Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Sony Corporation

Fujifilm Corporation

Other

Sony Electronics Inc

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi

Hiroaki Takano

Toshiaki Nakanishi

Masahiro Uehara

Ken Kawata

Takashi Hoshimiya

Shigeo Hirano

Takamichi Fujii

Kohzaburoh Yamada

Toshihide Ezoe

Shigeki Uehira

Hiroyuki Kawanishi

Hiroaki Sata

Minoru Sakai

Shinichi Morishima

Satoshi Nakamura

Hirotomo Sasaki

Aiko Yoshida

Toshiaki Kubo

Koushin Matsuoka

Seijiro Tomita

Yoshihiro Okamoto

Hidehiko Funayama

Kohji Ogiwara

Mitsuaki Ogiwara

Yukito Saitoh

Tadashi Ito

Takeshi Takahashi

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Kazunobu Katoh

Masato Satomura

Hiroshi Kawamoto

Tadashi Inaba

Shigeki Yokoyama

Masanobu Takashima

Yoshihisa Tsukada

Hiroshi Kitaguchi

Masaru Yoshikawa

Kazuki Yamazaki

Norio Shoji

Tamio Mizukami

Tetsuo Yoshida

Tatsuya Tamaoki

Ryo Nakamura

Seiya Sakurai

Yoshiyuki Yonetani

Shinichi Ichikawa

Naoki Asanuma

Shunichi Aida

Hideki Yokoshima

Michiya Sako

Yuya Kondo

Kensuke Morita

Shun-ichi Ikeda

Michitaka Matsuumi

Kotaro Yasuda

Keiji Narusawa

Ryo Hamasaki

Keisuke Matsumoto

Yasuo Yukita

Mitsuhiro Isogai

Daiju Kohga

Yoshiyasu Inami

Shang-Ching Dong

Soon-Gil Jung

Yuko Kanda

The invention relates to a liquid crystal composition comprising two or more species of liquid crystal compounds respectively having a polymerizable group, at least one species of which being a compound represented by formula (I) below, having a content of the compound of from 20% to 80% relative to the total mass of said two or more species of liquid crystal compounds. In formula (I), Prepresents a polymerizable group; each of Land Lrepresents a divalent spacer group; each of Zto Zrepresents a divalent linking group; each of Aand Arepresents a divalent cyclic group; each of m and n represents an integer from 0 to 3; MA represents any one group of A-I to A-V below: 

Liquid crystal composition and retardation film

An optically anisotropic film comprising at least one species of liquid crystal compound which exhibits a nematic phase or a smectic phase, the liquid crystal phase showing birefringence &#x394;n(&#x3bb;) at wavelength &#x3bb; which satisfies the numerical expression (1) below is disclosed.&#x394;(450 nm)/&#x394;(550 nm)&#x3c;1&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)

Liquid crystal display device comprising an optically anisotropic film having at least one species of liquid crystal compound which exhibits a nematic phase or a smectic phase

A compound of formula (1): wherein Aand Aare &#x2014;O&#x2014;, &#x2014;NR&#x2014;, &#x2014;S&#x2014;, or &#x2014;CO&#x2014;, in which R is a hydrogen atom or substituent; Z is one or two atoms selected from a carbon atom or a non-metal atom of Grouporin the Periodic Table, and forms a five- or six-membered ring with the C&#x2014;C&#x2550;C&#x2014;C or C&#x2550;C&#x2014;C&#x2550;C; R, R, and Reach are a substituent; m is an integer of 0 to 4; Land Lare a single bond or divalent linking group; X is a non-metal atom of Grouporin the Periodic Table, and may have a hydrogen atom or R; and at least one of R, R, R, R, and Ris substituted with a polymerizable group; a liquid crystal composition, an optical film, a retardation sheet, a polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal display. 

Optical film and retardation sheet, and liquid crystal compound

The invention relates to a polarizing plate comprising at least a polarizing layer having a K value as defined by the following expression of from 0.25 to 0.75;=()/()

Polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device using the same

A system and a method for communicating data at a rate exceeding about a gigabit per second is described. The system may include circuitry and a current-sourcing module. The circuitry may include an output couplable to a load. The circuitry may output from the output a low voltage differential signal having a first current that drives the load from a first voltage at a first time to a second voltage at a second time. The current-sourcing module may apply a second current to the output at a third time, which occurs at about the first time.

High-speed low-voltage differential signaling system

A triazine derivative represented by formula (I) below: 

Triazine derivative, liquid crystal composition, anisotropic material, and liquid crystal display device using the same

A phase difference plate which comprises one sheet of polymer film containing a compound having a rod-shaped molecular structure and exhibiting a maximum absorption wavelength (&#x3bb;max) of less than 250 nm in an ultraviolet spectrum of its solution and which exhibits a retardation value as measured at a wavelength of 450 nm (Re450) of 60 to 135 nm and a retardation value as measured at a wavelength of 590 nm (Re590) of 100 to 170 nm, where the relationship: Re590&#x2212;Re450&#x2267;2 nm is satisfied. The phase difference plate functions as a &#x3bb;/4 plate.

Phase difference plate comprising polymer film containing compound having rod-shaped molecular structure

The present invention provides a vertical alignment film having a polymerizable liquid crystal compound having negative dielectric constant anisotropy, where the polymerizable liquid crystal compound is vertically aligned against the surface of the substrate, and then the polymerizable liquid crystal compound is fixed to form the vertical alignment film.

Vertical alignment film and VA mode liquid crystal cell

An optical compensation film capable of contributing to improvement in a viewing angle characteristic of a liquid crystal display device, especially an IPS mode liquid crystal display device is proposed. A composition comprises at least one onium salt, at least one rod-like liquid crystalline compound, and at least one additive capable of promoting a vertical alignment of molecules of the rod-like liquid crystalline compound at an air interface; and an optical compensation film comprising an optically anisotropic layer formed of the composition are disclosed.

Liquid crystal composition, optical compensation film and liquid crystal display device

A compound of formula (A): wherein Land Leach independently are a single bond or a divalent linking group, Rand Reach independently are a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and R is a group having a polymerizable group; and a composition, containing at least one of the compound; an optically anisotropic material, containing the compound or the composition; and a liquid crystal display device, containing the optically anisotropic material.

1,3,5-triazine compound, composition, and optically anisotropic material composed of the same

In a photographic apparatus (), there are included a housing () consisting of a pair of side panels () and a top panel () provided contiguously to the side panels () in pair, these panels defining together a photo compartment () in the housing (), a photographic unit () provided at the rear side of the housing () to take a picture of an object person inside the photo compartment (), printers () installed to the housing () to print an image of the object person, captured by the photographic unit (), onto a photographic paper and eject the photographic paper having the object image printed thereon to a photo outlet (), and a curtain () provided, by hanging, on the top panel () at the front side, opposite to the rear side, of the housing () to face the photographic unit (). One () of the side panels () is formed narrower than the other (). The housing () is generally flush, at the bottom thereof, with the floor surface. The area extending from the front end of the housing () to that of the narrower side panel () is an entrance () for the object person entering the photo chamber (). Because of this wide entrance (), even a person sitting on a wheelchair or using any other aid can easily enter the photo compartment () for photography.

Photobooth having lighting sources with relative intensity variation

A liquid crystal composition, containing a compound represented by formula (I) and a compound represented by formula (II); and an anisotropic material containing the liquid crystal composition:Q1-SP1-X1-MG-X2-SP2-Q2&#x2003;&#x2003;Formula (I) 

Liquid crystal composition and anisotropic material

A retarder comprising a substrate, a first optically anisotropic layer formed of a composition comprising a rod-like liquid-crystal compound substantially generating a phase difference of &#x3c0; at 550 nm, and a second optically anisotropic layer formed of a composition comprising a rod-like liquid-crystal compound substantially generating a phase difference of &#x3c0;/2 at 550 nm is disclosed. At least either one of the rod-like liquid-crystal compounds is denoted by Formula (I) Q-L-A-L-M-L-A-L-Q: where Qand Qdenote polymerizable groups; Lto Ldenote single bonds or divalent linking groups provided that at least either of Land Lrepresents &#x2014;O&#x2014;CO&#x2014;O&#x2014;; Aand Adenote C2-20 spacer groups and M denotes a mesogen group; and an in-plane slow axis of the second layer and an in-plane slow axis of the first layer cross substantially at 60 degrees.

Retarder and circular polarizer

Embodiments of the present invention relate to an impedance-matched write driver circuit which comprises a voltage source, a write driver circuit electrically coupled to the voltage source, a signal input coupled so as to effect the output of the write driver circuit, and an impedance matching circuit electrically coupled to the write driver circuit, wherein the impedance matching circuit is enabled to damp the output oscillations in the output of the write driver circuit. Importantly, the impedance of the impedance-matched write driver circuit is selectable by component selection or by logic. Another embodiment of the present invention is directed to a system, e.g., a magnetic disk storage unit that makes use of the write driver as described herein.

Impedance-matched write driver circuit and system using same

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Minami-ashigara, Japan

Hiroshi Takeuchi