Patents Examined by Paisley L Wilson
  • Patent number: 10838242
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device of present invention may comprise a display panel including a front substrate and a rear substrate, the rear substrate coupled with a rear portion of the front substrate; a frame coupled with the display panel, the frame positioned at a rear of the display panel; a back cover coupled with the frame, the back cover positioned at a rear of the frame; a guide panel coupled with at least one of a side portion of the frame and a side portion of the back cover; and a support clip, wherein an end of the support clip is coupled with the frame, at least a portion of the support clip is in contact on the guide panel. The display device may prevent a deformation of the guide panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Mingeun Jeong, Bumgi Min, Hayun Lee, Cheolsoo Kim
  • Patent number: 10788710
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: RealD Spark, LLC
    Inventors: Michael G. Robinson, Graham J. Woodgate, Robert A. Ramsey, Jonathan Harrold
  • Patent number: 10782547
    Abstract: A second substrate has detection electrodes of a touch panel, each of pixels has a pixel electrode and a counter electrode, the counter electrode is divided into a plurality of blocks, the counter electrodes of the respective divided blocks are commonly provided for the respective pixels of the plurality of display lines in series, and the counter electrodes also serve as scanning electrodes of the touch panel, and a counter electrode selector circuit that selects the counter electrodes. The counter electrode selector circuit includes an address decoder circuit that selects the counter electrodes of the respective blocks for a given period, and a selector circuit that applies a touch panel scanning voltage to the counter electrode of the block selected by the address decoder circuit, and applies a counter voltage to the counter electrodes of the blocks not selected by the address decoder circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Aoki, Keita Sasanuma, Kazune Matsumura
  • Patent number: 10770521
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel, a display and a displaying method. The display panel includes: a first base substrate and a second base substrate arranged to be opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first base substrate and the second base substrate; and a light emitting device layer for emitting light, a grating layer of partial light transmission and a light converting layer arranged at a side of the second base substrate facing towards the first base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHMOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tingting Zhou, Bin Zhang, Jikai Yao, Yang Yang
  • Patent number: 10739663
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a light-exiting direction adjustment element including a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a light transmission part disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and an adjustment part disposed between the adjacent light transmission parts, wherein the adjustment part includes an electrode control unit and light-shielding charged particles used to shield light passing through the adjustment part under control of the electrode control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingtao Wang, Jikai Yao
  • Patent number: 10739627
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first display panel; a first flexible substrate on which a first driver IC outputting a driving signal to the first display panel is mounted; a second flexible substrate being apart from the first flexible substrate, at least a part of the second flexible substrate overlapping the first flexible substrate; and an insulating material disposed between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate. The first flexible substrate is connected to the first display panel so that the first driver IC is on a side of the second flexible substrate. The insulating material is disposed between the first driver IC and the second flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke Katagiri, Masaki Tsubokura
  • Patent number: 10714513
    Abstract: An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The manufacturing method includes forming, on a substrate, a first metal pattern layer, a first insulating layer, a second metal pattern layer, and a second insulating layer, successively; coating a photoresist on the second insulating layer; forming a photoresist pattern and an etching protection layer, in a first region of the array substrate, the photoresist pattern exposing a part of the top surface of the second insulating layer, and being coupled to the second insulating layer through the etching protection layer; and performing etching in the first region by using the photoresist pattern as a mask to remove the etching protection layer and at least part of the second insulating layer, without etching the first insulating layer, so as to expose a part of the second metal pattern layer and form a liquid crystal diversion groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Maomao Fang, Youngjin Song, Ziheng Yang, Shifei Shen, Dengtao Li, Shengrong Li, Yishen Wang
  • Patent number: 10705372
    Abstract: A liquid display panel, and a display device are provided. The liquid display panel includes a first substrate and a color filter layer. The first substrate includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanning lines. The color filter layer includes a plurality of color-blockers. The data lines and the scanning lines intersect to form a plurality of pixels arranged in an array. Each pixel includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel adjacent to each other. Each first sub-pixel includes a first pixel electrode, and each second sub-pixel includes a second pixel electrode. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel have an approximately same area. Each color-blocker corresponds to one of the pixels arranged in an array, and includes a first region and a second region, corresponding to the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel in a same pixel. The second region and the first region have a same color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming Xie
  • Patent number: 10698252
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides display devices and methods of manufacturing display devices that can be slimmer than typical display devices. In one embodiment, such a display device includes a first substrate formed of glass, a light source disposed at a position that corresponds to at least one surface of the first substrate, a first resin layer on the first substrate, a first polarizing layer on the first resin layer, a liquid crystal layer on the first polarizing layer, a second substrate on the liquid crystal layer, the second substrate including a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, and a second polarizing layer on the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Kyeong Kong, Young Min Kweon, Hyun Cheol Cho
  • Patent number: 10698257
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device including an LCD panel and a backlight. The backlight includes a plurality of light sources to emit light, and a reflective stack. The reflective stack is positioned to receive light emitted from the light sources and transmit the light to the LCD panel. The reflective stack includes optical elements providing a folded beam path for the light emitted from the light sources to the LCD panel. The light emitted from the light sources is diffused while propagating towards and away from the LCD panel along the folded beam path. The folded beam path has an optical distance that is longer than the spatial distance between the light sources and the LCD panel to improve light diffusion by the backlight without substantially increasing backlight thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Evan M. Richards, Shizhe Shen, Jianru Shi, Yue Shi, Shie Ping Jeffrey Tseng
  • Patent number: 10698216
