Diffuser (on Viewer Side Of Liquid Crystal) Patents (Class 349/112)
  • Patent number: 9523811
    Abstract: Provided are display screen and method for manufacturing the same. The display screen includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; the first substrate includes a base substrate, an optical module arranged on the base substrate, and a plurality of pixel units directly arranged on the optical module; and the second substrate includes an array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenhao Zhang, Yuting Yang
  • Patent number: 9513503
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a polarizer for multi-domain vertical aligned liquid crystal display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display device, a first polarizer, a second polarizer and a diffractive optical element. The first polarizer is disposed on the first substrate. The second polarizer is disposed between the second substrate and the backlight module. The diffractive optical element includes a first diffraction grating and is disposed on a light emitting side of the first polarizer. An azimuth angle the first diffraction grating is counted from an absorbing axis of the first polarizer as standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: CHI MEI MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wang-Yang Li, Ting-Yi Wu
  • Patent number: 9470917
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to display devices comprising a watermark area and a non-watermark area. The display cells in the watermark area have widths of the partition walls, heights of the partition walls, or top opening shapes, which are different from those of the display cells in the non-watermark area. The watermark aims to protect against counterfeiting or to be used for decoration purposes. The watermark is visible at certain viewing angles and/or under certain lighting conditions and it does not interfere with displaying of the regular images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Lin, Bryan H. Chan
  • Patent number: 9465146
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes at least a light source, a display element, and an isotropic diffusion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Kanno, Emi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 9389456
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display which is a reflective liquid crystal display displaying an image by controlling reflectance of ambient light includes: a front substrate; a rear substrate; and a liquid crystal material layer disposed between the front substrate and the rear substrate, wherein the rear substrate is provided with a plurality of reflective electrodes formed on a surface side opposite to the liquid crystal material layer, and a specular light reflecting member reflecting ambient light which is directed to a rear surface side of the rear substrate through a gap between the adjacent reflective electrodes toward the front substrate side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Masashi Mitsui
  • Patent number: 9383479
    Abstract: An optical film comprising a first domain of a polymer composition and a second domain disposed inside the first domain, wherein the second domain is a bubble having a morphology anisotropy, and the mean alignment direction of the main chain of the polymer molecule in the first domain differs from the mean direction of the major axis of the second domain, is capable of contributing toward display performance unification and body thickness reduction of an image display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yujiro Yanai, Yasuyuki Sasada
  • Patent number: 9372300
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting unit that includes: a light-guide section having a light entering surface; and a plurality of light sources opposed to the light entering surface of the light-guide section and arrayed in a first direction, and each having an anisotropy in emission intensity. A pattern shape of light applied from any of the light sources to the light entering surface has a shape anisotropy, and the light sources are each disposed to allow a longitudinal direction of the pattern shape to be inclined relative to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 9366800
    Abstract: This edge light-type backlight device comprises a light guide plate, a light source disposed at one end part of the light guide plate, a light diffusion sheet and a prism sheet on a light emission face of the light guide plate. The refractive index of the prism sheet exceeds 1.60, a peak of emitted light distribution of the light emission face in a plane parallel to the one end part of the light guide plate and orthogonal to the light emission face is within an angle ranges of 30°˜45° and ?30°˜?45° with respect to a normal direction of the light emission face. The emitted light of the light emission face diminishes toward an emission angle ?90° or 90° with respect to the normal line from the angle ranges of the peak of the emitted light distribution. High frontal brightness and diffusion are realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: KIMOTO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yokota, Masashi Takai
  • Patent number: 9347644
    Abstract: A lens cap (3) is arranged to cover a light-emitting surface (23) of a light source (2), the lens thereby guiding light from the light source (2) in oblique directions relative to the light source (2). The lens cap (3) includes, in a planar view, a light transmitting region (33) and a light blocking region (34), the light transmitting region (33) divided into a plurality of light transmitting regions by the light blocking region (34) so that the light from the light source (2) passes through the plurality of light transmitting regions (33) and is separated into beams traveling in different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryoh Araki, Kei Oyobe, Yoshinobu Hirayama, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Patent number: 9335580
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display surface on which pixels each including sub-pixels of a plurality of colors are two-dimensionally arrayed; a reflective member; a first substrate provided with the reflective member; a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate; a color filter provided with filters of at least two colors corresponding to the sub-pixels; and a scattering member provided on the second substrate. A main viewing angle direction of the display device is a direction intersecting with the display surface. The color filter is formed such that a change in transmittance of the filters per pixel in the main viewing angle direction is smaller than a change in transmittance of the filters per pixel in a direction orthogonal to the main viewing angle direction in a direction parallel to the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya Tamaki, Yoko Fukunaga, Masashi Mitsui, Susumu Kimura
  • Patent number: 9280015
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a reflective electrode, a second substrate provided with a transparent electrode oppositely disposed to the reflective electrode, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first second substrates, a polarization plate oppositely disposed to the first substrate with an interposition of the second substrate, and an anisotropic scattering member disposed between the second substrate and the polarization plate. A main view angle direction is set as a predetermined direction intersecting a display surface. The anisotropic scattering member has a scattering center and scatters light traveling along a scattering axis direction which is a direction having a predetermined angle range centered around the scattering center. The scattering axis direction coincides with the main view angle direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masashi Mitsui, Masaya Tamaki, Yoko Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 9274255
    Abstract: A light-diffusion member includes a substrate having light transparency, a plurality of light-diffusion parts formed on one surface of the substrate, and a light-absorbing layer formed in a region other than a region where the light-diffusion parts are formed, among the one surface of the substrate. Each light-diffusion part includes a light-emission end surface on the side of the substrate and a light-incident end surface of an area larger than an area of the light-emission end surface on a side opposite to the side of the substrate. The height from the light-incident end surface of the light-diffusion part to the light-emission end surface thereof is larger than the thickness of the light-absorbing layer. The plurality of light-diffusion parts are randomly arranged on the one surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Emi Yamamoto, Toru Kanno, Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Maeda, Tsuyoshi Kamada
  • Patent number: 9261731
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus comprises: a liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal cell between a first polarizing plate and a second polarizing plate; and a surface light source device having a light source unit and a light guide plate. In a polarized light output from the light guide plate, when the normal direction of a light output surface is defined to be at a polar angle of 90°, and the light guiding direction of the light guide plate is defined to be a direction of an azimuth angle of 0°-180°, a ratio La/Lt of integrated intensity La of output light in ranges where the polar angle is 50° to 80° and the azimuth angle is 135° to 225°, 0° to 45°, and 315° to 360° to integrated intensity Lt of total output light is 0.3 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignees: KEIO UNIVERSITY, NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD., NITTO JUSHI KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Koike, Takehito Fuchida, Shouhei Maezawa, Hiroyuki Takemoto, Nao Murakami, Runa Nakamura, Fumihiro Arakawa, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Eizaburo Higuchi
  • Patent number: 9243774
    Abstract: Improved apparatus and method for collecting and directing light from a source via a light guide and modulated display assembly in an efficient manner through the design and use of prismatic optical structures, diffusers and/or light redirectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Je Hong Kim, Jignesh Gandhi
  • Patent number: 9207459
    Abstract: A two-dimensional (2D)/three-dimensional (3D) switchable image display device is provided. The 2D/3D switchable image display device forms gradation of an image in a light modulation panel, provides color to light beams that penetrate a plurality of electro-wetting prisms arranged in correspondence to the plurality of pixels of the image, and adjusts the direction of the light beam such that the light beams of the pixels of the image are directed towards at least two different view zones in a 3D mode and such that the light beams maintain their paths in a 2D mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-mok Bae, Yun-woo Nam, Yong-Kweun Mun, Hoon Song
  • Patent number: 9200200
    Abstract: There are provided a phosphor, a light emitting device, a surface light source device, a display device and an illumination device. The phosphor includes an ?-type Si3N4 crystal structure and includes oxynitride represented by an empirical formula CaxEuyMzSi12-(m+n)Aln+mOnN16-n, wherein M is at least one selected from a group consisting of Sr, Lu, La and Ba, and satisfies 0.5?x?1.1, 0.00005?y?0.09, 1.0?m?3.6, 0.001?n?0.2, and 0.00001?z?0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woo-Jung Park, Bong-Goo Yun, Won-Young Song, Jeong-Eun Yun, Tae-Min Ahn, Chul-Soo Yoon
  • Patent number: 9081228
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept is provided the liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel which displays images; backlight unit which provides light to the liquid crystal panel; and an optical sheet unit which is placed between the liquid crystal panel and backlight, wherein the optical sheet unit includes at least one scattering particle optical sheet where scattering particles are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nae-won Jang, Sang-eun Lee, Young-chol Lee, Byoung-jin Cho, Hyeong-sik Choi, Ju-seong Hwang
  • Patent number: 9063359
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of a method and apparatus taught herein provide an electronic display projection assembly that comprises an electronic display configured to display an image, and a transparent glass layer positioned on one side of the electronic display on which the image is displayed. A projection layer is located on a surface of the glass layer. A projecting layer is positioned between the electronic display and the glass layer, and comprises a plurality of microlenses for projecting the displayed image onto the projection layer. The projecting and projection layers may be located on either opposing sides of the transparent glass layer, or on the same side beneath the glass layer. A corresponding method of providing an image from an electronic display is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Mobile Communications AB, Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Martin Ek
  • Patent number: 9036117
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus comprises a display device for displaying an image and a diffractive optical element. The diffractive optical element is disposed on a light emitting side of the display device. The diffractive optical element comprises first grating regions. Each of the first grating regions has first diffraction gratings having a constant cycle space and the same azimuth angle. An area of the first grating regions occupies 17.5%˜94% of an area of the diffractive optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignees: CHI MEI MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, CHI MEI VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, KLASER TECHNOLOGY INC., FINITY LABORATORIES
    Inventors: Wang-Yang Li, Ting-I Wu, Huai-Fang Tsai, Wai-Hon Lee
  • Patent number: 9025114
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including a reflection type image display portion having a sheet-like anisotropic scattering member. In an area, in an in-plane direction, of the anisotropic scattering member, a low-refractive index area and a high-refractive index area are disposed in a mixture style. The anisotropic scattering member is disposed in such a way that a light is scattered when an outside light is made incident from a surface side on which a degree of a change in a refractive index in a vicinity of a boundary between the low-refractive index area and the high-refractive index area is relatively large, and is emitted from a surface side on which the degree of the change in the refractive index in the vicinity of the boundary between the low-refractive index area and the high-refractive index area is relatively small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masashi Mitsui
  • Patent number: 8999463
    Abstract: An anti-dazzling laminate made of an optical laminate including a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer having a concavoconvex shape provided on the material. The laminate simultaneously satisfies formulae: 0?G100?15 (I), 0.1?Hs?5.0 (II), 0.3?Rz?1.8 (III) wherein G100 represents a scintillation value which is a standard deviation of a variation in brightness distribution at a resolution of 100 ppi measured on the surface of the laminate; Hs represents the surface haze value of the laminate; and Rz represents the average roughness of the concavoconvex shape of the anti-dazzling layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Mikami, Yukimitsu Iwata, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takashi Kodama
  • Patent number: 8976324
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display such as a liquid crystal display. The display may have multiple display layers for generating display light such as a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. The display may include first and second layers of optical fibers formed over the display layers. The first and second layers of optical fibers may guide display light generated in the display layers to an outer surface of the display. The first layer of optical fibers may include optical fibers having a first numerical aperture. The second layer of optical fibers may include optical fibers having a second numerical aperture. The first numerical aperture may be smaller than the second numerical aperture. The second layer of optical fibers may include vertical and angled optical fibers. The angled optical fibers may help reduce the size of an inactive region around the center of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tseng-Mau Yang, Christopher D. Prest, Dale N. Memering
  • Publication number: 20150042935
    Abstract: A light control film includes a light shielding layer and a light diffusion portion, and, when an area of a part where the light shielding layer is in contact with one surface of the base material is set to S1, and an area of a part where a low refractive index portion is exposed between light incidence end surfaces is set to S2, the light shielding layer and the light diffusion portion are formed so as to satisfy (S1?S2)/S1×100?50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Emi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Maeda, Toru Kanno
  • Publication number: 20150042934
    Abstract: A viewing angle extending film (a light diffusing member) includes a base material with optical transparency, a plurality of light-shielding layers dotted on one surface of the base material, and a transparent resin layer (optically transparent material layer) provided on the one surface of the base material. At least a light-shielding layer, which is part of the plurality of light-shielding layers, has a planar shape surrounded by a first figure and a second figure contained in the first figure or a planar shape surrounded by at least part of the first figure and at least part of the second figure overlaid with the first figure. Hollow portions are provided in a formation region of the light-shielding layers, each hollow portion being shaped so that a cross-sectional area obtained by cutting along a plane parallel to the one surface of the base material is large on the light-shielding layer side and is gradually decreased as being away from the light-shielding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Toru Kanno, Emi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 8953118
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a liquid crystal cell; polarizing plates placed on both sides of the liquid crystal cell; a light diffusing element provided outside of the polarizing plate on a viewer side; and a backlight unit provided outside of the polarizing plate on an opposite side of the viewer side. The backlight unit includes a collimated light source device that emits collimated light having a brightness half-value angle of 3° to 35° toward the liquid crystal cell, and a ratio Fw(BL)/Fw(FD) between a diffused light half-value angle Fw(FD) of the light diffusing element and the brightness half-value angle Fw(BL) of the collimated light is 0.5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Akinori Nishimura, Hiroyuki Takemoto, Takehito Fuchida, Minoru Miyatake, Shunsuke Shutou
  • Publication number: 20150009432
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing of a conductive member include forming one of a conductive layer including metal nanowires or a light-scattering layer including insulating light-scattering fine particles on a substrate in a pattern shape; and forming the other of the conductive layer including metal nanowires or the light-scattering layer including insulating light-scattering fine particles on a space of the substrate wherein the one of the conductive layer or the light-scattering layer is not formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kensuke KATAGIRI
  • Patent number: 8917363
    Abstract: An anti-peeping privacy device is provided, including a polarizing element, a liquid crystal member and a diffusing element. The liquid crystal member is disposed on the polarizing element. The diffusing element is disposed on the liquid crystal member, comprising a transparent layer and a liquid crystal layer. The transparent layer having a refractive index and adjacent to the liquid crystal member includes a plurality of concave-convex stripe microstructures on the top side thereof, wherein the plurality of concave-convex stripe microstructure is arranged in a direction substantially orthogonal to the polarized light. The liquid crystal layer disposed on the concave-convex stripe microstructures of the transparent resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: BenQ Materials Corporation
    Inventor: Fung-Hsu Wu
  • Patent number: 8913212
    Abstract: An object is to suppress degradation of an image quality of a display image. A plurality of display circuits arranged in M rows (M is a natural number of 2 or more) and N columns (N is a natural number) and a light unit are included; the light unit includes a plurality of light-emitting diode groups arranged in X rows (X is a natural number of 2 or more), overlaps with a display circuit in at least different one or more rows every row, and includes a light-emitting diode emitting red light, a light-emitting diode emitting green light and a light-emitting diode emitting blue light and a light guide plate formed between the plurality of display circuits and the plurality of light-emitting diode groups. The light guide plate includes X light guide members which transmits the light of the light-emitting diode groups in the rows different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Wakimoto
  • Patent number: 8908123
    Abstract: A direct-light type backlight module and a liquid crystal display (LCD) are proposed. The direct-light type backlight module includes a base frame, a light source, a diffuser plate, and a plurality of support pins. The light source is disposed on the base frame. The diffuser plate is disposed on the light source. The plurality of support pins are disposed on the base frame and support the diffuser plate. At least one of the plurality of support pins is made of first transparent materials, or is made of is made of top and bottom connected second transparent materials and opaque materials. Through the abovementioned method, support pin shadow mura could be successfully prevented, and a backlight effect and a display effect could be effectively enhanced when light emitted by the light source shines on the at least one of the plurality of support pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuang-Yao Chang, Hongye Liu, Panpan Fu
  • Publication number: 20140354927
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device including a light control film utilizing total reflection, a liquid crystal panel, and a directional backlight, the light control film includes a transparent base material, a light blocking layer, and a light diffusing portion. The light diffusing portion has a light output end surface on side closer to the transparent base material and a light input end surface on side opposite to the transparent base material, the light input end surface having a larger area than the light output end surface. A film thickness of the light diffusing portion is larger than a thickness of the light blocking layer. A material having a smaller refractive index than the light diffusing portion is present in a cavity defined by the light diffusing portion, and the film anisotropically diffuses light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Toru Kanno, Emi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 8902384
    Abstract: A quantum rod light-emitting display device according to an embodiment of the invention includes a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a quantum rod layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein quantum rods in the quantum rod layer are arranged in one direction; a backlight unit provided under the display panel and configured to provide light to the display panel; and a short-wavelength pass filter film formed between the display panel and the backlight unit, and configured to transmit the light having a predetermined wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il Jeon, Kyung-Chan Kim, Joong-Pill Park, Moon-Bae Gee, Sung-Hee Cho, Kyung-Kook Jang, Kyung-Seok Jeong
  • Patent number: 8873004
    Abstract: A two-dimensional (2D)/three-dimensional (3D) switchable image display device is provided. The 2D/3D switchable image display device forms gradation of an image in a light modulation panel, provides color to light beams that penetrate a plurality of electro-wetting prisms arranged in correspondence to the plurality of pixels of the image, and adjusts the direction of the light beam such that the light beams of the pixels of the image are directed towards at least two different view zones in a 3D mode and such that the light beams maintain their paths in a 2D mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-mok Bae, Yun-woo Nam, Yong-kweun Mun, Hoon Song
  • Patent number: 8836891
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: a main display region (27) and a sub display region (28a, 28b) for emitting lights of respective different brightness levels; and a liquid crystal display panel (22) having a display surface (24) provided which a light guide body (70). The light guide body (70) is a transparent optical member, and has a part covering at least a boundary line (26) between the main display region (27) and the sub display region (28a, 28b), when seen in a plan view. Further, the part of the light guide body (70) covering the boundary line (26) is formed to have a cross section having a curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8817208
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The display apparatus comprises a display device for displaying an image and a diffractive optical element. The diffractive optical element comprises pixel unit regions. Each of the pixel unit regions has a long pixel side and a short pixel side adjacent to each other. The diffractive optical element is disposed on a light emitting side of the display device and comprises first grating regions and second grating regions. The first grating regions have a first diffraction grating. The second grating regions have a second diffraction grating. An azimuth angle of the first diffraction grating is different from an azimuth angle of the second diffraction grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Chi Mei Materials Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Wang-Yang Li, Ting-I Wu
  • Patent number: 8810753
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes: a liquid crystal layer; a first substrate and a second substrate between which the liquid crystal layer is sandwiched; a reflective layer operable to reflect light which is incident thereon from the second substrate side through the liquid crystal layer; a plurality of optical layers disposed on the side opposite to the first substrate with reference to the second substrate; and a plurality of light-scattering layers which are each disposed in at least one of a region between the second substrate and the optical layers and a region between two mutually proximate ones of the optical layers and which each show relatively larger forward scattering and relatively smaller back scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiharu Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20140204296
    Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a reflective electrode, a second substrate provided with a transparent electrode, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and an anisotropic scattering member formed on the second substrate. The anisotropic scattering member has first and second surfaces each including a first refractive index region and a second refractive index region having a refractive index different from that of the first refractive index region. A refractive index difference between the first refractive index region and the second refractive index region in the first surface is larger than that in the second surface. The anisotropic scattering member is disposed so that light enters from the first surface thereof and the light exits as scattered light from the second surface thereof. A phase difference is given to the light entered the anisotropic scattering member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masashi MITSUI, Yoko FUKUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20140198287
    Abstract: A display device includes a reflective image display unit having a sheet-like anisotropic scattering member. The sheet-like anisotropic scattering member has a surface in which both a low refractive index area and a high refractive index area exist. The sheet-like anisotropic scattering member is disposed so that a light enters from a first surface thereof and exits as scattered light from a second surface thereof, when an extent of refractive index difference at a boundary or vicinity thereof between the low refractive index area and the high refractive index area is relatively large in the first surface and relatively small in the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya TAMAKI, Masashi MITSUI, Yoko FUKUNAGA
  • Patent number: 8755004
    Abstract: A diffusion sheet adapted to minimize brightness difference between lights progressing in its oblique directions is discussed. The diffusion sheet according to an embodiment includes: a base film; a first diffusion material layer formed on an upper surface of the base film and configured to have a haze range of about 10˜40%; and a second diffusion material layer formed on a lower surface of the base film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Yul Moon, Young Hun Jeong, Sun Woong Kim
  • Publication number: 20140160410
    Abstract: A light-diffusion member includes a substrate having light transparency, a plurality of light-diffusion parts formed on one surface of the substrate, and a light-absorbing layer formed in a region other than a region where the light-diffusion parts are formed, among the one surface of the substrate. Each light-diffusion part includes a light-emission end surface on the side of the substrate and a light-incident end surface of an area larger than an area of the light-emission end surface on a side opposite to the side of the substrate. The height from the light-incident end surface of the light-diffusion part to the light-emission end surface thereof is larger than the thickness of the light-absorbing layer. The plurality of light-diffusion parts are randomly arranged on the one surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Emi Yamamoto, Toru Kanno, Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Maeda, Tsuyoshi Kamada
  • Patent number: 8749722
    Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display panel is a display panel for three-dimensional display in which pixel pairs as display elements composed of one left-eye pixel L and right-eye pixel R each are provided in a matrix. The lenticular lens is an optical member for image separation that is provided to separate the light from the left and right pixels, and numerous lenticular lenses form a lens array that is arranged in one dimension. An anisotropic scattering sheet as an anisotropic scattering element is provided between the lenticular lens and the reflective liquid crystal display panel. In this configuration, a reduction in the quality of the reflective display can be minimized, and improved image quality can be achieved without changing the concavo-convex structure of the reflecting panel and the lens shape of the lenticular lens in display device that is capable of displaying different images to a plurality of viewpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shin-Ichi Uehara
  • Patent number: 8736792
    Abstract: To provide a viewing-angle-enhancing film which is set in a liquid crystal display device at a position nearer to an observer than the position of a liquid crystal layer in the device, and which attains, at a high level, the compatibility of being enhanced in viewing angle with a decrease in the darkening of images at the time of observing the screen from the front thereof. A viewing-angle-enhancing film which is set in a liquid crystal display device at a position nearer to an observer than the position of a liquid crystal layer in the device, and simultaneously satisfies the following requirements (1) to (3): (1) the film has a parallel ray transmittance of 5 to 90%; (2) the film has a diffusivity (A) of 1 to 20 degrees in its main diffusion direction; and (3) the film has a diffusivity ratio of 0.25 to 15% in the main diffusion direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuaki Kuze, Kenji Kawai, Kazumoto Imai, Akihumi Yasui, Akira Matsuda, Masao Kochi
  • Patent number: 8704979
    Abstract: An optical filter for reducing color shift in a display device includes a background layer made of a light-transmitting material and a light-diffusing pattern formed over the background layer to diffuse light. The light-diffusing pattern is a thin film coating applied along the cross section of the background layer in the depth direction thereof. The light-diffusing pattern is a self-assembled thin film in which the light-diffusing particles are self-assembled. A method of manufacturing the optical filter includes forming a concave-convex pattern layer made of a first light-transmitting material and having a concave-convex pattern, and forming the light-diffusing pattern along the sidewall surface of the concave section of the concave-convex pattern. After the light-diffusing pattern is formed, the concave section is filled with a second light-transmitting material, and the light-diffusing particles are removed from the upper surface of the convex section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Corning Precision Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Sik Park, Eun Young Cho
  • Patent number: 8698985
    Abstract: An optical film for reducing color shift is provided in front of a display panel. The optical film includes a background layer, and a plurality of lens parts, which are spaced apart from each other, engraved or embossed on the background layer. The lens parts diffuse light incident thereon and then to mix the diffused light with light passing between the lens parts. The lens parts have a depth to width ratio of 0.25 or more, a spacing to pitch ratio ranging from 0.5 to 0.95, and a pitch of 45 ?m or less. A display device may include the optical film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Corning Precision Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Sik Park, Eun Young Cho, Seung Won Park, In Sung Sohn
  • Patent number: 8692962
    Abstract: A diffusion sheet includes: a substrate having a first principal surface and a second principal surface; and structures each in a convex shape formed randomly on the first principal surface or the second principal surface of the substrate. The structures have an identical or almost identical height. The structures have an aspect ratio h/r, where r denotes an average radius of the structures and h denotes an average height of the structures, of more than 0.85 and not more than 1.50. The structures have a filling factor of not less than 60% and not more than 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Shibata, Jun Sasaki, Hirofumi Tsuiki, Akihiro Horii, Noriyuki Hirai, Hiroshi Mizuno, Satoko Asaoka, Kanako Hashimoto, Yasuyuki Kudo, Saori Hayashi, Teiichi Miyauchi, Satoshi Sekino, Makoto Aoki
  • Patent number: 8693180
    Abstract: A display module having an improved assembly structure is provided. The display module includes a frame, a display panel, and a glue. The frame has a side wall and a supporting part, wherein the supporting part has a supporting surface and the side wall is formed on the periphery of the supporting surface. A groove is formed on the supporting surface adjacent to the side wall and is distributed along the side wall. The display panel is disposed within the frame and has a bottom face and a side face. The bottom face is supported by the supporting surface of the supporting part. The side face faces the side wall and forms a gap with the side wall. The glue is filled in the gap and adheres the side wall to the side face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Jia-Lang Hsu, Chih-Wei Wen, Ching-Chieh Pai, Cheng-Wei Li
  • Patent number: 8675146
    Abstract: A display structure includes a liquid crystal module, and a light guide layer arranged on a surface of the liquid crystal module, first light-emitting devices arranged at an edge of one end portion of the light guide layer, and a transmittance-controllable layer arranged on a surface of the light guide layer opposing the liquid crystal module. The light-emitting devices are configured to emit light into the light guide layer, and thus the light emitted by the light-emitting devices is transmitted within the light guide layer. The transmittance-controllable layer may have light transmittance characteristics which change depending on an external stimulus applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Shunichiro Kuroki
  • Publication number: 20140055729
    Abstract: There are provided an array substrate and a liquid crystal display apparatus. The array substrate comprises: array structures (12) and pixel electrodes (13) that are formed on a first substrate (11); wherein at least part of pixel regions corresponding to the pixel electrodes (13) are in optical diffusion structures (14); the pixel regions include pixel regions corresponding to pixels of different colors; the optical diffusion structures (14) are so arranged that reflectivity of light reflected from an optical diffusion structure of a pixel region, which corresponds to a pixel of a color having the longest light wavelength, is lower than reflectivity of light reflected from an optical diffusion structure (14) of a pixel region, which corresponds to a pixel of another color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Yun Sik Im, Jung Mok Jun
  • Patent number: 8648986
    Abstract: A symmetric diffusion film (SDF) and a flat panel display applied with the same are provided. The SDF comprises at least two different materials of a first material having a first refractive index mixed with a second material having a second refractive index, and the first refractive index is different from the second refractive index. The flat panel display comprises a symmetric diffusion film (SDF) disposed at one side of the upper polarizer, and the upper polarizer adapting no compensation film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Shibazaki
  • Patent number: 8647727
    Abstract: A optical assembly is utilized in various applications including in a display assembly. The optical assembly includes a first translucent substrate, a second translucent substrate, a first layer of adhesive, and a second layer of adhesive. The first layer of adhesive is bonded to the first translusive substrate and the second layer of adhesive is bonded to the second translusive substrate. The first layer of adhesive is configured for diffusive effects, and the second layer of adhesive is configured for diffusive effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Rockwell Colllins, Inc.
    Inventors: Tracy J. Barnidge, James D. Sampica
  • Patent number: 8643810
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: one side substrate; the other side substrate that is disposed to be opposed to the one side substrate; a liquid crystal layer that is sandwiched between the one side substrate and the other side substrate; and a light source that illuminates light on the liquid crystal layer from the outside of the other side substrate. At a specific peak wavelength, in a region shorter than a wavelength of blue light in a visible light region of the light illuminated from the light source, a transmittance from the other side substrate to the liquid crystal layer is smaller than a transmittance from the one side substrate to the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Seiji Shibahara