Minoru Otani
35Patents
13h-index
61Co-inventors
80Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 23, 1994 → Jan 25, 2012
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6724452B1 | Vertically aligned (VA) liquid crystal display device | Physics | 267 | Expired |
| US6661488B1 | Vertically-alligned (VA) liquid crystal display device | Physics | 254 | Expired |
| US7304703B1 | Vertically-aligned (VA) liquid crystal display device | Physics | 65 | Expired |
| US7167224B1 | Vertically-aligned (VA) liquid crystal display device | Physics | 63 | Expired |
| US7224421B1 | Vertically-aligned (VA) liquid crystal display device | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US7230669B1 | Liquid crystal display and method of fabricating the same | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US7227606B2 | Vertically-alligned (VA) liquid crystal display device | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US6458253B2 | Thin film production process and optical device | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 29 | Expired |
| US7136140B1 | Liquid crystal display comprising a linear protrusion structure and an auxilliary protrusion structure having a width wider than that of the linear protrusion structure for controlling an alignment of liquid crystal | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US7372535B2 | Liquid crystal display and method of fabricating the same | Physics | 23 | Active |
| US5801802A | Liquid crystal display panel with two alignment domains | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US5885712A | Anti-reflection film and optical system using the same | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 15 | Expired |
| US6472087B1 | Antireflection film, optical element with antireflection film, and production method of the antireflection film | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US7760305B2 | Liquid crystal display device with multiple alignment structures | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US6261696A | Optical element with substrate containing fluorite as main ingredient, and method and apparatus for producing the optical element | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US6217719A | Process for thin film formation by sputtering | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 8 | Expired |
| US5642242A | Processing system for digital video signal | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US5585855A | Digital video signal coding circuit, digital signal decoding circuit | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US7965363B2 | Vertically-aligned (VA) liquid crystal display device | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US6396626B1 | Antireflection film and optical element coated with the antireflection film | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US7821603B2 | Vertically-alligned (VA) liquid crystal display device | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US8134671B2 | Liquid crystal display device | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US6383346B2 | Method for forming thin films | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 4 | Expired |
| US5557466A | Two-wavelength antireflection film | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US7692755B2 | Liquid crystal display device including protrusion with recessed portion for accepting spherical spacer | Physics | 3 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.