    Abstract: An optical device includes a stack of multiple grating structures, each of which includes a plurality of sublayers of liquid crystal material. Each sublayer of liquid crystal material includes laterally extending repeating units, each formed of a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The repeating units of the liquid crystal layers are lateral offset from one another, and defined a tilt angle. The grating structures forming the stack of grating structure have tilt angles of different magnitudes. The grating structures may be configured to redirect light of visible or infrared wavelengths. Advantageously, the different tilt angles of the stack of grating structures allows for highly efficient diffraction of light incident on the grating structures at a wide range of incident angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Chulwoo Oh
  • Patent number: 10690954
    Abstract: An LCD device is provided. The liquid crystal panel thereof includes first and second substrates (opposite each other). The first substrate sequentially includes a first underlay-substrate, a quantum-dot color filter, and an encapsulation layer. The quantum-dot color filter includes a pixel separation layer and several color resist units which are separated by the pixel separation layer, and include first, second and third color resist units, where at least one is a quantum-dot color resist unit. There is a transparent stacked layer between the quantum-dot color resist unit and the encapsulation layer in the quantum-dot color filter, thus the quantum-dot color resist unit has a higher standing point than the pixel separation layer on the encapsulation layer. The phenomenon of the brightening and color deviation of the black screen of the liquid crystal display device at the time of a large viewing-angle displaying can be prevented to enhance display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lixuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10684500
    Abstract: To provide a thin touch panel, a touch panel having a simple structure, a touch panel which can be easily incorporated into an electronic device, or a touch panel with a small number of components. The touch panel includes pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of first wirings extending in a direction parallel to the signal lines, and a plurality of second wirings extending in a direction parallel to the scan line. Part of the first wiring and part of the second wiring function as a pair of electrodes included in a touch sensor. The first wiring and the second wiring each have a stripe shape or form a mesh shape and are each provided between two adjacent pixel electrodes in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shishido, Daisuke Kubota, Yusuke Kubota
  • Patent number: 10684508
    Abstract: Disclosed are a backlight unit and a display device including the same. The backlight unit and display device can minimize a change in an optical layer when exposed to hostile environments, such as high and low temperature environments. The backlight unit and the display device have a rigid structure, due to the minimized change in the optical layer even when exposed to hostile environments, such as high and low temperature environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: KiDuck Park
  • Patent number: 10678057
    Abstract: An optical element comprising a stacked liquid crystal (LC) structure for rotating polarization (e.g., handedness) of an incident circularly polarized light over a broad wavelength and incident angle for head-mounted displays (HMD)s display application is proposed. The stacked LC structure has a dual cell structures, which includes at least a first LC cell and a second LC cell, and the stacked LC structure rotates the polarized light for a broad band of light (e.g., visible spectrum) over a given field a view. The performance of designed dual LC cells structures may be optimized for narrow band wavelength and a narrow incident angle for different application cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lu Lu, Fenglin Peng, Mengfei Wang, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Scott Charles McEldowney
  • Patent number: 10670900
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device includes: a substrate on which a plurality of pixels is defined, wherein each of the pixels includes an active area where transmittance of light is controlled; an organic layer disposed on the substrate; and a pixel electrode disposed on the organic layer. The active area comprises a first area, a second area and a third area, the second and third areas are connected to the first area on both sides thereof, respectively, when viewed from a top, and the organic layer is disposed only in the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Jun Lee, Doo Hwan You, Young Goo Song, Youn Hak Jeong
  • Patent number: 10670911
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display panel includes: a first polarizing plate; a first ?/4 plate; a first substrate; a second ?/4 plate; a liquid crystal layer; a second substrate; and a second polarizing plate, wherein the first substrate includes a black matrix, and a photo spacer overlapping with the black matrix, d crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer homogeneously align with no voltage application, the second ?/4 plate is made of a self-assembling photo alignment material containing a photo functional group capable of causing at least one chemical reaction selected from the group consisting of photodimerization, photoisomerization, and photo-Fries rearrangement, and covers a side surface of the photo spacer, and the in-plane stow axis of the first ?/4 plate forms an angle of 45° with the transmission axis of the first polarizing plate and is orthogonal to the in-plane slow axis of the second ?/4 plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Kawahira, Akira Sakai, Kozo Nakamura, Masahiro Hasegawa, Takako Koide, Koji Murata, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Patent number: 10670908
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device and display method. The display device includes: a first display structure and a second display structure. The second display structure is disposed on a first light exiting side of the first display structure. A quantum rod layer that is disposed on a second light exiting side of the second display structure. The first display structure is configured to convert an incident blue light ray into a linearly polarized blue light, and control a luminance of the first display structure by controlling a deflection angle of liquid crystal of the first display structure. The second display structure receives the linearly polarized blue light that exits from the first display structure, and changes polarization state of the linearly polarized blue light incident to the quantum rod layer by controlling deflection angle of liquid crystal of the second display structure, to in turn change a color of the light ray that exits from the quantum rod layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuanhui Guo
  • Patent number: 10656310
    Abstract: An optical film is provided. The optical film includes a base film and a cover film. The base film includes a base member and a plurality of lens patterns disposed on the base member. The plurality of lens patterns protrudes from the base member and extends in a first direction. The cover film is disposed on the base film to cover the base member and the plurality of lens patterns. A refractive index of at least one of the lens patterns is smaller than a refractive index of the cover film. An aspect ratio of the at least one of the lens patterns ranges from 0.8 to 1.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Chung, Ju Youn Son, Joong Hyun Kim, Chan Jae Park
  • Patent number: 10649284
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes. Each of the pixel electrodes includes a horizontal trunk electrode and a vertical trunk electrode through which a pixel unit corresponding to the pixel electrode is divided into four light-transmitting areas, and two adjacent light-transmitting areas have different alignment directions. The pixel electrode also includes a plurality of branch electrodes located in the four light-transmitting areas. The branch electrodes are parallel to the horizontal trunk electrode or the vertical trunk electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bochin Tsuei