| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080204648 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - There is provided a liquid crystal display device that includes a liquid crystal layer interposed between a first substrate and a second substrate and has on a first substrate side a common electrode and a pixel electrode for applying an electric field to the liquid crystal layer, the liquid crystal display device including: a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of signal lines; a drive element; a first insulating film; a common electrode; a second insulating film; and a pixel electrode, wherein the common electrode covers the pixel area except a formation area of the contact hole on the first insulating film and at least one of the scan line and the signal line. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20090002307 | Display device, driving method of the same and electronic equipment incorporating the same - Disclosed herein is a display device including: a pixel section having pixel circuits arranged to form a matrix with at least a plurality of columns, pixel data being written to each of the pixel circuits via a switching element; at least one scan line disposed to be associated with rows of the pixel circuits and adapted to control the conduction of the switching elements; a plurality of signal lines disposed to be associated with columns of the pixel circuits and adapted to convey the pixel data; and a horizontal driving circuit having a plurality of signal drivers, the plurality of signal drivers being associated with a plurality of groups into which the signal lines are divided, and being adapted to convey the image data supplied to the signal lines. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090046085 | Display apparatus, driving method for display apparatus and electronic apparatus - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including, a pixel section, a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a driving circuit. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090086127 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid crystal display apparatus, includes a liquid crystal panel including a first substrate, a second substrate disposed in an opposing relationship to the first substrate with a space left, and a liquid crystal layer provided in the space between the first and second substrates, the liquid crystal panel including a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels are provided on the faces of the first and second substrates which oppose to each other such that illuminating light irradiated from the first substrate side upon the second substrate side is transmitted through the pixel region to display an image, and the liquid crystal panel further including a light scattering layer provided on the face of the first substrate on which the illuminating light is illuminated and configured to scatter and transmit the light. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090146967 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a display section; a light radiating section; a plurality of light converging lenses; and a plurality of light receiving devices, wherein the display section includes pixel areas each used for creating a pixel section, and sensor areas each used for creating one of the light receiving devices; the light radiating section outputs light and radiates the output light to the display section from a particular-side surface of the display section; each of the light converging lenses is created in one of the sensor areas each located in the display section and converges light generated by the light radiating section on a focal point inside the display section, passing on the converged light to the other-side surface of the display section; and each of the light receiving devices is created in one of the sensor areas to serve as a device for receiving light which arrives at the other-side surface of the display section as light reflected by a subject of detection. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090147198 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate having a pixel area in which pixels are arranged in a matrix form; a second substrate disposed to be opposed to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates; a conductive section disposed at least on the first of the first and second substrates to apply a voltage to the liquid crystal; an organic film disposed at least over one of the first and second substrates; a sealing area adapted to hold the two substrates of the liquid crystal display device together at the peripheral portions of the first and second substrates; and an organic film-free area which is free from the organic film and extends from the inward side of the outermost end of the sealing area to the outward side of the outer periphery of the pixel area. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090147353 | SURFACE EMISSION APPARATUS, LIGHT GUIDE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT GUIDE - A surface emission apparatus includes a first light source for emitting invisible light rays; a second light source for emitting visible light rays; a light guide having a light entrance surface for entering therethrough into the light guide the invisible light rays emitted from the first light source and the visible light rays emitted from the second light source, and a light exit surface for emitting the invisible light rays and the visible light rays therethrough out of the light guide; and a plurality of optical devices disposed on a surface of the light guide which confronts the light exit surface, for scattering more of the invisible light rays than the visible light rays. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090159786 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels laid out on the surface of a pixel area of the display panel; and an illumination section configured to generate illumination light in a normal direction perpendicular to the display panel, wherein the illumination section has a light source, a light guiding board, the display panel also includes a plurality of photo sensor devices, the light source includes an invisible light source, the light guiding board includes an invisible light beam reflection section. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20100097340 | Liquid-crystal display panel and chopper-type comparator - A liquid-crystal display panel includes: gate lines each serving as a row-direction line which is one of the rows of a two-dimensional matrix; data signal lines each serving as a column-direction line which is one of the columns of the two-dimensional matrix; a plurality of liquid-crystal pixel sections which are laid out to form the two-dimensional matrix and each placed at the intersection of one of the gate lines and one of the data signal lines; chopper-type comparators each connected to one of the data signal lines and each used for converting the value of a sensor signal read out from one of the liquid-crystal pixel sections connected to the data signal lines into a binary value; and a shift register for converting outputs of the chopper-type comparators from parallel data into serial data and outputting the serial data. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100164921 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Improvement of the image quality and position detection accuracy is implemented. Operation of a backlight | 07-01-2010 |