Electrical Excitation Of Liquid Crystal (i.e., Particular Voltage Pulses, Ac Vs. Dc, Threshold Voltages, Etc.) Patents (Class 349/33)
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Patent number: 12259616Abstract: A device includes a plurality of electrode layers. The device also includes a birefringent medium layer disposed between the plurality of electrode layers. The device also includes at least one alignment structure disposed at a surface of the birefringent medium layer. The birefringent medium layer includes liquid crystal molecules arranged in a plurality of helical twist structures having a helical axis. The plurality of electrode layers are configured to generate an electric field within the birefringent medium layer, and the liquid crystal molecules are aligned via the electric field to be titled with respect to the helical axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Nicholas John Diorio, Jr., Mengfei Wang, Yuge Huang, Kai-Han Chang, Lu Lu, Xiayu Feng
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Patent number: 12261193Abstract: A display panel and a display device are described. The display panel includes a first display area, the first display area includes a first external area and a first compression area, and the first compression area is located at a side in a first direction of the first external area, wherein the first direction is parallel to the data line. The display panel further includes a plurality of first light-emitting units and a plurality of first pixel driving circuits.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuo Sun, Guoqiang Tang, Weiyun Huang, Ling Shi, Xuan Pang, Qifu Ran, Qiyang Wu
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Patent number: 12216366Abstract: Provided is a pixel structure. The pixel structure includes: a first electrode, a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer that are disposed on one side of a substrate and successively stacked, wherein one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a pixel electrode and the other of the first electrode and the second electrode is a common electrode, and the second electrode includes a plurality of electrode branches sequentially arranged in a first direction, wherein each of the electrode branches includes a first end portion, a body portion, and a second end portion that are successively connected in a second direction, the body portion including at least one body segment.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Qianqian Zhang, Chun Wang, Yuqi Liu, Hui Wang, Hongmei Yang, Wei Ren
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Patent number: 12200997Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a first area and a second area. A pixel density of the first area is greater than that of the second area. In the second area, each pixel includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel, and the fourth sub-pixel are in a same sub-pixel row. The first sub-pixel is between the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are in a same sub-pixel column. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are respectively in adjacent sub-pixel rows. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel has a same emission color. The first sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel, and the fourth sub-pixel have different emission colors.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Linhong Han, Yi Zhang, Hengzhen Liang, Shikai Qin
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Patent number: 12197095Abstract: A liquid crystal composition includes a component A composed of one or more liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy and a component B composed of one or more compounds selected from a general formula I, where the optical anisotropy of the liquid crystal composition is larger than 0.14. The elastic coefficient of a liquid crystal system is adjusted by introducing a bi-mesogenic compound into a negative liquid crystal or a negative liquid crystal mixture. When the liquid crystal composition is used for the dimming device, the minimum light transmittance of the dimming device in the dark state can be significantly reduced, the adjustment range of the light transmittance in the light state and the dark state can be expanded, and the haze in the dark state can be increased, thereby broadening the use range.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Smart Liquid Crystal Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hongwei Zhang, Wenqing Shen, Jianhua Tang, Li Zhang
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Patent number: 12198651Abstract: A pixel circuit of the present invention includes a thin-film transistor, a first scan line, a second scan line, and a data line. The first scan line is arranged along a first direction. The first scan line is electrically connected to the thin-film transistor. The second scan line is arranged along a second direction. The second scan line is electrically connected to the first scan line. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The data line is arranged along the second direction. The data line is electrically connected to the thin-film transistor. The pixel circuit also includes an auxiliary scan line. The auxiliary scan line is arranged along the second direction. Two ends of the auxiliary scan line are electrically connected to the second scan line.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hongquan Wei, Yichen Bai, Yanxi Ye
