Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a moving image display area in which the pixel portions are arranged in a matrix shape and a pictograph display area in which the pixel portions are formed in a fixed pictograph shape. Moreover, first protective elements are inserted between the respective pixel portions in the moving image display area and a drive circuit for the pixel portions and are arranged in an outer periphery of the moving image display area. Second protective elements are inserted between the respective pixel portions in the pictogram display area and a drive circuit for the pixel portions and arranged in an outer periphery of the pictogram display area.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display has a first substrate formed with a picture character pixel electrode for displaying a picture character represented by a fixed pattern, a second substrate formed with a common electrode opposite to the picture character pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The picture character pixel electrode is formed on an interlayer insulating film, and is connected to a picture character signal electrode formed below the interlayer insulating film through a plurality of contact holes formed through the interlayer insulating film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a moving image display area in which the pixel portions are arranged in a matrix shape and a pictograph display area in which the pixel portions are formed in a fixed pictograph shape. Moreover, first protective elements are inserted between the respective pixel portions in the moving image display area and a drive circuit for the pixel portions and are arranged in an outer periphery of the moving image display area. Second protective elements are inserted between the respective pixel portions in the pictograph display area and a drive circuit for the pixel portions and arranged in an outer periphery of the pictograph display area.

Abstract: A difference in potential between a common power supply voltage and a data signal voltage required for driving an active-type liquid crystal display device is used, thereby making it possible to display a pictogram without additionally input a new signal to an opposite side. Moreover, a gray scale of a data signal is adjusted, thereby reducing a direct-current component in pictogram driving. A pictogram electrode in a pictogram display area is driven by a part of extra output terminals of a data driver for driving a moving image display area. With this, in a liquid crystal display device using thin-film transistors (TFTs) with a common substrate being an electrode on its entire surface, a simple structure including a moving image area and a pictogram display area is provided.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display has a first substrate formed with a picture character pixel electrode for displaying a picture character represented by a fixed pattern, a second substrate formed with a common electrode opposite to the picture character pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The picture character pixel electrode is formed on an interlayer insulating film, and is connected to a picture character signal electrode formed below the interlayer insulating film through a plurality of contact holes formed through the interlayer insulating film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a color liquid crystal display device which integrates a first partial display area (for example, an optional image display area) and a second partial display area (for example, a particular image display area) into one liquid crystal panel, and each having at least a different display specification, and has a different color filter pattern between the first partial display area and the second partial display area. In the present invention, for example, the color pitch of the color filter on the second partial display area is subdivided, rather than the color filter of the color filter on the first display area, such as into one-third, one-sixth and the like; each color of the color filter on the partial display area is provided in a zigzag arrangement or a delta arrangement; and the lead wire of each icon provided in the particular image display area is provided so as to be across each color of the color filter on the second partial display area.

Abstract: A liquid-crystal display apparatus is provided that achieves a flickerless display while, at the same time, achieving a reduction in crosstalk by reducing the effects of variations in rms voltage. A drive waveform in a period that determines the gray scale of liquid crystal display is produced with a front-edge drive waveform having an edge at its front end or a back-edge drive waveform having an edge at its back end, and the drive waveform is switched between the front-edge drive waveform and the back-edge drive waveform alternately for every n horizontal scanning signals (where n is a positive integer).