Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can enhance a numerical aperture of pixels. A liquid crystal display device includes pixels which are arranged close to each other without having a signal line in a boundary on a substrate, and a counter electrode, an insulation layer and a pixel electrode which generates an electric field between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode which are sequentially stacked in each pixel. The pixel electrode is constituted of a plurality of electrodes which are arranged in parallel in a state that the electrodes are overlapped to the counter electrode and include portions which are arranged close to the pixel electrode of another neighboring pixel. A conductive layer is provided between a boundary portion of the pixels arranged close to each other and between a layer on which the pixel electrode is formed and the substrate.

Abstract: A display device includes a pair of substrates, a drain signal line, a capacitance line and a counter voltage line formed on one substrate of the pair of substrates, a pixel including a thin film transistor connected to the drain signal line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, and a counter electrode connected to the counter voltage line, a video signal driver circuit formed on the one substrate and connected to the drain signal line, and a first interconnection layer disposed between the pixel and the video signal driver circuit. At least one of the capacitance line and the counter voltage line is connected to the first interconnection layer between the video signal driver circuit and the pixel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which constitutes a unit pixel for color display using pixels having color filters of respective colors consisting of red, green, blue and white and is capable of achieving a suitable multi-domain effect. In a liquid crystal display device which includes red, green, blue and white color filters in respective pixels which are arranged close to each other, the inclination of extending direction of electrodes of the respective pixels is equal with respect to the respective pixels having the red, green and blue color filters and is different with respect to the pixel having the white color filter.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a pair of transparent substrates opposed to each other with liquid crystal therebetween, one of the pair of transparent substrates having a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of pixel areas defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines. The pixel areas includes a pixel electrode formed of a transparent electrode having a plurality of slits including a slit opened in a first direction and a slit opened in a second direction, and a counter electrode formed of a transparent electrode disposed between the transparent electrode of the pixel electrode having the plurality of slits and the one substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a plurality of pixel regions defined by gate signal lines and drain signal lines. A counter electrode which is planar with a substantially rectangular shape is formed on each pixel region, with a pixel electrode having a plurality of slits in overlapping relationship with the counter electrode. A counter voltage signal line is formed in parallel with the gate signal lines and connected with the counter electrode, a first contact hole for connecting the pixel electrode and a source electrode, a connection line and second and third contact holes are provided. The counter electrode is arranged so as to not overlap the first contact hole.

Abstract: A display device with a substrate, a terminal portion, and the terminal portion have at least a portion formed with a first transparent conductive film and a second transparent conductive film, and the first transparent conductive film is exposed from the second transparent conductive film at a part of the portion, and crystallinity of the first transparent conductive film is higher than that of the second transparent conductive film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a pair of transparent substrates opposed to each other with liquid crystal therebetween, one of the pair of transparent substrates having a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of pixel areas defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines. The pixel areas includes a pixel electrode formed of a transparent electrode having a plurality of slits including a slit opened in a first direction and a slit opened in a second direction, and a counter electrode formed of a transparent electrode disposed between the transparent electrode of the pixel electrode having the plurality of slits and the one substrate.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a gate line formed over the substrate, a first insulating film formed over the substrate and the gate line, a semiconductor film formed over the first insulating film, a drain electrode formed over the semiconductor film, a source electrode formed over the semiconductor film, a data line connected to the drain electrode and formed over the first insulating film, a second insulating film formed over the source electrode and the data line, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the source electrode and formed over the second insulating film, and a transparent conductive film connected to the data line through a contact hole formed in the second insulating film. The transparent conductive film includes a first portion which none of the first insulating film and the second insulating film underlie.

Abstract: There is provided a display device capable of delivering adequate video display performance even when a lighting period of a backlight is varied in accordance with the content or the like of image data. The device has circuits (8050, 8060) for varying a lighting period of a backlight (8090) for illuminating a display panel (8010) in accordance with image data (8002), setting information (8003), and the like from an external device; and circuits (8070, 8080) for adjusting the timing of start (and turning off) of lighting of the backlight in accordance with the length of the lighting period.

Abstract: To reduce moving image blurring with a simple circuit while an image quality of a still image is maintained, a display apparatus emphasizes and deemphasizes a change in display data along a temporal direction based upon preceding frame data and current frame data, emphasizes and deemphasizes a change in the emphasized and deemphasized display data along a spatial direction, and displays, with respect to a portion where the display data has been changed between frames, an image in which the change in display data is emphasized along both the temporal direction and the spatial direction, and another image in which the change in display data is deemphasized along both the temporal direction and the spatial direction within one rendering frame period.

Abstract: A display device having a display element is configured such that the extending directions of electrodes are made different from each other among upper, lower, left and right pixels.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a pair of transparent substrates opposed to each other with liquid crystal therebetween, one of the pair of transparent substrates having a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of pixel areas defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines. The pixel areas includes a pixel electrode formed of a transparent electrode having a plurality of slits including a slit opened in a first direction and a slit opened in a second direction, and a counter electrode formed of a transparent electrode disposed between the transparent electrode of the pixel electrode having the plurality of slits and the one substrate.

Abstract: (Object) In a liquid crystal display device where one display region is divided into two regions for displaying videos and images side-by-side in two regions, heat emitted from the driver circuits is reduced and the image quality is prevented from lowering.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a pair of transparent substrates opposed to each other with liquid crystal therebetween, one of the pair of transparent substrates having a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of pixel areas defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines. The pixel areas includes a pixel electrode formed of a transparent electrode having a plurality of slits including a slit opened in a first direction and a slit opened in a second direction, and a counter electrode formed of a transparent electrode disposed between the transparent electrode of the pixel electrode having the plurality of slits and the one substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a pair of transparent substrates opposed to each other with liquid crystal therebetween, one of the pair of transparent substrates having a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of pixel areas defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines. The pixel areas includes a pixel electrode formed of a transparent electrode having a plurality of slits including a slit opened in a first direction and a slit opened in a second direction, and a counter electrode formed of a transparent electrode disposed between the transparent electrode of the pixel electrode having the plurality of slits and the one substrate.

Abstract: (Object) To increase the ratio of the opening in each pixel in a liquid crystal display device. (Means for Achieving Object) In a liquid crystal display device having an active matrix type liquid crystal display panel: TFT elements in two pixels which are adjacent to each other with one scanning signal line in between respectively have a gate connected to the scanning signal line and either a source or drain connected to a different video signal line; and between two adjacent scanning signal lines, a pixel having a TFT element of which the gate is connected to one of the two scanning signal lines and a pixel having a TFT element of which the gate is connected to the other scanning signal line are aligned in the direction in which the video signal lines extend, and either the sources or the drains of the two TFT elements are connected different video signal lines.

Abstract: An overdrive device corrects IN data by referring to a look-up table based on IN data, ODA data outputted from the look-up table, which is previous by one frame and ODB data outputted from the look-up table, which is previous by two frames.

Abstract: (Object) To provide a liquid crystal display device which simultaneously uses a method for simultaneously driving two screens and a method for driving scan-back light.

Abstract: A scan driver selects first four rows of pixels at a time and then sequentially selects second four rows of pixels for each row in double gate driving. A data driver supplies a tone voltage corresponding to black data to the first four row of pixels at a time and then sequentially supplies a tone voltage corresponding to display data to the second four rows of pixels.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid-crystal display device capable of reducing leakage of light under a black state due to scattering from a liquid-crystal layer, and having high-contrast ratio, excellent image quality performance. The liquid-crystal display device comprises: a liquid-crystal panel including one pair of polarizers disposed on one pair of substrates, a liquid-crystal layer held in sandwiched form between the pair of substrates, and a group of electrodes formed on at least one of the pair of substrates for applying an electric field to the liquid-crystal layer; and a light source unit disposed outside the pair of substrates. The liquid-crystal layer includes a liquid-crystal material having an ordinary-light refractive index of at least 1.46, but up to 1.49, an extraordinary-light refractive index of at least 1.54, but up to 1.59, and a mean photoelastic constant of at least 8, but up to 25, and exhibiting a nematic phase.