Gary D. Sharp
149Patents
30h-index
34Co-inventors
90Inventor score
Filing activity: May 11, 1990 → Jul 16, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.