Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor layer, an interlayer insulating layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged above the interlayer insulating layer, a common electrode arranged between the pixel electrode and the interlayer insulating layer and also configured to function as a touch sensor electrode, a first dielectric layer arranged between the interlayer insulating layer and the common electrode, a second dielectric layer arranged between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, a plurality of touch wiring lines arranged between the interlayer insulating layer and the common electrode and formed of a third conductive film, and a plurality of pixel contact portions, in which each of the plurality of pixel contact portions includes a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, a connection electrode formed of the third conductive film and electrically connected to the drain electrode in a lower opening formed in the interlayer i

Abstract: A plurality of gate bus lines are scanned one by one such that a video signal is written, via a corresponding source bus line, into each of pixel forming sections provided in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. When a sensor electrode is driven to detect a touch position, the scanning of the gate bus lines is stopped. Operation of a gate driver and operation of a touch sensor drive circuit are controlled such that, when the sensor electrode is driven, a stop row that is a row at which the scanning of the gate bus lines is stopped is different in each of a first frame period and a second frame period that are two consecutive frame periods.

Abstract: Provided is an optical element including: a liquid crystal cell including a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate; and a quarter-wave film. The liquid crystal layer contains liquid crystal molecules twist-aligned. The liquid crystal cell includes electrodes. The electrodes are disposed to enable switching between a first state and a second state by application of voltage to the liquid crystal layer. The switching between the first state and the second state controls a polarization state of light incident on the liquid crystal cell. Circularly polarized light incident on the liquid crystal cell is converted to first linearly polarized light in the first state while converted to second linearly polarized light in the second state. Linearly polarized light incident on the liquid crystal cell is converted to first circularly polarized light in the first state while converted to second circularly polarized light in the second state.

Abstract: A wiring board includes position detection lines, position detection electrodes, a line, connection lines, and a short-circuit line. The position detection lines extend along a first direction and transmit at least position detection signals. The position detection electrodes are arranged at intervals with respect to the first direction and connected to the position detection lines. The line is disposed between the position detection electrodes that are adjacent to each other with respect to the first direction and the line extends in a second direction that crosses the first direction. The connection lines extend along the first direction and are connected to the position detection electrodes. The connection lines are arranged at intervals with respect to the second direction. The short-circuit line extends along the second direction and overlaps the line via an insulating film and is connected to the connection lines.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion panel includes: a thin film transistor; a first organic film formed in an upper layer with respect to the thin film transistor; a photoelectric conversion element formed in an upper layer with respect to the first organic film; and a first inorganic insulating film formed so as to cover at least a part of the first organic film, wherein the first inorganic insulating film has a through hole that exposes a part of the first organic film.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes an active matrix substrate including a first electrode, a first insulating layer, and second electrodes including a first linear electrode; a color filter substrate including a black matrix, a color filter layer, a third electrode including second linear electrodes, and a fourth electrode which is a floating electrode. The third electrode and the fourth electrode are disposed between the black matrix and the liquid crystal layer. The second linear electrodes extend in a second direction and each overlap a portion of the black matrix extending in the second direction. The fourth electrode is disposed between the second linear electrodes and overlaps the black matrix in a plan view. The control circuit switches between application of driving voltage and application of constant voltage to the third electrode.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal panel capable of achieving a small light-shielding angle in a narrow viewing angle mode and a display device including the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel sequentially includes: a first polarizing plate with a first absorption axis; a first substrate including a first electrode; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules; and a second substrate including a second electrode, wherein in a plan view, a director of the liquid crystal molecules with no voltage applied and the first absorption axis form an angle ? of not smaller than 5° and not greater than 20° or not smaller than 65° and not greater than 80°.

Abstract: When binary pixel data is written to a pixel circuit, of an H-level (3V) and a L-level (0V), a voltage of the level indicating the binary pixel data is held at a first node, and a voltage of the inverted level thereof is held at a second node. The first and second nodes are connected to a third node via N-channel transistors, respectively, and first and second selection control signals are supplied to gate terminals of the transistors, respectively. Voltage levels of the first and second selection control signals are periodically switched between 5V indicating the H-level and 0V indicating the L-level in a mutually inverted manner. As a result, the voltage of the first node and the voltage of the second node are alternately selected and applied to a pixel electrode of a display element.

Abstract: Provided is an optical element including: a first liquid crystal cell including first liquid crystal molecules and a first electrode; and a second liquid crystal cell including second liquid crystal molecules and a second electrode, the first and second electrodes disposed to enable switching between a first state twist-aligning the second liquid crystal molecules and vertically aligning the first liquid crystal molecules and a second state twist-aligning the first liquid crystal molecules and vertically aligning the second liquid crystal molecules. Alignment directions of the second liquid crystal molecules near a third substrate and the second liquid crystal molecules near a fourth substrate in the first state are respectively at azimuthal angles resulting from a ¼ turn in the same direction of azimuthal angles of alignment directions of the first liquid crystal molecules near the first substrate and the first liquid crystal molecules near the second substrate in the second state.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a backlight, at least one first circuit substrate having at least one first connector, a second circuit substrate having at least one second connector, and at least one flexible flat cable (FFC). By bending at a plurality of bending positions, one of a front face and a back face at a first end of the at least one FFC faces the backlight side and another of the front face and the back face at a second end of the at least one FFC faces the backlight side. The first end is connected to the at least one first connector, and the second end is connected to the at least one second connector.

Abstract: A backlight unit includes an LED substrate including a first main surface and a second main surface on a side opposite to the first main surface, a plurality of LED elements arranged on the first main surface, one or more drive IC elements arranged on the second main surface, a chassis disposed on the second main surface side of the LED substrate, and one or more IC element covers each being in direct or indirect contact with a corresponding drive IC element of the one or more drive IC elements. The chassis includes one or more protrusions respectively corresponding to the one or more drive IC elements. Each of the one or more protrusions includes an opening that exposes the corresponding drive IC element when viewed from a normal direction of the second main surface. The IC element cover fits in the protrusion.

Abstract: A reflective sheet is attached to a front face of a light source substrate so as to cover a head portion of a fixing member, a bridge across the head portion of the fixing member is formed by providing a slit in the reflective sheet, and the bridge is disposed so as to pass through a central portion of a region surrounded by four light sources around the head portion of the fixing member.

Abstract: Provided are an optical element that can achieve both color difference control and luminance reduction at an oblique viewing angle, and a liquid crystal display device including the optical element and having excellent display quality. The optical element includes: a first polarizer; a first phase difference layer; a second phase difference layer; and a second polarizer, the first polarizer, the first phase difference layer, the second phase difference layer, and the second polarizer being arranged in the stated order, the first phase difference layer satisfying the formula nx>ny?nz, the second phase difference layer satisfying the formula nz>nx?ny, the first polarizer and the second polarizer being linear polarizers, transmission axes of the first polarizer and the second polarizer being parallel to each other, a slow axis of the first phase difference layer being orthogonal to a polarization axis of the first polarizer.

Abstract: A plurality of pixel electrodes are provided in a display region. A plurality of pixel transistors corresponding to the plurality of pixel electrodes in a one-to-one manner are provided in a region outside the display region. Each of the pixel transistors is connected to the corresponding pixel electrode by a pixel wiring line. An input pad group, to which a drive signal group for driving the plurality of pixel transistors is input, is provided on a TFT substrate. Here, of a region on the TFT substrate, the plurality of pixel transistors are provided only in a region other than a region between the input pad group and the display region.

Abstract: In an image processing device, for each of one or two or more picture elements among a plurality of picture elements, the one or two or more picture elements having an input grayscale value included in the input image data being equal to or less than a first predetermined value, the second panel data correction unit corrects the second aperture ratio of each of at least one pixel among the plurality of pixels, the at least one pixel facing the one or two or more picture elements, so that an actual transmittance gets closer to a theoretical transmittance, and the first panel data generation unit generates the first aperture ratio for each of the plurality of picture elements by dividing a normalized input grayscale value included in the input image data by a normalized luminance included in the panel luminance distribution data.

Abstract: A common electrode driver includes an inverting amplifier including a first resistor, a second resistor, and an operational amplifier, and a resistance ratio adjustment circuit that adjusts, in accordance with a length of one horizontal scan period, a resistance ratio being a ratio of a resistance value of the second resistor to a resistance value of the first resistor. A feedback voltage is provided to one end of the first resistor. The resistance ratio adjustment circuit sets the resistance ratio when second driving is performed, in which a length of one horizontal scan period is a second time longer than a first time, to be smaller than the resistance ratio when first driving is performed, in which a length of one horizontal scan period is the first time.

Abstract: An in-cell touch panel device includes a first substrate, a plurality of color filters formed on an upper layer with respect to the first substrate and including a green color filter, a transmitter electrode formed on an upper layer with respect to the plurality of color filters, a receiver electrode formed on a lower layer with respect to the plurality of color filters, and a second substrate including a pixel electrode disposed on the second substrate. The transmitter electrode includes a gap portion formed in a portion overlapping the receiver electrode in a plan view and in a portion overlapping the green color filter in a plan view.

Abstract: An illumination device includes a plurality of light sources arranged in a row, a light guide plate having a plate shape and including a first end face at an outer peripheral end face of the light guide plate and a first main surface included in a pair of main surfaces of the light guide plate, the first end face facing the plurality of light sources and being configured to receive incident light, the first main surface being configured to emit light, and a plurality of first lenses disposed at the first main surface, arranged along a first direction, and extending along a second direction, the first direction being an arrangement direction of the plurality of light sources, the second direction intersecting the first direction and extending along the first main surface.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal lens including: a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and containing liquid crystal molecules. The first substrate includes a Fresnel lens and a first electrode sequentially toward the liquid crystal layer. The second substrate includes a second electrode. The Fresnel lens includes a Fresnel-shaped part including annular lens surfaces in a concentric circle pattern and a flat part including a flat surface that extends in a radial direction of the concentric circle and intersects at least one of the annular lens surfaces. The annular lens surfaces are on a liquid crystal layer-facing surface of the Fresnel-shaped part and defines an uneven surface. The flat surface is on the liquid crystal layer-facing surface of the flat part.