Abstract: A capacitor electrode is formed simultaneously with drain bus lines. This capacitor electrode is electrically connected to the contact of two TFT's through the medium of a contact hole. Then, an interlayer insulating film is formed on the entire face and a black matrix of such light blocking metal film as Ti is formed on the interlayer insulating film so as to overlie the channel parts and the contacts of the TFT's and the capacitor electrode. The capacitor electrode, the interlayer insulating film formed thereon, and the black matrix jointly form a capacitor.

Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device includes a substrate with a pixel area including a plurality of scanning buses, a plurality of data buses intersecting therewith and pixel transistors and pixel electrodes formed at the intersections therebetween; a scanning driver for energizing these scanning buses; and a data driver for presenting these data buses with data signals. A checkout circuit equipped with a plurality of checkout transistors connected to the corresponding data buses or scanning buses; an input bus for applying prescribed checkout signals to the plurality of checkout transistors; and an output bus for picking up the signals from the plurality of checkout transistors.

Abstract: An active-matrix LCD causes no cross-talk even if the capacitance between a given cell and adjacent data lines is large. The LCD has a liquid crystal panel which has data lines arranged in parallel with one another, scan lines arranged orthogonally to the data lines, and liquid crystal cells arranged at the intersections of the data and scan lines, respectively. Each of the cells has a cell electrode and a switching device that is arranged between and connected to the cell electrode and a corresponding one of the data lines. The conduction of the switching device is controlled in response to a scan pulse applied to a corresponding one of the scan lines. The LCD also has a data driver for applying data signals to the data lines, respectively, so that the data signals are written to corresponding ones of the cells, and a scan driver for applying the scan pulse sequentially to the scan lines.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid-crystal display having the capability of a tablet which offers high image quality and a high response speed. An active matrix type liquid-crystal display having the capability of a tablet comprises: an active matrix type liquid-crystal display composed of a device substrate having a plurality of scan electrodes, a plurality of data electrodes, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of switching devices, and an opposed substrate holding a liquid crystal in cooperation with the device substrate; a voltage detector that when brought into contact with a display surface of the liquid-crystal display, detects pulses, which are applied consecutively to the scan electrodes and data electrodes, through electrostatic coupling between the detector and the scan electrodes or between the detector and the data electrodes and that outputs a detected signal; and a position detector for detecting a contact position of the detector on the basis of the detected signal.

Abstract: A driving circuit for a liquid-crystal display device, the driving circuit including a shift register for outputting n control signals driving n signal lines coupled to display elements of the liquid-crystal display device where n is an integer, the shift register having a plurality of stages cascaded. Each of the plurality of stages includes delay elements connected in parallel, each of the delay elements having a unit delay time, and a selector for selecting, in response to a select signal commonly supplied to the plurality of stages, at least one of output signals of the delay elements and for outputting the above at least one of the output signals as a corresponding one of the n control signals.