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20100231838 | SUBSTRATE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY HAVING THE SAME AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix. | 09-16-2010 |
20100253897 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a liquid crystal display device of high picture quality with high brightness and small display unevenness. | 10-07-2010 |
20100283928 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An active matrix liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal layer; two substrates sandwiching the liquid crystal layer; and electrodes respectively provided in the two substrates, the electrodes applying voltage across the liquid crystal layer. A first electrode ( | 11-11-2010 |
20110001691 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel of a liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a liquid crystal layer | 01-06-2011 |
20110007252 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE SUBSTRATE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which allows an improvement in contrast ratio by compensating retardation given in a liquid crystal layer, even if a retardation layer has an inclined portion, and a desired retardation is varied at the inclined portion. The present invention is a vertical alignment liquid crystal display device, including:
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20110025970 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a liquid crystal display device of high image quality, which has high brightness and excellent viewing angle characteristics. | 02-03-2011 |
20110102713 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a multi-domain type liquid crystal display device with a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer that can get a display operation done without making the viewer sense any unnaturalness and with the decrease in optical transmittance minimized. In the liquid crystal display device of this invention, the liquid crystal layer of each pixel has liquid crystal regions in which liquid crystal molecules tilt in multiple different directions when a voltage is applied between first and second electrodes. Each pixel has an opaque portion arranged on a boundary between the liquid crystal regions. The opaque portion is provided for at least one of the substrates so that when a voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes, the liquid crystal molecules neighboring the boundary will tilt while turning one of their end portions, which is closer to the substrate with the opaque portion, away from the boundary. The opaque portion includes a first shielding layer and a second shielding layer, which overlaps with the first shielding layer with a predetermined gap left between them. | 05-05-2011 |
20130242610 | LIGHT GUIDE BODY, LIGHTING DEVICE HAVING LIGHT GUIDE BODY, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A light guiding element has a first principal surface, a second principal surface which opposes the first principal surface, a first lateral surface which intersects with the first principal surface and the second principal surface, and a second lateral surface which opposes the first lateral surface. The light guiding element allows light incoming from the first lateral surface to propagate between the first principal surface and the second principal surface. The light guiding element includes a portion in which a refractive index varies substantially continuously from the first principal surface toward the second principal surface. | 09-19-2013 |
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20080316406 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - When radiating light onto a liquid crystal composition containing a photosensitive material, the alignment of liquid crystal molecules is adjusted by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal composition layer, to achieve substantially orderly alignment of the liquid crystal molecules, or the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is made uniform by adjusting the structure of the liquid crystal display device, or any display defect is driven out of the display area. When radiating light to the liquid crystal composition containing the photosensitive material, the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules can be adjusted so as to achieve substantially orderly alignment of the liquid crystal molecules, and the liquid crystal display device can thus be driven stably. | 12-25-2008 |
20090153779 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The invention relates to a transflective liquid crystal display capable of display in both of transmissive and reflective modes and a method of manufacturing the same and provides a transflective liquid crystal display which can achieve high display characteristics in both of the transmissive and reflective modes. A configuration is employed which includes a liquid crystal display panel having a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the substrates, a pixel region including a reflective area having a reflector for reflecting light entering from the side of one of the pair of substrates and a transmissive area for transmitting light entering from the side of the other of the pair of substrates toward the one of the pair of substrates, a backlight unit having a reflector and a light guide plate for reflecting the light which has entered the transmissive area from the side of the one of the pair of substrates and which has been transmitted by the area to cause the light to enter the transmissive area again from the side of the other of the pair of substrates, and a color filter layer formed only in the transmissive area of the pixel region. | 06-18-2009 |
20100035504 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The invention has an object to provide a liquid crystal display in which a wide angle of view is obtained and a response time at a halftone can be shortened by regulating an alignment orientation of a liquid crystal by the use of a polymer fixation system in which a liquid crystal layer containing a polymerizable component is sealed between substrates, and the polymerizable component is polymerized while a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer to fix a liquid crystal alignment. A liquid crystal layer containing a polymer for regulating a pretilt angle of a liquid crystal molecule and a tilt direction at a time of driving is sealed between two substrates arranged opposite to each other. A plurality of stripe-like electrode patterns in which a pattern width is formed to be wider than a width of a space, are arranged so that the liquid crystal molecule is aligned in a longitudinal direction of the pattern when the polymer is formed by solidifying a polymerizable component mixed in the liquid crystal layer while a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer. | 02-11-2010 |
20100090938 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - This invention relates to an image processing method for improving the quality of an image to be displayed on a display device and to a liquid-crystal display device using the same, and aims at providing an image processing method for providing wide viewing angle and excellent tonal-intensity viewing angle characteristic and a liquid-crystal display device using the same. Combined together are a higher-luminance pixel to be driven higher in luminance than the luminance data of an image to be displayed and a lower-luminance pixel to be driven lower in luminance than the luminance data, to determine a luminance on the higher-luminance pixel and luminance on the lower-luminance pixel as well as an area ratio of the higher-luminance and lower-luminance pixels in a manner obtaining a luminance nearly equal to a desired luminance based on the luminance data. | 04-15-2010 |
20100103206 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - This invention relates to an image processing method for improving the quality of an image to be displayed on a display device and to a liquid-crystal display device using the same, and aims at providing an image processing method for providing wide viewing angle and excellent tonal-intensity viewing angle characteristic and a liquid-crystal display device using the same. Combined together are a higher-luminance pixel to be driven higher in luminance than the luminance data of an image to be displayed and a lower-luminance pixel to be driven lower in luminance than the luminance data, to determine a luminance on the higher-luminance pixel and luminance on the lower-luminance pixel as well as an area ratio of the higher-luminance and lower-luminance pixels in a manner obtaining a luminance nearly equal to a desired luminance based on the luminance data. | 04-29-2010 |
20110058134 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - When radiating light onto a liquid crystal composition containing a photosensitive material, the alignment of liquid crystal molecules is adjusted by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal composition layer, to achieve substantially orderly alignment of the liquid crystal molecules, or the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is made uniform by adjusting the structure of the liquid crystal display device, or any display defect is driven out of the display area. When radiating light to the liquid crystal composition containing the photosensitive material, the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules can be adjusted so as to achieve substantially orderly alignment of the liquid crystal molecules, and the liquid crystal display device can thus be driven stably. | 03-10-2011 |
20120075558 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE'S SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device, including a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer sealed between the pair of substrates, color filters of different colors formed on one of the substrates, and a polymer layer for aligning liquid crystal molecules and formed between the pair of substrates. The pre-tilt angles of the liquid crystal molecules are different among respective pixels where the color filters of different colors are formed. | 03-29-2012 |
20120075567 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display in which a wide angle of view is obtained and a response time at a halftone can be shortened by regulating an alignment orientation of a liquid crystal by the use of a polymer fixation system in which a liquid crystal layer containing a polymerizable component is scaled between substrates. The polymerizable component is polymerized while a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer to fix a liquid crystal alignment. A plurality of stripe-like electrode patterns, in which a pattern width is formed to be wider than a width of a space, are arranged so that the liquid crystal molecules are aligned in a longitudinal direction of the pattern when the polymer is formed by solidifying a polymerizable component mixed in the liquid crystal layer while a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer. | 03-29-2012 |
20120133864 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal sealed between two substrates, and a polymer layer for regulating a pretilt angle of liquid crystal molecules and/or tilt directions at a time of driving. One of the substrates has a color filter layer formed on a side of the one substrate. A plurality of stripe-like electrode patterns are provided on the color filter layer. The patterns are periodically arranged so that when polymerizable components mixed in the liquid crystal layer are polymerized to form the polymer layer while a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer between the electrode patterns and a second electrode on the other substrate, liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are aligned in the extending directions of stripe-like electrode patterns. | 05-31-2012 |
20120249910 | SUBSTRATE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY HAVING THE SAME AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix. | 10-04-2012 |
20130003001 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - When radiating light onto a liquid crystal composition containing a photosensitive material, the alignment of liquid crystal molecules is adjusted by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal composition layer, to achieve substantially orderly alignment of the liquid crystal molecules, or the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is made uniform by adjusting the structure of the liquid crystal display device, or any display defect is driven out of the display area. When radiating light to the liquid crystal composition containing the photosensitive material, the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules can be adjusted so as to achieve substantially orderly alignment of the liquid crystal molecules, and the liquid crystal display device can thus be driven stably. | 01-03-2013 |
20130293797 | SUBSTRATE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY HAVING THE SAME AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix. | 11-07-2013 |
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20120270151 | RADIATION SENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF FORMING AN INTERLAYER INSULATING FILM - The present invention relates to a radiation sensitive resin composition comprising [A] an alkali-soluble resin, [B] a 1,2-quinonediazide compound and [C] a radical trapping agent. | 10-25-2012 |
20130194524 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SAME - A liquid crystal panel includes a liquid crystal layer that can switch to a light transmitting state and a light scattering state, and lines provided on a portion of the liquid crystal layer on the side opposite to the observation side. The lines are provided with a reflecting portion by which at least a portion of light that entered from the observation side is reflected toward the observation side. | 08-01-2013 |
20130271713 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to the present invention, provided is a liquid crystal display device in which a polymer layer having a stable alignment regulating force is formed. The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a liquid crystal cell that includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer which is held between the pair of substrates, in which at least one substrate of the pair of substrates includes an electrode, an undercoat film which is formed on a liquid crystal layer side of the electrode, and a polymer layer which is formed on a liquid crystal layer side of the undercoat film and controls the alignment of liquid crystal molecules adjacent to the polymer layer, the undercoat film is formed of a photoactive material, the polymer layer is formed by polymerization of a monomer added to the liquid crystal layer, and the liquid crystal layer contains liquid crystal molecules having, in a molecular structure thereof, a multiple bond other than conjugated double bonds of a benzene ring. | 10-17-2013 |