Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems inventions 10/09

20090244410 - Liquid crystal module, audio function-equipped liquid crystal module, mobile communication device, and mobile information processing device: A liquid crystal module includes a liquid crystal panel and a support member configured to be contained in a mother device and to which the liquid crystal panel is mounted. A protection plate having protection function for the surface of the liquid crystal panel is attached to the support member,... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090244411 - Liquid crystal optical element and optical pickup apparatus: A liquid crystal optical element having a crystal liquid optical element adapted to positively function as a diffraction element and an optical pickup apparatus including the liquid crystal optical element are disclosed. A transparent electrode having a diffraction pattern is arranged on one of a pair of transparent substrates. A... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090244412 - Optical compensator, liquid crystal display system, and projection type liquid crystal display system and production method and adjustment method of display system: An optical compensator handling higher luminance, capable of achieving a higher contrast ratio while suppressing variation of the contrast ratio, and able to achieve higher definition and longer service life, a liquid crystal display system and a projection type liquid crystal display system using this optical compensator, and a production... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090244413 - Semi-transparent display apparatus: A semitransparent display (100), suitable for use with an electronic device (700), is provided. The semitransparent display (100), in one embodiment, includes a cholesteric liquid crystal display layer (101) and a translucent electroluminescent layer (102), such as an organic light emitting diode device. Control circuitry (109) is coupled to each... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20090244414 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and method for improved precision 2d/3d viewing with an adjustable backlight unit: An liquid crystal method, system and method is provided to optimize the view-angle distribution characteristics of 2D/3D LCDs, wherein the photoactive layers, e.g., parallax, lenticular, etc, have their individual respective distances adjusted. The method also permits the adjustment of the relative prism vertex angles among the photoactive layers to further... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090244415 - Liquid crystal optical modulation element, liquid crystal optical modulation device and method for driving liquid crystal optical modulation element: A liquid crystal spatial light modulator for adjusting an optical signal is configured in such a manner that a region of one element is partitioned into two regions so as to perform intensity modulation in one region and phase modulation in the other region. Since the region for performing the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090244416 - Active array substrate, electrode substrate, and liquid crystal display panel: An active array substrate, an electrode substrate, and a liquid crystal display panel (LCD) are provided. The LCD includes an active array substrate, an electrode substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The active array substrate includes a base, a plurality of scan lines and data lines disposed on the base,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090244417 - Display panel and pixel element thereof: A pixel element includes a transistor, a pixel electrode and a storage capacitor. The transistor is a switch device of the pixel element. A data signal is applied to the pixel electrode by switching the transistor. The storage capacitor includes the first electrode and the second electrode. Several holes are... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244418 - Liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing the same: A liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a plurality of gate lines formed on the substrate, a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines, a plurality of common voltage lines formed in the same layer as the data line and parallel to the data lines and transmitting a common... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090244419 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device with multiple pixels provided therein is disclosed comprising: a first sub-pixel provided for each of said pixels and including, a first liquid crystal capacitance formed with a liquid crystal sandwiched between a common electrode and a first pixel electrode, and a first auxiliary capacitance formed... Agent: Masao Yoshimura, Chen Yoshimura LLP

20090244421 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a plurality of internal wirings and a protective element which includes a first terminal and a second terminal at least. The first terminal is connected to at least one of the plurality of internal wirings, and the second terminal is connected to an external circuit.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090244420 - Liquid crystal display, array substrate and mother glass thereof: An array substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display comprising the array substrate, and a mother glass from which the array substrate is cut off, are provided. The array substrate comprises a plurality of scan lines; a plurality of data lines crossing with the plurality of scan... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090244422 - Liquid crystal display device: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device that is capable of preventing a conductive paste for connecting a common wiring line of a TFT substrate and a counter electrode of a counter substrate from flowing outward. A sealant is formed outside a display region of a liquid crystal display device.... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090244423 - Contact structure: There is disclosed a contact structure for electrically connecting conducting lines formed on a first substrate of an electrooptical device such as a liquid crystal display with conducting lines formed on a second substrate via conducting spacers while assuring a uniform cell gap among different cells if the interlayer dielectric... Agent: Eric Robinson

20090244425 - Liquid crystal display: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display including a pixel electrode including a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode spaced apart with a gap therebetween, a common electrode facing the pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090244426 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An array substrate of a liquid crystal display includes an insulating substrate, signal line groups supported by the insulating substrate and each including first and second signal lines, and pixel circuits arranged along the signal line groups. Each of the pixel circuits includes first and second pixel electrodes, a first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244424 - Liquid crystal display, thin film transistor substrate and method thereof: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) capable of improving display quality includes a first insulating substrate, gate wiring lines formed on the first insulating substrate and extending in a first direction, pixel electrodes, each of which includes first and second sub-pixel electrodes that are, respectively, applied with different data voltages from... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090244427 - Liquid crystal display panel and method of making the same: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, and a second substrate opposite to and facing the first substrate. The first substrate, having a repairing region and a display region defined thereon, includes at least one repairing wire arranged in the repairing region, and a passivation layer disposed over... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090244428 - Substrate for a display device, a method for repairing the same, a method for repairing a display device and a liquid-crystal display device: A substrate for a display device includes an active matrix substrate and an opposed substrate which are opposed to each other with a display medium layer interposed there between. The active matrix substrate includes a pixel electrode arranged in a matrix shape on the side of the display medium layer... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090244429 - Thin film transistor substrate and liquid crystal display device using the same: The invention provides a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate comprises a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, gate terminals, data terminals and thin film transistors as well as a liquid crystal display (LCD) device having the TFT substrate. The gate terminal and/or data terminal contain a first... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090244430 - Back bezel assembly for a backlight module: A back bezel assembly for a backlight module is provided. The back bezel comprises a first board and a second board, which are assembled at the edges thereof to form a continuous board. The thermal conductivity of the second board is less than that of the first board. A light... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090244436 - Backlight module of flat panel display: A backlight module of a flat panel display for lighting the flat panel display is described. The backlight module includes a rear bezel, a plurality of lamps, an optical film and a middle bezel. The rear bezel is composed of a bezel main body and sidewalls. The bezel main body... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090244432 - Backlight unit: To provide a backlight unit for use in a liquid crystal display device and so on, which is capable of overcoming a problem of interference due to expansion and contraction of a light guide plate and an optical sheet and preventing a strange noise by clicking, a backlight unit includes... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090244434 - Electronic device and liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes a panel, a frame, a bottom cover, and a top cover. The panel has at least one protrusion. The frame has at least one elastic positioning element abutting against the protrusion. The bottom cover accommodates the frame and the panel. The top cover covers the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244431 - Illuminating device, and liquid crystal display device and portable terminal device including the illuminating device: On the side surface of an optical guide plate (104), an engaging protrusion (105) is formed for fixing the optical guide plate (104) on to a frame (101) by fitting the optical guide plate in a recessed portion formed on the frame. The light emitted from an LED (107) enters... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090244433 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display panel is placed on an upper mold, and a liquid crystal shutter is stored in a lower mold. Fluorescent lamps serving as a light source are disposed along the internal surface of the lower mold. A display object is disposed on the back of the lower... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090244435 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which reduces the occurrence of a squeal. A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the backlight includes a base, a plurality of... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090244437 - Display apparatus and electronic apparatus having the display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a front cover, a display panel, a rear cover configured to receive, with the front cover, the display panel, and a sheet member sandwiched by the display panel and the rear cover, the sheet member having a conductivity and shock absorption and vibration absorption properties.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090244439 - Light emitting device, illuminating apparatus having the same, and liquid crystal display apparatus: In a light emitting device, a substrate on which LEDs are arranged in line is used as a light source used for the sidelight of an illuminating apparatus serving as a backlight of sidelight type. The frame of the LED includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090244438 - Method of controlling backlight module, backlight controller and display device using the same: A method of controlling backlight module, a backlight controller and a display device using the same are provided herein. First, an image having a plurality of regions is received, wherein the image is displayed by a plurality of color backlights which are provided from the backlight module. Next, a first... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090244440 - Optical compensation film for va-mode liquid crystal display device and va-mode liquid crystal display device: An optical compensation film to be used in a VA mode liquid crystal display device, having retardation in plane at a wavelength of 550 nm, Re(550), falling within the range from 20 to 100 nm, and retardation along thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm, Rth(550), falling within the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090244441 - Display device: A display device includes a first switching layer switchable between a first color state and a translucent state, a second switching layer switchable between a second color state and a translucent state, a third switching layer switchable between a third color state and a translucent state, a first colored layer,a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244443 - composition comprising at least one type of liquid crystal: The present invention relates to a composition comprising at least one type of liquid crystal, to a liquid crystal cell and liquid crystal display device comprising such composition and to a method of preparing such a composition and/or such a liquid crystal cell.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244442 - Color cholesteric liquid crystal display devices and fabrication methods thereof: Single-layered color cholesteric liquid crystal display devices and fabrication methods thereof are provided. The color cholesteric liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate structure having a base and periodic protrusion banks. A second substrate structure is disposed opposite the first substrate structure to enclose the periodic protrusion banks, and... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20090244444 - Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal display device is provided which includes: a liquid crystal panel; an image information application unit disposed on a side opposite to a display side of the liquid crystal panel; an illumination unit for irradiating light to the image information application unit; a liquid crystal shutter device disposed... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090244447 - Directional diffusion film, polarizing plate, liquid crystal display, and method of manufacturing directional diffusion film: A directional diffusion film with diffusion properties that vary depending on the incidence angle is characterized in that a diffusion axis direction is in the range of 20° to 50° with respect to a normal direction of the film, and a diffusion half-value angle is at least 20° and lower... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090244446 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device containing a first polarizing plate, a first retardation film, a liquid crystal cell, a second retardation film, and a second polarizing plate in this order from a light incident side, wherein an absorption axis of the first polarizing plate and an absorption axis of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090244445 - Polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device: A polarizing plate comprising a polarizer, and a cycloolefin polymer film having a surface bonded to at least one surface of the polarizer, the surface of the cycloolefin polymer film having a mean surface roughness Ra falling within the range from 10 nm to 200 nm, and a shrinkage ratio... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090244448 - Color filters for display devices: A display device including a light source and a pixelized color filter element is provided. The pixelized color filter element includes a plurality of first pixelized filters, a plurality of second pixelized filters and a plurality of third pixelized filters. The pixelized color filter element has a total reflectance higher... Agent: Chih-neng Chang

20090244450 - Four color liquid crystal display and panel therefor: Thin film transistors are formed on a lower substrate, and red, green, blue and transparent color filters are formed thereon. An organic insulating layer is formed on the color filters, and pixel electrodes are formed thereon. A black matrix and a common electrode are formed on an upper substrate facing... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090244449 - Liquid crystal display device: In a liquid crystal display device, a first substrate is provided with sub-pixels arranged in an array such that each sub-pixel is arranged in each partitioned area surrounded with wiring lines respectively extending in a direction so as to be crossed each other. A second substrate is provided with color... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090244451 - Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal layer interposed between first and second substrates; a first electrode provided on a side of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal layer; and a second electrode having a plurality of linear portions, an electric field being generated between the first... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090244452 - Liquid crystal display element and electronic paper utilizing the same: The invention relates to a liquid crystal display element for displaying images by driving a liquid crystal material, in particular, a liquid crystal composition exhibiting a cholesteric phase and relates to electronic paper utilizing the element. The invention provides a liquid crystal display element having improved display quality achieved by... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090244454 - Liquid-crystal display device: Disclosed is a liquid-crystal display device comprising a liquid-crystal cell that comprises a pair of substrates each having an electrode layer on the facing surface thereof, and a liquid-crystal layer of a liquid-crystal material disposed between the pair of substrates, a driving circuit to impart a driving voltage to the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090244453 - Transparent polymer film and method for producing it, and retardation film, polarizer and liquid crystal display device comprising the film: A transparent polymer film satisfying Re≧15 and Rth≦−7.5, and having a moisture permeability at 40° C. and a relative humidity of 90% of at least 100 g/(m2·day) as calculated in terms of the film having a thickness of 80 μm. This film can be stuck to a polarizing film in... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090244455 - Image display apparatus and optical compensation device: An image display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel having a liquid crystal layer disposed between a pair of substrates, and an optical compensation plate pair including a first optical compensation plate and a second optical compensation plate, the first optical compensation plate being formed of a negative uniaxial crystal... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090244456 - Display device: A display device is provide, which includes a supporting substrate, a flexible display provided with a transparent display substrate formed above the supporting substrate, and a dilatant fluid accommodating member. The dilatant fluid accommodating member is disposed on the outside of the flexible display.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244457 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate and a CF substrate arranged to face each other and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, wherein a plurality of first supports are arranged to extend from one of the substrates to reach the other substrate and a plurality of second... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090244458 - Liquid crystal display device: [Means for Solving the Problems] In the present invention, it is characterized that a liquid crystal layer is divided into plural regions (domains) substantially by mixing a chemical compound including a liquid crystal skeleton in a liquid crystal layer existing liquid crystal molecules as a technique to improve response speed... Agent: Eric Robinson

20090244459 - Liquid crystal panel, display, and projector: A liquid crystal panel including a plurality of rectangular pixels in parallel, the liquid crystal panel includes: a liquid crystal containing liquid crystal molecules; a color filter that transmits a light having a predetermined color from among lights that have been transmitted through the liquid crystal; a plurality of pixel... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090244460 - Method of manufacturing liquid crystal display device: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device includes steps of preparing first and second substrates, forming alignment films on one surfaces of the first and second substrates, respectively, performing rubbing treatment on the alignment films, screen-printing a seal member on the one surface of the first substrate so... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090244462 - Liquid crystal display device: In the liquid crystal display device of this invention, each pixel region has first, second, third and fourth liquid crystal domains that define first, second, third and fourth predetermined tilt directions, respectively, in response to a voltage applied. The first through fourth directions are defined such that an angle formed... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090244463 - Liquid crystal display panel: An LCD panel includes a first polarizer, a second polarizer, an active device array substrate, an opposite substrate, a plurality of alignment structures and a liquid crystal layer. The first polarizer has a first absorption axis. The active device array substrate has a plurality of pixel regions. The alignment structures... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090244461 - Method of manufacturing liquid crystal display: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display includes; disposing a thin film transistor having an output terminal on a first substrate, disposing a pixel electrode in connection with the output terminal, disposing an inorganic layer on the pixel electrode, and converting the inorganic layer to a first alignment layer... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090244464 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates which have opposed surfaces respectively provided with aligning films and have undergone aligning treatments such that aligning treatment directions are parallel and opposite between the films, and a liquid crystal layer made of a liquid crystal having a negative dielectric... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090244465 - Electro-optic device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optic device includes first electrodes that apply voltage to the liquid crystal layer in the pixel area and second electrodes that apply voltage to the liquid crystal layer in the peripheral area for shielding the peripheral area from light.... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090244466 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device which can decrease periodical stripe-shaped irregularities is provided. In an active-matrix-type liquid crystal display device, a width of a stripe-shaped irregularity generating region where distance between a pixel electrode and a counter electrode changes is set to 50 μm less. To be more specific, at... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090244468 - Liquid crystal device: A liquid crystal device includes a liquid crystal layer between a pair of substrates. One substrate includes pixel electrodes, an insulating layer and a common electrode having a plurality of slits. An electric field between the pixel and common electrodes turns liquid crystal molecules in a predetermined direction in regions... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090244467 - Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal display device includes two substrates, liquid crystal therebetween, and sub-pixel regions. Each sub-pixel region is divided into first to fourth display regions by a first axis extending orthogonal to an optical axis of a polarizing plate and a second axis extending orthogonal to the first axis. Each... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090244469 - Display device for disposing driver chip with different sizes: A display device includes a driver chip, a display panel, a first group of pads and a second group of pads is provided. The display panel has a glass substrate having a display region and a non-display region where the driver chip is disposed on. The display region is for... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090244470 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal shutter (50) is provided behind a liquid crystal display panel, and a light source accommodated in a lower mold (65) is provided behind the liquid crystal shutter (50). As a liquid crystal display panel flexible cable (15) and a liquid crystal shutter flexible cable (80) are placed... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090244471 - Liquid crystal display device manufacturing method and liquid crystal display device: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device which is provided with a liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal layer, a first transparent base board pasted on an display surface side of the liquid crystal layer and a second transparent base board pasted on a back side... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090244472 - Constricted convection cooling system for an electronic display: Preferred embodiments provide a cooling system for an electronic display. A constricted convection channel is used to force cooling air against a posterior surface of the electronic display. Fans may be used to propel or pull air through the constricted convection channel in a substantially uniform manner. A refrigeration unit... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20090244473 - Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method for the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a manufacture method for the same are proposed in the present invention. The LCD device of the present invention has a top substrate, a bottom substrate, an upper alignment film, a lower alignment film and a liquid crystal layer. The LCD device and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090244474 - Depolarizing film, method for production thereof, optical film, and liquid crystal display: A depolarizing film of the present invention comprises a film containing at least one liquid crystal compound, wherein the liquid crystal compound comprises a liquid crystal compound (1) that satisfies the relation: 0.05≦Δn≦0.5, with the proviso that Δn=ne−no, ne represents an extraordinary-ray refractive index, and no represents an ordinary-ray refractive... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP