Having Common Base Or Substrate Patents (Class 345/206)
  • Patent number: 8570310
    Abstract: A display panel have a transmissive region and a reflective region. The display panel comprises a first plate, a second plate opposite to the first plate and a display medium. The first plate comprises a first substrate, a scan line, a data line, an active device, a common electrode, a pixel electrode and a dielectric layer. The active device is electrically connected to the scan line and the data line. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the active device and is electrically insulated from the common electrode. The pixel electrode has slits exposing the common electrode. The dielectric layer is located between the common electrode and the pixel electrode and has first openings in the reflective region. The second plate is opposite to the first plate. The display medium is located between the first plate and the second plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiun-Jr Huang, Chin-Hai Huang, Hui-Mei Hu
  • Patent number: 8564578
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of displaying a still image with low consumption power is provided. In the semiconductor device incorporated with a semiconductor display device capable of displaying the still image, a memory portion is mounted on a substrate on which a pixel portion is formed. As a mounting method, the memory portion is formed on the substrate on which the pixel portion is formed or a stick driver including the memory portion is used. When the still image is displayed using image data stored in such a memory portion, the still image can be displayed by inputting only simple control signals from the outside of the semiconductor device. Thus, there are provided the semiconductor display device capable of displaying the still image with low consumption power and the semiconductor device incorporated with the semiconductor display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Koyama, Kiyoshi Kato
  • Patent number: 8564577
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus including a plurality of display pixels formed of a plurality of first electrodes provided in one surface side of a substrate, a second electrode which faces each of the first electrodes and display functional layers which are provided between each of the first electrodes and the second electrode and a resistive film having a predetermined resistivity in which one surface side is provided so as to face the other surface side of the second electrode having a predetermined space above the upper surface of a partition wall layer to define a forming region for each of the display pixels and which is disposed so as to be conductive to the other surface side of the second electrode by a pressure applied from outside, and the second electrode constructing the display pixels is double used as an electrode for detecting a position where the pressure is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Manabu Takei
  • Patent number: 8558253
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes organic EL elements provided for respective pixels. Each organic EL element has first and second electrodes between which an organic layer is provided and has a region that contributes to light emission and a region that does not contribute to light emission. A capacitor is formed between the first and second electrodes in the region that does not contribute to light emission and is used as a capacitance element in a drive circuit for the organic EL element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Keisuke Omoto
  • Patent number: 8553020
    Abstract: The present invention permits a capacitance value of an electro-optical element such as organic EL element to be arbitrarily set without changing the light extraction efficiency of a pixel. That is, the present invention permits a capacitance value Coled of an organic EL element (21) to be arbitrarily set by adjusting the light emission area of the organic EL element (21) without changing the light extraction efficiency of a pixel (20) in an organic EL display device. The organic EL display device has the pixels (20) arranged in a matrix form. A light extraction opening (56) is formed on the surface of the pixel with a light-shielding film (black matrix) (57). The light extraction opening (56) has an opening area smaller than the light emission area of the organic EL element (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masatsugu Tomida
  • Publication number: 20130249879
    Abstract: A display matrix may have a resistance switch and a display element formed on a common display substrate. The resistance switch may have a metal insulator transition (MIT) material that has a negative differential resistance (NDR) characteristic that exhibits a discontinuous resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Matthew D. Pickett, R. Stanley Williams
  • Patent number: 8542161
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, gate lines, data lines, gate tracking lines, and dummy gate tracking lines. The gate lines and the data lines are arranged perpendicularly. Each gate tracking line is disposed between one parts of two adjacent data lines, and substantially parallel to the data lines. Each dummy gate tracking line is electrically disconnected to the gate lines, disposed between other parts of two adjacent data lines, and substantially parallel to the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yi-Chen Chiang, Yu-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 8542493
    Abstract: A flat display apparatus has a flat display panel; a frame that is installed on a rear face side of the display panel; a cover that covers at least a rear face side of the frame; and a high-voltage power supply that applies high voltage to the display panel. The high-voltage power supply has a plurality of cases, each of which encloses one or more transformers and rectifier circuits, and obtains high voltage by connecting the plurality of cases in series, and the plurality of cases are arranged in a space created between the frame and the cover so as to be disposed on a plane in parallel with a screen of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoto Abe, Eisaku Tatsumi, Tatsuya Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8541888
    Abstract: A pad layout structure of a driver IC chip to be mounted to a liquid crystal display panel. The pad layout structure includes power pad sections placed at respective four corners of the driver IC chip and each having a first power pad for supplying first power to the driver IC chip, a second power pad for supplying second power to the driver IC chip, a third power pad for supplying third power to the driver IC chip and a fourth power pad for supplying fourth power to the driver IC chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joung Cheul Choi, An Young Kim, Joon Ho Na, Dae Seong Kim, Dae Keun Han
  • Patent number: 8539341
    Abstract: We describe a method of displaying a document page with a predetermined size using a display device having edges defining lateral dimensions not substantially larger than said predetermined size and having a central re-writable display portion and a non-re-writable border, said document page comprising a central, foreground portion bearing one or both of text and graphics, a background having a background color and at least one margin having said background color, the method comprising: inputting page data defining a page for display; processing said page data to crop margins of said page such that, when displayed on said re-writable display portion, said non-re-writable border gives the appearance of said cropped margins, said processing generating cropped page data; and outputting said cropped page data for display on said re-writable display portion of said display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Plastic Logic Limited
    Inventors: Duncan Barclay, Steven Farmer, Carl Hayton, Simon Joines, Anusha Nirmalananthan, Paul A. Cain, Barry Merrick
  • Patent number: 8519950
    Abstract: An input device for a user interface comprises means to monitor movement of a user by mapping and recording deformations of their skin. The input device comprises conformable/reversibly stretchable material for placement onto the skin of a user. A plurality of sensors are mounted on, or embedded in, the stretchable material and arranged to undergo, and track in-plane and out-of-plane deformations corresponding to stretching and flexure of the underlying skin. A signal for controlling another device is then generated, based on the detected movement, gesture or positioning of the user based on the detected deformations. In wearable electronics applications, the other device may be mounted on the same stretchable material. The sensors may be arranged to provide active feedback, by selectively applying vibrations or pressure to the user's skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Zoran Radivojevic, Jarkko Tapio Saunamaki, Teuvo Tapani Ryhanen, Stephanie P. Lacour
  • Publication number: 20130215092
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an OLED panel for improving the hysteresis effect of TFT without increasing the area of the pixel circuit and at the same time ensuring the opening ratio. Said OLED panel includes a substrate and a pixel unit array formed thereon, the pixel unit array comprises a plurality of pixel units defined by the intersections of scanning lines and data lines, and each unit includes a driving TFT and an OLED, and the driving TFT has a source connected to a high voltage signal terminal in a backboard, a drain connected to an anode of the OLED; a plurality of resetting TFTs is arranged in the peripheral area of the pixel unit array on the substrate, and the resetting TFT has a gate connected a pre-controlling signal terminal, a source connected to a resetting signal terminal, and each resetting TFT corresponds to a data line one-to-one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongyuan Wu, Tian Xiao, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 8502809
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method of fabricating the same is provided. Semiconductor layers of driving transistors located in two adjacent pixels included in the OLED display device may extend in different lengthwise directions. Thus, striped stains of the OLED display device can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-Ro Lee, Sang-Jo Lee
  • Patent number: 8502808
    Abstract: The present invention provides an active matrix image display apparatus including an organic EL element capable of efficiently arranging a wiring pattern on an insulating substrate compared to the related art. The present invention provides a dummy region arranged at the outermost periphery of a display unit as a scanning line coupling region or a pitch conversion region. A power supply scanning line is commonly used by a pixel circuit of an odd-numbered line and a pixel circuit of a following even-numbered line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Handa, Takayuki Taneda, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8493372
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a circuit board integrally formed with a driving element for driving a display element and a light receiving sensor for receiving light; a light change structure provided in a region of the circuit board, in which the light receiving sensor is formed, and includes a light change material that selectively changes a light receiving amount of the light receiving sensor by moving by itself according to an attitude with respect to a direction of gravitational force; and an attitude determining unit that determines the attitude based on the light receiving amount of the light receiving sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventor: Keiichi Yagi
  • Patent number: 8487845
    Abstract: A semiconductor device in which a signal current can be written quickly in a current source circuit of a current input type. A signal current is written after performing a pre-charge operation, thus the writing is performed quickly. In the pre-charge operation, a current is supplied to a plurality of circuits. The current size is set according to the number of the circuits to be supplied the current, which means the steady state can be obtained quickly. Note that a current may be supplied to a circuit other than the one to be input a signal in the pre-charge operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Publication number: 20130176290
    Abstract: A pixel array substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of center pixel units, a plurality of edge pixel units, at least one conductive pattern, at least one passive electrode and a driving circuit. The substrate includes a main display area and a sub-display area around the main display area. The center pixel units and the edge pixel units are arrayed in the main display area. The conductive pattern and the passive electrode are disposed in the sub-display area, and the conductive pattern is electrically connected to the driving circuit and the passive electrode. The driving circuit is electrically connected to the edge pixel units and the passive electrode and configured to output an edge pixel signal to the edge pixel units and the passive electrode. A display panel using the pixel array substrate is provided. The pixel array substrate and the display panel have an advantage of increasing display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: CHI-MING WU, CHUN-TA CHIEN
  • Patent number: 8482686
    Abstract: Display ground plane structures may contain slits. Image pixel electrodes in the display may be arranged in rows and columns. Image pixels in the display may be controlled using gate lines that are associated with the rows and data lines that are associated with the columns. An electric field may be produced by each image pixel electrode that extends through a liquid crystal layer to an associated portion of the ground plane. The slits in the ground plane may have a slit width. Data lines may be located sufficiently below the ground plane and sufficiently out of alignment with the slits to minimize crosstalk from parasitic electric fields. A three-column inversion scheme may be used when driving data line signals into the display, so that pairs of pixels that straddle the slits are each driven with a common polarity. Gate line scanning patterns may be used that enhance display uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng Ho Yu, Ming Xu, Young Bae Park, Zhibing Ge, Daisuke Nozu, Cheng Chen, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Shih Chang Chang, Shawn R. Gettemy
  • Patent number: 8471834
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel array section having pixels arranged in a form of a matrix on a display panel; a first terminal group disposed on the display panel so as to correspond to each control line of a first control line group arranged in each pixel row of the pixel array section; a first wiring group for electrically connecting each terminal of the first terminal group to each control line of the first control line group; a second terminal group disposed on the display panel for a second control line group arranged in each pixel row of the pixel array section with a plurality of control lines as a unit; and a second wiring group for electrically connecting each terminal of the second terminal group to each control line of the second control line group through parts between the terminals of the first terminal group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8462084
    Abstract: A display device capable of improving the view angle characteristics without deteriorating the outside light contrast and a display unit using it are provided. The display device includes a first electrode, an organic layer including a light emitting layer and a second electrode sequentially over a substrate, and having a resonator structure in which light generated in the light emitting layer is resonated between a first end and a second end. An end face of the first electrode on the light emitting layer side is the first end having a step shape. A distance adjustment layer that fills in the step shape and has a flat surface on the second electrode side is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and thereby the second end is planarized, and an optical distance between the first end and the second end is varied according to the step shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reo Asaki, Hirofumi Fujioka, Yasunobu Hiromasu
  • Patent number: 8462088
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device comprises a first substrate and a second substrate, a display unit formed on the first substrate, and a film disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and comprising an opening in a region corresponding to the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae Hyuk Lee
  • Patent number: 8462285
    Abstract: A first contact hole formed in a gate driving circuit is covered with an electrically conductive oxide film formed to be connected to the first contact hole and having a first pattern. The periphery of the electrically conductive oxide film is surrounded by an electrically conductive oxide film (a sacrifice electrode) formed simultaneously with the electrically conductive oxide film and having a second pattern form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Nojiri, Hiroyuki Murai, Takashi Miyayama
  • Patent number: 8462100
    Abstract: A first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor are provided. In the first transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a first wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to a gate terminal of the second transistor; a gate terminal is electrically connected to a fifth wiring. In the second transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a third wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to a sixth wiring. In the third transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a second wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to the gate terminal of the second transistor; a gate terminal is electrically connected to a fourth wiring. In the fourth transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to the second wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to the sixth wiring; a gate terminal is connected to the fourth wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Umezaki
  • Patent number: 8456395
    Abstract: A panel adjustment method is executed on a host to adjust settings of a panel connected to the host through a serial bus. The method determines whether the panel is supported by the host. When the panel is supported by the host, the settings of the panel is read from a database of the host to accordingly set the panel. It is further determined whether the panel is correctly set or not. When the panel is correctly set, it is further determined whether the panel is of a frame buffer mode or not. When the panel is of a frame buffer mode, it is determined whether a header file generation is required or not. When the header file generation is required, the settings and a panel name are included in an include file. The include file is compiled to thereby generate a binary file which is loaded into the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsung-I Liu
  • Patent number: 8451259
    Abstract: An emission driver includes a plurality of stages, each including: a first driver for outputting an emission control signal through a corresponding emission control line in accordance with either the emission control signal and an inverse emission control signal output from a previous stage of the plurality of stages or a start signal and an inverse start signal; and a second driver for outputting an inverse emission control signal in accordance with the emission control signal and the inverse emission control signal output from the previous stage or the start signal and the inverse start signal, wherein odd numbered stages of the plurality of stages coupled to corresponding odd numbered emission control lines are configured to be driven by a first clock signal, and even numbered stages of the plurality of stages coupled to corresponding even numbered emission control lines are configured to be driven by a second clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mi-Hae Kim
  • Patent number: 8451260
    Abstract: Each shift register includes a first element controlled by a first potential node to supply a first driving voltage to an output terminal, a second element controlled by a second potential node to supply a second driving voltage lower than the first driving voltage to the output terminal, and a third element for controlling the first potential node and the second potential node so as to have opposite potential levels. Voltages are applied to the third element so that a state of A>B and A>C and a state of A<B and A<C, or a state of A>B and A<C and a state of A<B and A>C, or a state of A<B and A>C and a state of A>B and A<C are switched alternately (A: a gate terminal of the third element, B: a voltage applied to a first terminal thereof, C: a voltage applied to a second terminal thereof).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Okada, Mitsuru Goto, Takahiro Ochiai, Naoki Takada, Youzou Nakayasu
  • Publication number: 20130120328
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, an active device array, a gate driver on array (GOA), at least one signal transmission connection pad, a second substrate, an opposite electrode layer, conduction devices, and a display medium is provided. The active device array includes scan lines, data lines, and active devices. The GOA is electrically connected to the scan lines. The signal transmission connection pads are located respectively at a first side of the active device array and a second side of the active device array. The first side and the second side are corresponding to two opposite ends of the scan lines, respectively. The conduction devices and the display medium are disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The signal transmission connection pads are electrically connected to the opposite electrode layer through the conduction devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hao-Chieh Lee, Yi-Suei Liao
  • Publication number: 20130120329
    Abstract: A display panel includes a display area, a non-display area, a plurality of signal pads and a passive covering layer. The non-display area is adjacent to the display area. The signal pads are disposed within the non-display area. The passive covering layer is disposed on the display area and extends to cover at least a portion of the non-display area. The passive covering layer has a first thickness within the display area. The passive covering layer has a second thickness within the non-display area. The first thickness is greater than the second thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Wang, Po-Fu Huang, Chih-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 8441417
    Abstract: A pixel circuit having a function of compensating for characteristic variation of an electro-optical element and threshold voltage variation of a transistor is formed from a reduced number of component elements. The pixel circuit includes an electro-optical element, a holding capacitor, a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, a switching transistor, and first and second detection transistors. The sampling transistor samples and supplies an input signal from a signal line so as to be held into the holding capacitor. The driving transistor drives the electro-optical element with current in response to the held signal potential. The first and second detection transistors supply a threshold voltage of the drive transistor into the holding capacitor in order to cancel an influence of the threshold voltage in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8436842
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus capable of reducing the scale of a drive circuit and decreasing the frame. A display area in which pixels are provided in matrix, a scanning line drive circuit for driving scanning lines, and a signal line drive circuit for driving signal lines are provided on a support substrate. The pixel within the display area is constituted with a plurality of dots. Each dot corresponds to a color filter of a certain color. The dot is in a laterally long shape, i.e. in a shape extending in a direction along the scanning lines. In other words, each dot is in a shape extending in parallel with the longitudinal direction of the signal line drive circuit. The color filters are of lateral stripe type, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Takatori, Hideki Asada, Hiroshi Haga
  • Publication number: 20130093739
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes gate lines, data lines insulated from the gate lines while crossing the gate lines, and pixels each including sub-pixels in two successive rows by three successive columns. Among the sub-pixels in the two rows by the three columns, the sub-pixels in one of the three columns are respectively connected to a pair of different gate lines among three gate lines, and the sub-pixels in a different one of the three columns are connected to a remaining gate line among the three gate lines. The sub-pixels in the one and the different one of the three columns includes the same color filter and are applied with a gate signal transmitted in the same direction along pixel rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-Sun KIM, Yeong-Keun KWON, Soo-Wan YOON, Young-Soo YOON, Jaehoon LEE, Chongchul CHAI
  • Patent number: 8421720
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) and circuit architecture thereof are proposed. Power signal lines, data signal lines, and control signal lines are mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) and a thin film substrate. The thin film substrate is connected to a LCD panel by using a COF bonding. These circuits can be transferred onto a conductive glass of the panel and subsequently onto source driver chips of the thin film substrate of the COF. Therefore, a position which needs the least time for power signal lines, data signal lines, and control signal lines to transmit to all of the circuits of the panel on the PCB can be calculated in order to achieve the best design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chengming He, Dongsheng Guo, Liangchan Liao
  • Patent number: 8422115
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes: a substrate including a unit display area, a fixing member that is formed on the substrate and that is electrically isolated, an insulating layer that is formed on the fixing member, a fixing electrode that is formed on the insulating layer and that is electrically connected to a power source, and a plurality of moving members with one end fixed to the insulating layer and positioned apart by a distance from the fixing electrode. The plurality of moving members and the fixing electrode are positioned within the unit display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hyuk Chang, Seong-Sik Shin, Nam-Seok Roh, Kyung-Ho Lee, Jun-Bo Yoon
  • Publication number: 20130082990
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device including a substrate, a display signal line disposed on the substrate, a contact assistant disposed on the pad region of the substrate as a draw-out terminal of the display signal line, a driver IC chip disposed on the substrate and connected to the display signal line through the contact assistant, and a testing thin film transistor disposed between the substrate and the driver IC chip. The testing thin film transistor and the display signal line are connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8411057
    Abstract: A protection-plate-attached electronic member including: a first electronic member including a first transparent substrate; an adhesion layer which overlaps with the first transparent substrate; a protection plate fixed to the first electronic member in a state in which the adhesion layer intervenes between the protection plate and the first transparent substrate; and a peeling auxiliary section which intervenes between the adhesion layer and one of the protection plate and the first electronic member so as to lower bonding strength between the adhesion layer and the one of the protection plate and the first electronic member, wherein the adhesion layer includes an overlapping section which overlaps with the peeling auxiliary section; and a nonoverlapping section which does not overlap with the peeling auxiliary section and which directly contacts with the one of the protection plate and the first electronic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8405646
    Abstract: A display panel including an active device array substrate, an opposite substrate and a display medium is provided. The active device array substrate includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, pixel units, and data signal transmission lines. The scan lines and data lines define a plurality of pixel regions on the substrate. Each pixel unit is disposed within one of the pixel regions respectively, and each pixel unit includes a plurality of sub-pixel units. The sub-pixel units within the same pixel unit are electrically connected with the same data line, and each sub-pixel unit within the same pixel unit is electrically connected with one of the scan lines respectively. Each data signal transmission line is electrically connected with one of the data lines, and an extending direction of the data signal transmission line is substantially parallel with an extending direction of the scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Wan-Yu Lo, Tsan-Chun Wang, Yu-Cheng Chen, Maw-Song Chen
  • Patent number: 8405829
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a casing, a liquid crystal, a controlling module, and a button. The liquid crystal display is capable of emitting polarized light. The controlling module is received in the casing, the controlling module is configured for controlling the liquid crystal display to display a white screen when receiving a control signal. The button is configured for generating the control signal when triggered by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Cheng Ko
  • Patent number: 8400440
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a display region having pixels on the substrate, a drive circuit element mounted on a peripheral portion of the substrate, a plurality of terminal portions formed on the peripheral portion and arranged on a mounting portion of the drive circuit element, and a plurality of wiring lines prolonged from the terminal portions to the outside of the mounting portion of the substrate. The terminal parts are arranged to two lines of the plurality of wiring lines along one end of the mounting portion, a plurality of bumps connected to each of the terminal portions by an anisotropic conductive film are formed on the plane facing the terminal portion of the drive circuit element, a part of the plurality bumps include a first bump and a second bump which is adjoined close to the first bump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Takenaka, Takanori Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8395609
    Abstract: In a testing method for an organic light emitting display device on a mother substrate, a sheet unit test is performed by directly supplying a test signal to a display region, rather than passing through a data distributor. The organic light emitting display device includes: a display region including pixels coupled to scan lines and data lines; a scan driver for supplying scan signals to the scan lines; a data driver for supplying data signals to output lines; a data distributor for supplying data signals to the data lines; a transistor group including transistors each coupled to one or more of the data lines; and a first wire group and a second wire group, wherein one of the wires included in the first wire group and the second wire group is coupled to gate electrodes of various transistors in the transistor group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Won Kyu Kwak
  • Patent number: 8384634
    Abstract: Visual artifacts in a display are reduced by moving, to the extent possible, display driver components to the display surface itself, thereby shortening conductor distances and reducing the parasitic effects caused by parasitic resistance of the conductors between the display power supply and the display, and between the stabilizing capacitors and the display. To avoid interference with the device housing, low-profile driver components, including either or both of stabilizing capacitors and power supply terminals, can be provided and bonded to the surface of the display side of the outer layer of the display. Alternatively, the stabilizing capacitors can be formed on the display side in the same way that, e.g., in an LCD display, the transparent electrodes for controlling the liquid crystals are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Yongman Lee
  • Patent number: 8373636
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes pixels each having an switching element, drain drivers and gate drivers for operating the switching elements and the pixels, and drain lines and gate lines supplying signals from the drain drivers and the gate drivers to the switching elements being formed on one of a pair of substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer. Wiring lines are formed on the one of a pair of substrates for transferring display data signals and a clock signal to the gate drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Imajo, Tetsuro Izawa, Kimitoshi Ohgiichi, Hiroshi Okawara, Shiro Ueda, Nobuyuki Ishige, Tetsuya Kawamura, Hisashi Ishino, Fumiaki Komori
  • Patent number: 8368617
    Abstract: A display device capable of improving the view angle characteristics without deteriorating the outside light contrast and a display unit using it are provided. The display device includes a first electrode, an organic layer including a light emitting lay and a second electrode sequentially over a substrate, and having a resonator structure in which light generated in the light emitting layer is resonated between a first end and a second end. An end face of the first electrode on the light emitting layer side is the first end having a step shape. A distance adjustment layer that fills in the step shape and has a flat surface on the second electrode side is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and thereby the second end is planarized, and an optical distance between the first end and the second end is varied according to the step shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reo Asaki, Hirofumi Fujioka, Yasunobu Hiromasu
  • Patent number: 8363039
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel including an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, and m×n liquid crystal cells (where m and n are a positive integer) arranged in a matrix format according to a crossing structure of m/2 data lines and 2n gate lines, a plurality of chip on films (COFs) on which source driver integrated circuits (ICs) supplying a data voltage to the data lines are mounted, a printed circuit board (PCB) connected to input terminals of the COFs, and a gate drive circuit directly mounted onto the lower substrate, the gate drive circuit supplying a gate pulse to the gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sansoo Han, Nakjin Seong, Kyuman Lee, Jaeseo Kim, Chulhyun Hwang
  • Patent number: 8363040
    Abstract: A display device (10) includes an upper substrate (first substrate) (2), a lower substrate (second substrate) (3), and a conductive liquid (16) that is sealed in a display space (S) formed between the upper substrate (2) and the lower substrate (3) so as to be moved toward an effective display region (P1) or a non-effective display region (P2). In the display device (10), a signal electrode (4), a reference electrode (5), and a scanning electrode (6) are configured so that voltages in a predetermined voltage range can be independently applied to the respective electrodes. The same voltages (third voltage and fourth voltage) are applied to the reference electrode (5) and the scanning electrode (6) that are provided on the lower substrate (3) so as to be located on the effective display region (P1) side and the non-effective display region (P2) side, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiki Matsuoka, Akio Miyata, Tomoko Teranishi, Shinichi Nakano, Kazuhiro Deguchi
  • Patent number: 8363191
    Abstract: In an active matrix substrate, a plurality of pixels are arranged to correspond to a display region of a liquid crystal panel that has a shape other than a rectangular shape. Further, scan lines that are arranged along rows with the smaller number of the pixels than the other rows among a plurality of scan lines and data lines that are arranged along columns with the smaller number of the pixels than the other columns among a plurality of data lines intersect each other at a position other than the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8345030
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing positive and negative voltages of a power supply. In one aspect, the power supply includes an inductor having a first end coupled via a source switch to a voltage source and coupled via a first plurality of output switches to a respective plurality of negative outputs and a second end coupled via a ground switch to a ground potential and coupled via a second plurality of output switches to a respective plurality of positive outputs and a controller adapted to configure the switches into at least one of multiple configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Johannes Robertus Van Lier
  • Patent number: 8344990
    Abstract: A display panel with half source driver structure and a display data supplying method thereof are disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of gate driving circuits, a data line, a plurality of first gate lines and second gate lines, a plurality of first pixels and second pixels. The first pixels are arranged along the data line and form two columns. The first pixels are disposed at one side of the data line and electrically coupled to the respective first gate lines. The second pixels are arranged along the data line and form two columns. The second pixels are disposed at an opposite side of the data lines and electrically coupled to the respective second gate lines. The data line has a bending portion between each two sequentially connected first pixels. The gate driving circuits are electrically coupled to the first gate lines and the second gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ken-Ming Chen, Chi-Mao Hung, Chao-Liang Lu
  • Patent number: 8339562
    Abstract: Using thin film transistors (TFTs), an active matrix circuit, a driver circuit for driving the active matrix circuit or the like are formed on one substrate. Circuits such as a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory, necessary to drive an electric device, are formed using single crystalline semiconductor integrated circuit chips. After the semiconductor integrated circuit chips are adhered to the substrate, the chips are connected with wirings formed on the substrate by a chip on glass (COG) method, a wire bonding method or the like, to manufacture the electric device having a liquid crystal display (LCD) on one substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yasuhiko Takemura
  • Patent number: 8334959
    Abstract: An electro-optical device having a display region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix includes: switching elements each corresponding to one the plurality of pixels; a first sealed wiring portion that is formed on an element substrate so as to surround at least three sides of the display region; and a second sealed wiring portion that surrounds the first sealed wiring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yukiya Hirabayashi, Takashi Sato
  • Patent number: RE44563
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a pixel circuit that includes a correcting section configured to correct the input voltage sampled in the pixel capacitance in order to cancel out the dependency of the output current on the carrier mobility. In the pixel circuit, the correcting section operates depending on the control signal supplied from the scanning line to extract the output current from the drive transistor and introduce the extracted output current into a capacitance of the light-emitting device and the pixel capacitance, thereby correcting the input voltage. The pixel circuit further includes an additional capacitance added to the capacitance of the light-emitting device. In the pixel circuit, a portion of the output current extracted from the drive transistor flows into the additional capacitance to give a time margin to operation of the correcting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino