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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7362485 | Image display medium, image writing device, and image forming apparatus An image display medium comprising: a display layer; a pair of substrates that retain the display layer therebetween, with at least parts of the pair of substrates configuring a frame portion to which an electrical connection connector for electrical connection to t... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352416 | Polarization direction of incident light beam perpendicular or parallel to liquid display molecular orientation for reduced drive voltage A liquid crystal display element comprising two transparent substrates, at least one of which is transparent, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the two substrates. A plurality of pixels and active elements for driving the liquid crystal at the plurality ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7298427 | Method for applying substances with liquid crystals to substrates The invention relates to a method for applying substances comprising liquid crystals to substrates, wherein the substance is maintained at a working temperature inside a coating device, in particular a printing mechanism, the substance being in a liquid state at sai... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7195163 | Laser scanning unit A laser scanning unit to form an electrostatic latent image according to an image signal by projecting a light onto a photosensitive medium. The laser scanning unit has a light source having a cylindrical shape of a predetermined length; a reflective member surround... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7182982 | All-optically prepared and controlled nematic liquid crystal light valve The present invention provides a device that acts as an optical switch to control the intensity of a light beam through the action of a second control beam. This behavior is achieved through photoinduced anisotropy that develops in a monomolecular layer coating the ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7170568 | Liquid crystal shutter device for color imaging on photosensitive medium A liquid crystal shutter device is provided with a liquid crystal cell including a first substrate (1), a second substrate (21), and liquid crystal sandwiched therebetween, pixel electrodes (11, 12) which are signal electrodes and lead-out elect... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170569 | Liquid crystal shutter and printhead The present invention relates to a liquid crystal shutter (5). The liquid crystal shutter (5) includes a first and a second transparent substrates (50), (51) arranged to face each other; a light shielding film (52) formed on a surf... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7161642 | Liquid crystal display module and assembling method thereof The liquid crystal display module comprises a bottom cover having a plurality of lamps installed thereon and at least one or more of guide projection formed thereon; and a reflection sheet for reflecting light generated from the lamps and having a guide hole in orde... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7110066 | Color-filter substrate, method and apparatus for manufacturing color-filter substrate, and liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing liquid crystal display To make it difficult to view streak unevenness in alignment generated at the boundary of alignment layers even when an alignment-layer material is applied onto a color-filter substrate several times to form an alignment layer. When an alignment-layer material is app... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7095470 | In-plane field type liquid crystal display device comprising liquid crystal molecules with more than two kinds of reorientation directions A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, scanning signal lines and video signal lines formed on one of the substrates, first electrodes provided on the one substrate, second electrodes provided on the on... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7081929 | Liquid crystal shutter panel, an optical printer head and a method for manufacturing the liquid crystal shutter panel A blocking mask and an electrode coating are formed using a gold film. The blocking mask and the electrode coating are formed together by printing an organic gold paste only in a necessary part and baking the printed organic gold paste. ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7042598 | Variable reflectance cover A variable reflectance cover for a scanning system. The cover comprises a backing moveable through a plurality of positions. Moving the backing through the plurality of positions varies the reflectance of the cover. In one embodiment, the backing is an endless rotat... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042538 | Overlapping color filter structure and method of making the same A color filter structure of a liquid crystal display (LCD) has a plurality of color filters coupling with each other disposed on a substrate. An overlapping region is positioned between adjacent color filters, and a surface of color filter in the overlapping region ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042530 | Transfer apparatus The transfer apparatus includes a light source, a transmission type image display device in which a liquid crystal layer is held between two sets of substrates and polarizing plates and a photosensitive recording medium. The light source, the image display device an... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6952293 | Document backing surface for show-through and artifact reduction A document-backing surface for reducing show-through when a duplex-printed document is scanned but without producing undesirable artifacts. The document-backing surface has a plurality of first and second light-absorbing surfaces, and a plurality of specularly refle... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6930804 | System and method for automatically detecting edges of scanned documents A method for identifying document edges collects a predetermined number scanlines of the document. Both first order and second order statistics are then calculated based on the scanned data. A first slope value being a function of the difference between a plurality ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6642492 | Calibration apparatus for light emitting elements in an optical printer Calibration of the light emitting elements in an optical printer is carried out by mounting the optical printer on an external monitoring apparatus. The external monitoring apparatus comprises: a sensor mounting portion whereon a plurality of photosensors... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6556181 | Matrix driven liquid crystal display module system apparatus and method Provided are a color display driving principle obtained while taking into account a difference in eye sensitivity to the flickering of differently colored lights, a TFT liquid crystal display module structure that is adequate for this method, and a double... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6469754 | Liquid-crystal display with scanner A liquid-crystal display apparatus with a scanner comprising: a liquid-crystal panel 3 used for display, an image sensor 5 used to read an image on a manuscript 10, a light source 1 illuminating the liquid-crystal panel 3 and the manuscript 10, and a diff... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6262782 | Reflective LCD having polarized light separator and phase plate on a light-incident-side A reflective LCD includes first and second substrates facing each other, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the upper and lower substrates, a high transmissive polarizer attached on an outer surface of the first substrate, and an optical system dispo... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6141065 | Optical color printer assembly Trichromatic light exposed through a liquid crystal panel upon which liquid crystal shutter elements are two-dimensionally arranged is exposed so as to form an image in the same position on a photosensitive recording medium by moving the photosensitive re... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6124872 | Optical writing device with controlled driving voltages Disclosed is an optical writing device having an array of a plurality of writing light shutter elements for an image forming purpose. The optical writing device also has at least one first monitoring light shutter element and at least one second monitorin... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6031586 | Liquid crystal printing apparatus for radiation thermal transfer of colorant from a donor to a receiver Printing apparatus for radiation thermal transfer of colorant from a donor to a receiver, including a flash tube for emitting high intensity radiation; a polarizer for receiving high intensity radiation from the flash tube and polarizing such radiation; a... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5982529 | Apparatus for reducing linear artifacts in an optically-printed image A spatial light modulator for use in a optical printer where the spatial light modulator includes a plurality of cells, having a shape that is defined to decrease artifacts in an image produced on a recording medium by the optical printer. The shape of th... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5930021 | Optical shutter element drive mechanism An optical shutter element drive mechanism for driving optical shutter elements that are electrically equivalent to condensers by charging and discharging the elements by a power source and switching elements. The optical shutter element drive mechanism i... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5805274 | Photographic printer utilizing a photoactivated liquid-crystal light valve in order to enhance image processing A photographic printer has a lamp which projects light through a cut-off filter, a filter unit, and a diffusion plate. The light travels further through a film negative, an objective lens, and to a polarizing beam splitter. The beam splitter provides the ... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5790211 | Platen cover for a digital document scanner with electrically switchable reflectance modes A system and method digitally scans a document using a high reflectance mode and a low reflectance mode. Initially, a platen cover provides a low reflectance background around the document and the scanner scans the low reflectance background and document ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5587264 | Electrostatic information recording medium and electrostatic information recording and reproducing method The electrostatic information recording medium according to the present invention comprises an electrode layer and an electric charge retaining layer. By improving the laminating method of electric charge retaining layer or by improving the layer arrangem... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5312703 | Reversible or irreversible production of an image A process for the reversible or irreversible production of an image by imagewise exposure of a recording layer to energy in the presence or absence of an electrical and/or magnetic field, resulting in a pattern of surface charges on the surface of the rec... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5260728 | Apparatus for reducing, enlarging and projecting image information A light beam (30) including a random polarization and radiated from a light source, such as laser oscillator (6) is separated into P wave polarization light beam and S wave polarization light beam by a beam splitter 33. After modulated by image informatio... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5245438 | Image formation apparatus having selective erasing capability An image formation apparatus includes a writing device for selectively writing image data on a liquid crystal cell by beam light, a printer for printing out an image on a recording medium, an erasing device for erasing the image written on the liquid crys... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5223960 | Image-producing apparatus for a video printer An image-producing apparatus for a video printer comprising a liquid crystal display having pixels of red, green, and blue adapted to produce an image in response to a scanning line signal from a video signal, light source disposed at the rear of the liqu... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5191358 | Light scanning device with microlenses having a same power density distribution as a power density distribution of a photosetting light beam A light scanning device of the present invention comprises: a light source for emitting light; a liquid crystal shutter array comprising a plurality of liquid crystal shutters arranged in a first direction, the liquid crystal shutter array receiving image... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5191408 | Color imaging system with selectively openable optical shutter A color imaging system for use as an electronic still camera, for example, includes a color separator for separating the optical image of a subject from a lens into a plurality of different color images, an optical shutter selectively openable for transmi... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5172164 | Image forming apparatus with microcapsules dispersed in the photoconductive member According to the present invention, an image forming apparatus uses a photoconductive member in which microcapsules with a liquid crystal material sealed therein are dispersed inside of a photoconductive layer thereof and comprises a charger for uniformly... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5095376 | Apparatus and method for driving an optical printer having a liquid crystal optical switch An apparatus and method for driving an optical printer having at least one liquid crystal optical switch including a ferroelectric liquid crystal layer interposed between a pair of substrates having electrodes on confronting surfaces thereof, the at least... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5052785 | Color liquid crystal shutter having more green electrodes than red or blue electrodes A color liquid crystal shutter matrix for use in a color image printer for example has a liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal sealed between transparent substrates. A drive electrode assembly is mounted in the liquid crystal panel and drivable ... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4992824 | Apparatus and method utilizing an LCD for printing Method and apparatus which utilize an LCD modulator array for printing and/or enlarging an image recorded in a color film negative, a positive transparency or a color print, which LCD modulator array has pixels whose "closing time" (the time it takes to c... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4939529 | Method for driving and controlling liquid crystal and device Because the prior art liquid crystal driving control circuit needs shift registers, latch circuits and selectors in a number corresponding to the number of cells in the liquid crystal shutter array, the structure of the circuit inevitably becomes complica... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4929057 | Liquid crystal optical device A liquid crystal optical device including a plurality of optical shutters is provided. The optical device includes a first glass substrate having N common electrodes disposed thereon and a second glass substrate having N signal electrodes disposed thereon... | 05/29/1990 |
