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| 20090129155 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A nonvolatile semiconductor storage device capable of storing a plurality of bits of data in one memory cell by assigning multivalued data having a higher-order bit selected from one of a pair of data in a first unit and a lower-order bit selected from the other of the pair of data to each threshold voltage of the memory cell, wherein in a first write operation that processes data in the first unit, the logic of one of the higher-order bit and the lower-order bit is fixed, and two pieces of multivalued data that maximize the difference between the threshold voltages are assigned, thereby storing one bit of input data in the one memory cell in a pseudo binary state, and in a second write operation that processes data in a second unit larger than the first unit, a plurality of bits of input data is stored in the one memory cell in a multivalued state, and parity data for error correction in the second unit is stored in the memory cell. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20110055465 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A nonvolatile semiconductor storage device capable of storing a plurality of bits of data in one memory cell by assigning multivalued data having a higher-order bit selected from one of a pair of data in a first unit and a lower-order bit selected from the other of the pair of data to each threshold voltage of the memory cell, wherein in a first write operation that processes data in the first unit, the logic of one of the higher-order bit and the lower-order bit is fixed, and two pieces of multivalued data that maximize the difference between the threshold voltages are assigned, thereby storing one bit of input data in the one memory cell in a pseudo binary state, and in a second write operation that processes data in a second unit larger than the first unit, a plurality of bits of input data is stored in the one memory cell in a multivalued state, and parity data for error correction in the second unit is stored in the memory cell. | 03-03-2011 |
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| 20080278643 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A mono domain vertical alignment type liquid crystal display apparatus to be multiplex driven is provided whose display uniformity at a large pretilt angle (near 90°) is improved. Waveform A is applied to a liquid crystal cell of a mono domain vertical alignment type, the waveform A having a duty not lower than 4 and a frame frequency of f. The frame frequency f is determined from a pretilt angle θp, and is a frequency not lower than 60 Hz at a pretilt angle of 88.5°≦p<89.6° or a frequency not lower than [120×(θp−89.6)+60] Hz at a pretilt angle of 89.6°≦θp≦89.9°. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090058794 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE WITH IMPROVED DISPLAY LUMINANCE - A liquid crystal display device has: a liquid crystal display unit including a plurality of common electrodes to be sequentially applied with a drive voltage and segment electrodes for segment display, facing each common electrode, and a plurality of display areas divided for one or more common electrodes; a backlight including a multicolor light source provided for each display area; and a drive unit for performing field sequential driving of multiplex driving by scanning the plurality of common electrodes in such a manner that after all common electrodes in one display area are scanned, common electrodes in the next display area start being scanned, and by synchronizing scanning each common electrode with an emission operation of the multicolor light source in each display area. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090066621 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal display unit including a plurality of display units each switching between bright display and dark display; a backlight having a light source of a plurality of colors for making light emitted from the light source be incident upon the liquid crystal display unit; and a drive unit for performing field sequential driving through synchronization of the liquid crystal display unit and backlight, wherein the drive unit controls a state of bright/dark display of the liquid crystal display unit to realize a display pattern corresponding to each subframe obtained by dividing a frame into a plurality of subframes, and controls an emission state of the backlight to turn on the backlight of emission color corresponding to a display pattern of an arbitrary first subframe from some timing in the first subframe to some timing in a second subframe immediately after the first subframe. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090086132 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT - A liquid crystal display unit has: a pair of opposing substrates; an electrode pattern formed on each of the substrates on an opposing surface side; a vertical alignment film formed on each of the substrates and covering the electrode pattern; a liquid crystal layer squeezed between the substrates; and a pair of polarizer plates formed on the substrates on an opposite side to the side of said liquid crystal layer, wherein an edge of the electrode pattern includes a zigzag pattern parallel to one of axis directions of the polarizer plates and a direction perpendicular the axis direction. Optical through can be reduced along an edge portion of a pixel of a vertical alignment LCD. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090213313 | VERTICAL ALIGNMENT TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE WITH VIEWING ANGLE CHARACTERISTICS IMPROVED BY DISPOSING OPTICAL PLATES - First and second polarizers are disposed in cross Nichol configuration. A liquid crystal cell is disposed between the two polarizers and establishes vertical alignment in a state of no voltage application. An even number of optical films having optical anisotropy and disposed between the liquid crystal cell and first polarizer. A retardation of the liquid crystal cell is in a range between 300 nm and 1500 nm; and each optical film satisfies nx>ny≧nz, an in-plane retardation is smaller than 300 nm, a thickness direction retardation is in a ranger between 50 nm and 300 nm, an angle between an in-plane slow axis of the optical film disposed nearest to the first polarizer and an absorption axis of the first polarizer is smaller than 45°, and the slow axes of mutually adjacent optical films are perpendicular to each other. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100026946 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal layer squeezed between first and second transparent substrates and vertically aligned at a retardation of 300 nm or larger to 940 nm or smaller; two or three viewing angle compensators disposed on the first transparent substrate on the side opposite to the liquid crystal layer, each of the viewing angle compensators having a retardation of 90 nm or larger to 350 nm or smaller in a thickness direction and a retardation of 5 nm or larger to 30 nm or smaller in an in-plane direction; a first polarizer disposed on the two or three viewing angle compensator; and a second polarizer disposed on the second transparent substrate and crossed-Nichol disposed relative to the first polarizer, wherein an in-plane slow axis of each viewing angle compensator is disposed perpendicular to an absorption axis of the first polarizer. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100053522 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal layer squeezed between first and second substrates and vertically aligned at a retardation of 300-1000 nm; first and second compensators disposed on the first substrate and having negative biaxial optical anisotropy; a first polarizer disposed on the first and second compensators; and a second polarizer on the second substrate disposed crossed-Nichol with said first polarizer, wherein: the second compensator is disposed between the first substrate and first compensator; an in-plane slow axis of the first compensator is disposed perpendicular to an absorption axis of the first polarizer; the in-plane slow axis of the first compensator is disposed perpendicular to an in-plane slow axis of the second compensator; and a retardation in an in-plane direction of the first compensator is larger than that of the second compensator. | 03-04-2010 |
