Abstract: In a TFT type liquid crystal display device comprising first and second transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer which is sandwiched between the first and second substrates, the first substrate includes a plurality of video signal lines, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of pixel regions which are formed as regions surrounded by the video signal lines and the scanning signal lines, each pixel region includes at least one active element, one pixel electrode and one common electrode, and color filter layers are formed between the pixel electrodes and the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device is substantially characterized in that the common electrodes are formed as layers above the color filters, the pixel electrodes are formed as layers below the color filters, and the color filters are superposed at least on the whole surfaces of the pixel electrodes in the pixel region.

Abstract: In a game machine in which a display device is arranged at a portion of a surface in which nails are driven, the nails are driven also in the display device.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines, a plurality of pixel regions defined by neighboring gate signal lines and drain signal lines, and a pixel electrode in each pixel region. The drain signal line has a metal layer and another layer formed by a transparent conductor, and the another layer is electrically connected to the metal layer. The pixel electrode is made of a transparent conductor, and a transparent conductor of the pixel electrode and the transparent conductor of the drain signal line are of the same material.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a gate line formed over the substrate, a first insulating film formed over the substrate and the gate line, a semiconductor film formed over the first insulating film, a drain electrode formed over the semiconductor film, a source electrode formed over the semiconductor film, a data line connected to the drain electrode and formed over the first insulating film, a second insulating film formed over the source electrode and the data line, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the source electrode and formed over the second insulating film, and a transparent conductive film connected to the data line through a contact hole formed in the second insulating film. The transparent conductive film includes a first portion which none of the first insulating film and the second insulating film underlie.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines, a plurality of counter voltage signal lines, a plurality of pixel regions defined by neighboring gate signal lines and drain signal lines, a counter electrode and a pixel electrode enabling formation of an electric field, and an orientation film being formed on the first substrate. The pixel electrode has a plurality of slits overlaps the counter electrode with an insulating layer therebetween. A pair of edges of the counter electrode and pixel electrode extend in parallel to the gate signal line and another pair of edges of the counter electrode and the pixel electrode extend in parallel to the drain line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device exhibits high reliability and is capable of miniaturization by eliminating a mechanical operating mechanism. At least a light guide plate which guides light from a light source, a liquid crystal display panel, an optical medium which changes over transmission and reflection of light, color filters and a reflector are sequentially arranged from the viewer side. The color of the light from the light source are sequentially changed over to provide three primary colors, and this light passes through the liquid crystal display panel and is reflected toward the viewer side by the optical medium. The color filters are constituted for respective primary colors and are arranged to face at least three pixels which are disposed close to each other. The reflector reflects ambient light which passes through the light guide plate, liquid crystal display panel, optical medium and color filters to the viewer side.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines made of metal and a plurality of drain signal lines made of metal, a plurality of counter voltage signal lines, a plurality of pixel regions defined by neighboring gate signal lines and drain signal lines and a pixel electrode formed on first substrate in each pixel region. The pixel electrode and the counter voltage signal lines have an overlapping region, and an edge of the pixel electrode which extends in parallel to the drain signal line shifts to inside of the pixel region at the overlapping region as compared to the edge of the pixel electrode at a non-overlapping region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a first transparent insulating substrate, a second transparent insulating substrate, a liquid crystal layer having liquid crystal molecules interposed between the first and second substrates, a plurality of gate bus lines and a plurality of data bus lines formed on the first substrate, wherein an area formed by two gate bus lines intersecting two data bus lines substantially defines a unit pixel. A pixel electrode made from a transparent conductor material is arranged in each unit pixel and has a plurality of upper slits parallelly arranged at a first tilt angle and a plurality of lower slits parallelly arranged at a second tilt angle and the upper slits and the lower slits are arranged in the unit pixel as an mirror image of each other and upper slits not connected to any of the lower slits.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines, a plurality of counter voltage signal lines, a plurality of pixel regions defined by neighboring gate signal lines and drain signal lines. and a counter electrode and a pixel electrode formed on the first substrate in each pixel region so as to enable an electric field to be formed therebetween. The counter electrode is of planar shape and made of a transparent conductor. The counter voltage signal line is made of metal and has a branch in each pixel region with the counter electrode being directly connected to the branch.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines, a plurality of counter voltage signal lines, a plurality of pixel regions defined by neighboring gate signal lines and drain signal lines and a counter electrode and a pixel electrode being formed on the first substrate in each pixel region and enabling forming of an electric field therebetween. The counter electrode is of planar shape and, the pixel electrode is of planar shape with plurality of slits and is overlapped with the counter electrode with an insulating layer provided therebetween. Both the counter electrode and pixel electrode are made of a transparent conductor. The counter voltage signal line is made of metal and extends in center region in each pixel region and is directly connected to the counter electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel photolithography processes using photoresist pattern having at least two areas which has different thickness from each other for a fabrication method for a liquid crystal display device having reversed staggered and channel-etched type thin film transistors, reduce a number of photolithography processes required for whole of the fabrication process of the liquid crystal display device, and improve brightness of the liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device can suppress the local temperature elevation of a liquid crystal in the vicinity of drivers. On a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner while sandwiching a liquid crystal therebetween, a switching element which is operated in response to scanning signals from a gate signal line, a pixel electrode to which video signals from a drain signal line are supplied via the switching element, and a reference electrode which generates an electric field between the reference electrode and the pixel electrode are mounted on each pixel region of the liquid-crystal-side surface. The video signals from the drain signal line are generated by a driver chip mounted on one substrate. A light transmittivity of the liquid crystal layer is set to take a minimum value when a voltage is not applied between the pixel electrode and the reference electrode.

