Abstract: On a termination side of each scanning line is provided a charging switching element and a discharging switching element in parallel with each other, the charging switching element having a gate electrode which is connected with one end of a scanning auxiliary line, the other end of which is connected to a scanning line of the same stage, the discharging switching element having a gate electrode which is connected with one end of a scanning auxiliary line, the other end of which is connected to a scanning line of the following stage.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: a substrate; a plurality of first signal lines formed on the substrate; a plurality of second lines formed on the substrate, intersecting the first signal line, and including a plurality of curved portions having at least two curve points and a plurality of intermediate portions, the curved portions and the intermediate portions alternately connected; a plurality of pixel electrodes located substantially in areas defined by the first and the second signal lines; and a plurality of thin film transistors connected to the first and the second signal lines and the pixel electrodes.

Abstract: A thin film transistor panel for a liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a plurality of data lines formed over the substrate and extending in a first direction, and a plurality of gate lines formed over the substrate and extending in a second direction. The plurality of gate lines cross the plurality of data lines to form a plurality of pixel areas, each of the plurality of pixel areas having a multi-bent band shape. Each of a plurality of pixel electrodes are formed in a corresponding pixel area.

Abstract: An LCD device has data lines and drain electrodes that are not open at crossing areas overlapped with gate lines and gate electrodes. The LCD device includes a gate line arranged on a substrate and having a portion bent angularly and inwardly; a gate electrode projecting from the gate line; a gate insulating layer on the surface of the substrate; a data line overlapped with some of the bent portion of the gate line, the data line perpendicular to the gate line to define a pixel region; a source electrode projecting from the data line; a drain electrode on the gate insulating layer at a fixed interval from the source electrode; an active layer below the data line, the source electrode and the drain electrode; and a pixel electrode in the pixel region.

Abstract: A tetragonal ring shape aperture is formed in the common electrode on one substrate and a cross shape aperture is formed at the position corresponding to the center of the tetragonal ring shape aperture in the pixel electrode on the other substrate. A liquid crystal layer between two electrodes are divided to four domains where the directors of the liquid crystal layer have different angles when a voltage is applied to the electrodes. The directors in adjacent domains make a right angle. The tetragonal ring shape aperture is broken at midpoint of each side of the tetragon, and the width of the aperture decreases as goes from the bent point to the edge. Wide viewing angle is obtained by four domains where the directors of the liquid crystal layer indicate different directions, disclination is removed and luminance increases.

Abstract: Pixels of a liquid crystal display are laid on a delta pattern, and short-circuit is liable to take place between a source layer and a drain layer and/or between a gate layer and a storage electrode layer, wherein a contact slit is formed in a gate insulating layer intervening between the gate/storage electrode layers and the source/drain layers in such a manner as to break a piece of residual amorphous silicon and make a piece of residual metal exposed thereto, and the piece of residual metal is broken during a patterning step for the source/drain layers.

Abstract: A liquid crystal apparatus is provided with a substrate holding an electro-optical material, and a plurality of wires that have routing wire portions formed in a region of the substrate other than a region opposing the electro-optical material. The routing wire portion of each of the wires has a first portion and a second portion that is narrower than the first portion. In an inspection process of the liquid crystal apparatus having such a configuration, a plurality of inspection terminals for supplying predetermined drive signals to the wires are brought into contact with the second portions of the wires.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprising electrodes of the one side formed on the pixel regions on the surface of one of the substrates arranged facing each other with the liquid crystals interposed therebetween and on the side of the liquid crystals, and electrodes of the other side formed on at least the pixel regions on the surface of the other substrate on the side of the liquid crystals, wherein each electrode of the one side has a shape of a plurality of circular patterns or patterns close to circles that are arranged in contact with each other, whereby a region where the electrode of the one side is not formed is surrounded by the circular patterns or patterns close to circles of an odd number of three or more, and projections are formed on the surface of the other substrate on the side of the liquid crystals at portions facing nearly the centers of the circular patterns or the patterns close to circles.

Abstract: An active matrix device comprises a supporting plate (20), an array of control elements (6), a set of row address conductors (26) on the plate for addressing the array to which selection signals are applied by a row driver circuit (22), and a set of column address conductors (12) on the plate to which data signals are applied by a column driver circuit (22) for conduction to the array. Connection from the respective driver circuits (22) to at least some of both sets of address conductors is via the same side of the array, the profile of the plate around the other sides of the array being non-rectangular. Greater flexibility in the design of such devices is thus provided.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of gate lines on a substrate, a plurality of data lines on the substrate orthogonal to the plurality of gate lines to define a plurality of pixel regions, at least one thin film transistor at crossing points of the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines, a passivation film on a surface of the substrate and the at least one thin film transistor, and a pixel electrode connected to the at least one thin film transistor, wherein corners of the pixel electrode are arcuate shaped such that a distance between adjacent corners of adjacent pixel electrodes is larger than a distance between adjacent contact sides of the adjacent pixel electrodes.

Abstract: In an electro-optic device 1, connection to first electrodes 40 of a first transparent substrate 10 extending in one direction from the side, to which signals are inputted, is established through electrical conduction between two substrates in a width-wise central area of the first transparent substrate using first terminals 81. To second electrodes 50 of a second transparent substrate 20 which are routed toward the outer side, signals are directly inputted from second terminals 82. The obliquely routed second electrodes 50 are formed of, e.g., an aluminum alloy film, and slit-like openings are formed in the second electrodes 50 to allow passage of light emitted from a backlight device 9.

Abstract: In an active matrix type liquid crystal display apparatus, each of pixel electrodes has overhanging portions at its opposite side edges. These overhanging portions of the pixel electrode cover two signal lines placed on opposite sides of the pixel electrode, respectively.

Abstract: Color layers R, G, and B of a color filter are arranged in a delta pattern. A data line (212) for applying a voltage to the sub-pixels is connected, through TFD (220), to pixel electrodes (234) of the sub-pixels respectively corresponding to the three colors in a fixed order in a periodic pattern, and pixel electrodes (234) commonly connected to a single data line (212) are arranged to the same side of the data line (212). The potential of the sub-pixels for a particular color are equally influenced by the potential of the sub-pixels of other colors.

Abstract: Presentation of a chiral nematic liquid crystal optical element which is bright within a wide temperature range and which has a high contrast. A liquid crystal composition comprising an optically active compound of the formula R1—X1—A1—C*HY1—(CH2)mX2—A2—(X3—A3)n—(X4—A4)p—X5—R2 and a nematic liquid crystal, wherein each R1 and R2 is an alkyl group, etc., each of X1, X2, X3, X4 and X5 is a single bond, etc., each of A1, A2, A3 and A4 is a cyclic group, C* is an asymmetric carbon atom, Y1 is a methyl group, etc., m is an integer of from 0 to 5, and each of n and p is 0 or 1.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which can improve aperture ratio by minimizing light blocking is disclosed. In a liquid crystal display device according to the present invention, gate lines and data lines are arranged to be overlapped with each other, thereby increasing light transmittance region. Furthermore, TFT is disposed between the gate line and data line, thereby further increasing light transmittance region. As a result, aperture ratio is improved.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a flat panel display, such as a liquid crystal microdisplay having a plurality of square and rectangular pixel electrodes that are addressable separately to produce a fine resolution display or addressable in combination to create a lower resolution display. By providing an array of square pixel electrodes with adjacent rectangular electrodes, the display is capable of displaying, for example, XGA or SXGA video data, full-size undistorted and in its native display format, thus obviating the need for expensive image processing chips to convert the image data from one format to another.

Abstract: A display device comprises a display part having a flexible panel substrate serving as a display screen and display elements disposed lengthwise and breadthwise on a surface opposite to the display screen of the panel substrate; and driving circuit parts having flexible driving circuit substrates on which semiconductor elements made of flexible semiconductor materials are mounted. Accordingly, the completely flexible display device in which not only the display part, but also the driving circuit parts have flexibility can be provided.

Abstract: The invention provides a reflective liquid crystal display device of a multiple matrix type in which display unevenness is prevented and the image quality is enhanced. A reflective liquid crystal display device of a multiple matrix type of the present invention includes a plurality of rows of common electrodes, and a plurality of columns of segment electrodes provided so as to be orthogonal thereto, each segment electrode including a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a column, and wiring sections connecting every predetermined number of the pixel electrodes to each other. In the wiring section, a second wiring section, located between two adjacent pixel electrodes in the extending direction of the common electrode, is placed at an equal distance from the two pixel electrodes, and the second wiring sections, ranging in the extending direction of the segment electrode at the area between the two adjacent columns of segment electrodes, are arranged substantially in a line.

Abstract: A storage capacitor in a liquid crystal display maximizes the area of overlap between a gate line and a subsidiary electrode to compensate for manufacturing deviations, to increase the capacitance of the storage capacitor, and increase the aperture of the liquid crystal display. A liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a gate line on the substrate wherein the gate line includes a straight portion and a recessed portion, a storage capacitor electrode that is overlapped with an entire width of the recessed portion of the gate line, and a pixel electrode that is extended towards the direction of the recessed portion of the gate line.

Abstract: The reflective liquid crystal display device of this invention includes: a pair of substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween; a plurality of pixel electrodes having a delta arrangement formed on one of the pair of substrates; a plurality of signal lines formed on the one of the pair of substrates, the signal lines having bent portions; a plurality of scanning lines formed on the one of the pair of substrates, the plurality of scanning lines and signal lines being formed to run along peripheries of the plurality of pixel electrodes so as to cross each other; and a plurality of thin film transistors electrically connected to the plurality of signal lines for controlling potentials of the pixel electrodes, wherein at least one of the plurality of thin film transistors is formed at a position where the distance between two adjacent signal lines of the plurality of signal lines is reduced by the bent portion of at least one of the two adjacent signal lines.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a stereoscopic image displaying method and stereoscopic image displaying apparatus for interchangeably displaying a stereoscopic image and a two-dimensional image or for displaying a mixed stereoscopic image and two-dimensional image. In accordance with the present invention, light from a surface illuminant is passed through a mask substrate in which a mask pattern comprised of a plurality of apertures is formed. The light then is guided through a cylindrical lens array and a light directivity control element of polymer distributed liquid crystal having a stripe pattern, and thereafter the light irradiates a transmissive display device for displaying a stripe image having a parallax, or a two-dimensional, image. Control region stripes of the light directivity control element are brought into a non-scattering state when the stripe image is displayed on the display device.

Abstract: An optical display system and method selectively displaces delta triad pixels vertically. The first raster line of picture information is removed from the video signal, and each subsequent raster line of picture information (data) is displaced upward. Next, the entire picture is optically displaced down by a distance equal to one vertical pixel pitch placing the picture back in its original vertical position, but horizontal position of the pixels has changed. Thus picture information is displaced horizontally a distance equal to one and one half times horizontal pixel pitch. Odd pixel rows are displaced in one direction, and even pixel rows are displaced in the opposite direction. The technique can be used to double pixel density and, thus, resolution, in the horizontal direction by the selective shifting technique and coordination with the input video signals.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a liquid crystal display device of a delta type pixel arrangement, which comprises: a plurality of scan lines formed on a substrate and extending in a horizontal direction; a plurality of signal lines each intersecting with each of the plurality of scan lines substantially at right angles at a intersection region; a plurality of thin film transistors each having a drain electrode and a source electrode arranged at the intersection region in a direction substantially having right angles with each of the plurality of scan lines; and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix formed of regions divided out by the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of signal lines, wherein a part in a portion disposed between adjoining two of the plurality of scan lines and taken from each of the plurality of signal lines is arranged in a direction having a oblique angle with each of the plurality of scan lines.

Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of signal lines disposed so as to intersect with the plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of pixel electrodes which also serve as reflective plates and which overlap at least one of the scanning lines and the signal lines via an interlayer insulating film; and a plurality of switching elements for driving the pixel electrodes, each provided in a vicinity of the intersection of the scanning lines and the signal lines. At least one of the scanning lines or the signal lines have at least one of bends, notches, protrusions and holes.

Abstract: On a first substrate constituting a liquid crystal display there are disposed a first electrode (13) and a second electrode (14), a non-linear resistance element (9) being placed at an intersection between a part of the first electrode and a part of the second electrode, an isolated island-like third electrode (16) constituting an electrode pair in conjunction with the second electrode (14). On a second substrate there is disposed an counter electrode (15) extending in the perpendicular direction intersecting the first electrode (13), the counter electrode (15) being opposed to a portion (16a) of the third electrode on the first substrate to accommodate therebetween conductive beads (7) for electrically connecting the counter electrode (15) and the third electrode (16) with each other in a liquid crystal.

Abstract: A so-called in-plane electric field type color liquid crystal display device employs the following configuration in order to minimize smear. Groups of row-direction arrayed unit pixels are staggered one-half pitch of the unit pixels from the adjacent row-direction arrayed unit pixel groups. Three adjoining unit pixels are selected from two adjacent row-direction arrayed unit pixel groups so that they straddle these two unit pixel groups, and the three selected adjoining unit pixels are assigned three primary colors respectively.

Abstract: A spatial light modulator includes at least three picture elements, each of which includes a plurality of first elongate electrodes which are connected together and a plurality of second elongate electrodes which are connected together and which are interdigitated with the first electrodes. The first electrodes of a second of the picture elements are connected to the second electrodes of a first of the picture elements and the second electrodes of the second picture element are connected to the first electrodes of a third of the picture elements.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display element in which a pair of substrates are provided; a plurality of scanning lines and signal lines are disposed in the form of a matrix on one transparent substrate out of the substrates, so that domains between the transparent substrates are divided into plural picture element domains by the respective scanning lines and the respective signal lines; plural opposed lines are disposed on the other transparent substrate parallel to the scanning lines; and a pair of an alignment-controlling material layer and a liquid crystal composition layer are laminated between the respective picture element domains, wherein the respective scanning electrodes and opposed electrodes on a pair of the transparent substrates in the respective picture element domains are disposed in zigzag and have a structure in which they are not superposed on each other in a normal direction of the substrates.

Abstract: A tristable liquid crystal display device comprises (a) first and second opposed substrates, at least one bearing an alignment coating and each bearing at least one electrode so as to define one or a plurality of pixels; (b) a tilted smectic or induced tilted smectic liquid crystal composition disposed between the substrates; and (c) a pair of orthogonally disposed polarizers, each having a polarization axis, one polarization axis being aligned with the zero field optical axis of a tilted smectic or induced tilted smectic mesophase of the liquid crystal composition; wherein the substrates are disposed so as to provide an alignment of the liquid crystal composition, the composition comprising at least one chiral liquid crystal compound that can be represented by the following formula:R--M--N--(P).sub.b --OCH.sub.2 C*HF--CH.sub.2 O(CH.sub.2).sub.a R.sub.

Abstract: A plasma address liquid crystal display device having a flat panel structure which is composed of display cells and plasma cells bonded to one another with an intermediate sheet, and in which position registration tolerance between the display and plasma cells can be made less strict. A plasma cell 2 has discharge channels 5 extending in the row direction. The display cell 1 has a electro-optical device 9 and signal electrodes 10 extending along the column direction. Pixels 11 are defined at the points of intersections of the signal electrodes 10 and the discharge channels 5. The electro-optical device 9 is a set of finely partitioned liquid crystal areas 15 and is controlled in orientation to axis-symmetrical orientation. The liquid crystal areas 15 are continuously arrayed at a constant pitch DP finer than an arraying pitch CP of the pixels 11 at least in the column direction. This structure can be extensively applied to the active matrix type liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel substrate is used as a translucent substrate with a liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel has a display region and a non-display region disposed outside of the display region. A plurality of electrodes are disposed across the display region and the non-display region of the liquid crystal panel. Each electrode has a width differing between the display region and the non-display region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises an array substrate including a matrix array of pixel electrodes, scanning lines formed along rows of the pixel electrodes, signal lines formed along columns of the pixel electrodes, and a thin film transistors formed near intersections between the scanning lines and the signal lines and each serving as a switching element selected for applying a drive voltage supplied through a corresponding signal line to a corresponding pixel electrode in response to a selection via a corresponding scanning line, a counter substrate including a counter electrode opposed to the pixel electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer held between the array and counter substrates. The array substrate further includes shield electrodes each of which is capacitively coupled to two pixel electrodes located between two adjacent scanning lines and a signal line located between the two pixel electrodes and is set at a predetermined potential.

Abstract: A spatial light modulator comprises a plurality of picture elements arranged as rows and columns. The columns are arranged as adjacent groups, for instance for association with an element of a parallax device to provide an autostereoscopic 3D display. Adjacent picture elements disclosed in each row and in adjacent columns of each group overlap horizontally so that there are overlapping regions and non-overlapping regions. The vertical extent of each picture element is substantially constant throughout the non-overlapping region and is substantially equal to the sum of the heights of the adjacent picture elements throughout the overlapping regions.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display having a lower substrate, a data line bended and formed on the lower substrate, a counter electrode bended in the same direction as the data line and formed on the lower substrate, and a pixel electrode bended in the same direction as the data line and formed on the lower substrate. The pixel electrode has a bar for bisecting a space defined by the counter electrode. The counter electrode is a rectangular frame. Accordingly, an aperture ratio of the liquid crystal display is increased while multidomain is formed between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device comprising gate line; a data line intersecting with the gate line over the gate line; a first electrode of transparent metal material comprising: a first portion elongated over the data line along the first direction and perpendicularly intersecting with the data line; a second portion comprising a plurality of branches each elongated along the second direction starting from the first portion of the first electrode toward the gate line; and a third portion separated by a predetermined distance along the second direction with the gate line, and elongated along the first direction starting from the longest branch to a space formed between the shortest branch and its closest branch; a second electrode of transparent metal material, formed on the same plane as the first electrode, the second electrode having a first portion corresponding to the second portion of the first electrode and a second portion corresponding to the third or first portion of the first electrode.

Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) array panel of a liquid crystal display and a repair method thereof which can easily repair short between a gate line and a data line, and open of a gate line. The TFT array panel of a liquid crystal display includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a thin film transistor device, a gate electrode, and a storage electrode.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device for displaying a three dimensional image, it is possible to obtain a three dimensional image having appropriate colors corresponding to the colors of objects wherein the data lines are not shown in the picture, the colors of the picture formed in a lens for dividing the left and right images are not formed on the same surface or run counter to one another on the same surface, and the colors are not separately formed by electrically connecting the gate lines corresponding to the color pixels to one another and detouring the source (data) lines so as not to pass through the pixel area and arranging them at the edge thereof. Furthermore, the separate color pixels of red, green and blue of the liquid crystal display panel are arranged in a vertical line, and the separate color pixels of the same color are arranged in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: A set of pixel regions (P11, P12, P13) having a pixel electrode (12) corresponding to red, green or blue as one unit is arranged periodically in the X direction, and the delta arrangement is constituted by displacing the pixel arrays from each other by a 1/2 period at odd-numbered lines and even-numbered lines in the Y direction. By connecting only the pixel electrode (12) of pixel regions (P12, P22, P32) corresponding to the same color with the same source line (S2), the pixel regions (P12, P22, P32) are placed alternately right and left of the source line (S2). Among pixel regions (P11, P12, P13, . . . ) in the X direction, the relative position of a TFT (11), the pixel electrode (12), a first electrode (C1) and a second electrode (C2) of storage capacitors CS is the same. Among pixel regions (P12, P22, P32, . . . ) in the Y direction along source lines (S1, S2, S3, . . .

Abstract: A liquid crystal display having a pair of substrates disposed to face each other, two groups of crossing electrodes mounted on the pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the two groups of electrodes, wherein display is controlled by voltage applied across the two groups of electrodes. Elongated cut portions are formed in edge portions of each electrode of one group. Cut portions are formed laterally and alternately at the opposite edge portions. The position of each cut portion is overlapped with the edges of adjacent electrodes of the other group. A reduction of transmittance is suppressed and the wide visual angle characteristics are retained. An increase in electrode resistance by cut portions is suppressed to prevent display quality degradation such as display irregularity.

Abstract: A so-called in-plane electric field type color liquid crystal display device employs the following configuration in order to minimize smear. Groups of row-direction arrayed unit pixels are staggered one-half pitch of the unit pixels from the adjacent row-direction arrayed unit pixel groups. Three adjoining unit pixels are selected from two adjacent row-direction arrayed unit pixel groups so that they straddle these two unit pixel groups, and the three selected adjoining unit pixels are assigned three primary colors respectively.

Abstract: In an active matrix liquid crystal display, common electrodes and pixel electrodes are respectively formed parallel to each other and have substantially herringbone shapes. Areas of first display regions formed between the common electrodes and the pixel electrodes and disposed at one side of the inflection points of the herringbone shapes are substantially the same as those of second display regions disposed at the other side. When electric fields substantially parallel to surface of an array substrate are applied between the pixel electrodes and the common electrodes, orientations of liquid crystal molecules in the first and second display regions move in opposite directions. Coloring of image corresponding to angle of view due to the movement of the orientation of the liquid crystal molecules is compensated.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a three-dimensional display panel capable of viewing a three-dimensional image without using special glasses. The three-dimensional display panel comprises an image display panel having a column of right eye pixels arranged with predetermined spacing in the longitudinal direction on a screen and a column of left eye pixels arranged with predetermined spacing in the longitudinal direction on the screen and so adapted that the column of right eye pixels and the column of left eye pixels are arranged alternately in close proximity to each other in the horizontal direction on the screen and are shifted from each other in the longitudinal direction on the screen to ensure a region where means for switching the respective pixels is formed, and image separating means for separating light from the right eye pixels and light from the left eye pixels to be respectively incident on the right eye and the left eye of a viewer.

Abstract: There is disclosed an active matrix substrate including on a given substrate a thin film transistor, a scanning line connected to the gate of the thin film transistor, a data bus connected to the source of the thin film transistor, and a picture element electrode connected to the data bus through the thin film transistor, the active matrix substrate comprising a structure of the scanning line having the surface covered with an insulating film. A semiconductor layer covered with a gate insulating film constituting the thin film transistor, and a gate electrode constituting the thin film transistor, which are laid on each other in the stated order.

Abstract: A spatial light modulator of the LCD type comprises picture elements arranged as rows extending horizontally and columns extending vertically. The picture elements are arranged in groups such that the picture elements of each group are substantially contiguous with each other in the horizontal direction. It is thus possible to provide continuous horizontal parallax of the 2D views and an increased number of such 2D views, for instance by converting to directional information by means of a lenticular screen.