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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7764340 | Optical interference filter that performs excellent color separation, and liquid crystal display, electroluminescence display and projection display apparatus having the optical interference filter An optical interference filter whose major component is a film member. The film member includes a plurality of window regions arranged discretely in a surface direction selectively transmit, using an effect of optical interference, light having a waveband that subst... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7557876 | Anisotropic fluorescent thin crystal film and backlight system and liquid crystal display incorporating the same The backlight system including, an anisotropic fluorescent thin crystal film with the optical parameters matched to the spectral characteristics of a light source, and a liquid crystal display incorporating the backlight system are disclosed. The backlight system co... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7370185 | Self-packaged optical interference display device having anti-stiction bumps, integral micro-lens, and reflection-absorbing layers An electronic device of an embodiment of the invention is disclosed that at least partially displays a pixel of a display image. The device includes a first reflector and a second reflector defining an optical cavity therebetween that is selective of a visible wavel... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362398 | Camera and personal computer having a reflection type liquid crystal device with particular dielectric multi-layer film and interlayer insulating films To provide a novel and extremely effective structure of a liquid crystal display device in which the lowering of reflectivity due to the formation of orientation films can be prevented, a method of manufacturing the display device of the present invention comprises ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361519 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprises the steps of: forming a first insulating film on a first substrate; forming a second insulating film on the first insulating film; forming an amorphous silicon film on the second insulating film; holding a ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7324279 | Dual modulator projection system A three dimensional display system 100 using two spatial light modulators and a single projection path. Light source 102 emits a white light beam 104 which typically is focused onto an aperture of a recycling integrator 106. The light bea... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323217 | Method for making an optical interference type reflective panel An optical-interference type reflective panel and a method for making the same are disclosed, wherein the display panel has a substrate on which multiple supporting layers are firstly formed. Then, a plurality of first conductive optical film stacks, spacing layers ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7301264 | Front plate and display device using same Frusto-conical needle-shaped light guide paths are implanted on the surface of a display panel such that output light from display elements propagate through the needle-shaped light guide paths through total reflection, while external light repeats reflections multi... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7252391 | Method of producing an image A method of producing an image comprising impinging a beam of light on first region of a dynamic filter. The dynamic filter comprising at least two regions having different light transmission characteristics. A first region of the dynamic filter transmits a first tr... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7209143 | Computer system A computer system including a graphic chipset generating RGB signals characterizing RGB components, and an output port through which the RGB signals are transmitted from the graphic chipset to a display device, further including an EMI filter to filter EMI from the ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206005 | Image display device and method for displaying multi-gray scale display An image display device for multi-gray scale display includes a first pixel for transmitting an achromatic color light therethrough with a first transmittance and a second pixel for transmitting the achromatic color light therethrough with a second transmittance dif... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202927 | Electrooptic device comprising a silicon nitride film formed directly on the data lines and not existent on a side face of contact holes On a TFT array substrate, an electrooptic device contains pixel electrodes disposed in an image display region, TFTs which are disposed in a peripheral region at the periphery of the image display region and which form a peripheral circuit, and a protective film for... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193768 | Interference display cell An optical interference display unit with a first electrode, a second electrode and support structures located between the two electrodes is provided. The second electrode has at least a first material layer and a second material layer. At least one material layer o... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184106 | Dielectric reflector for amorphous silicon crystallization A method of forming a liquid crystal display device includes forming an amorphous silicon layer over a substrate and forming a light reflecting layer only over a first portion of the amorphous silicon layer. The amorphous silicon layer is then irradiated with a lase... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7172294 | Multi-layer film cut filter and production method therefor, UV cut filter, dustproof glass, display panel and projection type display unit A multi-layer film, wherein a ratio H/L or L/H, a balance in optical film thickness between a high-refractive-index layer H and a low-refractive-index layer L, is set within a range of 1.2–2.0 to bias a balance in thickness. A method of producing a dielectric mult... | 02/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7132138 | Liquid crystal information displays The LC information display contains a layer of liquid crystal situated between the front and the rear panels with functional layers, and the liquid crystal has parameters providing interference maximum or minimum of transmission or reflection at the exit of the disp... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7118226 | Sequential color recapture for image display systems A method for transmitting light in an image display system includes generating a beam of light from a light source. The beam of light is directed at a first segment of an electronically-switchable filter. A first portion of the beam of light is accepted by the first... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7110071 | Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus The invention provides a transflective liquid crystal display device in which display is bright, with high contrast, and with less dependence on the viewing angle in the transmissive display mode. A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal cell, the l... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7092055 | Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus Ambient light incident upon a polarizer 105 passes through a liquid crystal layer 103 and is then reflected by reflective films 116 via transparent electrodes 115. The reflected light passes again through the liquid crystal layer 103 | 08/15/2006 |
| 7074509 | Hydrogen generators for fuel cells An electric power generator including a fuel cell, which includes a fuel cell anode and a fuel cell cathode separated by at least one proton exchange membrane and a hydrogen generator operative to provide molecular hydrogen to the fuel cell anode. The hydrogen gener... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7066605 | Color recapture for display systems A sequential color display system using a white light source to create a full color image projected onto an image plane. A dynamic filter, typically a series of moving dichroic filters, generates a series of primary colored light beams that are swept across the surf... | 06/27/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7046320 | Optical element and surface light source device using the same, as well as liquid crystal display An optical element 11 includes a bandpass filter made of a lamination of thin films respectively having different refraction factors so as to selectively allow light emitted from a backlight 6 to pass therethrough, and a polarizer 3, a quarter-w... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040536 | Electronic shelf label systems and methods An electronic shelf label including an LCD display, a housing including a protective at least partially transparent cover layer disposed over the LCD display and in spaced relationship thereto, and an at least partially transparent intermediate layer formed over the... | 05/09/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7038745 | Brightness enhancing reflective polarizer A multiple layer reflective polarizer 12 is described. This element is placed between and optical cavity 24 and an LCD module 16 to form an optical display. The reflective polarizer reflects some light into the optical cavity 24 where it ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7030942 | Liquid crystal display device having printed circuit board affixed to supporter main and method of fabricating the same A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix configuration, a printed circuit board having a drive circuit mounted thereon to drive the liquid crystal display panel, a support... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7023506 | Reflective liquid crystal display device A reflective LCD device having a CLC color filter includes a holographic film to increase a luminance and viewing angle. Due to the holographic film, light incident to the CLC film has not only a small incident angle but also a small reflection angle. Therefore, a w... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7008829 | Alignment marks and manufacturing method for the same Alignment marks are formed when source and drain electrodes of a TFT are formed and thereon a thick red filter is formed. So that, the following respective color layers can be made thin on the red filter. Also, the exposure alignment laser permeates in an exposure s... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6999236 | Optical-interference type reflective panel and method for making the same An optical-interference type reflective panel and a method for making the same are disclosed, wherein the display panel has a substrate on which multiple supporting layers are firstly formed. Then, a plurality of first conductive optical film stacks, spacing layers ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6992826 | Devices based on an array of light-filtering channels with surface plasmon interference filters Devices based on surface plasmon filters having at least one metal-dielectric interface to support surface plasmon waves. A multi-layer-coupled surface plasmon notch filter is provided to have more than two symmetric metal-dielectric interfaces coupled with one anot... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6967759 | Pulse width modulation sequence generation A system and method for addressing and synchronizing a spatial light modulator (SLM) device and a scrolling color recovery (SCR) illumination system. This method applies all the colors to a single SLM simultaneously and recaptures light rejected by the color filters... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6912022 | Optical interference color display and optical interference modulator An optical interference color display is provided. The optical interference color display comprises a color filtering substrate, a patterned support layer, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of optical films and a plurality of second electrodes. The patter... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6909476 | Color polymer dispersed liquid crystal display and method for manufacture thereof A color polymer dispersed liquid crystal display includes a lower substrate, an upper substrate, color liquid crystal-polymer films, and two transparent liquid crystal driving electrodes, among others. The color liquid crystal-polymer films are formed by foaming pol... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6864933 | Light valve and device provided with a light valve A light valve for controlled transmission of light comprises first and second elements at least one of which is controllably movable into optical contact with the other element. Means are provided for projecting light on the first of the two elements on the side rem... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6859242 | Polarizing plate comprising polymer film and polarizing membrane A polarizing plate comprises a polymer film and a polarizing membrane. The polymer film has a slow axis, and the polarizing membrane has a transmission axis. The polymer film and the polarizing membrane are arranged to orient the slow axis of the polymer film essent... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6847420 | Liquid crystal display with reflecting polarizer A liquid crystal display is provided which comprises front and rear panels, and electrodes, polarizers and a layer of liquid crystal disposed between the front and rear panels. The polarizer on the rear panel is preferably a reflecting type in at least one region of... | 01/25/2005 |
| 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 |
