Abstract: The present invention, in a projector, prevents the generation of a color domain which is generated attributed to the orientation direction having a pretilt angle. In a projector including a light source, a plurality of liquid crystal display panels which modify light irradiated from the light source, and a screen to which the light modified by the respective liquid crystal display panels is projected, the orientation direction of one liquid crystal display panel out of a plurality of liquid crystal display panels differs from the orientation direction of other liquid crystal display panels and the orientation directions of the liquid crystal display panels are aligned on the screen.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal composition sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of pixels disposed on the first substrate. Each of the plurality of pixels is supplied with a video signal via a switching element. Each of the plurality of pixels is provided with a capacitance having two electrodes in which one is connected to a first electrode of a corresponding one of the plurality of pixels and another is supplied with a pixel-potential control signal by a pixel-potential control circuit. The pixel-potential control circuit enables selection of a first voltage level and a second voltage level.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device avoids an interference fringe from being observed and provides a connector of simple constitution which supplies power to light sources of a backlight. The display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a plurality of linear light sources which are arranged in parallel in a plane which faces at least a liquid crystal display part of the liquid crystal display panel. The linear light sources are driven with a signal waveform having the same frequency as data writing and are arranged in groups close to each other. The respective light sources of each group are driven with a signal waveform which is inverted with respect to the respective light sources of a neighboring group, and the signal waveform is supplied from a connector different from a connector used for the respective light sources of the other group.

Abstract: A display device has plural pixel areas on the substrate. Each of the pixel areas has a pixel electrode and a multilevel structure disposed below the pixel electrode. The multilevel structure includes a first conductive layer, a first insulating film, a second conductive layer, a second insulating film, and a third conductive layer stacked in this order from the substrate. A solid electrical conductor is buried to fill a through-hole in the first insulating film to contact the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer is provided with a hole larger in diameter than the conductor, and the second insulating film is provided with a through-hole larger in diameter than the conductor, but smaller in diameter than the hole in the second conductive layer, and the third conductive layer is coated on the second insulating film to contact the conductor via the through-hole in the second insulating film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device can further enhance the display contrast. Reflection films are formed on pixel regions on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of respective substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween. Light from another substrate side is incident on the reflection films through the liquid crystal and thereafter is reflected toward another substrate side. The formation of the reflection films is obviated in the vicinities of projecting portions formed in the pixel regions.

Abstract: The present invention realizes a liquid crystal display device which forms a miniaturized low dielectric strength drive circuit on a substrate on which a display part is also formed. Apart from a drive circuit which supplies gray scale voltages to pixels, a circuit which lowers the pixel potential and realizes alternating driving is provided. Signals of positive polarity are written in a pixel electrode and, after writing, the potential of the pixel electrode is lowered using the capacitance connected to the pixel electrode. Further, between the circuit which lowers the pixel potential and a display region, a pull-up circuit for assisting off-switching is provided for reducing rounding of waveforms of scanning signals is provided.

Abstract: A recording and playback device having a recording and playback controller that determines a temperature of a recording and playback medium. The controller determines the temperature by finding a recording light intensity at which a duty ratio of a playback light signal matches a duty ratio of the data to be recorded and estimating the temperature based on the recording light intensity. The controller may also determine the temperature by measuring the temperature with a temperature sensor. Based on the temperature, the recording and playback device calculates a playback light intensity at which a temperature distribution remains constant in a portion of the recording and playback medium illuminated by a playback light having the playback light intensity when the temperature of the recording and playback medium changes. The recording and playback controller also adjusts the playback light intensity based on a linear velocity of the recording and playback medium.

Abstract: A playback method for an optical disk and an optical disk which records data relating to playback power afford increased data density and accurate playback of high resolution data. The optical disk is played back to retrieve data by first reading out playback beam intensity data and then setting playback beam intensity based on the read playback beam intensity data. Data representing the type of optical disk is also read from the optical disk and then playback beam intensity is set. The disk itself preferably has data relating to optimum playback beam intensity recorded on the substrate in a predetermined position.

Abstract: The discrepancies in the input-output operations associated with utilizing predetermined optical disk portions with various heat capacities to store data are substantially reduced by providing additional and separate information to compensate the non-uniform characteristics. The additional data may be stored in an external memory or on the disk itself.

Abstract: An amplifier circuit in a display device for a monitor unit in a computer system or the like, includes first active element whose control electrode is supplied with a signal from an input terminal; a second active element cascade-connected to the first active element; a third active element so connected to the second active element that a junction thereof is connected to an output terminal; an impedance element disposed between the input terminal and the third active element and capable of changing the impedance in accordance with the frequency of the input signal; a first resistance element connected between the junction of the second and third active elements and the control electrode of the first active element; and a second resistance element connected between the input terminal and the control electrode of the first active element and serving to determine the signal amplification factor in cooperation with the first resistance element.

Abstract: A magnetooptical recording medium includes a substrate formed with a guide groove for tracking a laser beam, and first and second magnetic layers which are stacked on the substrate and each of which consists of an amorphous heavy rare earth-transition metal alloy. The first and second magnetic layers are magnetically coupled to each other. The first magnetic layer has a relatively high Curie temperature and a relatively low coercivity at room temperature, and the second magnetic layer has a relatively low Curie temperature and a relatively high coercivity at room temperature. The film thickness t.sub.1 of the first magnetic layer and the film thickness t.sub.2 of the second magnetic layer satisfy a condition t.sub.2 /t.sub.1 .gtoreq.2.5.

Abstract: A medium includes a readout layer, a memory layer, an adjusting layer for an exchange coupling force .sigma..sub.W, and a writing layer, and can perform an over-write operation upon radiation of a modulated laser beam. The readout layer essentially consists of GdFeCo, the memory layer essentially consists of TbFeCo, the adjusting layer essentially consists of GdFeCo, and the writing layer essentially consists of DyFeCo. The C/N ratio of the medium exceeds 53 dB. The C/N ratio is a value obtained when a plurality of mark.sup.H having a period of 1.6 .mu.m are written, and are read out so that medium noise is maximized as compared to other noise components.

Abstract: An over-write capable magnetooptical recording medium is pre-processed by subjecting a track separation zone to a pre-processing field which aligns the magnetization of a recording layer in a predetermined direction so as to avoid formation, in the separation zone, of a magnetic wall between the recording layer and a reference layer when the reference layer is subjected to an initial field to align its direction of magnetization.

Abstract: In an over-write capable magnetooptical recording method and, more particularly, a bit position recording method, and a recording apparatus used therefor, a laser beam intensity is pulse-modulated between high and low levels according to data to be recorded. The modulated laser beam is radiated on a recording medium under the presence of a bias field. High-level emission time of the laser beam is shortened at the inner portion of the medium, and is prolonged at the outer portion. Low-level intensity of the laser beam is decreased at the inner portion of the medium, and is increased at the outer portion, thereby increasing C/N ratio upon reproduction.