# US 10,871,687 B2 · Display device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,871,687 B2 - Document ID: US10871687B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/528,789 - Filed: 2019-08-01 - Published: 2020-02-20 - Granted: 2020-12-22 - Earliest claimed: 2018-08-14 - Assignees: Au Optronics Corporation - Applicants: Au Optronics Corporation - Inventors: Hui Chu-Ke; Sheng-Wen Cheng - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10871687B2 ## CPC - G02F 1/133526: {Lenses, e.g. microlenses or Fresnel lenses} - G02F 1/1347: Arrangement of liquid crystal layers or cells in which the final condition of one light beam is achieved by the addition of the effects of two or more layers or cells - G02B 30/27: involving lenticular arrays - G02F 1/1337: Surface-induced orientation of the liquid crystal molecules, e.g. by alignment layers - G02F 1/134363: {for applying an electric field parallel to the substrate, i.e. in-plane switching [IPS]} - G02F 1/13471: {in which all the liquid crystal cells or layers remain transparent, e.g. FLC, ECB, DAP, HAN, TN, STN, SBE-LC cells (G02F1/13475 takes precedence)} - G02F: OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS - G02B: OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS ## Abstract The present invention provides a display device, including a first display panel, a second display panel, and a plurality of first lenses. The first display panel has a light emitting surface and includes a plurality of first sub-pixels. Each of the first sub-pixels has a first sub-pixel width. The second display panel is located at one side of the light emitting surface of the first display panel and includes a plurality of second sub-pixels. Each of the second sub-pixels has a second sub-pixel width. The first lenses are disposed between the first display panel and the second display panel. Each of the first lenses has a first diameter, and the first diameter is smaller than the second sub-pixel width. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A display device, comprising: a first display panel having a light outputting surface, wherein the first display panel includes a first scanning line, a first data line, and a plurality of first sub-pixels, and each of the first sub-pixels has a first sub-pixel width, a first side, and a second side connected to the first side, and wherein the first scanning line and the first data line are corresponding to the first sub-pixels and are distributed along the first side and the second side respectively; a second display panel disposed on one side of the light outputting surface of the first display panel, wherein the second display panel includes a second data line, a second scanning line, and a plurality of second sub-pixels, and each of the second sub-pixels has a second sub-pixel width, a third side, and a fourth side connected to the third side, wherein the second data line and the second scanning line are corresponding to the second sub-pixels and are distributed along the third side and the fourth side respectively, wherein the first side, the second side, the third side, and the fourth side are not parallel to each other, wherein the first scanning line, the second scanning line, the first data line, and the second data line are not parallel to each other, and wherein all of the first sub-pixels and the second sub-pixels are not rectangular; a plurality of first lenses disposed between the first display panel and the second display panel, each of the first lenses having a first diameter, wherein each of the first diameters is smaller than the second sub-pixel widths, and each of the first lens is a spherical lens; and a plurality of second lenses disposed between the second display panel and the first lenses, each of the second lenses having a second diameter, the second display panel having a plurality of second pixels, each of the second pixels having at least three sub-pixels of the second sub-pixels to form a second pixel width, wherein each of the second diameters is smaller than the second pixel widths and larger than the second sub-pixel widths; wherein each of the second sides of the first sub-pixels has a first end point and a second end point, the first end points are substantially located along a third straight line, the second end points are substantially located along a fourth straight line, and the third straight line and the fourth straight line do not overlap; and wherein each of the fourth sides of the second sub-pixels has a third end point and a fourth end point, the third end points are substantially located along a fifth straight line, the fourth end points are substantially located along a sixth straight line, and the fifth straight line and the sixth straight line do not overlap. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first sub-pixel widths are substantially the same as the second sub-pixel widths. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein each of the first sub-pixels of the first display panel forms a first zoomed-in pixel region on the second display panel via the first lenses, the first zoomed-in pixel region having a first zoomed-in width, the first zoomed-in width being larger than the second sub-pixel width. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, further comprising a first lens film disposed between the first display panel and the second display panel, the first lens film having a first surface facing the first display panel, and the first lenses being disposed on the first surface. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, further comprising a first lens film, the first lens film having a first surface facing the first display panel and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the second lenses being disposed on the second surface. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The display device according to claim 5, wherein the first lenses are disposed on the first surface. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, further comprising a first lens film and a second lens film disposed between the first display panel and the second display panel, the second lens film being located between the first lens film and the second display panel, the first lens film having a first surface facing the first display panel, the second lens film having a second surface facing the second display panel, the first lens being disposed on the first surface, and the second lenses being disposed on the second surface. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein the second display panel has a light incident surface facing the light outputting surface of the first display panel, the first lenses being disposed on the light incident surface of the second display panel. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein there is at least an interval between the first display panel and the second display panel. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first sides of the first sub-pixels are substantially located on a first straight line, and the third sides of the second sub-pixels are substantially located on a second straight line. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The display device according to claim 10, wherein orthographic projections of the first straight line and the second straight line on the first display panel are substantially perpendicular. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein there is an angle between orthographic projections of the first side of the first sub-pixel and the fourth side of the second sub-pixel on the first display panel, the angle having a range from 45 degrees to 90 degrees. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first sides of the first sub-pixels are substantially located on a first straight line, and the third sides of the second sub-pixels are substantially located on a second straight line, the first scanning line extending in parallel to the first straight line, and the second data line extending in parallel to the second straight line.