Patents Issued in May 17, 2016
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Patent number: 9341860Abstract: An elastic supporting structure for an optical image stabilizer is provided. The optical image stabilizer includes a movable portion, a compensation module, and a plurality of suspension wires. The movable portion is provided therein with a lens. The compensation module corresponds to the movable portion, and both are located on the same image-capturing optical axis. Each suspension wire has two ends respectively connected to the movable portion and the compensation module. The movable portion is provided with an upper spring plate. One end of each suspension wire is connected to a length-increased outer line element and at least one additional auxiliary line element of the upper spring plate, and the other end of each suspension wire is connected to the compensation module, such that the movable portion corresponds to the compensation module and is spaced therefrom by a predetermined distance. Also, anti-shake function performs well with suspension wires.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: TDK Taiwan Corp.Inventors: Fu-Yuan Wu, Shih-Ting Huang, Jyun-Jie Lin
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Patent number: 9341861Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which fluctuation of a screen can be reduced. The present invention includes a lens, a lens drive unit configured to move the lens along an x-axis and y-axis which are vertical to an optical axis and a z-axis parallel to the optical axis or to rotate the lens centering on the x-axis and the y-axis, an image pickup unit configured to generate a digital signal by detecting a light having passed through the lens, an image processor configured to create a preview image by applying an image processing to the digital signal, a display unit configured to display the preview image, and a controller, if a distance between the lens and the image pickup unit is shorter than a preset distance, controlling a partial region of the preview image to be outputted through the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Kyunghee Kang
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Patent number: 9341862Abstract: Eyeglasses having a nose pad adjusting structure is provided, which includes a frame unit, a lens, a nose pad positioning part and a nose pad. The frame unit has a first installation part and a second installation part. The lens is inserted in a first and a second clamping slots of the first and the second installation parts. One end of the nose pad positioning part extends a distance oppositely to the second installation part and then extends curvedly to the second installation part accordingly to form an interval apart from the second installation part. The nose pad positioning part has an internal side wall which a plurality of convex teeth is disposed thereon. Thorn tooth is disposed in a middle portion of the nose pad, and an angle of the nose pad relative to the frame unit is adjusted by engaging the thorn tooth with the convex teeth.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Trimax Safety Corp.Inventors: Shih-I Lee, Ching-Hsiu Chan
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Patent number: 9341863Abstract: The invention relates to a hinge for connecting a temple arm to an eyeglass frame that may be made up of one or more frame parts. Parts of the eyeglasses, including the temple arm and frame, are interchangeable so the colour, shape and style of eyeglasses can be quickly and easily changed. The temple arm is connected to the frame securely, but in a way that the temple arm can easily be disconnected for interchanging. The temple arm needs to be deformed, bent or moved beyond a normal orientation to allow it to be easily disconnected. In a preferred embodiment, the temple arm hinge assembly comprises a hooked member and a pivot shaft, whereby the pivot shaft comprises a notch or truncation positioned such that the hooked member can only be engaged/disengaged if the temple arm is deformed or the like beyond a normal position.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Inventor: Francis William Austin
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Patent number: 9341864Abstract: Ophthalmic lenses for correcting refractive error of an eye are disclosed. Ophthalmic lenses include an inner optic portion having a scaffold between an anterior portion and a posterior portion. The scaffold is characterized by a substantially uniform thickness formed from a material characterized by a modulus that his higher than the modulus of the peripheral portion. Openings within the scaffold are filled with a low modulus material. When applied to an eye, the lenses are configured to provide one or more lenticular volumes between the posterior surface of the lens and the cornea. The disclosure further relates to methods of correcting refractive errors of an eye such as astigmatism or spherical aberration using the ophthalmic lenses.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: NexisVision, Inc.Inventors: Eugene de Juan, Jr., Cary J. Reich, Matt Clarke, Kuangmon Ashley Tuan, Raymond Lum, Jose D. Alejandro
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Patent number: 9341865Abstract: Eyewear according to one embodiment includes a primary frame retainer, at least one primary lens and a clip-on lens assembly removably attachable to the front of the primary frame by magnetic forces interacting between two magnets affixed to the primary frame and the clip-on lens assembly, respectively. The clip-on lens assembly includes a connector affixed to a secondary frame of the clip-on lens assembly. The connector has a hook removably engagable with a recess defined in the primary frame for positioning the clip-on lens assembly with respect to the primary frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Inventor: Brent Sheldon
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Patent number: 9341866Abstract: Spectacles with a built-in computer that include a curvilinear frame that is defined by a frontal anterior face with opaque panels of high impact materials and another posterior counter-front face. This frame is linked in a solidarity manner with a set of temples that are prolongations on each side of the frame. The frame contains at least two peripheral visors, one upper visor and one lower visor, distant from each other, that define an enclosure together with the concave posterior counter-front face of the frame. This enclosure contains a set of elements defined by: a central printed circuit block, a cooling block, a battery and coolant circulation conduits. In collaboration with the aforementioned elements, the enclosure also contains: at least one LED screen and a convex lens with a bridge that supports the frame on the user's nose.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Inventor: Sergio Martin Carabajal
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Patent number: 9341867Abstract: The disclosed technology describes methods for the selection, design and production of custom-fit eyeglasses, using a 3D printer. Embodiments include an eye examination and biometric measurements of a patient. The data can be used to produce custom-fit eyeglass frames. Eyeglass selection is facilitated by the display of a selection of various frames in both digital and physical form. A 3D version of the patient's head may be created from digital images, which can be used to produce a final version of the eyeglass frame. Lens dimensions may be traced and the trace used to modify the eyeglass frame. Half of an eyeglass frame may be generated, from which a mirror image is created, and a final frame produced from the resulting image. Also disclosed is an electronic device system which receives, processes and transmits data for the production of custom-fit eyeglass frames.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Inventor: James Chang Ho Kim
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Patent number: 9341868Abstract: In a region in which silicon semiconductor layers having first and second conductive types are stacked, a concavoconvex structure including a Si1-xGex (x=0.01 to 0.9) layer is formed on a surface of the first silicon semiconductor layer, a relatively thin dielectric is formed on the concavoconvex structure, and a silicon semiconductor layer having the second conductive type is further stacked.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Fujikata, Shigeki Takahashi
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Patent number: 9341869Abstract: A system and a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display element through a reduced number of steps are provided, in which a liquid crystal panel is turned over, by means of a panel turning mechanism, about an axis not parallel to any of the long and short sides of the liquid crystal panel so that the positional relationship between the long and short sides of the liquid crystal panel can be reversed, after one of sheet pieces of optical functional films is bonded to the liquid crystal panel and before another of the sheet pieces is bonded thereto, which can achieve the same effect by a single operation as in the case where turning over the liquid crystal panel and rotating it are performed independently.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Hirata, Seiji Kondo, Kazuya Hada
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Patent number: 9341870Abstract: An optical device includes an optical port array, a first walk-off crystal, a first half-wave plate, a second walk-off crystal and a segmented half-wave plate. The optical port array has a first and second plurality of ports for receiving optical beams. The first walk-off crystal spatially separates the beams into first and second portions that are in first and second orthogonal polarization states, respectively. The first portions are walked-off by the first walk-off crystal and the second portions pass therethrough without being walked-off. The first half-wave plate rotates the polarization state of the first and second portions of the optical beams. The second walk-off crystal is oriented in an opposite direction from the first walk-off crystal such that the second portions are walked-off by the second walk-off crystal and the first portions pass therethrough without being walked-off. The segmented half-wave plate receives the first or second portions of the beams.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Nistica, Inc.Inventors: Jefferson L. Wagener, Mitchell E. Haller
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Patent number: 9341871Abstract: A method of driving liquid crystal lens includes identifying a driving mode and driving unit lenses of the liquid crystal lens. The driving mode includes a two-dimensional (ā2Dā) mode and a three-dimensional (ā3Dā) mode. Driving timings of the unit lenses are different from each other in the 3D mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY, CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji-Woong Jeong, Joo-Young Kim, Cheol-Woo Park, Mun-San Park
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Patent number: 9341872Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with controllable viewing angle of the present invention has an upper substrate on which an upper substrate common electrode is disposed, a lower substrate on which a pixel electrode is disposed, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the upper and the lower substrates. The liquid crystal molecules are vertical to the upper substrate when no voltage is applied, and a plurality of strip-like lower substrate common electrodes are disposed on the lower substrate and arranged in parallel substantially. The upper substrate common electrode and the pixel electrode provide an electric field perpendicular to the upper substrate, to form a first viewing angle mode when a voltage is applied, the lower substrate common electrode and the pixel electrode provide an electric field perpendicular to the upper substrate to form a second viewing angle mode when a voltage is applied.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xuhui Peng, Zhihua Ling, Sitao Huo, Xinghua Nie
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Patent number: 9341873Abstract: A flexible display panel including a buffer layer, an active element, a pad, a display device and a signal transmission circuit is provided. The active element is located on the buffer layer. The pad is located in the buffer layer and is electrically connected to the active element. The display device is located on the active element and is electrically connected to the active element, in which the display device includes a pixel electrode, an opposite electrode and a display medium layer located therebetween. The active element and the signal transmission circuit are respectively located at a first surface and a second surface of the buffer layer, the second surface is opposite to the first surface, and the signal transmission circuit is electrically connected to the active element via the pad. A manufacturing method of a flexible display panel is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Yung-Pei Chen, Chun-Hsiang Fang, Chih-Hung Tsai
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Patent number: 9341874Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel displaying an image; a first frame surrounding the display panel; and an adhesive between a side surface of the display panel and a side surface of the first frame, wherein the display device is attached and fixed to the first frame by the adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hae-hyeon Jeong
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Patent number: 9341875Abstract: A mold frame 5 includes a flange part 5b that is formed to expand outward on a peripheral edge of a frame opening, and that holds an outer peripheral part 3b of a protection plate 3 from a rear surface side thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Akatsuka, Takao Kuroki
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Patent number: 9341876Abstract: A liquid crystal display device capable of reducing or preventing display irregularities is provided. In the liquid crystal display device including: an upper frame, a lower frame, a BL resin frame and a liquid crystal display panel and used as a display part as incorporated in an equipment, the liquid crystal display panel is fixed by the upper frame (fixation area). The BL resin frame includes BL resin frame ribs serving as a receiving part to receive a fixing device for fixing the liquid crystal display device to the equipment.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Daisuke Sato
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Patent number: 9341877Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a thin film transistor disposed on a substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, a lower insulating layer disposed facing the pixel electrode, a roof layer disposed on the lower insulating layer, and a microcavity formed between the pixel electrode and the lower insulating layer. The microcavity includes a liquid crystal layer including a liquid crystal material. The liquid crystal display further includes a first groove formed between a first pixel area and a second pixel area, a second groove formed between the first pixel area and a third pixel area, wherein the first groove is covered by the roof layer, the second groove is exposed at a portion where the roof layer is removed, the first pixel area corresponds to the pixel electrode, and the first pixel area is disposed between the second pixel area and the third pixel area.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Si Kwang Kim, Tae Gyun Kim, Woo Yong Sung, Hyoung Sub Lee, Ha-Young Park, Tae Woon Cha, Se Hee Han
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Patent number: 9341878Abstract: An electronic device may have a display such as a liquid crystal display. A color filter layer may be formed on a display layer such as a transparent substrate layer of the display. The color filter layer may include an array of color filter elements on an inner surface of the transparent substrate layer. The color filter layer may include opaque masking material. In an inactive portion of the display, the opaque masking material may be formed over the color filter elements and interposed between the color filter elements. In the inactive portion of the display, the opaque masking material and the color filter elements may form a ring that serves as a border region surrounding an active portion of the display. In the active portion of the display, the opaque masking layer may be patterned to from an opaque matrix that separates the color filter elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Cheng Chen, Young Cheol Yang, Young Bae Park
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Patent number: 9341879Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including a reflection type image display portion having a sheet-like anisotropic scattering member. In an area, in an in-plane direction, of the anisotropic scattering member, a low-refractive index area and a high-refractive index area are disposed in a mixture style. The anisotropic scattering member is disposed in such a way that a light is scattered when an outside light is made incident from a surface side on which a degree of a change in a refractive index in a vicinity of a boundary between the low-refractive index area and the high-refractive index area is relatively large, and is emitted from a surface side on which the degree of the change in the refractive index in the vicinity of the boundary between the low-refractive index area and the high-refractive index area is relatively small.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Masashi Mitsui
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Patent number: 9341880Abstract: In a liquid crystal display panel, as the arrangement of the color filters of the sub-pixel units of every two adjacent pixel units in the row direction, from at least one group composed of two adjacent columns of pixel units in the row direction, is changed, the color filters of two adjacent sub-pixel units in the row direction, which belong to different two pixel units, have the same color; position of the data line connected with the sub-pixel units with color filters of the same color is changed, so that the data line is provided at a side of one of the sub-pixel units with color filters of the same color far away from the other one thereof. Therefore, while the color mixing phenomenon is avoided, a part of the black matrix, which should be provided between the two adjacent sub-pixel units in the row direction, may be omitted.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qiangtao Wang, Hyunsic Choi, Zheng Fang, Yoonsung Um
