Improvements in or relating to the addressing of liquid crystal displays
CA 2222064 C · Owner: Surguy, Paul William Herbert · Inventors: Surguy, Paul William Herbert
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A liquid crystal device of the kind in which individually addressable regions are settable to different optical states in response to drive waveforms is described. The waveforms are used to cause the material in different regions to remain set in its existing optical state or to change to another state in dependence upon data to be input to the device, and they are pulse-like in nature and of predetermined amplitude and duration. The operating speed of the device in response to said waveform is improved by causing the profile of the waveforms to depart from the usual squared profile. In one example the waveforms are caused to have substantially triangular leading and/or trailing edges and …
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- Filed May 13, 1996 and granted April 9, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 13, 2016.
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