Particular Illumination Patents (Class 349/61)
  • Patent number: 12235542
    Abstract: A planar light source includes a substrate, light sources, and at least one partitioning member. The partitioning member includes first wall parts, second wall parts, and partitioned regions. The first wall parts define first ridges extending in a first direction. The second wall parts define second ridges extending in a second direction. The partitioned regions each is surrounded by the first ridges and the second ridges in a plan view. the partitioned regions are arranged in the first and second directions. At least one first cut is defined on at least one of the first ridges. At least one second cut is defined on at least one of the second ridges. The at least one first cut and the at least one second cut are spaced apart from each other. At least one of the light sources is arranged in a corresponding one of the partitioned regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koki Shibai, Yoshihiro Sho, Motokazu Yamada, Naoya Kashiwagi, Shimpei Sasaoka
  • Patent number: 12215856
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel, a frame at a rear of the display panel, a light source on a substrate between the display panel and the frame, the light source providing light for the display panel, and a reflecting sheet between the display panel and the frame, the reflecting sheet having a rectangular shape with a first long side, a second long side opposite the first long side, a first short side adjacent to the first long side and the second long side, and a second short side opposite the first short side, wherein the reflecting sheet includes a first sheet part forming a central area of the reflecting sheet, a second sheet part forming a side area of the reflecting sheet around the first sheet part, the second sheet part including dot areas, and a hole next to a border line between the first sheet part and the second sheet part, wherein at least one of the dot areas in the second sheet part is formed along the first short side or the second short side, wherein the at least one of the dot area
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sewon Oh, Eunseok Kim
  • Patent number: 12210245
    Abstract: Disclosed are a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes: a driving backplate; and an optical film disposed on a side of the driving backplate light taking-off. The driving backplate includes a substrate, a plurality of electronic elements and an adhesive layer. The plurality of electronic elements are disposed on a side of the substrate close to the optical film, and the adhesive layer is disposed on the plurality of electronic elements. The adhesive layer includes a plurality of first adhesive-dispensed portions arranged at intervals, the plurality of first adhesive-dispensed portions contact and support the optical film. At least one edge of a support region formed by every four adjacent ones of the plurality of first adhesive-dispensed portions is at an angle with a row direction or a column direction of the plurality of electronic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongzhao Deng, Jing Liu, Yunfei Dai, Linnan Chen
  • Patent number: 12174491
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present system and method includes a first insulation substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the first insulation substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, a protrusion disposed on the pixel electrode, a second insulation substrate facing the first insulation substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second insulation substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein one pixel includes a thin film transistor formation region where the thin film transistor is disposed and a display area where the pixel electrode is disposed, and the protrusion is disposed to overlay at least a portion of edges of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youn Hak Jeong, Wan Namgung, Hong Min Yoon, Ho Jun Lee, Pil Gyu Kang, Seung Kyu Lee, Yun Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 12174474
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display module and a medical spliced display system. The display module includes: a display panel; a back plate including a bottom wall and a side frame connected to each other to define an accommodating space; and a frame including a retaining wall and a supporting platform and an insert on the retaining wall; at least a portion of the retaining wall surrounds the side frame; the supporting platform extends toward the inside of the accommodating space for supporting the display panel; the insert is on a side of the side frame facing the accommodating space, to embed the side frame between the retaining wall and the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Gai, Bing Wang, Xingliang Li, Yawei Chen, Guojian Qu, Wengian Luo, Jingrui Ren, Tianyi Feng, Weibiao Geng, Qian Cheng, Hetao Wang, Tianyang Han
  • Patent number: 12164704
    Abstract: Methods and devices for a display apparatus. In one aspect, a display apparatus includes a display device including a transparent layer, a display integrated circuit layer including one or more display control circuits, and a shielding layer between the transparent layer and the display integrated circuit layer, a near-infrared (NIR) light source and a visible light source, and a detector device including a detector integrated circuit layer including one or more detector control circuits, where a surface of the detector device contacts a surface of the display device, and a photodetector electrically coupled to at least one detector control circuit and including a detection region positioned to receive NIR light propagating from a front side of the display device to a back side of the display device along a path, where the shielding layer includes a filter region positioned in the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Artilux, Inc.
    Inventors: Yun-Chung Na, Shu-Lu Chen
  • Patent number: 12158653
    Abstract: The application discloses a color filter substrate, a display panel and a display device. The color filter substrate includes a base substrate, a light-shielding portion and a plurality of light-filtering portions. The plurality of light-shielding portions are arranged on the base substrate at intervals, the light-filtering portion is arranged between the plurality of light-shielding portions, the light-filtering portion includes a first light-filtering portion and at least two second light-filtering portions, the first light-filtering portion is arranged between the two second light-filtering portions, the first light-filtering portion includes a color resist material and a high-refractive material, and the at least two second light-filtering portions includes a transparent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiran Cao, Ming Xu, Lixuan Chen
  • Patent number: 12154481
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel component including first pixels which emits light having a first color, and second pixels which emits light having a second color different from the first color, a sensing component which extracts, during a sensing period, first sensing data from the first pixels, and second sensing data from the second pixels, and a temperature determiner which senses a temperature of the pixel component using the first sensing data and the second sensing data. The temperature determiner senses, when the first sensing data is supplied to the temperature determiner, the temperature of the pixel component at least one time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Hoon Bang, Dong Ki Eun, Seung Ho Park, Seok Gyu Ban, Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 12153306
    Abstract: A planar light source has a plurality of light sources, a substrate, and a partitioning member. The partitioning member includes a first member provided with first partitioned parts each having a first bottom part and first oblique parts surrounding the first bottom part that are arranged on the substrate in a matrix, and a second member provided with second partitioned parts each having a second bottom part and second oblique parts surrounding the second bottom part that are arranged on the substrate in a matrix. The first member further has first outer oblique parts overlapping the second oblique parts located along the outer edge of the second member on the first member side. The first bottom parts and the second bottom parts each have a light source disposition opening, and the light sources are individually disposed on the substrate exposed in the light source disposition openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koki Shibai, Naoya Kashiwagi, Shimpei Sasaoka
  • Patent number: 12139068
    Abstract: A method for generating the light function of a direction indicator in a motor vehicle. The light function of the direction indicator is activated when the motor vehicle is in an operational state and an actuating element is actuated in the motor vehicle. In addition to the generation of the light function of the direction indicator, a ground light projection can be generated in the immediate vicinity of the motor vehicle. The ground light projection can be generated, for example, only when an ambient brightness of the motor vehicle falls below a certain limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Christian Studeny
  • Patent number: 12136384
    Abstract: Connection terminals, corresponding to a plurality of channels, are configured to be connectable to light-emitting units so that driving currents can be supplied to the light-emitting units via the connection terminals individually for each channel. During a non-supply period of the driving currents to the light-emitting units, a sensing process is executed to sense a particular fault. The sensing process includes a first comparison process whereby, with a pull-up current fed toward one of two connection terminals, the voltage at the other connection terminal is compared with a judgment voltage and a second comparison process whereby, with a pull-up current fed toward the other of the two connection terminals, the voltage at the one connection terminal is compared with the judgment voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Sasaki, Kenji Yamada
  • Patent number: 12136691
    Abstract: A system may have an exterior display. The exterior display may display symbols that correspond to intended actions for the system or instructions for nearby viewers. The exterior display may include an array of light-emitting diodes, a collimator, a one-way filter to prevent sunlight from washing out the display, and a cover layer. The one-way filter may include a microlens array and a masking layer. The collimator is configured to collimate light from the array of light-emitting diodes and provide the collimated light to the one-way filter. The microlens array receives the collimated light and focuses the collimated light through a plurality of holes in the masking layer. In this way, the majority of display light is passed through the one-way filter towards a viewer. However, the majority of ambient sunlight is blocked by the masking layer, thus preserving a high contrast for the exterior display even in bright sunlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tang, Bryce E Wallis, Christopher P Child, Clarisse Mazuir, Kurt R Stiehl, Rong Liu, Yong Seok Choi, Yu P Sun
  • Patent number: 12087698
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides a wiring substrate, an array substrate, and a light emitting module. The wiring substrate includes a base substrate, a first metal wiring layer, and an insulating material layer stacked in sequence. The first metal wiring layer is provided with a plurality of drive leads extending along a first direction, and the insulating material layer is provided with a plurality of via holes exposing the drive leads. Through adjusting positions of the drive leads and positions of the via holes, the wiring substrate can be applied to different microchips, and used further to prepare different array substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunjian Liu, Zouming Xu, Feifei Wang, Qin Zeng, Xintao Wu, Jian Tian, Jie Lei, Jie Wang, Yufei Zhan
  • Patent number: 12072579
    Abstract: The present application provides a backlight module and a display device, including a light source component, a quantum dot component, and a wavelength-band-light-reflecting component being arranged in a stack. The wavelength-band-light-reflecting component reflects light emitted by the quantum dot component in a specific band range, so as to reduce full width at half maximum of the light. The present application reduces the full width at half maximum of monochromatic light by arranging the wavelength-band-light-reflecting component reflecting light in the specific band range, thereby increasing gamut of a display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiao Wang
  • Patent number: 12072597
    Abstract: Provided are a reflection film, which enables high visible light transmittance, an increase in the brightness of a display image, and favorable transparency of an external tint, a windshield glass, and a head-up display system. The reflection film includes a selective reflection layer formed of a cholesteric liquid crystal layer with a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase immobilized. In each of a wavelength range of 400 nm or more and less than 500 nm and a wavelength range of 500 nm or more and less than 600 nm, a maximum value of a natural light reflectivity is 10% to 25%, the greatest difference between the greatest maximum value and the smallest minimum value of the natural light reflectivity is 3% or more, and a total value of wavelength bandwidths in a region where a reflectivity is higher than an average value of the maximum value and the minimum value of the natural light reflectivity is 20 nm to 80 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Anzai, Shusuke Arita
  • Patent number: 12055818
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and an electronic device. The display panel includes a panel body, a backlight module, and a light sensor. The panel body includes a color changing layer including a transparent state and a color state. The backlight module includes first backlight sources. Incident light passes through the panel body and is received by the light sensor when the color changing layer is in the transparent state, so as to realize a sensing function. The color state of the color changing layer cooperates with the first light sources to enable the display panel to realize a display function, which is beneficial to realize a full-screen display design of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Huizhou China Star Optoelectronics Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dongchen Huang
  • Patent number: 12025879
    Abstract: A display module provided by this application includes a backlight module, a display panel, and a sealing structure. The backlight module includes a backplane and a backlight assembly. The backplate includes a bottom wall and side walls provided on side edges of the bottom wall. The bottom wall and the side walls enclose an accommodation space, the bottom wall has a hollow area, and the backlight assembly is disposed in the accommodation space. A sealing structure is connected with the bottom wall and seals the accommodation space, which can prevent water vapor, dust, and other impurities from entering the display module from an edge of the hollow area to cause wrinkle and deformation or damage to a light guide plate or film layers in the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Ren, Youcheng Wang, Xuefeng Wang
  • Patent number: 12007482
    Abstract: An optical proximity sensor comprises a solid-state photo-electric converter, a biasing circuit for biasing the solid-state photo-electric converter, and a drive circuit. The drive circuit is configured to control the biasing circuit to apply to the photo-electric converter a bias signal modulated between a first value and a second value, the second value different from the first value, wherein a modulated optical signal is emitted by the solid-state photo-electric converter towards a target object. The drive circuit is configured to receive an electrical output signal from the solid-state photo-electric converter, the electrical output signal being a function of a modulated optical signal received at the solid-state photo-electric converter as a result of reflection of the emitted modulated optical signal at the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventor: Delfo Nunziato Sanfilippo
  • Patent number: 12001101
