Abstract: A capacitor charged beforehand is discharged according to a light surrounding a display unit. A data is decreased similarly to the voltage between the electrodes of the capacitor. A trigger signal is outputted if the data becomes equal to or less than a threshold value. A clock signal whose cycle of changing levels gradually becomes long is generated. A count value is updated at each change of the clock signal's level and the updated count value is outputted. The count value is sampled when the trigger signal is outputted.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, which is configured to have a liquid crystal layer held between a pair of substrates, includes a display area including a red color pixel, a green color pixel and a blue color pixel, a pixel electrode which is disposed in each of the color pixels, a counter-electrode which is opposed to the pixel electrode via an interlayer insulation film, and an alignment film which is disposed in contact with the liquid crystal layer and is subjected to such rubbing treatment as to restrict alignment of liquid crystal molecules included in the liquid crystal layer. The pixel electrode has a slit which is formed to be inclined with respect to a direction of rubbing of the alignment film, and the slit of the red pixel and the slit of the blue pixel are formed to be inclined in different directions.

Abstract: A thin film transistor layer including a thin film transistor is formed at a liquid crystal layer side of a color filter layer on an array substrate. Since it becomes possible to form the color filter layer at a position on a relatively flat glass substrate, satisfactory characteristics of the color filter layer can be obtained. The color filter layer is unlikely to have influence on the thin film transistor layer, so that the yield can be improved.

Abstract: A device includes a first substrate including a pixel electrode and an underlayer electrode a part of which is opposed to the pixel electrode, a second substrate including a counter-electrode which is opposed to the pixel electrode, and a layer which is held between the first and the second substrate, and which is in a first state prior to power-on and transitions to a second state, at a time of a display operation, wherein the pixel electrode includes a first part that passes light and a second part that reflects light, the second part includes a projection which is opposed to the counter-electrode, and a transverse electric field generating section, which is provided near the projection so as to generate a transverse electric field between the underlayer electrode and the second part, is disposed at an end portion of the second part, which is opposed to the underlying electrode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a flat display device which makes drive voltage polarity of pixels of adjacent lines reversed polarity, while drives to reverse drive voltage polarity of the same line on a frame-by-frame basis, has common voltage generation circuit for supplying a common voltage signal to a facing electrode of the flat display device and a control circuit for generating a common voltage control signal supplied to the common voltage generation circuit. The control circuit obtains a control signal for generating common voltage whose average DC potential does not vary, by using a horizontal synchronization timing signal, a vertical synchronization timing signal, and a clock signal. In order to obtain the control signal, the device has an (fh/2) signal generation circuit, an (fv/2) signal generation circuit, an (fh×n) signal generation circuit, an multiplication circuit, a selection control circuit, and a selection circuit.

Abstract: A precharge voltage Vp is applied in period A. The precharge voltage Vp is generated by applying a constant current Iw to a pixel driving transistor of a display panel and using gate terminal voltage of the driving transistor which passes the constant current Iw. The gate terminal potential is held in memory. When displaying images on a display panel, the gate terminal potential is read out of memory, and used as the precharge voltage Vp after arithmetic processing. By the application of the precharge voltage Vp, a source signal line is charged and discharged quickly so that an almost target tone current will flow through the driving transistor. Furthermore, a more accurate program current is written into the pixel during period B.

Abstract: Electrode slit portions are formed in a pixel electrode in a direction of crossing a slit for dividing a liquid crystal layer into a plurality of domains. A titanium oxide film is formed so as to be exposed to the liquid crystal layer side via the electrode slit portions, the titanium oxide film having a relative dielectric constant higher than that of an organic film formed at positions corresponding to the electrode slit portions. By the titanium oxide film, an electric field of each domain is set, angles between the director in the vicinity of the electrode slit portion and transmission axes of polarizing plates are made to approximately 45°, and a decrease in transmittance caused by the falling direction of the director can be suppressed. The transmittance and contrast ratio are secured, and simultaneously an excellent wide viewing angle range can be obtained.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel PNL including a pair of mutually opposed substrates, a display section which is composed of a plurality of matrix-arrayed display pixels, and a peripheral region surrounding the display section, a driving circuit, which drives the display pixels, a controller which controls the driving circuit, and a power supply circuit which supplies power to the driving circuit and the controller, wherein the controller and the power supply circuit are built in a 1-chip system IC and are disposed on the peripheral region.

Abstract: An operative reflection and absorption plate including a substrate having a moth eye structure on its surface is used, whereby an absorbing status and a reflecting status can be realized without using a polarizing plate, and a display element exhibiting a bright and high contrast can be obtained.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes liquid crystal pixels arrayed substantially in a matrix, a vertical driving circuit that selects the rows of pixels for video signal writing and for non-video signal writing, a horizontal driving circuit that writes a video signal in the pixels of a row selected for the video signal writing and a non-video signal in the pixels of a row selected for the non-video signal writing, and a control circuit that controls operation timings of the horizontal driving circuit and vertical driving circuit. In particular, the vertical driving circuit is configured to set a selection pattern for disabling an overlap between a selection period of selecting the pixels of each row for the video signal writing and a selection period of selecting the pixels of another row for the non-video signal writing, based on enable signals from the control circuit.

Abstract: A peripheral part of a substrate 1A includes a straight line part 1a. Similarly, a peripheral part of a substrate 1B includes a straight line part. A peripheral part of a polarizing plate 2 is formed of a curved part, and includes a straight line part 2a.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate having a power supply line for supplying a power voltage to a counter electrode of a counter substrate. The power supply line connects a power pad arranged at a corner of the array substrate to a common line which is arranged between an active area and a seal portion, crossing the seal portion provided at a peripheral portion of the array substrate so as to surround the active area. The array substrate further includes at least two block elements with a convex shape for blocking the flowing out of the sealing element to the active area. The block elements are arranged so as to cross the power supply line and face the power supply pad. A gap between the block elements and the counter substrate is smaller than a gap between the slit formed by the adjacent block elements and the counter substrate.

Abstract: An array substrate of a liquid crystal display device includes an insulating substrate, a gate line extending in a first direction on the insulating substrate, a first insulation film which is disposed to cover the gate line, pixel electrodes which are disposed on the first insulation film in respective pixels, a source line which is disposed on the first insulation film and extends between the pixel electrodes along a second direction, a second insulation film which is disposed to cover the pixel electrode and the source line, and a common electrode which is disposed on the second insulation film in a manner to face the pixel electrode of each of the pixels and to face the gate line, and includes a slit which is opposed to the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A base layer of a bent portion of a FPC is formed on the front side thereof with second ground bent lines arranged in a mesh pattern and third ground bent lines intersecting with the second ground bent lines in a lateral direction, and on the back side thereof with first ground bent lines along the bending direction. The first ground bent lines are electrically connected to the second ground bent lines and the third ground bent lines via through holes.

Abstract: An organic EL display includes an organic EL element including a pair of electrodes and an emitting layer interposed therebetween and having an optical resonator structure, and a coloring layer facing the organic EL element. A wavelength ?res of a light component with the maximum intensity that the organic EL element emits in a normal direction is shorter than a wavelength at which the coloring layer exhibits the maximum transmittance.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel DP in which liquid crystal pixels PX are connected to a source line X via pixel switching elements, and a display control circuit CNT which performs non-video signal writing for driving the source line X according to a non-video signal and applying the potential of the source line X to one of the liquid crystal pixels PX via a selected one of the pixel switching elements T and performs video signal writing for driving the source line X according to a video signal and applying the potential of the source line X to one of the liquid crystal pixels PX via a selected one of the pixel switching elements T.

Abstract: A display device includes scanning lines disposed along rows of display pixels, signal lines disposed along columns of the display pixels, pixel switches disposed near intersections between the scanning lines and the signal lines, pixel electrodes connected to the pixel switches, a counter-electrode disposed to be opposed to the pixel electrodes, storage capacitance lines disposed substantially parallel to the scanning lines, first inspection switches connected to the scanning lines in a peripheral section, second inspection switches connected to the signal lines in the peripheral section, a first wiring line which supplies a signal for turning on/off the first inspection switches, a second wiring line which supplies a signal for turning on/off the second inspection switches, and a third wiring line which applies a signal to the counter-electrode and the storage capacitance lines.

Abstract: An organic EL display includes plural pixels, each including a drive control element, an organic EL element and an output control switch. The drive control element includes a control terminal, a first terminal connected to a first power supply terminal, and a second terminal outputting a current with a magnitude corresponding to a voltage between the control terminal and the first terminal. The organic EL element includes a first electrode, a second electrode connected to a second power supply terminal, and an active layer interposed between the first and second electrodes. The output control switch is connected between the second terminal and the first electrode. In a part of the pixels, a conductive path electrically connecting the first electrode to the first power supply terminal is broken at a portion which connects the output control switch to the first electrode.

Abstract: In order to charge and discharge parasitic capacitance of a source signal line sufficiently and program a predetermined current value into a pixel transistor, it is necessary to output a relatively large current from the source driver circuit. However, if such a large current is passed through the source signal line, the value of this current is programmed into the pixel, causing a larger than desired current to flow through an EL element. For example, if a 10 times larger current is used for programming, a 10 times larger current flows through the EL element, and thus the EL element illuminates 10 times more brightly. To obtain predetermined emission brightness, the time during which the current flows through the EL element can be reduced to 1/10 of one frame (1 F). This way, the parasitic capacitance of the source signal line can be charged and discharged sufficiently and the predetermined emission brightness can be obtained.

Abstract: An organic EL element includes a pair of electrodes and an emitting layer interposed therebetween. The emitting layer is made of a mixture containing a host material and a dopant material. In the emitting layer, a concentration profile of the dopant material along a thickness direction includes at least two relative maximums or at least two relative minimums.