Abstract: A method of operating a receiver, comprising: determining a location of the receiver by analyzing a broadcast signal received by the receiver, determining information for a user, the information being dependent on the determined location, and presenting the information to the user.

Abstract: A video output device includes a screen configuration management section for managing a placement or a scaling of a screen for displaying at least one video, an area determination section for determining a character area in an input video, a supplemental information storing section for cutting out a video on a supplemental information area including the at least one character area determined by the area determination section and storing it as supplemental information, a supplemental information display determination section for determining whether or not the supplemental information stored by the supplemental information storing section is displayed in addition to an input video based on the screen configuration managed by the screen configuration management section, and an output section for outputting the input video and the supplemental information in accordance with commands from the screen configuration management section and the supplemental information display determination section.

Abstract: A video signal processing apparatus for processing a video signal comprises a receive unit (101, 103, 105) which receives the video signal comprising a sequence of pictures. A processing unit (107) applies a picture noise changing algorithm to the sequence of pictures and a variation unit (113) varies a spatial noise reduction setting for the picture noise changing algorithm between at least some consecutive pictures of the sequence of pictures in response to a predetermined variation rule. Specifically a set of picture manipulation processes (203, 205) with different spatial noise reduction characteristics may be provided and the variation unit (113) may select different picture manipulation processes in consecutive pictures. The approach may introduce high frequency noise flickering which is less perceptible to a viewer thereby reducing the perceived noise.

Abstract: A projector apparatus includes: a projection unit that projects an image onto a projection surface; a reflectance distribution detection unit that detects a reflectance distribution at the projection surface; a density distribution detection unit that detects a density distribution of a base pattern on the projection surface; a smoothing unit that smooths the reflectance distribution and the density distribution; an input unit that inputs image data; a correction unit that corrects the input image data based upon the smoothed reflectance distribution and the smoothed density distribution; and a control circuit that controls the projection unit so as to project the image based upon the correction image data.

Abstract: A system includes a data storage configured to store a model human visual system, an input module configured to receive an original picture in a video sequence and to receive a reference picture, and a processor. The processor is configured to create a pixel map of the original picture using the model human visual system. A first layer is determined from the pixel map. A weighting map is determined from a motion compensated difference between the original picture and the reference picture. A processed picture is then determined from the original picture using the weighting map and the first layer.

Abstract: Provided is a display device capable of producing an image of excellent quality with reduced flicker and little reduction in luminance, the display device including: a backlight having light sources such as LED devices arranged two-dimensionally, each of which may be individually modulated in luminance; a moving velocity detection unit VD1 (109) for detecting a moving velocity of an object in a video (for example, moving velocity of a foreground); and a luminance variation control unit (113) for automatically controlling luminance variations of the LED devices for each frame, in accordance with the moving velocity.

Abstract: A motion vector detecting apparatus includes a correlation detecting unit, a repetitive object detecting unit and a motion vector detecting unit. The correlation detecting unit detects correlations among plural pieces of pixel data in plural directions. The repetitive object detecting unit detects whether or not concerned pixel data in which a motion vector is to be detected is located in a repetitive object. The motion vector detecting unit decreases a difference value in a direction coincident with a direction of motion vector having detected at a past time when the concerned pixel data is located in the repetitive object and detects a motion vector.

Abstract: Methods and systems for loop-through for multi-band TV tuners and set-top box and/or TV set applications are disclosed and may include generating master and slave output signals from one or more low-noise amplifiers including master and slave stages. The master and slave stages may include parallel-coupled gain paths. Gate terminals and source terminals of input transistors for the master and slave stages may be directly coupled. The input transistors for the master and slave stages may share an inductor coupled to the source terminals and to ground. The master and slave stages may include cascode stages. VHF and UHF signals may be amplified in the multi-band receiver. The generated master output signal may be processed in the multi-band receiver, and may be utilized to generate I and Q output signals. A plurality of the slave output signals may be summed and communicated to a receiver external to the multi-band receiver.

