Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly includes a backrest, a seat including a seat surface, and a partition. The seat is movable between a seat folded position in which the seat surface is disposed along a front surface of the backrest and a seat unfolded position in which the seat surface faces up. The partition to be disposed adjacent to a side surface of the backrest includes a fixing portion and a movable portion. The fixing portion includes a base portion that extends along the side surface and a projecting portion projecting from the base portion farther than the front surface. The movable portion is movable between a folded position adjacent to the base portion and the front surface and an unfolded position away from the base portion and the front surface. The movable portion includes an armrest surface that faces up when the movable portion is in the unfolded position.

Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly includes a backrest, a seat including a seat surface, and a partition. The seat is movable between a seat folded position in which the seat surface is disposed along a front surface of the backrest and a seat unfolded position in which the seat surface faces up. The partition to be disposed adjacent to a side surface of the backrest includes a fixing portion and a movable portion. The fixing portion includes a base portion that extends along the side surface and a projecting portion projecting from the base portion farther than the front surface. The movable portion is movable between a folded position adjacent to the base portion and the front surface and an unfolded position away from the base portion and the front surface. The movable portion includes an armrest surface that faces up when the movable portion is in the unfolded position.

Abstract: Pixel electrodes in odd-numbered rows and even-numbered rows of a liquid crystal display panel are connected to source lines arranged on the left side of the pixel electrodes and source lines on the right side of the pixel electrodes, respectively. A DA converter switches between whether a potential higher than a common electrode potential is output from an odd-numbered output terminal and a potential lower than the common electrode potential is output from an even-numbered potential output terminal, and whether a potential lower than the common electrode potential is output from the odd-numbered potential output terminal and a potential higher than the common electrode potential is output from the even-numbered potential output terminal. A switch mechanism switches between whether a pixel electrode potential is set using the source line on the left side or is set using the source line on the right side.

Abstract: Pixel electrodes in odd-numbered rows and even-numbered rows of a liquid crystal display panel are connected to source lines arranged on the left side of the pixel electrodes and source lines on the right side of the pixel electrodes, respectively. A DA converter switches between whether a potential higher than a common electrode potential is output from an odd-numbered output terminal and a potential lower than the common electrode potential is output from an even-numbered potential output terminal, and whether a potential lower than the common electrode potential is output from the odd-numbered potential output terminal and a potential higher than the common electrode potential is output from the even-numbered potential output terminal. A switch mechanism switches between whether a pixel electrode potential is set using the source line on the left side or is set using the source line on the right side.

Abstract: A display device includes an illuminance sensor for detecting an illuminance in a surrounding environment, an input average luminance detection circuit for detecting an average luminance of input images, a frame insertion control circuit for producing a gray image frame and inserting the produced gray image frame into between an input image frame and its subsequently input image frame input, and an insertion luminance level generation circuit for determining a luminance of the gray image frame according to the illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor and the average luminance of the input images detected by the input average luminance detection circuit.

Abstract: To broaden a substantial area for wiring between a display portion and a driver element, and to increase the number of wirings between the driver element and the display portion. In a driving IC 100, bumps 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 26 and 28 are arrayed in a first row 110 and bumps 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27 are arrayed in a second row 120, wherein the respective bumps are disposed so that the shortest distances between forward ends of the respective bumps and a side along the array, become larger gradually from the center outward in the array.

Abstract: A driving device drives a liquid crystal display panel in which the number of source lines is by one larger than the number of columns of pixel electrodes and in which the columns of pixel electrodes are arranged between the source lines. The driving device has a configuration in which potential output terminals, in a central region, are not connected to any source line. A voltage follower is connected to an output switching section. Additionally, potential output terminals are connected through switches to input terminals, respectively. The switch connects a first terminal to a second terminal with control signal at a high level and connects the first terminal to a third terminal with at a low level.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device restraining display defects even in a structure having a potential difference between an externally-connected electrode potential and the mean potential of the drive waveform of a liquid crystal material. An electrostatic charge stored in the vicinity of a liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal display device as a result of the potential difference between an externally-connected electrode potential and the mean potential of the drive waveform of the liquid crystal material is dispersed by employing a capacitor or an arrester connected to ground. Accordingly, discharge of the stored charge is facilitated, and occurrence of display defects is restrained.

Abstract: A power supply IC adjusts the frequency of a clock signal outputted from an EXT terminal such that the voltage inputted into a VFB terminal turns to a desired voltage. The power supply IC outputs a clock signal when the control signal inputted into the OE terminal is turned on. The control unit turns on the control signal only in a period that has a time length obtained by adding a slight allowance time to the period required for completion of pixel charge and turns off the control signal upon lapse of the time length. Thus, the power supply circuit outputs an analog voltage only in an initial part in one horizontal period and outputs no analog voltage in the remaining part of the one horizontal period.

Abstract: A gate driver selects a gate line of an odd-numbered row and a gate line of an even-numbered row subsequent thereto and sets the gate line of the even-numbered row to a selected-period potential with a delay of a predetermined time from a timing when the gate line of the odd-numbered row is set to the selected-period potential. After that, the gate driver sets the potential of the gate line set at the selected-period potential to a nonselected-period potential. A source driver switches polarities of pixels in each column every two rows, and sets potentials of respective source lines to potentials according to image data of respective pixels for one row, while making the polarities of the pixels in adjacent columns opposite to each other.

Abstract: Each of a plurality of liquid crystal display panels includes a gate driver for line-sequentially selecting respective gate lines and a source driver for setting the potentials of respective source lines. The plurality of liquid crystal display panels include a single timing controller for controlling the respective gate drivers and the respective source drivers corresponding to the plurality of liquid crystal display panels.

Abstract: A display device includes an illuminance sensor for detecting an illuminance in a surrounding environment, an input average luminance detection circuit for detecting an average luminance of input images, a frame insertion control circuit for producing a gray image frame and inserting the produced gray image frame into between an input image frame and its subsequently input image frame input, and an insertion luminance level generation circuit for determining a luminance of the gray image frame according to the illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor and the average luminance of the input images detected by the input average luminance detection circuit.

Abstract: A drive device for driving a liquid crystal display panel by column inversion driving, whereby power consumption is further reduced. In an output buffer 251 to apply a voltage to source wirings, in a prescribed period after initiation of driving at one frame, a bias circuit 262 gives a bias voltage to lower the driving ability of an amplifier 261, whereby a first switch 263 becomes an open state and a second switch 264 becomes a closed state. Upon termination of the prescribed period, the first switch 263 becomes a closed state and the second switch 264 becomes an open state, whereby a source wiring is driven by a voltage signal from a D-A converter.

Abstract: To broaden a substantial area for wiring between a display portion and a driver element, and to increase the number of wirings between the driver element and the display portion. In a driving IC 100, bumps 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 26 and 28 are arrayed in a first row 110 and bumps 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27 are arrayed in a second row 120, wherein the respective bumps are disposed so that the shortest distances between forward ends of the respective bumps and a side along the array, become larger gradually from the center outward in the array.

Abstract: A driving device drives a liquid crystal display panel in which the number of source lines is by one larger than the number of columns of pixel electrodes and in which the columns of pixel electrodes are arranged between the source lines. The driving device has a configuration in which potential output terminals, in a central region, are not connected to any source line. A voltage follower is connected to an output switching section. Additionally, potential output terminals are connected through switches to input terminals, respectively. The switch connects a first terminal to a second terminal with control signal at a high level and connects the first terminal to a third terminal with at a low level.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device restraining display defects even in a structure having a potential difference between an externally-connected electrode potential and the mean potential of the drive waveform of a liquid crystal material. An electrostatic charge stored in the vicinity of a liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal display device as a result of the potential difference between an externally-connected electrode potential and the mean potential of the drive waveform of the liquid crystal material is dispersed by employing a capacitor or an arrester connected to ground. Accordingly, discharge of the stored charge is facilitated, and occurrence of display defects is restrained.

Abstract: Pixel electrodes in odd-numbered rows of a liquid crystal display panel are connected to source lines arranged on the left side of the pixel electrodes, respectively. Further, Pixel electrodes in even-numbered rows are connected to source lines arranged on the right side of the pixel electrodes, respectively. A potential setting section outputs potentials higher than a common electrode potential VCOM and potentials lower than VCOM from respective potential output terminals D1 to Dn alternately in order of arrangement of the potential output terminals. Further, potential output higher than VCOM and potential output lower than VCOM are switched per selection period. A switch section switches, per selection period, between output terminals Ok and Ok+1 to either of which an input terminal Ik is to be connected.

Abstract: An integrated circuit including a liquid crystal display has a multi-port data output section from which output signals are arranged with respect to a data input signal. Points of changing the signals with respect to a time base are set with time delays that lag behind one another during one period of a reference internal clock signal to reduce the number of simultaneous changes of output signals. The electromagnetic field noise is reduced by a LCD driver when display data are transferred from a LCD timing controller to a source drive IC. The driver includes TFT drive and display timing control circuits that transfer red, green and blue color display data formed of plural bits to the TFT drive circuit for each bit unit formed of plural bits, optionally selected from each of the color display data. A delay unit in the display timing control circuit delays the transfer timing among bit units. A dedicated IC supplies image data to a source driver IC that drives a display section.

Abstract: A structure for protecting a passenger of a vehicle body upper portion of an automobile having a roof side rail (20) disposed inwardly of a roof panel (38) and extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, and an interior trim material (30) disposed inwardly of the roofside rail is described. The protecting structure includes an energy absorbing material (50) in a space (48) between the interior trim material (30) and the roof panel (38) along the roofside rail (20).

Abstract: A collision energy absorbing structure of a vehicle body upper portion of an automobile having a roofside rail (20) extending in the forward and backward direction and formed to be a closed structure with an outer panel (30) and an inner panel (32) includes a metal energy absorbing panel (22) and a resin interior trim material (24). The energy absorbing panel (22) has a thickness smaller than the thicknesses of the outer panel (30) and the inner panel (32) and is arranged with a space (D) inward of the inner panel. The terminal portion in the longitudinal direction of the energy absorbing panel (22) has a tendency that energy absorption reduces but the tendency is compensated by resin material (26, 28).