Patents by Inventor Vladimir G. Chigrinov
Vladimir G. Chigrinov has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10607556Abstract: Systems and methods for driving a pixel of a liquid crystal pixel array with a driving circuit are provided. An exemplary method includes: providing a data signal (Dm) to a storage element via the first transistor (T1); and providing a ramping voltage signal (VRAMP) to a gate of a second transistor (T2) of the driving circuit to control the on-off status of the second transistor (T2); wherein the ramping voltage signal (VRAMP) is based on data stored at the storage element; and wherein a duration of an on-state of the second transistor (T2) corresponds to a transmitting state for the pixel.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hoi Sing Kwok, Tsz Kin Ho, Vladimir G. Chigrinov
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Patent number: 10451948Abstract: A standing helix ferroelectric liquid crystal display cell includes: two transparent substrates (102A, 102B); a ferroelectric liquid crystal layer (104) comprising ferroelectric liquid crystals in a standing helix configuration, the ferroelectric liquid crystal layer (104) being disposed between the two transparent substrates (102A, 102B), the ferroelectric liquid crystals having a helix axis perpendicular to the two substrates (102A, 102B) and chiral smectic liquid crystal helix pitch shorter than a wavelength of a polarized light normally impinging at least one of the two transparent substrates (102A, 102B); and inter-digital electrodes (105), disposed in plane with the two transparent substrates (102A, 102B), configured to apply an electric field to the ferroelectric liquid crystal layer (104) that provides a driving voltage below a critical voltage for helix unwinding.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Evgenii P. Pozhidaev, Alexei D. Kiselev, Abhishek K. Srivastava, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Hoi Sing Kwok
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Publication number: 20180017833Abstract: A standing helix ferroelectric liquid crystal display cell includes: two transparent substrates (102A, 102B); a ferroelectric liquid crystal layer (104) comprising ferroelectric liquid crystals in a standing helix configuration, the ferroelectric liquid crystal layer (104) being disposed between the two transparent substrates (102A, 102B), the ferroelectric liquid crystals having a helix axis perpendicular to the two substrates (102A, 102B) and chiral smectic liquid crystal helix pitch shorter than a wavelength of a polarized light normally impinging at least one of the two transparent substrates (102A, 102B); and inter-digital electrodes (105), disposed in plane with the two transparent substrates (102A, 102B), configured to apply an electric field to the ferroelectric liquid crystal layer (104) that provides a driving voltage below a critical voltage for helix unwinding.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: Evgenii P. POZHIDAEV, Alexei D. KISELEV, Abhishek K. SRIVASTAVA, Vladimir G. CHIGRINOV, Hoi Sing KWOK
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Publication number: 20170365228Abstract: Systems and methods for driving a pixel of a liquid crystal pixel array with a driving circuit are provided. An exemplary method includes: providing a data signal (Dm) to a storage element via the first transistor (T1); and providing a ramping voltage signal (VRAMP) to a gate of a second transistor (T2) of the driving circuit to control the on-off status of the second transistor (T2); wherein the ramping voltage signal (VRAMP) is based on data stored at the storage element; and wherein a duration of an on-state of the second transistor (T2) corresponds to a transmitting state for the pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2015Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Hoi Sing KWOK, Tsz Kin HO, Vladimir G. CHIGRINOV
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Patent number: 7783144Abstract: An electrooptically tunable waveguide-coupled microresonator. In one example embodiment, the switch includes a photoalignment layer that enhances control of liquid crystal alignment in the cladding near the coupling region of the microresonator and waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Linjie Zhou, Alexander A. Muravsky, Andrew Wing On Poon
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Patent number: 6671028Abstract: A liquid crystal display cell comprising a chiral ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal layer whose helix structure is influenced by the action of an electric field such that its optical anisotropy alters; a pair of transparent plates between which the liquid crystal is disposed and which have a surface structure for aligning the molecule of the liquid crystal and are provided with electrodes to produce an electric field therein; and one polarizer each before and after the liquid crystal, such that a ratio d/p of the thickness d of the liquid crystal layer to the pitch height p of the helical twisting is greater than 5, the smectic tilt angle &thgr;o between 0.39 radians and 0.87 radians and the product d·&thgr;2·&Dgr;n·1/&lgr; (phase factor) of the thickness d, the square of the tilt angle &thgr;°, the value of the birefringence &Dgr;n and the reciprocal of the wavelength &lgr; of light bending is greater than 0.45 radians2.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1994Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: Rolic AGInventors: Leonid A. Beresnev, Nina I. Chernova, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Dmitry I. Dergachev, Alexander V. Ivashchenko, Marina V. Loseva, Boris I. Ostrovskiv, Arnold Z. Rabinovich, Evgeniv P. Pozhidaev, Martin Schadt, Victor V. Titov
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Patent number: 6582776Abstract: A photo-alignment layer having excellent long-term stability to light and heat is manufactured by coating a material for the photo-alignment layer, which contains a dichroic dye having two or more polymerizable groups per molecule, on a substrate, and exposing the coating layer to polarized light, thereby imparting a photo-alignment function, and polymerizing the polymerizable groups by heating or light exposure.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignees: Hong Kong University of Science And Technology, Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Wing C. Yip, Elena K. Prudnikova, Hoi S. Kwok, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Vladimir M. Kozenkov, Hirokazu Takada, Masanobu Fukuda
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Publication number: 20020098295Abstract: A photo-alignment layer having excellent long-term stability to light and heat is manufactured by coating a material for the photo-alignment layer, which contains a dichroic dye having two or more polymerizable groups per molecule, on a substrate, and exposing the coating layer to polarized light, thereby imparting a photo-alignment function, and polymerizing the polymerizable groups by heating or light exposure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2001Publication date: July 25, 2002Applicant: HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Wing C. Yip, Elena K. Prudnikova, Hoi S. Kwok, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Vladimir M. Kozenkov, Hirokazu Takada, Masanobu Fukuda
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Patent number: 5770109Abstract: A liquid crystal display cell comprising a chiral ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal layer whose helix structure is influenced by the action of an electric field such that its optical anisotropy alters; a pair of transparent plates between which the liquid crystal is disposed and which have a surface structure for aligning the molecule of the liquid crystal and are provided with electrodes to produce an electric field therein; and one polariser each before and after the liquid crystal: such ratio d/p of the thickness d of the liquid crystal layer to the pitch height p of the helical twisting is greater than 5, the smectic tilt angle .theta..sub.o is being between 22.5 .degree. and 50.degree. and the product d..theta..sub.o.sup.2..DELTA.n.1/.lambda. (phase factor) of the thickness d, the square of the tilt angle .theta..sub.o, the value of the birefringence .DELTA.n and the reciprocal of the wavelength .lambda. of light bedding is greater than 0.45 .mu.m.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1997Date of Patent: June 23, 1998Assignee: Rolic AGInventors: Leonid A. Beresnev, Nina I. Chernova, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Dmitry I. Dergachev, Alexander V. Ivashchenko, Marina V. Loseva, Boris I. Ostrovskiv, Arnold Z. Rabinovich, Evgeniv P. Pozhidaev, Martin Schadt, Victor V. Titov
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Patent number: 5676880Abstract: A liquid crystal display cell comprising a chiral ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal layer whose helix structure is influenced by the action of an electric field such that its optical anisotropy alters; a pair of transparent plates between which the liquid crystal is disposed and which have a surface structure for aligning the molecule of the liquid crystal and are provided with electrodes to produce an electric field therein; and one polariser each before and after the liquid crystal: such ratio d/p of the thickness d of the liquid crystal layer to the pitch height p of the helical twisting is greater than 5, the smectic tilt angle .theta..sub.o is being between 22.5.degree. and 50.degree. and the product d.multidot..theta..sub.o.sup.2 .multidot..DELTA.n.multidot.l/.lambda. (phase factor) of the thickness d, the square of the tilt angle .theta..sub.o, the value of the birefringence .DELTA.n and the reciprocal of the wavelength .lambda. of light bedding is greater than 0.45 .mu.m.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: October 14, 1997Assignees: Rolic AG, Niopic Moscow Research & Production AssociationInventors: Leonid A. Beresnev, Nina I. Chernova, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Dmitry I. Dergachev, Alexander V. Ivashchenko, Marina V. Loseva, Boris I. Ostrovskiv, Arnold Z. Rabinovich, Evgeniv P. Pozhidaev, Martin Schadt, Victor V. Titov
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Patent number: 5389698Abstract: An oriented photopolymer is a polymer where photomodification is initiated by irradiation with plane-polarized light and where the molecular configuration has a preferred orientation as a result of linear polarization. These polymers have optically anisotropic and other novel properties.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1993Date of Patent: February 14, 1995Assignees: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Niopic Moscow Research and Production AssociationInventors: Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Vladimir M. Kozenkov, Nicolic V. Novoseletsky, Victor Y. Reshetnyak, Yuriy A. Reznikov, Martin Schadt, Klaus Schmitt
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Patent number: 5327273Abstract: A bistable ferroelectric liquid crystal display cell utilizes two plates, a chiral ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal sandwiched between the plates, and an electrode for applying an electrical field to the plates. The chiral ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal has a structure which is influenced by the action of an electric field so that its optical anisotropy changes. By using a first polarizer connected to one of the plates and a second polarizer connected to the other plate, the unique bistable ferroelectric display produces dark parallel stripes when the polarizers are in a cross position relative to each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 1993Date of Patent: July 5, 1994Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.Inventors: Leonid A. Beresnev, Richard Buchecker, Nina I. Chernova, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Jurg Funfschilling, Marina V. Loseva, Yury P. Panarin, Fvgeniy P. Pozhidaev, Martin Schadt