Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprising a liquid crystal panel that is formed by attaching a color filter substrate to an array substrate with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. The array substrate comprising a base substrate and a pixel electrode, a signal line, and a light-blocking strip, provided on the base substrate. The light-blocking strip is disposed below and at a side of the signal line and is separated from the signal line by the base substrate, a refractive strip is disposed at the side of the signal line over a gap between the light-blocking strip and the signal line, and the refractive strip is disposed on the same layer as the pixel electrode. The refractive strip deflects light transmitting therethrough from the base substrate side into the liquid crystal layer towards the signal line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer, a common electrode, and an electrode set. The liquid crystal layer is placed between said common electrode and the electrode set, and the electrode set is provided for switching the liquid crystal layer. The electrode set includes a first electrode for switching a first area of the liquid crystal layer and a second electrode for switching a second area of the liquid crystal layer. Particularly, the second area includes at least a part of the area of the liquid crystal layer that the first area does not include. The first electrode has a shape which in cooperation with the second electrode allows alignment of the LC molecules in substantially two orthogonal directions. A method is provided to get rid of the circular polarizers which provide a good on-axis aperture ratio but which show reduced off-axis performance compared to linear polarizers.

Abstract: A LCD device includes first and second LCD panels stacked one on another. Each of the first and second LCD panels includes a pair of transparent substrates, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, and a pair of polarizing films sandwiching therebetween the pair of transparent substrates. A light diffusion layer having light diffusion function is interposed between the first LCD panel and the second LCD panel. The light diffusion layer reduces the intensity of the light passed by the first LCD panel, thereby alleviating the periodicity of the arrangement of dark areas and bright areas to alleviate the moire caused by light interference.

Abstract: An array substrate includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of thin-film transistors, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of common voltage lines and a plurality of common electrodes. The gate lines extend in a first direction. The data lines extend in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The thin-film transistor is electrically connected to the gate line and the data line. The pixel electrode is formed in each of pixels defined by the gate lines and the data lines. The common electrode is electrically connected to the common voltage line. The horizontal alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is not changed by externally applied vertical touch pressure so that display quality is improved.

Abstract: A light-guide plate includes a base plate, first protrusion patterns and second protrusion patterns. The first protrusion patterns are formed on a left portion of an upper surface of the base plate with respect to a central line of the upper surface. The first protrusion patterns have a cross-section of a trapezoidal shape which has a top and a bottom parallel with each other and first and second inclined sides inclined at different angles with respect to the bottom side. The second protrusion patterns are formed on a right portion of the upper surface with respect to the central line. A cross-section of the second protrusion patterns have the trapezoidal shape and disposed substantially symmetrical to the first protrusion patterns with respect to the central line.

Abstract: A super large wide-angle high-speed response liquid crystal display apparatus manufactured by using a photolithographic procedure for three times. The invention adopts a halftone exposure technology to form a gate electrode, a common electrode, a pixel electrode and a contact pad, and then uses the halftone exposure technology to form a silicon (Si) island and a contact hole, and a general exposure technology to form a source electrode, a drain electrode and an orientation control electrode. A passivation layer uses a masking deposition method. A film is formed by using a P-CVD method, or a protective area is formed at a local area by using an ink coating method or spray method, and a TFT array substrate used for the super large wide-angle high-speed response liquid crystal display apparatus manufactured by using a photolithographic procedure for three times can be produced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal cell article includes a layer of liquid crystal material disposed between a first polymeric substrate and a second polymeric substrate. The first polymeric substrate includes a plurality of first parallel conductive traces extending in a first direction and disposed between the layer of liquid crystal material and the first substrate, and a first release liner disposed on the first polymeric substrate. The second polymeric substrate includes a plurality of second parallel conductive traces extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and disposed between the layer of liquid crystal material and the second substrate. The first polymeric substrate further includes a removable portion that is separable from the first polymeric substrate with the first release liner to expose a portion of the layer of liquid crystal material or second parallel conductive traces.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a method for creating desirable pretilt angle by means of topography of the substrates, such as a surface that is sloped with respect to the surface of the electrodes. In combination with a low pretilt but highly photo-stable alignment layer, which may be very resistant to high levels of ultraviolet radiation, a high pretilt and photo-stable alignment structure is generated, by essentially combining two incompatible technical approaches. The ever more stringent requirements for projection displays are met. The methods for producing such sloped surfaces and the considerations related to design of the sloped surfaces are disclosed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display module includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight device arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel, the backlight device being constituted of a light guide plate and a reflection sheet arranged on a back surface of the light guide plate, an insulation sheet arranged on a back surface of the light guide plate, a flexible printed circuit board having one end thereof mounted on the liquid crystal display panel and another end thereof disposed at a back surface side of the insulating sheet, and at least one LED formed on the flexible printed circuit board and faced to the light guide plate. The reflection sheet, the insulation sheet, and the flexible printed circuit board extend over different distances from the at least one LED in this order.

Abstract: A plurality of liquid crystal modulation electrodes is arranged in a matrix on a semiconductor substrate 28, a light transmitting substrate 47 with a transparent electrode 23, and a semiconductor substrate are laminated together with liquid crystal interposed therebetween, the semiconductor substrate is connected to a flexible printed board 25 electrically connecting to an external circuit, the transparent electrode is connected to the wiring of the flexible printed board not through the semiconductor substrate, and the wiring is connected to the semiconductor substrate, whereby the transparent electrode is electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate 28 is provided with an anti-electrostatic protection circuit and the transparent electrode is connected to the anti-electrostatic protection circuit through the wiring.

Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate, and a plurality of pixels positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each of the pixels having at least one reflecting region and at least one transmitting region includes a color filter layer formed on the substrate and located in both of the reflecting region and the transmitting region, at least one first reflective layer formed between the color filter layer and the substrate and located in the reflecting region, at least one switch element located in the reflecting region, and at least one second reflective layer located in the reflecting region.

Abstract: In described embodiments, a thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) structure incorporates a white light emitting diode (LED) structure for backlighting. White LEDs are formed behind each TFT cell, allowing for display “black” as a function of a nematic layer, on the TFT substrate, while increasing intensity of the LED LCD backlight structure. A lens structure might be formed between the LEDs and the TFT substrate to reduce a number of LED sources for a given backlight intensity.

Abstract: There are provided a viewing angle control device that can provide a black display without coloring and achieve a significantly improved shielding ability during a narrow viewing angle state, and a display using the same. In order to adjust VT (voltage-transmittance) characteristics of a viewing angle control liquid crystal panel (2) that switches a viewing angle between a wide viewing angle state and a narrow viewing angle state by using birefringence of liquid crystal, the viewing angle control liquid crystal panel (2) includes a translucent dielectric film (206g, 206r) for adjusting the voltage-transmittance characteristics of the liquid crystal at a position corresponding to a picture element of at least one color in a display liquid crystal panel (1) on at least one of a pair of translucent substrates (201, 202) that sandwich the liquid crystal therebetween.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to projectors, optical compensation methods and liquid crystal devices. In one example, a liquid crystal panel has a liquid crystal layer pinched between a pair of substrates. A pair of polarizing plates is disposed with the liquid crystal panel in between the polarizing plates. A first phase difference plate is disposed between the pair of polarizing plates for compensating for a phase difference of the liquid crystal panel. A second phase difference plate is disposed between the pair of polarizing plates for compensating for a phase difference of the pair of polarizing plates. In certain embodiments, the first phase difference plate may have an optically anisotropic layer having a negative refractive index anisotropy and an optical axis oriented in a thickness direction of the first phase difference plate. This abstract is intended only to aid those searching patents, and is not intended to be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims in any manner.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display element of a dot matrix structure comprises a liquid crystal panel constituted by a first substrate equipped with a first electrode, a second substrate equipped with a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer furnished between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer comprises a support column of a wall structure possessing adhesiveness, wherein a part of each of the support columns has a wider part.

Abstract: A LCD device includes first and second LCD panels stacked one on another. Each of the first and second LCD panels includes a pair of transparent substrates, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, and a pair of polarizing films sandwiching therebetween the pair of transparent substrates. A light diffusion layer having light diffusion function is interposed between the first LCD panel and the second LCD panel. The light diffusion layer reduces the intensity of the light passed by the first LCD panel, thereby alleviating the periodicity of the arrangement of dark areas and bright areas to alleviate the moire caused by light interference.

Abstract: An electrically-driven liquid crystal lens, which can reduce crosstalk caused at the center of an electrode, includes first and second substrates arranged opposite each other and defined, respectively, with a plurality of lens regions corresponding to each other, first electrodes formed on the first substrate between centers of the respective neighboring left and right lens regions on the first substrate, a black matrix layer formed on the first substrate to correspond to edges of the respective lens regions, the black matrix layer having a first width, second electrodes formed on the first substrate to correspond to the edges of the respective lens regions, the second electrodes having a second width smaller than the first width, a third electrode formed throughout the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device capable of reducing a disclination region generated when an alignment layer is not normally rubbed due to physical interference between a pattern spacer formed on a substrate and fibers of a rubbing cloth in a rubbing process and a rubbing and fabricating method thereof are disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having two bonded substrates with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, alignment layers formed on the two substrates to align liquid crystal molecules in a predetermined direction, and a pattern spacer formed on any one substrate to maintain a distance between the substrates. The alignment layers are rubbed by a rubbing cloth having fibers inclined in a left or right direction with respect to a perpendicular direction of a rotation shaft of a rubbing roll, and the pattern spacer has an inclined surface parallel to the fibers.

Abstract: A black-matrix-equipped filter including a black matrix adapted to selectively shield light being incident from a light introduction side, and to transmit the unshielded light to a light output side, wherein the black matrix includes: a light shielding layer; and a first reflection inhibition layer formed at the light introduction side of the light shielding layer.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to protect a flexible printed circuit of a liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display device of the invention includes: a flexible printed substrate that extends as far as a position where it opposes a metal frame; and a light-blocking tape that has a portion that is positioned between a semiconductor integrated circuit and a light source. The light-blocking tape includes: a light-blocking layer that has a first surface that faces a liquid crystal display panel and a second surface that faces a backlight module; a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that has a portion that is formed on the first surface of the light-blocking layer and pressure-sensitively adheres to the liquid crystal display panel; and a second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that has a portion that is formed on the second surface of the light-blocking layer and pressure-sensitively adheres to the backlight module.