Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes pixels, each of which includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The size of the first transistor is larger than the size of the second transistor. In addition, channel widths and gate widths for the first transistor are larger than those of the second transistor. Also, the first transistor is located to be closer to a drain signal line provided for the pixel than the second transistor. In normal operation, the first transistor is coupled to the drain signal line and the second transistor is floating. However, if an abnormality occurs in the first transistor, it is cut off from the drain signal line and the second transistor is connected to the drain signal line by a repair line.

Abstract: An LCD device preventing a short-circuit of adjacent link lines is disclosed. The LCD device includes a pixel area in which a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing the plurality of gate lines at a right angle are formed, a pad area formed at a side of the pixel area, a gate pad portion and a data pad portion formed in the pad area and respectively connected to the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines, first, second, third, and fourth gate link lines connected to the plurality of gate lines and the gate pad portion and alternately arranged with an insulation layer interposed between the first, second, third, and fourth gate link lines, and first and second auto probe pads electrically connected to the first, second, third, and fourth gate link lines. The first and second gate link lines are connected to the first auto probe pad and the third and fourth gate link lines are connected to the second auto probe pad.

Abstract: In a display device and a repairing method therefor, the display device includes a gate line and two gate-on-array circuits arranged at two sides thereof. Each of the gate-on-array circuits includes a stage coupled to the gate line. Each the stage includes a transistor and a repair circuit. The first source/drain electrode of the transistor is coupled to the gate line, and the second source/drain electrode of the transistor is coupled to receive a clock pulse signal. The repair circuit includes a first terminal coupled to the gate electrode of the transistor, a second terminal coupled to a predetermined potential, and at least one control terminal adapted to receive at least one repair signal to pull the potential on the gate electrode of the transistor to the predetermined potential. The transistor maintains at off-state when the at least one repair signal is supplied to the repair circuit.

Abstract: A display device displays images with a plurality of signal lines and includes spare lines, each being arranged to be connectable to the signal lines so as to be used for recovery of the signal lines from disconnection. Each of the spare lines has constricted sections for cutting. With this arrangement, it is possible to easily and properly recover the signal lines from disconnection.

Abstract: A display device includes: on an insulating substrate, a first conductive layer in which a first signal line and a second signal line adjacent to the first signal line are formed; an insulating layer which is disposed on the first conductive layer; a second conductive layer which is disposed on the insulating layer and in which a ground wire crossing the first signal line and the second signal line in a plan view is formed; and a semiconductor layer which is disposed between the insulating layer and the second conductive layer and in which a first semiconductor film and a second semiconductor film are formed to be separated from each other. The wiring lengths of the first signal line and the second signal line are different by at least 10 times or more. The first semiconductor film overlaps, in a plan view, a region where the first signal line crosses the ground wire. The second semiconductor film overlaps, in a plan view, a region where the second signal line crosses the ground wire.

Abstract: The present invention efficiently arranges a spare TFT element in a pixel region of a liquid crystal display device. A display device includes a substrate on which TFT elements which are arranged in pixel regions each of which is surrounded by two neighboring scanning signal lines and two neighboring video signal lines are formed. The substrate arranges a first TFT element and a second TFT element in each pixel region in which the first TFT element and the second TFT element independently include a channel layer, a drain electrode and a source electrode respectively, only either one of the first TFT element and the second TFT element in each pixel region is operated when a video signal is applied to the video signal line and a scanning signal is applied to the scanning signal line, and the first TFT element and the second TFT element differ from each other in largeness or a shape of an occupied area or a channel width and a channel length of each TFT element when the substrate is viewed in a plan view.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling light transmission from an optical input to an optical output can function as a tunable iris or eclipse, or as a privacy window. The iris/eclipse can use a liquid crystal matrix with a dispersion of dichroic particles that absorb light in one orientation and transmit light in another, such that controlling the liquid crystal with an electric field allows control of the dichroic particles. Alternatively, a layer may be used with a light absorbing liquid or powder material that moves with a charged material in response to a variable electric field applied to the layer. Privacy windows use a plurality of liquid crystal microlenses that can be controlled with an electric field to allow an image of an optical input to be obtainable at an optical output when in a first state, or to render the image irretrievable when in a second state.

Abstract: A display device 1 according to the present invention, having a display area AA capable of image display and a nondisplay area PA provided outside the display area AA, includes a first wiring line 14 and a second wiring line 20 in the nondisplay area PA. The second wiring line 20 is arranged across an insulating layer 17 from the first wiring line 14, so that a crossover section 25 at which the first wiring line 14 intersects with the second wiring line 20 is provided. The second wiring line 20 includes a plurality of branch lines 22, 23 branching therefrom and being located in the crossover section 25, while the first wiring line 14 includes a plurality of slit portions 260A, 270A and the like crossing the branch lines 22, 23.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display uses a pixel division method by which the size of a defect can be reduced much more than conventionally possible, and a defect correcting method for the liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display is provided with an active matrix array substrate including a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of source lines arranged on a transparent substrate to intersect with each other, and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, each pixel electrode including an assembly of a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes, separate TFTs respectively connected to the sub-pixel electrodes in the vicinity of an intersection portion of the gate line and the source line, the TFTs being driven by the common gate line and the common source line, and at least one opening portion being formed in a lower-layer side line placed in a lower layer at the intersection portion.

Abstract: An active device array substrate at least including a substrate, a plurality of pixel units, a plurality of first signal lines, a first connecting wire, a plurality of first switching devices, and a plurality of second signal lines is provided. The pixel units are disposed within an active area. One ends of two neighboring first signal lines are respectively connected to a first test line and a second test line. The other ends of the two neighboring first signal lines are both connected to the first switching devices. Moreover, the first connecting wire is electrically connected to the first switching devices. One ends of two neighboring second signal lines are respectively connected to a third test line and a fourth test line.

Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a common repair structure for repairing scanning and/or data line defects in a liquid crystal display panel. In one embodiment, the common repair structure includes a plurality of “H” shaped structures, where each “H” shaped structure is placed over a corresponding segment of two neighboring scanning lines located between and associated with two neighboring pixels along the second direction or a corresponding segment of two neighboring data lines located between and associated with two neighboring pixels along the first direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel matrix where a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines cross each other and a plurality of liquid crystal cells are arranged, first data switching thin film transistors respectively connected to data lines of a first group of the data lines, and second data switching thin film transistors respectively connected to data lines of a second group of the data lines.

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

Abstract: An array substrate comprises data lines, gate lines, thin film transistors and pixel electrodes formed on a base substrate. Pixel units are defined by intersecting the data lines and the gate lines, the thin film transistors are formed at the intersections of the data lines and the gate lines, and the data lines extend across each of the pixel units in the middle of the pixel units. At least two thin film transistors for controlling a same pixel electrode are respectively formed on both sides of the data line in each pixel unit.

Abstract: A data driver of a display device includes: a DAC (Digital Analog Converter) outputting a drive signal for driving a signal line of a displaying unit; an amplifier amplifying the drive signal outputted by the DAC and outputting the drive signal to the signal line; a repair amplifier having an input and an output, wherein the signal line is separated by a breakage point into a connected data line connected to the amplifier and a disconnected data line not connected to the amplifier, and the input of the repair amplifier is connected to the connected data line and the output of the repair amplifier is connected to the disconnected data line; and a switch supplying the drive signal to the input of the repair amplifier for testing the repair amplifier. An output delay test for the repair amplifier can be performed under a condition similar to that of the amplifier.

Abstract: An array substrate having a display region and a peripheral circuit region adjacent to the display region is provided. The array substrate includes a pixel array, a plurality of test shorting bars and a plurality of wires. The pixel array is disposed in the display region. The test shorting bars are disposed in the peripheral circuit region. The wires electrically connected with the pixel array are disposed in the peripheral circuit region. Specially, at least one wire and the test shorting bar share a part for connecting each other and the part forms a common trace.

Abstract: A TFT array substrate comprising a substrate has a pixel region and a peripheral circuit region surrounding the pixel region, a TFT array, first lead lines, second lead lines, and first repair patterns is provided. The peripheral circuit region has an outer area and an inner area. The inner area is disposed between the pixel region and the outer area. The TFT array disposed in the pixel region includes a first conducting layer and a second conducting layer. The first lead lines and the second lead lines disposed in the peripheral circuit region are on the same layer of the first conducting layer and the second conducting layer respectively. The first repair patterns disposed in the inner area are sandwiched between the second lead lines and the substrate. At least a first pre-repair area is at a region where the second lead lines and the first repair patterns are overlapped.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, an optically transparent second substrate, a liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second substrates, a plurality of light reflecting pixel electrodes provided between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer, pixels including the pixel electrodes, a translucent electrode provided between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and a reflective layer. The reflective layer is provided close to the first substrate rather than the pixel electrodes so as to overlap, in plan view, at least a part of a gap between the first pixel electrode of the pixel electrodes and the second pixel electrode adjacent to the first pixel electrode, and the cross-section of the reflective layer in a direction where the first and second pixel electrodes are adjacent to each other has a concave surface that is dented toward a side opposite to the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: An array substrate comprising: a first insulator film arranged to insulate scanning and control lines from signal lines; switching elements, each of which is arranged in vicinity of respective intersection of the scanning and signal lines; a second insulator film that covers a multi-layer wiring pattern including the scanning and control lines and the signal lines; pixel electrodes, each of which is electrically connected to respective one of the signal lines through the respective switching element; island metal patterns, each of which is arranged to at least partly overlap the control line and is electrically connected with the respective switching element; a wiring breakage that separates one of the signal lines into two wiring parts; and bridge wirings, which connect said two wiring parts by way of one of the island metal patterns and are arranged to overlap the pixel electrodes as interposed by the second insulator film therebetween.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display having a repair circuit structure and an array substrate of the liquid crystal display are provided. Each of the repair lines of the repair circuit comprises a front repair line portion arranged to cross with a front data line portion in a substantially perpendicular manner, an end repair line portion arranged to cross with an end data line portion in a substantially perpendicular manner, and an intermediate repair line portion connecting the front and end repair line portions. At least two repair lines in the end repair line portion are positioned in different layers so that a parasitic capacitance between respective repair lines in the repair circuit structure can be reduced and signal transmission quality can be ensured.

Abstract: A flat display panel includes a plurality of bridge lines disposed between adjacent common lines. When a short defect occurs, the common line near the short defect can be directly cut off in order to repair the short defect and the common voltage can be transferred through the bridge lines to maintain the normal operation of the flat display panel.

Abstract: A repair line framework of liquid crystal display is provided. By disposing part of the repair line inside the integrated circuit chip so that the routing of part of the repair line will penetrate through the integrated circuit chip before returning to the panel, or by routing part of the repair line disposed on the substrate within the display region so that the routing is positioned under the black matrix of the color filter, the routing length of the repair line is shortened and the impedance of the repair line is reduced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display having a repair line structure and an array substrate of the liquid crystal display are provided. The repair line comprises a front repair line portion arranged to at least partially overlap a front portion of a first signal line, an end repair line portion arranged to at least partially overlap an end portion of the first signal line, and an intermediate repair line portion electrically connecting the front and end repair line portions. The front repair line portion comprises at least a first signal connection line and an external line which are electrically isolated when the repair line has not been used to repair a defect in the first signal line.

Abstract: A thin-film transistor substrate includes; gate lines which extend in a first direction, the gate lines including a first gate line and a second gate line, the first gate line disposed adjacent to and previous to the second gate line, data lines which are insulated from the gate lines and extend in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a pixel electrode formed in a region where the first gate line and the second gate lines cross the data lines and connected to the second gate line, and a repair pattern which at least partially overlaps the first gate line, the repair pattern comprising a plurality of connection patterns, wherein the connection patterns extend from the pixel electrode in the second direction toward the first gate line, have a predetermined width measured in the first direction, and are arranged at predetermined intervals along the first direction.

Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating a multilayer electronic device on a flexible substrate including at least a first and a second patterned layer, wherein the first patterned layer is defined with a linewidth that is smaller than the linewidth of the second patterned layer, and the second patterned layer is defined by a patterning technique which is capable of correcting for local distortions of the pattern of said first layer on top of the flexible substrate and wherein the first patterned layer is laid-out in such a way that the geometric overlap between a portion of the second layer and a portion of the first layer is insensitive against small variations of the position of the second patterned layer.

Abstract: A pixel structure including an active device, a pixel electrode connected with the active device, a bottom electrode disposed under the pixel electrode, upper electrodes disposed between the pixel electrode and the bottom electrode and connected with the pixel electrode, a first dielectric layer disposed between the bottom electrode and the upper electrodes and a second dielectric layer disposed between the upper electrodes and the pixel electrode is provided. The total area of the upper electrodes overlapping with the bottom electrode is A, and the overlapping portion of the pixel electrode and each upper electrode includes a contact region and a reserved region having total area B. The dielectric constant and thickness of the first dielectric layer is ?1 and d1; and for second dielectric layer ?2 and d2, wherein 0.5<(?1·d2·A)/(?2·d1·B)<1.5.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, and a second substrate opposite to and facing the first substrate. The first substrate, having a repairing region and a display region defined thereon, includes at least one repairing wire arranged in the repairing region, and a passivation layer disposed over the repairing wire. The second substrate includes a common electrode, and at least one repairing protection pad formed thereon. The repairing protection pad, disposed on the surface of the common electrode and in the repairing region, faces the first substrate, and corresponds to the repairing wire.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pixel layout structure capable of increasing the capability of detecting amorphous silicon (a-Si) residue defects and a method for manufacturing the same. Wherein, an a-Si dummy layer is disposed on either one side or both sides of each data line. The design of such an a-Si dummy layer is utilized, so that in an existing testing conditions (by making use of an existing automatic array tester in carrying out the test), in case that there exists an a-Si residue in a pixel, the pixel having defects can be detected through an enhanced capacitance coupling effect and an electron conduction effect. Therefore, through the application of the above-mentioned design, the capability of an automatic array tester can effectively be increased in detecting a defective pixel having a-Si residues.

Abstract: A method of repairing array substrate of display panel includes the following steps. An array substrate including a substrate, gate lines, data lines, common lines and repairing segments is provided. The gate lines and the data lines are intersected to define a plurality of pixel areas. The data lines include a first data line. The common lines include a first common line. The first data line has a broken line defect. A cutting process is performed to form a first cutting part and a second cutting part on the first common line, and thus the first common line between the first cutting part and the second cutting part forms a floating common repairing segment. A connecting process is performed to electrically connect the repairing segments, the first data line and the common repairing segment, so that the common repairing segment serves as a substitution line of the first data line.

Abstract: A method for repairing a liquid crystal display. The method includes preparing a liquid crystal panel including a signal pad part and a repair pad part connected to signal lines; testing a driving circuit connected to the signal pad part on the liquid crystal panel; opening signal links connecting the signal lines and the signal pad part, connected to the driving circuit, if the driving circuit is detected in a defect as a result of the test; and mounting a repair driving circuit to be connected to the repair signal pad part on the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: An array substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display comprising the array substrate, and a mother glass from which the array substrate is cut off, are provided. The array substrate comprises a plurality of scan lines; a plurality of data lines crossing with the plurality of scan lines; and a common electrode bus, wherein each of the array substrate further comprises a shorting bar which transmits the same signal as a signal that the common electrode bus transmits during operation of the corresponding liquid crystal display. The invention both improves the utilization of a mother glass and allows testing the data lines and/or scan lines with shorting bars.

Abstract: An apparatus is for use in a display device having a defective signal line with a defect that isolates a first signal line portion from a second signal line portion of the defective signal line. The apparatus includes a signal driver that has a driver output terminal electrically connected to the first signal line portion, and a first repair buffer having an input terminal and an output terminal. A repair line is electrically connected to the output terminal of the first repair buffer. The input terminal of the first repair buffer is initially electrically isolated from the defective signal line. To repair the defective signal line, the input terminal of the first repair buffer is electrically connected to the defective signal line to enable a signal from the signal driver to travel through the first repair buffer over the repair line to the second signal line portion of the defective signal line.

Abstract: A display device displays images with a plurality of signal lines and includes spare lines, each being arranged to be connectable to the signal lines so as to be used for recovery of the signal lines from disconnection. Each of the spare lines has constricted sections for cutting. With this arrangement, it is possible to easily and properly recover the signal lines from disconnection.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a circuit and a method for repairing a broken line of a flat panel display device. The circuit includes a second repairing line and a resistance access port is disposed on the second repairing line. The method includes: disposing a resistance access port on a second repairing line of the flat panel display device; and connecting a resistance meeting a display requirement to the resistance access port. The above solutions enable the circuit for repairing to adjust the load resistance so as to adjust the display effect by disposing the resistance access port; thereby improving the repairing effect and making the display quality of the repaired flat panel display device meet the requirement.

Abstract: An array substrate of a liquid crystal display, comprising a first scan line and a second scan line, a first data line and a second data line arranged crossing with the first scan line and the second scan line to define a pixel region, and a pixel electrode in the pixel region, wherein the second data line comprises at least a first branch and a second branch that are electrically connected to each other. According to the invention, it is not necessary to provide the array substrate with additional space for disposing repair lines, and the non-display region is therefore not increased, resulting in an increased yield. Only a short length of repair lines is used in repair, and thus both electrical resistance of repair line and distortion of data signals can be reduced.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate in which wherever a short between adjacent pixel electrodes of a liquid crystal panel is located in peripheral portions of the pixel electrodes, the short can be efficiently corrected without forming both short-circuited pixels into black dots, and a liquid crystal panel having the active matrix substrate, as well as methods of correcting the AM substrate and the liquid crystal panel. Each of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix in an active matrix substrate is divided into a plurality of minute regions, and the minute regions are integrally connected by electrically connecting portions. A plurality of lines arranged to transmit signals to each of the pixel electrodes are placed so as not to coincide with the electrically connecting portions of each of the pixel electrodes.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel (10) includes an active matrix substrate on which a transistor (12), a pixel electrode (17), signal lines (15, 16) and backup wirings (8a, 8b) for recovering a defect in the signal line are formed; a color filter substrate on which a common electrode (counter electrode) is formed; and a liquid crystal material provided between the active matrix substrate and the color filter substrate. The backup wirings (8a, 8b) are (electrically) connected to the common electrode on the color filter substrate, through (i) a protection circuit (9) for discharging an undesired electric charge that occurs in the backup wirings (8a, 8b) and (ii) a sealing adhesive (6). With this configuration, it becomes possible to reduce problems (for instance, unexpected short-circuiting of the backup wiring and the signal line) caused by the undesired electric charge that occurs in the backup wirings.

Abstract: A width and a length of the electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit are reduced by changing a connection structure of the electrostatic discharge protection circuit. The ESD protection circuit includes a plurality of gate electrodes disposed between odd signal lines and even signal lines adjacent to the odd signal lines among the signal lines; source/drain electrode pairs each disposed on a respective one of the gate electrodes to form a plurality of transistors; and connection nodes parallel to the source/drain electrode pairs, each connection node adjacent to a respective one of the source/drain electrodes pairs and on a respective one of the gate electrodes, wherein each of the connection nodes is directly connected to the source/drain electrode pair of an adjacent transistor and the gate electrode formed below the source/drain electrode through a contact part.

Abstract: A display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a spacer is provided. The first substrate has a common potential line and at least one testing line separated from the common potential line, and the second substrate is disposed above the first substrate. The spacer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and includes at least one conducting particle. The common potential line is electrically connected to the testing line via the conducting particle. An assembling method of the display panel mentioned above and a liquid crystal display using the display panel are also provided.

Abstract: An array substrate includes: a base having an active region and a peripheral region adjoining to the active region; a plurality of signal lines disposed on the base; and at least one repair structure disposed on the peripheral region and having at least one first repair line and at least one second repair line having a first sub-line and a second sub-line. The first sub-line is located between the first repair line and the second sub-line. The signal lines have a plurality of groups; the first repair line crosses over at least two of the groups of the signal lines; and at least one of the groups of the signal lines is crossed over by only one of the first sub-line and the second sub-line.

Abstract: The embodiment is to provide a liquid crystal display device capable of detecting malfunctions. The liquid crystal display device includes pixels configured to be connected to scan lines and data lines, data pads electrically connected to the data lines, a data integrated circuit supplying data signals to the data lines through the data pads, first data transistors coupled to the data pads, and second data transistors coupled to the data lines. The first data transistors are disposed on the data integrated circuit and the second data transistors are separated from the data integrated circuit.

Abstract: A pixel structure is provided. The pixel structure includes a scan line, a gate, a first dielectric layer, a channel layer, a source, a drain, a data line, a second dielectric layer, and a pixel electrode. The gate is electrically connected to the scan line and has a first notch. The first dielectric layer covers the scan line and the gate. The channel layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer over the gate and exposed by the first notch. The source and the drain are disposed on the channel layer. Part of the drain is located over the first notch. The data line is disposed on the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the source. The second dielectric layer covers the source, the drain and the data line. The pixel electrode is disposed on the second dielectric layer and electrically connected to the drain.

Abstract: A data line repair structure for a liquid crystal display panel is disclosed. The data line repair structure includes a first repair line parallel to the scan line and crossing a first end of the data line; a fourth repair line formed in an oblique line area of the liquid crystal panel, coupled to the first repair line; a second repair line parallel to the data line, coupled to the gate driving chip and the fourth repair line; a third repair line parallel to the scan line, coupled to the second repair line and separated from a second end of the data line; and a floating line connected between the third repair line and the second end of the data line when the data line has a broken point.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes gate pads on a first side of an insulating substrate, gate pad parts, which contain a sub-group of the gate pads, a plurality of gate shorting bars within the gate pad parts, data pads on a second side of the insulating substrate, data pad parts, which contain a sub-group of the data pads, and a plurality of data shorting bars within the gate pad parts.

Abstract: A display device includes a signal line formed on a substrate, a repair line formed on the substrate crossing and insulated from the signal line, and a first redundancy conductive pattern formed on a first region of the substrate where the signal line crosses the repair line, wherein the first redundancy conductive pattern is insulated from the signal line and the repair line.

Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display and a substrate for the same. The substrate comprises first wires formed in one direction on the substrate; second wires intersecting and insulated from the first wires; pixel electrodes formed in pixel regions defined by the first wires and the second wires; and switching elements connected to the first wires, the second wires and the pixel electrodes, wherein an interval between two adjacent second wires has a predetermined dimension that repeatedly varies from one set of adjacent second wires to the next, and a side of the pixel electrodes adjacent to the second wires is shaped in a pattern identical to the second wires such that the pixel electrodes have a wide portion and a narrow portion.

Abstract: A display device displays images with a plurality of signal lines and includes spare lines, each being arranged to be connectable to the signal lines so as to be used for recovery of the signal lines from disconnection. Each of the spare lines has constricted sections for cutting. With this arrangement, it is possible to easily and properly recover the signal lines from disconnection.

Abstract: A display device includes a rescue circuit line structure having a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern and a dielectric layer. The first conductive pattern is adapted to electrically interconnect a first circuit element and a second circuit element, wherein the first conductive pattern has an open. Neither of the first and second conductive patterns is used as a data line or a scan line. The dielectric layer is located on the open and disposed between the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display uses a pixel division method by which the size of a defect can be reduced much more than conventionally possible, and a defect correcting method for the liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display is provided with an active matrix array substrate including a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of source lines arranged on a transparent substrate so as to intersect with each other, and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, each pixel electrode including an assembly of a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes, separate TFTs respectively connected to the sub-pixel electrodes in the vicinity of an intersection portion of the gate line and the source line, the TFTs being driven by the common gate line and the common source line, and at least one opening portion being formed in a lower-layer side line placed in a lower layer at the intersection portion.

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.