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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359 40 ; 359 66 ; 359 71 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device, having light-converging member provided for each pixel or each pixel row consisting of a plurality of pixels for converging the light incident from the outside, first light path converting member for converting the converged light into a parallel light, light separating member for separating the parallel light into its red-, green- and blue-light components, a liquid crystal cell for controlling the transmitting amount of each light component, and control member for controlling the light transmittance of the liquid crystal cell for a plurality of pixels by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal cell.