Abstract: A display unit is provided including: a display panel having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged; a first polarization plate and a second polarization plate that face each other with the display panel in between; and an illumination device configured to illuminate the display panel through the first polarization plate. The illumination device includes a light modulation layer provided in a clearance between first and second transparent substrates, the light modulation layer being configured to exhibit scattering property or transparency of the light from the light source depending on a magnitude of an electric field. The light modulation layer includes a first portion having optical anisotropy, and relatively high responsiveness to the electric field, and a second portion having optical anisotropy, and relatively low responsiveness to the electric field.

Abstract: A display device of the present invention includes a wiring and an electrode over a substrate, a resin film formed over the electrode, and a sealing material formed over the resin film, wherein the sealing material overlaps a portion of the resin film, a portion of the electrode and a portion of the wiring.

Abstract: A display panel comprises a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first transparent conductive layer and a first alignment layer. The first transparent conductive layer includes a first surface and has at least a first notch, the first alignment layer includes a first part and a second part, the first part is disposed in the first notch, the second part is disposed on the first surface, and the surface roughness of the first part of the first alignment layer is greater than that of the second part. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A display device having the display panel is also disclosed.

Abstract: It relates to an LCD touch screen and applications integrating single layer capacitive sensor, comprising first underlayer, second underlayer, liquid crystal imaging material and control circuit. It also comprises capacitive touch sensor, which comprises an electrode layer set between the said first underlayer and second underlayer. The said electrode layer comprises electrodes and electrode conductors which are used for electric connection of various electrodes; both of the said electrodes and electrode conductors are set in the same plane. In the invention, the single layer capacitive sensor is set inside of the LCD touch screen, so as to reduce the thickness of the LCD touch screen, conforming to the development tendency of LCD touch screen to thin even ultra-thin ones.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to a liquid crystal display and a manufacturing method thereof, and more particularly, to a liquid crystal display including an alignment layer pattern and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal display includes a lower panel including a first alignment layer and a signal line. An upper panel faces the lower panel and uncovers an end portion of the signal line of the lower panel. A sealant is positioned between the lower panel and the upper panel and couples the lower panel and the upper panel with each other. The first alignment layer includes a coated region positioned between a first removed region overlapping the end portion of the signal line and a second removed region overlapping the sealant. The first alignment layer does not exist in the first removed region and the second removed region.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to display devices comprising a watermark area and a non-watermark area. The display cells in the watermark area have widths of the partition walls, heights of the partition walls, or top opening shapes, which are different from those of the display cells in the non-watermark area. The watermark aims to protect against counterfeiting or to be used for decoration purposes. The watermark is visible at certain viewing angles and/or under certain lighting conditions and it does not interfere with displaying of the regular images.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates and guide patterns provided at a periphery of one substrate of the pair of substrates. The guide patterns include a first projection, a second projection on the first projection, a pair of third projections provided on each side of the first and second projections, and a pair of fourth projections formed on the pair of third projections respectively. A seal material is provided on the guide patterns and covering at least one of the first projection and the second projection, and a liquid crystal layer is provided in an area partitioned by the pair of substrates and the seal material.

Abstract: In an amorphous silicon thin film transistor-liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing the same, gate patterns including a gate line and a gate electrode are formed on an insulation substrate having a display region and a driving circuit region on which a plurality of shift resistors are formed. A gate insulating film, active layer patterns and data patterns including source/drain electrodes are formed successively on the substrate. A passivation layer on the substrate has a first contact hole exposing a drain electrode of the display region and second and third contact holes respectively exposing a gate electrode and source/drain electrode of a first transistor of each of the shift resistors.

Abstract: An environmental sensitive electronic device package having side wall barrier structure may include a first substrate, a second substrate, an environmental sensitive electronic device, a first adhesive, a third substrate, at least one first side wall barrier structure, and a second adhesive. The environmental sensitive electronic device is located on the first substrate. The first adhesive is located between the first and second substrates and covers the environmental sensitive electronic device. The third substrate is located below the first substrate. The first substrate is located between the second and third substrates. The first side wall barrier structure is located on the third substrate and between the first and the third substrates, wherein the first side wall barrier structure is embedded in the first substrate. The second adhesive is located between the first and third substrates and covers the second first side wall barrier structure.

Abstract: A stereoscopic display apparatus comprising: a display element, a liquid crystal lens being set in front of the display element. The liquid crystal lens comprises a first electrode made of a plane-like transparent electrode, and a second electrode having plural comb-like transparent electrodes, a liquid crystal layer is held between the first electrode and the second electrode. A pitch of the liquid crystal lens is changed, by changing the pattern of voltage to be applied to the comb-like transparent electrodes, an individual voltage according to the pattern of voltage is applied to each of the plural comb-like transparent electrodes, the pitch of the liquid crystal lens is changed depending on a position of an observer with respect to the stereoscopic display panel, in front/back direction. Thus, the stereoscopic display apparatus can provide proper images even as a viewer moves in the front/back direction with respect to the stereoscopic display panel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal lens device and an image display apparatus are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, the liquid crystal lens device includes a liquid crystal optical unit and a drive unit. The liquid crystal optical unit includes a first substrate unit having a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, and a second substrate unit having a first opposing electrode. The drive unit controls voltages between the first electrodes and the first opposing electrode and between the second electrodes and the first opposing electrode by changing the voltage between the second electrodes and the first opposing electrode from a third voltage to a fourth voltage after changing the voltage between the first electrodes and the first opposing electrode from a first voltage to a second voltage. In some embodiments, the liquid crystal lens device is included in the image display apparatus along with an image display unit.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes a first polarizing plate having a first compensating layer, a first polarizing layer and a first protecting layer on an outer surface of a first substrate, and a second polarizing plate having a second compensating layer, a second polarizing layer and a second protecting layer on an outer surface of a second substrate. The first compensating layer includes a positive B-plate where nz>nx>ny, and the second compensating layer includes a positive B-plate where nz>nx>ny, such that nx, ny, and nz represents refractive indexes of the first and second compensating layers along the x, y, and z axes, respectively, wherein the x and y axes represents a plane direction of the first and second compensating layers, and the z-axis represents a thickness direction of the first and second compensating layers.

Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a first polarizer, a second polarizer and a viewing angle control layer. The second substrate faces the first substrate. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A first polarizer is disposed on a lower surface of the first substrate and includes a first polarizing layer and a second polarizing layer stacked on each other. A second polarizer is disposed on an upper surface of the second substrate. A viewing angle control layer is disposed on the first polarizer and is configured to control a viewing angle of a column direction of the display panel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided that prevents the cracking of a display panel without an increase in size. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a cover plate arranged to face a surface of the liquid crystal display panel on which an image is displayed, and a backlight arranged to face a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight includes a frame facing a peripheral part of the back surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel has a planar shape in which at least one corner part of a rectangle is cut away. The frame includes a columnar part which rises in a direction toward the cover plate and fits in an area where the at least one corner part is cut away.

Abstract: In a bottom gate thin film transistor using a first oxide semiconductor layer as a channel layer, the first oxide semiconductor layer and second semiconductor layers include In and O. An (O/In) ratio of the second oxide semiconductor layers is equal to or larger than that of the first oxide semiconductor layer, and a film thickness thereof is thicker than that of the first oxide semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A touch display apparatus includes a base substrate, a light blocking semiconductor pattern disposed on the base substrate and configured to block a visible light and transmit an infrared light, a sensing element disposed on the light blocking semiconductor pattern and configured to detect a touch position using an incident infrared light, a driving element configured to drive the sensing element, a signal line electrically connected with the sensing element or the driving element, and a wiring connecting part disposed under the signal line and including a same material as the light blocking semiconductor pattern.

Abstract: A slim bezel liquid crystal display device includes a rear enclosure, a front enclosure mating the rear enclosure, and a liquid crystal display module arranged inside the rear enclosure. The quid crystal display module has two opposite sides each forming a raised portion that includes a constraint section and an extension section extending from a middle portion of a free end of the constraint section. The rear enclosure forms retention sections in the form of recesses corresponding to the extension sections, such that the retention sections are respectively receivable in the recesses so as to fix the liquid crystal display module in the rear enclosure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a backplane and a backlight module and a liquid crystal display device using the backplane. The backplane includes: a bottom plate (2) and multiple side plates (4) connected to the bottom plate (2). The bottom plate (2) includes a base section (22) and a mounting section (24) connected to a lateral edge of the base section (22). The base section (22) has two ends that are each provided with a stepwise structure (222) for mounting a curved light guide plate to an inner side thereof. The mounting sections (24) has an outside surface that is curved for mounting a circuit board. The base section (22) has an outside surface on which first reinforcement ribs (226) and second reinforcement ribs (228) perpendicularly connected thereto are formed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided, which includes a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer having an opening, a light-transmitting chromatic-color resin layer between the thin film transistor and the second electrode layer, and a liquid crystal layer. One of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer is a pixel electrode layer which is electrically connected to the thin film transistor, and the other of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer is a common electrode layer. The light-transmitting chromatic-color resin layer is overlapped with the pixel electrode layer and the oxide semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device is provided including: a backlight module comprising a light source; a first substrate comprising a plurality of TFTs, and the first substrate is arranged above the backlight module; a second substrate arranged above the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; a color filter comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, the color filter is arranged between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and a gap is arranged between the adjacent pixels; a phosphor power layer arranged between the liquid crystal layer and the first substrate or arranged between the color filter and the liquid crystal layer; and wherein portions of the phosphor power layer corresponding to the gaps on the color filter are removed, and lights emitted from the light source passes through the phosphor powder layer and arrive at the color filter.