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Granted Patent B2
US 12,276,817 · App. 17/147,442 · Granted Apr 15, 2025

Display device

Inventors: Ian French (Hsinchu, TW); Po-Yuan Lo (Hsinchu, TW); Xian-Teng Chung (Hsinchu, TW)
Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
G02B5/201
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Patent No.
US 12,276,817
App. No.
17/147,442
Granted
Apr 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device includes a display area, a pixel array, a display medium layer, and a color filter layer. The display area includes a plurality of sub-pixel regions, and each of the sub-pixel regions has a length and a width that are substantially the same. The pixel array corresponds to the display area in position. The display medium layer is located on the pixel array. The color filter layer includes a plurality of color resists. The color resists are arranged along a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction. Two adjacent color resists arranged along the first direction have different colors, two adjacent color resists arranged along the second direction have different colors, and adjacent two of the color resists are spaced apart from each other.

Claims (19)

1. A display device, comprising:

a display area having a plurality of sub-pixel regions, wherein each of the sub-pixel regions has a length and a width that are substantially the same;

a pixel array corresponding to the display area in position;

a display medium layer located on the pixel array; and

a color filter layer having a plurality of color resists and a plurality of empty regions located between the color resists, wherein the color resists are arranged along a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction, the first direction is the diagonal direction of the display area, the color resists has a cross-shaped region in the sub-pixel regions, two adjacent color resists arranged along the first direction have different colors, another two adjacent color resists arranged along the second direction have different colors, adjacent two of the color resists are spaced apart from each other, and each one of the sub-pixel regions overlaps the empty regions.

2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein a width of each of the color resists is smaller than a width of each of the sub-pixel regions.

3. The display device of claim 1 , wherein a length of each of the color resists is greater than a length of each of the sub-pixel regions.

4. The display device of claim 1 , wherein each of the color resists has a rectangular shape and two long edges, and a length of each of the long edges is located in a range from about 160 micrometers to 500 micrometers.

5. The display device of claim 1 , wherein each of the color resists has a rectangular shape and two short edges, and each of the short edges are spaced apart from a junction of the sub-pixel regions.

6. The display device of claim 1 , wherein each of the color resists has a rectangular shape and two long edges, and each of the two long edges are spaced apart from a junction of the sub-pixel regions.

7. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the first direction is substantially perpendicular to the second direction.

8. The display device of claim 1 , wherein each of the color resists is symmetric along the first direction.

9. The display device of claim 8 , wherein each of the color resists has a plurality of short edges, and two of the short edges are aligned with the junctions of the sub-pixel regions.

10. The display device of claim 9 , wherein a ratio between a length of each of the short edges and the width of the sub-pixel regions is located in a range from about 35% to 55%.

11. The display device of claim 1 , wherein each of the color resists further includes two extension portions respectively extending from the cross-shaped region toward a third direction and the second direction, the third direction is substantially perpendicular to the second direction, and the third direction is different from the first direction.

12. The display device of claim 11 , wherein a length of each of the color resists along the second direction is substantially equal to a length of each of the color resists along the third direction.

13. The display device of claim 11 , wherein a length of each of the color resists along the second direction and a length of each of the color resists along the third direction are greater than the width of each of the sub-pixel regions.

14. The display device of claim 1 , wherein each of the color resists has a rectangular shape and two short edges, and a ratio between a length of each of the two short edges and the width of each of the sub-pixel regions is located in a range from about 35% to 55%.

15. The display device of claim 1 , wherein a ratio of an area of each one of the color resists overlapped with the sub-pixel regions and an area of the sub-pixel regions is in a range from about 40% to 60%.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 13, 2021
From: FRENCH, IAN; LO, PO-YUAN; CHUNG, XIAN-TENG
To: E INK HOLDINGS INC.
Reel/Frame 054898/0166 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 109107993 · Mar 11, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20210286115A1 · Sep 16, 2021
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