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Patent number: 12189258Abstract: An electronic device has an electrically adjustable shutter. The shutter may be placed in a transparent state or a nontransparent state. The shutter may overlap a portion of a display, may overlap a liquid contact indictor or a structure with text in a device, or may overlap an optical component such as an optical proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, visible light-emitting diode or laser, infrared light-emitting diode or laser, visible light image sensor, or infrared light image sensor. Control circuitry in the electronic device may place the shutter in an opaque state to hide an overlapped component from view or may place the shutter in a transparent state to allow the overlapped component to transmit or receive light. The adjustable shutter may exhibit changes in its transmission spectrum in different modes of operation and may be used as a camera filter or neutral density filter.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Firka, Ashley E. Fletcher, Benjamin J. Pope, Lee E. Hooton, Scott A. Myers, Benjamin Shane Bustle, Garam Young, Blake M. Coughenour
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Patent number: 12189226Abstract: Disclosed is an LCD device which realizes decreased thickness, simplified process, and decreased cost by using a common electrode for formation of electric field to drive liquid crystal as a sensing electrode, and removing a touch screen from an upper surface of the liquid crystal panel, the LCD device comprising gate and data lines crossing each other to define plural pixels on a lower substrate; a pixel electrode in each of the plural pixels; plural common electrode blocks patterned at the different layer from the pixel electrode, wherein the common electrode blocks, together with the pixel electrode, forms an electric field, and senses a user's touch; and plural sensing lines electrically connected with the common electrode blocks, wherein, if the sensing line is electrically connected with one of the common electrode blocks, the sensing line is insulated from the remaining common electrode blocks.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Heesun Shin, Seok Woo Lee, Jae Sung Yu, Ju Han Kim, Sun Jung Lee, In Hyuk Song
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Patent number: 12189228Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first display panel, and a polarizer opposed to the first display panel and having a transmission axis for transmitting linearly polarized light. The first display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, and a first liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and including streak-like polymers and liquid crystal molecules. An extension direction of the polymers is substantially orthogonal to the transmission axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Kentaro Okuyama
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Patent number: 12181753Abstract: The present application provides a pixel structure and a display panel. Each of a plurality of sub-pixel units includes a main sub-pixel, at least one secondary sub-pixel, and a thin film transistor electrically connecting the main sub-pixel and the at least one secondary sub-pixel, wherein by controlling a pretilt angle of a first branch electrode of the main sub-pixel to be different from a pretilt angle of a second branch electrode of the secondary sub-pixel, a driving voltage of the main sub-pixel and a driving voltage of the secondary sub-pixel are different, so that color shift can be effectively alleviated and wider viewing angles can be obtained, thus being beneficial to improve an aperture ratio and light transmission of the pixel structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yue Xu, Yani Chen
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Patent number: 12181783Abstract: An optical phase modulation element of the present disclosure includes a plurality of divided regions provided in different regions in an in-plane direction and encapsulating a liquid crystal material having a different refractive index anisotropy, in which the plurality of divided regions each displays a phase distribution pattern for a color having a different wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Akiko Toriyama, Takahiro Mochizuki
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Patent number: 12164204Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a substrate and a plurality of pixels over the substrate. At least one of the plurality of pixels includes a driving transistor and a liquid crystal element electrically connected to the driving transistor. The liquid crystal element has a pixel electrode, an interelectrode insulating film, a common electrode, an inorganic insulating film, a first orientation film, a liquid crystal layer, and a second orientation film. The interelectrode insulating film is located over the pixel electrode. The common electrode is located over the interelectrode insulating film and has a slit overlapping the pixel electrode. The inorganic insulating film is located over the common electrode. The first orientation film is located over the inorganic insulating film. The liquid crystal layer is located over the first orientation film. The second orientation film is located over the liquid crystal layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2024Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yoshitaka Ozeki, Nobutaka Ozaki
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Patent number: 12164138Abstract: A backlight module and a display device are provided by the embodiments of the present application. The backlight module includes a light guide plate and a switchable diffusion sheet. The switchable diffusion sheet further includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer disposed opposite to each other. A polymer liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. In the backlight module of the embodiment of the present application, a thick glass in the prior art is replaced with the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer which are lighter and thinner than the thick glass, which can greatly reduce an overall thickness of the backlight module.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Wei Cheng
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Patent number: 12155976Abstract: A projection system can include a housing. A controller can receive a video signal and, in response to the video signal, produce a light-emitting diode (LED) array-controlling signal and a modulation panel-controlling signal. An LED array disposed in the housing can include LEDs that are configured to produce LED light having corresponding time-varying intensities in response to the LED array-controlling signal. A modulation panel disposed in the housing can have a plurality of pixels that are configured to modulate corresponding portions of the LED light in response to the modulation panel-controlling signal to form intensity-modulated light. A lens disposed in or on the housing can project the intensity-modulated light out of the housing to form a video image that corresponds to the video signal. The video image can be located away from the housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Pieter Johannes Quintus van Voorst Vader, Arjen Gerben Van der Sijde, Nicola Bettina Pfeffer
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Patent number: 12147135Abstract: A display substrate is provided, including: a plurality of scanning signal lines; and a plurality of load compensation units electrically connected to at least some of the plurality of scanning signal lines respectively. The load compensation unit includes at least one of a compensation capacitor and a compensation resistor. The display substrate includes N rows of pixel units, and n rows of pixel units among the N rows of pixel units include different numbers of sub-pixels. The scanning signal line for each of the n rows of pixel units is electrically connected to a respective load compensation unit, a load compensation value of the load compensation unit for each row of pixel units is negatively related to the number of sub-pixels of the row of pixel units, and the load compensation value includes at least one of a capacitance compensation value and a resistance compensation value.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yin Deng, Bo Wu, Haohao Li, Ze Zhao, Zheng Liao, Yongju Yang
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Patent number: 12130521Abstract: A vehicle or other system may have windows. A window may include an outer glass layer having a concave inner surface and an inner glass layer having a convex inner surface. Transparent conductive electrodes may be formed on the concave inner surface and the convex outer surface. A liquid crystal layer such as a nanocapsule guest-host liquid crystal layer may be interposed between the transparent conductive electrodes. During manufacturing, a first layer of liquid crystal may be coated onto the transparent electrode on the outer glass layer, and a second layer of liquid crystal may be coated onto the transparent electrode on the inner glass layer. The two coated glass layers may then be pressed together in a vacuum chamber so that the first and second liquid crystal layers merge and become a homogenous layer, thereby removing surface irregularities in the liquid crystal layers and reducing undesired haze.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Peter F Masschelein, David E Kingman, Yunseok Lee
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Patent number: 12117612Abstract: According to an aspect, a display system includes: a display apparatus; and a mirror apparatus configured to reflect an image from the display apparatus and project the image on a projection plate. The mirror apparatus includes: a region configured to reflect the image and divided into a plurality of partial regions; a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of each of the partial regions; a liquid crystal mirror disposed facing the temperature sensor and configured to be switched between a reflective state in which incident light is reflected and a transmissive state in which incident light is transmitted; and a control circuit configured to control the reflective state and the transmissive state in each of the partial regions depending on the temperature detected in the partial region.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Masashi Takahata
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Patent number: 12111555Abstract: A method of manufacturing an active matrix substrate includes forming multiple thin film transistors corresponding to multiple subpixels on a substrate; forming color filters provided with colored layers having predetermined colors disposed on the multiple thin film transistors, respectively, and having contact holes for electrical connection to the multiple thin film transistors, respectively; forming a first transparent electrode by forming a first transparent conductive film above the color filters and patterning the first transparent conductive film; forming an inorganic protection film made of an inorganic insulating film on the first transparent electrode; forming a second transparent conductive film on the inorganic protection film; forming antireflection layers on the second transparent conductive film, each of the antireflection layers formed by layering a metal layer and an inorganic insulating layer and overlapping a boundary portion between the colored layers; and forming a second transparent elecType: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventor: Katsunori Misaki
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Patent number: 12106732Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel in which pixels are arranged; a first circuit board configured to provide a first driving signal to the display panel; and a second circuit board connecting the display panel and the first circuit board and having a first region in which a driving chip providing a second driving signal to the display panel is arranged and a second region surrounding the first region, the first region and the second region being defined in the second circuit board, wherein: the second circuit board comprises a first line electrically connected to the driving chip and a second line electrically insulated from the driving chip; the second line comprises a common line in the first region; and the width of the common line decreases as the common line becomes farther away from the first circuit board on a plane.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wontae Kim, Jae-Han Lee
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Patent number: 12108649Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device using the same, and includes a first region where a plurality of pixel groups are disposed; and a second region where a plurality of pixel groups and a plurality of light transmitting parts are disposed. The plurality of pixel groups disposed in the second region are disposed between the light transmitting parts. An aspect ratio of each of the pixel groups disposed in the second region is different from that of each of the pixel groups disposed in the first region. Each of the pixel groups of the second region includes the same number of sub-pixels as each of the pixel groups of the first region.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young Sung Cho, Hyung Uk Jang, Sung Woo Jun
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Patent number: 12100367Abstract: A display device includes: pixel electrodes including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode adjacent to the first pixel electrode in a first direction; switching elements including a first switching element coupled to the first pixel electrode and a second switching element coupled to the second pixel electrode; gate lines including a first gate line coupled to the first switching element and a second gate line coupled to the second switching element; a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the gate lines; and drive electrodes including a first drive electrode and a second drive electrode adjacent to the first drive electrode in the first direction. The first drive electrode overlaps the first and second pixel electrodes, and the second gate line. The second drive electrode overlaps the first gate line. The gate driver supplies the gate signal to the first and second gate lines simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kohei Kinoshita, Chihiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 12092911Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing a liquid crystal material. The method includes a step (I) of preparing a liquid crystal material and a step (II) of measuring the liquid crystal material with a delta delay measurement mechanism that measures a delta delay value of the liquid crystal material. The delta delay measurement mechanism includes a single coaxial tube and a mechanism that calculates the delta delay value of the liquid crystal material. The single coaxial tube includes a linear inner conductor and an outer conductor having a space through which the inner conductor extends. The delta delay value is a difference between a transmission delay time t0 and a transmission delay time tv.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: DIC CORPORATIONInventor: Tsuyoshi Sasaki
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Patent number: 12085824Abstract: An array substrate includes a first electrode, scanning lines extending along a first direction, data lines, and common signal lines. The data lines and the common signal lines extend along a second direction. The first electrode includes a first and a second sub-electrode. Each data line is disposed between two common signal lines. Two scanning lines, two common signal lines, and a data line define a first and a second sub-pixel area. The first and the second sub-electrode are disposed within the first and the second sub-pixel area respectively. The first sub-electrode includes a first main portion disposed close to a common signal line and first branch portions spaced along the second direction. A first space is defined between two adjacent first branch portions. Ends of the first branch portions are connected to the first main portion. Another ends of the first branch portions are spaced with a first space.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Guangzhou China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., LTD.Inventors: Xinru Yao, Li Xu, Chengcai Dong, Juncheng Xiao
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Patent number: 12085822Abstract: A display panel, a display device, and a driving method therefor, the display panel comprising: a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array, and the display panel comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite each other, wherein the first substrate comprises a first base and a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on the first base, and each sub-pixel comprises at least two pixel electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhongxiao Li, Wenqing Zhao, Hui Zhang
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Patent number: 12072570Abstract: A display device including a light source (A), a color conversion layer (B), and a color filter (C), wherein the color conversion layer (B) contains quantum dots (B-r) that emit red light, the color filter (C) has a blue color filter (C-b), a green color filter (C-g), and a red color filter (C-r), and the display device satisfies ??1.80 and (II) ??63.0.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Yoshihiro Harada, Yoshifumi Komatsu, Tomohiro Fukuura
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Patent number: 12044936Abstract: Provided are an array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel. The array substrate includes first subpixel units and second subpixel units. A first electrode layer of the array substrate includes first electrodes, and each first subpixel unit is provided with the first electrode therein. A second electrode layer of the array substrate is disposed on the first electrode layer, and the second electrode layer includes second electrodes and third electrodes. Each first subpixel unit is provided with the second electrode(s), and each second subpixel unit is provided with two third electrodes arranged at intervals. In each first subpixel unit, ones of the first electrode and the second electrode(s) are pixel electrodes, and the other ones are common electrodes; and in each second subpixel unit, one of the two third electrodes is a pixel electrode, and the other is a common electrode.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2023Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Guangzhou China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., LTD.Inventors: Jongwon Moon, Qingjuan Wang, Qiuyue Wu
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Patent number: 12044864Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device includes an eye detection sensor that includes a camera that captures an image of a user's eyes, a display panel disposed on the eye detection sensor and that includes pixels, and a light modulator disposed on the display panel and that controls the path of light output from the display panel. The light modulator includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer that faces the first electrode layer and includes a first sub-electrode that overlaps a first area of the eye detection sensor and a second sub-electrode that does not overlap the first area but overlaps a second area of the eye detection sensor that overlaps the camera, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer and that includes liquid crystal molecules.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2023Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyun Jin Cho, Jae Ho You, Jong Ho Hong
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Patent number: 12019343Abstract: An array substrate and a reflective display substrate are disclosed. The array substrate includes a base, and a plurality of data lines and a plurality of sub-pixels that are disposed on the base. The sub-pixel includes a reflective pixel electrode and a TFT. An orthographic projection of the pixel electrode in each sub-pixel on the base is overlapped with orthographic projections of a first electrode, a first data line and a second data line.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignees: HEFB BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Liqing Liao, Hongmin Li, Silin Feng, Ying Wang, Fengjing Tang
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Patent number: 12022713Abstract: An array substrate and a detection method thereof, and a display panel are disclosed. The array substrate includes a plurality of subpixels and a plurality of signal line structures. The plurality of subpixels are arranged in an array of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns along a first direction and a second direction. Each signal line structure of the plurality of signal line structures includes at least one first detection line extending along the first direction; adjacent (n)th row and (n+1)th row of subpixels in the array form a subpixel row group, and the signal line structure is configured to be connected to the (n)th row and (n+1)th row of subpixels and detect electrical characteristics of first transistors or light-emitting elements in the subpixels.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Can Yuan, Yongqian Li, Zhidong Yuan, Meng Li
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Patent number: 12013616Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes a first substrate, and a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a first shielding line sequentially disposed on the first substrate. The first metal layer includes a plurality of scan lines, the second metal layer includes a signal transmission line electrically connected to all of the scan lines, and at least a part of an orthographic projection of a wiring part of the signal transmission line on the first substrate coincides with an orthographic projection of the first shielding line on the first substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Inventor: Bangqing Xiao
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Patent number: 11995265Abstract: A display device includes a display panel that displays an image, an input sensor that senses an external input, and a sensing controller that controls the driving of the input sensor. The input sensor includes a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes. The sensing controller simultaneously transmits input scanning signals to at least two scanning electrodes of the plurality of scanning electrodes during a group scanning period. The group scanning period includes a plurality of scanning periods. The sensing controller transmits a compensating signal having a phase different from a phase of at least one of the input scanning signals to at least one sensing electrode of the plurality of sensing electrodes during at least one scanning period of the plurality of scanning periods.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiyeong Lee, Hyun-Wook Cho, Sangkook Kim, Taejoon Kim, Hyungbae Kim, Jaehyun Park
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Patent number: 11970060Abstract: A head-up display for a transportation vehicle. The head-up display includes an imaging unit for generating an image, and an optical system for projecting the image onto a projection surface. The optical system includes at least a first mirror, a curved second mirror arranged adjacent to the first mirror, and a selectively reflective element configured in an optical path between the first mirror and the second mirror. The optical system is configured such that light emitted from the imaging unit is directed to pass through the selectively reflective element, reflected off the first mirror towards the selectively reflective element, reflected by the selectively reflective element towards the second mirror, and reflected by the second mirror towards the selectively reflective element, and passed through to be directed to the projection surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventor: Steffen Zozgornik
