Abstract: A video transmission apparatus includes a video data transmission unit configured to transmit video data to an external apparatus, an image quality parameter acquisition unit configured to acquire an image quality parameter to be used for display of the video data, an image quality parameter generation unit configured to generate, from the image quality parameter acquired by the image quality parameter acquisition unit, image quality parameter information to be used in the external apparatus, and an image quality parameter transmission unit configured to transmit the image quality parameter information generated by the image quality parameter generation unit to the external apparatus.

Abstract: Provided are a video display device and a method of controlling the same. The method includes: obtaining an uncompressed audio-visual (AV) content; playing the uncompressed AV content through the display unit; obtaining content information of the uncompressed AV content on the basis of a content section of the uncompressed AV content; obtaining content change time information and enhanced service information on the basis of the content information; and determining a delay time for obtaining the next content information on the basis of the content change time information.

Abstract: A method for collaboratively captioning media, the media including video and audio, the method including: receiving a first annotation as a caption in a first language for a media segment from a first device, rendering the first annotation as the caption in the first language for the media segment at a second device, receiving a second annotation as the caption in the first language for the media segment from the second device, and in response to a request from a third device to stream the media, streaming the video, the audio, and the second annotation to the third device.

Abstract: A receiver circuit includes an analog front-end and a digital processing unit. The analog front-end includes an input for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal, a first control input for receiving a gain adjustment signal, a second control input for receiving a timing signal, and a signal output for providing a digital intermediate frequency (IF) signal. The analog front-end updates gains of a plurality of gain stages according to the gain adjustment signal and in synchronism with the timing signal. The digital processing unit is configured to produce at least one output signal derived from the digital IF signal. The digital processing unit includes a timing recovery circuit configured to generate the timing signal based on the digital IF signal to control timing of the updating gains of each of the plurality of adjustable gain stages.

Abstract: A communication method for performing transmission of video data and audio data, communication of device control data, and local area network communication by using a single cable may include connecting a connectable device to a pair of differential transmission lines; performing the local area network communication through bidirectional communication via the pair of differential transmission lines; and notifying a connection state of an interface with the connectable device by using a DC bias potential of at least one of the differential transmission lines of the pair. The connection state may include a first notification from a first one of the pair of differential transmission lines whether the connectable device is connected to the single cable.

Abstract: A fast channel switching method and apparatus for a digital broadcast receiver having a single tuner are disclosed. The fast channel switching method includes setting an ongoing service channel and at least one standby service channel, buffering broadcast data received through the ongoing and standby service channels, outputting the buffered broadcast data of the ongoing service channel, determining whether the ongoing service channel is switched to one of the standby service channels, outputting, if the ongoing service channel is switched to one of the standby service channels, the buffered broadcast data of the switched standby service channel and resetting the ongoing and standby service channels.

Abstract: Some methods include coupling a digital media player to a backside surface of a television. Several methods include coupling a tray to a backside surface of a television, coupling a digital media player to the tray, and electrically coupling the digital media player to the television through an electrical cable. Some methods include orienting a tray base such that sidewalls protrude outward from a backside of a television to couple a digital media player to the backside of the television.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of liquid crystal display protection panels and liquid crystal display protection panel integrals have low reflection for outdoor applications. Various embodiments also have the advantage of being able to provide increased contrast and brightness for certain convenient viewing directions for outdoor viewers wearing polarized sunglasses.

Abstract: The present invention provides a 3D image signal controlling method. The method comprises inputting a left eye image into the first liquid crystal layer, turning off the backlight module and switching gray levels of the second liquid crystal layer to a minimum gray level during (4N?3)th time interval, wherein N is natural number; stopping inputting the left eye image, turning on the backlight module and remaining the gray levels of the second liquid crystal layer as the minimum gray level during (4N?2)th time interval; inputting a right eye image into the first liquid crystal layer, turning off the backlight module and switching the gray levels of the second liquid crystal layer as a maximum gray level during (4N?1)th time interval; and stopping inputting the right eye image, turning on the backlight module and remaining the gray levels of the second liquid crystal layer as the maximum gray level during (4N)th time interval.

