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| 20100289786 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes a display portion having a first substrate, a second substrate opposing to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer held between the first and second substrates, and a plurality of pixels arranged in a delta shape. A plurality of pixel electrodes are respectively connected to signal lines extending in a first direction via a switch. The switch is controlled by scanning lines extending in a second direction which orthogonally crosses the first direction. The signal lines extend in a space between the pixel electrodes in a meandering shape in the second direction, and two kinds of color pixels are connected with a common signal line in turn via the pixel switch. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110134115 | DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER GLASSES AND DISPLAY SYSTEM USING THE SAME - In one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel having pixels. A first image signal for displaying two-dimensional pictures, a second image signal for displaying three-dimensional pictures, and a third image signal for displaying a black picture are written into the pixels. A control circuit writes the third image signal to the pixel of the display panel during at least one frame period when switching a first mode for displaying the two-dimensional pictures and a second mode for displaying the three-dimensional pictures. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110141382 | LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER, DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a liquid crystal shutter includes a first liquid crystal panel for left eye and a second liquid crystal panel for right eye. Each liquid crystal panel includes a pair of electrode substrates and a liquid crystal layer held between the electrode substrates. A driving circuit switches the first and second liquid crystal panels between a transmissive state and a non-transmissive state by turns by applying a voltage to the first and second liquid crystal panels while inversing the polarity of the voltage applied between the pair of the electrode substrates at least once during a period in the transmissive state. | 06-16-2011 |
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| 20130135187 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a first illumination unit configured to illuminate the liquid crystal display panel with light which is emitted in a first emission direction, a second illumination unit configured to illuminate the liquid crystal display panel with light which is emitted in a second emission direction different from the first emission direction, and a controller configured to control the liquid crystal display panel, the first illumination unit and the second illumination unit in a first display mode in which 3D display with power saving is effected, and in a second display mode in which 3D display with a wider viewing angle than in the first display mode is effected. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130258241 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a display panel, an illumination module which illuminates the display panel, a display controller which controls gradation display which corresponds to an image signal in a first subframe period, and non-gradation display which does not correspond to the image signal in a second subframe period, and performs control in a manner that scanning starting from an upper end and going toward center of the display panel and scanning starting from a lower end and going toward the center of the display panel are alternately performed, and an illumination controller which controls turning on/off of the illumination module. | 10-03-2013 |
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| 20080291372 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A transflective liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel which is configured such that a liquid crystal layer is held between a pair of substrates, and to which an OCB mode is applied, and a pair of optical elements which are disposed on outsides of the liquid crystal layer, and optically compensate a retardation of the liquid crystal layer in a predetermined display state in which a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer, wherein the optical element is configured to include a circular polarization element including a polarizer and a first retardation plate which imparts a retardation of ¼ wavelength, and the first retardation plate has such wavelength dispersion characteristics as to establish a relationship, α1<1, where α1 is a ratio of an in-plane retardation Re430 at a wavelength of 430 nm to an in-plane retardation Re550 at a wavelength of 550 nm. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090002609 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device having a reflective part and a transmissive part in each of a plurality of pixels which are arrayed in a matrix, includes a liquid crystal display panel which is configured such that a liquid crystal layer is held between a pair of substrates, and to which an OCB mode is applied, and a pair of optical elements which are disposed on outer surfaces of the liquid crystal display panel, respectively, and optically compensate a retardation of the liquid crystal layer in a predetermined display state in which a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer, wherein the optical element is configured to include a circular polarization element including a polarizer and a first retardation plate which is disposed between the polarizer and the liquid crystal display panel and imparts a retardation of 1/4 wavelength, and a second retardation plate which is disposed between the circular polarization element and the liquid crystal layer, and has refractive index anisotropy with a major axis being inclined to a normal line, and the optical element has a retardation in a thickness direction thereof. | 01-01-2009 |
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| 20130099231 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A highly reliable semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. In a semiconductor device including a bottom-gate transistor in which an insulating layer functioning as a channel protective film is provided over an oxide semiconductor film, elements contained in an etching gas can be prevented from remaining as impurities on a surface of the oxide semiconductor film by performing impurity-removing process after formation of an insulating layer provided over and in contact with the oxide semiconductor film and/or formation of source and drain electrode layers. The impurity concentration in the surface of the oxide semiconductor film is lower than or equal to 5×10 | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130099233 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A highly reliable semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device is manufactured with a high yield to achieve high productivity. In the manufacture of a semiconductor device including a transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a gate insulating film, and an oxide semiconductor film are sequentially stacked and a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are provided in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer are formed through an etching step and then a step for removing impurities which are generated by the etching step and exist on a surface of the oxide semiconductor film and in the vicinity thereof is performed. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20140327000 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A highly reliable semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device is manufactured with a high yield to achieve high productivity. In the manufacture of a semiconductor device including a transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a gate insulating film, and an oxide semiconductor film are sequentially stacked and a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are provided in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer are formed through an etching step and then a step for removing impurities which are generated by the etching step and exist on a surface of the oxide semiconductor film and in the vicinity thereof is performed. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140332808 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A highly reliable semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. In a semiconductor device including a bottom-gate transistor in which an insulating layer functioning as a channel protective film is provided over an oxide semiconductor film, elements contained in an etching gas can be prevented from remaining as impurities on a surface of the oxide semiconductor film by performing impurity-removing process after formation of an insulating layer provided over and in contact with the oxide semiconductor film and/or formation of source and drain electrode layers. The impurity concentration in the surface of the oxide semiconductor film is lower than or equal to 5×10 | 11-13-2014 |
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| 20130138256 | POWER CONTROL APPARATUS, POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND POWER CONTROL SYSTEM - There is provided a power control apparatus including an input unit to which attribute information regarding a type of generation of power is input, a determination unit configured to determine the type of generation of the power corresponding to the attribute information according to the attribute information, and a power control unit configured to control use of the power according to a determination result by the determination unit. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130210249 | CONVERTER AND PROGRAM - There is provided a converter including a connecting terminal connectable to a connecting device, a communicating unit capable of carrying out communication, and a communication restricting unit configured to restrict the communication carried out by the communicating unit if the connecting device is removed from the connecting terminal. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130210250 | CONVERTER AND PROGRAM - There is provided a converter including a converting unit converting a communication mode of a connecting device having a connecting terminal. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130211606 | APPLIANCE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND APPLIANCE MANAGEMENT METHOD - There is provided an appliance management apparatus including a connection state acquiring unit acquiring information generated due to an appliance terminal of an electronic appliance being positioned close to or connected to a power supplying terminal that supplies power, and a connection state management unit managing a connection state of the appliance terminal to the power supplying terminal using the information acquired by the connection state acquiring unit. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130211607 | POWER SUPPLYING APPARATUS AND POWER SUPPLYING METHOD - There is provided a power supplying apparatus including a terminal electrically connected to a terminal of another apparatus, an authentication information storage unit storing information regarding authentication of the other apparatus electrically connected to the terminal, and a power supplying control unit controlling supplying of power to the terminal. The power supplying control unit is operable, even when communication with an authentication apparatus that carries out authentication of the other apparatus electrically connected to the terminal is cut off, to continue supplying power to the other apparatus, operable, when an electrical connection between the other apparatus and the terminal is disconnected, to stop supplying power to the terminal, and operable when an apparatus is newly and electrically connected to the terminal, to control the supplying of power to the terminal by way of a comparison with the information stored in the authentication information storage unit. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212643 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE, RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a transmission apparatus including a terminal electrically connected to a terminal of another apparatus, a body information acquiring unit acquiring body information of a user holding the transmission apparatus, and a transmission unit operable, by carrying out load modulation in accordance with the terminal contacting or being positioned close to the terminal of the other apparatus, to transmit, via the terminal, information on which the body information acquired by the body information acquiring unit is superimposed. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20140375138 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - Devices, methods, and programs for providing a notice indicating whether a device supports an authentication function. A method for providing notice may include performing communication with a device, making a determination whether the device is a power supply target, selectively transmitting power to the device based on a result of the determination, and providing a notice indicating whether the device supports an authentication function based on the result of the determination. A power supply device may include a communication unit, a determining unit, a power control unit, and a notice control unit. Another method for providing notice may include performing communication with a device, and providing a notice indicating whether the power supply device supports the authentication function based on a result of the communication. A power receiving device may include a communication unit and a notifying unit. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150022185 | POWER RECEIVING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - There is provided a power receiving device including a connecting unit that is connected to a power line through which power is transmitted, a determining unit that determines whether transmitted power is chargeable, based on power identification information indicating whether the transmitted power is chargeable power, and a notification control unit that performs notification based on a determination result. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150028690 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, POWER SUPPLY METHOD, POWER RECEIVING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Devices and methods for supply or receiving electric power. A power supply method may include specifying a type of a power source, specifying a power receiving capability of a power receiving device, performing collation of the specified type of the power source with the specified power receiving capability, and controlling transmission of electric power from the power source of the specified type to the power receiving device based on the collation. A power receiving method may include specifying a type of a power source, specifying a power receiving capability of a power receiving device, performing collation of the specified type of the power source with the specified power receiving capability, and controlling, based on the collation, selective conversion of electric power transmitted from the power source of the specified type to the power receiving device. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150074441 | POWER CONTROL DEVICE AND POWER CONSUMING DEVICE - A power control device | 03-12-2015 |
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| 20110080535 | LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER AND DISPLAY SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A liquid crystal shutter includes a first support substrate having a first electrode and a second support substrate having a second electrode opposite to the first electrode. A liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between the first and second electrodes so as to have a switching region. The switching region becomes a bend alignment state from a splay alignment state when a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer. A nucleus region formation portion is arranged on the first support substrate to form a nucleus region in the switching region corresponding to the nucleus region formation portion in the liquid crystal layer, in which the splay alignment is more stable than in the switching region. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110134115 | DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER GLASSES AND DISPLAY SYSTEM USING THE SAME - In one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel having pixels. A first image signal for displaying two-dimensional pictures, a second image signal for displaying three-dimensional pictures, and a third image signal for displaying a black picture are written into the pixels. A control circuit writes the third image signal to the pixel of the display panel during at least one frame period when switching a first mode for displaying the two-dimensional pictures and a second mode for displaying the three-dimensional pictures. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110149182 | LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER GLASSES - In one embodiment, a pair of liquid crystal shutter glasses include a first liquid crystal shutter and a second liquid crystal shutter. The first and second liquid crystal shutters are switched to a transmissive state by turns. The respective first and second liquid crystal shutters include a first electrode substrate and a second electrode substrate opposing the first electrode substrate. An OCB (Optically Compensated Bend) mode liquid crystal layer is held between the first and second electrode substrates. The first electrode substrate includes a first electrode and a second electrode arranged adjacent to the first electrode. The first and second electrodes respectively include a side opposing each other and a plurality of projecting portions provided to the respective opposing sides of the first and second electrodes alternately. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110242101 | STEREOSCOPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER GLASSES AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, stereoscopic liquid crystal shutter glasses include a left-eye liquid crystal shutter and a right-eye liquid crystal shutter. Each of the left-eye liquid crystal shutter and the right-eye liquid crystal shutter has a response time not more than 5 milliseconds. Each of the left-eye liquid crystal shutter and the right-eye liquid crystal shutter has a contrast ratio not less than 350:1. The contrast ratio is a value at an angle of sight of 30 degrees in left direction and in right direction. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242469 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer held between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a first insulating substrate, and a pixel electrode and a counter electrode formed on the first insulating substrate. The second substrate includes a second insulating substrate. A first light shield layer is formed on a surface of the second insulating substrate apart from an end of the second insulating substrate opposing to the first substrate, and having a frame portion in a frame shape. Furthermore, a second light shield layer is arranged adjoining the first light shield layer extending up to the end of the second insulating substrate opposing to the first substrate. A third light shield layer to shield light is provided between the first light shield layer and second light shield layer. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242651 | STEREOSCOPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER GLASSES AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, stereoscopic liquid crystal shutter glasses include a left-eye liquid crystal shutter and a right-eye liquid crystal shutter. Each of the left-eye liquid crystal shutter and the right-eye liquid crystal shutter has a response time not more than 5 milliseconds. Each of the left-eye liquid crystal shutter and the right-eye liquid crystal shutter has a contrast ratio not less than 40:1. The contrast ratio is a value at an angle of sight of 35 degrees in all directions. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20120057088 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING THE SAME - In one embodiment, an array substrate includes a plurality of gate lines extending in a column direction. A lighting device includes a first lighting unit, a second lighting unit, and a lighting driver to light on and light off the first and second lighting units independently. The first lighting unit includes a first light source arranged on a scanning starting side of the gate lines. The second lighting unit includes a second light source arranged on a scanning terminating side of the gate lines. The lighting driver lights on the second lighting unit after lighting on the first lighting unit, and lights off the second lighting unit after lighting off the first lighting unit in a period between a starting time to write a first signal and a finishing time to write a second signal in the plurality of pixels. | 03-08-2012 |
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| 20140085356 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a driving unit. The driving unit is configured to perform polarity inversion driving by applying, to the pixel electrode, positive and negative video signals. When applying the video signals to the pixel electrode, the driving unit superposes a correction signal corresponding to a polarity inversion frequency and the gray level on the video signals in advance. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20150044933 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - According to one embodiment, there is provided a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel, which includes preparing a pair of substrates including respective alignment films formed therein and subjected to photo alignment treatment, providing a sealing material on a frame area of the alignment film of one of the pair of substrates, and bonding the pair of substrates to each other with the sealing material, and curing the sealing material to form a sealing member, and forming a liquid crystal layer in space surrounded by the pair of substrates and the sealing member. The sealing material satisfies the following formula B≦2000 [μm]/A. | 02-12-2015 |
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| 20090091696 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device, which is configured to have a liquid crystal layer held between a pair of substrates, includes a display area including a red color pixel, a green color pixel and a blue color pixel, a pixel electrode which is disposed in each of the color pixels, a counter-electrode which is opposed to the pixel electrode via an interlayer insulation film, and an alignment film which is disposed in contact with the liquid crystal layer and is subjected to such rubbing treatment as to restrict alignment of liquid crystal molecules included in the liquid crystal layer. The pixel electrode has a slit which is formed to be inclined with respect to a direction of rubbing of the alignment film, and the slit of the red pixel and the slit of the blue pixel are formed to be inclined in different directions. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090237606 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device is configured such that a liquid crystal layer is held between an array first substrate and a counter-substrate. The array substrate includes a pixel electrode which is disposed in association with each of pixels in a display region which displays an image, and a counter-electrode which is opposed to the pixel electrode with a distance therebetween. The counter-substrate includes an insulating substrate, and a shield electrode which is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the insulating substrate over an entirety of the display region. The liquid crystal layer is formed of a liquid crystal material having a negative dielectric constant anisotropy. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100182555 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel which is configured to hold a liquid crystal layer between an array substrate and a counter-substrate. The array substrate includes a pixel electrode which is connected to a switching element, and a counter-electrode which is opposed to the pixel electrode via an interlayer insulation film. The pixel electrode includes a plurality of slits. The slit is formed in a substantially parallelogrammatic shape, and includes, at a corner portion with an acute interior angle, an arcuate recess portion which is recessed toward an outside of an edge. | 07-22-2010 |
