Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems inventions 04/08

20080094529 - Adaptive sun visor: This invention discloses an adaptive sun visor, which has a microcontroller (2), a keypad (4), a photo sensor array assembly (1), and a liquid crystal panel (3), which comprises a number of pixels. The microcontroller (2) has interfaces to keypad (4), photo sensor array assembly (1), and liquid crystal panel... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080094531 - Display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes: a plurality of gate lines which transmits gate signals having a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage; a plurality of data lines which transmits data voltages; a plurality of storage electrode lines which transmits storage signals; a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094533 - Electrostatic discharge protection structure and electrostatic discharge protection device for a liquid crystal display, and method of making the same: An electrostatic discharge protection device, an electrostatic discharge protection structure, and a manufacturing process of the device are provided. The electrostatic discharge protection device includes at least four doping regions, wherein two adjacent regions are of different types. The electrostatic discharge protection structure includes an electrostatic discharge bus, a plurality... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080094536 - Method of manufacturing light source unit, backlight unit including the light source unit, and liquid crystal display including the backlight unit: A backlight unit includes a printed circuit board, and light emitting diodes mounted on a first surface of the printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board includes a conductive plate provided on a second surface of the printed circuit board, and a plurality of conductive particles are provided on... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080094537 - Liquid crystal display having reflection region: Provided is a liquid crystal display (LCD) which includes a rear substrate and a front substrate, a liquid crystal layer located between the rear substrate and the front substrate, and a reflection region formed on the rear substrates which faces the liquid crystal layer, and which reflects light input from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080094539 - Liquid crystal display with black/white liquid crystal display panel: A liquid crystal display device includes a black-white liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal layer for displaying an image, a color filter disposed under the black-white liquid crystal panel, filtering inputted light to produce a preset color and outputting filtered light to the black-white liquid crystal display panel.... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080094538 - Reflecting plate and liquid crystal display apparatus: A reflecting plate and a liquid crystal display device using the reflecting plate are provided capable of diffusing an incident light beam coming from a wide range of angles in a uniform manner while increasing the reflectivity at a main viewing angle. The reflecting plate includes a plurality of concave... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080094540 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel; a light source part disposed behind the liquid crystal display panel and including a plurality of lamps disposed parallel with each other; and a side mold including an accommodating mold to accommodate an end portion of the light source... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080094541 - Color sequential liquid crystal display: A color sequential LCD display is disclosed. In addition to three base color lights including red, green and blue, the display also utilizes at least one additional color light whose color space coordinate is different from any of the three base color lights as additional light source for backlight. By... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080094542 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device connecting between an inverter and a lamp without a solder, the liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display panel; a light source providing light to the rear of the liquid crystal display panel, and comprising a light source... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080094545 - Display device for three-dimensional image: A display device for three-dimensional images includes a first panel including first and second substrates where first and second alignment films are formed, respectively, and a first liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, a second panel including third and fourth substrates where third and fourth alignment... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080094544 - Surface modification method for polarizer, method of manufacturing polarizer, polarizer, polarizing plate, image display apparatus, liquid crystal panel, and liquid crystal display: A surface modification method for a polarizer, a method of manufacturing a polarizer, a polarizer, a polarizing plate, an image display apparatus, and a liquid crystal panel, and a liquid crystal display. The surface modification method according to the present invention includes the step of: irradiating at least one surface... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080094547 - Wire grid polarized and liquid crystal display device using the same: An image is displayed by modulating TM-polarized light between the polarizer 2 and the wire grid polarizer 18 through the variation of the optical characteristic of the liquid crystal layer 12 interposed between the transparent plate 4 and the transparent plate 26. Degradation of contrast in the bright ambience is... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080094528 - Led illuminator filters: Described are methods, systems and apparatuses that provide light sources to illuminate an LCD panel for a visual display. A light source includes a light emitting diode (LED) and a spectral filter. The spectral filter is operable to transmit a first set of spectral bands and block a second set... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080094530 - Electrode substrate and display device including the same: A first electrode substrate of the present invention includes a first signal line, a second signal line, a third signal line, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode. The first signal line, the second signal line and the third signal line extend in a... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080094532 - Pixel structure for a display device: A pixel structure to be disposed on a substrate is provided. The pixel structure includes a common line having a capacitor portion, an active device, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the active device and covering the capacitor portion, and an alignment layer covering at least the common line. The... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080094534 - Liquid crystal display device and fabricating method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates. The liquid crystal display device further includes a gate line on the first substrate, a first insulation film on the gate line, a data line crossing the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080094535 - Backlight assembly and display apparatus having the same: A backlight assembly includes a light providing unit, an optical sheet, and a mold frame. The light providing unit generates light. The optical sheet has a main body disposed on the light providing unit and a sheet-guiding portion protruding outward from the main body. The mold frame has a frame... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094543 - Liquid crystal panel and equipment comprising said liquid crystal panel: Non-uniformity of a cell gap of a liquid crystal panel is suppressed from affecting display adversely. Concentric interference fringes are unavoidably formed in a liquid crystal cell in which liquid crystal is sealed and the cell gap is maintained by a sealing member without using scattered spacers. Then, peripheral driving... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080094546 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes a first display panel including a first substrate and a lower alignment layer formed on the first substrate, a second display panel that includes a second substrate facing the first substrate to maintain a predetermined cell gap between the substrates and an upper alignment layer... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080094548 - Liquid crystal display device having a light path changing means having a porus film with a plurality of pores: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device capable of improving a viewing angle thereof while reducing a gray scale inversion. The liquid crystal display device has a porous film aligned on a liquid crystal display panel and having a plurality of pores. The porous film has sidewalls defined by the... Agent: Mcguirewoods

20080094549 - Azo compounds and dye-type polarizing films or plates containing the same: Azo compounds whose free acid forms are represented by the general formula (1) are extremely useful as the dichroic dye to be used in polarizing plates which are excellent in polarization performance and endurance and reduced in the color cross-talk within the visible light region or in polarizers for liquid... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20080094551 - Light modulating material: The invention provides a light modulating material capable of supplying a predetermined light modulating property over a long period of time regardless of an incident light condition. The light modulating material includes at least: a first liquid crystal layer which has at least a dichroic dye and changes from a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080094550 - Color filter and liquid crystal display comprising the same: The present invention provides a color filter that makes a liquid crystal display satisfactorily reproduce halftone color by effectively reducing color shift that occurs when the color on the liquid crystal display is changed stepwise from white to black, and a liquid crystal display comprising the color filter. A color... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080094552 - Backlight assembly, liquid crystal display apparatus having the same, and method thereof: A backlight assembly includes a light source, a light-guide plate, a reflective sheet, a first prism sheet, a second prism sheet and a lateral reflective sheet. The light source generates light. The light-guide plate guides the light and has a plurality of first prism patterns adjacent to each other. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094553 - Liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display device incorporating the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and an LCD device incorporating the same are provided. The LCD panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The second substrate disposed parallel to the first substrate includes a base, a picture element, a transparent electrode, several stack... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080094554 - Liquid crystal display unit: The present invention provides a transreflective type liquid crystal display unit, which can reduce power consumption of backlight and displays high-quality image. The liquid crystal display unit of the present invention comprises a first reflective electrode 105, which is installed on inner surface of one substrate 100 and has reflective... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20080094555 - Transflective liquid crystal display: Two phase retardation compensation films with upper and lower slow axes being orthogonal to each other are used to clip a liquid crystal (LC) cell in a transflective liquid crystal display. In an orthogonal polarizer system, the axial difference between the slow axes of the retardation films and the LC... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080094556 - Birefringent layers with tilted optical axis: A method for the manufacture of a birefringent layer with tilted optical axis, comprising providing a liquid crystal mixture comprising liquid crystal molecules and a volatile surfactant, aligning said liquid crystal mixture, and evaporate at least part of said volatile compound from the mixture to alter the tilt of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094557 - Liquid crystal based light control element: A light control element (100) is disclosed having a first chamber (110) encapsulating a first liquid crystal based light absorbing material (112; 114) being switchable from a first orientation in which said material (112; 114) predominantly absorbs light having a first polarization direction to a second orientation in which said... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094558 - Liquid crystal display having pixel regions that operate in multiple modes: A liquid crystal display device is provided that has a plurality of pixel regions where some of the pixel regions have liquid crystal molecules that operate according to both twisted nematic mode and vertical alignment mode.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080094559 - In-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes: a gate line on a substrate along a first direction; a data line crossing the gate line along a second direction to define a pixel region; a gate electrode connected to the gate line; a semiconductor layer over the gate electrode;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080094560 - Liquid crystal display having subpixels per color pixel: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a gate line disposed on the first substrate; a data line intersecting the gate line; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a coupling electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a first sub-pixel electrode connected... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080094561 - System for providing a flat display panel: A system for providing a flat display panel is provided. A representative system includes a bottom substrate and a top substrate. The bottom substrate has an active region and a periphery region adjacent to the active region, and the bottom substrate has at least a truncated corner region in the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094562 - Liquid crystal display panel: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel including a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate, a color filter substrate, a sealant, and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The TFT array substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel structures, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080094563 - Liquid crystal display device and repairing method thereof: An LCD device and a repairing method thereof to prevent gravity defects by forming a dual seal pattern in a non-display area of an LCD panel and storing surplus liquid crystal in an area between the dual seal patterns, which includes an LCD panel including first and second substrates bonded... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080094564 - Liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the same: A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes: preparing a liquid crystal cell including a first substrate, a second substrate, liquid crystal between the first and second substrates, and a sealant surrounding the liquid crystal; forming an inlet in the liquid crystal cell while applying a first... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080094565 - Large display device and fabrication method thereof: A tiling mode display device is disclosed. The display device includes a first substrate having at least two lower substrates connected to each other at a boundary region between the lower substrates using a first adhesion member; a first seal pattern formed at peripheries of the lower substrates, and a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080088753 - Autostereoscopic display: An autostereoscopic display is provided which includes: a light source; a display panel which forms an image by controlling the transmittance of light incident from the light source; a display panel controller that controls the modulation of the display panel and that scans the display panel according to an image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080088752 - Stereoscopic display device, method of fabricating the same, and bonding apparatus used to fabricate the same: A stereoscopic liquid crystal display includes an LCD panel with an upper substrate, a lower substrate disposed opposite the upper substrate, and a liquid crystal material between the upper and lower substrates. A lenticular plate is disposed above the LCD panel. An hole is formed in the lenticular plate. The... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080088755 - Double-sided lcd panel: There is disclosed a double-sided liquid crystal display (LCD) panel which includes a first polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer configured to be responsive to an applied DC voltage for making the first PDLC layer substantially transparent; a center liquid crystal cell layer; a second PDLC layer configured to be... Agent: John A. Jordan, Esq.

20080088754 - Transflective liquid crystal display: A transflective LCD includes scan lines and data lines disposed on a substrate. The scan line and the data line forms a plurality of pixel regions. Each pixel region has a plurality of sub-pixel regions. At least three of the sub-pixel regions are as a color sub-pixel region and at... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080088757 - Liquid crystal display panel: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a pixel disposed on the second substrate, a bottom capacitor electrode, a top capacitor electrode, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of protrusions disposed on the first substrate.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080088758 - Liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing the same: An exemplary liquid crystal panel (2) has a first substrate (21); a second substrate (23) opposite to the first substrate, which includes a conductive layer formed (233) thereat; a liquid crystal layer (25) sandwiched between the first and the second substrates, and a sealant (27) provided at the peripheral region... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080088761 - Thin film transistor array substrate and repair method thereof: A thin film transistor array substrate includes a plurality of pixel areas defined by scan lines and data lines; a pixel electrode disposed on each of pixel areas; and a thin film transistor disposed on the each scan lines includes a gate electrode; a source electrode; a first drain electrode... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080088767 - Backlight module and liquid crystal display with same: An exemplary backlight module (20) has a light guide plate (24), and a frame (28) receiving the light guide plate. The light guide plate has a light incident surface (244), two side walls (241, 242) respectively adjoining the light incident surface. The frame has two grooves (288, 289) corresponding the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080088766 - Display panel module: The present invention relates to a display panel module. The display panel module includes a display panel; a first casing having a hollow region; an addition member arranged on the first casing; a first adhesive member having one side attached on the first casing, another side attached on the display... Agent: Liu & Liu

20080088768 - Mounting film for liquid crystal display drive chip and method for manufacturing the same: The present invention provides a mounting film for a liquid crystal display drive chip and a method for manufacturing the same. The mounting film is provided with a slit cut from a side edge thereof, or provided with a weakened line for forming the slit. When a distance between a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080088769 - Backlight, backlight assembly, liquid crystal display having the same and method thereof: A backlight, a backlight assembly and a liquid crystal display having the same, the backlight including a substrate with a plurality of wiring provided thereon, a plurality of LED modules disposed on the substrate and at least one color sensor disposed on the substrate. The color sensor includes a color... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080088770 - Lens and backlight unit, liquid crystal display having the same and method thereof: A lens for a liquid crystal display, and a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display having the same. The lens for a liquid crystal display includes a flat portion, a curved portion connected with the flat portion, facing the flat portion and including a first curved surface having a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080088771 - Backlight module with lamp reflector means and liquid crystal display having same: An exemplary backlight module (23) includes a frame (25), a light guide plate (26), a reflective film (290), and a lamp (27). The frame includes a side wall (252). The light guide plate includes a light incident surface (261) and a bottom surface (263) adjacent to the light incident surface.... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080088772 - Backlight module with light guide plate having protrusion and liquid crystal display device using the same: An exemplary backlight module (2) includes a light guide plate (21) and a light source (23). The light guide plate includes a main body, a protrusion (217) extending from an end of the main body, a main light emitting surface (211), and a light incident surface (215) at the end... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080088773 - Backlight module with polarizer film, liquid crystal display using same, and method for assembling liquid crystal display: An exemplary liquid crystal display (2) includes a liquid crystal panel (21) and a backlight module (22). The liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate (212), a second substrate (214) opposite to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates, and a first polarizer film (210) provided... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080088751 - Liquid crystal panel substrate, liquid crystal panel, and electronic device and projection display device using the same: In a liquid crystal substrate in which a matrix of reflecting electrodes is formed on a substrate, a transistor is formed corresponding to each reflective electrode and a voltage is applied to the reflective electrode through the transistor. A silicon oxide film having a thickness of 500 to 2,000 angstroms... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080088756 - Tunable liquid crystal lens module: An electrically controlled liquid crystal zoom lens system for a camera or the like is set to a desired zoom by an operator. The desired zoom signal is provided to an image signal processor which also receives the output of an image sensor at the output of the lens. The... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080088759 - Liquid crystal display device: There is provided a liquid crystal display device capable of minimizing a difference in hue between a black state and a white state to provide high-quality display. The liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080088760 - Thin film transistor array substrate with multiple chamfers and liquid crystal display device: The present invention relates to a thin film transistor array substrate with multiple chamfers and liquid crystal display device. A wiring structure is provided on the thin film transistor array substrate with multiple chamfers which is used for producing a plurality of thin film transistor arrays from a mother substrate,... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080088764 - Backlight assembly and liquid crystal display device including the same: The present invention provides a backlight assembly and a liquid crystal display including the backlight assembly, where the liquid crystal display device is slim, lightweight, and requires low manufacturing costs because the device integrates a bottom chassis and a lamp cover. The bottom chassis includes an accommodating portion for mounting... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080088762 - Backlight unit and liquid crystal display employing the same: A backlight unit (2) comprising a shallow box type case (3) having low profile sidewalls and opening upward, a light guide plate (7) in the box type case (3), and a supporting frame (11) containing optical members such as a linear light source (8) and an optical sheet (10) and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080088763 - Liquid crystal display device: Plural light-emitting diodes are disposed in an on-line arrangement on a surface a circuit board facing an optical guide and spacers having a projecting dimension larger than the projecting dimension of this light-emitting diode from the surface are disposed adjacent to the light-emitting diode on the surface of the circuit... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080088765 - Liquid crystal display device: The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of the present invention includes a LCD panel and a resin-molded frame that houses the LCD panel, the LCD panel including first and second substrates, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates. The two-dimensional shapes of the first and... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080088776 - Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention provides a transflective liquid crystal display device which includes diffusion reflective electrodes suitable for a display of high definition. Into an organic resin film material PET which is formed by mixing NQD as a photosensitive agent in an acrylic resin having a specific gravity of 1.05 and... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080088774 - Liquid crystal display panel: An LCD panel including a first substrate, a second substrate disposed above the first substrate, a plurality of signal lines disposed on the first substrate, and a plurality of sub-pixel sets arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each sub-pixel set includes a plurality of sub-pixels electrically connected... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080088775 - Multi-domain transflective liquid crystal display: A multi-domain transflective liquid crystal display includes a plurality of picture elements each having a reflective region and a transmissive region. The reflective region and the transmissive region both have a plurality of orientation-divided domains with liquid crystal molecules in an individual domain having substantially the same orientation direction, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080088777 - Transflective liquid crystal display device: In a transflective liquid crystal display device based on the IPS system according to the present invention, when a liquid crystal layer is of positive type liquid crystal, the initial orientation direction of liquid crystal in the liquid crystal layer is perpendicular to the direction in which a 1-display line... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080088779 - Transflective liquid crystal display device having color filter on thin film transistor structure: An exemplary liquid crystal display device (1) includes a first substrate assembly (14), a second substrate assembly (16) parallel to the first substrate assembly, a liquid crystal layer (18) sandwiched therebetween, and a backlight module (12) adjacent to the first substrate assembly. The first substrate assembly includes a first substrate,... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080088778 - Transflective liquid crystal display with transflective film in color filter substrate assembly thereof: An exemplary transflective liquid crystal display 1 includes a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate assembly 11, a color filter substrate assembly 12 parallel to the TFT substrate assembly 11, a liquid crystal layer 13 sandwiched between the TFT substrate assembly 11 and the color filter substrate assembly 12, and a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080088780 - Optical element and liquid crystal display device, and method of producing optical element: The present invention intends to provide an optical element that can be incorporated in a liquid crystal display device, is provided with a birefringent layer obtained by aligning and polymerizing polymerizable liquid crystal molecules, and, while sufficiently reflecting an actual condition of a liquid crystal display device, can reduce fear... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080088781 - Method and apparatus for printing alignment layer of liquid crystal display: Provided are a method of printing an alignment layer of a liquid crystal display and an alignment layer printing apparatus for performing the method. The method includes disposing a mother plate on a stage and aligning a plurality of heads with a one side surface of the stage. Each head... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080088782 - Process of printing alignment layer of liquid crystal display: A process of printing an alignment layer of a liquid crystal display is disclosed. The process of printing an alignment layer of a liquid crystal display includes disposing a substrate on a stage, aligning an inkjet head on the upper surface of the substrate, and printing alignment liquid ejected from... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080088783 - Pixel structure: A pixel structure suitable for being controlled by a scan line and a data line disposed on a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate of a multi-domain vertical alignment (MVA) liquid crystal display is disclosed. The pixel structure includes a first TFT, a second TFT, a first pixel electrode, a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080088784 - Display device: Measures are taken against the problem that a conductive matter is attached to an organic film in the vicinity of terminal sections of a display device, which causes electrical connection between the terminals when the terminals are connected to a flexible wiring board. An organic passivation film is formed to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080088785 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device having an upper electrode layer and a lower electrode layer formed on an identical substrate via an insulating layer includes slits formed on the upper electrode layer for applying voltage between the upper electrode layer and the lower electrode layer and driving liquid crystal molecules.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080088786 - Thin film transistor array panel for liquid crystal display: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display capable of high quality image and bright display. Gate signal lines are curved at near switching elements of the liquid crystal display. A pixel area is defined by the gate signal lines and their intersecting data signal lines. Pixel electrodes and common electrodes are... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080088787 - Display panel: A liquid crystal display includes a conductive spacer that connects a common voltage line of an array substrate to a common electrode of an opposite substrate. The conductive spacer has a bar-like shape and extends along the common voltage line.... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080088788 - Display panel and method of manufacturing the same: A display panel and a method of manufacturing the same in which a storage electrode is formed on a first base substrate, and an insulating layer is formed on the first base substrate to cover the storage electrode. The insulating layer is recessed directly above the storage electrode. A pixel... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080088789 - Liquid-crystalline medium: d

20080088790 - Test data processing apparatus and test data processing method: The test data processing apparatus of the present invention is a test data processing apparatus for processing test data obtained by testing defects of a sheet-shaped product having at least an optical film which is a member of an optical displaying apparatus, comprising a defect information preparing section, wherein, on... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080084515 - Liquid crystal display device and power supply circuit: A size of a power supply circuit in a liquid crystal display device is reduced while an efficiency of the circuit is improved. The power supply circuit is formed on a TFT substrate of a liquid crystal panel and its output is provided to a vertical drive circuit. The power... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080084516 - Display device and electrical apparatus using the same: In a display device that displays by allowing external light to be incident from outside, and reflecting the incident external light so as to output the incident external light from a display surface, a porous body having a front face that is provided on the display surface side is used.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080084517 - Liquid crystal display device: In a liquid crystal display device, rays of light of a light source for blue light emission are concentrated on a fluorescent material by using a lens of a first micro-lens array and fluorescent rays from the fluorescent material are concentrated on a pixel of corresponding color by using a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080084520 - Backlight assembly, liquid crystal display having the same and method thereof: A backlight assembly including a light emitting diode (“LED”) assembly including a plurality of LED devices, a mold frame receiving a light guiding plate and including a coupling portion disposed at a side of a rear surface of the mold frame, and a sensor combined with the coupling portion and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080084521 - Field sequentially driven liquid crystal display device: a light source capable of emitting lights of a plurality of colors; and a control circuit for time sequentially dividing one frame into a plurality of subframes, emitting light of a predetermined color in each subframe, synchronously with light emission, controlling a state of light transmission and light shielding of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080084522 - Liquid crystal device with stratified phase-separated composite and method for forming the same: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal device comprising a first substrate covered with an alignment layer and a composite material, wherein the composite material is phase-separated by a first polymerization into a polymer layer and a liquid crystal layer, wherein the liquid crystal layer is disposed adjacent to the... Agent: Wpat, Pc

20080084523 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: An IPS (In Plane Switching) mode type liquid crystal display apparatus having polarizing plates on both sides of a liquid crystal cell, wherein the polarizing plate protective film used between a liquid crystal cell and polarizer on a backlight light-source side is a cellulose ester film having a thickness of... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080084512 - Stereoscopic 3d liquid crystal display apparatus with slatted light guide: A scanning backlight for a stereoscopic 3D liquid crystal display apparatus includes a light guide formed from a plurality of segments. Each segment has a first side and a second side opposite the first side, and a first surface extending between the first and second sides and a second surface... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080084513 - Stereoscopic 3d liquid crystal display with segmented light guide: A backlight for a stereoscopic 3D liquid crystal display apparatus includes a light guide formed from a plurality of segments. Each segment has a first side and a second side opposite the first side, and a first surface extending between the first and second sides and a second surface opposite... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080084514 - Liquid crystal display and method of fabricating the same: A liquid crystal display including the first and second substrates facing each other and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates is provided. A storage electrode, a transparent insulating layer pattern, and a pixel electrode are formed on the first substrate. A common electrode having a... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080084519 - Stereoscopic 3d liquid crystal display apparatus with scanning backlight: A scanning backlight for a stereoscopic 3D liquid crystal display apparatus includes a light guide having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, and having a first surface extending between the first and second sides and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first surface... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080084518 - Stereoscopic 3d liquid crystal display apparatus with structured light guide surface: A stereoscopic 3D liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight positioned to provide light to the liquid crystal display panel, and a double sided prism film disposed between the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight. The backlight includes a light guide having a first... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080084524 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus is arranged to have pixels, each of which has a RGBW (Red, Green, Blue and White) wavelength distribution characteristic, located two-dimensionally. The display apparatus includes an input unit for inputting a signal for controlling a using ratio of a W signal, a color signal converting unit for... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080084525 - Liquid crystal display panel: A liquid crystal display panel includes a substrate provided with a transfer pad, a countersubstrate provided with a black mask, and a transfer arranged between the transfer pad of the substrate and the black mask of the countersubstrate. The transfer pad includes slits allowing a normal transfer to be seen... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080084526 - Display apparatus and electronic apparatus: A display apparatus includes: at least one pixel section including a display cell that has a pixel electrode and a light-receiving cell that has a light-receiving element; and a shielding electric conductor configured to electrically shield the pixel electrode on the side of the display cell from the light-receiving element.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080084527 - Liquid crystal display device: There is provided a liquid crystal display device in which light leaks near spacers are prevented. The liquid crystal display device controls the optical transmissivity of a liquid crystal layer interposed between substrates disposed in opposition to each other, by means of an electric field generated in the layer-thickness direction... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20080084528 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode connected to a gate line and a data line on a first substrate, and a common electrode formed on a second substrate. The pixel electrode includes a stem electrode parallel with the data line, first branch electrodes connected to the stem... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080084529 - Pixel structure and liquid crystal display panel using the same: A pixel structure including a substrate, a scan line, a data line, a common line, an active device, a pixel electrode, a passivation layer and a transition auxiliary electrode is provided. The scan line and the data line on the substrate intersect with each other to define a pixel region.... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080084530 - Flexible board, electrooptic device having a flexible board, and electronic device: The disclosure is directed to flexible boards, electrooptic devices having flexible boards, and electronic devices. In one example, wires are disposed longitudinally along the length of a flexible board. Terminals are arranged laterally across the width of the flexible board near an end of the flexible board, the terminals being... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, Llc

20080079856 - Liquid-crystal device, method for driving liquid-crystal device, projector, and electronic apparatus: A liquid-crystal device includes first and second substrates opposing each other and a liquid-crystal layer held between the first and second substrates. The liquid-crystal device modulates light by switching the orientation of liquid-crystal molecules in the liquid-crystal layer from a splay state orientation to a bend state orientation. The liquid-crystal... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079857 - Liquid display device and manufacturing method thereof: A manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes forming an upper panel and a lower panel, applying a sealant to either one of the panels, adding a liquid crystal material within a boundary of the sealant, coupling the upper panel and the lower panel, and forming a sensor... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080079858 - Method for stacking thermal actuators: An apparatus comprising a first liquid crystal elastomer, a first heating element, a first layer of thermal paste, and a second liquid crystal elastomer. The apparatus further comprising a second heating element, a second layer of thermal paste, and a third liquid crystal elastomer. The heating element can be a... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20080079862 - Backlight unit and liquid crystal display device having same: A backlight unit includes a receiving member, a lamp socket disposed in the receiving, member, a lamp coupled to the lamp socket and an inverter unit coupled to the lamp socket to supply electric power to the lamp. The receiving member further includes a guide portion for guiding the inverter... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

