Abstract: This invention provides a color liquid-crystal panel comprising the first substrate having pixel electrodes on which are formed a thin-film transistor as a switching element for each pixel, which is covered by a passivation film, and a color filter layer and a black matrix on the passivation film, which are covered by an overcoat layer, and where the first substrate and the second substrate having a transparent common electrode facing the first substrate are put together via a sealer, forming an inner space which is filled with a liquid-crystal material, wherein a frame-shaped black matrix is formed on the first substrate, covering the periphery of the first substrate.

Abstract: A reflection mode, ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulating system, includes a light reflecting type spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator has a light reflecting surface cooperating with a layer of ferroelectric liquid crystal light modulating medium switchable between first and second states so as to act on light in different first and second ways, respectively. A switching arrangement switches the liquid crystal light modulating medium between the first and second states and an illumination arrangement produces a source of light. An optics arrangement is optically coupled the spatial light modulator and the illumination arrangement such that light is directed from the source of light into the spatial light modulator for reflection back out of the modulator and such that reflected light is directed from the spatial light modulator into a predetermined viewing area.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer; a plurality of row signal lines for driving the liquid crystal layer; and a plurality of column signal lines for driving the liquid crystal layer, wherein an optical state of the liquid crystal layer is varied by a magnetic field produced by at least one signal line of one of the plurality of row signal lines and the plurality of column signal lines.

Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal display superior in mechanical strength, which is capable of enlarging the screen and making the frame narrow. The liquid crystal display is provided with liquid crystal display module positioning parts 9 having positioning ribs 8 located on both side portions of an upper case 1 and positioning holes 9a, in which the positioning ribs 8 are inserted, located on both side portions of a liquid crystal display module 3.

Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device of the present invention has the following construction. A transparent electrode is provided via color filter layer on a transparent substrate positioned at the upper side of the device. A metallic reflective electrode is provided on a substrate positioned at the lower side of the device. An alignment layer is provided on the transparent electrode and on the metallic reflective electrode respectively. The transparent substrate positioned at the upper side and the substrate positioned at the lower side are arranged parallel to each other with alignment films provided on the transparent electrode and on the metallic reflective electrode facing each other. A liquid crystal layer is provided between the alignment films. A scattering film is provided on a surface of the transparent substrate positioned at the upper side opposite to the surface where the transparent electrode is provided.

Abstract: To provide a novel and extremely effective structure of a liquid crystal display device in which the lowering of reflectivity due to the formation of orientation films can be prevented, a method of manufacturing the display device of the present invention comprises forming a concave or convex portion on a reflection electrode, forming a dielectric multi-layer film thereon, to thereby obtain the liquid crystal display device excellent in reflection characteristics and diffused reflection characteristics.

Abstract: A display panel capable of supplying necessary signals and power source at low resistance to a semiconductor integrated circuit chip mounted on a display panel is disclosed. Herein, electric signals are supplied to terminal electrodes of the scanning lines and signal lines by mounting a driving integrated circuit chip directly on the terminal electrode disposed on the active substrate. Further, electric connection to the driving integrated circuit chip is achieved by mounting a printed circuit board having a larger opening than the outside shape of the driving integrated circuit chip and forming wiring lines at the mounting position of the driving integrated circuit chip mounted on the active substrate and its vicinity, on outside of the image display region of the active substrate.

Abstract: Manufacture of a display device for a touch panel display, for example, an LCD (20) is simplified by attaching parts of the display panel, for example, a light-scattering film (27) and a polarizer (28) to a substrate (11) of the touch panel (10).

Abstract: A liquid crystal color filter may include an infrared blocking. dye integrated within the filter to prevent infrared radiation from adversely affecting the performance of the filter when used in an imaging system. The dye may be incorporated into a liquid crystal element in the filter or may be coated on components thereof. Suitable dyes are transmissive of light in the visible range and substantially absorbent of light in the infrared range from approximately 800 nm to 1200 nm in wavelength.

Abstract: The present invention provides a light scattering film, including a plurality of first transparent regions each having a fibril-like cross section, and a plurality of second transparent regions differing in refractive index range from the first transparent region, wherein each of the first transparent regions is positioned to permit the long axis of the fibril-like cross section to cross one main surface of the film and to permit each of the fibril-like cross sections of the first transparent regions to be sandwiched between adjacent second transparent regions in a direction of the short axis of the fibril-like cross section. The present invention also provides a liquid crystal display device, having a liquid crystal panel and a light scattering film formed on one main surface of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel structure in which each of two insertion strips has a fixing face and sliding face. The sliding face is slidably fitted with an insertion section of a casing. After a liquid crystal display face fixed with the insertion strips is placed into the casing, the sliding faces of the insertion strips coincide with the insertion sections. After the display face is slid toward one end of the casing, the sliding faces are inserted into clearances defined by the insertion sections. The insertion sections of the casing further include at feast one locating post. The insertion strip is formed with a locating hole corresponding to the locating post, whereby the display face can be more easily and quickly assembled to the casing.

Abstract: A liquid crystal material having a negative dielectric constant anisotropy is provided between first and second substrates and aligned homeotropically. Pixel electrodes each having a slit are provided on the first substrate. Color filters for giving red, green and blue are arranged in the pixels. A projection pattern is formed on the second substrate so as to divide the pixels into small areas. The slit of each pixel electrode is spaced from the projection pattern so as to divide, together with the projection pattern, the pixels into domains. The width of the slit of a pixel among the red, green, and blue pixels is different from that of the other pixel. The coloring of the display screen occurring during white display is suppressed.

Abstract: A wide-viewing angle liquid crystal display having parallel-laid first and second glass panel and a liquid crystal layer in-between. A common line, a transparent insulation layer, a transparent electrode layer and protrusion elements are sequentially laid over the inner surface of the first glass panel, and may include slits. The common line layout incorporates a photomask pattern for forming the protrusion elements during backside exposure. Location and area of the protrusion elements overlaps with a portion of the common line. Furthermore, the protrusion elements and the slits are alternately positioned. In addition, signal bus line and transparent passivation layer can be inserted between the transparent insulation layer and the transparent electrode layer. A portion of the signal bus line and the common line overlap so that area and location of the protrusion elements, a portion of the signal bus line and a portion of the common line overlap.

Abstract: A flat-panel display device is provided, that does not allow deformation due to fastening forces of a male screw even despite a gap which is created by a dimensional tolerance or the like between a bezel disposed to a display cell and a housing. Female screws 26 formed in a bezel 22 are deformable in a direction toward an inner surface of the housing 25. The fastening force of male screws 27, which penetrates a side wall portion 25a of the housing 25 in which the display cell 11 is housed and a side-surface portion 24 of the bezel 22 and which engages with the female screws 26 formed in the bezel 22, does not cause large deformation.

Abstract: A device main body is formed portable, which includes (i) an information writing/erasing section which erases information recorded in a liquid crystal paper and returns the liquid crystal paper into an initialized state in which information recording is possible, and records information previously stored in the device main body into the initialized liquid crystal paper as required, and (ii) a sheet holding section which holds the liquid crystal paper in such a manner that the liquid crystal paper can be transported to an information erasure position and an information recording position in the information writing/erasing section and that the liquid crystal paper is curved at portions thereof other than those at which information recording and erasing is carried out. With this, it is possible to provide an information recording device with improved operability, such as improved portability and capability of easily reading out information at any place.

Abstract: Parasitic capacity between Cs lines and source lines forming a pixel section is reduced, whereby characteristic resistant to crosstalk is achieved, aperture ratio is increased, and brightness of LCD is increased. The Cs lines are arranged on the source lines in such a manner as to cover the source lines, and pixel electrodes are arranged and formed on the Cs lines in such a manner as to partially overlap. By forming a structure in which the source lines, the Cs lines and the pixel electrodes are laminated in order, parasitic capacity between the Cs lines and the source lines forming a pixel section can be reduced, and crosstalk can be minimized. As a distance between the source lines and the pixel electrodes can be reduced from the viewpoint of a plan view, aperture ratio can be improved.

Abstract: The improved liquid-crystal display apparatus has a liquid-crystal display panel, a backlight section that issues collimated light launched and a light diffusing plate and satisfies either the relation p/tan &thgr;≦L or d×tan &thgr;≦A, or the both relations, where p is the average pitch of emergence of the collimated light, &thgr; is the divergence angle of the collimated light, L is the distance from the collimating plate to the interface in the liquid-crystal layer of the liquid-crystal display panel which is directed to the collimating plate, d is the distance from the light diffusing plate to the interface in the liquid-crystal layer of the liquid-crystal display panel which is directed to the light diffusing plate, and A is the pixel size of the liquid-crystal display panel. The apparatus can display images of high contrast and quality over a wide range of viewing angles without having unevenness and blur.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process of preparing a multilayer cholesteric film comprising two or more layers of polymerized cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) material with planar orientation, with the cholesteric helix axis oriented substantially perpendicular to the plane of the layer, wherein that the cholesteric helical pitch of adjacent layers is varied by controlled migration of a non-polymerized chiral material between the layers, to a multilayer cholesteric film obtainable by such a process, and to the use of the process and a multilayer cholesteric film thereby prepared in optical elements such as polarizers, compensators, alignment layers, color filters or holographic elements, in cosmetics and liquid crystal pigments, for decorative and security applications.

Abstract: The present invention provides an active matrix type display device having a high aperture ratio and a required auxiliary capacitor. A source line and a gate line are overlapped with part of a pixel electrode. This overlapped region functions to be a black matrix. Further, an electrode pattern made of the same material as the pixel electrode is disposed to form the auxiliary capacitor by utilizing the pixel electrode. It allows a required value of auxiliary capacitor to be obtained without dropping the aperture ratio. Also, it allows the electrode pattern to function as a electrically shielding film for suppressing the cross-talk between the source and gate lines and the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a passivation layer and a liquid crystal display. For the fabrication method, a substrate is provided. An oxide layer, a first silicon nitride layer, a spin-on-glass (SOG) layer, and a second silicon nitride layer are sequentially formed over the substrate. The liquid crystal display has a controller, a dielectric layer, a metal layer, an oxide layer, a first silicon nitride layer, a spin-on-glass layer, and a second silicon nitride layer. The dielectric layer is positioned over the controller. A metal layer is positioned over the dielectric layer. An oxide layer is formed over the metal layer. A first silicon nitride layer is formed over the oxide layer. A spin-on-glass (SOG) layer is formed over the first silicon nitride layer. A second silicon nitride layer is formed over the SOG layer.