Abstract: Provided is a peptide and method in preventing or treating infections caused by a wide spectrum of pathogens, including bacteria and fungus in hosts such as plants and animals. Methods of preventing or treating plant diseases and infection in animals are also provided.

Abstract: A lateral electric field type liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprises a first substrate formed with a plurality of first electrodes and at least one second electrode, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the two substrates. Each first electrode comprises an array of electrode segments and every adjacent first and second electrodes have a minimum spacing smaller than a maximum spacing in between. Each second electrode is a strip electrode or also comprises an array of electrode segments. Each electrode segment is a V-shape electrode rotated with an angle or an electrode segment having at least an extruded portion and at least an intruded portion. The array of electrode segments may be a sinusoidal electrode. The first and second electrodes are oriented in parallel with or at a specific angle with respect to the data line of the lateral electric field type LCD device.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprises a first substrate formed with a first electrode, a second substrate formed with a second electrode and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the two substrates. The LCD device includes at least one pixel area having at least one display unit. In the display unit, the first or second electrode is formed with a plurality of elongated apertures arranged in parallel and positioned outwardly one by one from the center of the display unit along at least four different directions. The plurality of elongated apertures forms solid or dotted edges around the circumference of the first or second electrode. The solid or dotted edges of the first electrode may be aligned with or extend outwardly more or less than the solid or dotted edges of the second electrode from the center of the display unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved type of liquid crystal (LC) display device with wide-viewing angle and high optical transmittance. The LC display of the present invention consists of: at least one LC alignment apparatus, which makes the LC molecules within the display area forming a continuous-domain or multi-domain alignments, and hence improve its wide-viewing-angle characteristics; a LC layer formed by Nematic type LC with chiral dopants, and with optimal parameters of the optical path difference ?nd and LC rotations of d/p ratio, such that LC molecules can be aligned along all radial directions to achieve optimal transmittance, and thus producing an wide-viewing-angle LC display improved transmittance without the formation of dark fringes in the display area.

Abstract: A lateral electric field type liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprises a first substrate formed with a plurality of first electrodes and at least one second electrode, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the two substrates. Each first electrode comprises an array of electrode segments and every adjacent first and second electrodes have a minimum spacing smaller than a maximum spacing in between. Each second electrode is a strip electrode or also comprises an array of electrode segments. Each electrode segment is a V-shape electrode rotated with an angle or an electrode segment having at least an extruded portion and at least an intruded portion. The array of electrode segments may be a sinusoidal electrode. The first and second electrodes are oriented in parallel with or at a specific angle with respect to the data line of the lateral electric field type LCD device.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprises a first substrate formed with a first electrode, a second substrate formed with a second electrode and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the two substrates. The LCD device includes at least one pixel area having at least one display unit. In the display unit, the first or second electrode is formed with a plurality of elongated apertures arranged in parallel and positioned outwardly one by one from the center of the display unit along at least four different directions. The plurality of elongated apertures forms solid or dotted edges around the circumference of the first or second electrode. The solid or dotted edges of the first electrode may be aligned with or extend outwardly more or less than the solid or dotted edges of the second electrode from the center of the display unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with transmissive and reflective units is provided. At least a bare unit is formed in a predetermined portion of the first electrode. A reflective layer is disposed on the second electrode at a location corresponding to the bare unit. A liquid crystal display unit is defined in an extension direction between the second and first electrodes. The liquid crystal display unit has a portion corresponding to the bare unit and defined as a reflective unit and another portion that surrounds outside the reflective unit and defined as a transmissive unit. The liquid crystal layers show an effective electrical field that is weaker within the reflective unit than within the transmissive unit. The transmissive unit has a circumferential edge portion spaced away from the reflective unit and forming an additional reflective unit for the liquid crystal display unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved type of liquid crystal (LC) display device with wide-viewing angle and high optical transmittance. The LC display of the present invention consists of: at least one LC alignment apparatus, which makes the LC molecules within the display area forming a continuous-domain or multi-domain alignments, and hence improve its wide-viewing-angle characteristics; a LC layer formed by Nematic type LC with chiral dopants, and with optimal parameters of the optical path difference ?nd and LC rotations of d/p ratio, such that LC molecules can be aligned along all radial directions to achieve optimal transmittance, and thus producing an wide-viewing-angle LC display improved transmittance without the formation of dark fringes in the display area.

Abstract: A display module includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a driving unit, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines. The first substrate has a first pixel electrode array, and the second substrate has a second pixel electrode array. The data lines are electrically connected to the driving unit and the first pixel electrode array, and part of the data lines are electrically connected to the second pixel electrode array through the first substrate. The scan lines are electrically connected to the driving unit and the first pixel electrode array, and are not electrically connected to the second pixel electrode array.

Abstract: The invention relates to a signal driving system for a display. The signal driving system comprises: a signal controller, a flexible connector and a plurality of driving devices. The signal controller is used to produce a first control signal. The flexible connector is connected to the signal controller, and used to receive the first control signal. One of the driving devices is connected to the flexible connector. The driving devices connect in cascade. Each driving device comprises a data input port, a data output port and a driving signal output port. The data input port receives the first control signal or a second control signal. The data output port outputs the second control signal. According to the first control signal or the second control signal, the driving signal output port transmits a driving signal. The signal driving system of the invention can make the data output port of the driving device transmit the second control signal to the next driving device.

Abstract: A driving circuit for improving display quality of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device. The driving circuit is installed on a surface of a glass substrate of the LCD device and includes a bus line and a plurality of driving IC chips. The driving circuit also includes a plurality of impedance matchers between the bus line and each of the driving IC chips so as to make each driving IC chip obtain equal input voltage from the bus line.

Abstract: A TFT LCD that can reflect incident lights and a fabrication method thereof are disclosed. The TFT LCD comprises plural bumps in each subpixel. Each bump has a stacked structure, which is formed with the TFTs simultaneously. The bumps can reflect and scatter incident light so as to promote the reflection performance of the TFT LCD.

Abstract: A driving circuit of a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, at least two driver integrated circuit (IC) chips located on the substrate, and an impedance device electrically connected between the two driver IC chips for reducing a difference between respective input voltages being input into the two driver IC chips.

Abstract: A method of updating luminance of light emitting elements of a portable electronic device according to ambient light intensity sensed by image capturing units of the portable electronic device is proposed. The method includes sensing ambient light intensities using light sensors of the image capturing units, determining the luminance of the light emitting elements of the portable electronic device according to the ambient light intensities sensed by the light sensors of the image capturing units, controlling the light intensity of the light emitting elements of the portable electronic device according to the determined luminance.

Abstract: A driving circuit of a display panel includes a plurality of data lines equidistantly arrayed in a substrate of the display panel and including a plurality of first data lines and a plurality of second data lines, a plurality of scan lines equidistantly arrayed in the substrate and perpendicular to the plurality of the data lines, a plurality of first thin-film transistors coupled to a first side of a scan line of the plurality of the scan lines and the plurality of the first data lines for controlling pixels in the first side of the scan line, and a plurality of second thin-film transistors coupled to a second side of the scan line and the plurality of the second data lines for controlling pixels in the second side of the scan line.

Abstract: A TFT LCD that can reflect incident lights and a fabrication method thereof are disclosed. The TFT LCD comprises plural bumps in each subpixel. Each bump has a stacked structure, which is formed with the TFTs simultaneously. The bumps can reflect and scatter incident light so as to promote the reflection performance of the TFT LCD.

Abstract: A method for improving the display image performance of a transflective LCD containing a back light is disclosed. The method includes setting the LCD driving voltages in a first range when the back light unit is on, and setting the LCD driving voltages in a second range when the back light unit is off, where the second range is different from the first range.

Abstract: A display apparatus with a time domain multiplex driving circuit includes a first scan line, a first data line perpendicular to the first scan line, a first pixel and a second pixel which are set on different sides of the first data line and coupled to the same data line, a first switching device and a second switching device set in the first and second pixel respectively. The first switching device is for selectively transmitting a pixel signal from the data line to the first pixel and the second switching device is for selectively transmitting a pixel signal from the data line to the second pixel. When the pixel signals of equal magnitude are individually applied to the first and second pixels, the feed-through voltages of the first and second pixels are substantially equal.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first scan line; a first data line perpendicular to the first scan line; a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel which are adjacent and coupled to the same data line respectively; and a first switching device, a second switching device, and a third switching device set in the first, second, and third pixels respectively. The data signals can be selectively input into the corresponding pixels from the first data line by enabling/disabling the corresponding scan lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) having reduced flicker includes a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of scanning lines, and a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a liquid crystal cell having a pixel electrode, a storage capacitor, and a switching transistor. The switching transistor includes a gate electrode connected to one of the scanning lines, a drain electrode connected to one of the signal lines, and a source electrode connected to the pixel electrode. An overlapping region is between the gate electrode and the source electrode. The area of the overlapping region increases by increasing the distance between an input end of the scanning line corresponding to the overlapping region and the pixel electrode corresponding to the overlapping region.