Patents Examined by Thoi Duong
  • Patent number: 10262450
    Abstract: A visual display unit creating a three-dimensional volumetric space. The display includes a first screen in a first focal plane, wherein the first screen displays a first image. The display includes a second screen in a second focal plane distinct from the first focal plane, wherein the second screen displays a second image, and wherein the second screen at least partially overlaps the first screen. The display includes a physical object located between the first screen and said second screen, wherein at least one of the first and second images is displayed in response to a placement of the physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: PURE DEPTH LIMITED
    Inventors: Gareth P. Bell, Gabriel Damon Engel
  • Patent number: 10222652
    Abstract: The present invention provides an LCD device, which includes a lower substrate (10) and an upper substrate (20) opposite to each other, a liquid crystal layer (30) interposed between the lower substrate (10) and the upper substrate (20), and a side-edge backlight source (40) disposed at one lateral side of the lower substrate (10). The lower substrate (10) includes a first backing base plate (11) and a first polarization layer (13) disposed on one side of the first backing base plate (11) that is adjacent to the liquid crystal layer (30). The upper substrate (20) is a TFT array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lixuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10222668
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of scan lines, and a plurality of data lines, which coordinate with the scan lines to form a plurality of subpixel regions. Each subpixel region is provided with a subpixel, and each subpixel comprises a plurality of display regions, areas of the display regions being different from each other. When a scan signal transmitted through the scan line arrives, the display regions each receive a data signal transmitted through a same data line, so that the display regions have different gray scale voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Xiaoping Tan, Zhenzhou Xing
  • Patent number: 10222661
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and an LCD device. The LCD panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. A plurality of pixel electrodes is arranged on the first substrate. Each of the plurality of pixel electrodes comprises one or more main electrode and two or more secondary electrodes connected to both sides of the main electrode. A common electrode is arranged on the second substrate. The common electrode and the pixel electrode are arranged opposite. A slot is arranged on the common electrode. The slot is arranged on an area of the common electrode which the main electrode is projected onto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bochin Tsuei
  • Patent number: 10203561
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a liquid crystal panel, a display device and a manufacturing method of a display substrate. The display substrate includes a plurality of pixel regions and grooves between adjacent pixel regions. The display substrate further includes a spacer layer including a filler filled into the grooves and a supporting part protruding from the filler. The filler includes a filler grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xing Xiong, Ruilin Bi, Qiang Xiong, Hongyu Sun, Min Li, Hongjiang Wu
  • Patent number: 10203579
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a counter substrate and an active matrix substrate, and a liquid crystal layer that is provided between the counter substrate and the active matrix substrate. The active matrix substrate includes gate interconnect lines, data interconnect lines, a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode that is connected to the thin film transistor via a through hole, a common electrode, and an interlayer insulating layer that is disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. Also, a photo spacer for providing a constant spacing between the counter substrate and the active matrix substrate is provided inside the liquid crystal layer, and equipotential lines having a voltage less than a threshold value are formed inside the photo spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Morishita, Kumi Furukawa, Shogo Nishiwaki, Masahiko Kondoh
  • Patent number: 10203568
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate line, a source line, a first common electrode opposed to the gate line and the source line, an interlayer insulating film covering the first common electrode, a pixel electrode including a main pixel electrode and a sub-pixel electrode, the pixel electrode formed on the interlayer insulating film, a second common electrode formed on the interlayer insulating film. The second common electrode includes a second main common electrode which has intermittence at a position adjacent to the sub-pixel electrode, and a second sub-common electrode which has intermittence at a position adjacent to the main pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Kayoko Miyazaki, Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 10191593
    Abstract: Positional input systems and methods are provided. A positional input method can include passing (210) a polarized light generated by a source through a predetermined pattern of visibly transparent polarizing elements disposed on the surface of a display device. The method further includes detecting (220) a change in the polarization state of the polarized light corresponding to a location on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Fred Charles Thomas, III
  • Patent number: 10191313
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate which includes: a substrate; a display region formed on the substrate; a flexible printed circuit disposed on the substrate and located at one side of the display region; a control chip disposed between the display region and the flexible printed circuit, and two sides of the flexible printed circuit going beyond two corresponding sides of the control chip, respectively; a first reinforcement member disposed at a first side of the control chip, and the first side being adjacent to one side of the control chip that faces the display region; a second reinforcement member disposed at a second side of the control chip opposite to the first side; and a third reinforcement member covering the control chip, the first reinforcement member and the second reinforcement member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Xin Qiu, Yao-li Huang
  • Patent number: 10191317
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a display panel including a substrate provided with a display functional layer, and a polarizing plate; an illuminator configured to output light to the display panel; and a frame that surrounds sides of the illuminator, and to which the substrate is bonded at a top portion of the frame through an adhesive member. The polarizing plate is provided on a surface of the substrate to which the frame is bonded, and is arranged on an inner side of the frame than the adhesive member in planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Keiichi Kishida, Naruo Hashino, Takahiro Ono
  • Patent number: 10180605
    Abstract: A high-image-quality display device having a transmissive mode and a reflective mode is provided. Furthermore, the display device is manufactured with higher yield and higher productivity. In the display device, a transistor used for a transmissive liquid crystal display element, the transmissive liquid crystal display element, a transistor used for a reflective liquid crystal display element, and the reflective liquid crystal display element are stacked in this order between a pair of substrates. In a manufacturing process, one or two manufacturing substrates are used in addition to the pair of substrates included in the display device. The display device is manufactured in such a manner that a second liquid crystal and a second sealant provided to surround the second liquid crystal are bonded to a first liquid crystal sealed using a first sealant. The bonding process is performed such that the first sealant and the second sealant overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kubota, Koji Kusunoki, Akio Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10181467
    Abstract: A display panel is disclosed, which includes: a substrate; plural scan lines disposed on the substrate and extending along a first direction; a first insulating layer disposed on the scan lines; plural data lines disposed on the first insulating layer and extending along a second direction; a second insulating layer disposed on the data lines; and a common electrode disposed on the second insulating layer and including a through hole; wherein, the through hole includes a first region and a second region, the first region has a first maximum width along the first direction, the second region has a second maximum width along the first direction, and a ratio of the second maximum width over the first maximum width is greater than 0 and less than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ying-Jen Chen, An-Chang Wang, Hsia-Ching Chu, Ming-Chien Sun
  • Patent number: 10180604
    Abstract: A transverse electric field type liquid crystal display panel includes a pair of substrates opposed with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. A plurality of sub-pixels having at least one curved portion in a display area are provided in a matrix on one side of the pair of substrates, and a pair of electrodes having at least one curved portion are formed in the plurality of sub-pixels. A light shield layer shielding a non-display area positioned on an outer peripheral side of the display area and between the plurality of sub-pixels is formed on the other side of the pair of substrates. The light shield layer of the non-display area is formed in a shape in which the outermost peripheral side of the display area is rectangular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Akio Ota
  • Patent number: 10180609
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate; a gate line on the first substrate, where the gate line extends in a first direction; a data line on the first substrate, where the data line extends in a second direction which intersects the first direction; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a passivation layer on the gate line, the data line and the thin film transistor, where the passivation layer includes a recessed portion; a light blocking portion on the recessed portion of the passivation layer; a main column spacer which protrudes upwardly from the light blocking portion; and a sub-column spacer which protrudes upwardly from the light blocking portion, where the sub-column spacer is spaced apart from the main column spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yangho Jung, Chulwon Park
  • Patent number: 10175525
    Abstract: A polarizing waveguide plate includes a pair of spaced transparent plates that define a gap therebetween. Disposed within the gap is a composite material formed of a mixture of polymer mater and liquid crystal material. Positioned proximate to one edge of the gap is an edge light, while a reflector/converter is positioned proximate to another edge of the gap. During operation, unpolarized light is emitted from the edge light and is received within the gap. As such, a portion of the light polarized in a first direction is permitted to exit the waveguide, while the remaining portion of the light that is polarized in a second direction, orthogonal to the first direction, is converted by the converter/reflector so that its polarization is also in the first direction. As such, substantially all of the unpolarized light from the edge light is emitted by the polarizing waveguide plate as polarized light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: The University of Akron
    Inventors: Deng-Ke Yang, Alireza Moheghi, Hossein Nemati
  • Patent number: 10175841
    Abstract: Disclosed are a color filter array having a touch sensor and a display panel having the same. The color filter array may comprise: a plurality of color filters arranged in first and second directions on a substrate; a touch block electrode disposed on the color filters to sense a user touch position; a black matrix disposed on the touch block electrode between the color filters; and a touch-sensing line which is disposed in any one of the first and second directions and at least one of which is connected to the touch block electrode. Thereby, when the color filter array is applied to a bending-type or folding-type display device, generation of cracks in the touch sensing line is reduced or minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Joo Kim, Tae-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 10156754
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device having a backlight unit emitting unpolarized blue light, a light conversion member, a polarization separating member, a backlight-side polarizer, a liquid crystal cell, and a display-side polarizing plate wherein the polarization separating member separates the unpolarized blue light into blue transmitted light and blue reflected light which are linearly polarized in vibration directions that are orthogonal to each other, and transmits some of light in a wavelength range each of 500 nm to 600 nm and 600 nm to 650 nm, the light conversion member includes a fluorescent material that, due to blue light entering the light conversion member, emits green light which is linearly-polarized light and red light which is linearly-polarized light; and a transmission axis of the backlight-side polarizer is parallel to vibration directions of the green and red light, is improved in terms of front surface luminance and color reproduction region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Saneto, Katsufumi Ohmuro
  • Patent number: 10146086
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that sufficiently prevents a decrease in the screen luminance in the display mode while sufficiently increasing the reflectance in the mirror mode, and also gives excellent production efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Masahiro Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Hidefumi Yoshida, Shigeaki Mizushima
  • Patent number: 10139679
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a liquid crystal display panel and a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device. The liquid crystal display panel includes: an array substrate and an opposite substrate, a polarized light source structure disposed on a side of the array substrate and capable of emitting linearly polarized light; and a polarization sheet disposed on the opposite substrate; wherein the polarized light source structure includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer and a quantum rod contained layer therebetween; the quantum rod contained layer may emit linearly polarized light a polarization direction parallel to an absorption axis of the polarization sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiuxia Yang, Wenyan Xu
  • Patent number: 10139687
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposed to each other with a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of pixel regions are defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines. Each of the pixel regions includes a first electrode having a plurality of strip-like portions extending in an extension direction of the drain signal lines, the strip-like portions having at least one bent portion so that extension directions of each two parts of the strip-like portions separated by the at least one bent portion are different from each other, and a second electrode formed between the first substrate and the first electrode, and being overlapped with the strip-like portions in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Makoto Yoneya, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Junichi Hirakata, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi