Defect Correction Or Compensation Patents (Class 349/192)
  • Patent number: 11862685
    Abstract: The wafer having a retardation distribution measured with a light having a wavelength of 520 nm, wherein an average value of the retardation is 38 nm or less, wherein the wafer comprises a micropipe, and wherein a density of the micropipe is 1.5/cm2 or less, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SENIC INC.
    Inventors: Jong Hwi Park, Kap-Ryeol Ku, Jung-Gyu Kim, Jung Woo Choi, Myung-Ok Kyun
  • Patent number: 11852913
    Abstract: The present application discloses a manufacturing method of a display panel and a display panel. The manufacturing method includes the steps: forming a color filter layer on a substrate; confirming a colorfilter-to-be-stripped in the color filter layer; and stripping the colorfilter-to-be-stripped by using a selected stripping liquid; the color filter layer includes a first color filter, a second color filter and a third color filter; and the colorfilter-to-be-stripped includes one or two of the first color filter, the second color filter and the third color filter, and the method of stripping the colorfilter-to-be-stripped by the selected stripping liquid includes: letting the colorfilter-to-be-stripped react with the selected stripping liquid, and stripping the colorfilter-to-be-stripped by the selected stripping liquid, and forming a protective layer on the surface of the color filters except the colorfilter-to-be-stripped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Chung-Kuang Chien
  • Patent number: 11803072
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display area and a non-display area. The display device comprises a first substrate including a plurality of signal lines which are disposed corresponding to the display area and a plurality of inspection pads which are electrically connected to each of the signal lines and disposed corresponding to the non-display area, a second substrate facing the first substrate and including a light blocking layer which is disposed corresponding to the non-display area, and an encapsulation layer disposed, corresponding to the non-display area, between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each of the inspection pads includes a plurality of opening portions defined spaced apart from each other and a metal pattern portion surrounding the opening portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donghee Shin, Geunho Lee, Yonghee Lee
  • Patent number: 11551602
    Abstract: A display system includes a rendering engine, a display driver, an image source, and display optics. The rendering engine receives a non-uniform resolution distribution pattern and generates one or more rendered pixels. The display driver receives the one or more rendered pixels and generates one or more display driver pixels. The image source device receives the one or more display driver pixels and generates an image. And the display optics receives the image and provides a display optics image having a space-variant resolution that follows the non-uniform resolution distribution pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: INNOVEGA INC.
    Inventors: Jay Marsh, Mark Freeman, Jerome Legerton, Steve Willey
  • Patent number: 11372293
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal panel and a repairing method thereof, and a display device. The liquid crystal panel includes an array substrate and a filter substrate, and the repairing method includes: irradiating a pixel which is a bright spot of the liquid crystal panel with laser from one side of the array substrate away from the filter substrate, so that a portion of the array substrate located in the pixel is converted from a light transmitting area into a light shielding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO, LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guodong Wu, Ping Chen, Hewei Wang, Song Wu, Chen Tang, Mingming Mu, Junfeng Li, Haitao Hu, Fugai Chen, Shuai Ji, Hao Yu
  • Patent number: 11348529
    Abstract: A display device includes: pixels provided in a display area; data lines connected to the pixels, the data lines providing data signals to the pixels; scan lines connected to the pixels, the scan lines providing scan signals to the pixels; and dummy scan lines intersecting the data lines in a peripheral area surrounding the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Won Park, Seung Kyu Lee, Hyun Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 11250764
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mura compensation device, display panel, display device, and mura compensation method, which belongs to the field of panel technology. The mura compensation device includes a first flexible circuit board and a de-mura circuit, including a storage unit for storing mura compensation data, wherein the de-mura circuit is provided in the first flexible circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianwei Sun, Liugang Zhou, Yizhan Han, Tao Li, Yulong Xiong
  • Patent number: 11249359
    Abstract: This application discloses a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a signal line, a drain electrode layer, and a parallel line. The signal line overlaps the drain electrode layer, the parallel line is connected in parallel to the signal line, and two ends of the parallel line are connected to signal lines of two ends of the overlapping area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhenli Song
  • Patent number: 11237415
    Abstract: A method of repairing a display panel comprising: determining a pixel where a bright spot defect resides and a position of the bright spot in the pixel; setting a repair region, the repair region being a region in the pixel including the bright spot defect and having an area smaller than that of a single pixel region; forming a black material layer in the repair region, the black material layer being used for preventing light emitted from a directly-below portion thereof from leaving a display surface of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Haiping Wang, Xu Yan, Pingping Jia, Ying Xi, Dong Guo
  • Patent number: 11079640
    Abstract: A method for repairing a white defect of a LCD panel includes providing a substrate, the substrate defining pixel areas which themselves comprise a base, a first metal layer, a first insulating layer, a semi-conductor layer, an ohmic contact layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a second insulating layer; forming a through hole by laser in the second insulating layer, the through hole extending through the second insulating layer and separating the drain electrode into two spaced parts; forming a third insulating layer to cover the first conductive layers, the second insulating layer and the though hole and forming a second conductive layer by laser on the third insulating layer to couple the first conductive layer to the second conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Century Technology (Shenzhen) Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Yuan Xiong, Chih-Chung Liu, Ming-Tsung Wang, Meng-Chieh Tai
  • Patent number: 10895766
    Abstract: A display device may include the following elements: a first substrate; a first polarizer; a second substrate overlapping the first substrate and overlapping the first polarizer; and a polarization structure positioned inside the second substrate, comprising a first polarization layer, and comprising a second polarization layer. The first polarization layer may be narrower than the second substrate in a first direction and may be positioned farther from or closer to the first polarizer than the second polarization layer. The second polarization layer may be narrower than the second substrate in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Inventors: Sung Hoon Kim, Young Jun Kwon, Soo San Mun, Dae Hyuk Song, Cheol Su Jeong
  • Patent number: 10859883
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure propose an array substrate, a display apparatus, and a maintaining method. The array substrate comprises: a first signal line disposed in a first direction; a second signal line disposed in a second direction different from the first direction; and a maintaining part disposed adjacent to an intersection region of the first signal line which overlaps with the second signal line, electrically connected to a common electrode line, and is electrically insulated from the first signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiangqiang Ji, Guoquan Liu, Lu Che
  • Patent number: 10789874
    Abstract: A display device having a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to scan lines extending in a first direction and data lines extending in a second direction different from the first direction and a panel moving unit for reciprocating the display panel in a third direction with respect to the first direction and the second direction. Each of the plurality of pixels my include a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a sub-sampled structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Joon Ahn, Jae Joong Kwon, Jong In Baek
  • Patent number: 10763391
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device comprising such a display panel, and a method for processing defective pixels of such a display panel. The display panel comprises: a substrate; a plurality of pixel units on the substrate and arranged in an array. Each of the pixel units includes a light emitting region and a driving circuit region. In each of the pixel units, the driving circuit region includes a transistor, the light emitting region includes a first electrode, and the first electrode is electrically coupled to a first terminal of the transistor. In a row direction or a column direction of the plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, light emitting regions of two adjacent pixel units are adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yicheng Lin, Cuili Gai, Baoxia Zhang, Ling Wang, Quanhu Li, Pan Xu
  • Patent number: 10678076
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating pixels or regions of a display panel includes a measuring device configured to measure a parameter of light emitted by one or more pixels of each region of the display panel. The apparatus includes a parameter comparator operably coupled to the measuring device and configured to select one or more pixels or one or more regions of the display panel such that the measured parameter of light emitted by the one or more pixels or the one or more regions exceeds a threshold value. The apparatus also includes a laser device configured to emit a laser beam onto the selected one or more pixels or the selected one or more regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Simon Hallam, Ye Yin, Evan M. Richards, Shizhe Shen
  • Patent number: 10656485
    Abstract: A display device includes a first translucent substrate, a second translucent substrate that is disposed on a display surface side while opposed to the first translucent substrate, and a first light reduction unit that reduces a transmission amount of visible light while overlapping a bright point defect portion in planar view in at least one of the first translucent substrate and the second translucent substrate. The first light reduction unit has a circular shape including a first region disposed in a center and a second region disposed around the first region, and transmittance to the visible light in the first region is higher than transmittance to the visible light in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Arai, Tatsuya Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10634967
    Abstract: For suppressing a deterioration of display quality due to a luminance defect, a display device, a method of correcting a luminance defect and a luminance defect corrector are provided. The display device includes a first substrate (SUB1) having gate lines (GL), data lines (DL), pixel electrodes (PIT), and a common electrode (CIT) on a first glass substrate (GB1), and a second substrate (SUB2) having a plurality of optically transparent parts (CF) and a light shield part (BM) on a second glass substrate (GB2). The first or second glass substrate (GB1) or (GB2) contains a dimmer (10) including a plurality of dimming regions (20) that reduce the transmission of light. The dimmer (10) is formed to be superimposed on a trapped foreign matter (33) in plan view. This reduces the transmission of light from the luminance defect to suppress a deterioration of display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Mori, Shigeyuki Mori, Takao Tanaka, Kazuya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10527898
    Abstract: A pixel structure is provided. A pixel structure includes a pixel electrode, an active switch, a common line and an L-shaped conductive. The active switch is coupled to the pixel electrode. The common line is in conjunction with the pixel electrode to from a first storage capacitor. The L-shaped conductive wire is in conjunction with the pixel electrode to from a second storage capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10381275
    Abstract: The present invention provides an array substrate and an repairing method thereof, wherein the array substrate includes adjacent two level GOA unit circuits, wherein an output terminal of a Nth level GOA unit circuit is connected to a Nth level gate line, an output terminal of a N+1th level GOA unit circuit is connected to a N+1th level gate line; and a repairing structure disposed between the Nth level gate line and the N+1th level gate line, the repairing structure configured to turn on the Nth level gate line and the N+1th level gate line by melting when the Nth level GOA unit circuit or the N+1th level GOA unit circuit damaged. A repairing structure is added between two adjacent gate lines, when a certain GOA unit circuit is damaged, the repairing structure is melted by a laser to make the adjacent two gate lines communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guanghui Hong, Qiang Gong
  • Patent number: 10276603
    Abstract: The present application discloses an array substrate including a first signal line layer having a plurality of rows of first signal lines; a second signal line layer having a plurality of columns of second signal lines; the plurality of rows of first signal lines crossing over the plurality of columns of second signal lines defining a plurality of subpixels; a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer between the first signal line layer and the second signal line layer; the first insulating layer on a side of the second insulating layer proximal to the first signal line layer; a repair line between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, the repair line corresponding to one of the plurality of columns of second signal lines; and a first via and a second via extending through the second insulating layer; the repair line being electrically connected to the corresponding one of the plurality of columns of second signal lines through the first via and the second via, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Wang, Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 10203785
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch display panel and a display device. The touch display panel includes a substrate, which is provided thereon with a common electrode layer, a thin film transistor, and a data line and a pixel electrode connected with the thin film transistor. The common electrode layer includes a touch driving electrode and a common electrode which are insulated and spaced apart from each other. The array substrate further includes a shielding layer, which shields a spacing region between the touch driving electrode and the common electrode corresponding to position of the data line, thereby greatly reducing noise generated when the source and the data line are being charged, and in turn enabling the touch and the display of the touch display panel to be performed simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haisheng Wang, Xue Dong, Hongjuan Liu, Xiaoliang Ding, Shengji Yang, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Tao Ren
  • Patent number: 10176737
    Abstract: An array substrate, and a display panel and a test method therefor are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of display signal lines disposed in a display area, and a plurality of first pads and a plurality of second pads disposed in a peripheral area around the display area and electrically connected to the respective plurality of display signal lines. A first test area and a second test area are disposed in a first direction on two sides of a primary area respectively. The first pad includes a first primary part and the second pad includes a second primary part. The first primary parts and the second primary parts are disposed in the primary area and are disposed alternately in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hongbo Zhou
  • Patent number: 10127853
    Abstract: A method of compensating for Mura in a display panel includes displaying a high gray-scale image and a low gray-scale image on a display panel. The displayed images are photographed to generate a high gray-scale luminance image and a low gray-scale luminance image. An ELA Mura for-measurement image having moiré-removed luminance values is generated by dividing luminance values of the low gray-scale luminance image by luminance values of the high gray-scale luminance image. One-dimensional average data is obtained from the ELA Mura for-measurement image. The one-dimensional average data is transformed into frequency-domain data. Target frequency-domain data having a maximum peak value is identified from the frequency-domain data. A direction, an intensity, and a frequency of the ELA Mura are obtained from the target frequency-domain data. A filter is determined based on the obtained information. The filter is applied to image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-Tak Lee, Kyu-Seok Kim, Soo-Young Kim, Young-Nam Yun, Hyun-Koo Lee
  • Patent number: 10126617
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a device for repairing a bright dot in a liquid crystal display panel, and a liquid crystal display panel with bright dots repaired, wherein the method comprises the step of removing a first electrode connected to abridge located between a pixel electrode and a data line so that the voltage signal provided by the data line to the pixel electrode would be stopped. By the above-described process, the present invention is able to convert bright dots into dark ones, and thereby the scrap rate of a liquid crystal display panel can be reduced significantly which improves the yield rate of products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Guangbao Fan, Zhiyuan Shen
  • Patent number: 10096627
    Abstract: A pixel array substrate includes a display area, signal lines, transmission lines, selection lines, and jumper wires. The selection lines intersect with the signal lines to form intersection regions. The selection lines have first contacts, second contacts, and third contacts. The first contacts are respectively located on the intersection regions. Each of the first contacts is between one of the second contacts and one of the third contacts. A first portion of the first contacts are passed by a line of the display area. The jumper wires respectively pass the first contacts, and two ends of each of the jumper wires are respectively located on one of the second contacts and one of the third contacts. A first portion of the jumper wires electrically connect the first portion of the first contacts and the second contacts, but electrically isolate the third contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Rou Chen, Teng-Yi Shieh, Po-Chun Chuang
  • Patent number: 10083646
    Abstract: An display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a first sub-pixel that emits light of a first color having a center wavelength from 390 nm to 450 nm and a second sub-pixel that emits light of a second color different from the first color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rangkyun Mok, Yijoon Ahn, Hyeyong Chu
  • Patent number: 10031388
    Abstract: Provided are a circuit board and a display apparatus in which, when a worker restores a cut wiring with laser, the worker may easily determine a portion to be irradiated with laser by the naked eye. In a circuit board including multiple layered wiring parts (G, O) and an insulating part deposited between layers of the wiring parts (G, O), the insulating portion has a missing part (F) at a superposed position where the wiring parts are superposed onto each other in a layered direction, and a marker (P) indicating the presence of the missing part (F) is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10007131
    Abstract: A method for repairing a display device including a defective pixel area where a failure has occurred includes irradiating a first laser beam to a first interface provided between a first layer and a second layer that contact each other corresponding to the defective pixel area to form a protrusion-depression surface in one or more surfaces of the first layer and the second layer that form the first interface; and irradiating a second laser beam to the protrusion-depression surfaces provided in one or more surfaces of the first and second layers to burn the protrusion-depression surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Ho Bae, In Cheol Song, Ji Hoon Shin
  • Patent number: 9977279
    Abstract: A color filter substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The color filter substrate includes a base substrate and a black matrix arranged on the base substrate, the color filter substrate further includes a via hole arranged in a non-display region, and viewing from a side of the base substrate opposite to the black matrix, the via hole exposes a part of the black matrix in contact with the via hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Peng Wu
  • Patent number: 9971210
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display unit including a display substrate, an array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The display substrate includes a first transparent substrate, one or more light absorbing resin layers, a touch electrode layer, a transparent resin layer, and a transparent electrode layer. The light absorbing resin layer is patterned such that resin portions and an opening portion are formed. The touch electrode layer is patterned such that touch electrode portions are each extended in a first direction perpendicular to a lamination direction. The touch electrode layer and the light absorbing resin layer have a same pattern such that the touch electrode portions and the resin portions overlap with one another when viewed in the lamination direction. The transparent electrode layer is patterned such that transparent electrode portions are each extended in a second direction perpendicular to the lamination direction and the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kimura, Kenzo Fukuyoshi
  • Patent number: 9964791
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, its driving method, and a display device. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite to each other to form a cell, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a pixel electrode arranged on the second substrate. A sensing electrode to which an external voltage is to be applied is arranged at a region of the first substrate corresponding to the liquid crystal layer. At a display stage, an electric field is generated between the sensing electrode to which the external voltage is applied and the pixel electrode to which a data voltage is applied, so as to drive liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer to deflect. The sensing electrode is a black matrix and/or color filter made of a conductive material and arranged on the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengju Zhang, Xin Li, Hong Zhu, Gang Yu
  • Patent number: 9891484
    Abstract: A transparent conductive film includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer, and a third conductive layer disposed on the second conductive layer. The second conductive layer includes silver (Ag) and an alloy element, the alloy element has a smaller atomic radius than the Ag, and a thickness of the second conductive layer is in a range of 20 ? to 60 ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyuneok Shin, Dongmin Lee, Chanwoo Yang, Juhyun Lee, Changoh Jeong
  • Patent number: 9881940
    Abstract: An array substrate and a display device, the array substrate comprises a fan-out area, an edge area and a display area for performing display, the fan-out area and the edge area are connected with the display area and located on two non-adjacent sides of the display area respectively; a plurality of wirings are arranged on the array substrate, and the wirings are routed through the display area and extend into the edge area, the input end of each wiring is located in the fan-out area; pads are configured for the wirings respectively are located on the side far away from the input end of each wiring, and the pads are located in the edge area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heecheol Kim, Youngsuk Song, Seongyeol Yoo, Seungjin Choi
  • Patent number: 9823531
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel includes: gate lines; data lines insulated from and crossing the gate lines; and shorting bars disposed outside of a display area in which the gate lines cross the data lines. The shorting bars overlap portions of the data lines disposed outside of the display area. The shorting bar includes a semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Young Choi, Bo Sung Kim, Jae Woo Park, Hee Jun Byeon, Young-Wook Lee, Moon-Keun Choi
  • Patent number: 9785026
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal display, a manufacturing method and a darkening process. The liquid crystal display includes a lower substrate provided with a lower common electrode, a scanning line, a data line, a pixel electrode and a TFT. A gate electrode of the TFT is connected with the scanning line. A source electrode of the TFT is connected with a data line. A drain electrode of the TFT is connected with the pixel electrode. Wherein, the lower common electrode has an extension portion. A connection line of the data line and the source electrode of the TFT is spaced apart from and overlapped with the extension portion. When executing a darkening process, the connection line is disconnected from the data line, and connecting the extension portion and the connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Zui Wang
  • Patent number: 9766525
    Abstract: In an active matrix substrate, each of at least two auxiliary capacitance electrodes contains a first electrode section and a second electrode section, at least a portion of the first electrode sections and at least a portion of a plurality of source bus lines overlap each other, the second electrode section has two linear sections that branch from the first electrode section and that extend in a second direction, a portion of the region between the two linear sections and at least a portion of the plurality of source bus lines overlap each other, and the first and second electrode sections, which are adjacent and arranged in a first direction, are disposed symmetrically to each other about a reference point that is on a straight line passing through a substantially central portion of respective pixels arranged in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryohki Itoh, Masahiro Yoshida, Takaharu Yamada
  • Patent number: 9720295
    Abstract: Disclosed are an LCD device and a method of manufacturing the same, in which a passivation layer and a pixel electrode are simultaneously formed by a single mask process using a half tone mask, and thus, manufacturing efficiency increases, and a defective contact due to loss of the pixel electrode can be prevented in a pad area. The LCD device includes a pad part including a pad area and a contact area. The LCD device includes a pixel pad formed in the pad area, a pixel bar formed in the contact area, and a bridge layer contacting the pixel pad with the pixel bar. The bridge layer is formed as a single layer or multi layers, and formed of one or more of a transparent conductive material and an opaque conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Ki Jung, Jae Sung Yu, In Hyuk Song, Jae Hoon Park, Han Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 9704448
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel and a repairing method thereof are provided. In the array substrate, except the last gate line, both ends of each of the remaining gate lines are provided respectively with first leads connected to the gate line; in each group of gate integrated drive circuits, except a first level shift register, an input terminal of every other shift register is provided with a second lead connected to the input terminal; the first lead connected to one of the gate lines and the second lead connected to an input terminal of the shift register at the next level adjacent thereto have an overlapping area (A) therebetween, and are insulated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongjun Xie, Kun Cao
  • Patent number: 9679925
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate (10) includes a first line (101), a second line (102), a third line (103), a fourth line (104) and a fifth line (105) provided in a non-display region F. The first line crosses a non-input-side end portion of at least one bus line of a first bus line group with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. The second line crosses a non-input-side end portion of at least one bus line of a second bus line group with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. The third line crosses an input-side end portion of the first bus line group with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, and does not cross the second bus line group. The fourth line crosses an input-side end portion of the second bus line group with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, and does not cross the first bus line group. The fifth line is routed so as to cross the first, second, third and fourth lines with an insulating layer interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Sharper Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryohki Itoh
  • Patent number: 9640131
    Abstract: An overdrive engine generates output frames to be used to drive a display from input frames to be displayed. Each output frame is generated on a region by region basis from the corresponding regions of the input frames. If it is determined that an input frame region has changed significantly since the previous version(s) of the input frame, an overdriven version of the input frame region is generated for use as the corresponding region in the output frame. On the other hand, if it is determined that the input frame region has not changed since the previous version of the input frame, then the new input frame region is used without performing any form of overdrive process on it for the corresponding region in the output frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventor: Daren Croxford
  • Patent number: 9535278
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal interposed between the first and the second substrates, and a detection circuit. The second substrate includes a detection electrode for a touch panel. The respective pixels have pixel electrodes and counter electrodes. The counter electrode divided into a plurality of blocks is provided common to the respective pixels on a plurality of consecutive display lines. The counter electrode divided into blocks serves as the scanning electrode for the touch panel. The detection circuit includes a calibration capacity element provided for each of the detection electrodes, having one end connected to the detection electrode, and supplies a calibration voltage to the other end of the calibration capacity element in a touched position detection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Tokita, Masashi Takahata
  • Patent number: 9535292
    Abstract: A substrate is provided, in a non-display area, with at least blocking member that is used to form at least one enclosed space with negative pressure together with another substrate; in the liquid crystal panel formed by cell assembling of the substrate and the other substrate, the two substrates after cell assembling are tightly bonded together due to the at least one enclosed space formed by the substrates and the at least one blocking member pressed by external atmospheric pressure. The design of the substrate and the liquid crystal panel in the embodiments of the present invention can avoid occurring of mis-alignment of substrates and improve the product yield rate of the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tingze Dong, Dongsheng Huang, Bingyu Chen, Qian Zhang, Ying Liu
  • Patent number: 9537482
    Abstract: A touch panel and display device including the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the touch panel includes a substrate, at least one first signal line formed over the substrate and extending in a first direction, and at least one second signal line formed over the substrate and extending in a second direction that crosses the first direction. A plurality of identification patterns are formed in areas corresponding to at least one of the first and second signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Won Huh, Hwan-Hee Jeong
  • Patent number: 9515130
    Abstract: A covering method including: preparing a mixture containing insulative material and a solvent; applying the mixture over a defective portion; and covering the defective portion with the insulative material by causing the solvent to evaporate from the mixture. In the covering method, the solvent has a boiling point no lower than 178 degrees Celsius, and in the mixture, a weight ratio percentage of the insulative material to the solvent is no lower than 10%. Thus, the defective portion, which may result in a dark spot, can be efficiently covered with insulative material while ensuring that a non-light-emission area that is formed accordingly has the smallest-necessary size and that sufficient insulation is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimamura, Asaki Sano, Hideaki Matsushima, Nobuyuki Ishikura
  • Patent number: 9514665
    Abstract: A test device for a display device including a plurality of demultiplexing switches connected to a plurality of data lines in accordance with the present invention includes: a one-sheet test device configured to include a plurality of control switches connected to the demultiplexing switches through a plurality of wires; and a wire test device configured to transmit wire test signals for detecting defects in the wires to a pad connected to the control switches. The wire test device transmits the wire test signals to the pad to detect defects in first wires of the wires and then detect defects in remaining second wires thereof, and the first wires and the second wires are alternatively disposed below the demultiplexing switches to constitute paths for signals transmitted to the demultiplexing switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang-Sae Lee, Jeong-Geun Yoo
  • Patent number: 9513499
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a laser repairing apparatus for a display panel, which comprises a laser generating device, a bearing device, a backlight, a first polarizer, a second polarizer and an image generating device, the laser generating device is located above the bearing device, the first polarizer is located between the backlight and the bearing device, and the second polarizer is located between the image generating device and the bearing device. In the technical solution of the present invention, the first polarizer and the second polarizer are used to control the amount of light transmittance of the transmission light, and the human eye can identify the exact positions of the defective pixels quickly and accurately by means of the transmission image having overall low brightness, and consequently, the time required for the whole repairing process is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuxin Deng, Manping Niu, Ran Tong, Wei Qin, Yonggang Du
  • Patent number: 9507218
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. Each of pixels in the display panel includes a pixel area; a switch element located near an intersection of a data line and a scan line; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switch element; and a common electrode located on the first substrate. The common electrode comprises first common electrodes superposing data lines or scan lines and having the same first width; and second common electrodes overlapping with respective pixel areas and having the same second width, the first width is the same as the second width. Alternatively, the common electrode comprises first slits, which have the same first slit width, located above data lines and scan lines, and second slits, which have the same second slit width and are located in respective pixel areas. The first slit width is the same as the second slit width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Niu, Zhihua Ling, Lingxiao Du, Jun Ma, Sitao Huo, Tianyi Wu
  • Patent number: 9477327
    Abstract: A display device having a display surface includes a plurality of black lines defining a plurality of pixels; and a plurality of information patterns arranged so as to overlap the display surface and each representing information regarding a position thereof on the display surface. Each information pattern is formed by using a plurality of marks provided so as to overlap the pixels, and each mark is formed from a material that transmits visible light and absorbs or diffusedly reflects infrared light. A length of each mark in a width direction of the thickest black lines among the black lines defining the pixel overlapped by the mark is larger than a width of each thickest black line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Kazuhiro Yamada, Kenji Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9431381
    Abstract: A method of processing a gate electrode cutting (CUT) layout usable for fabricating an integrated circuit (IC) is disclosed. The method includes determining if a first CUT layout pattern and a second CUT layout pattern are in compliance with a predetermined spatial resolution requirement. If the first CUT layout pattern and the second CUT layout pattern are not in compliance with the predetermined spatial resolution requirement, a merged CUT layout pattern is generated based on the first CUT layout pattern, the second CUT layout pattern, and a stitching layout pattern, and a remedial connecting layout pattern is added to a conductive layer layout. The stitching layout pattern corresponds to a carved-out portion of a third gate electrode structure. The remedial connecting layout pattern corresponds to fabricating a conductive feature electrically connecting two portions of the third gate electrode structure that are separated by the corresponding carved-out portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tung-Heng Hsieh, Hui-Zhong Zhuang, Chung-Te Lin, Sheng-Hsiung Wang, Ting-Wei Chiang, Li-Chun Tien
  • Patent number: 9354479
    Abstract: A TFT substrate (20) forming a part of a liquid crystal display panel includes: respective pixels having mutually adjacent first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels; first source electrodes (14aba) that branch towards the first sub-pixels and form a portion of respective first TFTs (5a) after respective source lines (14a) between the respective pixels continue along respective gate lines (11a) extending between the first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels of the respective pixels; and a second source electrode (14abb) that branches towards the second sub-pixel and forms a portion of the respective second TFTs (5b). The respective gate lines (11a) have openings where the respective source lines (14a) have branched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mutsuto Kato, Tomohiro Inoue