Patents Examined by Phu Vu
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Patent number: 10884294Abstract: In an electro-optical device, a first ion trap electrode, a second ion trap electrode, and a third ion trap electrode are provided between a pixel region and a sealing material, the first ion trap electrode, the second ion trap electrode, and the third ion trap electrode are applied with signals whose phases are shifted by 120° from each other. Since a diffusion preventing portion in which the thickness of an electro-optical layer is thinner than the thickness of the pixel region is provided between a pixel electrode and the first ion trap electrode, ionic impurities are less likely to diffuse into the pixel region even if application of a potential to an ion trap electrode is paused.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Naoki Tomikawa
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Patent number: 10886261Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) display panel includes a LED array, a color change layer, and a shutter layer disposed therebetween. The LED array is formed by multiple LEDs, defining multiple pixels. Each pixel has a corresponding LED and multiple sub-pixels. The color change layer includes multiple color change structures corresponding to the sub-pixels. The shutter layer defines multiple shutter structures correspondingly aligned to the sub-pixels and the color change structures. Each shutter structure is independently controlled to be switchable between a first state, where light emitted by the corresponding LED is prevented from reaching the corresponding color change structure, and a second state, where light emitted by the corresponding LED is allowed to reach the corresponding color change structure. For each pixel, only the shutter structure corresponding to one sub-pixel is in the second state, and the shutter structures corresponding to the other sub-pixels are in the first state.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: A.U. VISTA, INC.Inventor: Seok-Lyul Lee
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Patent number: 10884175Abstract: A multiview backlight and a multiview display employ multibeam elements configured to provide a tilted plurality of light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to different view directions of a plurality of views of the multiview display. Further, the tilted plurality of light beams has a tilt toward a center of a view zone of the multiview display to provide converging views. The multiview backlight includes a light guide and an array of the multibeam elements. The multiview display further includes multiview pixels that include view pixels to modulate the tilted plurality of light beams having the tilt and the different principal angular directions.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: LEIA INC.Inventor: David A. Fattal
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Patent number: 10884177Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a LCD panel having a first polarizer, a first substrate, a second substrate and a second polarizer are sequentially provided from a front surface side, a frame which surrounds the LCD panel and has a first opening having first to fourth sides, a planar light source disposed on the rear surface side of the LCD panel in the first opening, a plurality of optical sheet groups which are disposed between the planar light source and the LCD panel, and an adhesive layer which has a second opening formed along the first to fourth sides of the frame. A front surface side of the adhesive layer is adhered to the LCD panel along at least the first side, and a rear surface side of the adhesive layer is adhered to the plurality of optical sheet groups and the frame along at least the first side.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Eiji Oohira
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Patent number: 10877320Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a first relay electrode, a second relay electrode, and a first insulating layer including a first contact hole penetrated to the first relay electrode and a second contact hole penetrated to the second relay electrode, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, and a main spacer located between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first insulating layer further including a first concavity located between the first contact hole and the second contact hole, the main spacer being located in the first concavity, and maintaining a cell gap between the first substrate and the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Jin Hirosawa
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Patent number: 10877338Abstract: To suppress a variation in characteristics of a transistor due to a released gas from an organic insulating film so that reliability of a display device is increased. The display device includes a transistor, an organic insulating film which is provided over the transistor in order to reduce unevenness due to the transistor, and a capacitor over the organic insulating film. An entire surface of the organic insulating film is not covered with components (a transparent conductive layer and an inorganic insulating film) of the capacitor, and a released gas from the organic insulating film can be released to the outside from exposed part of an upper surface of the organic insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Yokoyama, Shigeki Komori, Manabu Sato, Kenichi Okazaki, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 10871669Abstract: A display device including a peripheral circuit portion with high operation stability. The display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A first insulating layer is on a first plane of the first substrate, and a second insulating layer is on a first plane of the second substrate. An area of the first plane of the first substrate is the same as an area of the first plane of the second substrate. The first plane of the first substrate and the first plane of the second substrate face each other. A bonding layer is between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A protection film is in contact with the first substrate, the first insulating layer, the bonding layer, the second insulating layer, and the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yoshiharu Hirakata, Tetsuji Ishitani, Daisuke Kubota, Ryo Hatsumi, Masaru Nakano, Takashi Hamada
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Patent number: 10866470Abstract: A display device including: a first substrate; a first electrode layer disposed on an edge of the first substrate; a second electrode layer disposed on the first electrode layer; the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer defining a space in between; a metal sludge disposed in the space; and a subsidiary electrode configured to cover a side surface of the first substrate, and disposed in the space to contact the first electrode layer, the second electrode layer, and the metal sludge.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung Ki Song, Sung-Hwan Bae, Chan Sol Yoo
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Patent number: 10859876Abstract: The disclosure discloses a display panel, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device, and the display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite to each other, wherein the display panel further includes an isolation layer, and the isolation layer, the first substrate, and the second substrate define together a sealed chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuansheng Zang, Huizi Li
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Patent number: 10852576Abstract: To suppress a variation in characteristics of a transistor due to a released gas from an organic insulating film so that reliability of a display device is increased. The display device includes a transistor, an organic insulating film which is provided over the transistor in order to reduce unevenness due to the transistor, and a capacitor over the organic insulating film. An entire surface of the organic insulating film is not covered with components (a transparent conductive layer and an inorganic insulating film) of the capacitor, and a released gas from the organic insulating film can be released to the outside from exposed part of an upper surface of the organic insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Yokoyama, Shigeki Komori, Manabu Sato, Kenichi Okazaki, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 10852609Abstract: A pixel array substrate including a substrate, data lines, gate lines, pixels, and transfer lines is provided. The data lines are disposed on the substrate and arranged in a first direction. The gate lines are disposed on the substrate and arranged in a second direction interlaced with the first direction. The pixels are disposed on the substrate, each of which includes an active device electrically connected to one of the data lines and one of the gate lines and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the active device. The transfer lines are arranged in the first direction and electrically connected to the gate lines, respectively. The pixels include first pixels. In a top view of the pixel array substrate, at least one of the pixel electrodes of the first pixels is partially overlapped with one of the transfer lines. A driving method of a pixel array substrate is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Min-Tse Lee, Sheng-Yen Cheng, Yueh-Hung Chung, Kuang-Hsiang Liao, Yang-Chun Lee, Yan-Kai Wang, Ya-Ling Hsu, Yi-Ren Chen, Hung-Che Lin, Sheng-Ju Ho, Chien-Huang Liao, Chen-Hsien Liao
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Patent number: 10838257Abstract: Provided is an illumination device that makes it possible to enhance utilization efficiency of light, and a display device that includes the illumination device. The illumination device includes: a light source that is configured to generate light of a first wavelength; a luminescent body that is configured to wavelength-convert the light of the first wavelength to light of a second wavelength, the second wavelength being different from the first wavelength; and a wavelength selective filter that is provided on a light-incident side of the luminescent body, the wavelength selective filter being configured to transmit the light of the first wavelength and to reflect the light of the second wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventor: Hirohisa Ishino
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Patent number: 10838270Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes additional common electrode patterns to shield data lines and common lines and, thus, to avoid undesired fringe fields. The liquid crystal display device prevents crosstalk and enhances visibility.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jin-Sam Kim
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Patent number: 10830939Abstract: Multibeam diffraction grating-based backlighting includes a light guide and a multibeam diffraction grating at a surface of the light guide. The light guide is configured to guide light from a light source. The multibeam diffraction grating is configured to couple out a portion of the guided light using diffractive coupling and to direct the diffractively coupled out portion away from the light guide as a plurality of light beams with different principal angular directions having directions corresponding to view directions of a multiview display.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: LEIA INC.Inventors: David A. Fattal, Zhen Peng, Charles M. Santori
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Patent number: 10831059Abstract: A display panel, includes a liquid crystal layer, a first substrate and a second substrate disposed at opposite sides of the liquid crystal layer, and a control electrode layer disposed above the first substrate. The control electrode layer is configured to receive electrical signals and control light incident into the liquid crystal layer to propagate through total reflection, and to drive liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer to form a liquid crystal grating to make totally-reflected light in the liquid crystal layer coupled out at a side of the first substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Jifeng Tan
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Patent number: 10831048Abstract: An electronic device includes a liquid crystal display device having a first substrate, a second substrate bonded to the first substrate, with liquid crystal material held between the first substrate and the second substrate, and an upper polarizing plate affixed to the second substrate. A protective member is disposed over the upper polarizing plate, and an adhesive member is disposed between the protective member and the upper polarizing plate without an air layer between the protective member and the upper polarizing plate. The protective member is configured as a protective cover of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koichi Fukuda
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Patent number: 10823997Abstract: A display device comprises: a backlight unit; a liquid crystal panel comprising a lower polarizer, an upper polarizer, and a first substrate and a second substrate; and a cover plate on the liquid crystal panel, wherein a camera hole passes through the backlight unit and up to the lower polarizer, an interference prevention hole is located at a position corresponding to the camera hole, and the camera hole is not in the first substrate and the second substrate. The display device has a hole with a uniform size, decreased processing cost, increased structural rigidity, and does not have thermal deformation, can prevent defects such as generation of air bubbles, bending deformation, and distortion of a light path due to the hole and the vacuum bonding while increasing the visible light transmittance and resolution of the camera, and improving the appearance quality of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Geunuk Kim, WonTae Kim, JinHyeok Cho, Jongseok Cha
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Patent number: 10816839Abstract: Disclosed is a display device provided to solve any problem caused when a source PCB is provided on the lateral rear side or the rear side of a middle frame, to solve any additional problem caused when the source PCB is provided on the side surface of the middle frame, and to ensure rigidity of the middle frame and optimize the number of processes and associated costs.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kyoungtae Kim, Hyungu Kim, Sanghun Baek, Jeoungoun Lee
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Patent number: 10816859Abstract: The present application discloses a display panel, a manufacturing method and a display apparatus. First common lines and first electrodes are disposed on a first substrate; an overlapped shading zone and a photic zone are provided between each of the first electrodes and each of the first common lines; each of the photic zones includes an edge photic zone; and a film thickness of each of the edge photic zones is greater than a film thickness of each of the overlapped shading zones.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventor: Chunhui Yang
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Patent number: 10809582Abstract: A display device including a color display panel and a switching panel which overlaps the color display panel in a first direction is provided. The color display panel includes a first array substrate, a first opposite substrate, and a first light shielding layer. The first opposite substrate overlaps the first array substrate in the first direction, wherein the first array substrate has a first display region and a first peripheral region located on at least one side of the first display region. The first light shielding layer overlaps the first peripheral region in the first direction. The switching panel comprises a second array substrate and a second opposite substrate. The second opposite substrate overlaps the second array substrate in the first direction, wherein the second array substrate comprises a second display region. The second display region overlaps the first display region and the first peripheral region in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventor: Ju-Chin Chen