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US 2011/0032437 A1Published application
Video image evaluation equipment
AssigneeNitto Denko Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Yoshimi, Kentarou Takeda, Hiroaki Sawada, Masaki Hayashi
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Abstract
A video image evaluation equipment of the present invention is capable of converting circularly-polarized light emitted from a circularly polarizing light source into linearly-polarized light so as to transmit an absorption-type linear polarizer by a wavelength plate to be incident on a liquid crystal panel. This makes it possible to enter and reflect light emitted from the circularly polarizing light source on the liquid crystal panel without loss, which leads to display brighter video images than conventional ones.
Claims4
A video image evaluation equipment comprising:
- a liquid crystal display;
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- a circularly polarizing light source arranged outside the liquid crystal display,
- wherein the liquid display comprises in order from the circularly polarizing light source-side:
- a wavelength plate having functions to convert circularly-polarized light into linearly-polarized light and vice versa;
- an absorption-type linear polarizer;
- and a liquid crystal panel,
- wherein the liquid crystal panel comprises:
- a liquid crystal layer used as a display medium;
- and a reflective layer arranged on the opposite side to a viewer-side of the liquid crystal layer,
- wherein the wavelength plate is so arranged that the linearly-polarized light transmits the absorption-type linear polarizer.
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