Patents Issued in January 2, 2024
  • Patent number: 11860463
    Abstract: A HUD includes a plate that connects an emission-surface of the LCD and a heat sink, is formed of a material having a higher thermal conductivity than air, and is provided with an emission-surface exhaust heat path that is formed to: include a holding region fixed to a periphery of the emission-surface directly or via a material having a higher thermal conductivity than air, and an intermediate region connecting the holding region and the heat sink; connect an end portion, which is opposite to the holding region, of the intermediate region with the heat sink directly or via a material having a higher thermal conductivity than air; extend from the emission-surface to the heat sink via the plate; and have a thermal gradient greater than that of a heat transfer path for transferring heat from the emission-surface to the heat sink by using air as a medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Kawawa, Toshinori Sugiyama, Tomoki Yamamoto, Tatsuya Nakazawa, Keisuke Sawada, Akio Misawa, Nozomu Shimoda
  • Patent number: 11860464
    Abstract: An optical stack includes: a light scattering film converting light received at a light receiving surface into scattering light therein and then outputting the scattering light outside from a light output surface, and a sheet provided on the light output surface side of the light scattering film. The light scattering film includes: a functional layer formed of a light-transmissive composition including an organic polymer compound and light scattering particles. The functional layer includes a first surface receiving the light and a second surface from which the scattering light is output. The functional layer includes a particle layer formed of light scattering particles having a content of 60% by volume or higher among the light scattering particles, the particle layer expanding along the first surface and being concentrated in a direction perpendicular to the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAKAI DISPLAY PRODUCTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Yamada, Yukio Yoshida, Atsuko Maeda, Sumire Hombo, Hideki Nakagawa, Mitsuhiro Takeba, Toshihiro Yamashita, Katsumi Kondo
  • Patent number: 11860465
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display panel including a pixel providing a light and an input sensing panel sensing an external input. The input sensing panel includes a first sensing insulating layer disposed on the display panel, first conductive patterns disposed on the first sensing insulating layer, a second sensing insulating layer covering the first conductive patterns, second conductive patterns disposed on the second sensing insulating layer, a piezoelectric pattern covering the second conductive patterns, a light blocking pattern covering the piezoelectric pattern and defining a transmission opening transmitting the light, and a third sensing insulating layer covering the light blocking pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Changyun Moon
  • Patent number: 11860466
    Abstract: An optical path control member according to an embodiment comprises an adhesive layer disposed between a second electrode and a light conversion part, wherein: the light conversion part includes a partition wall part and a reception part alternately arranged; the partition wall part includes a first area from the upper surface of the partition wall part up to 30 ?m in a direction toward the first substrate, a third area from the lower surface of the partition wall part up to 30 ?m in a direction toward the second substrate, and a second area provided between the first area and the third area; and Si measured by XPS in the first area corresponds to 2 at % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeon Ji Hong, In Hae Lee
  • Patent number: 11860467
    Abstract: A color filter substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The color filter substrate includes a base substrate, a common electrode layer covered on the base substrate, and a first alignment layer covered on the common electrode layer. The first alignment layer has a display region and a sealant region for connecting a frame sealant. One or a plurality of opening(s) is/are arranged on the first alignment layer, and one or a plurality of electrical conductor(s) embedded in the frame sealant is/are configured to insert into the one or a plurality of opening(s) to be electrically connected with the common electrode layer. According to the present application, a problem of a frequently occurred poor conductivity between the array substrate and the common electrode layer of the color filter substrate in the display panel of the related art is solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventor: Yanna Yang
  • Patent number: 11860468
    Abstract: An in-cell touch panel device includes a first substrate, a plurality of color filters formed on an upper layer with respect to the first substrate and including a green color filter, a transmitter electrode formed on an upper layer with respect to the plurality of color filters, a receiver electrode formed on a lower layer with respect to the plurality of color filters, and a second substrate including a pixel electrode disposed on the second substrate. The transmitter electrode includes a gap portion formed in a portion overlapping the receiver electrode in a plan view and in a portion overlapping the green color filter in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Kiyoshi Minoura, Takashi Satoh, Shunsuke Noichi, Yasuhiro Sugita, Chiaki Minari
  • Patent number: 11860470
    Abstract: A flexible optical element adopting liquid crystals (LCs) as the materials for realizing electrically tunable optics is foldable. A method for manufacturing the flexible element includes patterned photo-polymerization. The LC optics can include a pair of LC layers with orthogonally aligned LC directors for polarizer-free properties, flexible polymeric alignment layers, flexible substrates, and a module for controlling the electric field. The lens power of the LC optics can be changed by controlling the distribution of electric field across the optical zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Yi-Hsin Lin, Ming-Syuan Chen, Yu-Jen Wang
  • Patent number: 11860471
    Abstract: A system is provided. The system includes a display configured to output a virtual image. The system also includes a lens assembly optically coupled to the display and including a plurality of optical lenses. The system also includes a controller configured to selectively activate one or more of the plurality of optical lenses, determine a lens center shift between a center of the selectively activated one or more of the plurality of optical lenses and a center of the lens assembly, and determine an image shift based on the lens center shift for shifting the virtual image output from the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Afsoon Jamali, Wanli Chi, Douglas Robert Lanman
  • Patent number: 11860472
    Abstract: A solvent free-type photocurable resin composition for a polarizing plate protective layer includes an acryl-based prepolymer comprising a (meth)acrylate-based monomer as a polymerization unit; and an isocyanate-based crosslinking agent, wherein the acryl-based prepolymer is in a partially polymerized state, and viscosity at 25° C. is greater than or equal to 50 cPs and less than or equal to 300 cPs. A polarizing plate including the solvent free-type photocurable resin composition, and an image display device including the polarizing plate is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHANJIN OPTOELECTRONICS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mi So Lee, Yoonkyung Kwon, Sanghun Han
  • Patent number: 11860473
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a liquid crystal layer, a light adjustment layer, and a reflection layer. The liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The light adjustment layer includes a plurality of light adjustment portions, and each of the light adjustment portions and a corresponding one of the liquid crystal molecules include a contact interface. The reflection layer is disposed on a side of the liquid crystal layer and the light adjustment layer away from a display side and corresponds to the light adjustment portions. An incident light is totally reflected at the contact interface or passes through the contact interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pengfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11860474
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel; a frame at a rear of the display panel; a plurality of light source assemblies between the display panel and the frame, the light source assemblies providing light for the display panel; and a reflecting sheet between the display panel and the frame and including a first sheet part forming a central area of the reflecting sheet; a second sheet part forming a side area of the reflecting sheet around the first sheet part, the second sheet including vertical dot areas formed on first and second vertical sides of the reflecting sheet and horizontal dot areas formed on first and second horizontal sides of the reflecting sheet; and a plurality of partial ring-shaped dot areas formed on the first sheet part partially around corresponding light source assemblies without completely surrounding the corresponding light source assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sewon Oh, Eunseok Kim
  • Patent number: 11860475
    Abstract: A display device includes: a light source unit including a plurality of light sources; a cover bottom including a horizontal surface on which the plurality of light sources are seated, and a side surface bent along an edge of the horizontal surface; an optical unit on the light source unit; a display panel on the optical unit; a first module film being transparent, supporting a back surface of the optical unit, and including a first edge portion attached to and fixed to an outer side of the side surface of the cover bottom; and a second module film being transparent, attached to a back surface of the display panel, and including a second edge portion attached to and fixed to an outer side of the edge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung-Hyuck Seo, Young-Hun Jeong, Sun-Woong Kim, Seung-Soo Yang
  • Patent number: 11860476
    Abstract: The invention refers to a diffusion plate and a backlight module having the diffusion plate. The diffusion plate comprises a plate-body and a plurality of pyramid-like structures arranged on a surface of the plate-body. Each pyramid-like structure has a bottom surface, a first convex portion and a second convex portion. The first convex portion and the second convex portion have different vertex angles, and therefore the pyramid-like structure can also be called as “pyramid-like structure with multiple vertex angles”. The pyramid-like structures with multiple vertex angles can increase the light splitting points, which can improve the light splitting effect of the diffusion plate. The light source of a single light-emitting diode can be divided into eight point-light sources (light splitting points) or more, which is double the number of light splitting points compared with the traditional pyramid structure with single vertex, and thus can greatly improve the light diffusion effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Entire Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan-Zuo Chen, Hung Han Kao, Tsung-Chang Yang
  • Patent number: 11860477
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a back plate; an optical film disposed on the back plate; and a support module disposed between the back plate and the optical film, wherein the support module includes a base, and the base includes a hollow space and a curved surface away from the back plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming-Tien Wang, Chin-Tu Tsai, Chih-Hung Hsu, Chih-Hung Liu, Hsiang-Yu Juan
  • Patent number: 11860478
    Abstract: A light emitting substrate is provided. The light emitting substrate includes at least one light emitting controlling unit. The at least one light emitting controlling unit includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in M rows and N columns and grouped into (P×Q) number of sub-units, M being an integer equal to or greater than one, N being an integer equal to or greater than one, P being an integer equal to or greater than one, and Q being an integer equal to or greater than one; P groups of first voltage signal lines; and Q groups of second voltage signal lines. The (P×Q) number of sub-units are arranged in P rows and Q columns. A respective sub-unit in a p-th row and a q-th column includes K columns of light emitting elements, K being an integer equal to or greater than one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Yang, Yanan Niu, Fuqiang Li, Qi Qi, Wanzhi Chen, Zhenyu Zhang, Changfeng Li
  • Patent number: 11860480
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having excellent display quality and suppressed occurrence of halo. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device including, in the following order, a first polarizer, a liquid crystal cell, a second polarizer, and a direct type backlight that uses a point light source, in which a light control member is further provided between the second polarizer and the direct type backlight, and the liquid crystal display device satisfies relationships of the following Expression (1) 70%?(I20/I0)×100?90%, Expression (2) 10%?(I40/I0)×100?35%, and Expression (3) 1%?(I60/I0)×100?20%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Suzuki, Tatsuya Iwasaki, Katsufumi Ohmuro
  • Patent number: 11860481
    Abstract: A method for forming an electronic device including two stacked liquid crystal cells is disclosed. A first liquid crystal cell including two substrates is provided. A second liquid crystal cell is formed by disposing another substrate to one of the substrates of the first liquid crystal cell. Subsequently, a cutting step is performed to cut off unnecessary portions of the substrates of the first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell. Before bonding the another substrate, a pre-cutting step is performed to form at least a pre-cutting mark on the substrate on which the another substrate is bonded in order to facilitate removal of unnecessary portions of the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Jen-Hai Chi, Chean Kee
  • Patent number: 11860482
    Abstract: This application discloses a method for manufacturing a display panel and a display panel. The display panel 100 includes: a first substrate 111; a second substrate 112; and a sealant 132, adhering the first substrate 111 and the second substrate 112 in a sealed manner. The first substrate 111 is provided with at least one metallic wire 120 in a sealant region 130. The sealant region 131 is provided with a depressed portion 141.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Junhong Cao
  • Patent number: 11860483
    Abstract: In order to avoid generation of black unevenness caused by the water intrusion into a liquid crystal display device, there is to provide a liquid crystal display device including a display area and a terminal portion, in which a TFT substrate with an organic passivation film formed and an opposite substrate are adhered to each other by a seal portion and a liquid crystal is enclosed there, wherein in the seal portion of the TFT substrate, a groove-shaped through-hole is formed in the organic passivation film to surround the display area, a water absorption layer formed of the same material in the same process as that of the organic passivation film is formed within the groove-shaped through-hole, and the water absorption layer is not covered with the inorganic insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tomonori Nishino, Masato Shimura, Tomokazu Ishikawa, Yuki Kuramoto, Satoshi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11860484
    Abstract: A liquid crystal element (100) includes a plurality of unit electrodes (10), a liquid crystal layer (LQ), and a plurality of wall members (WL). Each of the unit electrodes (10) includes a first electrode (1) and a second electrode (2). A voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer (LQ) from each of the unit electrodes (10). The wall members (WL) are arranged in the liquid crystal layer (LQ). The liquid crystal layer (LQ) has a waveform retardation (RT). Two or more of a plurality of peaks (P1) in the retardation (RT) correspond to positions of respective wall members (WL).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Sunri Lee, Giichi Shibuya, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Masanori Ozaki
  • Patent number: 11860485
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a liquid-crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid-crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first electrode and a second electrode, and one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a pixel electrode provide, the first electrode includes an electrode base portion extending in a first direction and comb tooth portions extending in a second direction and protruding in a comb teeth shape from the electrode base portion with a predetermined distance interposed therebetween, and adjacent comb tooth portions include adjacent comb tooth portions having a relation in which a first long side of one comb tooth portion closest to a boundary between pixels is not parallel to a first long side of the other comb tooth portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiharu Matsushima
  • Patent number: 11860486
    Abstract: A digital display device including, from top to bottom, a first red filter, a transflective liquid crystal display cell, a second red filter and an emissive display cell, the transflective liquid crystal display cell displaying information using at least one first seven-segment digit and the emissive display cell providing a plurality of juxtaposed light points which are arranged so as to provide a display formed by at least one second seven-segment digit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventors: Nicolas Blanckaert, Jerome Thiault, Michel Sagardoyburu, Cecile Barron
