Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing an organic EL display including an insulating substrate, a power supply terminal, a plurality of pixels arrayed on the substrate and each including an organic EL element and a pixel circuit, and an organic planarizing film covering the pixel circuits and interposed between the organic EL elements and the substrate, including selecting a pixel which can be recognized as a dark spot and/or a bright spot from the pixels, and irradiating, of the pixel circuit included in the selected pixel, a portion located between the organic planarizing film and the substrate with an energy beam through the substrate to electrically disconnect the organic EL element included in the selected pixel from the power supply terminal.

Abstract: In order to make it possible to easily detect an electrical defect by using an array tester, the present inspection substrate includes: plural scan lines and plural signal lines; plural storage capacitor lines arranged in parallel to the scan lines; storage capacitor elements, each of which uses a part of the storage capacitor line as one of electrodes thereof; storage capacitor upper electrodes formed of the same layer as that for the signal lines and electrically connected to the storage capacitor elements; switching elements arranged on intersection points of the signal lines and the scan lines and electrically connected to the storage capacitor elements; and dummy wiring lines formed by use of at least one of two types of metals constituting electrodes of the switching elements, and electrically connected to any of the scan lines, the signal lines, the storage capacitor lines and the storage capacitor upper electrodes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display device where, in order to distinguish between regions which react to environment light and regions which react to a source of light in a display screen, and in order to identify exact positional coordinates of the source of light, a signal processing IC divides image data, which has been generated from a beam of light made incident onto the display screen, for each of regions where the beam of light has been detected, on the basis of a gradation value of each pixels; calculates shape parameters for identifying the shape for each divided region; and calculates the position for each divided region.

Abstract: A communication terminal device includes a first display part configured to display streaming sub information, a second display part configured to display streaming main information related to the streaming sub information, a sub information reception unit configured to receive the streaming sub information sequentially transmitted from an information providing device and to display the received streaming sub information on the first display part, a request transmission unit configured to transmit to the information providing device an information request signal for requesting the streaming main information related to the streaming sub information displayed on the first display part, and a main information reception unit configured to receive the streaming main information and to display the streaming main information on the second display part.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a first polarizer disposed adjacent to the first substrate at a side opposite to a side of the first polarizer facing the liquid crystal layer, with a first gap between the first polarizer and the first substrate, a second polarizer disposed adjacent to the second substrate at a side opposite to a side of the second polarizer facing the liquid crystal layer, with a second gap between the second polarizer and the second substrate, wherein at least one of the first and second gaps includes therein a first retardation film having a positive optical anisotropy and a second retardation film having a negative optical anisotropy, such that the first retardation film is disposed closer to the liquid crystal layer with respect to the second retardation film.

Abstract: An integrally molded display floor for a gravity feed display tray where the floor devoid of integrally molded side walls extending upward therefrom, has front and rear end walls, and a plurality of longitudinal ribs which can receive upward extending partitions which are releasably attachable to the floor and extend longitudinally, thus dividing the display tray into laterally spaced paths. Each display tray has opposite side walls extending downward, and transversely extending beams intersecting the longitudinal ribs. The end walls, side walls, and bottom surfaces of the longitudinal ribs thus establishing a basement where the bottom surfaces of the ribs constitute the ceiling of the basement. This basement is a space suitable for receiving downward extending tabs of the partitions to engage and stabilize such partitions with the display track.

Abstract: A front-lit display panel comprising: at least one pixel units, each having a layered structure including transparent conductor, an active layer containing liquid-crystal-type molecules, and a rear conductive layer, electrical connectors in electrical contact with the rear conductive layer and extending to the rear portion of the pixel unit; and a plurality of electronics module for respectively receiving each pixel unit, each having a conformal interconnection facilities with the at least two contacts adapted for making electrical contact with the electrical connectors, and interfacing with at least one data communications line and at least one electric power line; and an assembly board for receiving the at least one second conformal interconnection facilities, each receiving position having at least two contacts respectively adapted for making electrical contact with the data communications line and with electric power line of one of the electronics modules.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing electronic or electric products such as flat-panel display devices, for coping with change or variations of dimensions of the products and for curbing damage or fracture on the products and reducing recovery cost for containers, according to one embodiment, comprising; sequentially placing first flat electronic or electric products as to be sandwiched by a resin-sheet band formed of one or pair of band-shaped flat resin sheet and as to be arrayed in a row; forming joined areas by bonding faces of the resin-sheet band as to form receptacles respectively for the first flat electronic or electric products; thus forming a band-shaped package; and then transporting or storing such array of the first flat electronic or electric products in the band-shaped package as to be used for producing second electronic or electric products.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting device comprising a layer of light-emissive organic material interposed between a first electrode and a second electrode, at least one of the first and second electrodes comprising one or more electrode layers on the layer of light-emissive organic material for injecting charge carriers into the light-emissive organic material, wherein the organic light-emitting device further comprises a layer of dielectric material on the surface of the outermost electrode layer remote from the layer of light-emissive organic material.

Abstract: In order to detect pressure of a light source device against a display screen of a display device, the light source device changes an area of a light receiving region on the display screen in response to a degree of pressure of a tip of the light source device against the display screen. Meanwhile, a signal processing unit of the display device calculates a distance between a light transmission unit of the light source device and the display screen. By using this distance, the degree of pressure of can be detected. Moreover, in order to prevent malfunction attributable to outside environment light and to reduce power consumption of a light source unit of the light source device, the light source unit is configured not to output light when the tip of the light source device is not pressed against the display screen.

Abstract: A reflection-type liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate and carrying projections and depressions, a reflective electrode on the second substrate so as to cover the projections and depressions and in electrical contact with a switching device provided on the second substrate via a contact hole, and a negative liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, wherein the contact hole is disposed centrally to the reflection electrode and a structure controlling alignment of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer is disposed so as to overlap the contact hole viewed in a direction perpendicular to the second substrate.

Abstract: A weight-driven pusher for product on a gravity-fed display shelf includes a weighted frame. A front plate is mounted on the frame and manually adjustable in upper reach relative to the frame to accommodate product of varying height and preclude product from tipping rearwardly over the pusher. A leg assembly is retractably mounted on the frame adjacent the bottom thereof and biased to project rearwardly from the frame to preclude product from tipping the pusher over backwards.

Abstract: A reflection-type liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate and carrying projections and depressions, a reflective electrode on the second substrate so as to cover the projections and depressions and in electrical contact with a switching device provided on the second substrate via a contact hole, and a negative liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, wherein the contact hole is disposed centrally to the reflection electrode and a structure controlling alignment of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer is disposed so as to overlap the contact hole viewed in a direction perpendicular to the second substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a scan line driver (12) to drive scan lines and a power source (14) to supply voltage to the scan line driver. The scan line driver and power source are formed directly on an array substrate of the liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display also includes a signal-line-driving IC (15) mounted on the array substrate. The IC incorporates a power source (DC voltage converter (1508) and voltage stabilizer (1509)) to supply voltage to a signal line driver (analog output circuit (1504) and the like). The power source in the IC is integrated according to a low-withstanding-voltage manufacturing process. With these configurations, the liquid crystal display is compact and is manufacturable at a low cost.

Abstract: A thin-film transistor substrate includes a pixel region where gate electrode lines are arranged on an insulating substrate sandwiching semiconductor layer patterns and a gate insulator with the insulating substrate, wherein shapes of the semiconductor patterns and the gate electrode lines are set so that a value of K obtained by the following equation is smaller than a first set value when the thin-film transistor substrate is mounted on a metal table: K=(L/Ce)×{Ca/(Ca+Cb)}×S where Ca represents a capacitor between each of the semiconductor layer patterns and the metal table, Cb represents a capacitor between each of the semiconductor layer patterns and the gate electrode lines, Ce represents a capacitor between each of the gate electrode lines and the metal table, L represents a length of each of the gate electrode line, and S represents a substrate surface area that one of the gate electrode lines are in charge of per unit length.

Abstract: In a semiconductor circuit of a current output type, when display is performed by plural semiconductor circuit in one display panel, luminance unevenness for each block with a different semiconductor circuit occurs due to fluctuation in the semiconductor circuits. In current output stages 14a and 14b, current mirror circuits are constituted at both ends of a chip, and a reference current to be a reference of gradation display is supplied from both the ends. Moreover, by increasing a resistance value of a gate line of the current mirror circuit of distributing a current to each output, deviation of a transistor threshold value in the chip was compensated for, and output currents at left and right ends were matched.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image sensor comprising an amorphous silicon thin-film transistor optical sensor which functions as an image sensor used for an X-ray photography device, a fingerprint recognition apparatus, a scanner, etc., and a method of manufacturing the image sensor. Since the thin-film transistor optical sensor according to the present invention has a high-resistance silicon region by disposing an offset region in a channel region, a dark leakage current of the optical sensor remains in a low level even under a high voltage. Therefore, it is possible to apply a high voltage to the thin-film transistor optical sensor according to the present invention so that the image senor can be sensitive to a weak light. In addition, since the storage capacitance in the image sensor is formed in a double structure, the image sensor has a high value of capacitance.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display having optical transmittance improved without reducing the speed of a response to a tone change and a liquid crystal display utilizing the same. There is provided a drain bus line formed on an array substrate which sandwiches a liquid crystal in combination with an opposite substrate provided in a face-to-face relationship therewith, a TFT connected to the drain bus line, and a pixel electrode which has stripe-shaped electrodes, along with spaces, connected to the TFT and provided in parallel with the drain bus line, stripe-shaped electrodes in the vicinity of the drain bus line having an electrode width formed narrower than the width of internal electrodes located inside the same.

Abstract: A thin film transistor substrate includes a transparent insulating substrate, a first thin film transistor that is formed on the transparent insulating substrate, and a second thin film transistor that is formed on the transparent insulating substrate. The second thin film transistor has a characteristic that differs from that of the first thin film transistor. An active layer of the first thin film transistor has a thickness greater than or equal to 50 nm, and an average crystal grain diameter greater than or equal to 1 ?m. An active layer of the second thin film transistor has a thickness less than or equal to 60 nm, and an average crystal grain diameter less than 1 ?m. The thin film transistor substrate is formed by conducting poly-crystallization through CW laser irradiation while controlling off time leak current generation and pressure resistance degradation.

Abstract: The invention relates to optical devices comprising a substrate and at least one semiconductive polymer supported by said substrate, wherein said semiconductive polymer is a copolymer in which one of the repeat units is a group of formula (I) or a homopolymer in which the repeat unit is a group of formula (I): wherein: A and B are the same or different and each comprises wholly or partially an aryl moiety or a heteroaryl moiety, said moiety in A being fused to the bond a-b and said moiety in B being fused to the bond c-d, and X is a linking unit, X being such that there is a torsion angle of at least 5° between the bond a-b and the bond c-d about the bond b-d. The invention also relates to semiconductive polymers, monomers for preparing same, and methods for preparing random statistical conjugated polymers.