Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7969638 | Device having thin black mask and method of fabricating the same A thin black mask is created using a single mask process. A dielectric layer is deposited over a substrate. An absorber layer is deposited over the dielectric layer and a reflector layer is deposited over the absorber layer. The absorber layer and the reflector laye... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7911673 | Display screen with optical memory The invention is a multi-color display screen that has built in optical memory for each pixel location. The optical memory is optically read and optically programmed. The screen itself distinguishes between the specific colors from which a full-color (or multi-color... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7876489 | Display apparatus with optical cavities A display includes an array of light modulators that define a display plane, a light guide and front- and rear-facing reflective surfaces. The light guide includes a plurality of geometric light redirectors, and at least 50% of the light guide's rear surface is para... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7768688 | Image display device, image display method, and image display program An image display device having an optical modulation element, which modulates light emitted from a light source according to display information, and displaying a display image based on the display information includes: a unit adjusting the amount of illumination li... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7746530 | Image display device, image display method, and image display program An image display device having an optical modulation element, which modulates light emitted from a light source according to display information, and displaying a display image based on the display information includes: a unit adjusting the amount of illumination li... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7724415 | Display drive device and display device A display drive device comprises a display element being colored by injecting an electric charge into an electrolyte via an display electrode due to an oxidation-deoxidization reaction and being decolored by injecting an electric charge having an inverse polarity of... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7551340 | Optical element, optical device, mobile information terminal, and manufacturing method A microlouver has, as a basic unit, a light-controlling layer in which a light-absorbing layer and a transparent layer are laminated together, and a plurality of basic units L and S comprising a plurality of types of light-controlling layers having different layer t... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7403318 | Image display device, image display method, and image display program An image display device having an optical modulation element, which modulates light emitted from a light source according to display information, and displaying a display image based on the display information includes: a unit adjusting the amount of illumination li... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397614 | Display device A display device includes an optical region containing a plurality of pigment grains. Each of the plurality of pigment grains formed by a plurality of pigment molecules encapsulated in an inorganic material, and each of the plurality of pigment grains has a grain si... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7375870 | Enhancement electrode configuration for electrically controlled light modulators An electrically controlled light modulator device comprises at least one cell, where two deformable dielectric layers meet at an interface, at least one of said layers consisting of viscoelastic relief forming gel. A first support electrode structure and a second si... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7375847 | Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same An optical scanning device has: a first optical system for converting a flux of light that has been emitted from a light source into another flux of light; a second optical system for focusing the flux of light that has been converted by the first optical system as ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369320 | Projection system with beam homogenizer A projection system having a prescribed relationship between the condenser and the projection lens is disclosed, where an imager gate normally coinciding with a projection object plane is between and spaced away from a condenser back focal plane and a condenser imag... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365895 | Display device A display device comprising the following arranged from light input side in the order listed below: a first reflector having a semi-transmissive and semi-reflective property; a translucent porous body having a plurality of pores in which a translucent material is fi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349139 | System and method of illuminating interferometric modulators using backlighting An interferometric modulator array device with backlighting is disclosed. The interferometric modulator array device comprises a plurality of interferometric modulator elements, wherein each of the interferometric modulator elements comprises an optical cavity. The ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7300157 | Pixel-shifting projection lens assembly to provide optical interlacing for increased addressability A projection display system includes a projection lens assembly that has multiple projection lens elements that are configured to receive light imparted with display information by a pixelated display device. The projection lens elements project the light toward a d... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7274500 | Display system incorporating trilinear electromechanical grating device A display system comprises a light modulator having at least three linear arrays of light modulating devices on a common substrate, at least one light source producing at least three colors of light for illuminating the at least three linear arrays, a lens for creat... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7256551 | Image displaying method and device and image displaying control method and apparatus A first electrode layer capable of transmitting visible light, a displaying layer, whose optical characteristics alter in accordance with an electric field, an optical switching layer capable of exhibiting electrical conductivity when being exposed to an electromagn... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252390 | Projecting optical system A projecting optical system for decreasing a height of an optical system is provided. The system includes a lamp for irradiating light, a color divider for dividing colors of light irradiated from the lamp, an illumination mixer for irradiating the light with equal ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7236285 | Light modulation device and optical display device, and light modulation method and image display method A projection type display device includes dichroic mirrors which separate the light from the light source into light of the three primary colors R, G and B, a plurality of color modulation light valves upon which the light beams separated by the dichroic mirrors are... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7215068 | Piezoelectric actuator head suspension unit employing piezoelectric actuator, and magnetic disk drive employing head suspension unit A piezoelectric element of a piezoelectric actuator is clamped by two electrodes, each of which has a conductive layer on a insulating layer. At least a connection terminal is formed by extending the conductive layer outside the insulating layer. ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213922 | Projector Aspects of the invention provide a projector capable of comparatively easily achieving a contrast ratio higher than the original contrast ratio of the liquid-crystal light valve by a simple mechanism. The illumination light modulated by liquid-crystal light valves, ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206112 | Image display device and manufacuring method An image display device includes at least one transmissive display panel arranged at different depth positions in a direction normal to a display surface of the image display device. Each of the transmissive display panels includes a light-emitting layer that is san... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7196832 | Substrate for electrooptic device and method of manufacturing the same, electrooptic device, and electronic equipment A substrate for an electrooptic device comprising a light-transmissive base member, a reflection layer formed on the base member so as to include each reflection portion and a corresponding transmission portion having a transmission factor higher than that of the re... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7188776 | Method and device for personalizing luminescent marks of authenticity A method and device for personalizing the luminescent authenticity features on data carrier, in particular plastic cards. The luminescent authenticity feature being applied to or incorporated in a composite card and the authenticity feature is personalized with a hi... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188952 | Micro display projection system Disclosed is a reflection-type micro display projection system having a polarization beam splitter with an optimized structure. The reflection-type micro display projection system includes a light source, an optical system, a reflection-type liquid crystal display p... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7173639 | Spatial light modulator data refresh without tearing artifacts A pulse width modulation driven display such as a spatial light modulator, which updates pixel data between PWM periods of consecutive frames, to avoid tearing artifacts in the perceived display image. ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7164454 | Color filterless display device, optical element, and manufacture A color filterless display device performing color display for expressing one pixel by three RGB sub-pixels includes: a light source; a diffraction grating for separating a light irradiated from this light source into lights of a plurality of wavelength regions; a c... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161609 | Multiple-bit storage element for binary optical display element An optical display element of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that comprises a binary optical display element and a multiple-bit storage element to store a number of bits of a color intensity value to be displayed by the binary optical display element d... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7136209 | Light modulators Apparatus and systems may include a pair of coupling lenses to send light to, and to receive light from, a pair of light modulators. ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136210 | Light modulator One embodiment of a light modulator apparatus includes a first light modulator and a second light modulator diagonally offset from and in series with the first light modulator. ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7130013 | Method of forming a display A method of forming a display including three conductive layers is described. The display is driven by contacting a third conductive layer and a second conductive layer, wherein the second conductive layer transmits current to the first conductive layer, and an elec... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7119937 | Durable electrooptic devices comprising ionic liquids Electrolyte solutions for electrochromic devices such as rear view mirrors and displays with low leakage currents are prepared using inexpensive, low conductivity conductors. Preferred electrolytes include bifunctional redox dyes and molten salt solvents with enhanc... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7118230 | Holder frame, optical device and projector The invention provides a holder frame, optical device and projector which can prevent the substrate from deviating in position, the substrate from being compressed at the outer periphery and color unevenness from occurring. More particularly, in the four sides of a ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7114816 | Fixing plate, optical device and projector The invention provides a fixing plate, optical device and projector capable of preventing against color unevenness occurrence and pixel deviation. Specifically, in each of the four sides of a luminous-flux exit surface of a plate part of a fixing plate, there can al... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7099502 | System and method for automatically processing microarrays A digital image processing-based system and method for quantitatively processing a plurality of nucleic acid species expressed in a microarray are disclosed. The microarray is a grid of a plurality of sub-grids of the nucleic acid species. The system includes a scan... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095568 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus includes a diaphragm (9b) arranged at a pupil position. The shape of an aperture of the diaphragm (9b) is similar to the shape of a light source image formed by an illuminating optical system at the pupil positi... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7088917 | Bubble macro mode lens A lens system has an optical path through a lens that is in contact with a liquid. The focal length of the lens system can be changed through introduction of a bubble in the optical path at the lens-liquid interface. The bubble changes the refractive index differenc... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7072097 | Image production apparatus, image display apparatus, image display method and optical modulation device adjustment apparatus An image production apparatus, an image display apparatus and an image display method are disclosed which can reduce the ununiformity in luminance and color which appears on a display screen and can be formed compact. Also optical modulation device adjustment appara... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7048389 | Optical projection module An optical projection module includes a front optical module, a rear optical module and an adjustment member mounted between the front and rear optical modules. The front optical module includes a lighting module, an integrated rod and a color wheel. One end of the ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046407 | Diffractive color filter A color display system includes a color light separator that separates incident white illumination light into red, green and blue wavelength bands to be directed to distinct color component sub-pixels (sometimes called dots) that are arranged in a dot-matrix, color ... | 05/16/2006 |
