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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8045129 | Display device and method of manufacturing the same A display device includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other on a first substrate, to define a pixel; a first thin film transistor in a portion where the gate lines and the data lines cross each other; a plurality of position... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7616287 | Liquid crystal display element A liquid crystal display element according to the present invention includes one or more sets of combinations of a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer composed of a liquid crystal composition indicating a cholesteric phase and disposed between the pair of sub... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7595856 | 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... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7576829 | Liquid crystal display device Presents a liquid crystal display device that does not require a surface orientation treatment, dramatically improves the response rate of dynamic image displays and does not experience light leaks when the display is black, which means to yield a dark field of visi... | 08/18/2009 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7333166 | Matrix display through thermal treatment The present invention relates to a display comprising a substrate, a patterned conductor, and a liquid crystal material having cleared areas and electrically writeable areas. The invention also relates to a method for making a display comprising providing a substrat... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7298442 | Cholesteric liquid crystal optical bodies and methods of manufacture and use An optical body includes a) first particles comprising a first cholesteric liquid crystal material and b) a second cholesteric liquid crystal material. The first particles and the second cholesteric liquid crystal material form a structure where the first cholesteri... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295278 | Full 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 a first pair of opposed electrodes that are arra... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289176 | Single panel, active matrix, full color, cholesteric LCD cell configuration A liquid crystal display system and cell configuration is disclosed. The element has a first substrate, having a first substrate electrode and a second substrate having a second substrate electrode approximately parallel to the first substrate. In between the two su... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286111 | Apparatus for electro-optically writing a display A display writer for writing on a light writable display of the type having a layer of cholesteric liquid crystal material disposed between two conductors, the cholesteric liquid crystal material having multiple stable optical states at zero electrical field; and a ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277141 | Optical bodies containing cholesteric liquid crystal material and methods of manufacture An optical body includes a substrate and a cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed on the substrate. The cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a non-uniform pitch along a thickness direction of the layer and comprises a crosslinked polymer material that substantial... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7265810 | Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method of liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having uniform alignment of monostable ferroelectric liquid crystal, and a manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display device. The temperature range of a cholesteric phase or a chiral nematic phas... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7202926 | Cholesteric reflective retardation optical element with directors at top surface of optical element parallel to those at the bottom surface of the 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... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7154574 | Color liquid crystal display devices A color liquid crystal display device has an array of display pixels (10) for modulating input light and an array of associated color filter elements (40) which comprise electro-optic filtering elements switchable electrically between a color filtering... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7148946 | Optical device and liquid-crystal display apparatus An optical device including a laminate of cholesteric liquid-crystal layers in which the wavelength ranges of selective reflection of circularly polarized light beams are out of visible light region and which are combined so that circularly polarized light beams tra... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7071907 | Display with active contrast enhancement A display (50) with enhanced image contrast contains an image-producing component (60) and a set of shutter strips (80). The image-producing component, typically a flat-panel device, has multiple imaging lines that provide light to produce an im... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068344 | Cholesteric liquid crystal optical bodies and methods of manufacture and use The method of making an optical body includes coating a mixture that includes a plurality of cholesteric liquid crystal compositions, and a solvent on a substrate. Each cholesteric liquid crystal composition is different. A plurality of layers is formed on the subst... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061559 | Stacked color liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes cell wall structure and a chiral nematic liquid crystal material. The cell wall structure and the liquid crystal cooperate to form focal conic and twisted planar textures that are stable in the absence of a field. A device ap... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7038743 | Electro-optical devices from polymer-stabilized liquid crystal molecules An electro-optic device includes a liquid crystal cell (10, 10′) and at least one electrode (40, 42, 40′, 42′) arranged to selectively electrically bias the liquid crystal cell (10, 10′). A chiral or cholesteric liquid crystal (30, 30... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7033653 | Birefringent marking The invention relates to a birefringent marking comprising a liquid crystal material. The invention further relates to method of providing such a birefringent marking and to the use of the birefringent marking for decorative or security applications. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7030949 | Optical display including a cholesteric layer, a display device and a diffusing layer on an exit side of the cholesteric layer A wavelength-selecting optical element includes a cholesteric layer that reflects or transmits either of a right-handed circularly polarized light component and a left-handed circularly polarized light component in a selected wavelength band of an incident light; an... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7023520 | Method and system for fabricating liquid crystal film and method for fabricating brightening film A method and a system for fabricating a liquid crystal film are proposed. First of all, mechanical rubbing is performed on a surface of a plastic substrate. The surface of the substrate is applied with dispersed liquid crystal material over the substrate. At least o... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7009665 | Electro-optical glazing structures having scattering and transparent modes of operation and methods and apparatus for making the same Electro-optical glazing structures having total-scattering and total-transparent modes of operation which are electrically-switchable for use in dynamically controlling electromagnetic radiation flow in diverse applications. ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6989875 | Liquid crystal display device using cholesteric liquid crystal and a manufacturing method thereof A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal cell having a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter; an integrated collimating polarizer under the liquid crystal cell, the integrated collimating polarizer having a collimating layer and a circular polariz... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6977695 | Variable optical attenuator based on electrically switchable cholesteric liquid crystal reflective polarizers Variable optical attenuators (VOAs) are provided, based on electrically switchable CLC reflective polarizers. The reflectivity of the described reflective VOAs can theoretically be electrically adjusted between 0% to 100%, and the reflective bandwidth can be easily ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6953611 | Anisotropic polymer film An anisotropic polymer film comprising a polymeriZed chiral liquid crystal material with helically twisted structure and having areas with different helical twist sense is useful for decorative or security applications. ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954195 | Liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal display driven by interlace scanning and/or sequential scanning A display device which has a liquid crystal display which has a plurality liquid crystal pixels arranged in a matrix and which writes an image thereon after resetting the liquid crystal. The method of writing on the liquid crystal display can be selected from drivin... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6947114 | LCD element including regions where helical axes of LC molecules of neighboring domains in focalconic state extend in same direction A liquid crystal light modulation element is provided that includes a liquid crystal layer held between a pair of substrates. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal material that exhibits a cholesteric phase and has a plurality of domains. The liquid cry... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937305 | Cholesteric liquid crystal color filter layer and manufacturing method thereof A cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) color filter layer for reflective LCD device includes an additional blue CLC color filter in the red and/or green CLC color filter to increase a color temperature. Since the additional blue CLC color filter is formed using ultravio... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6927747 | Dual directional display for communication device A communication device (100) comprising a body portion (110) and a display portion (130) that is rotatably connected to the body portion. A switch (160,161, 162, 163,164) is operable to reverse the modes of the inner (141) and oute... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6917399 | Optical bodies containing cholesteric liquid crystal material and methods of manufacture An optical body includes a substrate and a cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed on the substrate. The cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a non-uniform pitch along a thickness direction of the layer and comprises a crosslinked polymer material that substantial... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6912018 | Electro-optical glazing structures having total-reflection and transparent modes of operation for use in dynamical control of electromagnetic radiation Electro-optical glazing structures having total-reflection and semi-transparent and totally-transparent modes of operation which are electrically-switchable for use in dynamically controlling electromagnetic radiation flow in diverse applications. ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6900469 | Liquid crystal display element Disclosed is a liquid crystal display apparatus comprising a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates, the liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition that exhibits a cholesteric phase. The liquid crystal composi... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6897906 | Rewritable label for recording time information A method of recording rewritable time related information on a label, includes the steps of providing an electrically rewritable label associated with an article which includes a plurality of rewritable segments, each such segment having a layer including a material... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6888607 | Rewritable sign system Rewritable signs (100, 1300) that include bistable cholesteric liquid crystal layers (102, 1402, 1404, 1406) are provided. According to one embodiment a rewritable sign (100) is devoid of circuitry for establishing electric fields in localize re... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6885409 | Cholesteric liquid crystal display system A display system includes a display arranged to receive an image wise pattern of light to form an image, including, a pair of conductors, at least one conductor being transparent, a layer of cholesteric liquid crystal material disposed between the conductors, the li... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6882401 | Light modulation medium and light modulation method A light modulation medium comprises a light modulation element having a pair of substrates and plural light modulation layers arranged between the substrates to form a multilayer structure and made of cholesteric liquid crystal adapted to change the liquid crystal o... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6879362 | Cholesteric liquid crystal color filter and process for producing the same The present invention provides a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter including partition walls that are formed at pixel boundaries, produced by: forming a liquid crystal layer comprising a cholesteric liquid crystal composition including at least a liquid crysta... | 04/12/2005 |
