Abstract: The invention relates to liquid crystal displays and method of making liquid crystal displays. One liquid crystal display invention has as an element an optically transmissive first substrate that may be positioned to receive light incident from the light source. A reflective second substrate is positioned adjacent to this first substrate. The second substrate has an active area that may include a circuit panel and a perimeter seal area surrounding that active area. To separate the first substrate from the second substrate, spacers are configured about the perimeter seal area of the second substrate. Between the first substrate and the second substrate is a liquid crystal material. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for display systems which modulate a control electrode to cause an electro-optic layer to be reset to a state in which display data is not viewable. In one embodiment of the invention, a display system includes a first substrate having a first plurality of pixel electrodes for receiving a first plurality of pixel data values representing a first image to be displayed. The display system further includes an electro-optic layer which is operatively coupled to the pixel electrodes and an electrode operatively coupled to the electro-optic layer. The electro-optic layer comprises a polymer dispersed liquid crystal material. The display system displays the first image and then applies a first control voltage to the electrode to alter a state of the electro-optic layer such that the first image substantially not displayed and then the display system displays a second image represented by a second plurality of pixel data values after the electrode receives a second control voltage.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for display systems which modulate a control electrode to cause an electro-optic layer to be reset to a state in which display data is not viewable. In one embodiment of the invention, a display system includes a first substrate having a first plurality of pixel electrodes for receiving a first plurality of pixel data values representing a first image to be displayed. The display system further includes an electro-optic layer which is operatively coupled to the pixel electrodes, a control device coupled to at least one of the pixel electrodes and an electrode operatively coupled to the electro-optic layer. The display system displays the first image and then applies a first control voltage to the electrode to alter a state of the electro-optic layer such that the first image is substantially not displayed and then the display system displays a second image represented by a second plurality of pixel data values after the electrode receives a second control voltage.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for display systems which modulate a control electrode to cause an electro-optic layer to be reset to a state in which display data is not viewable. In one embodiment of the invention, a display system includes a first substrate having a first plurality of pixel electrodes for receiving a first plurality of pixel data values representing a first image to be displayed. The display system further includes an electro-optic layer which is operatively coupled to the pixel electrodes and an electrode operatively coupled to the electro-optic layer. The display system displays the first image and then applies a first control voltage to the electrode to alter a state of the electro-optic layer such that the first image substantially not displayed and then the display system displays a second image represented by a second plurality of pixel data values after the electrode receives a second control voltage. Various other apparatuses and methods are described.

Abstract: Methods and systems for operating a display system. An example of the display system includes a first substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes, an electro-optic layer operatively coupled to the pixel electrodes and an electrode operatively coupled to said electro-optic layer. In one example of a method of the invention, a first plurality of pixel data values is applied to the plurality of pixel electrodes. A first control voltage is applied to the electrode to alter a state of the electro-optic layer such that the first pixel data represented by the first plurality of pixel data values is substantially not displayed. A second plurality of pixel data values, representing a second pixel data, is applied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a second control voltage is applied to the electrode to alter the state of the electro-optic layer such that the second pixel data is displayed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a display head-set device that includes a support member and a display-optics interface pod coupled to one of a left handle portion and a right handle portion of the support member. The display-optics interface pod houses an image display for viewing by a user. In one embodiment, the display head-set resembles a pair of eye glasses with the interface pod attached to one of the left handle portion and the right handle portion of the support member by an arm clip and extending into the field of vision to offer a monocular viewing sight to the user.

Abstract: An electro-optic display system having cover glass electrode modulation. The display system comprises an electro-optic layer disposed between first and second substrates having a single common electrode and a plurality of pixel electrodes, respectively. Voltage modulation of the common electrode is temporally related to image data acquisition by the pixel electrodes and allows data to be updated to each of the plurality of pixel electrodes simultaneously.