Abstract: A display including a display panel and a switchable retarder is provided. The switchable retarder disposed on a light path of a polarized image having a first polarization provided by the display panel and includes a first substrate, first electrode stripes, second electrode stripes, and a retardation medium. The first electrode stripes and the second electrode stripes are disposed between the display panel and the first substrate, and are electrically independent from each other. A retardation region is defined by each first electrode stripe and one second electrode stripe. The retardation medium is located at a side of the first electrode stripes and at a side of the second electrode stripes, and is controlled by an electric field in the corresponding retardation region such that each retardation region provides a retardation. Accordingly, the polarized image having the first polarization is transformed into the polarized image having a second polarization.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a shutter panel and a display panel that alternately displays a left-eye image and a right-eye image in a 3D mode. The shutter panel includes dual-frequency liquid crystals in which a polarity of dielectric constant anisotropy is changed according to a frequency of the driving voltage to selectively delay a phase of the left-eye image or the right-eye image, which pass through the dual-frequency liquid crystals. The dual-frequency liquid crystals have a fast response speed to the low voltage, and thus a cross-talk phenomenon between the left-eye image and the right-eye image may be prevented.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a 3D display device and a phase retarder film thereof. The phase retarder film is used to be mounted on a liquid crystal display panel adopting a half-source driving structure and includes a plurality of phase retarder rows arranged side by side. Each phase retarder row has two wave-shaped sides, and each wave-shaped side corresponds in position to one shading row of a black matrix of the liquid crystal display panel. When the phase retarder film is mounted with a positional error, adjacent pixel electrodes in the same pixel row can have the same light-passing area relative to the phase retarder rows having wave-shaped sides so as to avoid a color washout problem.

Abstract: A polarization control device includes a first polarizing liquid crystal panel adapted to convert polarization of a first outgoing light of a right-eye image and a second outgoing light of a left-eye image into a second polarization having a polarization direction different by 90° from a first polarization during a specified period of time from a time point when the external device performs a process of switching from either one of the first outgoing light and the second outgoing light to the other, a polarization plate adapted to transmit the first polarization and to cut off the second polarization, and a second polarizing liquid crystal panel adapted to convert the first polarization from the polarization plate into third polarization and fourth polarization having respective polarization direction different from each other in every predetermined period.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal lens panel. The illustrative liquid crystal lens panel may provide a display device capable of viewing a 3D or 2D image without glasses.

Abstract: A display device has two data signal lines provided for each column of pixels (?, ?, ?). A data signal line (15q) to which a pixel electrode (17a) contained in a pixel (101) is connected via a transistor (12a) and a data signal line (15Q) to which a pixel electrode (17b) contained in a pixel (102) adjacent to the pixel (101) in a column-wise direction is connected via a transistor (12b) are different from each other. The pixel electrode (17a) contained in the column of pixels (?) forms a capacitance (CaP) with a data signal line (15P) provided for the column of pixels (?) and forms a capacitance (Car) with a data signal line (15r) provided for the column of pixels (?). This enhances the display quality of a display device having a plurality of data signal lines provided for each column of pixels.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. At least one of the pixels includes a gate line, a data line, a first storage line spaced apart from the gate line, a second storage line spaced apart from the gate line and the first storage line, first and second switching devices electrically connected to the gate line and the data line, a first liquid crystal capacitor connected to the first switching device and including the liquid crystal layer as its dielectric substance, a second liquid crystal capacitor connected to the second switching device and including the liquid crystal layer as its dielectric substance, a first storage capacitor connected between the first switching device and one of the first and second storage lines, and a second storage capacitor connected between the second switching device and a remaining one of the first and second storage lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display module including an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal panel; a first cover covering a rear side of the liquid crystal display module; a second cover covering a front side of the liquid crystal display module and including a transparent conductive layer; and a discharging path connecting the transparent conductive layer to the in-plane switching mode liquid crystal panel, wherein the transparent conductive layer is attached to the liquid crystal display module.

Abstract: According to the first aspect of the present invention, a drain electrode and a pixel electrode are electrically connected to each other on a protective film formed on a semiconductor active layer, and thereby it is possible to easily connect the drain electrode and the pixel electrode to each other and to improve a yield.

Abstract: An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a thin film transistor having a signal line of dual layered structure of a copper compound and copper, and a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor.

Abstract: Provided is an optical sensor having such a novel structure that even if an intrinsic semiconductor region has a short substantial length in a direction parallel with a forward direction of a photodiode, a light receiving area can be ensured, whereby light detection sensitivity can be improved; and a liquid crystal panel including the optical sensor. The optical sensor includes: a photodiode (26) provided with a semiconductor film (28) having a p-type semiconductor region (28p), an intrinsic semiconductor region (28i), and an n-type semiconductor region (28n); a first gate line (38a) formed above the intrinsic semiconductor region (28i), a negative voltage being applied to the first gate line; and a second gate line (38b) formed above the intrinsic semiconductor region (28i), a positive voltage being applied to the second gate line, wherein a predetermined clearance is formed between the first gate line (38a) and the second gate line (38b), above the intrinsic semiconductor region (28i).

