Patents Examined by Paul C Lee
  • Patent number: 11789322
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a plurality of red subpixels, a plurality of green subpixels, and a plurality of blue subpixels, wherein, in a first direction, the red subpixel and the green subpixel, the green subpixel and the blue subpixel, and the blue subpixel and the red subpixel are arranged to be adjacent to each other, and in a second direction, the red subpixel and the blue subpixel, the blue subpixel and the green subpixel, and the green subpixel and the red subpixel are arranged to be adjacent to each other, and in the subpixels, as to subpixel columns adjacent to each other, when an image signal of the same gradation is input with respect to the subpixels of same color, brightness of one subpixel column is higher than that of another subpixel column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Tsutomu Harada
  • Patent number: 11789327
    Abstract: To form a sufficiently large storage capacitor, a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal held between the first substrate and the second substrate, the liquid crystal display panel having multiple pixels arranged in matrix. The first substrate has, in a transmissive display area provided in each of the pixels, a laminated structure containing a first transparent electrode, a first insulating film, a second transparent electrode, a second insulating film, and a third transparent electrode which are laminated in this order. The first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode are electrically insulated from each other and together form a first storage capacitor through the first insulating film, and the second transparent electrode and the third transparent electrode are electrically insulated from each other and together form a second storage capacitor through the second insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tohru Sasaki, Takahiro Ochiai
  • Patent number: 11789261
    Abstract: An optical device (EPE1) comprises a waveguide plate (SUB1) comprising an in-coupling element (DOE1), a first expander element (DOE2a), a second expander element (DOE2b) and an out-coupling element (DOE3), wherein the out-coupling element (DOE3) is arranged to form combined output light (OUT1) by combining the first output light (OB3a) with the second output light (OB3b), wherein the in-coupling element (DOE1) has a first grating period (d1a) for forming the first guided light (B1a), and wherein the in-coupling element (DOE1) has a second different grating period (d1b) for forming the second guided light (B1b), wherein the optical device (EPE1) comprises a first spectral filter region (C2a) to prevent coupling of red light from the in-coupling element (DOE1) to the out-coupling element (DOE3) via the first expander element (DOE2a). The optical device (EPE1) can display a color image with an extended field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN OPTIARK SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Tapani Kalervo Levola, Houqiang Jiang, Yisheng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11774791
    Abstract: A switchable light modulator device (201, 202, 203, 204, 205) comprises a first substrate (101, 102, 103) and a second substrate (141, 142, 143, 144) with opposite major surfaces spaced apart by one or more polymer structures that each comprise two or more parts and define wall features (21b, 22b, 23b) for a plurality of cavities (111, 112, 113, 114), the cavities sealing a fluid (71, 72, 73, 74) or gel in discrete volumes. Each of the one or more polymer structures comprises a mould part (21, 22, 23) bonded to the first substrate and defining a recess (31, 32, 33), and a cast part (81, 82, 83, 84) filling the recess and bonded to the second substrate and a surface of the recess, the cast part being defined by the surface of the recess and the second substrate replicating the surfaces of both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Donal Martin O'Keeffe, Timothy O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 11762228
    Abstract: A display device in the present disclosure includes: a display panel having a display on a front surface; a flexible circuit board connected to the display panel; and a panel chassis supporting a rear surface of the display panel. On an outer side of a lateral end of the display panel, the panel chassis has a flexible circuit board guide projected from the rear surface side of the display panel to the front surface side thereof. The flexible circuit board is provided along the flexible circuit board guide in a manner to extend on an outer side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsutoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11754870
    Abstract: A device is provided. The device includes a polarization hologram polymer layer having a wavy surface, an optic axis of the polarization hologram polymer layer being configured with a spatially varying orientation in a first predetermined in-plane direction. The device also includes a compensation layer disposed at the wavy surface of the polarization hologram polymer layer and configured to compensate for the wavy surface in shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Junren Wang, Yuge Huang, Yun-Han Lee, Lu Lu
  • Patent number: 11747684
