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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179485 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first vertical electrode, a second vertical electrode, a first pixel electrode, a first counter electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The second substrate is disposed to be opposite t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8144277 | Liquid crystal display device An operation of floating charged particles and an operation of dispersing charged particles in a liquid crystal layer are controlled by determining strengths of electric fields to be applied to a liquid crystal element in accordance with a state of irradiation of li... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130332 | Liquid crystal optical modulation element, liquid crystal optical modulation device and method for driving liquid crystal optical modulation element A liquid crystal spatial light modulator for adjusting an optical signal is configured in such a manner that a region of one element is partitioned into two regions so as to perform intensity modulation in one region and phase modulation in the other region. Since t... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130333 | Electric optical device and electronic device An electric optical device includes a transistor that includes a semiconductor layer having a source region connected to a data line, a drain region connected to a pixel electrode, and a channel region, and a gate electrode, a first light blocking film that is forme... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8107025 | Display unit having illuminator and liquid crystal layer capable of forming intermediate layer A display device includes a liquid crystal layer having opposing principal faces; a plurality of electrodes; and an illuminator for emitting light toward one of the principal faces of the liquid crystal layer. When a predetermined voltage is applied, the liquid crys... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094249 | Active device array substrate having bridge lines electrically connecting secondary and main data lines located on the same side of a pixel region and liquid crystal display panel and driving method thereof An active device array substrate includes a number of scan lines, a number of data lines perpendicular to the scan lines, and a number of pixel regions. Each of the pixel regions includes a number of pixel sets arranged along a direction of the data lines. Each of t... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8064001 | Liquid crystal display panel and pixel structure thereof A pixel structure includes at least a pixel electrode, and at least an aligning electrode. The pixel electrode, which has a central opening, is disposed on a substrate. The aligning electrode, which is disposed between the pixel electrode and substrate, includes an ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059218 | Display device and driving method thereof With a display device using a pixel which includes a sub-pixel, the display device with improved viewing angle and quality of moving image display is provided without increase in power consumption by driving of the sub-pixel. A circuit which can change conducting st... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045071 | Liquid crystal apparatus Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal apparatus, including, a pair of substrates; and a liquid crystal layer held between the substrates, the liquid crystal layer having positive dielectric anisotropy, the liquid crystal of the liquid crystal layer exhibiting, when n... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7973863 | 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 opposin... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7956941 | Method and apparatus for reducing speckle in coherent light According to one embodiment, a method for reducing speckle in an image produced from a coherent light source includes directing a beam of coherent light at an electrically controlled diffuser. An electrical signal is applied to the electrically controlled diffuser t... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7936405 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method for the same A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a TFT substrate having a substrate and a display pixel arranged in a matrix form on the substrate, a counter substrate opposed to the TFT substrate and being stuck therewith and a liquid crystal enclo... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7768582 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display comprises a first substrate having a pixel electrode, a second substrate adjacent to the first substrate and having a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a black... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7746415 | OCB liquid crystal device with a protrusion having a concave portion at its tip, method of manufacturing liquid crystal device, electronic apparatus, and projector Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal device which includes first and second substrates which face each other and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and transitions an alignment state of liquid crystal molecules of... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7697081 | Pixel structure of liquid crystal display comprising V-shaped drain and source electrodes and method for activating a state transition of a liquid crystal layer A method for activating a state transition of a liquid crystal in a liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display has a first substrate, a second substrate and plural pixel structures, wherein the liquid crystal is sandwiched between the first subst... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7683975 | Automatic focusing apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic focusing apparatus which can reduce the time required to detect focused position in accordance with the operating environment by adjusting the voltage applied to a liquid crystal lens. The apparatus inclu... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7649579 | Liquid crystal display of line on glass type A line-on-glass type liquid crystal display device, which includes a gate drive integrated circuit mounted on a liquid crystal display panel for supplying a gate signal to the liquid crystal display panel, and a data drive integrated circuit for supplying a data vol... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7626645 | Optical modulation method for a liquid crystal layer and liquid crystal device using the method An object of the invention is to satisfactorily present a bright state and a dark state with a low driving voltage without changing a liquid crystal material. A liquid crystal device 100 having a configuration wherein a polarizing plate 11, a liquid cr... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7605874 | Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same A polyimide film is formed in only the peripheries of picture elements defined by gate bus lines and data bus lines. The areas where the polyimide film is formed have higher thresholds of transmittance-voltage (T-V) characteristics than the areas without polyimide f... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7538827 | Pixel structure A pixel structure comprises a substrate, a first metal layer, a dielectric layer, a semiconductor layer, a second metal layer, a patterned floating metal layer and a pixel electrode. The first metal layer, disposed on the substrate, comprises a gate and a scan line ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7515214 | Liquid crystal display comprising a pixel region including areas with different effective voltages The invention relates to a liquid crystal display used as a display section of an electronic apparatus and provides a liquid crystal display having high chromaticity characteristics and viewing angle characteristics. A configuration is employed which includes substr... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7511776 | Liquid crystal electro-optical device and method of driving the same An electric field that is parallel with a TFT substrate is formed by a pair of electrodes formed on the TFT substrate. Liquid crystal molecules in a light modulating layer are caused to respond electro-optically to the electric field. The light modulating layer is c... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7505090 | ECB-type colour liquid crystal display with restrained temperature dependency of colour tone A liquid crystal display device including a polarizing plate, a pair of substrates at least one of which is transparent, a pair of electrodes, and a nematic liquid crystal. The crystal is filled between the substrates, is aligned to be substantially perpendicular to... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7492417 | Method of manufacturing liquid crystal display device Disclosed is an active matrix liquid crystal display device designed mainly for alternating electric current drive, in which orientation processing (monostabilization) is performed by a direct current power supply or a direct current voltage applied to a ferroelectr... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7446824 | Liquid crystal display device having control circuit for inserting an elimination signal of 20% or less of the appied maximum voltage in a video signal A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner by way of a liquid crystal, first electrodes which are formed in a pixel region of a liquid-crystal-side surface of a liquid ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443475 | Liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate; a second substrate provided so as to face the first substrate; a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of pixel areas eac... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443562 | Display device A display device includes a porous body impregnated with electroendosmosis liquid, a transparent plate which is opposed to the porous body with a space intervening therebetween and is provided on its side facing the porous body with a light diffusive reflection surf... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436577 | Display medium, display device and display method using the display medium The present invention provides a display medium comprising a display layer which selectively displays white or black color, and a light-modulating layer provided on the display layer including mobile fine particles which show coloration in a dispersed state, a displ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7417611 | Color liquid crystal display In an ECB LCD, in which a liquid crystal layer enclosed between a pair of substrates is driven based on R, G, B signals so that transmittance of R, G, B light components at the liquid crystal layer is controlled for color display, the voltage levels of the liquid cr... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418117 | Liquid crystal display device performing both image display mode and fingerprint recognition mode Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device of novel construction, in which a fingerprint recognition device is integrally formed with the liquid crystal display device, thereby minimizing the increase in the price and size of a final product. The liquid crystal di... | 08/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7375871 | Electrochromic glass control device A light control system having a full range of dimming for smart-glass by providing an interface between an off-the-shelf dimmer and a electrochromic glass device is disclosed herein. The light control system or electrochromic glass control device acts as an interfac... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369201 | Liquid-crystal display having liquid-crystal layer oriented to bend alignment A liquid-crystal display suitable for the optically compensated birefringence (OCB) display mode is used so as to simplify the voltage setting relating to display of each color by setting as follows. A liquid-crystal layer is oriented to bend alignment between a pai... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364505 | Method and apparatus for player stimulation A gaming apparatus includes a value input device, a display unit that is capable of generating video images, a light array, an audio output device, and a controller operatively coupled to said value input device, said display unit, said light array and said audio ou... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362293 | Low power multi-phase driving method for liquid crystal display A method for driving a display panel is disclosed. At the transitions of scan periods, common and pixel electrode are coupled together to receive one of the power supply voltage and the ground in one phase of a transition, and the common and pixel electrode are furt... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362399 | In-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a plurality of gate and data bus lines defining pixel regions and arranged on the first substrate, a common line in the pixel regions, a pair of first and second electrode... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355669 | Liquid crystal display with a conductive column having a ground column directly contacting a first electrode surrounded by a seal A liquid crystal display is provided including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal retained between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal display also comprises at least one first conductive column formed on the fir... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352419 | Liquid crystal display having a control factor for reducing a chromaticity difference between displayed white and displayed black In order to suppress color tint during display of black, chromaticity is changed when black is displayed while maintaining chromaticity when white is displayed. For this purpose, the pigment to be dispersed in a color resist is adjusted in particle size and concentr... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349043 | Light source, display device, portable terminal device, and ray direction switching element A light source is provided including, a backlight that emits light in a planar shape, a ray direction regulating element that regulates a direction of light made incident from the backlight and emits the light and in which a transparent area for transmitting light a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339570 | Data signal line drive circuit, drive circuit, image display device incorporating the same, and electronic apparatus using the same An image display device includes two data signal line drive circuits and two scan signal line drive circuits configured differently from each other. Different data signal line drive circuits and scan signal line drive circuit are compatible with different display fo... | 03/04/2008 |
