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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2000
Muneo Maruyama, Tokyo, JP;
Eriko Fujimaki, Tokyo, JP;
NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A liquid crystal panel has a cholesteric filter and the quarter wave plate inserted between a glass substrate and color filter elements, and each section of the cholesteric filter reflects either right-handed or left-handed circularly polarized light component recognized as one of the three primary colors and the circularly polarized light components recognized as other primary colors toward a light source so as to recycle these circularly polarized light components, thereby enhancing the utilization factor of incident light without increase of power consumption.
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