Abstract: A display device includes an active matrix substrate including a plurality of pixels and a driver unit. The driver unit includes a flexible substrate, a first wiring pattern disposed on the flexible substrate, a demultiplexer circuit or a multiplexer circuit supported by the flexible substrate and connected to the first wiring pattern, and a source driver IC supported by the flexible substrate and connected to the first wiring pattern. The driver unit is connected to a display panel, and a TFT of the plurality of pixels and a TFT of the demultiplexer circuit or the multiplexer circuit have semiconductors different from each other.

Abstract: A viewing angle-controlling liquid crystal panel sequentially includes a first polarizing plate; a first liquid crystal panel; a second polarizing plate; a second liquid crystal panel; and a third polarizing plate, wherein an azimuthal angle ?P1 of the absorption axis of the first polarizing plate, an azimuthal angle ?1 of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the first substrate and an azimuthal angle ?2 of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the second substrate in the first liquid crystal panel, an azimuthal angle ?P2 of the absorption axis of the second polarizing plate, an azimuthal angle ?3 of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the third substrate and an azimuthal angle ?4 of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the fourth substrate in the second liquid crystal panel, and an azimuthal angle ?P3 of the absorption axis of the third polarizing plate satisfy specific formulas.

Abstract: A display device includes the following: a plurality of first spacers provided at a first pitch that is constant, in a given direction in the display region except where light-emitting elements are provided, the plurality of first spacers having heights that are identical; and n?1 second spacers provided between two of the plurality of first spacers adjacent to each other in the given direction, except where the light-emitting elements are provided, the n?1 second spacers having heights that are smaller than the heights of the plurality of first spacers, where n is a natural number equal to or greater than two. The pitch in the given direction of all spacers including the plurality of first spacers and the n?1 second spacers is a second pitch that is constant, and that is the first pitch divided into n equal parts.

Abstract: The liquid crystal panel of the present invention sequentially includes: a first substrate including a first electrode; a first alignment film; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules having a positive anisotropy of dielectric constant; a second alignment film; and a second substrate including a second electrode, the liquid crystal molecules being homogeneously aligned with no voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, a polar anchoring energy 2EA and an azimuthal anchoring energy 2EB of the second alignment film being smaller than a polar anchoring energy 1EA and an azimuthal anchoring energy 1EB of the first alignment film, respectively, the polar anchoring energy 2EA of the second alignment film being not greater than the azimuthal anchoring energy 2EB of the second alignment film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of gate bus lines, and a control device. The control device includes a first gate driver connected to one end of each of the plurality of gate bus lines and a second gate driver connected to another end of each of the plurality of gate bus lines. The control device receives an image signal, generates a gate signal based on the image signal, and inputs the gate signal to only the first gate driver or to the first gate driver and the second gate driver, in accordance with a refresh rate of the image signal.

Abstract: An illumination device includes a light source, a first optical member, and a fixing portion. The first optical member includes a light reflection portion configured to reflect light, at least a part of the light reflection portion overlapping with the light source, and a light transmitting portion configured to transmit light, the light transmitting portion not overlapping the light reflection portion. A center of the light source in a plan view is defined as a first center, and a center of the light reflection portion in a plan view is defined as a second center. In the light reflection portion, the second center is located between the fixing portion and the first center at a first temperature, and at a second temperature higher than the first temperature, a position of the second center is closer to the first center than a position of the second center at the first temperature.

Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel, a cover member overlapping the touch panel, and a controller. The controller includes a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a pointer, based on a signal value obtained from a position detection electrode, an amplification processing unit configured to perform amplification processing on at least one signal value in a pressing force detection range corresponding to the position of the pointer detected by the position detection unit among signal values obtained from a pressing force detection electrode, and a pressing force detection unit configured to calculate magnitude of a pressing force generated by the pointer, based on a signal value after the amplification processing being a signal value in the pressing force detection range including a signal value obtained by amplification by the amplification processing unit.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a first TFT disposed in each of pixel regions, a first flattened layer covering the first TFT, and a pixel electrode provided on the first flattened layer. The first TFT includes a lower gate electrode, a lower gate insulating layer, an oxide semiconductor layer, an upper gate insulating layer, and an upper gate electrode. The active matrix substrate further includes a first connection electrode for electrically connecting a drain contact region of the oxide semiconductor layer and the pixel electrode. The first flattened layer includes a pixel contact hole formed so as to expose a part of the first connection electrode. The bottom face of the pixel contact hole at least partially overlaps, of a lower gate metal layer including a lower gate electrode and an upper gate metal layer including an upper gate electrode, at least the lower gate metal layer when viewed from the normal direction of the substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. Each pixel includes a reflection region and a transmission region. The first substrate includes a reflecting layer, a first insulating layer, and a pixel electrode. The thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the transmission region is greater than the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the reflection region, and the liquid crystal layer has a twist angle of substantially 0 degree. A surface of the first substrate that faces the liquid crystal layer includes an upper step portion, a lower step portion, and an inclined portion. The length L1 of a portion of the inclined portion included in the reflection region and the length L2 of a portion of the lower step portion included in the reflection region satisfy the relationship L1+L2?1.81·L1.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the disclosure, an illumination device includes: a first sheet including a first light entering main surface, a first light emission main surface, two first light blocking portions disposed at an interval in a first direction, and a first light-transmitting portion disposed between the two first light blocking portions; a second sheet including a second light entering main surface facing the first light emission main surface, a second light emission main surface, and a first lens; and a third sheet including a third light entering main surface facing the second light emission main surface, a third light emission main surface, two second light blocking portions disposed at an interval in the first direction, and a second light-transmitting portion disposed between the two second light blocking portions.

Abstract: A touch panel system includes a capacitive touch panel and a controller that controls the touch panel. The touch panel includes drive electrodes and floating island electrodes located on a first substrate and position detection electrodes, pressure detection electrodes, and heat detection electrodes located on a second substrate. The drive electrode overlaps at least part of the heat detection electrode and at least part of the pressure detection electrode, and the floating island electrode overlaps at least part of the position detection electrode in plan view. The controller provides a drive signal to the drive electrodes and the heat detection electrodes and corrects a pressure detection signal obtained from each of the pressure detection electrodes by using a heat detection signal obtained from a change in a coupling capacitance between the pressure detection electrode and the heat detection electrode.

Abstract: A common electrode driver includes an inverting amplifier including a first resistor, a second resistor, and an operational amplifier, and a resistance ratio adjustment circuit that adjusts, in accordance with a length of one horizontal scan period, a resistance ratio being a ratio of a resistance value of the second resistor to a resistance value of the first resistor. A feedback voltage is provided to one end of the first resistor. The resistance ratio adjustment circuit sets the resistance ratio when second driving is performed, in which a length of one horizontal scan period is a second time longer than a first time, to be smaller than the resistance ratio when first driving is performed, in which a length of one horizontal scan period is the first time.

Abstract: A top-emitting subpixel structure may include at least one bank structure defining a plurality of emissive areas, and an emissive structure located in each emissive area. The subpixel structure may have a subpixel length and a subpixel width less than the subpixel length, a ratio of the subpixel length to the subpixel width defining a subpixel aspect ratio. Each emissive area may have an emissive area length and an emissive area width shorter than the emissive area length, a ratio of the emissive area length to the emissive area width defining an emissive area aspect ratio. The subpixel length may define a primary axis when the subpixel aspect ratio is greater than the emissive area aspect ratio; otherwise, the emissive area length may define the primary axis. At least a majority of the emissive areas may be arranged successively widthwise along a secondary axis perpendicular to the primary axis.

Abstract: A display device includes an organic EL element layer, a liquid crystal element layer disposed on top of the organic EL element layer, and a polarizing plate disposed at a side of the liquid crystal element layer that faces an observer. The liquid crystal element layer includes two transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the two transparent substrates. The liquid crystal element layer is configured to be able to, by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, cause a substantially quarter-wavelength retardation in light passing through the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: Each pixel of the liquid crystal display device includes a first, second, third, and fourth domains arranged in two rows and two columns, and reference alignment directions of the respective domains are first, second, third, and fourth directions. The first direction and the second direction form an angle of approximately 180°, and the first domain and the second domain are adjacent to each other in an oblique direction. The pixel electrode includes a plurality of first slits formed in a region corresponding to the first domain and extending approximately parallel to the first direction, and a plurality of second slits formed in a region corresponding to the second domain and extending approximately parallel to the second direction, and has no slits in a region corresponding to the third domain and no slits in a region corresponding to the fourth domain.

Abstract: A shift register includes stages each constituted by a unit circuit provided with a thin-film transistor (separation transistor) that separates a control node into an output-side first control node and an input-side second control node and a capacitor whose first end is connected to the second control node. The thin-film transistor (separation transistor) has a control terminal that is supplied with a high-level DC power supply voltage. Typically, the channel width of a thin-film transistor (first output control transistor) that controls output from a unit circuit is ten or more times greater than the channel width of the thin-film transistor (separation transistor).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate located closer to an observer than the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and performs display in a twisted vertical alignment mode. Each pixel includes a reflective region where display is performed in a reflection mode. The first substrate includes a reflective electrode including a portion located in the reflective region, and a first vertical alignment film. The second substrate includes a second vertical alignment film. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal material having negative dielectric anisotropy, and a chiral agent. The reflective electrode includes silver or a silver alloy. The reflective region includes a plurality of liquid crystal domains in which reference alignment azimuths of liquid crystal molecules are different from each other.

Abstract: A backlight apparatus includes a light source emitting blue light, a light guide layer, a quantum dot phosphor layer, a reflective layer, and a yellow phosphor layer. The light guide layer includes a first main surface, a second main surface, at least one light-receiving side surface, and at least one non-light-receiving side surface. The quantum dot phosphor layer is provided on the first main surface side of the light guide layer and includes a red quantum dot phosphor and a green quantum dot phosphor. The reflective layer is disposed on the second main surface side of the light guide layer. The yellow phosphor layer is provided between the second main surface and the reflective layer and in a region along the at least one non-light-receiving side surface, and includes a yellow phosphor. The quantum dot phosphor layer is in contact with the first main surface.

Abstract: An in-cell touch panel device includes a first substrate, a plurality of color filters formed on a layer on an opposite side of a touch surface with respect to the first substrate, a transmitter electrode formed on a layer on an opposite side of the touch surface with respect to the plurality of color filters, a receiver electrode formed on a layer closer to the touch surface side with respect to the plurality of color filters, and a second substrate, a pixel electrode being disposed on the second substrate. The transmitter electrode includes a gap portion formed in a portion overlapping a space between adjacent ones of the plurality of color filters in a plan view.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the disclosure, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first wire, a first electrode adjacent to the first wire and closer to the second substrate than the first wire, a second electrode closer to the second substrate than the first electrode and disposed to overlap the first wire and the first electrode, a first overlap section, disposed to overlap at least the first wire, that blocks light, and a third electrode closer to the second substrate than the first wire and further away from the second substate than the first electrode. A plurality of slits is formed in the second electrode, the plurality of slits being placed at spacings from one another and cutting across the first wire and the first electrode. The third electrode is disposed to overlap at least both the first wire and the slits.