Interconnection Of Plural Cells In Parallel (e.g., Edge To Edge) Patents (Class 349/73)
  • Patent number: 7443463
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device may include a plurality of LCD modules tiled together and a corresponding microlens on each of the plurality of LCD modules. Each microlens may have a curved portion and a flat portion. Each of the LCD modules may comprise an LCD panel in which a pixel size corresponding to the curved portion of the microlens is smaller than a pixel size corresponding to the flat portion of the microlens. Accordingly, luminance differences are reduced or eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youn Gyoung Chang, Hyun Suk Jin
  • Patent number: 7428028
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and method that are adaptive to compensate for brightness deviation among red, green and blue colors. This device includes red liquid crystal cell lines having red liquid crystal cells, green liquid crystal cell lines having green liquid crystal cells, and blue liquid crystal cell lines having blue liquid crystal cells. Common electrodes are formed for each red, green and blue liquid crystal line. A common electrode of at least one liquid crystal cell line of the red, green and blue liquid crystal cell lines is supplied with a different common voltage that is a reference voltage to drive the liquid crystal cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 7414594
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a multi display device that can realize a large-sized screen by interconnecting a plurality of display elements. The multi display device comprises at least two flat display elements of which adjacent sides are closely contact each other to make a large-sized screen, housings receiving and supporting the display elements, respectively, light-compensating means for refracting display light from the display elements toward a center area of the adjacent sides thereof, thereby to minimize or remove the non-display area in the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Si Han Kim
    Inventors: Si Han Kim, Hyung Nyun Kim, Mi Sun Cha
  • Patent number: 7405778
    Abstract: An LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) includes a first panel having a first resolution; a second panel having a second resolution, the second resolution lower than the first resolution; and a compensation pattern on an array substrate of the second panel for maintaining a cell gap. According to the present invention, though a color filter layer of the second panel having the lower resolution has a lower thickness, a uniform cell gap can be maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min Jic Lee
  • Publication number: 20080158482
    Abstract: A mother display panel that is capable of being divided into multiple display panels precisely and efficiently is presented. The mother display panel includes a plurality of cutting mark groups which is arranged in a matrix pattern to serve as a position reference for corners of the plurality of display panels. The respective cutting mark groups include unit cutting marks that are spaced from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Kyoung-jun JANG, Jung-im Kim, Hye-rhee Han, Jong-oh Kim
  • Publication number: 20080055520
    Abstract: An LCD module including a plurality of LCD panels arranged in an array and a backlight unit is provided. Each of the LCD panels has a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, and the non-display area of each LCD panel is overlapped with the non-display areas of the adjacent LCD panels. The backlight unit is disposed under the LCD panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: CORETRONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chih-Kuo Chuang, Wei-Lung Huang
  • Patent number: 7336338
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a liquid crystal indicator of voltage presence in electric conductors and equipment. The device is used to indicate the presence of an AC voltage, especially in medium and high voltage systems. The indicator according to the invention comprises two substrate layers on which conducting layers are deposited, and a terminal being an external electric output of the indicator is connected to the conducting layer. A structure containing liquid crystal is located between these layers. A fragment of each segment deposited on one substrate layer overlaps with at least one fragment of a segment deposited on the other substrate layer, and the overlapping fragments of the conducting segments from both substrate layers, together with a part of the intermediate liquid crystal layer, form liquid crystal elements of the indicator, which are electrically connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventor: Jan Czyzewski
  • Publication number: 20080043175
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a liquid crystal panel includes providing first and second mother substrates having a plurality of panel regions, forming a plurality of array substrates in the plurality of panel regions of the first mother substrate, forming a plurality of color filter substrates in the panel regions of the second mother substrate, forming a first alignment film over the first mother substrate, rubbing the first alignment film covering the first mother substrate, attaching the first and second mother substrates, and cutting the attached mother substrates into a plurality of liquid crystal panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: LG.PHILIPS LCD CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo-Nam Jeong, Su-Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 7330225
    Abstract: The color adjustment method adjusts a color of a monochromatic image on a LCD and each of LCDs. The method uses a plurality of light sources of different color temperatures as a backlight of the LCD and controls relative quantities of light from the light sources to adjust the color of the monochromatic image displayed on the LCD or each of the LCDs. The medical image display apparatus includes a plurality of LCDs, each displaying a monochromatic image, a backlight of each of the LCDs, the backlight having a plurality of light sources of different color temperatures and a unit for adjusting relative quantities of light from the light sources to adjust each color of the monochromatic image displayed on each of the LCDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20080024699
    Abstract: A liquid crystal cell manufacturing method includes preparing a pair of glass substrates each including an area configured to form a plurality of finished liquid crystal display apparatuses thereon, while a plurality of seal members and a plurality of pillars each including ends that respectively abut against the pair of glass substrates are interposed between the pair of glass substrates, adhering the pair of glass substrates to form a liquid crystal display apparatus forming assembly, and while the liquid crystal display apparatus forming assembly is formed, forming a plurality of scribe lines that intersect each other on surfaces of the pair of glass substrates that are opposite to surfaces of the pair of glass substrates that oppose each other. At least a part of each of the pillars is arranged to overlap at least one of regions, between the pair of glass substrates, corresponding to the plurality of scribe lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohiro Nomura, Kunihiko Kasuya, Masao Yoshino, Shinji Danjo, Makoto Iwasaki, Toshiharu Nishino
  • Patent number: 7307677
    Abstract: A tiling mode display device is disclosed. The display device includes a first substrate having at least two lower substrates connected to each other at a boundary region between the lower substrates using a first adhesion member; a first seal pattern formed at peripheries of the lower substrates, and a second seal pattern formed at the boundary region between the lower substrates; and a second substrate attached to the first substrate by the first and second seal patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Sik Jeong, Hyun Suk Jin
  • Patent number: 7286195
    Abstract: An interconnect structure connecting two isolated metal lines in a non-display area of a TFT-array substrate. A first metal line is disposed on the substrate, covered with a first insulating layer. A second metal line is disposed on the first insulating layer and covered by a second insulating layer. ITO (indium tin oxide) wiring is disposed on the second insulating layer, electrically connecting the first and second metal lines. A passivation structure is disposed on the second insulating layer, with an opening therein to expose and surround the ITO wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventor: Kun-Hong Chen
  • Patent number: 7268841
    Abstract: A display device 100 has a display unit 110 and a display switching unit 120. The display switching unit 120 is provided with a reflective polarizing plate 121, a liquid crystal panel 122, and a polarizing plate 123 arranged in this order from the side of the display unit 110 to the observation side. By controlling the liquid crystal panel 122, the display switching unit can be switched between a light transmissive state and a light reflective state. The display unit 110 and the display switching unit 120 are optically adhered to each other by an adhesive layer 131. Thus, deterioration of the contrast by boundary reflection can be restrained, and the flatness and the rigidity of the device can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Kasajima, Toshihiko Tsuchihashi, Saori Eisaki, Takeyoshi Ushiki, Hiroshi Wada, Tsuyoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 7259736
    Abstract: To provide an electro-optical device and an electronic apparatus which reduce directional viewing variation that occurs between the column and row directions and to provide an active matrix substrate suitable for the electro-optical device. In each pixel circuit arranged at a display panel portion in a matrix, the upper left side of the formation region is allotted to a green pixel-forming region having an organic EL element that emits green, the upper right side is allotted to a blue pixel-forming region having an organic EL element that emits blue, the lower left side is allotted to a dummy forming region having no light-emitting organic EL element, and the lower right side is allotted to a red pixel-forming region having an organic EL element that emits red. Two adjacent same-color organic EL elements are formed at regular intervals with one forming region interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hayato Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 7248308
    Abstract: A spread illuminating apparatus includes: at least one light source; a light conductive plate which has the at least one light source disposed at one end surface thereof, and which allows light emitted from the at least one light source and introduced therein to exit out therefrom through both major surfaces thereof toward first and second liquid crystal display elements disposed respectively over the both major surfaces of the light conductive plate, wherein the second liquid crystal display element has a smaller display screen size than the first liquid crystal display element; and a reflecting means which is disposed at the other major surface of the light conductive plate so as to cover at least areas not covered by the second liquid crystal display element, and which reflects light toward the first liquid crystal display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Mizutani, Satoshi Kawashima, Kazutoshi Takayanagi, Katsuji Ishigami, Motoji Egawa
