Abstract: A content display device includes a line-of-sight direction detection unit, a gazing point identification unit, a gazing content identification unit, and a display control unit. The line-of-sight direction detection unit is configured to detect a line-of-sight direction of a person located in a vicinity of a display region in which a plurality of contents are simultaneously displayed. The gazing point identification unit is configured to, based on the line-of-sight direction, identify a gazing point in the display region of the person. The gazing content identification unit is configured to, based on a distribution of the gazing point detected in a predetermined period, identify a gazing content at which the person is gazing. The display control unit configured to determine a display mode of each of the plurality of contents, based on a result of identifying the gazing content, and display each of the plurality of contents in the display mode determined.

Abstract: An image display device including a display screen for displaying an image includes a touch switch arranged on the display screen, a touch position detection unit configured to detect a touch position and the number of touches of the display screen touched by a user of the image display device, a storage unit configured to store the touch position and the number of touches detected by the touch position detection unit, and a determination unit configured to determine a degree of contamination of the display screen on the basis of the touch position and the number of touches stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: A content display device includes a line-of-sight direction detection unit, a gazing point identification unit, a gazing content identification unit, and a display control unit. The line-of-sight direction detection unit is configured to detect a line-of-sight direction of a person located in a vicinity of a display region in which a plurality of contents are simultaneously displayed. The gazing point identification unit is configured to, based on the line-of-sight direction, identify a gazing point in the display region of the person. The gazing content identification unit is configured to, based on a distribution of the gazing point detected in a predetermined period, identify a gazing content at which the person is gazing. The display control unit configured to determine a display mode of each of the plurality of contents, based on a result of identifying the gazing content, and display each of the plurality of contents in the display mode determined.

Abstract: A multi-display device has a plurality of display devices are arranged in a matrix shape. Each of the display devices includes: a scanning signal line drive circuit configured to switch a scanning direction of scanning signal lines of the corresponding display device between upward and downward for each row according to a position at which the corresponding display device is disposed; and a control unit configured to control the scanning signal line drive circuit such that one of the upward and downward directions of the scanning direction is selected as a first direction and the scanning signal lines are sequentially driven in the selected first direction and to control the scanning signal line drive circuit such that a second direction which is opposite to the selected first direction is selected and the scanning signal lines are sequentially driven in the selected second direction whenever a predetermined period elapses.

Abstract: The present invention includes: a display unit that displays an image; a detection unit that detects a line of sight and a position of a viewer viewing the display unit; and a control unit that selects, based on information about the position of the viewer detected by the detection unit, a color gamut according to a position of a display region of the display unit, and displays the image in the selected color gamut on the display unit.

Abstract: The energy of light irradiated by a backlight causes stress on TFTs for controlling transmissivity for each pixel on a display panel so as to degrade TFTs. The present invention addresses the problem concerning disturbance in transmissivity control based on image information and incapacity of displaying images with desired luminance. The present invention includes a backlight, a transmission-type display panel disposed on the front face of the backlight, a cumulative quantity calculation part configured to calculate a cumulative quantity representing either the cumulated electric energy cumulating power supplied to the backlight or the cumulated light quantity of the backlight, and a display panel controller configured to change a driving condition for the display panel depending on the cumulative quantity.

Abstract: An image display device includes a display element having a unit of display comprising sub pixels displaying images for first and second view points, and an optical unit that distributes light emitted from respective sub pixels into different first directions. When a region surrounded a black matrix in the sub pixel is defined as an aperture, the sub pixels form a base unit that is an adjoining pixel pair including two sub pixels arranged with a data line therebetween. When virtual lines evenly dividing a width of the sub pixel in the first direction into K+1 pieces are presumed, K number of storage capacitor lines are arranged across at least one virtual line in the aperture. In the adjoining pixel pair, the K number of storage capacitor lines of one sub pixel are nonparallel to the K number of storage capacitor lines of the other sub pixel.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal display element in which a plurality of display units including at least a pixel that displays an image for a first eyepoint and a pixel that displays an image for a second eyepoint are arranged in a matrix shape; an optical unit which distributes light emitted from the pixel that displays the image for the first eyepoint and light emitted from the pixel that displays the image for the second eyepoint in mutually different directions; a first control electrode and a second control electrode disposed on each pixel in the display units; and a plurality of domain regions of which the orientation is controlled by a diagonal electric field or a lateral electric field formed by the first control electrode and the second control electrode and which have different liquid crystal molecule orientation states.

Abstract: An image display device includes a display element having a unit of display comprising sub pixels displaying images for first and second view points, respectively, and an optical unit that distributes lights emitted from respective sub pixels into different directions. When a region surrounded by a data line, a gate line and a storage capacitor electrode in the sub pixel is defined as an aperture, the sub pixels form a base unit that is an adjoining pixel pair including two sub pixels arranged via a data line therebetween. The two sub pixels have switching elements connected to the data line between the two sub pixels and controlled by different gate lines. When virtual lines each evenly dividing a width of the sub pixel in the first direction into K+1 pieces are presumed, K number of storage capacitor lines are each arranged across at least one virtual line in the aperture.

Abstract: An image display device includes a display element having a unit of display comprising sub pixels displaying images for first and second view points, respectively, and an optical unit that distributes lights emitted from respective sub pixels into different directions. When a region surrounded by a data line, a gate line and a storage capacitor electrode in the sub pixel is defined as an aperture, the sub pixels form a base unit that is an adjoining pixel pair including two sub pixels arranged via a data line therebetween. The two sub pixels have switching elements connected to the data line between the two sub pixels and controlled by different gate lines. When virtual lines each evenly dividing a width of the sub pixel in the first direction into K+1 pieces are presumed, K number of storage capacitor lines are each arranged across at least one virtual line in the aperture.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal display element in which a plurality of display units including at least a pixel that displays an image for a first eyepoint and a pixel that displays an image for a second eyepoint are arranged in a matrix shape; an optical unit which distributes light emitted from the pixel that displays the image for the first eyepoint and light emitted from the pixel that displays the image for the second eyepoint in mutually different directions; a first control electrode and a second control electrode disposed on each pixel in the display units; and a plurality of domain regions of which the orientation is controlled by a diagonal electric field or a lateral electric field formed by the first control electrode and the second control electrode and which have different liquid crystal molecule orientation states.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of IPS mode includes an array of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern by crossing a plurality of video signal lines and a plurality of scanning signal lines each other. Each of the pixels is provided with at least a switching element. A transparent insulating film is provided on both signal lines, and a plurality of pixel electrodes, common electrodes and common lines are provided on the transparent insulating film. The common lines are formed in a grid-shaped pattern such that a first group of the common lines is made of a first conductor having lower reflectivity against optical light than that of metal while a second group of the common lines is made of a second conductor including a metal layer such that said first group and said second group are crossing each other along said video signal lines and said scanning signal lines.

Abstract: A subpixel is provided with a pixel electrode 4PIX, a pixel thin-film transistor 4TFT, and a charging capacitor electrode CS2. The charging capacitor electrode CS2 is formed in the same layer as a charging capacitor line CS and electrically connected to the charging capacitor line CS. A charging capacitor 4CS is mainly formed between the charging capacitor electrode CS2 and an electrode constituted by a silicon layer 4SI via an insulating film. One of the source and drain electrodes of a pixel thin-film transistor TFT is connected to a data line D via a contact hole 4CONT1 and the other is connected to a pixel electrode 4PIX via a contact hole 4CONT2.

Abstract: A subpixel 4S has a parallelogram aperture, which is equivalent upon rotation by 180 degrees in a XY plane and asymmetric about a line R-R? or L-L? parallel to the Y-axis and passing through the center Or or Ol of the subpixel. The subpixels 4S adjacent to each other in the X-axis direction in a unit of display 4U are point-symmetric about the center Ou of the unit of display 4U. The apertures of a right-eye pixel 4R and left eye pixel 4L have the centers Or and Ol around the intersections of the diagonals of their respective parallelograms, respectively. The centers Or and Ol are shifted from a line E-E? to be away from each other in the Y-axis direction.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal display element in which a plurality of display units including at least a pixel that displays an image for a first eyepoint and a pixel that displays an image for a second eyepoint are arranged in a matrix shape; an optical unit which distributes light emitted from the pixel that displays the image for the first eyepoint and light emitted from the pixel that displays the image for the second eyepoint in mutually different directions; a first control electrode and a second control electrode disposed on each pixel in the display units; and a plurality of domain regions of which the orientation is controlled by a diagonal electric field or a lateral electric field formed by the first control electrode and the second control electrode and which have different liquid crystal molecule orientation states.

Abstract: An optical member including: a Fresnel lens sheet for deflecting and emitting deflected light, A louver for restricting a direction of light rays, where the louver restricts the traveling direction of incident light from the deflecting element to a direction that is parallel to the optical path of the incident light, and emits the restricted light. The Fresnel lens sheet is disposed so that a machined surface thereof faces the louver.

Abstract: In the display panel (2) of an image display apparatus, a left-eye pixel (4L) and a right-eye pixel (4R) constitute a display unit (4) and have a nearly trapezoidal shape. A sub-pixel has a nearly trapezoidal aperture having upper and lower bases nearly parallel to the X-axis and two oblique sides oblique in directions different from the Y-axis direction. A nearly triangular shielding part is provided at the acute angle part of the nearly trapezoidal shape. The nearly triangular shielding part serves to create a gentle distribution of brightness and luminance of the image display apparatus, whereby 3D moire becomes less visible and 3D crosstalk is reduced.

Abstract: A planar light source, Fresnel lens sheet, and louver are disposed in the stated order in a light source apparatus. The Fresnel lens sheet deflects and focuses in one dimension light that has entered from the planar light source. The louver is disposed in the optical path of the light emitted from the Fresnel lens sheet, and the directivity of the light can be increased by restricting the traveling direction of the light to the focal direction of the Fresnel lens sheet. The light utilization ratio can thereby be increased, the directivity of planarly emitted light can be increased, and the brightness can be made uniform at the point of observation.

Abstract: To provide an image display device of an excellent display quality with which the brightness is not deteriorated in reflective displays, and to provide a portable terminal using the same. Provided is a display device which includes: a plurality of arranged display elements each including at least a pixel for displaying a first-viewpoint image and a pixel for displaying a second-viewpoint image, each of the pixels having a transmissive display area for transmitting light and a reflective display area for reflecting external light; and an optical device for distributing light emitted from each of the pixels to different directions from each other, wherein the reflective display areas of each of the display elements are arranged asymmetrically with respect to an axis that is perpendicular to an image distributing direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a plurality of pixels arrayed in a first direction and a second direction, each of the pixels having a reflective area in at least a portion thereof. The reflective area comprises a surface-irregularity film that is a film having a plurality of surface irregularities, a light reflecting film disposed as an upper layer over the surface-irregularity film, and an electrode group disposed as an upper layer over the light reflecting film. The electrode group in each of the pixels that are arrayed in at least the first direction comprises at least two types of electrode patterns having different layouts.