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Patent number: 9341881Abstract: Device for generating polarized electromagnetic radiation has a diffuser and a polarizer. The diffuser is arranged in a beam path of the electromagnetic radiation. The polarizer is arranged in the beam path of the electromagnetic radiation, to be precise downstream of the diffuser in the direction of propagation of the electromagnetic radiation. The polarizer has a reflective side facing the diffuser, said reflective side being at least partly reflective to the electromagnetic radiation. The polarizer transmits electromagnetic radiation having a predefined polarization and reflects electromagnetic radiation not having the predefined polarization back to the diffuser. The diffuser scatters, in a non-polarization-maintaining manner, at least one portion of the reflected-back electromagnetic radiation not having the predefined polarization.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: OSRAM GmbHInventors: Christopher Koelper, Reiner Windisch, Christopher Wiesmann, Julius Muschaweck
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Patent number: 9341882Abstract: Provided is a polarizing plate having improved single plate transmittance under high-temperature and high-humidity conditions, and a liquid crystal display device using the same. A laminate including a polarizer, and an adhesive layer adjoining to at least one surface of the polarizer, the adhesive layer containing a resin and a compound, etc. represented by the formula (1) below.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Mayumi Nojiri, Takahiro Ohno, Nobutaka Fukagawa, Yu Naito, Hiroyuki Ishikawa, Naoya Shimoju
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Patent number: 9341883Abstract: A display module is provided. A light source is configured to provide an illumination beam. A light guide plate has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and an incident surface connecting the first surface and the second surface. The illumination beam enters the light guide plate through the incident surface. A reflective element is connected to the light guide plate and has a plurality of first reflective surfaces inclined with respect to the second surface. A reflective display unit is capable of modulating a polarization state of the illumination beam to form a modulated beam. The second surface is disposed between the reflective display unit and the first surface. The first surface is disposed between the second surface and a reflective polarizer, and the reflective polarizer filters the modulated beam into an image beam.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Himax Display, Inc.Inventors: Yuet-Wing Li, Kuan-Yu Chen, Chi-Wen Lin
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Patent number: 9341884Abstract: The present invention provides a LCOS device including a silicon substrate, a first dielectric layer, a first mirror layer, a second dielectric layer, and a second mirror layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the silicon substrate. The first mirror layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is disposed on the first mirror layer. The second mirror layer is disposed on the second dielectric layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Yi-Ming Hsu, Feng-Ying Hsu, Chieh-Yu Tsai
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Patent number: 9341885Abstract: Disclosed is a dual-view display system. The dual-view display system includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight unit outputting a light to the liquid crystal display panel, and an optical device alternately guiding image lights output from the backlight unit in left and right directions of the liquid crystal display panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Se Kyu Lee
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Patent number: 9341886Abstract: An image display device includes a liquid crystal panel section, a light source section divided into a plurality of regions, a light detection section detecting the light intensity of the light source section, and a timing generation section. The timing generation section generates a light emission drive signal which turns on each of the regions of the light source section according to scanning in the liquid crystal panel section, and which turns on all the regions of the light source section in a light detection period, and generates a light detection gate signal allowing the detection of the light detection section to be effective in the light detection period.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Noritaka Okuda, Masaaki Hanai, Hironobu Yasui, Hideki Yoshii
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Patent number: 9341887Abstract: Displays comprise light control layers (16) in an optical path between a light source (12), such as an array of light emitting diodes and a spatial light modulator (14) such as a liquid crystal display panel. The light control layer comprises an enhanced specular reflector (ESR, 16a) film in optical contact to at least one layer of a transparent or translucent material (16B, 16C). The light control layer transmits light from the light source more readily than the ESR film standing on its own. In some embodiments the display may provide enhanced contrast and peak luminance.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Lorne A. Whitehead, Henry H. Ip, Vincent Kwong
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Patent number: 9341888Abstract: A through hole penetrating in a vertical direction and a slot which is separated from the through hole in the direction along the sheet surface and is long in a separating direction are provided on a light reflection sheet supported on a support body supporting a light source for reflecting light emitted from the light source, and there are provided a first shaft member fitted in the through hole for setting a position of the light reflection sheet with respect to the support body, and a second shaft member fitted in the slot to enable a relative movement in a longitudinal direction of the slot for setting the position of the light reflection sheet with respect to the support body.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2010Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideto Takeuchi, Toshiyuki Fujita, Tatsuo Sugahara, Yuuki Kawamura, Mamoru Yahata, Hiroshi Takahashi, Keita Ito, Kenzo Toshiyuki, Kenichiro Ito, Kazuki Nakamichi, Tomoo Sasaki, Kenta Moribe
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Patent number: 9341889Abstract: A curved backlight module comprises a light emitting module which is curved shape and a light conversion module which is curved shape and arranged in opposite to the light emitting components, where the light conversion module transform the light from the light emitting module into the parallel light. Also, a curved LCD device having the curved backlight module is disclosed. The uniform illustration of the curved LCD panel can be improved and the shadow region appeared in the two side of the curved LCD panel is eliminated for improving the display quality of the curved LCD panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventor: Chuan Wu
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Patent number: 9341890Abstract: A portable terminal including a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) module is provided. The LCD module includes a reinforcement plate having a bottom surface and a side surface bent to extend from the bottom surface, wherein the reinforcement plate comprises a plurality of molding holes provided in a boundary portion between the bottom surface and the side surface of the reinforcement plate, a backlight unit coupled to an upper part of the reinforcement plate, a frame molded to the reinforcement plate, and an LCD panel coupled to an upper part of the backlight unit, wherein each of the plurality of molding holes extends into both the bottom surface and the side surface from the boundary portion between the bottom surface and the side surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sil-Kuy Lim
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Patent number: 9341891Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a splicing liquid crystal panel and a method for assembling the splicing liquid crystal panel, and a splicing television including the splicing liquid crystal panel. The splicing liquid crystal panel comprises a backlight module and a plurality of liquid crystal modules in cooperation with the backlight module. The backlight module comprises a back plate, light source lamps arranged on a first surface of the back plate, a bearing frame surrounding the edges of the back plate, and dismounting members connected between the bearing frame and a second surface of the back plate, wherein, each dismounting member comprises a first connector connected with the bearing frame and a second connector connected with the back plate, the first connector and the second connector form a hinge joint. The backlight of such a splicing liquid crystal panel has a unitary structure which is easy remove and convenient to maintain.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: YuChun Hsiao, Yanxue Zhang
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Patent number: 9341892Abstract: The present provides a back plate including a plate and a side wall. The side wall extends out from an edge of the plate, wherein the side wall includes a wall body, a first bending sheet, and a second bending sheet. The first bending sheet is formed by bending outward from a top end of the wall body along a first rotating direction. The second bending sheet is formed by bending an end of the first bending sheet that is away from the top end of the wall body inward along a second rotating direction contrary to the first rotating direction, wherein at least a portion of the second bending sheet overlaps the first bending sheet. The second bending sheet includes a fixing part disposed on a face of the second bending sheet that faces away from the first bending sheet.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: DARWIN PRECISIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Chia-Hsin Chang, Feng-Chang Chang
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Patent number: 9341893Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an illuminator and a liquid crystal panel for performing displaying by using light which is emitted from the illuminator. The liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer provided between the pair of substrates, and a pair of alignment films provided on sides of the pair of substrates facing the liquid crystal layer. At least one of the alignment films is a photo-alignment film which is imparted with an orientation regulating force through a photo-alignment treatment, and the illuminator includes a light source causing primary generation of at least blue light, among other light which is used for displaying.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Koichi Miyachi
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Patent number: 9341894Abstract: A backlight module includes a number of laser units, a number of diffraction units, and a number of diverging units. Each laser unit includes three colored lasers arranged in a first straight line. The three lasers respectively emit red, green, and blue light. Each of the diffraction units includes three diffraction elements. The three diffraction elements are configured to diffract the light along the first straight line. Each of the diverging units is substantially an elongated semi-cylinder, and the longitudinal direction is along the first straight line. The diverging units diffract the three colors of light along a direction which is perpendicular to the direction of the first straight line.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Po-Chou Chen
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Patent number: 9341895Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a plurality of first electrodes on the first substrate, a first vertical alignment layer on the first electrodes, a second electrode on the second substrate, a second vertical alignment layer on the second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules having negative dielectric anisotropy, a chiral dopant, and an alignment aiding agent.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong Gi Seong, Hee Hwan Lee, Min-Jae Kim, Min-Hee Kim, Keun Chan Oh
