Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array section having a plurality of unit pixels, each including a photoelectric conversion element, arranged therein; driving means for performing a shutter operation for removing charge stored in the photoelectric conversion element and a read operation for reading the charge of an electric signal that is obtained by the photoelectric conversion of the photoelectric conversion element and is then stored in the photoelectric conversion element; and control means, when a unit pixel driving mode is changed from a first driving mode to a second driving mode in the units of frames, for changing the shutter operation to the second driving mode while keeping the read operation in the first driving mode for a period corresponding to one frame in the current frame, and changing the read operation to the second driving mode in the next frame.

Abstract: An imaging device of the present invention includes a solid-state image sensing device; a vertical transfer drive circuit for feeding a subpulse to the solid-state image sensing device; and a control circuit, and repeats a series of photographing operations in a cycle same as or longer than a period during which the series of photographing operations are performed, the series of photographing operations including an exposure operation for exposing an imaging area after the subpulse is fed to the solid-state image sensing device to sweep out electric charges accumulated in pixels. The control circuit stops the subpulse from being fed from the vertical transfer drive circuit to the solid-state image sensing device during a period during which the exposure operation included in the series of photographing operations is not performed.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device and an image data generating section that generates image data from an image signal outputted from the solid-state imaging device. In an operation mode to successively outputting image signals from the solid-state imaging device and in a case performed a long-time exposure wherein an exposure period for obtaining a second image signal next to the first image signal continues a predetermined time even after a completion of outputting of a first image signal from the solid-state imaging device, a signal-processing-unit-operation control section performs control of providing a period for which the image data generating section is suspended from operating in a duration of from a completion of signal processing on the first image signal up to a time for starting a signal processing on the second image signal.

Abstract: In a control circuit for controlling a solid-state image pickup device, two sorts of image data are read out separately with differing sensitivities. A timing generator control in a digital camera controls a timing signal generator to the interlace scanning or to all-pixel scanning, and outputs a timing signal, consistent with this control, to the driver. The driver outputs a driving signal, consistent with the timing signal, to the solid-state image pickup device included in an image pickup unit to read out signal charges. In particular, in interlace scanning, readout of signal charges of main pixels of the image pickup device is separated from that of subsidiary pixels of the device.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a digital camera apparatus including an image sensor; a memory for a long-term storing of a still photograph and/or a video taken by means of the image sensor; a monitor screen for displaying a view taken by means of the image sensor and/or an image data stored in the memory; a graphic controller for displaying a mark on the screen and capable of skewing the mark on the screen; a user interface for supplying to the graphic controller a signal initiating to change an amount of the skewing of the mark, and; an image processor for correcting an image data based on the amount of the skewing.

Abstract: A camera comprises a lens and an LED array at its front. The LED array is composed of red, green and blue LEDs, which are individually turned on and off for light emitting purposes, as well as changeable in their quantities of red, green and blue lights to be emitted under control of an MPU. Thus, the LED array is capable of emitting light having any color having a different brightness by controlling the respective quantities of red, green and blue lights to be emitted by the corresponding LEDs. That is, the camera is capable of irradiating an object with light having a desired color for image pickup.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for stabilizing a video recording of a scene made by a video camera and represented by video data, said method comprising the steps of subdividing said video data into a plurality of successive frames themselves divided into a plurality of blocks, determining for each block of each frame a motion vector representing the direction and magnitude of the motion in said block, said vector at an instant t being called global motion vector GMV(t) and representing said motion at the instant t with respect to the previous frame, defining a modified vector called integrated motion vector IMV(t) at the instant t and designating the final motion vector correction to be applied to the current frame in view of its motion correction, said integrated motion vector being given by the expression:IMV(t) = GMV(t)+a(E).

Abstract: A method of video image processing comprises receiving a video signal (5,6) carrying input information representing moving images occupying an area (12) of display, processing the received input information and generating an output video signal (10,11) carrying output information representing moving images occupying the area (12) of display. It is characterised by re-scaling a section of the moving images represented by the input information occupying a selected section (17,18) of the area (12) of display independently of parts (14) of the moving images occupying the remainder of the area (12) of display.

