Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080204638 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a liquid crystal device including a pair of substrates in which a reflective display area and a transmissive display area are provided and sandwiching a liquid crystal layer, and a liquid crystal layer thickness adjusting layer that reduces the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the reflective display area than the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the transmissive display area, and performing display by transitioning the alignment state of the liquid crystal layer from a splay alignment to a bend alignment. The liquid crystal layer thickness adjusting layer is equipped with a slope inclining from the reflective display area side to the transmissive display side. A signal line, a switching element electrically connected to the signal line, and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element are provided on one of the substrate among the pair of the substrates. A slit is formed in the pixel electrode at an area overlapping with the slope in plan view. A part of the signal line is projected along at least a part of the shape of the slit. | 08-28-2008 |
20080212006 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. A display operation is performed by changing an alignment state of the liquid crystal layer from a splay alignment to a bend alignment. The first substrate includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of transition electrodes generating a potential difference with respect to the pixel electrodes, the plurality of transition electrodes being formed closer to the liquid crystal layer than the scanning lines or the data lines and closer to the first substrate than the pixel electrodes. | 09-04-2008 |
20090040444 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An optically compensated birefringence mode liquid crystal device includes each pixel electrode that overlaps a part of an adjacent gate line and/or a part of an adjacent source line in a plan view. | 02-12-2009 |
20090135359 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a liquid crystal device that has a liquid crystal layer pinched by a first substrate and a second substrate disposed to face each other and performs a display operation by transiting the aligning state of the liquid crystal layer from spray alignment to bend alignment. The first substrate includes a scanning line and a data line that intersect with each other, a plurality of pixel electrodes, an insulating film that is disposed to the liquid crystal layer side relative to the scanning line and the data line, a transition electrode that is electrically connected to the scanning line or the data line through a contact hole formed on the insulating film, and a dielectric film that is disposed between the transition electrode and the pixel electrode. In addition, the transition electrode generates an electric potential difference between the pixel electrode and the transition electrode with the dielectric film interposed therebetween. | 05-28-2009 |
20110228206 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate; a secondary substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. A display operation is performed by changing an alignment state of the liquid crystal layer from a splay alignment to a bend alignment. The first substrate includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of transition electrodes generating a potential difference with respect to the pixel electrodes, and a plurality of transition electrodes being formed closer to the liquid crystal layer than the scanning lines or the data lines and closer to the first substrate than the pixel electrodes. | 09-22-2011 |
20110242459 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate at intervals with each other, and a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and configured to include a vertical alignment liquid crystal. When the interval between the pixel electrodes adjacent to each other is s [μm], the thickness of the liquid crystal layer is d [μm] and the pretilt angle of the vertical alignment liquid crystal is θ[°], a relation equation −1.6×s/d+4.4≦θ≦−2.6×s/d+5.6 is satisfied. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242472 | ELECTROOPTIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electrooptic device includes a first substrate, a second substrate which is arranged so as to be opposed to the first substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes which are provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, a dielectric multilayer film which is formed so as to cover the plurality of pixel electrodes and in which a plurality of dielectric layers are laminated, and a sealing member which is arranged around a pixel region on which the plurality of pixel electrodes are provided and bonds the first substrate and the second substrate to each other. In the electrooptic device, at least one dielectric layer of the plurality of dielectric layers is formed so as not to overlap with a sealing region on the first substrate, on which the sealing member is arranged. | 10-06-2011 |
20120242916 | PROJECTOR - When axes are projected to a reference surface perpendicular in the thickness direction of a liquid crystal layer, a rotational angle φ | 09-27-2012 |
20130027446 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND PROJECTOR - An electro-optical device of the invention includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other with an electro-optical medium sandwiched therebetween, a pixel region having a plurality of pixels, and an ion trap section having an electrode formed in a region outside of the pixel region. A trapping voltage applied to the electrode of the ion trap section varies in accordance with a calculated voltage value that is calculated from a driving voltage applied to the electro-optical medium in one or a plurality of the pixels serving as a reference. The trapping voltage is set relatively high when the calculated voltage value belongs to a relatively high voltage range, and the trapping voltage is set relatively low when the calculated voltage value belongs to a relatively low voltage range. | 01-31-2013 |
20130100376 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - When tilt directions of liquid crystal molecules have an azimuth of 45° or 135° in a counterclockwise direction with respect to the direction in which a wire grid of a wire grid polarization beam splitter extends, a phase difference compensation element in which an optical axis includes refractive index anisotropy of negative uniaxial properties along the thickness direction is inclined in the same direction as the tilt directions, and the phase difference compensation element is inclined in the direction reverse to the tilt directions when tilt directions have an azimuth of 225° or 315°. | 04-25-2013 |