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a printed circuit board defining an upper surface, a lower surface opposite the upper surface, and a through-hole, a plurality of light sources mounted on the upper surface of the printed circuit board and configured to emit light to the display panel, and a connector inserted into the through-hole on the upper surface of the printed circuit board. The connector includes a connector body inserted into the through-hole, and a plurality of connector terminals disposed in proximity to the upper surface of the printed circuit board. The connector terminals are configured to electrically connect the connector body to a portion of the printed circuit board, and may in certain embodiments connect a first portion of the printed circuit board on one side of the connector body to a second portion of the printed circuit board on an opposite of the connector body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngmin Lee, Jaewoo Kim, Seungyong Shin, Hyukjun Jang
  • Patent number: 12001102
    Abstract: Disclosed are a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a driving backplate and an optical film on a side of the driving backplate light taking-off. The driving backplate includes a substrate, electronic elements, and an adhesive layer. The electronic elements are disposed on a side of the substrate close to the optical film. The adhesive layer covers the electronic elements and includes first adhesive-dispensed portions. The first adhesive-dispensed portions are in contact with the optical film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongzhao Deng, Jing Liu, Yunfei Dai, Linnan Chen
  • Patent number: 12001099
    Abstract: An integral multilayer optical construction includes opposing first and second structured major surfaces having two-dimensional arrays of respective first and second structures. An optical diffuser is embedded within the optical construction between the first and second structured major surfaces. The optical diffuser has an optical haze of greater than about 5% for at least one visible wavelength in a visible wavelength range extending from about 420 nm to 680 nm. When the optical construction is disposed on a light source with one of the first and second structured major surfaces facing the light source, light emitted by the light source is transmitted by the optical construction with a cross-section of an angular luminous distribution of the transmitted light in at least one first plane that includes a normal to the optical construction, including first and second intensity peaks at respective first and second angles on opposite sides of the normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Gary T. Boyd, Shu-Ching Fan, Alex P. Pongratz, Gary E. Gaides
  • Patent number: 11994770
    Abstract: A curved surface backlight module and a curved surface display device are provided. The backlight module includes a plurality of light-emitting units. The light-emitting units include reflector cups. The plurality of reflector cups include first reflector cups located in an edge partition and second reflector cups located in a central partition. The first reflector cups are asymmetric with respect to a first curved surface normal corresponding to a position at where the first reflector cups are located. A maximum brightness center of the first reflectors of the edge partition can be made to emit light parallel to a user's viewing direction, and brightness attenuation at an edge of a display device can be relieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiyuan Xiao, Suimang Song
  • Patent number: 11988351
    Abstract: A lamp for the vehicle includes a light source part including a plurality of light sources, a diffuser lens disposed in front of the light source part in a light traveling direction, a first polarizing film disposed in front of the diffuser lens in the light traveling direction, a second polarizing film disposed in front of the first polarizing film in the light traveling direction, a display object disposed between the first polarizing film and the second polarizing film, and a protective lens disposed in front of the second polarizing film in the light traveling direction. The first polarizing film includes a plurality of first slits that extend in a first direction, and the second polarizing film includes a plurality of second slits that extend in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SL Corporation
    Inventors: Jong Ryoul Park, Michael Luketich
  • Patent number: 11977293
    Abstract: An illumination device includes a light source, a first optical member, and a fixing portion. The first optical member includes a light reflection portion configured to reflect light, at least a part of the light reflection portion overlapping with the light source, and a light transmitting portion configured to transmit light, the light transmitting portion not overlapping the light reflection portion. A center of the light source in a plan view is defined as a first center, and a center of the light reflection portion in a plan view is defined as a second center. In the light reflection portion, the second center is located between the fixing portion and the first center at a first temperature, and at a second temperature higher than the first temperature, a position of the second center is closer to the first center than a position of the second center at the first temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Yasunaga, Hisashi Watanabe, Takeshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 11970556
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to provide a methacrylic resin and a methacrylic resin composition which enable production of a shaped article excellent in color tone in a long path length. A methacrylic resin of the present disclosure has a structural unit (X) including a cyclic structure in a main chain thereof. The methacrylic resin having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of higher than 120° C. and 160° C. or lower. An emission intensity at 514 nm in terms of a concentration of a solution of fluorescein in ethanol is 30×10?10 mol/L or less when a solution containing 2.0 mass % of the methacrylic resin in chloroform is spectroscopically analyzed using an excitation wavelength of 436 nm and a slit width of 2 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichiro Inagawa, Junichi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11963336
    Abstract: This application provides a film-like heat dissipation member, a bendable display apparatus, and a terminal device. The film-like heat dissipation member includes a heat dissipation layer. Composition and a structure of the heat dissipation layer are designed, so that a cutting-plane length of the heat dissipation layer changes in a surface bending process, can be bent repeatedly, and can implement uniform temperatures on two sides of the bendable display apparatus and the terminal device, thereby improving heat dissipation capabilities of the bendable display apparatus and the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huipeng Wu, Quanming Li, Guo Yang
  • Patent number: 11946612
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting device provides two or more lighting functions using the same exit surface of a light guide panel. A first lighting function is a vehicle lighting function such as a rear tail light function or rear combination lamp function (e.g., brake signal, turn signal, and backup light) provided by a first light source comprising a light emitting diode (LED) light source inputted at an edge surface of the light guide panel. At least one more lighting function is implemented by a second light source outputting light toward a rear surface of the light guide panel and controlled to operate in accordance with one or more second light functions including one or more of: at least part of another vehicle lighting function, and a display including one or more display elements presenting at least one of: a designated pattern, a symbol, a pictogram, and an animation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Autosystems, a division of Magna Exteriors Inc.
    Inventor: Frank Hallitschke
  • Patent number: 11935441
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for controlling a multi-image display provided in a vehicle, and a method thereof. According to the present disclosure, a multi-image display device may simultaneously output two or more images separated depending on an output angle or an optical frequency, and a first reflection member provided in an indoor ceiling of the vehicle may reflect one image among the two or more images output from the multi-image display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, ANYRACTIVE.CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Jin Ji, Min Han Kim, Yong Lee, Sung Hyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11934062
    Abstract: A display device is providing and includes first substrate including first transparent substrate, and pixel electrode disposed in each of pixels on first transparent substrate; second substrate including second transparent substrate having first and second side surfaces, and common electrode disposed over pixels; and liquid crystal layer disposed between first and second substrates and including stripe-shaped polymer and liquid crystal molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Tenfu Nakamura, Kentaro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 11934063
    Abstract: A system may have a display that includes a plurality of light sources such as light-emitting diodes. The display may be an exterior display that is routinely operated in daytime conditions where ambient light levels are very high. To increase contrast in an exterior display, the display may include a sunlight blocking element. A static sunlight blocking element may include a louver film with asymmetric light blocking portions. The system may include an ambient light sensor that is configured to determine ambient light levels. Based on the detected ambient light level, control circuitry in the system may adjust one or more adjustable components in the display. The display may include an adjustable diffuser that has at least two states with different haze levels. The display may include an adjustable tint layer that has at least two states with different transmission levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Zhan, Yu P Sun, Rong Liu, Yong Seok Choi, Joshua A Spechler, Jun Qi, Victor H Yin
  • Patent number: 11927320
    Abstract: A signal light device (1) of a motor vehicle with a signal lighting unit (3) that comprises housing (1a) covered by cover (2) and in the housing a carrier (5) secured to the housing (la) and with its front panel (7) facing the cover (2). The carrier (5) comprises a supporting surface (22) with at least one light source (6), a front panel (7) and a thin-walled partition panel (12) situated between the supporting surface (22) and the front panel (7). The partition panel (12) comprises an input surface (20) facing the supporting surface (22) and an output surface (21) wherein the supporting surface (22) is fitted with the main reflective surface (11) to reflect light rays (10). The space between the front panel (7) and the output surface (21) and between the supporting surface (22) and the input surface (20) is only filled with air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PO LIGHTING CZECH S.R.O.
