Changing Position Or Orientation Of Suspended Particles Patents (Class 359/296)
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Patent number: 11966546Abstract: A display device includes a base layer, a touch sensing layer, a light guide module and a display panel. The touch sensing layer is disposed on the base layer. The light guide module is disposed on the touch sensing layer. The touch sensing layer is located between the light guide module and the display panel, and the touch sensing layer and one of the light guide module and the display panel have no adhesive material therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Chen-Cheng Lin, Chia-I Liu, Kun-Hsien Lee, Hung-Wei Tseng
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Patent number: 11966140Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to electrochromic stacks, electrochromic devices, and methods and apparatus for making such stacks and devices. In various embodiments, an anodically coloring layer in an electrochromic stack or device is fabricated to include nickel tungsten tantalum oxide (NiWTaO). This material is particularly beneficial in that it is very transparent in its clear state.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Dane Gillaspie, Sridhar K. Kailasam, Robert T. Rozbicki
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Patent number: 11966143Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a light shutter panel and a transparent display apparatus having the same. The light shutter panel according to the present disclosure comprises: a lower electrode plate; an upper electrode plate facing with the lower electrode plate; a shutter layer disposed between the lower electrode plate and the upper electrode plate, and including a maximum light transmitting portion, a minimum light blocking portion, ink storage portions connecting the maximum light transmitting portion and the minimum light blocking portion, and an electric field guide disposed between the ink storage portions; a plurality of spacers maintaining a gap between the lower electrode plate and the upper electrode plate; and black ink filled into the ink storage portion of the shutter layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youngki Song, SunMan Kim
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Patent number: 11960191Abstract: A conductive structure is applied to an e-paper device, which includes a driving substrate and an e-paper film. The e-paper film is disposed on the driving substrate, and includes a transparent substrate, a common electrode layer, and a display medium layer disposed between the common electrode layer and the driving substrate. The common electrode layer is disposed on one side of the transparent substrate facing the driving substrate. The display medium layer includes a through hole. The conductive structure is disposed in the through hole and includes a conductive member and at least one spacer. The conductive member is electrically connected to the driving substrate and the common electrode layer. The spacer is disposed in/on the conductive member, and contacts with the driving substrate and the common electrode layer. An e-paper device with the conductive structure is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SES-IMAGOTAG SAInventors: Chin-An Yang, Yew-Chun Wang
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Patent number: 11961421Abstract: A display medium with a substrate provided with a plurality of virtual cells C, and, on the cell C, a partition P having a plurality of surfaces respectively formed on a plane that intersects with the substrate and exposed when the display medium is viewed from a plurality of directions. A portion exposed when the display medium is viewed from a predetermined direction among the plurality of directions is given the color of a content corresponding to the predetermined direction. The display medium displays different contents in the plurality of directions, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kaisei Sakurai
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Patent number: 11935557Abstract: Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for explaining domain-specific terms detected in a media content stream. The techniques include detecting a speech portion included in an audio signal; determining that the speech portion comprises a domain-specific term; determining an explanatory phrase associated with the domain-specific term; and integrating the explanatory phrase associated with the domain-specific term into playback of the audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Harman International Industries, IncorporatedInventors: Stefan Marti, Evgeny Burmistrov, Joseph Verbeke, Priya Seshadri
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Patent number: 11914242Abstract: An optical path control member according to an embodiment comprises: a first substrate; a first electrode disposed on the first substrate; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate; a second electrode disposed under the second substrate; and a photoconversion unit disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the second substrate includes at least one hole penetrating the second substrate, and an electrode connection part connected to a side surface of the second electrode is disposed inside the hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Gyeong Park, Chan Mi Ju, Byung Sook Kim
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Patent number: 11900712Abstract: A fingerprint image capture system comprises an electro-optical material which captures a static fingerprint image and an apparatus for converting the static fingerprint image into an electronic signal. The image capture system includes an electrode for contacting a finger, and a bias supply for creating an electric field where epidermal ridges contact the electro-optical material. A transistor array senses charge or optical density variations in the electro-optical material to create an electronic representation of the fingerprint image. An initialization electrode places the electro-optical material into a uniform condition prior to acquisition of the fingerprint image. A physical artifact of the fingerprint image can be archived by removing the electro-optical material from the system following the fingerprint image acquisition.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Integrated Biometrics, LLCInventors: Edward John Bawolek, Douglas E. Loy
