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20110043470 | SENSOR DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING SENSOR ELEMENT, DISPLAY DEVICE WITH INPUT FUNCTION AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - A sensor device includes: one or more sensor elements each including first and second diode elements connected in series and a sensor driving section. The cathode of the second diode element is connected to the anode of the first diode element. The sensor driving section controls on-off state of the first diode element through changing a gate voltage under a fixed cathode voltage, and controls on-off state of the second diode element through changing a gate voltage under a fixed anode voltage. The sensor driving section drives the second diode element, maintaining a relationship of Vg | 02-24-2011 |
20110043471 | TOUCH SENSOR METHODS AND APPARATUS - Touch sensor methods and apparatus are provided. A first photodiode includes an i-region of a first length. A second photodiode includes an i-region with a second length. A sensing component including a capacitive element is operably coupled to the first photodiode and the second photodiode. The first length of the i-region of the first photodiode is different than the second length of the i-region of the second photodiode. | 02-24-2011 |
20120007988 | IMAGING DEVICE, DISPLAY-IMAGING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is an imaging device including: a plurality of photodetecting elements arranged on a substrate, each having a first semiconductor layer for the channel region; and a plurality of driving elements arranged on the substrate, each having a second semiconductor layer for the channel region, wherein the first and second semiconductor layers each are a crystallized semiconductor layer, the first and second semiconductor layers each are approximately equal in thickness and impurity concentration, and the first and second semiconductor layers each have an average trap level density no higher than 2.0×10 | 01-12-2012 |
20120044202 | DISPLAY UNIT WITH TOUCH DETECTION FUNCTION, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display unit with a touch detection function includes: a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a direction, each of the touch detection electrodes being formed in a predetermined electrode pattern including electrode portion and opening portion and outputting a detection signal, based on a variation in capacitance due to an external proximity object; and a plurality of display elements formed in a layer different from a layer of the touch detection electrodes, a predetermined number of the display elements being arranged within a width dimension of a region corresponding to each of the touch detection electrodes. The predetermined electrode pattern corresponds to a layout pattern of the display elements. | 02-23-2012 |
20120044203 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH DETECTION FUNCTION, TOUCH DETECTION DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - A display device with a touch detection function includes a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged in parallel to extend in one direction, formed with a predetermined electrode pattern including an electrode portion and aperture portions, and each outputting a detection signal based on a change of an electrostatic capacitance in response to an external proximity object, a plurality of display elements formed in a layer different from a layer provided with the touch detection electrodes, and arranged by a predetermined number in a width direction in a region corresponding to the touch detection electrode, and a plurality of dummy electrodes arranged in an inter-detection-electrode region of the plurality of touch detection electrodes. The aperture portions are provided to allow an arrangement area ratio of the touch detection electrode to be almost equal to an arrangement area ratio of the dummy electrodes in the inter-detection-electrode region. | 02-23-2012 |
20120075237 | Touch detection function display device and electronic apparatus - A touch detection function display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate that includes a plurality of touch detection electrodes provided in parallel and a terminal portion formed along one substrate side and connected to each of the plurality of touch detection electrodes, a display function layer that is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a seal portion that is provided to surround the display function layer to seal the display function layer between the first substrate and the second substrate and a shield electrode that is provided on the first substrate, the second substrate, or both substrates along the substrate side on which the terminal portion is provided. The shield electrode includes an electrode pattern portion that is selectively formed between the first substrate, the second substrate, or both substrates, and the seal portion. | 03-29-2012 |
20140320467 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a plurality of drive electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged side-by-side in a second direction with an inter-electrode slit in between; and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in matrix in the first and second directions. Each of the drive electrodes has one or more inner-electrode slits, and a center of the pixel electrode is located in the inter-electrode slit or in the inner-electrode slit. | 10-30-2014 |
20150268781 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH DETECTION FUNCTION, TOUCH DETECTION DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - A display device with a touch detection function including a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged in parallel to extend in one direction, formed with a predetermined electrode pattern including an electrode portion and aperture portions, and each outputting a detection signal based on a change of an electrostatic capacitance in response to an external proximity object, a plurality of display elements formed in a layer different from a layer provided with the touch detection electrodes, and arranged by a predetermined number in a width direction in a region corresponding to the touch detection electrode, and a plurality of dummy electrodes arranged in an inter-detection-electrode region of the plurality of touch detection electrodes. The aperture portions are provided to allow an arrangement area ratio of the touch detection electrode to be almost equal to an arrangement area ratio of the dummy electrodes in the inter-detection-electrode region. | 09-24-2015 |
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20090159893 | LIGHT-RECEIVING ELEMENT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A light-receiving element includes: a first-conductivity-type semiconductor region configured to be formed over an element formation surface; a second-conductivity-type semiconductor region configured to be formed over the element formation surface; an intermediate semiconductor region configured to be formed over the element formation surface between the first-conductivity-type semiconductor region and the second-conductivity-type semiconductor region, and have an impurity concentration lower than impurity concentrations of the first-conductivity-type semiconductor region and the second-conductivity-type semiconductor region. The light-receiving element further includes: a first electrode configured to be electrically connected to the first-conductivity-type semiconductor region; a second electrode configured to be electrically connected to the second-conductivity-type semiconductor region; and a control electrode configured to be formed in an opposed area that exists on the element formation surface. | 06-25-2009 |
