JPS5958420A - 双安定形液晶デイスプレイ及びそのデイスプレイの状態スイツチング方法 - Google Patents

双安定形液晶デイスプレイ及びそのデイスプレイの状態スイツチング方法

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JPS5958420A
JPS5958420A JP15425783A JP15425783A JPS5958420A JP S5958420 A JPS5958420 A JP S5958420A JP 15425783 A JP15425783 A JP 15425783A JP 15425783 A JP15425783 A JP 15425783A JP S5958420 A JPS5958420 A JP S5958420A
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Prior art keywords
liquid crystal
potential
electric field
substrates
crystal material
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JP15425783A
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Japanese (ja)
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ガリ−・デレイン・ボイド
ジユリアン・チエン
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AT&T Corp
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Western Electric Co Inc
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G3/00—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes
    • G09G3/20—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
    • G09G3/34—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters by control of light from an independent source
    • G09G3/36—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters by control of light from an independent source using liquid crystals
    • G09G3/3611—Control of matrices with row and column drivers
    • G09G3/3622—Control of matrices with row and column drivers using a passive matrix
    • G09G3/3629—Control of matrices with row and column drivers using a passive matrix using liquid crystals having memory effects, e.g. ferroelectric liquid crystals
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
    • G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
    • G02F1/01—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour 
    • G02F1/13—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour  based on liquid crystals, e.g. single liquid crystal display cells
    • G02F1/137—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour  based on liquid crystals, e.g. single liquid crystal display cells characterised by the electro-optical or magneto-optical effect, e.g. field-induced phase transition, orientation effect, guest-host interaction or dynamic scattering
    • G02F1/139—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour  based on liquid crystals, e.g. single liquid crystal display cells characterised by the electro-optical or magneto-optical effect, e.g. field-induced phase transition, orientation effect, guest-host interaction or dynamic scattering based on orientation effects in which the liquid crystal remains transparent
    • G02F1/1391—Bistable or multi-stable liquid crystal cells
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G2300/00—Aspects of the constitution of display devices
    • G09G2300/04—Structural and physical details of display devices
    • G09G2300/0469—Details of the physics of pixel operation
    • G09G2300/0478—Details of the physics of pixel operation related to liquid crystal pixels
    • G09G2300/0482—Use of memory effects in nematic liquid crystals
    • G09G2300/0486—Cholesteric liquid crystals, including chiral-nematic liquid crystals, with transitions between focal conic, planar, and homeotropic states

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Crystallography & Structural Chemistry (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Nonlinear Science (AREA)
  • Liquid Crystal (AREA)
  • Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Optics & Photonics (AREA)
  • Liquid Crystal Display Device Control (AREA)
JP15425783A 1982-08-25 1983-08-25 双安定形液晶デイスプレイ及びそのデイスプレイの状態スイツチング方法 Pending JPS5958420A (ja)

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US41130582A 1982-08-25 1982-08-25
US411305 1982-08-25

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JPS5958420A true JPS5958420A (ja) 1984-04-04

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JP (1) JPS5958420A (fr)
FR (1) FR2532453A1 (fr)

Cited By (3)

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US5594464A (en) * 1992-05-07 1997-01-14 Seiko Epson Corporation Liquid crystal display device having two metastable states and driving method therefor
US6072558A (en) * 1992-07-16 2000-06-06 Seiko Epson Corporation Electrooptical element switchable between a plurality of metabstable states
US6252571B1 (en) 1995-05-17 2001-06-26 Seiko Epson Corporation Liquid crystal display device and its drive method and the drive circuit and power supply circuit device used therein

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US4333708A (en) * 1979-11-30 1982-06-08 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Mechanically multistable liquid crystal cell

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5594464A (en) * 1992-05-07 1997-01-14 Seiko Epson Corporation Liquid crystal display device having two metastable states and driving method therefor
US5900852A (en) * 1992-05-07 1999-05-04 Seiko Epson Corporation Liquid crystal display device having two metastable states and driving method therefor
US6072558A (en) * 1992-07-16 2000-06-06 Seiko Epson Corporation Electrooptical element switchable between a plurality of metabstable states
US6252571B1 (en) 1995-05-17 2001-06-26 Seiko Epson Corporation Liquid crystal display device and its drive method and the drive circuit and power supply circuit device used therein

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