Black Matrix Window Layout for Peripheral Component Integration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display devices face challenges in integrating various components and accessories within a limited display area while maintaining high-quality image rendering and aesthetics.

Innovation Solution

A display device design that includes a display panel with a peripheral area for accommodating components, featuring a substrate, insulating layers, conductive layers, and an encapsulation layer, where the components can overlap specific areas without affecting the display area's functionality or aesthetics, and utilizing a light-inducing member to enhance light transmittance as needed.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If various components and accessories are integrated into the display area, then the functionality and versatility of the display device are improved, but the display area is reduced and screen uniformity is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoiddisplay area
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent utilizes the peripheral area (non-display region) of the display panel to accommodate various components and accessories. By transitioning from integrating components within the display area to placing them in the peripheral area, the invention preserves the full display area while adding functionality through components such as sensors, cameras, and other modules positioned around the display region.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Adaptability or versatility

If various components and accessories are integrated into the display area, then the functionality and versatility of the display device are improved, but screen uniformity and aesthetics are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoidscreen uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The invention places components in the peripheral area outside the display region, effectively moving the integration from the 2D display plane to the surrounding space. This dimensional transition allows components to be positioned without disrupting the visual uniformity of the display screen, maintaining aesthetic quality while adding functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies different functional qualities to different regions: the display area maintains its optical and visual properties for high-quality image rendering, while the peripheral area is designed to accommodate various components. This spatial differentiation of functionality allows each region to optimize its specific purpose without compromising the other.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Area of stationary object

If the display area is enlarged, then the visual output capability is improved, but the area available for component placement is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay areaVSAvoidcomponent placement
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The invention resolves this contradiction by expanding the component placement space from within the display area to the peripheral area surrounding the display. This allows the display area to be maximized for visual output while components are positioned in the extended peripheral region, effectively utilizing available space without compromise.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS11765945B2Display device having a black matrix
Publication Date: 2023.09.19 SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD
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  • US11765945B2 patent drawing
  • US11765945B2 patent drawing

AI summary

A display device includes a window, a display panel arranged below the window and including a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area; and a component arranged below the display panel and at least partially overlapping the peripheral area, wherein a black matrix is arranged on a bottom surface of the window in correspondence with an area in the peripheral area other than an area where the component is located.