Abstract: A liquid crystal light valve includes a semiconductor substrate having a region for a plurality of switching elements formed in a matrix form. A first metal layer is formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate through an insulating layer and divided into a plurality of parts by first slits. A second metal layer is formed on the first metal layer through another insulating layer and divided into a plurality of parts by second slits. A third metal layer is formed on the second metal layer through still another insulating layer and divided into a plurality of parts by third slits. An opposite substrate has an opposite electrode on a surface thereof, disposed so as to be opposite to said third metal layer through an interval on the opposite electrode side. Liquid crystal fills the interval between said opposite electrode and the third metal layer.

Abstract: A reflective color liquid crystal display apparatus, which can obtain bright images with a contrast in when viewed from any direction, is provided at a low cost. The reflective color liquid crystal display apparatus has an inside reflector and is able to produce bright images with a high contrast because unnecessary reflecting light from non-aperture portions can be decreased, and its aperture ratio can be determined approximately only by intervals of the reflective layer and intervals between the transparent electrodes. This can be accomplished by removing a reflective layer corresponding to black a matrix layer, adding a black matrix function to a polymer layer having protrusions and depressions under the reflective layer, and making a composition of its element so that a black matrix layer is not formed on the reflective layer, but only color filters are formed.

Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display apparatus including: a substrate; another substrate arranged opposite the substrate; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the two substrates, and a plurality of pixels forming a display section, in which each of the pixels is provided with a first and a second pixel electrodes corresponding to the pixel, and a common electrode corresponding to the first and second pixel electrodes.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixels arranged in matrix; a pixel electrode disposed inside each of the pixels; a display device disposed inside each of the pixels, for executing display in accordance with a voltage of the pixel electrode; a scanning line driving circuit; an identification signal line driving circuit; a storage unit for storing the identification signal supplied from the identification signal line in the pixel; a gray scale voltage line driving circuit; a selection unit for selecting the gray scale voltage supplied to the gray scale voltage lines based on the identification signal stored in the storage unit; a switching device for applying the selected gray scale voltage to the pixel electrode; and a gray scale write line driving circuit for supplying a gray scale write signal to a gray scale write line for controlling the switching device.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal layer 10 and a liquid crystal driving unit 19 which are held in being sandwiched between a pair of opposed boards 11, 12, and polarization plates 33, 34 and phase plates 31, 32 which are located on the upper side and on the lower side, respectively. Moreover, a pixel of the liquid crystal display apparatus includes the reflection display unit whose reflectivity's applied voltage characteristic is the normally-closed type and the transmission display unit whose layer thickness is thicker than that of a liquid crystal layer constituting the reflection display unit. Furthermore, the polarization plate 34 and the phase plate 32 located on the lower side of the opposed boards form an elliptical polarization plate, thereby converting, into a circularly-polarized light, a backlight light at a point-in-time of having passed through a liquid crystal layer's portion corresponding to a difference in the layer thickness between the liquid crystal layers.

Abstract: A liquid crystal light valve includes a semiconductor substrate having a region for a plurality of switching elements formed in a matrix form. A first metal layer is formed on the surface of the semi-conductor substrate through an insulating layer and divided into a plurality of parts by first slits. A second metal layer is formed on the first metal layer through another insulating layer and divided into a plurality of parts by second slits. A third metal layer is formed on the second metal layer through still another insulating layer and divided into a plurality of parts by third slits. An opposite substrate has an opposite electrode on a surface thereof, disposed so as to be opposite to said third metal layer through an interval on the opposite electrode side. Liquid crystal fills the interval between said opposite electrode and the third metal layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display for displaying an image to be visible for a viewer, has a liquid crystal, a pair of electrodes for controlling an orientation of at least a part of the liquid crystal in accordance with an electric field between the electrodes, a light source for generating a light to be transmitted through the liquid crystal to the viewer, a pair of first and second polarizer plates, the first polarizer plate being arranged between the liquid crystal and the light source, and the second polarizer plate being arranged between the liquid crystal and the viewer, and a band-pass filter for absorbing a component of the light, a wave-length of which component is not more than 440 nm, and the band-pass filter being arranged between the light source and the viewer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between an upper substrate and a lower substrate having a twist angle in the range of about 40 to 65 degrees and a light diffusive reflective electrode having recesses and projections provided on the lower substrate wherein a product of the height of the recesses and projections and a birefringence of the liquid crystal layer is in the range of about 10 to 53 nm at the twist angle of about 40 degrees and about 10 to 64 nm at the twist angle of about 65 degrees, respectively.

Abstract: To provide an image display apparatus satisfying the reduction of the electric power consumption and the downsizing of the cost simultaneously.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes two electrode substrates and a liquid crystal layer laid between these substrates. One electrode is composed of a glass substrate with a plastics layer having plural convex portions or convex and concave portions randomly formed thereon and a lamination of a reflector, an insulating and flatting layer, a transparent electrode, and alignment layer formed on the plastics layer. The other electrode substrate is composed of a glass substrate and a lamination of a transparent electrode and alignment layer formed on the glass substrate. Both of the electrode substrates are located in a manner to allow the alignment layer of them to be opposed to each other.

Abstract: A display method can achieve both of substantially high definition image display and high speed dynamic image display. The image displaying method of an image displaying apparatus having a display portion consisted of a plurality of pixels takes each of a predetermined number of pixels as one block unit and forms one screen image for displaying by combining a region for displaying the same information on a plurality of pixels in the one block unit during one scanning period and a region for permitting display of respectively different information on the plurality of pixels in the one block unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display featuring excellent visibility with both good brightness and a high contrast ratio uses a projection optical system in which a polarizing plate, a first phase plate and a second phase plate in which the retardation of each of the phase plates and a gradient of wavelength dispersion of the retardation can be freely set, a liquid crystal layer, and a reflection plate are arranged in parallel and a transmitted light is reflected by the reflection plate. A gradient of one of the phase plates is set to an extremely steep gradient, a gradient of the other phase plate is set to an extremely flat gradient, and the wavelength dispersion of a retardation composite value obtained from the liquid crystal layer and the two phase plates is approximated to a retardation curve expressed by a relational expression of (0.25+0.5n)&lgr;, where (n) is an integer and &lgr; is a wavelength (nm) of the transmitted light.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a fabrica tion method of such a liquid crystal display device which can reduce man-hours for fabrication are provided.

Abstract: A display apparatus which can display a ultra-high definition picture and high-speed animation is provided.

Abstract: A retardation film type guest host liquid crystal display is arranged to reduce coloring in dark representation and to be energy-effective. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal layer containing a given amount of dichroic dye and having a twist alignment, a reflective plate, and a phase plate located between the liquid crystal layer and the reflective plate. The phase plate has a slow axis set at 45 degrees against the alignment direction of the liquid crystal and a retardation set at a half of a phase difference between an ordinary ray before reflection by said reflective plate and an extraordinary ray after reflection.

Abstract: A display device is constituted by a display module which determines a plurality of pieces of pixels as belonging to one block unit, selects the plurality of pixels in each block unit at the same time and displays a picture image by adding one or a plurality of specific patterns each having different spatial frequencies of each block unit; a display control unit which controls the display module; a picture image signal generation unit which generates picture image signals; and a computing circuit which generates the specific patterns each having different spatial frequencies while weighting the same based on the picture image signals for every block unit. Thereby, a display device which reduces the signal clock frequency as well as increases the signal writing time, enhances the opening rate of an LC panel and permits a highly fine display and a high speed motion picture display, is obtained.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix format, a Y-selecting signal generating unit for selecting one or more pixel rows, an X-selecting signal generating unit for selecting one or more pixel columns, and a tone signal generating unit for generating a tone signal for applying the corresponding tone voltage to tone information of said display data onto each of the pixels.

Abstract: A display apparatus is capable of adapting to sufficiently increase display frequency even with an optical modulation element which has fairly low response speed and can rewrite image at high speed. The display apparatus of a system separately performs mapping of display data for optical modulation element of each pixel and application of gradation information. The display apparatus divides a display period of one frame into a plurality of sub-frames, controls input value for the optical modulation element independently per each sub-frame in the plurality of sub-frames, and displays image with gradation display by the optical modulation element.

Abstract: A liquid crystal light valve includes a semiconductor substrate having a region for a plurality of switching elements formed in a matrix form. A first metal layer is formed on the surface of the semi-conductor substrate through an insulating layer and divided into a plurality of parts by first slits. A second metal layer is formed on the first metal layer through another insulating layer and divided into a plurality of parts by second slits. A third metal layer is formed on the second metal layer through still another insulating layer and divided into a plurality of parts by third slits. An opposite substrate has an opposite electrode on a surface thereof, disposed so as to be opposite to said third metal layer through an interval on the opposite electrode side. Liquid crystal fills the interval between said opposite electrode and the third metal layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display having a pair of substrates having electrodes on opposing surfaces thereof, at least one of the substrates being transparent. A continuous liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between the pair of substrates and the liquid crystal layer includes first and second liquid crystal gel layers each with polymer enabling alignment. A direction of orientation of the liquid crystal molecules included in the first liquid crystal gel layer is orthogonal to a direction of orientation of the liquid crystal molecules included in the second liquid crystal gel layer.