Having Particular Birefringence Or Retardation Patents (Class 349/181)
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Patent number: 12189247Abstract: An LCD includes a first LC panel with a first TFT substrate and a first counter substrate adhered together with a first sealing layer, first and second polarizers bonded to lower and upper surfaces of the first LC panel, a second LC panel with a second TFT substrate and a second counter substrate adhered together with a second sealing layer, and third and fourth polarizers bonded to lower and upper surfaces of the second LC panel. The first and second LC panels are arranged overlapping each other. The second counter substrate and the first TFT substrate are adhered together at their peripheral portions with a third sealing layer. The first and fourth polarizers are arranged on an inner side of the third sealing layer. The first and fourth polarizers are adhered together with an adhesive layer, or a high refractive oil exists between the first and fourth polarizers.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Yosuke Hyodo
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Patent number: 12164128Abstract: An article including a thin film interference pigment; and a coating including a colored selectively absorbing nanoparticles is disclosed. The article can exhibit a change in hue, lightness, and/or chroma as compared to the thin film interference pigment alone. Methods of making the article are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Alberto Argoitia, John Edward Book, Jaroslaw Zieba
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Patent number: 12111530Abstract: According to the present invention, provided is a PDLC film, which includes a PDLC layer excellent in thickness uniformity and is suppressed from causing liquid crystal leakage from the PDLC layer. A method of producing a polymer dispersed liquid crystal film of the present invention includes: applying, to a first transparent conductive film, an emulsion including a solvent, and polymer particles and liquid crystal particles dispersed in the solvent to form an applied layer; drying the applied layer to form a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer containing a polymer matrix and the liquid crystal particles dispersed in the polymer matrix; and laminating a second transparent conductive film on the polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer, wherein the polymer particles include first polymer particles and second polymer particles, and wherein an average particle diameter of the second polymer particles is larger than an average particle diameter of the first polymer particles.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Takemoto, Jin Yoshikawa, Masanori Otsuka, Mariko Hirai
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Patent number: 12114554Abstract: The light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element in which a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode are sequentially layered toward a side of a light-emitting face. Further, the light-emitting device includes, on a side of the light-emitting face of the second electrode, a complementary color light absorption layer configured to absorb complementary color light of light emitted by the light-emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tokiyoshi Umeda, Yuto Tsukamoto, Bai Zhang, Shinichi Kawato
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Patent number: 12074365Abstract: An antenna device is provided, which includes a first substrate, and a second substrate facing and spaced with the first substrate in a distance. At least one working element disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the at least one working element is filled with a modulation material. At least one buffer element is connected with the at least one working element for adjusting the amount of the modulation material in the at least one working element.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: I-Yin Li, Yi-Hung Lin, Chin-Lung Ting, Tang-Chin Hung, Jeng-Nan Lin
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Patent number: 11886094Abstract: Provided is an optical element including: a first liquid crystal cell including first liquid crystal molecules and a first electrode; and a second liquid crystal cell including second liquid crystal molecules and a second electrode, the first and second electrodes disposed to enable switching between a first state twist-aligning the second liquid crystal molecules and vertically aligning the first liquid crystal molecules and a second state twist-aligning the first liquid crystal molecules and vertically aligning the second liquid crystal molecules. Alignment directions of the second liquid crystal molecules near a third substrate and the second liquid crystal molecules near a fourth substrate in the first state are respectively at azimuthal angles resulting from a ¼ turn in the same direction of azimuthal angles of alignment directions of the first liquid crystal molecules near the first substrate and the first liquid crystal molecules near the second substrate in the second state.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Daisuke Minami, Hiroaki Asagi, Kiyoshi Minoura
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Patent number: 11880112Abstract: An optical element and a method for using thereof are provided. The present application provides an optical element that may provide various modes, and has excellent durability, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Inventors: Ji Hoon Park, Young Shin Lee, Byoung Kun Jeon
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Patent number: 11841591Abstract: A switchable window element with a layer structure comprising a switchable layer, two polarizers and two optical retarders; wherein a first polarizer and a first optical retarder are arranged in an optical path prior to the switchable layer and a second polarizer and a second optical retarder are arranged in the optical path after the switchable layer wherein the switchable layer is a vertically aligned liquid crystal layer comprising a liquid crystalline medium and wherein the product of the thickness d of the switchable layer and the optical anisotropy ?n of the liquid crystalline medium is in the range of from 0.05 ?m to 3.0 ?m and the liquid crystalline medium has a clearing point of at least 70° C.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Michael Junge, Andreas Beyer
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Patent number: 11699361Abstract: A data security apparatus includes an analog component. The analog component operates internally with a high degree of entropy. This high degree of entropy resides in the interactions between its internal components in response to an external driving signal. The interactions within the analog component have a level of entropy that is high enough to make digital simulation of the analog component impractical. Because the analog component is impractical to digitally simulate it is referred to as being digitally unclonable. The data security apparatus processes data by encrypting plaintext data into ciphertext and/or decrypting data from ciphertext into plaintext. Part of the conversion between plaintext and ciphertext uses the analog component.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: OPe, LLCInventors: Joshua Norman Smith, Robert Chad McCollum, Andrey Bogdanov
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Patent number: 11656511Abstract: An apparatus with first and second transparent conductive oxide layers is described. A photoconductive layer can be positioned between the first and a second transparent conductive oxide layers. The photoconductive layer can be a crystalline layer that can include bismuth silicate or other suitable materials. An electro-optical layer is positioned in contact with the photoconductive layer. In some embodiments the photoconductive layer is positionable to receive a write beam that defines a two-dimensional spatial pattern.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seurat Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Francis L. Leard, James A. DeMuth, Andrew J. Bayramian, Drew W. Kissinger, Ning Duanmu, Kourosh Kamshad
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Patent number: 11640804Abstract: The present invention provides a chromaticity adjustment method, a chromaticity adjustment device, and a display panel. The chromaticity adjustment method makes a chromaticity of a white image conform to a target value by adjusting a thickness of a liquid crystal layer corresponding to blue pixels. Therefore, a chromaticity deviation in the display panel can be relieved. In addition, after adjusting a thickness of a blue photoresist layer, an adjustment range of a gray scale of blue sub-pixels (B) can be reduced. While improving the chromaticity, an impact on light transmittance rate can also be reduced, and color interference can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Techoology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Bo Hai
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Patent number: 11391991Abstract: A transmittance-variable device is provided in the present application. The present application can provide a transmittance-variable device, which can be applied to various applications without causing problems such as a crosstalk phenomenon, a rainbow phenomenon or a mirroring phenomenon, while having excellent transmittance-variable characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Inventors: Eun Jung Lim, Sergey Belyaev, Min Jun Gim, Dong Hyun Oh
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Patent number: 11275279Abstract: The present application provides a liquid crystal display panel and a method of manufacturing the same. The liquid crystal display panel includes a pixel electrode and liquid crystals, wherein the pixel electrode includes a middle region and a peripheral region located at a periphery of the middle region, the liquid crystals disposed corresponding to the middle region have a first pretilt angle, the liquid crystals disposed corresponding to the peripheral region have a second pretilt angle, and the first pretilt angle is greater than the second pretilt angle.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoonsung Um, Kaili Qu, Ziqi Liu, Chuwei Liang, Lintao Liu, Ting Li
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Patent number: 10824002Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display device configured to display an original image at an original image display position, a second array of a lens array or a pinhole array, and a first array of a lens array or a pinhole array disposed distant from the display device and the second array between the display device and the second array. The first array is configured to form a plurality of elemental images generated from the original image at positions between the first array and the second array. The pitch of the plurality of elemental images is different from lens pitch or pinhole pitch of the second array. The second array is configured to integrate the plurality of elemental images to generate a single reproduced image of the original image.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: TIANMA JAPAN, LTD.Inventors: Ayuko Imai, Ken Sumiyoshi, Yukie Keicho
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Patent number: 10647061Abstract: A method of forming a three dimensional (3D) object is disclosed. The method may involve providing a volume of photo-curable resin contained within an optically transparent resin container, and simultaneously directing optical projections from an optical subsystem at a plurality of angles ? through the volume of photo-curable resin. The optical beams are directed about a z axis extending through the volume of photo-curable resin. Each of the projections is provided with a calculated 2D spatial intensity function which creates a 3D intensity map. The projections act over a fixed temporal exposure period, during which the net exposure dose is sufficient to cure select portions of the volume of photo-curable resin, and to leave other portions uncured, to form a desired 3D part.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Brett Kelly, Robert Panas, Maxim Shusteff, Christopher Spadaccini, Hayden Taylor, Indrasen Bhattacharya
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Patent number: 10473996Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises: a first liquid crystal cell being a lateral electric field driven type; a second liquid crystal cell being a lateral electric field driven type; a first polarizing plate and a second polarizing plate, which are disposed so as to sandwich the first liquid crystal cell; and a third polarizing plate and a fourth polarizing plate, which are disposed so as to sandwich the second liquid crystal cell. The liquid crystal display device is configured such that rotation of a liquid crystal molecule of the first liquid crystal cell and rotation of a liquid crystal molecule of the second liquid crystal cell cancel and compensate for a hue change of the first liquid crystal cell or the second liquid crystal cell when viewed from a predetermined direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Kikuo Ono
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Patent number: 10421217Abstract: A 3D printing device is provided, which includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a storage apparatus arranged in a light path of the display panel for storing a liquid light curable material, and a control component for controlling the display panel to perform imaging. The 3D printing device further includes a microlens array arranged in the light path between the display panel and the storage apparatus for adjusting the light path. The display panel further includes a light blocking matrix arranged at a non-pixel area of the display panel to separate the plurality of pixels from each other. The microlens array includes a plurality of microlenses arranged on the light blocking matrix, each microlens of the plurality of microlenses covers a single pixel of the plurality of pixels and light blocking layers of the light blocking matrix adjacent to the single pixel.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Wenbo Li
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Patent number: 9651820Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a polaroid for polarizing light positioned on a light incident side of the liquid crystal panel, and a polarization analyzer positioned on a light emission side of the liquid crystal panel. The polarization analyzer includes a transparent plate. The transparent plate being arranged at a set angle with a light emission surface of the liquid crystal panel, such that the transparent plate analyzes polarization of light emitted from the light emission surface of the liquid crystal panel. Because the polaroid is used only on the light incident side of the liquid crystal panel, while the transparent plate is used instead of a polaroid on the light emission side of the liquid crystal panel, a reduction in the material cost of the liquid crystal display device can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Pan Li, Yanbing Wu, Wenbo Li, Chunyan Ji, Xiangyan Zhang
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Patent number: 9645406Abstract: A polarizing control film for two-dimensional (2D) display mode/three-dimensional (3D) display mode conversion in a stereoscopic display device, can include a film substrate, a plurality of first and second electrodes alternately arranged on the film substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed on the film substrate having the first and second electrodes, the liquid crystal layer being filled with nano liquid crystals exhibiting optical isotropy when no voltages are applied to the first and second electrodes and optical anisotropy when voltages are applied to the first and second electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: A-Ra Yoon, Hoon Kang, Young-Bok Lee
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Patent number: 9618794Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display apparatus in which a retardation ?nd of a liquid crystal layer is greater than 2 ?m. Absorbing axes of the first polarizer and the second polarizer are in parallel to an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules on surfaces of the first substrate or the second substrate. A slow axis of the optical film and the absorbing axes of the first polarizer and the second polarizer are in parallel to each other or orthogonal to each other. An in-plane retardation of the optical film is from 300 nm to 430 nm.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Hamamoto, Yoshihisa Iwamoto
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Patent number: 9465253Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal cell including a pair of substrates provided with a color filter on one substrate, and a liquid crystal layer as a display medium arranged between the substrates; and an optical compensation element including at least an optical compensation layer. The substrate provided with the color filter has a haze value of more than 10%, and the optical compensation element and the liquid crystal layer are arranged on the same side with respect to the color filter.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2006Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshiyuki Kiya
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Patent number: 9305479Abstract: Provided is a detection circuit for dark points on a panel, comprising a preset voltage generation module and a selection circuit module, wherein the preset voltage generation module is connected with the selection circuit module and is used for transferring N preset voltages to the selection circuit module, and the selection circuit module comprises N inputting terminals for receiving the N preset voltages, respectively, an outputting terminal and a strobe switch for strobing the outputting terminal with one of the N inputting terminals, N?2. The circuit according to the embodiments of the present disclosure can detect the dark point defect caused by remains in active layers effectively in a panel state and prevent the panels having such dark point defects from being incorporated into modules, so that a waste of cost is avoid and a detection capability in a detection procedure for the panel is increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhengyong Chu, Se Hyuck Park, Chuanxiong Chen
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Patent number: 9105615Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display stack that includes an active matrix display operable using thin film transistor (TFT) circuitry. The display stack also includes a light guide layer capable of illuminating the active matrix display. A glass substrate of the active matrix display has a first side and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the glass substrate includes the TFT circuitry disposed on the first side and one or more through-glass vias that electronically connect portions of the TFT circuitry disposed on the first side of the glass substrate to one or more electronic connectors or electronic circuitry disposed on the second side of the glass substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Hany Mounir Ghali
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Patent number: 8994914Abstract: There is provided an integrated wide viewing film including: a first film having an optical axis located in-plan; and a second film having an optical axis located in a thickness direction thereof, and inclined at a predetermined angle in an in-plane direction. The IPS-LCD employing the integrated wide viewing film can be significantly improved in a contrast ratio in a diagonal direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Jun-Won Chang, Belyaev Sergey, Malimonenko Nikolay
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Patent number: 8867001Abstract: A patterned retardation film including a base substrate, a patterned resin layer and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The patterned resin layer having plurality of first areas and a plurality of second areas is disposed on the base substrate. The combination of the first and second areas is a grating-like stripe structure. The patterned resin layer includes an aligning micron structure. The aligning micron structure includes a plurality of first sub micron grooves and a plurality of second sub micron grooves respectively located in the first areas and the second areas. The liquid crystal layer is disposed on the patterned resin layer and aligned with the aligning micron structure. The liquid crystal layer disposed above the first areas provides a first phase retardation. The liquid crystal layer disposed above the second areas provides a second phase retardation.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Benq Materials Corp.Inventors: Fung-Hsu Wu, Lung-Hai Wu
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Patent number: 8767151Abstract: There is provided an integrated wide viewing film including: a first film having an optical axis located in-plan; and a second film having an optical axis located in a thickness direction thereof, and inclined at a predetermined angle in an in-plane direction. The IPS-LCD employing the integrated wide viewing film can be significantly improved in a contrast ratio in a diagonal direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Jun-Won Chang, Belyaev Sergey, Malimonenko Nikolay
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Patent number: 8743326Abstract: There is provided an integrated wide viewing film including: a first film having an optical axis located in-plan; and a second film having an optical axis located in a thickness direction thereof, and inclined at a predetermined angle in an in-plane direction. The IPS-LCD employing the integrated wide viewing film can be significantly improved in a contrast ratio in a diagonal direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Jun-Won Chang, Belyaev Sergey, Malimonenko Nikolay
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Patent number: 8675154Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a first polarizer between the liquid crystal display panel and a back light behind the liquid crystal display panel, the first polarizer including a first polarization film having a first transmission axis and a first phase-difference film having a first polarization axis, a second polarizer in front of the liquid crystal display panel, the second polarizer including a second polarization film having a second transmission axis intersecting the first transmission axis, a second phase-difference film having a second polarization axis intersecting the first polarization axis, and a third phase-difference film having a third polarization axis, and a substrate structure above the liquid crystal display panel and the second polarizer, the substrate structure includes a third polarizer in the substrate structure, the third polarizer including a fourth phase-difference film having a fourth polarization axis intersecting the third polarization axType: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Won Sang Park
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Patent number: 8520176Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stereoscopic display module including following steps is provided. A display module is provided. A first retardation film is attached on the display module with a heat-resisting adhesive layer. After attaching the first retardation film on the display module with the heat-resisting adhesive layer, a partial region of the first retardation film is heated to vanish a phase retardation property. The partial region includes a plurality of sub-regions spaced at intervals. A stereoscopic display module and a manufacturing system thereof are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Lang-Chin Lin, Chun-Jung Chen, Chao-Hsu Tsai, Tzuan-Ren Jeng, Golden Tiao
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Patent number: 8350999Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystal display device comprising a front-side polarizing element, a rear-side polarizing element, a liquid-crystal cell, a front-side retardation region, and a rear-side retardation region composed of one or more retardation layers disposed between the rear-side polarizing element and the liquid-crystal cell wherein retardation along the thickness direction of the front-side retardation region and the rear-side retardation region, Rthfront (?), and Rthrear (?), and the internal haze of the front-side retardation region and the rear-side retardation region, Hzfron and Hzrear, satisfy the following formula (1) or (2): Rthfront (?)>Rthrear(?), and Hzfront<Hzrear, ??(1) Rthfront (?)<Rthrear (?), and Hzfron>Hzrear.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Makoto Ishiguro
