Inventor · Boulder, CO, US

Gary D. Sharp

149Patents
30h-index
34Co-inventors
90Inventor score

Filing activity: May 11, 1990 → Jul 16, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5929946A Retarder stack for preconditioning light for a modulator having modulation and isotropic states of polarization Electricity 266 Expired
US5381253A Chiral smectic liquid crystal optical modulators having variable retardation Physics 260 Expired
US5658490A Liquid crystal achromatic compound retarder Physics 136 Expired
US6183091A Color imaging systems and methods Electricity 100 Expired
US5528393A Split-element liquid crystal tunable optical filter Physics 95 Expired
US5243455A Chiral smectic liquid crystal polarization interference filters Physics 94 Expired
US5132826A Ferroelectric liquid crystal tunable filters and color generation Physics 94 Expired
US5751384A Color polarizers for polarizing an additive color spectrum along a first axis and it's compliment along a second axis Electricity 87 Expired
US6417892B1 Color filters, sequencers and displays using color selective light modulators Physics 75 Expired
US7106509B2 Filter for enhancing vision and/or protecting the eyes and method of making a filter Physics 68 Expired
US5231521A Chiral smectic liquid crystal polarization interference filters Physics 66 Expired
US6707516B1 Single-panel field-sequential color display systems Electricity 64 Expired
US5999240A Optical retarder stack pair for transforming input light into polarization states having saturated color spectra Electricity 61 Expired
US5990996A Color selective light modulators employing birefringent stacks Electricity 61 Expired
US5822021A Color shutter liquid crystal display system Electricity 61 Expired
US5953083A Retarder stacks for polarizing a first color spectrum along a first axis and a second color spectrum along a second axis Electricity 59 Expired
US6704065B1 Optical system for producing a modulated color image Electricity 58 Expired
US6273571A Display architectures using an electronically controlled optical retarder stack Electricity 57 Expired
US7528906B2 Achromatic polarization switches Physics 57 Active
US7898734B2 Polarization preserving front projection screen Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Active
US5627666A Liquid crystal phase modulator using cholesteric circular polarizers Physics 50 Expired
US5552912A Chiral smectic liquid crystal optical modulators Physics 46 Expired
US6049367A Polarization manipulating device modulator with retarder stack which preconditions light for modulation and isotropic states Electricity 41 Expired
US5493426A Lateral electrode smectic liquid crystal devices Physics 41 Expired
US8004758B2 Polarization preserving front projection screen microstructures Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 40 Active

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