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20080079863 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device, includes a liquid crystal panel, a light guide plate which is provided behind the liquid crystal panel and comprises an exit surface facing the liquid crystal panel, a reflecting surface opposite the exit surface, a pair of incident surfaces opposite to each other, and a... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080079864 - Liquid crystal panel module and liquid crystal display device using the same: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display panel module. The liquid crystal display panel module includes a liquid crystal display panel in which a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between a pair of substrates facing each other, a printed wiring board which is electrically connected to the liquid crystal display panel,... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080079865 - Back-light assembly and liquid crystal display including the same: A back-light assembly capable of preventing light leakage and a liquid crystal display including the same. The back-light assembly includes a lamp emitting light, a lamp holder comprising a reflecting part into which the lamp is inserted and an absorbing part, wherein the absorbing part absorbs the light, and the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080079866 - Optical element and illuminating device, display device, and electronic device, using the optical element: The invention is an optical element for limiting the propagation of light in oblique directions with respect to the optical element surface, and includes: a transparent substrate and a light ray control layer formed on a flat surface of said transparent substrate, wherein the light ray control layer has a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080079868 - Backlight assembly including a diffuser plate having indented portions and a reflective plate having lamp insertion portions: A backlight assembly structured to reduce vibrations and impacts that are transmitted to fluorescent lamps. The backlight assembly includes a diffuser plate diffusing light and including indented portions in a bottom surface thereof, a plurality of lamps disposed under the diffuser plate and emitting the light, and a reflective plate... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080079869 - Diffusion plate, backlight unit, liquid crystal display, method for manufacturing diffusion plate, and method for enhancing color reproducibility: A light absorption material absorbing a light of a dummy wavelength range or noises is added to a diffusion plate to remove light of an unnecessary wavelength band when using a cold cathode fluorescent lamp (“CCFL”) to enhance color reproducibility. Because the light absorption material is simply included in the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080079871 - Liquid crystal display device: A film unit disposed on an outer surface of a substrate includes a film and an adhesive layer provided on the film. The film is attached to the substrate through the adhesive layer, and the adhesive layer includes a first adhesive applied on a first area, and a second adhesive... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080079872 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus includes a polarization conversion element which converts second color light of unpolarized light emitted from a light source into a first linear polarized light, and a light path separation element which separates the second color light emitted from the first and third color light; and performs... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080079859 - Liquid crystal display panel: In an active matrix type liquid crystal display panel 10A of the invention, an inner shorting line 20 that is thicker than the scan lines 11 and picture lines 12 is disposed so as to surround the periphery of a display area included in the liquid crystal display panel 10A;... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080079860 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a liquid crystal display panel, a photodetector unit LS1 that is built into the liquid crystal display panel and has a TFT ambient light photosensor, an ambient light photosensor reader Re1 for reading a voltage... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080079867 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a display panel on which pixel areas are defined, and each pixel area includes a light transmission area and a light blocking area. Color filters are arranged in the light transmission area, and a black matrix is arranged in the light blocking area. At least one... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080079870 - Small-angled, predetermined-positioned and predetermined-orientated light emitting device of backlight module of liquid crystal display: A small-angled, predetermined-positioned and predetermined-orientated light emitting device of a backlight module of a liquid crystal display comprises: a plurality of lower prisms; and each lower prism having an emitting face; a light guiding plate (LGP) being integrated with the plurality of lower prisms as an integral unit; a plurality... Agent: Miyashita Kazuhiro

20080079873 - Active matrix type liquid crystal display apparatus with high transmitted color filters: A liquid crystal display apparatus has: a pair of substrates; a pair of alignment plates disposed on the pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer confined between the pair of substrates; an electrode group formed at least one of the pair of substrates, the electrode group applying an electric field... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080079874 - Image display device and manufacturing method of the same: A layer in which a drive element is configured is bonded into an adhesive layer above color filters for a plurality of colors provided on the inner surface of a rear panel. The layer in which the drive element is configured, a drive electrode (pixel electrode), a counter electrode, and... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080079875 - Substrate for liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same: A method of fabricating a substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes: disposing a transparent substrate on a stage of a laser apparatus; irradiating a laser beam having a predetermined power onto the transparent substrate to form a light shielding region in the transparent substrate surrounding first to third... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080079876 - Liquid crystal display: A transreflective or “semi-transmissive” liquid crystal display (LCD) device of the vertical alignment (VA) type is disclosed. The VA-LCD device includes a pair of spaced-apart substrates with a layer of liquid crystal (LC) material sandwiched therebetween. The LCD device also includes a polarization plate provided on one of the substrates,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080079877 - Optical element, liquid crystal display device member with the optical element, liquid crystal display device with the liquid crystal display device member, method of producing the optical element and method of evaluating birefringence functional layer: 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... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079879 - Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first optical compensation plate fixed to the first substrate, a second optical compensation plate disposed at a side of... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080079878 - Vertically aligned liquid crystal display device with visual angle compensation: A vertically aligned liquid crystal cell to be simple-matrix driven is disposed between two polarizing plates crossed-Nicol disposed, the liquid crystal cell including a liquid crystal layer having a retardation in a cross section in a thickness direction larger than 550 nm. A C plate and a biaxial plate are... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080079880 - Method of manufacturing liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal filling system comprising: a slit coating system, and a controller for precisely controlling the thickness of a liquid crystal layer provided by the slit coating system.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080079881 - Electrode mask shorted to a common electrode: A liquid crystal display device with a liquid crystal material layer (414) includes a common electrode layer (406) proximate the liquid crystal material layer (414), a patterned metal oxide layer (408) arranged opposite the common electrode layer (406), where the liquid crystal material layer (414) is arranged between the common... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080079882 - Fringe field switching (ffs) semi-transmissive liquid crystal display: A FFS semi-transmissive LCD comprises a first substrate and pixel matrix. The pixel matrix is disposed on the first substrate and comprises a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit comprises a counter electrode, pixel electrode layer, reflection layer and liquid-crystal disposition layer. The counter electrode is disposed on the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080079883 - Liquid crystal display: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display including a first insulation substrate, gate lines disposed on the first insulation substrate, data lines insulated from and crossing the gate lines, thin film transistors connected to the gate lines and the data lines, and pixel electrodes divided into a plurality of... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080079884 - Pixel structure: A pixel structure is provided. A scan line and a data line are disposed over a substrate. A first, second, and third thin film transistors are electrically connected with the data line and the scan line. The width-to-length ratios of the second and third thin film transistors are the same... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080079885 - Liquid crystal display and method thereof: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates. A pixel electrode is formed on the first substrate and provided with a first domain divider. A common electrode is formed on the second substrate and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080079886 - Liquid crystal displays having multi-domains and a manufacturing method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes; a first substrate, a gate line disposed on the first substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second substrate, a first domain partitioning member disposed on one of the first... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080079888 - Display device: A display device includes a panel assembly for forming an image, a printed circuit board (PCB) connected with the panel assembly and having a connector; a support member for supporting the panel assembly and having the PCB installed on a rear surface thereof, and a cover member combined with the... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080079887 - System for displaying images including wiring structure for driving display panel: Systems for displaying images and fabrication method thereof are provided. A representative system incorporates a wiring structure, for driving a display panel, which includes a substrate, a first conductive layer, a dielectric layer, and a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer, comprising an interconnection line, overlies the substrate. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080079889 - Display apparatus and method of fabricating the same: A display apparatus includes a display panel having a signal pad section that receives image signals and provides the image signals to a signal line, and a conductive bonding member that is interposed between the signal pad section and a driver. The conductive bonding member is cured by light incident... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080079890 - Pattern forming apparatus and pattern forming method: A pattern forming apparatus which forms a pattern of an electroconductive liquid on a printing medium includes a pattern forming substrate having an insulating substrate, a plurality of electrodes arranged on the insulating substrate, and an insulating layer which covers the electrodes, an electric potential controller which selectively applies an... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080079891 - Sealant and liquid crystal display using the same: A sealant that can be used in a liquid crystal display device without contaminating the liquid crystal layer is presented. The sealant includes an acrylic-based compound having at least two acryl groups per molecule and an epoxy-based compound having an epoxy group and a dihydrazide compound. A liquid crystal display... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080079892 - Semiconductor device: When a columnar spacer is provided in a region overlapping with a TFT, there is a concern that pressure will be applied when attaching a pair of substrates to each other, which may result in the TFT being adversely affected and a crack forming. A dummy layer is formed of... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP