IP Library Granted Patent US 9,396,686
Granted Patent B2
US 9,396,686 · App. 14/368,841 · Granted Jul 19, 2016

Display device

Inventors: Tadayuki Ito (Tokyo, JP); Yoshihito Mochizuki (Tokyo, JP); Naoki Itakura (Tokyo, JP); Yasuki Sato (Tokyo, JP); Kiyofumi Natori (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
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Patent No.
US 9,396,686
App. No.
14/368,841
Granted
Jul 19, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device includes a display panel body that has a display surface emitting light, and a brightness sensor unit that is fixed on the display surface of the display panel body and includes a brightness sensor detecting a brightness of the light from the display surface.

Claims (11)

1. A display device comprising:

a display panel body that has a display surface emitting light; and

a brightness sensor unit that is fixed on the display surface of the display panel body,

wherein the brightness sensor unit includes: a brightness sensor detecting a brightness of the light from the display surface; and a sensor holder comprising a light transmissive material,

the sensor holder includes: an adhesion surface adhered to the display surface of the display panel body; and a light diffusing portion diffusing the light from the display surface,

the brightness sensor is fixed to a position facing the display surface with sandwiching the light diffusing portion of the sensor holder between the brightness sensor and the display surface,

wherein the sensor holder includes a base portion in which a housing cavity housing the brightness sensor is formed, and the light diffusing portion is provided on an inner surface of the housing cavity, the inner surface opposing the brightness sensor.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the light diffusing portion comprises a surface opposing the adhesion surface, and the surface of the diffusing portion comprises irregularities.

3. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the light diffusing portion comprises a light diffusing member that contains a light diffusing material.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the sensor holder is separate from a frame and a bezel provided at an outer periphery of the display panel body.

5. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the brightness sensor is connected, via a flexible cable, to a brightness control portion that performs brightness adjustment of the display panel body.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 8, 2021
From: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
To: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 055256/0755 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 11, 2014
From: ITO, TADAYUKI; MOCHIZUKI, YOSHIHITO; ITAKURA, NAOKI; SATO, YASUKI; NATORI, KIYOFUMI
To: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033295/0086 →
Continuity (1)
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