Abstract: In an active matrix substrate for allowing a point defect of a defect pixel portion, among a plurality of pixel portions arranged two-dimensionally, to be repaired by radiation of energy, the active matrix substrate includes one of a first protection member for absorbing excessive energy power and preventing pieces of a conductive material from being scattered; and a second protection member for preventing pieces of a conductive material from being scattered and for preventing a conductive layer from bulging. One of the first protection member and the second protection member is provided above at least one energy radiation portion.

Abstract: An active substrate is provided, which comprises a switching element comprising a first drive region and a second drive region, a signal line being connected to the first drive region, a pixel electrode connected to the second drive region, a first layer comprising at least one of a semiconductor material and a conductive material, and connected to the pixel electrode, a second layer comprising at least one of a semiconductor material and a conductive material, and connected to the signal line; and an insulating film provided between the first layer and the second layer. At least a portion of the first layer and at least a portion of the second layer overlap each other so that the first layer and the second layer are short-circuited by applying first energy to the insulating film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and having liquid crystal molecules therein. The first substrate includes a first electrode facing the liquid crystal layer. The second substrate includes a second electrode facing the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode, the second electrode, and a region of the liquid crystal layer supplied with a voltage by the first electrode and the second electrode define a pixel region which is a unit for display. The pixel region includes a plurality of sub pixel regions, in each of which the liquid crystal molecules are aligned in an axial symmetrical manner. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes a plurality of openings, which are regularly arranged, in the pixel region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and having liquid crystal molecules therein. The first substrate includes a first electrode facing the liquid crystal layer. The second substrate includes a second electrode facing the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode, the second electrode, and a region of the liquid crystal layer supplied with a voltage by the first electrode and the second electrode define a pixel region which is a unit for display. The pixel region includes a plurality of sub pixel regions, in each of which the liquid crystal molecules are aligned in an axial symmetrical manner. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes a plurality of openings, which are regularly arranged, in the pixel region.

Abstract: A display panel of the present invention includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposing each other with a display medium interposed therebetween; a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of scanning lines provided on the first substrate to cross each other and be insulated from each other; and a plurality of pixel electrodes each provided in a vicinity of an intersection between one of the plurality of signal lines and one of the plurality of scanning lines so as to be connected to the one of the plurality of signal lines and the one of the plurality of scanning lines via a switching element, while the plurality of pixel electrodes define a display region of the display panel. At least one of each of the plurality of signal lines and each of the plurality of scanning lines has a high resistance portion proximate an end thereof outside the display region. The high resistance portion is interposed at least partially between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and having liquid crystal molecules therein. The first substrate includes a first electrode facing the liquid crystal layer. The second substrate includes a second electrode facing the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode, the second electrode, and a region of the liquid crystal layer supplied with a voltage by the first electrode and the second electrode define a pixel region which is a unit for display. The pixel region includes a plurality of sub pixel regions, in each of which the liquid crystal molecules are aligned in an axial symmetrical manner. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes a plurality of openings, which are regularly arranged, in the pixel region.

Abstract: A display panel of the present invention includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposing each other with a display medium interposed therebetween; a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of scanning lines provided on the first substrate to cross each other and be insulated from each other; and a plurality of pixel electrodes each provided in a vicinity of an intersection between one of the plurality of signal lines and one of the plurality of scanning lines so as to be connected to the one of the plurality of signal lines and the one of the plurality of scanning lines via a switching element, while the plurality of pixel electrodes define a display region of the display panel. At least one of each of the plurality of signal lines and each of the plurality of scanning lines has a high resistance portion proximate an end thereof outside the display region. The high resistance portion is interposed at least partially between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A display panel of the present invention includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposing each other with a display medium interposed therebetween; a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of scanning lines provided on the first substrate to cross each other and be insulated from each other; and a plurality of pixel electrodes each provided in a vicinity of an intersection between one of the plurality of signal lines and one of the plurality of scanning lines so as to be connected to the one of the plurality of signal lines and the one of the plurality of scanning lines via a switching element, while the plurality of pixel electrodes define a display region of the display panel. At least one of each of the plurality of signal lines and each of the plurality of scanning lines has a high resistance portion proximate an end thereof outside the display region. The high resistance portion is interposed at least partially between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A display panel of the present invention includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposing each other with a display medium interposed therebetween; a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of scanning lines provided on the first substrate to cross each other and be insulated from each other; and a plurality of pixel electrodes each provided in a vicinity of an intersection between one of the plurality of signal lines and one of the plurality of scanning lines so as to be connected to the one of the plurality of signal lines and the one of the plurality of scanning lines via a switching element, while the plurality of pixel electrodes define a display region of the display panel. At least one of each of the plurality of signal lines and each of the plurality of scanning lines has a high resistance portion proximate an end thereof outside the display region. The high resistance portion is interposed at least partially between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: An input device includes: a sense line; a CS line to which an output voltage is applied; a TFT having a control terminal, a first terminal connected to the sense line, and a second terminal connected to the CS line, the first control terminal being supplied an input signal so that a conductivity between the first and second terminals is controlled; a photo-sensor having a first terminal which is connected to the control terminal of the TFT; and a holding capacitance, connected in parallel to the photo-sensor, having a terminal on an opposite side of the control terminal, to which a holding voltage is supplied, and in the input device, a voltage of the CS line is outputted as a detection signal to the sense line via the TFT.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: first and second electrodes crossing each other; switching elements in a vicinity of each first and second electrode intersection; pixel electrodes respectively arranged in a matrix and partitioned from one another by the first and second electrodes; the first electrodes supplied with a gate voltage for turning ON/OFF the switching elements and the second electrodes supplied with a source voltage; third electrodes supplied with a common voltage; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the third electrodes and the pixel electrodes. The source voltage includes an image signal voltage and an assist signal voltage. The common voltage has different values between an image signal writing scanning period defined as a period during which the image signal voltage is applied, and at least one assist signal writing scanning period defined as a period during which the assist signal voltage is applied.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer; a plurality of row signal lines for driving the liquid crystal layer; and a plurality of column signal lines for driving the liquid crystal layer, wherein an optical state of the liquid crystal layer is varied by a magnetic field produced by at least one signal line of one of the plurality of row signal lines and the plurality of column signal lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus has a plurality of TFTs and pixel electrodes disposed in a matrix form in regions surrounded with scanning lines and signal lines disposed on a glass substrate. The display apparatus also has an auxiliary capacitor electrode formed almost all over a display screen in such a way that the auxiliary capacitor electrode is opposed to the pixel electrodes with interposition of an insulation film therebetween. A slit is formed in the auxiliary capacitor electrode in a region corresponding to a gap between the adjacent pixel electrodes. Each pixel electrode may overlap the scanning lines and/or the signal lines. The width of the slit of the auxiliary capacitor electrode may be larger than the width of the gap between the adjacent pixel electrodes.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and having liquid crystal molecules therein. The first substrate includes a first electrode facing the liquid crystal layer. The second substrate includes a second electrode facing the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode, the second electrode, and a region of the liquid crystal layer supplied with a voltage by the first electrode and the second electrode define a pixel region which is a unit for display. The pixel region includes a plurality of sub pixel regions, in each of which the liquid crystal molecules are aligned in an axial symmetrical manner. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes a plurality of openings, which are regularly arranged, in the pixel region.

Abstract: A display panel of the present invention includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposing each other with a display medium interposed therebetween; a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of scanning lines provided on the first substrate to cross each other and be insulated from each other; and a plurality of pixel electrodes each provided in a vicinity of an intersection between one of the plurality of signal lines and one of the plurality of scanning lines so as to be connected to the one of the plurality of signal lines and the one of the plurality of scanning lines via a switching element, while the plurality of pixel electrodes define a display region of the display panel. At least one of each of the plurality of signal lines and each of the plurality of scanning lines has a high resistance portion proximate an end thereof outside the display region. The high resistance portion is interposed at least partially between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: In order to provide a liquid crystal display panel using a horizontal electric field driving system that causes no uneven alignment of a liquid crystal molecule in one pixel, the present invention has a construction in which, with regard to each display section which is surrounded by the pixel electrode and the common-use electrode, a first side and a second side are constituted by one of the pixel electrode and the common-use electrode, and a third side and a fourth side are constituted by the other. Further, a main wire of the common-use electrode and a gate line have the display section disposed therebetween so as to keep a certain interval.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer, a row signal line, a column signal line, and a magnetic memory element, the row signal line and the column signal line being formed on one side or opposing sides of the liquid crystal layer. Magnetization of the magnetic memory element is controlled by a magnetic field generated by at least one of the row signal line and the column signal line to be in one of a magnetized state and a non-magnetized state, and a moment for driving the liquid crystal layer is generated by the magnetic memory element being retained in the magnetized state, thereby causing optical modulation in the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A display device includes a non-linear element including an inorganic ferroelectric material in a polycrystalline state and a display medium driven through the non-linear element.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate having a first electrode; a second substrate, disposed so as to face the first substrate, having a second electrode; and a liquid crystal layer, including liquid crystal molecules, interposed between the first and second substrates, with a plurality of pixels being defined therein in a matrix pattern. The liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are oriented in a direction substantially vertical to a surface of the substrates in the absence of an applied voltage across the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode of the first substrate includes a first slit at least in a portion of a periphery of each pixel, the first slit substantially dividing the first electrode into an inner electrode portion and an outer electrode portion, whereby the outer electrode portion shields the inner electrode portion from an electric field coming from an outside of the first electrode.

Abstract: An active matrix type liquid crystal display panel including a first and a second insulating substrates which face each other is disclosed. The first insulating substrate includes: first bus lines formed on a face of the first insulating substrate, the face facing the second insulting substrate; second bus lines crossing the first bus lines; a short-circuit line for short-circuiting the first bus lines to the second bus lines, the short-circuit line crossing the first bus lines at end portions thereof and crossing the second bus lines at end portions thereof; and a plurality of elements for electrically connecting the short-circuit line to one of the first bus lines and the second bus lines, the elements being respectively formed at the crossings of the short-circuit line and the first bus lines and at the crossings of the short-circuit line and the second bus lines.