Abstract: A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy VSB receiver for processing the data received from the VSB transmission system in a reverse order of the VSB transmission system by using the sequence, and a demultiplexer for demultiplexing tie data from tie modified legacy VSB receiver into the MPEG data and the supplemental data. The VSB reception system also includes a supplemental data processor for processing the supplemental data segment from the demultiplexer in a reverse order of the transmission system, to obtain the supplemental data, thereby carrying out the slicer prediction, decoding, and symbol decision more accurately by using the predefined sequence, to improve a performance.

Abstract: A method (and apparatus) of improving an image quality of a video signal which is supplied on a frame-by-frame basis, includes extracting high frequency components associated with a video signal of an n-th frame (where n is a natural number), and adding the extracted high frequency components to a video signal of an (n+m)th frame (where m is a natural number).

Abstract: Method and apparatus for detecting transitions in a video sequence, which include detecting an abrupt transition including, for each image It?2k included in said video sequence and with a processing time rank t=2k: calculating a first distance D(It?k), between an image It?k and a reference image for said image It?k, which precedes said image It?k in the video sequence; calculating a second distance D(It?2k), between an image It?2k and a reference image for said image It?2k, which precedes said image It?2k in the video sequence; calculating a third distance D(It?3k), between an image It?3k and a reference image for said image It?3k, which precedes said image It?3k in the video sequence; calculating a criterion C? indicating whether said second distance D(It?2k) is significantly greater than the largest of the first and third distances, D(It?k) and D(It?3k); deciding, according to said criterion C?, on the belonging of the image It?2k to an abrupt transition.

Abstract: A signal processing apparatus is disclosed, which includes signal processing means for applying predetermined processing to a signal to be supplied, parameter adjusting means for manually and continuously changing a parameter in processing the signals using the signal processing means, at least one operating means which has a function different from a function of the parameter adjusting means, forming means for forming data which makes a value of the parameter and any one of the operating means correspond to each other, detection means for detecting that a current parameter value attributed to the operation of the parameter adjusting means agrees with a value of a parameter within the data, and function executing means for executing a function of the operating means in response to the value of the parameter within the data based on a detection result of the detection means.

Abstract: A television receiver having: an external input terminal to receive a non-RF signal from a first external device, the non-RF signal being a video and/or audio signal which is not modulated into a radio frequency signal; an RF input terminal to receive an RF signal from a second external device, the RF signal being generated by modulating a video and/or audio signal, and an external-input switching unit to perform switching selection to the non-RF signal received through the external input terminal, wherein the external-input switching unit is capable of tuning in a frequency of RF signal transferred through the RF input terminal to perform switching selection to a receiving channel when the detecting unit detects that an RF signal has been transferred through the RF input terminal.

Abstract: An image output device includes a light emission unit, a light reception unit, a decision unit, and an output unit, and outputs an image upon a display device that has a light reception surface for receiving a control signal. The light emission unit is for placement opposite the light reception surface. The light reception unit receives a control signal outputted from the remote control device. The decision unit decides whether the received control signal is a control signal for which processing should be performed by the display device, or is a control signal for which processing should be performed by the image output device. The output unit, when it has been decided by the decision unit that the received control signal is a control signal for which processing should be performed by the display device, causes the light emission unit to emit light based upon the received control signal.

Abstract: A trigger signal generator for outputting a trigger signal having a lower frequency than that of an input signal, the trigger signal generator including: a frequency divider circuit for dividing a frequency of the input signal; and a synchronizing circuit including a synchronizer for synchronizing the frequency-divided signal with the input signal.

