IP Library Granted Patent US 12,376,477
Granted Patent B2
US 12,376,477 · App. 17/536,145 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Display apparatus

Inventors: HyunJong Noh (Paju-si, KR); Suhyun Park (Paju-si, KR); Jinhyung Jung (Paju-si, KR); MinHyung Kim (Paju-si, KR)
Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
H10K59/875H10K50/85H10K59/12H10K59/122H10K59/353H10K59/8791
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Patent No.
US 12,376,477
App. No.
17/536,145
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel areas and an optical film disposed on a light output surface of the display panel. Each of the plurality of pixel areas includes an opening portion and a circuit portion surrounding the opening portion, the optical film includes a transmittance adjustment member, and the transmittance adjustment member includes a first portion overlapping with the circuit portion and a second portion overlapping with the opening portion.

Claims (50)

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display panel including a plurality of pixel areas; and

an optical film disposed on a light output surface of the display panel,

wherein each of the plurality of pixel areas includes an opening portion and a circuit portion surrounding the opening portion,

wherein the opening portion includes an electroluminescence device emitting light,

wherein the optical film includes a transmittance adjustment member having a first material as a matrix and a second material different from the first material dispersed in the first material, and a reflection reducing member being in direct contact with the first material and the second material of the transmittance adjustment member, and

wherein the transmittance adjustment member has a first portion overlapping with the circuit portion and a second portion overlapping with the opening portion.

2. The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a transmittance of the first portion of the transmittance adjustment member is 20% or less.

3. The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a transmittance of the second portion of the transmittance adjustment member is 80% or more.

4. The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first material comprises a transparent polymer material, and

wherein the second material comprises a dye or a pigment having a transmittance of 40% or less with respect to each of a red wavelength, a green wavelength, and a blue wavelength.

5. The display apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the red wavelength is within a range of 600 nm to 730 nm,

the green wavelength is within a range of 500 nm to 600 nm, and

the blue wavelength is within a range of 400 nm to 500 nm.

6. The display apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the second material is decomposed and uncolored by laser treatment using a laser having a wavelength between 390 nm to 450 nm, between 520 nm to 580 nm and between 670 nm to 730 nm.

7. The display apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the second material is decomposed and uncolored by an ultraviolet treatment.

8. The display apparatus of claim 1 ,

wherein the reflection reducing member is disposed more outward from the display panel than the transmittance adjustment member.

9. The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second portion of the transmittance adjustment member is provided in each of the opening portions of the plurality of pixel areas.

10. The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second portion of the transmittance adjustment member is provided in a stripe structure to correspond to the opening portions of the plurality of pixel areas.

11. The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the display panel comprises:

a substrate;

a pixel circuit provided in the substrate;

a planarization layer covering the pixel circuit;

the electroluminescence device provided on the planarization layer, the electroluminescence device including a first electrode;

a bank pattern overlapping with at least a portion of the first electrode; and

a wavelength conversion layer overlapping with the opening portion and being disposed between the electroluminescence device and the optical film,

wherein the opening portion overlap with a region where the bank pattern is not provided, and

wherein the pixel circuit overlap with at least a portion of the circuit portion an optical film disposed under the substrate.

12. A display apparatus comprising:

a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas each including an opening portion and a circuit portion surrounding the opening portion;

a pixel circuit provided on the substrate;

a planarization layer covering the pixel circuit;

an electroluminescence device provided on the planarization layer, the electroluminescence device including a first electrode;

a bank pattern overlapping with at least a portion of the first electrode; and

an optical film disposed under the substrate,

wherein the optical film comprises a transmittance adjustment member having a first material as a matrix and a second material different from the first material dispersed in the first material, and a reflection reducing member being in direct contact with the first material and the second material of the transmittance adjustment member,

the opening portion overlaps with a region where the bank pattern is not provided and the electroluminescence device is provided, and

the transmittance adjustment member comprises a first portion overlapping with the circuit portion and a second portion overlapping with the opening portion.

13. A display apparatus comprising:

a pixel area having red, green, blue and white pixels and having an opening portion and a circuit portion adjacent to the opening portion defined at a display panel; and

an optical film disposed on a light emitting surface of the display panel and including a transmittance adjustment member having a first material as a matrix and a second material different from the first material dispersed in the first material, and the transmittance adjustment member has a first portion overlapping with the circuit portion and a second portion overlapping with the opening portion and a reflection reducing member being in direct contact with the first material and the second material of the transmittance adjustment member; and

a wavelength conversion layer disposed between a light emitting device and the optical film except for the white pixel and converting white light into one of red, green and blue light,

wherein the opening portion overlaps with the light emitting device and the wavelength conversion layer.

14. The display apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the first material includes a transparent polymer material, and the second material includes a dye or a pigment having a transmittance of 40% or less with respect to each of a red wavelength, a green wavelength, and a blue wavelength.

15. The display apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the second material is decomposed and uncolored by laser treatment using a laser having a wavelength between 390 nm to 450 nm, between 520 nm to 580 nm and between 670 nm to 730 nm.

16. The display apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the second material is decomposed and uncolored by an ultraviolet treatment.

17. The display apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the reflection reducing member is disposed more outward from the display panel than the transmittance adjustment member.

18. The display apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the second portion of the transmittance adjustment member is provided in the opening portion of the pixel area.

19. The display apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the second portion of the transmittance adjustment member is provided in a stripe structure corresponding to the opening portion of the pixel area.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 30, 2021
From: NOH, HYUNJONG; PARK, SUHYUN; JUNG, JINHYUNG; KIM, MINHYUNG
To: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 058246/0860 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2020-0172488 · Dec 10, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220190058A1 · Jun 16, 2022
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