  • Patent number: 11860487
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first area, second area, liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of pixels. Each subpixel includes an opening area including a first opening area and a second opening area. The pixels include a first pixel positioned in the first area and a second pixel positioned over a boundary of the first area and the second area. The opening area of the second pixel is smaller than the opening area of the first pixel when opening areas of subpixels of same color are compared. An each imaginary line showing the boundary of the first opening area and the second opening area is a same straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masato Nakamura, Daichi Hosokawa, Yuki Kuramoto, Hideyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11860488
    Abstract: A display panel and a backlight unit facing the display panel are provided. The display panel includes first and second polarizing plates, first and second substrates, and a liquid crystal layer. In a plan view, a second electrode formed on the first substrate extends in a first direction and includes a plurality of branch electrodes arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction. Any one of transmission axes of the first and second polarizing plates is parallel to an orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules when no voltage is applied to the second electrode. When a formation surface of the second electrode is as a base level and a normal direction of the base level is set to 0 degrees, light from the backlight unit has a peak of the intensity of light at an angle different from 0 degrees in a visible light region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiharu Matsushima
  • Patent number: 11860489
    Abstract: The shorting bar includes a test signal wiring layer, an insulating layer, a signal lead layer, a protective layer and a bonding lead layer that are sequentially stacked. The test signal wiring layer is arranged with test signal lines, and the signal lead layer is arranged with signal leads. The test signal lines are made of a transparent conductive material, and a coverage region of the insulating layer and a coverage region of the protective layer are staggered from coverage regions of the test signal lines; or, the signal leads are made of the transparent conductive material, the coverage region of the protective layer is staggered from coverage regions of the signal leads; or, the protective layer is arranged with a plurality of first through holes, and the first through holes correspond to the signal leads in a one-to-one correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Shishuai Huang, Wei Li
  • Patent number: 11860490
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a frame including a conduction part and a resin part, an electro-optical panel that is housed in the inner side of the resin part, and an exposure part that is formed by exposing the conduction part from the resin part. The exposure part is disposed to face at least a part of an end face of the electro-optical panel or protrude from a surface of the electro-optical panel over the end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Kazunori Takabayashi
  • Patent number: 11860491
    Abstract: A display panel includes a second substrate. The second substrate includes a second base substrate and a shielding layer, an array structure layer, an insulating layer and a reflective layer which are sequentially disposed on a second base substrate, the array structure layer includes gate lines; the shielding layer includes a plurality of groups of light shielding units sequentially arranged along a first direction, each group of the light shielding units includes a plurality of independent sub-light shielding units sequentially arranged along a second direction, the reflective layer includes a plurality of reflective units arranged in an array, the plurality of reflective units form a plurality of reflective rows and a plurality of reflective columns, a first space area is formed between adjacent reflective columns, and a second space area is formed between adjacent reflective rows forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhao Zhang, Yanqing Chen, Wei Li, Weida Qin, Kai Chen, Jiguo Wang, Wei Yan, Xiaofeng Zhang, Zeliang Li, Jian Zhang, Zhen Wang
  • Patent number: 11860492
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided and includes first and second substrates; first wiring provided on first substrate along first direction; second wiring provided along second direction intersecting with first direction; thin-film transistor provided at intersection between first and second wirings; drain electrode electrically connected to thin-film transistor; organic insulating film formed on thin-film transistor and covering part of drain electrode; first opening that penetrates organic insulating film and exposing drain electrode; island-shaped electrode disposed on first opening and organic insulating film, and electrically connected to drain electrode; inorganic insulating film disposed on organic insulating film, the drain electrode, and the island-shaped electrode inside the first opening; a second opening that penetrates the inorganic insulating film and exposing the drain electrode; and a pixel electrode formed on the inorganic insulating film and electrically connected to the island-shap
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shumpei Takeuchi, Akio Ota
  • Patent number: 11860493
    Abstract: The present invention is about display technology. A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a substrate layer; a data line arranged on the substrate layer; a color resist layer which is arranged on the substrate layer and located at two sides of the data line, and includes grooves which are located at least at one side of the data line; a shielding layer arranged on the color resist layer and arranged over the data line; a pixel electrode layer arranged over the shielding layer; and a passivation layer arranged between the shielding layer and the pixel electrode layer and covering the shielding layer and the color resist layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xianjin Ge
  • Patent number: 11860494
    Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display panel includes: a liquid crystal display structure, the liquid crystal display structure including: a plurality of first gate lines extending in a row direction, a plurality of first data lines extending in a column direction, and a plurality of sub-pixel units defined by the plurality of first gate lines and the plurality of first data lines; and a liquid crystal light control structure located on a light incident side of the liquid crystal display structure, the liquid crystal light control structure including: a plurality of second data lines, an orthographic projection of at least one second data line on the liquid crystal display structure overlapping the plurality of sub-pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuefei Sun, Xue Dong, Shunhang Zhang, Xinxing Wang, Hua Huang
  • Patent number: 11860495
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device, a liquid crystal display device, and an electronic device which have a wide viewing angle and in which the number of manufacturing steps, the number of masks, and manufacturing cost are reduced compared with a conventional one. The liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode formed over an entire surface of one side of a substrate; a first insulating film formed over the first electrode; a thin film transistor formed over the first insulating film; a second insulating film formed over the thin film transistor; a second electrode formed over the second insulating film and having a plurality of openings; and a liquid crystal over the second electrode. The liquid crystal is controlled by an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 11860496
    Abstract: A liquid crystal apparatus includes a substrate, a pixel electrode, common wiring, a TFT provided between the substrate and the common wiring, a scanning line provided between the substrate and the TFT along a first direction, a capacitance element provided between the substrate and the scanning line and overlapping the scanning line in plan view, and a second relay electrode electrically coupled to the common wiring and overlapping the scanning line in plan view. The second relay electrode and a first capacitance electrode serving as one electrode of the capacitance element are electrically coupled to each other through a contact hole overlapping the scanning line and the first capacitance electrode in plan view. The scanning line has a cutout portion provided between the second relay electrode and the first capacitance electrode and surrounding at least three directions of the circumference of the contact hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuaki Murohashi, Kikuya Morita
  • Patent number: 11860497
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel unit, wherein common signal lines connected to shared thin film transistors located in lens areas are constructed as first common signal lines, and common signal lines connected to shared thin film transistors located in lens splicing areas are constructed as second common signal lines. The pixel unit provided by the present disclosure can independently adjust partial voltages of the shared thin film transistors in the lens areas and the lens splicing areas, thereby relieving deterioration of Lens-Mura occurring in the lens splicing areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ling Zhao
  • Patent number: 11860498
    Abstract: A display panel is provided in the disclosure. The display panel includes at least one first region and at least one second region. The display panel includes a first substrate assembly. The first substrate assembly includes multiple first driving transistors located in the at least one first region and multiple second driving transistors located in the at least one second region. A first source or a first drain of the first driving transistor has a first width, and the first source and the first drain are spaced apart by a first spacing. A second source or a second drain of the second driving transistor has a second width, and the second source and the second drain are spaced apart by a second spacing. A ratio of the second width to the second spacing is greater than a ratio of the first width to the first spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Wenliang Song, Baohong Kang
  • Patent number: 11860499
    Abstract: A multi-layer device comprising a first substrate and a first electrically conductive layer on a surface thereof, the first electrically conductive layer having a sheet resistance to the flow of electrical current through the first electrically conductive layer that varies as a function of position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HALIO, INC.
    Inventors: Howard S. Bergh, Jonathan Ziebarth, Nicolas Timmerman
  • Patent number: 11860500
    Abstract: An integrated computerized control system is capable of automating phases of electrochromic glass configuration, commissioning and control using a database synchronized between a provider side (e.g. manufacturer) and a customer side (e.g. installation location). The control system may support an on-site commissioning process that better ensures that each particular piece of electrochromic glass is correctly matched to glass-specific information used to configure a respective controller to control the particular piece of glass having particular characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAGE Electrochromics, Inc.
    Inventors: Troy Liebl, David Best, Sean Kioski
  • Patent number: 11860501
    Abstract: An optical switch includes a plurality of micro-grooves, a micro-fluid disposed in each micro-groove of the plurality of micro-grooves, and a driving electrode disposed corresponding to the micro-fluid in each micro-groove. The driving electrode is configured to provide a voltage to a corresponding micro-fluid to control light transmittance of a region where the micro-fluid is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xianqin Meng, Xiandong Meng, Wei Wang, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11860502
    Abstract: Provided is an electro-optical modulator, particularly a double layer graphene modulator having an optimized arrangement to provide both a large optical bandwidth and a high optical transmission for light travelling through an optical waveguide of the modulator, wherein at least one of a top and a bottom graphene sheets extends along a X-direction: above part of the width of the optical waveguide, wherein that part ranges from 50% to 100% of the width of the optical waveguide; or completely above the whole width of the optical waveguide, and beyond through a respective further projecting portion with a length, along the X direction, of up to 25% of the optical waveguide width. Provided is also a method for obtaining the electro-optical modulator of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES FOTÒNIQUES
    Inventors: Frank Koppens, Bernat Terrés, Hitesh Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11860504
    Abstract: Provided is an optical scanning device having a stable scanning direction corresponding to a temperature fluctuation of a semiconductor laser by being provided with a predetermined liquid crystal optical element utilizing a characteristic of a linear expansion coefficient of a support of a liquid crystal diffraction element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yukito Saitoh, Hiroshi Sato
  • Patent number: 11860505
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: an array of liquid crystal cells, each liquid crystal cell providing a respective phase shift to electromagnetic radiation passing through the liquid crystal cell; control electronics for controlling the phase shifts provided by each of the liquid crystal cells; a detector; and an image processor for generating an image from electromagnetic radiation detected by the detector. The array of liquid crystal cells form a plurality of patches; and the control electronics is configured to control the phase shifts of the cells of each patch to form each patch into a respective lens that focuses electromagnetic radiation towards the detector such that the plurality of patches form an array of lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MBDA UK Limited
    Inventor: Antony Joseph Frank Lowe
  • Patent number: 11860506
    Abstract: A virtual reality display system of reduced size and depth but with a point of focus electronically changeable to suit different human eyes includes a display device and a focusing structure. The display device emits light for images, the focusing structure on the light path includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a first liquid crystal layer between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, these two electrode layers receiving different voltages. The first liquid crystal layer is configured to converge the image light as necessary for the viewer and enlarge images as desired by the viewer. The image light after being focused displays a virtual reality image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Interface Technology (ChengDu) Co., Ltd., INTERFACE OPTOELECTRONICS (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., INTERFACE OPTOELECTRONICS (WUXI) CO., LTD., GENERAL INTERFACE SOLUTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Po-Lun Chen, Yun-Pei Chen, Che-Wen Chiang, Wei-Hung Tsay
  • Patent number: 11860507
    Abstract: A cascaded focusing and compressing postcompression system includes at least one CASCADE (cascaded focusing and compressing) module. The CASCADE module includes a focusing unit and a compressing unit. The focusing unit is for nonlinear broadening a bandwidth of the light pulses. The compressing unit is for shortening a pulse duration of the light pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ming-Chang Chen, Ming-Shian Tsai, An-Yuan Liang, Chia-Lun Tsai
  • Patent number: 11860508
    Abstract: A light-emitting system includes an optical fiber, a first light source unit, a second light source unit, and a light-guiding member. The optical fiber includes a wavelength-converting portion containing a wavelength-converting element. The wavelength-converting element may be excited by excitation light to produce a spontaneous emission of light having a longer wavelength than the excitation light and may also be excited by an amplified spontaneous emission of light. The first light source unit makes the excitation light incident on the optical fiber. The second light source unit makes seed light, causing the wavelength-converting element that has been excited by either the excitation light or the amplified spontaneous emission of light to produce a stimulated emission of light, incident on the optical fiber. The light-guiding member guides the light coming from the optical fiber and lets the light emerge therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Sato, Yosuke Mizokami, Norishige Nanai
  • Patent number: 11860509
    Abstract: An optical logic gate decision-making circuit that combines non-linear materials, such as silicon nitride, on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate is described. Circuitry includes a ring cavity coupled to an input optical bus waveguide. The input optical bus waveguide receives an optical signal and passes the optical signal to the ring cavity. An electro-optical device, for instance a PN junction, is integrated within the ring cavity to modulate the optical signal such that an optical logic gate function is enabled. An output optical bus waveguide is also coupled to the ring cavity, which outputs the optical signal modified based on the optical logic gate function and based on a wavelength routing function. By using silicon nitride, the optical non-linearity of the materials enables an “all-optical” logic gate. Thus, the optical logic gate decision-making circuit is suitable for all-optical circuits, and support ultrafast optical signal processing and enabling packet switching of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: Mir Ashkan Seyedi
  • Patent number: 11860510
    Abstract: An observation device according to the present invention includes an image display element displaying an image, and a finder optical system used for observing the image displayed on an image display surface of the image display element. The finder optical system includes a positive first lens, a negative second lens, and a biconvex positive third lens arranged in this order from the image display surface side to the observation side. A focal length of the second lens, a focal length of the finder optical system, a curvature radius of a lens surface of the second lens on the image display surface side, a curvature radius of a lens surface of the second lens on the observation side, a diagonal length of the image display surface, and a curvature radius of a lens surface of the third lens on the image display surface side are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Fumihiro Shinobu
  • Patent number: 11860511
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image pickup device that recognizes the object that the user is attempting to capture as the subject, tracks the movement of that subject, and can continue tracking the movement of the subject even when the subject leaves the capturing area so that the subject can always be reliably brought into focus. The image pickup device includes a main camera that captures the subject; an EVF that displays the captured image captured by the main camera, a sub-camera that captures the subject using a wider capturing region than the main camera, and a processing unit that extracts the subject from the captured images captured by the main camera and the sub-camera, tracks the extracted subject, and brings the subject into focus when an image of the subject is actually captured. When the subject moves outside of a capturing region of the main camera, the processing unit tracks the subject extracted from the captured image captured by the sub-camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Nobuo Masuoka
  • Patent number: 11860512
    Abstract: A camera module includes a carrier supported on a housing and movable in an optical axis direction, at least one frame supported on the carrier and movable, relative to the carrier, in at least one direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and a lens module supported on the frame. The frame is supported on the carrier such that attractive force acts in the at least one direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Sung Seo, Hong Joo Lee, Young Bok Yoon, Jung Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 11860513
    Abstract: A driving mechanism is provided. The driving mechanism includes a fixed portion, a movable portion movable relative to the fixed portion, a driving assembly used for driving the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion, and a position sensing assembly for detecting the movement of the movable portion relative to the fixed portion. The driving assembly drives the movable portion by a control signal provided by a control assembly, and the driving assembly includes shape memory alloy. The control assembly receives a position signal provided by the position sensing assembly. The movable portion vibrates relative to the fixed portion at a frequency that is lower than a maximum frequency, and the maximum frequency is less than 10000 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventor: Shusuke Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 11860514
    Abstract: A camera can perform two different photographing operations with a lens at different positions without vignetting while preventing entry of light and dust. A camera includes a frame including a film compartment to contain a photographic film and a barrel extending from the film compartment in an optical axis direction, and a lens barrel movable in the barrel in X-direction. The lens barrel includes cylinders movable frontward relative to the barrel, and a cylinder movable frontward relative to the cylinder. The camera includes a rear bellows connecting the frame and the cylinder, and a front bellows connecting the cylinder and the cylinder. In a first photographing state in which the cylinders extend frontward relative to the barrel and the cylinder is accommodated inside the cylinder, the rear bellows is expanded and the front bellows is partially contracted. In a second photographing state, the cylinder extends frontward relative to the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION, FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomihiro Wakayama, Yuichi Ozawa, Yoshiki Murayama, Takehisa Kirihara, Hisashi Tasaka
  • Patent number: 11860515
    Abstract: Systems comprising a folded camera that includes a lens module with a native aperture, the lens module having a height HM, an adaptive aperture located between the native aperture and an optical path folding element, and an adaptive aperture forming mechanism for forming the adaptive aperture, wherein the adaptive aperture forming mechanism has a height HAA not larger than HM, and methods of using same. In various embodiments, the adaptive aperture forming mechanism includes an actuator and at least one pair of blades operative to be moved by the actuator to a plurality of positions to form the adaptive aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Noy Cohen, Ephraim Goldenberg, Michael Scherer