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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8115892 | Display that emits circularly-polarized light One embodiment of the present invention provides a display that emits circularly-polarized light. This display includes a display mechanism that emits linearly-polarized light and a layer placed in the path of the linearly-polarized light. The layer receives the lin... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8094265 | Liquid crystal display The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display, comprising a lower alignment film formed on a lower substrate; an upper alignment film formed on an upper substrate; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the lower and upper substrates; a phase compensa... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094264 | Liquid crystal display The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display, comprising a lower alignment film formed on a lower substrate; an upper alignment film formed on an upper substrate; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the lower and upper substrates; a phase compensa... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8035776 | Liquid crystal cell and display having patterned electrode layer between at least cholesteric liquid crystal and electrode A liquid crystal cell (5) comprises a layer (4) of cholesteric liquid crystal material; and a retarder (3) disposed in an optical path through the layer (4) of cholesteric liquid crystal material. The cholesteric liquid crystal material i... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7961276 | Circular polarizer, liquid crystal display device, and terminal device In the liquid crystal display device of the present invention, a circular polarizer is provided to each of a pair of substrates that hold a liquid crystal layer, wherein the circular polarizer on the display surface side is composed of a polarizer, λ/2 plate in whi... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7932971 | Liquid-crystal display In a liquid-crystal display, unpolarized light from a light source passes through a linear polarization separation layer and strikes a liquid-crystal cell. The liquid-crystal cell, in response to an applied electrical field, changes the direction of a director, so a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7911565 | Display that emits circularly-polarized light One embodiment of the present invention provides a display that emits circularly-polarized light. This display includes a display mechanism that emits linearly-polarized light and a layer placed in the path of the linearly-polarized light. The layer receives the lin... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7683983 | Display that emits circularly-polarized light One embodiment of the present invention provides a display that emits circularly-polarized light. This display includes a display mechanism that emits linearly-polarized light and a layer placed in the path of the linearly-polarized light. The layer receives the lin... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7623201 | Liquid-crystal display In a liquid-crystal display (10), unpolarized light from a light source (12) passes through a linear polarization separation layer (14) and strikes a liquid-crystal cell (16). The liquid-crystal cell (16), in response to an applied... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7599022 | Liquid crystal display The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display, which comprises: a lower substrate having a reflective electrode; a lower alignment film formed on the lower substrate; an upper substrate having a color filter and disposed opposite to the lower substrate; ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7586562 | Liquid crystal display of OCB or VA mode A liquid crystal display of OCB mode or VA mode comprises a backlight unit, a backlight-side polarizing plate, a liquid crystal cell of OCB mode or VA mode, and a viewer-side polarizing plate in order. The viewer-side polarizing plate comprises a first transparent p... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7564518 | Reflective cholesteric displays employing circular polarizers with the polarity of the front polarizer opposite to both the back polarizer and the bragg reflection This invention relates to a high brightness and high contrast ratio reflective cholesteric displays employing circular polarizers. The front circular polarizer has a predetermined polarity that is opposite both to the Bragg reflection of the display and to the back ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7538836 | Circularly polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a circularly polarizing plate comprising a polarizer and an optical layer having a value 5 of Nz shown by the following equation (1), wherein the circularly polarizing plate comprises a birefringent body satisfying Nz | 05/26/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7443464 | Liquid crystal display unit A partial polarization member is provided on a second substrate. The partial polarization member is provided corresponding to an aperture of a reflection film, and is not provided in other areas that overlap with reflectors of a reflection film. Therefore, light tha... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440047 | Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus having two elliptically polarizing plates The invention provides a semi-transparent reflective liquid crystal display device in which bright display, high contrast, and less viewing-angle dependency are possible in a transmission mode. In the liquid crystal display device according to the present invention,... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433002 | Prism-patterned broadband reflective polarizer for liquid crystal display The present invention is related to a method of method of manufacture of a reflective polarizing film that can improve brightness of a liquid crystal display device remarkably by making a liquid crystal film that can cover visible light by using cholesteric liquid c... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7417699 | LCD display with mirror function having top reflective polarizer and reflective black matrix The liquid crystal display device having a mirror function includes a back light assembly, a liquid crystal display panel, a first polarizing plate, a selective reflection polarizing plate and a second polarizing plate. The back light assembly generates a light. The... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7405780 | Liquid-crystal display In a liquid-crystal display (10), unpolarized light from a light source (12) passes through a linear polarization separation layer (14) and strikes a liquid-crystal cell (16). The liquid-crystal cell (16), in response to an applied... | 07/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7388627 | Discrimination medium and article to be discriminated A breakable seal can be discriminated more easily than the conventional one. The discrimination medium 100 has a cholesteric liquid crystal layer 104, a substrate layer 105, an adhesive layer 102, and a partial peeling layer 103. T... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7372524 | Liquid crystal display device An LCD includes a first substrate on which a TFT and a color filter are formed, a second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates. A polarizer attaches over a lower surface of the ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365815 | Phase retardation film and liquid crystal display device including the same Disclosed is a phase retardation film including two outer layers facing each other, and an inner layer interposed between the outer layers, each of the outer layers are formed of a non-styrene polymeric material and the inner layer being formed of a polymeric materi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7354632 | Optical laminate Provided are: a long optical laminate prepared by laminating two obliquely stretched long phase-difference films so that the respective delayed-phase axes cross each other at a specified angle, while at least one of the two phase-difference films is a film containin... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351346 | Non-photolithographic method for forming a wire grid polarizer for optical and infrared wavelengths A method for forming a plurality of parallel metal lines on a substrate of thin film elastomeric material and a wire grid polarizer formed by such method. A sacrificial layer is formed by coating the substrate with a water soluble polymer while the substrate is stre... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349041 | Liquid crystal display with light guiding plate removed from LCD panel and polarizing plate inside LCD panel Disclosed is an ultra slimmed LCD capable of being applied to a hand-held terminal such as a cellular phone. In the LCD, a first substrate includes a pixel electrode. A switching element is formed on an inner surface of the first substrate, and turns on or off the p... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342576 | Driving circuit of liquid crystal display Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel having a shift register therein and an interface circuit for adjusting DC and AC levels, for compensating for a loss caused by elements and a resister of the shift register. A driving circ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342619 | Polarization light splitting film, backlight system and liquid crystal display A polarization light splitting film having a light receiving side and a light transmitting side. The polarization light splitting film includes an optical rotation selection layer at the light receiving side for reflecting one of right and left circularly polarized ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7332201 | Optically functional layer, method of forming optically functional layer, and liquid crystal display element The present invention is to solve a problem that, conventionally, there is a risk of impurity elution when the optical retardation control layer obtainable by photopolymerization comes into contact with the liquid crystal layer because of the deterioration in heat r... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7324410 | Watch with special back A pocket or wrist watch has a unique back member that is constructed to hold a disc by adhesive means. The disc may impart special importance to the watch. It may be constructed from a gaming chip. The watch movement may be housed in another portion of a gaming chip... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319500 | Viewing angle compensation film and liquid crystal display There is provided a liquid crystal display which exhibits preferable viewing angle characteristics even in a diagonal viewing angle. Optical retardation films of a first type that satisfy nx>ny, nz and optical retardation films of a ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317498 | Viewing angle magnification liquid crystal display unit A viewing angle magnification liquid crystal display of this invention comprising: at least a backlight system containing a polarization element (A) obtained by disposing a retardation layer (b) between at least two layers, included in a reflection polarizer (a), an... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310125 | Reflective liquid crystal display A reflective liquid crystal display includes a linear polarizer for converting natural light into linearly polarized light; a retardation film for converting the linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light; a liquid crystal layer for varying the phase o... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304630 | Display device and drive method thereof A display apparatus and a method for driving the display apparatus that are capable of suppressing image quality degradation resulting from delay in sampling pulses or from waveform rounding thereof and image quality degradation caused by coupling between the signal... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301593 | Liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that requires a reduced power consumption, which shows improved response speed and improved viewing angle properties, and that can give high-quality image display at low power consumption, and the liquid... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7294303 | Broad band-cholesteric liquid crystal film and process for producing the same, circularly polarizing plate, linearly polarizing element, illuminator, and liquid-crystal display A broad band cholesteric liquid crystal film of the present invention comprises a cholesteric liquid crystal film obtained by polymerizing a liquid crystal mixture containing a polymerizable mesogen compound (a), a polymerizable chiral agent (b) and a photopolymeriz... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292292 | Element for protection against forgery or copying containing a structured retarder and a polarizer layer A component has a substrate (1) made of a transparent material, for example glass. On this layer (1), there is a linear polarizer (2) on which there is a layer (3) of a photo-oriented polymer network (PPN)(=LPP) which is oriented in local... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289173 | Polarizing device, and method for manufacturing the same A polarizing element 20 has a first undulating structure in which a plurality of linear first recesses 22 are formed parallel to one another in one surface of a transparent substrate 21, and a dielectric layer 30 made from silicon dioxide... | 10/30/2007 |