Abstract: The present invention facilitates a control of a temperature of white color and color tones of respective colors of a color liquid crystal display device. To achieve such an aim, a display device of the present invention includes a display panel which arranges a plurality of color filters which differ in color for each pixel, and at least the color filter of one color is formed of a plurality of filter layers stacked on a transparent substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which exhibits the excellent wide viewing angle characteristic and the high-speed responsiveness. A pixel region includes a switching element which is operated in response to a scanning signal from a gate signal line, a pixel electrode to which a video signal from a drain signal line is supplied through a switching element, and a counter electrode which generates an electric field between the counter electrode and the pixel electrode. The pixel region is constituted of divided respective regions.

Abstract: Pixel regions are formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of respective substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner with liquid crystal therebetween, wherein each pixel region includes pixel electrodes having bent portions and counter electrodes which are arranged at positions where the pixel electrodes are shifted in parallel, the pixel electrode and the counter electrode are respectively constituted of two electrodes which are overlapped to each other as an upper layer and a lower layer by way of an insulation film, and to the lower-layer side electrode of at least one electrode out of the pixel electrode and the counter electrode, projections which further project from crests of convex-portion sides of the bent portions and extend toward another electrode side are provided.

Abstract: In a TFT type liquid crystal display device comprising first and second transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer which is sandwiched between the first and second substrates, the first substrate includes a plurality of video signal lines, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of pixel regions which are formed as regions surrounded by the video signal lines and the scanning signal lines, each pixel region includes at least one active element, one pixel electrode and one common electrode, and color filter layers are formed between the pixel electrodes and the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device is substantially characterized in that the common electrodes are formed as layers above the color filters, the pixel electrodes are formed as layers below the color filters, and the color filters are superposed at least on the whole surfaces of the pixel electrodes in the pixel region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device can suppress the local temperature elevation of a liquid crystal in the vicinity of drivers. On a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner while sandwiching a liquid crystal therebetween, a switching element which is operated in response to scanning signals from a gate signal line, a pixel electrode to which video signals from a drain signal line are supplied via the switching element, and a reference electrode which generates an electric field between the reference electrode and the pixel electrode are mounted on each pixel region of the liquid-crystal-side surface. The video signals from the drain signal line are generated by a driver chip mounted on one substrate. A light transmittivity of the liquid crystal layer is set to take a minimum value when a voltage is not applied between the pixel electrode and the reference electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprising a pair of substrates with liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines formed on one of the pair of substrates, at least a pixel electrode and a plurality of counter electrodes formed on the one of the pair of substrates in each pixels, at least one of the plurality of counter electrodes extend along a drain signal line overlapping to the drain signal lines with at least one of an insulation film therebetween, and the drain signal line has two or more regions which differ in distance between a surface of the drain signal line and the counter electrode.

Abstract: A display device includes an insulated substrate, a thin film transistor formed over the insulated substrate, and first and second electrodes formed over the insulated substrate. A first insulating layer is formed over the insulated substrate, the first electrode, and the second electrode, and third and fourth electrodes are formed over the first insulating layer. A second insulating layer is formed over the first insulating layer, the third electrode, and the fourth electrode, and a fifth electrode formed over the second insulating layer, and a contact hole is formed in the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. The fifth electrode is connected to the second electrode via the fourth electrode in the contact hole.

Abstract: In a TFT type liquid crystal display device comprising first and second transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer which is sandwiched between the first and second substrates, the first substrate includes a plurality of video signal lines, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of pixel regions which are formed as regions surrounded by the video signal lines and the scanning signal lines, each pixel region includes at least one active element, one pixel electrode and one common electrode, and color filter layers are formed between the pixel electrodes and the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device is substantially characterized in that the common electrodes are formed as layers above the color filters, the pixel electrodes are formed as layers below the color filters, and the color filters are superposed at least on the whole surfaces of the pixel electrodes in the pixel region.