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Patent number: 11891327Abstract: Prior electrochromic devices frequently suffer from high levels of defectivity. The defects may be manifest as pin holes or spots where the electrochromic transition is impaired. This is unacceptable for many applications such as electrochromic architectural glass. Improved electrochromic devices with low defectivity can be fabricated by depositing certain layered components of the electrochromic device in a single integrated deposition system. While these layers are being deposited and/or treated on a substrate, for example a glass window, the substrate never leaves a controlled ambient environment, for example a low pressure controlled atmosphere having very low levels of particles. These layers may be deposited using physical vapor deposition. In certain embodiments, the device includes a counter electrode having an anodically coloring electrochromic material in combination with an additive.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Anshu A. Pradhan, Robert T. Rozbicki, Dane Thomas Gillaspie, Sridhar Karthik Kailasam
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Patent number: 11865349Abstract: The disclosure relates to a display device for a programmer of an implant, wherein the display device comprises a frame which receives and holds the following components: a display module which is designed to generate and display a representation, a shielding layer which is arranged on the display module, a flat capacitive touch sensor which is arranged on the shielding layer, and a cover which is arranged on the touch sensor. The display device further comprises an antenna, wherein the antenna is designed to transmit and/or receive in the MICS frequency band. Furthermore, a programmer for an implant is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KGInventors: Julian Merlin, Klaus Brandau, Christoph Hammerschmidt, Andreas Fechner, Enrico Kurecki
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Patent number: 11852947Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes a first component substrate, a second component substrate, a display medium layer, and an isolation structure. The first component substrate includes a first carrier and a plurality of pixel electrodes. The pixel electrodes are arranged in an array on the first carrier. The second component substrate includes a second carrier and at least one common electrode. The at least one common electrode is overlapped with the pixel electrodes. The display medium layer and the isolation structure are located between the first carrier and the second carrier. The display medium layer includes a plurality of charged particles. The isolation structure includes a barrier structure and an isolation electrode. The isolation electrode is formed on a bottom surface of the barrier structure and adjacent to the display medium layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: AUO CorporationInventors: Chun-Yu Lin, Yu-Pin Kuo, Kun-Cheng Tien
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Patent number: 11852950Abstract: A light beam direction control element includes light transmission regions interposed between a first light transmission substrate and a second light transmission substrate, light absorption regions located between the light transmission regions, a light transmission dispersion medium enclosed in the light absorption regions, and electrophoretic particles dispersed in the light transmission dispersion medium. The light transmission regions include a first light transmission region extending from the first light transmission substrate toward the second light transmission substrate, and a second light transmission region extending from the first light transmission region toward the second light transmission substrate. A height of the first light transmission region is lower than a height of the second light transmission region and a width of the first light transmission region is wider than a width of the second light transmission region.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: TIANMA JAPAN, LTD.Inventors: Masanori Shirokawa, Mamoru Okamoto
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Patent number: 11846838Abstract: A light attenuator comprises a cell comprising a first substrate and a second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate. A layer between the substrates contains an electrophoretic ink, a surface of the layer adjacent the second substrate comprising a monolayer of closely packed protrusions projecting into the layer. The protrusions have surfaces defining a plurality of depressions in the volumes there between.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventor: Donal O'Keeffe
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Patent number: 11846861Abstract: The present invention provides for a method of rendering an image on a reflective display wherein each pixel is capable of rendering a limited number of colors, each of which is rendered by predetermined set of waveforms stored in a waveform lookup table. Furthermore, the present invention provides for a method for rendering an image using such colors, having been chosen for optimal color rendition. This invention further provides for rendering a color image formed from a plurality of pixels on a reflective display wherein each pixel has a color selected from the group consisting of at least: red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, black and white.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Alain Bouchard, Stephen J. Telfer
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Patent number: 11804190Abstract: An electrophoretic medium comprises a fluid and first (B), second (Y), third (R) and fourth (W) particles dispersed in the fluid and having differing colors. The first (B) and third (R) particles bear charges of one polarity and the second (Y) and fourth (W) particles bear charges of the opposite polarity, The first particles (B) have a greater zeta potential than the third particles (R), and the second particles (Y) have a greater zeta potential than the fourth particles (W). One of the particles (W) is white, one of the non-white particles (B) is partially light-transmissive, and the remaining two non-white particles are light-reflective.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: E Ink California, LLCInventors: Craig Lin, Xiaolong Zheng
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Patent number: 11749218Abstract: A variable transmission film may include an electrophoretic medium having a plurality of capsules and a binder, each capsule containing a plurality of electrically charged particles and a fluid, the charged particles being movable by application of an electric field and being capable of being switched between an open state and a closed state. The film may include at least one of a binder containing fish gelatin and a polyanion; a binder containing one or more tinting agents; capsules containing charge control agents, such as an oligoamine-terminated polyolefin and a branched chain fatty acid comprising at least 8 carbon atoms; a selection of capsules in which at least 60% have a diameter between 50 ?m and 90 ?m and at least 15% have a diameter between 20 ?m and 49 ?m; a tinted adhesive layer; and a fluid selected from one or more nonconjugated olefinic hydrocarbons.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Peter Carsten Bailey Widger, Jay William Anseth, Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Mark Benjamin Romanowsky, Jillian Smith, Stephen J. Telfer, Craig Alan Breen, Stephen Bull
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Patent number: 11740531Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an electronic paper, a display device, and a driving method. A plurality of first half-cup structures each includes charged dye particles with a single electric property are provided on the first driving backplane, a plurality of second half-cup structures each includes charged dye particles with a single electric property are provided on the second driving backplane; one first half-cup structure and the opposite second half-cup structures constitute a micro-cup structure, a electric property of the charged dye particles in the first half-cup structure is opposite to that in the second half-cup structure in the same micro-cup structure; a cross-sectional area of the respective second half-cup structures gradually decreases in a direction pointing from the second driving backplane to the first driving backplane; and a cross-sectional area of the respective first half-cup structures gradually decreases in an opposite direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhe Wang, Qingqing Ma, Chao Tian, Rui Xu, Min Wang, Tianjiao Wang, Yan Zhang, Haiyang Tian
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Patent number: 11740532Abstract: An article, includes a layer including at least one color-rendering portion and at least one light valve; and a metal reflector portion, wherein the at least one light valve is positioned in the layer to provide reflection of incident light through the at least one light valve. A method of making an article is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Kangning Liang, Jaroslaw Zieba, Johannes P. Seydel
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Patent number: 11737309Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a flat portion and a bending portion located at a side of the flat portion, an optical film attached on the flat portion of the display panel, and a bending protection layer covering at least a part of the bending portion and contacting one edge of the optical film. The edge of the optical film includes an upper surface, a lower surface and a side surface, the lower surface of the optical film faces an upper surface of the display panel, at least a part of the side surface of the optical film contacts the bending protection layer, and at least a part of the side surface of the optical film protrudes more, as closer to the upper side.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Donghwan Kim, Soonryong Park, Yunha Nam, Sumin Lee
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Patent number: 11732074Abstract: The present teachings relate to various embodiments of a curable ink composition, which once printed and cured form polymeric films on a substrate such as, but not limited by, an OLED device substrate. Various embodiments of the curable ink compositions comprise di(meth)acrylate monomers, as well as multifunctional crosslinking agents and curing kinetics control additives.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.Inventors: Elena Rogojina, Inna Gurevitch, Teresa A. Ramos, Lorenza Moro, Victor Miranda
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Patent number: 11735127Abstract: A driving method for driving an electrophoretic display comprising four types of particles, the first type of particles and the third type of particles are positively charged, and the second type of particles and the fourth type of particles are negatively charged, the method comprises the steps of: (i). applying a first driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a first period of time at a first amplitude to drive the pixel to a color state of the fourth type of particle at the viewing side; and (ii). applying a second driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a second period of time, opposite to that of the first driving voltage and a second amplitude smaller than that of the first amplitude, to drive the second type particle towards the non-viewing side.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLCInventors: Shang-Chia Chen, Yajuan Chen, Craig Lin
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Patent number: 11708720Abstract: A variable light transmittance sheet comprises a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and between the electrodes an electrophoretic cell containing an electrophoretic ink and one or more non-planar solid polymer elements. In an embodiment, the electrophoretic ink includes charged particles in a suspending fluid, and 75% or more by mass of the suspending fluid is an organosilicone or an aliphatic hydrocarbon and the solid polymer is a fluorinated elastomeric polymer.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventor: Donal Martin O'Keeffe
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Patent number: 11703814Abstract: Optically controllable windows and an associated window control system provide a building security platform. A window controller or other processing device can monitor for window breakage, cameras associated with windows can monitor for intruders, and transparent displays can provide alerts regarding detected activity within a building. A window control system can detect deviations from expected I/V characteristics of an optically controllable window during normal operation of the window (tint transitions, steady state conditions, etc.) and/or during application of a security-related perturbing event, and provide alerts upon their occurrence.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Dhairya Shrivastava, Stephen Clark Brown, Gordon E. Jack, Horop Puth, Illayathambi Kunadian, Oner Bicakci, Sridhar Karthik Kailasam, Fabian Strong, Brandon Tinianov, Joseph Lunardi
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Patent number: 11699708Abstract: A sub-pixel structure includes: a first functional layer and a second functional layer which are oppositely arranged, a conductive structure therebetween, and a plurality of electrodes on at least one side of the first functional layer. The first functional layer includes an insulating region, the second functional layer includes a target light-shielding region and a target light-transmitting region, orthographic projections of both the conductive structure and the target light-transmitting region on the first functional layer are partial regions of the insulating region, and orthographic projections of the plurality of electrodes on the first functional layer are outside the insulating region; and the conductive structure is configured to move in the insulating region under the action of voltages loaded on the plurality of electrodes to adjust a luminous flux of light emitted from the target light-transmitting region.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Aojun Bai
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Patent number: 11698568Abstract: A substrate includes a base, a pixel defining layer, a plurality of electrode pairs, and a plurality of light-emitting devices. The pixel defining layer is disposed on the base, and includes a plurality of through holes. At least one electrode pair includes a first electrode and a second electrode that are disposed at least on a hole wall of one of the through holes and at least partially opposite to each other, and the first electrode and the second electrode are insulated from each other. One of the plurality of light-emitting devices includes a liquid functional layer disposed in the through hole. The liquid functional layer is in direct contact with the first electrode and the second electrode. The liquid functional layer includes a liquid light-emitting layer configured to emit light.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Xun Gu, Wenjuan Mei, Wenquan Chu, Hanqi Chu, Hailong Yang, Shibao Wang
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Patent number: 11686989Abstract: Improved electrophoretic media including a first particle of a first polarity and three particles of the opposite polarity, wherein the first particle and optionally one of the particles of the opposite polarity undergo a diminution of electrophoretic mobility with increased electric field. Such electrophoretic media enable full-color displays with very fast updates between white and black pixels.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Stephen J. Telfer, Yuval Ben-Dov, Teck Ping Sim, Sherry Hsin-Yi Tsai
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Patent number: 11680443Abstract: A variable transmittance film includes a first electrode substrate and a second electrode substrate which are provided to face each other; and a liquid receiving layer which is provided between the first electrode substrate and the second electrode substrate and comprises a liquid substance, and a partition wall pattern that divides the liquid substance into two or more spaces, in which at least a part of the partition wall pattern comprises a passageway region that connects the adjacent spaces.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Inventors: Nam Seok Bae, Yong Goo Son, Seung Heon Lee, Taegyun Kwon, Youngsik Yoon
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Patent number: 11666668Abstract: A body has multiple phases, which have different electron spin resonance spectra that do not result from the simple combination of the ESR spectra of each individual phase.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbHInventors: Norbert Windhab, Andreas Karau, Peter Hölig, Benedikt Hartwig, Julia Lyubina
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Patent number: 11657771Abstract: A first substrate includes: a first base material including an insulating layer; and a partition wall disposed on the insulating layer. The insulating layer and the partition wall are formed of a resin material. The partition wall has a higher hardness than the insulating layer. A protective film that protects the insulating layer is disposed on a surface of the insulating layer. A portion of the protective film is located between the partition wall and the insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventor: Takashi Miyata
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Patent number: 11656524Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrophoretic display medium. The display medium can include a substrate, an electrophoretic layer, and a network electrode. A flowable conductive material is disposed on the substrate and the electrophoretic layer is subsequently disposed into the flowable conductive material. The electrophoretic layer includes a plurality of encapsulated droplets including an internal phase and at least partially surrounded by a binder. A bottom portion of the plurality of microcapsules is embedded within the binder. The flowable conductive material is cured to create a network electrode between the plurality of encapsulated droplets and the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Jay William Anseth
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Patent number: 11640097Abstract: A total internal reflection display includes a sub-pixel, a reflecting layer, at least one first stereoscopic electrode and a display medium layer. The sub-pixel is defined by a color filter and a black matrix disposed adjacently to the color filter. The reflecting layer is located beneath the sub-pixel. The first stereoscopic electrode is located beneath the black matrix. The width of the first stereoscopic electrode is less than the width of the black matrix. The display medium layer is located between the sub-pixel and the reflecting layer. The height of the first stereoscopic electrode is greater than half of the thickness of the display medium layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Chun-Yu Lin, Kun-Cheng Tien
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Patent number: 11640095Abstract: A display cover plate, a manufacturing method therefor and a display device are provided, The display cover plate includes: a substrate; and an electrochromic unit on the substrate, the electrochromic unit includes: a first electrode on the substrate; an electrochromic layer on a side of the first electrode away from the substrate; and a second electrode on a side of the electrochromic layer away from the substrate, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are configured to generate an electric field, and the electrochromic layer allows light of different colors to pass through based on a change of the electric field.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Fengjuan Liu, Hongda Sun
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Patent number: 11635640Abstract: A method of forming a color-changing fiber that can be incorporated into fabrics and other woven materials. The color changing fibers include an annular wall and a conductive wire axially extending through the annular wall, a core strand surrounded by the annular wall and extending axially through a central portion of the fiber, and an encapsulated electro-optic medium disposed on a surface of the core strand.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Jay William Anseth
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Patent number: 11635665Abstract: Various embodiments herein relate to electrochromic devices, methods of fabricating electrochromic devices, and apparatus for fabricating electrochromic devices. In a number of cases, the electrochromic device may be fabricated to include a particular counter electrode material. The counter electrode material may include a base anodically coloring material. The counter electrode material may further include one or more halogens. The counter electrode material may also include one or more additives.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Anshu A. Pradhan, Robert T. Rozbicki, Dane Gillaspie, Sridhar K. Kailasam
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Patent number: 11634895Abstract: Various embodiments include components (e.g., a processor in a vehicle advanced driver assistance system) configured to identify subsystems that require testing in order to verify their compliance with a safety requirement. The components may determine whether verification of compliance requires that the subsystems be tested at PON, at POFF, during runtime or a combination thereof, dynamically determine the achievable parallelism for testing the identified subsystems, dynamically determine coverage level requirements for performing or executing built in self tests (BISTs) on each identified subsystem, and perform or execute the BISTs on the subsystems at the determined level of parallel and at the determined coverage level.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kiran Kumar Malipeddi, Rahul Gulati
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Electrically controlled smart window, preparation method thereof, and light-adjusting method thereof
Patent number: 11579477Abstract: An electrically controlled smart window, which includes two transparent plates arranged oppositely, a power supply component and an in-between light-adjusting area. Hereinto the light-adjusting area is divided into a matrix of light-adjusting units by pixel wall(s), and every units are closely arranged in a grid shape. To the power supply component, an electrode is connected with the pixel wall, and another is localized on the center of light-adjusting unit and did with the transparent plate. Both surface-charged liquid crystal polymer particles and conductive packing fluid are filled into the medium between the two transparent plates. According to the present disclosure, cholesteric liquid crystal polymer microparticles with specific reflection band and surface charges are used as basic reflectors, thereby achieving the significant advantages of being easy to manufacture, low cost, and stable performance, without causing interference to electromagnetic signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: South China Normal University, Shenzhen Guohua Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., Academy of Shenzhen Guohua OptoelectronicsInventors: Guofu Zhou, Hao Li, Nan Li -
Patent number: 11567388Abstract: An electro-optic media includes either a plurality of microcapsules in a binder, a polymeric sheet containing sealed microcells, or droplets in a continuous polymeric phase. Each of the microcapsules, microcells, or droplets contain a dispersion that includes a plurality of charged composite particles and a suspending fluid, and the charged particles move through the suspending fluid under the influence of an electric field. The composite particles include one or more types of pigment particles that are at least partially coated with a polymeric material. Each of the binder, polymeric sheet, continuous polymeric phase, the charged composite particles, and the suspending fluid have an index of refraction, and a difference between the index of refraction of the composite particles and at least one of the binder, polymeric sheet, continuous polymeric phase, and solvent is less than or equal to 0.05 at 550 nm.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Jin-Gyu Park, Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Peter Carsten Bailey Widger, Jillian Smith, Jay William Anseth, Craig A. Herb, George G. Harris, Mark Benjamin Romanowsky
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Patent number: 11570408Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device including a first substrate including an organic film, a first recess and a second recess formed in the organic film, and a first projection having the organic film, a second substrate, and a sealing member located in a second area around a first area, and bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together, wherein the first substrate includes a mounting portion, the first recess and the second recess extend in the second area, a first leading end portion of the first recess is separated from a second leading end portion of the second recess, and the first projection, the first recess and the second recess overlap the sealing member.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Hitomi Hasegawa, Masaru Nakakomi
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Patent number: 11561448Abstract: A front plate laminate structure includes a display medium layer, a top adhesive layer, a transparent substrate, a transparent conductive film, and a color filter layer. The top adhesive layer is located on the display medium layer. The transparent substrate is located on the top adhesive layer. The transparent conductive film is located between the transparent substrate and the top adhesive layer. The transparent conductive film includes a bottom surface facing the top adhesive layer. The color filter layer is located between the transparent substrate and the display medium layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Jau-Min Ding, Po-Yuan Lo, Sheng-Long Lin, Ian French
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Patent number: 11531235Abstract: A flexible display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The flexible display panel includes a first flexible substrate and a second flexible substrate which are cell-assembled with each other; and a liquid crystal display layer, a black matrix grid and a plurality of polymer walls which are located between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate; the liquid crystal display layer is located in gaps of the plurality of polymer walls, and includes a plurality of liquid crystal pixel units arranged in an array; the plurality of liquid crystal pixel units are delimited by a projection of the black matrix grid on the liquid crystal display layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Xiangxiang Zou
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Patent number: 11513415Abstract: A foldable electrophoretic display that is flexible and may be folded in a book-like fashion. Foldable electrophoretic display modules that can be separately manufactured and incorporated into a variety of foldable devices with differing functionality as needed by the consumer. In some embodiments, the resulting foldable electrophoretic display may include touch sensing, a front light, color, and a digitizing layer to record interactions with a stylus. In some embodiments, the display includes a color filter array.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Keisuke Hashimoto, Kenji Nakazawa, Bamboo Tsai, Yung-Sheng Chang, JiaJiun Yeh, Hsintao Huang
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Patent number: 11495784Abstract: A process for delineating a population of electrode structures in a web is disclosed. The web has a down-web direction, a cross-web direction, an electrochemically active layer, and an electrically conductive layer. The process includes laser machining the web in at least the cross-web direction to delineate members of the electrode structure population in the web without releasing the delineated members from the web and forming an alignment feature in the web that is adapted for locating each delineated member of the electrode structure population in the web.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Enovix Operations Inc.Inventors: Harrold J. Rust, III, Murali Ramasubramanian, Ashok Lahiri, Bruno A. Valdes, Jeffrey Glenn Buck, Kim Lester Fortunati, Robert S. Busacca, John F. Varni, Joshua David Winans, Neal Sarswat, Gunther A. Koblmiller, Miles E. Beaven, Jeffery A. Moss, Michael E. Andres
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Patent number: 11468855Abstract: An electrophoretic medium comprises a fluid, a first, light scattering particle (typically white) and second, third and fourth particles having three subtractive primary colors (typically magenta, cyan and yellow); at least two of these colored particles being non-light scattering. The first and second particles bear polymer coatings such that the electric field required to separate an aggregate formed by the third and the fourth particles is greater than that required to separate an aggregate formed from any other two types of particles. Methods for driving the medium to produce white, black, magenta, cyan, yellow, red, green and blue colors are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Stephen J. Telfer, Stephen Bull, Jennifer M. Morrison, Luke M. Slominski, David Darrell Miller, Olga Vladimirova Barykina-Tassa, Christopher L. Hoogeboom, Ana L. Lattes, Lee Yezek, Brandon MacDonald, Kosta Ladavac, Craig A. Herb
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Patent number: 11467454Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an electronic paper display screen, a display device and a bonding method. The electronic paper display screen includes a substrate, the substrate including a display region and a bonding region on at least one side of the display region and adjacent to the display region, an electronic paper, the electronic paper being disposed in the display region and including an electronic ink conduction portion, the electronic ink conduction portion being at an edge of the electronic paper close to the bonding region and extending to the bonding region of the substrate, a bonding electrode disposed in the bonding region of the substrate, and a chip-on-film, the chip-on-film being electrically connected to the bonding electrode, and an end of the chip-on-film close to the display region being between the substrate and the electronic ink conduction portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mingchun Qi
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Patent number: 11462181Abstract: An electrophoretic display able to operate on a reduced power supply includes a display panel and a driving circuit electrically connected to the display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of first electrophoretic particles and a plurality of second electrophoretic particles. The driving circuit is configured to provide a balance signal to the display panel during a balance period, provide a mixed signal to the display panel during a mixing period, and provide a driving signal to the display panel during a coloring period. The balance period, the mixing period, and the coloring period are sequential in time, and a preset time interval is between each of the periods.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: JADARD TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Lieh-Chiu Lin, Chung-Kuang Lee, Yan You
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Patent number: 11456437Abstract: An electroluminescence display device having a through-hole in a display area is discussed. The electroluminescence display device can include a substrate, a through-hole, an inner dam, and a hole-trench. The substrate includes a display area where a plurality of pixels for displaying images are arranged, and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The through-hole is arranged inside the display area. The inner dam surrounds the through-hole. The hole-trench surrounds the inner dam, and is formed as the substrate is partially recessed as much as a certain thickness.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Junggi Kim
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Patent number: 11440838Abstract: Prior electrochromic devices frequently suffer from high levels of defectivity. The defects may be manifest as pin holes or spots where the electrochromic transition is impaired. This is unacceptable for many applications such as electrochromic architectural glass. Improved electrochromic devices with low defectivity can be fabricated by depositing certain layered components of the electrochromic device in a single integrated deposition system. While these layers are being deposited and/or treated on a substrate, for example a glass window, the substrate never leaves a controlled ambient environment, for example a low pressure controlled atmosphere having very low levels of particles. These layers may be deposited using physical vapor deposition. In certain embodiments, the device includes a counter electrode having an anodically coloring electrochromic material in combination with an additive.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Anshu A. Pradhan, Robert T. Rozbicki, Dane Gillaspie, Sridhar K. Kailasam
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Patent number: 11435606Abstract: Methods and controllers for driving a light-collimating film including elongated chambers of bistable electrophoretic fluids. The light-collimating films are suitable to control the amount and/or direction of light incident to a transmissive substrate. Such films may be integrated into devices, such as LCD displays, to provide a zone of privacy for a user viewing the LCD display. Because the light-collimating film is switchable, it allows a user to alter the collimation of the emitted light on demand. Because the films are bistable, they do not require additional power after they have been switched to a display state.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLCInventors: Pubudu Thilanka Galwaduge, Xiaolong Zheng, Craig Lin
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Patent number: 11422426Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to electrochromic stacks, electrochromic devices, and methods and apparatus for making such stacks and devices. In various embodiments, an anodically coloring layer in an electrochromic stack or device is fabricated to include nickel-tungsten-tin-oxide (NiWSnO). This material is particularly beneficial in that it is very transparent in its clear state.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Dane Gillaspie, Anshu A. Pradhan, Sridhar K. Kailasam
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Patent number: 11409177Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to electrochromic stacks, electrochromic devices, and methods and apparatus for making such stacks and devices. In various embodiments, an anodically coloring layer in an electrochromic stack or device is fabricated to include nickel tungsten tantalum oxide (NiWTaO). This material is particularly beneficial in that it is very transparent in its clear state.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Dane Gillaspie, Sridhar K. Kailasam, Robert T. Rozbicki