| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 349098000 | Circular | 49 |
| 20080198306 | Transflective Liquid Crystal Display Device - In a transmissive mode, the light emitted from a backlight ( | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080284953 | Multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display device - A liquid crystal display device is provided for not reducing the aperture ratio and improving transmittance. The liquid crystal display device comprises a substrate with a pixel electrode, a substrate with a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer therebetween, wherein liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are vertically aligned when no voltage is applied, each pixel comprises one or more sub-pixels, and cross-shaped slits are formed on the common electrode corresponding to each sub-pixel. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080291372 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A transflective liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel which is configured such that a liquid crystal layer is held between a pair of substrates, and to which an OCB mode is applied, and a pair of optical elements which are disposed on outsides of the liquid crystal layer, and optically compensate a retardation of the liquid crystal layer in a predetermined display state in which a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer, wherein the optical element is configured to include a circular polarization element including a polarizer and a first retardation plate which imparts a retardation of ¼ wavelength, and the first retardation plate has such wavelength dispersion characteristics as to establish a relationship, α1<1, where α1 is a ratio of an in-plane retardation Re430 at a wavelength of 430 nm to an in-plane retardation Re550 at a wavelength of 550 nm. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080309854 | Wide Viewing Angle and Broadband Circular Polarizers for Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays - Apparatus, devices, systems, and methods for wide viewing angle and broadband circular polarizers in transflective displays. A liquid crystal display configuration can include two stacked circular polarizers, each having a linear polarizer, a half-wave plate and a quarter-wave plate wherein two linear polarizers are crossed to each other, two half-wave plates are made of uniaxial A plates with opposite optical birefringence (one positive and one negative type), and two quarter-wave plates are made of uniaxial A plates with opposite optical birefringence (one positive and one negative type). The configurations can generate wide viewing angles and broadband properties and are suitable for display applications that require circular polarizers. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080309855 | Liquid crystal display device having optical component for changing state of polarized light - An optical component capable of changing polarization light state and a liquid crystal display (LCD) device using the same are provided. The optical component including a transparent substrate and a wavelength compensator is disposed at any position from the outer side of the LCD device to the outside in an output direction of an output light. The wavelength compensator is directly attached to the surface of the substrate to convert an output light of the LCD device from a linearly polarized light into a circularly polarized light or an elliptically polarized light, thereby effectively reducing eye fatigue. The LCD device is provided with such an optical component such that a linearly polarized light emerging from the LCD device is converted into a circularly polarized light or an elliptically polarized light to lessen the eye fatigue. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080309856 | Polarized Light Source - An energy efficient polarized light source system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a reflector and a reflecting polarizer. A transparent light source and a wave retarder are placed in between the reflector and reflecting polarizer. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090002609 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device having a reflective part and a transmissive part in each of a plurality of pixels which are arrayed in a matrix, includes a liquid crystal display panel which is configured such that a liquid crystal layer is held between a pair of substrates, and to which an OCB mode is applied, and a pair of optical elements which are disposed on outer surfaces of the liquid crystal display panel, respectively, and optically compensate a retardation of the liquid crystal layer in a predetermined display state in which a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer, wherein the optical element is configured to include a circular polarization element including a polarizer and a first retardation plate which is disposed between the polarizer and the liquid crystal display panel and imparts a retardation of 1/4 wavelength, and a second retardation plate which is disposed between the circular polarization element and the liquid crystal layer, and has refractive index anisotropy with a major axis being inclined to a normal line, and the optical element has a retardation in a thickness direction thereof. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090027600 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate located opposite the first substrate with a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate, a polarizing plate located opposite the liquid crystal layer, and a polarizing reflection layer positioned opposite the polarizing plate across the liquid crystal layer and located opposite the liquid crystal layer to reflect linearly polarized light polarized in one direction parallel to a plane of the liquid crystal display panel. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090066889 | Vertical alignment liquid crystal display with high transmittance and wide view angle - Structures, devices, systems and methods of using multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal displays with high transmittance, high contrast ratio and wide view angle in which at least one of the electrode substrates has circular or ring-shaped openings, such as holes or slits. Circular or ring-shaped patterns for openings and electrodes have not been used in the construction of a liquid crystal display. The new multi-domain vertical alignment (MDVA) liquid crystal display is particularly suitable for liquid crystal display television and computer monitor applications. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090079912 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An inorganic alignment film including an inclined columnar structure is used as an alignment film | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090109381 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electro-optical device includes, a first substrate, a second substrate, an electrooptic material layer, an illuminating device, and a polarizing device. The electrooptic material layer is held between the first substrate and the second substrate. The illuminating device irradiates illumination light to an outer surface of the first substrate. The polarizing device is provided on the outer surface of the first substrate. The electrooptic material layer exhibits optical isotropy when no electric field is applied, and, when an electric field is applied, exhibits optical anisotropy corresponding to the magnitude of the electric field. The electrooptic material layer further has a characteristic to selectively reflect a first circularly polarized light having a first rotation direction. Light that passes through the polarizing device is a second circularly polarized light that has a second rotation direction reverse to the first rotation direction of the first circularly polarized light. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090141216 | LIQUID CRYSTAL GEOMETRICAL PHASE OPTICAL ELEMENTS AND A SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AND RAPIDLY SWITCHING HELICAL MODES OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE, BASED ON THESE OPTICAL ELEMENTS - Geometrical phase optical elements comprising, as a birefringent means, a liquid crystal material with a spatially inhomogeneous orientation of the molecular director in a plane orthogonal to the direction of propagation of an input radiation beam, ordered according to a predetermined geometrical pattern. Also, an optical system for generating helical modes of propagation of an optical radiation beam, including a geometrical phase optical element orientated transversely to the direction of propagation of the beam, whose optical axis is orientated according to a predetermined geometrical relation adapted to transform a circular polarized input radiation beam into a helical mode with a wavefront having a helical surface whose handedness is a function of the handedness of the input polarization, in which the switching between different orders of helicity of the radiation beam emerging from the geometrical phase optical element is carried out by switching the circular polarization state of the input radiation. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090161044 | Wide viewing angle circular polarizers - Apparatus, devices, systems, and methods for wide viewing angle circular polarizers in transmissive and transflective displays. A liquid crystal display configuration can include two stacked circular polarizers, a liquid crystal layer, and a compensator between one of the circular polarizer and the liquid crystal layer to partially or fully compensate the liquid crystal layer. One of the circular polarizer is formed of a linear polarizer and a uniaxial quarter-wave plate, and the other circular polarizer is formed of a linear polarizer, a uniaxial quarter-wave plate, and a biaxial film interposed therebetween. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090161045 | Method of Compensating Wavelength Dependence of Birefringence of Optical Part, Optical Part, and Display Obtained with these - The present invention is to provide a method of compensating the wavelength dependence of birefringence of an optical part (B) which comprises using a film (a) made of a (co)polymer (α) obtained from at least one olefin selected among 4-methyl-1-pentene, 3-methyl-1-pentene, and 3-methyl-1-butene as a (co)monomer ingredient. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090201448 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a first insulating substrate, thin transistors formed on the first insulating substrate, and pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors each with an opening pattern. A second insulating substrate faces the first insulating substrate. A black matrix and color filters are formed on the second insulating substrate, and a common electrode covers the black matrix and the color filters. A protrusion pattern is formed on the common electrode. The protrusion pattern is pillar-shaped with top and bottom sides. The top and bottom sides of the protrusion pattern are shaped with a circle, a rectangle, or a rectangle with curved edges. The protrusion pattern includes a protrusion having a relatively small thickness, and a protrusion having a relatively large thickness. The former protrusion is used for domain partitioning, and the latter protrusion is used as a spacer. A vertical alignment layer is internally formed on the substrates, and a liquid crystal is injected in-between the substrates. Polarizing plates are externally attached to the substrates, respectively. A bi-axial film and a λ/4 plate are interposed between the respective substrates and the respective polarizing plates. The bi-axial film and the λ/4 plate transform the linear-polarizing into a circular-polarizing. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090257005 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - The inventive liquid crystal device is driven in circular polarization mode. A protection plate ( | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090279023 | LIQUID CRYSTAL CELL AND A DISPLAY - A liquid crystal cell ( | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090284693 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - This invention provides a transflective liquid crystal display apparatus using an isotropic liquid crystal applicable to various pixel sizes. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100007823 | BRIGHTNESS ENHANCEMENT FILM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided are a brightness enhancement film and a liquid crystal display device which has a high ability for enhancing a luminance, has a more excellent ability for improving a luminance unevenness than conventional ones and may reduce an occurrence of a color unevenness. The brightness enhancement film wherein a circular polarization separation element, an optically anisotropic element wherein a retardation in an in-plane direction Re is about one fourth of a transmitting light and a retardation in a thickness direction Rth is less than 0 nm and a periodic structure member having a repeating structure on a surface thereof are integrated in this order, and the liquid crystal display device comprising the same. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100053510 | LAMINATED OPTICAL FILM, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE LAMINATED OPTICAL FILM - Provided are a laminated optical film capable of enhancing a contrast ratio in an oblique direction remarkably while enhancing viewing angle characteristics when being used in a liquid crystal display apparatus or the like, and a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display apparatus using the laminated optical film. The laminated optical film of the present invention includes a polarizer, a first optical compensation layer, and a second optical compensation layer in the stated order, in which the first optical compensation layer has a refractive index profile of nx>nz>ny and is placed so that a slow axis direction thereof is substantially parallel to or substantially perpendicular to an absorption axis direction of the polarizer, and the second optical compensation layer converts linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light or circularly polarized light into linearly polarized light in a visible light region. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100118235 | DISPLAY THAT EMITS CIRCULARLY-POLARIZED LIGHT - One embodiment of the present invention provides a display that emits circularly-polarized light. This display includes a display mechanism that emits linearly-polarized light and a layer placed in the path of the linearly-polarized light. The layer receives the linearly-polarized light on one surface, converts the linearly-polarized light to circularly-polarized light, and then emits the circularly-polarized light from another surface. By emitting circularly-polarized light, the display reduces the perceived distortion found at some angles when the display is viewed through a linearly-polarizing filter. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100171909 | REFLECTIVE LCOS DISPLAYS UTILIZING NOVEL POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS - Disclosed are display systems using reflective liquid-crystal microdisplays that efficiently use unpolarized light sources without needing to double the étendue of the source as occurs with conventional polarization conversion systems. Furthermore, the display systems can utilize on-axis projection lenses, and fast-switching ferroelectric-liquid-crystal-on-silicon (FLCOS) microdisplays. The systems utilize beam splitters that split unpolarized incident light into two diverged beams of opposite polarization. Ferroelectric liquid crystal display elements are combined with fixed retarders to enable an element that can selectively flip or not flip the handedness of incident circularly polarized light. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100201923 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus is suitable for a user to view through a polarization component having a first transmittance axis. The display apparatus includes a display module, a polarizer and a biaxial half-wave plate. The polarizer has a second transmittance axis such that a light provided from the display module passes through the polarizer and is converted into a polarized light. The biaxial half-wave plate is disposed on the display module and between the polarizer and the polarization component. The biaxial half-wave plate has a slow axis arranged between the first and second transmittance axes. The polarization of the polarized light passing through the biaxial half-wave plate tends toward the first transmittance axis. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100208176 | Wide Viewing Angle Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays - A wide viewing angle transflective liquid crystal display includes a retardation film and pixels positioned between first and second substrates, each pixel including a transmissive region and a reflective region. The retardation film has a phase retardation that compensates the phase retardation of a liquid crystal layer in the transmissive region for normal incident light to achieve a dark state when no data voltage is applied to the pixel. The retardation film and a liquid crystal layer in the reflective region has a phase retardation in a range between 0.22λ and 0.28λ with respect to normal incident light to achieve a dark state when no data voltage is applied to the pixel, λ being the wavelength of the incident light. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100225857 | BACKLIGHT RECIRCULATION IN TRANSFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS - Techniques are provided to recycle light from a backlight unit that is otherwise blocked in a reflective part of a pixel in a transflective LCD. The light is redirected into a transmissive part of the pixel and hence enhances light efficiency and luminance of the pixel. The techniques can be used in a transflective LCD that transmits light in a circularly polarized state, or a linearly polarized state. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110063547 | ELLIPTICAL POLARIZER AND VERTICAL ALIGNMENT TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - The present invention provides an elliptical polarizer with excellent viewing angle characteristics. The elliptical polarizer comprises at least a first polarizer, a first optically anisotropic layer, a second optically anisotropic layer, and a third optically anisotropic layer, laminated in this order, the first optically anisotropic layer satisfying [1] 50≦Re | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110141410 | TRANSFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention in one aspect relates to a transflective liquid crystal display (LCD) comprising a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a first structure defining a reflective area and a transmissive area adjacent to the reflective area, a second structure positioned apart from the first structure to define a single cell gap therebetween, a liquid crystal layer positioned in the cell gap, and a plurality of electrodes formed on one of the first structure and the second structure such that at least two electrodes are positioned in the transmissive area and define a first distance, d1, therebetween, and at least two electrodes are positioned in the reflective area and define a second distance, d2, therebetween, where d2>d1, preferably, d2=√{square root over (2)}d1. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141411 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; a first polarizing film and a second polarizing film on a bottom surface and a top surface, respectively, of the liquid crystal panel; a backlight unit below the first polarizing film; and a titanium oxide film on the second polarizing film and that transmits one of right-handed circularly polarized light and left-handed circularly polarized light and reflects the other, with a predetermined wavelength, of the right-handed circularly polarized light and the left-handed circularly polarized light. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110149212 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a compound device, a color display device, a driver, and a control circuit. The color display device includes three liquid crystal panels. The liquid crystal display apparatus has a layered structure in which the compound device is layered on the display surface of the color display device. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110261299 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - A three-dimensional display includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, a polarizer, a composite optical film, a phase retarder, and an adhesive layer. The LCD panel has a display surface and a rear surface opposite to the display surface. The polarizer is disposed on the rear surface. The composite optical film is disposed on the display surface. The composite optical film includes a quarter wave plate and at least one optical film located between the LCD panel and the quarter wave plate. The phase retarder has a plurality of phase retardation patterns separated from one another, and phase retardation of each phase retardation pattern is λ/2. The adhesive layer is disposed between the composite optical film and the phase retarder, and the phase retarder adheres to the quarter wave plate through the adhesive layer. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20120099054 | COLOR FILTER AND LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY ELEMENT - A color filter for use in a light-emitting display element which emits at least white light, the color filter including a circularly polarizing layer which includes a polarizing layer, the polarizing layer having an orientation layer and a liquid crystal compound layer, wherein the circularly polarizing layer is formed only in an optical path of the white light. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120105774 | DISPLAY DEVICES CONTAINING A CIRCULAR POLARIZING SYSTEM AND METHODS RELATED THERETO - Various embodiments include devices and methods that allow a display device to, among other things, substantially match reflected color or luminance, or both, between a lens border and an active area of the display device. In one embodiment, a circular polarizer located external to a display area of the device is used. In one embodiment an additional quarter wave retarder located external to the display area is used. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105775 | CIRCULAR POLARIZER, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - In an LCD device, a circular polarizer is provided to each of two substrates that hold a liquid crystal layer. The circular polarizer on the display surface side includes a polarizer, λ/2 plate in which Rth>0, and a λ/4 plate in which Rth<0; and the circular polarizer on the backlight side includes a polarizer, a λ/2 plate in which Rth<0, and a λ/4 plate in which Rth>0. Rth is a retardation in the thickness direction of a λ/2 plate or a λ/4 plate. The absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the λ/2 plate for which Rth>0 and the λ/2 plate for which Rth<0 is reduced, and in the absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the λ/4 plate for which Rth<0 and the λ/4 plate for which Rth>0. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120120350 | Single layer high brightness full color reflective cholesteric displays - The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display, more specifically, to a single layer reflective full color cholesteric display employing full spectrum circularly polarization. The display has not only zero-field long time memory but also paper-like super high brightness and contrast. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120162582 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An LCD device is disclosed which includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer inserted between the first and second substrates; a cholesteric color filter layer disposed on the first substrate; and an auxiliary color filter layer disposed on the cholesteric color filter layer and formed to transmit a fixed wavelength band of light progressing in a front viewing direction of the cholesteric color filter layer and filter every wavelength band of light progressing in a side viewing direction of the cholesteric color filter layer except the fixed wavelength band of light. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120218497 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A first retardation plate arranged on a front side causes light received through the a first polarizing plate from the front side to become close to circularly polarized light rotating in a first direction. Second and third retardation plates arranged on a back side cause light received through a second polarizing plate from the back side to become close to circularly polarized light rotating in a second direction opposite to the first direction while passing through both of the second and third retardation plates and the liquid crystal layer in black display period. With this structure, good image quality can be obtained even when used in outdoor. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20130027642 | OPTICAL FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An optical film includes a base film, thin film patterns, and cholesteric liquid crystals. The thin film patterns are disposed on the base film to be spaced apart from each other and have a first property corresponding to one of a hydrophilic property and a hydrophobic property. The cholesteric liquid crystals have the first property and are disposed on the thin film patterns to transmit one of a right-circularly polarized light and a left-circularly polarized light and reflect the other one of the right-circularly polarized light and the left-circularly polarized light. A display apparatus includes a light source unit emitting a light, a display panel receiving the light and controlling a transmittance of the light to display an image, and an optical film disposed between the light source unit and the display panel. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130063686 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device ( | 03-14-2013 |
| 20140028958 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, pixel structures and a positive blue phase liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate is provided. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The pixel structures are disposed on the first substrate and between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each pixel structure includes a first electrode, a dielectric layer, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The first electrode is disposed on the first substrate. The dielectric layer covers the first electrode. The second electrode is disposed on the dielectric layer, overlapped with the first electrode and electrically connected to the first electrode. The third electrode is disposed on the dielectric layer and overlapped with the first electrode. The third electrode substantially surrounds the second electrode. The third electrode is spaced apart a distance from the second electrode. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140368771 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can achieve cost reduction, excellent productivity, and a high contrast ratio within a wide viewing angle range. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes, in the order set forth, a first polarizer, a first λ/4 plate, a liquid crystal cell, a second λ/4 plate, a third Type-I birefringent layer, a Type-IV birefringent layer, and a second polarizer. An in-plane slow axis of the first λ/4 plate forms an angle of about 45° with an absorption axis of the first polarizer. An in-plane slow axis of the second λ/4 plate is substantially perpendicular to the in-plane slow axis of the first λ/4 plate. An absorption axis of the second polarizer is substantially perpendicular to the absorption axis of the first polarizer. An in-plane slow axis of the third Type-I birefringent layer is substantially parallel with the absorption axis of the second polarizer. The liquid crystal display device displays a black screen by aligning liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer in the direction substantially vertical to the substrate surface. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20150009459 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device which have improved viewing angle characteristics due to having a multi-domain structure and the like and can sufficiently improve transmittance. The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel, including a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates, the first substrate and/or the second substrate including a vertical alignment film on the liquid crystal layer side to align liquid crystal molecules, at a voltage lower than a threshold voltage, in the vertical direction to main surfaces of the substrates, the first substrate and/or the second substrate including a common electrode, the common electrode including a grid-shaped first common electrode, the first substrate including a pixel electrode, and the pixel electrode being branched. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150015834 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A display apparatus may include a first substrate defined by a pixel region and a transmitting region adjacent to the pixel region, the pixel region emitting light in a first direction and the transmitting region transmitting external light; a second substrate that faces the first substrate and seals pixels defined on the first substrate; an optical filter arranged on a first side of the display apparatus through which light is emitted, the optical filter being configured to transmit circularly polarized light that rotates in a predetermined direction; and an optical reflectance conversion device arranged on a second side of the display apparatus, opposite the first side, the optical reflectance conversion device being configured to change a reflectance of the external light according to modes of operation of the display apparatus. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150062504 | IDENTIFICATION MEDIUM - An identification medium can be affixed to cloth or leather products by sewing. A cholesteric liquid crystal layer on which an embossed surface for forming a hologram is formed, is sandwiched between a first supporting member and a second supporting member. A mounting region that can be affixed to clothing, etc., by sewing, is formed. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150062505 | OPTICALLY ANISOTROPIC SHEET - Provided is an optically anisotropic sheet that gives a thin optically anisotropic film that can be transferred to a display device. The optically anisotropic sheet includes a substrate, a liquid crystal cured film, and a sticky adhesive layer in this order. The liquid crystal cured film is a film that has a thickness of 5 μm or less and is cured with a polymerizable liquid crystal compound aligned. The sticking force (El) between the liquid crystal cured film and the sticky adhesive layer is greater than the substrate sticking force (F4). | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150085228 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a display apparatus using the same. The LCD panel comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer and quarter wave (λ/4) retarder films. The liquid crystal layer is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate comprises a second electrode, wherein the second electrode comprises a trunk portion and plurality of branch portions, and there is a predetermined angle between the trunk portion and the branch portions, and the predetermined angle is less than or greater than 45 degrees. The λ/4 retarder films are bonded to outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate. The present invention can improve the color shift problem and the transmittance of the LCD panel. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150124202 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - In a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel of the present invention, a second substrate comprises a second electrode, wherein the second electrode comprises a trunk portion and plurality of branch portions, and there is a first predetermined angle and a second predetermined angle between the trunk portion and the branch portions, and the predetermined angle is less than or greater than 45 degrees. Quarter wave retarder films are bonded to outer surfaces of a first substrate and the second substrate, respectively. The present invention can improve the color shift problem and the transmittance of the LCD panel. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150146141 | 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic three-dimensional image display device is disclosed which includes: a liquid crystal display panel defined into a plurality of pixel regions; a data driver to supply data voltages to the pixel regions; a patterned retarder disposed on a front surface of the liquid crystal display panel to polarize light from the liquid crystal display panel. The patterned retarder includes a first patterned retarder, to circularly polarize light from the liquid crystal display panel in a first direction and formed in a height greater than that of a pixel region of the plurality of pixel regions, and second patterned retarder to circularly polarize light from the liquid crystal display panel in a second direction opposite the first direction and formed in a height greater than that of the pixel region. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20160085114 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display panel and a backlight. The display panel has the first substrate, the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates, the first circularly polarizing plate arranged on the observer's side of the first substrate, the second circularly polarizing plate arranged between the second substrate and the backlight, and a scattering film arranged on the observer's side of the first circularly polarizing plate. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160104751 | HYBRID DISPLAY ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A SOLAR CELL - A display assembly for a portable object includes a first, at least partially transparent, emissive display device located on the side of an observer, a second reflective display device and a solar cell being arranged, in that order, underneath the first emissive display device. The second reflective display device is capable of switching between a transparent state, in which the device does not display any information, and a reflective state, when activated. | 04-14-2016 |
