Abstract: A method for determining compensating data voltages for a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel includes a liquid crystal cell defined by a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite to each other. The liquid crystal cell has non-uniform cell gaps across the cell. The method includes: measuring a capacitance distribution across the liquid crystal cell; determining a cell gap distribution across the cell based on the capacitance distribution; and deriving, from the cell gap distribution, respective compensation voltages for different data voltages for each of different regions of the liquid crystal cell.

Abstract: An integrated optical device that combines a diffractive optical element (DOE) to provide beam combining for coherent beams and a spectral beam combination (SBC) grating to provide beam combining for incoherent beams. The device includes a planar substrate and a reflective coating deposited on the substrate. A top dielectric layer is deposited on the reflective coating and a photoresist layer is deposited on the top dielectric layer. A periodic structure is formed into the top dielectric layer in a first direction that defines the DOE and a periodic grating having grooves is formed into the top dielectric layer in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction that defines the SBC grating where the periodic structure includes periodic modulations along the length of the grooves that are orthogonal to a channel-to-channel periodicity of the periodic grating.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for correcting color cast of a display panel and a device for the same. The method for correcting color cast includes: measuring a pressure of a bending area and a distance from a central point of the at least one bending area to a central point of a flat area; determining corresponding color cast value of the at least one bending area according to a pre-stored color cast correction model, the pressure and the distance; and determining the color correction amount according to the color cast value, and correcting the color cast of the at least one bending area.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a device includes a first display which includes one or more first-display pixels that are configured to operate in multiple modes. The multiple modes include a first mode in which the one or more first-display pixels modulate, absorb, or reflect visible light and a second mode in which the one or more first-display pixels are substantially transparent to visible light. The device also includes a second display disposed behind or in front of the first display, the second display configured to emit, modulate, absorb, or reflect visible light.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a device and a system of touch panel display control. The method of touch panel display control comprises: acquiring the changes of the capacitances at respective positions of coupling capacitors, and determining pressed pixel units; determining the pressure on the pressed pixel units according to a first corresponding relationship between the changes and the pressure; and according to a second corresponding relationship between the pressure and a current gray level and a compensation signal, outputting a compensation signal corresponding to the pressure on the pressed pixel units, and the compensation signal is used for keeping the consistency of the light transmittance of the pressed pixel units with that of non-pressed pixel units.

Abstract: An active situational sensor achieves SWaP-C and SNR improvements by using a liquid crystal waveguide to steer a spot-beam onto a conical shape of a fixed mirror, which redirects the spot-beam to scan a FOV. The sensor may rapidly scan a 360° horizontal FOV with a specified vertical FOV or any portion thereof, jump discretely between multiple specific objects per frame, vary the dwell time on an object or compensate for other external factors to tailor the scan to a particular application or changing real-time conditions. The sensor can be used to provide object intensity or ranging in complex, dynamic systems such as aviation, air traffic control, ship navigation, unmanned ground vehicles, collision avoidance, object targeting etc.

Abstract: The present document provides a method and apparatus for managing a display screen, and the display screen includes at least two display areas. The method includes: detecting a first display effect damaged value of a first display area in the at least two display areas; comparing the first display effect damaged value with a predetermined threshold value, and outputting a first comparison result; and when the first display effect damaged value is larger than the threshold value, adjusting a display effect of the first display area to a first display effect based on the first display effect damaged value, to match the first display effect with a second display effect of a second display area without stains. Through the above technical scheme, adjustment is performed on display effect of the display screen, which guarantees the display effect of the display screen and makes the user experience of users enhance greatly.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a signal controller to generate a plurality of start pulse signals based on a plurality of eye blinking signals during a predetermined mode of operation. The start pulse signals are generated in a manner different from a vertical synchronization signal. The start signals may be generated to have an irregular spacing which corresponds to the blinking signals, which may be different from a constant spacing used during display of moving images. The predetermined mode may be a still image mode.

Abstract: A method for compensating images, applied to an e-paper display where pixels are arranged as a pixel array displaying N-level grayscale images. Standard images from a first standard image to an N-th standard image which respectively correspond to a first-level grayscale value to the N-th-level grayscale value are provided. The e-paper display respectively displays the standard images. Actual grayscale values of each pixel of the e-paper display, from a first actual grayscale value corresponding to the first standard image to the N-th actual grayscale value corresponding to the N-th standard image, are obtained. Each m-th actual grayscale value is compared with an m-th-level grayscale value to generate an m-th compensating matrix, wherein m is a positive integer from 1 to N. Therefore, compensating matrices from a first compensating matrix to an N-th compensating matrix are generated and used to compensate an input image of the e-paper display.

Abstract: An OLED display includes an organic layer formed using a printing method. A method for manufacturing the OLED display includes: forming a pixel circuit on a substrate; forming a planarization layer on the substrate to cover the pixel circuit, where the planarization layer includes heat generation particles; forming a pixel electrode and a pixel defining layer on the planarization layer; forming an organic layer by discharging ink on the pixel electrode and drying the ink by generating heat from the heat generation particles through microwave irradiation; and forming a common electrode on the organic layer.

Abstract: An object is to provide a display device with excellent display characteristics, where a pixel circuit and a driver circuit provided over one substrate are formed using transistors which have different structures corresponding to characteristics of the respective circuits. The driver circuit portion includes a driver circuit transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using a metal film, and a channel layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel portion includes a pixel transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using an oxide conductor, and a semiconductor layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel transistor is formed using a light-transmitting material, and thus, a display device with higher aperture ratio can be manufactured.

Abstract: A liquid crystal composition is described, which exhibits an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase and contains an achiral component T and a chiral dopant. The achiral component T contains, as its first component, at least one compound selected from compounds represented by formula (1) in an amount of 32 wt % to 85 wt %, wherein R1 is alkyl, for example; L1, L2, L3, L4, L5 and L6 are each independently hydrogen or fluorine; Z1 and Z2 are each independently a single bond or —CF2O—, with at least one of Z1 and Z2 being —CF2O—; and X1 is halogen, for example.

Abstract: An electrophoretic display device has a display unit including electrophoretic particles that are interposed between a pair of substrates; each pixel including a pixel electrode and a memory circuit, and a switch circuit connected between the pixel electrode and the memory circuit; and first and second control lines connected to the switch circuits. When a ratio of black color pixel data in image data is 50% or more of the image data, the following three-step image display driving action is performed: an image signal input step in which the pixel data is input as an image signal to the memory circuit; a first image display step in which all the pixels are set to black color; and a second image display step in which a white color portion is displayed by inputting a potential to one control line and electrically disconnecting the other control line.

Abstract: A display device which can prevent deterioration of a liquid crystal and reduction in display quality at low power consumption without lowering an aperture ratio is provided. An opposite voltage (Vcom) is applied to an opposite electrode (80) of a liquid crystal capacitive element (Clc). One ends of a pixel electrode (20), a first switch circuit (22), a second switch circuit (23), and a first terminal of a second transistor (T2) form an internal node (N1). The other ends of the first switch circuit (22) and the second switch circuit (23) are connected to a source line (SL) and a voltage supply line (VSL), respectively. A control terminal of a first transistor (T1) in the second switch circuit (23), a second terminal of the second transistor (T2), and one end of a boost capacitive element (Cbst) form an output node (N2). The other end of the boost capacitive element (Cbst) and the control terminal of the second transistor (T2) are connected to a boost line (BST) and a reference line (REF), respectively.

Abstract: In a display device, a liquid crystal capacitive element is sandwiched between a pixel electrode and an opposite electrode. The pixel electrode, one end of a first switch circuit, one end of a second switch circuit and a first terminal of a second transistor form an internal node. The other terminals of the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit are connected to a source line. The second switch circuit is a series circuit composed of a first transistor and a diode. A control terminal of the first transistor, a second terminal of the second transistor and one end of a boost capacitive element form an output node. The other end of the boost capacitive element and the control terminal of the second transistor are connected to a boost line and a reference line, respectively.

Abstract: An OCB (Optically Compensated Bend) liquid crystal display in which impulse driving is performed such that an impulse data voltage is applied between normal data voltages used for displaying an image. The impulse data voltage is divided into a first impulse data voltage and a second impulse data voltage having a voltage value that will not break a bent alignment of the OCB liquid crystals. Referring to the application of the first impulse data voltage between the normal data voltages as first impulse driving and the application of the second impulse data voltage between the normal data voltages as second impulse driving, the second impulse driving is performed at every two or more of the first impulse drivings, so as to not break the bent alignment of the liquid crystals and to thereby improve luminance of the LCD.

Abstract: A non-volatile electronic display includes a light valve plate comprising a plurality of liquid crystal cells on a transparent substrate; a plurality of “floating/storage” nodes functioning like non-volatile memories formed on the transparent substrate and corresponding to the liquid crystal cells, and a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines connected to the plurality of non-volatile memories and supplying signal to store charge to at least one non-volatile memory. The charge is retained in the at least one “floating/storage” nodes functioning like non-volatile memory for a predetermined period when no external power is applied to the non-volatile electronic display.

Abstract: Disclosed are liquid-crystal (LC) media for use in LC displays of the PS (polymer stabilised) or PSA (polymer sustained alignment) type which contain a liquid-crystal (LC) mixture that contains one or more compounds of formula I

Abstract: Provided are display apparatuses and methods of operating the same. In a display apparatus, a display image may be continuously held for longer than about 10 msec after the power of the display panel is turned off. The display apparatus may indicate a liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus including an oxide thin film transistor (TFT). Off leakage current of the oxide TFT may be less than about 10?14 A.

Abstract: An aspect of this invention is directed to efficiently sorting printed products into non-defective ones and defective ones even when a discharge failure occurs during the printing operation. In the aspect, two inspection patterns for detecting discharge failure are printed before and after a plurality of images. The inspection patterns are read to determine the type of discharge failure. Printed media are sorted based on whether it is determined that there is a continuous discharge failure, whether it is determined that there is an accidental discharge failure, or whether it is determined that the discharge is normal.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a sensor including a light emitting element for emitting light to a recording medium, and a light receiving element for receiving the emitted light and reflected by the recording medium, configured to, via the light emitting and light receiving elements, measure a patch recorded on the recording medium by a recording head; a calibration member configured to reflect the emitted light and to be used to calibrate the sensor based on a result of optical measurement of the calibration member performed by receiving, via the light receiving element, reflected light reflected by the calibration member; and a detection unit configured to detect dirtiness of the calibration member based on the result of the optical measurement of the calibration member by the sensor and a result of optical measurement of the calibration member performed before the measurement.

Abstract: The present invention directs to a method for automatically compensating a common electrode voltage, comprising: calculating an average shift amount of a common electrode voltage according to gray scale data in a line on a displayed image, processing the average shift amount of the common electrode voltage to be a digital signal then converting it into an analog signal then into an average shift amount voltage waveform, and superposing it with a common electrode voltage waveform to form a new output signal waveform for driving the common electrode; the present invention also directs to a device for automatically compensating a common electrode voltage, comprising a data input module, a looking up module, a data operation module, a data encoding and converting module, a waveform generator and an operational amplification module.

Abstract: An LC-based optical device compensates for differences in optical path lengths of polarization components of input beam. As a result, PDL and PMD of the optical device are reduced. The compensation mechanism may be a glass plate that is disposed in an optical path of a polarization component so that the optical path length of that polarization component can be made substantially equal to the optical path length of the other polarization component that traverses through a half-wave plate. Another compensation mechanism is a birefringent displacer that has two sections sandwiching a half-wave plate, wherein the two sections are of different widths and the planar front surface of the birefringent displacer can be positioned to be non-orthogonal with respect to the incident input light beam.

Abstract: A pixel array is located on a substrate and includes a plurality of pixel sets. Each of the pixel sets includes a first scan line, a second scan line, a data line, a data signal transmission line, a first pixel unit, and a second pixel unit. The data line is not parallel to the first and the second scan lines. The data signal transmission line is disposed parallel to the first and the second scan lines and electrically connected to the data line. Distance between the first and the second scan lines is smaller than distance between the data signal transmission line and one of the first and the second scan lines. The first pixel unit is electrically connected to the first scan line and the data line. The second pixel unit is electrically connected to the second scan line and the data line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display screen includes a resistance-type touch panel and a liquid crystal display panel. The touch panel includes a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate opposite to the first electrode plate. The first electrode plate includes a first substrate and a first transparent conductive layer located on the first substrate. The second electrode plate includes a common substrate and a second transparent conductive layer. The liquid crystal display panel includes an upper optical polarizer, an upper substrate, an upper electrode, an upper alignment layer, a liquid crystal layer, a lower alignment layer, a thin film transistor panel, and a lower optical polarizer, from top to bottom in sequence. The upper substrate is the same with the common substrate. The upper optical polarizer is sandwiched between the second transparent conductive layer and the common substrate.

Abstract: Dynamic range is widened in a display device with a photosensor that can read an image due to having a photodetection element inside a pixel thereof. A sensor driving circuit switches ON a reset signal (RST) that is supplied via reset signal bus line, and after a predetermined time has elapsed, switches ON a readout signal (RWS) that is supplied via readout signal bus line. Thus, in the photosensor, from which a photosensor signal is output in accordance with an amount of light received by the photosensor in the predetermined time, the capacitance of a capacitor provided in the photosensor is made variable from when the reset signal (RST) is supplied to the photosensor until when the predetermined time has elapsed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for the optical calibration of the temperature of a micro-environment. The system comprises a thermochromic liquid crystal in combination with a luminophore. The steps of the method comprise providing in combination in the micro-environment at least one thermochromic liquid crystal and a luminophore, varying the temperature of the environment while irradiating the combination with light that includes light at one or more excitation wavelengths of the luminophore, and monitoring luminescence emitted by the combination while recording the temperature of the environment.

Abstract: A photodisplay device in which an optically addressed image can be viewed indefinitely, erased and readdressed with a new image is disclosed. Optically responsive reversible photochiral materials are incorporated into a bistable cholesteric liquid crystal in an electrooptic display cell. A high resolution image exposed on the cell is fixed by a low voltage pulse to unpatterned electrodes and can be, at a later time, erased with a high voltage pulse.

Abstract: A beam splitting film including a light transmissive plate and a plurality of strip protrusion groups is provided. The light transmissive plate has a first surface and a second surface. The strip protrusion groups are disposed on the second surface. Each of the strip protrusion groups includes a first strip protrusion and a second strip protrusion. The first strip protrusion has a first strip surface and a second strip surface inclined relative to the second surface. The second strip protrusion has a third strip surface and a fourth strip surface inclined relative to the second surface. An average slope of the first strip surface is not equal to an average slope of the third strip surface. An average slope of the second strip surface is not equal to an average slope of the fourth strip surface. A backlight module and a stereo display apparatus are also provided.

Abstract: Thermochromic filters are constructed using absorptive, reflective, or fluorescent dyes, molecules, polymers, particles, rods, or other orientation-dependent colorants that have their orientation, order, or director influenced by carrier materials, which are themselves influenced by temperature. These order-influencing carrier materials include thermotropic liquid crystals, which provide orientation to dyes and polymers in a Guest-Host system in the liquid-crystalline state at lower temperatures, but do not provide such order in the isotropic state at higher temperatures. The varying degree to which the absorptive, reflective, or fluorescent particles interact with light in the two states can be exploited to make many varieties of thermochromic filters. Thermochromic filters can control the flow of light and radiant heat through selective reflection, transmission, absorption, and/or re-emission.

Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display and a photomask for manufacturing the liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate and including first and second sub-pixel electrodes, a first thin film transistor having first gate and source electrodes and a first drain electrode connected to the first sub-pixel electrode, a second thin film transistor having second gate and source electrodes and a second drain electrode connected to the second sub-pixel electrode, and a third thin film transistor having third gate and drain electrodes and a third source electrode connected to the second sub-pixel electrode. A first gate signal is applied to the first and second gate electrodes, a second gate signal is applied to the third gate electrode, the same data signal is applied to the first and second source electrodes, and the second drain electrode and the third source electrode are connected to each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes a glass substrate with pixel electrodes that are arranged in a matrix shape, TFTs that are connected to the pixel electrodes, and a glass substrate with an opposing electrode and color filters that are arranged in a matrix shape. A liquid crystal layer is formed in a space between the glass substrates by filling a ferroelectric liquid crystal into the space. When writing display data, and when deleting display data that has been written, a voltage, not including 0V, that becomes a voltage potential, or in other words, a voltage that is greater than a threshold voltage at which the optical characteristic of the filled ferroelectric liquid crystal changes is applied between the opposing electrode and pixel electrodes. An image is displayed over all gradation numbers, including the low-gradation side, and the display characteristic is improved.

Abstract: An object is to provide an active matrix liquid crystal display device in which plural kinds of circuits are formed over one substrate and plural kinds of thin film transistors are provided corresponding to characteristics of the plural kinds of circuits. An inverted-coplanar thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer which is over and overlaps with a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer is used for a pixel thin film transistor. A channel-protective thin film transistor is used for a driver-circuit thin film transistor is used. In addition, main parts of the pixel thin film transistor are formed using a light-transmitting material, so that the aperture ratio is increased.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display panel, a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between a TFT substrate and a color filter substrate. An ITO film is formed on a front surface of the color filter substrate. By supplying an electric current to the ITO film at the time of staring an operation of the liquid crystal display panel, a temperature of the liquid crystal layer is elevated to a level which allows the liquid crystal layer to perform a normal operation within a short time. By forming a plating electrode on two sides of the color filter substrate, it is possible to uniformly supply an electric current to the ITO film thus enabling uniform heating of the color filter substrate.

Abstract: A first pixel electrode (17a), a second pixel electrode (17b), a third pixel electrode (17c), and a fourth pixel electrode (17d) are provided in a pixel (100); the first pixel electrode (17a) is connected to a data signal line (15x) via a first transistor (12a), the second pixel electrode (17b) is connected to the data signal line (15x) via a second transistor (12b), and the first transistor (12a) and the second transistor (12b) are connected to the same scanning signal line (16x); the first pixel electrode (17a) is connected to the third pixel electrode (17c) via a capacitor, and the second pixel electrode (17b) is connected to the fourth pixel electrode (17d) via a capacitor; one of two storage capacitor wires (18p, 18q) forms a capacitance with the first pixel electrode (17a), and the other one of the two storage capacitor wires (18p, 18q) forms a capacitance with the second pixel electrode (17b); and one of the two storage capacitor wires (18p, 18q) receives a storage capacitor wire signal, and the other

Abstract: An optically based transport system and method for transporting particles across a virtual electrode array are disclosed. The system comprises a photoconductor layer where optically induced electrodes are projected thereon through sequential light images in a traveling wave grid pattern in order to transport particles across the virtual electrode array with a traveling wave.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having a first electrode and a second electrode, a second substrate, a liquid crystal interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, pixels each having a transmissive portion for performing a transmissive display and a reflective portion for performing a reflective display, and a driving circuit driving the pixels. Here, a third electrode is disposed in the second substrate opposed to the first substrate with the liquid crystal interposed therebetween. The first electrode is disposed in the transmissive portion along with the second electrode and is also disposed in the reflective portion along with the third electrode. The driving circuit is provided to independently apply potentials to the second electrode and the third electrode.

Abstract: An electromagnetic induction type LC panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a liquid crystal layer (63) filled between the first substrate and the second substrate, an antenna array made of conductive material, which is formed between a first base substrate (11) and a second base substrate (21) and insulated from conductive material in multi-film structures, and an input identification circuit connected to an output terminal of the antenna array.

Abstract: An LC-based optical device compensates for differences in optical path lengths of polarization components of input beam. As a result, PDL and PMD of the optical device are reduced. The compensation mechanism may be a glass plate that is disposed in an optical path of a polarization component so that the optical path length of that polarization component can be made substantially equal to the optical path length of the other polarization component that traverses through a half-wave plate. Another compensation mechanism is a birefringent displacer that has two sections sandwiching a half-wave plate, wherein the two sections are of different widths and the planar front surface of the birefringent displacer can be positioned to be non-orthogonal with respect to the incident input light beam.

Abstract: An electric optical device includes a transistor that includes a semiconductor layer having a source region connected to a data line, a drain region connected to a pixel electrode, and a channel region, and a gate electrode, a first light blocking film that is formed to be wider than the gate electrode and that is connected to the gate electrode via a first contact hole which is opened in a first insulating film disposed on the gate electrode, and a second light blocking film that is provided between the semiconductor layer and a substrate and is connected to the first light blocking film via a second contact hole which is opened to penetrate the first insulating film, a gate insulating film, and a second insulating film.

Abstract: An object is to provide a display device with excellent display characteristics, where a pixel circuit and a driver circuit provided over one substrate are formed using transistors which have different structures corresponding to characteristics of the respective circuits. The driver circuit portion includes a driver circuit transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using a metal film, and a channel layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel portion includes a pixel transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using an oxide conductor, and a semiconductor layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel transistor is formed using a light-transmitting material, and thus, a display device with higher aperture ratio can be manufactured.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the provision of an optical pickup apparatus in which a liquid crystal optical element constructed by combining an aberration correcting liquid crystal panel and a ?/4 liquid crystal panel in an integral fashion is mounted in a tilted position. More particularly, the invention provides a liquid crystal optical element comprising a first liquid crystal layer for correcting aberration, a second liquid crystal layer functioning as an n?/4 plate and combined in an integral fashion with the first liquid crystal layer, a transparent electrode for generating a potential difference on the second liquid crystal layer in order to control an amount of phase difference for the light beam passing through the second liquid crystal layer, and a driver for driving the transparent electrode so as to generate a potential difference that is the lowest among a plurality of potential differences that cause the second liquid crystal layer to function as an n?/4 plate.

Abstract: A method of driving a display apparatus formed by arranging display devices each having a driving circuit and a current-driven type light emitting portion, the method comprising the steps of: performing a threshold voltage cancelling process in units of a display device row in which a predetermined reference voltage is applied to a gate electrode of a driving transistor of Q×N display devices configuring groups of display device rows and a predetermined driving voltage is applied to one source/drain region of the Q×N display devices so as to change the electric potential of the other source/drain region toward an electric potential calculated by subtracting a threshold voltage of the driving transistor from the reference voltage during a period TQ; and sequentially performing a writing process, in which video signals are applied to the gate electrodes of the driving transistor of N display devices configuring the display device row, Q times.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a driving method of a display device. The display device includes display elements arranged in a form of a two-dimensional matrix and each have a driving circuit and a light emitting section. The driving circuit includes a driving transistor having a gate electrode and source/drain regions and a capacitance section, and a current flowing through the light emitting section via the source/drain regions of the driving transistor. The driving method includes the step of performing a first writing process, a second writing process, and then setting the gate electrode of the driving transistor in a floating state. A current corresponding to a value of a voltage retained in the capacitance section for retaining a voltage of the gate electrode of the driving transistor with respect to a source region of the driving transistor flows through the light emitting section, so that the light emitting section emits light.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having optical sensors, for sensing a touch, embedded in a liquid crystal panel to improve touch sensitivity is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes pixel regions spaced from each other on a first substrate, gate lines formed to separate the pixel regions in a first direction, driving voltage lines parallel to the gate lines, data lines formed between the pixel regions in a second direction intersecting the first direction, storage lines parallel to the driving voltage lines, read-out lines separated from neighboring data lines by one pixel region in the second direction, display transistors formed at intersections of the gate and data lines, pixel electrodes formed in the pixel regions, output switching transistors formed between the gate and read-out lines, capacitors formed between the output switching transistors and storage lines, and photo sensing transistors formed on the output switching transistors and storage lines.

Abstract: In a photosensor in the pixel region of an active matrix substrate, the potential of a storage node is read out to output wiring as sensor circuit output, the potential of the storage node having changed in accordance with the amount of light received by a photodetection element in a sensing period, the sensing period being from when a reset signal (RS) is supplied until when a readout signal (RW) is supplied. A sensor startup period whose length is greater than or equal to the length of the sensing period is provided after a sensor data unnecessary period in which the sensor circuit output is not necessary, and furthermore before a valid sensor data period in which the sensor circuit output is necessary, and the sensor circuit output is read out in the valid sensor data period from the photosensor to which the reset signal was applied in the sensor startup period.

Abstract: Improving image sticking of a liquid crystal display (LCD) including a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel, includes driving the first subpixels of the pixels with a first optimized common voltage, driving the second subpixels of the pixels with a second optimized common voltage, and driving the LCD with a panel voltage. The panel voltage is between the first and the second optimized common voltages.

Abstract: A prism sheet is bonded to the bottom faces of rectangular prisms constituting a polarization beam splitter array. In the front face of the prism sheet, a plurality of rectangular prism elements are arranged in parallel to each other and a phase difference compensation film is formed on the surface. The edge lines of the rectangular prism elements are inclined at 45 degrees relative to the edge lines of the rectangular prisms. Linear polarized light of S-polarization component reflected by a polarized light separation film is reflected twice sequentially in a phase difference compensation film formed in a pair of oblique faces of the rectangular prism elements, so that the polarization direction is rotated by 90 degrees and then the light reenters the rectangular prism. Then, the light is transmitted through the polarized light separation film and then extracted from the rectangular prism.

Abstract: A polarization diffraction grating that enables the polarization direction of incident light and the occurrence direction of diffracted light to be freely selected without being restricted by the material of a substrate is provided. A polarization diffraction grating includes a transparent substrate, a polymer liquid crystal layer that is adhered onto the transparent substrate via an adhesive layer, and that has a first concavity/convexity structure that diffracts incident light formed on a face opposite to the adhesive layer, and an optically isotropic material layer provided to fill the first concavity/convexity structure.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display device with repairable structure, including a glass substrate; a wire structure formed on the glass substrate, wherein the wire structure includes one or a plurality of through holes formed therein; a dielectric layer formed on the wire structure and the glass substrate; and a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on the dielectric layer, wherein one or more gaps are formed between the plurality of pixel electrodes and the position of the gaps aligns with the position of the through holes.