Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090219458 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal between a drive substrate and a counter substrate, and a plurality of main pixels disposed so as to compose a display area, wherein either a liquid crystal alignment controlling factor or a spacer for substrate distance setting is provided in each of at least two sub-pixels of a plurality of sub-pixels composing the main pixel; and light shielding members provided in the at least two sub-pixels so as to correspond to either the liquid crystal alignment controlling factors or the spacers, respectively, are different in area in planar view from each other. | 09-03-2009 |
20100033448 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate on a display surface side; a second substrate on a back surface side; a liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second substrates; an alignment film formed on one of the first and second substrates so as to contact the liquid crystal layer; a first sensor electrode formed on a surface, of the alignment film, contacting the liquid crystal layer; and a second sensor electrode formed on the other of the first and second substrates, and adapted to either contact or approach the first sensor electrode when the first substrate is pressed from the display surface side. | 02-11-2010 |
20100033668 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A liquid-crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate formed so as to oppose the first substrate; a liquid-crystal layer with a predetermined thickness, the liquid-crystal layer being formed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a planarization film for planarizing the surface of the liquid-crystal layer, the planarization film being formed on the surface of at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, the surface facing the liquid-crystal layer; and projecting parts that are integrally formed with the planarization film. | 02-11-2010 |
20100079381 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel includes: a first substrate section formed on the front side of the display panel; a second substrate section which is opposed to the first substrate section; a plurality of pixel sections formed in a matrix form between the first and second substrate sections; and a plurality of sensor sections, each of the sensor sections having two electrodes, one electrode disposed with a electrode-to-electrode gap from the other between the first and second substrate sections, the electrode-to-electrode gap being removed as a result of the deformation of the first substrate section under pressure so that the one electrode is brought into contact with the other electrode, the sensor sections being provided between the first and second substrate sections with one of a plurality of electrode-to-electrode gap lengths respectively. | 04-01-2010 |
20100097340 | Liquid-crystal display panel and chopper-type comparator - A liquid-crystal display panel includes: gate lines each serving as a row-direction line which is one of the rows of a two-dimensional matrix; data signal lines each serving as a column-direction line which is one of the columns of the two-dimensional matrix; a plurality of liquid-crystal pixel sections which are laid out to form the two-dimensional matrix and each placed at the intersection of one of the gate lines and one of the data signal lines; chopper-type comparators each connected to one of the data signal lines and each used for converting the value of a sensor signal read out from one of the liquid-crystal pixel sections connected to the data signal lines into a binary value; and a shift register for converting outputs of the chopper-type comparators from parallel data into serial data and outputting the serial data. | 04-22-2010 |
20100097548 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device, including: a first substrate; a second substrate; a plurality of spacers disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer filled between the first substrate and the second substrate supported by the plurality of spacers; wherein each of the plurality of spacers has a multiple step structure having one or more steps. | 04-22-2010 |
20100141598 | DISPLAY, DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display includes: a display section having a plurality of pixels provided in a region where a first substrate and a second substrate are disposed opposite to each other; a switch provided in the region where the first substrate and the second substrate are disposed opposite to each other, the switch having two electrodes closed by a pressure from outside; a detecting section comparing a signal from the switch with a reference signal to determine whether the switch is closed or not; and a precharge section applying a precharge potential to a wiring in continuity with one of the electrodes of the switch prior to the detection at the detecting section. | 06-10-2010 |
20100141880 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display device allowing reliability deterioration due to external pressure to be suppressed without yield rate degradation. The liquid crystal panel includes: a pair of substrates facing each other with a space in between; a liquid crystal layer disposed in the space between the pair of substrates; and a plurality of pairs of pillar structures, each pair of pillar structures being arranged on opposing faces of the pair of substrates, respectively, to face each other along a normal to the opposing faces. | 06-10-2010 |
20100157228 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal panel includes: first and second substrates arranged to be opposite each other at a predetermined gap; a liquid crystal layer filled between the first and second substrates; alignment films; a counter electrode pattern formed on the first substrate; and a pixel electrode pattern formed on the first substrate so as to have a plurality of electrode branches, the extension direction of which is bent at one bend point provided near an upper pixel portion from the center of a pixel region, and which are connected at the end portion of at least the upper pixel portion or lower pixel portion, wherein the extension direction of a slit formed near the upper pixel portion from the bend point from among slits formed in the pixel electrode pattern crosses the alignment direction of the liquid crystal layer at an angle of 7° or larger. | 06-24-2010 |
20110210927 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH SENSOR, TOUCH PANEL, METHOD OF DRIVING TOUCH PANEL, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In one example embodiment, a display device includes a drive control section operatively coupled to a signal line and a display section. The signal line has a first voltage. In one example embodiment, the display section includes: (a) a touch detection element which outputs a touch voltage; and (b) an electrode which has a second voltage. In one example embodiment, the drive control section increases a potential difference between the first voltage and the second voltage before the touch detection element outputs the touch voltage. | 09-01-2011 |
20120196031 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A display device formed by plural pixels that have reflective regions and transmissive regions is disclosed. The display device includes, in each of the pixels: an element layer formed on a substrate; a planarizing layer formed on the substrate to cover the element layer; and a gap adjusting layer formed on the planarizing layer on the element layer. In the display device, the reflective region is formed by an area including the element layer, the planarizing layer, the gap adjusting layer, and a reflection electrode formed on the gap adjusting layer, and the transmissive region is formed by an area including the planarizing layer formed on the substrate excluding an area in which the gap adjusting layer is formed. | 08-02-2012 |
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 |
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 |
20130100175 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device including: an image display section in which unit pixels each composed of a plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to a plurality of colors are arranged; and an optical element having a window section allocating light emitted from the image display section in units of the sub-pixels to a plurality of viewpoints, wherein a color arrangement of the sub-pixels of the image display section or an arrangement of the window section of the optical element is set such that, when the image display section is viewed from each of the plurality of viewpoints, in an arrangement of colors of light allocated by the window section of the optical element, a same color is not arranged linearly in a predetermined number of sub-pixels or more in succession in any of a row direction, a column direction, and an oblique direction. | 04-25-2013 |
20130148044 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel which displays a left eye image and a right eye image; and a light-shielding barrier which has a slit section and a light-shielding section to cause binocular parallax, wherein the liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate which has a pixel electrode formed thereon, a second substrate which is separated from and opposed to the surface of the first substrate which has the pixel electrode formed thereon, and a liquid crystal layer which is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the pixel electrode has a plurality of strip-shaped parts which are arranged with intervals therebetween, and an extending direction of the strip-shaped parts is substantially perpendicular to an opening direction of the slit section. | 06-13-2013 |
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 |
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 |
20130241964 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes: a display portion in which pixel openings displaying colors included in a pixel are arranged in a first direction and a second direction which is different from the first direction, and the ratio of colors displayed by the pixel openings arranged in the same line is equal to the ratio of colors included in the pixel; and a light separation portion dividing an image displayed on the display portion into plural viewpoint images by spatially separating light, and the dividing direction is switched between the first direction and the second direction. | 09-19-2013 |
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 |
20140024156 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels each having a reflecting section and a transmitting section, the pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixels resulting from alignment division, the liquid crystal display device including: an element layer formed on a substrate; an insulating film formed on the substrate so as to cover the element layer; a pixel electrode formed on the insulating film so as to be connected to the element layer; a gap adjusting layer formed on the insulating film on the element layer including a region of connection between the element layer and the pixel electrode; and a dielectric formed on a connecting part for making an electric connection between the sub-pixels. | 01-23-2014 |
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 |
20140232973 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal panel includes: first and second substrates arranged to be opposite each other at a predetermined gap; a liquid crystal layer filled between the first and second substrates; alignment films; a counter electrode pattern formed on the first substrate; and a pixel electrode pattern formed on the first substrate so as to have a plurality of electrode branches, the extension direction of which is bent at one bend point provided near an upper pixel portion from the center of a pixel region, and which are connected at the end portion of at least the upper pixel portion or lower pixel portion, wherein the extension direction of a slit formed near the upper pixel portion from the bend point from among slits formed in the pixel electrode pattern crosses the alignment direction of the liquid crystal layer at an angle of 7° or larger. | 08-21-2014 |
20150077380 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel includes a first substrate section formed on the front side of the display panel, a second substrate section which is opposed to the first substrate section, a plurality of pixel sections formed in a matrix form between the first and second substrate sections, and a plurality of sensor sections, each of the sensor sections having two electrodes, one electrode disposed with a electrode-to-electrode gap from the other between the first and second substrate sections, the electrode-to-electrode gap being removed as a result of the deformation of the first substrate section under pressure so that the one electrode is brought into contact with the other electrode, the sensor sections being provided between the first and second substrate sections with one of a plurality of electrode-to-electrode gap lengths respectively. | 03-19-2015 |