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provide a liquid crystal panel comprising a driving chip assembly comprising: a chip lead wiring and a chip repair line, which are overlapped but insulated from each other; an array substrate comprising an array substrate lead wiring and an array substrate repair line, which are overlapped but insulated from each other; wherein the driving chip assembly is mounted on the array substrate which is electrically connected with the corresponding chip lead wiring connection, and the two ends of the chip repair line is electrically connected with the corresponding two ends of the array substrate repair line respectively.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display (LCD) that has a reduced cost due to an increase in the thickness of the FPC board included of the display. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel, a first housing having a first side and a second side and a plurality of sides, the liquid crystal panel being accommodated on the first side, a flexible printed circuit board having a first side in contact with the liquid crystal panel, and a second side disposed adjacent to the second side of the first housing, a second housing having a bottom, an opening, and a plurality of sides extending from the bottom to define a cavity, wherein the plurality of sides are fastened to the first housing, further wherein the opening is formed through the bottom to expose at least a portion of the flexible printed circuit board, and a reflective sheet disposed on a interior surface of the bottom.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a back frame of a display device. The back frame includes a frame piece and a fixing member having a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The first portion extends toward the inside of the back frame. The second portion extends from the first portion and connects with the third portion, fixing a printed circuit board to prevent other internal connecting interfaces from loosening due to the printed circuit board shifting.

Abstract: The described embodiments relate generally to computing devices including liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and more particularly to methods for attaching a backlight assembly to a cover glass layer while minimizing an amount of stress transferred through the cover glass layer to the LCD module. A continuous and compliant foam adhesive can be used to bond the cover glass layer to the backlight assembly. The compliant bond can absorb and distribute local stress concentrations caused by structural loads, mismatched surfaces and differing thermal expansion rates between various structures and cover glass layer. This can reduce stress concentrations in the cover glass layer that can lead to stress induced birefringence in the LCD cell. In another embodiment, a series of rigid plates can be bonded to the cover glass layer and attached to the backlight assembly. Point loads applied from the backlight assembly can be distributed over a larger area due to the resilience of the rigid plates.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to stably fix a light source board without using any screw. A backlight unit 12 according to the present invention includes an LED board 18 including an LED 17 as a light source, a chassis 14 that stores the LED board 18 and has an opening 14b through which light from the LED 17 exits, and a holding member 20 that extends in at least one direction along a plate surface of the LED board 18 and is fixed to the chassis 14 so as to hold the LED board 18 together with the chassis between the holding member 20 and the chassis 14.

Abstract: A backlight (120) that includes a front reflector (130) and a back reflector (160) that form a hollow light recycling cavity (162) having an output surface (164) is disclosed. The front reflector includes at least four directional recycling films (132). The backlight also includes a semi-specular diffuser disposed between the front reflector and the back reflector, and one or more light sources (166) disposed to emit light into the light recycling cavity.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hybrid type liquid crystal display device. The present disclosure suggests a hybrid type liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display panel having a display area; and a window area defined within the display area, wherein an image disposed at outside of the liquid crystal display panel is shown in front of the liquid crystal panel through the window area. The present disclosure suggests a hybrid type display device in which main video data is represented using the liquid crystal display device, an additional image represented on an external screen is shown through the liquid crystal display device, or the external image can be shown by overlapping with the main video data of the liquid crystal display device, as needed.

Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) assembly includes a printed circuit board; first and second LED arrays arranged on the printed circuit board and each including a plurality of LEDs, wherein the LEDs in each of the first and second LED array are connected to each other in series, and an output terminal of the first LED array faces an output terminal of the second LED array; a first input line connected to an input terminal of the first LED array; a second input line connected to an input terminal of the second LED array; and one output line connected to the output terminal of the first LED array and the output terminal of the second LED array, wherein the first input line, the second input line and the one output line are disposed at one side of the printed circuit board with respect to the LEDs.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight for illuminating the liquid crystal display panel where the outer shape of the backlight in a plane has at least one corner of which the angle is greater than 90°, and a light guide plate LG having approximately the same form as the outer shape of the backlight, wherein a number of light emitting diodes are aligned along two sides (s1, s3) of the light guide plate LG that form a corner A of which the angle is greater than 90°, and the main light for illumination (L2 to L4, L6 and L7) from the light emitting diodes aligned along the two sides propagates through the light guide plate LG in the same direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device which can ensure a large viewing angle while maintaining high light source energy use efficiency. The display device 10, which outputs light emitted from a light source 25 to an observer side in a form of an image, comprises: a light guide plate 21 which has a light output face, a back face, and a side face positioned between the light output face and the back face; a light source 25 which emits light to the side face of the light guide plate; an optical sheet 30 disposed on the observer side of the light guide plate; a liquid crystal panel 15 disposed on the observer side of the optical sheet; and a device 40 for enlarging a view disposed on the observer side of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a backlight module and a display apparatus. The display apparatus comprises the backlight module and a display panel. The backlight module comprises a light collector, optical fibers, a fiber light-outputting substrate and a light guide plate. The optical fibers are connected between the light collector and the fiber light-outputting substrate. The light guide plate is disposed at one side of the fiber light-outputting substrate. The light guide plate includes light diffusion recessions, and the light diffusion recessions face the light-outputting openings of the fiber light-outputting substrate. The present invention can use ambient light rays to form a backlight source.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device includes an optical switching member; a light guide plate made of a thermoplastic material, which includes at least one light introducing portion on at least one side surface thereof; and a light source disposed on the at least one side surface, in which: the at least one light introducing portion includes, in plan view of the light guide plate: a first portion extending from a light incident surface, which is an end surface of the at least one light introducing portion, while keeping a substantially constant width; and a second portion, which extends from the first portion and has a form which widens; and at least the second portion is connected to a front surface of the light guide plate through an inclined surface which is smoothly continuous with the front surface of the light guide plate.

