Patents Issued in March 21, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190086681
    Abstract: A structured-light projector includes a light source that emits an emitted light with a predetermined pattern; and a diffractive optical element (DOE) that directly receives the emitted light and generates a plurality of light tiles, which are randomly or regularly disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Cheng-Hung Chi, Ming-Shu Hsiao
  • Publication number: 20190086682
    Abstract: A diffractive optical element may include sub-wavelength period stack-and-gap structured layers providing transmissive phase delay at a wavelength. The sub-wavelength period stack-and-gap structured layers may include a set of thin anti-reflection layers that are index matched to an environment or a substrate over a range of fill factors of the sub-wavelength period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: John Michael MILLER, Stephen BAGNALD
  • Publication number: 20190086683
    Abstract: Multi-wavelength light is directed to an optic including a substrate and achromatic metasurface optical components deposited on a surface of the substrate. The achromatic metasurface optical components comprise a pattern of dielectric resonators. The dielectric resonators have distances between adjacent dielectric resonators; and each dielectric resonator has a width, w, that is distinct from the width of other dielectric resonators. A plurality of wavelengths of interest selected from the wavelengths of the multi-wavelength light are deflected with the achromatic metasurface optical components at a shared angle or to or from a focal point at a shared focal length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Francesco Aieta, Mikhail Kats, Patrice Genevet, Federico Capasso, Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad
  • Publication number: 20190086684
    Abstract: An optical system configured to counteract vibrations due to a munitions launch includes a cylindrical optical lens stack. The system also includes an accelerometer attached to the lens stack and connected to a control system and power supply. The system further includes a mechanical actuator attached to the lens stack and connected to a control system and power supply. The mechanical actuator is a piezoelectric actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Jason Graham
  • Publication number: 20190086685
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a bobbin in which a lens is mounted, a first coil and a magnet configured to electromagnetically interact with each other so as to move the bobbin, a housing configured to accommodate the bobbin therein, an elastic member including an inner frame coupled to the bobbin, an outer frame coupled to the housing, and a frame connection portion configured to connect the inner frame and the outer frame to each other, and a support member connected to the elastic member and configured to support the housing, and the outer frame includes a first coupling portion coupled to the housing, a second coupling portion coupled to the support member, the second coupling portion being spaced apart from the first coupling portion, and a single connection portion configured to connect the first coupling portion and the second coupling portion to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: SANG OK PARK, SANG JUN MIN
  • Publication number: 20190086686
    Abstract: A camera assembly comprises a lens assembly supported on a support structure, wherein the lens assembly includes an autofocus actuator arrangement and the camera assembly includes an optical image stabilization assembly arranged to move the lens assembly in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis. A flexible printed circuit tape connected between the support structure and the lens assembly and providing an electrical connection to the auto-focus actuator arrangement is bent around a corner, thereby allowing the flexible printed circuit tape to accommodate the motion of the lens assembly perpendicular to the optical axis. A crimp plate connected to the lens assembly which crimps shape memory alloy wires has features extending out of the plane of the crimp plate for reducing flexibility. At least part of the optical image stabilization assembly overlaps the lens assembly in the direction along the optical axis, thereby reducing the height of the camera assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicants: CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS LIMITED, Hutchinson Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Chee Keong LAI, James Howarth, Peter Francis Ladwig, Richard Rodger Jenneke, Robin Eddington, Stephen Matthew Bunting
  • Publication number: 20190086687
    Abstract: The inventive subject matter presents novel modular eyewear, having an upper frame, a lower frame, and temple frames. Aspects of the invention include magnetic coupling points. At a first magnetic coupling point, the upper frame, lower frame, and temple frame couple. At a second magnetic coupling, the upper frame and lower frame magnetically couple at the bridge of the frame formed by the upper frame and lower frame. Thus, the present invention enables the upper frame and lower frame to affix a lens for the benefit of the wearer, and also enables greater flexibility, customizability, reduction of wear and tear, and user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Danielle Ringle, Zelba Ringle
  • Publication number: 20190086688
    Abstract: Provided is a side piece structure of a pair of glasses, including at least one temple and at least one side plate. The at least one temple includes a slot, a fastener hole, a pivot hole and a first mark. The at least one side plate includes a bracket, a fastener bump, a pivot, a second mark and a side cover. The pivot is inserted into the pivot hole, and then the fastener bump is engaged with the fastener hole. The bracket is fitted into the slot, and then the first mark is aligned with the second mark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Lin Yun CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190086689
