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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8405802 | Liquid crystal display device The technology presented herein has a feature of providing a liquid crystal display device of an excellent viewing angle characteristic and high brightness, including: liquid crystals containing polymerizable monomers between a first substrate with a pixel electrode... | 03/26/2013 |
| 7982829 | Liquid crystal display device The technology presented herein has a feature of providing a liquid crystal display device of an excellent viewing angle characteristic and high brightness, including: liquid crystals containing polymerizable monomers between a first substrate with a pixel electrode... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7656474 | Liquid crystal display device The technology presented herein has a feature of providing a liquid crystal display device of an excellent viewing angle characteristic and high brightness, including: liquid crystals containing polymerizable monomers between a first substrate with a pixel electrode... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7576814 | Liquid crystal display device of in-plane switching mode, method of fabricating the same, and method of driving the same An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes upper and lower substrates, first and second ferroelectric liquid crystal layers, a nematic system crystal layer, and first and second electrodes. The electrodes and liquid crystal layers are located ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7525613 | Liquid crystal display device and display control method thereof A liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of pixels are arrayed substantially in a matrix, and a display control circuit which sequentially selects the rows of pixels in synchronism with a horizontal period of a s... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7443440 | Color separator and imager A color separator includes a polarization converting section for converting an incoming light ray into a linearly polarized light ray such that the polarization direction of the linearly polarized light ray is selectable from a number of predetermined directions, an... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7391053 | Inspection substrate for display device In order to make it possible to easily detect an electrical defect by using an array tester, the present inspection substrate includes: plural scan lines and plural signal lines; plural storage capacitor lines arranged in parallel to the scan lines; storage capacito... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7307678 | Liquid crystal display and fabricating method thereof A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal injected between upper and lower plates, wherein the upper and lower plates have electrodes respectively formed thereon, an upper alignment film formed on the upper plate and a lower alignment film formed on the low... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7289173 | Polarizing device, and method for manufacturing the same A polarizing element 20 has a first undulating structure in which a plurality of linear first recesses 22 are formed parallel to one another in one surface of a transparent substrate 21, and a dielectric layer 30 made from silicon dioxide... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283114 | Systems and method for displaying images with reduced power consumption A method and a system for displaying images are provided. In the method, a pixel is provided that includes a layer of ferroelectric material and a layer of liquid crystal material. A first electric field is momentarily applied to the pixel to electrically polarize t... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7265800 | Micro-structured illumination system for providing polarized light A multi-layered arrangement according to the invention provide emission of polarized light. At least one of the interfacing surfaces between the layers is provided with a microstructure. In one embodiment, a first layer in the form of a lightguide substrate (401 | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265735 | Self scanning flat display A self-scanning flat display having a light active matrix in the form of a set of periodic lines which include light-reflecting, light-transparent, or light-emitting elements. These elements are controlled by current or a charge generated by a scan raster device. Th... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7223694 | Method for improving selectivity of electroless metal deposition A method of depositing a metal cladding on conductors in a damascene process is described. The potential between, for instance, cobalt ions in electroless solution and the surface of an ILD between the conductors is adjusted so as to repel the metal from the ILD. | 05/29/2007 |
| 7139063 | Fabricating method for liquid crystal panel implementing ferroelectric liquid crystal and operating in a monostable state In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, a ferroelectric LC layer is formed between first and second substrates of a LC panel. The LC panel is cooled at a low temperature, for example at −20° C., where the ferroelectric LC maintains a smetic phase. D... | 11/21/2006 |
| 6989808 | Driving of a liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a d.c. voltage source for producing a common voltage such that the common voltage is substantially equal to a central voltage of a bipolar voltage signal. ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6919950 | Liquid crystal device and a liquid crystal material The invention relates to a liquid crystal device, comprising an antiferroelectric liquid crystal material (AFLC material) having smectic layers, and two substrates confining the AFLC material therebetween, wherein the AFLC material is uniaxial negative. Preferably, ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6914653 | Wavelength-selective reflection film comprising liquid crystal molecules aligned in chiral smectic phase A wavelength-selective reflection film comprises at least one layer. In the layer, liquid crystal molecules are aligned in a chiral smectic phase. The chiral smectic phase has a helical pitch and an average refractive index. The product of the helical pitch and the ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6900874 | Device and method for the temperature-independent operation of electro-optical switches on the basis of ferroelectric liquid crystals having a deformed helix In order to substantially reduce temperature-dependent influences and attendant long switching times in the case of an optical liquid crystal modulator having at least one ferroelectric liquid crystal and in a method for operating an optical liquid crystal modulator... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6853363 | Projection type image display apparatus A projection type image display apparatus projects, under magnification by using a projection lens, image information carried by a luminous flux emitted from a ferroelectric liquid crystal display device. A field-sequential color-decomposing illumination optical sys... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6778237 | Polarizing element A polarizing element provided with a layer including liquid crystals and a polarizer having a transmission axis. The polarizing element of the present invention is structured such that liquid crystal molecules in the aforementioned liquid crystal layer have a chiral... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6768526 | Time-sequential color separator and liquid crystal projector using the same A fast time-sequential color separator that can fast-switch to output various wavelength ranges of lights having high color purity and a high contrast ratio, which includes: a prism module to separate an incident light into various wavelength ranges of light beams w... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6710759 | Ferroelectric liquid crystal device and driving method to prevent threshold voltage change A ferroelectric liquid crystal display element holds a ferroelectric liquid crystal between a pair of substrates. A driving scheme includes a reset period having a switching period and a non-switching period which precede application of a selection pulse. During the... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6671028 | Distorted helix ferroelectric liquid crystal cell A liquid crystal display cell comprising a chiral ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal layer whose helix structure is influenced by the action of an electric field such that its optical anisotropy alters; a pair of transparent plates between which the liq... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6661494 | Monostable ferroelectric active matrix display The monostable ferroelectric active matrix display comprises a liquid-crystal layer in the form of a monodomain having an unambiguously defined direction of the layer normal z of the smC* phase, the liquid-crystal layer preferably having a chevron C-1, ch... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6577369 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display having a transparent electrode layer is free from interference fringes and image sticking are disclosed. The transparent electrode layer may consist of a first transparent film, a transparent electrode film, a second transparent n... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6549185 | Display apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display which has a pair of plates each provided with an electrode and a liquid crystal layer retained between the plates, and a driver which is connected to said liquid crystal display for applying a voltage ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6486812 | D/A conversion circuit having n switches, n capacitors and a coupling capacitor A D/A conversion circuit is described which comprises a n switching, n capacitors and a coupling circuit. Upper n bit of the digital signal control n switches respectively and control charging and discharging of electric charge into the n capacitors, and ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6426783 | Continuously viewable, DC field-balanced, reflective, ferroelectric liquid crystal image generator A reflection mode, ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulating system, includes a light reflecting type spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator has a light reflecting surface cooperating with a layer of ferroelectric liquid crystal ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6380997 | Achromatic polarization inverters for displaying inverse frames in DC balanced liquid crystal displays This invention provides achromatic compound retarders, achromatic polarization switches, and achromatic shutters using the liquid crystal compound retarders. It further provides achromatic variable retardance smectic and nematic liquid crystal retarders. ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6233084 | Optical display system including an achromatized ferroelectric light valve An optical display system includes a source of white uncollimated light, a color separator for separating the white light into spectral components, a reflective ferroelectric light valve for spatially modulating the spectral components, and a polarizing b... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6208403 | Antiferroelectric liquid crystal display device An antiferroelectric liquid crystal display device includes: an active matrix type LC cell and an antiferroelectric liquid crystal sealed in the cell. Liquid crystal molecules aligned to one of a first aligning direction and a second aligning direction ar... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6181396 | Irregularly corrugated reflective plate for a liquid crystal display A reflective liquid crystal display apparatus reflective plate includes embodiments with a full-width at half maximum value in a distribution graph of distances between adjacent projecting or recessed portions with an average of the distances between the ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6144421 | Continuously viewable, DC-field balanced, reflective, ferroelectric liquid crystal image generator A reflection mode, ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulating system, includes a light reflecting type spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator has a light reflecting surface cooperating with a layer of ferroelectric liquid crystal ... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6130731 | Liquid crystal devices using a linear electro-optic effect A device for influencing light has a polarizer, a ferroelectric or electroclinic response type liquid crystal halfwave plate whose liquid crystals are in the smectic phase with bookshelf geometry and have molecular axes which are rotatable around a first ... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6122034 | Antiferroelectric liquid crystal display device An antiferroelectric liquid crystal display device includes: an active matrix type LC cell and an antiferroelectric liquid crystal sealed in the cell. Liquid crystal molecules aligned to one of a first aligning direction and a second aligning direction ar... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6122028 | Reflective liquid crystal device with polarizing beam splitter A reflective liquid crystal device includes a polarising beam splitter, a polarisation preserving reflector and a retarder arrangement including at least two retarders. A first of the retarders is disposed between the beam splitter and the reflector, and ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6115091 | Liquid crystal device with adjustable light throughput The present invention relates to a liquid crystal unit having a liquid crystal panel (2) that has an antiferroelectric liquid crystal or ferroelectric liquid crystal sandwiched between a pair of substrates (23a, 23b), and a backlight (1) for illuminating ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6100945 | Compensator arrangements for a continuously viewable, DC field-balanced, reflective, ferroelectric liquid crystal display system A display system for acting on light entering the system includes a reflective ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulator and a polarizer arrangement. The polarizer arrangement includes a polarizer for polarizing the light entering the system an... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6016173 | Optics arrangement including a compensator cell and static wave plate for use in a continuously viewable, reflection mode, ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulating system A reflection mode, ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulating system, includes a light reflecting type spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator has a light reflecting surface cooperating with a layer of ferroelectric liquid crystal ... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5995181 | Antiferroelectric liquid crystal with polarizing axes oriented between a molecular axis direction in rightward-tilted antiferroelectric state and a molecular axis direction in leftward-tilted antiferroelectric state An antiferroelectric liquid crystal display apparatus with a high display quality is provided wherein the display screen in the absence of an applied voltage is free from unevenness when power is turned off. An intrinsic antiferroelectric axis direction i... | 11/30/1999 |
