With Different Liquid Crystal Thickness For Each Color Of Filter Patents (Class 349/107)
  • Patent number: 11580782
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a display panel, including a display region, wherein the display region includes an iris recognition region; the display panel further includes a light conversion layer disposed in the iris recognition region, the light conversion layer is configured to convert visible light incident on the light conversion layer into infrared light, and the infrared light is emitted from a display side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qing Wang, Shengji Yang, Xiaochuan Chen, Kuanta Huang
  • Patent number: 11527742
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display substrate and a phase functional layer disposed on the display substrate. The display substrate includes a plurality of pixel units. The phase functional layer includes a plurality of phase retardation layers. Each of the phase retardation layers is disposed corresponding to one of the pixel units. The phase retardation layer is configured to convert a linearly polarized light passing therethrough into a circularly polarized light. The display panel and the display device have good anti-reflective performance, so that a displayed image is not disturbed by external light and has high definition. Also, it is beneficial to realize a thin and light design of the display panel and display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hanning Yang
  • Patent number: 11487142
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a first display area and a second display area. The first display area includes first pixel areas, each including one or more first pixels. The second display area includes second pixel areas including one or more second pixels and a light transmittance area having a higher light transmittance than the second pixel area. The first and second display areas include a common electrode that transmits a constant common voltage. The common electrode in the second display area includes patterned regions that correspond to a first light transmittance area included in the light transmittance area. A thickness of the common electrode in the patterned regions is smaller than a thickness of the common electrode in a region other than the patterned regions or equals zero. The patterned regions and the second pixel areas extend alternately along a first direction in the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Wook Kim, Won Kyu Kwak, Jin Woo Park, Hyun-Chol Bang
  • Patent number: 11435632
    Abstract: The present invention provides an array substrate and a display panel, wherein the first protrusion and the second protrusion are provided in the filter unit of the color filter layer, and the second gap between the data line and the drain is covered with the first protrusion and/or the second protrusion, to solve the problem that a residue of the ITO exists in the second gap, which causes short circuit between the pixel electrode and the DBS electrode, such that the product yield is elevated, and the display effect is improved, thus enhancing customer experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qi Zhang, Wu Cao, Yihe Zhang
  • Patent number: 11415838
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a first drain, a planarization layer, a first pixel electrode, a second substrate, and a spacer. The first drain is disposed on the first substrate. The planarization layer is disposed on the first drain and has a first contact hole exposing the first drain. The first pixel electrode is disposed on the planarization layer and is electrically connected to the first drain via the first contact hole. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The spacer is disposed between the planarization layer and the second substrate. The spacer at least partially overlaps with the first contact hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Jou Tai, Chia-Hao Tsai
  • Patent number: 11036101
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate at which red, green, blue, and white display areas are defined; first, second, and third organic layers having transmittance for white light and disposed on the substrate at the green, blue, and white display areas, respectively; a red color filter on the substrate at the red display area; a green color filter on the first organic layer at the green display area; and blue color filter on the second organic layer at the blue display area. A thickness of the third organic layer is greater than each of thicknesses of the first and second organic layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventors: Seunghyun Park, Junho Song
  • Patent number: 10879272
    Abstract: A semiconductor device production system using a laser crystallization method is provided which can avoid forming grain boundaries in a channel formation region of a TFT, thereby preventing grain boundaries from lowering the mobility of the TFT greatly, from lowering ON current, and from increasing OFF current. Rectangular or stripe pattern depression and projection portions are formed on an insulating film. A semiconductor film is formed on the insulating film. The semiconductor film is irradiated with continuous wave laser light by running the laser light along the stripe pattern depression and projection portions of the insulating film or along the major or minor axis direction of the rectangle. Although continuous wave laser light is most preferred among laser light, it is also possible to use pulse oscillation laser light in irradiating the semiconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Isobe, Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Dairiki, Hiroshi Shibata, Chiho Kokubo, Tatsuya Arao, Masahiko Hayakawa, Hidekazu Miyairi, Akihisa Shimomura, Koichiro Tanaka, Mai Akiba
  • Patent number: 10845665
    Abstract: A window may be provided with a light modulator. The light modulator may be dynamically adjusted to control visible light transmission through the window. The window may also have layers that selectively block light with non-visible wavelengths. The light-blocking layers may block ultraviolet light, near infrared light such as light from solar radiation, and far infrared light such as heat produced due to the absorption of visible light by the light modulator. The light modulator may be a guest-host liquid crystal light modulator. The guest-host liquid crystal light modulator may have a layer of liquid crystal material with dye that is interposed between polymer substrate layers. The polymer substrate layers may be thermoplastic layers that are moldable to conform to window shapes with compound curves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Khadijeh Bayat, Cheng Chen, Ibuki Kamei, Shih-Wei Chang, Avery P. Yuen, Zhibing Ge
  • Patent number: 10613408
    Abstract: A luminous display substrate includes a base substrate, a light reflective and electrically conductive film layer on the base substrate, and a light-transmittance metal film layer on a side of the light reflective and electrically conductive film layer away from the base substrate. A side of the light reflective and electrically conductive film layer adjacent to the light-transmittance metal film layer is recessed towards the base substrate to form a curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huaxu Bao, Minghui Zhang, Bing Bai, Yubo Wang, Xiaohu Li, Inho Park, Weitao Chen
  • Patent number: 10361222
    Abstract: A semiconductor device production system using a laser crystallization method is provided which can avoid forming grain boundaries in a channel formulation region of a TFT, thereby preventing grain boundaries from lowering the mobility of the TFT greatly, from lowering ON current, and from increasing OFF current. Rectangular or stripe pattern depression and projection portions are formed on an insulating film. A semiconductor film is formed on the insulating film. The semiconductor film is irradiated with continuous wave laser light by running the laser light along the stripe pattern depression and projection portions of the insulating film or along the major or minor axis direction of the rectangle. Although continuous wave laser light is most preferred among laser light, it is also possible to use pulse oscillation laser light in irradiating the semiconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Isobe, Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Dairiki, Hiroshi Shibata, Chiho Kokubo, Tatsuya Arao, Masahiko Hayakawa, Hidekazu Miyairi, Akihisa Shimomura, Koichiro Tanaka, Mai Akiba
  • Patent number: 10175543
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a first substrate that has a first pixel area with a first transmitting region and a first non-transmitting region and a second pixel area with a second transmitting region and a second non-transmitting region, a first pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate in the first pixel area, and a second pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate in the second pixel area. An area of the first pixel electrode in the first transmitting region is greater than that of the second pixel electrode in the second transmitting region, and an area of the first pixel electrode in the first non-transmitting region is less than that of the second pixel electrode in the second non-transmitting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su Jin Lee, Hyang Yul Kim, Jeong Ho Lee, Soo Jung Chae
  • Patent number: 10101608
    Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a color filter substrate, in which a layer of photoresist layer of a negative photoresist resin material is first formed on the color filter film layer; then, back side exposure is conducted on the photoresist layer from the underside of the backing plate so that a part of the photoresist layer that is adjacent to the backing plate gets cured for subsequently forming a planarization layer; afterwards, a mask is used to conduct front side exposure on the photoresist layer from the backing plate to form post spacers; and finally, the photoresist layer that has been subjected to exposure twice is subjected to development to remove a portion of the photoresist layer that has not been cured so as to form, simultaneously, a planarization layer and post spacers located on the planarization layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Anshi Li
  • Patent number: 10048529
    Abstract: The present invention provides a color filter substrate and a liquid crystal display device, belongs to the field of liquid crystal display technology, and can overcome the color shift problems in existing liquid crystal display device. The color filter substrate of the present invention comprises: a first substrate, a black matrix and a color film layer provided on the first substrate, wherein the color film layer comprises a plurality of pixel units arranged periodically and repeatedly in a matrix, each pixel unit includes at least two sub-pixels of different colors, each sub-pixel comprises a color filter film, a first common electrode disposed on the color filter film, and a dielectric layer disposed on the first common electrode, wherein the thicknesses of the dielectric layer at at least two locations within each pixel unit are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiaoming Lu
  • Patent number: 10042206
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a display panel and a display device. The display substrate includes a first base substrate and a filter layer arranged on the first base substrate. The filter layer includes a red-light emission unit, a green-light emission unit and a blue-light transmission unit. The red-light emission unit includes a red quantum dot material capable of emitting red light when it is irradiated by blue light, the green-light emission unit includes a green quantum dot material capable of emitting green light when it is irradiated by the blue light, and the blue-light transmission unit is not covered with a quantum dot material and the blue light is transmitted through the blue-light transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Nagayama, Song Song
  • Patent number: 9964826
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transflective switchable liquid crystal display device and its display module. The liquid crystal display module includes a liquid crystal unit and a transflector driving unit arranged in this order; wherein the transflective driving unit further includes a first substrate, a first electrode layer arranged on the first substrate, a first liquid layer arranged on the first electrode layer, and a second liquid layer surrounding and covering the first liquid layer. The spreading and shrinking state of the first liquid layer are changed by controlling the voltage of the first electrode layer, and the transmissive mode and the reflective mode of the liquid crystal display module are switched. The liquid crystal display module enables the liquid crystal display to have a high opening, a high penetration, or a highly reflective display in both the transmission mode and the reflection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Xinhui Zhong
  • Patent number: 9910314
    Abstract: There are provided a display device having dual color filter patterns and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate including first color filter patterns, a counter substrate including second color filter patterns, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the array substrate and the counter substrate, wherein the first color filter patterns and the second color filter patterns include photoresists having different color coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Ho Lee, Jin A Seo, Myung Jin Lee, Chul Huh
  • Patent number: 9904131
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel and a LCD are disclosed. The liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate parallel to each other, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate comprises at least one reflective area and at least one transmission area arranged in an interleaved manner. A surface of the first substrate facing away the second substrate is configured with a metallic reflective layer of a wedged-shaped structure, the metallic reflective layer is arranged on the reflective area. A surface of the metallic reflective layer facing toward the liquid crystal layer is a plane, and a surface of the metallic reflective layer facing away the liquid crystal layer is a slope. A thickness of the metallic reflective layer has been gradually increased along a direction from the transmission area toward the reflective area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang Xie
  • Patent number: 9899419
    Abstract: A semiconductor device production system using a laser crystallization method is provided which can avoid forming grain boundaries in a channel formation region of a TFT, thereby preventing grain boundaries from lowering the mobility of the TFT greatly, from lowering ON current, and from increasing OFF current. Rectangular or stripe pattern depression and projection portions are formed on an insulating film. A semiconductor film is formed on the insulating film. The semiconductor film is irradiated with continuous wave laser light by running the laser light along the stripe pattern depression and projection portions of the insulating film or along the major or minor axis direction of the rectangle. Although continuous wave laser light is most preferred among laser light, it is also possible to use pulse oscillation laser light in irradiating the semiconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Isobe, Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Dairiki, Hiroshi Shibata, Chiho Kokubo, Tatsuya Arao, Masahiko Hayakawa, Hidekazu Miyairi, Akihisa Shimomura, Koichiro Tanaka, Mai Akiba
  • Patent number: 9798053
    Abstract: A mask plate, a color filter substrate and a method for fabricating the same, a display panel and display device are disclosed. The mask plate includes a light transmitting region having at least two light transmittance levels, wherein the light transmittance level of the light transmitting region corresponding to a black matrix is configured to be increased from a central region of the mask plate to a peripheral region of the mask plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qingyong Meng
  • Patent number: 9671640
    Abstract: In an electro-optical device 100, a color filter substrate 20 is provided with colored pixels, which are: a red pixel 2(R) with a colored layer 28(R) formed inside a concave portion 25(R) formed in a first surface 20s of a light-transmissive substrate 20d, a green pixel 2(G) with a colored layer 28(G) formed inside a concave portion 25(G) formed in said surface, and a blue pixel 2(B) with a colored layer 28(B) formed inside a concave portion 25(B) formed in said surface. In addition, in the substrate 20d, a non-colored pixel 2(W), at which no colored layer is provided, is provided outside the concave portion 25(R), 25(G), 25(B) at a position where the thickness of the substrate 20d is greater than that at the colored pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Wachi, Hidetoshi Ushiyama, Naotaka Kubota
  • Patent number: 9618786
    Abstract: In an electro-optical device 100, a color filter substrate 20 is provided with colored pixels, which are: a red pixel 2(R) with a colored layer 28(R) formed inside a concave portion 25(R) formed in a first surface 20s of a light-transmissive substrate 20d, a green pixel 2(G) with a colored layer 28(G) formed inside a concave portion 25(G) formed in said surface, and a blue pixel 2(B) with a colored layer 28(B) formed inside a concave portion 25(B) formed in said surface. In addition, in the substrate 20d, a non-colored pixel 2(W), at which no colored layer is provided, is provided outside the concave portion 25(R), 25(G), 25(B) at a position where the thickness of the substrate 20d is greater than that at the colored pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Wachi, Hidetoshi Ushiyama, Naotaka Kubota
  • Patent number: 9612378
    Abstract: A folder type polarizing film for OLEDs and a display device, the film including a polarizer; a transparent support attached to an upper surface of the polarizer, the transparent support being a cycloolefin polymer film; and a compensation film attached to a lower surface of the polarizer, the compensation film being a cycloolefin polymer having a phase difference of ?/4 relative to a polarization axis of the polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Cheil Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Seon Oh Hwang, Yong Woon Kim, Hae Ryong Chung
  • Patent number: 9536902
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array substrate includes a pixel electrode layout area, a data electrode layout area, a transparent pixel electrode layer formed in the pixel electrode layout area, a first metal layer, a first dielectric layer, an amorphous silicon layer, a second metal layer, a second dielectric layer formed in the pixel electrode layout area and the data electrode layout area. The first dielectric layer covers the first metal layer. The amorphous silicon layer, the second metal layer and the second dielectric layer are sequentially formed on the first dielectric layer. The transparent pixel electrode layer is connected to the second metal layer through a via hole formed in the pixel electrode area of the second dielectric layer. Moreover, a method for manufacturing the thin film transistor array and a liquid crystal display including the thin film transistor array substrate also are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Qibiao Lv
  • Patent number: 9366925
    Abstract: Provided is an electro-optical apparatus that includes a first insulation layer, a retention capacitance region including a plurality of retention capacitances disposed on the first insulation layer, a second insulation layer formed so as to cover the first insulation layer and the plurality of retention capacitances, and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged on the second insulation layer so as to respectively overlap a corresponding one of the plurality of retention capacitances in a plan view. The first insulation layer includes a recessed portion formed in a region including the retention capacitance region, and the retention capacitances are provided on a bottom face of the recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Oikawa, Satoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 9236411
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed of an apparatus comprising a color filter arrangement including a set of color filters. The set of color filters includes a pair of first color filters, each having first and second hard mask layers formed thereon, a second color filter having the first hard mask layer formed thereon, and a third color filter having no hard mask layer formed thereon. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Chen, Duli Mao, Hsin-Chih Tai, Howard E. Rhodes
  • Patent number: 9128327
    Abstract: A display is provided that has upper and lower polarizers, a color filter layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. The color filter layer and thin-film transistor layer may be formed from materials such as glass that are subject to stress-induced birefringence. To reduce light leakage that reduces display performance, one or more internal layers may be incorporated into the display to help ensure that linearly polarized backlight that passes through the display is not undesirably converted into elliptically polarized light. The internal layers may include a thin-film polarizer layer that forms a coating on the color filter layer, a thin-film polarizer layer that forms a coating on the thin-film-transistor layer, a retarder layer that is formed as a coating on the color filter layer, and a retarder layer that is formed as a coating on the thin-film-transistor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Young Cheol Yang, Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9025113
    Abstract: A display panel has a portion of a color filter or patterned color layer with a thickness of at least half of the cell gap of the display panel, wherein the repair method includes providing a energy light beam to the portion of the color filter or the patterned color layer in the sub-pixel region with a bright point defect to make the portion of the color filter or patterned color layer have porous structure so that bright point is repaired to become a grey point or a dark point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hsueh-Min Yin, Hsin-Chang Huang, Jung-Hsiang Lin, Shen-Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 9017583
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition includes (A) a photopolymerization initiator including a compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, wherein in Chemical Formula 1, each substituent is the same as defined in the detailed description, (B) a binder resin, (C) a photopolymerizable monomer, (D) a colorant, and (E) a solvent, and a light blocking layer and liquid crystal display (LCD) using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Uchikawa
  • Patent number: 9013658
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a reflective color filter. According to the method, the reflective color filter may reflect light having a desired wavelength by controlling the distance between colloidal particles. The method of manufacturing a reflective color filter may include forming colloidal particles having a charged surface, forming colloidal crystals by controlling distances between the colloidal particles, and forming a photonic crystal composite by fixing the colloidal crystals having the colloidal particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moon Gyu Han, Yong-wan Jin, Hong-seok Lee
  • Patent number: 9007550
    Abstract: Provided are a display device capable of reducing a weight, a thickness, a cost, and a process time and having a durable structure, and a manufacturing method thereof. The display device includes: a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas; a thin film transistor formed on substrate; a first electrode connected to the thin film transistor to be formed in the pixel area; an organic layer formed on the first electrode so as to be connected along the adjacent pixel areas in a first direction among the pixel areas; a space positioned on the first electrode, of which parts of the upper surface and the side are surrounded by the organic layer; a liquid crystal formed to fill the space; and an overcoat formed to cover the rest side of the space which is not covered by the organic layer, in which a height of the upper surface of the organic layer is gradually lowered toward both edges of the pixel area from the center of the pixel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nak Cho Choi, Yeun Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 8953122
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a higher aperture ratio is provided. According to one embodiment of the present invention, second color filters are formed so as to overlap with first color filters when adjacent color filters having different colors are formed on the TFT substrate side, so that the angle of the first tapers where said first color filters overlap and the angle of the second tapers where said second color filters overlap are set to 45° or more and 90° or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Mizuno, Junji Tanno, Shinsuke Hayahara, Masato Sakurai, Yasukazu Kimura, Jun Fujiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20150009462
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate including an insulative substrate and a color filter layer formed on that side of the insulative substrate, which is opposed to the first substrate, the color filter layer including a first color filter of red, a third color filter of blue which is spaced apart from the first color filter, a fifth color filter of red which is spaced apart from the third color filter, a second color filter which is located between the first color filter and the third color filter and has a color which is different from red and blue, and a fourth color filter which is located between the third color filter and the fifth color filter and has a color which is different from red and blue, and a liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Kozuka, Keiji Tago, Hirokazu Morimoto
  • Patent number: 8908139
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Yoon So, Yong-Je Jeon, Sun-Kyo Jung
  • Patent number: 8873000
    Abstract: Disclosed is a color filter substrate that includes: a first colored layer (22r), a second colored layer (22g), and a third colored layer (22b) that are arranged on a transparent substrate (10b) and that have mutually different hues; and a common electrode (25) that is provided so as to cover the colored layers. The common electrode (25) includes: a first transparent electrode (23a) and a second transparent electrode (23b) that are formed of a first transparent conductive film and that are arranged so as to overlap the first colored layer (22r) and the second colored layer (22g), respectively; a third transparent electrode (24b) that is formed of a second transparent conductive film, which is different from the first transparent conductive film, and that is arranged so as to overlap the third colored layer (22b); and a fourth transparent electrode (24a) that is formed of the second transparent conductive film and that is arranged so as to overlap the first colored layer (22r).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Unified Innovative Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Isao Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 8866999
    Abstract: Disclosed is an LCD device which facilitates to improve transmittance for each colored light by a design capable of realizing an optimal cell gap for each of sub-pixels, and a method for manufacturing the same. The LCD device comprises first and second substrates confronting each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; and first, second, and third sub-pixels, wherein a cell gap of the first sub-pixel is larger than a cell gap of the third sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Il Lee, In Jae Chung, Kang Il Kim
  • Patent number: 8817223
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flexible display device capable of forming a display device on a glass substrate and simultaneously ensuring flexibility, and a fabrication method thereof, the method including preparing a glass substrate having a display region and a non-display region defined on a front surface thereof, forming a display device on the display region defined on the front surface of the glass substrate, preparing a metal foil substrate, bonding the metal foil substrate to the glass substrate such that a front surface of the metal foil substrate faces the front surface of the glass substrate so as to seal the display device, attaching a first passivation film on a region of a rear surface of the glass substrate, the region corresponding to a part or all of the non-display region defined on the front surface of the glass substrate, and attaching a second passivation film on an entire rear surface of the metal foil substrate, performing a first etching with respect to the display region of the rear surface of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Young Lee, Jung-Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 8760605
    Abstract: A display device including: first, second and third substrates, where the second substrate is between the first and third substrates; a light amount controlling layer between the first and second substrates; a color providing layer between the second and third substrates; a light source unit which provides light; and a light guide plate disposed below the first substrate, where the light guide plate guides the light from the light source to the first substrate, where the light amount controlling layer and the color providing layer include pixels corresponding to each other, light from the light guide plate and passed through a pixel of the light amount controlling layer to pass through an adjacent pixel of the color providing layer, and the pixels of the color providing layer include a color conversion region and a transparent region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Min Cho, Kwang Keun Lee, Jae Byung Park
  • Patent number: 8758654
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition for a color filter includes (A) a binder resin including a cardo-based resin represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, (B) a photopolymerization initiator represented by the following Chemical Formula 14, (C) a photopolymerizable monomer, (E) a colorant, and (F) a solvent and a color filter using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Uchikawa
  • Patent number: 8749736
    Abstract: Discussed are a color filter using a surface plasmon, a liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a method for fabricating the same, capable of enhancing a transmittance rate of an LC panel, by forming a transmissive pattern having a plurality of sub-wavelength holes having a period at a metal layer so that light of a specific wavelength can be selectively transmitted, and capable of simplifying the entire processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min-Sung Yoon
  • Patent number: 8681299
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display panel which allows high quality display by suppressing a disturbance of liquid crystal molecule alignment caused by formation of liquid crystal alignment control protrusions. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention is a liquid crystal display panel including a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates, one of the pair of the substrates including a colored layer, a light-shielding layer, and walled liquid crystal alignment control protrusions projecting toward the other substrate, the liquid crystal alignment control protrusions including a main protrusion and a secondary protrusion lower than the main protrusion, and the secondary protrusion not being provided along a borderline between the colored layer and the light-shielding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daisuke Kitano, Yutaka Sawayama
  • Patent number: 8654303
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention is arranged such that a retardation of a liquid crystal layer which obtained while no voltage is applied falls within ±(a value which is one-tenth of a main wavelength) of a value obtained by adding natural number times the main wavelength to a total retardation of at least one optical compensation film. This allows suppression of a transmittance during no voltage application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yohei Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 8648984
    Abstract: A color filter substrate for a liquid crystal display device and a method of fabricating the same includes black matrixes on a transparent insulating substrate, the black matrixes defining pixel areas and having a first region and a second region, color filters in the pixel areas and having areas overlapping the first region of the black matrixes, and ball spacers above the second region of the black matrixes, wherein a thickness of the first region is greater than a thickness of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong Chul Kim, Jun Beom Cho, Seung Hyung Lee, Kyo Yong Koo, Hyeon Jin Seo, Dhang Kwon, Robert Taff
  • Patent number: 8643629
    Abstract: A color filter includes a transparent substrate, a conductive layer, a color filtering layer, and a protection layer. The conductive layer is formed on the transparent substrate for sensing touch signals, and the periphery of the conductive layer is provided with peripheral electrodes. The color filtering layer is formed on the conductive layer and includes multiple red light filtering sections, multiple green light filtering sections, and multiple blue light filtering sections, and a pixel of a liquid crystal display device includes at least one red light filtering section, at least one green light filtering section and at least one blue light filtering section. The protection layer is formed on the color filtering layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Wintek Corporation
    Inventor: Chien-Chung Kuo
  • Patent number: 8619202
    Abstract: A projector includes: a lighting device that emits light of a plurality of different colors; a plurality of liquid crystal light valves that modulate the light of a plurality of colors; a color synthesizing optical system that synthesizes the color light modulated by the plurality of liquid crystal light valves; and a projection optical system that projects the light synthesized by the color synthesizing optical system to a projection target face. A cell thickness of one liquid crystal light valve modulating light of one color of the plurality of liquid crystal light valves is smaller than a cell thickness of the other liquid crystal light valves modulating the light of other colors, and an alignment state of liquid crystal at the time of applying the maximum gradation voltage is substantially the same in one liquid crystal light value and the other liquid crystal light valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akihide Haruyama
  • Patent number: 8610847
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes an array substrate having pixel regions, the pixel regions including thin film transistors and pixel electrodes, a color filter substrate above the array substrate, the color filter substrate including a plurality of color filters corresponding to respective pixel regions in the array substrate, a black matrix in spaces between the plurality of color filters, and a color frame layer surrounding the plurality of color filters and the black matrix, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Youn-Hwan Jung
  • Patent number: 8605236
    Abstract: An LCD apparatus and method of manufacturing the same is disclosed. The LCD apparatus includes a backlight; a first electrode and a second electrode disposed over the backlight; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a color filter unit including a first color filter, a second color filter, and a third color filter, disposed over the second electrode, where the first color filter includes a plurality of first regions and a plurality of first connection portions, each first connection portion connecting two adjacent first regions to each other, and the second color filter includes a plurality of second regions and a plurality of second connection portions, each second connection portion connecting two adjacent second regions to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Yoon So, Sang-Woo Park
  • Patent number: 8587760
    Abstract: Disclosed is an LCD device which facilitates to improve transmittance for each colored light by a design capable of realizing an optimal cell gap for each of sub-pixels, and a method for manufacturing the same. The LCD device comprises first and second substrates confronting each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; and first, second, and third sub-pixels, wherein a cell gap of the first sub-pixel is larger than a cell gap of the third sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Il Lee, In Jae Chung, Kang Il Kim
  • Patent number: 8553181
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including pixel electrodes disposed, respectively, in a first color pixel on one end side of an active area and in a second color pixel on the other end side of the active area, a light-shield layer which surrounds the first color pixel and the second color pixel and extends to a peripheral area surrounding the active area, a first color filter disposed in the first color pixel, a second color filter disposed in the second color pixel, a dummy color filter which is stacked on the light-shield layer in the peripheral area, creates a distance between second color filter and the dummy color filter and is continuous with the first color filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Display Central Inc.
    Inventors: Eishi Yamakawa, Sakae Yoshida, Daichi Hosokawa, Junichi Kobayashi, Takuho Maeda, Atsushi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8547507
    Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided for efficiently preventing white coordinates from being yellowish. The LCD includes a substrate having red color filters, green color filters, and blue color filters. The blue color filters have an overall area smaller than that of the red color filters and the green color filters while blocking green light better than the red color filters and blocking red light better than the green color filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nam-seok Roh, Soo-guy Rho
  • Patent number: 8493529
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, an active area to display an image, a seal material surrounding the active area, and an intermediate area between the active area and the seal area. In the intermediate area, first and second color filters are formed on the second substrate. An overcoat layer is laminated on the first and second color filters. First and second pillar-shaped spacers are provided between the overcoat layer and the first substrate corresponding to the first and second color filters to form a first and second cell gaps between the first and second substrates, respectively. The first cell gap adjacent to the active area between the first and second substrates is smaller than the second cell gap adjacent to the seal area in the intermediate area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Display Central Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Kobayashi, Yoshio Iwai, Kazuyuki Harada, Yasuhiro Yamamoto