Patents Examined by William D Peterson
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Patent number: 11971619Abstract: A lighting system and method controls light to prioritize different elements of the beam of light that is output by a fixture. The LCD surface acts as a color occlusion filter that provides pixel level control of the beam of light transmitted by this layer. Internally an LED source is projected perpendicular to concave type reflector which can be moved on one axis and thus zoom to either widen or narrow the light emitted forward as a beam of light. The system also includes certain cooling features.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Sandbox Light Engineering CorporationInventors: Christopher D. Ewington, Matthew E. Ward, Jeremy Hochman
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Patent number: 11966047Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to the field of eye tracking systems. An eye tracking system is provided. The eye tracking system comprises an illuminator arrangement, including at least one light source, configured to illuminate an eye of a user. The eye tracking system is configured to enable a reduction of reflections from an optic arrangement (e.g., a pair of glasses) that is located in a light beam path between the illuminator arrangement and the eye when the eye tracking system is in use. The illuminator arrangement is configured to emit p-polarized light to be incident on a surface of the optic arrangement at an angle corresponding to, or substantially corresponding to, Brewster's angle.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Tobii ABInventor: Magnus Arvidsson
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Patent number: 11960173Abstract: A switchable panel is described that includes exterior layers, a switchable component disposed between the exterior layers, a lamination frame extending from outer edges of the switchable component to outer edges of the panel between the exterior layers, and spacers embedded within the lamination frame. The spacers are configured to prohibit the exterior layers from moving toward each other at the outer edges of the panel when a central portion of the panel experiences tension.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Peter F. Masschelein, Yuan Chen, Derek C. Scott
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Patent number: 11953700Abstract: An optical system includes: a beam splitter system configured to split an input beam into a plurality of output beams including a first output beam, a second output beam, and a third output beam; a first polarizing filter having a first polarization angle and configured to filter the first output beam to produce a first filtered output beam; a second polarizing filter having a second angle of polarization and configured to filter the second output beam to produce a second filtered output beam; and a third polarizing filter having a third angle of polarization and configured to filter the third output beam to produce a third filtered output beam, the first, second, and third angles of polarization being different from one another.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Intrinsic Innovation LLCInventors: Kartik Venkataraman, Agastya Kalra, Achuta Kadambi
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Patent number: 11948946Abstract: An array substrate, a method for manufacturing the array substrate, and a display panel are provided in the disclosure. The method for manufacturing the array substrate includes the following. A gate and a signal trace spaced apart from the gate are formed on a substrate. A gate insulation layer is formed on the substrate. An active layer to-be-processed is formed on the gate insulation layer. A first photoresist layer is formed on the active layer to-be-processed. The active layer to-be-processed is etched to form an active layer, where the first photoresist layer is on a side surface of the active layer away from the gate insulation layer. A second photoresist layer is formed on the gate insulation layer. The gate insulation layer is etched to define a through hole, where the through hole faces the signal trace.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: BEIHAI HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Hejing Zhang, Zhen Liu, Jie Zhang, Je-hao Hsu, Haoxuan Zheng
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Patent number: 11945370Abstract: A rearview assembly is disclosed. The rearview assembly comprises a reflective element and/or a display element. Further, the rearview assembly comprises an array of piezo-electric sensors. The array of piezo-electric sensors may be operable to sense a first vibration. Further, based, at least in part, on sensing the first vibration, the array of piezo-electric sensors may be operable to output a second vibration. In some embodiments, the second vibration may be operable to substantially dampen the first vibration. In other embodiments, the second vibration may be operable to provide haptic feedback to a user interfacing with a touch screen surface of the rearview assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATIONInventor: Eric S. Lundy
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Patent number: 11927861Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed, relating to the display technical field. The display panel comprises a display layer and a light control layer which are laminated, the light control layer comprises a plurality of light control pixel areas, the light control pixel areas comprise a thin film transistor, the display layer comprises a plurality of display pixel areas, and the display pixel areas comprise a green sub-pixel; the orthographic projection of the green sub-pixel on the light control pixel area is close to the area where the thin film transistor is located.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: FUZHOU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Renhui Yu, Wen Zha, Xin Chen, Hongzhou Xie, Shangtao Zheng, Meizhen Chen, Ying Tian, Zengrong Li, Ye Hu, Qingna Hou, Kai Diao
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Patent number: 11927847Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a light-filtering layer, a color film substrate, a driving substrate, and a reflecting layer. The reflecting layer, the driving substrate, the light-filtering layer, and the color film substrate are stacked in sequence. The light-filtering layer includes a black matrix with multiple second openings, and each of the multiple second openings is filled with one light-filtering sub-pixel. The reflecting layer defines multiple first openings, and each of the multiple first openings is aligned with one second opening.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Ye Wan, Rongrong Li
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Patent number: 11927775Abstract: Provided are 3D glasses capable of reducing crosstalk when disposed on the viewer side of a liquid crystal panel that is time-divisionally driven; an optical device including the 3D glasses; and a three-dimensional image display device including the optical device. The 3D glasses include a right-eye polarizer and a left-eye polarizer, the right-eye polarizer and the left-eye polarizer each including a polarizing plate and a first ?/4 plate, at least one of the right-eye polarizer or the left-eye polarizer including a phase difference layer on or behind a back surface side of the polarizing plate, wherein a phase difference introduced by the right-eye polarizer in a thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm is different from a phase difference introduced by the left-eye polarizer in the thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Masahiro Hasegawa, Akira Sakai, Kiyoshi Minoura
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Patent number: 11929371Abstract: Disclosed are an array substrate, a display panel and a display apparatus. The array substrate includes: gate lines, data lines, and pixel units. The gate lines and the data lines are arranged between at least part of the adjacent pixel units. The array substrate further includes: common electrode lead wires and common electrode layers. The common electrode lead wires are arranged on a same layer as the data lines, extend in a same direction as the data lines, and are located between at least part of the adjacent pixel units. The common electrode layers are insulated from the common electrode lead wires through insulating layers and are connected with the common electrode lead wires through via holes in the insulating layers. The via holes are located in a region where the gate lines and the common electrode lead wires intersect.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bangran Fu, Huabin Chen, Yingqiang Gao, Liqiang Li, Yongzhi Song
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Patent number: 11927851Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first base substrate; a second base substrate opposite to the first base substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second base substrates; a first alignment film at a side of the first base substrate facing the liquid crystal layer; a second alignment film at a side of the second base substrate facing the liquid crystal layer; a polarizer at a side of the first base substrate away from the liquid crystal layer; and a quarter-wave plate between the polarizer and the first base substrate. An angle between a center line of an included angle between the first alignment direction of the first alignment film and the second alignment direction of the second alignment film and a slow axis of the quarter-wave plate is in a range from 75 to 105 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Hao Liu, Ruichen Zhang, Kaixuan Wang, Yanqing Chen, Zhao Zhang, Yanni Liu, Li Tian
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Patent number: 11921383Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device and a method for operating the liquid crystal display device. In the liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels, one pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a first sub pixel and a second sub pixel, which are adjacent to each other. The one pixel includes a first substrate, a first electrode provided on the first substrate, metamaterial layers provided on the first electrode, wherein the metamaterial layers include a first metamaterial layer within the first sub pixel and a second metamaterial layer within the second sub pixel, a liquid crystal layer provided on the first and second metamaterial layers, a second electrode provided on the liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate provided on the second electrode. The first and second metamaterial layers include metamaterials having properties different from each other, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Yong Hae Kim, Chi-Sun Hwang
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Patent number: 11899326Abstract: According to one embodiment an array substrate includes a semiconductor layer scanning and signal lines first and second insulating layers a pedestal and a pixel electrode. The scanning line is opposed to the semiconductor layer. The first insulating layer is provided above the semiconductor layer. The signal line and the pedestal are connected to the semiconductor layer through first and second contact holes in the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is provided above the pedestal. The pixel electrode is connected to the pedestal through a third contact hole in the second insulating layer. The signal line and the pedestal are provided in layers different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventor: Osamu Itou
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Patent number: 11899317Abstract: To provide a laminated glass in which color shading of an optical member is reduced, and a method for producing it. A laminated glass comprising a first glass plate, a second glass plate facing the first glass plate, and between the first glass plate and the second glass plate, a light control member to which a power feeder is connected, a bonding portion and a sealing member, wherein the sealing member overlaps with at least a part of the periphery of the first glass plate, in a plan view, the bonding portion is in contact with the first glass plate, the second glass plate, and a first principal surface, a second principal surface and side surfaces of the light control member, and the bonding portion contains a curable transparent resin.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: AGC INC.Inventors: Junichi Kakuta, Takashi Shibuya, Risa Kimura, Yuhei Gima
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Patent number: 11901618Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first substrate, a multilayer structure, and a passivation layer. The multilayer structure is disposed on the first substrate. The multilayer structure includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer. The passivation layer is disposed on the second conductive layer. In addition, a thermal expansion coefficient of the second conductive layer is between a thermal expansion coefficient of the first conductive layer and a thermal expansion coefficient of the passivation layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Chia-Ping Tseng, Ker-Yih Kao, Chia-Chi Ho, Ming-Yen Weng, Hung-I Tseng, Shu-Ling Wu, Huei-Ying Chen
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Patent number: 11886085Abstract: Provided is an array substrate. The array substrate includes: a base substrate, and a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of sub-pixels and a plurality of touch signal lines disposed on the base substrate. The data lines have a plurality of first extending parts and a plurality of second extending parts which are in an alternating arrangement. When the array substrate is used to prepare a liquid crystal display panel and the liquid crystal display panel is displaying, in each column of the sub-pixels, the voltage polarities of the two adjacent sub-pixels which respectively belong to two adjacent first pixel regions are opposite.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY DROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Xuerui Gong, Yong Yu, Chang Zhang, Jiangsheng Wang
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Patent number: 11874553Abstract: A backlight device is provided and includes case having bottom plate; light guide having front surface as emission surface, rear surface opposed to front surface, and incidence surface that is one of side surfaces of light guide, rear surface facing to bottom plate; light-emitting elements facing incident surface of light guide, each of light-emitting elements having bottom surface and light-emitting surface facing incidence surface of light guide; fixing tape arranged on bottom plate, each of bottom surfaces of light-emitting elements and rear surface of light guide being adhered to fixing tape; and light-shield facing fixing tape through light guide.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Ken Sugiyama, Kosuke Matsubara, Takeshi Kaneki
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Patent number: 11860338Abstract: Provided is an optical film with a resin substrate adhered to an optically anisotropic layer and suppression of occurrence of optical defects in the optically anisotropic layer. The optical film has a resin substrate having an alignment regulating force and an optically anisotropic layer arranged thereon, in which the optically anisotropic layer contains a liquid crystal compound and a compound having a heteroatom different from the liquid crystal compound, and in a case where a surface of the optical film on an optically anisotropic layer side thereof is a first surface and a surface of the optical film on a resin substrate side thereof is a second surface, and components of the optical film in a depth direction are analyzed by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry while irradiating the optical film with an ion beam from the first surface toward the second surface, the obtained profile satisfies a predetermined requirement.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Akira Maruyama, Keisuke Kodama, Tetsuro Otsuka, Hiroyuki Hagio, Yuta Takahashi, Shinpei Yoshida, Satoshi Yanokuchi
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Patent number: 11860465Abstract: A display device comprises a display panel including a pixel providing a light and an input sensing panel sensing an external input. The input sensing panel includes a first sensing insulating layer disposed on the display panel, first conductive patterns disposed on the first sensing insulating layer, a second sensing insulating layer covering the first conductive patterns, second conductive patterns disposed on the second sensing insulating layer, a piezoelectric pattern covering the second conductive patterns, a light blocking pattern covering the piezoelectric pattern and defining a transmission opening transmitting the light, and a third sensing insulating layer covering the light blocking pattern.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Changyun Moon
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Patent number: 11860467Abstract: A color filter substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The color filter substrate includes a base substrate, a common electrode layer covered on the base substrate, and a first alignment layer covered on the common electrode layer. The first alignment layer has a display region and a sealant region for connecting a frame sealant. One or a plurality of opening(s) is/are arranged on the first alignment layer, and one or a plurality of electrical conductor(s) embedded in the frame sealant is/are configured to insert into the one or a plurality of opening(s) to be electrically connected with the common electrode layer. According to the present application, a problem of a frequently occurred poor conductivity between the array substrate and the common electrode layer of the color filter substrate in the display panel of the related art is solved.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HKC Corporation LimitedInventor: Yanna Yang