Abstract: A digital video record device with a touch-panel human machine interface includes a touch panel and a digital video record electronic apparatus. The touch panel is disposed in front of the screen of a monitor, electrically connected to the digital video record electronic apparatus, configured to generate touch coordinate signals, and adapted to send the touch coordinate signals to the digital video record electronic apparatus. The digital video record electronic apparatus electrically connects with at least a video camera, processes video signals generated by the video cameras, displays video signal related pictures and a plurality of icons denoting an operating instruction on the monitor, receives the touch coordinate signals from the touch panel, determines whether the touch coordinate signals correspond to a display range of the icons, and executes, upon affirmative determination, an operating instruction corresponding to the determined icon.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate having a power supply line for supplying a power voltage to a counter electrode of a counter substrate. The power supply line connects a power pad arranged at a corner of the array substrate to a common line which is arranged between an active area and a seal portion, crossing the seal portion provided at a peripheral portion of the array substrate so as to surround the active area. The array substrate further includes at least two block elements with a convex shape for blocking the flowing out of the sealing element to the active area. The block elements are arranged so as to cross the power supply line and face the power supply pad. A gap between the block elements and the counter substrate is smaller than a gap between the slit formed by the adjacent block elements and the counter substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first optical element which is provided on one of outer surfaces of a liquid crystal display panel including homogeneously aligned liquid crystal molecules and includes a first polarizer plate, a first retardation plate in which nematic liquid crystal molecules are solidified in a state in which the nematic liquid crystal molecules are hybrid-aligned in a liquid crystal state along a normal direction, and a second retardation plate, and a second optical element which is composed of a second polarizer plate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an area light source unit which is opposed to one of polarizer. The area light source unit includes a light guide having a light incidence surface opposed to a cold cathode tube, a light emission surface which emits light that is incident on the light incidence surface, and an opposed surface which is opposed to the light emission surface, and a prismatic sheet disposed between the polarizer plate and the light guide. The light guide has prisms on at least the opposed surface. The prismatic sheet has prisms which extend in a direction that is displaced counterclockwise by a first predetermined angle from a direction that is perpendicular to a direction of extension of the prisms. An angle between a polarization axis of the polarizer plate and a polarization axis of the prismatic sheet is set at a second predetermined angle.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display panel which comprises a first substrate, a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate with a gap therebetween, a plurality of display elements provided between the first and second substrates, a sealing member surrounding the display elements and bonding the first and second substrates to each other, and a filler layer provided between the first and second substrates and located outside the sealing member. The method comprises applying filler to a roller, moving the roller on an edge of the display panel, thereby filling a gap between the second substrate and that part of the first substrate which lies outside the sealing member, and curing the filler filled in the gap.

Abstract: A method of forming an optical device comprising the steps of: providing a substrate comprising a first electrode capable of injecting or accepting charge carriers of a first type; forming over the first electrode a first layer that is at least partially insoluble in a solvent by depositing a first semiconducting material that is free of cross-linkable vinyl or ethynyl groups and is, at the time of deposition, soluble in the solvent; forming a second layer in contact with the first layer and comprising a second semiconducting material by depositing a second semiconducting material from a solution in the solvent; and forming over the second layer a second electrode capable of injecting or accepting charge carriers of a second type wherein the first layer is rendered at least partially insoluble by one or more of heat, vacuum and ambient drying treatment following deposition of the first semiconducting material.

Abstract: A crosslinking monomer for making a crosslinked polymer, said monomer comprising reactive leaving groups Y and Y1 located on the same or different aryl or heteroaryl groups of the monomer and a structural unit of general formula I: where Ar represents an aryl or heteroaryl group; Ar1 and Ar2 each independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl group and where any two of Ar, Ar1 and Ar2 may optionally be linked; Sp represents an optional spacer group; and X represents a crosslinkable group.

Abstract: On a projecting portion projecting from a first connecting portion to be connected to a liquid crystal panel of an FPC, a second connecting portion is provided in a projecting state like a free end to the liquid crystal panel side at a position spaced from the first connecting portion. By folding-back the projecting portion to the back side of the liquid crystal panel, the second connecting portion projects to the opposite side of the liquid crystal panel, so that the liquid crystal panel and an external circuit can be connected to each other without applying an excessively great stress to the FPC.

Abstract: An optical device comprising an anode, a cathode comprising barium, strontium or calcium, and a layer of organic semiconducting material between the anode and the cathode wherein a layer of hole transporting and electron blocking material is located between the anode and the layer of organic semiconducting material.

Abstract: A monomer for use in manufacturing a conjugated polymer, the monomer having a structure as shown formula (2): Ar1, Ar2 and Ar3 are independently selected from optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl, X1 and X3 both independently comprise a leaving group capable of participating in polymerisation and Z represents a direct bond or an optionally substituted bridging atom.

Abstract: A planar light source unit includes a metal frame retaining a light source panel provided with an light guide for inducing emission of light from a light source and a plastic frame that supports at least part of a peripheral edge of the light guide. The outer peripheral surface of the plastic frame with a fitting structure between the metal frame and the plastic frame and an outer frame portion contiguous to the support plate portion and sandwiched between the fixing means and the outer frame portion of the metal frame. A liquid crystal display panel is provided with a display region in which plural display pixels are arrayed and the planar light source unit.

Abstract: An EL display device includes: a source driver circuit to output a video signal voltage; a gate driver circuit to select a pixel in a display screen; a first capacitor to maintain the video signal voltage; and a drive transistor to supply current to an EL element of a pixel. The video signal voltage is applied to the drive transistor to perform a predetermined operation, and written into the first capacitor. The video signal voltage maintained in the first capacitor is used to perform an offset cancel operation.

Abstract: This invention relates to methods, apparatus, and computer program code for driving an active matrix display, in particular an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, with reduced power consumption.

Abstract: This invention generally relates to active matrix organic electro-optic devices and to related display driving methods. In embodiments the invention relates to top-emitting OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) displays including additional circuitry which may be employed for display driving or other functions. An active matrix organic electro-optic device, the device having a plurality of pixels and comprising a substrate bearing pixel interface circuitry for each of said pixels and organic material over said pixel interface circuitry, wherein said device is configured such that over at least a part of an area of said device said pixel interface circuitry is staggered with respect to said pixels such that a region under at least one of said pixels is incompletely occupied by said pixel interface circuitry, and wherein additional circuitry for said device is fabricated in said region incompletely occupied by said pixel interface circuitry.

Abstract: An optical device includes a first waveguide layer in which multiple-beam interference occurs, a second waveguide layer which includes a back surface facing the first waveguide layer and a front surface as a light output surface, and a diffraction grating which is arranged on a back side of the second waveguide layer and faces the first waveguide layer, wherein a grating constant of the diffraction grating is defined such that a first-order diffracted light emerges from the second waveguide layer, the first-order diffracted light being generated when a light component having a highest intensity of light which propagates in an in-plane direction while causing multiple reflection in the first waveguide layer enters the diffraction grating.

Abstract: There is provided a display including pixels arranged in a matrix, each pixel including a voltage signal input terminal to which a voltage signal is supplied, a drive control element including a first terminal connected to a first power supply terminal, a control terminal, and a second terminal that outputs a current corresponding to a voltage between the first and second terminals, a capacitor connected between the voltage signal input terminal and the control terminal, a current signal input terminal to which a current signal is supplied, a first switch connected between the current signal input terminal and the control terminal, a second switch connected between the current signal input terminal and the second terminal, an output control switch whose input terminal is connected to the second terminal, and a display element connected between a second power supply terminal and an output terminal of the output control switch.

Abstract: A method of producing an encapsulated module of interconnected opto-electronic devices which comprises: forming a patterned anode layer; forming a layer of opto-electronically active material over the patterned anode layer; forming a patterned cathode layer over the layer of opto-electronically active material, to provide a device array of opto-electronically active cells on the substrate; selectively removing portions of the layer of opto-electronically active material so as to expose minor portions of the anodes; forming a patterned interconnect layer on an encapsulating sheet in a pattern to define an array of interconnect pads; and laminating the patterned encapsulating sheet over the array of opto-electronically active cells whereby the exposed anode portions are interconnected with the cathodes of adjacent cells by the interconnect pads and the interconnected cells are encapsulated by the encapsulating sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed are compositions, useful in ink jet printing methods, that prevent clogging during dispensing, achieve stable dispensing, prevent precipitation of content matter during dispensing, and prevent phase separation during film formation. Also disclosed are uniform, homogenous, functional films formed using the compositions and manufacturing methods therefor, as well as organic EL devices and other such display devices and manufacturing methods therefor. The compositions contain a functional material and a solvent comprising at least one benzene derivative having one or more substituents, whereby the substituents have at least three carbon atoms in total.

Abstract: A drive method of an EL display apparatus that includes a display screen in which pixels each of which includes an EL element are provided in a form of a matrix. The drive method includes: aggregating or processing by use of a histogram an image signal applied to the EL display apparatus, and controlling a current flowing in the display panel according to at least one of a result of the aggregating the image signal or a result of the processing by use of the histogram.

Abstract: In the optically compensated bend (OCB) type liquid crystal display device comprises a substrate 20 having a plurality of stripe-like color filters in a plurality of different colors from one another aligned in parallel with and spaced apart from each other on the substrate, a transparent electrode deposited on the color filter and an orientation film deposited on the transparent electrode, the orientation film being treated with an orientation process in a direction along a longitudinal direction of the stripe of the stripe-like color filter, and rugged portions on an edge of the color filters adjacent to each other.