  • Patent number: 7239367
    Abstract: A tiled display device is disclosed. The disclosed tiled display device includes a plurality of display panels each having an image display part in which a plurality of pixels are formed. The tiled display device includes a support frame having a plurality of panel receiving portions such that the plurality of display panels are tiled side by side and received therein. The tiled display device also includes a plurality of light guides each formed of an optical fiber bundle and disposed on the corresponding display panel, each light guide having an image receiving surface and a display surface that have different surface areas from each other, wherein a light and an image transmitted from the image display part are received by the image receiving surface and are reproduced on the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Suk Jin, Min Joo Kim
  • Patent number: 7169636
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a light emitting device having a structure wherein oxygen and moisture are prevented from reaching to the light emitting device, and to provide a manufacturing method thereof. It is another object of the present invention to seal a light emitting device in fewer steps without encapsulating a desiccant. The present invention provides a structure in which a pixel region 13 is surrounded by a first sealing material (having higher viscosity than a second sealing material) 16 including a spacer (filler, minute particles and/or the like) which maintains a gap between the two substrates, filled with a few drops of the transparent second sealing material 17a which is spread in the region; and sealed by using the first sealing material 16 and the second sealing material 17.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junya Maruyama, Toru Takayama, Yumiko Ohno
  • Patent number: 7145611
    Abstract: A modular and scalable seamless tiled display apparatus includes multiple display devices, a screen, and multiple lens assemblies. Each display device is subdivided into multiple sections, and each section is configured to display a sectional image. One of the lens assemblies is optically coupled to each of the sections of each of the display devices to project the sectional image displayed on that section onto the screen. The multiple lens assemblies are configured to merge the projected sectional images to form a single tiled image. The projected sectional images may be merged on the screen by magnifying and shifting the images in an appropriate manner. The magnification and shifting of these images eliminates any visual effect on the tiled display that may result from dead-band regions defined between each pair of adjacent sections on each display device, and due to gaps between multiple display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew B. Dubin, Brent D. Larson, Aleksandra Kolosowsky
  • Patent number: 7142267
    Abstract: An active matrix display device comprises an array of picture elements, e.g. liquid crystal picture elements, first and second sets of address conductors (16, 18) extending in row and column directions respectively and connected with the picture elements, and a set of connection conductor lines (30?) extending in the same direction as one set of address conductors (18), each of which is connected to a respective one of the other set of conductors (16), and via which address signals are supplied to that other set. To avoid unwanted display artefacts, each connection conductor line (30?) extends from one side of the array and terminates adjacent its connection point (32) to its associated address conductor (16) and a respective complementary conductor line (30?) is provided which extends from close to the connection point (32) to the opposite side of the array, the complementary conductor line being electrically separate from the connection line (30?) and coupled to reference signal supply (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Jason R. Hector, John R. Hughes, Martin J. Edwards
  • Patent number: 7110069
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display having two display surfaces includes a first substrate supporting a first thin film transistor array and a first color filter array, and a second substrate supporting a second color filter array facing the first thin film transistor array and a second thin film transistor facing the first color filter array, and a layer of liquid crystal material provided between the first and second substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Gu Kang, Seung Jun Moon
  • Patent number: 7102725
    Abstract: A substrate includes a valid area and a invalid area located outside the valid area, the valid area providing an array substrate, and a colored layers is formed in the valid area and the invalid area. A conductive film is formed on the colored layers in the valid area for forming a plurality of pixel electrodes, and the conductive film is simultaneously is formed on the colored layer in the invalid area. The substrate with the conductive film formed thereon is divided along the periphery of the valid area, thereby cutting the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naomi Moriyama
  • Patent number: 7092067
    Abstract: A composite liquid crystal panel that interacts with an inspection station to simulate operating liquid displays, and methods of fabricating and testing such liquid crystal panels. The composite crystal panel enables the application of operating voltages to a plurality of unit liquid crystal panel areas. The inspection station provides operating power, illuminating light, and first and second polarizers. When power is applied to the composite liquid crystal panel an image is produced. That image will show defects in the unit liquid crystal panel areas. Beneficially, the inspection station tilts to enable easier problem identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyug Jin Kweon, Hae Joon Son, Wan Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 7079201
    Abstract: A fluorescent lamp for a backlight of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device having the same are disclosed. The fluorescent lamp includes a red color phosphor having a maximum luminous wavelength of about 600 nm to 620 nm, a green color phosphor having a maximum luminous wavelength of about 520 nm to 555 nm and a blue color phosphor having a maximum luminous wavelength of about 440 nm to 460 nm. The green color phosphor has one maximum luminous peak or the side peak having about 20% or smaller relative size in comparison with the maximum luminous peak beside the maximum luminous peak. Therefore, by removing or minimizing the side luminous peak of the green color phosphor, the color reproductivity can greatly increase without decreasing the brightness of the white color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bo Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 7068336
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having variable viewing angles includes a first liquid crystal cell having first and second substrates spaced apart from and facing each other, a pixel electrode formed on an inner surface of the first substrate, a common electrode formed on an inner surface of the second substrate, and a first liquid crystal layer interposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode; a second liquid crystal cell on the first liquid crystal cell, the second liquid crystal cell having third and fourth substrates spaced apart from and facing each other, and two alignment layers, wherein the first and second alignment layers are arranged to have holographic patterns; and a switching part for selectively applying electric field to the second liquid crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Hun Oh, Man-Hoan Lee
  • Patent number: 7061559
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes cell wall structure and a chiral nematic liquid crystal material. The cell wall structure and the liquid crystal cooperate to form focal conic and twisted planar textures that are stable in the absence of a field. A device applies an electric field to the liquid crystal for transforming at least a portion of the material to at least one of the focal conic and twisted planar textures. The liquid crystal material has a pitch length effective to reflect radiation having a wavelength in both the visible and the infrared ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum at intensity that is sufficient for viewing by an observer. One liquid crystal material may be disposed in a single region or two or more liquid crystal materials may be used, each in separate regions even without the infrared reflecting layer. One aspect of the invention is directed to a photolithography method for patterning a substrate of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Kent Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Asad A. Khan, Xiao-Yang Huang, Haiji Yuan, Minhua Lu
  • Patent number: 7042546
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display unit capable of manufacturing a large-screen display unit with high display quality without upsizing manufacturing facilities is provided. Device substrates on which a pixel including the organic light-emitting devices is formed are aligned on the same plane so as to face a sealing substrate. While the device substrates and the sealing substrate are bonded together with an adhesive resin for sealing in between, the adhesive resin for sealing is extruded from a seam portion to the backside of the seam portion so as to fill the seam portion with the adhesive resin for sealing. The backside of the seam portion can be securely sealed through a simple step. The method is suitable for a large-scale display unit using top-emitting organic light-emitting devices. A back sealing member may be disposed on the backside of the seam portion with the extruded adhesive resin for sealing in between. After that, the adhesive resin for sealing is cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tamashiro, Yuichi Iwase, Shoji Terada
  • Patent number: 7034906
    Abstract: A display device of a multi-panel system is composed of plural liquid crystal panels which are jointed together by means of a bonding agent, and offers an image displayed on a large screen, wherein at least one edge portion of an end surface of a connected part of each liquid crystal panel is chamfered. According to the described arrangement, an internal stress generated by the curing shrinkage of the bonding agent at the chamfered portion is dispersed when joining the liquid crystal panels together, thereby preventing an occurrence of cracks at the edge portion. In this way, light scattering due to cracks at the joint between liquid crystal panels can be prevented. Accordingly, a liquid crystal display device of a large screen that offers excellent visibility in which a joint between liquid crystal panels does not stand out can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Izumi
  • Patent number: 6999154
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing an LCD device, TFT unit cells are formed on a first mother substrate, and color filter unit cells are formed on a second mother substrate. A liquid crystal alignment film is formed on the TFT unit cells and on the color filter unit cells. The first mother substrate and the second mother substrate are assembled to form an assembled substrate and liquid crystal is disposed between the TFT unit cell and the color filter unit cell. An LCD unit cell is inspected by applying a test driving signal via non-contact method. The LCD unit cell is separated from the assembled substrate to form an LCD panel. A driving module and the LCD panel are assembled to be formed an LCD assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae-Ho Choo, Dong-Uk Choi, Sang-Kyu Cho
