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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7397461 | Mirrored decorative video display concealment and cooling apparatus and method An apparatus for concealing a light emitting video display mounted to a vertical surface by reflecting incident ambient light in mirror-like fashion. The apparatus includes a perimeter structure, which is positioned adjacent to the vertical surface about the video d... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391482 | Image projection lighting device displays and interactive images An improved multiparameter lighting fixture is provided comprising a base, a yoke, a lamp housing, and a communication port for receiving address and command signals. The lamp housing may be comprised of a lamp, a light valve, and a lens. The lamp, the light valve a... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7336322 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus includes a second converging unit constructed so that a light flux from part of a first light source or from a separately provided second light source is converged to have a line shape, a spectroscope/deflector unit constructed so that his... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7262818 | Video system with de-motion-blur processing A video system that performs TV signal decoding, deinterlacing, and de-motion-blurring for progressive scan flat panel display is introduced. The system embeds a frame buffer and a scaler for conducting format and resolution conversions for display panels of differe... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7119801 | Display device and electronic apparatus A display device includes a display panel having an electrooptic material provided between a pair of substrates opposed to each other. The display panel has a driver integrated circuit mounted on an extended area in which an edge of one of the substrates extends fur... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7110050 | Method for processing video pictures for display on a display device using self-priming and refreshing sub-fields The invention is related to a new kind of plasma display panel control. A known principle for PDP control is based on a combination of sub-field addressing and priming. Within the priming period all the plasma cells of the panel are pre-excited by a strong voltage p... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6999665 | Display panel having dual directional diffusion An optical panel includes a plurality of stacked optical waveguides bound by black cladding to collectively form an inlet face and an opposite display screen. An inlet diffuser has an inlet surface, and an opposite outlet surface adjoining the inlet face of the wave... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6692129 | Display apparatus including RGB color combiner and 1D light valve relay including schlieren filter The optical system includes a plurality of light modulators, one or more combining filters, and an optical relay system including a filter. Each light modulator modulates a corresponding incident light beam. The one or more combining filters superimpose t... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6185016 | System for generating an image A system for generating an image comprising an illumination system having a light source and a plurality of holographic devices switchable between an active state wherein light from the light source is diffracted by the device and a passive state wherein ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6031656 | Beam-addressed micromirror direct view display A flat-panel direct view display positions an array of electrostatically-actuated cantilevered micromirrors in front of a contrasting background and opposite a flat-panel electron beam source. Depending upon the display configuration, the electron beam so... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5499053 | Electronic finder with reduced reflection caused by incoming light An image observing apparatus capable of reducing reflections caused by incoming light. The apparatus includes an image display such as a liquid crystal cell with at least one optical system disposed between the image display and the observer's eye. A pola... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5381502 | Flat or curved thin optical display panel An optical panel 10 includes a plurality of waveguides 12 stacked together, with each waveguide 12 having a first end 12a and an opposite second end 12b. The first ends 12a collectively define a first face 16, and the second ends 12b collectively define a... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5321416 | Head-mounted visual display apparatus A head-mounted visual display apparatus for displaying an image generated by an image generator to a wearer of the apparatus. The visual display apparatus comprises a helmet (10) comprising a shell and a headband (66) engaged to an interior surface of the... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5299042 | Light-to-light conversion method, display unit using the same, and light-to-light conversion element incorporated therein A display unit which can be used with various sources of information includes a light-to-light conversion element composed of first and second stripe electrodes arranged to jointly form a matrix electrode, and a photoconductive layer and a light modulatio... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5144416 | Video display and imaging devices having liquid crystal scanning A vacuum tube video display screen and imaging device utilizing waveguides to disperse a horizontal line of image over the vertical area of the viewing screen and an array of closely spaced liquid crystal lines to permit passage of light from the disperse... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5083120 | Flat panel display utilizing leaky lightguides In a row-backlight column-shutter display, an array of sequentially illuminated leaky lightguides is utilized as the row-backlight component of the display. Light is coupled into each guide from a small high-peak-brightness source such as a light-emitting... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5018007 | Thin projection screen having a liquid crystal display screen overlaid a sheet of fiber optic cables A relatively thin projection screen includes a sheet of parallel, specially treated fiber optic cables that emit light transversely, and an overlying liquid crystal display screen formed of a plurality of adjacent and individually modulatable liquid cryst... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4978952 | Flat screen color video display A video display having a shutter assembly with apertures, optical guides extending behind the assembly and a group of different light sources channeling their light into each of the optical guides, respectively. The guides may be collimators which allow l... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4907862 | Method for generating elecronically controllable color elements and color display based on the method Described herein are a method for generating electronically controllable color elements and a color display based on the method, comprising a light gate matrix (9), and a light source system with a set of primary color sources (6, 7, 8) for the primary co... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4723171 | Electroscopic fluid picture-display device suitable for displaying television images An electroscopic fluid picture-display device suitable for display television images and operating with pulse duration modulation. A picture signal sample-and-hold circuit (S/H) is followed by a pulse duration modulator (UG, DE) which comprises a first el... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4654715 | Flat screen display system using a two-dimension surface acoustic wave (SAW) scanning A flat screen display system uses a two-dimension surface acoustic wave ("SAW") scanning. The flat screen is made of a piezoelectric substrate coated with a layer of piezoluminophor powder. Four SAWs having two by two nonparallel directions are launched a... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4379621 | Image display device utilizing birefringence properties of ferroelectric ceramic material An image display device comprises first and second polarizers having their planes of polarizations oriented at right angles to each other and an electrooptic plate of ferroelectric ceramic material interposed between the first and second polarizers. A mat... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4331972 | Light valve, light valve display, and method A light valve comprises a pair of elements of transparent material each comprising a diffraction grating of like periodicity facing each other with parallel grating lines. Such a light valve is termed herein a bigrate. The transmission of light through th... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4123783 | Magnetic bubble display systems A display arrangement including a source of polarized radiation; a magnetic material capable of supporting magnetic bubble domains in the path of the polarized beam, for producing a modulated beam; a device for representing an image encoded signal by mean... | 10/31/1978 |
| 3971887 | Dynamic magnetic bubble display system A dynamic pattern display and optical data processing system is provided including magnetic bubble devices which may be operated in real-time to produce a multi-tone (gray scale) two dimensional pattern. The display pattern is obtained by directing a ligh... | 07/27/1976 |
| 3965299 | Dynamic magnetic bubble display system A dynamic pattern display and optical data processing system is provided including magnetic bubble devices which may be operated in real-time to produce two and three dimensional patterns such as holograms, kinoform lenses and complex filters. Th display ... | 06/22/1976 |
