Abstract: An LCD with a uniform common voltage and a method thereof. The present invention method includes providing a lower substrate, forming scan lines and data lines, then forming common electrodes and common electrode pads electrically connecting the common electrodes. The method also includes providing an upper substrate, forming photo spacers corresponding to each of the electrode pad, then forming a conductive material layer covering each photo spacer, combining the two substrates and connecting the conductive material layer on the photo spacers to the common electrode pads, and sealing the two substrates.

Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display device. A first substrate having viewing and peripheral areas is provided. The viewing area comprises transmissive and reflective regions. A backlight device is disposed under the first substrate, used to provide a backlight passing through the transmissive region. A power management controller connects the backlight device to control an intensity of the backlight. At least one photodetector is formed on the first substrate in the peripheral area, wherein the photodetector detects an intensity of ambient light above the first substrate, and then provides a corresponding signal to the power management controller to control the intensity of the backlight. According to the invention, the intensity of the backlight automatically becomes greater when the intensity of the ambient light becomes lower, and the intensity of the backlight automatically becomes lower when the intensity of the ambient light becomes greater.

Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display device. A first substrate having viewing and peripheral areas is provided. The viewing area comprises transmissive and reflective regions. A backlight device is disposed under the first substrate, used to provide a backlight passing through the transmissive region. A power management controller connects the backlight device to control an intensity of the backlight. At least one photodetector is formed on the first substrate in the peripheral area, wherein the photodetector detects an intensity of ambient light above the first substrate, and then provides a corresponding signal to the power management controller to control the intensity of the backlight. According to the invention, the intensity of the backlight automatically becomes greater when the intensity of the ambient light becomes lower, and the intensity of the backlight automatically becomes lower when the intensity of the ambient light becomes greater.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a shift register unit thereof are provided. The shift register unit includes a first switch, a second switch, and a level shift circuit. The first switch has a first input terminal, a first control terminal, and a first output terminal. The second switch has a second input terminal, a second control terminal, and a second output terminal. The second control terminal is coupled to the first output terminal and the level shift circuit. When the first switch is enabled, the first input terminal receives an input signal converting the voltage of the second control terminal into a first voltage for turning on the second switch. The second output terminal outputs a first clock signal to a scan signal line. When the level shift circuit is enabled, the voltage of the second control terminal is converted into a second voltage for turning off the second switch.

Abstract: A shift register includes a signal generating circuit for generating an output signal at an output end of the shift register in response to a clock signal while the signal generating circuit is turned on, a driving circuit electrically coupled to the signal generating circuit for controlling the signal generating circuit in response to an input signal received from an input end of the shift register, a primary reset circuit electrically coupled to the signal generating circuit for turning off the signal generating circuit and resetting the output signal from the output end, and a feedback circuit electrically coupled to the output end and the major reset circuit for controlling the primary reset circuit in response to the output signal and the clock signal.

Abstract: A flat display, a flat panel display and a backlight module are disclosed. The flat display module comprises the flat panel display and the backlight module. The flat panel display comprises an upper polarizer and a lower polarizer. The lower polarizer includes a first diffusion layer. The backlight module comprises a light emitting device, a prism sheet and a light guide plate. A light beam is provided by the light emitting device. The prism sheet is one-dimensional prism array structure. The light guide plate includes a second diffusion layer for diffusing the light beam. The first diffusion layer has an optical haze greater than the optical haze of the surface of the upper polarizer. Accordingly, thin thickness and high brightness are achieved for the flat display.

Abstract: A transflective LCD panel includes a first substrate and a second electrode layer sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween. Two first electrode layer are fabricated on the first substrate facing the second electrode layer. A metal layer fabricated on the first substrate is disposed between two of the first electrode layers. A spacer layer is fabricated on the second electrode layer in alignment with the metal electrode layer. Upon application of an operating voltage onto the liquid crystal layer, an electric field induced between the metal electrode layer and the space layer is smaller than that induced between the first and second electrode layers.

Abstract: A shift register in an amorphous-silicon gate driver comprises a pull-up transistor and two pull-down modules. The pull-up transistor produces a positive pulse when the clock signal is high and the gate of the pull-up transistor is also high. The gate of the pull-up transistor is pulled down to a negative voltage level Vss by two pull-down transistors in the pull-down modules. Each pull-down module also has a further pull-down transistor to keep the output terminal at Vss after the output pulse is produced. The two pull-down modules are operated in a cooperative manner so that each pull-down transistor is conducting approximately 50% of the time. The gates of the pull-down transistors are kept at a positive voltage level approximately 50% of the time and at Vss? approximately 50% of the time with Vss? being more negative than Vss.

Abstract: A backup shift register module having at least two backup shift registers is used to repair a defective main shift-register module. A normally open link is provided between the input of first backup shift register and the input of each odd-numbered main shift register, and between the output of first backup shift register and the input of each even-numbered main shift register. A normally open link is provided between the input of second backup shift register and the input of each even-numbered main shift register, and between the output of second backup shift register and the input of each odd-numbered main shift register. If one main shift register is defective, the input and output of the defective shift register are disconnected from the cascade link, and the normally open links are connected to the input of the defective shift register and the output of the next shift register are connected.

Abstract: Display panels capable of eliminating reliability issues due to high switching frequency. The display panel comprises a data driver outputting first, second, third and fourth data signals in sequence through a data line, a scan driver outputting first and second scan signals in sequence through first and second scan lines and an auxiliary driver generates first and second auxiliary signals in sequence, and first and second display cells commonly receives the first scan signal through the first scan line and receives the first and the second data signal through the data line, and a first switch is coupled to the data line and the second display cell, turning on and off in sequence according to the first auxiliary signal when the first scan signal is applied thereto such that the second and the first display cells receive the first and the second data signals in sequence.

Abstract: A shift register without a feedback signal of a post-stage shift register utilizing a latch mechanism and a clock signal to control the voltage of an output of the shift register is provided. The shift register reduces the transistor size and the circuit layout area. The shift register also improves the issue the overlapping between two adjacent shift registers to reduce the after-image of a liquid crystal display.

Abstract: A shift register circuit having shift registers comprising a first transistor having a gate and a first source/drain for receiving an output signal of a pre-stage shift register, a second transistor having a gate coupled to a second source/drain of the first transistor, a first source/drain coupled to a first clock signal, and a second source/drain coupled to a output, a first pull-down module coupled to the output terminal, for receiving the first clock signal, wherein the output is coupled to a first voltage level when the output signal of pre-stage shift register and the first clock signal are at low voltage level, and a second pull-down module coupled to the output and a second clock signal, wherein the output is coupled to a first voltage level when the output signal of pre-stage shift register and the second clock signal are at low voltage level.

Abstract: A shift registers circuit having a series of cascading shift registers comprises a first transistor coupling to an output signal of a pre-stage shift register, a second transistor coupling to the first transistor, an output and a first clock signal, and a pull-down module coupling to the output, output signals of pre-stage and post-stage shift register, a second and a third voltage level. When the second transistor turns on and the first clock signal is at high voltage level, the output is at a first voltage level. When the signal of post-stage shift register is at first voltage level, the output is at the third voltage level.

Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display device implementing a color filter having various thicknesses. An insulating layer is formed on a lower substrate. A lower electrode is formed on the insulating layer, wherein the lower electrode has a transmissive portion and a reflective portion. An upper substrate opposing the lower substrate is provided, wherein a side of the upper substrate has a color filter having various thicknesses. A planarization layer is formed on the color filter, wherein the planarization layer is opposite to the lower substrate. An upper electrode is formed on the planarization layer. A liquid crystal layer is interposed between the upper and lower substrates.

Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display device implementing a color filter having various thicknesses. An insulating layer is formed on a lower substrate. A lower electrode is formed on the insulating layer, wherein the lower electrode has a transmissive portion and a reflective portion. An upper substrate opposing the lower substrate is provided, wherein a side of the upper substrate has a color filter having various thicknesses. A planarization layer is formed on the color filter, wherein the planarization layer is opposite to the lower substrate. An upper electrode is formed on the planarization layer. A liquid crystal layer is interposed between the upper and lower substrates.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display (IPS-LCD) with a higher opening ratio. The IPS-LCD includes a lower substrate, a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines positioned on the lower substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes containing pixel electrode offshoots, an insulation layer covering the scan lines and pixel electrodes, a plurality of common electrodes covering one of the pixel electrode offshoots, an upper substrate, and a plurality of liquid crystal molecules filled between the two substrates. An overlapping portion of each pixel electrode offshoot and each common electrode serves as a storage capacitor.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having two parallel substrates and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the substrates, a light source for generating light beams, and a dispersion film positioned between the liquid crystal display panel and the light source having a plurality of bar-like structures arranged along a first direction and facing the light source. The dispersion film is utilized for enabling brightness of the light beams generated from the light source to be increased as a viewing angle is increased, and further utilized for enabling the liquid crystal display device to display an image with uniform brightness.

Abstract: A dual mode liquid crystal display device comprising an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a liquid crystal layer between the upper and the lower substrate is provided. The lower substrate further includes a first thin film transistor, a second thin film transistor, a reflective electrode connected to the first thin film transistor, and a regional light-emitting source connected to the second thin film transistor. The first thin film transistor and its electrically connected reflective electrode and the second thin film transistor and its electrically connected light-emitting diode can be positioned inside two separate pixel regions or inside a single pixel region.

Abstract: A multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display (MVA LCD) has a plurality of pixel electrodes for defining a plurality of pixel units. The pixel units are disposed in matrix arrangement, and each of them has a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. When a voltage is applied to said pixel electrode, the first electrode and the common electrode have a higher absolute voltage difference than the second electrode and the common electrode. The third electrode and the common electrode have the lowest absolute voltage difference.

Abstract: A transflective LCD panel includes a first substrate and a second electrode layer sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween. Two first electrode layer are fabricated on the first substrate facing the second electrode layer. A metal layer fabricated on the first substrate is disposed between two of the first electrode layers. A spacer layer is fabricated on the second electrode layer in alignment with the metal electrode layer. Upon application of an operating voltage onto the liquid crystal layer, an electric field induced between the metal electrode layer and the space layer is smaller than that induced between the first and second electrode layers.