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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8130358 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display, using a ferroelectric liquid crystal exhibiting mono-stability, which makes it possible to control the direction of the spontaneous polarization of the ferroelectric liquid crystal. The liquid crystal display includes: a first alignment tre... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8059255 | Fabricating method of a liquid crystal display device comprising rubbing direction of alignment film substantially the same as the light absorption axis A liquid crystal display device includes an upper substrate including an upper polarizer having a first light absorption axis and an upper electrode, a lower substrate including a lower polarizer having a second light absorption axis substantially parallel to the fi... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7907247 | Liquid crystal display To provide a liquid crystal display, using a ferroelectric liquid crystal exhibiting mono-stability, which makes it possible to control the direction of the spontaneous polarization of the ferroelectric liquid crystal. The liquid crystal display includes a first ali... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903228 | Material for liquid crystal cell A liquid crystal device comprises ferroelectric particles suspended in a liquid crystal material. A method for fabricating a light-modulating device is also disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing a pair of substrates with a cell gap therebetween, whe... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7847913 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal material is used in which the maximum angle of the optical axis change by liquid crystal molecule when a voltage of one polarity is applied is larger than 45 degrees and a condition of |2Ps·A|>|5(V)Clc·A| is satisfied where Ps (nC/cm2) ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7639342 | Ferroelectric composite, method of manufacturing the same and liquid crystal display apparatus having the ferroelectric composite A ferroelectric composite includes a core including a ferroelectric material and a skin layer including a carbon structure comprising carbon atoms. ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7623213 | Switching device A switching device in which an organic bistable material layer containing an organic bistable compound having two types of stable resistance against an applied voltage is provided between at least two electrodes. In the switching device, a first electrode layer, an ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7532298 | Fabrication method of an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device comprising first and second ferroelectric liquid crystal layers having different rotational velocities of their spontaneous polarizations An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device comprises a first substrate including a pixel region and a pixel electrode in the pixel region; a second substrate facing the first substrate and including a common electrode; first and second alignment layers... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7489383 | Optical axis deflecting method, optical axis deflecting element, optical path deflecting unit, method of driving optical axis deflecting element, and image display apparatus An optical axis deflecting element is provided with a pair of transparent substrates, a liquid crystal layer disposed between substrate surfaces of the pair of transparent substrates and having a chiral smectic C-phase forming a homeotropic orientation, and a plural... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7410678 | Liquid crystal display using ferroelectric liquid crystal, and fabrication method thereof A liquid crystal display utilizes ferroelectric liquid crystals in its construction. The liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a first alignment layer over the first substrate, and a first ferroelectric liquid crystal layer over the first alignment laye... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405795 | In-plane-switching mode liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same with nematic liquid crystal molecule layer driven in-plane by molecules of sandwiching ferroelectric layers rotating along a virtual cone An in-plane-switching mode liquid crystal display device includes a first ferroelectric liquid crystal layer on a first substrate, a second ferroelectric liquid crystal layer on a second substrate, the first and second substrates being bonded to each other with a sp... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7402332 | Liquid crystal display A main object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display using a ferroelectric liquid crystal, showing the mono-stability operation mode using a material showing the chiral smectic C phase via the smectic A phase in the temperature lowering proc... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7388645 | Pressure sealing apparatus and method for ferro-electric liquid crystal display A pressure sealing apparatus and method for a ferroelectric liquid crystal display is disclosed for improving an alignment characteristic of a liquid crystal. In the apparatus and method, simultaneously with a pressurization of a liquid crystal display panel into wh... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379144 | Chevron-free FLC device An optical device includes a ferroelectric liquid crystal material. This optical device has a first and a second substrate. A first alignment treatment is applied to a surface of the first substrate, the first alignment treatment being intended to induce an orientat... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372480 | Non-lithographic photo-induced patterning of polymers from liquid crystal solvents with spatially modulated director fields A liquid crystal device comprises a first and second cell wall structure; at least one liquid crystal material disposed within a space between the first and second cell wall structures; and polymer micro-structures, wherein the micro-structures are formed by polymer... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365813 | Color liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display apparatus includes at least one polarization plate, a phase difference plate, a pair of oppositely disposed substrates at least one of which is a transparent substrate, a liquid crystal disposed between said pair of substrates, and means for... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362297 | Display device A display device of the present invention has an incorporated charge pump control circuit and a clock frequency of a switching element can be varied according to a display mode to reduce the power consumption. On the display device, a variable frequency-dividing cir... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7348953 | Method of driving liquid crystal display device A method of driving a liquid crystal display device is provided which can decrease the hysteresis of thresholdless liquid crystal and which can, depending on the liquid crystal, improve the response time. By providing a “0 V” reset period before or after a grada... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345733 | Light deflection element, light deflection device and image display device A light deflection element has a pair of transparent substrates 2, 3; a chiral smectic C phase liquid crystal 5 with a homeotropic alignment filled between the pair of transparent substrates 2, 3; and at least an electric field applying device | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342635 | Liquid crystal display panel device and method of fabricating the same A liquid crystal display panel device includes an upper substrate having a plurality of first patterned spacers, and a lower substrate having a plurality of second patterned spacers, wherein the upper and lower substrates are opposed to each other and the first patt... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333082 | Liquid crystal display device An object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized active matrix type liquid crystal display device that may achieve large-sized display, high precision, high resolution and multi-gray scales. According to the present invention, gray scale display... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322700 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus includes an indicating element which modulates or emits light as a pixel in accordance with image information. A displacement unit optically displaces a position of the pixel for each of two or more sub-fields constituting an image field c... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7310181 | Optical deflection device and optical deflection method that control occurrence of alignment defect An optical deflection device includes an optical deflection element having a pair of transparent boards arranged in a mutually opposing manner. A liquid crystal layer is filled between the boards and forms a chiral smectic C phase. An orientation film orients liquid... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307685 | Display element and display device An electrode is provided on one surface of each of a pair of substrates. On the other surface of each of the substrates, a polarizer is provided. The substrates are assembled together so that their surfaces on which the electrodes are formed face each other. Then, a... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304627 | Aligning method under electric field of ferroelectric liquid crystal and liquid crystal display using the same An electric field alignment method of liquid crystal display including the steps of: applying a first voltage to a gate terminal of a thin film transistor for driving a liquid crystal cell having ferroelectric liquid crystal, wherein the first voltage is below a thr... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295272 | Liquid crystal device, a method for producing a liquid crystal device and method for controlling a liquid crystal device The invention relates to a liquid crystal device, comprising a liquid crystal bulk layer and chiral dopants being inhomogeneously distributed in the bulk layer as a result of being permanently attached to at least one surface, termed chiral surface. The invention al... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283196 | Liquid crystal device, a method for producing a liquid crystal device and a method for controlling a liquid crystal device The invention relates to a liquid crystal device, comprising a liquid crystal bulk layer and dopants being inhomogeneously distributed in the bulk layer as a result of being permanently attached to at least one surface, termed dopant surface. The invention also rela... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280103 | Display method, display apparatus and data write circuit utilized therefor A hold-type display apparatus is more likely to suffer the deterioration in the visibility of moving images due to the blur effect, compared to an impulse-type display apparatus. A single frame period is divided into a first period and a second period. Pixel data to... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274419 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device including a reflecting layer with projections and depressions having azimuthal anisotropies on reflection intensity formed on a surface thereof, for reflecting incident light, and a liquid crystal layer provided on the reflecting laye... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7265810 | Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method of liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having uniform alignment of monostable ferroelectric liquid crystal, and a manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display device. The temperature range of a cholesteric phase or a chiral nematic phas... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7253871 | Efficient room-temperature source of polarized single photons An efficient technique for producing deterministically polarized single photons uses liquid-crystal hosts of either monomeric or oligomeric/polymeric form to preferentially align the single emitters for maximum excitation efficiency. Deterministic molecular alignmen... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7215400 | In Plane switching mode liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, ferroelectric liquid crystal layers between the first and second substrates disposed substantially at respective surfaces of the first and second substrates, the... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212269 | Ferroelectric liquid crystal display A ferroelectric liquid crystal display having alignment films with different surface polarities. The alignment films induce an internal electric field through the liquid crystal. Because of the induced internal electric field, initial liquid crystal alignment, and s... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7202926 | Cholesteric reflective retardation optical element with directors at top surface of optical element parallel to those at the bottom surface of the optical element Provided herein is a retardation optical element 10 that produces no bright and dark fringes on a displayed image even when placed between a liquid crystal cell 104 and a polarizer 102B and thus can effectively prevent lowering of display qualit... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7195719 | High polarization ferroelectric liquid crystal compositions The invention relates to chiral nonracemic liquid crystal compounds having achiral tails comprising a perfluoroalkyl terminal portion which are useful as components in liquid crystal to impart high polarization to the mixture. The materials of this invention can be ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197204 | Applications of light movable liquid crystal Practical applications of a class of nematic elastomer which has light avoidance characteristics are disclosed. Such practical applications include a switching device, a load carrying device and programmable mask. The use of different light sources, including the us... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196465 | Dual panel type organic electroluminescent device and method for fabricating the same A dual panel type organic electroluminescent device includes a first substrate having a first region and a second region corresponding to a peripheral region of the first region, TFTs formed in the first region, pad parts formed in the second region, a second substr... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193671 | Reflective liquid crystal display device having obliquely evaporated alignment film on vertically evaporated film, method of manufacturing the same, and vertically aligned liquid crystal display unit In a reflective liquid crystal display device according to the invention, while maintaining alignment characteristics by an obliquely evaporated alignment film, an electrical problem due to the film structure can be solved, and ions of the like can be prevented from... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193674 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A liquid crystal display device includes a lower substrate, an upper substrate facing the lower substrate, a common electrode and a plurality of data electrodes on the lower substrate to generate an In-Plane switching mode electric field parallel to the lower and up... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7173609 | Image display apparatus and image display method When displaying moving images by using liquid crystal panels and others, a problem exists in that tail streaks occur, and image degradation is resultantly caused. To solve this problem, an echo suppression circuit divides a video signal into a pair composed of two s... | 02/06/2007 |
