Patents Examined by Ryan Crockett
  • Patent number: 11256140
    Abstract: An optical system is downsized by reducing a tilt angle of an optical compensating plate including a medium having a small refractive index in the thickness direction, in achieving a predetermined contrast. A liquid crystal display apparatus according to the present technology includes a vertical alignment liquid crystal panel, a first optical compensation unit including a medium having a small refractive index in a thickness direction, and being arranged with being tilted from a state parallel to the liquid crystal panel, at a position at which light having passed through the liquid crystal panel or not having passed through the liquid crystal panel enters, and a second optical compensation unit having refractive index aeolotropy at least in an in-plane direction, and being arranged at a position at which light having passed through the liquid crystal panel or not having passed through the liquid crystal panel enters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoko Horikoshi, Keigo Inoue
  • Patent number: 11249229
    Abstract: A display device may include a display unit disposed on a substrate and a mirror substrate facing the substrate with respect to the display unit. The mirror substrate may include a first minor layer extending continuously on a surface of a transparent substrate and a plurality of minor patterns on the first mirror layer. The first minor layer is formed on both a region in which the plurality of minor patterns are formed and a region in which the plurality of minor patterns are not formed. External light is incident to and reflected by the first minor layer, thus reducing an image haze and enhancing a display quality of the display device. In addition, the first mirror layer and the plurality of mirror patterns may be formed by using a single halftone mask to simplify the manufacturing process and increase a productivity of the mirror substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventors: Dae-Woo Lee, Byoung-Ki Kim, Ho-Jin Yoon, Yun-Mo Chung
  • Patent number: 11249349
    Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) device comprising a stack of at least first and second LC cells in optical series, each of the first and second LC cells comprising two half-cells and LC material contained in a space at least partially defined by spacer structures forming an integral part of one or both half-cells; wherein the arrangement within an active area of the device of the spacer structures in one of the first and second LC cells is different to the arrangement within the active area of the device of the spacer structures in the other of the first and second LC cells; and wherein the difference between the two arrangements comprises an ordered aspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Flexenable Limited
    Inventors: Barry Wild, William Reeves
  • Patent number: 11243445
    Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a substrate; a gate line that is disposed on the substrate in a first direction; a data line that is disposed in a second direction, while crossing the gate line; a semiconductor layer that is disposed between the gate line and the data line, a transistor formed by the semiconductor, a part of the gate line, and a part of the data line; a pixel electrode connected with the transistor; and a light blocking member that is disposed on the pixel electrode, wherein the light blocking member is disposed in the second direction while overlapping the data line, the light blocking member includes a first region and a second region, each having a different width in the first direction, and a width of the second region is narrower than a width of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Hwan Hong, Jae Bok Chang, Jun Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 11237451
    Abstract: An optical device includes a first electrode layer, a first alignment layer, a liquid crystal layer, a second alignment layer, and a second electrode layer being arranged in turn along a light transmission direction; wherein the first electrode layer comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first impedance membrane arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the first electrode and the second electrode are respectively arranged on opposite ends of the first impedance membrane; the second electrode layer has a structure similar to that of the first electrode layer. The four electrodes form a light transmission hole being shaped as a parallelogram. The present invention solves the problem that the focal length of the liquid crystal lens cannot be accurately adjusted due to the instability of the impedance of the impedance membrane of the present liquid crystal lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Mao Ye, Xiaoxi Chen, Guangyong Li, Yalei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11237432
    Abstract: A display device is provided and a display unit of the display device includes a light emitting unit and a light converting layer disposed on the light emitting unit. The display unit emits an output light under an operation of the highest gray level, the output light having an output spectrum. An intensity integral of the output spectrum from 380 nm to 493 nm defines as a first intensity integral, an intensity integral of the output spectrum from 494 nm to 580 nm defines as a second intensity integral, a ratio of the first intensity integral over the second intensity integral defines as a first ratio, and the first ratio ranges from 5 to 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiao-Lang Lin, Jui-Jen Yueh, Kuan-Feng Lee, Jia-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11237415
    Abstract: A method of repairing a display panel comprising: determining a pixel where a bright spot defect resides and a position of the bright spot in the pixel; setting a repair region, the repair region being a region in the pixel including the bright spot defect and having an area smaller than that of a single pixel region; forming a black material layer in the repair region, the black material layer being used for preventing light emitted from a directly-below portion thereof from leaving a display surface of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Haiping Wang, Xu Yan, Pingping Jia, Ying Xi, Dong Guo
  • Patent number: 11231621
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel, a light source which emits a first color light; and a light control member which receives the first color light and emits color-converted light, the light control member including: a substrate through which the color-converted light is provided to the display panel; a first light control layer which color-converts the first color light and outputs the color-converted light; a second light control layer which reflects light having a different wavelength range from a wavelength range of the first color light; and a scattering layer which scatters light incident thereto. Within the light control member, the substrate, the first light control layer, the second light control layer and the scattering layer are disposed in order in a direction from the display panel to the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seon Uk Lee
  • Patent number: 11231629
    Abstract: Disclosed are an array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same, a display panel, and a display device. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; a TFT array layer provided on the base substrate, wherein the TFT array layer includes a plurality of driver transistors arranged in an array; a color resist layer provided on a side of the TFT array layer distal to the base substrate, wherein the color resist layer includes a plurality of color resist patterns independent from each other, a first opening is formed between adjacent ones of the color resist patterns, and an orthogonal projection of the first opening onto the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthogonal projection of an output electrode in a respective one of the driver transistors onto the base substrate; and pixel electrodes provided on a side of the color resist layer distal to the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Wang, Wei Li, Yanqing Chen, Pan Guo, Ning Wang, Weida Qin, Jing Li, Wei Wei
  • Patent number: 11226533
    Abstract: A typical liquid crystal lens includes liquid crystal sandwiched between transparent substrates, which are patterned with ring electrodes. Applying a voltage across the electrodes causes the liquid crystal molecules to rotate, changing their apparent refractive index and the lens's focal length. The ring electrodes are separated by gaps and get narrower toward the lens's periphery. If the ring electrodes are too narrower, their cannot switch the liquid crystal well. To address this problem, an inventive liquid crystal lens includes a substrate with a stepped surface that defines concentric liquid crystal regions with thicknesses that increase with lens radius. Each region is switched by a different set of ring electrodes, which may be on, under, or opposite the stepped surface. Within each region, the ring electrodes get narrower farther from the lens's center. But the ring electrodes' widths also increase with liquid crystal thickness, offsetting the decrease in width that degrades lens performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony Van Heugten
  • Patent number: 11221511
    Abstract: An in-cell type liquid crystal panel is disclosed including an in-cell type liquid crystal cell provided with a liquid crystal layer, a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate sandwiching the liquid crystal layer, and a touch sensing electrode unit related to a touch sensor and a touch-driven function between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer attached polarizing film disposed, via a first adhesive layer and without interposing a conductive layer, to the first transparent substrate side on a viewing side of the in-cell type liquid crystal cell. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer attached polarizing film comprises a surface treatment layer, a first polarizing film, and a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in this order, or comprises the surface treatment layer, the first polarizing film, an anchor layer, and the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in this order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakuni Fujita, Satoshi Yamamoto, Yusuke Toyama
  • Patent number: 11221528
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a display region and a peripheral region, and includes a first substrate including a pixel electrode being disposed in the display region and having translucency, a transistor being disposed in the display region and being electrically coupled to the pixel electrode, a second substrate including a common electrode, and an electro-optical layer being arranged between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein the first substrate or the second substrate includes a first layer having translucency and an insulating property, a second layer having translucency and an insulating property, and being disposed closer to the electro-optical layer than the first layer is, and a light shielding film being arranged between the first layer and the second layer and including tungsten, and the light shielding film includes a concave surface being in contact with the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 11215869
    Abstract: An optical composite film includes a reflection grating film layer, a first optically-uniaxial optical film layer, and a second optically-uniaxial optical film layer. The first optically-uniaxial optical film layer includes a plate-shaped portion and a plurality of refraction portions. The plurality of refraction portions is selected from one type of camber columns and quadrangular prisms. An extraordinary light refractive index of the first optically-uniaxial optical film layer is greater than an ordinary light refractive index of the first optically-uniaxial optical film layer, and an extraordinary light refractive index of the second optically-uniaxial optical film layer is greater than an ordinary light refractive index of the second optically-uniaxial optical film layer. The ordinary light refractive index of the second optically-uniaxial optical film layer is less than the extraordinary light refractive index of the first optically-uniaxial optical film layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chih Tsung Kang
  • Patent number: 11215895
    Abstract: Example display devices include a waveguide configured to propagate visible light under total internal reflection in a direction parallel to a major surface of the waveguide. The waveguide has formed thereon an outcoupling element configured to outcouple a portion of the visible light in a direction normal to the major surface of the waveguide. The example display devices additionally include a polarization-selective notch reflector disposed on a first side of the waveguide and configured to reflect visible light having a first polarization while transmitting the portion of the visible light having a second polarization. The example display devices further include a polarization-independent notch reflector disposed on a second side of the waveguide and configured to reflect visible light having the first polarization and the second polarization, where the polarization-independent notch reflector is configured to convert a polarization of visible light reflecting therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Chulwoo Oh
  • Patent number: 11209693
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display comprising: a liquid crystal cell; an upper polarizing plate provided on one surface of the liquid crystal cell and including a first polarizer and a low moisture-permeable film disposed on one surface of the first polarizer so as to face the liquid crystal cell; and a lower polarizing plate provided on the other surface of the liquid crystal cell and including a second polarizer, wherein a ratio of a shrinkage force in a direction parallel to the absorption axis of the second polarizer of the low moisture-permeable film to a shrinkage force in an absorption-axial direction of the second polarizer is 30% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Min Choi, Jin Yong Park, Sang Hyun Nah, Won Chul Lee, Jun Cheol Shin
  • Patent number: 11209707
    Abstract: A display device includes a gate wiring; a source wiring; a pixel electrode; a first transistor that has a first gate electrode having a portion of the gate wiring not overlapping the source wiring, a first source electrode, a first drain electrode connected to the pixel electrode, and a first channel region; a second transistor that has a second gate electrode having a portion of the gate wiring intersecting the source wiring, a second source electrode, a second drain electrode separated from the pixel electrode, and a second channel region; and a connectable portion connectable to the second drain electrode and the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11187961
    Abstract: A liquid crystal lens and an imaging device including the liquid crystal lens are provided. The liquid crystal lens includes: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer located between the first substrate and the second substrate; the liquid crystal layer is configured to transmit a first portion of incident light transmitted through the first substrate, and converge the first portion of incident light to a predetermined region of the second substrate; and a light adjustment structure arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and configured to enable a second portion of incident light transmitted through the first substrate to be transmitted through the liquid crystal layer and converged to the predetermined region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lijia Zhou, Zhidong Wang, Junrui Zhang, Rongjian Yan, Quanguo Zhou, Li Tian, Yungchiang Lee, Meng Guo
  • Patent number: 11183133
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various examples can comprise: a window; a polarizing plate disposed at a lower part of the window and including a first region, which has a first characteristic with respect to light, and a second region, which has a second characteristic with respect to the light; a display disposed at a lower part of the polarizing plate; and at least one sensor disposed at a lower part of the display and disposed at a location corresponding to the second region. A method for operating the electronic device, according to various examples, can comprise the steps of: determining an activated state of at least one sensor; aligning, in a first direction, at least one portion of a liquid crystal formed on a window when the at least one sensor is activated; and aligning the at least one portion of the liquid crystal in a second direction when the at least one sensor is inactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Silkyu Lim
  • Patent number: 11181767
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in a plan view with respect to the primary face of a semiconductor device, includes at least a part of an outer edge of a color filter layer being located between an effective pixel region and a joining member, and the distance from the effective pixel region to at least a part of the outer edge is greater than the distance from the color filter layer to a light transmission plate in the effective pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidemasa Oshige
  • Patent number: 11175555
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate, at least one first transistor, and at least one second transistor. The substrate includes at least one reflective region and at least one transmissible region. The first transistor is configured on the substrate and located on the corresponding reflective region. Each of the first transistors includes a first active layer. The second transistor is configured on the substrate and located on the corresponding transmissible region. Each of the second transistors includes a second active layer. A material of the first active layer is different from a material of the second active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming-Yao Chen, Kuo-Yu Huang