Abstract: An electrostatic capacitive coupling-type touch panel is provided which interacts not only with a finger-based input but also with a touch using non-conductive input means. The touch panel includes coordinate detection electrodes for detecting XY position coordinates and transparent Z electrodes. The Z electrodes are arranged over the coordinate detection electrodes at certain intervals with spacers disposed therebetween. An elastic layer that is deformed along the shape of the spacers by compressive force resulting from touch pressing presses the Z electrodes.

Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic capacity type touch panel, which responds to not only an input by a finger but also a touch by a nonconductive input member. Disposed are X electrodes XP and Y electrodes YP that cross each other via a first insulating layer 2, and a Z electrode formed of a transparent elastic conductive resin layer 4 via a second insulating layer 3. The transparent elastic conductive resin layer 4 is a high polymer elastic resin layer in which conductive fine particles are dispersed, and is made of a material in which density of the conductive fine particles is increased by pressure of a touch.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a transflective liquid crystal display device including a color filter substrate having a plurality of pixels, each including a reflective display part and a transmissive display part, and retardation plates each built in areas on a principal surface of the color filter substrate opposed to a liquid crystal layer, which correspond to the reflective display parts.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device having a built-in capacitive coupling touch sensor, a pair of facing transparent substrates sandwich a liquid crystal layer 113 and a liquid crystal display circuit for driving liquid crystal using a lateral electrical field having a color filter layer 107 is formed on one of the transparent substrates 101 in order to make the touch sensor highly sensitive to change in the capacitance, and a capacitive coupling touch sensor circuit layer 117 is formed on the other substrate 116, on the side opposite to the liquid crystal.

Abstract: The display device is provided with X electrodes XP and Y electrodes YP which cross with a first insulating layer in between and a number of Z electrodes which are electrically floating from each other with a second insulating layer in between. The Z electrodes are arranged so that each Z electrode overlaps both an adjacent X electrode and Y electrode. The pad portion of a first X electrode has such a form that the area is maximum in the vicinity of the fine wire portion of the first X electrode and the area is minimum in the vicinity of the fine wire portion of an adjacent second X electrode, and the area of the pad portion is smaller towards the direction in which the distance increases away from the vicinity of the fine wire portion of the first X electrode. A pulse signal is sequentially applied to one set of X electrodes or Y electrodes.

Abstract: A capacitive coupling type touch panel includes an XY-coordinate electrode configured to detect an XY-position coordinate. The XY-coordinate electrode is provided on a transparent substrate and detects a position inputted by capacitive coupling. The capacitive coupling type touch panel also includes an electrode provided at a position so as to be isolated from and opposed to the XY-coordinate electrode.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device where there are fewer moiré effects between lenticular lenses and the backlight. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device where the arrangement or form of lenticular lenses 1 varies in waveform so that the center line of the lenses, the width of the lenses, and the height of the lenses vary in the case where light emitted from a backlight 59 is collected into openings 15 for transmitting light by means of lenticular lenses 1.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technology for stably forming condenser lenses in a liquid crystal display device having condenser lenses, in which the lenses are not affected by roughness and organic contamination on the surface of the substrate which may be caused by polishing and handling. The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is provided with: a backlight module 510 for emitting light; a TFT substrate 507 provided on the backlight module 510 side; a color filter substrate 502 provided on the viewer side and a liquid crystal panel having a liquid crystal layer 504 provided between the TFT substrate and the color filter substrate; and a number of condenser lenses provided between the backlight module 510 and the liquid crystal panel. A transparent, flat layer 508 is formed on the outer surface of the TFT substrate 507 before forming the condenser lenses 509, and a number of condenser lenses 509 are formed on the transparent, flat layer 508.

Abstract: In a transflective liquid crystal panel having an in-cell retarder, for improving a layer structure of poor adhesion, an alignment film for the retardation layer is not applied to a portion of disposing a sealing material at the main surface of a substrate of the liquid crystal panel in the step of applying the alignment film to the main surface.

Abstract: For attaining a transflective liquid crystal display device of high fineness having a built-in retardation plate in a reflective display area, a retardation plate (layer) disposed to the inner surface of the liquid crystal display device is formed by using a liquid-crystalline acrylate monomer with addition of a photopolymerization initiator having a phosphine oxide structure.

Abstract: In the present invention, to realize a liquid crystal display device of high-definition transflective IPS system comprising an inner retardation plate (retardation layer) in a reflective display unit, the retardation layer is formed of liquid crystal monomers with acrylates containing a polymerization initiator and either one or both of a triplet quencher and a radical quencher added.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a transflective liquid crystal display device including a color filter substrate having a plurality of pixels, each including a reflective display part and a transmissive display part, and retardation plates each built in areas on a principal surface of the color filter substrate opposed to a liquid crystal layer, which correspond to the reflective display parts.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a transflective liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels each having a reflective display part and a transmissive display part, and a color filter substrate including a retardation plate built in an area of a principal surface of each pixel opposed to a liquid crystal layer, which corresponds to the reflective display part, the method including in the following order: (1) a step of forming an underlayer for aligning molecules of the retardation plate; (2) a step of applying a photosetting material of the retardation plate onto the underlayer; (3) a first exposure step of selectively curing a part of the material of the retardation plate, which corresponds to the reflective display part, by light radiation through a mask; and (4) a second exposure step of heating the material of the retardation plate while exposing an entire surface thereof to light to cure the material of the retardation plate.

Abstract: The color filter is a color conversion filter having a color conversion function, wherein white light is emitted from an organic EL to the color filter, transmitted through the color filter, and thereby split into three colors of blue, green and red. At such time, through the absorption of shorter wavelength light that is not usually transmitted through the color filter and through the emission of light having a longer wavelength than that of the absorption region, the transmitted light of the color filter is added to the emitted light to increase brightness. In addition, between the color filter and the transparent substrate, a porous insulation film is formed, wherein the film has a refractive index smaller than that of the transparent substrate, and has that nanopores, so that light-scattering effects can be achieved, and the transmitted light of the color filter is coupled out efficiently to the outside.

Abstract: There are provided on one substrate of a pair of substrates which sandwich liquid crystal: thin-film transistor elements arranged in a matrix shape in correspondence with pixels; a wiring portion of the thin-film transistor elements; a pixel electrode; and a color filter layer formed between the pixel electrode and an inorganic insulating layer for covering the wiring portion of the thin-film transistor elements, and the color filter layer includes at least a lower light-transmission flatted layer and a primary-color-type colored pattern, and is provided with an opening through which a connection portion of the wiring portion of the thin-film transistor element and the pixel electrode is penetrated. With employment of this structure, the thin-film transistor and the color filter can be formed on the same substrate, and a deterioration in the spectral characteristic of the color filter can be suppressed.

Abstract: There are provided on one substrate of a pair of substrates which sandwich liquid crystal: thin-film transistor elements arranged in a matrix shape in correspondence with pixels; a wiring portion of the thin-film transistor elements; a pixel electrode; and a color filter layer formed between the pixel electrode and an inorganic insulating layer for covering the wiring portion of the thin-film transistor elements, and the color filter layer includes at least a lower light-transmission flatted layer and a primary-color-type colored pattern, and is provided with an opening through which a connection portion of the wiring portion of the thin-film transistor element and the pixel electrode is penetrated. With employment of this structure, the thin-film transistor and the color filter can be formed on the same substrate, and a deterioration in the spectral characteristic of the color filter can be suppressed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a color filter which has a flattening layer that functions also as a wavelength converting layer. The wavelength converting layer converts that portion of light incident to the color filter layer which is in the near ultraviolet region into light having a wavelength longer than the blue region. Thus the red, green, and blue filter segments are improved in light transmittance. In this way it is possible to realize a color filter and a liquid crystal display unit having a high light transmittance and good display characteristics.

Abstract: Disclosed is a color filter which has a flattening layer that functions also as a wavelength converting layer. The wavelength converting layer converts that portion of light incident to the color filter layer which is in the near ultraviolet region into light having a wavelength longer than the blue region. Thus the red, green, and blue filter segments are improved in light transmittance. In this way it is possible to realize a color filter and a liquid crystal display unit having a high light transmittance and good display characteristics.

Abstract: Disclosed is a color filter which has a flattening layer that functions also as a wavelength converting layer. The wavelength converting layer converts that portion of light incident to the color filter layer which is in the near ultraviolet region into light having a wavelength longer than the blue region. Thus the red, green, and blue filter segments are improved in light transmittance. In this way it is possible to realize a color filter and a liquid crystal display unit having a high light transmittance and good display characteristics.

Abstract: Disclosed is a color filter which has a flattening layer that functions also as a wavelength converting layer. The wavelength converting layer converts that portion of light incident to the color filter layer which is in the near ultraviolet region into light having a wavelength longer than the blue region. Thus the red, green, and blue filter segments are improved in light transmittance. In this way it is possible to realize a color filter and a liquid crystal display unit having a high light transmittance and good display characteristics.