Abstract: An image display method of splitting a frame into a plurality of sub frames by multiplying a frame frequency of an incoming image signal by an integer, and dividing an image that is originally for the frame into pieces for display on the sub frames. In the image display method, the luminance component included in the image is given a priority for display on a first sub frame that is at least one of the sub frames, and a color-difference component included in the image is given a priority for display on a second sub frame that is also one of the sub frames but not the first sub frame.

Abstract: A display device displays corrected externally-supplied video signals, and includes plural pixels, a scanning driver and a signal driver which applies display voltages to signal lines coupled to the pixels. The signal driver includes a first converter which converts a format of the externally supplied video signals into a first format, a memory which stores the video signals from the first converter temporarily, a correction circuit which computes correction values based upon the video signals from the first converter and the video signals in the memory and corrects the video signals from the first converter based upon the correction values, and a second converter which converts the first format of the video signals from the correction circuit to a format of the display voltages. The memory stores the correction values also, and the correction circuit corrects the video signals in the memory based upon the correction values in the memory.

Abstract: A display device includes a casing of which a bottom portion is in contact with a setting face when the display device is set; a base member attached to a back face of the casing; and a stand member attached pivotably to the base member. The stand member supports a main body in cooperation with the bottom portion of the casing in an opened state and is capable of brought into a closed state when the stand member is not used. The bottom portion includes a first inclined face being in surface contact with the setting face in the opened state, and a second inclined face inclined relative to a horizontal direction when the casing is vertically erected. The stand member includes a contact portion having a third inclined face being in surface contact with the setting face in the opened state.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) exhibiting enhanced optical viewing performance. In a preferred embodiment, the LCD comprises a liquid crystal display panel, the liquid crystal display panel comprising a pair of transparent substrates, liquid crystal material sandwiched between the transparent substrates and transparent electrodes positioned between the liquid crystal material and the transparent substrates. The LCD also comprises a rear polarizer assembly comprising a compensation film, a polarizer mounted on the rear surface of the compensation film, and a first index-matched, pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) mounted on the front surface of the compensation film, the PSA being adhered to the rear surface of the LCD panel. The LCD also comprises a front polarizer assembly, the front polarizer assembly comprising a front polarizer, a compensation film mounted on the rear surface of the front polarizer and an index-matched PSA mounted on the front surface of the front polarizer.

Abstract: An array substrate includes a gate line, a data line, a thin-film transistor (TFT), a pixel electrode, a first sensor line, a second sensor line and a sensor electrode part. The TFT is electrically connected to the gate and data lines. The pixel electrode is formed in a unit area defined by the gate and data lines. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the TFT. The first sensor line is substantially parallel with the gate line. The second sensor line is substantially parallel with the data line. The sensor electrode part is formed in the unit area and electrically connected to the first and second sensor lines. The sensor electrode part is adjacent to the pixel electrode in a large axis direction of the unit area.

Abstract: A line-on-glass type liquid crystal display device, which includes a gate drive integrated circuit mounted on a liquid crystal display panel for supplying a gate signal to the liquid crystal display panel, and a data drive integrated circuit for supplying a data voltage to the liquid crystal display panel. Further, the data drive integrated circuit includes an output circuit having effective output channels to which the data voltage is supplied and dummy output channels to which at least any one of the data voltage and a common voltage is supplied. Also included is a channel selecting part for selectively supplying any one of the data voltage and the common voltage to at least anyone of the dummy output channels.

Abstract: A method of repairing a defect in a liquid crystal display panel is provided. The method comprises: providing an array substrate, a plurality of pixel regions over the array substrate, and at least one of the pixel regions comprising a transistor, a pixel electrode, a storage capacitor having an upper electrode and a bottom electrode, a defect positioned in the storage capacitor; performing a cutting process to divide the pixel electrode into a first portion and a second portion not connecting to each other, wherein said first portion of said pixel electrode is corresponding to the storage capacitor having said defect; and electrically connecting the second portion of the pixel electrode to one of the scan lines.

Abstract: Disclosed is an array substrate of an LCD, and a method for fabricating it, which simplifies the fabrication process, thereby reducing fabrication costs. The process is simplified because the array substrate does not have a passivation film. The thin film transistors on the array substrate each have an active layer that is protected from contamination by forming a channel insulation layer on the active layer through a dry-etching process. Further, the gate line, gate pad, and gate electrode may have a two-layer structure having a low-resistance metal layer and a barrier metal layer, or a three-layer structure having a low-resistance metal layer and two barrier metal layers.

Abstract: An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes: a substrate; a gate electrode and a gate line on the substrate; a gate insulating layer on the gate electrode and the gate line; an active layer on the gate insulating layer; an ohmic contact layer on the active layer; source and drain electrodes and a data line on the ohmic contact layer, the source and drain electrodes and the data line having a multiple metal layer; a passivation layer on the source and drain electrodes and the data line; and a pixel electrode on the passivation layer.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure with a multi-layer storage capacitor is provided. A substrate having an active element area and a storage capacitor area is provided. By sequentially fabricating a semiconductor layer, a first inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer, a gate and a first electrode, a source and a drain in the semiconductor layer in the active element area, a second ILD layer, a patterned conductive layer served as a pixel electrode, a patterned third ILD layer, a plurality of contact windows in the first, second and third ILD layers for exposing the source, the drain, parts of the patterned conductive layer and the first electrode, a second electrode and a source/drain conductive line, the semiconductor structure with the multi-layer storage is obtained in consequence.

Abstract: An LCD array substrate includes a plurality of gate lines arranged in a first direction; a plurality of data lines arranged in a second direction to cross the plurality of gate lines; a semiconductor layer formed at overlapping regions of the gate lines and the data lines and extending a predetermined length from the overlapping regions over the gate lines; a drain electrode spaced apart from the overlapping regions of the gate and data lines and disposed partially in contact with the semiconductor layer, the drain electrode having ends extended beyond the semiconductor layer and the gate line; and a pair of pixel electrodes disposed on opposing sides of the gate line and electrically connected with the drain electrode.

Abstract: An LCD substrate including multiple LCD panels may be cut along a scribing boundary. All or part of one or more test pads or test signal lines may extend in whole or in part across the scribing boundary. When the LCD substrate is cut along the scribing boundary, the test pads or test signal lines are cut or removed.

Abstract: A panel for a display device includes a shorting bar to dissipate an electrostatic charge and the first and second testing bars. Signal lines are divided into the first signal line group electrically connected to the first testing bar and the second signal line group electrically connected to the second testing bar. Floating transistors are formed between the shorting bar and the signal lines of the second signal line group.

Abstract: A tiltable LCD holder comprises a base, a fixing device and at least one support device. The base has a platform on an upper end thereof. The fixing device has holes for being fixed on the platform of the base. The fixing device has two upward bended ends having a respective screw hole for screwing a respective screw bolt thereinto. The support device is connected to an object by one end thereof. The support device has screw holes on the other end for being movably coupled with the screw holes formed on the upward bended ends of the fixing device, whereby the object can be tiltable over a wide angle range to provide a steadily positioned visual angle.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel is mounted in a frame. A positioning component for supporting the liquid crystal panel in a positioned state is attached to the frame using a screw component. A positioning protrusion is provided in the frame. A positioning hole portion into which the positioning protrusion can be inserted is provided in the positioning component. The positioning hole portion has a size such that, in a state in which the positioning protrusion is inserted therein, the positioning component can be moved in a direction in which a support surface of the positioning component approaches or moves away from the liquid crystal panel. A bracket surface that is substantially parallel with a direction in which the support surface of the positioning component approaches or moves away from liquid crystal panel is provided in the positioning protrusion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display module device includes a light-guide plate, a lamp disposed along one side of the light-guide plate, and a plurality of lamp holders enclosing opposing end portions of the lamps, wherein the lamp holders include transparent material.

Abstract: An LCD includes an LCD panel, a light guiding plate disposed at a rear of the LCD panel and having a light incident surface on which a curved surface pattern is formed, and a point light source facing the light incident surface and disposed closer to the LCD panel than to a center of thickness of the light incident surface. Accordingly, the LCD including the point light source has excellent light efficiency and brightness uniformity.

