Abstract: A polymer for use in an optical device comprising a hole transporting region, an electron transporting region, an emissive region, said polymer comprising an optionally substituted repeat unit of formula (I): wherein each Ar is the same or different and comprises an optionally substituted aryl group.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that includes a timing controller for outputting processed image signals to a source driver. The timing controller also includes a plurality of mapping circuits such as RSDS data mapping circuit and a mini-LVDS data mapping circuit. The mapping circuits are selectively connected to a differential amplitude generator by a switch element. The switch element is controlled by a control signal generated by a control signal generator formed and integrated on a printed circuit board separate from the timing controller. The switch element can additionally be controlled by automatically detecting a control signal from a source driver to select one of the mapping circuits after the timing controller is implemented in the liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: A polymer having a first repeat unit comprising a group having general formula (I) which is substituted or unsubstituted: where at least one of R1 or R2 comprises at least two substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl groups and excluding the group having general formula (I) where one or both of R1 and R2 comprises a triarylamine group.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having, on a major surface thereof, a display area including a plurality of pixels for displaying an image, and a stacked layer body that is formed by stacking a first thin film, which is disposed to cover the display area, a second thin film, which partly covers the first thin film, and a third thin film, which covers the second thin film and is formed with a larger pattern than the first thin film. The third thin film contacts a peripheral part of the first thin film and covers the first thin film.

Abstract: An anti-theft security tag includes an engagement member having a first and second end securable within a housing by a crimping member for attachment to an article. In one embodiment, the housing supports an electronic article surveillance marker and may include a channel for receiving and securing at least one self crimping member. The self crimping member is sized to receive one end of the engagement member. The one or more crimping members may be disc shaped, including a plurality of fingers for securing one end of the engagement member, or may have a variety of other shapes. The self crimping members allow the engagement member to be moved downward, but not upward, so as to make the engagement loop smaller. In another embodiment, the crimping member is manual and a slot is disposed within the housing in alignment with the at least one crimping member, and is sized to receive a crimping tool to crimp the member and secure the line to the article within the housing.

Abstract: To provide a current output type semiconductor circuit and a display device which are capable of realizing a reduction in cost by reducing the number of output stages and reducing a chip area. A display device includes three reference current generating units which generate reference currents corresponding to three display colors and outputs the reference currents, a selector which outputs an optimum reference current among the outputs of the three reference current generating units according to a display color of display data in response to a changing display color switching signal, a current output unit which outputs a current corresponding to a value of the display data with respect to a current per one gradation determined by the reference currents, and a selector for distributing the output of the current output unit to respective source signal lines corresponding to the display color.

Abstract: It is possible to eliminate the blue tone in the black color display in the OCB liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display cell (110) includes an opposing substrate (130) having an opposing electrode (Ecom), an array substrate (120) having pixel electrodes of the respective colors (dpixR, dpixG, dpixB), a liquid crystal layer (140) arranged in a bend-arrangement and sandwiched between the opposing substrate (130) and the array substrate (120), and red, green, and blue filter layers (CF(R), CF(G), CF(B)) arranged on one of the substrates. The maximum voltage is applied when performing black color display on the display screen. At least the maximum voltage of the pixel electrode for blue color dpixB applied to the opposing electrode (Ecom) is made different from the maximum voltage of the pixel electrodes of the other colors applied to the opposing electrode (Ecom).

Abstract: There is provided an EL display device having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern, wherein the pixels each include an EL element and a drive transistor configured to define a current to be supplied to the EL element, and switches configured to supply a reset power to the drive transistors of the respective pixels are provided one each for a row of the pixels arranged in the matrix pattern.

Abstract: The present invention provides a phase transition method of an amorphous material, comprising steps of: depositing the amorphous material on a dielectric substrate; forming a cap layer on the amorphous material; depositing a metal on the cap layer; and crystallizing the amorphous material. According to the present invention, the surface of the amorphous material is protected by the cap layer, so that clean surface can be obtained and the roughness of the surface can be remarkably reduced during thermal process and sample handling. In addition, the cap layer is disposed between the amorphous material and the metal to diffuse the metal, so that the metal contamination due to the direct contact of the metal and the amorphous material in the conventional method can be remarkably reduced.

Abstract: An array substrate includes an almost rectangular effective portion which is formed on the major surface of the substrate and includes a plurality of pixels for displaying images. An organic EL display device includes a sealer which is placed to cover at least the effective portion on the major surface of the array substrate. The sealer has a structure in which at least two almost rectangular buffer layers which have substantially the same pattern and barrier layers each of which is a pattern larger than each buffer layer and covers each buffer layer to shield it from the open air are stacked on each other. The shortest distance from one side of an end of the effective portion to one side of an end of the first buffer layer is different from the shortest distance to one side of an end of the second buffer layer.

Abstract: An input sensor containing a display device including a group of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, a group of optical sensor circuits arranged in a matrix, a display driving circuit which provides a display signal to the display element group and which provides a driving signal to the display element group, a read circuit which identifies an optical sensor to read a sense signal from this optical sensor, and a read signal processing section which processes the sense signal output by the read circuit in accordance with a command. The read signal processing section has an interface section which transfers, when the command requesting execution of an application is set to the interface section, the command to a command register.

Abstract: To reduce the blue tone in the black display of the OCB liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display cell (11) includes: an opposing substrate (130) having an opposing electrode (Ecom); an array substrate (120) having a pixel electrode Dpix for each color; a liquid crystal layer (140) arranged in a bend arrangement located between the opposing substrate (120) and the array substrate (120); and red, green, and blue filter layers arranged on one of the substrates. The opposing electrode has a film thickness tB of the portion Ecom (B) corresponding to the blue filter layer, which thickness is set so as to have the minimum value in the range 380 nm to 480 nm in the spectrum of the front reflectance and satisfy the following: 100 nm<tB?140 nm.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel which is configured such that a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules, which are twist-aligned at a twist angle of 70°±10°, is held between a first substrate and a second substrate, and an optical element which is provided on an outer surface of the second substrate. The optical element includes a polarizer plate, a first retardation plate which imparts a phase difference of a ½ wavelength, and a second retardation plate which imparts a phase difference of a ¼ wavelength, and a retardation value ?n·d of the liquid crystal layer is set at 200 ±30 nm, where ?n is a refractive index anisotropy of the liquid crystal layer and d is a thickness of the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an opto-electrical device, the method comprising the steps: depositing, on a substrate comprising a first electrode for injecting charge carriers of a first polarity, a composition comprising a conductive or semi-conductive organic material, a solvent, and a first additive; and, depositing a second electrode for injecting charge carriers of a second polarity opposite to the first polarity, wherein the first additive is a basic additive.

Abstract: An apparatus for the pixel-integrated return of fluid in the pixel of a fluidic display is characterized in that the fluid with which the desired information is to be displayed and/or the carrier fluid in which the fluid is optionally embedded can be returned in a particularly compact manner and in a manner which is invisible to an observer past the visible part of a pixel (image compartment) into a reservoir (reservoir compartment) through or out of the reservoir. The device comprises an image compartment, a reservoir compartment, a connecting duct and at least one return duct, whereby the at least one return duct is formed by the fact that the connecting duct has at least one area with an uninterruptedly enlarged cross section which transitions in a specified manner into the cross section of the original cross section.

Abstract: A flat display panel comprises a matrix array of pixels that displays an image, a controller that receives a video signal supplied externally along with a horizontal sync signal defining a horizontal scanning period and a vertical sync signal defining a vertical scanning period, a driver circuit that is controlled by the controller and writes the video signal and non-video signal into each row of pixels in each vertical scanning period, and an insertion timing setting section that controls a write timing of the non-video signal to synchronize with a write timing of the video signal. The insertion timing setting section is configured to count the number of horizontal sync signals supplied within the vertical scanning period defined by each vertical sync signal, and then determine the write timing of the non-video signal based on a result of counting.

Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of pixel circuits and sensor circuits, a signal line drive circuit and scanning line drive circuit which drive the plurality of pixel circuits, and a precharge circuit and sensor control circuit which drive the sensor circuits. A filter subjects image data to an interpolation process to compensate for a gradation value of an output. In a signal processing section, the area of a light receiving area is calculated and it is determined that a light source is set in contact with a display screen.

Abstract: An organic light emitting device having a phase-separated light-emissive layer comprising: a charge transport phase comprising a charge transport material; and an emitting phase, the emitting phase comprising a plurality of discrete emissive domains dispersed in the charge transport phase, each emitting domain comprising a host material and one or more metal complexes for emitting light by phosphorescence; wherein the charge transport material has a T1 energy level lower than the T1 energy level of the metal complexes and the host material has a T1 energy level higher than the T1 energy level of the metal complexes.

Abstract: An electrode structure includes at least a contact button portion that has a portion of multilayer structure of two or more conductor layers stacked and enlarged in area. A part mounting structure includes a substrate, a contact button portion which is formed on the substrate and on which a part is mounted by connection via a bump, wherein at least the contact button portion has a portion of multilayer structure of two or more conductor layers stacked, a part of which is enlarged in area. A liquid crystal display unit is equipped with the part mounting structure.

Abstract: A driving method of a self-luminous display apparatus having a plurality of self-luminous elements including each of pixels placed like a matrix in a pixel row direction and a pixel line direction and driving a display portion by passing a current between an anode and a cathode of each of the self-luminous elements and thereby emitting light from each of the pixels.