Abstract: In an image display apparatus having a memory function of image data, the power consumption is reduced. This effect can be attained by providing each DRAM memory cell with an amplifying FET.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can reduce the difference in brightness between an image obtained from a reflection region and an image obtained from a transmission region. The liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode and a counter electrode in each pixel region on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of respective substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween. The pixel region includes a transmission region and a reflection region. A gap between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode in the reflection region is set larger than the gap between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode in the transmission region.

Abstract: In a display device which includes: an insulation substrate; thin film transistors which are formed on the insulation substrate; and terminal portions which are configured to supply voltages to the thin film transistors, the thin film transistor includes a gate electrode and a gate line which is formed of a material equal to a material of the gate electrode, a metal line is connected to the terminal portion, a first insulation film and a second insulation film which is made of a material different from a material of the first insulation film are sequentially stacked on the gate line, an opening which exposes the gate line is formed in the first insulation film and the second insulation film, a side wall surface of the opening is sequentially covered with a protective film, a first transparent conductive film and a third insulation film, the first transparent conductive film and a second transparent conductive film are sequentially stacked on an exposed portion of the gate line, and the second transparent cond

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a compression coding unit that performs compression coding of image data according to JPEG2000 algorithm. A coding style selection unit selectively activates coding functions of the compression coding unit in response to a discriminating signal, so that the active coding functions of the compression coding unit are suited to characteristics of the image data.

Abstract: The present invention provides an integral-type liquid crystal display module having a first display panel and a second display panel which can use a display panel of high resolution as the second display panel. The display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel, and a first flexible printed circuit board which connects the first display panel and the second display panel. Here, the first display panel includes display drive means. Video lines of the second display panel are connected with the display drive means through connection lines for video lines of the first flexible printed circuit board. Further, the second display panel includes scanning line drive means which supplies drive voltages to scanning lines of the second display panel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device which can achieve the high breakdown voltage proof property, the enhancement of reliability or the expansion of the designing/process tolerance of transistors by the improvement of a circuit. A display device includes a plurality of pixels and a drive circuit which drives the plurality of pixels.

Abstract: To provide a display device, including a polysilicon thin film transistor, which achieves a reduction of an off current with a simple configuration and with only a slight increase in a number of processes. A display device includes: an insulating substrate, and a thin film transistor formed on the insulating substrate, wherein a semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor has a polysilicon layer, a first amorphous silicon layer formed above the polysilicon layer, and a second amorphous silicon layer formed above the first amorphous silicon layer.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a receiving mechanism configured to receive a request, from at least one different image processing apparatus connected via a network, for transmission of a codestream generated in a way such that image data is divided into at least one region, each region being hierarchically compressed and stored in the image processing apparatus, a decomposing mechanism configured to decompose a codestream and retrieve the codestream in a component unit, an extracting mechanism configured to extract a target region from the codestream, a primary priority assigning mechanism configured to assign priority to the target region extracted by the extracting mechanism, and a primary transmitting mechanism configured for transmission of the codestream, decomposed in a component unit corresponding to the target region, to the different image processing apparatus requesting transmission of the codestream based on the priority assigned by the primary priority assigning mechanism.

Abstract: In a display device of the present invention which forms thin film transistors on a substrate, the thin film transistor comprises: a silicon nitride film which is formed on the substrate in a state that the silicon nitride film covers a gate electrode; a silicon oxide film which is selectively formed on the silicon nitride film; a semiconductor layer which is formed at least on an upper surface of the silicon oxide film and includes a pseudo single crystal layer or a polycrystalline layer; and a drain electrode and a source electrode which are formed on an upper surface of the semiconductor layer by way of a contact layer, wherein either one of the pseudo single crystal layer and the poly-crystalline layer is formed by crystallizing the amorphous silicon layer, and a peripheral-side wall surface of the pseudo single crystal layer or the polycrystalline layer is contiguously constituted with a peripheral-side wall surface of the silicon oxide film below the pseudo single crystal layer or the polycrystalline la

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device which can achieve the high breakdown voltage proof property, the enhancement of reliability or the expansion of the designing/process tolerance of transistors by the improvement of a circuit. A display device includes a plurality of pixels and a drive circuit which drives the plurality of pixels.

Abstract: An integral-type liquid crystal display module has a first display panel and a second display panel, and it can use a display panel of high resolution as the second display panel. The display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel, and a first flexible printed circuit board which connects the first display panel and the second display panel. The first display panel includes a display drive unit. Video lines of the second display panel are connected with the display drive unit through connection lines for video lines of the first flexible printed circuit board. Further, the second display panel includes a scanning line drive unit which supplies drive voltages to scanning lines of the second display panel.

Abstract: Three layers are formed on a TFT substrate SUB 100. The three layers include a first transparent electrode PSL1 131, a second transparent electrode CSL 127 and a third transparent electrode PSL2 132, all of which are laminated in parallel to the substrate surface. Two auxiliary capacitances to a liquid crystal capacitance are formed between the first transparent electrode PSL1 131 and the second transparent electrode CSL 127 and between the second transparent electrode CSL 127 and the third transparent electrode PSL2 132.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device having thin film transistors which can reduce an OFF current in spite of the extremely simple constitution. In the display device having thin film transistors on a substrate, each thin film transistor includes a gate electrode which is connected with a gate signal line, a semiconductor layer which is formed astride the gate electrode by way of an insulation film, a drain electrode which is connected with a drain signal line and is formed on the semiconductor layer, and a source electrode which is formed on the semiconductor layer in a state that the source electrode faces the drain electrode in an opposed manner, and a side of the drain electrode which faces the source electrode does not overlap the gate electrode as viewed in a plan view, and a side of the source electrode which faces the drain electrode does not overlap the gate electrode as viewed in a plan view.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate and a TFT element disposed on the substrate. The TFT element includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, a semiconductor layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode arranged in that order on the insulating substrate. The semiconductor layer includes an active layer composed of polycrystalline semiconductor and a contact layer segment interposed between the active layer and the source electrode and another contact layer segment interposed between the active layer and the drain electrode. The source and drain electrodes each have a first face facing the opposite face of the active layer from the interface with the gate insulating layer and a second face facing an etched side face of the active layer. Each contact layer segment is disposed between the active layer and each of the first and second faces of the source or drain electrode.

Abstract: A display device includes a dynamic ratioless shift register which is operated in a stable manner and can expand the degree of freedom of design. In the dynamic ratioless shift register which is provided with thin film transistors having semiconductor layers made of p-Si on a substrate surface, a node which becomes the floating state is connected to a fixed potential through a capacitance element.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a plurality of video signal lines for supplying video signal voltages to the pixels, respectively, and a drive circuit for selecting a voltage level of a gray scale voltage varying periodically. As one of the video signal voltages corresponding to display data to be supplied to one of the plurality of pixels. The drive circuit has a plurality of processing circuits connected to each other in series by a processing result transmitting line, and display data lines are formed to intersect with the processing result transmitting line for supplying the display data to the processing circuits. The processing circuits are arranged in correspondence with crossing points of the display data lines and the processing result transmitting line.

Abstract: A code stream generating part converts image data into two-dimensional wavelet coefficients, quantizes the same and coding the quantization result so as to compress the image data and generate a code stream. An additional information creating part creates additional information concerning the image data, and an additional information embedding part embeds the thus-created additional information into the code stream as a code in an off-rule zone which is not decoded by a JPEG 2000 standard rule.

Abstract: An inverter includes an input inverter having a high-resistance load and a first transistor and an output buffer including second and third transistors coupled in series. A power supply voltage is provided to satisfy an inequality VDD1>VDD2+Vth where VDD1 is the power supply voltage of the input inverter, VDD2 is the power supply voltage of the output buffer, and Vth is the threshold voltage of the transistors. Use of the high-resistance load allows an output waveform to rise and fall quickly, as well as reduces current consumption.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image data acquisition unit to acquire first encoded image data of a first data size, an image data creation unit to create a second encoded image data of a second, smaller data size than the first data size from the first encoded image data, a display unit to display an image corresponding to the second encoded image data in a displayunit, an editing unit to accept an edit operation to the image displayed in the display unit and for applying an edit processing corresponding to the edit operation to the first encoded image data, and an edit-result manifesting unit to manifest a result of the edit processing to the second encoded image data.

Abstract: A image processing apparatus transmits a codestream through a transmission path, the codestream being created from an image by dividing the image into rectangular portions and performing a discrete wavelet transform, a quantization and an entropy encoding for the respective rectangular portions of the image. The image processing apparatus comprises an error resilience inserting unit which inserts error resilience to respective code data of the rectangular portions prior to the entropy coding, and an error resilience setting unit which sets intensities of the error resilience inserted to the respective code data for the error resilience inserting unit, so that the error resilience intensities are different according to base units of the respective code data.