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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189136 | Display device having an optical sheet with hardened part and manufacturing method for the same A liquid crystal display contains a light source, a light guide panel that directs light from the light source towards a display panel, and optical sheets containing a diffusion sheet that spreads the light from the light guide panel and at least one prism sheet tha... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184235 | Optical prism sheet, backlight unit, and liquid crystal display An optical prism sheet includes an optical refracting part including a plurality of unit prisms, the unit prisms each having a predetermined cross-section and being disposed on one side of the optical prism sheet, and fine irregularities having a predetermined rough... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179498 | Liquid crystal display device, television receiver, and lighting device In an embodiment of the present invention, in a liquid crystal display device which controls a light luminance of each of lighting regions, each of lighting regions of a backlight has a smaller width in a horizontal direction than in a vertical direction. This makes... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179497 | Liquid crystal display device An object of the present invention is to provide a simply configured liquid crystal display device capable of providing a high front luminance when light obliquely enters a micro lens array. The liquid crystal display device comprises: a pair of polarizing plates wh... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174640 | Illumination apparatus and liquid crystal display apparatus An illumination apparatus is disclosed. The illumination apparatus includes a polarization plate, a light source, and a light transmission film disposed between the polarization plate and the light source and including a plurality of prisms formed on a surface there... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174642 | Light guide unit, illuminating device and liquid crystal display device In a light guide unit (40) of the present invention, a light source (22) is provided on a first end section (24d) of a light guide (24). Further, a side reflective member (26b), which can reflect light in the light gu... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174641 | Liquid crystal display panel with microlens array, its manufacturing method, and liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display panel according to the present invention includes: a liquid crystal display panel including an electrical element substrate on which switching elements for controlling the light transmittance of a liquid crystal layer are formed so as to res... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8159632 | Surface light source element and image display apparatus including the same An object of the present invention is to provide a surface light source element configured to enhance projection light from an opening boundary of a supporting frame (12), wherein the projection light is required as a surface light source element, so that the... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8111351 | Back light unit and liquid crystal display using the same The disclosure relates to the backlight unit for preventing the optical sheet from cracking and the liquid crystal display using the backlight unit. The backlight unit comprises a light having a plurality of light sources; a bottom cover housing the light and having... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098347 | Stereoscopic 3D liquid crystal display with graded light guide light extraction features A backlight for a stereoscopic 3D liquid crystal display apparatus includes a light guide having a light emission surface and an opposing light extraction surface, a first side extends between the light emission surface and the light extraction surface, and a... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094259 | Liquid crystal display without color filter Provided is a liquid crystal display (LCD) without a color filter, the LCD including: a liquid crystal panel comprising front and rear glass substrates and a plurality of red, green, and blue liquid crystal subpixels disposed between the front and rear glass substra... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089579 | System and method for providing a light control mechanism for a display The present invention is a display assembly including: a display, a backlight module and a plurality of grills. The backlight module generates light rays for illuminating the display. The generated light rays exit the backlight module and are directed to a set of gr... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081270 | Backlight module and liquid crystal display incorporating the same The present invention relates generally to backlight modules for display devices and liquid crystal displays incorporating the same, and more particularly, to a backlight module for generating light with a single polarization state. The present invention provides a ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072559 | Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof A liquid crystal display device 10 in accordance with the present invention includes a liquid crystal 11 and a lighting device 12, the liquid crystal panel 11 having a liquid crystal layer 50 provided between a pair of glass substr... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068194 | Line light source device, plane light emission device, plane light source device, and liquid crystal display In the line light source device and the plane light emission device, first recesses 14 are formed between adjoining light emission elements 5, on surfaces of sealing resin layers 10 opposite to the board 4. The line light source device an... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068195 | Portable device including external-light-shielding sheet A portable device including an external-light-shielding sheet is provided. The portable device includes a display panel; and an external-light-shielding sheet arranged on the display panel, wherein the external-light-shielding sheet includes a base portion and a plu... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8054405 | Lighting device for display device, display device and television receiver A lighting device for a display device includes a display panel, a light source, and an optical member to be arranged between the light source and the display panel. The optical member has light reflectivity that is higher at an end of the plane of the optical membe... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045092 | Multifunctional optical sheet and liquid crystal display device including the same A multifunctional optical sheet for a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate diffusing incident light; a light-concentrating layer on the substrate and including a plurality of patterns that arranged to form alternating peaks and valleys; and reflection ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040459 | Illuminating device and liquid crystal display device A backlight (illuminating device) of the present invention is a tandem type backlight including a plurality of light-emitting units (11) including at least one point light source (5) and a light guide plate (7) for causing light from the at leas... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040460 | Electronic paper device and manufacturing method thereof This present invention provides an electronic paper display device. The electronic paper display device includes a thin film transistor array substrate and a display panel disposed on one side of the thin film transistor array substrate. The thin film transistor arr... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040458 | Planar illumination device and liquid crystal display device using the same A planar illumination device for illuminating a liquid crystal display panel provided with a polarizing plate on a light incident side, includes: a light source unit for emitting light having a specified polarization direction; and a light irradiating member for def... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8023066 | One-piece backlight module and liquid crystal display device using same An exemplary one-piece backlight module (200) includes a brightness enhancement unit (240); and a light emitting unit (260) including a first electrode layer (261), a second electrode layer (264), and a light emitting layer (262... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023065 | Optical element for lateral light spreading in edge-lit displays and system using same An illumination light unit has at least one light source that generates illumination light. The unit also includes a reflecting cavity having one or more reflectors and a controlled transmission mirror disposed at an output of the reflecting cavity. The controlled t... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8013950 | Optical sheet combination structure, surface emitting device, and liquid crystal device An optical sheet combination structure disposed between a polarizer and a surface emitting unit, includes a first optical sheet having a number of columnar cubic structures of curing resin arrayed on a transparent base, a valley portion between adjacent cubic struct... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8004631 | Backlight unit and liquid crystal display device having the same A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a light emitting device (LED) array portion having a plurality of LEDs and a diverter sheet disposed on the LED array portion and having continuous reflection surface in spaced relationship with to ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999886 | Backlight apparatus and liquid crystal apparatus having particular light emission control By controlling light emission, non-emission, and light intensity of each of the light emitting elements arranged on a backlight unit, a point-shaped light emitting point is created and the light emitting point is moved along the arrangement of pixels formed on a liq... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995158 | Liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided in which occurrence of a moiré pattern can be prevented without largely reducing front luminance. A liquid crystal display apparatus 1 includes a surface light source 4, a liquid crystal display panel ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990490 | Optical sheet and display device having the same An optical sheet includes a base layer, a light-condensing layer and a plurality of light-reflecting portions. The base layer includes a first surface and a second surface. The light-condensing layer includes a plurality of light-condensing portions with a first pit... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7982823 | Area active backlight with steerable backlight A liquid crystal display includes a backlight that provides light and selectively modifies the transmission of light from the backlight to the front of the display. The backlight includes a plurality of spaced apart light waveguides and a plurality of selection elem... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982822 | Area active backlight with steerable light source A liquid crystal display includes a backlight. The backlight includes a plurality of waveguides to selectively direct light. A set of selection elements in combination with the backlight selectively direct light to the front of the display. ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982821 | Display device and liquid crystal display device A display device of the present invention includes: an illumination device that emits light; first and second substrates provided opposite each other; and the first substrate being disposed closer to the backlight device than the second substrate is; and a plurality... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982820 | Liquid crystal display with narrow angular range of incident light and method of making the display A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel in the pixel electrode and common electrodes formed within a pixel comprise repeating structures. The angular range of light incident from the light source is narrower along a direction of the repeating struct... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7969530 | Light-emitting diode and method for manufacturing the same An LED which includes a substrate, at least one light-emitting element mounted on, and electrically connected to, the substrate, and a sealing member mounted to the substrate so as to seal the light-emitting element. The sealing member contains an inorganic material... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7956953 | Light guide plate with spiral-shaped light-guiding units for use in a liquid crystal display device An optical plate includes a plurality of light-guiding elements. The optical plate includes a first optical surface which a light is incident to and a second optical surface which the light goes out from. The plurality of light-guiding elements disposed on the third... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7940349 | Light source device and liquid crystal display device having the same A light source device, including a substrate, a plurality of light emitting diode chips mounted on the substrate, and an encapsulant covering the plurality of light emitting diode chips. The encapsulant has a plurality of lenses connected to each other and each lens... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940350 | Plane light source and LCD backlight unit having the same There are provided a plane light source and an LCD backlight unit having the same. A plane light source having a plurality of light emitting devices arranged in a light emitting device matrix having rows and columns at a substrate according to an aspect of the inven... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936419 | Illumination light source and image display apparatus An illumination light source includes a coherent light source in which a plurality of light emitting points that emit coherent light beams are arranged in a one-dimensional array; and a light magnifying unit that magnifies the coherent light beams that are emitted f... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7920226 | Display comprising plurality of birefringent protrusions on a waveguide of a backlight A display comprises: a transmissive pixilated spatial light modulator (21); and a backlight (22). The backlight has a light-transmissive waveguide (26), with a first face of the waveguide being opposed to the spatial light modulator (21).... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916241 | Method for manufacturing optical element An optical element manufacturing method according to the present invention includes: disposing a mask on a transparent photosensitive resin; patterning said transparent resin by applying an exposure light to said transparent photosensitive resin through said mask to... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916242 | Prism sheet having inclined ridges and liquid crystal display using the same A prism sheet includes a transparent base film with first and second surfaces and an optical refracting part with a plurality of prism units on the second surface, wherein the prism units are integral with the transparent base film, each prism unit having a predeter... | 03/29/2011 |