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate on which a conductive structure layer is formed. The conductive structure layer has a bonding area close to a side edge thereof, at least a part of the bonding area of the conductive structure layer protrudes from a first side edge of the first substrate, and is bent toward a side of the first substrate away from the conductive structure layer and fixed; an end surface of the first side edge of the first substrate is provided with a first protective strip, the first protective strip has a first smooth surface facing the conductive structure layer and smoothly connected with a side surface of the first substrate on which the conductive structure layer is formed, and a bent part of the conductive structure layer is attached to the first smooth surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongbao Wu, Chuandong Liao, Ruoyu Ma, Haiwei Sun
  • Patent number: 11747678
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel; light sources configured to emit blue light; a reflective sheet including a first edge portion and a second edge portion, wherein a plurality of holes are disposed on the reflective sheet, the plurality of holes includes a first hole, a second hole, and a third hole, the first hole is disposed at a first distance from an edge of the first edge portion, the second hole is disposed at a second distance from the edge of the first edge portion, and the third hole is disposed at the first distance from the edge of the first edge portion, wherein the second distance is greater than the first distance; and pluralities of light conversion dots disposed around the first, second, and third holes, respectively, wherein the third hole is disposed on an overlap portion of the first and second edge portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoonki Park, Hyungjin Kim, Yongsung Yoo, Youngwook Jung, Minnyeong Han
  • Patent number: 11740498
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes a case having a bottom plate and a side wall, an optical component placed inside the case, and an elastic component that engages with the side wall of the case, making contact with the optical component. A side wall of a front bezel is located outside the side wall of the case. The elastic component includes an outer portion. The outer portion is positioned between an inner surface of the side wall of the front bezel and an outer surface of the side wall of the case, makes contact with the inner surface of the side wall of the front bezel and the outer surface of the side wall of the case, and presses the inner surface of the side wall of the front bezel and the outer surface of the side wall of the case along an in-plane direction of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11733563
    Abstract: An optical structure includes a high refractive-index layer and a low refractive-index layer laminated on the high refractive-index layer and having a refractive index lower than that of the high refractive-index layer, and is disposed on a display surface of a display device. An interface between the layers has a concave-and-convex shape, and each of a concavity and a convexity in the shape has a flat portion extending in a surface direction of the layers. A side surface of the concave-and-convex shape, which extends between the flat portions of the concavity and convexity, is a curved surface or a folded surface that is convex to the low refractive-index layer. A difference between a maximum angle and a minimum angle, which are defined between the side surface of the concave-and-convex shape and a normal direction of the layers, is not less than 3 degrees and not more than 60 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Ueba, Tatsuaki Inoue
  • Patent number: 11733573
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a switching element disposed in a display area including a pixel, a color filter layer including a first color filter of a first color and a second color filter of a second color different from the first color and a conductive layer connected to the switching element via a contact hole penetrating the color filter layer. The conductive layer is in contact with the first color filter and the second color filter in the contact hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Osamu Itou
  • Patent number: 11733562
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a backlight module, a liquid crystal display, and an electronic device. The backlight module includes: a backplane; at least one light source arranged on the backplane; and at least one diffractive optical element arranged above the light source, and a central axis of the diffractive optical element and a central axis of the light source are on a same straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventor: Qibin Feng
  • Patent number: 11726371
    Abstract: By increasing an interval between electrodes which drives liquid crystals, a gradient of an electric field applied between the electrodes can be controlled and an optimal electric field can be applied between the electrodes. The invention includes a first electrode formed over a substrate, an insulating film formed over the substrate and the first electrode, a thin film transistor including a semiconductor film in which a source, a channel region, and a drain are formed over the insulating film, a second electrode located over the semiconductor film and the first electrode and including first opening patterns, and liquid crystals provided over the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 11726368
    Abstract: A wavelength-tunable etalon includes a pair of substrates, each comprising a reflection layer, an electrode, and an alignment layer on opposing surfaces of the pair of substrates; a first seal line configured to seal liquid crystal between the pair of substrates; and a second seal line configured to divide a space in which the liquid crystal is sealed into a main liquid crystal accommodating space configured to pass laser and a sub-liquid crystal accommodating space provided external of the main liquid crystal accommodating space. The first seal line comprises a sub inlet configured to fluidly communicate the main liquid crystal accommodating space with the sub-liquid crystal accommodating space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventor: Jang Kun Song
  • Patent number: 11726362
    Abstract: A display panel, a display module, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a base substrate, a plurality of pixel units, and a liquid crystal layer. A pixel electrode of each pixel unit includes a trunk electrode, and first branch electrodes and second branch electrodes disposed on both sides of the trunk electrode, respectively. Each pixel unit is divided into a first sub-region and a second sub-region by the trunk electrode. The liquid crystal layer includes a first liquid crystal region and a second liquid crystal region corresponding to the first sub-region and the second sub-region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: Huizhou China Star Optoelectronics Display Co., Ltd., TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jing Liu
  • Patent number: 11714321
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes: a liquid crystal panel; a particle aligned type anisotropic conductive film having a plurality of electrically conductive particles that are arranged in a state of being aligned along a first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and a printed circuit board coupled to a connection terminal portion of the liquid crystal panel via the particle aligned type anisotropic conductive film, wherein the connection terminal portion includes a plurality of connection terminals, a plurality of recessed portions that are arranged in a state of being aligned along a third direction and a fourth direction intersecting with the third direction are formed on a surface of the connection terminal, and at least one of the first direction and the second direction along which the electrically conductive particles are arranged is different in arrangement direction from both the third direction and the fourth direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11709402
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer and an illumination device. The first substrate includes a base, a sensor, a sensor circuit and a sensor light-shielding layer. The sensor is located between the base and the liquid crystal layer in a display area that includes pixels, and outputs a detection signal corresponding to light becoming incident from a side of the liquid crystal layer. The sensor circuit includes a switching element and is connected to the sensor. The sensor light-shielding layer is opposed to a channel area formed in a semiconductor layer included in the switching element, and blocks light from the illumination device on the channel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Akihiko Saitoh, Masateru Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11703706
    Abstract: An optical filter includes a substrate, a filter layer on the substrate and including color filters, and a light-converting layer over the filter layer and including light-converting portions respectively corresponding to the color filters. A low refractive index layer is between the filter layer and the light-converting layer and has a refractive index less than a refractive index of the light-converting layer. A first capping layer is between the low refractive index layer and the light-converting layer and has a refractive index ranging between the refractive index of the light-converting layer and the refractive index of the low refractive index layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongki Kim, Jangil Kim, Jeaheon Ahn, Seongyeon Lee, Taehyung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11703732
    Abstract: A pixel array substrate including a substrate, multiple insulation patterns, multiple signal lines, and multiple pixel structures is provided. The insulation patterns are disposed on the substrate, and each has at least one recess structure. The signal lines are respectively disposed on the insulation patterns and are respectively filled in the at least one recess structure of one of the insulation patterns. The pixel structures are disposed on the substrate and are electrically connected to the signal lines. A pixel array substrate further including multiple conductive patterns is also disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Hui Pai, Wen-Hsien Tseng
  • Patent number: 11703702
    Abstract: A privacy function structure, a display panel, and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The privacy function structure includes a privacy state and a non-privacy state. The privacy function structure includes a first conductive layer, a privacy liquid crystal layer, a light-transmitting cover plate, and a second conductive layer. The privacy liquid crystal layer is disposed on a side of the first conductive layer, the light-transmitting cover plate is disposed on a side of the privacy liquid crystal layer away from the first conductive layer, and the second conductive layer is disposed on a side of the light-transmitting cover plate facing the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer includes multiple conductive strips mutually parallel. By controlling on and off of the multiple conductive strips, the privacy function structure is switched between the privacy state and the non-privacy state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignees: MIANYANG HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Yunyang Liu, Tianyu Xia, Haijiang Yuan