Patents Issued in April 30, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200133018
    Abstract: A DOE module including a transparent substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first sensing wire, a sensing layer, a DOE layer, and an insulating layer is provided. The first electrode is disposed on the transparent substrate, and the second electrode is disposed on the transparent substrate. The first sensing wire is distributed on the transparent substrate and electrically connected to the first electrode. The sensing layer is distributed on the transparent substrate and electrically connected to the second electrode. The first sensing wire is insulated from the sensing layer to form a capacitance between the first sensing wire and the sensing layer. The DOE layer is disposed on the transparent substrate. The insulating layer covers the first sensing wire and the sensing layer. The insulating layer has a first opening and a second opening respectively exposing the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Biing-Seng Wu, Han-Yi Kuo, Kuan-Ming Chen, Chih-Yu Chuang, Shi-Jen Wu, Jui-Ni Li, Cheng-Hung Tsai, Chin-Yuan Chiang, Chia-Ming Hsu, Chiau-Ling Huang
  • Publication number: 20200133019
    Abstract: Eyewear for releasably receiving a lens has a joint sleeve for holding the lens in place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Jui-Chi Li
  • Publication number: 20200133020
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a casing member, a lifting assembly, an elastic element, and a pressing member. The casing member has a supporting portion. The lifting assembly is housed in the casing member and is liftable above the casing member. The elastic element is connected to the casing member and the lifting assembly. The pressing member faces toward the supporting portion. The pressing member is movably connected to the lifting assembly and is configured to move along with the lifting assembly, whereby the temple is capable of being clamped between the pressing member and the supporting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Jung-Wen Chang, Wan-Chi Lin
  • Publication number: 20200133021
    Abstract: Spectacles are provided with sensors for detecting biometric data when worn and when in contact with the head of the user. The spectacles include a frame having a front mount for supporting respective lenses, a nose support device and a pair of arms articulated on the front mount on laterally opposite sides, each of the arms extending longitudinally between a first end and a second, opposite end, close to which an end portion of the arm can make contact with the head at the ear. Each arm extends from the second end to a section of the arm made of flexible material that can support an auricular sensor, and the section of the arm can move, on account of its flexibility, between an operative position and a non-operative position, in which the sensor supported by the section of the arm is removably retained on the end portion of the arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: SAFILO SOCIETÀ AZIONARIA FABBRICA ITALIANA LAVORAZIONE OCCHIALI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nicola BELLI, Giorgio MANERA
  • Publication number: 20200133022
    Abstract: A method for designing an eyeglass lens includes: displaying an image upon a display device while maintaining a positional relationship of a face of a subject and the display device; acquiring information in which visual sensitivity of the subject is evaluated on the basis of an impression received by the subject who has viewed the image; and designing an eyeglass lens on the basis of the information in which the sensitivity is evaluated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinori YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20200133023
    Abstract: A method for fitting OK lenses to a patient comprising the steps of: applying a corneal topography apparatus to a patient to capture baseline and post wear maps of a cornea of the patient in a computer to thereby derive a difference map; processing the difference map to fit Zernike polynomials thereto wherein weights of said fitted polynomials comprise features of a test feature vector for the difference map; applying the test feature vector to a classification machine trained to classify the difference map as one of a number of predetermined classes; and subsequently treating the patient taking into account the classification machine's classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Paul GIFFORD
  • Publication number: 20200133024
    Abstract: An orthokeratology contact lens for controlling myopia includes a curved front side and a back side intended to be applied to the eye. the back side defines a central area designed to align with the optical area of the eye, and a peripheral area, concentric to the central area, which includes an annular portion defining a tear accumulation area. The annular portion includes a first segment, which extends concentrically in relation to the central area, up to an annular limit line, and a second segment which extends from the annular limit line concentrically in relation to the central area, configured to extend up to the cornea. The first segment and the second segment form a broken line such that the annular limit line defines a peak with the height of a tear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicants: LABORATOIRE PRECILENS
