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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184217 | Thermal liquid crystal optical device A variable optical device for controlling the propagation of light has a body of liquid crystal optical material with a center and a periphery, a heating system including an electrically controllable heat source and a thermal radiator arranged at the periphery for c... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8144276 | Liquid crystal optical device configured to reduce polarization dependent loss and polarization mode dispersion An LC-based optical device compensates for differences in optical path lengths of polarization components of input beam. As a result, PDL and PMD of the optical device are reduced. The compensation mechanism may be a glass plate that is disposed in an optical path o... | 03/27/2012 |
| 7880820 | Systems and methods of all-optical fourier phase contrast imaging using dye doped liquid crystals An assembly for converting a microscope into a phase contrast microscope includes a first optical Fourier element that Fourier transforms light from a coherent light source, a cell in the Fourier plane arranged to receive light from the first optical Fourier element... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7791675 | Method and apparatus for variable retardation and adjusting light channel pathlengths A variable retarder is inserted in one or more light channels of a kernel. The variable retarder is a nematic liquid crystal layer that is energized by an electric field and, for example, the voltage or frequency of the electric field dictates an amount of retardati... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7630022 | Advanced liquid crystal tunable filters and method A birefringent optical filter and associated method are described which demonstrate improved performance for both fixed and tunable filter configurations. One exemplary embodiment involves an initial filter configuration, having an output polarizer, that exhibits an... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7443585 | Polarizer, polarization light source and image display unit using them A polarization component, capable of efficiently reflecting an obliquely transmitted light beam toward a light source without degrading the transmission-polarization property of a perpendicular incident light beam, is provided. A C-plate having an oblique retardatio... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7362387 | Programmable mask and method for fabricating biomolecule array using the same A programmable mask used in a photolithography process for fabricating a biomolecule array and a method for fabricating a biomolecule array using the same are disclosed. Particularly, a TFT-LCD type programmable mask for selectively transmitting incident light in ac... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7336323 | Liquid crystal filter with tunable rejection band An optical wavelength filter uses birefringence and polarization to discriminate and block a wavelength stop band. Birefringent elements, each having a fixed retarder and a liquid crystal, are placed along the signal path with the fast and slow axes in each pair bei... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327422 | Optical compensation film, display, and process A multilayer optical compensation film comprises one or more optically anisotropic layers X and one or more optically anisotropic layers Z wherein, said each layer X has its optic axis tilted with respect to the plane of said multilayer compensation film, and said e... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327424 | Nematic liquid crystal display device with multi-domain pixels and six phase difference compensators Featured is a liquid crystal display device including first and second transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer interposed there between that includes a plurality of domains in each pixel region. Also included are first and second polarizing plates and firs... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326451 | Rotatory polarization plate, optical element, light condensation backlight system and liquid crystal display A rotatory polarization plate capable of extracting an emission polarized light from an incident polarized light and rotating an azimuth angle of an polarization axis of the incident polarized light, wherein a rotatory polarization angle of the azimuth angle is chan... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7315665 | Liquid-crystal planar-waveguide apparatus and method for fast control of polarization and other properties of light A polarization controller includes a plurality of liquid crystal cells positioned as cladding on a waveguide that propagates a beam of light so that the evanescent field extends into the liquid crystal cells, and a ½-wave birefringent retarder for rotating the eige... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312913 | Imaging light source with polarization and color recovery The present invention provides a polarized colored light source for a display system in which light of other polarization states and colors are recycled. The color can be scrolled synchronously with a display. In one embodiment, the invention includes a tunnel havin... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7298428 | Liquid crystal device and method for optical performance monitoring in fiber optic communication systems A liquid crystal optical performance monitor is described that employs a liquid crystal tunable filter for receiving a P-polarization beam and a rotated S-polarization beam from a C-polarizer. The rotated S-polarization beam from a birefringent crystal in C-polarize... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289189 | Birefringent filter-based color generation scheme for a passive matrix display device The present invention provides a full color liquid crystal display of passive matrix design that includes a polarizer, an analyzer having a transmission axis, and at least one light generation stage positioned between the polarizer and analyzer for transmitting ligh... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7268841 | Display device and electronic equipment having the same comprising a region for reflecting a polarized light and a region for absorbing the polarized light A display device 100 has a display unit 110 and a display switching unit 120. The display switching unit 120 is provided with a reflective polarizing plate 121, a liquid crystal panel 122, and a polarizing plate 123 a... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262820 | Liquid crystal panel, optical pickup, and information reproducing apparatus The transparent electrode of the liquid crystal panel includes the first partial electrode portion constituted by the pattern electrodes and the second electron portion constituted by the pattern electrodes. When the central axis of the objective lens and the centra... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7239293 | Autostereoscopic display An apparatus for displaying an image to an observer. The apparatus comprises a display screen upon which stripes of the image appear in at least three distinct phases. The apparatus comprises a light blocking shutter disposed in front of the display screen forming a... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7221495 | Thin film precursor stack for MEMS manufacturing This invention provides a precursor film stack for use in the production of MEMS devices. The precursor film stack comprises a carrier substrate, a first layer formed on the carrier substrate, a second layer of an insulator material formed on the first layer, and a ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7195356 | Split-path color switching system and method The present application describes a retarder stack color switch using a single polarization analyzer for reflective-mode projection displays. The single polarization analyzer permits additive mode switching, which optimizes the chrominance of the additive primary ou... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196751 | Display unit comprising one large and one small display and electronic apparatus The invention provides a display unit that displays images on both the front and the rear surfaces and that displays images brightly without increasing the electrical power consumption. A liquid crystal display unit includes two liquid crystal cells, a backlight, wh... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196744 | Optical transceiver package with a liquid crystal variable optical attenuator A liquid crystal optical attenuator is provided that is used to control the intensity of a light signal. The optical attenuator includes at least one polarizing element having an optical polarization axis, wherein the polarizing element transmits a portion of a ligh... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7185989 | Color separation device, imaging optical engine, and projection apparatus A color separation device according to the present invention comprises a first color separation member having a first polarization direction changing element and a second polarization direction changing element, and a first polarization separation element, and a sec... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7167230 | Liquid crystal variable wavelength filter unit, and driving method thereof A liquid crystal variable wavelength filter unit and its driving method applicable for a Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) communication system and an optical network using an optical fiber. The liquid crystal variable wavelength filter unit (130) includ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164520 | Packaging for an interferometric modulator A package is made of a transparent substrate having an interferometric modulator and a back plate. A non-hermetic seal joins the back plate to the substrate to form a package, and a desiccant resides inside the package. A method of packaging an interferometric modul... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7130123 | Polarization conversion element and optical system containing such polarization conversion element A polarization conversion element with four phase plates laminated on a substrate plate, in the order of first, second, third and fourth phase plates from a light incident side. The first and fourth phase plates have substantially same retardation values, while the ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123318 | Double-sided emissive liquid crystal display module containing double-sided illumination plate and multiple display panels A double-sided emissive LCD module includes a double-sided illumination plate, a first LCD panel disposed at the upper surface of the double-sided illumination plate, a second LCD panel disposed at the lower surface of the plate. The double-sided illumination plate ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7116378 | Color-balanced brightness enhancement for display systems A technique for providing a desired level of color balance in field sequential color systems with brightness enhancement. In color wheels having a spectrally-broad transmissive segment, the spectrally-broad segment has a transmittance that is selected to provide a d... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110054 | Switchable color filter The liquid crystal switchable color filter switches between three color bands and is preferably used for time-sequential color devices, as for example projection devices, direct view displays and video cameras. The color filter employs circularly polarizing selectiv... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106396 | Display unit and electronic apparatus including a backlight disposed between two display surfaces To provide a display device that can display images on both the front and the rear surfaces and that can display images brightly without increasing the electrical power consumption. A liquid crystal device 100 includes two liquid crystal cells 10 | 09/12/2006 |
| 7098975 | Liquid crystal display device In order to reduce an occurrence of a double image, to improve a contrast ratio in transmissive display, and to widen a viewing angle, a light diffusion layer for restricting the occurrence of the double image is placed between a viewing angle compensating plate and... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7083282 | Light recycling colored light source and method of using A light source for sequential or scrolling displays that recycles otherwise unusable light. The recycling is achieved by reflecting that portion of the light spectrum that will not be used by a pixel back into the light pipe where the light is rehomogenized or redis... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7076121 | Polarization controller using spatial filtering A method for improving polarization extinction ratio includes changing a polarization state of a light beam, wherein the light beam thereafter includes spatially non-uniform polarization states, and spatially filtering the light beam to filter out the spatially non-... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075720 | Structures and methods for reducing polarization aberration in optical systems An optical system includes multiple cubic crystalline optical elements and one or more uniaxial birefringent elements in which the crystal lattices of the cubic crystalline optical elements are oriented with respect to each other to reduce the effects of intrinsic b... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7067795 | Methods and systems for dynamic control of polarization of an optical signal Techniques and systems for dynamically controlling polarization of an optical signal by using various feedback controls, and by combining both feed-forward and feedback controls. Various dynamic control algorithms for such systems and other optical systems have been... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061650 | Method and apparatus for bayer mosaic image conversion A method of, and an apparatus for, image conversion. The three color channels of a Bayer mosaic image are up-interpolated from input space to output space. The pixels sampled from each two-dimensional color plane of the Bayer image are convolved with a coefficient k... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058252 | Optical switching apparatus A light direction switching apparatus and method is described. The light direction switching apparatus comprises a passive birefringent lens (138), e.g. a birefringent lenticular screen, and a switchable polariser (146). By switching the polariser (... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7046221 | Increasing brightness in field-sequential color displays A display system includes a display panel having an array of pixels, the pixels having ON states and OFF states. The pixels form images by modulating light in a temporal sequence during an image frame in response to drive signals generated from incoming video data. ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046374 | Interferometers for optical communications utilizing photo-sensitive materials An interferometer includes: a first glass plate optically coupled to a second glass plate, forming an optical interferometric cavity therebetween; a first reflective coating coupled to the first glass plate within the optical interferometric cavity, where the first ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7041233 | Method of generating a 3-dimensional effect A method for generating a 3-dimensional effect involves providing at least one first image layer of a chiral liquid crystal material, and at least one second image layer of a chiral liquid crystal material, wherein one of the first and second image layers reflects r... | 05/09/2006 |
