Abstract:
An optical device and a display apparatus of the present invention are constructed so as to improve display characteristics of output light intensity, display contrast, and reduction of scattered light due to external light, and also to provide a large-screen. The optical device has a first stacked body and a plurality of second stacked bodies. The first stacked body includes a light guide, a first electrode, and an optical control layer. The second stacked body includes a plurality of second electrodes, the reflection film and a substrate. There is an optical control layer which changes in scattering degree or diffraction efficiency by an electric field applied by said first electrode and said second electrode.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display apparatus having a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates. One of the pair of substrates has an electrode structure including a plurality of pixel electrodes and a plurality of common electrodes, an inorganic film is formed on a surface of at least one of the plurality of pixel electrodes and the plurality of common electrodes, an organic polymer film is formed on the inorganic film and the liquid crystal layer is in direct contact with the organic polymer film.
Abstract:
The invention provides a color filter which includes a light shielding region having sufficient light shielding performance, and a transmitting region having no color mixing, and which has high contrast without pixel defect and irregularity in color tone. A color filter of the present invention can include a pixel region and a spotting precision test region. The pixel region includes a light shielding region and a transmitting region partitioned by the light shielding region. The light shielding region includes a first light shielding layer. The transmitting region includes a color element. The spotting precision test region is positioned apart from the pixel region and includes a second light shielding layer and a spotting precision test layer provided to cover at least the second light shielding layer. The spotting precision test layer region includes an evaluation region partitioned by the second light shielding layer.
Abstract:
The thickness of a liquid crystal layer of a reflection type or semi-transparent type liquid crystal display device and the driving voltage are determined in such a manner that the reflectance of the liquid crystal layer to the blue light component has a maximum value; the values of reflectance to the red, green and blue light components are close to one another in the range lower than the driving voltage; the reflection type or semi-transparent type liquid crystal display device produces a full color image in the driving voltage range where the values of reflectance are close to one another so that the color irregularity and tint irregularity are suppressed.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method of forming a spacer for use in a liquid crystal panel are capable of economizing materials used for spacers for use in the liquid crystal panel and reducing a quantity of waste of the materials used, while being suitable for a large-scaled liquid crystal panel. A recording medium having an image forming layer is superposed on a substrate used to form a liquid crystal panel, then the recording medium is exposed through irradiation of a laser beam emitted from a recording head, and an image pattern of spacers is thereby recorded in the image forming layer. The image pattern of spacers thus recorded is then recorded on the substrate to be used as spacers for use in the liquid crystal panel by peeling off the recording medium from the substrate.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display utilizing the dispense-injection method, and it is an object of the invention to provide a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display which allows an optimum quantity of liquid crystals to be dispensed on each substrate. At a dispense-injection step, in the case of a two-shot process for fabricating two liquid crystal display panels from a single glass substrate, the heights of support posts on two CF substrates having columnar spacers formed thereon are measured at a plurality of points (e.g., five locations) on each of the surfaces using a laser displacement gauge and an average value of the height is obtained. The support post height of the columnar spacers is thus measured in advance to control the quantity of dispensed liquid crystals based on the measured value.
Abstract:
A novel aspect of the invention is a structural arrangement to widen a Fabry-Perot gap beyond a 100-micron LC thickness. The widening permits greatly enhanced spectral discrimination (i.e. many more WDM channels) across the device response range, which is expanded to ITU standards by use of a twin etalon configuration. A liquid crystal optical multiplexer according to the present invention is a two-etalon Fabry-Perot laser etched into many (>100) sub-etalons in a rectangular array. Each sub-etalon is independently tunable and can be coupled to a distinct fiber. Any single sub-etalon or random combination of sub-etalons is free to be tuned to a particular wavelength corresponding to one of the input channels. This allows for any combination of signals (i.e. digital video, data and voice) in a signal broadband channel to be switched to any of several receivers. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is used to combine or separate individual types of signals from a single fiber. Phase-matching coatings are used on the materials within the Fabry-Perot gap, thereby enhancing transmission performance of the WDM device.
Abstract:
A process for producing an optical element which comprises a polymeric liquid crystal layer having a helically twisted molecular structure and has satisfactory thickness precision and satisfactory optical properties. The process comprises applying a mixed solution containing a polymerizable nematic liquid crystal compound and a polymerizable chiral reagent to an oriented substrate, followed by drying, to orient the liquid crystal compound; and irradiating the mixed solution applied with radiation from the oriented substrate side while maintaining the mixed solution in contact with a gas comprising oxygen to thereby polymerize and cure the mixed solution.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal injecting/sealing apparatus for injecting a liquid crystal into a liquid crystal display panel and sealing it. In the apparatus, an elevator is installed at the end of the injecting apparatus to convey the liquid crystal display panel from the injecting apparatus into the sealing apparatus. A residual liquid crystal remover removes a contaminated liquid crystal at the periphery of the liquid crystal injection hole. A sealer seals the liquid crystal injection hole with a sealant. An ultraviolet irradiating unit hardens the sealant.
Abstract:
A flexible liquid crystal display comprising two plates that are substantially parallel to each other. Each of the plates includes a polymeric substrate having a roughness of up to about 5 nm, a barrier coating disposed on a surface of the polymeric substrate, and a transparent conductive layer disposed on a surface of the barrier coating opposite the polymeric substrate. A liquid crystal material is interposed between the two plates, such that the liquid crystal material contacts the transparent conductive layer on each of the two plates. The invention also includes a barrier coated polymer sheet for use in a liquid crystal display having a polycarbonate substrate with a roughness up to about 5 nm and a barrier coating, such as silicon nitride or silicon oxide, having a density of at least 1.8 g/cc disposed on a surface of the polycarbonate substrate. A method of making the barrier coated polymer sheet is also described.
Abstract translation:一种柔性液晶显示器,包括彼此基本平行的两个板。 每个板包括具有高达约5nm的粗糙度的聚合物基底,设置在聚合物基底的表面上的阻挡涂层以及设置在与聚合物基底相对的阻挡涂层的表面上的透明导电层。 液晶材料插入在两个板之间,使得液晶材料接触两个板中的每一个上的透明导电层。 本发明还包括用于具有高达约5nm的粗糙度的聚碳酸酯基底和具有至少1.8g / cm 2密度的阻挡涂层的液晶显示器的阻隔涂层的聚合物片材,例如氮化硅或氧化硅, cc设置在聚碳酸酯基板的表面上。 还描述了制造阻隔涂层的聚合物片材的方法。