    Inventor: Jaume PAUNE FABRE
  • Publication number: 20200133025
    Abstract: Eyewear having: a frame; an optical module held by the frame and changing optical properties by electric control; a sensing unit that obtains information pertaining to a usage environment; and a control unit that, on the basis of the information obtained by the sensing unit, changes the optical properties of the optical module. The control unit switches between a mode in which optical properties of can be changed and a mode in which optical properties cannot be changed, on the basis of the information obtained by the sensing unit, and changes the optical properties of the optical module when in the mode in which optical properties can be changed. As a result, eyewear is provided that can switch between modes that change or do not change optical properties, in accordance with the usage environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiro MURAMATSU, Yoshinobu OKADA, Eiichiro HIKOSAKA, Akifumi AONO
  • Publication number: 20200133026
    Abstract: The device is directed to a reading glasses and goggles having lenses of different strengths and functions which can be replaced by users themselves, comprising single lens side ring, a bracket, a connecting rod, an upper eyeglass frame and a connecting block, and specifically having a second fixture slot in the top of said single lens side ring; a groove in the bottom of said upper eyeglass frame; the outer surface of the second fixture slot being engaged with the inner wall of the groove. The reading glasses and goggles having lenses of different strengths and functions can be replaced by users themselves, having lenses of different strengths and functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: KAI FANG
  • Publication number: 20200133027
    Abstract: According to the present invention, light filters are disclosed that provide photoprotection and contain fluorescent agents in that have fluorescence emission in the near infrared region of wavelengths to effect photobiological modulation (PBM) of human cells when the cells are exposed to sunlight or any artificial lighting. The fluorescent agents include endogenous compounds. The light filters include ophthalmic lenses, skin care products with or without transparent substrate and any products that are used to filter light. When used in connection with ophthalmic lenses, the ophthalmic lense provides photoprotection and photobiological modulation to the human eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Photoprotective Technologies Incorporated
    Inventors: James M. Gallas, Matthew T. Gordon
  • Publication number: 20200133028
    Abstract: A system for custom manufacturing a film to be temporarily applied to lenses of eyewear is provided. The system includes a measuring unit for measuring dimensions of the lenses, a user-interface for receiving user input pertaining to desired properties of the film, and a film-cutting unit for cutting the film according to the dimensions of the lenses. The system can also include a control unit that is configured to receive the dimensions of the lenses from the measuring system, and transmit information pertaining to the dimensions of the lenses to the film-cutting system. The system can also include a payment unit for receiving payment from a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Benjamin Moes, Paul Edwin Moes, Alexzander C. Williams, Blake R. Gregory, Daniel Chang Garcia, Scott E. Cooper, William J. Oakes
  • Publication number: 20200133029
    Abstract: To provide binocular loupes capable of ensuring an optimal focal distance for a user using a simple operation, focus adjustment units disposed in eyepiece units of a pair of left and right loupe bodies of binocular loupes are provided with focus adjustment lenses, and holding rings having magnetic bodies into which the focus adjustment lenses are fitted. The holding rings are mounted in contact with correction lenses constituting optical systems inside the loupe bodies, are drawn and held by magnet rings. By this means, it is possible to readily replace the focus adjustment lenses by mounting the lenses detachably from the loupe bodies, and it is possible to ensure an optimal focal distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Kikuko YONEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20200133030
    Abstract: Eyewear (100) comprising at least one lens (110,120), a lens frame (111,121), a battery (170) and means for wireless charging of said battery (170), which wireless charging means comprises a receiver coil (181) arranged to be remotely powered by a corresponding transmitter coil (340) in a separate charging device (300). The invention is characterised in that the receiver coil (181) is arranged so that it encircles at least one of said one or several lenses (110,120), forming part of or being enclosed in said lens frame (111,121), whereby light passing through the at least one lens (110,120) will also pass through a coil hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Jonas Eriksson, Mikael Eriksson, Daniel Eriksson, Fredrik Hanson, Kristina Ahlinder, Tony Larsson
