that is parallel to the linear outer shape part and a reference point part overlapping the linear indicator part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Ohashi, Katsutoshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 10796647
    Abstract: An object is to provide a display device with low power consumption and good display quality. A first substrate is provided with a terminal portion, a pixel electrode, a switching transistor including an oxide semiconductor, a first optical sensor having high optical sensitivity to visible light, and a second optical sensor having optical sensitivity to infrared light and having lower optical sensitivity to visible light than the first optical sensor. The illuminance or color temperature around a display device is detected using the first and second optical sensors, and the luminance or color tone of a display image is adjusted. A second substrate is provided so as to face the first substrate, and is provided with a counter electrode. In a period for displaying a still image, the switching transistor is turned off so that the counter electrode is brought into a floating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki