Patents by Inventor Xiaochen Niu

Xiaochen Niu 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).

  • Publication number: 20190129257
    Abstract: Embodiment of the disclosure provide a display panel, a display device and a control method thereof, which belong to the field of display technology. The display panel comprises: a first base substrate and a second base substrate that are provided opposite to each other; and a plurality of pixel units formed between the first base substrate and the second base substrate. The pixel unit of the plurality of pixel units comprises: a liquid crystal adjustment unit; and a first light-shielding region and a first light-transmitting region at the first side of the liquid crystal adjustment unit. The liquid crystal adjustment unit comprises an adjustment electrode and a liquid crystal layer. The adjustment electrode is configured to control the deflection of the liquid crystals in the liquid crystal layer such that the light from the second side of the liquid crystal adjustment unit is transmitted to at least one of the first light-shielding region and the first light-transmitting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Haiyan WANG, Xue DONG, Wenqing ZHAO, Zhongxiao LI, Zhenyou CHEN, Xiaochen NIU, Qian WANG, Jinye ZHU
  • Patent number: 10274781
    Abstract: A display device and a controlling method are disclosed to achieve peep-proof effect while increasing utilization rate of light. The display device includes a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate and a plurality of display units, wherein a first light source is disposed on one side of the first substrate; light emitted by the first light source is incident onto the first substrate and propagated in the first substrate in a manner of total reflection; and a light adjusting structure is disposed on a surface of the first substrate close to the second substrate, and is configured to reduce a divergence angle of light emitted by each of the display units of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Gao, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Qian Wang, Pengcheng Lu, Ming Yang, Lei Wang, Rui Xu, Xiaochen Niu
  • Patent number: 10274740
    Abstract: A display module is disclosed. The display module includes a display panel and a liquid crystal lens. The liquid crystal lens includes a liquid crystal layer; the liquid crystal lens is on a display side of the display panel and configured to gather, in a horizontal direction, light rays exiting from the display panel together to at least one observation position, which includes a primary observation position corresponding to a center of the display panel and subsidiary observation positions on both sides of the primary observation position. Also disclosed are a display device including the display module and a control method for the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Xu, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Qian Wang, Lei Wang, Ming Yang, Jian Gao, Pengcheng Lu, Xiaochen Niu, Xiaoliang Ding
  • Patent number: 10261644
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display device and a driving method thereof which can allow the display lighter and thinner. A display device includes: a middle frame, a panel component which is disposed on a side of the middle frame. The middle frame is made of a conductive material and is grounded; the display device further includes a pressure detection unit; a pressure detection electrode is disposed between the two base substrates at the outermost sides of the panel component, and a capacitor is formed between the pressure detection electrode and the middle frame; the pressure detection unit is connected with the pressure detection electrode and the middle frame, respectively, and is configured for detecting a capacitance value between the pressure detection electrode and the middle frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Yang, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Qian Wang, Pengcheng Lu, Xiaoliang Ding, Haisheng Wang, Rui Xu, Lei Wang, Jian Gao, Xiaochen Niu
  • Patent number: 10261386
    Abstract: Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a display device and a display terminal. The display device includes a light emitting panel and at least one optical modulation unit provided on a light exit side of the light emitting panel, a grating layer being provided in the light emitting panel, or between the light emitting panel and the optical modulation unit, wherein the optical modulation unit is configured to modulate incident light to exit at a certain preset angle, and the grating layer is configured to parallelize exit directions of incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qian Wang, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Ming Yang, Pengcheng Lu, Jian Gao, Xiaochen Niu
  • Patent number: 10241340
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a three-dimensional display device and a driving method thereof. In a previous frame of display time, one part of second sub-pixels in a liquid crystal display panel are controlled to display a left eye view, and the other part of second sub-pixels display a right eye view. In a next frame of display time, positions of light emitting areas and black areas in an electroluminescent display panel are interchanged, and the second sub-pixels that display the left eye view in the previous frame display the right eye view in the next frame, and the second sub-pixels that display the right eye view in the previous frame display the left eye view in the next frame. The sum of the previous frame and the next frame of display time is less than a predetermined maximum time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengcheng Lu, Ming Yang, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Lei Wang, Rui Xu, Jian Gao, Xiaochen Niu, Haisheng Wang, Changfeng Li, Bin Ma, Qian Wang
  • Patent number: 10241615
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides touch substrate and display apparatus, belonging to field of display technology. The touch substrate includes a substrate, and a plurality of control lines, a plurality of read lines and a plurality of touch control units disposed on the substrate; each touch control unit includes a first patch disposed on first surface of the substrate and a second patch disposed on second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface, orthogonal projection of the first patch at least partially overlapping with that of the second patch, the first and second patches being electrically connected through conductive via penetrating the substrate; each touch control unit operates under control of control signal inputted through corresponding control line, and read, through corresponding read line, pressure signal for the first and second patches in the touch control unit to determine position of touch point at which a press occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengpeng Wang, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Yingming Liu, Shengji Yang, Weijie Zhao, Changfeng Li, Wei Liu, Jian Gao, Xiaochen Niu
  • Publication number: 20190086680
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a display device, and an operating method thereof. The display device includes an array of liquid crystal lenses, the array includes liquid crystal micro-lenses, each of which includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer, both of which have circular contour and are arranged in a direction of an axis thereof, and a liquid crystal layer located between the two electrode layers When the display device operates in a 2D display mode, the liquid crystal layer operates as planar glass under an action of an electric field generated between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; and when the display device operates in a 3D display mode, the liquid crystal layer operates as a convex lens under the action of the electric field generated between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Xiaochen NIU, Chen-Yu CHEN, Xue DONG, Xiaochuan CHEN, Wenqing ZHAO
  • Patent number: 10234713
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate that disposed opposite to each other, and a first optical film that provided on a side of the first substrate facing the second substrate. The first optical film is provided with a plurality of nanoscale microstructures, so that the first optical film is capable of splitting incident white light into a plurality of monochromatic light beams with different colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenqing Zhao, Xiaochuan Chen, Hongbo Feng, Qian Wang, Jian Gao, Pengcheng Lu, Xiaochen Niu, Rui Xu
  • Patent number: 10234718
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display device and virtual reality glasses. The display device comprises an array substrate, which comprises a base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels arranged on the base substrate, and a grating arranged on the base substrate. The grating comprises a plurality of sub-gratings having different structures, and each sub-grating comprises an adjusting part for adjusting propagation direction of light rays, so that light rays exiting from the adjusting part converge to a predetermined spatial position. The array substrate further comprises a plurality of preset areas, and the plurality of sub-gratings correspond to sub-pixels located in different preset areas respectively. The display device further comprises a light source disposed beside the base substrate. The light rays emitted from the light source are parallel light. The light rays are totally reflected in the array substrate except in regions where the adjusting parts of sub-gratings are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wenqing Zhao, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Jian Gao, Qian Wang, Pengcheng Lu, Ming Yang, Rui Xu, Lei Wang, Xiaochen Niu
  • Patent number: 10228606
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a driving method thereof and a display apparatus. The display panel includes display areas arranged in array, each display area including at least two pixels having different domain tilt directions and strip electrodes in the pixels having different tilt directions. The pixels having different domain tilt directions in each display area are electrically connected with different gate lines, and the pixels in each display area are electrically connected with a same data line. Each pixel is configured to drive, under a control of the gate line electrically connected with the pixel, liquid crystal molecules in the pixel to create a corresponding liquid crystal prism according to amplitude of data voltage input through the data line, so as to control light emergent direction at a position where the pixel is located. The display panel is capable of performing single or multiple view display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Rui Xu, Wenqing Zhao, Ming Yang, Qian Wang, Pengcheng Lu, Jian Gao, Xiaochen Niu, Yingming Liu
  • Publication number: 20190064630
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a liquid crystal lens. The liquid crystal lens may comprise a plurality a liquid crystal lens units. At least one of the plurality of liquid crystal lens units may comprise a first substrate, a second substrate opposite the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a scattering member on the first substrate at an edge of the liquid crystal lens unit. The scattering member may be configured to scatter crosstalk light at the edge of the liquid crystal lens unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongxiao Li, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Qian Wang, Ming Yang, Xiaochen Niu, Haiyan Wang, Dacheng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190064631
    Abstract: A liquid crystal lens, a lens assembly, an optical apparatus, and a display device are provided. The liquid crystal lens includes a first transparent substrate; a second transparent substrate, provided opposite to the first transparent substrate; a liquid crystal layer, provided between the first and second transparent substrates; and at least one first electrode and at least one second electrode, both of which being provided at a side of one of the first and second transparent substrates proximal to the liquid crystal layer. The at least one first electrode and the at least one second electrode are alternately arranged to be insulated from each other and have an interval therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaochen NIU, Xue DONG, Xiaochuan CHEN, Wenqing ZHAO, Dacheng ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190064580
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels each comprising a display unit. The display unit includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a liquid crystal layer. A first black matrix pattern is disposed at a side of the liquid crystal layer facing the first electrode and a second black matrix pattern is disposed at a side of the liquid crystal layer facing the second electrode, the second black matrix pattern having an opening therein, the first black matrix pattern being disposed at a position corresponding to the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Zhongxiao Li, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Haiyan Wang, Chen Yu Chen, Xiaochen Niu, Jinye Zhu
  • Patent number: 10210827
    Abstract: A driving substrate and a driving method thereof and a liquid crystal display device. The driving substrate includes driving electrodes and a control chip. A time period of a frame is divided into at least a first time period, a second time period and a third time period. The control chip configured to: in the first time period, apply a first group of data voltages to respective driving electrodes to control corresponding pixels to be equivalent to liquid crystal lenses having first curvatures; in the second time period, apply a second group of data voltages to the respective driving electrodes to control the corresponding pixels to be equivalent to liquid crystal lenses having second curvatures; and in the third time period, apply a third group of data voltages to the respective driving electrodes to control the corresponding pixels to be equivalent to liquid crystal lenses having third curvatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui Xu, Xiaochuan Chen, Qian Wang, Lei Wang, Jian Gao, Ming Yang, Wenqing Zhao, Pengcheng Lu, Xiaochen Niu
  • Patent number: 10197886
    Abstract: Display spectacles and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The display spectacles include a spectacle frame and two display devices provided on the spectacle frame as spectacle lenses. Each of the display devices includes a backlight, a lower substrate on a light exit side of the backlight, an upper substrate arranged opposite to the lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer located between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, a plurality of electrode structures located between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, and a control unit. During displaying, the electrode structure deflects liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer corresponding to the electrode structure to form a microprism structure. The control unit adjusts a voltage on the electrode structure, thereby controlling total internal reflection or refraction of the microprism structure for light emitted from the backlight, and the adjustment for display gray scale can thus be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Yang, Qian Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Jian Gao, Pengcheng Lu, Xiaochen Niu, Rui Xu, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 10197880
    Abstract: A liquid crystal lens, a display device and a driving method of the display device are disclosed. The liquid crystal lens includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a driving electrode layer and blue phase liquid crystals disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; the driving electrode layer includes driving electrodes, each driving electrode includes at least two electrode pairs, the electrode pair includes two sub-electrodes which are disposed opposite to each other and can be applied with a voltage separately, and all the sub-electrodes in the same driving electrode are insulated from each other; the sub-electrodes of different electrode pairs in the same driving electrode are unparallel to each other; and the blue phase liquid crystals at different positions have deformations of different degrees in electrical fields with different intensities generated by the different sub-electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qian Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Yafeng Yang, Jian Gao, Wei Wang, Jifeng Tan, Xiaochen Niu, Haiyan Wang
  • Publication number: 20190033681
    Abstract: The present application provides a liquid crystal prism including a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, a face recognition circuit, a prism form determination circuit and a control circuit. The liquid crystal prism is divided into a plurality of prism units. The face recognition circuit is configured to acquire eye position information from one or more faces, and transmit the eye position information to the prism form determination circuit. The prism form determination circuit is configured to determine a prism form in accordance with a correspondence mapping table about correspondences between eye position information and prism forms, and the eye position information acquired by the face recognition circuit. The control circuit is configured to control voltages applied to the strip-like electrodes of the prism units in accordance with the prism form determined by the prism form determination circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengcheng LU, Xue DONG, Xiaochuan CHEN, Qian WANG, Wenqing ZHAO, Jian GAO, Ming YANG, Lei WANG, Rui XU, Xiaochen NIU, Haisheng WANG, Shengji YANG, Changfeng LI
  • Patent number: 10191605
    Abstract: An embodiment of this disclosure discloses a touch panel. The touch panel comprises a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate. The touch panel further comprises a plurality of magnetic protrusions arranged on the first substrate and protruding towards the second substrate. The touch panel further comprises a first coil group and a second coil group, the first coil group comprises a plurality of coils extending in a first direction, and the second coil group comprises a plurality of coils extending in a second direction. The first coil group and the second coil group are stacked on the second substrate and insulated from each other. The coils of the first and second coil group and corresponding magnetic protrusions constitute a plurality of inductive sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengpeng Wang, Xue Dong, Hailin Xue, Xiaochuan Chen, Haisheng Wang, Shengji Yang, Yingming Liu, Xiaoliang Ding, Weijie Zhao, Hongjuan Liu, Changfeng Li, Wei Liu, Jian Gao, Xiaochen Niu
  • Publication number: 20180348591
    Abstract: Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a display device and a display terminal. The display device includes a light emitting panel and at least one optical modulation unit provided on a light exit side of the light emitting panel, a grating layer being provided in the light emitting panel, or between the light emitting panel and the optical modulation unit, wherein the optical modulation unit is configured to modulate incident light to exit at a certain preset angle, and the grating layer is configured to parallelize exit directions of incident light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Qian WANG, Xue DONG, Xiaochuan CHEN, Wenqing ZHAO, Ming YANG, Pengcheng LU, Jian GAO, Xiaochen NIU