  • Publication number: 20200133031
    Abstract: Eyewear having: an optical module; an input unit; a sensing unit; a storage unit that stores at least conditions that change optical properties of the optical module; and a control unit that performs electric control of the optical module, in accordance with a set mode, by using electric control. The set modes include: a first mode in which the control unit electrically controls the optical module on the basis of a condition stored in the storage unit and a detection value for the sensing unit; and a second mode in which the control unit electrically controls the optical module on the basis of instructions received by the input unit. The conditions stored in the storage unit are updated on the basis of the detection value for the sensing unit when the input unit has received an instruction in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiro MURAMATSU, Akifumi AONO, Ryuki KAN, Takafumi OHTO, Sho TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200133032
    Abstract: Eyewear for releasably receiving a shield has a snap-fit mechanism for holding the shield in place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Jui-Chi Li
  • Publication number: 20200133033
    Abstract: The present invention is notably directed to display device (1, la d), comprising a set of pixels, each having a layer structure (2, 2c, 2d) that includes: a bi-stable, phase change material (10), or bi-stable PCM, having at least two reversibly switchable states, in which the PCM exhibits two different values of refractive index and/or optical absorption; and a heating element (17, 17c, 17d), electrically insulated from the PCM (10) and in thermal communication with the PCM (10) in the layer structure (2, 2c, 2d). The display device further comprises a set of nonlinear, monostable resistive switching elements (21), each in electrical communication with the heating element (17, 17c, 17d) of one of the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Harish BHASKARAN, Peiman HOSSEINI, Ben BROUGHTON
  • Publication number: 20200133034
    Abstract: A photonic integrated circuit, an optoelectronic modulator, and a method of modulating light in a photonic integrated circuit are provided. The photonic integrated circuit comprises: an input waveguide which, in use, receives light in a superposition of two polarisation modes of the waveguide; a polarisation splitter, connected to the input waveguide, and configured to provide, at a first output, light in a first polarisation mode of the two polarisation modes of the waveguide and, at a second output, light in a second polarisation mode of the two polarisation modes of the waveguide; a first polarisation rotator, connected to the first output of the polarisation splitter, and configured to rotate light received therefrom from the first polarisation mode to the second polarisation mode; an optoelectronic modulator, having a first modulation waveguide connected to the first polarisation rotator and a second modulation waveguide connected to the second output of the polarisation splitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Pierre Schrans, Dong Yoon Oh, Aaron John Zilkie
  • Publication number: 20200133035
    Abstract: A control unit of a bias control circuit performs a loop process that fixes a second bias voltage and iterates a process of recording a pair of a first candidate bias voltage and a second candidate bias voltage that are a first bias voltage when optical power of a multi-level QAM signal output by an optical modulator is controlled so that the optical power converges to a value in the vicinity of the maximum value or the minimum value before and after a third bias voltage is increased or decreased by a half-wave voltage while changing the second bias voltage within a predetermined range. The control unit calculates the difference between the first candidate bias voltage and the second candidate bias voltage for each of a plurality of recorded pairs and determines a value between first candidate bias voltage and the second candidate bias voltage of a pair selected on the basis of the calculated difference as the value of the first bias voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto KAWAKAMI, Shoichiro KUWAHARA, Akira HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20200133036
    Abstract: A color-changing light-adjusting liquid crystal device and a light-adjusting method may include a main liquid crystal and a dichroic dye, which may be filled between substrates disposed oppositely, in a non-powered state. The main liquid crystal may be subjected to a specific arrangement orientation under an induction of an alignment layer, in a powered state, and the main liquid crystal may be subjected to a reorientation. Dichroic dye molecules may be rotated along with the reorientation of the main liquid crystal so as to scatter incident light in a visible spectrum, convert a light-transmitting state into a light-scattering state at a macro level, and display a color of the dichroic dye in the main liquid crystal, thus implementing light adjustment. The color-changing light-adjusting liquid crystal device does not contain a polymer network, so that a polymerization process is not needed and a polymer aging is avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: SHENZHEN GUOHUA OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guofu ZHOU, Yuanyuan ZHAN, Dirk Jan BROER, Danqing LIU, Albertus Petrus Henricus Johannes SCHENNING
  • Publication number: 20200133037
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a controllable backlight structure and a display device using the structure. The controllable backlight structure includes a liquid crystal panel and a backlight source for providing a light source for the liquid crystal panel, wherein a shutter unit is disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the backlight source, the shutter unit includes a plurality of blades arranged in an array, each blade is connected with at least one rotating mechanism, the rotating mechanism is connected with a control circuit, a rotation of each rotating mechanism opens and closes one blade to control the backlight source to have different incident light in different regions of the liquid crystal panel. The structure of the controllable backlight of the present disclosure is simple and easy to implement. The structure of the controllable backlight with improved image quality of the liquid crystal is simple and easy to be implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Dehua LI
  • Publication number: 20200133038
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device, including a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite each other and spaced apart from each other, and a main spacer and a sub-spacer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, with bottom ends of both the main spacer and the sub-spacer arranged at the first substrate. In this display panel, by providing a part of a surface of the second substrate with a transparent conductive layer, the main spacer is able to directly press against the transparent conductive layer. By defining a groove in the second substrate with an opening thereof opposite the sub-spacer, a free end of the sub-spacer can be inserted into the groove when being applied with a supporting force. Thus, a step difference between the two spacers can increase by a thickness of the transparent conductive layer and a depth of the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Chunhui Yang
  • Publication number: 20200133039
    Abstract: The sealing material composition of the present disclosure includes a lactone-based compound having at least two functional groups A represented by the Chemical Formula (1) and a curing agent that is thermally reactive with the lactone-based compound and contains a compound having at least two of one or more kinds of functional groups B selected from the group consisting of a mercaptan group, a hydroxyl group, and a secondary amine group. where, a is an integer of 0 or 1, and * is an atomic bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: MASANOBU MIZUSAKI
  • Publication number: 20200133040
    Abstract: A display device includes a first display area including a plurality of first pixel areas and a second display area including a plurality of second pixel areas and a plurality of light transmitting areas. Each of the plurality of first pixel areas includes at least one first pixel to display an image. Each of the plurality of second pixel areas includes at least one second pixel to display the image. The light transmitting area does not include a pixel capable of displaying the image and has higher light transmittance than the second pixel area. In the second display area, at least one of the plurality of light transmitting areas is between two second pixel areas adjacent in a first direction, and at least one of the plurality of light transmitting areas is between two second pixel areas adjacent in a second direction different from the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hyun-Chol BANG, Won Kyu KWAK, Dong Wook KIM, Jin Woo PARK, Sun-Ja KWON
  • Publication number: 20200133041
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing, with high mass productivity, liquid crystal display devices having highly reliable thin film transistors with excellent electric characteristics is provided. In a liquid crystal display device having an inverted staggered thin film transistor, the inverted staggered thin film transistor is formed as follows: a gate insulating film is formed over a gate electrode; a microcrystalline semiconductor film which functions as a channel formation region is formed over the gate insulating film; a buffer layer is formed over the microcrystalline semiconductor film; a pair of source and drain regions are formed over the buffer layer; and a pair of source and drain electrodes are formed in contact with the source and drain regions so as to expose a part of the source and drain regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Yukie SUZUKI, Hideaki KUWABARA, Hajime KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200133042
