Display

• US 20060250539A1
• Filed: 10/06/2005
• Published: 11/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
• Original Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
• Inventors: Luo, Yi-Chi, Yu, Chuan-Pei
• Application Number:
  US11/163,135
• Publication Number:
  US 20060250539A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 349/58
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133502 Antiglare, refractive index matching layers
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133528 Polarisers
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133562 on the viewer side

Abstract

A display includes a flat display panel, a housing for securing the flat display panel, and a reflecting film secured in the housing and positioned on the display side of the flat display panel.

Claims

1. A display with mirror effects, the display comprising:

a flat display panel having a display side;

a housing for containing and fixing the flat display panel; and

a reflecting film fixed in the housing and on top of the flat display panel.

2. The display of claim 1, wherein the housing comprises at least one positioning trough or at least one positioning die mould for fixing the reflecting film.

3. The display of claim 2, wherein the reflecting film comprises at least one positioning raised face corresponding to the positioning trough, which is placed into the positioning trough to secure the reflecting film on the housing while the reflecting film is set up.

4. The display of claim 3, wherein the housing comprises a plurality of the positioning troughs positioned on opposite sides of the housing from each other and the reflecting film comprises a plurality of the positioning raised faces, each of the positioning troughs having a corresponding positioning raised face.

5. The display of claim 2, wherein the positioning trough is a liquid crystal input trough.

6. The display of claim 1, wherein the display further comprises at least one positioning glue for securing the reflecting film in the housing, the glue being a single sided tape, a double sided tape, or an UV adhesive.

7. The display of claim 1, wherein the reflecting film is a film with a reflecting functionality, and is a transflective film or a polarization converter thin film.

8. The display of claim 7, wherein the transflective film reflects environmental lights while allowing lights produced by the display to penetrate.

9. The display of claim 1, wherein the flat display panel is a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel or an organic-light-emitting-diode (OLED) display panel.

10. The display of claim 9, wherein the LCD panel comprises:

a first transparent substrate;

a second transparent substrate correspondingly under the first transparent substrate; and

a liquid crystal layer between the first and the second transparent substrate.

11. The display of claim 10, wherein the flat display panel further comprises:

a first polarizer on an upper surface of the first transparent substrate; and

a second polarizer on an lower surface of the second transparent base panel.

12. The display of claim 11, wherein the reflecting film allows lights from the display side to penetrate while reflecting lights are polarized perpendicularly to the transmission axis of the first polarizer.

13. The display of claim 9, wherein the display further comprises a backlight module to provide light source for the flat display panel.

14. The display of claim 1 wherein the housing is a plastic housing or an element of a backlight module.

15. A display with mirror effects, the display comprising:

a flat display panel having a display side; and

a reflecting film positioned on top of the display side.

16. The display of claim 15, wherein the reflecting film is a polarization reflecting thin film or a transflective film.

17. The display of claim 16, wherein the transflective film allows lights from the display side to penetrate while reflecting environmental lights.

18. The display of claim 15, wherein the flat display panel is a LCD panel or an OLED display panel.

19. The display of claim 18, wherein the LCD panel further comprises:

a first transparent substrate;

a second transparent substrate correspondingly under the first transparent substrate;

a liquid crystal layer between the first and the second transparent substrates;

a first polarizer on an upper surface of the first transparent substrate; and

a second polarizer on an lower surface of the second transparent substrate.

20. The display of claim 19, wherein the reflecting film allows lights from the display side to penetrate while reflecting lights polarized perpendicularly to the transmission axis of the first polarizer.

21. The display of claim 15, wherein the display further comprises a backlight module to provide a light source for the flat display panel.