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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7903335 | Mirror with built-in display A mirror device which can be simultaneously used for display purposes, based on e.g. an LCD display with a polarizing mirror placed in front of it. The reflectivity of such a mirror display is enhanced by providing at its non-viewing side a further polarizing mirror... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7390095 | Projector Aspects of the invention can provide a projector that includes three optical modulators which modulate respectively red light, green light, and blue light, a color-synthetic optical system which synthesizes the light modulated by the three optical modulators, and a ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7334900 | Three-dimensional image projecting apparatus The invention provides a three-dimensional image projecting apparatus. The three-dimensional image projecting apparatus comprises a light signal generator, a filter device, a focusing device and a reflecting device. The light signal generator is used for generating ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7311399 | Method of making a thermoplastic-based article and a thermoplastic-based article made thereby An article, such as a lens article (10, 10′, 10″, 100) containing a first component, e.g., a filter (14, 14′), or component thereof, having a minimum degradation temperature, and a second component, e.g., a substrate (22, 22′), comprisin... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7298558 | Electronic adjustable color filter device An electronically adjustable, combinational color filter device is provided for generating color light. Incoming light is split in a polarizing beam splitter/combiner into a first and a second element of light. One or more wave plates operate to modify the polarizat... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295371 | High efficiency electromagnetic beam projector, and systems and methods for implementation thereof This invention relates to electromagnetic wave beam paths, formation of the beam, illumination of programmable electromagnetic wave field vector orientation rotating devices (“PEMFVORD”) with an electromagnetic beam, and the technique of projection of the modula... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7294372 | Conductive color filters A conductive color filter includes a layer of carbon nanotubes covered by a colored polymeric resin binder. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286290 | Optical illumination apparatus An optical illumination apparatus has a polarization conversion device for converting light from a light source into light polarized uniformly in a predetermined manner and an optical integrator system for illuminating a display panel with the light polarized in the... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278743 | Single panel illumination system and projection display apparatus using the same The present invention provides an illumination system and projection system using the same. The present invention can eliminate the reflective light on the internal optical surface of the optical system, using the phase plate and linear polarizer, in the color seque... | 10/09/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7215302 | Display device, position adjustment pattern display program, recording medium, polarized glasses, and method of adjusting position of filter of the display device Even if a divided wavelength plate filter is mounted, it is possible to reliably display a three-dimensional image or perform a displaying operation on from one screen to a plurality of screens. In a display device, the relative positions of an image display section... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7170679 | Optically active color filter An optically active color filter for controlling the color of light produced by a light source. The color filter includes an optically active device positioned between a linear polarizer and an adjustable position linear polarizer whose orientation can be controlled... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165847 | Method and system for light processing using a gold segment A method for generating images includes shining a beam of light through a filter wheel to produce filtered light. The filter wheel includes red, green, and blue color segments and a fourth color segment that is not blue, green, red, or clear. The method also include... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7153011 | Vehicle light arrangement with coloring effect A vehicle light arrangement, provided for producing a coloring effect on a vehicle body, wherein the vehicle light arrangement, incorporated with a light housing and a light source, comprises a plurality of polarizing segments provided for filtering lights at a pred... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154671 | High efficiency electromagnetic beam projector, and systems and methods for implementation thereof This invention relates to electromagnetic wave beam paths, formation of the beam, illumination of programmable electromagnetic wave field vector orientation rotating devices (“PEMFVORD”) with an electromagnetic beam, and the technique of projection of the modula... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7102822 | High efficiency electromagnetic beam projector, and systems and methods for implementation thereof This invention relates to electromagnetic wave beam paths, formation of the beam, illumination of programmable electromagnetic wave field vector orientation rotating devices (“PEMFVORD”) with an electromagnetic beam, and the technique of projection of the modula... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7081997 | High efficiency electromagnetic beam projector, and systems and methods for implementation thereof This invention relates to electromagnetic wave beam paths, formation of the beam, illumination of programmable electromagnetic wave field vector orientation rotating devices (“PEMFVORD”) with an electromagnetic beam, and the technique of projection of the modula... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7066600 | Projection type image display apparatus Disclosed is a compact, light, inexpensive reflection type liquid crystal projector optical unit or reflection type liquid crystal projector which provides high brightness without contrast deterioration caused by light leakage associated with black image display. Th... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7048380 | Color switching projection apparatus with two liquid crystal panels A projection apparatus including a polarization conversion system to convert light having a first polarization component; a color recycling system, which separates the light into first and second color lights, to transmit and reflect the first and second color light... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7002662 | Method of producing optical element by patterning liquid crystal films A method for making an optical element from patterned liquid crystal films by placing a radiation-curing liquid crystal on an aligning function substrate surface, radiating selectively a portion of the liquid crystal film partially to cure it, contacting the partial... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6975455 | Transflective layer for displays A transflective assembly includes an absorbing polarizer and a first reflective polarizer disposed to reflect at least a portion of light transmitted through the absorbing polarizer. A second reflective polarizer is disposed between the absorbing polarizer and the f... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6943949 | High efficiency electromagnetic beam projector, and systems and methods for implementation thereof This invention relates to electromagnetic wave beam paths, formation of the beam, illumination of programmable electromagnetic wave field vector orientation rotating devices (“PEMFVORD”) with an electromagnetic beam, and the technique of projection of the modula... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6910773 | Projection type image display apparatus Disclosed is a compact, light, inexpensive reflection type liquid crystal projector optical unit or reflection type liquid crystal projector which provides high brightness without contrast deterioration caused by light leakage associated with black image display. Th... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6882476 | High efficiency electromagnetic beam projector, and systems and methods for implementation thereof This invention relates to electromagnetic wave beam paths, formation of the beam, illumination of programmable electromagnetic wave field vector orientation rotating devices (“PEMFVORD”) with an electromagnetic beam, and the technique of projection of the modula... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6797366 | Color shifting film articles Multilayer polymeric films and other optical bodies are provided which is useful in making colored mirrors and polarizers. The films are characterized by a change in color as a function of viewing angle. ... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6791752 | High efficiency electromagnetic beam projector, and systems and methods for implementation thereof This invention relates to electromagnetic wave beam paths, formation of the beam, illumination of programmable electromagnetic wave field vector orientation rotating devices (“PEMFVORD”) with an electromagnetic beam, and the technique of projection of the modula... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6781757 | Polarization insensitive tunable optical filters A polarization insensitive tunable optical filter system combines an interference filter or the like with a quarter wave plate and a retro-reflector. The retro-reflector is situated and aligned to intercept light reflected from the filter, and the quarter wave plate... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6674489 | Image display performing color reproduction using color filters In an image display which reproduces a color image by using lights color-separated into four or more colors through color filters, the objects of the invention are to effectively utilize the energy of light from a light source and to reduce the effect tha... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6650474 | Optical filter and optical device provided with this optical filter Light emitted from a taking lens 20 enters a first birefringent plate 1a to be spatially divided along a first direction extending perpendicular to the direction in which the light advances to achieve two separate rays L10 and L20. The vibrational planes ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6631992 | Projector color correction to target white points A system for adjusting the color of a light source comprises a first polarizer to polarize the light source, a fixed retarder with its optical axis at a first angle to the polarized light, an electronically variable retarder with its optical axis at a sec... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6552849 | Color polarizer with support for liquid crystal projector and color liquid crystal projector The invention is to develop a color polarizing plate with a support, the polarizing plate having both good brightness and polarizing efficiency for a blue channel (for blue light). The color polarizing plate with a support for a liquid crystal projector c... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6545804 | Projection display with two reflective light valves In a projection display that includes a polarization beam splitter prism and two reflective light valves, each of a pair of dichroic beam splitters is disposed between the polarization beam splitter prism and a respective one of the reflective light valve... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6538815 | Bi-directional optical circulator and applications thereof A method and apparatus of bi-directional optical circulation are provided wherein, for a plurality of optical input/output ports including a certain logical sequence, light of a first set of lights inputted to any port is outputted from the logical next p... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535333 | Optical system with reduced color shift An optical system with improved color shift characteristics is described. Preferably, the system comprises a rear projection display that includes a light source providing light in first and second distinct polarization states, and a beaded screen.... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6534158 | Color shifting film with patterned fluorescent and non-fluorescent colorants Disclosed are articles having a color shifting film and indicia located behind the color shifting film. The indicia include at least a first and second colored portion, the first portion including a first fluorescent colorant. The second colored portion i... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6522468 | Light-polarizing film A light-polarizing film is provided which possesses a light transmittance of not more than 0.3% at wavelengths of from 430 nm to 500 nm inclusive when irradiated with a linearly polarized light with a vibration plane parallel to an absorption axis of said... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6506480 | Color shifting film with a plurality of fluorescent colorants Disclosed are articles having a color shifting film and indicia located behind the color shifting film. At least a first and second colored portion are arranged as a foreground and background of the indicia. The first portion includes a first fluorescent ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6449092 | Reflective polarizers having extended red band edge for reduced off axis color Reflective polarizers, which transmit one polarization and reflect the other polarization, have an extended red band edge in the off-axis transmission spectrum to control off axis color (OAC) hue. To control the OAC hue, the red band edge of the off-axis ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6385139 | Display device and electronic timepiece A display device is provided which is able to effect high visibility display utilizing external light, and which is able to effect reflective display with a combination of various textures and color. The display device includes a first polarized-light sep... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6366403 | Laser image contrast enhancement system An optical image enhancement system provides improved image contrast in imaging of a target in high temperature surroundings such as a furnace. The optical system includes a source of vertically polarized light such as laser and a beam splitter for receiv... | 04/02/2002 |