    Abstract: A device having a functional element having electrically controllable optical properties, includes an electrical energy source having an output voltage U, a functional element having electrically controllable optical properties, and at least two supply lines, by means of which the electrical energy source and the functional element are connected. The output voltage U has an alternating voltage having a frequency f from 40 Hz to 210 Hz, a maximum amplitude Umax from 24 V to 100 V, and a slope in the range of the output voltage U between ?80% Umax and 80% Umax from 0.05*Umax/100 ?s to 0.1*Umax/100 ?s and in the range of the output voltage U between 80% Umax and ?80% Umax from ?0.05*Umax/100 ?s to ?0.1*Umax/100 ?s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Florian MANZ, Patrick WEBER, Christian EFFERTZ, Thorsten DRAGAS
  • Publication number: 20200133043
    Abstract: An input device includes an input receiving member, a base, a pressure sensor, an actuator, and a flexible member. A pressing input operation is performed on the input receiving member. The input receiving member is attached to the base. The pressure sensor is disposed on the base to be in contact with the input receiving member and configured to detect a pressure exerted on the input receiving member during the pressing input operation. The actuator is disposed at least on the input receiving member and configured to vibrate the input receiving member in a direction perpendicular to a pressing direction in which the pressing input operation is performed. The flexible member is attached to the input pressing member and the base. The flexible member is elastically deformable in the pressing direction and a vibrating direction in which the actuator causes a vibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: YASUYUKI TOGASHI
  • Publication number: 20200133044
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, a display device. The display panel includes an array substrate and a color film substrate set oppositely, the array substrate includes multiple subpixel units arranged in an array and an orientation layer covering multiple subpixel units, each subpixel unit includes an opening area; the color film substrate is provided with support columns, orthographic projections of the support columns on the subpixel units are outside the opening areas, the orientation layer is formed with support protrusions which protrude from a surface of the orientation layer, orthographic projections of the support protrusions on the subpixel units are outside the opening areas, the support columns contact top ends of the support protrusions to prevent the support columns from contacting the surface of the orientation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Liwei LIU, Yoonsung UM, Hui ZHANG, Feng LIAO, Kai HOU, Hongrun WANG, Shunhang ZHANG, Yue JIA
  • Publication number: 20200133045
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a display region where pixels each having a TFT and a pixel electrode are formed in a matrix, a counter substrate having a display region where color filters of three colors are formed in a matrix, the TFT substrate and the counter substrate being bonded together with a sealing material in a seal portion at a periphery, and liquid crystal sealed between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate by the seal material. In the display region, a first insulation film, a first alignment film, a first columnar spacer, an overcoat film, a first color filter among the color filters of three colors are stacked in this order between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi YAMAMOTO, Tomoya SUGANO, Takamitsu KAMADA
  • Publication number: 20200133046
    Abstract: An electronic device may include display layers such as liquid crystal display layers and a backlight unit that provides illumination for the display layers. The backlight unit may include light-emitting diodes that emit light into the edge of a light guide film. To minimize the inactive area of the display, the light-emitting diodes may be tightly spaced to approximate a line light source instead of point light sources. Color and/or luminance compensation layers may be incorporated at various locations within the backlight structures to ensure that the backlight provided to the display layers is homogenous. A thin-film transistor layer of the display may be coupled to a printed circuit board by a flexible printed circuit. The flexible printed circuit may have additional solder mask layers to improve robustness, may include encapsulation, and may have traces with a varying pitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Supriya Goyal, Yuxi Zhao, Xinsheng Chu, Chan Hyuk Park, Min Tao, Wenyong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20200133047
    Abstract: A display module ESD resistance of which is improved is achieved. In a display module (1) that includes: a display panel (10); a flexible printed circuit board (20) that is connected to the display panel (10); and a circuit board (30) that supplies a drive signal to the display panel (10) via the flexible printed circuit board (20), the flexible printed circuit board (20) includes an exposed portion (28), in which a conductive portion (24) connected to a ground is exposed, on a rear surface side of a connection surface (27) to the display panel (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: HIROAKI ISOBE
  • Publication number: 20200133048
    Abstract: A polyimide film having, when measured at a film thickness of 10 ?m, a weight residue ratio of 99.0% or more when held at 400° C. for 4 hours, a YI (yellow index) of 10 or less, and a coefficient of linear thermal expansion between 100 and 350° C. of 55 ppm/K or less. The polyimide film is excellent in transparency and heat resistance, has a low linear thermal expansion coefficient, and can be suitably used for a substrate for a display, a touch panel, or a solar cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Takuya OKA, Miharu NAKAGAWA, Nobuharu HISANO
  • Publication number: 20200133049
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel module configured to display an image at a front side thereof; a non-metallic cover which forms a first portion of a rear exterior of the display device; a metallic cover coupled to the display panel module, the metallic cover forming a second portion of the rear exterior of the display device; and a bracket arranged between the display panel module and the non-metallic cover and configured to be coupled to a stand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung Youn LEE, Hyun Jun JUNG, Dong-hyun KIM
  • Publication number: 20200133050
    Abstract: A display device is provided in the present disclosure. The display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a diaphragm assembly, and a back plate. The liquid crystal panel has a light incident surface and a light exit surface which are oppositely disposed. The diaphragm assembly is attached to and fixed to the light incident surface of the liquid crystal panel, and configured to at least diffuse light entering the light incident surface. The back plate is disposed at a side of the diaphragm assembly away from the light incident surface of the liquid crystal panel, and configured to support the diaphragm assembly. The back plate includes a bottom plate and a side plate. The bottom plate is configured to be a flat plate structure, and oppositely disposed with the diaphragm assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hailong DAI, Yuan LI
  • Publication number: 20200133051
    Abstract: The present invention provides a terminal device. The terminal device includes a middle frame, a light-absorbing and heat-dissipating film disposed in the middle frame, and a display module. The middle frame includes a bottom and a side connected to the bottom. The side encircles the bottom to form a groove on the bottom. The light-absorbing and heat-dissipating film covers the inner surfaces of the bottom and the side. The display module is disposed in the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Wei ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200133052
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has a display region and a peripheral region, a black matrix layer including a portion in the peripheral region; a first annular opening surrounding the display region and a second annular opening surrounding the first annular opening and on a side, away from the display region, of the first annular opening are provided in the portion of the black matrix layer; the first annular opening divides the portion of the black matrix layer into an inner part close to the display region and an outer part away from the display region; the second annular opening divides the outer part into a first part close to the display region and a second part away from the display region; both the first annular opening and the second annular opening are closed annular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicants: Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Honggang Gu, Xianjie Shao, Jie Song, Zhen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200133053
    Abstract: Provided are a color filter substrate and a liquid crystal display device. The color filter substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of quantum dot filter units arranged in an array on the base substrate and retaining walls disposed among the quantum dot filter units on the base substrate; the retaining wall includes a black matrix layer disposed on the base substrate and a reflective layer disposed on the black matrix layer, and the retaining wall has a thickness greater than a thickness of the quantum dot filter unit. The reflective layer can re-reflect light irradiated on a surface thereof to the quantum dot filter units for secondary utilization, thereby improving utilization of the light while avoiding color mixture through the other quantum dot filter units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Chaoqun YANG, Changchih Huang
  • Publication number: 20200133054
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in a plan view with respect to the primary face of a semiconductor device, includes at least a part of an outer edge of a color filter layer being located between an effective pixel region and a joining member, and the distance from the effective pixel region to at least a part of the outer edge is greater than the distance from the color filter layer to a light transmission plate in the effective pixel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Hidemasa Oshige
  • Publication number: 20200133055
