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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160132115 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS OPERATION CONTROL METHOD - The electronic apparatus is provided with: a visual sense display unit which displays an operation screen; a touch coordinate detection unit which detects an operation content done on displayed objects; and a tactual sense presenting unit which presents a tactual sense. The electronic apparatus includes: a tactual sense presentation control module which presents a tactual sense corresponding to the displayed objects on the operation screen via the tactual sense presenting unit; an operation content acquiring module which detects whether or not a temporal change in the touch position detected on the displayed object by the touch coordinate detection unit is equal to or less than a preset threshold value and that state continues for a preset time or longer; and a sense stimulus information output control module which outputs to outside sense stimulus information corresponding to the displayed object when that state continues for the prescribed time or longer. | 05-12-2016 |
20160104413 | PIXEL ARRAY, ELECTRO OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRIC APPARATUS AND PIXEL RENDERING METHOD - Provided is a pixel array having a pixel arrangement structure in which a subpixel of the first color having the highest luminosity factor, a subpixel of the second color and a subpixel of the third color having the lowest luminosity factor are arranged in matrix, a row including the subpixel of the first color and the subpixel of the second color that are alternately arranged and a row including the subpixel of the first color and the subpixel of the third color that are alternately arranged are alternately arranged, and a column including the subpixel of the first color and the subpixel of the second color that are alternately arranged and a column including the subpixel of the first color and the subpixel of the third color that are alternately arranged are alternately arranged. The row including the subpixels of the first color and the third color is higher than the row including the subpixels of the first color and the second color, and the subpixel of the first color in the row including the subpixels of the first color and the second color has an area of a light-emitting region substantially equal to that in the subpixel of the first color in the row including the subpixels of the first color and the third color. | 04-14-2016 |
20160097943 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUSE USING THE SAME, DISPLAY OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND OUTPUT CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - Provided is a display device having a viewing angle changing function, which is capable of preventing leakage of information displayed on a display screen even when there is a fault generated in changing the viewing angle. The image display device including a viewing angle changing element capable of changing a wide vision display and a narrow vision display and including a display element is provided with a detection element which detects a fault generated in the viewing angle changing element and a module for changing to a narrow vision display when there is a fault based on a detection value of the detection element. For example, when there is a fault, a transparent heater is operated to heat a liquid crystal layer to set a transparent-scattering changing element to a transparent state and forcibly set the display device to a narrow vision display. | 04-07-2016 |
20160079393 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - Provided are a display apparatus and a manufacturing method of the same. The display apparatus includes: a counter substrate, and an active matrix substrate including a pixel area. The active matrix substrate includes, in a non-transmissive region of each pixel, a transparent substrate, a polycrystalline silicon film, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, an interlayer insulating film, and a drain layer including patterned conductive films, and includes, in a transparent region of each pixel, the transparent substrate, the gate insulating film and the interlayer insulating film. The interlayer insulating film includes zones where the interlayer insulating film is thinner than a part of the interlayer insulating film at the middle of each transmissive region. The zones are each located so as to extend between the neighboring patterned conductive films and are further located so as not to overlap with the transmissive regions and regions laid over LDD portions of the polycrystalline silicon film. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077364 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, LIGHTING DEVICE USING THE SAME - To provide an optical element capable of stably securing an intermediate mode between two operations modes. The optical element of the present invention includes: a first transparent substrate; a second transparent substrate provided by opposing to the first transparent substrate; a plurality of first conductive patterns and second conductive patterns disposed in parallel to each other on a face of the first transparent substrate opposing to the second transparent substrate; light transmission regions disposed between the first conductive patterns and the second conductive patterns; a transparent conductive film disposed on a face of the second transparent substrate opposing to the first transparent substrate; and an electrophoretic element disposed between the neighboring light transmission regions, which is constituted with light-shielding electrophoretic particles of a specific electric charge and a transmissive dispersion material. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077363 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, LIGHTING DEVICE USING THE SAME - There is such an issue with the well-known optical element that it is difficult to achieve a high transmittance since the transmittance is determined according to the pattern size of the light transmission regions, so that the luminance of the display device to which such optical element is mounted is deteriorated. Provided is an optical element which employs a structure in which the shape of a conductive pattern where electrophoretic particles cohere in a wide viewing field mode is formed in a comb-like shape and plural stages and plural rows of light transmission regions are disposed in the spaces between the comb teeth. This makes it possible to exclude the electrophoretic particles from the regions other than the comb-like electrode for allowing the light to transmit that part. | 03-17-2016 |
20160026051 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A lateral electric field type liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate on which pixels are disposed in a matrix shape, each of the pixels including a plurality of signal wirings and a plurality of scanning wirings which intersect each other, a switching element provided in a region adjacent to a portion in which the signal wiring and the scanning wiring intersect or on the scanning wiring, a pixel electrode connected to the switching element, and a counter electrode to which a common potential is supplied from a common potential wiring; a second substrate provided to face the first substrate; and a liquid crystal provided between the first and second substrates, wherein a first electric field shield electrode, which is set to the common potential, is provided between the signal wiring and the first substrate, and the first electric field shield electrode is electrically connected with a first wiring which supplies the common potential to the first electric field shield electrode, within a display region, and an electric field substantially parallel to the first substrate is applied between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode. | 01-28-2016 |
20160018566 | LENTICULAR LENS SHEET, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Provided are a lenticular lens sheet capable of simultaneously achieving an improvement in visibility due to improving bonding accuracy, and low cost due to shape stabilization during processing the lens, a display apparatus and an electronic equipment including the same. The lenticular lens sheet includes a plurality of cylindrical lenses which extend in a direction parallel to each other; and an alignment mark which has two cylindrical lenses among the plurality of cylindrical lenses, a flat part disposed between the two cylindrical lenses, and a structure which is disposed on the flat part and extends between the two cylindrical lenses. | 01-21-2016 |
20160007441 | FOLDING TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed are folding type display apparatuses. The folding type display apparatus comprises a flexible display section, and a plurality of housings, which includes a first housing having a space formed therein, and second and third housings bendably connected to both ends of the first housing. The display section is fixed to the second and third housings, and in a closed state of the second and third housings, a folding portion of the display section is housed in the space formed by the first housing, while in an open state of the second and third housings away from each other, the display section becomes flat, and the first housing functions as a leg protruding from flat surfaces of the second and third housings, so that the second and third housings are fixed to each other and the folding portion of the display section is supported, by a holding member for connecting these housings. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004122 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE CONDUCTIVE TAPE ATTACHING STRUCTURE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - To provide a liquid crystal display device conductive tape attaching structure and the like capable of improving the connecting strength without disturbing reduction in the thickness and the size and without disturbing light transmittance. The conductive tape attaching structure of the liquid crystal display device includes: a CF glass substrate where an ITO layer is provided; a polarization plate which is laminated to the CF glass substrate by sandwiching the ITO layer; and a conductive tape having one end which is sandwiched between the CF glass substrate and the polarization plate and connected to the ITO layer. | 01-07-2016 |
20150379956 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - To prevent image retention, the pixel circuit includes: a light emitting element; a driving transistor which supplies an electric current according to an applied voltage to the light emitting element; a capacitor part which holds the voltage containing a threshold voltage and a data voltage of the driving transistor; and a switch part which has the voltage containing the threshold voltage and the data voltage held to the capacitor part and applies the voltage to the driving transistor. Further, the switch part has a function which applies a constant voltage to the driving transistor before having the voltage containing the threshold voltage and the data voltage held to the capacitor part. | 12-31-2015 |
20150355498 | APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THE SAME - There are provided an apparatus and a method of manufacturing the apparatus. The apparatus includes: a plate-shaped base; a cover plate; and a curable resin adhering the plate-shaped base and the cover plate together. At least one of the plate-shaped base and the cover plate includes a light-shielding member covering a peripheral part of the at least one of the plate-shaped base and the cover plate. In an area which is shielded by the light-shielding member, a part of the curable resin at a side of an inner edge of the light shielding member is lower in one of an elastic modulus, a curing degree, and an adhesion strength than another part of the curable resin at a side of an outer edge of the light shielding member. | 12-10-2015 |
20150355472 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING METHOD OF IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND TERMINAL DEVICE - An image display device includes a display element having a unit of display comprising sub pixels displaying images for first and second view points, respectively, and an optical unit that distributes lights emitted from respective sub pixels into different directions. When a region surrounded by a data line, a gate line and a storage capacitor electrode in the sub pixel is defined as an aperture, the sub pixels form a base unit that is an adjoining pixel pair including two sub pixels arranged via a data line therebetween. The two sub pixels have switching elements connected to the data line between the two sub pixels and controlled by different gate lines. When virtual lines each evenly dividing a width of the sub pixel in the first direction into K+1 pieces are presumed, K number of storage capacitor lines are each arranged across at least one virtual line in the aperture. | 12-10-2015 |