20090159901 | DISPLAY - A display includes: a substrate having a pixel region and a sensor region in which photo-sensor parts are formed; an illuminating section operative to illuminate the substrate from one surface side of the substrate; a thin film photodiode disposed in the sensor region, having at least a P-type semiconductor region and an N-type semiconductor region, and operative to receive light incident from the other surface side of the substrate; and a metallic film formed on the one surface side of the substrate so as to face the thin film photodiode through an insulator film, operative to restrain light generated from the illuminating section from being directly incident on the thin film photodiode from the one surface side, and fixed to a predetermined potential, wherein in the thin film photodiode, the width of the P-type semiconductor region and the width of the N-type semiconductor region are different from each other. | 06-25-2009 |
20090207153 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel having a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and first and second electrodes formed on a surface side, of the first substrate, facing the second substrate, a transverse electric field being applied to the liquid crystal layer through the first and second electrodes, thereby displaying an image in a pixel area; wherein the first substrate includes: a light receiving element provided on the surface, of the first substrate, facing the second substrate, for receiving an incident light on a light receiving surface thereof, thereby forming data on the received light; and a planarizing film provided on the surface side, of the first substrate, facing the second substrate so as to cover the light receiving element. | 08-20-2009 |
20090268132 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display apparatus, including: a liquid crystal panel having a pixel region in which first and second electrodes apply an electric field to a liquid crystal layer to display an image; the liquid crystal panel including a photo-sensor element having a light receiving face at which the photo-sensor element receives incident light through the liquid crystal layer in the pixel region to produce received light data; at least one of the first and second electrodes being formed in a region of the pixel region other than a light receiving face corresponding region of the pixel region which corresponds to the light receiving face of the photo-sensor element. | 10-29-2009 |
20100164921 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Improvement of the image quality and position detection accuracy is implemented. Operation of a backlight | 07-01-2010 |
20120268418 | DISPLAY PANEL WITH TOUCH DETECTOR, TOUCH PANEL, AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - There are provided a display panel with a touch detector that allows the touch detection electrodes to be less visible, a touch panel, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detector. The display panel with a touch detector includes: a display layer including a plurality of display elements arranged side by side; and an electrode layer alternately segmented into first regions and second regions along a first direction, the electrode layer including a plurality of first slits arranged side by side to extend in a second direction, and a plurality of second slits each allowing an adjacent pair of the plurality of first slits in the second regions to be in communication with one another. | 10-25-2012 |
20120305920 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A semiconductor device including: a first electric conductor of a lower layer side and a second electric conductor of an upper layer side; a thick film insulating layer provided between the first electric conductor and the second electric conductor; and a contact portion formed so as to imitate an inner surface shape of a through hole with respect to the insulating layer and electrically connecting the first electric conductor and the second electric conductor, in which a tapered angle of the through hole is an acute angle. | 12-06-2012 |
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20140232952 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE - Warpage deformation which is caused when substrates having mutually different linear expansion coefficients are bonded to sandwich a display functional layer is suppressed. A display device has a first substrate, a second substrate bonded to the first substrate so as to be opposed to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer serving as a display functional layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Also, a first linear expansion coefficient of the first substrate provided in the display device is larger than a second linear expansion coefficient of the second substrate, and a first thickness of the first substrate is larger than a second thickness of the second substrate. | 08-21-2014 |
20150067240 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND ITS DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A storage apparatus has a controller for controlling data input to and output from a plurality of storage devices composed of flash memories and the controller manages the number of times data are written to each storage device on the basis of each storage device, wherein when the controller receives a write command from an access requestor and if any of the storage devices is a storage device whose number of times of data write exceeds a threshold value, the controller determines that the data write mode is an intensive mode, selects the storage device, whose number of times of data write exceeds the threshold value, as a specified storage device and writes data, which are to be processed for the write command, intensively to the selected specified storage device. | 03-05-2015 |
20150227228 | DISPLAY PANEL WITH TOUCH DETECTOR, TOUCH PANEL, AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - There are provided a display panel with a touch detector that allows the touch detection electrodes to be less visible, a touch panel, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detector. The display panel with a touch detector includes: a display layer including a plurality of display elements arranged side by side; and an electrode layer alternately segmented into first regions and second regions along a first direction, the electrode layer including a plurality of first slits arranged side by side to extend in a second direction, and a plurality of second slits each allowing an adjacent pair of the plurality of first slits in the second regions to be in communication with one another. | 08-13-2015 |
20150268795 | SENSOR-EQUIPPED DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a sensor-equipped display device includes a display panel, first driver, and second driver. The display panel includes a common electrode, a pixel electrode, a detection electrode, a connection line and lead line. The first driver supplies a common driving signal to the common electrode during a display drive time and supplies a sensor driving signal to the common electrode during a sensing drive time. The second driver detects a sensor output value during the sensing drive time. The lead line and the common electrode are apart from each other with a certain gap at least during the sensing drive time. | 09-24-2015 |