Abstract: Within a short-distance wireless transmitting apparatus for use of TV, for transmitting video without interruption and with low power consumption, a transmitter portion having a reception frequency differing from a transmission frequency is provided on a station side having a video source, and a receiver portion for receiving the frequency corresponding to a reception frequency band of the station side and also a transmitter portion for transmitting the frequency corresponding to a reception frequency band of the station side are provided on a panel side for displaying, in the structure thereof, wherein transmission/reception can be operated, simultaneously, by FDD separating in frequency for transmission. The frequency of the transmitter on the panel side is determined upon basis of a scan result, while scanning a vacant frequency on the station side, and thereby enabling to escape from an interference from other system, when the panel executes the transmission, in the structure thereof.

Abstract: In a conventional technology in which a film mode is determined when IP (interlace/progressive) conversion processing is performed, a large number of frame memory sections, that is, a large amount of memory is required and increases the cost, and it has been difficult to perform stable IP conversion processing on a pull-down signal other than a video signal, having a regularity. A film mode determination apparatus uses one frame memory section (for storing the image of a previous frame) to calculate the correlation between the images of the current frame and the previous frame and stores only an average of the correlation values of images of past several frames and the determination result (I bit) of the average. Consequently, with a small amount of memory and a simple circuit configuration, the film mode determination apparatus can determine whether input image is a 32 pull-down signal, a 22 pull-down signal, or a video signal.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display, a first data signal line and a second data signal line are provided for each pixel column. In at least one embodiment, in a case where every two pixels in the pixel column are paired, one of two pixels in each pair is connected with the first data signal line and the other of the two pixels is connected with the second data signal line, two scanning signal lines respectively connected with the two pixels are simultaneously selected during one horizontal scanning period so that signal potentials are written into the two pixels from the first data signal line and the second data signal line, respectively, during each horizontal scanning period, supply of the signal potentials to the first data signal line and the second data signal line is performed after supply of preliminary potentials to the first data signal line and the second data signal line.

Abstract: Each retention capacitor line has retention capacitor line extension (18s) extending from an intersection of a retention capacitor line (18A) and a data signal line (15a) toward each of two intersections of the data signal line (15a) and two scanning signal lines (16a and 16b) adjacent to the retention capacitor line. The retention capacitor line extension (18s) has a part (M3) where the retention capacitor line extension (18s) and the data signal line (15a) overlap each other. A retention capacitor line sub-extension (18c) further extended from the retention capacitor line extension (18s) has a part (M4) where the retention capacitor line sub-extension (18c) and a drain drawing line (19a) overlap each other. On at least one side of an opening (K) of the scanning signal line (16b), the scanning signal line (16b) functions as a gate electrode (10a) of a transistor (12a).

Abstract: A broadband integrated receiver for receiving input signals and outputting composite video and audio signals is disclosed. The receiver employs an up-conversion mixer and a down-conversion mixer in series to produce an intermediate signal. An intermediate filter between the mixers performs coarse channel selection. The down-conversion mixer may be an image rejection mixer to provide additional filtering.

Abstract: Disclosed are a broadcasting signal receiving apparatus, a remote controller and a pairing method thereof, the pairing method of the remote controller performing bidirectional communication with the broadcasting signal receiving apparatus and including: sensing a key input for a control instruction for controlling the broadcasting signal receiving apparatus, wherein the key input is selected from among a plurality of keys on the remote controller; transmitting a broadcasting signal to the broadcasting signal receiving apparatus, wherein the broadcasting signal corresponds to the key input and includes first identification information of the remote controller; and storing second identification information of the broadcasting signal receiving apparatus received from the broadcasting signal receiving apparatus. Thus, the identification information for performing the RF communication may be transmitted in response to a voluntary selection on the RF remote controller.

Abstract: A method for controlling an ambient lighting element including determining ambient lighting data to control an ambient lighting element. The method includes processing combined ambient lighting data, wherein the combined ambient lighting data is based on corresponding video content portions and corresponding audio content portions. The processed combined ambient lighting data may then be used to control an ambient lighting element. In one embodiment, the combined ambient lighting data may be received as a combined ambient lighting script. Video-based ambient lighting data and audio-based ambient lighting data may be combined to produce the combined ambient lighting data. Combining the video-based and audio-based ambient lighting data may include modulating the video-based ambient lighting data by the audio-based ambient lighting data. The video content and/or audio content may be analyzed to produce the video-based and/or audio-based ambient lighting data.

Abstract: A lighting device 12 of the present invention includes a light source 17, an external power source 21 arranged to supply drive power to the light source 17, and a relay connector 19 arranged to provide an electrical connection between the light source 17 and the external power source 21. The relay connector 19 includes a conductive resin layer 40 and an insulating resin layer 50 arranged on the periphery of the conductive resin layer 40. According to the construction, the conductive portion and the insulating portion of the relay connector 19 are both made of resin, and therefore can be formed by the same process, e.g., by two-shot molding. Further, the number of components can be reduced.

Abstract: A flat panel display device includes a front cabinet, a rear cabinet, and a flat panel display component. The front cabinet includes a front panel, an edge portion, a plurality of contact ribs, a plurality of first bosses, and a plurality of reinforcing ribs. The contact ribs are disposed on the rear face of the front panel along side parts of the edge portion, respectively. The contact ribs have a main rib that extends parallel to a respective one of the side parts of the edge portion, and a sub rib that extends between the main rib and the respective one of the side parts of the edge portion in a direction perpendicular to the main rib. The reinforcing ribs are disposed on the rear face of the front panel. The reinforcing ribs extend between the first bosses and the main ribs of the contact ribs, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display arrangement comprising display means (304) and receiving and/or transmitting means for radio waves, millimeter waves or microwaves. An electrically conductive structure (6A) is adapted to form said receiving and/or transmitting means. The display means (3O4) comprises an emission layer with a number of light emitting elements or pixel elements (531, . . . , 535). The electrically conductive structure (6A) is provided between said light emitting elements (531, . . . , 535) to form said receiving and/or transmitting means such that they are integrated with the display means (3O4). Light conducting means (731, . . . , 735) are provided to conduct light through the electrically conductive structure (6A) to represent imaging information on top of the display means.

Abstract: A display apparatus provided on a surface of a panel, the display apparatus includes a quadrangular window section provided in the surface, an image display surface disposed in and recessed from the quadrangular window section, a frame configured to surround the image display surface and extend from the image display surface to the quadrangular window section, in which the frame includes an inside edge formed in a substantially trapezoidal shape having a shorter upper edge and a longer lower edge, and an outside edge formed in a quadrangular shape conforming to the quadrangular window section, in which a difference in length in a lateral direction between the shorter edge of the inside edge and an upper edge of the outside edge is set larger than a difference in length in the lateral direction between the longer edge of the inside edge and a lower edge of the outside edge.

Abstract: A projector includes: a display device which modulates illumination light; a projection lens which projects modulation light produced by the display device; and a holding device which has a holder member supporting the display device, a frame member supporting the projection lens and functions as a base capable of supporting the holder member, and an expanding and contracting member disposed between the frame member and the display device, wherein a temperature coefficient for the expansion and contraction of the expanding and contracting member in the direction of the optical axis of the projection lens corresponds to a temperature coefficient for the increase and decrease of the focal distance of the projection lens.

Abstract: An imaging system (200), such as a scanned laser projection system, includes one or more laser sources (201) configured to produce one or more light beams (204), and a light modulator (203) configured to produce images (206) from the light beams (204). Optional optical alignment devices (220) can be used to orient the light beams (204) into a combined light beam (205). A beam separator (221), which can be any of a birefringent wedge, compensated birefringent wedge, or a polymerized liquid crystal layer, is disposed between at least one of the laser sources (201) and the light modulator (203). The beam separator (221) is configured to receive light from the laser sources (201) and deliver two angularly separated and orthogonally polarized light beams (223) to the light modulator (203) so as to reduce speckle appearing when the images (206) are displayed on a display surface (207).

Abstract: Herein is disclosed an automatic darkening filter apparatus comprising a shutter control system configured to cause a shutter to switch from a dark state to an intermediate state in response to a change from high intensity incident light to low intensity incident light being detected. The control system is further configured to maintain the shutter in the intermediate state for a period of time, unless during this period of time high intensity light is detected, in which case the control system causes the shutter to switch to the dark state. If, at the end of the period of time, high intensity light is not detected, the shutter is caused to switch from the intermediate state to a light state.

Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) display panel including a lower substrate with pixel structures, an upper substrate, and an LC layer is provided. Each of the pixel structures includes a transistor and a pixel electrode. The pixel electrode includes first and second pixel electrodes insulated from each other, respectively including a first pattern and a second pattern that different and complementary to each other. Each of the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode has at least a trunk with a width smaller than or equal to 10 microns and a plurality of branches. The LC layer is positioned between the upper and the lower substrates and includes a plurality of LC molecules and a plurality of polymers, which are formed on surfaces of at least one of the upper and the lower substrates to cause the plurality of LC molecules to have a pretilt angle.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first insulating substrate, and a second insulating substrate facing the first insulating substrate. Gate lines are formed on the first insulating substrate while extending in a horizontal direction. A gate insulating layer is formed on the gate lines. A semiconductor layer and data lines are formed on the gate insulating layer. The data lines extend in a vertical direction. Source electrodes are formed on the semiconductor layer while being connected to the data lines. Drain electrodes face the source electrodes. A protective layer is formed on the data lines, and pixel electrodes are formed on the protective layer such that the pixel electrodes are connected to the drain electrodes while having a plurality of slits and horizontal opening portions. A common electrode is formed on the second insulating substrate with a plurality of opening portions.

Abstract: A display panel having a repair structure utilizes floating repair lines integrated into the display panel. Each of the floating repair lines bridges across each of any two adjacent pixels so as to be used for the repair of open lines on scan lines, data lines and common lines in the display panel as required. The display panel of the present invention having a repair structure integrates each of the floating repair lines between each of any two adjacent pixels so as to form new substitutional signal transmission routes of various types of open lines. The substitutional signal transmission route is able to reduce the resistive-capacitive delay of the repaired display panel and the impedance of repaired lines, and avoid signal decay and distortion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes at least: a liquid crystal display panel; a light source provided on a back side of the liquid crystal display panel; and a frame accommodating the liquid crystal display panel and the light source and having an upper opening and a lower opening in an upper portion and a lower portion of the frame, respectively. The liquid crystal display panel includes a TFT substrate provided on a side of the light source, a CF substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the TFT substrate and the CF substrate, a thin film driving circuit formed on the TFT substrate for driving the liquid crystal layer, and a front polarizing plate provided on a front surface of the CF substrate and having an overhanging portion overhanging from a periphery of the CF substrate. The front polarizing plate covers the upper opening of the frame and the overhanging portion is fixed to an upper end surface of the frame.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel receiving a light to display an image in response to a driving signal, a driving circuit board applying the driving signal to the display panel, a backlight unit disposed under the display panel to provide the light to the display panel, a bottom chassis including a first chassis member and a second chassis member to receive the backlight unit after coupling the first chassis member to the second chassis member, and a top chassis disposed on the display panel and coupled to the bottom chassis in accordance with an embodiment. The driving circuit board is mounted on a rear surface of the bottom chassis, and the first and second chassis members are overlapped with each other in a region in which the driving circuit board is positioned.

Abstract: A method of assembling a liquid crystal display is provided. First, a front cover, a bezel, a liquid crystal panel and a hinge are provided, wherein the front cover has an opening, and the bezel has a first hinge cap. The hinge is assembled to the liquid crystal panel. The front cover and the liquid crystal panel are assembled to the bezel, such that the hinge is partially covered by the first hinge cap, and the liquid crystal panel is exposed by the opening. A second hinge cap is provided. The second hinge cap is assembled to the first hinge cap, such that the hinge is wrapped by the first hinge cap and the second hinge cap. A back cover is provided. The back cover is assembled to the front cover.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device that prevents damage on a display panel even when the display device drops or falls down during handling. The display device includes: a PDP (10) including a front panel (20) and a back panel (30) that have peripheral portions joined to each other by a sealing material (36); a chassis member (44) supporting the PDP (10); and a housing enclosing the PDP (10) and the chassis member (44). The housing includes a front housing portion (41), a front protective glass substrate (43) that closes an opening (54) provided in the front housing portion (41), a side housing portion (51), and a back housing portion (42). A supporting member (55) for forming specified gap D between itself and the front panel (20) is provided on the front protective glass substrate (43) or the front housing portion (41) so as to sit between the sealing material (36) and the opening (54).

Abstract: An electronic device includes a cabinet, a device main body, a printed wiring board, an electric terminal, and a holder plate. The electric terminal is disposed on a first face of the printed wiring board. The electric terminal includes a terminal body and a connector. The holder plate includes a terminal hole, first and second engagement portions, and a restricting portion. The connector of the electric terminal is disposed through the terminal hole. The first and second engagement portions extend from an inner face of the holder plate. The restricting portion extends from the inner face of the holder plate. The restricting portion faces a top face of the terminal body of the electric terminal in a direction perpendicular to the printed wiring board.

Abstract: A display device such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a display panel having a display surface and a back surface parallel to the display surface, a backlight module provided below the display panel, and a masking film having an electrically conductive characteristic. The masking film is attached to a peripheral region of the back surface of the display panel, and includes a connecting portion directly contacting the grounding member, such as a grounding pad of a flexible printed circuit (FPC) board and a metal frame. The display device is capable of discharging static electricity.

Abstract: A protecting module for protecting a liquid crystal display module of a portable electronic device. The protecting module includes an electrical field shielding plate and a rubber gasket. The electrical field shielding plate defines a holding portion to receive the liquid crystal display module. The holding portion includes a bottom wall and a plurality of connected sidewalls extending from the bottom wall. The rubber gasket defines a slot to receive the bottom wall and the plurality of connected sidewalls. The liquid crystal display is received into the holding portion and resists against the rubber gasket.

Abstract: A backlight (illumination device) 2 of the present invention includes light sources 5, optical guides 7 and 17 for causing a surface emission of light from the light sources 5, and a diffusing plate 8 for diffusing the light emitted via the optical guides 7 and 17. The diffusing plate 8 faces light-emitting surfaces of the optical guides 7 and 17, and is provided with a light-amount adjusting section 11 made from a transflective material and for causing a reduction in amount of light transmitted therethrough. The light-amount adjusting section 11 is provided to correspond to a region which causes a bright line due to the light from the light sources 5, i.e., so that its orthogonal projection to a light-emitting region defined by the light-emitting surfaces covers a boundary between the optical guides 7 and 17. By the above, an illumination device providing high luminance uniformity can be obtained.

Abstract: A phase difference element, in which imbalance hardly occurs between right and left pictures during displaying a three-dimensional image, and a display device having the phase difference element are provided. A base film of the phase difference element includes, for example, a thin resin film having optical anisotropy. A slow axis of the base film points in a vertical or horizontal direction, and points in a direction intersecting with a slow axis of a right-eye region of the phase difference element and with a slow axis of a left-eye region thereof. Thus, influence due to optical anisotropy of the base film is exerted on each light being transmitted by the base film, so that the influence is not extremely greatly exerted on only one of light corresponding to a right eye and light corresponding to a left eye, the respective light being transmitted by the base film.

Abstract: An optical film, a backlight unit having the same, and a liquid crystal display device having the same are disclosed. The optical film comprises a base film and a plurality of structures disposed on the base film, at least one of the structures comprising a plurality of beads with a diffusion portion having a first diameter and a transmission portion having a second diameter integrally formed with each other.

Abstract: In a display apparatus according to an embodiment, a variable diffuser film is disposed between a backlight unit generating light and a display panel displaying an image. The variable diffuser film transmits or scatters the light from the backlight unit in response to an electrical signal to control a viewing angle. The variable diffuser film is disposed between the first and second transparent layers and includes a polymer layer in which liquid crystal molecules transmitting or scattering the light according to the electrical signal are dispersed. The polymer layer has a thickness of about 3 micrometers to about 15 micrometers, and the liquid crystal molecules have an anisotropic refractive index (?n) of about 0.15 to about 0.25. In one aspect, the display apparatus may automatically switch a narrow viewing angle mode and a wide viewing angle mode, thereby reducing power consumption necessary to switch the narrow and wide viewing angle modes.

Abstract: There are provided a liquid crystal layer; a plurality of colorant parts disposed so as to be divided for each of a plurality of pixel areas, and having mutually different wavelengths for transmitted light; a polarizing layer disposed on the light-emitting side of the liquid crystal layer; and a plurality of phase difference members disposed on the light-admitting side of the polarizing layer and disposed so as to be divided for each of the plurality of pixel areas. With each of the plurality of phase difference members, at least one of birefringence and thickness is varied for the plurality of phase difference members to adjust the retardation value so that, of the light that is incident on the polarizing layer, the polarization state of light whose wavelength allows the light to be transmitted by the colorant parts that correspond to the phase difference members is brought closer to that of linearly polarized light that oscillates in a designated direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer which is arranged between first and second aligning films formed on inner sides of first and second substrates, has liquid crystal molecules twist-aligned in a direction from the first aligning film toward the second aligning film when an electric field is not applied between first and second electrodes, and generates retardation of substantially ?/2 with respect to transmitted light. First and second polarizing plates are arranged on outer sides of the first and second substrates. A transmission axis or an absorption axis of the first polarizing plate is substantially matched with a direction along which the liquid crystal molecules in the vicinity of the first aligning film are aligned when a sufficiently intensive electric field is applied.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including two liquid crystal display panels located back to back is made thinner. A liquid crystal display device includes first and second liquid crystal display panels located back to back. The liquid crystal display device further includes a light source provided to a side of a rear substrate of the first liquid crystal display panel, a light source provided to a side of a rear substrate of the second liquid crystal display panel, and a polarizing element provided between the first and second liquid crystal display panels. The rear substrate of the first liquid crystal display panel includes a light guide layer for directing light, incident on the rear substrate from the light source and propagating inside the rear substrate, toward the second liquid crystal display panel.

Abstract: There is provided a color filter which can be manufactured by a simplified process and which will not short-circuit an electrode of a TFT substrate. The color filter includes a substrate, and a red layer, a green layer and a blue layer, formed on the substrate. When forming the green layer and the blue layer, these layers are not only formed on the substrate, but also laminated on the red layer to form a spacer comprised of the green layer and the blue layer, laminated on the red layer. The color filter further includes a transparent electrode layer which covers the substrate, the red layer, the green layer, the blue layer and the spacer, and an insulating black matrix layer formed on predetermined areas of the transparent electrode layer.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a colour active matrix display device comprises forming islands over a rigid carrier substrate, forming a plastic substrate over the rigid carrier substrate, forming an array of pixel circuits over the plastic substrate and forming a display layer over the array of pixel circuits. The rigid carrier substrate is then released from the plastic substrate and the plastic substrate then has channels defined by the islands. These are filled to define colour filter portions. The formation of a plastic substrate on a rigid carrier, with the use of a subsequent lift off process, enables the circuit arrays to be made on very thin plastic sheets. The colour filters can then be made on the outside of the LC cell. Depressions are formed in the plastic substrate registered to the circuit array, and these are filled in with colour filter material, for example by ink jet printing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transmissive or transflective liquid crystal display device in which interference fringes due to reflective light is suppressed and display qualities are improved. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention include: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate, formed in this order toward a display surface, wherein at least one of the first and second substrates includes a dielectric protrusion protruded toward the liquid crystal layer, the first substrate includes a reflective film being regularly arranged and overlapping with the dielectric protrusion as viewed in plan, and the reflective film includes a plurality of convex portions protruded toward the display surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal display used as a display section of an electronic apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same, and it is aimed at providing a liquid crystal display which can achieve high viewing angle characteristics and a method of manufacturing the same. A configuration is employed which includes a pair of substrates provided opposite to each other, a liquid crystal sealed between the pair of substrates, protrusions formed on at least one of the pair of substrates for regulating the alignment of the liquid crystal, and a plurality of pixel regions having both of a first area in which the protrusions are disposed at first intervals a2 and which has a first threshold voltage for driving of the liquid crystal and a second area in which the protrusions are disposed at second intervals a2 smaller than the first intervals and which has a second threshold voltage lower than the first threshold voltage.

Abstract: This object aims to provide a liquid crystal display panel with good in viewing angle characteristic, and capable of carrying out a high brightness display. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having at least one pixel unit and at least one first orienting structure, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the first and second substrates and having negative dielectric anisotropy. The pixel unit includes a pixel electrode that is located in the display area, while the first orienting structure is located outside the display area. In addition, the liquid crystal layer contains an optical rotation material, and some of the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are inclined toward the internal part or the external part of the pixel unit by the first orienting structure.

Abstract: A “dam and fill” method for bonding a transparent substrate to a liquid crystal display is disclosed which method provides means for effectively containing uncured/partially cured adhesive prior to bonding using the method. Also described is an associated device, made using the “dam and fill” method, which has precise targeted spacing between the transparent substrate and the liquid crystal display.

Abstract: A flat display panel includes an array substrate and a color filter substrate facing each other. Multiple first electrodes and second electrodes are formed on the array substrate. The first electrodes receive scan signals transmitted from a driving circuit, and each of the second electrodes is connected to a corresponding scan line. Multiple signal lines are formed on the color filter substrate and in an active display area. Besides, multiple third electrodes and forth electrodes are formed on the color filter substrate. Each of the third electrodes is electrically connected to a corresponding forth electrode by a corresponding signal line, each of the third electrodes is electrically connected to a corresponding first electrode, and each of the forth electrodes is electrically connected to a corresponding second electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a pixel disposed on the second substrate, a bottom capacitor electrode, a top capacitor electrode, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of protrusions disposed on the first substrate. The pixel includes a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode, in which a main slit is formed between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. The bottom capacitor electrode is disposed on the second substrate and overlaps a portion of the main slit, and the top capacitor electrode is disposed on the second substrate and forms a capacitor with the bottom capacitor electrode.

Abstract: An array substrate for an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device and its fabrication method are discussed. According to an embodiment, the array substrate includes a gate line and a data line crossing the gate line on a base substrate, so as to define a pixel region; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed in the pixel region and connected to the thin film transistor; a common line extending substantially parallel to the gate line; and a plurality of common electrodes alternately arranged with the plurality of pixel electrodes in the pixel region, wherein the plurality of common electrodes include at least one first common electrode adjacent to the data line and connected to the common line, and at least one second common electrode extending substantially parallel to the date line and not directly connected to the common line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is constituted of a TFT substrate and an opposing substrate which are arranged so as to be opposite to each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. In addition, in the liquid crystal layer, formed is a polymer into which a polymer component added to liquid crystal is polymerized, and which determines directions in which liquid crystal molecules tilt when voltage is applied. In the TFT substrate, formed are a sub picture element electrode directly connected to a TFT and a sub picture element electrode connected to the TFT through capacitive coupling. In each of these sub picture element electrodes, formed are slits extending in directions respectively at angles of 45 degrees, 135 degrees, 225 degrees and 315 degrees to the X axis.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a frame-shaped resin BM formed to surround a display area on a counter substrate and having a slit formed in a manner surrounding the display area, a moisture-resistant material formed to fill at least inside of the slit and having a water absorption ratio lower than that of a sealing material, and liquid crystal filled in space formed by a TFT array substrate, the counter substrate, and the sealing material. The sealing material is disposed in a manner being inner than the slit. The sealing material is disposed in a manner extending to an outer end of a portion inner than the slit, of the resin BM, or the moisture-resistant material is disposed in a manner further covering a portion outer than an outer end of the sealing material, of a portion inner than the slit, of the resin BM.