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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149356 | Liquid crystal display device, polarizing plate and backlight source A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a liquid crystal panel which has a liquid crystal cell including a predetermined liquid crystal layer and polarizing plates for holding the liquid crystal cell, a backlight source which is a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149357 | Light absorption layer for a display device A liquid crystal display is presented. The liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a pixel electrode formed on the first substrate; a first alignment layer formed on the pixel electrode; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a common electrode f... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8035777 | Optical filter The present invention provides an optical filter comprising a crystalline polymer having a spherulite structure, particularly an optical filter comprising porous particles formed of a crystalline polymer in which single particles per se have a spherulite structure. ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7969535 | Pixel unit, liquid crystal display panel, electro-optical apparatus, and methods for manufacturing the same A pixel unit having a display area is provided. The pixel unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and at least one ultraviolet light (UV) absorption pattern. The second substrate is disposed in parallel to the first substrate, an... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7443469 | Display device, color filter, and electronic apparatus To provide a display device, a color filter, and an electronic apparatus, which can prevent the deterioration of resolution and display quality and can improve display characteristics. There is provided a display device comprising a plurality of dots in a unit pixel... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443474 | Optical compensatory sheet having optically anistropic layer formed from liquid crystal molecules The optical compensatory sheet has a transparent support and an optically anisotropic layer formed from liquid crystal molecules aligned in an average inclined angle of less than 5°. The optical compensatory sheet gives the retardation value in plane (Re) in the ra... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436471 | Display device, viewing angle control device, electronic display device, and multiple image display device A display device includes: a main LCD; a SW LCD, disposed on an optical path of light transmitting through the main LCD, for electrically switching a visible image between a single image display mode and a multiple image display mode; a first polarizer; and a second... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7423713 | Liquid crystal device and electronic equipment A semi-transmissive reflective liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a plurality of sub-pixel regions at wh... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7394498 | Liquid-crystal light-amount adjusting device, method of driving liquid-crystal light-amount adjusting device, and camera including the liquid-crystal light-amount adjusting device A liquid-crystal light-amount adjusting device in which the effective power of driving pulses for acceleration is optimized to improve response characteristics of optical transmittance, a method of driving the apparatus, and a camera including the apparatus. The liq... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7388629 | General-purposed LCD panel Transparent regions are allocated on the color filter regions to promote luminance of LCD devices. Shielding regions are allocated on the pixels regions of TFT substrate corresponding to the transparent regions to promote chromatics. These two designs can be adapted... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7370926 | Liquid droplet ejection method, head unit, liquid droplet ejection device, electro-optical device, and electronic equipment A liquid droplet ejection method comprises: ejecting a liquid droplet of a functional liquids onto a substrate while scanning relatively the substrate and an ejection head. A plurality of kinds of functional liquids have different drying rates and are ejected onto r... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7349044 | Liquid crystal display assembly having the interference filter disposed corresponding exclusively to the green region An LCD assembly comprising a TFT substrate, and a color filter disposed above the TFT substrate and formed with red, green and blue regions, further comprises an interference filter disposed corresponding to the green region with respect to a direction of emitting l... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7330225 | Method for adjusting color of monochromatic liquid crystal display and medical image display apparatus The color adjustment method adjusts a color of a monochromatic image on a LCD and each of LCDs. The method uses a plurality of light sources of different color temperatures as a backlight of the LCD and controls relative quantities of light from the light sources to... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7321186 | Front filter, and plasma display apparatus having the same Disclosed is a plasma display apparatus having the same in which an electromagnetic wave is not only shielded, but also a transmission rate can be secured. The front filter including: an electromagnetic-wave shield film having a conductive powder decentralized there... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317527 | Spatial light modulator fourier transform A filter to selectively block light from passing through the filter and to selectively permit light to pass through the filter. The filter includes an array with a plurality of individually addressable filter elements. Each filter element is selectively settable to ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317499 | Multilayer plate and display panel with anisotropic crystal film and conducting protective layer A multilayer plate is provided comprising an optically transparent substrate, a protective layer, a conducting layer, and at least one anisotropic thin crystal film. The anisotropic thin crystal film is made of a substance containing aromatic rings and possessing a ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7295265 | Liquid crystal display device having variable viewing angle A liquid crystal display device having variable viewing angles includes a first liquid crystal cell having first and second substrates spaced apart from and facing each other, a pixel electrode formed on an inner surface of the first substrate, a common electrode fo... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7259925 | Optical power switch The present invention provides a protective device for sensitive infrared sensors as Forward Looking Infrared imagers (FLIRs). A prior device using materials with higher order susceptibilities to electric polarization, which provides protection against extremely int... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7205964 | Light source and display device The invention provides electroluminescent (EL) elements, such that a red EL light source, a green EL light source and a blue EL light source emit red color light, green color light, and blue color light, respectively, and are disposed at the rear of liquid crystal d... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7196752 | Cholesteric liquid crystal color filter with protrusions and associated methods of manufacture A reflective cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) display device has a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter in which a plurality of protrusions is formed on an upper portion of the cholesteric liquid crystal color filter to obtain a uniform luminance and a uniform co... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7190504 | Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device is provided comprising an electro-optical material and means for applying an electric field to the electro-optical material, in which a plurality of pixel regions DR, DG and DB capable of separately controll... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184200 | Passive broadband infrared optical limiter device based on a micro-optomechanical cantilever array An IR limiting device for a detector that is based on a micro-optomechanical cantilever array is disclosed. In the normal state, each microcantilever device in the array behaves like a mirror that reflects the infrared signal to the detector. The microcantilever dev... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7142280 | Extended chiral defect structure apparatus and method A chiral structure having an advantageous extended chiral defect that provides an enhanced energy distribution characteristic therein. This is accomplished by configuring a central portion of the chiral structure with a pitch different from the rest of the structure... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7110054 | Switchable color filter The liquid crystal switchable color filter switches between three color bands and is preferably used for time-sequential color devices, as for example projection devices, direct view displays and video cameras. The color filter employs circularly polarizing selectiv... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7075610 | Liquid crystal display device and light emitting structure with photonic band gap transparent electrode structures An LCD device for displaying an image includes pixel control electrodes constructed as a transparent metal stack having a photonic band gap (PBG) structure that transmits a visible range of wavelengths and suppresses a non-visible range of wavelengths. A liquid crys... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7064886 | Light regulating device and photonic crystal display utilizing photonic bandgap controls A light regulating device and photonic crystal display device utilizing bandgap controls including a photonic crystal including a material that is capable of varying its refractive index in accordance with an electric field, the photonic crystal having a photonic ba... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057690 | Optical compensatory sheet having optically anisotropic layer formed from liquid crystal molecules The optical compensatory sheet has a transparent support and an optically anisotropic layer formed from liquid crystal molecules aligned in an average inclined angle of less than 5°. The optical compensatory sheet gives the retardation value in plane (Re) in the ra... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050135 | Liquid crystal display including pad members having different length A liquid crystal display includes pad members having a different length from each other, thereby compensating for differences in the resistance of electrode links. The pad members are in contact with a driving circuit and the electrode links, and have a different le... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7038752 | Optical interference type of color display An optical interference color display comprising a transparent substrate, an inner-front optical diffusion layer, a plurality of first electrodes, a patterned support layer, a plurality of optical films and a plurality of second electrodes is provided. The inner-fro... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7030945 | Liquid-crystal display device In a liquid-crystal display device, an optical path control layer is provided at least on an outer side of the back side substrate, and has a plurality of optical path changing slopes inclined at an inclination angle of from 35 to 48 degrees with respect to a refere... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7019799 | Liquid crystal display with optical adjustment layer controlling transmittance of emitted light in accordance with wavelength A liquid crystal display for displaying an image to be visible for a viewer, has a liquid crystal, a pair of electrodes for controlling an orientation of at least a part of the liquid crystal in accordance with an electric field between the electrodes, a light sourc... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015993 | Reflective color filter and display device including the same A reflective color filter includes: a first domain reflecting visible red colored light at substantially normal angles of incidence; a second domain reflecting invisible infrared colored light at substantially normal angles of incidence and reflecting red colored li... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015991 | Color pre-filter for single-panel projection display system A single-panel LCD projection system includes a color prefilter positioned between an illumination system and a multi-color liquid crystal display (LCD). The color prefilter functions to shape the spectrum of illumination provided by the illumination system so as to... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010160 | Backlight scene judging method In an image processing apparatus processing digitized image data taken by a digital camera, or the like, an image focused on an image pickup device is divided into a plurality of rectangular regions. A value of the lightness with respect to each rectangular region a... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6934327 | Acquisition of a continuous-phase modulation waveform Acquisition of a waveform such as a continuous-phase modulation (CPM) waveform is described. In one embodiment of the invention, the invention is directed to a method and apparatus for acquiring a waveform as defined by MIL-STD-188-181B including the preamble of suc... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6909482 | Display substrate with reflective color filters An optical display device. The device includes a substrate having a source of light, the light from the source of light including a plurality of primary colors. The device also includes a modulation array comprising a plurality of modulation elements arranged to mod... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6887531 | Glare protection device The glare protection device for welding applications contains an active electro-optical filter element (2) with an electronic control circuit (3). The active filter element (2) absorbs the UV-radiation up to 380 nm. An IR-plastic filter (10 | 05/03/2005 |
| 6850293 | Liquid crystal display with absorber having absorption and permeability characteristics A liquid crystal display for displaying an image to be visible for a viewer, has a liquid crystal, a pair of electrodes for controlling an orientation of at least a part of the liquid crystal in accordance with an electric field between the electrodes, a light sourc... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6831712 | Polymer-dispersed liquid-crystal display comprising an ultraviolet blocking layer and methods for making the same A display comprising a substrate, transparent first conductors, second conductors, a layer of polymer-dispersed liquid-crystal material disposed between the first and second conductors, and at least one layer of ultraviolet blocking material in a binder disposed to ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6812979 | Color-separating apparatus for liquid crystal projector of single panel type A color-separating apparatus for a liquid crystal projector of single panel type that is capable of improving light efficiency and color revival property. In the apparatus, a color filter has red, green and blue colors formed in a spiral shape. A reflective plate is... | 11/02/2004 |
