Liquid crystal device for direct display of analog information

Claim 1

A liquid crystal device for the display of analog information in images and patterns and whose operational power is furnished by a signal containing the analog information, comprising: a front and a back transparent plate, a layer of liquid crystal material sandwiched between said front and back transparent plates, transparent conducting means applied to selected portions of the side of both said front and back transparent plates adjacent said liquid crystal material including at least two physically separate, distinct segments applied to one said transparent plate and at least one conducting plate applied to the opposite said transparent plate, means for having a voltage gradient impressed transversely across said transparent plate on which said distinct segments are applied including a resistor network formed out of the same material utilized to form said distinct segments and located on said transparent plate on which said distinct segments are applied, said resistor network having at least one physically separate, distinct resistor interposed between each said distinct segment such that said liquid crystal device has only two terminals, and resistor means formed out of the same material utilized to form said distinct segments and connected between one end of said resistor network and said conducting plate, the signal containing the analog information connected to said two terminals, such that the operational power of the device is furnished by the signal containing the analog information.