    Abstract: An eyeglasses structure is disclosed in accordance with the present invention. A connecting part is disposed between each of two opposite sides of a lens chassis and a corresponding one of two earpiece frames of a pair of eyeglasses having the eyeglasses structure. The connecting part is connected with the each of the two opposite sides of the lens chassis at one end of the connecting part. Hence, the pair of eyeglasses of the present invention has functions to conveniently replace the earpiece frames and adjust positions of the earpiece frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: CHUNG-WEI LIN
  • Publication number: 20190086690
    Abstract: Methods for ophthalmic lens design incorporating a visual acuity profile are disclosed. The methods include applying rules and functions to visual acuity profile data and an ophthalmic prescription to generate ophthalmic lens parameters for a subject. The visual acuity profile data includes a maximum visual acuity for the subject. The visual acuity profile data may also include a focus tolerance or tolerable blur. Tolerable blur may be measured by an ophthalmic professional or extrapolated. The visual acuity profile data may also include eye physical data such as pupil diameter and eye size, accommodation, retinal photoreceptor cell packing information and neural processing information. The visual acuity profile data may also include personal biographic and/or medical information for the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: José Alonso Fernández, Eduardo Pascual, Daniel Crespo, Juan Antonio Quiroga
  • Publication number: 20190086691
    Abstract: A method for demonstrating optical properties of a lens for spectacle glasses is disclosed in which a demonstration tool displays an optical property of the lens. The demonstration tool includes a light source and a light sensor receiving light from the light source. Placing a lens in the beam path between the light source and the light sensor changes the readout from the light sensor and the change in readout is converted into an optical property of the lens. An observer sees the optical property of the lens on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Christian Lappe, Patrick Schaupp, Timo Mappes
  • Publication number: 20190086692
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for making a spectacle lens for a non-presbyopic person wherein the spectacle lens is a ready-to-wear lens and has at least one zone having an optical effect to reduce vision stress. In the method, at least one of the following is provided: the contour of the ready-to-wear spectacle lens and one or several visual points whereat the person looks through the ready-to-wear spectacle lens for one or several visual tasks in the near range. This method step is followed by setting at least one of: a design reference point of the zone, the extent of the zone, the optical effect within the zone based on the provided contour, and the visual points. The spectacle lens is then made with this zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Herbert Krug, Timo Kratzer
  • Publication number: 20190086693
    Abstract: A lens including a flexible refractive optic having a fixed refractive index, an electro-active element embedded within the flexible refractive optic, wherein the electro-active element has an alterable refractive index, and a controller electrically connected to the electro-active element wherein when power is applied thereto the refractive index of the electro-active element is altered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, Joshua N. Haddock, William Kokonaski, John M. Hunkeler
  • Publication number: 20190086694
    Abstract: A solar-protection device is described for shading a light-transmitting surface, said solar-protection device including a light-transmitting component with a surface and with a number of surface elements arranged on the surface in the form of a grid, which are designed to vary their transmittance. The solar-protection device includes at least one device for determining the radiation intensity of the sunlight irradiation, at least one device for determining the direction of irradiation of the sunlight, and a control unit, designed to reduce, in a manner depending on the radiation intensity and on the direction of irradiation of the sunlight, the transmittance of a selected number of surface elements, so that the selected surface elements generate a pattern that can be varied in a manner depending on the direction of irradiation of the sunlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ralf Schmierer, Arnold Stadtler
  • Publication number: 20190086695
    Abstract: Provided is an active lens structure. The active lens structure has a configuration in which a polarization switching section and a polarization dependent lens section are integrally formed, wherein a lattice structure is formed on an upper surface of a liquid crystal phase polymer layer of the polarization dependent lens section, and the liquid crystal phase polymer layer is aligned in a top-down manner and is used as a lower alignment film of a liquid crystal layer. Therefore, the polarization switching section of the active lens structure can be fabricated without any lower alignment film and any lower glass substrate, so that it is possible to minimize the total thickness and simplifying the manufacturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Hak-Rin KIM, Ji-Sub PARK, Min-Kyu PARK
  • Publication number: 20190086696
    Abstract: A method for actuating an acousto-optic element comprising an acousto-optic crystal and a piezoelectric converter for setting the acousto-optic crystal into mechanical oscillation includes exciting the piezoelectric converter by at least two different frequencies simultaneously. The piezoelectric converter is also excited by at least one mixed frequency from the at least two different frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Patric Mrawek, Lars Friedrich
  • Publication number: 20190086697
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a liquid crystal display device in which light leakage due to photo-alignment treatment is reduced. The method for producing a liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a first step of forming a photo-alignment film on a surface of at least one of paired substrates; a second step of irradiating the photo-alignment film with polarized light; and a third step of forming a liquid crystal layer between the substrates, wherein the polarized light irradiation in the second step is performed while the at least one of the substrates provided with the photo-alignment film is supported by a support column at a surface opposite to the surface on which polarized light is incident, and an end of the support column on the side that contacts the at least one of the substrates has a pointed shape, recessed shape, or thin rod shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: NOBUFUMI TOMIMARU, HIDEYUKI SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20190086698
    Abstract: The liquid crystal diffraction grating includes: paired substrates each including an electrode; a liquid crystal layer being held between the substrates; a sealant; and an alignment-controlling layer being disposed in a region surrounded by the sealant in a plan view and being in contact with the liquid crystal layer between the liquid crystal layer and each of the substrates, the alignment-controlling layer being configured to align liquid crystal molecules in a direction parallel to the substrates and containing a polymer of at least one monomer, the orientation of the liquid crystal molecules periodically rotating in at least one direction in a plan view of the liquid crystal layer in a state where the liquid crystal molecules are aligned in the direction parallel to the substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: MASANOBU MIZUSAKI, KIYOSHI MINOURA, HIROSHI TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20190086699
    Abstract: A display device and a display method thereof are provided. The display device includes: a first base substrate and a second base substrate which are arranged oppositely and a liquid crystal layer between the first base substrate and the second base substrate, the display device further includes: a waveguide grating between the liquid crystal layer and the first base substrate, the waveguide grating including a waveguide layer and a grating layer on one side of the waveguide layer facing the liquid crystal layer, and the grating layer being in contact with the liquid crystal layer; and a collimation light source on a lateral surface of the waveguide layer, light emitted by the collimation light source being coupled into the waveguide layer and output from the grating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: WEI WANG, Yafeng YANG, Xiaochuan CHEN, Wenqing ZHAO, Zhongxiao LI, Jifeng TAN, Xianqin MENG
  • Publication number: 20190086700
    Abstract: In a display device having high reliability, even if being a narrow framing type, and a method for manufacturing thereof, having a display panel, being made up with a first substrate 101 and a second substrate 201, which are adhered with using a seal 301, a main SOC 302 is disposed like a wall, on a peripheral end portion of the first substrate 101 and the second substrate 201, and the seal 301 is disposed inwardly of the main SOC 302. Also, in a method for manufacturing thereof, the main SOC 302 is formed in a region including a cutting plane between the display panel regions neighboring with, and on the cutting plane is made the cutting thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Eisuke HATAKEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190086701
    Abstract: An array substrate and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a base layer, a first metal layer, a first insulating layer, a second metal layer, a second insulating layer, a first electrode layer, and a reflective layer successively stacked along a direction perpendicular to a plane in which the base layer is located. The second metal layer is used to form a source and a drain of a thin film transistor. The first electrode layer is used to form a pixel electrode. The second insulating layer is provided with a through-hole. The pixel electrode is connected to the drain of the thin film transistor through the through-hole. The reflective layer is provided with a first through-hole, and an orthographic projection of the first through-hole onto the base layer covers an orthographic projection of the through-hole onto the base layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Ming XIE, Qiang JIA, Mingwei ZHANG, Xiangjian KONG, Jine LIU, Feng QIN
  • Publication number: 20190086702
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of liquid crystal pixels, wherein the liquid crystal panel is configured to display a same picture in two adjacent frames; a driving module disposed on the non-display area, wherein the driving module is used to respectively provide each liquid crystal pixel with a same polarity pixel voltage of different levels in the two adjacent frames so as to deflect liquid crystal molecules of each liquid crystal pixel, and in each frame of the two adjacent frames, the level of the pixel voltage of each liquid crystal pixel is different from the level of the pixel voltage of the adjacent liquid crystal pixels in front, back, left or right.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Publication number: 20190086703
    Abstract: A splicing screen includes: at least two display panels spliced together, each display panel having a display surface; a curved area bending towards a back side of the display surface at a splicing area; and a substantially flat area; a transparent cover disposed at a side of the display surface and covering at least the curved area of each display panel; and a plurality of support portions between the transparent cover and the curved area of each of the display panels and forming a plurality of meshes extending from the display panel to the transparent cover, an inner wall of each mesh having a reflective surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingchao WANG, Junwei WANG, Dongxi LI
  • Publication number: 20190086704
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of forming a crystalline ITO thin film for forming the crystalline ITO thin film on a liquid crystal panel and a method of forming an On-cell type touch panel by using the method of forming a crystalline ITO thin film. The method of forming a crystalline ITO thin film includes: forming a noncrystalline ITO thin film on a surface of a side of a color filter substrate being far away from the liquid crystal layer, by a deposition process; and crystallizing the noncrystalline ITO thin film by an excimer laser anneal process at a preset temperature so as to obtain the crystalline ITO thin film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shaoqing Lv
  • Publication number: 20190086705
    Abstract: A matrix circuit substrate, having a substrate body, having a first surface and a second surface which are opposite each other, and at least one sidewall located between the first surface and the second surface, the sidewall having at least one recess; multiple electrodes, disposed in a crisscross arrangement on the first surface; and at least one first conductive material, disposed in the recess to correspond to at least one of the electrodes, and electrically connected to the electrode. Additionally, a display apparatus having such substrate, and to a method for manufacturing such substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicants: GIO OPTOELECTRONICS CORP., BARCO N.V., BARCO CONTROL ROOMS GMBH
    Inventors: Yuan-Liang WU, Peter GERETS, Sven SCHULE
  • Publication number: 20190086706
    Abstract: A privacy display comprises a spatial light modulator and a compensated switchable liquid crystal retarder arranged between first and second polarisers arranged in series with the spatial light modulator. In a privacy mode of operation, on-axis light from the spatial light modulator is directed without loss, whereas off-axis light has reduced luminance. The visibility of the display to off-axis snoopers is reduced by means of luminance reduction over a wide polar field. In a wide angle mode of operation, the switchable liquid crystal retardance is adjusted so that off-axis luminance is substantially unmodified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Michael G. Robinson, Graham J. Woodgate, Robert A. Ramsey, Jonathan Harrold
  • Publication number: 20190086707
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display surface, a light transmission mode converter configured to convert light transmission mode, a light reflective portion disposed on an opposite side of the light transmission mode converter from the display surface and configured to reflect light entered through the display surface toward the display surface, a light transmissive portion disposed on the opposite side of the light transmission mode converter from the display surface and configured to transmit light, and a color filter that is disposed closer to the display surface than the light reflective portion and the light transmissive portion are, and a light storing portion configured to store light to emit light having a complementary color of a color exhibited by the color filter, the light storing portion being disposed on an opposite side of the light transmissive portion from the display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: HIROMI ENOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190086708
    Abstract: A method of forming an electrical connection in a liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) device, comprising: providing a silicon substrate including a first surface and a second surface, wherein the silicon substrate includes an conductive pad at the first surface; providing a cover glass panel that includes a cover glass, a transparent electrode layer formed upon the cover glass, and a first sealing material layer formed upon the transparent electrode layer; forming a second sealing material layer upon the first surface of the silicon substrate, wherein the second sealing material layer covers the conductive pad; forming a display layer, comprising a liquid crystal portion, a first seal portion, and a second seal portion, upon the second sealing material layer; wherein the first seal portion and the second seal portion are situated to form a space between them; and wherein the space is situated on top of the conductive pad; placing the cover glass panel upon the display layer, wherein the first sealing material la
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Chun-Sheng Fan
  • Publication number: 20190086709
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a display panel, a polarizing member disposed on the display panel and including an optical layer, a polarizer disposed on the optical layer, and one or more inner adhesive layers, a window member disposed on the polarizing member, a first outer adhesive layer disposed between the display panel and the polarizing member, and a second outer adhesive layer disposed between the polarizing member and the window member, wherein each of at least two adhesive layers among the one or more inner adhesive layers, the first outer adhesive layer, and the second outer adhesive layer includes an ultraviolet absorbing agent, and which is thus able to have improved reliability against external light and improved display quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Heeyoung Lee, Minju Oh, Hansun Ryou
  • Publication number: 20190086710
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display panel to display an image; a cabinet covering a front edge portion of the display panel; a light source package disposed on a rear side of the display panel to provide light onto the display panel; a bottom cover disposed on a rear side of the light source package, the bottom cover being coupled to the cabinet to package the display panel and the light source package; and a back cover covering a first portion of a rear side of the bottom cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Munhe LEE, Gyoungbok KIM
  • Publication number: 20190086711
    Abstract: To improve the display quality of a display device, the display device includes a display section and a frame section surrounding a periphery of the display section. A substrate in the display device includes a conductor pattern constituting a circuit section and an insulating film serving as an organic film covering the conductor pattern. The insulating film extends to a peripheral edge of the substrate. A slit, which penetrates the insulating film in a thickness direction, is formed in a corner part of the insulating film. The slit is formed at a position not overlapping the circuit section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Koichi IGETA, Hirotaka IMAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190086712
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display panel having a display surface on which an image is displayed, and a light condensing member disposed on an upper portion of the display surface. The light condensing member includes a lower condensing layer having a plurality of protrusions protruding upward, and an upper condensing layer having a higher refractive index than the lower condensing layer and disposed on an upper portion of the lower condensing layer to cover the top surface of the lower condensing layer. The protrusions include an upper surface having a planar shape, and a side surface extending downward from an edge of the upper surface and having a curved shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Boo-kan Ki, Hoyun Byun
  • Publication number: 20190086713
    Abstract: The display module includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first electrode, a liquid crystal layer, a second electrode, and a plurality of gratings and drive electrodes, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes only positive liquid crystal molecules; both a refractive index of the first electrode and a refractive index of the first substrate are greater than a normal refractive index no of liquid crystal in the liquid crystal layer; and a refractive index of each of the plurality of gratings lies between the normal refractive index no and an abnormal refractive index ne of the liquid crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yafeng Yang, Wei Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Xue Dong, Jifeng Tan, Xianqin Meng, Xiandong Meng
  • Publication number: 20190086714
    Abstract: A transparent display panel is provided, including a liquid crystal cell, a chromic material and a trigger component. The liquid crystal cell includes an array substrate and a first transparent substrate disposed opposite each other. A liquid crystal layer is arranged between the array substrate and the first transparent substrate. The chromic material is arranged at a side of the first transparent substrate away from the array substrate. The trigger component is connected to the chromic material for enabling the chromic material to perform a reversible change between a transparent state and a colored state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Wei QIN, Xiaolong LI
  • Publication number: 20190086715
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a display panel and a display device. The display substrate forms a cell with an opposite substrate. A black matrix is arranged on the display substrate or the opposite substrate. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a photoluminescent device arranged on the base substrate. The photoluminescent device is arranged at a position corresponding to the black matrix and located at a side of the black matrix facing a backlight module. A projection of the photoluminescent device onto the base substrate at least partially overlaps a projection of the black matrix onto the base substrate. The photoluminescent device is configured to emit light under an excitation of a light beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bing BAI, Xiaofeng LIU, Hui ZHENG, Dongxi LI, Minghui ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190086716
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array and each including a light transmitting zone and a light shielding zone arranged on a circumference of the light transmitting zone. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other. The first substrate includes a black matrix and a first common electrode covering the black matrix. The black matrix is arranged in the light shielding zone. The second substrate includes a plurality of main pixel electrodes, which correspond, in a one-to-one manner, to the pixel units and face exactly to the light transmitting zones. In each individual pixel unit, the black matrix has edges facing the light transmitting zone and provided with notches. The first common electrode has a first portion that covers the notches and flush with a second portion thereof located in the light transmitting zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Liyang AN
  • Publication number: 20190086717
    Abstract: A protective panel for a display device includes a substrate and a light-blocking layer provided over the substrate. A display window is defined on a region of the substrate where the light-blocking layer is not provided. The light-blocking layer includes a first layer which comprises a first material having a first color. The protective panel further includes a hole formed through the light-blocking layer. The hole having an inner sidewall, which is clad with a cladding material having a color different from the first color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Hyun Hee Lee
  • Publication number: 20190086718
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel includes a color filter substrate, an array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. A surface of the array substrate facing the color filter substrate is divided into an active area and a non-active area. The non-active area includes a second region where no metal wiring is arranged. The surface of the array substrate facing the color filter substrate is non-flat in the second region. According to the present disclosure, a sealing strength between the color filter substrate and the array substrate can be improved, and pollution on a liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal display panel can be avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Xiaolong MENG
  • Publication number: 20190086719
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, thin film transistors, a color filter layer, a light blocking pattern, a second substrate, pixel electrodes, and, a plurality of first spacers. The first substrate includes a display area having a plurality of pixel areas and a non-display area surrounding at least part of the display area, the display area including an interior area and at least one peripheral area disposed exteriorly of the interior area. The second substrate defines with the first substrate a space to contain light transmittance material. The plurality of first spacers is disposed in the light transmittance space between the first and second substrates and only in the interior area of the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yeun Tae KIM, Min Wook PARK, Sang Il PARK, Ji Won SOHN, Jun Bo SIM
  • Publication number: 20190086720
    Abstract: A display may have pixels configured to display images. The pixels may be formed from thin-film transistor circuitry on a substrate. Color filter elements formed from colored polymer such as colored photoimageable polymer may be formed on the substrate. A black matrix formed from black photoimageable polymer may have an array of openings. The colored polymer may have first portions that overlap the black matrix and second portions in the openings that form the color filter elements. In some portions of the pixels, the thin-film transistor circuitry may be interposed between the first portions of the colored polymer and the black matrix. In other portions of the pixels, data lines may be formed that are overlapped by the black matrix and that are interposed between the first portions of the colored polymer and the black matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Byung Duk Yang, Hao-Lin Chiu, Kwang Soon Park, Kyung Wook Kim, Sai-Chang Liu, Shih Chang Chang
  • Publication number: 20190086721
    Abstract: A display panel includes an active device substrate, an opposite substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a color filter layer, and a first polarized pattern layer. The color filter layer includes a first filter pattern, a second filter pattern, and a third filter pattern. The first polarized pattern layer includes a first upper polarized pattern, a second upper polarized pattern, and a third upper polarized pattern. The first upper polarized pattern is disposed in correspondence to the first filter pattern and includes a plurality of metal wires arranged along a first direction. The second upper polarized pattern is disposed in correspondence to the second filter pattern and includes a plurality of metal wires arranged along a second direction. The third upper polarized pattern is disposed in correspondence to the third filter pattern and includes a plurality of metal wires arranged along a third direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Szu-Yen Lin, Yao-An Hsieh, Hsin-Chun Huang, Wen-Rei Guo
  • Publication number: 20190086722
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display module including elemental pixel groups, each of the elemental pixel groups being configured to display an elemental image for displaying a reproduced image; an elemental lens array including elemental lenses, the elemental lenses being provided in front of the elemental pixel groups in one-to-one correspondence; a diopter adjustment element array including diopter adjustment elements, the diopter adjustment elements being provided in front of the plurality of elemental lenses in one-to-one correspondence; and a controller. The controller is configured to: control a part of the diopter adjustment elements in accordance with visual acuity of one eye of a user; and control the other part of the diopter adjustment elements in accordance with visual acuity of the other eye of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Masanori SHIROKAWA, Ken SUMIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20190086723
    Abstract: An electronic-mirror (e-mirror) system is disclosed herein. The system includes a backlit display configured to present content; a first reflective polarizer layer overlapping the backlit display; an air gap layer introduced between the backlit display and the first reflective polarizer; a rotator cell layer directly overlapping the first reflective polarizer; a second reflective polarizer directly overlapping the rotator cell; a switch-able polarizer directly overlapping the second reflective polarizer; and a lens directly overlapping the switch-able polarizer. Also included herein is an index matched interface and front anti-reflective film, thereby allowing the e-mirror to be both in the states of a reflective and electronic display mode without requiring a toggling towards a low luminance surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf
  • Publication number: 20190086724
