Abstract: Provided are: a light guide element that includes an intermediate diffraction element to expand exit pupil such that a light utilization efficiency is high and a decrease in the brightness of an image to be displayed can be suppressed; and an image display apparatus.
Abstract: A display module and a method for driving the same, a display apparatus, and a vehicle are provided. The display module includes a backlight component, and a display component and a light-adjusting component that are located at a side of the backlight component facing toward a light-emitting direction of the display module. The backlight component includes a first light guide structure and a light regulating structure. The light-adjusting component includes first and second electrodes, and a first liquid crystal. The display module has a sharing mode and an anti-peeping mode. In the sharing mode, the first electrode and the second electrode are not energized, and the first liquid crystal is in a wide viewing angle state. In the anti-peeping mode, the first electrode and the second electrode drive the first liquid crystal to be in a narrow viewing angle state.
Abstract: A curved display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates, the liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules, a first alignment layer including reactive mesogens which are polymerized with each other, the first alignment layer being disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and a second alignment layer disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the second substrate, where the reactive mesogens have a functional group having charges.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 14, 2021
Date of Patent:
February 21, 2023
Assignee:
SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Hyoungcheol Lee, Jang-Il Kim, Osung Seo, YeoGeon Yoon, SooJeong Huh
Abstract: A film type package includes: a base film having first and second sides; a driver integrated circuit mounted on the base film; first connection pads disposed on a first area of the base film that is adjacent to the first side of the base film, and configured to be connected to a first external circuit; second connection pads disposed on a second area of the base film that is adjacent to the second side of the base film, and configured to be connected to a second external circuit; first signal lines disposed on the base film, and connecting the driver integrated circuit and the first connection pads; second signal lines disposed on the base film, and connecting the driver integrated circuit and the second connection pads; and a plurality of test lines extending from the driver integrated circuit to the first side of the base film.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 22, 2021
Date of Patent:
February 21, 2023
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Byung Hun Han, Jung Eun Koo, So Young Lim
Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a front substrate and a back substrate, a plurality of brackets attached to a non-display area of a back surface of the back substrate using an adhesive, and a backlight unit positioned in the rear of the display panel. The backlight unit includes a frame including at least one protrusion, a light guide plate disposed between the frame and the display panel, the light guide plate including at least one groove or hole corresponding to the at least one protrusion of the frame, an optical layer disposed between the light guide plate and the display panel, and a light source disposed on the side of the light guide plate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 2, 2022
Date of Patent:
February 21, 2023
Assignee:
LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Inventors:
Inkeun Ryu, Sangdon Park, Moungyoub Lee, Kyoungmok Kim, Yunjoo Kim, Jonghyun Byeon
Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display surface having a Lambertian light emission distribution, and a viewing angle modulator disposed on the display panel. The viewing angle modulator includes a first refractive layer including a diffraction structure on a surface, a refractive index conversion layer disposed on the first refractive layer and including an electro-optical material having a refractive index that changes when a voltage is applied to the electro-optical material, and a second refractive layer disposed on the refractive index conversion layer. The refractive index conversion layer includes a base layer, and an optical structure disposed on the base layer that changes a path of light incident on a surface facing the second refractive layer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 1, 2021
Date of Patent:
February 14, 2023
Assignee:
SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Jae Ho You, Jae Joong Kwon, Beom Shik Kim, Young Chan Kim, Hyun Jin Cho
Abstract: Eye-tracking systems and methods utilize transparent illumination structures having a plurality of IR ?LEDs distributed within the transparent viewing area of illumination structures. The ?LEDs are small enough (<100 ?m) that they are not visible by a user during use of an HMD or other mixed-reality device, for example, such that they can be positioned within the line-of-sight of the user through the illumination structure and without visibly obscuring or interfering with the user's view of the mixed-reality environment by the mixed-reality device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 2, 2022
Date of Patent:
February 14, 2023
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Inventors:
Aswathi Sudhir, David Charles Rohn, James Peele Terrell
Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal optical element includes a substrate, a plurality of structures, a first liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules having alignment directions fixed, and a second liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules having alignment directions fixed. In an area overlapping a groove, a first director of the first liquid crystal layer extends along the groove, and a second director of the second liquid crystal layer is uniformly aligned with the first director of the second surface side, on the third surface side, and turns in planar view.
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.
Abstract: Provided is a bubble removal apparatus for removing a bubble on a substrate during a process of manufacturing a display panel or a semiconductor using a liquid, and more particularly, to a bubble removal apparatus using acoustic waves that collects a bubble on a substrate using an acoustic wave and removes the bubble by moving the bubble to a desired position, and a bubble removal method using the same.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 28, 2021
Date of Patent:
February 7, 2023
Assignee:
INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
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 24, 2022
Date of Patent:
January 31, 2023
Assignee:
E Ink Corporation
Inventors:
Donal Martin O'Keeffe, Timothy O'Keeffe
Abstract: This application provides a pixel structure and a display device thereof. The pixel structure includes: a plurality of pixel regions, each of the pixel regions including a plurality of sub-pixels, the plurality of sub-pixels of each pixel area including the first sub-pixel, and the first sub-pixel is configured at the center of each pixel area; sub-pixels of the remaining colors in the plurality of sub-pixels of each pixel area are centered on the first sub-pixel, configured on both sides of the first sub-pixel; and a color filter layer including a plurality of color resist layers, where the plurality of color resist layers are arranged corresponding to positions and colors of the plurality of pixel regions.
Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises image signal lines, scanning signal lines, pixels, a display area, pixel electrodes, and common electrodes. The common electrodes are configured to detect an object and to display an image in the display area. The common electrodes include first and second common electrodes which are arranged in a first direction. A first slit is provided between the first and second common electrodes. The first and second common electrodes are supplied a signal different from each other. A second slit is provided in the first common electrode. Each of the first slit and the second slit overlaps one of the image signal lines and extends in an extension direction in which the image signal line extends.
Abstract: A display device, including a first polarizing film, a pixel array module, a second polarizing film, and a first electronically controlled phase retardation module, is provided. The pixel array module is disposed in overlap with the first polarizing film. The second polarizing film is disposed in overlap with the pixel array module. The first electronically controlled phase retardation module includes a first liquid crystal layer, two first alignment layers, and two first conductive layers. The first liquid crystal layer and the first alignment layers are disposed between the first conductive layers. The second polarizing film is located between the pixel array module and the first electronically controlled phase retardation module. One of the first polarizing film and the second polarizing film directly contacts one of the first conductive layers of the first electronically controlled phase retardation module. The display device has a switchable viewing angle and is thinner and lighter.
Abstract: An optical waveguide includes an optical waveguide body having a beam in-coupling region and a beam coupling-out region, wherein: the beam in-coupling region is provided with a coupling grating configured to couple a beam into the optical waveguide body, and have the beam propagate in a total reflection manner in the optical waveguide body; the beam coupling-out region is provided with an out-coupling grating configured to couple the light beam propagating to the beam coupling-out region out of the optical waveguide body, such that the beam does not undergo secondary diffraction at the coupling grating and have continuous exit pupil expansion; and the out-coupling grating includes a transmissive out-coupling grating and a reflective out-coupling grating disposed on two sides of the optical waveguide body parallel to a beam propagation direction.
Abstract: An electronic device includes a panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid-crystal layer including a left-handed chiral dopant, a first polarizing plate, a second polarizing plate and a patterned electrode. The first polarizing plate has a first absorption axis perpendicular to a second absorption axis of the second polarizing plate. The patterned electrode has a sub-portion that includes a plurality of branch portions. A first included angle is between one of the branch portions and the first absorption axis. A second included angle is between one of the branch portions and the second absorption axis. While the patterned electrode is disposed between the first substrate and the liquid-crystal layer, the first included angle is greater than the second included angle. While the patterned electrode is disposed between the second substrate and the liquid-crystal layer, the first included angle is smaller than the second included angle.
Abstract: A liquid crystal device is provided with a first light shielding member, a second light shielding member, a third light shielding member, and a fourth light shielding member along four edges of a pixel electrode, respectively, and liquid crystal molecules are oriented so as to intersect a first direction and a second direction and head toward an intersection region of the third light shielding member and the fourth light shielding member. The pixel electrode covers a wall portion on a lower layer side, in a region overlapping with the third light shielding member and the fourth light shielding member. The wall portion includes a layered film including a first layer, and a second layer made of a material different from the first layer, and the first layer on a lower layer side is an etching stopper when the second layer is formed.
Abstract: A display device is provided and includes a first polymer substrate, a plurality of thin-film transistors, a second polymer substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The thin-film transistors are disposed on the first polymer substrate. The second polymer substrate is disposed opposite to the first polymer substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first polymer substrate and the second polymer substrate. The first polymer substrate has a first thickness, the second polymer substrate has a second thickness, and the first thickness is greater than the second thickness.
Abstract: A liquid-crystal display (LCD) device includes: an array substrate on which a sub-pixel is disposed; a color filter substrate on which a color filter corresponding to the sub-pixel is disposed; and a liquid-crystal layer between the array substrate and the color filter substrate. The array substrate comprises a lens hole, the color filter substrate comprises a lens hole guide, and a diameter of the lens hole is smaller than an inner diameter of the lens hole guide.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a display apparatus comprising a bottom chassis and a printed circuit board installed on the bottom chassis. The bottom chassis comprises a rear portion, a mounting boss protruding backwards from the rear portion, and a mounting groove concavely formed in one side of the mounting boss. The printed circuit board comprises a substrate portion in a plate shape, a through hole provided in the substrate portion to allow the rear end of the mounting boss to pass therethrough, and a solder applied to a partial area on one surface of the substrate portion, the partial area being adjacent to the through hole.