Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal layer is provided between a principal substrate and an opposing substrate that are disposed so as to face each other, and a shared electrode and a pixel electrode, which is a parallel electrode pair formed in the shape of a comb, are formed on the surface of the principal substrate that faces the opposing substrate. Orientation films are also formed on the opposing surfaces of the principal substrate and the opposing substrate. The electrodes of the parallel electrode pair are formed so that the width thereof is smaller than the thickness of the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display panel module. The liquid crystal display panel module includes a liquid crystal display panel in which a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between a pair of substrates facing each other, a printed wiring board which is electrically connected to the liquid crystal display panel, a first frame-shaped chassis which is arranged in front of the liquid crystal display panel, and a second frame-shaped chassis which is electrically conductive and arranged behind of the liquid crystal display panel. In the liquid crystal display panel module, the liquid crystal display panel is held by the first chassis and the second chassis. And, the second chassis and a grounding electrode of the printed wiring board are electrically connected by attaching the printed wiring board to the second chassis.

Abstract: A LCD unit (116) has a first and a second LCD panels (261, 262) which are stacked one on another. The first LCD panel (261) includes a color filter layer (251), and is configured as a color LCD panel for performing a color display. The second LCD panel (262) is configured as a monochrome LCD panel for performing a monochrome display based on an image source. The first LCD panel (261) displays an image, which is obtained by averaging the image data of the image source by using an arithmetic unit, which averages the image data pixels disposed within a range specific distance apart from a central pixel.

Abstract: A semi-transparent reflecting plate including plural reflecting surfaces extending substantially over an entire surface of a reflecting plate, not only permitting light to pass therethrough, but also reflecting the light on the reflecting surfaces.

Abstract: A timing controller is provided which is capable of achieving normal image display at a time of reverse scanning in upward and downward directions and right and left directions. In an image display device having a plurality of scanning line driving ICs (Integrated Circuits), a valid line counting section counts a count of valid driving lines based on a DE (Data Enable) signal and DCK (Dot Clock) signal. A cascade signal counting section counts up a total count of outputs from a count of VCK (Vertical Clock) signals including a VSP (Vertical Start Pulse) 2 output signal up to a VSP1 cascade outputting signal VSP1. A calculating section calculates an excessive output of a scanning line driving IC from a difference between the count of valid driving lines and the total count of outputs.

Abstract: Within a reflective display section R, a part of a light that reaches a reflective electrode through a color filter exits to the outside through slits and a part of a light that reaches the reflective electrode through the slits exits to the outside through the color filter. In addition, a light reaching the reflective electrode through the color filter and exiting to the outside through the color filter, and a light having no opportunity to pass through the slits also can be observed. Therefore, a mean film thickness of color filter through which all lights pass during the time in which they travel the associated distance after they are inputted to the inside until they are outputted to the outside becomes nearly equal to that could be observed in the transmissive section T.

Abstract: A color image display device is provided which is capable of displaying an image with no differences in color balance between end portions and inner portions of anon-rectangle image display region. The color image display device includes an end portion unit pixel formed in an edge portion of a display region in which a color image is displayed and including end portion sub-pixels which correspond to a plurality of kinds of primary colors respectively in a one-to-one relationship and an inner unit pixel formed in an inside of the display region with respect to the end portion unit pixels and including inner sub-pixels which correspond to the plurality of kinds of primary colors respectively in a one-to-one relationship. With such a configuration, a relative area proportion of the end portion sub-pixels that correspond to the primary colors respectively in a one-to-one relationship is set equal to that of the inner sub-pixels that correspond to the primary colors respectively in a one-to-one relationship.

Abstract: A semiconductor device in which a semiconductor layer is formed on an insulating substrate with a front-end insulating layer interposed between the semiconductor layer and the insulating substrate is provided which is capable of preventing action of an impurity contained in the insulating substrate on the semiconductor layer and of improving reliability of the semiconductor device. In a TFT (Thin Film Transistor), boron is made to be contained in a region located about 100 nm or less apart from a surface of the insulating substrate so that boron concentration decreases at an average rate being about 1/1000-fold per 1 nm from the surface of the insulating substrate toward the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A first polarizer and a second polarizer have respective absorption axes extending approximately perpendicularly to each other, and a first retardation plate and a third retardation plate have respective slow axes extending approximately perpendicularly to each other. The first retardation plate and the third retardation plate have respective retardations that are approximately equal to each other, and have respective Nz coefficients that are approximately equal to each other. A second retardation plate and a liquid crystal layer in a transmissive display area have a slow axis and an orientation axis, respectively, extending approximately perpendicularly to each other. The second retardation plate and the liquid crystal layer in the transmissive display area have respective retardations that are approximately equal to each other.

Abstract: An in-plane-switching-mode (IPS) LCD device includes a TFT substrate and a CF substrate sandwiching therebetween an LC layer, and a pair of polarizing films sandwiching therebetween the substrates and the LC layer. Each polarizing film has a polarization layer and a protective layer. An optical compensation layer having a birefringence is disposed between the light-emitting-side polarizing film and the CF substrate. The optical compensation layer has an in-plane retardation of N1 satisfying the following relationship: 83.050?0.8101×D1?N1?228.09?0.74D1 in the range of 0<D1?80 ?m, wherein D1 is the thickness of the protective layer of the light-incident-side polarizing film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display element is disclosed for displaying an image. The liquid crystal display element comprises a liquid crystal display layer in which voltages are applied to a transmissive display unit and a reflective display unit, defined in one pixel, independently of each other, and a light source for irradiating the liquid crystal display layer with light from the back, and a reflection control element disposed between the liquid crystal display layer and light source. The liquid crystal display element is switched between a reflective state and a transmissive state in accordance with a voltage applied to the reflection control element. The liquid crystal display element is switched among a transmissive display mode, a combined reflective/transmissive display mode, and a reflective display mode, by utilizing the transmissive display unit and reflective display unit to display an image independently of each other.

Abstract: A display device is provided with a light source, an light-guide plate, a prism sheet, a transparent/scattering state switching element, and a transmissive liquid crystal display panel. In the transparent/scattering state switching element, two transparent substrates are provided parallel to and separated from each other, and an electrode is provided to the surface of each transparent substrate. A scattering seal member is also provided between external peripheral portions of the transparent substrates, and a PDLC layer is enclosed in a space sealed by the scattering seal member between the transparent substrates. The scattering seal member is endowed with scattering properties whereby incident light is transmitted in a scattered state, and the degree of scattering thereof is equal to the degree of scattering of the PDLC layer during the scattering state.

Abstract: To overcome issues generated due to the light-shield part in a display device which displays different images towards a plurality of viewpoints, and to provide a device for easily synthesizing images to be displayed on a display part. A display controller includes: an image memory which stores viewpoint image data for a plurality of viewpoints; a writing control device which writes the viewpoint image data inputted from outside to the image memory; a parameter storage device which stores parameters showing a positional relation between a lenticular lens and the display part; and a readout control device which reads out the viewpoint image data from the image memory according to a readout order obtained by applying the parameters to a repeating regulation that is determined based on layout of the sub-pixels, number of colors, and layout of the colors, and outputs it to the display module as synthesized image data.

Abstract: In a transflective type LCD provided with a transparent region and a reflection region in each pixel, when an irregular film 11 is formed on an active matrix substrate 12 to form irregularities of a reflection electrode film 6, the irregular film 11 is specifically formed to almost the same film thickness in both the transparent region and the reflection region to provide substantially the same inter-substrate gap in these two regions so that they may have almost the same V-T characteristics and also the reflection electrode film 6 made of Al/Mo is formed so as to overlap with a transmission electrode film 5 made of ITO all around an outer periphery of the transmission electrode film 5 by a width of at least 2 ?m, thus suppressing electric erosion from occurring between the ITO and Al substances at the edge of the transmission electrode film 5.

Abstract: A beam direction control element has transparent areas and light absorption areas alternately arranged on a surface of a substrate, wherein the light absorption areas function as a louver for controlling the direction of a beam of light. The beam direction control element is manufactured by disposing an optically transparent material on a first transparent substrate to form transparent ridges which constitute the transparent areas, filling curable and photo-absorptive fluid in gaps between the transparent ridges, and then curing the fluid to form the light absorption areas.

Abstract: A scanning line driving circuit includes a first transistor having a source electrode connected to a power supply and a drain electrode to a scanning line and a second transistor having a source electrode connected to the scanning line and a drain electrode connected to a clock signal line. The conductivity type of the second transistor is identical to that of the first transistor. A bias can be supplied, so that the first and second transistors are caused to be in an off-state simultaneously.

Abstract: To provide a touch sensor device and the like, which can improve the detecting accuracy of a surface-capacitive type touch sensor. A touch sensor device of the present invention includes: a touch panel which forms a capacitance between a human body and itself when the human body makes a contact or approaches thereto; a power supply part which has a battery or the like which outputs a DC voltage, converts the DC voltage to an AC voltage, and outputs the AC voltage from the touch panel; a reference potential part to be a reference potential of the AC voltage; a wrist strap and a cable which are electrically connected to the reference potential part and to which the human body makes a contact; and a current detecting part which detects electric currents flown from the power supply part to the human body.

Abstract: A spherical spacer is used as a spacer member defining a gap, and is fixed to a color filter substrate. A concave portion coming in contact with a part of the spherical spacer is formed in a position in a TFT substrate, the position being opposite to the spherical spacer. The substrates are bonded with each other by engaging the spherical spacer and the concave portion with each other.

Abstract: A lenticular lens is provided in front of a liquid crystal panel composed of a plurality of pixels. In this case, the lenticular lens is arranged so that one cylindrical lens corresponds to two pixels adjacent to each other. Then, light rays outgoing from two pixels are refracted by this one cylindrical lens and intersect with each other at a point positioned on the surface of a tablet, and then reach the right eye and the left eye of a user, respectively.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of reducing EMI (ElectraMagnetic Interference) noises while simultaneously responding to requirements for the high-speed transmission of image data, miniaturization and thinning of a signal processing board. A timing controller outputs, in accordance with an input data signal and input clock signal, a data line driving circuit controlling signal, internal data signal, internal clock signal to a data line driving circuit and outputs a scanning line driving circuit controlling signal to a scanning line driving circuit. The timing controller has a clock signal frequency setting mode in which a frequency of each of clock signals is set to a different value and the clock signals are supplied to the data line driving circuits and other data line driving circuits in one region and another region.