Abstract: A light detecting element is realized in which a length thereof is reduced in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which light detecting regions are disposed side by side. A light detecting element includes a light detecting surface provided with a plurality of light detecting regions disposed side by side in a first direction and a plurality of wiring regions electrically connected to the plurality of light detecting regions. Of the plurality of wiring regions, a plurality of the wiring regions connected to a plurality of the light detecting regions are provided in an end region that is a region excluding a central region at the light detecting surface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing at least one semiconductor device includes: providing a substrate having a flat lower surface, and an upper surface that allows mounting of at least one semiconductor element or an upper surface having at least one semiconductor mounted thereon; providing a work table having a support plate with a flat support surface for placing the substrate, and having a plurality of support pins arranged at a support surface side and configured to move along an up-and-down direction; abutting the lower surface of the substrate upon tip portions of the plurality of support pins to press down so that the lower surface of the substrate abuts upon the support surface of the support plate; and fixing the substrate on the support plate and performing one or more operations on the substrate.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing at least one semiconductor device includes: providing a substrate having a flat lower surface, and an upper surface that allows mounting of at least one semiconductor element or an upper surface having at least one semiconductor mounted thereon; providing a work table having a support plate with a flat support surface for placing the substrate, and having a plurality of support pins arranged at a support surface side and configured to move along an up-and-down direction; abutting the lower surface of the substrate upon tip portions of the plurality of support pins to press down so that the lower surface of the substrate abuts upon the support surface of the support plate; and fixing the substrate on the support plate and performing one or more operations on the substrate.

Abstract: A lighting device including a light source, a light guide plate, a first prism sheet which is arranged over the light guide plate, and a second prism sheet which is arranged between the first prism sheet and the light guide plate. The first prism sheet includes first prisms which are formed parallel to each other in the first direction on a first surface which is opposite to the second prism sheet, and the second prism sheet includes second prisms.

Abstract: Moirés due to interference between two liquid crystal display panels in a display device which achieves three-dimensional displaying by using two liquid crystal display panels is to be prevented. By disposing a lenticular lens array between an upper liquid crystal display panel and a lower liquid crystal display panel, moirés and image blurs are prevented. This configuration can prevent the luminance levels and contrast of images from dropping.

Abstract: A lighting device including a light source, a light guide plate, a first prism sheet which is arranged over the light guide plate, and a second prism sheet which is arranged between the first prism sheet and the light guide plate. The first prism sheet includes first prisms which are formed parallel to each other in the first direction on a first surface which is opposite to the second prism sheet, and the second prism sheet includes second prisms.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, and a backlight which is arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the backlight includes a plurality of optical sheets, and at least one optical sheet is displaced so as to adjust a viewing angle.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor element having electrodes, a metal member, wires that electrically connect the semiconductor element and the metal member and/or electrodes within the semiconductor element, wherein the wires constitute at least a first wire loop and a second wire loop, the first wire loop is bonded at one end to a first bonding point and at the other end to a second bonding point, and has a flat part which includes the surface of a boll part and the wire located contiguously the ball part surface, and the second wire loop connects the surface of the ball part and a third bonding point.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, and a backlight which is arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the backlight includes a plurality of optical sheets, and at least one optical sheet is displaced so as to adjust a viewing angle.

Abstract: The present invention prevents a moiré generated by the interference of two liquid crystal display panels in a display device capable of performing a three-dimensional display using two liquid crystal display panels. By arranging an upper lens array and a lower lens array between an upper liquid crystal display panel and a lower liquid crystal display panel, a moiré and smearing of an image can be prevented. Due to such a constitution, lowering of brightness and contrast can be suppressed.

Abstract: An active-matrix liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates, a group of electrodes for applying to the liquid crystal layer an electric field substantially parallel to the substrate plane and a plural number of active elements being formed on one of the pair of substrates, and an alignment layer disposed between the liquid crystal layer and at least one of the pair of substrates. The alignment layer is made from polyamic acid obtained by reacting a diamine with an acid anhydride, and the acid anhydride is at least one member selected from the group consisting of 1,2,3,4-cyclopentanetetracarboxylic acid dianhydride, 1,2,3,4-butanetetracarboxylic acid dianhydride, and 1,2,3,4-cyclobutanetetracarboxylic acid dianhydride.

Abstract: The present invention prevents a moiré generated by the interference of two liquid crystal display panels in a display device capable of performing a three-dimensional display using two liquid crystal display panels. By arranging an upper lens array and a lower lens array between an upper liquid crystal display panel and a lower liquid crystal display panel, a moiré and smearing of an image can be prevented. Due to such a constitution, lowering of brightness and contrast can be suppressed.

Abstract: Moirés due to interference between two liquid crystal display panels in a display device which achieves three-dimensional displaying by using two liquid crystal display panels is to be prevented. By disposing a lenticular lens array between an upper liquid crystal display panel and a lower liquid crystal display panel, moirés and image blurs are prevented. This configuration can prevent the luminance levels and contrast of images from dropping.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor element having electrodes, a metal member, wires that electrically connect the semiconductor element and the metal member and/or electrodes within the semiconductor element, wherein the wires constitute at least a first wire loop and a second wire loop, the first wire loop is bonded at one end to a first bonding point and at the other end to a second bonding point, and has a flat part which includes the surface of a boll part and the wire located contiguously the ball part surface, and the second wire loop connects the surface of the ball part and a third bonding point.

Abstract: A composition containing a high-molecular compound having as a photo-crosslinkable group any of a cinnamoyl group, a cinnamylidene group, a chalcone residual group, an isocoumarin residual group, a 2,5-dimethoxystilbene residual group, a thymine residual group, a styrylpyridinium residual group, an ?-phenylmaleimide residual group, an anthracene residual group and a 2-pyrone residual group, or an aromatic bisazide, is cross-linked by light irradiation via a mask to cure the composition in a prescribed pattern to form photoemission layers.

Abstract: A liquid crystal light valve includes a semiconductor substrate having a region for a plurality of switching elements formed in a matrix form. A first metal layer is formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate through an insulating layer and divided into a plurality of parts by first slits. A second metal layer is formed on the first metal layer through another insulating layer and divided into a plurality of parts by second slits. A third metal layer is formed on the second metal layer through still another insulating layer and divided into a plurality of parts by third slits. An opposite substrate has an opposite electrode on a surface thereof, disposed so as to be opposite to said third metal layer through an interval on the opposite electrode side. Liquid crystal fills the interval between said opposite electrode and the third metal layer.

Abstract: A device for producing a color filter includes a part for storing a solution in which a light transmitting material is dissolved, a part for feeding the solution to a tip of a flying electrode, a part for applying a voltage between the tip of the flying electrode and an electro-conductive material of a color filter substrate so as to form an electrostatic field, and a part for relatively shifting the tip of the flying electrode and the color filter substrate with respect to one another in at least one of a perpendicular direction and to a horizontal direction. The solution is formed into a stringy beam which is let to fly onto the color filter substrate so that the solution is injected into a concavity formed and surrounded by a black matrix on the color filter substrate, arid forms red, green and blue light emitting layers.

Abstract: An in-plane switching active-matrix liquid crystal display device includes an alignment layer which is a photo-reactive material layer disposed between a liquid crystal layer and at least one of a pair of substrates of the display device. The display device includes at least one of (a) a tilt angle of 3° or less, (b) an extrapolation length of at least 10% of a gap between the pair of substrates, (c) a torsional anchoring coefficient A2 of an alignment layer surface for liquid crystal molecules at an inner face of the liquid crystal layer and the alignment layer which is not greater than 20 ?N/m, and (d) the alignment layer is obtained by using as an acid moiety an acid hydride except for benzophenone tetracarboxylic dianhydride.

Abstract: A composition containing a high-molecular compound having as a photo-crosslinkable group any of a cinnamoyl group, a cinnamylidene group, a chalcone residual group, an isocoumarin residual group, a 2,5-dimethoxystilbene residual group, a thymine residual group, a styrylpyridinium residual group, an &agr;-phenylmaleimide residual group, an anthracene residual group and a 2-pyrone residual group, or an aromatic bisazide, is cross-linked by light irradiation via a mask to cure the composition in a prescribed pattern to form photoemission layers.

Abstract: A production device to produce an organic EL display includes a solution in which a light emitting material is dissolved, and a flying electrode to receive solution from the container. A voltage is applied between the tip of the flying electrode and an electrically conductive material of an organic EL substrate to form an electrostatic field, and the tip of the flying electrode and the organic EL substrate are shifted relative to one another in at least one of a perpendicular direction and a horizontal direction. With this arrangement, the solution is formed into a stringy beam from the tip of the flying electrode to it fly onto the organic EL, substrate, thereby injecting the solution into a concavity formed and surrounded by banks on the organic EL substrate, and forming red, green and blue light emitting layers.