Patents by Inventor Ping-Yen Chen

Ping-Yen 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: 11029462
    Abstract: A backlight module including a light guide plate, a light source, an optical film, a first prism sheet and a second prism sheet is provided. The light guide plate has a light incident surface and a light emitting surface connected to each other. The light source is disposed on a side of the light incident surface. The optical film is overlapped with the light emitting surface and has a plurality of optical microstructures facing the light emitting surface. An angle between the extending direction of the optical microstructures and the light incident surface is 90 degrees or between 45 degrees and 90 degrees. The first prism sheet and the second prism sheet are overlapped with the optical film and are positioned on a side of the optical film being far away from the light guide plate. A display apparatus adopting the backlight module is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Jen-Wei Yu, Yang-Ching Lin, Yu-Fan Chen
  • Publication number: 20210055582
    Abstract: A viewing angle control device including a plurality of first polarizing portions and a plurality of transmissive portions is provided. The first polarizing portions are arranged along a first direction and extended in a second direction. The transmissive portions and the first polarizing portions are alternately arranged. Each of the first polarizing portions has a width in the first direction and a height in a direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. A ratio of the height to the width of the first polarizing portion is greater than 1. A display apparatus adopting the viewing angle control device is also provided. The viewing angle control device and the display apparatus provided herein have a filter effect at a large viewing angle, improved light transmittance in the viewing angle direction, and excellent anti-peeping performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Wen-Chun Wang
  • Publication number: 20210048697
    Abstract: A view angle control structure and a display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus at least includes the view angle control structure, which includes first and second polarizing layers, first and second substrates and a polarization adjusting layer. The first and second polarizing layers are sequentially disposed on a transmission path of a light beam. The first and second substrates are sequentially disposed on the transmission path of the light beam and located between the first and second polarizing layers. At least one of the first and second substrates has a birefringence. The polarization adjusting layer is disposed on the transmission path of the light beam and located between the first and second substrates for changing a polarization state of the light beam according to an applied voltage. The view angle control structure and the display apparatus of the invention are excellent in anti-peeping effect, slimness and image quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Wen-Chun Wang
  • Publication number: 20210048696
    Abstract: An electronically-controlled viewing angle switching device, including a liquid crystal layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, a plurality of first insulation patterns, and a plurality of second insulation patterns is provided. The first electrode and the second electrode are respectively located at a first side and a second side of the liquid crystal layer. The first insulation patterns are located at the first side of the liquid crystal layer. The second insulation patterns are located at the second side of the liquid crystal layer. Each of the first insulation patterns is at least partially overlapped with the corresponding second insulation pattern. A display device adopting the electronically-controlled viewing angle switching device is also provided. The electronically-controlled viewing angle switching device and the display device provide a good anti-peed effect from a side viewing angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Yang Fang, Ping-Yen Chen, Yang-Ching Lin, Jen-Wei Yu, Yu-Fan Chen
  • Patent number: 10921622
    Abstract: An anti-peeping control device includes two polarizers and a liquid crystal box disposed between the two polarizers. An included angle of 5 to 15 degrees is formed between the axial directions of the transmission axes of the two polarizers, or the axial directions of the transmission axes of the two polarizers are parallel to each other but not parallel and not perpendicular to any side edge of the polarizer. The axial directions of the transmission axes of the two polarizers are perpendicular or parallel to the alignment direction of the alignment layer of the liquid crystal box. The anti-peeping control device can use an electronic control method to switch the anti-peeping effect. A backlight module and display using the anti-peeping control device are also proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Yang-Ching Lin, Jen-Wei Yu, Yu-Fan Chen
  • Patent number: 10895777
    Abstract: A display device and a method for adjusting a chromaticity of a display beam are provided. A display device includes a light source module, a viewing angle switching module and a display module. The light source module includes a light source used for providing a light beam, and an illumination beam is formed by the light beam through the light source module, wherein the chromaticity of the light beam falls within a first region in the CIE 1931 xy chromaticity coordinates. The first region is a region enclosed by four coordinate points, and values of the four coordinate points of the first region are (0.2535, 0.2160), (0.2656, 0.2590), (0.2795, 0.2590), and (0.2674, 0.2160), respectively. The viewing angle switching module and the display module are located on the transmission path of the illumination beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Yang-Ching Lin, Chung-Yang Fang, Ping-Yen Chen
  • Publication number: 20200400979
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a screen anti-peeping protection layer arranged above a display panel. The screen anti-peeping protection layer includes a first polarizing layer, a second polarizing layer, a viewing angle adjusting layer and a touch sensing layer. The first polarizing layer and the second polarizing layer are sequentially arranged on a transmission path of a display beam which comes from the display panel. The viewing angle adjusting layer is arranged on the transmission path and located between the first polarizing layer and the second polarizing layer, and used for changing a range of an emitted light viewing angle of the display beam. The touch sensing layer is arranged on the transmission path, and located above the viewing angle adjusting layer and opposite to the first polarizing layer. The disclosure also provides a touch display device including the screen anti-peeping protection layer and the display panel as described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Yu-Wei Liang, Yin-Jen Lin
  • Publication number: 20200379162
    Abstract: A backlight module including a light guide plate, a light source, an optical film, a first prism sheet and a second prism sheet is provided. The light guide plate has a light incident surface and a light emitting surface connected to each other. The light source is disposed on a side of the light incident surface. The optical film is overlapped with the light emitting surface and has a plurality of optical microstructures facing the light emitting surface. An angle between the extending direction of the optical microstructures and the light incident surface is 90 degrees or between 45 degrees and 90 degrees. The first prism sheet and the second prism sheet are overlapped with the optical film and are positioned on a side of the optical film being far away from the light guide plate. A display apparatus adopting the backlight module is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Jen-Wei Yu, Yang-Ching Lin, Yu-Fan Chen
  • Publication number: 20200326567
    Abstract: A viewing angle switch module including a viewing angle limiting device and a first electrically controlled viewing angle switch device is provided. A plurality of first block walls of the viewing angle limiting device are arranged along a first direction and extended in a second direction. The first electrically controlled viewing angle switch device has a first liquid crystal layer, a first polarizer and a second polarizer. An angle of 90±20 degrees is included between an optical axis of the first liquid crystal layer and the first direction. The first polarizer and the second polarizer are respectively located at two opposite sides of the first liquid crystal layer. An absorption axis of the first polarizer and a, absorption axis of the second polarizer are parallel to or perpendicular to the first direction. A display apparatus adopting the viewing angle switch module is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Yang Fang, Ping-Yen Chen, Yang-Ching Lin, Jen-Wei Yu, Yu-Fan Chen
  • Publication number: 20200249505
    Abstract: A display device includes an electrically controlled viewing angle switching device including two polarizers and a liquid crystal cell disposed between the two polarizers. The liquid crystal cell includes two alignment layers and a liquid crystal material layer disposed between the two alignment layers and including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. A direction of an optical axis of the liquid crystal molecules and a viewing angle control direction of the display device have an included angle ?1 of 70-110 degrees. Two alignment directions of the two alignment layers and the viewing angle control direction have an included angle of 90±20 degrees and an included angle of 270±20 degrees, respectively. Included angles between directions of transmission axis of the two polarizers and alignment directions of the two alignment layers are selected from one of 0±5 degrees and 90±5 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: CHUNG-YANG FANG, PING-YEN CHEN, JEN-WEI YU, YANG-CHING LIN, YU-FAN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200209659
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display device and an optical compensation module. The display device includes a light emitting display module and the optical compensation module. The optical compensation module is disposed on the light emitting display module along the transmission direction of an image beam emitted by the light emitting display module, and includes: a first polarizing layer and an optical compensation layer. The optical compensation layer is disposed between the light emitting display module and the first polarizing layer along the transmission direction of the image beam and has a first compensation area and a second compensation area which forms a pattern, wherein the phase compensation value of the first compensation area and the phase compensation value of the second compensation area are different. The display device and the optical compensation module have the effect of displaying the pattern on the display panel at a specific angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Yang-Ching Lin, Jen-Wei Yu, Yu-Fan Chen
  • Patent number: 10678077
    Abstract: A display device comprises a backlight module, a display panel disposed on the backlight module, and an electrically controlled viewing angle switching device disposed on the backlight module and disposed in a stacking manner with the display panel. The display panel comprises a panel module and a first polarizer. There is an air layer or a bonding layer between the electrically controlled viewing angle switching device and the display panel. The panel module is disposed between the first polarizer and the electrically controlled viewing angle switching device. The electrically controlled viewing angle switching device comprises a liquid crystal cell, at least one phase compensation film and two second polarizers. The liquid crystal cell is disposed between the two second polarizers. The display device can switch between an anti-peeping mode and a sharing mode in an electrically controlled manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Yang Fang, Ping-Yen Chen, Jen-Wei Yu, Yang-Ching Lin, Yu-Fan Chen
  • Patent number: 10663777
    Abstract: A viewing angle switchable display module includes an organic light-emitting display (OLED) panel, a viewing angle switchable device disposed on the OLED panel, and a quarter wave plate disposed between the OLED panel and the viewing angle switchable device. The viewing angle switchable device includes an absorptive polarizer, a reflective polarizer, and an electrically controlled viewing angle switching element. A transmission axis of the reflective polarizer is parallel to a transmission axis of the absorptive polarizer. The electrically controlled viewing angle switching element is disposed between the absorptive polarizer and the reflective polarizer and includes two conductive layers and a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Wen-Chun Wang, Chung-Yang Fang, Yang-Ching Lin, Jen-Wei Yu
  • Publication number: 20190331945
    Abstract: A light source module includes an optical plate, a light source and a dimming liquid crystal panel. The dimming liquid crystal panel includes a first driving substrate, a second driving substrate and a liquid crystal material layer. The first driving substrate includes a first substrate, and a common electrode disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal material layer. The second driving substrate includes a second substrate, a plurality of independent electrodes, a plurality of first signal pads and a plurality of first wires. The independent electrodes, the first signal pads and the first wires are disposed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal material layer. The independent electrodes are insulated each other. Each of the independent electrodes is electrically connected to one of the first signal pads by one of the first wires. A display device having the light source module is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: CHUNG-YANG FANG, PING-YEN CHEN, YANG-CHING LIN, JEN-WEI YU
  • Publication number: 20190331944
    Abstract: A display device comprises a backlight module, a display panel disposed on the backlight module, and an electrically controlled viewing angle switching device disposed on the backlight module and disposed in a stacking manner with the display panel. The display panel comprises a panel module and a first polarizer. There is an air layer or a bonding layer between the electrically controlled viewing angle switching device and the display panel. The panel module is disposed between the first polarizer and the electrically controlled viewing angle switching device. The electrically controlled viewing angle switching device comprises a liquid crystal cell, at least one phase compensation film and two second polarizers. The liquid crystal cell is disposed between the two second polarizers. The display device can switch between an anti-peeping mode and a sharing mode in an electrically controlled manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: CHUNG-YANG FANG, PING-YEN CHEN, JEN-WEI YU, YANG-CHING LIN, YU-FAN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190293974
    Abstract: An anti-peeping control device includes two polarizers and a liquid crystal box disposed between the two polarizers. An included angle of 5 to 15 degrees is formed between the axial directions of the transmission axes of the two polarizers, or the axial directions of the transmission axes of the two polarizers are parallel to each other but not parallel and not perpendicular to any side edge of the polarizer. The axial directions of the transmission axes of the two polarizers are perpendicular or parallel to the alignment direction of the alignment layer of the liquid crystal box. The anti-peeping control device can use an electronic control method to switch the anti-peeping effect. A backlight module and display using the anti-peeping control device are also proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: PING-YEN CHEN, CHUNG-YANG FANG, YANG-CHING LIN, JEN-WEI YU, YU-FAN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190265522
    Abstract: A viewing angle switchable display module includes an organic light-emitting display (OLED) panel, a viewing angle switchable device disposed on the OLED panel, and a quarter wave plate disposed between the OLED panel and the viewing angle switchable device. The viewing angle switchable device includes an absorptive polarizer, a reflective polarizer, and an electrically controlled viewing angle switching element. A transmission axis of the reflective polarizer is parallel to a transmission axis of the absorptive polarizer. The electrically controlled viewing angle switching element is disposed between the absorptive polarizer and the reflective polarizer and includes two conductive layers and a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Wen-Chun Wang, Chung-Yang Fang, Yang-Ching Lin, Jen-Wei Yu
  • Publication number: 20110047885
    Abstract: A window stop includes a housing, a sliding block, a tightening up screw member, two clamping blocks and a cover. Rotating the tightening up screw member causes the sliding block to move the two clamping blocks toward each other, thereby clamping on the rail of a window tightly to have a predetermined gap be kept between the window and the window frame for indoor air circulation and to stop the window from being fully opened, preventing gas poisoning due to stagnant air or falling of a child from the building accidentally and prohibiting intrusion of a thief.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventor: Ping-Yen Chen
  • Patent number: 6788017
    Abstract: A period adjustment circuit of disconnection and restart IC comprises a second capacitor, which is connected to a resistor and a transistor connected in parallel. One end of the resistor is connected between the disconnection and restart IC and the first capacitor. When lockup of a fan motor occurs, in addition that an IC current source charges the first capacitor, the second capacitor also charges the first capacitor via the resistor until the voltage of the first capacitor reaches a disconnection voltage. The IC then enters into the disconnection state, and the voltages of the two capacitors are equal so that the second capacitor no longer charges the first capacitor. Next, the IC current source simultaneously charges the first and second capacitors until the voltage of the first capacitor reaches a system reset voltage. The first capacitor is then discharged to a restart voltage by the IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Feeling Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Teng-Tsai Lin, Ping-Yen Chen
  • Publication number: 20040012358
    Abstract: A period adjustment circuit of disconnection and restart IC comprises a second capacitor, which is connected to a resistor and a transistor connected in parallel. One end of the resistor is connected between the disconnection and restart IC and the first capacitor. When lockup of a fan motor occurs, in addition that an IC current source charges the first capacitor, the second capacitor also charges the first capacitor via the resistor until the voltage of the first capacitor reaches a disconnection voltage. The IC then enters into the disconnection state, and the voltages of the two capacitors are equal so that the second capacitor no longer charges the first capacitor. Next, the IC current source simultaneously charges the first and second capacitors until the voltage of the first capacitor reaches a system reset voltage. The first capacitor is then discharged to a restart voltage by the IC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Teng-Tsal Lin, Ping-Yen Chen