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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8144289 | Liquid crystal display panel, thin film transistor array substrate and curing line structure for phase separation alignment process The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display panel, a thin film transistors array substrate and curing line structure thereof in use of phase separation alignment (PSA) process. The curing line structure has a contact pad allocated on a periphery area of... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8009250 | Liquid crystal display having particular pixel electrodes A four color liquid crystal display (LCD) including red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels are provided. The LCD also includes a plurality of gate lines for transmitting gate signals to the sub-pixels and a plurality of data lines for transmitting data signals to th... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7782423 | Liquid crystal display with first and second transparent resin layers having at least one different characteristic In a liquid crystal display comprising a liquid crystal layer, a pair of substrates between which the liquid crystal layer is arranged, a pair of polarizing plates arranged between which the substrates are arranged, and a light source arranged at an outside of the p... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7667792 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having an upper substrate and a lower substrate that face each other with a layer of liquid crystal molecules therebetween, and a liquid powder display panel at a lower surface of the liquid crystal pan... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7593073 | Optical member, method of manufacturing the same and display device having the same An optical member includes a first liquid crystal assembly and a second liquid crystal assembly. The first liquid crystal assembly has a liquid crystal layer aligned in a first direction. Light polarized in the first direction is reflected from the first liquid crys... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7548288 | Thin film transistor array panel and display device having particular data lines and pixel arrangement Disclosed is a thin film transistor array panel. The panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in the form of a matrix each with a pixel electrode and a switching element connected to the pixel electrode, and a plurality of gate lines connected to the switching ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7466376 | Photovoltaic cell A photovoltaic cell has two electrodes and a hole injection layer. A liquid crystal material and a plurality of particles can be disposed between the electrodes. ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7423700 | Liquid crystal device for compensating for aberration, optical pickup including liquid crystal device, and optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing optical pickup Provided are an aberration-compensating liquid crystal device, a method of manufacturing the same, an optical pickup including the liquid crystal device, and an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing the optical pickup. The method of manufacturing ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417694 | Thin film transistor array panel and liquid crystal display including the panel A thin film transistor (TFT) array panel is provided, which includes: a plurality of gate lines transmitting gate signals; a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines and transmitting data signals, each data line including first and second data line branch... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7408603 | Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal panel according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal cell; a first polarizer arranged on one side of the liquid crystal cell; a second polarizer arranged on another side of the liquid crystal cell; a positive A plate ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7362046 | Partial overlapping display tiles of organic light emitting device Display 100 has three adjacent display tiles 10, each having a mould plastics support 11, a glass panel 12 incorporating the OLED element and an interface pcb 17. These tiles 10 form part of a full-color advertising screen o... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359024 | Structure of liquid crystal display device for easy assembly and disassembly A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a transparent conductor which is formed at a liquid crystal side of at least one of the first and the second substrates. At least a projected portion i... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359023 | Display system with pixel electrodes separated from a common electrode by different optical distances A display system comprises an electro-optic layer having first and second opposite major surfaces, a first electrode proximate the first surface of the electro-optic layer, and an electrode array. The electrode array includes a first plurality of pixel electrodes op... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352582 | Reinforcing structure, display device, and electronic apparatus To provide a display device with high reliability, which is capable of supporting a display panel well even when the display panel is enlarged, and capable of radiating the heat generated in the display panel well. A display device 100 of the present inventio... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353053 | Non-binding sliding display for a handheld electronic device A handheld electronic device having a slidable display is provided. A display unit is slidably connected to a body unit at two (or more) sliding joints. A mechanical linkage constrains motion at all of the sliding joints to be substantially equal. In this manner, bi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7336271 | Image display system An image display system includes a screen comprising a pair of substrates with transparent electrodes provided thereon, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates, the liquid crystal layer containing a cured resin and being capable of exhibiting a ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7329440 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal electro-optical device It is an object of the present invention to provide a liquid crystal composition with high response speed without lowering various characteristics of a liquid crystal, such as voltage holding rate and phase transition temperature. One feature of the invention is tha... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324178 | Liquid crystal display device having a light path changing means having a porous film with a plurality of pores Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device capable of improving a viewing angle thereof while reducing a gray scale inversion. The liquid crystal display device has a porous film aligned on a liquid crystal display panel and having a plurality of pores. The porous... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7294370 | Aligned lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal films An aligned film comprises a dried mixture of a lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal material and a dopant selected from the group consisting of dyes having a molecular weight within one order of magnitude of the liquid crystal material and block co-polymers. An exampl... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7294372 | Conductive color filters A conductive color filter includes a layer of carbon nanotubes covered by a colored polymeric resin binder. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292212 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of video signal lines formed on the first substrate, and a plurality of thin film transistors formed pro... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292300 | Liquid crystal display with radially-inclined liquid crystal in unit solid portions arranged in a single direction A liquid crystal display device includes picture element regions defined each by a first electrode and a second electrode opposing the first electrode via the liquid crystal layer therebetween. The first electrode includes, in each picture element region, a pluralit... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289176 | Single panel, active matrix, full color, cholesteric LCD cell configuration A liquid crystal display system and cell configuration is disclosed. The element has a first substrate, having a first substrate electrode and a second substrate having a second substrate electrode approximately parallel to the first substrate. In between the two su... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288895 | System to improve display efficiency based on recycling local heat source A system to improve display efficiency based on recycling a local heat source. In one embodiment, the system includes a display and a lamp to illuminate the display. Heat from a heat generating component within the system in transferred to the lamp. In one embodimen... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286955 | Ship proximity measurement display system including the remotely viewable billboard and bridge display with data communication and attachment framing This invention allows personnel located on two different structures, such as two ships, to continually monitor the separation distance between the two structures, with all of the necessary equipment being located on only one of the structures. This is accomplished u... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277140 | Image shifting device, image display, liquid crystal display, and projection image display The invention provides an image shifting device including at least one image shifting part for periodically shifting the position of an optical axis. The image shifting part includes a liquid crystal device 10 for switching a polarization direction of light b... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274413 | Flexible video display apparatus and method A flexible video display apparatus and a method for making the same. The flexible video display comprises a silicon layer containing at least a portion of the control and display circuitry, a display layer, and a flexible layer. Other layers, such as an insulating l... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269005 | Pumped loop cooling with remote heat exchanger and display cooling A notebook computer system that utilizes both natural convection and forced convection cooling methods is described. Specifically, at low power levels, the forced convection components are disabled to conserve energy and to reduce noise. ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7253428 | Apparatus and method for feature edge detection in semiconductor processing A system for identifying a mark or other recess formed in a substrate and at least partially covered by at least one layer of opaque or visibly opaque material. The system includes a radiation source configured and positioned to direct incident electromagnetic radia... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253847 | Light adjuster and laminated glass A light adjuster which is free from occurrence of cloudiness, and can maintain sufficient workability to improve the yield. In the light adjuster, transparent electrically conductive films 102a and 102b are provided on respective surfaces... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7215341 | Memory free method of region filling A method of coloring a plurality of cells using a predetermined fill-color, the cells occupying a region in a grid of cells thereby defining a plurality of region-cells, the method comprising: (a) dividing the grid into a plurality of elementary-regions, each compri... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209204 | Liquid crystal display having wide viewing angle Disclosed is a liquid crystal display comprising a first substrate; pixel electrodes formed on the first substrate, the pixel electrodes having formed thereon a first aperture pattern; a second substrate provided opposing the first substrate; a common electrode form... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7208865 | Display device and method of manufacturing the same The present invention ensures the hermetic bonding of a support body which is interposed between a face substrate and a back substrate and is formed of a plurality of members thus easily realizing the large-sizing of a screen of a display image and, at the same time... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7199808 | Liquid crystal display The present invention aims at providing a liquid crystal display which can reproduce images in a uniform manner. In a liquid crystal display which adopts an area ratio gray scale and includes pixels each having a plurality of sub-pixels, the sub-pixel includes a sub... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7193673 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is disclosed, which obtains a wide viewing angle without gray inversion, stabilizes alignment of liquid crystal layer, and obtains high aperture ratio. The LCD device includes first and second substrates; gate and data lines cro... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190503 | Electro-optical device, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus A method of manufacturing an electro-optical device having a curved display surface with high reliability is provided. A liquid crystal panel 100 comprising a TFT array substrate 10 and a counter substrate 20, each composed of a glass substrate ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7189993 | Display device, method of production of the same, and projection type display device A display device able to raise a light resistance of pixel transistors without depending upon a light shielding structure and a method of production of same, wherein an average crystal grain size of a polycrystalline silicon film 111 forming an active layer o... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7178435 | Glass substrate and display apparatus Glass substrates for display apparatuses of the related art which is cut from the mother glass have different glass size from each other in accordance with demand of respective display apparatus manufacturing company or factory. Therefore, it is not always effective... | 02/20/2007 |
