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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1999
Basil Arthur Omar, Stanford in the Vale, GB;
Terence Edward Yeo, Newton Abbott, GB;
Nashua Corporation, Nashua, NH (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for maintaining and converting a localized polarization shift into a localized intensity variation in a liquid crystal display assembly. The assembly includes a liquid crystal display having a back side and a front side, a polarization-maintaining, light-diffusing layer adjacent to the front side of the liquid crystal display, and a front light-polarizing layer disposed adjacent to the polarization-maintaining, light-diffusing layer. A method for maintaining and converting a localized polarization shift into a localized intensity variation in a liquid crystal display assembly also is disclosed.