Abstract: Laser projection system suitable for commercial motion picture theaters and other large screen venues, including home theater, uses optical fibers to project modulated laser beams for simultaneously raster scanning multiple lines on screen. Emitting ends of optical fibers are arranged in an array such that red, green and blue spots are simultaneously scanned onto the screen in multiple lines spaced one or more scan lines apart. Use of optical fibers enables scanning of small, high resolution spots on screen, and permits convenient packaging and replacement, upgrading or modification of system components. Simultaneous raster scanning of multiple lines enables higher resolution, brightness, and frame rates with available economical components. Fiber-based beam coupling may be used to greatly enhance the flexibility of the system.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for masking traditional grey bars which are produced by displaying wide screen images within a full screen native projector and visa versa. This method allows blocking of light for unused portions of the screen thereby producing higher contrast images. In an exemplary embodiment, a physical shutter is positioned inside the projection system so that the light which would otherwise produce a grey bar area is blocked before it reaches a projection screen. Image data are analyzed to identify grey screen areas which are not being utilized for image display and light which would otherwise produce such grey areas is blocked or shuttered by the projector to eliminate the grey areas.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a display device which can be manufactured with usability of a material improved and with a manufacturing step simplified and to provide a manufacturing technique thereof. One feature of a display device of the present invention is to comprise an insulating layer having an opening, a first conductive layer formed in the opening, and a second conductive layer formed over the insulating layer and the first conductive layer, wherein the first conductive layer is wider and thicker than the second conductive layer, and the second conductive layer is formed by spraying a droplet including a conductive material.

Abstract: Disclosed are a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate capable of preventing separation between an organic layer and an inorganic layer, a method of fabricating the TFT substrate, an LCD panel having the TFT substrate, and a method of fabricating the LCD panel. The TFT thin film transistor substrate includes a TFT connected to a gate line and a data line, an organic protective layer for protecting the thin film transistor, and an inorganic insulating layer formed between the gate line and the data line. The inorganic insulating layer is formed such that a contact surface with the organic protective layer has a different pattern from a non-contact surface with the organic protective layer.

Abstract: A pixel structure and a method of repairing the same are provided. The pixel structure includes a scan line, a data line, a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode, a common line and a dielectric layer. The common line adjacent to the data line serves as a repairing section, the repairing section includes a first repairing terminal, a second repairing terminal and a cutting region, the first repairing terminal and the second repairing terminal are disposed under the data line and the cutting region is disposed between the first repairing terminal and the section of the common line that does not extend along the data line, and the pixel electrode does not cover the cutting region.

Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display (1) includes a liquid crystal panel (13), and a frame (18). The liquid crystal panel has a block (134) outwardly extending from a side surface (132) thereof. The frame includes a side wall (181) defining a gap (189) thereat, and a reinforcing part (188) at a bottom portion of the frame that bounds the gap. The liquid crystal panel is received in the frame, and the block is received in the gap.

Abstract: A sine-wave-like diffusion plate used in a backlight module of a liquid crystal display is provided. The diffusion plate is provided with an oppositely disposed first surface and second surface, and is used to receive and diffuse the light generated by a light source, and is characterized such, that the diffusion plate is provided with a sine-wave-like structure, optionally formed on the first surface and/or second surface.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD). There is provided an LCD comprising at least one lamp, a light guide plate for converting light incident from the lamp into a surface light source, an LCD panel disposed above the light guide plate for displaying an image thereon, a first reflection plate disposed below the light guide plate and including an end bent to extend parallel to a surface of the light guide plate such that the reflection plate can surround the lamp installed on the surface of the light guide plate, a mold frame including a space for accommodating the lamp, the light guide plate, the LCD panel and the reflection palate therein and including a portion of a sidewall protruding into the LCD to surround the top of the lamp, and a second reflection plate disposed on a rear surface of a portion of the mold frame arranged above the lamp. Therefore, a thin and lightweight LCD can be obtained and lamp efficiency can also be improved.

Abstract: A cold-cathode tube has hitherto been used as a backlight for supplying illumination to a liquid crystal television but recently, light emitting diode pieces have been used for a backlight of a large-size liquid crystal television. For the purpose of improving the emission efficiency, flip chip mounting of the light emitting diode piece is advantageous but the mounting yield is restricted by the piece size, electrode structure and wire pattern structure, facing situations having difficulties in realizing simplified mounting and reduction of costs of members. In a liquid crystal display apparatus having a liquid crystal panel, an optical system and a light source, the light source includes a light emitting element structure having positive and negative electrodes, at least one of them being plural, and wires mounted to the positive and negative electrodes through flip chip mounting by making electrical correspondence to individual regions of the positive and negative electrodes.

Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and microcapsules sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, the microcapsules constituting a display area, the microcapsules encapsulating a display material whose optical properties change in response to electrical stimulation. A conductive material for conducting between the substrates is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate to constitute a vertically conducting portion. The thickness of the conductive material is set such that the distance between the first substrate and the second substrate at the vertically conducting portion is larger than the distance between the first substrate and the second substrate in the display area.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel; a first polarizer on a first surface of the liquid crystal display panel; a second polarizer on a second surface of the liquid crystal display panel; and a first light path control film on a first surface of the second polarizer to refract the light polarized by the second polarizer to a direction minimizing a gray inversion on a display surface of the liquid crystal display panel.

Abstract: An array substrate includes a switching element, a pixel electrode and an insulating layer. The switching element is formed in a display area of a substrate. The insulating layer is formed on the substrate having the switching element formed thereon. The insulating layer includes a plurality of reflective particles reflecting light incident into an upper portion of the substrate. Therefore, the organic insulating layer having the reflective particles may reflect and transmit light, so that a process forming a conventional reflective electrode or embossing patterns may be unnecessary and a manufacturing process of the array substrate may be simplified.

Abstract: Disclosed is a transflective type LCD device having high transmission and wide viewing angle characteristics. The transflective type LCD device includes first and second substrates aligned in opposition to each other, reflecting and transparent electrodes formed on one surface of the first substrate, a lower polarizing plate formed on the above electrodes, a lower alignment layer aligned on the lower polarizing plate, a color filter formed on one surface of the second substrate, a transparent common electrode formed on the color filter, an upper alignment layer formed on the transparent common electrode, two retardation films sequentially attached to an outer portion of the second substrate, an upper polarizing plate attached to the retardation films, and a liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules interposed between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: Disclosed is a transflective liquid crystal display having a high opening ratio and a single cell gap structure, which includes first and second substrates arranged opposite each other and respectively having reflective and transmissive regions; an opposite direction reflector disposed on the first substrate for reflecting introduced light to the transmissive regions; a color filter formed on the first substrate; transparent electrodes formed on the color filter; a lower polarization plate attached on the first substrate; common electrodes formed on the second substrate; an upper polarization plate attached on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, wherein the liquid crystal layer corresponding to the reflective region includes a fixing retardation area in which introduced light is always subjected to a constant phase difference.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a light guide plate and a diffusion plate. A cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) layer is disposed on a surface of the light guide plate or the diffusion plate to output a single polarized light with extremely low light-intensity loss, thus having an effect of enhancing the brightness of the output light. The structures of the light guide plate and the diffusion plate are simple, and the manufacturing cost of the light guide plate and the diffusion plate can be reduced.

Abstract: A segmented, rigid-rod aromatic polyimide mixed with a UV curable acrylate photopolymer material comprises an alignment layer for aligning nematic polymeric liquid crystal compensator films. The material may also provide an out-of-plane retardation. The segmented, rigid-rod aromatic polyimide-based UV curable acrylate alignment layer, when applied in appropriate thickness, functions as a negative uniaxial C-plate compensator and causes alignment of the nematic liquid crystal molecules. The combination of the retardation provided by the alignment layer and the compensator film deposited on it provides a significant improvement in the contrast and color stability of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) at large viewing angles.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an orientation film on a liquid-crystal-side surface of at least one substrate out of respective substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween. The orientation film forms a pattern which is constituted of either a plurality of notches or holes which are spaced from one another on a periphery edge of the orientation film which is beyond a periphery of a display region, and the pattern is formed along an entire entirely of the edge of the orientation film. The edge of the orientation film is formed along a periphery of the substrate.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus uses a single crystalline silicon substrate disposed adjacent to a flexible substrate. The electronic apparatus may be a flexible flat panel display, or a flexible printed circuit board. The flexible substrate can be made from polymer, plastic, paper, flexible glass, and stainless steel. The flexible substrate is bonded to the single crystalline substrate using an ion implantation process. The ion implantation process involves the use of a noble gas such as hydrogen, helium, xenon, and krypton. A plurality of semiconductor devices are formed on the single crystalline silicon substrate. The semiconductor devices may be thin film transistors for the flat panel display, or active and passive components for the electronic device.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes: a pair of substrates; inorganic oriented films having plural fine pores being provided on surfaces of the substrates facing each other; a liquid crystal layer being provided between the inorganic oriented films; and a sealing part sealing the liquid crystal layer, the sealing part being provided between the inorganic oriented films and along an outer periphery of the inorganic oriented films, the liquid crystal panel further including a filling material including a compound having a first functional group having high affinity with the inorganic oriented films and a second functional group having high affinity with the sealing part, the filling material being filled in an area of the inorganic oriented films overlapping the sealing part to fill the fine pores and to covers surfaces of the inorganic oriented films.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal layer disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, a pixel electrode in a reflection region and a transmission region over the first substrate, a film for adjusting a cell gap in the reflection region over the first substrate, and an opposite electrode in the reflection region and the transmission region over the second substrate. The pixel electrode in the reflection region is provided over the film and reflects light. The pixel electrode in the transmission region transmits light. The pixel electrode in the reflection region and the transmission region includes a slit. The slit is overlapped with at least a part of a step portion which is provided by the film between the reflection region and the transmission region.

Abstract: A multi-domain vertical alignment thin film transistor liquid crystal display (MVA TFT-LCD) device is disclosed. The MVA TFT-LCD comprises a MVA TFT-LCD panel, a first wide viewing film (WV film), a first polarizer film, a second WV film, and a second polarizer film. The first WV film is on the first surface of the MVA TFT-LCD panel. The first polarizer film is on the first WV film, wherein diffusive patterns are formed on surface of the first polarizer. The second WV film is on the second surface of the MAV TFT-LCD panel. The second polarizer film is on the second WV film. The MVA TFT-LCD of the invention can reduce the issues of color shift and color washing out resulting from the change of the view angle.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a method for driving the same are provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first liquid crystal layer selectively driven by a first electric field in a first direction; and a second liquid crystal layer selectively driven a second electric field in a second direction, the second direction being different from the first direction.

Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) (200) includes a first substrate (211), a second substrate (212) opposite to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer (213) sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, a plurality of first common electrodes (241) and first pixel electrodes (242) provided. at the first substrate, and a plurality of second common electrodes (251) and second pixel electrodes (252) provided at the second substrate. The first common electrodes and the first pixel electrodes, and the second common electrodes and the second pixel electrodes, respectively produce two electric fields in the liquid crystal layer. A combined strength of the electric fields is uniformly distributed in the liquid crystal layer, so that all the liquid crystal molecules can be sufficiently twisted. Thus a viewing angle, a degree of chroma, and a transmission ratio of the LCD are improved.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels including pixel electrodes and switching devices connected to the pixel electrodes and arrayed in a matrix, a plurality of pairs of first and second gate lines connected to the switching devices and separated from each other, and a plurality of data lines connected to the switching devices and intersecting the first and second gate lines, wherein the plurality of data lines are connected so that end portions of two data lines in each pair of the data lines are connected to each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a liquid crystal layer disposed between first and second substrates in which the first substrate is divided into an active region and a pad region outside the active region that includes: gate lines and data lines crossing each other to define pixels in the active region of the first substrate; a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode in each of the pixels; common lines parallel to the gate lines in the active region; gate pads in the pad region, the gate pads electrically connected to the gate lines; data pads in the pad region, the data pads electrically connected to the data lines; a common electrode along an edge of the active region and electrically connected with the common lines; an insulation film over the common electrode; and a distortion preventing electrode overlapping the common electrode with the insulation film interposed therebetween for creating a capacitance.

Abstract: A flexible flat panel display prevents electronic units, such as a flexible printed circuit board and a driving IC, from being separated from the flexible flat panel display even when the display unit is bent. The flexible flat panel display includes: a flexible display unit including a display area adapted to display an image, a first side and a second side parallel to edges of the display area, and a third side and a fourth side perpendicular to the first and second sides, the third side and the fourth being adapted to being bent; and electronic units arranged solely on at least one of the first and second sides and absent the third and fourth sides.

Abstract: Disclosed is an active matrix substrate which includes a display area and a terminal area located outside the display area. The terminal area includes extraction wirings connected with signal lines and scanning lines of the display area. A testing terminal for making contact with a probe of a prober and a connection terminal on which a chip is mounted are provided on each of the extraction wirings. The terminals are connected with the extraction wirings through contact holes. Even when an area of the testing terminal is larger than an area of the connection terminal, an opening area of a second contact hole for the testing terminal is reduced to an area smaller than an opening area of a first contact hole for the connection terminal.

Abstract: A fan-out pattern having two or more fan-out sections is implemented between a driver IC and a display for reducing or eliminating the pathlength differences among the electrical conductors in the fan-out pattern. As such, some of the conductors between the driver IC and the display can have two or more zigzag swath widths. In a fan-out pattern having two fan-out sections, a first fan-out section widens the spacing, SI, between two adjacent conductors at the IC side to an intermediate spacing, SM, and a second fan-out section further widens the intermediate spacing SM to the spacing, SP, at the display side. With two fan-out sections, the first zigzag extension is implemented in some conductors between the IC side and the first fan-out section, and the second zigzag extension is implemented in some conductors between the first fan-out section and the second fan-out section.

Abstract: A display device includes a pair of substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal with a thin film transistor formed over one of the pair of substrates and a sealing material formed between the pair of substrates for sealing the liquid crystal. The thin film transistor includes a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode between which is interposed a gate insulating film, an inorganic insulating film formed over at least the gate insulating film, an orientation film formed over the inorganic insulating film. The sealing material has a first region in contact with the orientation film and a second region in contact with the inorganic insulating film.

Abstract: Main body groove portions are formed along the longitudinal direction on the surface of a spacer height adjusting layer provided on a margin area of a large-size glass substrate. The cross-sectional area between seal materials between image display areas is increased. An air discharge efficiency from the inside of the image display area between the large-size glass substrates can be enhanced. The air discharge from the inside of the imaged is play area can be further reliably and readily performed. Liquid crystal composition can be readily injected from a liquid crystal injection port into the image display area. The time required to inject the liquid crystal into the image display area can be shortened. The productivity of liquid crystal panels can be enhanced.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate separated from the first substrate by a predetermined gap, an electro-optical layer located within the gap, a diffusing reflection layer having a plurality of adjacent polygonal columns, and electrodes formed on at least one of the first substrate and second substrate for application of voltage to the electro-optical layer. The polygonal columns comprise upper end sloping surfaces having a maximum inclination angle of less than 12°.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, column spacers at designated areas of the second substrate, protrusions having a first height on the first substrate corresponding to portions of the column spacers, compensation patterns having a second height on the first substrate corresponding to the edges of the column spacers, the second height being lower than the first height, and a liquid crystal layer filling a gap between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A guest-host liquid crystal display panel comprising a first substrate, a display medium accommodating layer, a display medium, and a second substrate is provided. The first substrate comprises a first patterned electrode layer, and the display medium accommodating layer that has a plurality of micro-cups is disposed on the first patterned electrode layer. The display medium is disposed in the micro-cups of the display medium accommodating layer, and the display medium comprises liquid crystal molecules and dichroic dye molecules. The second substrate having a second patterned electrode layer is disposed over the display medium accommodating layer and the display medium. The guest-host liquid crystal display panel can be applied in a flexible display apparatus. The guest-host liquid crystal display panel can display image without utilizing the polarizer and/or retarder.

Abstract: The improved assemblies disclosed herein employ auxiliary extensions that allow for either an interference fit or magnetic coupling to a primary frame, which is an improvement over more conventional designs. These auxiliary extensions provide a stable and aesthetically pleasing platform to couple an auxiliary lens assembly to a primary lens assembly. Additionally, the positioning of the auxiliary extensions allows for ease of use by requiring only a single hand while also providing increased resistance to decoupling when separating forces are applied. Thus, eyewear assembly provides a stable and useful primary and auxiliary lens assemblies that are both stable and easy to use, filling a long felt need in the industry.

Abstract: An image display device includes an illumination device, and a light valve that modulates a light coming from the illumination device. In the image display device, the light valve includes an electro-optical panel configured by a pair of substrates sandwiching therebetween an electro-optical material that shows refractive index anisotropy in response to application of an electric field when being optically isotropic. In the electro-optical panel, the application of the electric field is directed between the pair of substrates, and in the illumination device, the amount of light entering the light valve at a predetermined light incident angle is larger than the amount of light coming from the direction of a normal of the light valve.