Abstract: To prevent image retention, the pixel circuit includes: a light emitting element; a driving transistor which supplies an electric current according to an applied voltage to the light emitting element; a capacitor part which holds the voltage containing a threshold voltage and a data voltage of the driving transistor; and a switch part which has the voltage containing the threshold voltage and the data voltage held to the capacitor part and applies the voltage to the driving transistor. Further, the switch part has a function which applies a constant voltage to the driving transistor before having the voltage containing the threshold voltage and the data voltage held to the capacitor part.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode substrate including a pixel electrode and a counter electrode formed thereon; a counter substrate provided to face the pixel electrode substrate; and a liquid crystal interposed between the pixel electrode substrate and the counter substrate, the liquid crystal display device being of a mode that rotates liquid crystal molecules substantially in parallel to the pixel electrode substrate. In the display device, an initial alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules is parallel to an extension direction of at least one of the pixel electrode and the counter electrode, and a pixel includes at least one convex portion or concave portion that has a long and narrow shape and whose longitudinal direction has an oblique angle with respect to the initial alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules in the same direction as a desired liquid crystal rotation direction.

Abstract: A display device has a data-holding circuit with a capacitance and a display portion with a plurality of pixel electrodes, formed on a first carrier substrate. In the display device, a second carrier substrate disposed opposite the first carrier substrate is placed above the display portion, but the opposing substrate is not present above the area in which the data-holding circuit is disposed. The parasitic capacitance of the data-holding circuit can thereby be reduced. Therefore, the capacitance in the data-holding circuit can be reduced and the area required can be reduced as well. The display data of all the pixels is sent serially to the liquid crystal module without high-speed transfer for each frame time interval, and size can be reduced because the controller IC and interface circuit are formed on the same substrate as the display device substrate.

Abstract: To provide a display device of high quality and high reliability by securely sealing the gap between the bezel and the display panel even when variation is generated in the gap. The display device includes: a display panel including a display face; a bezel which includes a frame part and an aperture end that is on the inner side of the frame part, and covers the fringe of the display panel on the display face side by the frame part; a frontal panel provided by sandwiching the bezel on the display face side of the display panel; and a resin member provided along the whole circumference of the aperture end of the bezel. The resin member has a first resin member formed on the display face and a second resin member formed to cover over the first resin member and a surface of the bezel opposing to the frontal panel.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer that is formed in an island shape and contains at least one or more elements among indium, gallium, zinc, and tin and oxygen, a source and a drain that are connected to the oxide semiconductor layer; a protective film of at least one or more layers that is formed in an upper layer of the oxide semiconductor layer, and an opening portion that is disposed in the protective film and has a position and a size for including a channel region or a back channel region of the oxide semiconductor layer; and a photodiode that is disposed in an upper layer upper than the oxide semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor and includes a hydrogenated amorphous silicon layer.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal panel and a method of manufacturing method of manufacturing a liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes a first transparent substrate; a second transparent substrate; and a liquid crystal layer formed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate. The first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate have transparency in a visible light region and an ultraviolet absorptive property. At least one of the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate includes a structure arranged in a predetermined region thereof, where the structure transmits ultraviolet rays in a specific wavelength range.

Abstract: A light-modulating element comprises: first and second transparent substrates arranged in opposition to one another; a first transparent electrode arranged on the opposition surface of the first transparent substrate; a plurality of light transmissive regions arranged between the first transparent electrode and the second transparent substrate so as to be separated from one another; a plurality of second transparent electrodes arranged at respective positions on the second transparent substrate opposing the respective light transmissive regions, and that are arranged so as to be separated by a given distance from the respective light transmissive regions; a plurality of third transparent electrodes arranged individually between the second transparent electrodes at a predetermined distance therefrom on the second transparent substrate side; and an electrophoretic member arranged within a gap formed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate, and that includes light-shielding e

Abstract: To provide a touch sensor board and the like capable of improving the visibility of the screen and the manufacture yield simultaneously. The touch sensor board includes a plurality of mutually parallel first electrodes extended along a first direction and a plurality of mutually parallel second electrodes extended along a second direction. Regarding the first and second electrodes, one of those is connected to each electrode element via a same-layer connection pattern while the other is connected to each electrode element via a different-layer connection pattern. The same-layer connection pattern and the different-layer connection pattern overlap on one another via an interlayer film formed by an insulator. Further, the interlayer film is continued from the overlapping part between the same-layer connection pattern and the different-layer connection pattern via a gap part between each of the electrode elements, and the interlayer film is formed to be continued in the gap part.

Abstract: Disclosed are folding type display apparatuses. The folding type display apparatus comprises a flexible display section, and a plurality of housings, which includes a first housing having a space formed therein, and second and third housings bendably connected to both ends of the first housing. The display section is fixed to the second and third housings, and in a closed state of the second and third housings, a folding portion of the display section is housed in the space formed by the first housing, while in an open state of the second and third housings away from each other, the display section becomes flat, and the first housing functions as a leg protruding from flat surfaces of the second and third housings, so that the second and third housings are fixed to each other and the folding portion of the display section is supported, by a holding member for connecting these housings.

Abstract: To provide a substrate laminating apparatus and a substrate laminating method capable of laminating two substrates highly precisely while achieving low cost and saving space. The substrate laminating apparatus includes an upper-substrate camera group provided to a lower vacuum chamber for capturing an image of an upper substrate fixed to an upper vacuum chamber. The upper-substrate camera group captures images of a first upper-substrate alignment mark and a second upper-substrate alignment mark of the upper substrate fixed to the upper vacuum chamber by actions synchronized with the lower vacuum chamber. Thereby, it is possible to save the space and to lower the cost by reducing the number of mechanical components.

Abstract: There is such an issue with the well-known optical element that it is difficult to achieve a high transmittance since the transmittance is determined according to the pattern size of the light transmission regions, so that the luminance of the display device to which such optical element is mounted is deteriorated. Provided is an optical element which employs a structure in which the shape of a conductive pattern where electrophoretic particles cohere in a wide viewing field mode is formed in a comb-like shape and plural stages and plural rows of light transmission regions are disposed in the spaces between the comb teeth. This makes it possible to exclude the electrophoretic particles from the regions other than the comb-like electrode for allowing the light to transmit that part.

Abstract: Provided is a shift register circuit including a single conductive transistor which performs overlap scanning without increasing the number of clock signals and reduces power consumption by avoiding an ineffective through current, a gate driver, and a display apparatus. The shift register circuit includes: a shift register unit having a first output transistor which connects an output terminal and a first power supply; and a first gate control circuit of which an output terminal is connected to a gate terminal of the first output transistor, wherein the first gate control circuit includes a timing generation unit and a buffer unit, the buffer unit is a bootstrap circuit, and an output of the timing generation unit to which an input signal is inputted is used as an input of the buffer unit and an output of the buffer unit is used as an output of the first gate control circuit.

Abstract: A touch sensor device includes: an impedance surface where plural sets of reference coordinates are set at plural locations; plural detection electrodes arranged on the impedance surface; a detection circuit configured to detect electric currents passing the detection electrodes; a storage section storing reference standardized values and reference normalized values; a position coordinate calculation section configured to obtain standardized values calculated by standardizing the electric currents detected in each detection period and to map the standardized values onto position coordinates; a first normalized value calculation section configured to map the position coordinates onto first normalized values; a second normalized value calculation section configured to calculate second normalized values by normalizing the electric currents in each detection period; and a touch gesture detection section configured to detect a motion of pointers on the basis of a time variation of the first normalized values and t

Abstract: To provide an optical element capable of stably securing an intermediate mode between two operations modes. The optical element of the present invention includes: a first transparent substrate; a second transparent substrate provided by opposing to the first transparent substrate; a plurality of first conductive patterns and second conductive patterns disposed in parallel to each other on a face of the first transparent substrate opposing to the second transparent substrate; light transmission regions disposed between the first conductive patterns and the second conductive patterns; a transparent conductive film disposed on a face of the second transparent substrate opposing to the first transparent substrate; and an electrophoretic element disposed between the neighboring light transmission regions, which is constituted with light-shielding electrophoretic particles of a specific electric charge and a transmissive dispersion material.

Abstract: To provide a pixel circuit and the like capable of preventing contrast deterioration caused by leaked light emission at the time of reset actions. The pixel circuit includes: a light emitting element; a driving transistor which supplies an electric current to the light emitting element according to an applied voltage; a capacitor part which holds a voltage containing a threshold voltage and a data voltage of the driving transistor and applies the voltage to the driving transistor; and a switch part which makes the capacitor part hold the voltage containing the threshold voltage and the data voltage. The switch part includes a current detour transistor which makes the electric current supplied from the driving transistor detour to a reference voltage power supply line without going through the light emitting element.

Abstract: An optical device including first and second transparent substrates disposed so that the principal surfaces thereof face each other; conductive light shielding patterns disposed on the principal surface side of the first transparent substrate; a transparent conductive film disposed on the principal surface of the second transparent substrate; a plurality of light transmissive regions disposed on the first transparent substrate; and an electrophoretic element disposed in gaps between each adjacent light transmissive regions is configured such that the dispersion state of electrophoretic particles 61 is changed by externally applied electric fields, thereby changing the range of outgoing directions of transmitted light. Thus, it is possible to relieve a decrease in the amount of charging of an electrophoretic element caused by the ingress of incident light and to ensure operation stability.

Abstract: With an image sensor in which the amplifier circuit is disposed at each pixel, there is such an issue that the threshold voltage of the transistor fluctuates so that the signal voltage fluctuates because a voltage is continuously applied between the source and the gate of the transistor at all times when using the amorphous thin film semiconductor as the transistor that constitutes an amplifier circuit. The gate-source potential of the TFT that constitutes the amplifier circuit is controlled so that the gate terminal voltage becomes smaller than the source terminal voltage in an integrating period where the pixels accumulate the signals, and controlled so that the gate terminal voltage becomes larger than the source terminal voltage in a readout period where the pixels output the signals.

Abstract: Provided is an oxide semiconductor thin film transistor with low parasitic capacitance and high reliability. A thin film transistor includes a substrate, an oxide semiconductor layer including a channel region, a source region, and a drain region, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. The gate insulating film includes one layer or two layers, at least one of the layers of the gate insulating film is a patterned gate insulating film located at a position separated from the source electrode and the drain electrode. A length of a lower surface of the patterned gate insulating film in a channel length direction is greater than a length of a lower surface of the gate electrode in the channel length direction. The length of the lower surface of the patterned gate insulating film in the channel length direction is greater than a length of the channel region in the channel length direction. The source region and the drain region have a higher hydrogen concentration than the channel region.

Abstract: In a pixel array, pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, each of the pixels including a subpixel of the first color having a highest luminosity factor, a subpixel of the second color and a subpixel of the third color having a lowest luminosity factor. A circuit element in each of subpixels of the first color to the third color in each of the pixels is arranged in a row direction. A light emitting region of a subpixel of the first color and a light emitting region of a subpixel of the second color are arranged in the first direction inclined to the row direction. A light emitting region of a subpixel of the third color is arranged in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction, with respect to the light emitting region of the subpixel of the first color and the light emitting region of the subpixel of the second color.

Abstract: A tactile presentation panel includes a support substrate, a drive electrode located on the support substrate, a first insulating film located on the support substrate and covering the drive electrode, a plurality of floating electrodes electrically independent from one another disposed on the first insulating film, and a second insulating film covering the plurality of floating electrodes.