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Patent number: 9341896Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) including a liquid crystal panel, and a gate driver which applies a gate signal having a driving frequency equal to or greater than 100 Hz to the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel comprises a first display panel, a second display panel facing the first display panel, and a liquid crystal composition disposed between the first display panel and the second display panel and includes liquid crystals.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Gyu Kim, Kyoung-Ju Shin, Jong-Ho Son, Jun-Pyo Lee, Seung-Soo Baek
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Patent number: 9341897Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate including a first through-hole; a second substrate facing the first substrate and including a second through-hole corresponding to the first through-hole; a sealant coupling the first substrate and the second substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a spacer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a supporting assistance member including a third through-hole connected to the first through-hole and the second through-hole, wherein the supporting assistance member includes a first supporting assistance member made with the same material as the spacer.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sun-Kwun Son, Sang-Moon Moh, Jin-Suk Seo, Mi-Sun Lee, Hye-Rhee Han
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Patent number: 9341898Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a cross-shaped pixel electrode which includes a main pixel electrode and a sub-pixel electrode, and a second substrate including a common electrode which includes main common electrodes and sub-common electrodes. A first horizontal inter-electrode distance between the main pixel electrode and the main common electrode is less than a second horizontal inter-electrode distance between the sub-pixel electrode and the sub-common electrode and is greater than a vertical inter-electrode distance between the main pixel electrode and the main common electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Jin Hirosawa, Arihiro Takeda
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Patent number: 9341899Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a gate line and a data line disposed on the first substrate; a passivation layer disposed on the gate line and the data line; a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the passivation layer; and a first insulating layer interposed between the first and second electrodes, where the first and second electrodes overlap each other via the first insulating layer, the second electrode includes a plurality of branch electrodes, and an end portion of the plurality of branch electrodes includes a first side portion and a second side portion extending parallel to the data line, and an oblique portion which connects the first side portion and the second side portion to each other and forms a first angle of less than 90 degrees with an extending line of the first side portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Mi Suk Kim, Chang-Hun Lee, Tae Ho Kim, Si Heun Kim, So Youn Park, Keun Chan Oh, Daisuke Inoue
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Patent number: 9341900Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a plurality of first signal lines disposed with a first pitch along a second direction, a plurality of second signal lines disposed with a second pitch along a first direction, and a first electrode including an n-number of first main electrodes (n is an integer of 2 or more), a second substrate including a second electrode including a plurality of second main electrodes disposed with a third pitch along the first direction, wherein an n-number of times the third pitch is substantially equal to the second pitch, and any one of the second main electrodes is located above each of the second signal lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Arihiro Takeda, Hirokazu Morimoto, Jin Hirosawa
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Patent number: 9341901Abstract: A display device is provided that inhibits color mixture between adjacent subpixels and allows for obtaining a high-quality image. The display device includes a display area on which a light-blocking metal layer, a black matrix, and a plurality of subpixels are arranged, wherein the plurality of subpixels are arranged adjacent to one another via a black matrix as seen vertically from above, the black matrix and the light-blocking metal layer are arranged to overlap each other as seen vertically from above, and the light-blocking metal layer 130 is arranged on the bank of an organic flattened film.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Noriyoshi Kanda, Shigesumi Araki, Mitsutaka Okita, Hirohisa Miki
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Patent number: 9341902Abstract: The present invention provides a fanout zone structure of a slim-bezel liquid crystal display, including: a transparent substrate (22), a first metal layer (24) formed on the transparent substrate (22), an insulation layer (26) formed on the first metal layer (24), a second metal layer (27) formed on the insulation layer (26), and a protection layer (28) formed on the second metal layer (27). The first metal layer (24) is electrically connected to the second metal layer (27). The insulation layer (26) includes a first opening (31) formed therein to expose the first metal layer (24). The protection layer (28) includes a second opening (32) formed therein to expose the second metal layer (27). The second opening (32) is arranged to correspond to the first opening (31) so as to form a trough (14) in the fanout zone.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minghung Shih, Zuomin Liao
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Patent number: 9341903Abstract: An auxiliary capacitor (6) of each of sub-pixels (P) includes a transparent electrode, a pixel electrode, and a capacitor insulating film between the transparent electrode and the pixel electrode. Switching elements (5a) are connected, for every predetermined sub-pixel(s) (P) along a column direction of the sub-pixels (P) arranged in rows and columns, to the source lines (15a) different from each other. A plurality of transparent electrodes are each shared by a pair of the sub-pixels (P) which are adjacent to each other in a predetermined direction and are arranged in a corresponding one of the wide spaces each provided between adjacent two of gate lines (13). The transparent electrodes adjacent to each other in the row direction receive different signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumiki Nakano, Tadayoshi Miyamoto
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Patent number: 9341904Abstract: The TFT substrate (10) of this liquid crystal display device (100) includes: a TFT (11) which is provided for each pixel; an upper electrode (12) which is electrically connected to the TFT's drain electrode (11d); a lower electrode (13) which is arranged under the upper electrode; and a dielectric layer (14) which is arranged between the upper and lower electrodes. Its counter substrate (20) includes a counter electrode (21) which faces the upper electrode. The upper electrode has first and second regions (R1, R2) which have mutually different electrode structures, and a third region (R3) which electrically connects the first and second regions to the drain electrode. The third region of the upper electrode includes a symmetrical connecting portion (12c) that is a conductive film pattern, of which the shape is substantially symmetrical with respect to a virtual line (L1) that splits each pixel into two adjacent regions in a row direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Seiichi Uchida, Seiji Kaneko, Yasuyuki Ogawa, Yutaka Takamaru, Kohhei Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Murata, Akira Shibazaki, Ken Kuboki
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Patent number: 9341905Abstract: The present invention discloses an array substrate, which includes a sub-pixel array, a number of data lines, and a number of scanning lines. The sub-pixel array is divided into a number of column groups along the distribution direction of the data lines, and is divided into a number of row groups along the distribution direction of the scanning lines. By designing the layout of the sub-pixels, the data lines and the scanning lines in the array substrate, there are alternately distributed sufficiently charged sub-pixels and insufficiently charged sub-pixels exist in a same column of sub-pixels when a dot inversion driving is used. Therefore, a LCD panel including the array substrate has even brightness uniformity, and the defect of vertical bright-dark lines is alleviated. The present invention also discloses a LCD panel including the above array substrate and a corresponding LCD.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventors: Qianqian Li, Je-hao Hsu, Caiqin Chen
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Patent number: 9341906Abstract: In one embodiment, a first substrate includes a gate line extending in a first direction, a source line extending in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction, a pixel electrode including a main pixel electrode extending in the second direction, and a first alignment film covering the pixel electrode. A second substrate includes a common electrode having a pair of main common electrodes arranged on both sides sandwiching the main pixel electrode and a second alignment film covering the common electrode. A liquid crystal layer is held between the first alignment film and the second alignment film and includes liquid crystal molecules. The liquid crystal layer is formed of materials having negative dielectric constant anisotropy, and the liquid crystal molecules are initially aligned substantially in parallel with the first direction when electric field is not impressed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hitomi Hasegawa, Nobuko Fukuoka
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Patent number: 9341907Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and including liquid crystal molecules, a gate line positioned on the first substrate, a data line positioned on the first substrate and crossing the gate line, a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, a third thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the second thin film transistor, a reference voltage line connected to the third thin film transistor, and a pixel electrode including a first subpixel electrode connected to the first thin film transistor and a second subpixel electrode connected to the second thin film transistor.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Su-Jeong Kim, Ki-Chul Shin, Hoon Kim, Hyung-Guel Kim, Joo-Seok Yeom, Jae-Jin Song, Ho-Kil Oh, Yoon-Jang Kim, Jae-Hoon Jung, Kwang-Chul Jung
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Patent number: 9341908Abstract: It is an object to provide a liquid crystal display device which has excellent viewing angle characteristics and higher quality. The present invention has a pixel including a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a first resistor, a second resistor, a first liquid crystal element, and a second liquid crystal element. A pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a signal line through the first switch. The pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element through the second switch and the first resistor. The pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a Cs line through the third switch and the second resistor. A common electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a common electrode of the second liquid crystal element.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hajime Kimura
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Patent number: 9341909Abstract: A window assembly comprises a plurality of dynamic electrochromic zones formed on a single transparent substrate in which at least two electrochromic zones are independently controllable. In one exemplary embodiment, the window assembly comprises an Insulated Glass Unit (IGU), and at least one transparent substrate comprises a lite. In another exemplary embodiment, the IGU comprises at least two lites in which at least one lite comprises a plurality of independently controllable dynamic zones.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Peter Egerton, Drew Gaskell