    Abstract: A color display device comprises an array of a plurality of sub-pixels including a red sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel, a first green sub-pixel and a second green sub-pixel. The first green sub-pixel and the second green sub-pixel are smaller than that of the red sub-pixel or the blue sub-pixel. The two adjacent first green sub-pixels are arranged in a first direction, the two adjacent second green sub-pixels are arranged in the first direction. The blue sub-pixel is directly adjacent to the red sub-pixel in a second direction; the blue sub-pixel is directly adjacent to the two first green sub-pixels and the two second green sub-pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Shoichi HIROTA, Shinichi KOMURA, Yoshifumi SEKIGUCHI, Tsunenori YAMAMOTO, Masaya ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200133056
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a transmissive substrate, a lens surface, a transmissive lens layer, an optical path adjustment layer that adjusts an optical path length of light passing through the lens surface, a wiring layer that includes a transmissive light transmitting portion and a wiring portion including wiring and that is disposed in contact with the optical path adjustment layer on an opposite side of the optical path adjustment layer from the lens layer, a transmissive pixel electrode disposed on an opposite side of the wiring layer from the optical path adjustment layer and overlapping the light transmitting portion in plan view, a first mark disposed between the substrate and the optical path adjustment layer and being in contact with the substrate, and a second mark disposed between the optical path adjustment layer and the wiring layer and being in contact with the optical path adjustment layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi ITO
  • Publication number: 20200133057
    Abstract: A liquid crystal apparatus includes a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a counter substrate and an element substrate in which a plurality of pixels are disposed, and light is incident on the liquid crystal layer from the counter substrate. The counter substrate includes a first microlens disposed for each pixel. The element substrate includes a switching element disposed for each pixel and a second microlens disposed for each pixel. The second microlens includes a flat portion at the center of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi ITO
  • Publication number: 20200133058
    Abstract: A liquid crystal apparatus includes an element substrate provided with a pixel electrode and a TFT, and a counter substrate disposed facing the element substrate. The element substrate includes a first microlens, a second microlens, and a third microlens corresponding to the pixel electrode. The first microlens is disposed further toward an incident side of light than the second microlens. A relationship between a lens power of the first microlens and a lens power of the second microlens is that the lens power of the first microlens is greater than or equal to the lens power of the second microlens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi ITO
  • Publication number: 20200133059
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display module which comprises a display panel, a cover, and an upper polarizer. The upper polarizer is attached to a light emitting surface. The cover is disposed on the upper polarizer, and a first microstructure has a curved concave surface is on the cover. A second microstructure having curved convex surface is on the upper polarizer and faces to the cover, and the first microstructure is corresponding to the second microstructure. The present invention also provides a manufacturing of display module. In the present invention, the cover of the display module and the surface of the upper polarizer are subjected to a special anti-glare surface treatment so that the microstructure on the surface of the cover and the microstructure of the surface of the upper polarizer form a substantially complementary relationship to achieve better anti-glare effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Yong YANG
  • Publication number: 20200133060
    Abstract: A flexible circular polarizer includes from a viewing side: a substrate; a liquid crystal (LC) polarizer layer; and a quarter wave plate reactive mesogen (RM) retarder layer. An optical axis of the RM retarder is aligned in a first direction and a transmission axis of the LC polarizer is aligned in a second direction different from the first direction, and an angle between the first and second directions has a value of 45°±15°. At least one of the substrate and the LC polarizer has a surface configuration that imparts an alignment to an adjacent non-viewing side layer. The LC polarizer layer may have a surface configuration that imparts an alignment to the RM retarder in the first direction, and/or the substrate may have a surface configuration that imparts an alignment to the LC polarizer in the second direction. A flexible display system includes from a viewing side the flexible circular polarizer, and a display device that is adhered to the flexible circular polarizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Nathan James Smith, Andrew Acreman
  • Publication number: 20200133061
    Abstract: A polarizer substrate includes a substrate, an organic planarization layer, an inorganic buffer layer, and a plurality of strip-shaped polarizer structures. The organic planarization layer is located on the substrate. The inorganic buffer layer is located on the organic planarization layer. The inorganic buffer layer has a plurality of trenches located on a first surface. The trenches do not penetrate through the inorganic buffer layer. The strip-shaped polarizer structures are located on the first surface of the inorganic buffer layer. Each of the trenches is located between two adjacent polarizer structures. A display panel is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tsai-Sheng Lo, Chih-Chiang Chen, Ming-Jui Wang, Sheng-Kai Lin, Sheng-Ming Huang, Chia-Hsin Chung, Hui-Ku Chang, Wei-Chi Wang, Jen-Kuei Lu
  • Publication number: 20200133062
    Abstract: There is provided a display apparatus with an improved viewing angle. The display apparatus includes a display panel configured to receive light from a light source module, wherein the display panel includes: a liquid crystal panel; a first polarizing plate positioned on a rear side of the liquid crystal panel and a second polarizing plate positioned on a front side of the liquid crystal panel; and an optical layer positioned on a front surface of the second polarizing plate, wherein the optical layer includes: a resin layer having a first refractive index, and including an accommodating groove in which a light adjusting portion is disposed, the resin layer further including a light refractive pattern protruding toward a rear direction of the display panel; and an adhesive layer having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index, and bonding the resin layer with the second polarizing plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hyung Jin LEE, Wook Jae JEON, Young Chol LEE, Ju Hyun LEE, Tae Young LEE, Seung Hun CHAE, Jun Sung CHOI
  • Publication number: 20200133063
    Abstract: A display cell structure is provided. A first substrate and a second substrate are spaced apart from each other, and a wire grid polarizer layer is disposed therebetween, forming a first cell gap between the first substrate and the wire grid polarizer layer and a second cell gap between the second substrate and the wire grid polarizer layer. A first display structure is disposed in the first cell gap, and includes multiple first pixel electrodes and a polymer liquid crystal layer. A polarizer layer is disposed on the second substrate and facing an opposite side to the wire grid polarizer layer. A second display structure is disposed in the second cell gap, and includes multiple second pixel electrodes and a liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Fang-Chen Luo, Seok-Lyul Lee
  • Publication number: 20200133064
    Abstract: A display device capable of displaying images with wide color gamut is provided. A display device capable of displaying images with wide color gamut and capable of relaxing contrast made by narrow spectra is provided. The display device includes a liquid crystal element and a light-emitting element. Light obtained from the liquid crystal element through a color filter has an NTSC area ratio of more than or equal to 20 percent and less than or equal to 60 percent and light emitted by the light-emitting element has a BT.2020 area ratio of more than or equal to 80 percent and less than or equal to 100 percent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Satoshi SEO, Ryo HATSUMI
  • Publication number: 20200133065
    Abstract: A backlight module and a preparing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The backlight module includes a back plate, a light guide plate, and an optical film sheet. The back plate includes a bottom plate, the light guide plate is located inside the back plate, the optical film sheet is disposed on a side of the light guide plate away from the back plate and fixedly connected to the light guide plate, and an orthographic projection of the optical film sheet on a plane where the bottom plate is located is located in the bottom plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Tengfei LOU
  • Publication number: 20200133066
    Abstract: The present application discloses a heat dissipation device of a backlight module, a backlight module and a display device. The heat dissipation device includes a heat sink for mounting a light source, wherein a side of the heat sink is provided with a heat sink wind slot, two ends of the heat sink wind slot are respectively formed with a gas inlet and a gas outlet; and a constant fan, wherein an opening of the constant fan is corresponding to the gas inlet of the heat sink wind slot. The heat dissipation device of the backlight module of the invention adopts the constant fan and introduces the airflow into the heat sink wind slot to remove the heat, so as to achieve the purpose of active heat dissipation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Dehua LI, Gang YU
  • Publication number: 20200133067
    Abstract: A display system with a geometric backlight module is provided. The display system includes a screen configured to display images. A backlight module is disposed behind the screen. The backlight module includes a geometric structure with a number of cells, each cell defined by a number of side walls, wherein the number is greater than four. A light source is disposed in each cell. The light sources are configured to illuminate the screen independently from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Richard Chiang