20150338669 | DISPLAY DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY METHOD - Movement of a display device is detected, and an image is displayed in stereoscopic display or planar display depending on the detected movement. | 11-26-2015 |
20150331154 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A lenticular lens sheet produced by patterning a UV curable resin on one surface of a conventional glass substrate has a problem of the reliability of the UV curable resin. Additionally, stress generated by the UV curable resin causes warpage in production and use of a display device. | 11-19-2015 |
20150312546 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - The stereoscopic image display device displaying a stereoscopic image by being placed on a movable object includes: a stereoscopic display panel module which projects images of different parallaxes for each of neighboring spatial regions; a movable object state detecting module which detects state information regarding a position state of the movable object; an observing distance calculation module which calculates a relative distance between the stereoscopic display panel module and a specific observer located on a display surface side thereof based on the state information; a device characteristic data saving module which saves device characteristic data regarding the stereoscopic display panel module; and a display setting adjusting module which adjusts display setting of the stereoscopic image by referring to the relative distance and the device characteristic data. | 10-29-2015 |
20150286335 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITANCE SENSOR AND TOUCH PANEL - When an excitation frequency of a touch panel is coincident with or in the vicinity of a frequency of external noise, noise cannot be removed by a bandpass filter. Also when a touch detecting operation period is limited to a short period of time such as a non-address period, frequency resolution is reduced and a noise removal effect of averaging is reduced, so that an S/N ratio is decreased. The electronic apparatus of the present invention includes a sensor system | 10-08-2015 |
20150286105 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - Provided is a liquid crystal display device and a method for producing the same, wherein one electrode is composed of four segmented electrodes (P | 10-08-2015 |
20150279698 | THIN FILM DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - With a TFT using an oxide semiconductor film, there is such an issue that oxygen deficit is generated in a surface region of the oxide semiconductor film after performing plasma etching of a source/drain electrode, thereby increasing the off-current. Provided is a TFT which includes: a gate electrode on an insulating substrate; a gate insulating film on the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor film containing indium on the gate insulating film; and a source/drain electrode on the oxide semiconductor film. Further, the peak position derived from an indium 3d orbital in the XPS spectrum of a surface layer in a part of the oxide semiconductor film where the source/drain electrode is not superimposed is shifted towards a high energy side than the peak position derived from the indium 3d orbital in the XPS spectrum of an oxide semiconductor region existing in a lower part of the surface layer. | 10-01-2015 |
20150261042 | SURFACE LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided are a surface light-emitting device and a liquid crystal display apparatus. The surface light-emitting device includes: a casing; one or plural point light sources arranged on a bottom surface of the casing; a first diffusion member arranged to be separated from the one or plural point light sources; a reflection plate capable of transmitting light and arranged between the one or plural point light sources and the first diffusion member; and a second diffusion member adjacent to the reflection plate. In the reflection plate, through holes are formed in a region corresponding to each of the one or plurality of point light sources. The through holes in the region are located at the right above position of the corresponding point light source and positions surrounding the right above position such that the through hole located farther from the right above position has a greater opening size. | 09-17-2015 |
20150253580 | SUBSTRATE LAMINATING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE LAMINATING METHOD, AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide a substrate laminating apparatus and a substrate laminating method capable of laminating two substrates highly precisely while achieving low cost and saving space. The substrate laminating apparatus includes an upper-substrate camera group provided to a lower vacuum chamber for capturing an image of an upper substrate fixed to an upper vacuum chamber. The upper-substrate camera group captures images of a first upper-substrate alignment mark and a second upper-substrate alignment mark of the upper substrate fixed to the upper vacuum chamber by actions synchronized with the lower vacuum chamber. Thereby, it is possible to save the space and to lower the cost by reducing the number of mechanical components. | 09-10-2015 |
20150248037 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes: a chassis in which a liquid crystal panel and a reflection sheet are placed; a rear case attached to a back face of the chassis where a part of the reflection sheet is exposed; and a signal processing substrate that is placed on the reflection sheet and that is used for driving the liquid crystal panel. A positioning mount component is mounted on the signal processing substrate, a positioning pin capable of locking the positioning mount component is formed at a position corresponding to the positioning mount component in the rear case, and the positioning mount component is fitted to the corresponding positioning pin to thereby position the signal processing substrate at a desired position on the reflection sheet. | 09-03-2015 |
20150234500 | TOUCH SENSOR BOARD, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TOUCH SENSOR BOARD MANUFACTURING METHOD - To provide a touch sensor board and the like capable of improving the visibility of the screen and the manufacture yield simultaneously. The touch sensor board includes a plurality of mutually parallel first electrodes extended along a first direction and a plurality of mutually parallel second electrodes extended along a second direction. Regarding the first and second electrodes, one of those is connected to each electrode element via a same-layer connection pattern while the other is connected to each electrode element via a different-layer connection pattern. The same-layer connection pattern and the different-layer connection pattern overlap on one another via an interlayer film formed by an insulator. Further, the interlayer film is continued from the overlapping part between the same-layer connection pattern and the different-layer connection pattern via a gap part between each of the electrode elements, and the interlayer film is formed to be continued in the gap part. | 08-20-2015 |
20150185564 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a lateral-electric-field mode active matrix liquid crystal display device in which an afterimage can be improved. The width of one pixel comb electrode 109B of a plurality of pixel comb electrodes 109 is larger than each of the widths of the other pixel comb electrodes 109 and common comb electrodes 110 and is equivalent to the width of a common shield electrode 110B that covers an image signal wiring line 104 via a second insulating film. A display region is divided into two subregions by the wide pixel comb electrode 109B. In each subregion, the number of pixel comb electrodes 109 is equal to that of common comb electrodes 110. In addition, the width of the common shield electrode 110B is equivalent to that of the wide pixel comb electrode 109B, and the concentration of an electric field in the vicinity of each pixel comb electrode is reduced. Since structural symmetry is achieved, an electric potential distribution becomes symmetrical, and the asymmetry of the manners of emitting light between frames is reduced. As a result, the DC offset component of an image signal after flicker adjustment is reduced to improve an afterimage. | 07-02-2015 |
20150180337 | DC/DC CONVERTER AND DISPLAY DEVICE - There are provided a DC/DC converter and a display device. The DC/DC converter includes: an inductor connected to an input terminal; a switching element connected between the inductor and the earth; a diode connected between the inductor and an output terminal; a capacitor connected between the output terminal and the earth; a feedback circuit connected between the output terminal and the earth and outputting a feedback voltage; and an oscillating circuit performing an ON/OFF control of the switching element at a frequency corresponding to the received feedback voltage. The DC/DC converter further includes: a detection circuit which detects an external magnetic field and outputs a signal that is different depending on whether or not the detected magnetic field exceeds a predetermined threshold; and a control circuit performing a control of the DC/DC converter according to the signal, to suppress an overcurrent of the DC/DC converter in a strong magnetic field. | 06-25-2015 |
20150177980 | TOUCH SENSOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A touch sensor device includes: an impedance surface where plural sets of reference coordinates are set at plural locations; plural detection electrodes arranged on the impedance surface; a detection circuit configured to detect electric currents passing the detection electrodes; a storage section storing reference standardized values and reference normalized values; a position coordinate calculation section configured to obtain standardized values calculated by standardizing the electric currents detected in each detection period and to map the standardized values onto position coordinates; a first normalized value calculation section configured to map the position coordinates onto first normalized values; a second normalized value calculation section configured to calculate second normalized values by normalizing the electric currents in each detection period; and a touch gesture detection section configured to detect a motion of pointers on the basis of a time variation of the first normalized values and the second normalized values. | 06-25-2015 |
20150124003 | LED DRIVING CIRCUIT, LED DRIVING METHOD, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An LED driving circuit, an LED driving method, and a liquid crystal display device, which prevent deterioration of display quality by effectively shortening the time required for starting the LED backlight and stabilizing the driving operations are provided. The LED driving circuit for controlling an LED circuit constituted with one LED or two or more LEDs includes: a duty ratio adjusting circuit unit which generates/outputs adjusting signals for adjusting drive of the LED based on a PWM dimming signal inputted from outside; and a booster circuit unit which applies driving voltages to the LED circuit according to the adjusting signal outputted from the duty ratio adjusting circuit unit. The duty ratio adjusting circuit unit sets the adjusting signal to have a larger duty ratio than that of the PWM dimming signal within an adjusting period set after the power is supplied until the LED circuit starts to connect electrically. | 05-07-2015 |
20150123119 | IMAGE SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are an image sensor and a method of manufacturing method of manufacturing the image sensor. The image sensor includes a substrate, photoelectric transducers and switching elements formed in layers on the substrate in this order. Each of the photoelectric transducers includes a hydrogenated amorphous silicon layer. Each of the switching elements includes an amorphous oxide semiconductor layer. The image sensor further includes a blocking layer arranged between the hydrogenated amorphous silicon layers of the photoelectric transducers and the amorphous oxide semiconductor layers of the switching elements, where the blocking layer suppresses penetration of hydrogen separated from the hydrogenated amorphous silicon layers. | 05-07-2015 |
20150103294 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - Provided are a liquid crystal panel and a method of manufacturing method of manufacturing a liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes a first transparent substrate; a second transparent substrate; and a liquid crystal layer formed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate. The first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate have transparency in a visible light region and an ultraviolet absorptive property. At least one of the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate includes a structure arranged in a predetermined region thereof, where the structure transmits ultraviolet rays in a specific wavelength range. | 04-16-2015 |
