Abstract: An optical device comprising: at least one liquid crystal cell comprising liquid crystal material in a cell gap having a dimension at least partly defined by spacers, the liquid crystal cell comprising electrodes for inducing substantially confocal refractive index patterns in substantially concentric, first regions of the liquid crystal material; and within an area bound by an outer edge of an outermost one of the first regions, the spacers being at least disproportionately located in one or more re-set regions between the first regions.

Abstract: We disclose an optical device comprising an optical stack. The optical stack comprises a first substrate layer, a second substrate layer, and an optical medium located between the first and second substrate layers. The optical stack is bent such that a second portion of the optical stack extends behind a first portion of the optical stack.

Abstract: An LCD display, comprising an active display area, a backlight to illuminate the active display area, and an LCD display stack. The LCD display stack may comprise a substrate, a liquid crystal layer over the substrate, and liquid crystal cover layer. The substrate, the liquid crystal layer, and the liquid crystal cover layer define a liquid crystal cell. The LCD display stack has an edge seal extending between the substrate and the liquid cover layer, and extends over the active display area and beyond the active display area to bend around an edge of the backlight, such that the edge seal lies beyond the active display area.

Abstract: A hybrid system and method to provide reliable and cost-effective high speed broadband internet to rural or geographically dispersed areas. Areas with existing telecommunication towers and favorable topography are targeted with a broadband network using fixed wireless radio technology (aka “RF” or radiofrequency radiation), covering upwards of 50 to 80 percent of the area with high-speed, reliable broadband connectivity, and supplementing that fixed wireless coverage with “FTTP neighborhoods” (FTTP—fiber to the premises) to bring community coverage to 100 percent.

Abstract: A device having a stack of layers defining source and pixel conductors at a first level, gate and common conductors at a second level, semiconductor channels between the source and pixel conductors and gate dielectric capacitively coupling the semiconductor channels to the gate conductors. The pixel and common conductors are configured such that, in use, a change in potential difference between the pixel and common conductors in a pixel region induces a change in one or more optical properties of a liquid crystal material in the pixel region.

Abstract: A broker system infrastructure includes a database warehouse configured to store and provide insurance data for one or more clients, and a data analytics server in communication with the database warehouse. The broker system infrastructure analyzes policy data and member data to define a model configured to identify a relationship therebetween, receives query data including first member data, uses the policy data to generate a quote based on the query data, and applies the query data and the quote to the model to determine whether the quote is inaccurate. If the quote is inaccurate, the broker system infrastructure modifies the policy data and member data to incorporate to the quote and first member data, and analyzes at least the modified policy data and member data to modify the model such that the model is configured to identify a relationship therebetween.

Abstract: We disclose an optical device comprising an optical stack. The optical stack comprises a first substrate layer, a second substrate layer, and an optical medium located between the first and second substrate layers. The optical stack is bent such that a second portion of the optical stack extends behind a first portion of the optical stack.

Abstract: An LCD display, comprising an active display area, a backlight to illuminate the active display area, and an LCD display stack. The LCD display stack may comprise a substrate, a liquid crystal layer over the substrate, and liquid crystal cover layer. The substrate, the liquid crystal layer, and the liquid crystal cover layer define a liquid crystal cell. The LCD display stack has an edge seal extending between the substrate and the liquid cover layer, and extends over the active display area and beyond the active display area to bend around an edge of the backlight, such that the edge seal lies beyond the active display area.

Abstract: A technique of producing a liquid crystal device, comprising: providing a cell assembly comprising a liquid crystal material contained directly between (i) a polariser component comprising an active film and no more than one support film, and (ii) a first control component including a stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry; and containing further liquid crystal material directly between the polariser component of the assembly and another control component including another stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry.

Abstract: A technique, comprising: removing a protective film from one side of a polarisation filter component to expose a dichroic doped polymer active film or a layer formed in situ on the dichroic doped polymer active film; and thereafter forming in situ on the side of the polarisation filter component one or more functional layers of a liquid crystal device.

Abstract: We disclose herewith a display device comprising a plurality of pixels. Each pixel comprises a first encapsulation layer; a second encapsulation layer; and a display medium disposed between the first and second encapsulation layers. The first encapsulation layer is disposed above an upper surface of the display medium and the second encapsulation layer is disposed below a lower surface of the display medium. A plurality of electrodes extends laterally through the display medium. The plurality of electrodes is oriented at an oblique angle relative to an axis extending between two opposing edges of the pixel.

Abstract: A device having a stack of layers defining source and pixel conductors at a first level, gate and common conductors at a second level, semiconductor channels between the source and pixel conductors and gate dielectric capacitively coupling the semiconductor channels to the gate conductors. The pixel and common conductors are configured such that, in use, a change in potential difference between the pixel and common conductors in a pixel region induces a change in one or more optical properties of a liquid crystal material in the pixel region.

Abstract: A technique, comprising: removing a protective film from one side of a polarisation filter component to expose a dichroic doped polymer active film or a layer formed in situ on the dichroic doped polymer active film; and thereafter forming in situ on the side of the polarisation filter component one or more functional layers of a liquid crystal device.

Abstract: A technique of producing a liquid crystal device, comprising: providing a cell assembly comprising a liquid crystal material contained directly between (i) a polariser component comprising an active film and no more than one support film, and (ii) a first control component including a stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry; and containing further liquid crystal material directly between the polariser component of the assembly and another control component including another stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry.

Abstract: A device comprising: a stack of layers defining an array of transistors, wherein the stack of layers includes a surface conductor pattern defining (i) an array of gate conductors each providing the gate electrodes for a respective column of transistors, and (ii) an array of pixel conductors, each pixel conductor associated with a respective transistor, and connected via a semiconductor channel of the respective transistor to one of an array of row conductors, each row conductor associated with a respective row of transistors; wherein each gate conductor is configured to extend substantially completely around the pixel conductors of the respective column of transistors associated with the gate conductor.

Abstract: A display device for conformal mounting on a curved surface inclined at an oblique angle relative to a horizontal plane, the display device comprising: a plurality of pixels, a first set of conductive lines connected to the plurality of pixels; and a second set of conductive lines connected to the plurality of pixels, wherein the first set of conductive lines and the second set of conductive lines are arranged to define a shape of each of the plurality of pixels such that the pixels appear, to a viewer, to extend at least one of horizontally or vertically across the display device when the display device is mounted on the curved surface.

Abstract: A display device, comprising: a control component for electrically controlling the intensity of light transmitted therethrough from a backlight; and an optical component between said backlight and said control component configured to convert input light exhibiting at least one directional property substantially uniformly across an area at an input side of the optical component to output light exhibiting a substantial variation in said at least one directional property across a corresponding area at an output side of the optical component.

Abstract: An array component for a display device, comprising: an array of active light-emitting elements in a matrix, wherein at least some of the active light-emitting elements at a periphery of the array of active light-emitting elements have a light-emitting area that is (i) smaller than other active light-emitting elements more remote from said periphery, and (ii) different to other active light-emitting elements at said periphery of the array; wherein said active light-emitting elements are arranged in rows, and wherein (i) one or more of said active light-emitting elements in a row and at a periphery of the array have centroids aligned in a direction substantially parallel to the direction of the rows with (ii) other active light-emitting elements also in said row and more remote from said periphery.

Abstract: A display device for conformal mounting on a curved surface inclined at an oblique angle relative to a horizontal plane, the display device comprising: a plurality of pixels, a first set of conductive lines connected to the plurality of pixels; and a second set of conductive lines connected to the plurality of pixels, wherein the first set of conductive lines and the second set of conductive lines are arranged to define a shape of each of the plurality of pixels such that the pixels appear, to a viewer, to extend at least one of horizontally or vertically across the display device when the display device is mounted on the curved surface.

Abstract: A method of producing a transistor array, comprising an array of addressing conductors each providing the source electrodes of a respective set of transistors and at least part of a conductive connection between a respective driver terminal and said source electrodes; wherein the method comprises: forming a conductor layer on a support; and displacing a plurality of portions of said conductor layer relative to other portions of said conductor layer to create from said conductor layer at least (i) said array of addressing conductors and an array of drain conductors at said first level, (ii) conductor element islands in transistor channel regions at a second level, and (iii) one or more further conductor elements at a third level.