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

Abstract: A plasmonic optical spectrum filtering device is provided that filters electromagnetic waves by optical resonance, for example, by selective conversion between the free-space waves and spatially confined modes in plasmonic nano-resonators. Frequency-selective transmission and reflection spectra are engineered and can be used as spectrum filters for display and imaging applications. A thin film stack color filter is further disclosed, which can be designed to either function as a transmission color filter with efficiency twice that of conventional colorant based color filter; or as a reflective color filter for display devices (e.g., used in an energy harvesting reflective display). In other variations, a novel reflective colored display is viewable under direct sunlight, and can simultaneously harvest both incident light and generate electrical power. Methods of making such plasmonic optical spectrum filtering devices are also provided.

Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus having the same are provided. The display panel includes a liquid crystal layer and comprises first and second substrates which are disposed opposite to each other; a color filter polarizing layer which formed on one surface between the first and second substrates, and which includes a first metal linear grid arranged at different pitches to emit a first polarized component of incident light with different colors; and a polarizing layer which includes a second metal linear grid formed on an opposite surface to the surface between the first and second substrates, wherein a metal material contained in the first metal linear grid is different from a metal material contained in the second metal linear grid. The provided display panel and display apparatus including the same, have decreased manufacturing costs and a simplified manufacturing process.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a method fabricating the same are provided. The LCD device and the method of fabricating the same have the shielding means formed directly on the array substrate instead of the color filter substrate of the opposite substrate to the array substrate.

Abstract: An electro-optical device including: a reflection film which is formed at each of a plurality of pixels; a dielectric multi-layer film which is formed over the reflection film; a planarizing isolation film over the dielectric multi-layer film burying a step formed by a reflection film; and a first alignment film which is formed over the planarizing isolation film. The reflection film, the dielectric multi-layer film, the planarizing isolation film, and the first alignment film are formed on the surface facing the second substrate in the first substrate.

Abstract: A pixel structure and a display panel are provided. The pixel structure is configured on a substrate that has at least one first display region and at least one second display region adjacent thereto. The pixel structure includes an active device, a protection layer, a reflective pattern, and a pixel electrode. The active device is configured on the substrate and located in the first display region. The protection layer is configured on the substrate, covers the active device, and is located in both the first and second display regions. The reflective pattern is configured on the protection layer, located in the first display region, and exposes a portion of the protection layer located in the second display region. The reflective pattern is doped with a fluorescence material. The pixel electrode is configured on the reflective pattern and the portion of the protection layer exposed by the reflective pattern.

Abstract: A light reflective film is produced by (a) forming a hard coat layer having a surface energy of less than 30 mN/m and a pencil hardness of at least 2H on a resin film, (b) applying a curable liquid crystal composition onto the surface of the opposite side, (c) drying the applied curable liquid crystal composition to be in a state of a cholesteric liquid crystal phase, (d) promoting the curing reaction to form a light reflective layer, and (e) repeating at least once the process of from (b) to (d).

Abstract: An O plate is included which includes a phase difference compensating layer which is an assembly of columns obtained by oblique deposition of an anisotropic refractive index medium with respect to a substrate and has negative biaxial refractive index anisotropy. In the O plate, a front surface phase difference value of the O plate in the normal direction is 5-15 nm, and a ratio of Re(?30)/Re(30) is 2.5-5.5.

Abstract: First alignment is performed by forming an alignment layer that includes a photopolymerizable monomer or oligomer on a substrate and the like, introducing liquid crystal, and bringing the liquid crystal into contact with the alignment layer including the photopolymerizable monomer or oligomer. The liquid crystal is then subjected to secondary alignment by photopolymerizing the photopolymerizable monomer or oligomer including the alignment layer to form an alignment regulator in a state in which an electric field is applied to the liquid crystal to change the alignment of the liquid crystal.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes, a first substrate including a common electrode, a pixel electrode in which a slit facing the common electrode is formed, and a first alignment film, a second substrate including a second alignment film, and a liquid crystal layer which is held between the first alignment film and the second alignment film and is formed of a material having a dielectric constant anisotropy in a range of +3.3 or more to +5.3 or less at a transition temperature of 75° C.

Abstract: A controllable optical device comprises a first substrate, a first conductive layer, a liquid crystal layer, a semiconductor conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a second substrate. The first conductive layer is formed on the first substrate, the liquid crystal layer is formed on the first conductive layer, the semiconductor conductive layer is formed on the liquid crystal layer, the second conductive layer is formed on the semiconductor layer, and the second substrate is formed on the second conductive layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels including a plurality of displaying subpixels corresponding to various colors and a viewing angle controlling subpixel for controlling a viewing angle, and a common electrode and a retention capacitor respectively provided to the plurality of pixels. At least one of the common electrode and the retention capacitor is provided so that the plurality of displaying subpixels and the viewing angle controlling subpixel are electrically independent from each other in a region where each of the plurality of pixels is provided.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes gate and data lines on a first substrate, wherein the gate lines cross the data lines to define sub-pixels, a thin film transistor to where the gate lines cross the data lines, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, a common electrode in a first sub pixel, wherein a first parasitic capacitance between a first data line arranged at the left side of the first sub-pixel and the common electrode is smaller than a second parasitic capacitance between a second data line arranged at the right side of the first sub-pixel and the common electrode; and a second substrate bonded to the first substrate with a layer of liquid crystal molecules therebetween, wherein the pixel electrode overlaps the common electrode and has a plurality of slits.

Abstract: A display substrate includes a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction in a display area of the display substrate, an alignment film formed in the display area and in an end area adjacent to end portions of the gate lines in a peripheral area surrounding the display area, and a plurality of circuit stages formed in the end area to connect to the gate lines and a dummy stage connected to a last circuit stage of the circuit stages. Each of the circuit stages includes a gate driving circuit disposed at the higher portion the gate line corresponding to the circuit stages and a gate connecting line formed in the peripheral area between the display area and the gate driving circuit to connect each of the circuit stages with each of the gate lines.

Abstract: An image display device includes a light source, an array substrate having a plurality of sub-pixel areas and corresponding to a plurality of color filters, wherein the array substrate includes: a display region and a peripheral region around the display region; and a liquid crystal layer comprising a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. A light transmittance per unit area in the peripheral region of the array substrate is equal to or less than a light transmittance per unit area in the display region of the array substrate, and a resistivity ratio of the color filter having a highest resistivity to the color filter having a lowest resistivity is less than 10 and greater than 0.

Abstract: An intermediate product where a pair of inorganic substrates facing each other in an opposed manner is provided and a sealed space is formed by an organic sealing member between the pair of inorganic substrates is prepared. The inorganic substrates are cut outside the sealed space. A circuit for an image display is formed on at least one of opposedly facing surfaces of the inorganic substrates in the sealed space. The intermediate product includes a flow passage which is defined by a surface of at least one of the inorganic substrates and the organic sealing member outside the sealed space. The step of cutting the inorganic substrates includes forming a groove by allowing an etchant for an inorganic material to flow into the flow passage and by etching the surface of at least one of the inorganic substrates along the flow passage.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal panel wherein provisions are made to effectively prevent the infiltration of gas from an end portion of a liquid crystal cell or from areas near cut portions of the liquid crystal cell, and a method for fabricating such a liquid crystal panel. More particularly, the present invention provides a liquid crystal panel includes a liquid crystal cell which includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a sealing member, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second transparent substrates and sealed by the sealing member, a planarizing layer formed so as to cover an end portion of the liquid crystal cell, and a gas barrier layer formed on the planarizing layer. The invention also provides a method for producing such a liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a plurality of insulating patterns on an inner surface of the first substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes and a plurality of common electrodes on the plurality of insulating patterns, the plurality of pixel electrodes alternating with the plurality of common electrodes, the adjacent pixel and common electrodes generating a horizontal electric field according to a driving voltage; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, the liquid crystal layer including one of a blue phase liquid crystal molecules and a uniform standing helix liquid crystal molecules.