US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on May 27 for "Display device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,931, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Display device" was invented by Shigetsugu Yamanaka (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device according to the disclosure includes an imaging layer including imaging pixels, a light guide layer positioned as a layer above the imaging layer and including light guide elements guiding light incident from above to the imaging pixels positioned below, and a display layer positioned as a layer above the light guide layer and including pixel circuits and pixel electrodes."

The patent was filed on Sept. 2, 2021, under Application...