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7463329 Materials for freezing light  
Recent theoretical investigations have predicted the existence of axially frozen modes that arise when light is incident upon an anisotropic two-dimensional photonic crystal. Such electromagnetic...
7450970 Apparatus and method for managing user data in a mobile terminal  
A method of managing a user database in a mobile terminal includes, when communication using an arbitrary telephone number registered in a phone book occurs, updating a communication time of the...
7430351 Non-linear femtosecond pulse filter with high contrast  
The invention relates to a non-linear optical filter capable of transmitting an electromagnetic pulse with a duration of less than about 1 picosecond, provided with means for generating an...
7327433 Display element, display device, and manufacturing method of display element  
Each of a pair of substrates respectively comprises an electrode and a rubbed alignment film on one surface, while the other surface is provided with a polarizer. The substrates are placed so that...
7245282 Addressing multistable nematic liquid crystal devices  
A method of addressing bistable nematic liquid crystal devices is provided. The method is suitable for implementation using commercially available STN drivers. The method involves applying one of...
7145538 Liquid crystal display device and method for driving a liquid crystal display  
A liquid crystal display device which carries out matrix driving of a liquid crystal layer by applying AC pulses to the liquid crystal layer through a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality...
7123335 Reflective liquid crystal display with infrared reflection  
A display sheet is disclosed comprising, a substrate, first transparent conductors, second conductors and, between first and second conductors, at least one imaging layer comprising a substantial...
7079218 Optically compensated birefringence mode liquid crystal display device having specific retardations in splay and bend states and method of fabricating the same  
An optically compensated birefringence mode liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other, a liquid crystal material layer between the...
RE39082 Half reflection type liquid crystal display device having matched phase of transmitted and reflected light  
A liquid crystal display device is constructed such that a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between an upper substrate, which is provided with upper transparent electrodes for forming pixels, and...
7035690 Human-implantable-neurostimulator user interface having multiple levels of abstraction  
A programming-device user interface may include multiple levels of abstraction for programming treatment settings. A stimulation zone-programming interface may be at a highest level of abstraction...
6999142 Reflective cholesteric liquid crystal display with complementary light-absorbing layer  
A display sheet comprising a substrate carrying layers of material; including a polymer-dispersed cholesteric liquid-crystal layer having a first high reflection state within a portion of the...
6950171 Liquid crystal color switch and method of manufacture  
This invention involves one kind of liquid crystal color light switch, made especially from cholesteric liquid crystals. By changing the voltage applied, the reflection wavelength of the color...
6950086 Driving method for a cholesteric liquid crystal display device having a memory mode of operation and a driving apparatus  
A driving method for a liquid crystal display device with a cholesteric liquid crystal having a memory mode of operation including a first stage of applying a first voltage to change the state of...
6947114 LCD element including regions where helical axes of LC molecules of neighboring domains in focalconic state extend in same direction  
A liquid crystal light modulation element is provided that includes a liquid crystal layer held between a pair of substrates. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal material that...
6939478 Compounds of formula (2) to stabilize liquid crystal domains  
A A compound having formula (2) wherein A2 is an electron acceptor moiety; C2 is a conjugated bridging moiety; D2 is an electron donor moiety; S2 is a hydrocarbon, a heterocyclic...
6927765 Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof  
A display device which has a liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal material, a driver for driving the liquid crystal display, and a controller for controlling the driver to drive at least...
6914648 Electronic shelf label  
There are provided at least two liquid crystal panels 10, 20 including the liquid crystals developing a memory effect, the liquid crystal developing a memory effect on a side opposite to a viewer...
6885357 Method for writing pixels in a cholesteric liquid crystal display  
A method for writing pixels in a cholesteric liquid crystal display having opposing rows and columns of electrodes and cholesteric liquid crystal material disposed between the rows and columns of...
6882401 Light modulation medium and light modulation method  
A light modulation medium comprises a light modulation element having a pair of substrates and plural light modulation layers arranged between the substrates to form a multilayer structure and made...
6858266 Domain size controlled liquid crystals  
A device composed of: a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal and a liquid crystal domain stabilizing compound, wherein die liquid crystal composition is switchable between a...
6806924 Liquid crystal display element  
There are provided at least two liquid crystal panels 10, 20 including the liquid crystals developing a memory effect, the liquid crystal developing a memory effect on a no-viewer side has a...
6727968 Liquid crystal device alignment  
Liquid crystal devices are formed by a layer of a liquid crystal material enclosed between two cell walls, both carrying electrode structures, and one or both walls treated to align molecules of...
6714276 Liquid crystal display device  
A liquid crystal display device comprises: a layer of a chiral liquid crystal material disposed between first and second substrates; and means for applying a voltage across the liquid crystal...
6674504 Single layer multi-state ultra-fast cholesteric liquid crystal device and the fabrication methods thereof  
A device and method of manufacturing a single layer multi-state ultra-fast cholesteric liquid crystal includes two optically transparent states with a liquid crystal arranged therebetween, and...
6532052 Brightness enhancement for bistable cholesteric displays  
The present invention is directed to a cholesteric liquid crystal display that includes a homogeneous alignment surface effective to provide increased brightness, low focal conic reflectance and/or...
6462805 Reverse-mode direct-view display employing a liquid crystal having a characteristic wavelength in the non-visible spectrum  
Disclosed are various reverse-mode direct-view liquid crystal displays employing a liquid crystal having a characteristic wavelength in the non-visible spectrum, including reflective, transmissive...
6377339 Document imaging system incorporating a selectively opaque/transparent liquid crystal platen  
A method and apparatus for document imaging is disclosed. The apparatus uses a flatbed scanner with a selectively opaque/transparent liquid crystal platen. The platen is divided into controllable...
6268839 Drive schemes for gray scale bistable cholesteric reflective displays  
A series of drive schemes are used to apply a single phase of at least one voltage pulse to drive a display with a bistable cholesteric liquid crystal material to a gray scale reflectance. Each...
6226061 Liquid crystal display device having phase different plates  
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is composed of (1) an LCD element having (i) a glass substrate on which a flat portion including pixel electrodes and a flat portion including switching...
6104448 Pressure sensitive liquid crystalline light modulating device and material  
A new liquid crystalline light modulating cell and material are characterized by liquid crystalline light modulating material of liquid crystal and polymer, the liquid crystal being a chiral...
6052103 Liquid-crystal display device and driving method thereof  
A liquid crystal device comprises plural pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix form, a common electrodes facing the pixel electrodes, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, and plural...
6034752 Display device reflecting visible and infrared radiation  
A liquid crystal display device includes cell wall structure and a chiral nematic liquid crystal material. The cell wall structure and the liquid crystal cooperate to form focal conic and twisted...
5920368 Composite material, display device using the same and process of manufacturing the same  
A composite material includes a cholesteric liquid crystal; a polymer which is distributed in phase-separated domains and provides an effective form-retention property for the composite material;...
5847798 Polymer stabilized black-white cholesteric reflective display  
A new liquid crystalline light modulating cell and material are characterized by liquid crystalline light modulating material of liquid crystal and polymer, the liquid crystal being a chiral...
5748277 Dynamic drive method and apparatus for a bistable liquid crystal display  
A flat-panel liquid crystal display. The display includes a flat sheet of bistable chiral nematic liquid crystal material activated by a drive circuit that individually controls the display state...
5695682 Liquid crystalline light modulating device and material  
A new liquid crystalline light modulating cell and material are characterized by liquid crystalline light modulating material of liquid crystal and polymer, the liquid crystal being a chiral...
5691795 Polymer stabilized liquid crystalline light modulating device and material  
A new liquid crystalline light modulating cell and material are characterized by liquid crystalline light modulating material of liquid crystal and polymer, the liquid crystal being a chiral...
5674576 Liquid crystalline optical device operable at a low drive voltage  
In a liquid crystalline optical device, a light modulating layer composed of a liquid crystal and a high polymer resin is sandwiched between two substrates having electrode layers, at least one of...
5661533 Ultra fast response, multistable reflective cholesteric liquid crystal displays  
Surfactant-containing multistable cholesteric liquid crystal displays exhibit ultra fast response times with both video speed and gray scale capability.
5408187 Electrical fault indicator utilizing a liquid crystal polymer gel dispersion exhibiting two stable contrasting optical states at zero field  
A polymer stabilized cholesteric textures wafer is sandwiched between two electrode plates, one of which is transparent. Terminals are provided for connection in parallel with a circuit protection...
5384067 Grey scale liquid crystal material  
A method of selectively adjusting the intensity of reflection to obtain stable grey scale reflectance of colored light from a light modulating chiral nematic liquid crystal material is disclosed....
5270781 Method of determining shear stress employing a monomer-polymer laminate structure  
The laminate structure comprises a liquid crystal polymer substrate attached to a test surface of an article. A light absorbing coating is applied to the substrate and is thin enough to permit...
5223310 Shear sensitive monomer-polymer laminate structure and method of using same  
The laminate structure comprises a liquid crystal polymer substrate attached to a test surface of an article. A light absorbing coating is applied to the substrate and is thin enough to permit...
4734558 Laser machining apparatus with controllable mask  
A laser machining apparatus is disclosed. The laser machining apparatus includes a marking table, a laser, a first optical system for converting a laser beam emanating from the laser into a...
4591849 Liquid crystal displays  
A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal cell formed by enclosing a thin layer of a cholesteric liquid crystal material between two slides. A set of electrode structures is formed on each...
4408201 Electro-optic display device using phase transition mode liquid crystal  
A display device having an electro-optical display element such as a phase transition mode liquid crystal and a driving circuit. The driving circuit applies two square voltage waves to the...
4380372 Phase transition mode liquid crystal display device  
A phase transition mode liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal mixture comprised of a nematic liquid crystal and at least one of a cholesteric liquid crystal and a chiral nematic liquid...
4278328 Guest-host liquid crystal display device  
A guest-host liquid crystal display device is disclosed which undergoes a focalconic-homeotropic phase transition. The device has a guest-host material layer including (a) a nematic liquid crystal...
4249801 Liquid crystal display device  
A liquid crystal display device to display information in color, utilizing dichroic and diffusion reflectors. Application of an electric field causes a change from a Grandjean texture of the liquid...
4097127 Mixed liquid crystalline texture formation  
A mixture of the Grandjean texture and the focal-conic texture of the cholesteric mesophase is created by applying an electrical field to a liquid crystalline material in either the focal-conic or...
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