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Patent Landscape · OLED-on-Silicon MicrodisplaysOLED Microdisplay on Silicon Patents: Mapping the Filers and the Gaps
- 68.0% of all 662 records sit with just five assignees — one of the more concentrated pockets in near-eye display optics.
- +5% filing growth from 2021 to 2024, a steady rather than surging pace once the partial 2025-2026 years are set aside.
- G02B optics dominates at 63.4% while OLED-specific H10K classifications sit at only 13.6%, pointing to where the deposition and stack claims are thinner.
662
Published Records
68%
Top-5 Share of All Records
+5%
Filing Growth 2021→2024
US
Leading Jurisdiction
Filing growth compares 2021 (66 records) with 2024 (69) — a three-year span. 2024 is the most recent year we treat as complete: publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so 2025 onwards are still filling in and any growth rate that ends there would understate the field. Top-5 share is the combined record count of the five largest assignees divided by all 662 records in scope (CR5), not by the ranked leaders only.
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Overview
What the OLED-on-silicon filing record shows
OLED microdisplay on silicon sits at the intersection of two claim traditions: optical system design for near-eye viewing, and organic semiconductor stack engineering. The 662 records in scope span 2015 through mid-2026, with publication naturally lagging filing by roughly eighteen months, so the most recent one to two years understate real filing activity. The dataset's IPC composition shows the optics side (G02B, F41G) carrying far more filings than the OLED materials side (H10K), which is a useful signal for anyone deciding where to search first for blocking art.
Filing volume rose from single digits in 2017 to a peak of 156 records in 2023, before the visible 2024-2026 figures taper off in a way that reflects publication lag rather than a genuine slowdown. The receiving-office spread — concentrated in the United States, with meaningful EPO, WIPO, Israeli, Australian and Vietnamese filings — points to a field still being built out across multiple jurisdictions rather than settled in one home market.
Filing volume and IPC composition, 2015-2026
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee ranking and totals. Derived from a Patsnap search on OLED Microdisplay on Silicon covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
The Numbers
Filing trend and technology composition
Two views of the same 662-record corpus: how filing activity has moved year over year, and which IPC subclasses carry the claim weight.
A decade of build-out, not a sudden rush
Filings climbed from 10 in 2017 to a peak of 156 in 2023. The 2021-to-2024 span shows +5% growth, a modest rate once the run-up years are excluded — treat the 2025-2026 dip as a reporting artefact of publication lag, not a real contraction.
Optics carries more weight than OLED materials
G02B (optical elements & systems) touches 63.4% of the 662 records and F41G (weapon sighting & aiming, reflecting the defence and AR/VR heritage of many filers) touches 51.1%. H10K, the subclass most directly tied to OLED stack and material claims, covers only 13.6% — a gap worth noting when scoping novelty searches.
Shares are the percentage of the 662 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on OLED Microdisplay on Silicon covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.
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Representative Filing
US11043162B2 — OLED on silicon product with separated central control board
SEEYA OPTRONICS CO., LTD.
A organic light-emitting diode (OLED) on Silicon product includes a circuit board, a central control board and an OLED on Silicon display panel located on the circuit board. A core control module and a timing control module are integrated in the central control board. The OLED on Silicon display panel has a display region, a gate row driving region, a source signal driving region, and a bonding region. OLED display pixels are provided in the display region. A gate row driving circuit is integrated in the gate row driving region. A source signal driving circuit is integrated in the source signal driving region. The bonding region is a region where the OLED on Silicon display panel is bound to...Filed by SEEYA OPTRONICS CO., LTD., granted 2021-06-22.
Most-cited records in the corpus
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US20160025971A1 | Eyelid movement as user input | 203 |
| 2 | US20150312560A1 | Variable Resolution Eye Mounted Displays | 173 |
| 3 | US20160055822A1 | Dimming Module For Augmented And Virtual Reality | 138 |
| 4 | US20150249096A1 | Three dimension integrated circuits employing thin film transistors | 134 |
| 5 | US20170171533A1 | Immersive compact display glasses | 99 |
| 6 | US20180284451A1 | Steerable High-Resolution Display | 88 |
| 7 | US20140085190A1 | Display, Imaging System and Controller for Eyewear Display Device | 84 |
| 8 | US20180122825A1 | Three dimension integrated circuits employing thin film transistors | 81 |
| 9 | US20150062130A1 | Low power design for autonomous animation | 81 |
| 10 | US8736675B1 | Multi-core processor architecture for active autostereoscopic emissive displays | 75 |
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What the concentration and citation patterns mean
Three findings that shape where to search and who to watch.
Concentration
68.0% of 662
held by top 5 assignees
The field is led, not fragmented
With the leading assignee alone holding 353 of 662 records and the top five combined reaching 68.0%, this is a field where a handful of portfolios set the terms of freedom-to-operate. The tenth-ranked assignee holds only 12 records, showing how sharply the distribution falls away after the leaders.
Source: assignee ranking, 73 companies
Technology mix
63.4% vs 13.6%
G02B optics vs H10K OLED materials
Optics claims outnumber OLED-stack claims
G02B (optical elements & systems) appears in 63.4% of the 662 records while H10K (organic semiconductors) appears in only 13.6%. Filers have built more claim density around lens, waveguide and viewing-system architecture than around the OLED stack itself.
Source: IPC subclass distribution
Citation signal
203 citations
on the top-cited record
Influence clusters around a few early filings
The most-cited records in this corpus, including one filing cited 203 times, are all foundational near-eye display and eye-tracking disclosures rather than recent OLED-on-silicon-specific work. That pattern is typical of citation counts inside a searched corpus: older filings accumulate citations simply by being available longer.
Source: most-cited records table
Momentum
-90% to -100% YoY
among several tracked assignees
Recent-year activity is thinning for named leaders
Several assignees tracked for recent-year momentum show sharp year-on-year declines or zero filings in the latest year. Given publication lag, this likely overstates any real slowdown, but it is still worth checking whether these portfolios are being consolidated, licensed out, or simply going quiet ahead of a strategy shift.
Source: recent-year momentum by assignee
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Source: Patsnap Eureka. Co-assignee relationships and derived observations. Derived from a Patsnap search on OLED Microdisplay on Silicon covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
Players
Who holds the ground and what is still open
The ranked leaders account for the bulk of filing volume, but the technology composition data points to sub-areas where claim density is thin.
Leader
353 records
single largest assignee
One portfolio dominates by volume
The leading assignee's 353 records is more than the next four ranked assignees combined, which puts an unusually large share of the field's optical and mounting architecture under one roof.
Source: assignee ranking
Long tail
73 ranked companies
in the full assignee ranking
A long tail below the leaders
Past the top ten (which together hold 79.6% of 662 records), the ranking thins quickly into single- and double-digit filers, suggesting most of the remaining 73 companies hold narrow, specific claims rather than broad platform positions.
Source: assignee ranking, fifth place 20, tenth place 12
Collaboration
10 co-assignee pairs
identified in the corpus
Co-filing is limited but present
The strongest co-assignee pairing in the data appears 10 times, well above the next pairings, suggesting a small number of sustained joint-development relationships rather than a broadly collaborative field.
Source: co-assignee pairs
Recent-year filing momentum by assignee
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Sheltered Wings Inc d/b/a Vortex Optics | 3 | -90% |
| RealD Spark, LLC | 0 | -100% |
| eMagin Corp | 0 | — |
| DigiLens Inc | 0 | -100% |
| Magic Leap Inc | 0 | — |
| OLEDWorks LLC | 0 | — |
| Samsung Display Co., Ltd. | 0 | -100% |
| Avegant Corp | 0 | — |
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee-level momentum. Derived from a Patsnap search on OLED Microdisplay on Silicon covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
What's Next
Where to take this next
The figures above describe the corpus as it stands at the 2026-07-31 cut-off. Turning them into a filing or freedom-to-operate decision means going deeper into specific claim sets.
Run a freedom-to-operate check on H10K claims
With only 13.6% of records carrying H10K classification against 63.4% for G02B, an OLED-stack-specific novelty search is likely to surface less crowded prior art than an optics-only search would suggest.
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Several top assignees show steep year-on-year declines in the latest tracked year; confirming whether that reflects publication lag or an actual pull-back matters before deciding who to watch.
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Pixel-level color filter integration and wafer-level testing methods sit outside the densest claim clusters in this corpus, making them worth a dedicated search before drafting.
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FAQ
Common questions about the OLED-on-silicon patent landscape
One assignee holds 353 of the 662 records in this dataset, far ahead of the rest of the field. The top five assignees combined hold 68.0% of all 662 records, and the top ten hold 79.6%, so the field is heavily concentrated at the top with a long tail of smaller filers below. Anyone entering this space should expect to negotiate around or design around a small number of large portfolios rather than many similarly sized competitors.
Filings rose from 10 in 2017 to a peak of 156 in 2023, and the 2021-to-2024 span shows +5% growth, which is a steady rather than explosive rate. The visible drop in 2025 and 2026 figures is expected: publication typically lags filing by around eighteen months, so those years are still filling in and should not be read as a real slowdown. Based on the complete years through 2024, the field is still expanding, just not accelerating sharply.
Optical elements and systems (IPC class G02B) appear in 63.4% of the 662 records, and weapon sighting and aiming systems (F41G) appear in 51.1%, reflecting the field's strong overlap with AR/VR headset and sighting optics. OLED-specific classifications (H10K) appear in only 13.6% of records, and display control circuitry (G09G) in 12.1%, which is a much thinner claim density than the optics side. That gap is a practical clue for where prior art searches are likely to be less crowded.
US11043162B2, assigned to SEEYA OPTRONICS CO., LTD. and granted 2021-06-22, covers an OLED-on-silicon product with a circuit board, a separated central control board, and a display panel with distinct gate-row-driving, source-signal-driving, display and bonding regions. The claims center on the physical separation and integration of the control and driving circuitry around the display panel rather than on the OLED material stack itself. It is a useful reference point for anyone designing driver-board layouts for silicon-backplane OLED microdisplays.
The clearest gap sits between the field's heavy optics coverage (G02B at 63.4%, F41G at 51.1%) and its much thinner OLED-materials coverage (H10K at 13.6%). Sub-areas such as white OLED tandem stack architectures, pixel-level color filter integration, wafer-level burn-in testing and peak-luminance driving circuits are named in this corpus but do not show the same claim density as the optical-system side. That imbalance suggests these sub-areas are worth a dedicated search before assuming they are blocked.
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