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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189148 | Liquid crystal display device A transflective liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel which is configured such that a liquid crystal layer is held between a pair of substrates, and to which an OCB mode is applied, and a pair of optical elements which are disposed on... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184247 | TN-mode liquid crystal display device, optical compensatory film for use therein and method for producing optical compensatory film, and polarizing plate An optical compensatory film of a laminated structure comprising a first optically anisotropic layer having an Re(550) of 20 to 100 nm wherein retardation at a wavelength of 550 nm is never 0 nm along any direction and the direction along which the absolute value of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179508 | Liquid crystal display device having first and second polarizers and first and second birefringent layers The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device comprising: a first polarizer; a second polarizer; a liquid crystal cell; a first birefringent layer; and a second birefringent layer, the second polarizer having an absorption axis orthogonal to an abso... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174650 | Liquid crystal display device having first and second birefringent layers and first and second quarter-wave plates The present invention provides an LCD device that has a higher contrast ratio in a wide viewing angle and that can be easily produced at low cost. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device, including in the following order: ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174649 | Liquid crystal display and biaxial compensation film A liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal panel and a biaxial compensation film is provided. The liquid crystal panel has a first surface and a second surface. The biaxial compensation film is disposed on the first surface and includes a C-plate compensati... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169574 | Liquid crystal display with viewing angle compensators A liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal layer squeezed between first and second transparent substrates and vertically aligned at a retardation of 300 nm or larger to 940 nm or smaller; two or three viewing angle compensators disposed on the first transpa... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169573 | Liquid crystal display device using a phase-difference film and in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device using a phase-difference film A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is provided. The LCD device includes an LCD panel having a first liquid crystal layer therein; a first polarizing sheet; and a first phase-difference compensation portion disposed adjacent a first surface of the LCD panel betwee... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164722 | Liquid-crystal display device with at least three optically-anisotropic layers having formulated in-plane retardations A liquid-crystal display device comprising a liquid-crystal cell and at least three optically-anisotropic layers disposed on each side of the liquid crystal cell, wherein they are combined so that the Δnd value of the liquid-crystal cell and the optical characteris... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159639 | VA-mode liquid crystal display device A liquid-crystal display device comprising a liquid-crystal cell comprising a liquid-crystal layer that aligns vertically to the substrate thereof in the black state, first and second polarizing elements that are disposed to sandwich the liquid-crystal cell therebet... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8125597 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of polarizing films; a liquid crystal cell that is sandwiched between the pair of polarizing films; a retardation layer (A) of 70 μm or less in thickness, which is disposed between the liquid crystal cell and one of t... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111459 | Laminated polarizing film, phase retardation film, and liquid crystal display device A laminated polarizing film that is capable of enhancing a viewing angle of a liquid crystal display device, particularly in an IPS mode, is provided. The laminated polarizing film can be obtained by adhering a phase retardation film and a polarizing film by a roll-... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107041 | LCD apparatus and method for enhancing luminance efficiency thereof with a backlight module generating an elliptically polarized light An LCD apparatus includes a first polarizer, a half-wavelength retardation plate, a liquid crystal unit and a second polarizer. The LCD apparatus further has a backlight module for generating first polarized light. The first polarizer is disposed downstream of the b... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094272 | Liquid crystal displays A liquid crystal display comprises two parallel spaced substrates and a liquid crystal layer with negative dielectric anisotropy interposed between the substrates. The ratio d/p, the cell gap d between the substrates to the pitch p of the liquid crystal layer, is eq... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085371 | Liquid crystal display having improved retardation film A liquid crystal display having improved retardation plate is described. In the liquid crystal display, at least one of two panel plates has a polarizer placed on an outer side which is opposite to a liquid crystal layer and a quarter wavelength retardation plate be... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8059240 | Liquid crystal display device A novel liquid crystal display device is disclosed. the device comprises a liquid crystal cell comprising a pair of substrates disposed facing each other, at least one of said pair of substrates having an electrode thereon, and a liquid crystal layer held between sa... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8031309 | Liquid crystal display device having retardation film on inside of substrate compensating for light of a particular wavelength A liquid crystal display device comprising a pair of substrates, at least one polarizing film provided outside the pair of substrates, a liquid crystal cell having a red color filter, a green color filter and a blue color filter provided inside the pair of substrate... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023081 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device of a simplified structure and a widened viewing angle are provided. The liquid crystal display device having a stacked structure with its component plates and layers laid one over another in the following top-down order, comprises a f... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018557 | Retardation compensating plate to compensate residual retardation of a liquid crystal panel, a compensator, a liquid crystal display device, and a projection image display apparatus having the same A retardation compensator 40 for compensating for residual retardation of a liquid crystal panel 11 includes a retardation compensating plate 50 having birefringence. An in-plane retardation R0c of the retardation compensating plat... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013964 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device uses a first quarter-wave retardation film and a hybrid aligned nematic film to reduce light leakage in dark state for reaching high contrast ratio, and uses multiple-gamma IC to provide different gamma-curve signals for pixels of dif... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7999895 | Contrast compensation of microdisplay panels including a high order waveplate A contrast compensator for improving the panel contrast of liquid crystal (LC) microdisplays having a high-order waveplate configured as an O-plate and supporting a thin film transistor layer is provided. The contrast compensator includes a counter high-order wavepl... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999894 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal cell including a liquid crystal layer twist-aligned at 90° sandwiched between a pair of substrates, first and second polarizing layers arranged to sandwich the liquid crystal cell therebetween so that their ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7990502 | Liquid-crystal display device A liquid-crystal display device comprising a liquid-crystal cell, a first polarizing element and a second polarizing element disposed on either side of the liquid-crystal cell respectively, a first retardation layer between the first polarizing element and the liqui... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7969543 | Retardation films having single retardation value with variation This invention pertains to the design and construction of retardation films (or plates) with any targeted dispersive property, including those with no wavelength dependence for the entire visible range. In particular, this invention deals with specific design of fil... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7956965 | Vertically aligned liquid crystal display having a wide viewing compensation film using +A-film and +C-film This invention provides a vertically aligned liquid crystal display, including a first polarizing plate and a second polarizing plate having absorption axes perpendicular to each other and a vertically aligned panel provided therebetween and including vertically ali... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956966 | Very thin achromatic quarter wave film laminate for transflective LCD and method for producing the same Disclosed herein is an very thin achromatic quarter wave film laminate for transflective LCD included in an LCD polarizer. More specifically, the very thin achromatic quarter wave film laminate for transflective LCD has a considerably reduced thickness, as compared ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7952667 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first polarizer provided on a surface of the first substrate which is on the opposite side to th... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7948593 | Projector having an adjustment mechanism A projector includes: an optical modulator including a liquid crystal cell, a first optical element formed of an optical material having positive uniaxiality, a second optical element formed of an optical material having positive uniaxiality, a third optical element... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944531 | Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display apparatus There are provided a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display apparatus each having an excellent screen contrast, a small color shift, and small display unevenness. The liquid crystal panel includes a liquid crystal cell, a first polarizer, a second polariz... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7929088 | Liquid crystal displays A liquid crystal display comprises two parallel spaced substrates and a liquid crystal layer with negative dielectric anisotropy interposed between the substrates. The ratio d/p, the cell gap d between the substrates to the pitch p of the liquid crystal layer, is eq... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929089 | Optical compensation film, polarizing plate, and liquid-crystal display device Disclosed is an optical compensation film comprising first and second optically-anisotropic layers, wherein retardation in plane at a wavelength of 550 nm, Re(550), of the first optically-anisotropic layer is from 20 to 40 nm, the first optically-anisotropic layer d... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7911570 | Liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device comprising at least: a backlight; a polarizer; a first optically anisotropic layer with a retardation of 210 to 300 nm at a wavelength of 550 nm; a second optically anisotropic layer with a retardation o... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7894028 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes first to N-th 1st retardation plates arranged on the first transparent substra... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7880841 | Liquid crystal display panel having dielectric compensating layer An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) (1) includes a first substrate (211), a second substrate (221), and a liquid crystal layer (230) sandwiched between the two substrates. The LCD further includes a common electrode layer (212 | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880842 | Liquid-crystal display device having liquid crystal cell with plural domains A liquid-crystal display device comprising a liquid-crystal cell with plural domains and a transparent film comprising at least two domains that differ in in-plane retardation (Re) and/or thickness-direction retardation (Rth) for a visible light wavelength λ nm is ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880843 | Liquid crystal display device and viewing angle control panel A liquid crystal display device (10) of the present invention includes a backlight (3), a display liquid crystal panel (1) and a viewing angle control panel (2) for switching a viewing angle of the display liquid crystal panel (1) ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7872716 | Optical compensation film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display, which allows proper optical compensation for bend-aligned mode liquid crystal cell and exhibits high contrast, excellent viewing angle properties and a high black display fidelity, is provided. A bend-aligned mode liquid crystal cell is pro... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7868979 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel to which an OCB mode is applied, and an optical compensation element which optically compensates a retardation of the liquid crystal layer in a predetermined display state in which a voltage is ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7859623 | Liquid crystal display device and fabricating method thereof A liquid crystal display device comprises a color filter substrate that includes a color filter array and a first substrate. The color filter array is disposed on the first substrate. The liquid crystal display device comprises a thin film transistor substrate that ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7847897 | Optical compensation film and liquid crystal display To provide a liquid crystal display, particularly TN type liquid crystal display capable of remarkably improving brightness inversion resistance at a high contrast with a simple configuration and an optical compensation film which realizes the aforementioned propert... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847898 | In-plane switching liquid crystal display including viewing angle compensation film using +A-plate Disclosed is an in-plane switching liquid crystal display. The in-plane switching liquid crystal display uses at least one A-plate and adjusts the optical axis direction and the retardation value of the A-plate, thereby improving the contrast characteristic at a fro... | 12/07/2010 |
