1. A liquid crystal display panel comprising:
a wire grid polarizer which has a pattern of linear conductive wires having a pitch smaller than a wavelength of light for use in a display; and
a light shielding layer,
the wire grid polarizer having (i) a first region where the linear conductive wires are regularly repeated at a constant pitch and (ii) a second region where the linear conductive wires are at a pitch larger than the constant pitch, and
the second region and the light shielding layer being arranged so as to at least partially overlap each other when viewed from above.
2. The liquid crystal display panel according to claim 1, wherein the light shielding layer is a black matrix.
3. The liquid crystal display panel according to claim 1, wherein the light shielding layer is a metal wire.
4. The liquid crystal display panel according to claim 1, further comprising two substrates between which a liquid crystal layer is held,
the wire grid polarizer being provided between the two substrates.
5. The liquid crystal display panel according to claim 1, further comprising a color control layer for emitting incident light as light of a plurality of colors, wherein:
the wire grid polarizer is provided on the color control layer; and
the constant pitch of the wire grid polarizer is configured to vary depending on a color of light that enters the wire grid polarizer through the color control layer so that a polarization extinction ratio is substantially identical, the polarization extinction ratio being a ratio of an amount of incident light to an amount of transmitted light when a polarization component parallel to the linear conductive wires enters the wire grid polarizer.
6. The liquid crystal display panel according to claim 5, wherein:
the color control layer includes a first color control layer for emitting incident light as red light, a second color control layer for emitting incident light as green light, and a third color control layer for emitting incident light as blue light;
the constant pitch of the wire grid polarizer on the first color control layer is configured to be a relatively large pitch;
the constant pitch of the wire grid polarizer on the third color control layer is configured to be a relatively small pitch; and
the constant pitch of the wire grid polarizer on the second color control layer is configured to be between the relatively large pitch and the relatively small pitch.
7. The liquid crystal display panel according to claim 5, wherein the color control layer is a colored layer or a phosphor layer.
8. A liquid crystal display device comprising:
a liquid crystal display panel recited in claim 1; and
a surface light source device for irradiating the liquid crystal display panel with light,
the surface light source device (i) having an irregularly-shaped light emitting surface for scattering light andor (ii) having on its light emitting surface a diffusing member for scattering light.
9. A method for producing a liquid crystal display panel, the liquid crystal display panel including (i) a wire grid polarizer which has a pattern of linear conductive wires having a pitch smaller than a wavelength of light for use in a display and (ii) substrates, said method comprising the steps of:
(A) forming, on one of the substrates, a light shielding layer patterned into a predetermined shape;
(B) forming, evenly on an entire surface of said one of the substrates, a conductive film which is to be formed into the conductive wires;
(C) forming a resist so that the resist covers the conductive film;
(D) curing a part of the resist while pressing a patterned surface of a first mold against the part of the resist, the patterned surface being a surface in which linear patterns regularly repeated at a constant pitch smaller than the wavelength of the light are formed, to thereby form in the resist a first transferred surface on which the linear patterns in the patterned surface have been transferred;
(E) after relocating the first mold to a position adjacent to the first transferred surface, curing another part of the resist while pressing the patterned surface of the first mold against said another part of the resist to thereby form in the resist a second transferred surface on which the linear patterns in the patterned surface have been transferred;
in steps (D) and (E), locating the first mold such that a border between the first transferred surface and the second transferred surface at least partially overlaps the light shielding layer when viewed from above;
(F) etching the conductive film by using cured resist patterns as masks; and
(G) removing the cured resist patterns.
10. A method for producing a liquid crystal display panel, the liquid crystal display panel including (i) a wire grid polarizer which has a pattern of linear conductive wires having a pitch smaller than a wavelength of light for use in a display and (ii) substrates, said method comprising the steps of:
(A) forming, on one of the substrates, a light shielding layer patterned into a predetermined shape;
(B) forming, evenly on an entire surface of said one of the substrates, a conductive film which is to be formed into the conductive wires;
(C) forming a resist so that the resist covers the conductive film;
(D) curing the resist while pressing a patterned surface of a second mold against the resist, the patterned surface of the second mold having (i) a first region in which linear patterns regularly repeated at a constant pitch smaller than the wavelength of the light are formed and (ii) a second region in which linear patterns are at a pitch larger than the constant pitch;
in step (D), locating the second mold such that the second region at least partially overlaps the light shielding layer when viewed from above;
(E) etching the conductive film by using cured resist patterns as masks; and
(F) removing the cured resist patterns.
11. (canceled)
12. The method according to claim 9, wherein:
the resist is a photo-curing resist;
the first mold is made of a light-transmitting material; and
the photo-curing resist is cured by exposure to light.
13. The method according to claim 10, wherein:
the resist is a photo-curing resist;
the second mold is made of a light-transmitting material; and
the photo-curing resist is cured by exposure to light.
14. The method according to claim 9, wherein:
the resist is a thermosetting resist; and
the thermosetting resist is cured by heat treatment.
15. The method according to claim 10, wherein:
the resist is a thermosetting resist; and
the thermosetting resist is cured by heat treatment.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. One or more computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, that, when executed by a computing device, executes driver commands for a camera hardware device in a patient’s room, the method comprising:
receiving a request from a clinician to establish contact with a patient at a separate patient location, wherein the request is received from an electronic medical record for the patient while the clinician is accessing the electronic medical record;
receiving identification of a patient location having a camera hardware device;
determining a driver for the camera hardware device in the patient’s location;
connecting with the camera hardware device;
receiving one or more script requests to execute one or more scripts that are camera hardware device agnostic and are applicable to any camera hardware device to control the camera hardware device, wherein the one or more scripts which are camera hardware agnostic is not committed to a particular camera hardware device and are utilized to manipulate or view video received from any type of camera hardware device at the patient’s location;
executing the one or more scripts that are applicable to any camera hardware device to control the camera hardware device;
converting the one or more scripts to driver commands for the camera hardware device in the patient’s location using the driver determined for the camera hardware device;
communicating the driver commands to the camera hardware device in the patient’s location; and
executing the driver commands for the camera hardware device in the patient’s location to cause the camera hardware device to perform one or more functions.
2. The media of claim 1, wherein the functions comprise one or more of panning the camera hardware device left, panning the camera hardware device right, tilting the camera hardware device up, tilting the camera hardware device down, tilting the camera diagonally up and left, tilting the camera hardware device up and right, tilting the camera hardware device down and left tilting the camera hardware device down and right, zooming the camera hardware device in, zooming the camera hardware device out, muting a local microphone of the camera hardware device, unmuting a local microphone of the camera hardware device, muting a speaker of the camera hardware device, unmuting a speaker of the camera hardware device and setting microphone volumes of the camera hardware device.
3. The media of claim 1, wherein the functions comprise one or more of enabling night vision of the camera hardware device, disabling night vision of the camera hardware device, performing manual focusing of the camera hardware device, changing brightness of the camera hardware and selecting one camera device over another when there are more than one camera hardware devices at the patient’s location.
4. The media of claim 1, further comprising
receiving a request to execute one or more scripts to shut down the remote connection from a clinician;
executing one or more shut down scripts that are applicable to any camera hardware device to control the camera hardware device;
converting the one or more shut down scripts to shut down driver commands for the camera hardware device in the patient’s location;
communicating the shut down driver commands to the camera hardware device in the patient’s location; and
executing the shut down driver commands for the camera hardware device in the patient’s location to cause the camera hardware device to perform one or more shut down functions.
5. The media of claim 1, wherein the shut down functions includes facing the camera hardware device away from the patient, turning off speakers and microphones of the camera hardware device and turning off the hardware camera device.
6. One or more computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, that, when executed by a computer device, directly feeds video from a patient location such that it is displayed at a remote clinician location and directly feeds video from the remote clinician location such that it is displayed at a patient location substantially simultaneously, the method comprising:
receiving a request from a clinician to establish contact with a patient at a separate patient location, wherein the request is received from an electronic medical record for the patient while the clinician is accessing the electronic medical record;
receiving identification of a patient location having a first camera hardware device and a first display device;
determining a driver for the first camera hardware device at the patient’s location;
receiving identification of the clinician location that is remote from the patient’s location having a second camera hardware device and a second display device;
determining the driver for the second camera hardware device at the clinician’s location;
connecting with the first and second camera hardware devices and first and second display devices;
receiving one or more script requests to execute one or more scripts that are camera hardware device agnostic and are applicable to any camera hardware device to control at least one of the first and second camera hardware device, wherein the one or more scripts which are camera hardware agnostic is not committed to a particular camera hardware device and are utilized to manipulate or view video received from any type of camera hardware device at one or more of the patient’s or clinician’s location;
executing at least one of the one or more scripts that are applicable to any camera hardware device to control the first camera hardware device;
executing at least one of the one or more scripts that are applicable to any camera hardware device to control the second camera hardware device;
directly feeding video from the first camera hardware device at the patient’s location to the second display device at the clinician’s location; and
directly feeding video from the second camera hardware device at the clinician’s location to the first display device at the patient’s location.
7. The media of claim 6, further comprising:
converting the at least one of the one or more scripts to first driver commands for the first camera hardware device in the patient’s location;
communicating the first driver commands to the first camera hardware device in the patient’s location; and
executing the first driver commands for the first camera hardware device in the patient’s location to cause the first camera hardware device to perform a function.
8. The media of claim 7, further comprising:
converting the at least one of the one or more scripts to second driver commands for the second camera hardware device at the clinician’s location;
communicating the second driver commands to the second camera hardware device at the clinician’s location; and
executing the second driver commands for the second camera hardware device at the clinician’s location to cause the second camera hardware device to perform a function.
9. The media of claim 8, wherein the functions comprise one or more of enabling night vision of the camera hardware device, disabling night vision of the camera hardware device, performing manual focusing of the camera hardware device, changing brightness of the camera hardware and selecting one camera device over another when there are more than one camera hardware devices at the patient’s location.
10. The media of claim 8, wherein the functions comprise one or more of panning the camera hardware device left, panning the camera hardware device right, tilting the camera hardware device up, tilting the camera hardware device down, tilting the camera diagonally up and left, tilting the camera hardware device up and right, tilting the camera hardware device down and left tilting the camera hardware device down and right, zooming the camera hardware device in, zooming the camera hardware device out, muting a local microphone of the camera hardware device, unmuting a local microphone of the camera hardware device, muting a speaker of the camera hardware device, unmuting a speaker of the camera hardware device and setting microphone volumes of the camera hardware device.
11. The media of claim 6, further comprising:
directly feeding audio from the first camera hardware device at the patient’s location to the second display device at the clinician’s location; and
directly feeding audio from the second camera hardware device at the clinician’s location to the first display device at the patient’s location.
12. The media of claim 11, wherein the video and audio from the first and second camera hardware device is streamed directly from the patient’s location to the clinician’s location and from the clinician’s location to the patient’s location without the use of codec or other encoding of the audio and video streams from the first and second camera hardware devices.
13. One or more computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, that, when executed by a computing device, executes driver commands for a first camera hardware device at a patient’s location and a second camera hardware device a clinician’s location, the method comprising:
receiving a request from a clinician to establish contact with a patient at a separate patient location, wherein the request is received from an electronic medical record for the patient while the clinician is accessing the electronic medical record;
receiving identification of a patient location having a first camera hardware device and clinician location that is remote from the patient location having a second camera hardware device;
determining a first driver for the first camera hardware device at the patient’s location and a second driver for the second hardware device at the clinician’s location;
connecting with the first and second camera hardware devices;
receiving one or more requests to execute one or more scripts that are camera hardware device agnostic and are applicable to any camera hardware device to control at least one of the first and second camera hardware device, wherein the one or more scripts which are camera hardware agnostic is not committed to a particular camera hardware device and are utilized to manipulate or view video received from any type of camera hardware device at one or more of the patient’s or clinician’s location;
executing the one or more scripts that are applicable to any camera hardware device to control the first and second camera hardware devices;
converting the one or more scripts to first driver commands for the first camera hardware device at the patient’s location and to second driver commands for the second camera hardware device at the clinician’s location;
communicating the first driver commands to the first camera hardware device at the patient’s location and the second driver commands to the second camera hardware device at the clinician’s location; and
executing the first driver commands for the first camera hardware device at the patient’s location to cause the second camera hardware device to perform one or more functions and the second driver commands for the second camera hardware device at the clinician’s location to cause the second camera hardware device to perform one or more functions.
14. The media of claim 13, wherein the functions comprise one or more of panning the camera hardware device left, panning the camera hardware device right, tilting the camera hardware device up, tilting the camera hardware device down, tilting the camera diagonally up and left, tilting the camera hardware device up and right, tilting the camera hardware device down and left tilting the camera hardware device down and right, zooming the camera hardware device in, zooming the camera hardware device out, muting a local microphone of the camera hardware device, unmuting a local microphone of the camera hardware device, muting a speaker of the camera hardware device, unmuting a speaker of the camera hardware device and setting microphone volumes of the camera hardware device.
15. The media of claim 13, wherein the functions comprise one or more of enabling night vision of the camera hardware device, disabling night vision of the camera hardware device, performing manual focusing of the camera hardware device, changing brightness of the camera hardware and selecting one camera device over another when there are more than one camera hardware devices at the patient’s location.
16. The media of claim 13, further comprising
receiving a request to shut down the remote connection from a clinician;
executing shut down scripts that are applicable to any camera hardware device to control the first and second camera hardware devices;
converting the shut down scripts to shut down driver commands for the first and second camera hardware devices at the patient’s location and clinician location;
communicating the shut down driver commands to the first and second camera hardware devices at the patient’s location and clinician’s location; and
executing the shut down driver commands for the first and second camera hardware devices to cause the first and second camera hardware devices to perform one or more shut down functions.