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Patent number: 11966120Abstract: A liquid crystal light control element that controls a light absorption state by voltage application, the liquid crystal light control element including: a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition between a pair of substrates each having an electrode; and a liquid crystal alignment film that is provided on at least one of the substrates and aligns a liquid crystal vertically, wherein the liquid crystal composition contains a liquid crystal and a dichroic dye, the liquid crystal alignment film is obtained from a liquid crystal aligning agent containing a polyimide precursor in which a diamine having a specific side chain is used as a part of the raw material or a polyimide obtained by imidizing the polyimide precursor, and the proportion of the diamine used is 50 to 100 mol % based on the entire diamine component.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Nissan Chemical CorporationInventors: Kanako Suzuki, Masaaki Katayama, Masafumi Takahashi, Kazuyoshi Hosaka
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Patent number: 11961439Abstract: A display panel, a driving method and a display device are disclosed. The display panel is divided into a first area and a second area arranged along a data line direction. Multiple sub-pixels corresponding to a same row of scan line are connected to data lines in one-to-one correspondence. In the first area and second area, each column of sub-pixels is arranged between two adjacent data lines, where the same column of sub-pixels includes multiple sub-pixel groups, each of which includes at least one sub-pixel. Among two adjacent data lines, one data line is connected with the sub-pixels in the odd groups, and the other is connected with the sub-pixels in the even groups. The sub-pixel groups in the first area and the corresponding sub-pixel groups in the second area are axially symmetrical with respect to a boundary line between the first area and the second area.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Jie Chen, Jianlei Li, Haijiang Yuan
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Patent number: 11948946Abstract: An array substrate, a method for manufacturing the array substrate, and a display panel are provided in the disclosure. The method for manufacturing the array substrate includes the following. A gate and a signal trace spaced apart from the gate are formed on a substrate. A gate insulation layer is formed on the substrate. An active layer to-be-processed is formed on the gate insulation layer. A first photoresist layer is formed on the active layer to-be-processed. The active layer to-be-processed is etched to form an active layer, where the first photoresist layer is on a side surface of the active layer away from the gate insulation layer. A second photoresist layer is formed on the gate insulation layer. The gate insulation layer is etched to define a through hole, where the through hole faces the signal trace.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: BEIHAI HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Hejing Zhang, Zhen Liu, Jie Zhang, Je-hao Hsu, Haoxuan Zheng
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Patent number: 11927861Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed, relating to the display technical field. The display panel comprises a display layer and a light control layer which are laminated, the light control layer comprises a plurality of light control pixel areas, the light control pixel areas comprise a thin film transistor, the display layer comprises a plurality of display pixel areas, and the display pixel areas comprise a green sub-pixel; the orthographic projection of the green sub-pixel on the light control pixel area is close to the area where the thin film transistor is located.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: FUZHOU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Renhui Yu, Wen Zha, Xin Chen, Hongzhou Xie, Shangtao Zheng, Meizhen Chen, Ying Tian, Zengrong Li, Ye Hu, Qingna Hou, Kai Diao
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Patent number: 11927851Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first base substrate; a second base substrate opposite to the first base substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second base substrates; a first alignment film at a side of the first base substrate facing the liquid crystal layer; a second alignment film at a side of the second base substrate facing the liquid crystal layer; a polarizer at a side of the first base substrate away from the liquid crystal layer; and a quarter-wave plate between the polarizer and the first base substrate. An angle between a center line of an included angle between the first alignment direction of the first alignment film and the second alignment direction of the second alignment film and a slow axis of the quarter-wave plate is in a range from 75 to 105 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Hao Liu, Ruichen Zhang, Kaixuan Wang, Yanqing Chen, Zhao Zhang, Yanni Liu, Li Tian
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Patent number: 11929005Abstract: Provided are a drive compensation method and system of a display panel and a display device. The drive compensation method includes: determining at least one of the impedance and capacitive reactance variation curve of a first signal line in a column direction and determining the charge rate variation curve of first pixel units in a row direction; determining the compensation coefficients for a respective pixel unit in the column direction and/or the row direction according to the impedance and capacitive reactance variation curve of the first signal line in the column direction and/or the charge rate variation curve of first pixel units in the row direction; and compensating the compensation coefficients for the respective pixel unit in the column direction and/or the row direction to the drive signal of the respective pixel unit to drive the respective pixel unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qiang Chen, Chen Zhong, Meng Lai, Wang Yu, Jingxiong Zhou, Zhiqiang Xia
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Patent number: 11921376Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes: a first base, a second base disposed opposite to the first base, a liquid crystal layer and a first optical compensation layer that are disposed between the first base and the second base, and a second optical compensation layer disposed on a side of the first base away from the liquid crystal layer or on a side of the second base away from the liquid crystal layer. An orthogonal projection of an optic axis of the first optical compensation layer on the first base is parallel to orthogonal projections of optic axes of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer on the first base. An orthogonal projection of an optic axis of the second optical compensation layer on the first base is perpendicular to the orthogonal projection of the optic axis of the first optical compensation layer on the first base.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTDInventors: Lintao Ji, Feifei Wang, Kaixuan Wang, Hongming Zhan, Bowen Li, Jiao Li, Xibin Shao
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Patent number: 11913620Abstract: Illumination device for a motor vehicle headlight, which is configured to perform at least two different light functions and has an illuminant and an optical device associated with the illuminant, wherein the optical device has an adjustment means configured to adjust operating states of the optical device, wherein in a first operating state, the optical device is substantially transparent, and in a second operating state, the optical device is configured to scatter, wherein the illuminant comprises a plurality of light sources spaced apart from one another at a minimum distance, wherein the adjustment means is configured to adjust the optical device such that in the first operating state, a light propagation direction of the rays of light remains unchanged, and in the second operating state, the light propagation direction of the rays of light is changed by scattering the rays of light on scattering elements of the optical device.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: ZKW Group GmbHInventor: Manuel Stadler
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Patent number: 11906859Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate, and a transistor, an anti-static wire, a first anti-static resistor and a first ground bonding pad on the base substrate, wherein a first terminal of the first anti-static resistor is electrically connected to a first end of the anti-static wire, a second terminal of the first anti-static resistor is electrically connected to the first ground bonding pad, and the first anti-static resistor is at a different layer from a layer at which the anti-static wire is located and a layer at which the first ground bonding pad is located, and is at a same layer as an active layer of the resistor.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Hongfei Cheng, Hui Li
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Patent number: 11906829Abstract: A display system includes: a transmissive liquid crystal display panel; a scattering panel having a scattering area provided with a scattering portion; a temperature detector having a temperature detection area provided with a resistor element; a light source configured to emit projection light to the liquid crystal display panel; and a controller configured to control operations of the scattering panel and the light source based on an output of the temperature detector corresponding to a temperature of the resistor element. A display area of the liquid crystal display panel, the scattering area, and the temperature detection area overlap one another. The projection light that has passed through the display area and the scattering area is projected onto a light-transmitting projection target. When an output indicating that the temperature of the resistor element is a predetermined temperature or higher is acquired, the controller causes the scattering portion to scatter light.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Masashi Takahata
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Patent number: 11908393Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display region where pixels are arranged. Each of the pixels includes a pixel electrode, a light emitting element, a drive transistor, a first capacitance electrode layer opposed to the pixel electrode and held at a constant potential, and an insulating layer forming an auxiliary capacitance together with the pixel electrode and the first capacitance electrode layer. A value of the auxiliary capacitance of the first pixel, of the values of the auxiliary capacitance of the pixels is the largest.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tetsuo Morita, Yasuhiro Ogawa
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Patent number: 11886085Abstract: Provided is an array substrate. The array substrate includes: a base substrate, and a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of sub-pixels and a plurality of touch signal lines disposed on the base substrate. The data lines have a plurality of first extending parts and a plurality of second extending parts which are in an alternating arrangement. When the array substrate is used to prepare a liquid crystal display panel and the liquid crystal display panel is displaying, in each column of the sub-pixels, the voltage polarities of the two adjacent sub-pixels which respectively belong to two adjacent first pixel regions are opposite.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY DROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Xuerui Gong, Yong Yu, Chang Zhang, Jiangsheng Wang
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Patent number: 11862063Abstract: A display substrate and a display device including the display substrate are disclosed. In one aspect, the display substrate includes a plurality of pixels formed in a substantially circular pixel area and a driving circuit formed in a peripheral area surrounding the pixel area and configured to drive the pixels. A boundary is formed between the pixel area and the peripheral area, and the boundary is substantially concentric with respect to an arc defining the substantially circular pixel area. The driving circuit comprises a conductive pattern having a first side which extends in a peripheral direction crossing the boundary.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hye-Jin Shin, Won-Kyu Kwak, Kwang-Min Kim
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Patent number: 11841613Abstract: The present invention is a window pane assembly system and method utilizing locking a locking system for easy insertion of a second window pane and an electro kinetic strip or film on these window panes. These electrokinetic strips and films have the capability to do many things on the window panes like changing the opacity of the windows and allowing certain levels of light through the window. The use of this technology can create more opportunities for creating advertisements on window surfaces, storing energy or repelling solar energy for building temperature management and energy savings. The electrokinetic film can be used with a remodel of window panes or the electrokinetic strips and films can be built into new window panes. With the ability of the electrokinetic devices to allow certain levels of light in, there is the opportunity for many more technological advancements on the window panes.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Inventor: Timothy Koch
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Patent number: 11829026Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel, a driving method thereof and a display device. The display panel includes: a light guide plate, configured to propagate light incident at a set angle by total reflection; an opposite substrate, arranged opposite to the light guide plate; a liquid crystal layer, arranged between the light guide plate and the opposite substrate; and a plurality of light extraction structures. Each light extraction structure includes: a light taking grating arranged on a surface of the light guide plate, a first wire grid structure arranged between the light guide plate and the liquid crystal layer, a second wire grid structure arranged between the liquid crystal layer and the opposite substrate, and a first electrode structure and a second electrode structure arranged between the light guide plate and the opposite substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiandong Meng, Jifeng Tan, Wei Wang, Xianqin Meng, Jian Gao, Xiaochuan Chen
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Patent number: 11822187Abstract: A technique comprising: providing on an outer side of a support film of a liquid crystal cell one or more first components having an oxygen transmission rate (OTR) at least 100,000 times lower than said support film of the liquid crystal cell; wherein the method further comprises interposing a preprepared oxygen-permeable adhesive film between said support film of the liquid crystal cell and an innermost one of said one or more first components; wherein the pre-prepared oxygen-permeable adhesive film has a thickness greater than another adhesive film provided on said outer side of said support film outside of said innermost one of said one or more first components.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Flexenable Technology LimitedInventors: Francesca Bottacchi, Jan Jongman, Jonathan Huggins
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Patent number: 11796870Abstract: An array substrate, a light control panel, and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes a data line layer, a base substrate, a first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes gate lines, each gate line integrally extends along a first direction, and includes first broken line structures directly connected in sequence in the first direction; the data line layer includes data lines, each data line integrally extends along a second direction; the gate lines and the data lines cross each other to define light control pixel units; the second electrode layer includes common electrodes, each common electrode is provided in at least one light control pixel unit; and at least one gate line at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of at least one common electrode on the first electrode layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jianhua Huang, Yingmeng Miao, Chongyang Zhao, Zhihua Sun, Yingying Qu, Ting Dong, Yifu Chen, Lingdan Bo, Senwang Li
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Patent number: 11793042Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and a fabrication method thereof. In the display panel, a bonding module covers a display area and an extension area, and a bonding conductive layer of the bonding module is electrically connected to an external driving chip. A display module covers the display area and the extension area, the display module comprises a thin film transistor array structure, and the thin film transistor array structure comprises a source-drain conductive layer. A portion of the source-drain conductive layer in the extension area is electrically connected to the bonding conductive layer by a through hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jing Zhou, Yixian Zhang, Wenxu Xianyu