Abstract: A method for diving an electro-optic device including a pair of substrates sandwiching an electro-optic layer, and first and second electrodes disposed on one of the pair of substrates, the first electrode being used to drive the electro-optic layer, the second electrode being disposed closer to the electro-optic layer than the first electrode.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes: a holding capacitor provided in each pixel; a holding capacitance line connected to the holding capacitor; and an electric potential applying portion that applies an electric potential to the holding capacitance line. Both ends of the holding capacitance line are connected to the electric potential applying portion.

Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal device including: a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer having a negative dielectric anisotropy; a pixel electrode; a counter electrode, the counter electrode being opposed to the pixel electrode; a vertical alignment film that aligns liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer in a direction in which the long axes of the liquid crystal molecules are oriented perpendicular to the pair of substrates. The pixel electrode is made up of island-pattern sub pixel elements each two adjacent ones of which are connected to each other via a connection portion having a width narrower than that of the sub pixel element. In addition, the light shielding film is formed, on one of the pair of substrates, in each region not corresponding to the connection portion between each two of the sub pixel elements that are adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A semi-transmissive reflective liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a plurality of sub-pixel regions at which reflective display and transmissive display are performed, each of the sub-pixel regions being the smallest display unit, a first electrode and a second electrode disposed in each of the sub-pixel regions at the liquid crystal layer side of the first substrate for driving the liquid crystal layer by an electric field generated between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a reflective polarization layer disposed at the first substrate or the second substrate, the reflective polarization layer including a transmission axis and a reflection axis perpendicular to the transmission axis, for reflecting a portion of an incident light, which is a polarized light component parallel with the reflection axis, and transmitting the remainder of

Abstract: There is provided a wiring board including: a terminal group including a plurality of terminals arrayed along a specified array axis; and a pair of alignment marks disposed on opposite sides of the terminal group in the direction of the array axis. The alignment marks each have a first portion extending so as to intersect at an angle to the array axis. The first portions of the alignment marks and the plurality of terminals extend from the terminal group to a common phantom center point that is apart from the terminal group in the direction intersecting the array axis.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device have an element substrate including a scanning line, a data line and a pixel electrode, a cutout is formed on the pixel electrode. A capacitor line for providing a storage capacitor is formed on the element substrate. The capacitor line has a first and second portions. The first portion extends along with the scanning line, and a second line portion overlaps the cutout of the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an upper electrode and a lower electrode interposing an insulation layer therebetween, wherein an electric field opening part for passing an electric field is formed in the upper electrode and liquid crystal molecules are driven by applying a voltage between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, wherein a window-shaped opening part formed by partially removing the lower electrode for connecting an upper electrode wiring and the upper electrode, which interpose an interlayer insulation film therebetween, together is disposed in a lower part of the lower electrode, and wherein one end portion of the electric field opening part in the longitudinal direction around the window-shaped opening part is disposed to be overlapped with the window-shaped opening part in a plan view.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal device including: first and second substrates which face each other; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a reflection display region which is provided in one region of a sub-pixel configuring a control unit of a driving display by the first and second substrates with the liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween and performs a display by reflected light; a transmission display region which is provided in the other region of the sub-pixel and performs a display transmitted light; a layer thickness adjustment film which is provided on the second substrate in correspondence with the reflection display region and defines the thickness of the liquid crystal layer to be different from that in the transmission display region; and an alignment film which is provided between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer so as to cover the layer thickness adjustment film and is subjected to a rubbing process, wherein the

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes: a panel having a display area in which an electro-optical material is interposed between first and second substrates; and a light detection unit disposed on the first or second substrate to detect illuminance of ambient light of the panel, wherein the light detection unit performs a detecting operation plural times at a predetermined time interval, and wherein the predetermined time interval is set to be a value except for an integer multiple of 1/100 sec or 1/120 sec or a value close thereto.

Abstract: Reduction in efficiency of a power supply circuit in a display device is prevented. A positive power supply generation circuit and a negative power supply generation circuit are placed close to a terminal portion to which a drive clock and a power supply electric potential are applied externally. The terminal portion 140 is formed in an edge portion of the TFT glass substrate 100. That is, the positive power supply generation circuit 131 and the negative power supply generation circuit 132 are placed closer to the terminal portion 140 than primary circuits of the liquid crystal display device, which are the pixel portion 105, the horizontal drive circuit 110 and the vertical drive circuit 120. With this, there is obtained a layout that minimizes wiring loads (resistive and capacitive loads associated with wirings to provide the power supply and the drive clock) to prevent reduction in circuit efficiency.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a panel formed so that an electro-optical material is held between a first substrate and a second substrate, a lighting unit that irradiates light to a surface of the first substrate or the second substrate of the panel, a light detecting portion that detects an illuminance of ambient light, and a light control portion that controls the lighting unit on the basis of result detected by the light detecting portion. The light detecting portion is provided on the first substrate or on the second substrate and includes a first optical sensor, a second optical sensor, a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electric potential applying portion. The first optical sensor is irradiated with ambient light. The second optical sensor is shielded against irradiation of ambient light. The electrodes are configured to overlap the respective optical sensors through an insulating layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device which has a first and second electrodes formed on a second substrate and which controls allows alignment of liquid crystal molecules by an electric field generated between the first and second electrodes, wherein the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are aligned in a first direction in a plane of the substrate, wherein a phase difference layer having molecules, which are inclined in the plane of the first or second substrate and are aligned in directions different from one another in the transmissive display portion and the reflective display portion, is formed on a surface of the first or second substrate opposed to the liquid crystal layer, and wherein a director of the molecules of the phase difference layer is aligned in a second direction parallel to the first direction at least in the plane of the transmissive display portion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, an aligning film which is disposed on a liquid crystal layer side surface of the second substrate and on which a rubbing processing is performed, a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in planar regions of the first substrate and the second substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode which are disposed on a liquid crystal layer side surface of the first substrate and which generate an electric field therebetween, in which the second electrode includes a plurality of electrode line-shaped portions arranged in parallel to each other and spaced apart from each other, each sub-pixel includes a reflective display region in which a light reflective film is disposed and a transmissive display region in which a light reflective film is not disposed, wherein a layer thickness adjusting film, which allows the liquid crystal layer to have d

Abstract: The invention provides an image display apparatus that includes: a frame memory into which inputted image data is stored; a statistical computation section that performs statistical computation on a gradation value of each pixel on the basis of the image data for each frame image; a correction section that corrects the image data stored in the frame memory on a frame-by-frame basis by means of a statistical computation result calculated at the statistical computation section; an image display section that performs image display by means of the image data corrected at the correction section; a light source control section that calculates a control amount applied to the amount of light emitted from a light source on the basis of the corrected image data and then controls the amount of light emitted from the light source in accordance with the control amount; and a still picture judgment section that makes a judgment as to whether the frame image constitutes a still picture or not.

Abstract: An image display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixel display portions arranged in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction thereof, a plurality of slits arranged on the display panel so as to correspond to spaces between the pixel display portions adjacent to each other, an image input unit acquiring a first input image and a second input image, and a display control portion displaying the first input image and the second input image by alternately imparting input pixel data of the first input image and input pixel data of the second input image to the plurality of pixel display portions in the longitudinal direction and the lateral direction, in which the display control portion prepares display pixel data corresponding to specific input pixel data on the basis of the specific input pixel data of each of the first input image and second input image and at least one neighboring input pixel data adjacent to the specific input pixel data in the longitudinal direction or the later

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate having pixels defining a pixel region, and pixel electrodes and a common electrode disposed in the pixel region on the first substrate. The pixel electrodes are disposed for the respective pixels. The liquid crystal panel also includes a second substrate opposing the first substrate and a light-shielding film disposed on the second substrate. The light-shielding film includes a frame portion surrounding the pixel region and a middle portion disposed at least in the pixel region. The middle portion is made of a material having a higher specific resistance than the frame portion. The frame portion is made of a material having a higher light-shielding property than the middle portion.

Abstract: A display device that performs display by illuminating an object having a display surface is reduced in size and improved in viewability. A panel-shaped illumination device is disposed facing a display surface of an instrument that is the illumination object. The illumination device has light-emitting regions patterned finely and facing the display surface of the instrument. A light-shielding layer is disposed on the light-emitting region of the illumination device on a side not facing the display surface of the instrument, that is, an observer-side. Illumination light emitted from the light-emitting region illuminates the display surface of the instrument uniformly and is reflected toward the observer before visually recognized through transparent region of the illumination device. At that time, direct visual recognition by the observer of the illumination light emitted from the light-emitting region is suppressed.

Abstract: This invention offers a liquid crystal display device with which each of a plurality of observers can visually recognize each of two different images displayed on a single liquid crystal display panel respectively. The liquid crystal display device of this invention includes a light source for backlighting, a first polarizing plate to extract linearly polarized light from the light source for backlighting, a polarization control LCD composed of a liquid crystal layer divided into a plurality of columns and controlling an optical retardation of each of the plurality of columns, lenticular lenses disposed along the columns, a first retardation plate in which a row having a first optical retardation and a row having another optical retardation that is different from the first optical retardation are disposed alternately, a display LCD and a second and a third polarizing plates between which the display LCD is interposed.

Abstract: A mounting structure includes a base member and an electronic component having a protruded electrode which is formed on a transparent substrate. The electrode includes pads and elastic projections that are covered with a conductive film. On the transparent substrate, terminals connected to the conductive film are formed. Dummy projections are provided on the surface of the base member. When mounting the electronic component, the electrodes are deformed by the pressure for the mounting. The dummy projections formed on the base member are also deformed. A pattern, for visually inspecting the deformation volume of dummy projections, is marked on the transparent substrate.

Abstract: An electrooptic device includes: a plurality of parallel signal lines provided in a pixel array region in which a plurality of pixels is arrayed; a driving circuit electrically connected to a first end of each of the signal lines outside the pixel array region; and a protection circuit in which a diode device is electrically connected to a second end of the signal line, the diode device dissipating static electricity from the signal line. The resistance of the portion of the signal line from the center of the length to the driving circuit is higher than that of the portion of the signal line from the center to the diode device.