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: The present invention provides a display device which includes signal lines which are formed on an upper surface side of a substrate, an insulation film which is formed such that the film covers the signal lines except for terminal portions of the signal lines, and conductive layers which extend in the extension direction of the signal lines such that the terminal portions traverse the terminal portions. In such a display device, gaps are formed between respective sides of the conductive layer parallel to the extension direction of the conductive layer and the insulation film and holes are formed in the signal lines at portions corresponding to the gaps along the extension direction of the signal lines.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display device in which the wiring resistivity of signal lines is reduced. The liquid crystal display device includes substrates disposed in opposition to each other with a liquid crystal interposed therebetween, a thin film transistor to be driven by a scanning signal supplied from a gate signal line, and a pixel electrode to be supplied with a video signal from a drain signal line via the thin film transistor, the thin film transistor and the pixel being provided in each pixel area on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one of the substrates. The gate signal line is made of a multi-layered structure including at least an ITO film formed on the liquid-crystal-side surface and a Mo layer formed to overlie the ITO film.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display device in which the wiring resistivity of signal lines is reduced. The liquid crystal display device includes substrates disposed in opposition to each other with a liquid crystal interposed therebetween, a thin film transistor to be driven by a scanning signal supplied from a gate signal line, and a pixel electrode to be supplied with a video signal from a drain signal line via the thin film transistor, the thin film transistor and the pixel being provided in each pixel area on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one of the substrates. The gate signal line is made of a multi-layered structure including at least an ITO film formed on the liquid-crystal-side surface and a Mo layer formed to overlie the ITO film.

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 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 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: There is disclosed a display device which is driven by a two-field drive scheme. That is, brightness corresponding to one frame of image is obtained in two scans. The display screen is divided into plural regions. One of the regions is driven by a black insertion method. The other region is driven by a pseudo-normal drive method. In this method, an image based on the same display data is displayed twice. The display data is converted such that the gamma characteristics of the pseudo-normally driven region are substantially equal to the gamma characteristics of the region driven by the black insertion method. If necessary, each individual pixel in the boundary region between the region driven by the black insertion method and the region driven by the pseudo-normal drive method is displayed black or white. The boundary region has a width of at least two pixels.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a counter electrode CT is arranged above and is overlapped to a drain line DL by way of an insulation layer, wherein a width of the counter electrode CT is set larger than a width of the drain line DL, and a recessed groove AL is formed between an end periphery of the counter electrode CT and the drain line DL along the extending direction of the counter electrode CT and the drain line DL.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines made of metal and a plurality of drain signal lines made of metal, wherein the gate signal line and the drain signal line have a first overlapping region, and a plurality of counter voltage signal lines, wherein the counter voltage signal line and the drain signal line have a second overlapping region. A plurality of pixel regions are defined by neighboring gate signal lines and drain signal lines, and a pixel electrode is formed on the first substrate in each pixel region. A thin film transistor having a semiconductor layer is formed on the gate signal line, and the semiconductor layer at least overlaps with the drain signal line at the first overlapping region and the second overlapping region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes at least a common electrode line, a common electrode and a pixel electrode in each pixels, the common electrode line comprising a first common electrode line which extends in the extending direction of the gate lines and a second common electrode line which extends in the extending direction of the drain lines in the pixel region, the first common electrode line and the second common electrode line are spaced apart from each other by way of a first insulating film, the first common electrode line and the second common electrode line are connected via an opening portion formed in the first insulating film, and a second insulating film is formed over the opening portion.

Abstract: In a TFT type liquid crystal display device comprising first and second transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer which is sandwiched between the first and second substrates, the first substrate includes a plurality of video signal lines, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of pixel regions which are formed as regions surrounded by the video signal lines and the scanning signal lines, each pixel region includes at least one active element, one pixel electrode and one common electrode, and color filter layers are formed between the pixel electrodes and the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device is substantially characterized in that the common electrodes are formed as layers above the color filters, the pixel electrodes are formed as layers below the color filters, and the color filters are superposed at least on the whole surfaces of the pixel electrodes in the pixel region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode to which a signal is supplied through a first switching element and a second electrode to which a signal is supplied through a second switching element in each pixel region on a substrate, wherein liquid crystal is driven in response to a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode. In such a constitution, the first electrode is formed as one electrode of a first holding capacitance which is constituted by sandwiching an insulation film between the first electrode and a signal line and, at the same time, the second electrode is formed as one electrode of a second holding capacitance which is constituted by sandwiching an insulation film between the second electrode and a signal line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a planar counter electrode formed on the first substrate in each pixel region, a pixel electrode formed on the counter electrode by way of an insulation layer, the pixel electrode formed of a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode in the pixel region, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode have a large number of slits which are arranged in parallel in the electrodes and the extending direction of the slits is different from both extending directions of the gate lines and the drain lines, and the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes are arranged to be parallel to each other, and a portion between the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes is positioned above the counter electrode.

Abstract: An interconnecting structure and a pixel structure suited to large-sized screens are formed. A counter line/electrode is formed on a TFT substrate, and the counter line/electrode is made of a stacked structure film in which a layer made of aluminum or an alloy essentially containing aluminum is covered with a high-melting point metal film, and a transparent conductive film which covers the stacked structure film.

Abstract: A display device includes an LUT storing circuit and an LUT holding circuit, a representative point selecting circuit, and a compensation amount calculating circuit. The storing and holding circuits store and hold not compensation amounts of all points but compensation amounts of representative points in a lookup table. The representative point selecting circuit refers to a compensation amount for a representative point in the lookup table and three representative points neighboring an interpolating object point for deriving a compensation amount of each interpolating object point except the representative points in the lookup table. The compensation amount calculating circuit calculates the compensation amount of each interpolating point except the representative points by performing an interpolating operation with respect to the compensation amounts of the three neighboring representative points.

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: A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines, a plurality of pixel regions defined by neighboring gate signal lines and drain signal lines, and a pixel electrode in each pixel region. The drain signal line has a metal layer and another layer formed by a transparent conductor, and the another layer is electrically connected to the metal layer. The pixel electrode is made of a transparent conductor, and a transparent conductor of the pixel electrode and the transparent conductor of the drain signal line are of the same material.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines, a plurality of counter voltage signal lines, a plurality of pixel regions defined by neighboring gate signal lines and drain signal lines, a counter electrode and a pixel electrode enabling formation of an electric field, and an orientation film being formed on the first substrate. The pixel electrode has a plurality of slits overlaps the counter electrode with an insulating layer therebetween. A pair of edges of the counter electrode and pixel electrode extend in parallel to the gate signal line and another pair of edges of the counter electrode and the pixel electrode extend in parallel to the drain line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method therefor are provided where the number of processes for manufacturing TFT substrates can be decreased and a high production yield can be attained. To attain these objects, an image signal bus-line includes at least a transparent conductive film and a semiconductor layer. A pattern of the transparent conductive film extends up to a thin film transistor to form its drain electrode, and a pattern of a semiconductor layer extends up to the transistor to form its source electrode. By virtue of these arrangements, the thin film transistor substrate can be manufactured using as little as three or four photolithography processes.