With Particular Switching Device Patents (Class 349/41)
  • Publication number: 20150124187
    Abstract: There are provided a wavelength selective switch device, a communication apparatus and a wavelength switching method. The wavelength selective switch device includes an incidence unit; an exit unit; a wavelength diversifying-synthesizing unit for diversifying and multiplexing the respective incident lights in a first axis direction; a light adjustment unit for making the lights of respective wavelengths be not diversified in the second axis direction; a liquid crystal beam deflection unit having a plurality of pixels divided into sub-regions, for deflecting the lights of the respective wavelengths by changing phase-shift characteristics of the pixels in the sub-regions; a reflection unit, disposed in parallel with the liquid crystal beam deflection unit; a deflection driving unit for driving electrodes of the pixels to generate required phase-shift characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: Wuhan Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications
    Inventors: Dequan XIE, Quan YOU, Zichen LIU, Ying QIU, Miaofeng LI, Qi YANG
  • Patent number: 9013648
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antistatic structure of an array substrate, which includes: an effective zone (60) of an array substrate and a plurality of dummy wires (26) surrounding the effective zone (60). The effective zone (60) includes a plurality of signal wires (22) and a plurality of shorting bars (24) respectively in electrical connection with the plurality of signal wires (22). The dummy wires (26) are set to be respectively corresponding to and adjacent to outermost ones of the shorting bars (24) of the effective zone (60). The dummy wires (26) each include an inner side (28) that is close to the shorting bars (24) and forms a saw-toothed arrangement. The present invention arranges a dummy wire adjacent to each of the outermost ones of shorting bars and the dummy wire has one side that is close to the shorting bar and forms a saw-toothed arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangyang Xu, Weimin Chang, Zhiyang Song, Liang Wang
  • Patent number: 8999195
    Abstract: A liquid crystal smectic A composition that can be switched by the application of different electric fields across it between a first stable state (left hand block in FIG. 4) and at least one second stable state (right hand block in FIG. 4) in which the composition is less ordered than in the first state. The radiation transmission properties of the first and second states are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Cambridge Enterprise Limited
    Inventors: Daping Chu, Huan Xu, William Alden Crossland, Anthony Bernard Davey
  • Patent number: 8994889
    Abstract: An object is to provide a display device with excellent display characteristics, where a pixel circuit and a driver circuit provided over one substrate are formed using transistors which have different structures corresponding to characteristics of the respective circuits. The driver circuit portion includes a driver circuit transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using a metal film, and a channel layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel portion includes a pixel transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using an oxide conductor, and a semiconductor layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel transistor is formed using a light-transmitting material, and thus, a display device with higher aperture ratio can be manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Junichiro Sakata, Masashi Tsubuku, Kengo Akimoto, Miyuki Hosoba, Masayuki Sakakura, Yoshiaki Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20150055039
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal element with a high contrast ratio capable of achieving both optical control that utilizes a memory property and optical control capable of supporting moving image displays. The two substrates are disposed with an angle formed by the respective orientation processing directions from 0° to less than 40°. The liquid crystal layer includes chiral material capable of generating a second orientation state that includes a twist different from that of the first orientation state in the liquid crystal molecules of the layer. The liquid crystal layer transitions from the second orientation state to the first orientation state and vice versa by the application of an electric field, and returns to the second orientation state when an electric field is applied in the second orientation state, thereby generating an orientation change in accordance with the size of the electric field, and the electric field is subsequently released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo TOKO, Keisuke KATO
  • Patent number: 8964140
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates and including liquid crystal molecules; a gate line which transmits a gate signal; first and second data lines which respectively transmit first and second data voltages, the first and second data voltages having opposite polarities; a first switching element connected to the gate line and the first data line; a second switching element connected to the gate line and the second data line; a first subpixel electrode connected to the first switching element; and a second subpixel electrode connected to the second switching element. The first and second subpixel electrodes overlap portions of the first and second data lines. The first and second subpixel electrodes include first and second branches, respectively, which are alternately arranged between the first and second data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Woon Kim, Hee-Seop Kim, Hyang-Yul Kim, Joo-Nyung Jang, Chong-Chul Chai, Mee-Hye Jung, Hwa-Sung Woo, Cheol Shin, Dong-Chul Shin
  • Publication number: 20150049274
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel including a gate line, a data line, a switching element connected to the gate line and the data line, a liquid crystal capacitor having a first terminal connected to the switching element, and a storage capacitor having a first terminal connected to the switching element; and a leakage current generating part which generates a leakage current in the switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Mi KIM, Kyoung-Won LEE, Ho-Yong JUNG, Cheol-Woo PARK, Tae-Hyeong AN, Hee-Soon JEONG
