Abstract:
A free-form display is disclosed which makes a step-like pattern adjacent to a free-form portion less visible. The free-form display has an active area and a bezel area, and at least part of a boundary between the active area and the bezel area has a free-form portion. The free-form portion comprises subpixel electrodes and a light blocking portion. A plurality of subpixel electrodes are placed in areas defined by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines that intersect each other. A light blocking portion has openings exposing the subpixel electrodes, respectively, and is arranged to overlap the gate lines and the data lines. The active area comprises subpixel areas where the subpixel electrodes are placed, and a non-pixel area where no subpixel electrodes are placed. The openings of the light blocking portion adjacent to the non-pixel area, are made in different sizes.
Abstract:
An electronic device may have a display. The display may be mounted in a housing and may have a window to accommodate a camera or other electrical component. The display may have multiple substrate layers. A hole may be formed in one of the substrate layers to form additional space within the housing to accommodate the electrical component. The hole may be drilled partway through a substrate layer to form an annular thinned region. The annular thinned region may be cracked to release a disk-shaped portion of the substrate layer and form the hole. A ring of sealant may surround the hole to help cushion the display substrate layers during drilling operations. Column spacer structures may be formed on a portion of a display substrate that is overlapped by the hole.
Abstract:
An array substrate and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a non-display region and a display region including a plurality of pixel unit rows arranged in a first direction and extended in a second direction. Each pixel unit row includes at least one first-pixel unit having a first width in the first direction and a second width in the second direction. At least one pixel unit row includes at least one second-pixel unit having a third width in the first direction and a fourth width in the second direction, and the at least one second-pixel unit is disposed at one end or both ends of the pixel unit row. The second width is larger than or equal to the fourth width.
Abstract:
A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel, a driving circuit film, and a spacer. The flexible display panel includes a terminal part configured to receive a driving signal. The driving circuit film includes a base film and a driving chip on the base film. The driving chip being configured to generate the driving signal. The driving circuit film is coupled to the terminal part, is configured to apply the driving signal to the display panel, and bent toward a lower surface of the display panel. The spacer is on the driving circuit film and is configured to maintain a gap between the driving chip and the lower surface of the display panel.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including one surface, a second substrate including one surface and the other surface, a first alignment layer which is disposed on the one surface of the first substrate, includes a polymeric material, and has a first thickness, a first photocured layer disposed on the first alignment layer, a second alignment layer which is disposed on the one surface of the second substrate, and includes a polymeric material same as the polymeric material in the first alignment layer, and which has a second thickness less than the first thickness, a second photocured layer disposed on the second alignment layer, and a liquid crystal layer which includes first liquid crystal molecules and second liquid crystal molecules further vertically aligned than the first liquid crystal molecules in an initial aligned state.
Abstract:
A simplified switchable object and methods of making same are provided. The methods may include steps of applying a switchable material on a first surface of a first substrate, the switchable material having a thickness and a shape; applying a barrier material on the first substrate, circumferential to the switchable material; and applying a second substrate over top of, and in contact with, the switchable material and the barrier material, the first substrate, second substrate and barrier material defining a closed chamber encapsulating the switchable material. The methods may further include a step of applying a seal material.
Abstract:
A display device includes: a display panel including a first curved portion that is curved; and a drive circuit board on which a circuit for driving the display panel is formed. The drive circuit board includes a second curved portion that is curved following the first curved portion, and each of a plurality of components including one of a resistor and a capacitor and mounted on the second curved portion is mounted on the drive circuit board so that a crosswise direction of the component in plan view, which is a direction perpendicular to an alignment direction of a plurality of electrodes of the component, follows a curving direction of the second curved portion.
Abstract:
A window panel includes a plurality of unit patterns arranged along a first direction, each of the plurality of unit patterns having a base surface portion, a plurality of inclined portions, the plurality of inclined portions being inclined upwardly from the base surface portion, and a top portion disposed at a top of the inclined portions, wherein a lower edge of a first inclined portion of each unit pattern of the plurality of unit patterns adjoins a lower edge of a second inclined portion of a neighboring unit pattern.
Abstract:
A curved display panel, a curved display device, and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. Both the light output face and the light input face of the curved display panel are continuously curved surfaces. The curved display panel with a continuously curved surface has a bending degree which is closer to the natural bending degree of a liquid crystal panel, so that a relatively small stress is generated on the curved display panel, and the problem of serious peripheral light leakage caused by deformation of the curved display panel is alleviated. Besides, since the curvature radius of each point on the continuously curved surface changes slowly, the problem of serious peripheral light leakage caused by deformation of the curved display panel is alleviated, the complexity of the fabricating process is reduced, the fabricating process is simplified, and the production of the product is improved.
Abstract:
Various implementation of a light bar warning system for a steering wheel of a vehicle include a liquid crystal display (LCD), a light guide, and at least one light source disposed adjacent the light guide. The LCD and light guide having arcuate shaped surfaces that follow along a portion of the steering wheel rim. Light emitted from the light source is transmitted through the light guide and out of its outer surface into an inner surface of the LCD that is disposed adjacent the light guide. The light is emitted through portions of the LCD that are activated for illumination by an LCD driver. The LCD may provide various types of warnings to the operator, including blind spot warnings, forward collision/proximity warnings, and lane departure warnings, for example.