Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electro-mechanics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Sdi Co., Inc.

Jin-Hwan Kim

Hae-Young Yun

Seung-Hoon Lee

Il-Joo Kim

Yoon-sun Choi

Kyung-Ho Jung

Jin-seung Choi

Jee-hong Min

Seung-jun Jeong

Hong-seok Lee

Su-Mi Lee

Il-Yong Yoon

Byoung-ho Cheong

Cheol-Woo Park

Jung-Hyun Cho

Kyung-Bae Kim

Jung-Hwan Yi

Jae-ho You

Ryota Odake

Jae-Woo Jung

Seung-Jun Yu

Joo-Young Kim

Sung-Ku Kang

Seung Jun Jeong

Joo-Han Bae

Seung-Ho Nam

Ji-Woong Jeong

Jong-Hee Kim

Byeong-Kyu Jeon

Hwan-Young Choi

Hee-Woong Park

Gee-young Sung

Byoung-Ho Cheong

Seung-Jun Jeong

Hyun-Seung Seo

Guk-Hyun Kim

Moon-Jung Baek

Do-Yeong Park

KyungHo Jung

Jong-Suk Lee

Kyoung-Ju Shin

Hee-Seop Kim

Won-ki Hong

Sung-Woon Kim

Hyun-Min Cho

Seong-Mo Hwang

Moon-Gyu Lee

Jiangang Lu

Tae-Hyeong Park

Ung-Gyu Min

Seon-Ki Kim

Sang-Woo Whangbo

Sang-Min Jeon

Kyung-yeup Kim

Jin-Seung Choi

Jee-Hong Min

Hyun-jin Cho

Won-Ki Hong

Hong-Seok Lee

Moon-Gil Kang

Jung-Seok An

Yoon-Sun Choi

A touch panel includes: a substrate having a first region and a second region. A plurality of sensing cells are disposed in the first region and a pad portion is disposed in the second region. An insulating interlayer is disposed on the plurality of sensing cells, a connection pattern is disposed on the insulating interlayer, with the connection pattern being electrically connected to adjacent sensing cells through contact holes. A transparent conductive pattern is disposed in the second region and on the insulating interlayer, with the transparent conductive pattern being electrically connected to the plurality of sensing cells and the pad portion.

Touch panels and methods of manufacturing touch panels

An exemplary embodiment of the present invention discloses a method of manufacturing a touch panel, the method including, forming a plurality of sensing cells in a first region of a substrate, forming an insulating interlayer on the plurality of sensing cells, removing at least a portion of the insulating interlayer to form contact holes exposing the plurality of sensing cells, and forming a connection pattern and a transparent conductive pattern on the insulating interlayer simultaneously, wherein the connection pattern is electrically connected to adjacent sensing cells, and the transparent conductive pattern is disposed in a second region of the substrate outside of the first region.

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a light source part and a directional light projecting element. The display panel displays a first image during a first subframe and a different second image during a second subframe. The light source part provides light to the display panel. The directional light projecting element is disposed between the display panel and the light source part. The directional light projecting element includes a barrier part and a lens part disposed above the barrier part. The barrier part has a plurality of barriers defined as a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes crossing the first electrodes. The lens part has a plurality of lenses disposed in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the lenses corresponds to a subset of plural lenses among the plurality of the barriers.

Display apparatus and method of displaying three dimensional images using the same

A new 2D/3D switchable display apparatus matches a polarization direction of light output from a 2D image display panel with a rubbing direction of a lower alignment layer of a liquid crystal lens, and tilts a rubbing direction of an upper alignment layer of the liquid crystal lens and a direction of a polarization axis of a polarizer at a predetermined angle, thereby reducing a loss of light passing through the liquid crystal lens, making it possible to improve luminance of images, improve the quality of 3D images in the horizontal direction, prevent or reduce color separation and moire phenomena, and reduce the manufacturing cost.

Two-dimensional/three-dimensional switchable display apparatus

A display apparatus includes: a pixel part including a plurality of pixels arranged substantially in a matrix form, where the matrix form includes a unit matrix having X columns in a horizontal direction and Y rows in a vertical direction, where X and Y are natural numbers; and a plurality of light controlling parts inclined with respect to the vertical direction of the pixels on the pixel part at an inclined angle of &#x3b8;, where the inclined angle of &#x3b8; satisfies the following equation: &#x3b8;=tan((M&#xd7;X)/(N&#xd7;Y)), where M and N are different natural numbers.

Display apparatus including light controlling parts and method of driving the same

A two-dimensional/three-dimensional switchable display apparatus includes: a display panel; a first substrate disposed on the display panel; a first electrode layer disposed on the first substrate and including a plurality of first electrodes; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate; a second electrode layer disposed on the second substrate and including a plurality of second electrodes; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates. A plurality of lens units are formed in association with a first position of the liquid crystal layer when a lens forming voltage profile is applied to the first electrodes and a common voltage is applied to the second electrodes. When the common voltage is applied to the first electrodes and the lens forming voltage is applied to the second electrodes, the plurality of lens units are formed in association with a second position spaced apart from the first position.

A liquid crystal lens panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first base substrate and a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the first base substrate. The second substrate includes a second base substrate disposed to face the first base substrate, the second substrate further including a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the second base substrate. Each of the first base substrate and the second base substrate are rectilinearly shaped to comprise corresponding first sides and second sides, the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes are inclined with respect to the corresponding first sides or second sides, and the plurality of first electrodes comprise a first inclination angle different from a second inclination angle associated with the plurality of second electrodes.

Liquid crystal lens panel and display apparatus having the same

A lens module includes a lens panel and a lens driving part. The lens panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes first electrodes and second electrodes alternately disposed thereon that partially overlap each other and are electrically insulated from each other. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The lens driving part provides a substantially equal voltage to both ends of each of the first and second electrodes.

Lens module and display apparatus having the same

A display panel displays a first image during a first subframe and a second image during a second subframe. A display panel driver provides the first and second images to the display panel. A light source part provides light to the display panel. A light converting element is disposed between the display panel and the light source part and includes a barrier part and a lens part disposed on the barrier part. The barrier part has a plurality of independently controllable barrier groups. A position detecting part determines a position of a viewer. A barrier driver controls the barrier part to selectively transmit light from the light source part based on the viewer's position. A single barrier group includes a plurality of barriers, and a single barrier includes a plurality of sub-barriers.

Display apparatus and method of displaying three dimensional image using the same

A liquid crystal lens panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first base substrate, a lens common electrode disposed on the first base substrate, and a first alignment layer disposed on the lens common electrode, the first alignment layer including a first alignment direction. The second substrate includes a second base substrate opposite to the first base substrate, a plurality of lens electrodes that extend in a lens axis and is parallel with each other, and a second alignment layer disposed on the plurality of lens electrodes, the second alignment layer including a second alignment direction substantially perpendicular to the first alignment direction. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and second alignment layers.

Liquid crystal lens panel, three dimensional panel assembly, and display apparatus having the same

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a lens plate and a lens driver. The display panel includes a plurality of unit pixels. The display panel is driven by dividing a single frame into N sub frames. N is a natural number. The lens plate is on the display panel. The lens plate includes a plurality of lenses which convert a two dimensional ('2D') image displayed on the display panel into a three dimensional ('3D') image. The lens driver disposes the lenses at a first position during a first sub frame. The lens driver moves the lenses to a second position from the first position and disposes the lenses at the second position during a second sub frame. The second position is shifted by 1/N of a width of the unit pixel from the first position.

A lens substrate includes a base substrate, a first lens electrode and a first signal line. The base substrate includes a lens area and a peripheral area surrounding the lens area. The first signal line in the peripheral area and includes a layered structure in which a first transparent conductive layer and a metal layer directly contact each other. The first lens electrode is in the lens area and includes the first transparent conductive layer excluding the metal layer. The first signal line is in the peripheral area. The first signal line is connected to the first lens electrode and includes a layered structure in which the first transparent conductive layer and the metal layer directly contact each other.

Lens substrate, method of manufacturing the lens substrate and lens panel having the lens substrate

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Jin-Hwan Kim