LCD Color Frame Layer Design for Aesthetic Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional liquid crystal displays (LCDs) lack enhanced aesthetic appeal and design flexibility due to their plain frame structures, which can interrupt the visual experience and limit design options.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a color frame layer surrounding the screen of the LCD, formed from the same material as the color filters or in a different color, to enhance image quality and aesthetic effect, while allowing for increased design freedom by matching or contrasting with the display's color scheme.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a conventional plain frame structure is used in LCD, then the manufacturing process is simple, but the aesthetic appeal and design flexibility are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the frame structure with the color filter layer by forming the color frame layer simultaneously with the color filters in the same manufacturing process. This integration allows the frame to have both structural and aesthetic functions while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through a unified fabrication approach.
Solution Approach 2:
The color frame layer serves multiple functions: it provides the structural frame boundary, delivers aesthetic color enhancement, and integrates with the display region. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by making the frame structure serve both manufacturing efficiency and design flexibility requirements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a color frame layer is added to enhance aesthetic appeal, then design flexibility is improved, but the manufacturing process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the formation of the color frame layer with the existing color filter manufacturing process. By using the same fabrication steps and materials to create both the color filters and the color frame layer, the structural complexity is minimized while achieving enhanced design flexibility and aesthetic appeal.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a color frame layer is formed in a separate process, then design freedom is increased, but manufacturing time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the color frame layer formation into the same manufacturing process as the color filters. This simultaneous formation eliminates the need for separate fabrication steps, thereby maintaining design freedom while significantly reducing manufacturing time and process complexity.
4Ease of manufacture
If the color frame layer is made from the same material as color filters, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but color variety is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing different regions of the color frame layer to have different colors while using the same base material and fabrication process. This enables color variety in different frame regions without complicating the overall manufacturing simplicity, as each color can be applied locally during the same formation process.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The color frame layer improves the LCD's aesthetic appeal and design flexibility by providing a visually integrated or decorative border that does not disrupt the image, thereby enhancing display characteristics and user experience.
Implementation Method 1
a molecular arrangement of liquid crystals is changed by controlling the intensity of an electric field formed in the liquid crystal layer
Data Source
AI summary
A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes an array substrate having pixel regions, the pixel regions including thin film transistors and pixel electrodes, a color filter substrate above the array substrate, the color filter substrate including a plurality of color filters corresponding to respective pixel regions in the array substrate, a black matrix in spaces between the plurality of color filters, and a color frame layer surrounding the plurality of color filters and the black matrix, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate.