公开(公告)号：US20160170131A1

公开(公告)日：2016-06-16

申请号：US15050014

申请日：2016-02-22

申请人： American Panel Corporation

发明人： William Dunn ,  Harry Presely ,  Chris Tran

IPC分类号： F21V8/00 ,  G02F1/1335

CPC分类号： G02B6/0068 ,  G02B6/0016 ,  G02B6/0018 ,  G02B6/0021 ,  G02B6/0026 ,  G02B6/0073 ,  G02F1/133509 ,  G02F1/133603 ,  G02F1/133606 ,  G02F1/133615 ,  G02F2001/133626

摘要： Exemplary embodiments provide an electronic display assembly comprising a liquid crystal layer and a light guide positioned behind the liquid crystal layer. The light guide preferably includes a light emission surface and a light-collecting portion opposing the light emission surface. A pair of opposing side portions may define the periphery of the light guide. A first plurality of LEDs are placed so as to direct the emitted light into the light-collecting portion. An NVIS filter is preferably placed adjacent to at least one of the side portions. A second plurality of LEDs are placed to direct the emitted light through the NVIS filter and into a side portion of the light guide. Alternative embodiments can contain directing elements to direct the light from the second plurality of LEDs into the edge portions of the light guide.

摘要翻译： 示例性实施例提供一种包括液晶层和位于液晶层后面的光导的电子显示组件。 光导体优选地包括发光表面和与光发射表面相对的聚光部分。 一对相对的侧部可以限定光导的周边。 放置第一多个LED以将发射的光引导到光收集部分中。 优选地，NVIS过滤器邻近至少一个侧部设置。 放置第二多个LED以将发射的光引导通过NVIS滤光器并进入光导的侧部。 替代实施例可以包含引导元件以将来自第二多个LED的光引导到光导的边缘部分。

公开(公告)号：US10203447B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-12

申请号：US15050014

申请日：2016-02-22

申请人： American Panel Corporation

发明人： William Dunn ,  Harry Presely ,  Chris Tran

IPC分类号： G02F1/1335 ,  F21V8/00

摘要： Exemplary embodiments provide an electronic display assembly comprising a liquid crystal layer and a light guide positioned behind the liquid crystal layer. The light guide preferably includes a light emission surface and a light-collecting portion opposing the light emission surface. A pair of opposing side portions may define the periphery of the light guide. A first plurality of LEDs are placed so as to direct the emitted light into the light-collecting portion. An NVIS filter is preferably placed adjacent to at least one of the side portions. A second plurality of LEDs are placed to direct the emitted light through the NVIS filter and into a side portion of the light guide. Alternative embodiments can contain directing elements to direct the light from the second plurality of LEDs into the edge portions of the light guide.

公开(公告)号：US11175773B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-16

申请号：US16856731

申请日：2020-04-23

申请人： American Panel Corporation

发明人： Ken Mahdi

IPC分类号： G06F3/041 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/044

摘要： An electronic display assembly includes a display layer for displaying an image, a projected capacitive touch panel with touch input areas, each of which are independently operable and configured to receive touch input from a user. Input/output devices are electrically connected with the display layer touch panel. Software instructions, when executed, configure one or more processors to automatically begin utilizing a remaining operable input/output device if one of said input/output devices is rendered inoperable.

公开(公告)号：US20140312908A1

公开(公告)日：2014-10-23

申请号：US14227578

申请日：2014-03-27

申请人： American Panel Corporation, Inc.

发明人： Charles Lemons ,  David Williams ,  Gary Baek ,  Steve Preston

IPC分类号： G09G3/00

CPC分类号： G09G3/006 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3275 ,  G09G3/3685 ,  G09G2310/0275 ,  G09G2330/12 ,  G09G2380/12

摘要： An electrical assembly and method for detecting failures in an LCD source driver is disclosed herein. A plurality of active channels are placed on the source driver which communicate electronically with an LCD. At least one dummy channel may be placed on the source driver which is driven with an original signal. A microprocessor may then receive the dummy channel and compare the received dummy channel signal to the original signal. An error message may be transmitted when the received dummy channel signal does not match the original signal. Alternatively, the source driver may be provided with a split active channel which is provided with an original signal that is split into an active split channel and a dummy split channel. While the active split channel is sent to the LCD, the dummy split channel is sent to the microprocessor for comparison with the original signal.

摘要翻译： 本文公开了用于检测LCD源驱动器中的故障的电组件和方法。 多个有源信道被放置在与LCD电子通信的源驱动器上。 至少一个虚拟通道可以放置在用原始信号驱动的源极驱动器上。 然后微处理器可以接收虚拟通道并将接收到的虚拟通道信号与原始信号进行比较。 当接收到的虚拟信道信号与原始信号不匹配时，可能会发送错误信息。 或者，源驱动器可以被提供有分离的有源信道，该分离的有源信道被提供有被分割成有源分离信道和虚拟分离信道的原始信号。 当主动分离信道被发送到LCD时，虚拟分离信道被发送到微处理器以与原始信号进行比较。

公开(公告)号：US08702307B2

公开(公告)日：2014-04-22

申请号：US12205499

申请日：2008-09-05

申请人： Jack Bartholmae

发明人： Jack Bartholmae

IPC分类号： G01K7/00

CPC分类号： G02F1/133382

摘要： Embodiments include a system and method for determining the temperature of the liquid crystal layer of a liquid crystal display. Because LCD performance is dependant on the temperature of the liquid crystal layer, performing particularly poorly in colder temperatures many LCD's are available with integral heaters. Determining the temperature of the liquid crystal layer of an LCD is imperative for appropriate thermal management, which in turn leads to more-optimal LCD lifetime. Exemplary embodiments relate to accurately determining the temperature of the liquid crystal layer of an LCD by employing the integrated heater layer as a temperature sensor. When the relationship between the temperature of the integral heater is known, and the integral heater is disposed very near the liquid crystal layer, then determining the resistance of the metal heater layer, allows for rapid, accurate determination of the average temperature of the liquid crystal layer, and correspondingly better thermal management.

摘要翻译： 实施例包括用于确定液晶显示器的液晶层的温度的系统和方法。 由于LCD性能取决于液晶层的温度，因此在较冷的温度下性能特别差，许多LCD可用于集成式加热器。 确定LCD的液晶层的温度对于适当的热管理是至关重要的，这又导致更优化的LCD寿命。 示例性实施例涉及通过使用集成加热器层作为温度传感器来精确地确定LCD的液晶层的温度。 当一体化加热器的温度之间的关系是已知的并且整体式加热器非常靠近液晶层时，确定金属加热器层的电阻允许快速，准确地确定液晶的平均温度 层，相应地更好的热管理。

公开(公告)号：US08400430B2

公开(公告)日：2013-03-19

申请号：US10991826

申请日：2004-11-18

申请人： William R. Dunn ,  Daniel E. Molnar ,  Michael LeCave

发明人： William R. Dunn ,  Daniel E. Molnar ,  Michael LeCave

IPC分类号： G06F3/042

CPC分类号： G06F3/045

摘要： A touch panel is integrated into a flat panel display device having a visual display surface with a front polarizer layer, particularly a liquid crystal display device. The touch panel comprises a flexible transparent membrane containing the front polarizer layer and having a first transparent conductive layer on a lower surface of the flexible transparent membrane and a rigid base comprising the flat panel display device and having a second transparent conductive layer on an upper surface of the rigid base. At least one spacer separates the flexible transparent membrane from the rigid base, keeping the first and second transparent conductive layers in spaced-apart facing relationship. A bus bar and tail communicate a signal from the touch panel to the flat panel display device.

摘要翻译： 触摸面板集成在具有前偏光镜层的视觉显示面的平板显示装置中，特别是液晶显示装置。 触摸面板包括柔性透明膜，其包含前偏光镜层并且在柔性透明膜的下表面上具有第一透明导电层，以及包括平板显示装置的刚性基底，并且在上表面上具有第二透明导电层 的刚性基地。 至少一个间隔件将柔性透明膜与刚性基部分开，保持第一和第二透明导电层处于间隔开的面对关系。 母线和尾巴将触摸面板的信号传递到平板显示设备。

公开(公告)号：US08243109B2

公开(公告)日：2012-08-14

申请号：US12206372

申请日：2008-09-08

申请人： Hanwook Baek ,  William Dunn

发明人： Hanwook Baek ,  William Dunn

IPC分类号： G09G5/02

CPC分类号： G06T3/4023

摘要： A two-dimensional panel, particularly a liquid crystal display device, has a maximum display area with a width of (T×M) addressable channels. The addressable channels are addressed through a plurality of T source channel integrated circuits (ICs), with each source channel IC having M source channels. The number of addressable channels exceeds the number of channels of data in an image display data array having a width of W pixels, each pixel comprising P subpixels in the width dimension. The excess addressable channels are distributed symmetrically across the width dimension of the displayed image. In other embodiments the number of addressable channels is less than the number of channels of data and excess channels of data are excluded symmetrically across the width dimension of the displayed image. Further embodiments distribute excess addressable channels symmetrically across the height dimension or exclude excess channels of data symmetrically across the height dimension.

摘要翻译： 二维面板，特别是液晶显示装置，具有宽度（T×M）可寻址通道的最大显示区域。 可寻址信道通过多个T源信道集成电路（IC）寻址，每个源信道IC具有M个源信道。 可寻址通道的数量超过具有W像素宽度的图像显示数据阵列中的数据通道数，每个像素包括宽度维度中的P个子像素。 多余的可寻址通道对称地分布在所显示图像的宽度尺寸上。 在其他实施例中，可寻址信道的数量小于数据信道的数量，并且跨越所显示的图像的宽度维度对称地排除数据的多余信道。 另外的实施例通过跨高度尺寸对称地分配多余的可寻址通道，或者跨过高度尺寸对称排除多余的数据通道。

公开(公告)号：US20100271570A1

公开(公告)日：2010-10-28

申请号：US12830872

申请日：2010-07-06

申请人： William R. Dunn

发明人： William R. Dunn

IPC分类号： G02F1/133

CPC分类号： G02F1/133308 ,  G02F1/133382 ,  G02F1/133502 ,  G02F1/133512 ,  G02F2001/133334 ,  G02F2201/50 ,  G02F2202/22

摘要： A flat panel display having a black mask EMI layer isolated from Vcom and tied to zero potential. The flat panel display has an integral metal heater layer and thermal sensor that are in close proximity to the liquid crystals to provide efficient heating and temperature sensing.

摘要翻译： 一种平板显示器，具有与Vcom隔离的黑色掩模EMI层，并连接到零电位。 平板显示器具有与液晶非常接近的一体式金属加热器层和热传感器，以提供有效的加热和温度感测。

公开(公告)号：US20100220052A1

公开(公告)日：2010-09-02

申请号：US12777471

申请日：2010-05-11

申请人： William R. Dunn

发明人： William R. Dunn

IPC分类号： G09G3/36 ,  H01J9/24

CPC分类号： G09G3/3611 ,  G09G2300/026 ,  G09G2310/0221 ,  G09G2320/0223 ,  G09G2320/0233

摘要： A flat panel display, particularly a liquid crystal display has a front plate with a plate area defined by a plate perimeter, which is in turn defined by a first and second pair of parallel sides, the pairs of sides in perpendicular relationship to each other. An active display area providing a unitary visual display is located within the plate perimeter. In the invention, this active display area is divided into at least first and second display areas, a visual output of said first and second display areas being separately driven. In some embodiments, one or both of the display areas is subdivided into first and second subdisplay areas, with the visual output of the first and second subdisplay areas being separately driven.

摘要翻译： 平板显示器，特别是液晶显示器具有前板，其具有由板周界限定的板区域，该板周边又由第一和第二对平行侧限定，所述一对侧面彼此垂直。 提供整体视觉显示的活动显示区域位于板周边内。 在本发明中，该有源显示区被划分为至少第一显示区域和第二显示区域，所述第一和第二显示区域的视觉输出被单独驱动。 在一些实施例中，一个或两个显示区域被细分为第一和第二子显示区域，第一和第二子显示区域的视觉输出被单独驱动。

公开(公告)号：US07714834B2

公开(公告)日：2010-05-11

申请号：US12539424

申请日：2009-08-11

申请人： William Dunn

发明人： William Dunn

IPC分类号： G09G3/36

CPC分类号： G09G3/3611 ,  G09G2300/026 ,  G09G2310/0221 ,  G09G2320/0223 ,  G09G2320/0233

摘要： A flat panel display, particularly a liquid crystal display has a front plate with a plate area defined by a plate perimeter, which is in turn defined by a first and second pair of parallel sides, the pairs of sides in perpendicular relationship to each other. An active display area providing a unitary visual display is located within the plate perimeter. In the invention, this active display area is divided into at least first and second display areas, a visual output of said first and second display areas being separately driven. In some embodiments, one or both of the display areas is subdivided into first and second subdisplay areas, with the visual output of the first and second subdisplay areas being separately driven.

摘要翻译： 平板显示器，特别是液晶显示器具有前板，其具有由板周界限定的板区域，该板周边又由第一和第二对平行侧限定，所述一对侧面彼此垂直。 提供整体视觉显示的活动显示区域位于板周边内。 在本发明中，该有源显示区被划分为至少第一显示区域和第二显示区域，所述第一和第二显示区域的视觉输出被单独驱动。 在一些实施例中，一个或两个显示区域被细分为第一和第二子显示区域，第一和第二子显示区域的视觉输出被单独驱动。