Abstract:
An apparatus comprising a first cell (10b), said first cell comprising a plurality of first elements (34b), said first elements being controllable between a non-reflective state, in which electromagnetic radiation having a first polarization is reflected to a first extent, and a reflective state, in which said electromagnetic radiation having a first polarization is reflected to a second extent, said second extent being greater than said first extent. Said apparatus further comprises a second cell (10a), superimposed on the first cell, said second cell comprising a plurality of second elements (34a), said second elements being controllable between a non-reflective state, in which electromagnetic radiation having a second polarization is reflected to a third extent, and a reflective state, in which said electromagnetic radiation having a second polarization is reflected to a fourth extent, said fourth extent being greater than said third extent. Said first and second elements are arranged so that said first polarization is different from said second polarization.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display element comprises a polarization plates, phase difference plates, a liquid crystal layer, and selectively reflective layers for reflecting part or whole of circularly polarized light in a specific direction. The products of the respective thicknesses of the polarization plate, phase difference plate, liquid crystal layer, and selectively reflective layer and the difference between an average refractive index in a direction perpendicular to each display plane and an average refractive index in a direction parallel to the display plane are set so that the absolute value of their sum total is 50 nm or less. Each selectively reflective layer is formed of a layer having positive refractive index anisotropy and a layer having negative refractive index anisotropy.
Abstract:
A display device displaying a color by mixing light reflected by a first reflection element 22 and light reflected by a second reflection element 26 by additive color mixture, in which the light of a first wavelength reflected by the first reflection element and light of a second wavelength reflected by the second reflection element have a mutually complementary color relationship. Thus, the display device, which can make good black and white display by a simple structure and can be driven by a simple method, can be realized.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an inexpensive retardation optical element having the function of reflecting ultraviolet light, capable of decreasing the amount of ultraviolet light that enters a liquid crystal cell, and a liquid crystal display comprising such a retardation optical element. A retardation optical element having the function of reflecting ultraviolet light 10 comprises a retardation layer 12 having a cholesteric liquid crystalline molecular structure in planar orientation. The retardation layer 12 is made so that at least part of its selective reflection wave range for light, which the retardation layer 12 selectively reflects, due to its liquid crystalline molecular structure, is included in an ultraviolet region of 100 to 400 nm and that the maximum reflectance for light in this ultraviolet region is 30% or more.
Abstract:
An optical element comprises a fluorescence luminous element that emits fluorescent light when excited and a cholesteric filter disposed at the incident side of the fluorescence luminous element at which excitation light enters the fluorescence luminous element. The cholesteric filter comprises a cholesteric layer operative to transmit the excitation light and to reflect backward scattered fluorescent light traveling thereto so as to be integrated with fluorescent light directly coming out of the cholesteric filter.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprises a first substrate having a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) color filter, a second substrate having a thin film transistor, a seal pattern formed on one of the first and second substrates, a first electrode on the cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) color filter, the first electrode being overlapped with a portion of the seal pattern, a second electrode on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second electrodes.
Abstract:
In view of the above problems of the prior art, the present invention has been made, and an object of the present invention is to provide a board, which is free from coloring, has high color tone quality, can realize a bright display screen, and imposes no significant restriction on the provision of an electric circuit, and a display device comprising the board, and further provides a liquid crystal display board, which is excellent in color contrast between transmission display and reflection display, and a semi-transmission color liquid crystal display device comprising the liquid crystal display board. A board according to the invention comprises a light transparent substrate and a cholesteric layer provided on the substrate and provided with an optical window of a predetermined pattern.
Abstract:
A polarized light extraction optical element is formed by a light-transmitting base material and a polarization separation layer laminated thereonto, this polarization separation layer being a liquid crystal layer made of a cholesteric liquid crystal. The thickness of the liquid crystal layer is smaller than the thickness that would be required to achieve a maximum reflectivity, so that part of one of the right and left circularly polarized light components is reflected with a reflectivity smaller than the maximum reflectivity.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a reflective flat-panel color display device (1) having a diffusing display panel (3). The display panel (3) comprises a diffusing liquid crystalline material (5) present between a first and a second substrate (7, 9). A color filter pattern (15) which corresponds to the pixel pattern of the display panel (3) is present between the liquid crystalline material (5) and the second substrate (9). A diffusing reflector is present at the side of the color filter pattern (15) remote from the liquid crystalline material (5). In another embodiment, a reflector (17), which has a diffusing or non-diffusing effect, is present outside the display panel (3) and a forward diffuser (33) is arranged between this reflector (17) and the display panel (3).
Abstract:
The invention relates to an image projection module (1) comprising, in this order, an illumination system (3) and an image display system (13) having at least one display panel (15) for modulating an illumination beam to be supplied by the illumination system (3) with image information. The illumination system (3) comprises an integrator system (19) having an exit surface which is located in an exit plane. First reflecting means (33; 43) are present in the exit plane of the integrator system (19) and the module (1) further comprises second, selectively reflecting means (39). An optical system (31) for at least partly imaging the exit surface via the second reflecting means on the first reflecting means is arranged between the first and the second reflecting means.