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Patent number: 8314918Abstract: A display includes a display device having a first polarizer and a second polarizer or a reflector, and a display layer disposed between the first polarizer and the second polarizer or the reflector. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the display layer and one of the first polarizer and the second polarizer or reflector. The liquid crystal molecules of at least one region of the liquid crystal layer are switchable between a first state in which the display has a first display mode with a first viewing angle range and a second state in which the display has a second display mode having a second viewing angle range smaller than the first viewing angle range.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2006Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Diana Ulrich Kean, Anthony John Carver, Paul A. Gass, Heather Ann Stevenson, Emma Jayne Walton
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Patent number: 8305545Abstract: There is provided an integrated wide viewing film including: a first film having an optical axis located in-plan; and a second film having an optical axis located in a thickness direction thereof, and inclined at a predetermined angle in an in-plane direction. The IPS-LCD employing the integrated wide viewing film can be significantly improved in a contrast ratio in a diagonal direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Jun-Won Chang, Belyaev Sergey, Malimonenko Nikolay
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Patent number: 8294852Abstract: An E-type polarizing layer is provided between a pair of orthogonally oriented O-type polarizing layers, and alternatively, an O-type polarizing layer and an E-type polarizing layer which are oriented orthogonal to each other are provided. When a liquid crystal layer has a slow axis, the E-type polarizing layer is disposed so that an absorption axis thereof is orthogonal to the slow axis. Therefore, a liquid crystal display device having a wide viewing angle is realized in which a contrast ratio is improved by suppressing a light leakage occurring when observed from an oblique direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaya Adachi, Takato Hiratsuka
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Patent number: 8212986Abstract: An LCD device comprises upper substrate, lower substrate, and a liquid crystal (LC) cell disposed therebetween. The LC cell comprises liquid crystals. According to the present invention, in the LCD device which applies voltage to the liquid crystals to control transmissive light for proceeding display, the liquid crystals are applied with a voltage larger than a predetermined voltage for proceeding display. The reflect light and the transmissive light of the liquid crystals are the predetermined color under a condition without applying the voltage thereto.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventor: Minoru Shibazaki
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Patent number: 8027014Abstract: The invention provides: an optical element that includes a birefringence functional layer constituted of a polymerizable liquid crystal material, in which the birefringence functional layer is formed directly or indirectly on a substrate, and in a post-process carried out thereafter, alignment and characteristics of the birefringence functional layer are not disturbed, with the result that a high quality birefringence control function can be exerted; a liquid crystal display device provided with the optical element; a method of evaluating a birefringence functional layer that is not disturbed in the alignment and physical properties by the post-process; and a method of producing the optical element.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuji Nakatsugawa
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Patent number: 7982828Abstract: The present invention provides a polarization switching liquid crystal element 1 having TN liquid crystal 7 retained between two transparent substrates 2a and 2b for transmitting at least visible polarized light with the polarized light transmission axis selectively rotated by 90 degrees when a voltage is selectively applied to the TN liquid crystal 7, wherein a phase difference u of said TN liquid crystal 7 is defined by the following equation: u=2×?n×d/?, where ?n is the refractive index anisotropy of said TN liquid crystal 7, d is the thickness of said TN liquid crystal 7, and ? is the wavelength of said polarized light, and a transmittance T of said polarization switching liquid crystal element measured with polarization plates on the incident and outgoing sides is defined by the following equation: T=(½)×sin2{?(1+u2)1/2/2}/(1+u2), and wherein the phase difference u includes a value 1.7 and the transmittance T is 0.1 or lower when the ? ranges from 400 nm to 700 nm.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2008Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Kazuya Yamanaka
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Patent number: 7914861Abstract: A liquid crystal composite is provided, which includes a liquid crystal compound and a nanoparticle. The liquid crystal compound is an optically compensated birefringence (OCB) liquid crystal compound. The nanoparticle has at least one acrylic functional group on the main chain or side chain thereof. The nanoparticle is 0.1-2 wt % by weight of the liquid crystal composite.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2009Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.Inventors: Hong-Cheu Lin, Wei-Hong Chen, Ling-Yung Wang, Chieh-Yin Tang, Szu-Fen Chen
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Patent number: 7817226Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises: a first substrate having a first polarization layer on a light incident side; a second substrate having a second polarization layer on a light outgoing side; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and the second substrates; a first birefringent film disposed between the first and the second polarization layers; a second birefringent film disposed between the first birefringent film and the second polarization layer; and wherein the liquid crystal layer has a property that a refractive index anisotropy is induced in it by an electric field applied between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode; wherein in-plane retarded phase axes of the first and the second birefringent films form an angle of from 88 degrees to 92 degrees with the first polarization layer; wherein the first birefringent films have Nz coefficients greater than 0.5 and smaller than 0.5, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Kajita, Ikuo Hiyama, Shintaro Takeda
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Patent number: 7782425Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a TFT array panel, a color filter panel, a liquid crystal layer in an OCB mode, a pair of compensation films provided on outer surfaces of the TFT array panel and the color filter panel, a pair of polarization films provided on outer surfaces of the compensation films, and so on. When the wavelength dispersion of the liquid crystal layer is larger than the wavelength dispersion of the first and the second compensation films, the cell gap on the red pixel area>the cell gap on the green pixel area>the cell gap on the blue pixel area. On the contrary, when the wavelength dispersion of the liquid crystal layer is smaller than the wavelength dispersion of the first and the second compensation films, the cell gap on the red pixel area<the cell gap on the green pixel area<the cell gap on the blue pixel area.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2002Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jang-Kun Song, Chang-Hun Lee
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Patent number: 7773191Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between an upper substrate and a lower substrate having a twist angle in the range of about 40 to 65 degrees and a light diffusive reflective electrode having recesses and projections provided on the lower substrate wherein a product of the height of the recesses and projections and a birefringence of the liquid crystal layer is in the range of about 10 to 53 nm at the twist angle of about 40 degrees and about 10 to 64 nm at the twist angle of about 65 degrees, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2006Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Itou, Shinichi Komura
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Patent number: 7626677Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first protective layer, a first polarizing layer, a second protective layer, an active device array substrate, an opposite substrate, a twisted nematic liquid crystal layer, a third protective layer, a second polarizing layer and a fourth protective layer. The first polarizing layer is disposed between the first and the second protective layers; the active device array substrate is disposed over the second protective layer. The twisted nematic liquid crystal layer is disposed between the opposite substrate and the active device array substrate. The third protective layer is disposed on the opposite substrate, and the second polarizing layer is disposed between the third and the fourth protective layers. The second protective layer has an in-plane and an out-of-plane retardation values. The in-plane retardation value is between 1 and 10 nanometers, and the out-of-plane retardation value is between 50 and 130 nanometers.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2007Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Wen-Fang Sung, Ying-Che Lan, Chih-Haw Wang, Pei-Hsun Wu
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Patent number: 7609346Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel which is configured such that a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules, which are twist-aligned at a twist angle of 70°±10°, is held between a first substrate and a second substrate, and an optical element which is provided on an outer surface of the second substrate. The optical element includes a polarizer plate, a first retardation plate which imparts a phase difference of a ½ wavelength, and a second retardation plate which imparts a phase difference of a ¼ wavelength, and a retardation value ?n·d of the liquid crystal layer is set at 200 ±30 nm, where ?n is a refractive index anisotropy of the liquid crystal layer and d is a thickness of the liquid crystal layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2006Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiro Joten
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Patent number: 7599040Abstract: A color liquid crystal display device includes a pair of oppositely disposed substrates each of which is provided with an electrode and has been subjected to homeotropic alignment treatment, and chiral nematic liquid crystal disposed between the pair of oppositely disposed substrates. The chiral nematic liquid crystal is capable of causing birefringence leading to a change in brightness and a change in hue depending on a voltage applied between the electrodes. The liquid crystal is twistedly aligned under electric field application to change a twisted angle, so that a fluctuation in birefringence with temperature is compensated.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasufumi Asao
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Patent number: 7525632Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes an LCD panel provided with two substrates and a liquid crystal layer formed between the two substrates to display an image, and a backlight formed on a rear surface of the LCD panel to provide light, wherein the properties of liquid crystal in the liquid crystal layer are optimized for a driving temperature of the LCD panel between about 30° C. and about 70° C.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2004Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Su Hyun Park
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Patent number: 7511792Abstract: An IPS-LCD, in which the direction of an optical axis and retardation values are adjusted according to the disposition of a phase retardation film replacing one protective film, obtains a contrast ratio similar to that of an IPS-LCD having upper and lower protective films, and has a small thickness. The IPS-LCD includes first and second polarizing plates (1, 2), an IPS panel (3), and a first protective film. Absorption axes (4, 5) of the first and second polarizing plates (1, 2) are orthogonal to each other, and an optical axis of a liquid crystal in the IPS panel (3) and the absorption axis (4) are parallel with each other. A second phase retardation film, obtained by coating a biaxial film (17) with a uniaxial C film (11), is disposed between the second polarizing plate (2) and the IPS panel (3) and is used as a second protective film.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Won Chang, Byoung Kun Jeon, Soo Jin Jang
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Patent number: 7443585Abstract: A polarization component, capable of efficiently reflecting an obliquely transmitted light beam toward a light source without degrading the transmission-polarization property of a perpendicular incident light beam, is provided. A C-plate having an oblique retardation of at least ?/8 with respect to a light beam inclined by at least 30° is disposed between at least two reflective circular polarizer layers whose selective reflection wavelength bands of polarized light overlapping each other. A combination of a reflective linear polarizer and a quarter wavelength plate may be used instead of the reflective circular polarizer. Alternatively, a combination of two reflective linear polarizer layers and two quarter wavelength plate layers (Nz?2) disposed therebetween can provide a similar effect. Further, a combination of two reflective linear polarizer layers and a half wavelength plate (Nz?1.5) disposed therebetween may be used.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2003Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Kazutaka Hara, Minoru Miyatake
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Patent number: 7433012Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel including a pair of polarizers, and a back light provided at a back side of said liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel is an active matrix type liquid crystal panel enabling display and has a characteristic of spectral transmittance required to satisfy the following equation, ×>y, when a drive voltage is applied thereto so as to vary from a dark state to a light state, in which “x” is a value of the transmittance in the liquid crystal panel at a wavelength which corresponds to one of 490 nm and 500 nm, and “y” is a value of the transmittance in the liquid crystal panel at a wavelength which corresponds to 545 nm.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2005Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Inventors: Yuka Utsumi, Katsumi Kondo, Ikuo Hiyama, Osamu Itoh, Masahito Ohe, Kazuhiko Yanagawa, Keiichiro Ashizawa
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Publication number: 20080225187Abstract: The present invention provides a polarization switching liquid crystal element 1 having TN liquid crystal 7 retained between two transparent substrates 2a and 2b for transmitting at least visible polarized light with the polarized light transmission axis selectively rotated by 90 degrees when a voltage is selectively applied to the TN liquid crystal 7, wherein a phase difference u of said TN liquid crystal 7 is defined by the following equation: u=2×?n×d/?, where ?n is the refractive index anisotropy of said TN liquid crystal 7, d is the thickness of said TN liquid crystal 7, and ? is the wavelength of said polarized light, and a transmittance T of said polarization switching liquid crystal element measured with polarization plates on the incident and outgoing sides is defined by the following equation: T=(½)×sin2{?(1+u2)1/2/2}/(1+u2), and wherein the phase difference u includes a value 1.7 and the transmittance T is 0.1 or lower when the ? ranges from 400 nm to 700 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuya Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20080106689Abstract: A display element of the present invention includes: a pair of substrates which are opposed to each other; and a substance layer, which is sandwiched between the substrates, exhibiting an optical isotropy when no electric field is applied, while exhibiting an optical anisotropy when an electric field is applied, and the display element performs display operation by applying an electric field to between the substrates. The substance layer includes a liquid crystalline medium exhibiting a nematic liquid crystal phase, and it is ?n×|??|?1.9, where ?n is a refractive index anisotropy at 550 nm in a nematic phase of the liquid crystalline medium, and |??| is an absolute value of a dielectric anisotropy at 1 kHz in the nematic phase of the liquid crystalline medium. The display element and a display device including the display element realize a fast response speed and a low driving voltage and driving in a wide temperature range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2005Publication date: May 8, 2008Inventors: Iichiro Inoue, Seiji Shibahara, Koichi Miyachi, Shoichi Ishihara
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Patent number: 7345654Abstract: A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes an image display configured to output image light which arrays a plurality of pixels and has polarization, a lens array arranged in front of the image display, configured to function as lens at light which has a 1st polarization direction, and not to function as lens at light which has a 2nd polarization direction differed from the 1st polarization direction, and a birefringent phase modulator placed between the image display and the lens array and configured to rotate a polarization plane of the image light.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2007Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazuki Taira, Yuzo Hirayama, Tatsuo Saishu, Rieko Fukushima, Ayako Takagi