(JP11083730-A)   NOVELTY - The method involves measuring light intensities transmitted by a liquid crystal display; calculating liquid crystal display Stokes parameters based upon the intensities of the measured transmitted light and determining the thickness of a liquid crystal cell and a twist angle of liquid crystal molecules based upon the liquid crystal display Stokes parameters.    USE - For measuring the thickness of a liquid crystal layer and the twist angle of liquid crystal molecules within the liquid crystal layer of an LCD.    ADVANTAGE - Measurements of an entire display can be performed quickly and with high accuracy, by avoiding extinction measurement methods requiring some complicated rotation operations of the liquid crystal cell or polarizers for determining the angles of maximum and minimum transmissions, and by avoiding the problem where cell thickness and twist angle is measured at only one probing point, where thus in order to map a two-dimensional cell, the LCD must be mechanically moved from point to point.    (JP11084335-A)   NOVELTY - The method involves measuring light intensities transmitted by a liquid crystal display; calculating liquid crystal display Stokes parameters based upon the intensities of the measured transmitted light and determining the thickness of a liquid crystal cell and a twist angle of liquid crystal molecules based upon the liquid crystal display Stokes parameters.    USE - For measuring the thickness of a liquid crystal layer and the twist angle of liquid crystal molecules within the liquid crystal layer of an LCD.    ADVANTAGE - Measurements of an entire display can be performed quickly and with high accuracy, by avoiding extinction measurement methods requiring some complicated rotation operations of the liquid crystal cell or polarizers for determining the angles of maximum and minimum transmissions, and by avoiding the problem where cell thickness and twist angle is measured at only one probing point, where thus in order to map a two-dimensional cell, the LCD must be mechanically moved from point to point.    (JP3142804-B2)   NOVELTY - The method involves measuring light intensities transmitted by a liquid crystal display; calculating liquid crystal display Stokes parameters based upon the intensities of the measured transmitted light and determining the thickness of a liquid crystal cell and a twist angle of liquid crystal molecules based upon the liquid crystal display Stokes parameters.    USE - For measuring the thickness of a liquid crystal layer and the twist angle of liquid crystal molecules within the liquid crystal layer of an LCD.    ADVANTAGE - Measurements of an entire display can be performed quickly and with high accuracy, by avoiding extinction measurement methods requiring some complicated rotation operations of the liquid crystal cell or polarizers for determining the angles of maximum and minimum transmissions, and by avoiding the problem where cell thickness and twist angle is measured at only one probing point, where thus in order to map a two-dimensional cell, the LCD must be mechanically moved from point to point.    (JP3142805-B2)   NOVELTY - The method involves measuring light intensities transmitted by a liquid crystal display; calculating liquid crystal display Stokes parameters based upon the intensities of the measured transmitted light and determining the thickness of a liquid crystal cell and a twist angle of liquid crystal molecules based upon the liquid crystal display Stokes parameters.    USE - For measuring the thickness of a liquid crystal layer and the twist angle of liquid crystal molecules within the liquid crystal layer of an LCD.    ADVANTAGE - Measurements of an entire display can be performed quickly and with high accuracy, by avoiding extinction measurement methods requiring some complicated rotation operations of the liquid crystal cell or polarizers for determining the angles of maximum and minimum transmissions, and by avoiding the problem where cell thickness and twist angle is measured at only one probing point, where thus in order to map a two-dimensional cell, the LCD must be mechanically moved from point to point.