Industrial Technology Research Institute

Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation

National Science Council

Chen-Lung Kuo

Chung-Kuang Wei

Ting-Chiang Hsieh

Hong-Da Liu

Yong-Hong Lu

Shu-Hsia Chen

Dong-Yuan Goang

Kuang-Lung Tsai

Jin-Jei Wu

Li-Yi Chen

Chie-Ching Lin

Bau-Jy Liang

Chieh-Li Chen

Chun-hsia Chen

An apparatus for converting a digital pixel signal to a gamma voltage signal for a pixel in a liquid crystal display (LCD), wherein the digital pixel signal corresponds to the pixel. The apparatus includes a pixel signal converting unit for converting the digital pixel signal to a converted pixel signal and a gamma correction unit coupled to the pixel signal converting unit for outputting the gamma voltage signal according to the converted pixel signal. The relation between the digital pixel signal and the converted pixel signal is determined according to a display color of the pixel.

Apparatus for converting a digital signal to an analog signal for a pixel in a liquid crystal display and method therefor

A device for enhancing the linear polarization intensity of light which passes through a polarizer is provided, which comprises: a prepolarizer receiving incident natural light and splitting the natural light into a plurality of polarized light beams with different polarization directions, changing the polarization direction of the light beams, thereby enhancing the light intensity of a particular polarization direction; and a polarizer having polarization direction the same as that of the prepolarizer, receiving the light emitted from the prepolarizer, and then converting the light into a linearly polarized light.

Device for enhancing the linear polarization intensity of light which passes through a polarizer

A wide-viewing angle liquid crystal display having parallel-laid first and second glass panel and a liquid crystal layer in-between. A common line, a transparent insulation layer, a transparent electrode layer and protrusion elements are sequentially laid over the inner surface of the first glass panel, and may include slits. The common line layout incorporates a photomask pattern for forming the protrusion elements during backside exposure. Location and area of the protrusion elements overlaps with a portion of the common line. Furthermore, the protrusion elements and the slits are alternately positioned. In addition, signal bus line and transparent passivation layer can be inserted between the transparent insulation layer and the transparent electrode layer. A portion of the signal bus line and the common line overlap so that area and location of the protrusion elements, a portion of the signal bus line and a portion of the common line overlap.

Method of forming wide-viewing angle liquid crystal display

The present invention is provided a two-domain vertical aligned LCD with negative compensator. The liquid crystal molecules in each of the liquid crystal domains are orientated nearly perpendicular to surfaces of the transparent substrates with a little pre-tilted angle to the normal of said substrates when an electric field is not applied, the tilt angle projected on the azimuthal of substrate between the orientation of liquid crystal molecules in two domains are not equal to 180 degree, and the orientation of said liquid crystal molecules in two domains are oriented opposed direction. The structure that described above is obtained by ultraviolet exposure process.

Manufacturing method of forming two-domain liquid crystal display by exposing a part of orientation layer twice

Wide viewing angle liquid crystal display panel

Manufacturing method of forming two-domain liquid crystal display by exposing a part of the orientation layer twice

A method for forming an assay of microcompensators having a pattern of sub-pixel-sized regions of a light sensitive resin, which has been dispersed a colored pigment, aligned with the microcompensators for phase compensation.

Color LCD with microcompensators and methods for their formation

Color distortion in Liquid Crystal Displays arises because, in addition to rotating the plane of polarization, liquid crystals are birefringent. This causes the emergent light to become elliptically polarized, the extent varying with wavelength, thereby upsetting the color balance. Prior art solutions to this involve use of a single birefringent layer to compensate for this. This approach is only partly successful. The present invention improves the color balance still further by providing a separate set of microcompensators for each primary color that comprises the display. By this means, an exact match between the color distortion introduced by the liquid crystal layer and the phase compensation needed to correct this can be made for each primary color separately. Several different arrangements of the micro color filters of the display and their corresponding microcompensators are shown and a cost effective method for manufacturing these structures is described.

Color LCD with microcompensators on the outward-looking surface of a substrate

Prior art solutions to liquid crystal birefringence (which causes the emergent light to become elliptically polarized) have involved use of a single birefringent layer (macrocompensator) to compensate for this. This approach is only partly successful. The present invention improves the color balance still further by providing a separate set of microcompensators. Two of the color filters share a common microcompensator while a third color filter has its own microcompensator. The color filters are first formed on one of the two substrates' inner surfaces, with the appropriate microcompensators being then formed on the outward looking surface of the other substrate. By this means, a near perfect match between the color distortion introduced by the liquid crystal layer and the phase compensation needed to correct this can be made.

Color LCD with microcompensators

A liquid crystal display device comprises extended polymer networks formed in the liquid crystal cells. By adding a monomer and a photo-initiator into the liquid crystal material of a liquid crystal display, applying a bias voltage and exposing the display under a UV light, a polymer network can be formed. The polymer network modifies the electro-optical characteristic of a liquid crystal display device. With different bias voltages, polymer networks of different structures can be formed so that the color difference of the liquid crystal display with respect to red, green and blue light can be minimized. Liquid crystal display devices of fast switching response and low color dispersion can be fabricated.

Low color dispersion liquid crystal display

Prior art solutions to liquid crystal birefringence (which causes the emergent light to become elliptically polarized) have involved use of a single birefringent layer (macrocompensator) to compensate for this. This approach is only partly successful. The present invention improves the color balance still further by providing a separate set of microcompensators. The color filters are located on one of the two substrates' inner surfaces, with the appropriate microcompensators being located, in one to one correspondence, on the other out surface. By this means, a near perfect match between the color distortion introduced by the liquid crystal layer and the phase compensation needed to correct this can be made.

One polarizer reflective-type color liquid crystal display has been developed. Reflective-type liquid crystal display have found increasingly important for both direct-view and projection displays. Attractive features such as high contrast ratio, mirror reflection reduced, and clear image of no parallax are demonstrated. This design uses single polarizer to enhanced the brightness and an inner metallic reflector to avoid parallax.

Reflective-type liquid crystal display with single polarizer and an

Prior art solutions to liquid crystal birefringence (which causes the emergent light to become elliptically polarized) have involved use of a single birefringent layer (macro-compensator) to compensate for this. This approach is only partly successful. The present invention improves the color balance still further by providing a separate set of microcompensators for each primary color of the display. The microcompensators are first formed on one of the two substrates' inner surfaces, with the appropriate color filter being then formed directly over each one. By this means, an exact match between the color distortion introduced by the liquid crystal layer and the phase compensation needed to correct this can be made for each primary color separately.

A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display having both wide angle viewing and fast response is described. A key feature of the method is the addition to the liquid crystal of a small amount of a monomer, selected from among the diacrylates or the monoacrylates, as well as a chiral dopant. Once the display has been assembled, the usual turn-on voltage (about 5 volts) is applied. After allowing the orientations of the directors to stabilize, the liquid crystal is irradiated with ultraviolet light for a few seconds. This causes the dissolved monomer to polymerize in place. The UV irradiation and applied voltage are then terminated. Defects that slow down the director stabilization are now prevented from re-forming so that the next time voltage is applied, the system responds in a few milliseconds. Adding a photoinitiator, in addition to the monomer, is an option.

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