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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2007

Filed:

Dec. 05, 2003
Applicants:

Noah Lassar, San Diego, CA (US);

Steven W. Steinfield, San Diego, CA (US);

Mohammad M. Samii, La Jolla, CA (US);

Jack H. Schmidt, Carlsbad, CA (US);

Matthew Giere, San Diego, CA (US);

David Tyvoll, La Jolla, CA (US);

Winthrop D. Childers, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Noah Lassar, San Diego, CA (US);

Steven W. Steinfield, San Diego, CA (US);

Mohammad M. Samii, La Jolla, CA (US);

Jack H. Schmidt, Carlsbad, CA (US);

Matthew Giere, San Diego, CA (US);

David Tyvoll, La Jolla, CA (US);

Winthrop D. Childers, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 21/14 (2006.01); G02B 26/02 (2006.01); G02B 5/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A light-filtering element for a display device is provided. The element includes at least one filter having a chamber with a filtering fluid, the filtering fluid selectively disposed in an optical path, and a liquid motion actuator selectively configured to move the filtering fluid substantially into and out of the optical path.


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