  • Publication number: 20150042912
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first electrode, a wall portion, a switching element, a second electrode and a vertical alignment film. The second substrate includes a third electrode and a second vertical alignment film. The second electrode includes a wall electrode provided on a wall electrode formation surface forming a side surface of the wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Emi Higano, Mitsutaka Okita, Daiichi Suzuki, Kazuhiro Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 8947609
    Abstract: LCD device includes two substrates, a first and second color filters, two liquid crystal layers. The first color filters are formed on portions of the second substrate corresponding to border area The second color filters are formed on portions of the second substrate corresponding to the display area except the border area. A first liquid crystal layer between the first and the second substrate is comprised in border area, and a zero electric field is formed on the first liquid crystal layer so as to completely transmit light incident into the first liquid crystal layer therethrough. A borderline having various colors can be displayed by forming various patterns of color filters having various colors on portions of the second substrate corresponding to the border area under normally white mode, thereby producing picture frame effect while images are displayed on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Ho Yang, Dong-Ho Lee, Soong-Yong Joo
  • Patent number: 8908115
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a circuit technique which enables reduction in power consumption and high definition of a display device. A switch controlled by a start signal is provided to a gate electrode of a transistor, which is connected to a gate electrode of a bootstrap transistor. When the start signal is input, a potential is supplied to the gate electrode of the transistor through the switch, and the transistor is turned off. The transistor is turned off, so that leakage of a charge from the gate electrode of the bootstrap transistor can be prevented. Accordingly, time for storing a charge in the gate electrode of the bootstrap transistor can be shortened, and high-speed operation can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Umezaki, Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20140347584
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a counter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of source lines, a plurality of switching elements, and a plurality of light shielding layers. Each of the light shielding layers extends to cross, among the source lines, even-numbered source lines arranged in the direction of the extension of the gate lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masakatsu Kitani
  • Patent number: 8896031
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a substrate where a plurality of pixels are formed, a first pixel defining layer on the substrate, the first pixel defining layer dividing the plurality of pixels, a connection wire on the first pixel defining layer, the connection wire electrically connecting two adjacent pixels, and a second pixel defining layer on the first pixel defining layer, the second pixel defining layer covering the connection wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guang Hai Jin, Jae-Beom Choi, Kwan-Wook Jung, June-Woo Lee, Moo-Jin Kim, Ga-Young Kim
  • Publication number: 20140333862
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of common electrodes arranged so as to counter pixel electrodes extending in the row direction on a substrate. First and second voltage supply lines to supply first and second voltages to the common electrodes are connected with the common electrodes through a first switch circuit. A second switch circuit is arranged between the first voltage supply line and signal lines to switch a connection between the first voltage supply line and the signal lines. A gate open circuit is connected to scan lines to simultaneously supply a signal to switch on the pixel electrodes to all the scan lines. In case the power supply of the liquid crystal display device is turned off, a control circuit starts the power OFF driving operation to set the potential of the pixel electrode and the common electrode to substantially same by switching the first and second switch circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Kenji HARADA
  • Patent number: 8885029
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display is discussed. The stereoscopic image display includes a display panel including data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, thin film transistors (TFTs) that are turned on in response to gate pulses from the gate lines, and a plurality of pixels, a data driving circuit that converts digital video data into a data voltage and supplies the data voltage to the data lines, a gate driving circuit sequentially supplying the gate pulses synchronized with the data voltage to the gate lines, and a timing controller that receives a timing signal, 2D image data, and 3D image data from an external host system, supplies the digital video data to the data driving circuit, and controls an operation timing of the data driving circuit and an operation timing of the gate driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungho Baek, Juseong Park
  • Patent number: 8879011
    Abstract: An object is to provide a display device with excellent display characteristics, where a pixel circuit and a driver circuit provided over one substrate are formed using transistors which have different structures corresponding to characteristics of the respective circuits. The driver circuit portion includes a driver circuit transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using a metal film, and a channel layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel portion includes a pixel transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using an oxide conductor, and a semiconductor layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel transistor is formed using a light-transmitting material, and thus, a display device with higher aperture ratio can be manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Junichiro Sakata, Masashi Tsubuku, Kengo Akimoto, Miyuki Hosoba, Masayuki Sakakura, Yoshiaki Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20140292839
    Abstract: A transparent display device including a liquid crystal panel is provided. The liquid crystal panel includes a color filter substrate, an array substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a first polarizer and a second polarizer. The first polarizer is disposed on a side of the color filter substrate far from the liquid crystal layer. The second polarizer is disposed on a side of the array substrate far from the liquid crystal layer. The color filter substrate includes a transparent base, and a color filter formed on the transparent base. The color filter includes compound pixel regions, wherein each of the compound pixel regions has color sub-pixel regions and a transparent sub-pixel region. The second polarizer includes a non-polarized pattern spatially corresponding to the transparent sub-pixel region in the color filter, after a light passing through the non-polarized pattern, the polarization state remains unchanged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Hisense Hiview tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunming Huang
  • Publication number: 20140267943
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal substrate in which a matrix of reflecting electrodes is formed on a substrate, a transistor is formed corresponding to each reflective electrode and a voltage is applied to the reflective electrode through the transistor. A silicon oxide film having a thickness of 500 to 2,000 angstroms is used as the passivation film and the thickness is set to a value in response to the wavelength of the incident light to maintain a substantially constant reflectance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro YASUKAWA
  • Patent number: 8836636
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device has a display unit including electrophoretic particles that are interposed between a pair of substrates; each pixel including a pixel electrode and a memory circuit, and a switch circuit connected between the pixel electrode and the memory circuit; and first and second control lines connected to the switch circuits. When a ratio of black color pixel data in image data is 50% or more of the image data, the following three-step image display driving action is performed: an image signal input step in which the pixel data is input as an image signal to the memory circuit; a first image display step in which all the pixels are set to black color; and a second image display step in which a white color portion is displayed by inputting a potential to one control line and electrically disconnecting the other control line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 8836688
    Abstract: A display device which can prevent deterioration of a liquid crystal and reduction in display quality at low power consumption without lowering an aperture ratio is provided. An opposite voltage (Vcom) is applied to an opposite electrode (80) of a liquid crystal capacitive element (Clc). One ends of a pixel electrode (20), a first switch circuit (22), a second switch circuit (23), and a first terminal of a second transistor (T2) form an internal node (N1). The other ends of the first switch circuit (22) and the second switch circuit (23) are connected to a source line (SL) and a voltage supply line (VSL), respectively. A control terminal of a first transistor (T1) in the second switch circuit (23), a second terminal of the second transistor (T2), and one end of a boost capacitive element (Cbst) form an output node (N2). The other end of the boost capacitive element (Cbst) and the control terminal of the second transistor (T2) are connected to a boost line (BST) and a reference line (REF), respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshimitsu Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 8830412
    Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate for array process of panel display device, which includes a cell switch set and a PVSA mode pad set. Cell switch set includes a plurality of switch elements. PSVA mode pad set includes a data scan pad and a common electrode pad. Data scan pad is connected through some switch elements of cell switch set to a plurality of scan lines and data lines. Common electrode pad is connected through switch element to common electrode line in the area. The present invention further provides a panel display device and manufacturing method of liquid crystal display panel. In this manner, the present invention reduces the number of pads in PSVA mode pad set to simplify peripheral routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Cheng-hung Chen
  • Patent number: 8830411
    Abstract: In an array substrate and a method of manufacturing the array substrate, an array substrate includes a first switching element, a second switching element, a third switching element and a fourth switching element. The first switching element is electrically connected to a first data line. The second switching element is electrically connected to a second data line adjacent to the first data line. The third switching element is electrically connected to a data power line interposed between the first and second data lines. The fourth switching element is electrically connected to a gate power line receiving a voltage having different polarity from a voltage applied to the data power line. Therefore, light transmittance, opening ratio and display quality are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwa-Sung Woo, Joo-Nyung Jang, Cheol Shin, Yoon-Sung Um, Mi-Jeong Song
  • Publication number: 20140247409
