Nonrectangular (odd) Shaped Pixels Patents (Class 349/146)
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Patent number: 8836875Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel which displays a left eye image and a right eye image; and a light-shielding barrier which has a slit section and a light-shielding section to cause binocular parallax, wherein the liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate which has a pixel electrode formed thereon, a second substrate which is separated from and opposed to the surface of the first substrate which has the pixel electrode formed thereon, and a liquid crystal layer which is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the pixel electrode has a plurality of strip-shaped parts which are arranged with intervals therebetween, and an extending direction of the strip-shaped parts is substantially perpendicular to an opening direction of the slit section.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohyama, Yingbao Yang, Takeo Koito
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Patent number: 8823912Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate; and a pixel electrode including a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode formed at a distance from each other on the first substrate, the first sub-pixel electrode includes stem portions and a plurality of branch portions extended from the stem portions, and the second sub-pixel electrode surrounds the first sub-pixel electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Oh Jeong Kwon, Jae Hong Park, Sung-Jae Yun, Shuai Jiang, Kyung Hye Park, Joo Young Yoon, Hyeok Jin Lee
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Patent number: 8804085Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; and a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate. The pixel electrode includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode. The first sub-pixel electrode and the second sub-pixel electrode include a cross stem, and a plurality of minute branches extending from the cross stem. The second sub-pixel electrode includes two cross stems disposed adjacent in a column direction, and a center transverse stem disposed between the two cross stems. The center transverse stem includes a cutout.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yong Woon Lim
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Patent number: 8804083Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes upper and lower pixels; gate lines in electrical connection with the adjacent pixels and extending in a row direction, and data lines which cross the gate lines; and a reference voltage line including a vertical portion which passes through the adjacent pixels, and horizontal portions which alternately extend from the vertical portion. Each of the adjacent pixels includes first and second thin film transistors (TFTs) each in electrical connection with a gate line and a data line which correspond to a respective pixel; and a pixel electrode including a first subpixel electrode in connection with an output terminal of the first TFT, and a second subpixel electrode in connection with an output terminal of the second TFT. The horizontal portions of the reference voltage line are in electrical connection with the second subpixel electrodes of the adjacent pixels.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyung-Ho Park, Bo-Yeong Kim, Jae-Won Kim, Byoung-Sun Na, Hyung-Jun Park, Dong-Hyun Yoo, Kye-Uk Lee
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Patent number: 8786812Abstract: A liquid crystal lens is provided on a liquid crystal display panel. Electrodes extending vertically to a plane of drawing are provided on an upper substrate of the liquid crystal lens at predetermined intervals. No electrodes are provided on a lower substrate. An initial alignment of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal lens is vertically directed with respect to the plane of the drawing. A voltage applied to the upper substrate electrodes generates a transverse electric field to rotate the liquid crystal molecules. Polarization light emitted from the liquid crystal display panel is vertically directed to the plane of the drawing, which generates a refractive index distribution of the polarization light in a liquid crystal layer to form a convex lens within the liquid crystal lens. This lens allows first and second pixels to be recognized by right and left eyes to allow a three-dimensional display.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Toshio Miyazawa, Terunori Saitou
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Patent number: 8773629Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal optical apparatus includes a first substrate unit, a second substrate unit, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate unit includes a first substrate and a plurality of first electrodes. The first electrodes are provided on the first substrate to extend in a first direction. Each of the first electrodes has a first side surface and a second side surface opposite to the first side surface. The second substrate unit includes a second substrate and an opposing electrode. The second substrate opposes the first substrate. The opposing electrode is provided on the second substrate to oppose the first electrodes. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the first substrate unit and the second substrate unit. The first side surface has a first protruding portion and a first recessed portion arranged with the first protruding portion in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shinichi Uehara, Masako Kashiwagi, Ayako Takagi, Masahiro Baba, Yuko Kizu, Yoshiharu Momonoi
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Patent number: 8767160Abstract: An MVA type liquid crystal display panel of the present invention comprises a first substrate where a light transmission section consisting of a pixel electrode 15a, whose corner portions are chamfered, is formed at each position partitioned by scanning lines 13 and signal lines 14 that are arranged in a matrix state, in which a protruding electrode 40 extending from the pixel electrode 15a is formed between the chamfered position of the corner portion and the scanning line 13 to prevent the inclination of liquid crystal molecules due to the effect of the potential difference occurring between the scanning line and a common electrode.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2005Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.Inventor: Shinichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 8760761Abstract: A translucent liquid crystal display panel (2) includes pixel pairs as display units each formed by a left-eye pixel (4L) and a right-eye pixel (4R) and arranged in a matrix shape. A through hole (4Ld) arranged in a color layer (4Lc) of a color filter has a slit shape whose longitudinal direction is identical to the orientation direction of a cylindrical lens (3a) constituting a lenticular lens (3). Similarly, a through hole (4Rd) arranged in a color layer (4Rc) of a color filter has a slit shape whose longitudinal direction is identical to the orientation direction of the cylindrical lens (3a) constituting the lenticular lens (3). This suppresses the phenomenon that a hue is changed by a field-of-view angle and/or an external light condition on the translucent display panel capable of displaying an image directed to a plurality of viewpoints.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.Inventor: Shin-ichi Uehara
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Patent number: 8755115Abstract: A 3D image projection system has a display screen having an array of pixels, an array of pixel pyramids associated with the array of pixels, and a projector configured to project light onto the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2006Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: Youngshik Yoon
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Patent number: 8749727Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which hardly causes image sticking in a panel in which Cgd gradation is performed, even when the pixel capacitances of the picture elements are different from one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ikumi Itsumi, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Mitsuaki Hirata, Masae Kitayama, Kenichi Hyohdoh, Yuki Yamashita, Akane Sugisaka
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Patent number: 8743332Abstract: In one embodiment, a first substrate includes a pixel electrode having a first main electrode in a belt-like shape extending along a first cross line direction which crosses at an acute angle in a counterclockwise direction with respect to an initial alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules, and a second main electrode in the belt-like shape extending along a second cross line direction which crosses at an acute angle in a clockwise direction with respect to the initial alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules. A second substrate includes a counter electrode having a pair of third main electrodes in the belt-like shape arranged above a pair of regions sandwiching the first main electrode extending along a first cross line direction and a pair of fourth main electrodes in the belt-like shape arranged above a pair of regions sandwiching the second main electrode extending along the second cross line direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Keisuke Takano, Arihiro Takeda, Takashi Sasabayashi, Nobuko Fukuoka, Yusuke Morita, Jin Hirosawa, Hitomi Hasegawa, Yoshitaka Yamada, Keiji Tago, Hirokazu Morimoto
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Patent number: 8743305Abstract: A liquid crystal display device in which lengths (d1 and1 d2) of respective picture element electrodes (60) in an extended direction of scanning signal lines (32) are longer than lengths (d3) of the respective picture element electrodes (60) in an extended direction of video signal lines (35) is arranged such that storage capacitor lines (36) are provided along the respective scanning signal lines (32) so as to overlap the respective picture element electrodes (60) via an insulating film (70) in plan view.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2008Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Yoshida, Satoshi Horiuchi, Masakatsu Tominaga, Junichi Morinaga, Ryohki Itoh, Katsushige Asada, Hironobu Sawada, Hitoshi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8736518Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate and pixels defined on the substrate, where each of the pixels is a hexagon having a first side, a second side, a third side, a fourth side, a fifth side and a sixth side, and the sum of the length of the first side and the length of the fourth side is greater than half the sum of the lengths of the second, third, fifth and sixth sides.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jong-Woong Park, Geun-Young Jeong, Ji-Yeon Yang, Won-Woo Jang, Joo-Hyung Lee
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Patent number: 8724068Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a gate line extending in a first direction, a source line including an oblique line portion extending in a third direction which crosses at an acute angle a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a pixel electrode including an oblique electrode portion extending in the third direction, and a first alignment film covering the pixel electrode, a second substrate including a counter-electrode which is opposed to the pixel electrode, and a second alignment film covering the counter-electrode, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate. A first rubbing direction of the first alignment film is a direction which crosses the third direction at an acute angle, and an angle formed between the first rubbing direction and the third direction is 3.6° or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Azuma, Hideyuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 8711293Abstract: In one embodiment, a pair of liquid crystal shutter glasses include a first liquid crystal shutter and a second liquid crystal shutter. The first and second liquid crystal shutters are switched to a transmissive state by turns. The respective first and second liquid crystal shutters include a first electrode substrate and a second electrode substrate opposing the first electrode substrate. An OCB (Optically Compensated Bend) mode liquid crystal layer is held between the first and second electrode substrates. The first electrode substrate includes a first electrode and a second electrode arranged adjacent to the first electrode. The first and second electrodes respectively include a side opposing each other and a plurality of projecting portions provided to the respective opposing sides of the first and second electrodes alternately.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tetsuo Fukami, Shigesumi Araki, Tetsuya Kojima, Toshiyuki Higano, Kenji Nakao
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Patent number: 8711316Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on the substrate, a common electrode facing the pixel electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode. The pixel electrode includes at least one oblique edge including a plurality of protruded and depressed portions.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Gyu Kim, Sung-Jae Moon
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Patent number: 8711317Abstract: Provided is a color filter substrate including: an end portion unit pixel including a plurality of kinds of end portion sub-pixels which correspond to a plurality of kinds of primary colors respectively in a one-to-one relationship; and an inner unit pixel including a plurality of kinds of inner sub-pixels which correspond to the plurality of kinds of primary colors respectively in a one-to-one relationship, wherein a relative area proportion of the end portion sub-pixels is set equal to that of the inner sub-pixels; and wherein the plurality of kinds of the end portion sub-pixels is arrayed in accordance with a position or a shape on an outer edge of the display region, an array direction of the plurality of kinds of the end portion sub-pixels and an array direction of the plurality of kinds of the inner sub-pixels configured to intersect each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2013Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.Inventor: Yoshihiro Nonaka
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Patent number: 8711315Abstract: An LCD includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, first and second alignment films respectively disposed on the first and second substrates. The first substrate comprises multiple scanning lines and multiple data lines intercrossed with the multiple scanning lines to define multiple pixel areas. Each pixel area comprises multiple electrically interconnected first electrodes and multiple electrically interconnected second electrodes. The first electrodes and the second electrodes are disposed on different layers and mutually intersected to define multiple sub-pixel areas. Each sub-pixel area further comprises two protrusion-shaped patterns facing each other on two adjacent first electrodes where the first electrodes and the second electrodes are not overlapped.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Infovision Optoelectronics(Kunshan)Co., Ltd.Inventors: Te-Chen Chung, Yongqian Li, Wenjun Dai, Chia-Te Liao
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Publication number: 20140055734Abstract: In the field of active matrix liquid crystal displays and, more particularly, to microdisplays produced using collective fabrication technologies, a matrix comprises, for each pixel, a transparent electrode and opaque regions resulting from the presence in the pixel of at least one row conductor, one column conductor, and one control transistor for the pixel connected to the electrode of the pixel. The pixel comprises at least three possible geometrical configurations, the position of the transistor with respect to the rows and to the columns being different in the various configurations, the various configurations being distributed in a pseudo-random manner within at least one region of the matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Inventor: Umberto Rossini
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Patent number: 8643816Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display (LCD), the LCD includes: an insulating substrate; a first gate line and a second gate line which are formed on the insulating substrate and extend parallel to each other; a data line formed on the insulating substrate, insulated from the first and second gate lines, and crosses the first and second gate lines; a first subpixel electrode connected to the first gate line and the data line by a first switching device and includes a plurality of first fine protruding patterns at an edge thereof; and a second subpixel electrode connected to the second gate line and the data line by a second switching device and includes a plurality of second fine protruding patterns at an edge thereof, wherein the first fine protruding patterns are separated from each other by a first gap, and the second fine protruding patterns are separated from each other by a second gap, wherein the sum of a width of the first gap and a width of each of the first fine protruding patterns is greater than theType: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Gyu Kim, Sahng-Ik Jun, Seung-Soo Baek, Kee-Bum Park
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Patent number: 8643813Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a lower pixel electrode positioned on the first substrate; a first passivation layer positioned on the lower pixel electrode; an upper pixel electrode positioned on the first passivation layer; and an opposing electrode positioned on the second substrate, wherein the upper pixel electrode comprises a stem and a plurality of minute branches extending outwardly from the stem, and the lower pixel electrode comprises a main body overlapping the plurality of minute branches and at least one bar-shaped portion extending along an edge of the main body maintaining a predetermined gap with the edge of the main body.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gak Seok Lee, Youn Hak Jeong, Ki Chul Shin
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Patent number: 8629963Abstract: In an embodiment of the invention, a liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a first electrode formed on the first substrate, wherein the first electrode includes a plurality of subpixels, and each the subpixel includes a plurality of subunits, and each the subunit includes a plurality of first slits and a plurality of second slits, wherein the first slits are connected to the second slits and the first slits of the subunits which are adjacent to each other are connected to each other, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a second electrode formed on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Chien-Hong Chen, Jia-Lun Chen
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Patent number: 8610865Abstract: The TFT substrate includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode laminated one on top of another via an insulating layer, one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode provided farther from the liquid crystal layer being formed into a plane shape, and another of the pixel electrode and the common electrode provided closer to the liquid crystal layer having slits formed therein, each of the plurality of slits having a closed end portion. The liquid crystal display panel further includes a reflection portion for reflecting light, the reflection portion being formed at a surface of the liquid crystal display panel on the illumination device side in a portion which overlaps, in plan view, the end portion of the each of the slits in the long-side direction and a vicinity thereof, and a part of an inner region of the each of the slits.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Masaya Adachi, Osamu Itou, Shigeki Nishizawa
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Patent number: 8610863Abstract: An LCD panel is provided for improving a contrast ratio by suppressing light leakage around gate lines of an assembly that is structured to support a liquid crystal alignment mode that enhanced side view visibility of the LCD image. The LCD panel includes a first base substrate, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines disposed on the first base substrate and crossing each other, a pixel electrode comprising a first oblique line and a second oblique line disposed on the first base substrate and inclined in a different direction from each other with respect to the gate lines, a second base substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second base substrate and alternately positioned with the pixel electrode, wherein a portion of the common electrode overlaps the gate line segment, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second base substrates.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji-Hyun Kwon, Hyeok-Jin Lee, Byoung-Sun Na, Lujian Gang, Dong-Hyeon Ki, Hwa-Sung Woo
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Patent number: 8610867Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal composition and a liquid crystal display (LCD) including the liquid crystal composition. The LCD includes a first display panel a second display panel facing the first display panel, and a liquid crystal composition disposed between the first display panel and the second display panel. If a dielectric constant in a direction parallel to a long axis of liquid crystals is defined as a horizontal dielectric constant ??, a dielectric constant in a direction perpendicular to the long axis of the liquid crystals is defined as a vertical dielectric constant ??, and the difference between the vertical dielectric constant ?? and the horizontal dielectric constant ?? is defined as dielectric anisotropy ??, then a ratio ??/?? of the dielectric anisotropy ?? to the vertical dielectric constant ?? of the liquid crystal composition is 0.5 or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2009Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Gyu Kim, Kyoung-Ju Shin, Jong-Ho Son, Yong-Kuk Yun, Jun-Pyo Lee, Seunng-Soo Baek
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Patent number: 8599354Abstract: A liquid crystal display with two insulating substrates. A first insulating substrate has crossing signal lines, a pixel electrode, and a drain electrode electrically connected to the pixel electrode through a contact hole. A spacer is formed on the first signal line of the first insulating substrate, and is wider at a first portion close to the first insulating substrate than at a second portion close to the second insulating substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joong-Hyun Mun, Jang-Kun Song, Yong-Woo Choi, Bo-Sung Kim, Kwan-Wook Jung, Jung-Ho Lee, Hyo-Rak Nam
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Patent number: 8599351Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on the substrate, each of the pixel electrodes including a first and a second sub-pixel electrode; and a plurality of first data lines formed on the substrate, wherein the first data line overlaps the first and second sub-pixel electrodes of each of two adjacent pixel electrodes among the pixel electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2006Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dong Gyu Kim
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Patent number: 8593584Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid-crystal display device in which a pixel defect does not occur even when an electrode becomes disconnected. The liquid-crystal display device according to the present invention comprises a liquid crystal layer and a pair of substrates between which the liquid crystal layer is interposed. At least one of the pair of substrates includes an electrode that applies a voltage to the liquid crystal layer. The electrode that applies the voltage to the liquid crystal layer includes two or more linear portions. The substrate comprising the electrode that applies the voltage to the liquid crystal layer, from among the pair of substrates, includes a floating electrode that overlaps at least two of the two or more linear portions via an insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryohki Itoh, Takaharu Yamada, Yuhko Hisada, Satoshi Horiuchi
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Patent number: 8593608Abstract: A three-dimensional display includes a display panel having a plurality of first pixels arranged in the odd row, and a plurality of second pixels arranged in the even row. Each first pixel has a first and a second transparent regions and a first semiconductor pattern. Each second pixel has a third and a fourth transparent regions and a second semiconductor pattern. In any two adjacent first and second pixels, the first and the third transparent regions are mirror images of each other, and the second and the fourth transparent regions are mirror images of each other. In the adjacent first and second pixels arranged in any two rows, the loss of the light transmittance at any position along the row direction due to overlapping of the first semiconductor and the first transparent region and overlapping of the second semiconductor and the fourth transparent region remains unchanged.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Ren-Wei Liao, Meng-Chieh Tsai, Chih-Wen Chen, Chih-Hung Shih
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Patent number: 8582042Abstract: Certain embodiments provide a display device a plurality of subpixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to form a matrix, and each having an aperture provided with a color component; and an optical controller provided to be opposed to the display device having a plurality of rectilinear optical apertures extending in the second direction are arranged in the first direction. A shape of the aperture in the subpixel is depending upon a condition that the apertures in the subpixels adjacent to each other in the first direction have a nonoverlapping region which is a nonoverlapping region in the second direction and a condition that an aperture ratio indicating a ratio of the aperture to the subpixel in length in the second direction is substantially constant in one line in the second direction irrespective of a position in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masako Kashiwagi, Tatsuo Saishu, Rieko Fukushima, Yuzo Hirayama, Yoshiharu Momonoi, Ayako Takagi
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Patent number: 8582060Abstract: A transverse electric field type liquid crystal display panel includes a pair of substrates opposed with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. A plurality of sub-pixels having at least one curved portion in a display area are provided in a matrix on one side of the pair of substrates, and a pair of electrodes having at least one curved portion are formed in the plurality of sub-pixels. A light shield layer shielding a non-display area positioned on an outer peripheral side of the display area and between the plurality of sub-pixels is formed on the other side of the pair of substrates. The light shield layer of the non-display area is formed in a shape in which the outermost peripheral side of the display area is rectangular.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.Inventor: Akio Ota
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Patent number: 8576366Abstract: A pixel array includes pixel sets. Each pixel set includes a first and second scan lines arranged in parallel on a substrate, a data line not parallel to the first and second scan lines, a first active device electrically connecting the first scan line and the data line, a second active device electrically connecting the second scan line and the data line, a first pixel electrode electrically connecting the first active device, a second pixel electrode electrically connecting the second active device, and an auxiliary electrode pattern that includes a connecting portion and a first and second branch portions. A gap is between the first and second pixel electrodes. The connecting portion underneath the gap between the first and second pixel electrodes partially overlaps the first and second pixel electrodes. The first and second branch portions connect the connecting portion and partially overlap the first and second pixel electrodes, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Hui-Ting Hsu, Chu-Yu Liu, Yu-Chieh Kuo, I-Chun Chen, Jen-Wen Wan, Chou-Chin Wu
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Patent number: 8547515Abstract: A display substrate includes a transparent substrate, a gate line formed on the transparent substrate, a data line crossing the gate line, a thin film transistor electrically connected to the gate line and the data line, and a pixel electrode. The pixel electrode includes a body electrode section electrically connected to the thin film transistor and a plurality of protruding electrodes protruding from the body electrode section. Each of the protruding electrodes includes a trapezoidal electrode having two sides that are inclined with respect to a protrusion direction that is a lengthwise direction of the body electrode section.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2009Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung-Hoon Kim, Il-Yong Yoon, Yong-Woo Lee
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Patent number: 8547511Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction orthogonally crossing with the first direction. A first alignment pattern is formed in the counter electrode. The first alignment pattern faces the pixel electrode and extending in the first direction. A second alignment pattern is formed in the counter electrode. The second alignment pattern also faces the pixel electrode and extends in the second direction intersecting with the first alignment pattern. An expanding alignment portion is arranged at the intersecting portion of the first alignment pattern and the second alignment pattern. The first and second alignment patterns are formed of alignment slits or alignment protrusions arranged in the counter substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Japan Display Central Inc.Inventors: Taiyo Tokuoka, Tetsuya Iizuka, Kazuya Daishi, Jin Hirosawa
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Patent number: 8525965Abstract: A unit pixel of a liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of domains formed using a photoalignment process technology. The domains have different domain alignment vectors, and major axes of liquid crystal molecules on alignment layers are aligned in parallel to transmission axes of the liquid crystal display panel. In addition, the unit pixel has a pixel electrode including slits. The slits have a slit angle at which the slits cross alignments of the domains at a predetermined angle, and the slit angle is less than 45°. As a result, transmittance of the unit pixel may increase, ensuring high image quality.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., LtdInventors: Young-Gu Kim, Jin-Soo Jung, Hak-Sun Chang, Hee-June Kwak
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Patent number: 8525966Abstract: There is provided a display area made up of a pixel array with a non-rectangular shaped outer circumference and the pixel array is made up of a plurality of non-rectangular pixels wherein a first conductor line group including a plurality of first conductor lines and a second conductor line group including a plurality of second conductor lines, and a third conductor line group including a plurality of third conductor lines are arranged so as to intersect with one another. Thus, without sacrificing brightness, viewability, and fidelity of an image, pixel array (display device) with the non-rectangular outer circumferential shape being excellent in design characteristics is realized.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2012Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.Inventor: Kenichi Takatori
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Patent number: 8520178Abstract: When a conductive layer is formed, a first liquid composition containing a conductive material is applied on an outer side of a pattern that is desired to be formed (corresponding to a contour or an edge portion of a pattern), and a first conductive layer (insulating layer) having a frame-shape is formed. A second liquid composition containing a conductive material is applied so as to fill a space inside the first conductive layer having a frame-shape, whereby a second conductive layer is formed. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are formed so as to be in contact with each other, and the first conductive layer is formed so as to surround the second conductive layer. Therefore, the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer can be used as one continuous conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2010Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hironobu Shoji, Ikuko Kawamata
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Patent number: 8502946Abstract: An array substrate of a fringe field switching (FFS) mode liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The gate electrodes and the common electrode of the FFS mode LCD panel are formed on the array substrate by the same photolithographic process, and the common electrode, the gate lines and the gate electrodes are disposed on the same layer. The passivation layer of the FFS mode LCD panel is formed on the pixel electrodes. The passivation layer has a plurality of first openings, and each of the first openings at least partially exposes the pixel electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Century Technologh ShenzhenCorporation LimitedInventors: Chih-Chung Liu, Kuan-Hsien Jiang, Bei Xie, XiYao Li
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Patent number: 8497969Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate including a pixel electrode which is disposed in each of pixels, a counter-substrate which is disposed to be opposed to the array substrate and includes a counter-electrode which is common to a plurality of the pixels, and a liquid crystal layer which is held between the array substrate and the counter-substrate. The pixel electrode includes a first major electrode portion having a strip shape, and the counter-electrode includes second major electrode portions each having a strip shape, the second major electrode portions being disposed in parallel to the first major electrode portion in a manner that the first major electrode portion is interposed between the second major electrode portions and that the first major electrode portion and the second major electrode portions are alternately arranged.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Japan Display Central Inc.Inventor: Jin Hirosawa
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Patent number: 8493533Abstract: Light leakage between pixel electrodes over a video signal line in a TN-type liquid crystal display device in which a dot inversion driving is applied with a three o'clock viewing angle is prevented. Pixel electrodes (PX) are formed on both sides of a video signal line (DL) of a first substrate (SUB1), and an end of the pixel electrode (PX) and the video signal line (DL) overlap each other. Over a second substrate (SUB2), a black matrix (BM) is formed in a portion corresponding to the video signal line (DL). By shifting the black matrix BM and the video signal line DL to the left with respect to a gap G between the pixel electrodes PX, it is possible to prevent light leakage caused by a disclination line (DS) which occurs by a horizontal electric field between pixel electrodes (PX).Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Igeta, Osamu Nagashima
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Publication number: 20130176524Abstract: In one aspect of the invention, a liquid crystal display device includes a pixel matrix having a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a first pixel electrode having a plurality of first pixel electrode stripes and a second pixel electrode having a plurality of second pixel electrode stripes. The first pixel electrode stripes and the second pixel electrode stripes are alternately placed to define a plurality of pitches therebetween. Each pitch is defined between two adjacent first pixel electrode and second pixel electrode stripes, and has a width. In one embodiment, the width of at least one of the pitches is different from that of the other pitches. In another embodiment, the width of each pitch is variable along the adjacent first pixel electrode and second pixel electrode stripes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventor: AU Optronics Corporation
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Publication number: 20130176523Abstract: In one aspect of the invention, a liquid crystal display device includes a pixel matrix having a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a first pixel electrode having a plurality of first pixel electrode stripes and a second pixel electrode having a plurality of second pixel electrode stripes. The first pixel electrode stripes and the second pixel electrode stripes are alternately placed to define a plurality of pitches therebetween. Each pixel is defined between two adjacent first pixel electrode and second pixel electrode stripes, and has a width. In one embodiment, the width of at least one of the pitches is different from that of the other pitches. In another embodiment, the width of each pitch is variable along the adjacent first pixel electrode and second pixel electrode stripes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Kuan-Yu Chen, Tien-Lun Ting, Chien-Huang Liao
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Patent number: 8477279Abstract: A liquid crystal display with improved viewing angle and uncompromised transmittance is provided, along with a thin film transistor (TFT) array panel usable for such liquid crystal display. The TFT array panel includes a substrate, a plurality of gate lines formed on the substrate, a plurality of data lines formed on the substrate and intersecting the gate lines, and a plurality of thin film transistors. Each of the thin film transistors includes a gate electrode connected to one of the gate lines, a source electrode connected to one of the data lines, and a drain electrode. The TFT array panel also includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, each of the pixel electrodes connected to one of the drain electrodes and having a pair of oblique edges parallel to each other, and covering at least a portion of the drain electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jang-Kun Song
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Patent number: 8471990Abstract: A pixel structure electrically connected to a scan line and a data line is provided. The pixel structure includes an active device and a pixel electrode, wherein the active device is electrically connected to the scan line and the data line, and the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the active device. The pixel electrode has a plurality of strip-shaped slit groups. Each of the strip-shaped slit groups includes a plurality of strip-shaped slits whose extending directions are substantially parallel to each other, and contours of at least parts of the strip-shaped slits are non-isosceles trapezoids.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Kung-Ching Chu, Te-Wei Chan, Cheng-Han Tsao, Sheng-Ju Ho, Chung-Yi Chiu
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Patent number: 8471991Abstract: An array substrate includes first and second pixel electrodes. The first pixel electrode includes a plurality of first slit electrode portions and a first supporting electrode portion connected with the first slit electrode portions. The first slit electrode portions extend in a zigzag fashion along the shape of a unit pixel area and a first direction. The second pixel electrode includes a plurality of second slit electrode portions and a second supporting electrode portion connected with the second slit electrode portion. The second slit electrode portions extend in the zigzag fashion along the shape of the unit pixel area and the first direction. Side visibility and a response time may be improved, so that display quality may be improved.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cheol Shin, Hwa-Sung Woo, Kwang-Chul Jung, Dong-Gyu Kim, Hyang-Yul Kim, Joo-Nyung Jang, Dong-Chul Shin, Hee-Seop Kim
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Patent number: 8467025Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display capable of high quality image and bright display. Gate signal lines are curved at near switching elements of the liquid crystal display. A pixel area is defined by the gate signal lines and their intersecting data signal lines. Pixel electrodes and common electrodes are disposed along a longitudinal direction of a pixel. A pixel signal and a common signal line is connected to the pixel electrode and the common electrode respectively. A storage capacitor may be formed in the middle of a longitudinal direction of the pixel, or where generally a texture may arise during display. One half of the pixel may be symmetrical with the other half with respect to the storage capacitor. A common signal line may be parallel with the data signal line and be disposed nearer to the data signal line than a pixel signal line. The pixel may be disposed symmetrically with respect to the data signal line therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2011Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang-Hun Lee, Eun-Hee Han, Hak-Sun Chang
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Patent number: 8461054Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device which includes pixel electrodes and common electrodes which are alternatively arranged in each pixel defined on a substrate, including the steps of: forming a conductive film on the substrate; forming a mask layer, of which etching selection ratio is different from the conductive layer, on the conductive layer; forming a photo-resist pattern of a fixed pattern on the mask layer; forming a mask pattern, which has an undercut shape to the photo-resist pattern, by etching the mask layer by use of the photo-resist pattern as an etching mask; removing the photo-resist pattern; and etching the conductive film by use of the mask pattern as an etching mask, to provide at least any one of the common electrode and the pixel electrode.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2008Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kye-Chan Song, Jeong Oh Kim, Young Kwon Kang
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Patent number: 8451410Abstract: An array substrate for a wide viewing angle liquid crystal display device includes a gate line on a substrate, a data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region, a thin film transistor electrically connected to the gate and data lines, a pixel electrode in the pixel region and connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, the pixel electrode including two parts and an opening portion therebetween, a first common electrode in the opening portion, the first common electrode disposed on a same layer as the pixel electrode, a passivation layer on the pixel electrode and the first common electrode, the passivation layer having a common contact hole exposing the first common electrode, and a second common electrode on the passivation layer and connected to the first common electrode through the common contact hole, the second common electrode including first openings corresponding to the pixel electrode and a second opening corresponding to the opening portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeong-Oh Kim, Jong-Won Moon, Jung-Il Lee
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Patent number: 8451414Abstract: A color image display device is provided which is capable of displaying an image with no differences in color balance between end portions and inner portions of anon-rectangle image display region. The color image display device includes an end portion unit pixel formed in an edge portion of a display region in which a color image is displayed and including end portion sub-pixels which correspond to a plurality of kinds of primary colors respectively in a one-to-one relationship and an inner unit pixel formed in an inside of the display region with respect to the end portion unit pixels and including inner sub-pixels which correspond to the plurality of kinds of primary colors respectively in a one-to-one relationship. With such a configuration, a relative area proportion of the end portion sub-pixels that correspond to the primary colors respectively in a one-to-one relationship is set equal to that of the inner sub-pixels that correspond to the primary colors respectively in a one-to-one relationship.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.Inventor: Yoshihiro Nonaka
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Patent number: RE44817Abstract: A method of forming an oxide film on a surface of a copper alloy, including the steps of providing a copper alloy including copper and an element selected from the group consisting of Mn, Zn, Ga, Li, Ge, Sr, Ag, Ba, Pr and Nd, and diffusing atoms of the element to a surface of the copper alloy so as to form an oxide film on the surface of the copper alloy, wherein a concentration of the element in the copper alloy is more than 0.1 and not more than 20 atomic percentage and within a solubility limit of the element in the copper.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Altiam Services Ltd. LLCInventor: Junichi Koike