20150098038 | LATERAL ELECTRIC FIELD LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The liquid crystal display device includes a transparent electrode formed in a plan form and a strip or strips transparent electrode disposed thereon via an insulating film, and controls display by rotating the liquid crystal aligned substantially in parallel to a substrate within a plane that is substantially in parallel to the substrate by an electric field between the both electrodes. Each pixel constituting the display is divided into two regions, the extending directions of the strip electrode in each of the regions are orthogonal, the alignment azimuths of the liquid crystal of each of the regions are orthogonal, and the angles formed between the extending directions of the strip electrode and the alignment azimuth of the liquid crystal are the same. | 04-09-2015 |
20150085089 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - The stereoscopic image display device which displays images corresponding to each of a plurality of viewpoints includes: a stereoscopic image display panel which includes a display panel in which a plurality of pixels are arranged and a light-ray separating module provided on the display panel for separating parallax images from each of the pixels towards a plurality of N-viewpoints (N is a natural number of 2 or larger) according to the layout direction of each of the pixels; an observer position measuring unit which measures an observing position of the observer who is facing the display surface; a relative position calculating unit which calculates a relative position of the observer with respect to the stereoscopic image display panel based on the measurement result; and an image generation processing unit which generates viewpoint image by corresponding to the relative position and outputs the image towards the stereoscopic image display panel. | 03-26-2015 |
20150056747 | METHOD OF FABRICATING A THIN-FILM DEVICE - A method of forming a thin-film device includes forming an oxide-semiconductor film formed on the first electrical insulator, and forming a second electrical insulator formed on the oxide-semiconductor film, the oxide-semiconductor film defining an active layer. The oxide-semiconductor film is comprised of a first interface layer located at an interface with the first electrical insulator, a second interface layer located at an interface with the second electrical insulator, and a bulk layer other than the first and second interface layers. The method further includes oxidizing the oxide-semiconductor film to render a density of oxygen holes in at least one of the first and second interlayer layers is smaller than a density of oxygen holes in the bulk layer. | 02-26-2015 |
20150049129 | CONTROL CIRCUIT AND A DISPLAY THEREOF - This invention n provides a control circuit having large effects of low power consumption in CABC drive. The control circuit performs B/L luminance reduction in eliminating a discomfort in image quality by using the feature value calculation circuit in the video signal. The control circuit comprises a luminance control circuit controlling a backlight luminance according to an inputted video signal and a gradation conversion circuit for converting a gradation of inputted video signal according to a controlled luminance. The control circuit reduces continuously and smoothly the backlight luminance, while the screen area reaches one-pixel white, in case where the all white is inputted as video signal, one-pixel black is displayed in any screen area from a display condition of all white, a rate of screen area displaying one-pixel black is gradually increased, and the video signal is continuously changed until the screen area of all white reaches the one-pixel white. | 02-19-2015 |
20150042911 | LATERAL ELECTRIC FIELD TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A lateral electric field type liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode made with a transparent conductive film formed on different layers on a first substrate via an insulating film. Each pixel is divided into a first region and a second region. In the first region, the pixel electrode and the common electrode formed linearly substantially in parallel to each other rotate liquid crystal molecules in the region by a lateral electric field applied between the both electrodes. In the second region, at least the electrode on a lower layer side out of the pixel electrode and the common electrode is in a plan shape, and a part where the pixel electrode and the common electrode overlap with each other forms a storage capacitance. | 02-12-2015 |
20150042357 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITANCE SENSOR AND TOUCH PANEL - When the excitation frequency of a touch panel and the frequency of external noise match or are close, noise cannot be removed by a bandpass filter. In addition, when a touch detection operating period is limited to a short period such as the no addressing period, the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) decreases because frequency separation decreases and the noise removal effect by averaging is degraded. An electronic device of the present invention includes a sensor system ( | 02-12-2015 |
20150041818 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - Provided are a display apparatus and a manufacturing method of the same. The display apparatus includes: a counter substrate, and an active matrix substrate including a pixel area. The active matrix substrate includes, in a non-transmissive region of each pixel, a transparent substrate, a polycrystalline silicon film, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, an interlayer insulating film, and a drain layer including patterned conductive films, and includes, in a transparent region of each pixel, the transparent substrate, the gate insulating film and the interlayer insulating film. The interlayer insulating film includes zones where the interlayer insulating film is thinner than a part of the interlayer insulating film at the middle of each transmissive region. The zones are each located so as to extend between the neighboring patterned conductive films and are further located so as not to overlap with the transmissive regions and regions laid over LDD portions of the polycrystalline silicon film. | 02-12-2015 |
20150035737 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD FOR SAME, AND DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR SAME - The liquid crystal display apparatus is provided with a display unit, a video signal driving circuit, a scanning signal driving circuit, a common electrode potential controlling circuit, and a synchronizing circuit. The display unit has a scanning electrode, a video signal electrode, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in matrix form, a plurality of switching elements which transmit video signals to the pixel electrodes, and a common electrode. After the scanning signal driving circuit scans the entire scanning electrodes and transmits video signals to the pixel electrodes, the common electrode potential controlling circuit changes the potential of the common electrode into a pulse shape, overdrives video signals, or increases a torque required to return to a state in which no voltage is applied. | 02-05-2015 |
20150029202 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING THE SAME - The disclosed display apparatus eliminates the need of a dedicated inspection jig when inspecting a memory carried on the driving substrate of the display apparatus; a memory inspection can be conducted under conditions for practical use in which TCON reading memory data is operated; and another display inspection (such as a point defect inspection) can be conducted simultaneously with the memory inspection. The display apparatus includes a drive circuit for holding and utilizing operation setting data in the memory, wherein the drive circuit includes: a display data generation section which associates two values of data bits read from the memory with two values of light and shade or different colors and makes image data represented in a line or a rectangle; a switch for selecting the data generated by the display data generation section and input image data; and a switching timing control section which controls timing of switching. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029174 | SCANNING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device including a scanning circuit formed using single conductivity type thin-film transistors suppresses threshold changes in the thin-film transistors forming the scanning circuit by controlling a circuit for maintaining an internal node of the unit circuits forming the scanning circuit at a constant potential is controlled by a clock signal or a pulse signal having a smaller amplitude than the amplitude of an output signal. | 01-29-2015 |
20150015592 | DISPLAY CONTROLLER, DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - To overcome issues generated due to the light-shield part in a display device which displays different images towards a plurality of viewpoints, and to provide a device for easily synthesizing images to be displayed on a display part. A display controller includes: an image memory which stores viewpoint image data for a plurality of viewpoints; a writing control device which writes the viewpoint image data inputted from outside to the image memory; a parameter storage device which stores parameters showing a positional relation between a lenticular lens and the display part; and a readout control device which reads out the viewpoint image data from the image memory according to a readout order obtained by applying the parameters to a repeating regulation that is determined based on layout of he sub-pixels, number of colors, and layout of the colors, and outputs it to the display module as synthesized image data. | 01-15-2015 |
20140368767 | SURFACE LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided are a surface light emitting device and a liquid crystal display apparatus equipped with the surface light emitting device. The surface light emitting device includes: a light guide plate including a side surface where light enters, a principal surface where the light goes out and a rear surface opposite to the principal surface; and a reflection sheet arranged on the rear surface of the light guide plate; a substrate arranged with facing the side surface of the light guide plate. The surface light emitting device further includes: plural light emitting bodies arranged along a longitudinal direction of the substrate and mounted on a surface of the substrate; a frame and a rear frame holding the substrate, the light guide plate and the reflection sheet; and one or more reflecting bodies arranged around a part of the light emitting bodies and extending along a longitudinal side of the substrate. | 12-18-2014 |
20140362316 | LATERAL ELECTRIC FIELD LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The liquid crystal display device includes a transparent electrode formed in a plan form and a strip or strips transparent electrode disposed thereon via an insulating film, and controls display by rotating the liquid crystal aligned substantially in parallel to a substrate within a plane that is substantially in parallel to the substrate by an electric field between the both electrodes. Each pixel constituting the display is divided into two regions, the extending directions of the strip electrode in each of the regions are orthogonal, the alignment azimuths of the liquid crystal of each of the regions are orthogonal, and the angles formed between the extending directions of the strip electrode and the alignment azimuth of the liquid crystal are the same. | 12-11-2014 |
20140339432 | AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT AND IMAGE SENSOR USING AMPLIFIER - There is a problem that in an image sensor including an amplifier in each pixel, when a thin-film semiconductor is used as a transistor constituting the amplifier, voltage continues to be applied between source and gate of the transistor and thereby a threshold voltage value of the transistor varies, resulting in a variation of signal voltage. To solve the problem, a thin-film transistor formed with an oxide semiconductor is used as the transistor constituting the amplifier, and during a period other than a period of outputting an output of the amplifier, source potential of the transistor is controlled to be equal to drain potential thereof. | 11-20-2014 |
20140292732 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DRIVING IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND PORTABLE DEVICE - A display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal display element in which a plurality of display units including at least a pixel that displays an image for a first eyepoint and a pixel that displays an image for a second eyepoint are arranged in a matrix shape; an optical unit which distributes light emitted from the pixel that displays the image for the first eyepoint and light emitted from the pixel that displays the image for the second eyepoint in mutually different directions; a first control electrode and a second control electrode disposed on each pixel in the display units; and a plurality of domain regions of which the orientation is controlled by a diagonal electric field or a lateral electric field formed by the first control electrode and the second control electrode and which have different liquid crystal molecule orientation states. | 10-02-2014 |
20140267968 | DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ORNAMENTAL PRODUCT INCORPORATING SAME - Disclosed is a display device for use of a surface display of an arbitrary shape, including a plural number of display element units, each made up of a circuit that forms a single stage of a scanning circuit and a pixel circuit connected to an output of the scanning circuit, are arranged in a unicursal fashion on a display substrate. | 09-18-2014 |
20140247203 | SEMI-TRANSMISSIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In a liquid crystal panel, a reflective pixel electrode and a transmissive pixel electrode in a unit pixel are supplied with an image signal output from a data line drive circuit, the two mutually different scanning signals output from a scanning line drive circuit, and common signals output from a common line drive circuit. The phase of the image signal is set different from that of the common signal. Further, a period during which the two scanning signals are selected is set in one horizontal period, the ending of the selection period for one of the scanning signals is set to a point in time before an electrical potential of the common signal changes, and the ending of the selection period for the other scanning signal is set to a point in time after the electrical potential of the common signal changes. | 09-04-2014 |
20140240827 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic image display device includes: a display panel on which pixels each constituted with a plurality of sub-pixels formed with electro-optic elements by corresponding to parallax images are arranged in matrix; and an optical module which distributes light emitted from the pixels arranged in the first and second directions to different directions from each other along the first and second directions, respectively. The display panel includes first and second non-control regions which are the regions existing between boundaries of apertures of the sub-pixels where control of electric-optic conversion cannot be done. An intersection part of the first and second non-control regions is disposed on a lattice point that is an intersection point of segments in a unit lattice constituted with lattice lines, and the first or the second non-control region is bent at least once within the unit lattice with respect to the lattice lines. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240826 | DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A translucent liquid crystal display panel ( | 08-28-2014 |
20140240475 | STEROSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROLLER - A stereoscopic image display device includes: a display panel in which pixels each constituted with N×N pieces (N is a natural number of 2 or larger) of sub-pixels colored in M (M is a natural number of 1 or larger) primary colors are arranged in matrix; and an optical separation module in which optical elements which distribute exit light from each of the pixels according to parallax images in a first direction and a second direction along layout of the pixels are arranged by being corresponded to each of the pixels. The neighboring sub-pixels within the pixels are of different colors, array pitches of the sub-pixels are uniform in the first and second directions, same numbers of the parallax images are displayed for the first direction and the second direction within the pixels, and numbers of the sub-pixels in different colors within the parallax images are equivalent. | 08-28-2014 |
20140232683 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH SENSOR, CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display device with a touch sensor and the like, capable of adjusting the external noise even in a state where the touch sensor is being placed on a display panel or a state where the display device with the touch sensor is being mounted into an electronic apparatus, includes a display panel, a capacitance type touch sensor provided by being superimposed on the display panel, and a distance variable mechanism which changes the distance between the touch sensor and the display panel. | 08-21-2014 |
20140218275 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TERMINAL DEVICE - To provide a plural-viewpoint display device having an image separating optical element such as a lenticular lens or a parallax barrier, which is capable of achieving a high image quality by suppressing deterioration in the display image quality caused when a block division driving method is employed, and to provide a terminal device, a display panel, and a driving method thereof, which can be preferably used for those devices. A pixel group configured with pixels for displaying a right-eye image includes a pixel connected to a data line phase-deployed in the first phase of a block division driving method, and a pixel connected to a data line phase-deployed in the third phase, and a pixel connected to a data line phase-deployed in the second phase. In this manner, it is designed to have no deviation in the phase deployment orders in the pixel groups for each viewpoint. | 08-07-2014 |
20140198066 | TOUCH PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME - To shield the noise generated due to deformation or the like of the conductive frame. The touch panel includes: a detection region which generates detection signals according to a contact position of a conductor; a plurality of detection electrodes which output detection signals generated in the detection region; a conductive frame which covers above the outer side of the detection region and above the detection electrode; and shield electrodes formed on the outer side of the detection region on the CF substrate and between each of the plurality of detection electrodes, to which shield signals for shielding the electric influence on the detection region and the detection electrodes are supplied. Further, the distance between the shield electrodes and the detection region is shorter than distance between the conductive frame and the detection region. | 07-17-2014 |
20140192298 | LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS ELEMENT, DISPLAY UNIT AND TERMINAL - Provided are a liquid crystal lens element, a display unit and a terminal. The liquid crystal lens element includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a liquid crystal layer, where directions in which each of the upper and lower substrates extends are defined as the x-direction and the y-direction. An initial molecular orientation direction of the liquid crystal layer agrees with the x-direction. The upper substrate includes a repetition area in which plural A-electrode structures are arrayed in the x-direction so as to generate an electric potential gradient in the x-direction. The lower substrate includes a repetition area in which plural B-electrode structures are arrayed in the y-direction so as to generate an electric potential gradient in the y-direction. One of an opening section and a central electrode elongated in the y-direction is formed in the middle of each A-electrode structure. | 07-10-2014 |
20140184977 | DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide a plural-viewpoint display device having an image separating optical element such as a lenticular lens or a parallax barrier, which is capable of arranging thin film transistors and wirings while achieving substantially trapezoid apertures and high numerical aperture, and to provide a driving method thereof, a terminal device, and a display panel. A neighboring pixel pair arranged with a gate line interposed therebetween is connected to the gate line placed between the pixels, each of the pixels configuring the neighboring pixel pair is connected to the data line different from each other, and each of the neighboring pixel pairs neighboring to each other in an extending direction of the gate lines is connected to the gate line different from each other. | 07-03-2014 |
20140176498 | TOUCH SENSOR DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, POSITION CALCULATION METHOD, AND POSITION CALCULATION PROGRAM - The present invention calculates a first detected position influenced by the palm and an accurate second detected position from which the influence of the palm is eliminated immediately after a touch-on is judged, and calculates a correction value based on the first detected position and the second detected position. In a period from the point at which the touch-on is judged to the point at which a touch-off is judged, the first detected position influenced by the palm is calculated once successively, and the first detected position is corrected by the correction value to calculate a third detected position to improve the position accuracy at the time of the drag operation thereby. | 06-26-2014 |
20140167717 | DC/DC CONVERTER AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention is directed to sufficiently reduce the level of EMI which occurs from a switching FET in a DC/DC converter and minimize deterioration in efficiency of a power supply. A DC/DC converter includes a switching circuit for driving a switching FET for increasing or decreasing voltage, and a switching circuit for driving a ringing frequency changing circuit. One end of a capacitor is connected to a drain of the switching FET for increasing or decreasing voltage, and the other end of the capacitor is connected to a drain of an FET for the ringing frequency changing circuit. A source of the FET for the ringing frequency changing circuit is connected to GND, and a control circuit is provided which makes the ringing frequency changing circuit valid so that a ringing frequency becomes low only in a ringing frequency component exerting large influence on deterioration in EMI. | 06-19-2014 |
20140152926 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic image display device includes an image display unit including plural unit pixels each including pixels for left and right viewing fields; a gradient-refractive-index liquid-crystal lens; and a liquid-crystal lens drive circuit. The liquid-crystal lens includes a liquid-crystal cell, plural electrode groups each including plural stripe-shaped transparent electrodes corresponding to a column of the unit pixels, and a counter transparent electrode having a constant potential. The liquid-crystal lens drive circuit is configured to apply voltages to the transparent electrodes with forming a common voltage pattern for each of the electrode groups so as to make liquid crystal of the liquid-crystal cell work as plural lenses forming a predetermined refractive-index profile for each of the electrode groups, and is configured to shift the voltage pattern according to information of a viewpoint position of an observer so as to shift the refractive-index profile of each of the lenses. | 06-05-2014 |
20140132859 | DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - To provide a low-cost display device which can accurately detect a position touched by a finger. A display device displays an image by having display elements capable of performing electro-optic responses formed between conductible first and second substrates, and detects a contact position touched by a contact body by having a conductive impedance surface formed on the second substrate side. The display device includes: linearization pattern sections formed on the first substrate, which include a plurality of electrodes capable of detecting electric currents on a conductive impedance surface; and a conductive member which electrically connects the linearization pattern sections with the conductive impedance surface on the second substrate. | 05-15-2014 |
20140125243 | LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided are a light-emitting element driving circuit for controlling luminance of light-emitting elements by using a PWM signal, and a display device including the light-emitting element driving circuit and plural light-emitting elements. The light-emitting element driving circuit includes: a control circuit configured to generate a control signal based on an input PWM signal in which ON-periods alternate with OFF-periods to form pulses; and a light-emitting element driving unit configured to drive the plurality of light-emitting elements by using the control signal. The control signal includes alternating first periods and second periods, where the first periods and the second periods correspond to the ON-periods and the OFF-periods of the input PWM signal, respectively. Each of the first periods includes an ON-period, and each of the second period includes an ON-period. The control signal includes a larger number of frequency components in comparison with frequency components of the input PWM signal. | 05-08-2014 |
20140111719 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device is constituted such that sub-pixels are disposed in an array form in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to each other, a plurality of gate lines are disposed in the second direction, an optical element for distributing the light to the second direction is disposed on the liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal display device are controlled by an electric field almost in parallel to the surface of the liquid crystal display device, and a data line is disposed to obliquely divide the sub-pixels at a position different from the boundary between the sub-pixels neighboring in the second direction, where the data line can have a small angle with respect to the second direction, and the numerical aperture is not deteriorated greatly even when the lengths of apertures of the sub-pixels in the first direction are constant. | 04-24-2014 |
20140104522 | IN-PLANE SWITCHING MODE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is directed at optimizing the viewing angle characteristics of black luminance in a diagonal direction by realizing a low tilt angle without depending on an oriented film or an orientation treatment method in an FFS mode. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device in the FFS mode, including: a liquid crystal layer having a negative dielectric anisotropy; a color filter substrate disposed to sandwich the liquid crystal layer; and a TFT substrate having pixels, wherein a CF side common electrode which controls a potential is present in a liquid crystal layer side of the color filter substrate; and there is electric field controlling means which forms an alternating electric field between the CF side common electrode and a TFT side common electrode. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104520 | Semi-Transmissive Liquid Crystal Display Device and Portable Terminal Device - A liquid crystal display accommodates a reflective portion with a concavo-convex reflecting pixel electrode for reflecting incident light from the display face side, and a transmissive portion with a transmissive pixel electrode for transmitting light output from the backlight. In a wide viewing angle region, luminance of the reflective portion is greater than the transmissive portion. In other angle regions, luminance of the transmissive portion is greater than the reflective portion. In a wide viewing field mode, the reflective portion and transmissive portion both perform normal display. In the narrow viewing field mode, the transmissive portion performs normal display, while the reflective portion performs cancelling data display, thereby rendering unviewable the display content of the transmissive portion from beyond a certain viewing angle. Thus, a semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device and a portable terminal device is switchable between a narrow viewing field mode and a wide viewing field mode. | 04-17-2014 |
20140103347 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND X-RAY IMAGE DETECTOR - Provided are a photoelectric conversion device, a method of manufacturing the photoelectric conversion device, and an X-ray image detector. A photoelectric conversion device at least includes a photodiode device. The photodiode device includes a lower electrode and an upper electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer put between the lower and upper electrodes, where the photoelectric conversion layer includes a patterned edge surface, is smaller in size than the lower electrode and is placed on a surface of the lower electrode. The photodiode device further includes a protecting film covering at least the patterned edge surface of the photoelectric conversion layer. The protecting film except for an area where a contact hole is formed and the lower electrode are formed with a same-shaped pattern. | 04-17-2014 |
20140098323 | SURFACE LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - A surface light-emitting device includes: a light guide plate including a notch; a reflection sheet including a notch; a point light source; a light-source substrate; a first chassis covering and extending along the light-source substrate and the lower surface of the light guide plate; a second chassis formed to fit with the first chassis; a liquid crystal panel put on the second chassis; and a third chassis covering the liquid crystal panel and a part of the first chassis on which the light-source substrate is put, and formed to fit with the first chassis on the part. The light-source substrate is fixed on the first chassis. The first chassis includes a protrusion to be engaged with the notches so as to be moved together with the light guide plate and the reflection sheet in response to a movement of the first chassis along the light guide plate. | 04-10-2014 |
20140092365 | SPACE IMAGE FORMING ELEMENT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TERMINAL - To provide a space image forming element realizing higher reflectance and larger area by making aperture ratio and transmittance higher and a method of manufacturing the same, thereby realizing high reflectance and, as a result, formation of an image having high brightness in the air. In a space image forming element of the present invention, a light transmission region is configured by a transparent pattern formed by exposure process using a transparent resist. By forming a metal layer between adjacent transparent patterns, a mirror-face region is formed in the interface between a side wall of the transparent pattern and the metal layer. The metal layer has a two-layer structure. The second metal layer is formed by electroplating using the metal in the first layer as an electrode. | 04-03-2014 |
20140078035 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An electrophoretic display device is provided, in which an image update period is constituted with a reset period including at least a stirring pulse for stirring electrophoretic particles and a compensation pulse for suppressing accumulation of the residual DC component and with a set period including a set pulse for applying, to intended pixels, a voltage of polarity for making transition to black or white for a prescribed amount of time according to a next image. The voltage waveforms for each display gradation are so designed that a period where a positive voltage is applied to a counter electrode and a period where a negative voltage is applied do not overlap with each other, and a compensation pulse is applied after the stirring pulse which sets all the pixels of the display unit to a white or black base state. Thereby, changes in the display state are not visually recognized. | 03-20-2014 |
20140071386 | LATERAL ELECTRIC FIELD TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A lateral electric field type liquid crystal display device includes substrates, liquid crystal put between the substrates, scan lines and data lines arranged on one of the substrates, and pixels each of whose boundary is defined by two scan lines and two data lines. In each pixel, a strip-shaped electrode and a common electrode are formed with an insulating film put thereamong, and the pixel electrode is arranged to extend close along one of the data lines. In each pixel, a part of the common electrode covering one of the data lines overlaps with the pixel electrode, the pixel electrode partially projects from the overlapping area, and a side edge of the projecting part of the pixel electrode is separated from a side edge of a part of the common electrode covering the other data line so as to generate a lateral electric field to drive the liquid crystal. | 03-13-2014 |
20140063707 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device prevents a foreign material from entering from a gap formed between an adhesive member and a chassis, said gap being formed due to having a structure simplified. The upper surface of a resin chassis, said upper surface facing a touch panel, is provided with steps having a height equal to a thickness of a double-sided tape or less. The double-sided tape is disposed in a region, which is at the lower level of the steps. In a region where and end portion of the double-sided tape is disposed, wall at a level equivalent to the upper level of the steps is provided such that double-sided tapes and a display device are spatially separated from each other. | 03-06-2014 |
20140043680 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE WITH ALIGNING UNIT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A marker for lens is provided as aligning unit in a lenticular lens of an optical unit, and a marker for display panel is provided as aligning unit in a transmissive liquid crystal display panel of the display panel. A fixing unit is provided in at least a part of an area that encloses an image display area of the lenticular lens. An image display device is formed in such a manner that alignment between the lenticular lens and the liquid crystal display panel is performed by the marker for lens and the marker for display panel and the lenticular lens is fixed to a surface of the liquid crystal display panel on the side of a viewer. | 02-13-2014 |
20140036185 | DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide a plural-viewpoint display device having an image separating optical element such as a lenticular lens or a parallax barrier, which is capable of arranging thin film transistors and wirings while achieving substantially trapezoid apertures and high numerical aperture, and to provide a driving method thereof, a terminal device, and a display panel. A neighboring pixel pair arranged with a gate line interposed therebetween is connected to the gate line placed between the pixels, each of the pixels configuring the neighboring pixel pair is connected to the data line different from each other, and each of the neighboring pixel pairs neighboring to each other in an extending direction of the gate lines is connected to the gate line different from each other. | 02-06-2014 |
20140036181 | CONNECTING STRUCTURE OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A connecting structure of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate on which the first substrate is laminated, and a sheet like connection body having one end connected to one principal surface of the first substrate and another end connected to one principal surface of the second substrate, wherein a lengthwise direction of the sheet like connection body is parallel to a perimeter part of the first substrate, and the sheet like connection body has a slit part extending from one of end portions thereof to a part thereof along the lengthwise direction, and has a first end and a second end divided by the slit part at one of end portions, the first end is connected to a principal surface of the first substrate in vicinity of a peripheral part of the first substrate, and the second end is connected to a principal surface of the second substrate in vicinity of a peripheral part of the first substrate. | 02-06-2014 |
20140036046 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a stereoscopic image display device and the like with which the issues of a CT-image and pseudoscopic view by the 3D crosstalk can be overcome so that a sense of discomfort is not felt by the observer even when the observing position of the observer is shifted without giving a sense of discomfort by a drastic change in the parallax value, in which an image processing unit includes: a relative position calculating unit which calculates a relative position of a stereoscopic display panel with respect to the measured observing position of the observer; a parallax adjustment amount calculating unit which calculates a parallax adjustment amount suited for stereoscopic image display according to the relative position; and a parallax adjustment processing unit which performs parallax adjustment processing on image data according to the parallax adjustment amount. | 02-06-2014 |
20140035972 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The stereoscopic image display device includes: an observer position measuring unit which measures the observing position of the observer; an image processing unit which calculates the relative position of the observing position of the observer and the stereoscopic display panel, calculates the luminance adjustment amount suited for stereoscopic image display for the relative position, and performs luminance adjustment processing on the image data according to the luminance adjustment amount; and a stereoscopic display panel unit which projects the image data on which the luminance adjustment processing is performed to the right eye and the left eye of the observer via the stereoscopic display panel. | 02-06-2014 |
20140035907 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A stereoscopic image display device, with which the influence of a CT-image by the 3D crosstalk is lightened so that a sense of discomfort is not felt by the observer even when the observing position of the observer is shifted, includes an image processing unit including: a relative position calculating unit which calculates a relative position of a stereoscopic display panel with respect to the observing position of the observer; an image filter value calculating unit which calculates an image filter value for adjusting an image blurring amount according to the relative position; and an image filtering processing unit which performs image filtering processing on image data according to the image filter value. | 02-06-2014 |
20130314455 | TRANSFLECTIVE LIQUID-CRYSTAL-DISPLAY DEVICE - A LCD device has a LC layer sandwiched between a TFT substrate and a counter substrate, first and second polarizing films, a first λ/2 film between the first polarizing film and the counter substrate, and a second λ/2 film between the second polarizing film and the TFT substrate. Angle θ1 between the direction of the optical axis of the LC layer and the polarized direction of the light entering the LC layer satisfies the relationship: 0 degree<θ1<45 degrees. The resultant LCD device has lower leakage light and coloring. | 11-28-2013 |
20130311810 | BROWSING TERMINAL, CHARGING TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AS WELL AS TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - To provide a browsing terminal and the like with high security, which can effectively prevent contents data stored in a terminal from being stolen unlawfully by a third party even if the terminal is accidentally lost. The browsing terminal includes: a receiving part for receiving contents data; a volatile memory for storing the received contents data; a display device with a memory function, which displays the contents data stored in the volatile memory; and a secondary battery for supplying power to the volatile memory and the display device. | 11-21-2013 |
20130307880 | CONTROLLER, HOLD-TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND SIGNAL ADJUSTING METHOD FOR HOLD-TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide a hold-type display device having a fine luminance efficiency while suppressing generation of motion blur. A controller according to the invention adjusts a signal outputted to a hold-type image display panel, which includes: a double-speed drive converting part which divides one frame of an inputted video signal to a plurality of sub-frames; a color converting part which converts a video signal of three primary colors including the plurality of sub-frames to a video signal of four or more colors including the three primary colors and a compound color; and a sub-frame converting part which converts, the video signal converted by the color converting part, to a signal having a plurality of different gradations whose average luminance value becomes equivalent to luminance of the video signal converted by the color converting part, and takes each of the plurality of gradations as each of gradations of the plurality of sub-frames. | 11-21-2013 |
20130286308 | LATERAL ELECTRIC FIELD TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - To stabilize the alignment direction in the boundary between two regions in a structure in which a pixel includes two regions where the initial alignment directions of the liquid crystal are orthogonal to each other. A pixel is divided into a first region, a second region, and a boundary region between those regions. The initial alignment directions of the liquid crystal in the first region and the second region are orthogonal to each other, the extending directions of the pixel electrode in the first region and the second region are also orthogonal to each other. The extending direction of the pixel electrode in the first region meets the pixel electrode of the second region when extended. The initial alignment direction of the liquid crystal in the boundary region is a direction rotated in a same rotating direction from the initial alignment direction of the first region at an acute angle. | 10-31-2013 |
20130278596 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided are an image generation apparatus, three-dimensional image display apparatus, image generation method and non-transitory computer readable medium. An image generation apparatus for generating a virtual-viewpoint image, includes a disparity-image-generating section which generates a disparity image corresponding to a two-dimensional image, by using a depth image and a parameter of a virtual camera; a disparity-image-correcting section which corrects the disparity image based on contour lines extracted from the two-dimensional image and the disparity image, or corrects the depth image to be used for generating the disparity image based on contour lines extracted from the two-dimensional image and the depth image; an pixel-shift-processing section which shifts each pixel of the two-dimensional image according to the corrected disparity image, to generate an intermediate image; and a unfixed-pixel-area-interpolating section which interpolates unfixed pixels to which the shifted pixels have been assigned in the intermediate image, to generate the virtual-viewpoint image. | 10-24-2013 |
20130250409 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; an optical element put between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of unit pixels arranged in matrix, each including a first-viewpoint pixel and a second-viewpoint pixel formed of the optical element; and a plurality of light-shielding areas each arranged between the first-viewpoint pixel and the second-viewpoint pixel; and an optical path distribution unit arranged on the second substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate are formed such that each of the light-shielding areas includes edge sections facing each other in the first direction, wherein one of the edge sections is defined by one of the first aperture areas and the other of the edge sections is defined by one of the second aperture areas, under a condition that the first substrate and the second substrate are joined together with no displacement therebetween. | 09-26-2013 |
20130249973 | METHOD OF DRIVING THE BACKLIGHT OF A LIGHT-EMITTING REGION OF AN LCD DEVICE TO REDUCE THE INFLUENCE OF LIGHT LEAKED FROM NEIGHBORING LIGHT-EMITTING REGIONS - There is provided a method of driving a backlight of a liquid crystal display device capable of eliminating leakage of light from adjacently-placed light emitting blocks. A gray level and maximum gray level of an input video signal are inputted for every light-emitting block. An output average gray level is calculated and a lighting control signal corresponding to converted luminance is outputted. The drivers responding to the lighting control signal makes LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) emit light. An average gray level from an output from sensors is calculated. An average gray level, based on an average gray level and a light leakage rate, by taking light leakage into consideration. A gray level correcting signal is outputted in the light-emitting block based on the above output average gray level. An output average gray level is corrected in response to a gray level correcting signal. | 09-26-2013 |
20130249891 | TRANSFLECTIVE TYPE LCD DEVICE HAVING EXCELLENT IMAGE QUALITY - An LCD device has a reflective area that reflects light incident from a polarizing film side using a reflection film, and a transmissive area that transmits light of a backlight incident from a TFT substrate side. The drive voltages of the reflective area and transmissive area are Vr and Vt, the black voltage in the reflective area is Vr (K), the black voltage in the transmissive area is Vt (K). The reflectance R, the transmittance T, characteristics of R with respect to drive voltage [Vr (K)−Vr] and characteristics of T with respect to drive voltage [Vt−Vt (K)] substantially match each other. | 09-26-2013 |
20130242222 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A transverse electric field-type liquid crystal display device displays by rotating homogeneous-aligned liquid crystals by a transverse electric field substantially parallel to a substrate, applied across a pixel electrode and a common electrode, assuring sufficient storage capacitance while enlarging the area of driving the liquid crystal molecules in a sub pixel. A source pixel electrode connected to a source electrode extends along the data line, a storage capacitance electrode formed by the same layer as the data line is formed above an adjacent scan line so as to overlap the adjacent scan line, the source pixel electrode is disposed so as to be connected to the storage capacitance electrode and a pixel along one side, an interlayer film is formed over the source pixel electrode, and a pixel electrode and a common electrode formed by a transparent conductive film are formed over the interlayer film. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242221 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE OF LATERAL ELECTRIC FIELD TYPE - A liquid crystal display device of a lateral electric field type performs display by rotating homogeneous-aligned liquid crystals by a lateral electric field substantially parallel to a substrate, which is applied across a pixel electrode and a common electrode, to increase the aperture ratio of a liquid crystal panel by narrowing the width of a black matrix provided along a data line. A source pixel electrode connected to a source electrode extends along the data line, a storage capacitance electrode formed by the same layer as the data line overlaps an adjacent scan line, the source pixel electrode is disposed so as to be connected to the storage capacitance electrode and a pixel along one side, an interlayer film is formed on the source pixel electrode, and a pixel electrode and a common electrode formed by a transparent conductive film are formed on the interlayer film. | 09-19-2013 |
20130241850 | TOUCH PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE EMPLOYING THE SAME - [Problem] The present invention provides a touch panel with features enabling the external form to be downsized without degrading a detection accuracy of a touch input area and applying an electric voltage to a pair of the electrodes and detecting the output electric voltages inverting the polarity of the voltage. | 09-19-2013 |
20130237012 | METHOD OF FABRICATING A THIN-FILM DEVICE - A method of forming a thin-film device includes forming an oxide-semiconductor film formed on the first electrical insulator, and forming a second electrical insulator formed on the oxide-semiconductor film, the oxide-semiconductor film defining an active layer. The oxide-semiconductor film is comprised of a first interface layer located at an interface with the first electrical insulating insulator, a second interface layer located at an interface with the second electrical insulator, and a bulk layer other than the first and second interface layers. The method further includes oxidizing the oxide-semiconductor film to render a density of oxygen holes in at least one of the first and second interlayer layers is smaller than a density of oxygen holes in the bulk layer. | 09-12-2013 |
20130229588 | LATERAL ELECTRIC FIELD TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - To acquire a fine viewing angle property from oblique view fields in a lateral electric field type liquid crystal display device having liquid crystal initial alignment directions in two orthogonal directions. The absorption axis of the incident-side polarization plate and the absorption axis of the exit-side polarization plate are orthogonal to each other in both of the region I and the region II, and the liquid crystal layer, the in-cell retarder as an optical compensation layer, the A-plate, and the C-plate sandwiched therebetween are in parallel to either one of the absorption axes or orthogonal to the substrates. Therefore, the transmittance can be suppressed to be low and a fine black display can be acquired even when the display surface is viewed from the oblique view fields. | 09-05-2013 |
20130229394 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY PANEL - To provide a plural-viewpoint display device having an image separating optical element such as a lenticular lens or a parallax barrier, which is capable of arranging thin film transistors and wirings while achieving substantially trapezoid apertures and high numerical aperture, and to provide a driving method thereof, a terminal device, and a display panel. A neighboring pixel pair arranged with a gate line interposed therebetween is connected to the gate line placed between the pixels, each of the pixels configuring the neighboring pixel pair is connected to the data line different from each other, and each of the neighboring pixel pairs neighboring to each other in an extending direction of the gate lines is connected to the gate line different from each other. | 09-05-2013 |
20130222745 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING PERIODICALLY CHANGED PERMUTATIONS OF AT LEAST TWO TYPES OF ELECTRODE-PATTERN PAIRS - A liquid crystal display device comprises a plurality of pixels arrayed in a first direction and a second direction, each of the pixels having a reflective area in at least a portion thereof. The reflective area comprises a surface-irregularity film that is a film having a plurality of surface irregularities, a light reflecting film disposed as an upper layer over the surface-irregularity film, and an electrode group disposed as an upper layer over the light reflecting film. The electrode group in each of the pixels that are arrayed in at least the first direction comprises at least two types of electrode patterns having different layouts. | 08-29-2013 |
20130221440 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device in which a semiconductor layer is formed on an insulating substrate with a front-end insulating layer interposed between the semiconductor layer and the insulating substrate is provided which is capable of preventing action of an impurity contained in the insulating substrate on the semiconductor layer and of improving reliability of the semiconductor device. In a TFT (Thin Film Transistor), boron is made to be contained in a region located about 100 nm or less apart from a surface of the insulating substrate so that boron concentration decreases at an average rate being about 1/1000-fold per 1 nm from the surface of the insulating substrate toward the semiconductor layer. | 08-29-2013 |
20130208217 | TRANSFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An IPS-mode transflective LCD device includes an array of pixels each including a reflective region and a transmissive region juxtaposed. The reflective region operates in a normally-white mode, and the transmissive region operates in a normally-black mode. A common data signal is supplied to the reflective region and transmissive region, whereas the common electrode signal in the transmissive region is an inverted signal of the common electrode signal in the reflective region, to thereby obtain similar gray-scale levels. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208199 | TRANSFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An IPS-mode transflective LCD device includes an array of pixels each including a reflective region and a transmissive region juxtaposed. The reflective region operates in a normally-white mode, and the transmissive region operates in a normally-black mode. A common data signal is supplied to the reflective region and transmissive region, whereas the common electrode signal in the transmissive region is an inverted signal of the common electrode signal in the reflective region, to thereby obtain similar gray-scale levels. | 08-15-2013 |
20130206627 | TRANSPORT TRAY, AND TRANSPORTING PACKAGE AND METHOD USING THE SAME - A transport tray can be commonly used for transporting two articles whose shapes and thickness are different between factories, and an exterior box also can be commonly used. A first placement section is formed on a surface side, a second placement section is formed on a back side to overlap with the first placement section. The first placement section includes a depressed part having an enough depth for receiving a LC cell, and the cell is held at a predetermined position by a bottom face and a side face that constitute the depressed part. The second placement section is formed by the supporting walls that protrudes to the back side and that has an enough depth for receiving a LC module. The module placed in the region surrounded by the supporting walls is held at a predetermined position by a bottom face and a side face that constitute the region. | 08-15-2013 |
20130194656 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - An electrophoretic display device includes a first substrate including switching elements and driving electrodes, an electrophoretic display element layer fixed on a predetermined display region of the first substrate, a sealing member formed to surround the display element layer on the first substrate, the sealing member being thicker than the display element layer, and a second substrate fixed on an opposite end of the sealing member to the first substrate, the second substrate having a wider area than the display element layer. The first substrate, the sealing member, and the second substrate constitute a closed inner space around the display element layer, thereby enclosing the display element layer in the space. The space is filled with an inert gas having a pressure approximately equal to an atmospheric pressure or is set in a predetermined vacuum state. | 08-01-2013 |
20130188114 | DIRECT TYPE BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A direct type LED backlight device improves color unevenness on the periphery of the display region without increase of the driver and its control circuit and contour change of a liquid crystal panel. This device includes a bottom wall, a set of optical members arranged opposite to an inner surface of the bottom wall, a side wall maintaining the bottom wall and the set of optical members at a predetermined distance, and LEDs fixed to the inner surface of the bottom wall. The side wall has a protrusion protruding toward a central portion of a space formed by the bottom wall, the side wall, and the set of optical members. At least part of emission surfaces of the LEDs arranged at outermost positions are overlapped with the protrusion and located at such positions as to be invisible when seen along a direction perpendicular to the set of optical members. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188106 | LATERAL ELECTRIC FIELD LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The liquid crystal display device includes a transparent electrode formed in a plan form and a strip or strips transparent electrode disposed thereon via an insulating film, and controls display by rotating the liquid crystal aligned substantially in parallel to a substrate within a plane that is substantially in parallel to the substrate by an electric field between the both electrodes. Each pixel constituting the display is divided into two regions, the extending directions of the strip electrode in each of the regions are orthogonal, the alignment azimuths of the liquid crystal of each of the regions are orthogonal, and the angles formed between the extending directions of the strip electrode and the alignment azimuth of the liquid crystal are the same. | 07-25-2013 |
20130182201 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY WITH NARROW ANGULAR RANGE OF INCIDENT LIGHT - A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel in the pixel electrode and common electrodes formed within a pixel comprise repeating structures. The angular range of light incident from the light source is narrower along a direction of the repeating structures than along an orthogonal direction. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181891 | DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide a plural-viewpoint display device having an image separating optical element such as a lenticular lens or a parallax barrier, which is capable of achieving a high image quality by suppressing deterioration in the display image quality caused when a block division driving method is employed, and to provide a terminal device, a display panel, and a driving method thereof, which can be preferably used for those devices. A pixel group configured with pixels for displaying a right-eye image includes a pixel connected to a data line phase-deployed in the first phase of a block division driving method, and a pixel connected to a data line phase-deployed in the third phase, and a pixel connected to a data line phase-deployed in the second phase. In this manner, it is designed to have no deviation in the phase deployment orders in the pixel groups for each viewpoint. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181890 | SCANNING LINE DRIVING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND SCANNING LINE DRIVING METHOD - A scanning line driving circuit includes a first transistor having a source electrode connected to a power supply and a drain electrode to a scanning line and a second transistor having a source electrode connected to the scanning line and a drain electrode connected to a clock signal line. The conductivity type of the second transistor is identical to that of the first transistor. A bias can be supplied, so that the first and second transistors are caused to be in an off-state simultaneously. | 07-18-2013 |
20130162922 | CONNECTING STRUCTURE OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A connecting structure of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate on which the first substrate is laminated, and a sheet like connection body having one end connected to one principal surface of the first substrate and another end connected to one principal surface of the second substrate, wherein a lengthwise direction of the sheet like connection body is parallel to a perimeter part of the first substrate, and the sheet like connection body has a slit part extending from one of end portions thereof to a part thereof along the lengthwise direction, and has a first end and a second end divided by the slit part at one of end portions, the first end is connected to a principal surface of the first substrate in vicinity of a peripheral part of the first substrate, and the second end is connected to a principal surface of the second substrate in vicinity of a peripheral part of the first substrate. | 06-27-2013 |
20130128363 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE WITH PIXEL SECTIONS ARRAYED IN A MATRIX - In an image display device where a lenticular lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in order from a viewer side, when cylindrical lenses of the lenticular lens are arrayed in a horizontal direction, in first-viewpoint pixels and second-viewpoint pixels of the display panel, openings whose sides which intersect with straight lines in the horizontal direction are not parallel to a vertical direction are formed. And, a shape of the openings of a pair of pixels mutually adjacent in the vertical direction is made line-symmetric with respect to edges of the pixels extending in the horizontal direction as an axis. | 05-23-2013 |
20130076723 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD OF IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A subpixel is provided with a pixel electrode | 03-28-2013 |
20130043467 | THIN FILM DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - With a TFT using an oxide semiconductor film, there is such an issue that oxygen deficit is generated in a surface region of the oxide semiconductor film after performing plasma etching of a source/drain electrode, thereby increasing the off-current. Provided is a TFT which includes: a gate electrode on an insulating substrate; a gate insulating film on the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor film containing indium on the gate insulating film; and a source/drain electrode on the oxide semiconductor film. Further, the peak position derived from an indium 3d orbital in the XPS spectrum of a surface layer in a part of the oxide semiconductor film where the source/drain electrode is not superimposed is shifted towards a high energy side than the peak position derived from the indium 3d orbital in the XPS spectrum of an oxide semiconductor region existing in a lower part of the surface layer. | 02-21-2013 |
20130037797 | THIN FILM DEVICE - There is such an issue with a TFT using an oxide semiconductor film that oxygen deficit is generated in a surface region of the oxide semiconductor film after performing plasma etching of a source-drain electrode, and the off-current becomes increased. Disclosed is the TFT which includes: a gate electrode on an insulating substrate as a substrate; a gate insulating film on the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor film on the gate insulating film; and a source/drain electrode on the oxide semiconductor film. It is the characteristic of the TFT that a surface layer containing at least either fluorine or chlorine exists in a part of the oxide semiconductor film where the source/drain electrode is not superimposed. | 02-14-2013 |
20130033466 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE - To provide a display device that is capable of achieving a sufficient confidentiality keeping performance for directions other than a specific direction without a troublesome work such as wearing special eyeglasses. The display device includes: a plurality of display units each having a main pixel for displaying a first image and a sub-pixel for displaying a second image arranged in matrix in a first direction and a second direction; and an optical member which distributes light emitted from the plurality of display units towards different directions along the first direction. The display unit has a first display area in which the main pixel and the sub-pixel are formed in the second direction, and a second display area in which only the main pixel is formed. | 02-07-2013 |
20120309120 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A COLOR FILTER SUBSTRATE - A light shield member in a LCD unit includes a first shield section that includes a pile of two color filter patterns and separates each effective opening of pixel from an effective opening of the adjacent pixel, and a second shield section that includes a pile of three color filter patterns and shields a TFT area including a TFT and the vicinity thereof. | 12-06-2012 |
20120292105 | CONNECTING STRUCTURE AND A DISPLAY DEVICE WITH SAID CONNECTING STRUCTURE - Providing a connecting structure for connecting first electrodes formed on the upper surface of a first substrate to second electrodes formed on the upper surface of a second substrate glued on the upper surface of the first substrate by an electrically conductive member, wherein the second substrate is smaller in its outer size than the first substrate, the first electrodes are arranged on the first substrate around the periphery of the second substrate, a gap is formed between the first and second substrates at the peripheral edge of the second substrate, an insulating resin is arranged near the first electrodes so as to cover portions of the side surfaces of the second substrate and to fill the gap between the first and second substrates, and the electrically conductive member is arranged over regions leading from the first electrodes through the insulating resin to the second electrodes. | 11-22-2012 |
20120268481 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A subpixel | 10-25-2012 |
20120257018 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE DATA FOR STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - Provided is a stereoscopic display device provided with a stereoscopic display panel and a display controller, the stereoscopic display panel including a lenticular lens, a color filter substrate, a TFT substrate, etc. Unit pixels arranged in a horizontal direction parallel to the direction in which both eyes of viewer are arranged are alternately used as left-eye pixels and right-eye pixels. The display controller determined, according to temperature information from a temperature sensor, the contraction/expansion of the lens by a stereoscopic image generating module and generates 3D image data for driving the display panel in which the amount of disparity in a specific disparity direction is corrected on the basis of parameter information defined by an effective linear expansion coefficient inherent in the stereoscopic display panel, or the like and the magnitude of the temperature to thereby ensure a predetermined stereoscopic visual recognition range even when the lens are contracted/expanded. | 10-11-2012 |
20120256893 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING MEMORY PROPERTY - An image display device is provided which suppresses discomfort “flickering” in a process of renewing a screen to realize multiple gray level displaying including an intermediate color. Electrophoretic particles are made up of n-kinds of charged particles C | 10-11-2012 |
20120249901 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Red, green, and blue color resists and a shielding layer (black matrix) are layered on a liquid crystal panel. The subpixels are zoned by the shielding layer. The subpixels arranged in three rows and two columns form a pixel. The red, green, and blue color resists are colored on the basis of a row of subpixels. The color resists extend in stripes in the X-axis direction. Three data lines are provided for each column of subpixels in the manner that one is provide under the shielding layer and the other two diagonally divide the opening of the shielding layer at equal intervals. | 10-04-2012 |
20120200795 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide a vertical alignment liquid crystal display device capable of achieving a high-definition image display. Tilt directions of liquid crystal molecules when a voltage is applied are within a plane that is in parallel to a border between a first pixel and a second pixel, and are different by 180 degrees between the first and second pixels. The first pixel is constituted with three sub-pixels for R, G, and B arranged in a direction in parallel to the border. Similarly, the second pixel is constituted with three sub-pixels for R, G, and B. The tilt directions of the liquid crystal molecules when a voltage is applied are different by 180 degrees from each other between the sub-pixels for R of the first and second pixels, between the sub-pixels for G of the first and second pixels, and between the sub-pixels for B of the first and second pixels. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200777 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD USED IN SAME, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING SAME - There is provided a video signal processing method for performing predetermined signal processing on an input video signal to transmit an output video signal in a form of a specified transmission format through a video signal line including invalid bit polarity setting processing to be performed by an invalid bit polarity setting unit, wherein, when there exists an invalid bit having no data corresponding to data making up the input video signal in the specified transmission format of the output video signal, to count the number of low and high levels of gray-level data of the input video signal to compare a numerical size between the number of low levels and the number of high levels for judgment and to set a polarity of the invalid bit based on the judgment result. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200610 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING MEMORY PROPERTY - An image display device expresses multiple colors including intermediate colors and an electrophoretic particle making up the image display device includes n-kinds of (n>2) charged particles each having colors and threshold value voltages each being different from one another. A specified period during which a voltage is applied includes a resetting period for applying a resetting voltage, a first, . . . , k | 08-09-2012 |
20120188235 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image display device includes region of interest extraction unit, parallax image generation unit and 3D image display unit. Region of interest extraction unit generates depth image signal by depth image conversion employing depth threshold, depth image signal including information on distance in three-dimensional space between viewpoint and each pixel of two-dimensional image including region of interest desired to be noted by observer, depth image conversion being such that depth value indicating distance between viewpoint and each pixel of two-dimensional image is converted to depth value for 2D display when depth value is equal to or larger than depth threshold. Parallax image generation unit generates both-eye parallax image having parallax in region of interest alone, from two-dimensional image and image obtained by conversion of region of interest image representing region of interest at each of both-eye viewpoints, based on two-dimensional image and depth image signal. 3D image display unit displays both eye parallax image. | 07-26-2012 |
20120187426 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND DEVICE USING SAME - Provided is a light source unit in which locating components are mounted on a substrate together with LEDs forming a light emitting portion, and with this, the light source unit can be more easily replaced, and the number of components can be reduced. | 07-26-2012 |
20120162568 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The invention provides a display device in which a slope portion is provided in the chassis of the backside member to be nonparallel to the display face of the display panel, and a film member is fixed along the slope portion, and the end of the film member extends beyond the slope portion to be in contact with the display panel, whereby a substantially close contact is established between the chassis and the display panel, and hence the display device can provide excellent dust-proof protection and durability. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162163 | DATA-HOLDING CIRCUIT AND SUBSTRATE FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device has a data-holding circuit with a capacitance and a display portion with a plurality of pixel electrodes, formed on a first carrier substrate. In the display device, a second carrier substrate disposed opposite the first carrier substrate is placed above the display portion, but the opposing substrate is not present above the area in which the data-holding circuit is disposed. The parasitic capacitance of the data-holding circuit can thereby be reduced. Therefore, the capacitance in the data-holding circuit can be reduced and the area required can be reduced as well. The display data of all the pixels is sent serially to the liquid crystal module without high-speed transfer for each frame time interval, and size can be reduced because the controller IC and interface circuit are formed on the same substrate as the display device substrate. | 06-28-2012 |
20120133853 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide a structure of an electrically stable step film of a columnar spacer, which can be formed in a region of a storage capacitor without increasing the number of steps. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention further includes, in all the pixels, step films of a same area formed with a semiconductor layer within a storage capacitor forming part. The pixels includes a kind in which the columnar spacer is provided at a position abutting against a step film forming part and a kind in which the columnar spacer is provided at a position away from the step film forming part. | 05-31-2012 |
20120113343 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide an active-matrix type liquid crystal display device having a structure in which alignment of flattening films formed in the display region is uniform and fine, which can secure a large storage capacitance with a small area and achieve a high numerical aperture. A recessed region having no flattening film is formed in a part on a source electrode. In the recessed region, a common electrode made with a transparent conductive film covers a source electrode to form a second storage capacitor. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113100 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - In the display panel ( | 05-10-2012 |
20120112992 | SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE SAME - Disclosed is a display apparatus including two scanning circuits of the same configuration and layout, arranged on either sides of the display part. As long as one of the scanning circuits is in operation, the other scanning circuit is in a state in which no output signal is output. | 05-10-2012 |
20120092296 | TOUCH SENSOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A touch sensor device includes: a touch panel on which a capacitance is formed with a pointer; a signal calculation unit calculating a signal output value based on a magnitude of the capacitance; a contact determination unit comparing the signal output value with a threshold and determining whether the pointer has been brought into contact with or separated from the touch panel; and a threshold calculation unit updating a first threshold used for determining whether the pointer has been brought into contact with the touch panel, if an increase of the signal output value is detected during a first unit time within a time period from a determination that the pointer has been brought into contact with the touch panel until a determination that the pointer has been separated from the touch panel. | 04-19-2012 |
20120068977 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND TRANSMISSION SIGNAL CONTROL METHOD TO BE USED IN SAME - An image display device and a transmission signal control method to be used in same and more particularly to the image display device and the transmission signal control method that can be suitably used when transmission wirings for data signal based on a video signal become complicated due to configurations of a large-sized and high-definition image display device. | 03-22-2012 |
20120063009 | LENS SHEET, DISPLAY PANEL, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - To suppress bad shaping generated due to fusion of neighboring cylindrical lenses in a lens sheet formed by using an ultraviolet curable resin, for example. A lens sheet includes: a substrate formed with a transparent material; a plurality of protruded lines provided on the substrate in parallel at a specific pitch; and a plurality of cylindrical lenses, each of which is provided between the plurality of protruded lines on the substrate. The protruded line for forming the lens is designed to be constituted with a set of two lines, i.e., a left protruded line and a right protruded line, to suppress fusion of the neighboring lenses. | 03-15-2012 |
20120013560 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THAT USE THE OPTICAL ELEMENT - A micro-louver ( | 01-19-2012 |
20110310098 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image display apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention that is capable of providing an image display apparatus is able to efficiently achieve 2D/3D mixed representation while suppressing data transmission amount. The image display apparatus refers to shape information | 12-22-2011 |