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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8072406 | Display system with single crystal Si thin film transistors A liquid crystal display comprises a display panel that includes at least one pixel transistor, at least one pixel electrode in electrical communication with the pixel transistor, at least one common electrode, and a liquid crystal material between the pixel electro... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8040600 | Binocular display having an adjustment system A binocular display device can include first and second display assemblies. A rail system can adjustably support the first and second display assemblies. The rail system can have a first rail slidably secured to a front region of the display assemblies, and second r... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040292 | Portable communication display device A head-mounted display system displays information via a matrix display element mounted within a housing that is positioned relative to at least eye of a user. The display is connected to a video or information source such that the user can view information or image... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8022913 | Instant-on heater A heater, used in a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) pixel array that uses a common voltage polysilicon line to supply heat to the pixel elements, instead of using active control transistor input lines, such as gate input lines. The approach permits the display to be ac... | 09/20/2011 |
| D640256 | Eyewear viewing device | 06/21/2011 |
| D638462 | Eyewear viewing device | 05/24/2011 |
| 7898503 | Auxiliary targeting viewer A head mounting viewing system includes a viewer having a microdisplay for displaying images. Viewing optics can be included for viewing the display. The display and the optics can be housed in a housing. Integrated operational controls can be located on the housing... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7872330 | Bipolar transistor with enhanced base transport A bipolar transistor includes a base layer design and a method for fabricating such a bipolar transistor that employ a built-in accelerating field focused on a base region adjacent to a collector, where minority carrier transport is otherwise retarded. The accelerat... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7768611 | Display system with single crystal SI thin film transistors A liquid crystal display comprises a display panel that includes at least one pixel transistor, at least one pixel electrode in electrical communication with the pixel transistor, at least one common electrode, and a liquid crystal material between the pixel electro... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7672420 | Shifter register for low power consumption application A high voltage shift register stage which directly accepts low voltage clock signal inputs without using clock buffers. In particular, a shift register stage circuit is adapted to operate with a low voltage swing clock signal, with the stage circuit having a single ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7595782 | Liquid crystal display with integrated digital-analog-converters An apparatus and method can convert digital data to analog data using column load capacitances on adjacent pairs of column lines of the LCD. The apparatus includes a data bus containing digital data. A row buffer is coupled to the data bus for receiving and distribu... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7566948 | Bipolar transistor with enhanced base transport A bipolar transistor includes a base layer design and a method for fabricating such a bipolar transistor that employ a built-in accelerating field focused on a base region adjacent to a collector, where minority carrier transport is otherwise retarded. The accelerat... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7564522 | Full symmetrical wide-viewing angle display A microdisplay including a light-transmissive active circuit layer, the active circuit layer having an optical birefringence value that contributes to an asymmetrical viewing space and an optical compensator to compensate for the optical birefringence value of the a... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7522694 | Shifter register for low power consumption application A high voltage shift register stage which directly accepts low voltage clock signal inputs without using clock buffers. In particular, a shift register stage circuit is adapted to operate with a low voltage swing clock signal, with the stage circuit having a single ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7372447 | Microdisplay for portable communication systems The invention relates to a microdisplay system that utilizes a small high resolution active matrix liquid crystal display with an illumination system and a magnifying optical system to provide a hand held communication display device. The system can employ an LED il... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365811 | Display housing with a display alignment device Alignment of an imaging area of a display with a user's eye provides optimum image quality for the user. Typically, a display is formed of a display panel encased within a carrier. The carrier is used to mechanically align the display panel within a device housing. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7345327 | Bipolar transistor A semiconductor material which has a high carbon dopant concentration includes gallium, indium, arsenic and nitrogen. The disclosed semiconductor materials have a low sheet resistivity because of the high carbon dopant concentrations obtained. The material can be th... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7321354 | Microdisplay for portable communication systems The invention relates to a microdisplay system that utilizes a small high resolution active matrix liquid crystal display with an illumination system and a magnifying optical system to provide a hand held communication display device. The system can employ an LED il... | 01/22/2008 |
| D559250 | Viewing device | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310072 | Portable communication display device A head-mounted display system displays information via a matrix display element mounted within a housing that is positioned relative to at least eye of a user. The display is connected to a video or information source such that the user can view information or image... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310071 | Instrument panel with active display An instrument panel including at least one instrument indicator positioned in the panel. At least one active display is positioned in the panel and is capable of displaying images from data provided to the display. ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7253852 | Polarizer removal in a microdisplay system A display module includes a display, a first polarizer and a second polarizer. The polarizers can be located at a distance from the image plane of the display to remove the visibility of optical defects located within the polarizer or between the polarizer and displ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7242383 | Portable microdisplay system An active matrix color crystal display has an active matrix circuit, a counterelectrode panel and an interposed layer of liquid crystal. The active matrix display is located in a portable microdisplay system that has a display computer that generates images to be di... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7186624 | Bipolar transistor with lattice matched base layer A semiconductor material which has a high carbon dopant concentration and is composed of gallium, indium, arsenic and nitrogen is disclosed. The material is useful in forming the base layer of gallium arsenide based heterojunction bipolar transistors because it can ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7138993 | LCD with integrated switches for DC restore An AC-coupled display driver circuit includes one or more DC-restore switches that are integrated within a liquid crystal display. A liquid crystal display system includes a coupling capacitor coupled at one end to a system input video signal, the coupling capacitor... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7122841 | Bonding pad for gallium nitride-based light-emitting devices A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first major surface; a semiconductor device structure over the first surface of the substrate, the device structure comprising an n-type semiconductor layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer over the n-type semico... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7115466 | Bipolar transistor with graded base layer A semiconductor material which has a high carbon dopant concentration includes gallium, indium, arsenic and nitrogen. The disclosed semiconductor materials have a low sheet resistivity because of the high carbon dopant concentrations obtained. The material can be th... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7075501 | Head mounted display system A head mounted display system including a high resolution active matrix display which reduces center of gravity offset in a compact design. The active matrix display can be either a liquid crystal display or a light emitting display. ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7057668 | Color/mono switched display A color sequential display operative in one of two alternate modes. The first mode is a color sequential mode in which primary color images are displayed in successive frames while respective background light sources are simultaneously flashed on the display. The se... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7002180 | Bonding pad for gallium nitride-based light-emitting device A bonding pad for an electrode is in contact with p-type gallium nitride-based semiconductor material that includes aluminum. The bonding pad may also includes one or more metals selected from the group consisting of palladium, platinum, nickel and gold. The bonding... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999057 | Timing of fields of video An apparatus and method to delay a field of video by one row in a two field frame to reduce DC build-up or stick caused by textual image. ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6967697 | Display housing with a display alignment device Alignment of an imaging area of a display with a user's eye provides optimum image quality for the user. Typically, a display is formed of a display panel encased within a carrier. The carrier is used to mechanically align the display panel within a device housing. ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6955985 | Domain epitaxy for thin film growth A method of forming an epitaxial film on a substrate includes growing an initial layer of a film on a substrate at a temperature Tgrowth, said initial layer having a thickness h and annealing the initial layer of the film at a temperature Tanneal | 10/18/2005 |
| 6919935 | Method of forming an active matrix display The invention relates to the formation of arrays of thin film transistors (TFT's) on silicon substrates and the dicing and tiling of such substrates for transfer to a common module body. TFT's activate display electrodes formed adjacent the transistors after the til... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6911079 | Method for reducing the resistivity of p-type II-VI and III-V semiconductors The resistivity of a p-doped III-V or a p-doped II-VI semiconductor material is reduced. The reduction of resistivity of the p-type III-V or a II-VI semiconductor material is achieved by applying an electric field to the semiconductor material. III-V nitride-based l... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6909419 | Portable microdisplay system An active matrix color crystal display has an active matrix circuit, a counterelectrode panel and an interposed layer of liquid crystal. The active matrix display is located in a portable microdisplay system that has a display computer that generates images to be di... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6881983 | Efficient light emitting diodes and lasers An optoelectronic device such as an LED or laser which produces spontaneous emission by recombination of carriers (electrons and holes) trapped in Quantum Confinement Regions formed by transverse thickness variations in Quantum Well layers of group III nitrides.... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6847060 | Bipolar transistor with graded base layer A semiconductor material which has a high carbon dopant concentration includes gallium, indium, arsenic and nitrogen. The disclosed semiconductor materials have a low sheet resistivity because of the high carbon dopant concentrations obtained. The material can be th... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6847052 | Light-emitting diode device geometry A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; an n-type semiconductor layer over the substrate, the n-type semiconductor layer having a planar top surface; a p-type semiconductor layer extending over a major portion of the n-type semiconductor layer and not extendin... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6800879 | Method of preparing indium phosphide heterojunction bipolar transistors InP heterojunction bipolar transistors having a base layer of InGaAs which are compositionally graded to engineer the bandgap of the base layer to be larger at the emitter/base junction than at the collector/base junction. The graded bandgap can increase DC current ... | 10/05/2004 |
