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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184246 | Transparent film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display device A transparent film is disclosed. The film comprises a domain in which the Nz value in the normal direction of the film surface shows monotonous increase from 0 to 1 or monotonous decrease from 1 to 0, and having an in-plane retardation Re at a wavelength of 550 nm f... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174648 | Cellulose acylate film, process for producing the same, and polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device having the same Disclosed is a cellulose acylate film comprising a cellulose acylate satisfying relations of 2.0≦A+B≦2.45, (II): and 0.8≦A≦1.4, and (III): 0.6≦B≦1.65 where “A” represents a degree of acetyl substitution of hydroxy in a glucose unit of cellulose acyla... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8154694 | Laminated optical film, and liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display apparatus using the laminated optical film Provided are a laminated optical film capable of enhancing a contrast ratio in an oblique direction remarkably while enhancing viewing angle characteristics when being used in a liquid crystal display apparatus or the like, and a liquid crystal panel and a liquid cr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149360 | Projection image display apparatus A projection image display apparatus includes: light source; polarization/separation element having a polarization/separation plane through which one polarized light passes and which reflects the other orthogonal to the one; an image display element for modulating t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139188 | Retardation film, polarizing film, liquid crystal display, and method of designing retardation film To provide a retardation film in which the retardation condition is adjusted to achieve a liquid crystal display without coloration over a wide viewing angle range and having a high contrast ratio, and a method of designing the same, as well as a polarizing film and... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134665 | Polarizer and liquid-crystal display apparatus having reduced polarization state in oblique viewing angles A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first polarizer located on one side of a first substrate, a second polarizer located on the opposite side of a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer formed of liquid crystal molecules and between the first and the sec... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8115895 | Optical compensation film and liquid crystal display device using the same An optical compensation film comprising a light absorbing layer capable of absorbing at least light of wavelength λ nm in the visible light region is disclosed. The light absorbing layer has absorption anisotropy, light absorption coefficient kz(λ) in the directio... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8085370 | Single-polarizer reflective bistable twisted nematic (BTN) liquid crystal display device The application relates to a single-polarizer reflective bistable twisted nematic (BTN) liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal layer of thickness d, birefringence Δn and retardation Δnd, said liquid crystal layer being situated between two subst... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077277 | Liquid crystal display device comprising a first optical compensating member disposed without a birefringent medium sandwiched between the liquid crystal layer and the first optical compensating member A liquid crystal display device comprising a first optical compensating member disposed without a birefringent medium sandwiched between a liquid-crystal layer and the first optical compensating member. The first optical compensating member is constructed so that wh... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072567 | Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display apparatus using the same A liquid crystal panel of the present invention includes in the following order toward a viewer side: a first polarizer; a first optical compensation layer having a refractive index ellipsoid of nx>ny>nz and an in-plane retardation Re1 of 90 to 300 nm; a ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8049850 | Liquid crystal display device, optical compensatory sheet, and polarizer and liquid crystal display device employing the same A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal panel in which liquid crystals having negative dielectric anisotropy are interposed between upper substrate and lower substrate that have been vertically oriented on the surface, the orientation of the liqu... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8031308 | Retardation film, polarizing film, liquid crystal display, and method of designing retardation film To provide a retardation film in which the retardation condition is adjusted to achieve a liquid crystal display without coloration over a wide viewing angle range and having a high contrast ratio, and a method of designing the same, as well as a polarizing film and... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027003 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display includes a lower panel, an upper panel facing the lower panel and including a plurality of red color filters, green color filters, and blue color filters, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the lower and upper panels. The liquid c... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018556 | Liquid crystal display device having a biaxial first anisotropic film and a second anisotropic film having an optical axis in a thickness direction A LCD device includes a LC cell including a homogeneously-oriented LC layer and a pair of transparent substrates. A pair of polarizing films sandwiching therebetween the LC cell. A protective layer of the light-emitting-side polarizing film has an optical isotropy, ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7995175 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates sandwiching therebetween a liquid crystal layer, and first and second polarizers. The first polarizer and the second polarizer are disposed such that an optical absorption axis of the first polari... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7969542 | Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal panel includes a liquid crystal cell having a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules that are vertically aligned in an absence of a voltage; a first optical compensation layer having a relationship of Nz =1 to 2.5 and a relationshi... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7948592 | Display device for increasing viewing angle A display device includes a display panel, a first optical unit, and a second optical unit. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948591 | Retardation film, polarizing film, liquid crystal display, and method of designing retardation film To provide a retardation film in which the retardation condition is adjusted to achieve a liquid crystal display without coloration over a wide viewing angle range and having a high contrast ratio, and a method of designing the same, as well as a polarizing film and... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7924379 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display comprising: a brightness enhancing film, polarizing plate (A), a liquid crystal cell, polarizing plate (B) laminated in that order, Wherein (i) polarizing plate (A) has a polarizing plate protective film facing the brightness enhancing film;... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920238 | Polarizer and liquid-crystal display apparatus having reduced polarization state in oblique viewing angles A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first polarizer located on one side of a first substrate, a second polarizer located on the opposite side of a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer formed of liquid crystal molecules and between the first and the sec... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7889297 | Liquid crystal display operating in a vertically aligned mode The present invention relates generally to the field of liquid crystal display devices and more particularly to a liquid crystal display device operating in vertically aligned mode (VA-mode) in which liquid crystal molecules having a negative dielectric anisotropy a... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7880839 | Liquid crystal display There is provided a liquid crystal display which includes: a liquid crystal cell containing a pair of transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules, sandwiched between the pair of the transparent substrates; and a polarizing p... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880840 | Method for producing vertical alignment liquid crystal display The method to produce the vertical alignment type liquid crystal display employs treating an optical film comprising of cellulous ester with an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide to prepare an alkali-treated optical film; immersi... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7830480 | Liquid crystal panel, and liquid crystal display A liquid crystal panel or the present invention comprising a liquid crystal cell, a first polarizer and a second polarizer provided on both sides of the liquid crystal cell, a first optical compensation layer provided between the liquid crystal cell and the first po... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7800721 | Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display apparatus using the same There is provided a liquid crystal panel having excellent balance between contrast and viewing angle characteristics. A liquid crystal panel according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first polarizer; a first optical compensation layer co... | 09/21/2010 |
| RE41679 | Wide viewing angle polarizer and liquid-crystal display device A wide viewing angle polarizer having: a polarizing film; and a phase retarder adhesively laminated on at least one surface of the polarizing film through an adhesive layer, the phase retarder being made of a composite phase retarder constituted by a laminate in whi... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7782428 | Vertically aligned LCD using a bi-axial retardation compensation film The present invention relates to a vertically aligned LCD (VA-LCD) employing a bi-axial retardation compensation film, in which an in-plain refractive index (nx, ny) and a thickness refractive index (nz) of the film is nx>... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7777845 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display is provided and includes: a liquid crystal cell; a pair of polarizing plates disposed in cross-Nicol arrangement and sandwiching the liquid crystal cell. One of the pair of the polarizing plates has a protective film A for polarizer, dispose... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7768608 | Liquid crystal display device with improved viewing angle A novel liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device comprises a first polarizing film, a first retardation area with an Re of 70 to 330 nm and a value of Nz of not less than 0 to less than 0.5 and a slow axis perpendicular to a tran... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7755730 | Optical compensation film and liquid crystal display having the same A novel optical compensation film is disclosed. The optical compensation film has Re/Rth(450 nm), a ratio of Re to Rth measured at 450 nm, 0.4 to 0.95 times as large as Re/Rth(550 nm) at 550 nm, and having Re/Rth(650 nm) at 650 nm 1.05 to 1.9 times as large as Re/Rt... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751006 | Optical element, liquid crystal display device member with the optical element, liquid crystal display device with the liquid crystal display device member, method of producing the optical element and method of evaluating birefringence functional layer The invention provides: an optical element that includes a birefringence functional layer constituted of a polymerizable liquid crystal material, in which the birefringence functional layer is formed directly or indirectly on a substrate, and in a post-process carri... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751005 | Liquid crystal display apparatus An IPS (In Plane Switching) mode type liquid crystal display apparatus having polarizing plates on both sides of a liquid crystal cell, wherein the polarizing plate protective film used between a liquid crystal cell and polarizer on a backlight light-source side is ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7719646 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device of the present invention is composed of a λ/4 plate 1, a λ/2 plate 2, and a polarizing plate 3 which are provided in this order from the side of a liquid crystal layer 10. Here, an angle formed between an... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7719647 | Liquid crystal display apparatus An IPS-mode liquid-crystal display apparatus for controlling transmission and cutoff of light by applying a cross-directional electric field to liquid-crystal molecules horizontally oriented reduces diagonal luminance rise and coloring at the time of black display b... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7692747 | In-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device having a biaxial optically anisotropic member A liquid crystal display device of an in-plane switching mode comprises at least an optically anisotropic member and a liquid crystal cell disposed between a pair of polarizers having absorption axes disposed approximately perpendicularly to each other, wherein n | 04/06/2010 |
| 7639330 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device of an in-plane switching mode comprises at least optically anisotropic members (A) and (B) and a liquid crystal cell disposed between a pair of polarizers having absorption axes disposed approximately perpendicularly to each other, wh... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7576820 | Liquid crystal display apparatus with phase difference layers A liquid crystal display apparatus, provided with liquid crystal compensation plates and λ/4 plates on both sides of a liquid crystal cell, in a sequence that the liquid crystal compensation plates, then the λ/4 plates. Further provided is Rth compensation film be... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7557882 | Liquid crystal display The present invention provides a liquid crystal display including: a liquid crystal panel; and a lighting device disposed on one side of the liquid crystal panel, the liquid crystal panel including: a liquid crystal cell; a first polarizer disposed on one side of th... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7554636 | Retardation control element, liquid crystal display device with the retardation control element, method of producing the retardation control element The invention provides a retardation control element capable of inhibiting a retardation defect that becomes a cause of light leakage and color shift of a liquid crystal display device from occurring, a method of producing the same, and a liquid crystal display devi... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7535531 | Birefringent optical film, laminated polarizing plate, liquid crystal display and image The present invention provides a birefringent optical film that allows a liquid crystal display to achieve excellent contrast and a wide viewing angle and does not cause coloring of the liquid crystal display. The birefringent optical film includes at least one bire... | 05/19/2009 |
