ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,744, issued on July 15, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).
"Detection device" was invented by Kazuki Matsunaga (Tokyo), Akio Takimoto (Tokyo) and Shigesumi Araki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a plurality of photodiodes arranged on a substrate; a front light including a light guide plate disposed so as to overlap the photodiodes, a light source configured to emit light to a first side surface of the light guide plate, and a plurality of scattering portions that are provided on the light guide plate and configured to scatter light from the light source; an optical fi...