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7611759 Polarizer, method of manufacturing the polarizer, apparatus for manufacturing the polarizer, and display apparatus having the polarizer  
The present invention provides a polarizer that includes a supporting member and a liquid crystal polarizing layer that is coated on the supporting member. The liquid crystal polarizing layer...
7499608 Apparatus and method for optical switching with liquid crystals and birefringent wedges  
An optical switch includes an optical waveguide to route an input optical beam. At least one polarization switch receives the input optical beam from the optical waveguide. At least one...
7486376 Broadband reflective polarizer for liquid crystal display using overcoating method  
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display device in which cholesteric liquid crystal layers having different selective...
7446848 Optical element, condensing backlight system and liquid crystal display  
An optical element of the invention comprises at least two laminated circular-polarization-type-reflection polarizers (a) whose wavelength bands for selective reflection of polarized light overlap...
7446847 Optical isolator and optical device  
A simple-structure, small-size, inexpensive optical isolator mounted in an amplifier. The PMD and PDL are reduced to desired numerical levels to improve the characteristics. The optical isolator is...
7443474 Optical compensatory sheet having optically anistropic layer formed from liquid crystal molecules  
The optical compensatory sheet has a transparent support and an optically anisotropic layer formed from liquid crystal molecules aligned in an average inclined angle of less than 5°. The optical...
7443464 Liquid crystal display unit  
A partial polarization member is provided on a second substrate. The partial polarization member is provided corresponding to an aperture of a reflection film, and is not provided in other areas...
7429111 Two-panel color management system  
The invention provides a two-panel color management system for projection display applications, wherein color sequencing is accomplished using achromatic beam switching and static color separation....
7400377 Display having particular polarisation modifying layer  
A display is provided for providing a restricted viewing mode, for example a private viewing mode where the display may be viewed from a limited region of space by a single viewer and not by other...
7391568 Luminous intensity distribution control device and display having the same  
A liquid crystal display apparatus including: a liquid crystal display element having a liquid crystal layer; a backlight apparatus arranged at one side of the couple of substrates of the liquid...
7385669 Twisted nematic micropolarizer and its method of manufacturing  
The invention is a method for creating a micropolarizer, including providing a first plate having a first and a second surface, providing a second plate having a first and a second surface. Then...
7357510 Projection-type 3-D image display device using single projector  
A projection-type 3-D image display device includes a single display element, a polarization conversion switch, a first image shifter, a second image shifter, a projection lens unit, a mirrored...
7289189 Birefringent filter-based color generation scheme for a passive matrix display device  
The present invention provides a full color liquid crystal display of passive matrix design that includes a polarizer, an analyzer having a transmission axis, and at least one light generation...
7274427 Method of producing optical element by patterning liquid crystal films  
A radiation-curing liquid crystal having cholesteric regularity is applied to a glass substrate 11 provided with an alignment layer 12 to form a first cholesteric liquid crystal film 13 in...
7253871 Efficient room-temperature source of polarized single photons  
An efficient technique for producing deterministically polarized single photons uses liquid-crystal hosts of either monomeric or oligomeric/polymeric form to preferentially align the single...
7248331 Polarizer, optical film, and image display  
The polarizer of the present invention is a polarizer comprising a film having a structure having a minute domain dispersed in a matrix formed of a translucent thermoplastic resin including an...
7242524 Optical system for forming a real image in space  
An optical system ( 100, 200, 400, 500 ) that projects a real image ( 140, 412, 504 ) into space and includes one or more features located along the optical path that enhance the viewability of the...
7226172 Illumination attenuation system  
Provided are several apparatus and methods to attenuate illumination light in a projector. Illumination light may be attenuated by directing polarized light toward a liquid crystal (LC) attenuation...
7224426 Optical element  
An optical element including: an alignment substrate; a liquid crystal layer formed on the alignment substrate, made by forming and curing a film of a liquid crystalline material; and a protective...
7154573 Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus including the same  
To provide an electro-optical device displaying high-contrast images in all directions due to the orthogonality of the polarization axes of the polarizers by improving the structure of the...
7132138 Liquid crystal information displays  
The LC information display contains a layer of liquid crystal situated between the front and the rear panels with functional layers, and the liquid crystal has parameters providing interference...
7119873 Polarizing plate and liquid crystal display using the same  
The present invention is to provide a polarizing plate capable of providing a liquid crystal display which is widened in the angle of visibility (in particular, the downward angle of visibility),...
7110071 Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus  
The invention provides a transflective liquid crystal display device in which display is bright, with high contrast, and with less dependence on the viewing angle in the transmissive display mode....
7041233 Method of generating a 3-dimensional effect  
A method for generating a 3-dimensional effect involves providing at least one first image layer of a chiral liquid crystal material, and at least one second image layer of a chiral liquid crystal...
7034909 Super broad-band polarizing reflective material  
Disclosed are super broadband circularly polarizing film materials and novels methods of fabricating and using the same. The circularly polarizing materials are made from a film of material, such...
7031053 Dichroic polarizer and material  
The invention pertains to thermo-resistant and light-resistant dichroic polarizers based on thin films of dichroic matters, in particular organic dyestuffs, in which molecules are ordered in a...