  • Patent number: 6999138
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a tiled display is disclosed comprising the steps of: a) selecting a plurality of flat-panel displays, each flat-panel display having a display area comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in an array and having at least one defective pixel; and b) forming a tiled display by locating one or more faceplates in alignment with the plurality of flat-panel displays, the one or more faceplates having a plurality of lightpipes in an array, the lightpipes having input and output end faces for transmitting light from the display areas of the flat-panel displays to a display surface of the tiled display, wherein the input end face of each of the lightpipes has an area larger than the area of one pixel of the selected flat-panel displays, and wherein each lightpipe transmits light from more than one pixel from the display area of the flat-panel displays to the display surface of the tiled display. Also described are tiled display made according to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 6980266
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and method that are adaptive to compensate for brightness deviation among red, green and blue colors. This device includes red liquid crystal cell lines having red liquid crystal cells, green liquid crystal cell lines having green liquid crystal cells, and blue liquid crystal cell lines having blue liquid crystal cells. Common electrodes are formed for each red, green and blue liquid crystal line. A common electrode of at least one liquid crystal cell line of the red, green and blue liquid crystal cell lines is supplied with a different common voltage that is a reference voltage to drive the liquid crystal cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 6958795
    Abstract: A composite liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of liquid crystal panels and a picture display surface. It cuts the border of each liquid crystal panel to a width of only one pixel, then bonding the panels together, installing the picture display surface on the liquid crystal panel, and distributing a portion of light from the normal pixels adjoining the border to the pixels corresponding to the border to resolve the gap problem. Light distribution is accomplished by using a pair of mirrors and a pair of reflecting surfaces to reflect the light of the pixels, so that light may be reflected above the pixels on the border and generate light. Then the pixels on the border and the pixels adjoining the border are redefined to form an image dot. Finally, through redistributing the light, the seams on the border may be completely eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: He-Chiang Liu, Hsiao-Yi Li, Hung-Lung Cheng
  • Patent number: 6954243
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device comprising a pair of substrates between which a liquid crystal layer is interposed, a display surface provided on one of the substrates, and a lighting device arranged at a side of another of the substrates, the present invention forms a light shielding film on at least one of side surfaces of the substrates along a direction perpendicular to the display surface and prevents light leak leaking from the lighting device through the at least one of side surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoko Ota, Shigeki Nishizawa, Norihisa Fukayama, Naoto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6934001
    Abstract: A flexible liquid crystal display (LCD) substrate support structure and a method of supporting a flexible LCD substrate during fabrication have been provided. The method forms channels or trenches in-between a rigid support substrate and the flexible LCD substrate. A vacuum is created in the channels or trenches to pull adhesive in. The adhesive formed in this manner contains no air or water bubbles whose expansion in subsequent LCD fabrication processes can destroy the integrity of thin film transistor films formed on the flexible LCD substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Hirohiko Nishiki
  • Patent number: 6914379
    Abstract: A display having improved thermal management and a method for producing the display are disclosed. The display includes a pixel structure adjacent a front panel with thermo-mechanical elements extending between a back panel and the pixel structure to dissipate heat generated by the pixel structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Sarnoff Corporation
    Inventor: Ponnusamy Palanisamy
  • Patent number: 6906762
    Abstract: A display comprising of multi-levels of screens, each screen being selectively transparent with the ability to display images. A method of defining screen layers for upon which to display image on by using sequential time based pixel change as a variable which defines layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Deep Video Imaging Limited
    Inventors: Pita Witehira, Gabriel Damon Engel
  • Patent number: 6903784
    Abstract: A second device (24) is mounted on a first device (22) formed of a liquid crystal (27) display cell (26) at the front of which is arranged a first linear polarizer (40), of a liquid crystal (29) optical valve (28) at the back of which is arranged a second polarizer (44) and means (23) for controlling the valve (28) and the cell (26) from a switched state to a non switched state. When the cell (26) is switched to display a data item, by associating a first light or dark device (22) with a second absorbent or reflective polarizer (44), an inversion of the contrast in said data is obtained by switching the valve (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Asulab S.A.
    Inventor: Naci Basturk
  • Patent number: 6892450
    Abstract: Light emitting devices formed in an array on a first substrate are transferred to an insulating material, to form a sheet-shaped device substrate. The sheet-shaped device substrate is cut along an array direction of the light emitting devices into long-sized line-shaped device substrates. The line-shaped device substrates are arrayed on a second substrate such that the line-shaped device substrates are enlargedly spaced from each other. The line-shaped device substrates divided from the second substrate are arrayed on a third substrate such as to be enlargedly spaced from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Ohba, Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 6890786
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of fabricating a light modulation system having a semiconductor substrate. In one exemplary method, an optical layer is applied over a semiconductor substrate which includes a plurality of integrated circuits. Each of these integrated circuits is capable of creating a separate display device. A protective layer is then applied over the optical layer. The plurality of integrated circuits is then singulated. Various other embodiments of apparatuses and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Brillian Corporation
    Inventors: Tobias W. Walker, Douglas J. McKnight, Kam Wan
  • Patent number: 6885413
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display having two display surfaces includes a first substrate supporting a first thin film transistor array and a first color filter array, and a second substrate supporting a second color filter array facing the first thin film transistor array and a second thin film transistor facing the first color filter array, and a layer of liquid crystal material provided between the first and second substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Gu Kang, Seung Jun Moon
  • Patent number: 6876429
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method for fabricating an array. A plurality of insulating media are formed having a plurality of wavelength and polarizing elements embedded therein at an angle relative to the surfaces of the media, such that the spacing between elements halves for each different medium. A phase shifter arrangement is also formed such that a portion of conductive material is disposed on a surface of the insulating media in registry with every other element in each of the media, and other portion of conductive material disposed on another surface overlapping said elements. A phase shifting material is disposed over at least said every other element. The media are stacked such that the topmost insulating medium has two elements, and each succeeding medium has twice as many elements as a preceding medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Reveo, Inc.
    Inventor: Sadeg M. Faris
  • Patent number: 6873380
    Abstract: A display may be formed of a plurality of abutted tiles, each tile contributing a portion of the overall displayed image. Optical elements may be selectively situated between pixels to improve the optical performance of the display. In some embodiments, these optical elements may facilitate the use of relatively thicker cover glasses over the display tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis L. Matthies, Zilan Shen
  • Patent number: 6853411
    Abstract: A high aperture ratio emissive tiled display comprised of a plurality of tiles including a substrate with discrete layers of integrated drive circuits, thin film transistors, circuit conductor layer and light-emitting pixel array wherein all the electronic circuitry is contained under the pixel array. Vertical interconnects are made between the drive circuits, circuits and pixel electrodes, as necessary, and can include vertical interconnections through the substrate. Large flat panel displays including at least two of said tiles are aligned to maintain pixel pitch from one tile to another to produce a seamless image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Henry R. Freidhoff, Giana M. Phelan
  • Patent number: 6850296
    Abstract: A composite liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of liquid crystal panels and a picture display surface. It cuts the border of each liquid crystal panel to a width of only one pixel, then bonding the panels together, installing the picture display surface on the liquid crystal panel, and distributing a portion of light from the normal pixels adjoining the border to the pixels corresponding to the border to resolve the gap problem. Light distribution is accomplished by using a pair of mirrors and a pair of reflecting surfaces to reflect the light of the pixels, so that light may be reflected above the pixels on the border and generate light. Then the pixels on the border and the pixels adjoining the border are redefined to form an image dot. Finally, through redistributing the light, the seams on the border may be completely eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: He-Chiang Liu, Hsiao-Yi Li, Hung-Lung Cheng
  • Patent number: 6842210
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which has a liquid crystal composition between a first substrate and a flexible second substrate. The liquid crystal composition is filled between the substrates by being dispensed on the first substrate and spread uniformly while the second substrate is being pressed against the first substrate by a roller, and the liquid crystal composition is sealed by sealing resin provided on the sides of the substrates. The gap between the substrates is maintained by spherical spacers and/or a resin structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Hashimoto, Masakazu Okada, Kenji Nishiguchi, Tatsuo Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 6819373
    Abstract: A multi-layered structure and method of formation. A page is generated by stacking N substructures (N≧2) in an ordered sequence. A first substructure of each pair of adjacent substructures comprises liquid crystal polymer (LCP) dielectric material to be bonded with a second substructure of a pair of the adjacent substructure. The page is subjected to a temperature less than the lowest nematic-to-isotropic transition temperature of the LCP dielectric materials within the page. The dwell time and elevated pressure are sufficient to cause all LCP dielectric material within the page to plastically deform and laminate each pair of adjacent substructures without any extrinsic adhesive layer disposed between the first and second substructures of each pair of adjacent substructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald S. Farquhar, Mark D. Poliks
  • Patent number: 6812977
    Abstract: A liquid crystal element of a layered type capable of high contrast is provided. For example, in the liquid crystal element of the layered type including liquid crystal layers b, g and r in this order, each of the liquid crystal layers b, g and r is held between electrode formation surfaces of a pair of substrates each provided with an electrode, an insulating film is disposed between the electrodes of the substrates, and at least two liquid crystal layers of the liquid crystal layers b, g and r have the insulating films opposed to the liquid crystal layers and being different in refractive index from each other, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masako Iwamatsu, Kenji Nishiguchi, Hideaki Ueda, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Fumie Motoori, Masakazu Okada, Mitsuyo Matsumoto, Akihito Hisamitsu
  • Patent number: 6803978
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel having LCD-modules with a plurality of picture element (pixels), a control circuit, and a backlight apparatus, the control circuit in communication with the pixels, the backlight apparatus configured to backlight the control circuit, the LCD panel comprising: a first edge zone and a second edge zone defined on at least a first and a second LCD-module, the control circuit disposed about the first edge zone, the first edge zone of the first LCD-module interposed between the backlight apparatus and the second edge zone of the second LCD-module, the first edge zone of the first LCD-module spaced apart from the second edge zone of the second LCD-module at a distance configured to accommodate a light device for shadow reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Gesellschaft fur moderne formationssysteme mbH
    Inventors: Reiner Bayrle, Otto Bader, Thomas Bitter
  • Patent number: 6801271
    Abstract: Disclosed is a two-way display-type liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: PanTech, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Hoon Han, Hyun Jung Jeong, Yong Joon Han
  • Publication number: 20040150766
    Abstract: An in-line system for fabricating a liquid crystal display-includes a sealer coating unit for coating a sealer onto a first substrate with a plurality of liquid crystal display cell regions, a liquid crystal injection unit for dropping a liquid crystal onto the first substrate coated with the sealer, and an assembly unit for assembling the first substrate with the second substrate. A sealer hardening unit hardens the sealer interposed between the first and the second substrate to thereby assemble the first and the second substrate with each other. A substrate cutting unit cuts the first and the second substrates along cutting lines through illuminating a laser beam along the cutting lines such that the first and the second substrates are severed into the liquid crystal display cell regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Dae-Ho Choo, Sang-Jun Lee, Yong-Joon Kwon
  • Patent number: RE39910
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprising a plurality of liquid crystal panels placed on a single plane of a large substrate, and a black matrix made of a photo-absorbing film that shows black when having absorbed light. Two polarizing plates are respectively placed to cover the front and rear surface of a set of liquid crystal panels almost entirely in such a manner that their polarizing axes intersect at right angles. The resulting multi-screen liquid crystal display consumes less power, retains excellent display quality, and makes the joints between the liquid crystal panels difficult to see.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Izumi, Sayuri Fujiwara, Tokihiko Shinomiya