Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090066866 | Liquid crystal display apparatus - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display apparatus, including: a liquid crystal panel having a display region for displaying an image and having a plurality of pixels disposed in the region; and a pair of first and second polarizing plates provided in an opposing relationship to each other through the display region; the liquid crystal panel including a first substrate, a second substrate opposed in a spaced relationship to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by and between the first and second substrates and oriented. | 03-12-2009 |
20090135318 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid-crystal display apparatus is provided. The liquid-crystal display apparatus including: a light source for generating visible-domain light and invisible-domain light; a plurality of liquid-crystal devices laid out in a display face region of the liquid-crystal display apparatus for modulating visible-domain light and transmitting invisible domain light generated by the light source; a plurality of light receiving devices laid out in the display face region as devices each used for receiving invisible-domain light; a display driving section configured to drive the liquid-crystal devices so as to radiate visible-domain light from the display face as display light; a light-reception driving section configured to drive the light receiving devices to detect invisible-domain light radiated from the display face and reflected by a detection-subject object as detected light; and a detection section configured to detect the detection-subject object on the basis of a received-light signal obtained from the light receiving devices. | 05-28-2009 |
20090146946 | DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display is provided. The display includes at least one display cell having a display circuit; at least one light receiving cell including a light receiving element; a light emitting section operative to radiate light to the side of a display surface; and at least one transparent plate disposed on the front side in the display relative to a region in which the light emitting section is disposed and regions in which the display cell and the light receiving cell are formed, wherein an antireflection layer is formed on a most face-side surface of the display. | 06-11-2009 |
20090146992 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a display device including, a display section having a display surface, and capable of displaying information on the display surface, and a light storing section capable of receiving incident light including visible light, absorbing a part of the incident light, and outputting the part of the incident light as an afterglow including non-visible light, wherein a light sensor configured to detect an object to be detected on a side of the display surface on a basis of a non-visible light component of output light from the light storing section is disposed within the display section. | 06-11-2009 |
20090153451 | DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display is provided. The display includes at least one display cell having a display circuit; at least one light receiving cell including a light receiving element; a light emitting section operative to radiate light to the side of a display surface; and a polarizing plate disposed on the front side in the display relative to a region in which the light emitting section is disposed and regions in which the display cell and the light receiving cell are formed, wherein a phase difference plate is disposed at a position which is on the front side relative to the light receiving cell and in either of an emitting optical path of the light emitting section and a reflecting optical path toward the light receiving cell. | 06-18-2009 |
20090159901 | DISPLAY - A display includes: a substrate having a pixel region and a sensor region in which photo-sensor parts are formed; an illuminating section operative to illuminate the substrate from one surface side of the substrate; a thin film photodiode disposed in the sensor region, having at least a P-type semiconductor region and an N-type semiconductor region, and operative to receive light incident from the other surface side of the substrate; and a metallic film formed on the one surface side of the substrate so as to face the thin film photodiode through an insulator film, operative to restrain light generated from the illuminating section from being directly incident on the thin film photodiode from the one surface side, and fixed to a predetermined potential, wherein in the thin film photodiode, the width of the P-type semiconductor region and the width of the N-type semiconductor region are different from each other. | 06-25-2009 |
20090161051 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device. The display device including a display surface, a plurality of pixel areas, a plurality of sensor areas, an optical filter portion, a light shielding portion, and an arithmetically operating portion. | 06-25-2009 |
20090256818 | Display device and a method of driving the same - A display device including: a plurality of pixels; pixel electrodes; n (n≧2) counter electrodes; a display functional layer; a write drive scanning portion; detection electrodes; an alternate current drive scanning portion; and a detecting portion. | 10-15-2009 |
20090268132 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display apparatus, including: a liquid crystal panel having a pixel region in which first and second electrodes apply an electric field to a liquid crystal layer to display an image; the liquid crystal panel including a photo-sensor element having a light receiving face at which the photo-sensor element receives incident light through the liquid crystal layer in the pixel region to produce received light data; at least one of the first and second electrodes being formed in a region of the pixel region other than a light receiving face corresponding region of the pixel region which corresponds to the light receiving face of the photo-sensor element. | 10-29-2009 |
20100128189 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, a first common electrode arranged on an insulation layer which covers the plurality of pixel electrodes, the first common electrode being a comb-like electrode, and a second common electrode placed opposite the first common electrode across a liquid crystal layer, the second common electrode being voltage-controlled independently of the first common electrode. | 05-27-2010 |
20100164906 | DISPLAY PANEL, MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display panel, ensuring high photo-detection accuracy in a region near a frame area, is provided. The display panel includes: image display elements disposed in an effective display area of a display screen; a light-shielding layer disposed in a frame area around the effective display area; and photo-detection elements disposed in the effective display area or in both of the effective display area and the frame area. The photo-detection elements detect the invisible light. The light-shielding layer transmits invisible light, while shields visible light. | 07-01-2010 |
20100165004 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display panel having a plurality of picture elements configured to execute display by driving a liquid crystal layer; a backlight configured to illuminate a display surface of the display panel from a backside; a photodetector arranged on the plurality of picture elements and configured to receive a light entered from the side of the display surface of the display panel; and a detection block configured to execute image recognition in the proximity of the display surface from a difference between a photodetection amount in the photodetector in a state where an illuminating light from the backlight is radiated from the display surface and a photodetection amount in the photodetector in a state where the illuminating light is blocked before the display surface. | 07-01-2010 |
20100182273 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH SENSOR - A common electrode | 07-22-2010 |
20100220269 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND FABRICATION METHOD FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus is provided which can detect light of a predetermined wavelength with a high degree of accuracy from within light incident from a screen by a simple configuration. The display apparatus includes a CF substrate ( | 09-02-2010 |
20100271336 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, DISPLAY-AND-IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is an image pickup device with which object detection can be performed with a good stability no matter in what use conditions. A display area | 10-28-2010 |
20110069254 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus that includes a light amount adjustment section includes a lens provided corresponding to a light receiving region of a photo-sensor element. The light amount adjustment section varies the focus position of the lens with respect to the light receiving region of the photo-sensor element to adjust the amount of light to be introduced to the light receiving region. | 03-24-2011 |
20110141408 | Liquid crystal display apparatus - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display apparatus, including: a liquid crystal panel having a display region for displaying an image and having a plurality of pixels disposed in the region; and a pair of first and second polarizing plates provided in an opposing relationship to each other through the display region; the liquid crystal panel including a first substrate, a second substrate opposed in a spaced relationship to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by and between the first and second substrates and oriented. | 06-16-2011 |
20110199548 | LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal lens is provided and includes a first electrode, a second electrode disposed opposite to the first electrode, and a liquid crystal layer, including liquid crystal molecules having refractive anisotropy, disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the liquid crystal molecules being changed in alignment depending on voltage applied by the first electrode and the second electrode, thereby to form such a phase difference distribution that phase difference with respect to an incident beam of a fundamental wavelength varies from 0 to 2πβ along the predetermined direction, β being an integer of 2 or more, and to yield such a lens effect that focal lengths for a plurality of incident beams of different wavelengths including the fundamental wavelength are equal to one another. | 08-18-2011 |
20120069004 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A method, computer readable medium and apparatus that can produce a depth image based on a first image of a scene from a first viewpoint and a second image of the scene from a second viewpoint. The first and second viewpoints are displaced along a first dimension. A third image and a fourth image are produced based on the depth image. The third and fourth images correspond to third and fourth viewpoints, respectively. The third and fourth viewpoints are displaced along a second dimension different from the first dimension. | 03-22-2012 |
20120218490 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VARIABLE LENS ARRAY - An image display apparatus includes: an image display section that displays a two-dimensional image; and a variable lens array that includes a first substrate having a first electrode, a second substrate having a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer which is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The value of the refractive power of each lens line thereof is changed by a voltage which is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode. The variable lens array is disposed to be opposed to the image display section. Wall-shaped or columnar spacers are provided in a place, in which an orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer is unchanged when the value of the refractive power of each lens line thereof is changed, between the first substrate and the second substrate of the variable lens array. | 08-30-2012 |
20120243083 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus including a display unit in which pixels configured from a group of a plurality of types of sub-pixels displaying different primary colors are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix shape in the row direction and the column direction; and an optical separation unit separating an image displayed on the display unit into images for a plurality of observation points, in which, when one of the primary colors displayed by the sub-pixels is expressed as a first primary color, the distance between the boundaries of respectively adjacent sub-pixel columns formed of sub-pixels displaying the first primary color is shorter than the distance between boundaries of respectively adjacent sub-pixel columns formed of the same type of sub-pixels displaying different primary colors to the first primary color. | 09-27-2012 |
20120307169 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VARIABLE LENS ARRAY - A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a two-dimensional image; and a variable lens array disposed to face the display unit, wherein the variable lens array includes a first substrate having a transparent first common electrode, a second substrate having a transparent second common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and forming liquid crystal lens columns, the liquid crystal layer is processed in such a way that liquid crystal molecules are so oriented that each of the liquid crystal lens columns produces refracting power in a state in which no potential difference is present between the first common electrode and the second common electrode, and a voltage applied between the first common electrode and the second common electrode controls the refracting power of each of the liquid crystal lens columns. | 12-06-2012 |
20130002995 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VARIABLE LENS ARRAY - A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a two-dimensional image; and a variable lens array disposed to face the display unit, wherein the variable lens array includes a variable phase difference layer that receives incident linearly polarized light polarized in a first direction and allows the linearly polarized light polarized in the same direction to exit or allows linearly polarized light polarized in a second direction switched from the first direction and different therefrom to exit, and an optically anisotropic layer that receives the light having exited out of the variable phase difference layer and works as a lens array for one of the light polarized in the first direction and the light polarized in the second direction whereas working as a transparent layer for the other light. | 01-03-2013 |
20130016299 | DISPLAY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC UNITAANM Takama; DaisukeAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Takama; Daisuke Kanagawa JPAANM Koito; TakeoAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Koito; Takeo Kanagawa JP - There are provided a display that achieves a smaller frame size than in the past, a method of manufacturing the display, and an electronic unit including the display. The display includes: a display panel having an effective display region and a frame region located at the periphery of the effective display region; and a lens component provided on a viewing surface side of the display panel, the lens component having a lens function section in part or all of a circumferential region thereof. A visible outline on a lens-function-section side of the lens component is disposed outside a visible outline of the frame region of the display panel. | 01-17-2013 |
20130044270 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes: a display section including a liquid crystal layer between a pair of substrates; and a frame edge section provided to a periphery section of the pair of substrates. The frame edge section includes an injection port and an injection port section, the injection port being for injection of a liquid crystal material, and the injection port section being provided between the injection port and the display section. The injection port section includes a barrier structure including a clearance, and the barrier structure being in contact with both of the pair of substrates, and a sealing material filled in a portion extending from the injection port to the barrier structure. | 02-21-2013 |
20130063691 | LIQUID CRYSTAL OPTICAL DEVICE - A liquid crystal optical device includes: a first substrate having transparent plural strip electrodes formed to make groups in respective given areas; a second substrate having a transparent common electrode; and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, in which a retardation distribution is controlled in respective given areas according to voltages to be applied between the common electrode and the strip electrodes, wherein wall spacers are provided at portions corresponding to boundaries of given areas between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a shield electrode to which a fixed value voltage is applied is provided on at least one of two wall surfaces of each spacer. | 03-14-2013 |
20130083089 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a display device including a display part including a pixel of a first series having a first horizontal pixel width and a pixel of a second series having a second horizontal pixel width smaller than the first horizontal pixel width, the pixels of the first series and the pixels of the second series being arrayed alternately in each of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, and a light beam control part that controls a light beam from the display part or a light beam toward the display part. | 04-04-2013 |
20130088526 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display section; and a light-beam control section configured to control a light beam coming from the display section or a light beam propagating to the display section; the display apparatus having a first display mode for displaying a plurality of observing-point images on the display section wherein the observing-point images include two or more first observing-point images, and one or a plurality of second observing-point images, and the number of pixels included in each of the second observing-point images is smaller than the number of pixels included in each of the first observing-point images. | 04-11-2013 |
20130188111 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal display device includes: a display section having a liquid crystal layer between a pair of substrates; and a frame section provided at a peripheral part of the pair of substrates. The frame section has an inlet for liquid crystal injection and the inlet is provided in a continuous linear manner. The manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display device, includes: providing an inlet in a continuous linear manner in the frame section; and injecting a liquid crystal from the inlet into a gap between the pair of substrates. | 07-25-2013 |
20130222753 | OPTICAL DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, MANUFACTURING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD - An optical device includes: at least two protrusions on a first substrate; a sealing material filled between the two protrusions; a second substrate attached so as to face and touch the first substrate through the sealing material; and a liquid crystal material injected between the first substrate and second substrate. | 08-29-2013 |
20130229587 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL BARRIER DEVICE - A display apparatus includes: a display unit; and a liquid crystal variable barrier arranged so as to face the display unit, having plural strip-shaped first electrodes, a second electrode arranged so as to face the first electrodes and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first electrodes and the second electrode, and separating an image displayed by the display unit into images respectively corresponding to plural viewpoints, wherein the first electrodes are arranged so that adjacent first electrodes partially overlap each other through an insulating layer, and plural first electrodes form an opening. | 09-05-2013 |
20130229600 | DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND BONDING STRUCTURE - A display device includes: a first display unit having a first terminal substrate corresponding to a display area and a terminal area protruding from the display area as well as a first counter substrate corresponding to the display area; and a second display unit having a second terminal substrate corresponding to the display area and the terminal area as well as a second counter substrate corresponding to the display area, wherein both the first display unit and the second display unit are bonded with each other so that the first terminal substrate and the second terminal substrate are positioned on opposite sides of a bonding surface. | 09-05-2013 |
20130235288 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL LENS, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is a liquid-crystal lens including: a plurality of first electrodes; a second electrode placed to be opposed to the first electrodes; and a liquid-crystal layer provided between the first electrodes and the second electrode. The first electrodes each receiving a relatively low voltage applied thereto are provided more adjacently to each other than the first electrodes each receiving a relatively high voltage applied thereto. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235305 | OPTICAL DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An optical device includes: first electrodes; a second electrode arranged so as to face the first electrodes; a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first electrodes and the second electrode, producing a lens effect in accordance with a voltage to be applied to the first electrodes and the second electrode; and a polarizing plate arranged on an outermost surface. | 09-12-2013 |
20130242386 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display portion and an opening portion. In the display portion, pixels having different optical characteristics are arranged. The opening portion is arranged so as to face a display surface side of the display portion and causes a light from the display portion to pass in a predetermined direction. With respect to the pixels having the different optical characteristics in the display portion, the pixels having the same color are located in the opening portion. | 09-19-2013 |
20130250195 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display device which includes a display unit having a plurality of pixels and an optical device, in which the optical device is provided with a first substrate, a second substrate, and a structure for securing a predetermined gap between the first substrate and the second substrate, the pixels are configured by a plurality of sub-pixels of which colors are different, and are aligned in a first direction, and a gap at which the structure is arranged in the first direction is different from a gap at which the pixels are arranged. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250222 | MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, MANUFACTURING METHOD, OPTICAL ELEMENT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A manufacturing method includes providing a structural element that provides a predetermined gap between a first substrate and a second substrate to at least one of the first and second substrates, forming an alignment film on each of the first and second substrates, and subjecting the alignment film formed on each of the first and second substrates to a rubbing process. The structural element is formed after the alignment film is formed and before or after the rubbing process is performed. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250568 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a display section in which pixels each configured from a plurality of sub pixels of colors different from each other are disposed; and an optical device laminated on the display section and configured to control a direction of a light ray from the display section; wherein the sub pixels are disposed at positions at which repetitions of all of the colors of the sub pixels are provided in at least one of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the display section and distances between the sub pixels having the same colors and adjacent from each other are substantially equal to each other. | 09-26-2013 |
20140146013 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH SENSOR - A common electrode for a display used both in driving the display and touch detection. An existing common drive signal both as a drive signal for the touch sensor. A capacitance is formed between the common electrode and a touch sensor electrode. Touch detection is performed by utilizing a change of this capacitance caused by a finger touch of a user. The display device with a touch sensor can be used in a mobile device. | 05-29-2014 |
20140168547 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VARIABLE LENS ARRAY - An image display apparatus including an image display section that displays a two-dimensional image; and a variable lens array that includes a first substrate having a first electrode, a second substrate having a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer which is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The value of the refractive power of each lens line thereof is changed by a voltage which is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode. The variable lens array is disposed to be opposed to the image display section. Wall-shaped or columnar spacers are provided in a place, in which an orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer is unchanged when the value of the refractive power of each lens line thereof is changed, between the first substrate and the second substrate of the variable lens array. | 06-19-2014 |
20140292718 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH SENSOR - A common electrode for a display, which is originally provided in a liquid crystal display element, is also used as one (drive electrode) of a pair of electrodes for a touch sensor, and the other (detection-electrode-for-the-sensor) of the pair of electrodes is newly formed. An existing common drive signal as a drive signal for display is used in common for a drive signal for the touch sensor. A capacitance is formed between the common electrode and the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and touch detection is performed by utilizing a change of this capacitance caused by a finger touch of a user. Thus, a display device with a touch sensor is also applicable to a mobile device in which electric potential of the user is inconstant in many cases. The newly-provided electrode is only the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and it is unnecessary to newly prepare a drive signal for the touch sensor. | 10-02-2014 |
20140320772 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VARIABLE LENS ARRAY - A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a two-dimensional image; and a variable lens array disposed to face the display unit, wherein the variable lens array includes a variable phase difference layer that receives incident linearly polarized light polarized in a first direction and allows the linearly polarized light polarized in the same direction to exit or allows linearly polarized light polarized in a second direction switched from the first direction and different therefrom to exit, and an optically anisotropic layer that receives the light having exited out of the variable phase difference layer and works as a lens array for one of the light polarized in the first direction and the light polarized in the second direction whereas working as a transparent layer for the other light. | 10-30-2014 |