    Inventors: Tomas Gloss, Tomas Mateju, Michal Jahunak
  • Patent number: 11927787
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a first light guide having a first side surface, a second side surface located on a side opposite to the first side surface in a first direction, a first main surface, and a first opposed surface located on a side opposite to the first main surface in a second direction intersecting the first direction and a first light source opposed to the first side surface to emit first P-polarized light to the first side surface, the first side surface is inclined to the first main surface and the first opposed surface, the first light source is inclined to a first straight line perpendicular to the first side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kijima, Shinichi Komura, Koichi Okuda, Ken Onoda
  • Patent number: 11852915
    Abstract: The present application discloses a polarizer, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The polarizer includes an alignment layer and a polarizer main body disposed on a side surface of the alignment layer. The polarizer main body includes a plurality of light-transmitting regions distributed on the polarizer main body at intervals and a non-light-transmitting region surrounding the light-transmitting regions. The alignment layer includes alignment regions corresponding to the light-transmitting regions and a non-alignment region corresponding to the non-light-transmitting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Rui He, Wei Cheng
  • Patent number: 11848405
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes one or more light sources operable to emit light and a light guide plate arranged adjacent to the one or more light sources, reflected lights exiting the one or more light sources via the second surfaces and entering the light guide plate. A light source includes a light emitting device having a substrate and a semiconductor stack disposed on the substrate. The reflector is structured and positioned to block light emitted from a first surface of the light emitting device by reflecting the light emitted from the first surface toward second surfaces of the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Jun Song, Da Hye Kim, Seoung Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 11796843
    Abstract: A viewing angle control device including a plurality of first polarizing portions and a plurality of transmissive portions is provided. The first polarizing portions are arranged along a first direction and extended in a second direction. The transmissive portions and the first polarizing portions are alternately arranged. Each of the first polarizing portions has a width in the first direction and a height in a direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. A ratio of the height to the width of the first polarizing portion is greater than 1. A display apparatus adopting the viewing angle control device is also provided. The viewing angle control device and the display apparatus provided herein have a filter effect at a large viewing angle, improved light transmittance in the viewing angle direction, and excellent anti-peeping performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Wen-Chun Wang
  • Patent number: 11790812
    Abstract: A multi-screen display installation device includes a first display cabinet and a second display cabinet with different lengths. Each of the first display cabinet includes first lower and upper connecting portions. The second display cabinet includes second lower and upper connecting portions. Each second lower connecting portion is aligned with and detachably engaged with the corresponding first upper connecting portion to bring the second display cabinet into ready stacking on a top of the first display cabinet in a desired upper stacking position. Each second upper connecting portion is aligned with and detachably engaged with the corresponding first lower connecting portion to bring the second display cabinet into ready stacking on a bottom of the first display cabinet in a desired lower stacking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOP VICTORY INVESTMENTS LIMITED
    Inventors: Quan Bo Li, Li-Wei Lin, Kuo-Hua Liao
  • Patent number: 11785825
    Abstract: A display panel is provided with a plurality of sub-pixel areas and includes: a base substrate, a light emitting structure including a plurality of light emitting devices corresponding to the sub-pixel areas, an encapsulating layer, and a pixel defining layer. The pixel defining layer includes: a plurality of openings; at least two sub-pixel defining layers, and a quantum dot color film layer. Each of the sub-pixel defining layers is provided with a pixel separator. The pixel separators fence each of the plurality of openings, and define the plurality of sub-pixel areas. In the at least two sub-pixel defining layers, the sectional shape of the pixel separator in the sub-pixel defining layer which is farthest away from the encapsulating layer includes a regular trapezoid. The quantum dot color film layer includes a plurality of quantum dot color films arranged in the corresponding openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haitao Huang, Shi Shu, Qi Yao, Chuanxiang Xu, Zhao Cui, Lina Jing, Renquan Gu, Yong Yu
  • Patent number: 11776490
    Abstract: A display device includes an array of LEDs, an array of LCD pixels, and a display controller that compensates for one or more sources of color variation in light produced by the LEDs having multiple color components that change differently as a function of distance. The display controller can determine a variation of a received color value from a color of light emitted by a given LED at a given LCD pixel based on the distance between the given LCD pixel and the given LED, and determine an accumulated color value that includes the variation and multiple other corresponding variations of other received color values of light emitted by multiple other emitters determined based on respective distances from the given LCD pixel. The display controller configures the given LCD pixel to filter light that is received from the LEDs in a manner that reduces or eliminates the color variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventor: Gerrit Slavenburg
  • Patent number: 11778887
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes a substrate, a pixel unit and a measurement unit on the substrate, and a compensation element. The measurement unit includes: a photosensitive device configured to detect a luminous intensity of the pixel unit; a thermosensitive device configured to measure an operating temperature of the photosensitive device; and a light source device configured to provide light to the thermosensitive device. An orthographic projection of the light source device on the substrate is within an orthographic projection of the thermosensitive device on the substrate. The compensation element is configured to compensate the luminous intensity of the pixel unit according to the luminous intensity of the pixel unit detected by the photosensitive device and the operating temperature of the photosensitive device measured by the thermosensitive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Likai Deng, Ping Zhang, Xiaoliang Ding, Pengpeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11747676
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device. The display device achieves a slim bezel by forming a through hole at a bottom portion of a cover, and changing a connection structure of a sub-FPCB to be connected to a main FPCB such that the connection structure extends through the cover without extending along the outside of the cover. The display device achieves a reduction in the thickness of the display device and an enhancement in picture quality through change of an installation direction of an LED module constituted by a main FPCB and LED elements disposed at one surface of the main FPCB. The display device can reduce a space where a sensor unit is disposed in conventional cases by mounting the sensor unit on the LED module, and can realize an additional function such as skin care or sterilization in accordance with the kind of the sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Ji-Soon Oh, Cheol-Woo Park, Yeoun-Jei Jung, Jung-Mok Lee, Keum-Young Oh
  • Patent number: 11733563
    Abstract: An optical structure includes a high refractive-index layer and a low refractive-index layer laminated on the high refractive-index layer and having a refractive index lower than that of the high refractive-index layer, and is disposed on a display surface of a display device. An interface between the layers has a concave-and-convex shape, and each of a concavity and a convexity in the shape has a flat portion extending in a surface direction of the layers. A side surface of the concave-and-convex shape, which extends between the flat portions of the concavity and convexity, is a curved surface or a folded surface that is convex to the low refractive-index layer. A difference between a maximum angle and a minimum angle, which are defined between the side surface of the concave-and-convex shape and a normal direction of the layers, is not less than 3 degrees and not more than 60 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Ueba, Tatsuaki Inoue
  • Patent number: 11709395
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a backlight unit and a display device using the same. In an embodiment, the backlight unit includes a substrate, at least one light source on the substrate, a lenses placed over the light source, a reflection sheet in which at least one through hole corresponding to the lens is formed, and a reflection ring comprising an opening portion corresponding to the at least one light source, and placed between the lens and the substrate. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, luminance uniformity of the backlight unit can be improved because the reflection ring surrounding the light source is included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyungjoon Lee, Uihyung Lee, Juyoung Joung, Wondo Kee, Minho Kim, Wongjoon Hwang, Jaeyoon Jeong, Bohee Kang, Manhyuck Han, Jiu Myeong
  • Patent number: 11699405
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for compensating colors based on virtual chromaticity coordinate points and the related display devices. The present disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device comprises: a display comprising an array of pixels and a control circuit electrically connected to the display. Pixels in the array comprise a plurality of first sub-pixels defining a first color area on a chromaticity plane, a plurality of second sub-pixels defining a second color area on the chromaticity plane, and a plurality of third sub-pixels defining a third color area on the chromaticity plane. The control circuit is configured to receive an input image signal and generate a control signal to the display for driving each pixel of the display to output light in a virtual color gamut. The virtual color gamut of the display is among the first, second and third color areas on the chromaticity plane and does not overlap any of the first, second or third color areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: DYNASCAN TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Tsun-I Wang, Ching-Chun Wu, Chia-Liang Yang
  • Patent number: 11693276
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device. The display device includes a display panel, an optical assembly configured to provide blue-based light to the display panel, and a light-absorbing layer located in the path of light provided from the optical assembly to the display panel, the light-absorbing layer being configured to absorb light in a predetermined wavelength range. The light provided to the display panel through the light-absorbing layer has optical characteristics such that the intensity of green-based light is 20 to 70% of the intensity (100%) of the blue-based light and the intensity of red-based light is 20 to 70% of the intensity of the blue-based light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Geunhwan Kim, Wondo Kee, Sangsoo Hwang, Seongjun Kim
  • Patent number: 11668863
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to an optical polyester film. The optical polyester film according to one embodiment can minimize the difference between the orientation angle at the center and the orientation angle at the end of the film while producing a difference between the tensile strengths in the lengthwise/widthwise directions of the film, thereby increasing mechanical strength and brightness and suppressing the occurrence of polarization Mura defects. Further, the optical polyester film employs a single layer film, and thus is more easily processed and has a slimmer thickness. Therefore, the optical polyester film can be usefully applied to small-sized thin film display devices and, specifically, can be favorably used as a substrate material of a prism sheet or a polarized reflection sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SK MICROWORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Min Heo, Sechul Lee, Seungwon Lee, Dawoo Jeong, Jung Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11670243
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel with a first display area having a first light transmittance and a second display area having a second light transmittance higher than the first light transmittance. The display device also includes a driving controller which divides an image signal into a first image signal corresponding to a first pixel unit in the first display area and a second image signal corresponding to a second pixel unit and a non-pixel unit adjacent to the second pixel unit. The display controller calculates the second image signal with a preset kernel matrix, and outputs a data signal corresponding to the second pixel unit in the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deokhwa Woo, Jeonkyoo Kim, Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Myungwoo Lee, Bitna Lee, Manseung Cho
  • Patent number: 11663985
    Abstract: The present application provides a backlight module and a display device. The present application converts a display image into control information through a driver board, and can precisely control a mini-LED backlight. The driver board is provided with multiple interfaces for transmitting control signals based on different transmission protocols, so the compatibility of the entire display device is improved. In addition, the driver board can be continuously updated by using programmable devices to meet the needs of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoli Fang, Yu Wu, Yuhong Fu, Guangxing Xiao
  • Patent number: 11650640
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and a heat-dissipating member disposed on the display panel and including a conductive metal. The display device further includes a sound generator disposed on the heat-dissipating member and generating sound by vibrating the display panel and the heat-dissipating member. The display device additionally includes a display circuit board disposed on the heat-dissipating member. The heat-dissipating member includes openings and a first line formed in the openings, and the first line electrically connects the sound generator with the display circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeong Hee Won, Jung Hun Noh, Yi Joon Ahn
  • Patent number: 11644609
    Abstract: A transparent illumination system and related light guide plate is provided. The system is configured to facilitate total internal reflection propagation of light through the light guide plate despite low index of refraction differences between the glass material of the light guide layer and the adjacent layer. The system includes a light source, such as a laser diode, and an optical element to fan out light from the light source in the plane of the light guide plate. The light guide plate includes internal light extraction features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Venkatesh Botu, Roni Daniel Levi, Christian Alexander Rothenbach Stacey, Andrew Joseph Sullivan, James Andrew West
  • Patent number: 11636300
    Abstract: A mark substrate includes a base substrate, a light-blocking layer disposed on the base substrate, where an opening or a groove is defined in the light-blocking layer, and an infrared-transmitting member. At least a portion of the infrared-transmitting member is disposed in the opening or the groove of the light-blocking layer to define a mark having a two-dimensional shape and optically distinguished from an adjacent area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jintaek Park, Jong-Won Choo