US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on Dec. 2 for "Transflective liquid crystal display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,487, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Transflective liquid crystal display device" was invented by Kouichi Watanabe (Kameyama, Japan) and Shinichi Terashita (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transflective liquid crystal display device includes a first polarizer, a first phase difference layer, a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a second substrate, a second phase difference layer, and a second polarizer. The first substrate includes a reflective layer, a pair of electrodes configured to generate a transverse electrical field in the liquid crystal layer, and a f...