Patents Examined by Paisley L Arendt
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Patent number: 9773818Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to form a pixel electrode and a metal film using one resist mask in manufacturing a stacked structure by forming the metal film over the pixel electrode. A conductive film to be a pixel electrode and a metal film are stacked. A resist pattern having a thick region and a region thinner than the thick region is formed over the metal film using an exposure mask having a semi light-transmitting portion. The pixel electrode, and the metal film formed over part of the pixel electrode to be in contact therewith are formed using the resist pattern. Accordingly, a pixel electrode and a metal film can be formed using one resist mask.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hajime Kimura
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Patent number: 9766492Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel including a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate, an opposed substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the TFT array substrate and the opposed substrate. A lower polarizer is disposed on a side of the TFT array substrate facing away from the liquid crystal layer, and the opposed substrate is provided with a polarization analyzer. The polarization analyzer includes a plurality of polarization regions and a plurality of non-polarization regions. A portion of the polarization analyzer corresponding to the polarization region is a polarization device, and the polarization regions and non-polarization regions are arranged alternately. The LCD can improve the security and confidentiality of the information displayed on the LCD when a user views the information. And special eyeglasses and display apparatus are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Youmei Dong, Wenbo Li, Dongsheng Wang
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Patent number: 9753292Abstract: Provide is a stereoscopic display device that is capable of, while preventing the crosstalk ratio from deteriorating, increasing the brightness during 3D display, switching 2D display and 3D display without decreases in the resolution, and achieving a switching response speed at the same level as that in the parallax barrier method.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takehiro Murao, Takuto Yoshino, Hiroshi Fukushima, Tomoo Takatani
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Patent number: 9753345Abstract: A mother substrate for a display device includes: a first mother substrate and a second mother substrate including a plurality of panel regions and facing each other; a first contact electrode and a second contact electrode on the first mother substrate; a common electrode, a first voltage application electrode and a second voltage application electrode separated from each other and on the second mother substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first mother substrate and the second mother substrate. The first voltage application electrode is connected to the first contact electrode, and the second voltage application electrode is connected to the second contact electrode. The first voltage application electrode is applied with a first voltage, and the second voltage application electrode is applied with a second voltage different from the first voltage.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong-In Kim, Sang Yong No, Kook Hyun Choi, Sang Ki Kwak, Jang Soo Kim
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Patent number: 9746730Abstract: An array substrate having a data line self-repairing function and a liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The array substrate comprises a plurality of pixel units, the pixel unit at least comprise a gate layer, a gate insulating layer, a data layer and a pixel electrode layer laminated therein. Every of the pixel unit have a translucent area and opening areas. The gate layer relative to the opening area is retained, and the gate insulating layer does not cover the gate layer, and the data layer relative to the opening area contacts with the gate layer so that a broken data line in the data layer has conductive connection through the gate layer. Through the above solution, the data line has automatic repair function for disconnection and the unqualified rate of the data line during the manufacture processes is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventor: Meng Wang
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Patent number: 9740030Abstract: A near-eye display device includes (a) a display unit having a liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) display and a first polarizing beam splitter interface for (i) reflecting illumination light from an illumination module towards the liquid-crystal-on-silicon display and (ii) transmitting display light from the LCOS display based on the illumination light, and (b) a viewing unit having an imaging objective that forms an image of the LCOS display for the pupil based on the display light, and a second polarizing beam splitter interface for (i) reflecting reflected display light from the imaging objective towards the pupil and (ii) transmitting ambient light from an ambient scene towards a pupil, the second polarizing beam splitter interface and the first polarizing beam splitter interface being orthogonal to a common plane.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yi-Wei Liu, Wei-Feng Huang, Yen-Sung Wang, Chun-Sheng Fan
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Patent number: 9740069Abstract: An array substrate is disclosed. A gate line group, common electrode line and two adjacent data lines together defining a pixel unit which has: a thin film transistor; a first and second pixel electrode disposed between the gate line group and the common electrode line; a sharing capacitor disposed between the gate line group and the pixel electrodes. The pixel units are arranged in a plurality of rows along the extending direction of data line, two adjacent pixel units are arranged sequentially in opposite direction. By using each of the sharing capacitors of the adjacent pixel units, the light leakage regions will be away from the openings of the pixel electrodes, therefore the movable mura can be eliminated without increasing the width of the black matrix and the aperture ratio loss can be solved.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventor: Hua Zheng
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Patent number: 9740052Abstract: Between a pair of mother substrates, spaces are defined by a seal. The pair of mother substrates is cut to cut out cells. The seal is arranged to fill a region between adjacent spaces. On the seal, a low moisture-permeable layer made of a material that is harder and has lower moisture permeability than the seal is laminated in the region between the adjacent spaces. On at least one of the pair of mother substrates, a pair of projecting stripe portions extending along a length of the seal and arranged at an interval is formed in the region between the adjacent spaces at a position overlapping with the seal and the low moisture-permeable layer. In a step of cutting the pair of mother substrates, together with the pair of mother substrates, the seal and the low moisture-permeable layer are cut between the pair of projecting stripe portions.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Jiro Taniguchi, Takahiro Nagami
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Patent number: 9733507Abstract: Warpage deformation which is caused when substrates having mutually different linear expansion coefficients are bonded to sandwich a display functional layer is suppressed. A display device has a first substrate, a second substrate bonded to the first substrate so as to be opposed to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer serving as a display functional layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Also, a first linear expansion coefficient of the first substrate provided in the display device is larger than a second linear expansion coefficient of the second substrate, and a first thickness of the first substrate is larger than a second thickness of the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiro Watanabe, Masanobu Ikeda, Takeo Koito, Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa
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Patent number: 9733537Abstract: A first interlayer insulating film is arranged on a gate line and a source line. A first common electrode includes a first sub-common electrode extending in the first direction on the first interlayer insulating film and facing the gate line. A second interlayer insulating film covers the first common electrode. A pixel electrode includes a first main pixel electrode extending in the second direction on the second interlayer insulating film. A second common electrode includes a second sub-common electrode and a second main common electrode and set to the same potential as the first common electrode. The second sub-common electrode extends on the second interlayer insulating film in the first direction so as to face the first sub-common electrode, and is cut out on a straight line along which the first main pixel electrode extends. The second main common electrode extends in the second direction facing the source line.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Jin Hirosawa
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Patent number: 9726929Abstract: A wire grid polarizing plate (10) has a substrate (11) having a concavo-convex structure extending in a particular direction on its surface, and a conductive material (12) provided to be distributed on one side surface (11b) of a convex portion (11a) of the concavo-convex structure. Further, in the wire grid polarizing plate (10), in a cross-sectional view in the perpendicular direction to the extension direction of the concavo-convex structure, a pitch P1 that is a distance between two adjacent convex portions (11a) is set at 120 nm or less, and a convex-portion height (H) that is a difference in height between a highest portion (11c) of the convex portion (11a) and a lowest portion (11e) of a concave portion (11d) is set at 0.8 time to 1.3 time the pitch P1. With the wire grid polarizing plate (10) in a liquid crystal display device, high image quality can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: ASAHI KASEI E-MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuyuki Kawazu, Takashi Ono, Masaharu Sugimura, Masaru Sugiyama
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Patent number: 9726923Abstract: The present invention provides a touch LCM comprising an array substrate and a color film substrate provided opposite to each other, wherein an optical film set is provided at a side of the color film substrate away from the array substrate, comprising a touch signal feedback layer, a touch signal receiving layer and an upper polarizer film provided there between. With the design of integrating the upper polarizer film, the touch signal feedback layer and the touch signal receiving layer into the optical film set, the optical film set has both the polarizing function in the conventional sense and the function of touch electrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaochuan Chen, Hailin Xue, Chuncheng Che, Lei Wang, Yanna Xue
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Patent number: 9726932Abstract: An optical film is provided and has retardations satisfying relations (1) to (3): (1) 0?Re(550)?10; (2) ?25?Rth(550)?25; and (3) |I|+|II|+|III|+|IV|>0.5 (nm), with definitions: I=Re(450)?Re(550); II=Re(650)?Re(550); III=Rth(450)?Rth(550); and IV=Rth(650)?Rth(550), wherein Re(450), Re(550) and Re(650) are in-plane retardations measured with lights of wavelength of 450, 550 and 650 nm, respectively; and Rth(450), Rth(550) and Rth(650) are retardations in a thickness direction of the optical film, which are measured with lights of wavelength of 450, 550 and 650 nm, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hajime Nakayama, Hirofumi Toyama, Yuta Takahashi
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Patent number: 9715299Abstract: According to an aspect, a liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal display unit that displays an image; a plurality of electrodes arranged in the liquid crystal display unit in parallel with one direction along a display surface of the liquid crystal display unit; a measuring unit that measures electric resistance values of the electrodes; a specifying unit that specifies a temperature of the liquid crystal display unit based on the electric resistance values of the electrodes; and an application unit that applies, to the electrodes, a voltage for causing the electrode to generate heat based on the temperature of the liquid crystal display unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Toshihiko Tanaka
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Patent number: 9709844Abstract: A display apparatus capable of controlling light transmittance and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a transparent display device in which a pixel that has a first region comprising an organic emission layer (organic EL), and a second region adjacent to the first region, the second region transmitting external light, a first circular polarizer in an optical path of light emitted from the transparent display device, a second circular polarizer, the transparent display device being between the first and second circular polarizers, and a transmittance adjusting device including a liquid crystal layer for adjusting transmittance of external light, the transmittance adjusting device being between the transparent display device and the second polarizer such that the transparent display device encapsulates the liquid crystal layer, external light passing through the first circular polarizer, the second circular polarizer, and the transmittance adjusting device.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang-Hoon Yim, Jong-Hyuk Lee, Young-Woo Song
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Patent number: 9703156Abstract: A liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between a TFT substrate having pixel electrodes and opposed electrodes formed and an opposed substrate, an external conductive film of a transparent electrode is formed on an outer surface of the opposed substrate, and an upper polarizing plate is arranged on the external conductive film. A portion of the external conductive film that is not covered with the upper polarizing plate is electrically connected to a ground potential through a conductive thermocompression bonding tape.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Namiki, Tomokazu Saitou, Kouichi Inoue
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Patent number: 9703151Abstract: A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between display layers. The display layers may include thin-film transistor circuitry having subpixel electrodes for applying electric fields to subpixel portions of the layer of liquid crystal material. Subpixels of different colors may have different shapes and may have different liquid crystal layer thicknesses. These subpixel differences may be configured to slow the switching speed of subpixels of a certain color relative to other subpixels to reduce color motion blur when an object is moved across a black or colored background. The subpixels may have chevron shapes. Subpixels of a first color may have chevron shapes that are less bent than subpixels of second and third colors. In configurations with varying liquid crystal layer thicknesses, the subpixels of the first color may have thicker liquid crystal layers than the subpixels of the second and third colors.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuan Chen, Zhibing Ge, Adria Fores Herranz, Chia Hsuan Tai, Hossein Nemati, Jun Jiang, Cheng Chen
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Patent number: 9696834Abstract: A method of making a touch screen panel includes providing a substrate assembly and a multi-layered film. The substrate assembly includes a substrate, and first and second sensing electrodes formed over the substrate. The multi-layered film includes a first conductive photosensitive layer, a second conductive photosensitive layer, and an insulation photosensitive layer. The insulation photosensitive layer has a light sensitivity different from that of at least one of the first and second conductive photosensitive layers. The method further includes forming insulators by exposing and developing the insulation photosensitive layer, and forming bridges and insulators by exposing and developing the second conductive photosensitive layer. The substrate assembly and the multi-layered film are assembled to form the touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee-Woong Park, Byeong-Kyu Jeon
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Patent number: 9684199Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first transparent substrate including a first surface and a second surface, a color filter layer formed on the first surface of the first transparent substrate, a first alignment film formed on the color filter layer, and a first electrode interlayered in the color filter layer. The second substrate includes a second transparent substrate comprising a third surface and a fourth surface, a second electrode and a third electrode formed on the third surface of the second transparent substrate sequentially, and a second alignment film is formed on the third electrode. The second electrode and the third electrode are arranged at different insulation layers respectively and electrically insulated with each other. The LCD device of the present invention has an improved transmittance and a fast response time.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2013Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Te-Chen Chung, Tean-Sen Jen, Chia-Te Liao, Yong-qian Li, Hong-qing Cui, Jin-yu Li, Dong-zhao Li
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Patent number: 9671612Abstract: A Head Mounted Display (“HMD”) includes a display module, an optical combiner, control circuitry, and a lens. The display module generates image light and the optical combiner is for combining the image light with external scene light. The lens is positioned to receive the image light. The lens is capable of dynamically changing at least one lens property of the lens. The control circuitry controls the lens to dynamically change at least one lens property of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Bernard C. Kress, Greg E. Priest-Dorman