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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8077390 | Method of producing an optical element that has spatial variation in refractive index A method of producing an optical element that has spatial variation in refractive index includes providing a curable liquid crystal composition; applying a spatially varying electric field to the liquid crystal composition to induce a desired spatial variation in re... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8054441 | Laminated optical film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device A laminated optical film including a first optical anisotropic layer, and a second optical anisotropic layer, wherein Relationship (1), −10 nm≦ΔRe1−ΔRe2≦10 nm, is satisfied when a slow phase axis of the first optical anisotropic layer is substantially perp... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8009267 | Method of producing optical laminate and image displaying apparatus The present invention provides a method of producing an optical laminate that can produce an optical laminate including an applied film containing a lyotropic liquid crystalline compound so that the thickness of the applied film will be approximately uniform. A meth... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7847915 | Optical element An optical element including: an alignment substrate; a liquid crystal layer formed on the alignment substrate, made by forming and curing a film of a liquid crystalline material; and a protective layer having high hardness, formed on the liquid crystal layer. The p... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7649610 | Method and device for reducing speckle formation on a projection screen A method and a device for reducing speckle formation on a projection display when working with a coherent light source. In this context, the light coming from the light source, before the projection, may strike an electrically controllable optical element having a s... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7499144 | Apparatus for injecting liquid crystal into hollow fiber and method thereof Provided are an apparatus and a method for injecting liquid crystal into a hollow optic fiber. The apparatus includes: a first holder and a second holder each of which has a fluid passage for holding corresponding one end of the hollow optic fiber to be communicated... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7446847 | Optical isolator and optical device A simple-structure, small-size, inexpensive optical isolator mounted in an amplifier. The PMD and PDL are reduced to desired numerical levels to improve the characteristics. The optical isolator is composed of two double refraction elements, a 45 DEG Faraday rotator... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443474 | Optical compensatory sheet having optically anistropic layer formed from liquid crystal molecules The optical compensatory sheet has a transparent support and an optically anisotropic layer formed from liquid crystal molecules aligned in an average inclined angle of less than 5°. The optical compensatory sheet gives the retardation value in plane (Re) in the ra... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440075 | Birefringent optical system The invention relates to an optical system comprising a fluid chamber 1 and a birefringent part. The fluid chamber comprises first and second fluids 10, 12 having different indices of refraction, the interface between the fluids forming a meniscus 1... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7429111 | Two-panel color management system The invention provides a two-panel color management system for projection display applications, wherein color sequencing is accomplished using achromatic beam switching and static color separation. In a preferred embodiment, a liquid-crystal polarization switch alte... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7400367 | Viewing angle control element, display device, and electronic apparatus The invention provides a viewing angle control element capable of realizing high information concealment without damaging brightness of transmitted light and dynamically changing a viewing angle in accordance with need or no need of information concealment. The view... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7390434 | Method and apparatus for producing film from polymer solution, and optical polymer film A dope containing cellulose acylate as a main content of polymer is cast on a front surface of a moving belt in a method of producing a film from a solution. A drying apparatus is confronted to a back surface of said belt to evaporate a solvent in the gel-like film.... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7375784 | Control of liquid crystal alignment in an optical device A method is provided that allows simultaneous control of macroscopic azimuthal and zenithal liquid crystal alignment (φ, θ) across a liquid crystal layer by controlling the area ratios between first, second and third different types of alignment region (T1,... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372144 | High speed electronics interconnect and method of manufacture Fundamental interconnect systems for connecting high-speed electronics elements are provided. Interconnect system has the means, which could reduce the microwave loss by reducing the effective dielectric loss and dielectric constant of the interconnect system, and i... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369204 | Fast response liquid crystal mode A novel nematic liquid crystal (LC) mode is based on the Fringing-Field-Switching of Vertically-Aligned liquid crystals. The VA-FFS mode is capable of generating very fast optical modulation without the use of very thin cell gap. IA major feature of this LC mode is ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364303 | Image display apparatus At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image display apparatus, which can include multiple color combining elements, multiple light modulating elements, and a projection optical system, operatively connected to reduce the effects of ghost light. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349048 | Method and apparatus for adjusting light intensity A variable retarder and linear polarizer are placed in series in a polarized light path. A transmission axis of the linear polarizer is parallel to an axis of a polarization of the polarized light. An amount of retardation dialed into the variable retarder causes an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345669 | Photometric device of liquid crystal display and liquid crystal display A photometric device of liquid crystal display and a liquid crystal display in which photometry can be performed without relying upon manpower and the liquid crystal plane is shielded only at the time of photometry. The photometric device comprises a liquid crystal ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342629 | Liquid crystal display device having a plurality of electrode units, each electrode unit including a plurality of line portions, a plurality of space portions between the line portions, and a solid portion having the line portions extend therefrom The invention relates to a liquid crystal display device used as a display part of an information equipment and a method of manufacturing the same, and has an object to provide the liquid crystal display device which can obtain excellent display characteristics with... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343064 | Optical switch and optical add/drop multiplexer To provide a wavelength-selection optical switch able to select a light with a certain wavelength and an optical add/drop multiplexer using the same. An optical switch comprising: a silicon substrate; a glass substrate arranged to face a surface of the silicon subst... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7325300 | Method of manufacturing printed wiring boards In a heat and press stage of manufacturing printed wiring boards, a functional surface layer having release property is provided on a surface of a cushion, and a blocking layer is prepared between the functional surface layer and an inner layer having cushion proper... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324715 | Optical information processing circuit assembly An optical information processing circuit assembly includes an optically transmissive substrate and a resiliently compressible circuit member affixed to the substrate and defining an opening therethrough with a number of leads disposed about the opening. An integrat... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315345 | Electro-convective diffractive device A method for producing a diffraction grating is provided. First, a mixture including nematic liquid crystal, dopant, and polymerizable precursor is introduced between two electrically conductive substrates having alignment layers for inducing orientation of the liqu... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7274427 | Method of producing optical element by patterning liquid crystal films A radiation-curing liquid crystal having cholesteric regularity is applied to a glass substrate 11 provided with an alignment layer 12 to form a first cholesteric liquid crystal film 13 in the uncured state (FIG. 2(a)). Radiation | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274425 | Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same The invention relates to a liquid crystal display in which a polymeric component included in a liquid crystal layer is polymerized while adjusting a voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer to regulate the direction of alignment of liquid crystal molecules during... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7259815 | Two-way trans-reflective display A two-way trans-reflective display pixel (100) having two viewable sides (102, 104) is disclosed. The two-way trans-reflective display pixel has a first transparent layer (106), a second transparent layer (108), and light modulating mediu... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256060 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A poly-silicon liquid crystal display device with an improved aperture ratio and a simplified method of fabricating the same are disclosed. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes first and second substrates; a gate line on the fi... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256846 | Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus The invention can provide a liquid crystal display device in which a homeotropic alignment liquid crystal layer is interposed between a pair of substrates and a transmissive display region and a reflective display region are provided in one dotregion. A liquid cryst... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7227445 | Wireless activation system and method A system and method for wireless activation of a target. A communication device transmits an ID associated with the target to a network operations center. The network operations center provides an activation signal to the communication device. The communication devi... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7214115 | Method of manufacturing liquid crystal display device A method of manufacturing an LCD device includes forming a gate bus line, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, and a source/drain metal layer on a transparent insulating substrate; etching the source/drain metal layer and active layer to form a source/drain ele... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7198829 | Conductive organic thin film, process for producing the same, electronic device employing the same, electrical cable, electrode, pyrrolyl compound, and theienyl compound It is an object to provide a conductive organic thin film having organic molecules that include at one end a terminal bonding group that is covalently bonded to a substrate surface, a conjugate bonding group that is located at any portion of the organic molecules an... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199393 | Photosensitive semiconductor nanocrystals, photosensitive composition comprising semiconductor nanocrystals and method for forming semiconductor nanocrystal pattern using the same Semiconductor nanocrystals surface-coordinated with a compound containing a photosensitive functional group, a photosensitive composition comprising semiconductor nanocrystals, and a method for forming semiconductor nanocrystal pattern by producing a film using the ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7170664 | Optical element, optical head, optical recording reproducing apparatus and optical recording/reproducing method The invention presents an optical element with which an optical head can be configured, in which there is little deterioration of the correctional effect when the objective lens shifts, as well as an optical head and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus using ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167311 | Polarizing beamsplitter A polarizing beamsplitter is provided, comprising two wedge-shaped prisms of a birefringent material, the prisms forming a plan-parallel plate, wherein an incident light beam is separated into two partial beams being arranged parallel to the incident beam when emerg... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7142271 | Method of forming a transflective liquid crystal display device with wide-viewing angle A method of forming a transflective liquid crystal display device with a wide-viewing angle. An insulating layer having an uneven surface is formed on a first substrate. An opening is formed in the insulating layer. A conformal reflective electrode is formed on a si... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142280 | Extended chiral defect structure apparatus and method A chiral structure having an advantageous extended chiral defect that provides an enhanced energy distribution characteristic therein. This is accomplished by configuring a central portion of the chiral structure with a pitch different from the rest of the structure... | 11/28/2006 |
