Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
349095000 | Microlenses | 31 |
20080211995 | Display Apparatus Using Microlens - Provided is a display apparatus using a micromirror or an image display device. The display apparatus is designed to eliminate dark regions, usually formed by pixel partitions or black matrixes, display a high-quality image by increasing light usage efficiency, and improve the power consumption. A display apparatus using a microlens includes a micromirror array, a substrate, and a microlens array. The micromirror array includes a plurality of micromirrors arranged to reflect incident light rays from a light source. The substrate supports the micromirror array. The microlens array includes a plurality of microlenses disposed between the light source and the micromirror array to condense the incident light rays from the light source upon the micromirror array and correct a traveling path of reflected light rays from the micromirror array. | 09-04-2008 |
20080225207 | OPTICAL SHEET AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY USING THE SAME - An embodiment of this document relates to an optical sheet and a liquid crystal display using the same. An optical sheet in accordance with an aspect of this document may comprise a base film, and a plurality of projections including at least one of lenticular lens or micro lens, positioned on one surface of the base film. The projection may comprise a first resin and a plurality of first beads, and about 1 to 10 parts by weight of the first bead based on 100 parts by weight of the first resin. | 09-18-2008 |
20080278663 | ANAMORPHIC MICROLENS ARRAY - An LC display comprises in order (a) a light source, (b) a transparent polymeric film bearing on the light exit surface of the film an array of close-packed convex microlenses having a distribution of sizes and oriented in one direction, whereby the light output is preferentially spread in a desired direction, and (c) an LC panel. A related process and film are also disclosed. | 11-13-2008 |
20080278664 | MICRO-LENS SUBSTRATE WITH COLOR FILTER, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MICRO-LENS SUBSTRATE WITH COLOR FILTER - A micro-lens substrate with a color filter includes a first transparent substrate having a surface with first concave portions which have a lens shape, color filters in a plurality of colors, the color filters having a refractive index different from that of the first transparent substrate, the color filters being filled in the first concave portions, a transparent protective layer over the color filters, the transparent protective layer having a second concave portion at an area overlapping a border adjacent ones of the first concave portions, and a light shielding layer formed in the second concave portion. | 11-13-2008 |
20090059133 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device ( | 03-05-2009 |
20090079911 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In a liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal layer includes scattering liquid crystal is held between first and second substrates. The bottom surface of the second substrate is provided with a first prism array, which is extended along a first direction, and comprises a prism body arranged along a second direction. The bottom surface of the first prism array is provided with a second prism array, which is extended along the second direction, and comprises a prism body arranged along the first direction. The sum of the apex angles of the first and second prism arrays is set within a range from 180° to 240°. One of the apex angles is set larger than 90°. | 03-26-2009 |
20090115939 | Liquid Crystal Display Panel with Microlens and Process for Producing the Same - A process for producing a liquid crystal display panel with microlens, including: the step of preparing a liquid crystal display panel; forming a resin layer of uncured photo-curing resin, on a surface of a first transparent substrate of the liquid crystal display panel; irradiating a plurality of pixels with light having a property of curing the resin layer with varying incident angle, and partially exposing the resin layer by the light passed through a first sub-pixel; and following the exposure step, the step of development of removing an uncured portion of the resin layer; wherein the exposure step is performed such that the cured portion has a shape of cylindrical microlens, and maximum thickness of the cured portion becomes equal to the thickness of the resin layer. | 05-07-2009 |
20090284692 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a display panel including a display area and a non-display area defined therein, and a protective substrate disposed on a viewing side of the display panel. At least one light receiving element is provided in the non-display area, and a focusing pattern is disposed on the protective substrate corresponding to a location at which the light receiving element is disposed. | 11-19-2009 |
20090316083 | Liquid Crystal Display Device and Manufacturing Method for Same - An object of the present invention is to provide a technology for stably forming condenser lenses in a liquid crystal display device having condenser lenses, in which the lenses are not affected by roughness and organic contamination on the surface of the substrate which may be caused by polishing and handling. The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is provided with: a backlight module | 12-24-2009 |
20100097545 | Lenticular display systems with offset color filter array - Disclosed are various lenticular display systems that include either a color filter array (CFA) or a colored lens array that is spaced from the pixels of an underlying display panel. In an embodiment, the CFA of a lenticular display may be operable to provides a locally ‘static color’ reproduction of images as a function of viewing angle. It may also enable the resolution of the CFA to be relatively coarse. Both separating the CFA from the panel and reducing the resolution significantly may reduce the system cost and allow higher resolution to be realized. | 04-22-2010 |
20110025955 | Tunable electro-optic liquid crystal lenses and methods for forming the lenses - Electro-optic lenses, including liquid crystals, wherein the power of the lenses can be modified by application of an electric field. In one embodiment, the liquid crystal-based lenses include ring electrodes having a resistive bridge located between adjacent electrodes, and in a preferred embodiment, input connections for several electrode rings are spaced on the lens. In a further embodiment, liquid crystal-based lenses are provided that can increase optical power through the use of phase resets, wherein in one embodiment, a lens includes ring electrodes on surfaces of the substrates on opposite sides of the liquid crystal cell such that a fixed phase term can be added to each set of electrodes that allows for phase change across each group of electrodes to be the same and also be matched with respect to a previous group. | 02-03-2011 |
20110025956 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device of high image quality is provided at a low cost, in which the viewing angle is restricted only in a specific direction. | 02-03-2011 |
20110205468 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A light-condensing means and a pixel electrode may be formed on the same surface side of a substrate, and a region transmitting visible light in the pixel electrode may be provided so as to overlap with an optical axis of the light-condensing means. An anisotropic light-condensing means having a condensing direction X and a non-condensing direction Y may be used, and the light-condensing means may be provided so that the non-condensing direction Y corresponds to a longitudinal direction of the region transmitting visible light in the pixel electrode. | 08-25-2011 |
20120188489 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In order to fix lenses of light emitting diodes stably without impairing heat dissipation performance in a liquid crystal display device, the liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; and a light emitting diode substrate ( | 07-26-2012 |
20120200810 | Display Method, Display Apparatus, Optical Unit, Method of Manufacturing Display Apparatus, and Electronic Equipment - A display method of forming an image by using a plurality of pixels includes projecting light beams from the plurality of pixels on a pupil of an eye of an observer, and each diameter of the light beams which are incident on the pupil is smaller than a diameter of the pupil. | 08-09-2012 |
20120249930 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a lens array unit having a cylindrical lens array constituted by a plurality of cylindrical lenses each having a lens surface and a generatrix corresponding to the lens surface. The lens surface is arranged in a line in a direction orthogonally crossing the generatrix. A first substrate is arranged at a back side of the lens array unit and includes a pixel electrode in a belt shape extending in a different direction from the direction in which the generatrix extends. The pixel electrode is formed in a V character shape. A second substrate is arranged between the lens array unit and the first substrate including a counter electrode in a belt shape commonly arranged on the pixel electrodes extending in a parallel direction to the pixel electrode. | 10-04-2012 |
20130010234 | OPTICAL FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, LIQUID CRISTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE OPTICAL FILM - An optical sheet having a single sheet structure for an edge-lighting backlight unit using a printless light guide plate, a method of manufacturing the same, and a liquid crystal display apparatus using the same are provided. The optical sheet having a single sheet structure includes a first prism sheet having a prism pattern formed on the upper surface thereof, and a second prism sheet having a prism pattern formed on the upper surface thereof. Further, prism ridges of the first prism sheet are attached to the bottom surface of the second prism sheet by means of an adhesive so that the prism pattern of the first prism sheet and the prism pattern of the second prism sheet are directed in the same direction. | 01-10-2013 |
20130201429 | Display With Color Mixing Prevention Structures - An electronic device may have a liquid crystal display having a backlight and color mixing prevention structures. The color mixing prevention structures may, in part, be formed from one or more arrays of color filter elements. The liquid crystal display may include first and second transparent substrate layers on opposing sides of a liquid crystal layer. The display may include a first array of color filter elements on the first transparent substrate layer and a second array of color filter elements on the second transparent substrate layer. One or more of the arrays of color filter elements may include a black matrix formed over portions of the color filter elements. The color filter elements may fill or partially fill openings in the black matrix. The display may include a collimating layer on the second transparent substrate layer. The color filter elements may include cholesteric color filter elements. | 08-08-2013 |
20130265528 | Lenticular display systems with offset color filter array - Disclosed are various lenticular display systems that include either a color filter array (CFA) or a colored lens array that is spaced from the pixels of an underlying display panel. In an embodiment, the CFA of a lenticular display may be operable to provides a locally ‘static color’ reproduction of images as a function of viewing angle. It may also enable the resolution of the CFA to be relatively coarse. Both separating the CFA from the panel and reducing the resolution significantly may reduce the system cost and allow higher resolution to be realized. | 10-10-2013 |
20130308077 | MICROLENS ARRAY SUBSTRATE, ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A microlens includes a lens center portion having a lens-curved surface and a lens circumference portion having a linear side surface. In the case where length of the side surface is taken as L | 11-21-2013 |
20140118664 | MICRO LENS ARRAY SUBSTRATE, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A micro lens array substrate includes a substrate having optical transparency and a lens layer having optical transparency and a different refractive index from that of the substrate, which is formed in such a manner as to fill in a concave portion arranged in one surface of the substrate in the X-direction, the Y-direction, and the W-direction. A through-hole is provided in the lens layer, between the adjacent concave portions in the W-direction in the lens layer, and the lens layer is continuous between the adjacent concave portions in the X-direction or in the Y-direction. | 05-01-2014 |
20140218664 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate that is arranged on a light input side; a second substrate that is arranged on a light output side; a liquid crystal layer that is arranged between the first and second substrates; a first microlens that is provided on the first substrate such that an optical axis is tilted to a normal line direction of the first substrate; and a second microlens that is provided on the second substrate such that an optical axis is tilted to a normal line direction of the second substrate, in which a focal point of the first microlens is located on a curved surface of the second microlens, or on the light output side rather than the curved surface. | 08-07-2014 |
20140375932 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided are a liquid crystal display apparatus and a light-emitting display apparatus. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, sub-pixels and an array of cylindrical lenses. Each sub-pixel includes an opening section or sections whose total length taken along the first direction at each of positions ranging in the second direction is constant. In each row of the sub-pixels, the opening sections are arranged such that moving average values of positions of a center of gravity of the opening sections fluctuate within a predetermined range, where the moving average values are calculated by obtaining positions of the center of gravity of the opening sections taken along the first direction at plural positions ranging in the second direction and by averaging the obtained positions within a spot width of the cylindrical lenses for each of the positions ranging in the second direction. | 12-25-2014 |
20150042926 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal device includes first pixels and second pixels which are adjacent to one another and are partitioned by light shielding portions. The liquid crystal device also includes an element substrate, an opposing substrate which is disposed to oppose the element substrate, a liquid crystal layer which is disposed between the element substrate and the opposing substrate, first micro lenses which correspond to the first pixels which are disposed on the opposing substrate, and second micro lenses which correspond to the second pixels and have different lens diameters from the first micro lenses. A boundary between the first micro lenses and the second micro lenses is disposed in a region which overlaps the light shielding portions in plan view. | 02-12-2015 |
20150092139 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MICROLENS ARRAY SUBSTRATE, MICROLENS ARRAY SUBSTRATE, ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC - There is provided a method of manufacturing a microlens array substrate with improved manufacturing yield and high quality, the method including: forming a groove part along an outer edge of a first area on a surface of a substrate; forming a mask layer to cover a side of the surface, forming a plurality of openings in the first area, and forming openings along the outer edge of the first area; performing isotropic etching on the substrate through the mask layer, forming a plurality of recesses in the first area, and forming recesses across a boundary part between the first area and the groove part; removing the mask layer from the substrate; forming a light transmission material layer that has a refractive index, which is different from a refractive index of the substrate, to cover the side of the surface of the substrate and to bury the plurality of recesses; and planarizing an upper surface of the light transmission material layer. | 04-02-2015 |
20150124200 | COLOR FILTER SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY SCREEN - A color filter substrate and its fabrication method as well as a LCD screen are disclosed. The color filter substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of color filter elements, and a microlens structure. The plurality of color filter elements are disposed on the base substrate, and the microlens structure is disposed on the plurality of color filter elements. | 05-07-2015 |
20150131034 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MICRO LENS ARRAY, AND MICRO LENS ARRAY MANUFACTURED USING THE SAME - As an apparatus for manufacturing a micro lens array includes a first substrate having a plurality of cavities formed at locations corresponding to locations of the plurality of micro lenses, and a second substrate having a lower softening point than the first substrate and bonded on the first substrate to close the plurality of cavities, wherein a portion of the second substrate located on the cavities swells convexly by air trapped in the cavities expanding its volume in response to a temperature above the softening point of the second substrate being applied, to form domes corresponding to a shape of the micro lenses, and the micro lens array is cast using the second substrate having the formed domes as a mold. | 05-14-2015 |
20150346547 | LENS ARRAY SUBSTRATE, OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A microlens array substrate includes a substrate, a first microlens that is disposed on a face of the substrate, a first light-transmissive layer that is disposed to cover the first microlens, a second microlens that is disposed on the intermediate layer and is arranged to overlap with the first microlens in a planar view, and a second light-transmissive layer that is disposed to cover the second microlens. A first flat portion is disposed between the first microlenses that neighbor each other at a vertex. A second flat portion is disposed between the second microlenses that neighbor each other at a vertex. The first flat portion and the second flat portion are arranged in order for at least a part of the first flat portion and a part of the second flat portion to overlap with each other in a planar view. | 12-03-2015 |
20160004120 | MICROLENS ARRAY SUBSTRATE, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A microlens array substrate includes a substrate having a surface in which a concave portion is provided, a lens layer that is provided so as to fill the concave portion, and an optical path length adjustment layer that is provided so as to cover the lens layer. A flat portion is disposed in a central portion of the concave portion. A refractive index of the lens layer is higher than a refractive index of the substrate, and a refractive index of the optical path length adjustment layer is higher than a refractive index of the substrate and is equal to or lower than a refractive index of the lens layer. | 01-07-2016 |
20160018696 | LENS ARRAY SUBSTRATE, ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A lens array substrate (counter substrate) includes a plurality of concaves (lens surface) made of a concave surface formed on one substrate surface (a surface side facing device substrate) of a light-transmitting substrate. In addition, a light-transmitting lens layer, a light-transmitting layer, a light-transmitting protective layer, a common electrode made of an ITO film, and a second alignment film made of an obliquely deposited film are sequentially laminated on the one substrate surface of the light-transmitting substrate. The light-transmitting layer is made of a silicon oxynitride film (light-transmitting layer containing nitrogen), and the protective layer is made of a light-transmitting material not containing nitrogen such as a silicon oxide film or an aluminum oxide film. | 01-21-2016 |
20160202549 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MICROLENS ARRAY SUBSTRATE, MICROLENS ARRAY SUBSTRATE, ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC | 07-14-2016 |