Abstract: In an LCD apparatus having an optical member, the optical member has a base body having a light incident surface and a light emitting surface faced the light incident surface. A first resin layer is formed on the light emitting surface and a light diffusing pattern is uniformly formed on the first resin layer so as to diffuse a first light and emit a second light. Accordingly, the LCD apparatus can improve display quality and can be fabricated in low-cost manufacture. Also, since the light diffusing pattern is formed with a curable material, the light diffusing pattern can have various shapes and superior reproducibility.

Abstract: A backlight unit for use in a liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The backlight unit which may include a reflection plate; a plurality of fluorescent tubes; and a diffusion plate. The reflection plate may include a rectangular-shaped bottom plate section, four side plate sections respectively formed upright from four sides of the bottom plate section with a skew in the direction of moving away from the bottom plate section, and an edge plate section that protrudes from a tip end of each of the side plate sections toward outside thereof.

Abstract: A backlight unit comprises an arrangement surface and a plurality of point light sources arranged on the arrangement surface, wherein the arrangement surface is divided into an array of hexagonal cells, a plurality of the cells comprising a white light providing unit. An LCD comprising a backlight unit on which a point light source is efficiently disposed and an efficient arrangement method of a point light source are provided.

Abstract: A photo-luminescent liquid crystal display (PL LCD) includes: a light control unit which includes a liquid crystal (LC) layer modulating the UV light and electrodes driving the LC layer; and a light emitting layer which emits light by the UV light transmitted through the light control unit. The light emitting layer includes inorganic phosphors and semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) having a quantum confinement effect. The PL LCD includes adding QDs having a high quantum efficiency into luminescent substances having lower light utilization efficiency than other colors, for example, red phosphor having very low quantum efficiency to improve the light utilization efficiency, thereby improving the color balance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming a polymer dispersed liquid crystal cell. It also relates to a cell produced by such method and to uses of such cells.

Abstract: An LCD with a transmission area and a reflection area includes a first substrate, a gate line and a data line formed on the first substrate, a TFT that is connected to the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode that is connected to the TFT and includes a transparent electrode and a reflective electrode, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a plurality of convex-shaped protrusions that are placed at the refection area and are formed on the second substrate, and a color filter formed on the protrusions and on the second substrate.

Abstract: A semi-transmission type liquid crystal display that maximizes the luminance in reflection mode and transmission mode. The liquid crystal display comprises a lower substrate with thin film transistors, an opposite substrate facing the lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the lower substrate and the opposite substrate, a reflection electrode formed in a reflection area of the lower substrate, a transparent electrode formed in a transparent area of the lower substrate, a common electrode formed on the opposite substrate, and a drive circuit for applying a voltage between the reflection electrode and the transparent electrode and the common electrode. The potential difference between a drive voltage applied to that surface of the lower substrate which contacts the liquid crystal layer and a drive voltage applied to that surface of the opposite substrate which contacts the liquid crystal layer is lower in the reflection area than in the transparent area.

Abstract: The present invention intends to provide an optical element that can be incorporated in a liquid crystal display device, is provided with a birefringent layer obtained by aligning and polymerizing polymerizable liquid crystal molecules, and, while sufficiently reflecting an actual condition of a liquid crystal display device, can reduce fear that a thickness of a driving liquid crystal layer unexpectedly varies. An optical element includes a light-transmitting base material and a birefringent layer comprising of aligned and polymerized liquid crystal molecules and having a value of indentation depth of 6% or less relative to a thickness of the birefringent layer, wherein said value is measured under conditions where a cylindrical indenter having a diameter of 30 (?m) is applied at a load of 10 mN/sec up to the maximum load of 400 mN.

Abstract: An LCD according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a liquid crystal panel assembly including two panels facing each other and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the two panels and having positive dielectric anisotropy. A pair of polarization films are attached to the outer surfaces of the liquid crystal panel assembly, respectively. A positive or negative a-plate compensation film having reverse wavelength dispersion that ¥Än increases as the light wavelength increases and a negative hybrid c-plate compensation film are inserted between the liquid crystal panel assembly and each of the polarization films.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a pixel electrode located on a lower substrate; a lower alignment layer located on the pixel electrode and having a predetermined alignment direction (or aligned in a predetermined direction); an upper substrate located apart from the lower substrate and having an opposite surface facing the lower substrate; an opposite electrode located on the opposite surface; an upper alignment layer located on the opposite electrode and having the predetermined alignment direction of the lower alignment layer; an upper protrusion line located between the upper substrate and the upper alignment layer and arranged in a direction crossing the predetermined alignment direction; and an optically compensated bend (OCB) mode liquid crystal layer located between the lower alignment layer and the upper alignment layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to liquid crystal displays used in display sections of electronic apparatus and provides a liquid crystal display in which high anti-pressure characteristics can be achieved with a high aperture ratio maintained. A configuration is provided, which includes a pair of substrates provided opposite to each other, a liquid crystal sealed between the substrates, a plurality of pixel regions provided on the substrates, and protrusion-like structures provided in the pixel regions for regulating the alignment of the liquid crystal and maintaining a cell thickness between the substrates.

Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) substrate including a base, a plurality of scan lines and data lines and a pixel unit is provided. The scan lines are disposed on the base. The data lines are disposed above the scan lines and are perpendicular to the scan lines to define a plurality of pixel areas. The pixel unit is disposed on the base and inside one of the pixel areas. The pixel unit comprises a TFT and a pixel electrode. The TFT comprises a source and a drain. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the drain. The pixel electrode comprises a first main electrode, a second main electrode and a plurality of branch electrodes. The first main electrode is perpendicular to the second main electrode. The branch electrodes are connected to the first main electrode and/or the second main electrode. The first main electrode substantially divides the pixel area evenly.

Abstract: Provided are an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device and a method for manufacturing the same. The device comprises a thin film transistor array substrate, a color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal. The thin film transistor array substrate has a common electrode and a pixel electrode arranged in an alternating pattern with each other, and has a first alignment film provided on the common electrode and the pixel electrode so as to align liquid crystal molecules in a vertical direction. The color filter substrate faces the thin film transistor array substrate, and has a second alignment film that aligns the liquid crystal molecules in a vertical direction. Liquid crystal is injected between the thin film transistor array substrate and the color filter substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second substrates, a plurality of pixel regions defined in a matrix configuration on the first substrate, a plurality of gate lines extending along a first direction on the first substrate and dividing each of the pixel regions into first and second pixels that are adjacent to each other along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, a plurality of data lines extending along the second direction and crossing the gate lines to define the first and second pixel regions together with the gate lines, a plurality of first and second electrodes for generating an in-plane electric field in the first and second pixels regions, and a switching device formed at the crossing the gate and data lines and driving the first and second pixel regions, wherein the switching device includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, and source and drain electrodes, and the drain e

Abstract: An array substrate includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of thin-film transistors, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of common voltage lines and a plurality of common electrodes. The gate lines extend in a first direction. The data lines extend in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The thin-film transistor is electrically connected to the gate line and the data line. The pixel electrode is formed in each of pixels defined by the gate lines and the data lines. The common electrode is electrically connected to the common voltage line. The horizontal alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is not changed by externally applied vertical touch pressure so that display quality is improved.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a substrate, a plurality of external connection terminals provided on the substrate, an electronic component mounted on the substrate and having a plurality of terminals, and a plurality of wires that electrically connect the plurality of external connection terminals to the plurality of terminals of the electronic component. A constant-potential wire is provided in the vicinity of locations of connections of at least some of the plurality of wires with the respective terminals of the electronic component.

Abstract: In a wiring figure pattern of a display panel, each wiring is separated into bands of optimal widths by slits of a constant width as a wiring figure pattern so that minimum light irradiation for curing a photocuring sealing material can be carried out without increasing the electric resistance of the wiring. The optimal width means a resistance such that light coming from both sides of the band cures the sealing material on the upper surface of the band-without influencing the driving and display of liquid crystal. At a point where the width of wiring becomes two times or more of the optical width between the start point and end point of intersection of the wiring and the sealing material region, the wiring is divided by the slit. A first branch forms the band of the optimal width extending from the branch point to the end point, whereas the second branch extends to the end point and is spaced apart from the first branch by the width of the slit.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a driving chip, and a non-conductive adhesive film. The display panel includes a pad member having a plurality of conductive pads. The driving chip includes a body and a plurality of bumps. The body has a driving circuit. The bumps are protruded from the body to make contact with the pads, respectively. The non-conductive adhesive film fixes the driving chip to the pad member. Therefore, a manufacturing cost is decreased, and a yield is increased.

Abstract: A method for repairing a short defect according to the present invention includes forming a first conductive pattern on a substrate, forming a photo-resist pattern on the first conductive pattern using a rear exposure for the first conductive pattern being shorted by a residue pattern, and removing the residue pattern exposed through the photo-resist pattern.

Abstract: A method and a device for reducing speckle formation on a projection display when working with a coherent light source. In this context, the light coming from the light source, before the projection, may strike an electrically controllable optical element having a spatially inhomogeneous refractive index, passing through the same, the refractive index being varied over time within the projection period. This may lead to an averaging out of the speckle pattern on the projection screen. For purposes of illumination, a multimode light source may be used, and/or the light coming from the light source is separated into a plurality of spatial modes, thereby reinforcing the effect. As an optical element, one may employ a liquid crystal element composed of at least two liquid crystal layers, to which a spatially dependent voltage is applied to generate a spatially dependent refractive index. Its birefringence may be compensated by orientating the layers to one another in appropriate fashion.

Abstract: A lithographic apparatus with a cover plate formed separately from a substrate table and means for stabilizing a temperature of the substrate table by controlling the temperature of the cover plate is disclosed. A lithographic apparatus with thermal insulation provided between a cover plate and a substrate table so that the cover plate acts as a thermal shield for the substrate table is disclosed. A lithographic apparatus comprising means to determine a substrate table distortion and improve position control of a substrate by reference to the substrate table distortion is disclosed.

Abstract: A phase shifting photolithography system includes inserting a phase shift component in a path of an illumination, wherein the phase shift component modifies a portion of the illumination to a different, and controlling an aperture shutter of the phase shift component modifying an interference of the illumination and the illumination with the different phase.

Abstract: A method of controlling a component within a lithographic apparatus is presented. The component is moved relative to a reference within the lithographic apparatus by a first actuator. A second actuator that exerts a force between the component and a reaction mass is used to adjust at least one of a position, velocity and acceleration of the component relative to the reference within the lithographic apparatus.

Abstract: A system in which deformation of a substrate is monitored during processing of the substrate is described. In one embodiment, the distortion in the substrate is measured after each exposure and processing operation by comparing the position of a plurality of reference marks to values in a database. The substrate may be characterized by measuring positions on the substrate for a number of measurement fields and a number of measurement positions per field, calculating an estimated variance based at least on the number of measurement fields, the number of measurement positions per field, and a number of model parameters, and comparing the calculated estimated variance to a threshold amount to determine a status of the substrate.

Abstract: Advanced techniques for programmable photolithography provide enhanced resolution and can image features smaller than the single shutter intensity profile, i.e., sub-pixel resolution. Patterns are built up by multiple exposures with relative movement of the mask and resist so as to place each shape from the library where it is needed on the resist. Electro-Optic phase shifting material may be applied to the shutter so as to adjust the single shutter intensity profile, or to adjust the interaction of adjacent shutters. An apodizing mask may be used to engineer the wavefronts of the light striking the resist to achieve better resolution.

Abstract: A laser radar system and a method for use in a laser radar system are disclosed. More particularly, the laser radar system includes a fiber laser capable of generating a laser signal; a first optical path through which the generated laser signal may be transmitted; a second optical path through which a reflection of the transmitted laser signal may be received; and a detector capable of detecting the received reflection. The method includes generating a laser signal from a fiber laser; transmitting the laser signal; receiving a reflection of the transmitted laser signal; and detecting the reflection.

Abstract: A light detection system duplicates the dynamic range of low intensity non-cooperative targets for high intensity cooperative targets. Both dynamic ranges of return light pulses are supported at the same time. In one embodiment, two beam splitters are used to reduce the intensity of reflected light that is received from high intensity sources to levels that can be accurately ranged. Ambiguity between the two paths is resolved by using an additional detector. Alternatively, one beam splitter is used to reduce the intensity of reflected light that is received from high intensity sources to levels that can be accurately ranged. The beam splitter system increases the effective dynamic range of the detection and ranging system passively without any need to reconfigure the system.

Abstract: A system and method for collecting Raman data sets without the “contaminating” effect of luminescence emitted photons. Using a frame transfer CCD for time resolved data collection, Raman imaging may be performed without photobleaching the sample. The system may include a light source, a frame transfer CCD, an optical lens and at least one controller. The light source illuminates the sample with a plurality of photons to generate scattered photons from the sample. The frame transfer CCD has an image array and a storage array. The optical lens collects scattered photons and directs the scattered photons to the image array. The controller transfers a Raman data set representative of the scattered photons from the image array to the storage array. The frame transfer CCD may be configured so as the image array integrates the scattered photons during a Raman integration time and the controller transfers the Raman data set from the image array to storage array during a parallel transfer time.

Abstract: An optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) launches an optical pulse emitted from a pulse light source to one end side of an optical fiber, receives light returning to the one end side with an optical receiver, inputs an output signal of the optical receiver to an A/D converting unit so as to convert the signal to an N bit (N is the plural number) digital signal, implements a process for the N bit digital signal, and measures the transmission characteristics of the optical fiber. The A/D converting unit has the number of bits that is greater than the N bits by the number of A bits, wherein A is an integer greater than “0”. The A/D converting unit converts an input signal to an N+A bit digital signal, and compresses the N+A bit digital signal to N bit data.

Abstract: A method and a system for synchronising angles of at least two displaceable working means (2, 2?) at a predetermined point of action (4) is disclosed. The working means are, in particular, a robot-controlled tool or a robot-controlled radiation emitter and/or radiation receiver. In order to synchronise angles in a precise manner, the directions of the action (1, 1?) of the working means (2, 2?) are, in particular represented in a continuous manner, detected and united at a predetermined point of action (4). The angle (a) between the directions of the action (1, 1?) of the working means (2, 2?) is determined by, in particular, an optical angle measurement and is adjusted to a predetermined value.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical inclinometer. According to the invention, an incline-dependent medium, e.g. a liquid surface, is positioned in the pupil of an optical subsystem and a detectable wave front is imaged onto a detector by means of said medium. A phase displacement of radiation emitted from a radiation source is caused by said medium; the interaction of the radiation and the medium can take place during reflection or transmission. An aberration of the wave front caused by the medium can be analyzed by means of a wave front sensor and compensated by an evaluation unit or the detector. A wave front sensor having a diffractive structure formed upstream of each subaperture is compact and increases the resolution and the detectable angular region of the inclinometer.

Abstract: A test system and method are provided for testing in parallel radiant output of multiple light emitting devices. Generally, the method involves: (i) providing a system having a master, calibrated power meter (CPM), a source transfer standard (STS), and multiple secondary, test site power meters (TSPMs); (ii) determining a relationship between electrical power supplied to the STS and a radiant output therefrom as measured by the CPM; (iii) calibrating the TSPMs using the STS and the relationship between the power supplied to the STS and the radiant output therefrom as determined by the CPM; and (iv) positioning the devices undergoing test on a fixture of the test system and positioning the fixture relative to the TSPMs to test radiant outputs of the devices.

Abstract: Apparatus for optical measurement and/or examination of a welding assembly includes a measuring space in which a welding assembly is located. Further disposed in the measuring space is a stationary reference object which is made of a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion ??2.0*10?6/K at 20° C. A plurality of cameras in the measuring space take images of the welding assembly and the reference object, with the image information transmitted to an evaluation device for evaluation.