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed, which includes: a backlight module; a first display panel disposed on the backlight module; and a second display panel disposed between the backlight module and the first display panel, wherein the second display panel includes a first zone and a second zone adjacent to the first zone, the first zone includes a first sub-zone, the second zone includes a second sub-zone and a third sub-zone, and the third sub-zone is disposed between the first sub-zone and the second sub-zone, wherein the first sub-zone has a first luminance, the second sub-zone has a second luminance, the third sub-zone has a third luminance, the first luminance, the second luminance and the third luminance are different, and the third luminance is between the first luminance and the second luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Ming-Chia SHIH, Cheng-Hsia KUO
  • Publication number: 20190086725
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention, includes: a light-emitting unit of which light emission brightness is controllable; a display panel configured to transmit light from the light-emitting unit and display an image; an operation unit configured to receive an operation for instructing a mode to be set, out of a plurality of modes including a first mode in which a first image including an input image and not including a graphic image is displayed and a second mode in which a second image including the input image and the graphic image is displayed; and a control unit configured to perform brightness control for controlling the light emission brightness of the light-emitting unit so that an upper-limit display brightness in the second mode is lower than an upper-limit display brightness in the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Shinya Ishii
  • Publication number: 20190086726
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a backlight module, which includes at least one quantum wire unit. The at least one quantum wire unit is configured to have an effective wire width such that the at least one quantum wire unit is capable of converting electric energy to emit light of a selected wavelength. Each of quantum wire unit comprises a first electrode, disposed on a first side of a substrate layer; a first buffer layer, disposed on a second side of the substrate layer; an active layer, disposed over the first buffer layer; a second buffer layer, disposed over the active layer; and a second electrode disposed over the second buffer layer. Each quantum wire unit, along with the substrate layer, forms a quantum wire laser generator, which is configured such that the active layer emits light upon application of a voltage difference between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruijun DONG, Dong CHEN, Guangquan WANG, Haiwei SUN, Lili CHEN, Zhihui ZENG, Lu YU, Jianjie WU, Qian WANG, Wei SUN, Huijuan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190086727
    Abstract: In some examples, display backlight strings are grouped into at least two groups based on characteristics of the display backlight strings. A first of the at least two groups of display backlight strings is operated at a first operating voltage. A second of the at least two groups of display backlight strings is operated at a second operating voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vijayakumar A. Dibbad, Mallari C. Hanchate
  • Publication number: 20190086728
    Abstract: An LCD device having light weight, slimness, and high luminance, includes: a display panel; a light source providing a light to the display panel; and a light guide plate including an upper surface facing the display panel, an opposing lower surface, a light incidence surface facing the light source, and a light opposing surface opposing the light incidence surface, the light guide plate including a prism area and a non-prism area on the lower surface. The light guide plate further includes a plurality of prisms arranged at the prism area along a first direction which is perpendicular to the light incidence surface, a linear portion disposed at the non-prism area and extending from the plurality of prisms, a first resin layer on the linear portion, and a second resin layer on the first resin layer, wherein the first resin layer is thinner than the second resin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Jiwon Lee, Seungbeom Park, Jaesul An, Juyoung Yoon
  • Publication number: 20190086729
    Abstract: A light guide member includes a light guide layer that guides incident light and emits the light from at least one main surface and a light transmission control layer that is integrally laminated on the light guide layer on a main surface side of the light guide layer that emits the light and controls a region that transmits light, and the light transmission control layer has a polarization conversion layer in which a polarization conversion portion is patterned, between two reflective polarizer layers and having different reflection polarization directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yukito SAITO, Kotaro YASUDA, Shinya WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190086730
    Abstract: A driving apparatus comprises: a first substrate including: a storage unit electrically connected to a display module, the storage unit saving display parameters of the display module, wherein the display parameters include a gamma correction code, a common electrode voltage setting code, and an uneven brightness distribution compensation module code; and a second substrate including: a control module electrically coupled to the storage unit, for reading the display parameters saved in the storage unit and adjusting driving parameters for the display module, wherein the display module electrically is coupled to the first substrate through a serial peripheral interface, and an integrated circuit bus electrically is coupled to a timing control unit and a programmable gamma correction buffer circuit unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Beizhou HUANG