Abstract: According to one embodiment, an array substrate includes auxiliary capacitance electrodes, auxiliary capacitance lines, signal lines, and pixel electrodes. The auxiliary capacitance electrode connected to one of the pixel electrodes adjacent to each other in a column direction and the auxiliary capacitance electrode connected to the other pixel electrode are opposed to the same auxiliary capacitance line, and extend in a row direction by intersecting the signal line.

Abstract: After supply of power, a liquid crystal display device performing transition from a first state to a second state different from the first state before a display operation is provided with a transition nucleus forming portion around a pixel electrode or inside. The transition nucleus forming portion performs transition to the second state prior to other portion during a transition drive period. The transition nucleus forming portion of the pixel electrode has an edge portion formed into a reverse taper shape decreasing in its thickness toward the tip end. Therefore, transition from a splay alignment to a bend alignment is performed with simple element and drive circuit configuration in all pixels.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal apparatus includes a first liquid crystal panel including a pair of substrates, and a dispersed liquid crystal held between the pair of substrates, and an active mirror placed behind the first liquid crystal panel, and configured to switch a first state in which linearly polarized light whose polarizing direction is a second direction is transmitted, and a second state in which the linearly polarized light whose polarizing direction is the second direction is absorbed or reflected.

Abstract: There is provided an liquid crystal display apparatus configured to invert a pixel voltage and a common voltage on a frame to frame basis while setting a transition voltage Vt in such a manner that the polarity of the pixel voltage to be applied to a pixel electrode of each display pixel and the polarity of the common voltage to be applied to a common electrode of a common substrate are differentiated.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an array substrate includes a plurality of gate lines extending in a column direction. A lighting device includes a first lighting unit, a second lighting unit, and a lighting driver to light on and light off the first and second lighting units independently. The first lighting unit includes a first light source arranged on a scanning starting side of the gate lines. The second lighting unit includes a second light source arranged on a scanning terminating side of the gate lines. The lighting driver lights on the second lighting unit after lighting on the first lighting unit, and lights off the second lighting unit after lighting off the first lighting unit in a period between a starting time to write a first signal and a finishing time to write a second signal in the plurality of pixels.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprises: a liquid crystal layer capable of bend orientation; a display screen on which an image is displayed by light transmitted through a bend-oriented liquid crystal layer; and liquid crystal voltage application means for applying a liquid crystal voltage to the liquid crystal layer according to luminance information for each field of image information composed of serial fields, the liquid crystal voltage being applied to cause transmittance of the light to change, thereby sequentially displaying the image corresponding to the fields of the image information, and when the luminance information changes between current and subsequent fields, the liquid crystal voltage application means applies the liquid crystal voltage which changes so as to have a value according to the luminance information by the time the liquid crystal voltage is applied for the subsequent field.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes first and second areas respectively having a gate line group in an active area, and a dummy gate line group arranged on an outside of the active area. A driving circuit selects the gate lines of the gate line group and the dummy gate lines of the dummy gate line group one by one in the first and second areas. The driving circuit is independently controlled for the first and second areas. The gate lines are scanned from a center portion of the active area to the dummy gate line side in the first and second areas, respectively. An image signal and a non-image signal are written within one-frame period in the first and second areas.

Abstract: In a method of capturing carbon dioxide in a gas, carbon dioxide in a gas is adsorbed to the hybrid adsorbent prepared by mixing an adsorbent with iron oxide nanoparticles, microwaves are irradiated to the hybrid adsorbent and the carbon dioxide adsorbed to the hybrid adsorbent is desorbed from the hybrid adsorbent, and the carbon dioxide desorbed from the hybrid adsorbent is captured.

Abstract: An information recording and reproducing apparatus for increasing a speed of tilt control, including a portion for storing reference data, a portion for storing sample values data, a portion for obtaining positional information, a stilt servo generator, a tilt adjuster.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of the invention includes a liquid crystal display element section that is initialized such that the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules is transitioned from a splay alignment to a bend alignment capable of displaying an image, and a driving circuit that applies to the liquid crystal display element section a transition voltage that causes the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules to be transitioned from the splay alignment to the bend alignment in the initialization. Further, a clock signal generator generates upon supply of power to the driving circuit, a clock signal, which is delivered to the driving circuit, as a reference for starting application of the transition voltage and for measuring a transition voltage application period.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the liquid crystal shutter is equipped with a first liquid crystal panel in the OCB mode to control the transmissivity of the light entering into left eye and a second liquid crystal panel in the OCB mode to control the transmissivity of the light entering into right eye, and a drive portion to control the transmissivity. The drive portion applies a normal voltage of a normal drive in a pulse shape and a retention voltage having a pulse shape with lower frequency than the normal voltage or lower voltage than normal voltage to the first liquid crystal panel and the second liquid crystal panel. The drive portion switches between the normal drive and the retention drive while maintaining bend alignment state.

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: In one embodiment, a pair of liquid crystal shutter glasses include a first liquid crystal shutter and a second liquid crystal shutter. The first and second liquid crystal shutters are switched to a transmissive state by turns. The respective first and second liquid crystal shutters include a first electrode substrate and a second electrode substrate opposing the first electrode substrate. An OCB (Optically Compensated Bend) mode liquid crystal layer is held between the first and second electrode substrates. The first electrode substrate includes a first electrode and a second electrode arranged adjacent to the first electrode. The first and second electrodes respectively include a side opposing each other and a plurality of projecting portions provided to the respective opposing sides of the first and second electrodes alternately.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel having pixels. A first image signal for displaying two-dimensional pictures, a second image signal for displaying three-dimensional pictures, and a third image signal for displaying a black picture are written into the pixels. A control circuit writes the third image signal to the pixel of the display panel during at least one frame period when switching a first mode for displaying the two-dimensional pictures and a second mode for displaying the three-dimensional pictures.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a counter substrate and a liquid crystal layer held between the array substrate and the counter substrate. A display portion having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix is formed of the substrates and the liquid crystal layer. Each of the pixels includes a pixel electrode and a counter electrode arranged opposing to the pixel electrode. A driving portion is formed on the array substrate to supply a pixel voltage to the pixel electrode. A correcting circuit is formed on the array substrate to correct the voltage supplied to the pixel electrode by adding a predetermined DC voltage to the voltage supplied to the pixel electrode corresponding to gradations to be displayed in the pixel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a display section which is composed of a plurality of display pixels, a driving unit which drives the display pixels, and a control unit which controls the driving unit. A first substrate includes pixel electrodes which are disposed in association with the plurality of display pixels. A second substrate includes a counter-electrode which is opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes. A pair of alignment films are disposed on the plurality of pixel electrodes and the counter-electrode, and control an alignment state of liquid crystal molecules, which are included in the liquid crystal layer, by rubbing treatment. Dummy display pixels are disposed on a terminal end side of the display section in a rubbing direction. A driving unit includes circuit for cyclically applying a reverse transition prevention signal to the dummy display pixels.

Abstract: A highly reliable rectifying device of a vehicle alternator capable of improving the vibration resistance of a diode. A connection lead 33d of a diode 33 included in a rectifying device includes a linear part 33f extended in parallel from a metallic base 33b, and a bent part 33g bent 90° or more substantially like an arc from the linear part 33f. The bending radius R of the bent part 33g is set to a value larger than a separation distance w in a horizontal direction between the terminal of the linear part 33f and the distal part of the connection lead 33d.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element section that is initialized such that the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules is transitioned from a splay alignment to a bend alignment capable of displaying an image, and a driving circuit that applies, in the initialization, a transition voltage, which causes the alignment state of the liquid crystal molecules to be transitioned from the splay alignment to the bend alignment, to the liquid crystal display element section. In particular, the driving circuit includes a transition voltage setting unit that alternately sets the transition voltage at a first polarity and a second polarity that is opposite to the first polarity.

Abstract: Optical compensation elements include first phase plates and second phase plates, which have retardation in a front-plane direction. When a value ?n/?n? is set by normalizing a retardation amount ?n·d relating to light of each of wavelengths by a retardation amount ?n?·d relating to light of a predetermined wavelength ?, a normalized value ?n/?n? in the first phase plate is greater than a normalized value ?n/?n? in a liquid crystal layer, and a normalized value ?n/?n? in the second phase plate is less than the normalized value ?n/?n? in the liquid crystal layer, with respect to light of wavelengths other than the predetermined wavelength.