Patents by Inventor Chao Yuan Chen

Chao Yuan Chen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8547311
    Abstract: A dual-image flat display device includes a first and a second substrates parallel with each other, a liquid crystal layer having liquid crystal molecules, and at least a pixel disposed on the second substrate. The pixel includes pluralities of sub-pixels arranged side by side along a first direction. Each sub-pixel has a first azimuthal angle domain and a second azimuthal angle domain, wherein the first and second azimuthal angle domains are arranged side by side along a second direction in the sub-pixel, and the second direction is not parallel with the first direction. The azimuthal angles of liquid crystal molecules in the first and second azimuthal angle domains have an included angle less than 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Chen, Chieh-Wei Chen, Hung-Lung Hou, Chia-Yu Lee, Jenn-Jia Su
  • Patent number: 8493521
    Abstract: A switchable two and three dimensional display (2D/3D display) suitable for being viewed by a user is provided. The 2D/3D display includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a switchable barrier. The LCD panel has a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a first black matrix extending from the display area to the non-display area. The first black matrix has a number of openings arranged in array and merely distributed within the display area. The switchable barrier has a 3D image control area, a non-display area surrounding the 3D image control area, and a second black matrix merely disposed within the non-display area. The second black matrix surrounds the 3D image control area. An area occupied by the 3D image control area is different from an area occupied by the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Chen, Jenn-Jia Su, Ting-Jui Chang
  • Patent number: 8456580
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display including a display panel and a phase retardation film is provided. The display panel has a plurality of first pixel regions and a plurality of second pixel regions arranged in arrays. The phase retardation film is configured on a surface of the display panel. Here, the phase retardation film has a plurality of first retardation regions and a plurality of second retardation regions that are arranged alternately. The first retardation regions have the same phase retardation, the second retardation regions have the same phase retardation, and the phase retardation of the first retardation regions is different from that of the second retardation regions. All the regions of the phase retardation film have the same optical transmittance. A displaying method adaptable to the three-dimensional display is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Li Chen, Chia-Chih Kao, Chao-Yuan Chen, Ken-Yu Liu, Wen-Hao Hsu, Jenn-Jia Su
  • Patent number: 8427529
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display for the viewer to watch through glasses is provided, wherein the glasses have two lenses and the polarized directions thereof are perpendicular to each other. The three-dimensional display includes a display panel and a liquid crystal phase modulator. The display panel, suitable for displaying an image, has a plurality of pixels arranged in array and a polarizer having a transmission axis, wherein the polarizer disposed between the pixels and the glasses. The liquid crystal phase modulator suitable for providing phase retardation includes a liquid crystal layer and an alignment layer adjacent to the display panel. An included angle between an alignment direction of the alignment layer and the transmission axis is substantially equal to n×45 degrees, wherein an absolute value of n is an integer. The liquid crystal phase modulator adjusts a phase of the image and then outputs an image with three-dimensional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Chen, Chih-Wen Chen, Geng-Yu Liu, Wan-Hua Lu, Ting-Jui Chang
  • Patent number: 8379158
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) display including a display panel and a phase retardation film is provided. The display panel has a plurality of first pixel regions and a plurality of second pixel regions that are arranged as an array. The phase retardation film is disposed on the surface of the display panel. The phase retardation film has a plurality of first retardation regions and a plurality of second retardation regions that are alternately arranged. The first retardation regions have the same phase retardation, the second retardation regions have the same phase retardation, and the phase retardation of the first retardation regions is different from that of the second retardation regions. All the regions of the phase retardation film have the same transmittance. A display method adaptable to the 3D display is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Li Chen, Chia-Chih Kao, Chao-Yuan Chen, Geng-Yu Liu, Wen-Hao Hsu, Jenn-Jia Su
  • Publication number: 20120320097
    Abstract: A 3D display panel includes a plurality of first and second viewing angle pixels arranged along a first direction for displaying first and second viewing angle images respectively. The first viewing angle pixels and the second viewing angle pixels are interlacedly arranged along a second direction. A method for controlling pixel brightness of the 3D display panel includes determining a brightness value of a first block of a first viewing angle pixel according to a brightness value of the first viewing angle pixel and a brightness value of a second viewing angle pixel next to the first viewing angle pixel along the second direction, and determining a brightness value of a second block of the first viewing angle pixel according to the brightness value of the first block of the first viewing angle pixel and the brightness value of the first viewing angle pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Chih-Yao Ma, Yu-Cheng Chang, Yi-Pai Huang, Cheng-Han Tsao, Chao-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: 8325121
    Abstract: A method for driving a pixel is provided. The method includes determining a first predetermined gray-level and a second predetermined gray-level which are corresponding to a target gray-level according to the target gray-level of the pixel, wherein an equivalent gray-level corresponding to the first predetermined gray-level and the second predetermined gray-level is equal to the target gray-level, thereafter, generating a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage according to the first predetermined gray-level and the second predetermined gray-level for respectively driving a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel within the pixel during a frame period. The first driving voltage is greater than the second driving voltage when the equivalent gray-level is small than a first setting gray-level; the first driving voltage is small than the second driving voltage when the equivalent gray-level is greater than the first setting gray-level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Chen, Wen-Hao Hsu, Ting-Wei Su, Jenn-Jia Su
  • Patent number: 8303127
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for manufacturing an optical compound layer are provided. The display apparatus comprises a light source and an optical compound layer, wherein the light source is adapted to emit a light beam, and the light beam has a polarization direction. The optical compound layer is disposed on the light source correspondingly to receive the light beam. The optical compound layer comprises a thin film and a plurality of dopants doped therein. One of the thin film and the dopants has a specific orientation which is substantially the same as the polarization direction of the light beam and the refractive indexes of the thin film and the dopants are substantially the same as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Chen, Jenn-Jia Su, Ting-Jui Chang
  • Publication number: 20120262430
    Abstract: A pixel array, a pixel structure, and a driving method of a pixel structure are provided. The pixel structure includes a first scan line, a second scan line, a first common electrode line, a data line, a first active device, a second device, a first pixel electrode, and a second pixel electrode. The data line is intersected with the first scan line and the second scan line. The first active device is driven by the first scan line and connected to the data line. The second active device is driven by the second scan line and connected to the first common electrode line. The first pixel electrode is electrically connected to the data line through the first active device. The second pixel electrode is electrically connected to the data line through the first active device and electrically connected to the first common electrode line through the second active device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheng-Ju Ho, Cheng-Han Tsao, Chung-Yi Chiu, Chao-Yuan Chen, Wen-Hao Hsu, Peng-Bo Xi
  • Publication number: 20120169714
    Abstract: A display system including a display apparatus for displaying a first image and a second image, two first lenses and two second lenses is provided. When a viewer sees the display apparatus via one first lenses and one second lenses, and the first image as well as the second image are parallax images, the first and second images are respectively saw by different eyes of the viewer. When the viewer sees the display apparatus through the two first lenses, and the first image as well as the second image are not parallax images, the first image irrelevant to the second image is saw by the viewer. When the viewer sees the display apparatus through the two second lenses, and the first image as well as the second image are not parallax images, the second image irrelevant to the first image is saw by the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Ching Hsu, Cheng-Han Tsao, Ken-Yu Liu, Chia-Chih Kao, Chao-Yuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20120113337
    Abstract: A switchable two and three dimensional display (2D/3D display) suitable for being viewed by a user is provided. The 2D/3D display includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a switchable barrier. The LCD panel has a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a first black matrix extending from the display area to the non-display area. The first black matrix has a number of openings arranged in array and merely distributed within the display area. The switchable barrier has a 3D image control area, a non-display area surrounding the 3D image control area, and a second black matrix merely disposed within the non-display area. The second black matrix surrounds the 3D image control area. An area occupied by the 3D image control area is different from an area occupied by the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Chen, Jenn-Jia Su, Ting-Jui Chang
  • Publication number: 20120105442
    Abstract: An image display method of a stereo display apparatus is provided. The image display method includes the following steps. A stereo display apparatus is provided, wherein the stereo display apparatus provides N view zones for a viewer and includes a periodic structure and a pixel plane. N view zones are divided in a space according to the N value. Projection areas corresponding to each of the view zones are formed on the pixel plane by the periodic structure, wherein each of the projection areas corresponds to at least one sub-pixel unit on the pixel plane. Image information of each view zone is obtained according to the corresponding sub-pixel units. A stereo image is displayed by blending image information of each view zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu-Chieh Chen, Chao-Yuan Chen, Ching-Ming Wei
  • Publication number: 20120075562
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions. The first regions and the second regions are formed on the first substrate and the second substrate. In a narrow viewing mode, the luminous flux of the first regions along a first viewing direction is different from that of the first regions along a second viewing direction opposite to the first viewing direction, and the luminous flux of the second regions along the first viewing direction is substantially different from that of the first regions along the first viewing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Chao-Wei Yeh, Chien-Huang Liao, Wen-Hao Hsu, Tien-Lun Ting, Chao-Yuan Chen, Jenn-Jia Su
  • Publication number: 20120075540
    Abstract: A stereo display includes a display panel, a first polarizer modulator disposed above the display panel, and a second polarizer modulator disposed above the first polarizer modulator. The second polarizer modulator includes a first lens set, a second lens set opposite to the first lens set, a polarization material, and a birefringent material. An angle between an extending direction of the first lens set and an extending direction of the second lens set is not 0 or 180 degrees. The polarization material is between the first lens set and the second lens set. The birefringent material is disposed in at least one of the first lens set and the second lens set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Chen, Yu-Chieh Chen
  • Patent number: 8144273
    Abstract: A switchable two and three dimensional display (2D/3D display) suitable for being viewed by a user is provided. The 2D/3D display includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a switchable barrier. The LCD panel has a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a first black matrix extending from the display area to the non-display area. The first black matrix has a number of openings arranged in array and merely distributed within the display area. The switchable barrier has a 3D image control area, a non-display area surrounding the 3D image control area, and a second black matrix merely disposed within the non-display area. The second black matrix surrounds the 3D image control area. An area occupied by the 3D image control area is different from an area occupied by the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Chen, Jenn-Jia Su, Ting-Jui Chang
  • Publication number: 20120069279
    Abstract: A graded index birefringent component is described and shown with at least one liquid crystal layer having a plurality of lens segments, wherein the orientation of the liquid crystal molecules varies across each lens segment of the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Harrold, Graham John Woodgate, Chao-Yuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20110261299
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, a polarizer, a composite optical film, a phase retarder, and an adhesive layer. The LCD panel has a display surface and a rear surface opposite to the display surface. The polarizer is disposed on the rear surface. The composite optical film is disposed on the display surface. The composite optical film includes a quarter wave plate and at least one optical film located between the LCD panel and the quarter wave plate. The phase retarder has a plurality of phase retardation patterns separated from one another, and phase retardation of each phase retardation pattern is ?/2. The adhesive layer is disposed between the composite optical film and the phase retarder, and the phase retarder adheres to the quarter wave plate through the adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Hsuan Tai, Chao-Yuan Chen, Shen-Liang Chen, Wei-Ching Hsu, Norio Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20110216277
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) display including a display panel and a phase retardation film is provided. The display panel has a plurality of first pixel regions and a plurality of second pixel regions that are arranged as an array. The phase retardation film is disposed on the surface of the display panel. The phase retardation film has a plurality of first retardation regions and a plurality of second retardation regions that are alternately arranged. The first retardation regions have the same phase retardation, the second retardation regions have the same phase retardation, and the phase retardation of the first retardation regions is different from that of the second retardation regions. All the regions of the phase retardation film have the same transmittance. A display method adaptable to the 3D display is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li Chen, Chia-Chih Kao, Chao-Yuan Chen, Geng-Yu Liu, Wen-Hao Hsu, Jenn-Jia Su
  • Publication number: 20110216253
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display including a display panel and a phase retardation film is provided. The display panel has a plurality of first pixel regions and a plurality of second pixel regions arranged in arrays. The phase retardation film is configured on a surface of the display panel. Here, the phase retardation film has a plurality of first retardation regions and a plurality of second retardation regions that are arranged alternately. The first retardation regions have the same phase retardation, the second retardation regions have the same phase retardation, and the phase retardation of the first retardation regions is different from that of the second retardation regions. All the regions of the phase retardation film have the same optical transmittance. A displaying method adaptable to the three-dimensional display is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li Chen, Chia-Chih Kao, Chao-Yuan Chen, Ken-Yu Liu, Wen-Hao Hsu, Jenn-Jia Su
  • Publication number: 20110157500
    Abstract: An exemplary stereoscopic display device includes a backlight module, a display panel, and a polarizer panel. The backlight module provides a light source for the stereoscopic display device. The display panel is used for displaying a received image. The polarizer panel includes a plurality of polarizer elements. The states of the polarizer elements are switched by an ON/OFF operation for switching a polarization angle of the polarizer panel. The ON/OFF operation of the polarizer panel includes an enabled time interval and a disabled time interval. The polarizer elements provide two different polarization angles respectively in the enabled and disabled time intervals. The enabled time interval and the disabled time interval have different time lengths from each other. A stereoscopic image displaying method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Ken-Yu Liu, Cheng-Lung Wu, Chao-Yuan Chen, Jenn-Jia Su