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: first and second substrates opposed to each other; a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules interposed between the first and second substrates; a gate line formed on the first substrate and transmitting a gate signal; first and second data lines formed on the first substrate and transmitting first and second data voltages having different polarities; a first switching element connected to the gate line and the first data line; a second switching element connected to the gate line and the second data line; and first and second pixel electrodes that are connected to the first and second switching elements, respectively, and separated from each other, wherein the liquid crystal layer has positive dielectric anisotropy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Hwan SHIN, Hwa-Sung WOO, Kwang-Chul JUNG, Chong-Chul CHAI, Mee-Hye JUNG
  • Patent number: 8823892
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a gate line, first and second data lines, a first power line, first, second, third and fourth switching elements, and first, second, third and fourth pixel electrodes. The first switching element is connected to the gate line and the first data line. The second switching element is connected to the gate line and the first power line. The third switching element is connected to the gate line and the second data line. The fourth switching element is connected to the gate line and the first power line. The first to fourth pixel electrodes are connected to the first to fourth switching elements, respectively. Thus, a light leakage may be prevented and an aperture ratio of a display substrate may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Gyu Kim, Hye-Seok Na, Mee-Hye Jung, Dong-Hyeon Ki, Se-Hyoung Cho
  • Patent number: 8817201
    Abstract: An array substrate comprises data lines, gate lines, thin film transistors and pixel electrodes formed on a base substrate. Pixel units are defined by intersecting the data lines and the gate lines, the thin film transistors are formed at the intersections of the data lines and the gate lines, and the data lines extend across each of the pixel units in the middle of the pixel units. At least two thin film transistors for controlling a same pixel electrode are respectively formed on both sides of the data line in each pixel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Meihua Hong, Ziqi Xia, Zhinan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140232960
    Abstract: An electronically switchable privacy films suitable for use in display devices are described. The electronically switchable privacy film comprises a pair of mutually opposing transparent electrodes; an optically transparent microstructured layer disposed between the transparent electrodes, the microstructured layer comprising a plurality of microstructured ribs extending across a surface thereof such that the microstructured ribs form an alternating series of ribs and channels; and electronically switchable material disposed in the channels, the electronically switchable material being capable of modulation between high and low absorption states upon application of an electric field across the transparent electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Evan L. Schwartz, Mark J. Pellerite, Daniel W. Hennen, Marc D. Radcliffe, Michael L. Steiner, Marie A. Boulos, Michael E. Lauters, Gary T. Boyd, John P. Baetzold, John J. Stradinger, Vivian W. Jones
  • Publication number: 20140232961
    Abstract: A reflective display device includes a pixel structure (200) and a liquid crystal (210) containing a dye. The pixel structure (200) provides the liquid crystal (210) with a first tilt state and a second tilt state that are stable absent application of an electric field. In the first tilt state, the liquid crystal (210) is in an untwisted configuration. In the second tilt state, the liquid crystal (210) is in a twisted configuration, and the dye has an effective absorption that is higher than an effective absorption of the dye when the liquid crystal (210) is in the first tilt state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Stephen Kitson, Mario Ariosto Matranga, Timothy Taphouse, Daniel M. Younger, Christopher Newton
  • Publication number: 20140226098
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a display region, a peripheral region, an insulating layer which is disposed on a gate signal line and a conductor, a conductive layer which is disposed on the insulating layer and crosses a plurality of gate signal lines and the conductor in the peripheral region, a first semiconductor film which is disposed between the insulating layer and the conductive layer, and a second semiconductor film which is disposed between the insulating layer and the conductive layer and which is separated from the first semiconductor film. The conductive layer is connected to the plurality of gate signal lines via a plurality of diodes, and the plurality of gate signal lines are arranged in the display region and the peripheral region. A length of the conductor differs from a length of the gate signal line in the display region and the peripheral region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicants: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Itakura, Hitoshi Komeno, Tomoaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8803777
    Abstract: In a display apparatus having a plurality of pixel parts, each pixel part receives a data signal in response to a present gate signal and charges first and second pixel voltages having the same voltage level. A plurality of voltage controllers includes a level-down part to lower a voltage level of the second pixel voltage using a previous pixel voltage charged in a previous frame in response to a next gate signal and a level-up part to receive the lowered second pixel voltage in response to the next gate signal to boost up a voltage level of the first pixel voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-Wook Do, Seung-Beom Park, Hoon Kim, Hye-Ran You, Jian Gang Lu, Hee-Seop Kim, Young-Chol Yang, Seoung-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 8803172
    Abstract: A top emission inverted OLED device is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Chul Kim, Juhn Suk Yoo
  • Publication number: 20140204300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein a spoilage layer generated in a manufacturing process is removed, and a manufacturing method of a display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: forming a thin film transistor on a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas; forming a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor in the pixel area; forming a sacrificial layer on the pixel electrode; forming a barrier layer on the sacrificial layer; forming a common electrode on the barrier layer; forming a roof layer on the common electrode; patterning the barrier layer, the common electrode, and the roof layer to exposed a portion of the sacrificial layer thereby forming an injection hole; removing the sacrificial layer to form a microcavity for a plurality of pixel areas; removing the barrier layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Sick PARK, Seon-Il KIM, Min Ho MOON, Hyang-Shik KONG, Yeun Tae KIM, Chang Oh JEONG
  • Publication number: 20140204299
    Abstract: An example embodiment includes a liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) system. The LCOS system includes multiple pixels, a pixel voltage supply source (voltage source), an external buffer, and a local buffer. The voltage source is configured to supply an analog ramp to the pixels. The external buffer is configured to buffer the voltage source from the pixels. The local buffer is configured to buffer the external buffer from a subset of pixels of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: FINISAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Ashbrook, Lionel Li, Brian R. Carey, Nicholas F. Jungels
  • Publication number: 20140204298
    Abstract: An example embodiment includes a continuity testing method of a pixel in a liquid crystal on silicon integrated circuit. The method includes writing a first voltage to a pixel. The pixel is isolated and a wire that is selectively coupled to the pixel is discharged. The method also includes enabling a sensing amplifier configured to sense voltage on the wire. The pixel is electrically coupled to the wire and a resultant voltage on the wire is sensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: FINISAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Ashbrook, Lionel Li, Brian R. Carey
  • Publication number: 20140198275
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal device according to the embodiment of the invention, a high potential and a low potential relative to the counter electrode potential are alternately applied to the pixel electrode through the switching element. Here, the counter electrode potential is set to be lower than a reference potential, when the reference potential is an electric potential which is obtained by shifting an average electric potential between the high potential and the low potential by an average value between an amount of change in an electric potential of the pixel electrode, caused by a parasitic capacitance of the switching element when the high potential is being applied to the pixel electrode, and an amount of change in the electric potential of the pixel electrode caused by the parasitic capacitance when the low potential is being applied to the pixel electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu NISHIDA, Shohei YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 8773338
    Abstract: In an image signal writing period, a first image signal is supplied to a first liquid crystal element and a first capacitor from a first signal line. In a backlight lighting period, display is performed in a light-transmitting pixel portion in response to the first image signal. In a black grayscale signal writing period, a signal for black display is supplied to a second liquid crystal element and a second capacitor from a second signal line. In a still image signal writing period, a second image signal is supplied to the first liquid crystal element, the first capacitor, the second liquid crystal element, and the second capacitor from the first signal line. In a still image signal holding period, display is performed in the reflective pixel portion in response to the second image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 8767159
    Abstract: To improve viewing angle characteristics by varying voltage which is applied between liquid crystal elements. A liquid crystal display device in which one pixel is provided with three or more liquid crystal elements and the level of voltage which is applied is varied between the liquid crystal elements is varied. In order to vary the level of the voltage which is applied between the liquid crystal elements, an element which divides the applied voltage is provided. In order to vary the level of the applied voltage, a capacitor, a resistor, a transistor, or the like is used. Viewing angle characteristics can be improved by varying the level of the voltage which is applied between the liquid crystal elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 8767136
    Abstract: In a display device, a liquid crystal capacitive element is sandwiched between a pixel electrode and an opposite electrode. The pixel electrode, one end of a first switch circuit, one end of a second switch circuit and a first terminal of a second transistor form an internal node. The other terminals of the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit are connected to a source line. The second switch circuit is a series circuit composed of a first transistor and a diode. A control terminal of the first transistor, a second terminal of the second transistor and one end of a boost capacitive element form an output node. The other end of the boost capacitive element and the control terminal of the second transistor are connected to a boost line and a reference line, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Ueda, Yoshimitsu Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 8749262
    Abstract: A display device and a method of testing the display device. The display device includes a substrate including both a display region on which pixel cells are located and a peripheral region; test pads, main pins connected to the pixel cells, and dummy pins that are respectively connected to the test pads, the test pads, the main pins, and the dummy pins being on the peripheral region of the substrate, and visual test lines on the peripheral region of the substrate. The visual test lines include a first portion connected to the main pins and a second portion connected to the test pads, and the first and second portions are disconnected from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myung-Sook Jung, SungMin Kim, Jeonggeun Yoo
  • Publication number: 20140152929
    Abstract: Pixel electrodes of a display device include plural first pixel electrodes and plural second pixel electrodes which have areas different from each other. Each of plural scanning signal lines is connected with any one of the plural first pixel electrodes and the plural second pixel electrodes through respective transistors. A control circuit applies a first conducting voltage that is a conducting voltage which is applied to the scanning signal lines connected with the first pixel electrodes, and a second conducting voltage that is a conducting voltage which is applied to the scanning signal lines connected with the second pixel electrodes, and different from the first conducting voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Ryo IMAI, Gou YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8743036
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display has a pair of substrates with liquid crystal sealed between them. A polymer layer regulates directions in which the liquid crystal molecules tilt. A plurality of gate bus lines and a plurality of drain bus lines are provided on one of the substrates. Color filters and a pixel electrode are provided on the substrate. The pixel electrode includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode. A common electrode is provided on the other substrate. A first and a second thin film transistor are connected to the first sub-pixel electrode. The first thin film transistors is connected to a first gate bus line, and the second thin film transistor is connected to a second bus line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Sasabayashi, Arihiro Takeda, Hiroyasu Inoue, Kazuya Ueda, Yoshio Koike, Hideaki Tsuda, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Hidefumi Yoshida, Kunihiro Tashiro, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Kimiaki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140125899
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display (LCD), the LCD includes: an insulating substrate; a first gate line and a second gate line which are formed on the insulating substrate and extend parallel to each other; a data line formed on the insulating substrate, insulated from the first and second gate lines, and crossing the first and second gate lines; a first subpixel electrode connected to the first gate line and the data line by a first switching device and includes a plurality of first fine protruding patterns at an edge thereof; and a second subpixel electrode connected to the second gate line and the data line by a second switching device and including a plurality of second fine protruding patterns at an edge thereof, wherein the first fine protruding patterns are separated from each other by a first gap, and the second fine protruding patterns are separated from each other by a second gap, wherein the sum of a width of the first gap and a width of each of the first fine protruding patterns is greater than t
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Gyu Kim, Sahng-Ik Jun, Seung-Soo Baek, Kee-Bum Park
  • Patent number: 8717267
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes an array of pixels. Each pixel is divided into a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, and different data voltages are separately applied to (or evolved at) the two sub-pixels, thereby enhancing the lateral side visibility. Each sub-pixel includes a sub-pixel electrode (connected to the drain electrode of a sub-pixel's switching element) overlapped with the sub-pixel's storage electrode. A first predetermined voltage is applied to the first sub-pixel and second predetermined voltage is applied the second sub-pixel, and thus the first sub-pixel electrode may receive a voltage lower than the voltage of the second sub-pixel electrode. The first sub-pixel electrode may be larger in area than the second sub-pixel electrode. The overlapping area between the first drain electrode and the storage electrode of a first sub-pixel may be larger than the overlapping area between the drain electrode and the storage electrode of a second sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong-Gyu Kim
  • Publication number: 20140118650
    Abstract: A field sequential color (FSC) ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) display cell, part of an FSC display, is provided. The FSC FLC display cell includes: two polarizers; an FLC layer, positioned between the two polarizers, the FLC layer comprising FLCs with helix pitch less than the thickness of the FLC layer; and a voltage source, configured to apply an electrical driving voltage to the FLC layer, the electrical driving voltage applied to the FLC layer having an amplitude greater than a threshold voltage for helix unwinding, and wherein the voltage source is further configured to apply electrical driving voltages to light emitting diodes (LEDs) of the FSC display to illuminate pixels of the FSC display. The pixels are illuminated in an FSC manner The FLC layer is configured to provide a defect-free layer of FLC under the electrical driving voltage applied to the FLC layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Abhishek Kumar SRIVASTAVA, Ying MA, Vladimir Grigorievich CHIGRINOV, Hoi Sing KWOK
  • Publication number: 20140118649
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a gate line extending in a first direction, a source line extending in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction, and a switching element electrically connected with the gate line and the source line. A first sub-common electrode extends in the first direction facing the gate line. A first main-common electrode is connected with the first sub-common electrode and extends in the second direction facing the source line. A pixel electrode includes a main-pixel electrode linearly extending in a direction different from the first and second directions. A second substrate includes a second main-common electrode extending in the second direction so as to face the first main-common electrode. The potential of the second main-common electrode is the same as the first main-common electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Jin HIROSAWA
  • Publication number: 20140111719
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is constituted such that sub-pixels are disposed in an array form in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to each other, a plurality of gate lines are disposed in the second direction, an optical element for distributing the light to the second direction is disposed on the liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal display device are controlled by an electric field almost in parallel to the surface of the liquid crystal display device, and a data line is disposed to obliquely divide the sub-pixels at a position different from the boundary between the sub-pixels neighboring in the second direction, where the data line can have a small angle with respect to the second direction, and the numerical aperture is not deteriorated greatly even when the lengths of apertures of the sub-pixels in the first direction are constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki SEKINE
  • Publication number: 20140111720
    Abstract: A substrate is provided having a pixel region including a pixel electrode and a switching element. A periphery region in the periphery of the pixel region includes a first light-shielding film, the first light-shielding film being formed from the same layer as the pixel electrode. A passivation film that covers the pixel electrode and the first light-shielding film is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro YASUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20140104524
    Abstract: A display panel includes an array substrate comprising a first substrate, a first electrode disposed on the first substrate, and a second electrode disposed on the first electrode, the second electrode insulated from the first electrode and having a slit pattern, an opposite substrate facing the array substrate and comprising a second substrate, and a third electrode disposed on the second substrate, a voltage applied to the third electrode being different from a voltage applied to the second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the opposite substrate, and including reactive monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHANG-HUN LEE, CHEOL SHIN, KI-CHUL SHIN, SEUNG-HO HONG
  • Publication number: 20140104523
    Abstract: A display apparatus including pixels, each pixel including a first sub-pixel that includes a first transistor connected to a corresponding first gate line of the first gate lines and a corresponding data line of the data lines and a first pixel electrode connected to the first transistor, a second sub-pixel that includes a second transistor connected to a corresponding second gate line of the second gate lines and the corresponding data line of the data lines and a second pixel electrode connected to the second transistor, and a third sub-pixel that includes a third transistor connected to the corresponding second gate line and the corresponding data line, a fourth transistor connected to the corresponding second gate line and applied with a storage voltage, and a third pixel electrode connected to the third and fourth transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hoon JUNG, Su Jeong KIM, Danbi YANG, Minju HAN, Jiphyo HONG, Hyosik KIM, Hoon KIM, Kichul SHIN
  • Publication number: 20140104525
    Abstract: An array substrate, a liquid crystal display and a control method thereof are disclosed. The array substrate includes scanning lines, data lines, pixel units, and common lines. Each common line is disposed along a row of pixel units. The array substrate also includes a common voltage supply line, and dual-channel selection switches each having an output terminal connected to a set of common lines, two input terminals connected to a common voltage high level supply line and a common voltage low level supply line respectively to selectively apply a high level or a low level to the common lines, thereby avoiding delay of the common voltage Vcom and the Vcom drift during a display mode and improving the display effect for an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chengfeng ZHANG, Yuan LI, Jinjin YANG
  • Patent number: 8698970
    Abstract: An object is to provide a display device with excellent display characteristics, where a pixel circuit and a driver circuit provided over one substrate are formed using transistors which have different structures corresponding to characteristics of the respective circuits. The driver circuit portion includes a driver circuit transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using a metal film, and a channel layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel portion includes a pixel transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using an oxide conductor, and a semiconductor layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel transistor is formed using a light-transmitting material, and thus, a display device with higher aperture ratio can be manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Junichiro Sakata, Masashi Tsubuku, Kengo Akimoto, Miyuki Hosoba, Masayuki Sakakura, Yoshiaki Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20140098311
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a substrate, a switching element, a pixel electrode, and a light sensing part. The switching element is disposed on the substrate and is electrically connected to a gate line and a data line. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the switching element. The light sensing part is electrically connected to the switching element and the pixel electrode, and is configured to control a grayscale of a pixel according to a brightness of an external light. The pixel includes the pixel electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Hun Lim, Byung-Du Ahn, Je-Hun Lee