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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8102490 | Display element with displaying pattern feature In order to provide a cholesteric liquid crystal display element of a structure capable of forming a color in the background by means of a low cost electrode structure and burying an Off display color completely in the background color, the color of the display part... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8089592 | Method of forming a full color layer by injecting liquid crystals having same properties into the spaces between the partition spacers Disclosed is a full color liquid crystal display, including a lower substrate and an upper substrate facing each other, partition spacers uniformly arranged between the lower substrate and the upper substrate to form a plurality of spaces while maintaining a cell ga... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8040475 | Reflective morphable display device and method of feature activation Disclosed is reflective morphable display with multi-layered depth viewing, low power consumption and few components and a method of activating various features thereof. The disclosed display includes a bi-stable reflective cholesteric liquid display crystal (ChLCD)... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8023080 | High transmittance brightness enhanced optical element for LCD by wholly coating process A high transmittance brightness enhanced optical element for backlight modules and liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The brightness enhanced polarizing optical element comprises a reflective polarizer film, a phase retardation film, and a polarization enha... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023079 | Liquid crystal display The present invention provides a touch panel and a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display includes a panel, a plurality of reflective coding patterns printed on the panel, and a polarizing plate positioned on the panel, wherein the reflective coding patt... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018555 | Backlight device for liquid crystal display A backlight device for a liquid crystal display device includes a light source providing light; a light waveguide plate 40 guiding light from the light source, having an emitting surface, a front surface and a bottom surface, the emitting surface adjacent to ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013963 | Color filter, method of fabricating the same and liquid crystal display panel including the same A color filter is described, including a first color filter layer, a first light absorbing layer, a second color filter pattern and a second light absorbing pattern. The first color filter layer is disposed over a substrate. The first light absorbing layer is dispos... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7880837 | Black and white color cholesteric liquid crystal display A cholesteric display may be formed, in some embodiments, using a single display element to produce multi-colors for display. A cholesteric material may be sandwiched between a pair of substrates, each associated with pairs of opposed electrodes that are arranged in... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7852439 | Multi-layer display element and manufacturing method for the same The invention relates to a multi-layer display element configured by a plurality of layers for use as a display section of electronic paper or others, and a manufacturing method for the multi-layer display element. The invention provides a multi-layer display elemen... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843535 | Reflective liquid crystal display assembly The present invention provides a reflective liquid crystal display assembly, which includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer sealed between them. The present invention designs a specific surface structure of at least one of the first ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7830479 | Liquid crystal display and electronic paper utilizing the display The liquid crystal display includes a first display unit, a second display unit, a light absorbing layer disposed on a bottom surface of the first display unit so as to absorb light which has entered the first display unit through a top surface thereof and which has... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7787080 | Reflecting element and projection system comprising the same A projection system includes a projector that emits imaging light, a polarization screen that selectively reflects, of the imaging light, only light in a specified state of polarization, and a reflecting element placed on an optical path between the projector and th... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7742136 | Manufacturing method for sheet with anti-counterfeit functions A sheet with anti-counterfeit functions for making counterfeiting highly difficult in the case where authentication information is recorded using the properties of cholesteric liquid crystal is provided. A cholesteric liquid crystal layer 110 having a selecti... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7733447 | Liquid crystal display device having particular green cut filter layer and blue cut filter layer A liquid crystal display device in which three cholesteric liquid crystal layers of selective reflection type are laminated, comprises: a first liquid crystal layer arranged on a device observation side selectively reflecting blue; a second liquid crystal layer arra... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7719642 | Backlight device for liquid crystal display A backlight device for a liquid crystal display device includes a light source providing light; a light waveguide plate 40 guiding light from the light source, having an emitting surface, a front surface and a bottom surface, the emitting surface adjacent to ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7710522 | Liquid crystal device having variable reflected wavelength A liquid crystal device comprises a cholesteric liquid crystal material interposed between a transparent front plate and a back plate. The cholesteric liquid crystal material is switchable between a transparent state and a reflective state in response to an electric... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7701537 | Optical diode An optical diode. A cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) layer has a selective reflection wavelength band with a left-handed helical structure, and a phase shifter for changing a phase difference between two intrinsic polarized light components of left-handed circularly... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7652736 | Infrared light reflecting film An infrared light reflecting article is disclosed and includes a visible light transparent substrate including a polymer and an infrared light reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed on the substrate. The substrate and infrared light reflecting choleste... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7633581 | Reflective color display device with selective reflector directly coupled to outside surface of cell wall of display element A reflective colour display device comprising a display element including two opposed cell walls enclosing a layer of an electro-optic material, each cell wall being provided with at least one electrode on an inner surface thereof for applying an electric field acro... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7630037 | Double-sided backlight unit with different area first and second LCD panels and having a first light-diffusing sheet between a light guide plate and light-absorbing sheet and second light-diffusing sheet between the light guide plate and the second LCD panel A single light guide plate illuminates both first and second liquid crystal display panels opposed to each other, the second liquid crystal display panel having a larger display area than that of the first liquid crystal display panel. A light-absorbing sheet is pro... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7589809 | Reflective plate, production method therefor, liquid crystal device, and electronic device The invention provides a thin reflective plate having cholesteric liquid crystal that can prevent or reduce a decrease of reflection efficiency. A reflective plate includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and the cholesteric liquid crystal layer includes a plura... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7580098 | Display device A phase-invariant layer, which is formed at areas that are not transmission areas, forces light entering the reflection areas of a transflective LCD from a backlight unit to move into transmission areas by reflection, so that the amount of light used in a transmissi... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7542117 | Liquid crystal display device having a selective reflection layer, mobile electronic device incorporating the same, and substrate for liquid crystal display device having a selective reflection layer A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed so as to be closer to a viewer than the first substrate is; a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substra... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7443464 | Liquid crystal display unit A partial polarization member is provided on a second substrate. The partial polarization member is provided corresponding to an aperture of a reflection film, and is not provided in other areas that overlap with reflectors of a reflection film. Therefore, light tha... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436470 | Display device having liquid crystal layer and switchable optical layer A display device including a first electrode, a liquid crystal layer positioned under and connected to the first electrode, a second electrode and a switchable optical layer. The switchable optical layer includes either a transparent state or a non-transparent state... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433002 | Prism-patterned broadband reflective polarizer for liquid crystal display The present invention is related to a method of method of manufacture of a reflective polarizing film that can improve brightness of a liquid crystal display device remarkably by making a liquid crystal film that can cover visible light by using cholesteric liquid c... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7425794 | Display device A display device of the present invention has light-emitting devices making up a plurality of pixels placed in a matrix form. In the display device of the present invention, the light-emitting devices each possesses an emissive layer and a reflective element placed ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7400370 | One pixel full color display device using cholesteric mixture A LCD device (200) is disclosed that has a cholesteric compound layer (205), a backplane light (201), and one or more polarizers (203, 209) and liquid crystal smectic C* layers. The cholesteric compound layer (205) transmits ellipt... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7393570 | Broad-band-cholesteric liquid-crystal film, process for producing the same, circularly polarizing plate, linearly polarizing element, illiminator, and liquid-crystal display A broad band cholesteric liquid crystal film of the present invention is a cholesteric liquid crystal film obtained by coating a liquid crystal mixture containing a polymerizable mesogen compound (a), a polymerizable chiral agent (b) and a photoisomerizable material... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394506 | Reflective stereoscopic display with first and second liquid crystal cells An apparatus comprising a first cell (10b), said first cell comprising a plurality of first elements (34b), said first elements being controllable between a non-reflective state, in which electromagnetic radiation having a first polarizat... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391546 | Discrimination medium and discrimination method using the same A discrimination medium 10a includes a first double layered body 101 having a right-handed circular polarization polymer cholesteric liquid crystal layer 11 and a left-handed circular polarization polymer cholesteric liquid crystal layer ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388627 | Discrimination medium and article to be discriminated A breakable seal can be discriminated more easily than the conventional one. The discrimination medium 100 has a cholesteric liquid crystal layer 104, a substrate layer 105, an adhesive layer 102, and a partial peeling layer 103. T... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7385656 | Liquid crystal display device displaying a color mixing light and method for driving the same A display device displaying a color by mixing light reflected by a first reflection element 22 and light reflected by a second reflection element 26 by additive color mixture, in which the light of a first wavelength reflected by the first reflection e... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382424 | Reflective chiral-nematic liquid crystal display with broadband reflection A display sheet comprising a substrate carrying layers of material; including a polymer-dispersed chiral-nematic liquid-crystal layer having a first high reflection state within the visible light spectrum and a second less-reflective state in said spectrum, said sta... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7372524 | Liquid crystal display device An LCD includes a first substrate on which a TFT and a color filter are formed, a second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates. A polarizer attaches over a lower surface of the ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369200 | Semi-transmission type liquid crystal display which reflects incident light coming from outside to provide a display light source and transmits light from a light source at the back A semi-transmission type liquid crystal display that maximizes the luminance in reflection mode and transmission mode. The liquid crystal display comprises a lower substrate with thin film transistors, an opposite substrate facing the lower substrate, a liquid cryst... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365906 | Projection screen and projection system containing same A projection screen capable of sharply displaying an image even under bright environmental light with high image visibility. A projection screen has a polarized-light selective reflection layer with a cholesteric liquid crystalline structure, capable of selectively ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365845 | Optical spectrum analyzer An optical spectrum analyzer measures to-be-measured light while carrying out calibration processing for correcting wavelength information of spectrum data of the to-be-measured light by a wavelength information correction device through a storage device based on th... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7355663 | Polarizing plate and liquid crystal display using the same A polarizing plate excellent in polarization performance in all wavebands from a short wavelength region to a long wavelength region and a liquid crystal display using such a polarizing plate. The polarizing plate including a polarizer has a portion having a polariz... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352422 | Retardation optical element and method of producing the same, and polarization element and liquid crystal display, each including retardation 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... | 04/01/2008 |
