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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7623202 | Liquid crystal display device It is possible to eliminate the blue tone in the black color display in the OCB liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display cell (110) includes an opposing substrate (130) having an opposing electrode (Ecom), an array substrate (120)... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7463297 | Liquid crystal display device provided with an image capturing function To enable acquisition of image data in multiple tone levels in a short capturing time, a liquid crystal display device 1 includes a photodiode having sensitivity R, a capacitor having capacitance C and configured to store a charge in response to an electric s... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460194 | Flat display device including stress easing frame bezel A flat display device includes a display panel, a frame which holds the display panel, and a frame-shaped bezel which is fixed to the frame and holds the display panel on the frame. The bezel has a surface portion, side face portion, reverse portion, fixed portion, ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460193 | Flat panel display having sensor board and circuit board attached to frame via screws A flat-panel display apparatus, to which a sensor board can be easily attached, is provided. In the flat-panel display apparatus, a driver circuit is attached to a side portion of a liquid crystal panel via a flexible print circuit. The liquid crystal panel is attac... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7452118 | Area light source Area light source 10 used for LCD device 1 includes light guide 12 and LED devices 18 and 19 disposed at a side portion of light guide 12. A light receiving portion at a side edge portion of light guide 12 is provided... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450105 | Display device A display device, comprising: a pixel array unit having display elements formed in vicinity of intersections of signal lines and scanning lines arranged in length and breadth, image pickup units and an output unit which outputs binary data corresponding to image pic... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7449215 | Method of manufacturing display device A method of manufacturing a display device includes a step of forming an insulating layer on a substrate, a step of coating a first mask material on an area associated with a first color pixel on the insulating layer, a step of coating a second mask material on an a... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7446759 | Array substrate for flat display device An object of this array substrate for a flat display device is to eliminate display unevenness caused by the inequality of parasitic capacitances of switches of signal line switch circuits. Electrode patterns (P) which connects the gate electrodes of the switches (A... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443468 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display cell (110) includes: an opposing substrate (130) having an opposing electrode (Ecom); an array substrate (120) having a pixel electrode Dpix for each color; a liquid crystal layer (140) arranged in a bend arrangem... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443467 | Liquid crystal display device provided with pigmented layers in a pixel For the purpose of preventing line defects from occurring on a display screen in consequence of uneven coating of pigmented layers, a first pigmented layer is formed in a pattern obtained by thinning out a portion in an otherwise complete grid every other pixel in a... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7431625 | Prebroken panel, display, and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing an organic EL display includes forming organic EL elements on a first portion of a first substrate, forming a frame-shaped sealing resin layer on the first portion such that the sealing resin layer surrounds the organic EL elements, putting... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7431624 | Method of manufacturing organic EL element A method of manufacturing an organic EL element includes applying a reverse bias to an organic EL element with an inverse layered structure until a current density of the organic EL element at an impressed voltage of 10 V reaches 0.075 mA/cm2 or more.... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7425728 | Surface light source control device A surface light source control device has a plane light source control circuit for setting a current amount to a plurality of diode arrays. The light source control circuit comprises a constant current circuit for holding currents respectively flowing in the plurali... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423715 | Liquid crystal display device with retardation layer A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a structure in which a liquid crystal layer LQ is held between a pair of electrode substrates AR, CT, a pair of polarizers PL which hold the liquid crystal panel therebetween, and a pair of optic... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423622 | Display device A display device, comprising: signal lines and scanning lines arranged vertically and horizontally on an insulating substrate; display elements formed in vicinity of the signal lines and the scanning lines on said insulating substrate; a signal line drive circuit wh... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420214 | Array substrate for display device An array substrate for a display device includes an insulating substrate, a buffer layer which is disposed on the insulating substrate and is formed of silicon oxide with a refractive index equal to a refractive index of the insulating substrate, a first insulation ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417628 | Liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal display apparatus comprises a liquid crystal display panel including a display region, a planar light source device having a light exit surface which faces the liquid crystal display panel and from which planar light exits toward the liquid crystal ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7413333 | Lighting apparatus and liquid crystal display apparatus A lighting apparatus including a light guiding plate, and a light source including a plurality of light-emitting elements which emit light at a plurality of brightness levels. The light emitting elements is provided opposite to a side edge of the light guiding plate... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7402939 | Organic EL display An organic EL display includes an insulating layer with light-transmission property, an organic EL element located on a back side of the insulating layer, a diffraction grating located on the back side of the insulating layer, and an optical film disposed on a front... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397452 | Display apparatus and its control method A display apparatus is provided which can perform display of high visibility with the load on a power supply for supplying power to display elements. A display screen is provided with a plurality of pixels arranged in an array. Each pixel includes a display element ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397525 | Liquid crystal display device A first phase plate and a third phase plate, which constitute a polarizer structure, cooperate to impart a phase difference of a ¼ wavelength to linearly polarized light that emerges from a first polarizer plate. A second phase plate and a fourth phase plate cooper... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394105 | Active matrix display and method of manufacturing the same There is provided an active matrix display including pixels arrayed in a matrix form and each including a display element and a thin film transistor. In each of columns which the pixels form, the pixels are divided into a first pixel group in which the thin film tra... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392058 | Communication terminal device, information providing device, and cellular telephone system A communication terminal device includes a first display part configured to display streaming sub information, a second display part configured to display streaming main information related to the streaming sub information, a sub information reception unit configure... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391053 | Inspection substrate for display device In order to make it possible to easily detect an electrical defect by using an array tester, the present inspection substrate includes: plural scan lines and plural signal lines; plural storage capacitor lines arranged in parallel to the scan lines; storage capacito... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7385665 | Display device A display device includes a display panel which includes an effective display section, a flexible board which supplies a driving signal to the effective display section, a connection part at which the display panel and the flexible board are connected, and a plurali... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7375463 | Optical device and organic EL display An optical device includes a first waveguide layer in which multiple-beam interference occurs, a second wavelength layer which includes a back surface facing the first waveguide layer and a front surface as a light output surface, and an outcoupling layer which is d... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372440 | Active matrix display device An active matrix display device comprises a plurality of pixels which are arranged in the form of a matrix on a substrate and each of which includes a display element and a pixel circuit which supplies the display element with a drive current, video signal lines arr... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367706 | Illumination unit and liquid crystal display comprising it A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention has a lighting unit (UT) comprising a light guiding plate (3), a light source (2), a reflector (4), a reflecting sheet (5) and a housing (10), and a liquid crystal ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369209 | Bendable display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A display apparatus with a plurality of display pixel sections includes glass substrate, which are formed to have a thickness that permits bending of the display apparatus, and polarizer plates, which are disposed on the glass substrates, respectively. The polarizer... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7361947 | Photoelectric conversion element and display device including the same A photoelectric conversion element includes a semiconductor layer including a pair of p+ regions in which p-type impurities are doped, and a p− region which is disposed between the p+ regions and has a lower p-type impurity concent... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355220 | Array substrate An array substrate includes an insulating substrate, pixel circuits arranged in a matrix on the insulating substrate, and video signal lines arranged correspondently with columns which the pixel circuits form. Each pixel circuit includes a drive transistor whose sou... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7344293 | Planar light source device and liquid crystal display device A planar light source device includes a cold cathode fluorescent tube, a light guide opposed to the light source to emit light which is received from the light source, a frame which supports the light source and the light guide and has a projection which positions t... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339646 | Connection structures of wiring board and connection structure of liquid crystal display panel A liquid crystal display device of the present invention comprises a liquid crystal display panel (1) provided with one or more electrode terminals (R1) to (Rn) and a pair of reference markers (N1) on a non-display region (3 | 03/04/2008 |
| 7335914 | Display, array substrate, and display manufacturing method Each pixel of a display includes a first thin film transistor whose source is connected to a first power supply terminal, a second thin film transistor which is different in conduction type from the first thin film transistor and whose source and drain are connected... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333079 | Organic EL display and active matrix substrate In an active matrix organic EL display including a drive control element which has a first terminal connected to a first power supply terminal, a control terminal, and a second terminal which outputs a driving current having a magnitude corresponding to the voltage ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324351 | Display, wiring board, and method of manufacturing the same Provided is a wiring board including an insulating substrate with a first region and a second region adjacent to each other on a major surface, signal line groups arrayed on the first region, and connection portions arranged on the second region in correspondence wi... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317500 | Liquid crystal display device provided with a reflective-type monochromatic display screen in addition to a color display screen In a liquid crystal display device including not only a color display screen but also a monochrome display screen, blue color layers are partially formed in each area corresponding to each reflective electrode in an auxiliary screen for monochrome display in order t... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315343 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal layer for a display in an OCB mode, a heating unit which heats the liquid crystal display panel, a temperature detecting unit for detecting a temperature of the liqui... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7295647 | Driver for bidirectional shift register In order to improve the reliability of the operation of switching the scan direction in a bidirectional shift register without using a complex circuit configuration or complex timing, a clock signal is maintained at a high level by a controller around the timing of ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293905 | Area light source device and liquid crystal display apparatus An area light source device includes a light source, a light guide including a first side surface on which emission light from the light source is incident, and a first major surface and a second major surface, which are opposed to each other and from which the inci... | 11/13/2007 |