7030424 Substrate, method of manufacturing the same and display apparatus having the same  
A substrate includes a substrate body, a first thin film pattern, a second thin film pattern and a third thin film pattern. The substrate body includes a first surface and a second surface that is...
6999155 Polarization rotator, parallax barrier, display and optical modulator  
A polarization rotator is provided for rotating the polarization direction of linearly polarized light by any arbitrary angle other than 90°. The device comprises a layer of liquid crystal...
6962734 Sulfoderivatives of indanthrone, lyotropic liquid crystal system and anisotropic film on their base  
The present invention relates to organic chemistry, in particular, to synthesis of sulfoderivatives of the polycyclic compounds and fabrication of optically anisotropic coatings on their base. The...
6911238 Liquid crystal compositions, polarization selective membranes and liquid crystal displays  
A novel polarization selective membrane is disclosed. The membrane comprises a liquid crystal molecule having a helical structure and selectively transmits specific polarized light and selectively...
6906764 Reflective cholesteric filter  
A polarized light extraction optical element is formed by a light-transmitting base material and a polarization separation layer laminated thereonto, this polarization separation layer being a...
6891585 Circularly-polarized-light-extracting optical element having chlosteric layer with changing chiral pitch  
Disclosed herein is a process of producing a circularly-polarized-light-extracting optical element adapted to effectively prevent the appearance of bright and dark stripes on the screen of a...
6888612 Liquid crystal film structures with phase-retardation surface regions formed therein  
Disclosed are liquid crystal (LC) phase-retarders and linear polarizers and methods and apparatus for making the same. The liquid crystal phase-retarder is realized by a liquid crystal film...
6853437 Liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing the same  
The liquid crystal display apparatus according to the present invention includes a) the direction of the twist angle of molecule orientation of the twisted phase difference board ( 3 ) is reverse...
6853423 Quarter wave plate comprising two optically anisotropic layers  
A circularly polarizing plate comprises a linearly polarizing membrane and a quarter wave plate. The quarter wave plate comprises an optically anisotropic layer A and an optically anisotropic layer...
6836307 Process of producing multicolor optical element  
A cholesteric liquid crystal coating film 13 ′ is formed on an alignment layer 12 provided on a glass substrate 11 (FIG. 1 ( a )), and is subjected to a thermal alignment process at a...
6778237 Polarizing element  
A polarizing element provided with a layer including liquid crystals and a polarizer having a transmission axis. The polarizing element of the present invention is structured such that liquid...
6774961 Broad-band polarizer and method of fabricating broad-band polarizers  
Disclosed are super broadband circularly polarizing film materials and novels methods of fabricating and using the same. The circularly polarizing materials are made from a film of material, such...
6768586 Polarizer constructions and display devices exhibiting unique color effects  
A polarizer construction is disclosed that includes a reflective polarizer disposed on a first side of the construction to transmit light having one polarization and reflect light having an...
6762538 Electroluminescence element with mixture of electroluminescence material and orientating material  
A polarized electroluminescence element used for a display is disclosed. The polarized electroluminescence element includes a substrate, an orientation-inducing layer situated on the substrate and...
6706339 Laminate polarizer and liquid crystal display  
A laminate polarizer has a dichroic polarizing sheet and a polarizing and scattering sheet showing anisotropy in scattering properties depending on a direction of polarization and being laminated...
6697144 Switchable mirrors and retarders based on imbibed nano-column films  
Switchable optical components such as switchable mirrors and variable retarders are fabricated using a unique class of materials. These materials are thin film composites comprising of porous...
6667794 Collimator utilizing wavelength selective reflection and backlight system  
A flat plate collimator and backlight system capable of improving the display characteristics of liquid crystal display devices are obtained. In order to achieve this end, a collimator is provided...
6667788 Method for producing image on liquid crystal panel, liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display equipped with the same  
A liquid crystal panel has a cholesteric filter and the quarter wave plate inserted between a glass substrate and color filter elements, and each section of the cholesteric filter reflects either...
6657690 Optical compensatory sheet comprising optically uniaxial or biaxial transparent stretched film  
An optical compensatory sheet comprises an optically uniaxial or optically biaxial transparent stretched film. A Re retardation value in plane of the transparent stretched film measured at 550 nm...
6628369 Circular polarizer and liquid crystal display  
A transflective liquid crystal display providing a bright displayed image of high contrast in the transmission mode with less dependence on the viewing angle by combining a polarizer with an...
6624872 Optical radiation filter  
A cholesteric film is formed into an optical device comprising a plurality of layers. The cholesteric film is initially placed in a first predetermined state, for instance heating to a first...
6624859 Polarizing apparatus for polarizing instant light having planes of polarization to light having a particular plane of polarization and method of manufacturing the polarizing apparatus  
A polarizing apparatus extracts light amount of which is increased by incidence of light ( 10, 12 ) having a plurality of planes of polarization, and by aligning the planes of polarization. This...
6563640 Dichroic polarizer and method for making the same  
The present invention relates to heat-resistant and plarizers that use thin films of dichroic organic substances, mainly dichroic dyes applied on the surface of rigid or flexible substrates in...
6559901 Illumination optical system and projection type display apparatus using the same  
In an illumination optical system comprising a light source unit, an integrator unit for homogenizing a luminous flux from the light source unit, and a light valve for modulating light from the...
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