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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6970154 | Fringe-field filter for addressable displays The display kit of the present invention comprises: an addressable display medium configured to exhibit a first aspect under the influence of an addressing vector field in a first direction at an addressing magnitude; and an addressor; where the addressor is configu... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970074 | Wireless remote vehicle signal indicator for supplementing existing vehicle signal indicators A remote motor vehicle signal indicator system consists of a transmitter coupled to a vehicle indication signal drive line. The transmitter wirelessly transmits a receiver activation signal corresponding to a vehicle indication signal of the vehicle indication signa... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967759 | Pulse width modulation sequence generation A system and method for addressing and synchronizing a spatial light modulator (SLM) device and a scrolling color recovery (SCR) illumination system. This method applies all the colors to a single SLM simultaneously and recaptures light rejected by the color filters... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967763 | Display device A display device comprises a plurality of light modulating elements being arranged in an array. In the display device, an image is displayed by driving the light modulating elements and each of the light modulating elements has a pair of substrates which are spaced ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6964486 | Alignment of solar concentrator micro-mirrors Due to an ever growing shortage of conventional energy sources, there is an increasingly intense interest in harnessing solar energy. The instant invention is concerned with method and apparatus for the alignment of solar concentrator micro-mirrors and the maximizat... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965367 | Display Disclosed is a display capable of improving uniformity of luminance and chroma in a plane of a display panel. When point at which the light source is turned ON is represented by T1, transmittance in a display region onto which the video signals are being writ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965480 | Method and apparatus for calibrating a tunable microlens A tunable microlens uses at least two layers of electrodes and a droplet of conducting liquid. Such a droplet, which forms the optics of the microlens, moves toward an electrode with a higher voltage relative to other electrodes in the microlens. When calibration of... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965436 | System and method for calibrating a spatial light modulator array using shearing interferometry A system for calibrating a spatial light modulator array includes an illumination system and a spatial light modulator array that reflects or transmits light from the illumination system. A projection optical system images the spatial light modulator array onto an i... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965364 | Device and method for compensating non-uniformities in imaging systems An illumination and modulation device is described, as well as a method for modulating the exposure intensity in the integrating digital screen imaging system (IDSI), comprising a light source, a light modulator, and various devices. The object of the invention is t... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963330 | Actuated film display device An actuated film display device comprises a first fixed electrode, a first movable film electrode, which is placed to face the first fixed electrode to form a first optical path on an opposing side to the first fixed electrode, and which has a fixed end and a movabl... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6962414 | Sequential projection color display using multiple imaging panels A color projection display device may include SLMs or other panels. One embodiment includes a device for displaying a color image including first and second sequences of temporally-integrateable primary color image components, the device also includes first (209 | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963434 | System and method for calculating aerial image of a spatial light modulator A method of calculating an aerial image of a spatial light modulator array includes calculating a pixel interference matrix that represents pair wise interference between pixels of the spatial light modulator array; calculating effective graytones corresponding to m... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961038 | Color liquid crystal display device A color liquid crystal display device includes at least a liquid crystal display part, and light sources for irradiating the liquid crystal display part with lights of three primary colors, respectively, and performs display of one frame by respective fields of thre... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961029 | Pixel border for improved viewability of a display device A display device having a display matrix including a pixel border of width x and located around the edge locations of the matrix for improved viewability. In particular, the border can be several pixels wide, e.g., 1 | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958842 | Display device and process for production thereof A display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to each other, and a display medium including an insulating liquid and electrophoretic colored particles dispersed therein and disposed between the first and second substrates. A fi... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6956878 | Method and apparatus for reducing laser speckle using polarization averaging A method and apparatus for reducing speckle uses polarization averaging. A polarizing beam splitter divides a first polarized laser output into a second polarized laser output and a third polarized laser output. A plurality of mirrors creates an optical path differe... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6956995 | Optical communication arrangement An arrangement for optical communication comprises an optical coupler, an opto-electronic board, and an optical fiber. The optical fiber comprises a first refraction surface, a second refraction surface, and an internal reflector. The first refraction surface has a ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6956332 | Display device comprising a light guide A display device comprises row (5) and column (6) electrodes and a movable element (3) and means (17) for supplying voltages to the electrodes, wherein the row electrodes are situated on the movable element. The means supply, in operation... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954039 | Driving circuit for light emitting diodes An LED driving circuit includes a current limiting resistor (24), an FET (22), and a feedback circuit (23). The FET has a drain electrode connected to the current limiting resistor to provide current to a load such as an LED (25), and the... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6952534 | System and method for generating return-to-zero (RZ) optical data in a digital lightwave communications system A system and method for generating return-to-zero (RZ) optical data in a digital lightwave communications system using a two-stage modulator arrangement. RF electrical data is provided to a first stage modulator for modulating a light input into an intermediary opti... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6950220 | Electro-optic displays, and methods for driving same The invention relates to electro-optic displays and methods for driving such displays. The invention provides (i) electrochromic displays with solid charge transport layers; (ii) apparatus and methods for improving the contrast and reducing the cost of electrochromi... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6950331 | Organic bistable device and organic memory cells A bistable electrical device (50) employing a bistable body (52) and a high conductivity material (54). A sufficient amount of high conductivity material (54) is included in the bistable body (52) to impart bistable between a low r... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6949872 | Electro-optic filter for plasma display panel A plasma display panel includes a filter for controlling a light transmittance by selectively diffracting a light emitted from a discharge cell of a plasma display panel on the basis of an electric signal. A luminance efficacy can be enhanced by using the low-priced... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6946315 | Manufacturing methods of MEMS device The present invention is directed to manufacturing methods of electrostatic type MEMS devices. The manufacturing method of the present invention includes the steps of forming a substrate side electrode on a substrate, forming a fluid film before or after forming a s... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947613 | Wavelength selective switch and equalizer A device comprising a light modulator including a plurality of elements wherein each element is selectively operable such that the plurality of elements are dynamically configurable to combine selected ones of a plurality of grating periods such that selected portio... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6946803 | Drive control system for a fiber-based plasma display A full color fiber plasma display device includes two glass plates sandwiched around a top fiber array and a bottom fiber array. The top and bottom fiber arrays are substantially orthogonal and define a structure of the display, with the top fiber array disposed on ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6946307 | Method and system for testing driver circuits of AMOLED A method and a system for testing circuits of an AMOLED before implantation of OLEDs are provided. Each circuit includes a terminal, connected to an OLED after the OLED is implanted, configured as a test point. The system selects one circuit to test. The method and ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6943773 | Page flicking mechanism for electronic display devices that paginate content A computing device is provided that includes a display comprising a plurality of discrete elements. A memory is used to store a data collection of paginated content. A processor of the computing device is configured to retrieve each of the pages from the memory. The... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6939012 | Laser image projector A laser image projector includes a substrate; and a two dimensional array of individually addressable laser pixels formed on the substrate for emitting an imagewise beam of laser light perpendicular to the substrate, each of the laser pixels including an addressable... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6937384 | Digital micromirror device and method of driving digital micromirror device A spatial light modulation device capable of displaying a large number of gray scales is provided. The inventors of the present invention proposed a spatial light modulation device having: a first structure in which a switching transistor and an erasure transistor, ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6936196 | Solidifiable tunable liquid microlens A microlens of the present invention may include a liquid droplet whose position and/or surface curvature may be changed (tuned), e.g., by selectively biasing one or more electrodes configured to said droplet. The droplet may then be solidified to fix a desired conf... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6934070 | Chirped optical MEM device A light modulator comprises a series of ribbons divided by a series of gaps. Sequences of consecutive ribbons and gaps are grouped together to form a plurality of pixels that are configured to process a respective plurality of wavelengths. The spacing from center-li... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930816 | Spatial light modulator, spatial light modulator array, image forming device and flat panel display A spatial light modulator has: a support substrate that has an electrode layer; and a movable thin film that has at least an electrode layer, and that is opposingly placed above the support substrate with being separated by a predetermined gap distance in a manner t... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6930659 | Light emitting indicator drive circuit In a light emitting indicator drive circuit which supplies a current to display elements different in display areas, a constant-current is supplied from a P-channel MOS-FET to a display element and a pulse width control circuit controls a on/off ratio. deterioration... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6930668 | Color-enabled electrophoretic display and medium A display medium including a plurality of electrically photosensitive particles positioned within at least one ambipolar shell to form at least one first composite particle, and a plurality of white particles encapsulated in a plurality of insulating shells to form ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6930797 | Method and apparatus for printing high resolution images using multiple reflective spatial light modulators An apparatus and method of printing images (10) onto a photosensitive media (140) using multiple reflective spatial light modulators. In the apparatus and method, illumination optics (25) uniformize and image light from at least one light source... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6928271 | Bistable chiral nematic liquid crystal display and method of driving the same A cholesteric liquid crystal display has pixel address circuits (84) with an input (12) for receiving a data signal and a plurality of outputs, wherein each output is for applying a pixel drive signal to a respective portion of the liquid crystal mater... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6926419 | Backlight unit structure for liquid crystal display Disclosed is a backlight unit structure for an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display). The backlight unit structure comprises: a lamp disposed under a display panel; and a reflection plate rotatably disposed around the lamp and having an opening through which light can be con... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6927891 | Tilt-able grating plane for improved crosstalk in 1×N blaze switches A light modulator includes elongated elements arranged parallel to each other. Each elongated element includes a light reflective planar surface with the light reflective planar surfaces configured in a first grating plane. A support structure is coupled to the elon... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6928207 | Apparatus for selectively blocking WDM channels An apparatus for selective blocking WDM channels comprises a light modulator, a diffraction grating, and a transform lens. The light modulator comprises an array of pixels. Each pixel of the light modulator is selectively operable to direct light into a first mode a... | 08/09/2005 |
