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| 20080246714 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD OF DRIVING IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device capable of applying a higher voltage than the original voltage to the pixel, without causing deterioration of the display quality is provided. The image display device includes: a plurality of pixels each including a main capacitive element as a display element performing display operation in accordance with image data supplied to one end thereof, and an auxiliary capacitive element having one end connected to the one end of the main capacitive element, and driving means for driving each of the pixels, while supplying an additional potential to the other end of the auxiliary capacitive element in each of the pixels, the additional potential being individually determined so that a voltage between both ends of the main capacitive element rises higher than an original voltage. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090033836 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display capable of improving the transmittance of corners of pixel is provided. The liquid crystal display with a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix includes a drive substrate with pixel electrodes formed correspondingly to the plurality of pixels, respectively, an opposite substrate arranged oppositely to the drive substrate, and polarizing plates provided on the drive substrate and the opposite substrate, respectively. An external form of the pixel electrodes is a trapezoid having the right and left sides parallel to the optical axes of the polarizing plates, and the upper and lower sides inclined at an angle of any one of 45 degrees, 135 degrees, 225 degrees and 315 degrees with respect to the optical axes of the polarizing plates. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090059152 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display capable of narrowing a slit between pixel electrodes and preventing a short circuit defect is provided. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, in which each of the pixels includes: a plurality of non-linear elements formed on a substrate; a plurality of subpixel electrodes electrically connected to the plurality of non-linear elements, respectively; and an inter-subpixel insulating layer formed between at least two subpixel electrode out of the plurality of subpixel electrodes. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090073333 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, in which each of the pixels includes a plurality of non-linear elements and a plurality of subpixel electrodes on a drive substrate, the plurality of subpixel electrodes being electrically connected to the plurality of non-linear elements, respectively, a voltage having a reverse polarity is applied to at least two of the plurality of subpixel electrodes on the same frame, and each of the at least two of the plurality of subpixel electrodes is divided into four or more divided subpixel electrodes, and at least four of the divided subpixel electrodes of the subpixel electrode to which a voltage having one polarity is applied are adjacent to divided subpixel electrodes of the subpixel electrode to which a voltage having the other polarity is applied on the top and bottom sides of the divided subpixel electrodes. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090146936 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display capable of improving its viewing angle characteristic of luminance is provided. The liquid crystal display includes: a pair of signal lines extending so as to intersect to each other; a pixel provided for the pair of signal lines and configured of a plurality of sub pixels, each sub pixel including a liquid crystal element and a capacitive element; a driving element provided for each of the plurality of sub pixels so as to be connected to a corresponding pair of signal lines assigned to the pixel, and performs display driving by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal element based on a video signal; and a capacitance line provided for each of the plurality of sub pixels so as to be connected to one end of the capacitive element. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090237345 | Liquid Crystal Display Device, Liquid Crystal Display Method, Display Control Device, and Display Control Method - An LCD device includes a display unit including pixels having a multi-pixel structure; first and second driving units that drive scanning and signal lines, respectively; an image acquisition unit, and a control unit. Each of the pixels includes first and second pixels, and first and second pixels of pixels are connected to two corresponding signal lines in a checkerboard manner. The first driving unit is controlled to repeatedly scan a first sub-frame of odd lines and a second sub-frame of even lines, and the second driving unit is controlled in such a manner that the polarity of the first pixel of a pixel differs from that of the second pixel of the pixel, the polarities of the adjacent first pixels differ from each other and those of the adjacent second pixels differ from each other, and a polarity signal is inverted when switching is performed between first and second sub-frames. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090322992 | Liquid crystal display device and method for driving same - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device that includes a normally-black liquid crystal panel whose transmittance takes a minimum value when no voltage is applied and a cold cathode fluorescent lamp used as a light source of a backlight of the liquid crystal panel, the liquid crystal display device including a light irradiator configured to carry out light irradiation of the cold cathode fluorescent lamp in a period from device activation to first lighting of the cold cathode fluorescent lamp. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100079429 | Liquid crystal display - A liquid crystal display which may suppress image quality deterioration and enhance image contrast is provided. The liquid crystal display includes: a light source unit including a light source having divided lighting sections and a light source control section; a liquid crystal display panel including pixels and modulating light from the light source; and a display driving section performing a polarity inversion driving based on the inputted video signal. The display driving section corrects the inputted video signal, for each of divided display regions in the liquid crystal display panel corresponding to ON-state divided lighting sections, based on a light control signal from the light source control section, so that a amplitude center potential of the driving voltage with a waveform of alternately-inverting polarity substantially agrees with the common potential. The driving voltage based on a corrected video signal is then applied to the liquid crystal element. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100091234 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - A liquid crystal display device is provided, suppressing formation of defect such as bubbles within a liquid crystal layer, to enhance yield. The liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate to configure a plurality of pixels; a plurality of color filters formed on the first substrate, each of the plurality of color filters being divided into individual filter elements corresponding to the pixels, respectively; main spacers provided on one color kind of color filter of the plurality of color filters to control a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate; and sub spacers, which are lower than the main spacers in height, provided on the same color kind of color filter as the one color kind of color filter where the main spacers are provided thereon. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100117942 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A first sub-pixel allows at least first primary color light and second primary color light to pass therethrough, and a second sub-pixel allows at least the second primary color light and third primary color light to pass therethrough. In a first drive period, a drive section drives a light source section to separately emit the first primary color light and the third primary color light, and the drive section drives the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel in response to a picture signal for the first primary color light and a picture signal for the third primary color light, respectively, and in a second drive period, the drive section drives the light source section to emit the second primary color light, and the drive section drives the first and second sub-pixels in response to a picture signal for the second primary color light. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100225750 | Image display apparatus, image display observation system, and image display method - An image display apparatus of present invention includes a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for displaying each of a right eye image and a left eye image at least two times continuously; and a display panel, input with the signal converted by the signal control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image continuing two or more times, and the left eye image continuing two or more times. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100231697 | Image display apparatus, image display observation system, and image display method - There is provided an image display apparatus including a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for alternately displaying a right eye image and a left eye image, a display panel, input with the signal converted by the control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image and the left eye image, a surface light source for radiating the panel from a rear surface, a shutter control unit for generating a timing signal indicating a switching timing of the right eye image and the left eye image with respect to viewing eyeglasses including a right and a left eye shutters, and a surface light source control unit for causing the surface light source to emit light in a period shorter than an open period of the shutter according to the switching of the right eye image and the left eye image. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100253901 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid crystal display including a couple of substrates facing each other and pixel electrodes formed on inside surfaces of the couple of substrates, each of the pixel electrodes has gaps. A liquid crystal layer is sealed between the couple of substrates with the pixel electrodes formed and the gaps are alternately disposed to form a staggered arrangement between the pair of pixel electrodes. The liquid crystal layer has pre-tilt regions where liquid crystal molecules are tilted. In these regions, the spacing between adjacent pre-tilt regions is smaller than spacing in the substrate surface direction between the gap of a pixel electrode on one substrate and the gap of a pixel electrode on the other substrate. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100259601 | Liquid crystal shutter and image display observation system - A liquid crystal shutter includes a plurality of liquid crystal layers arranged in a light-incident direction; and a plurality of polarizers attached to each of the plurality of liquid crystal layers, polarization axes of 2 adjacent polarizers that have a liquid crystal layer therebetween being crossed at an angle of 90°, the accumulated value of degrees of polarization of polarizers that have polarization axes in a first direction being identical to that of degrees of polarizations of polarizers that have polarization axes in a second direction that crosses the first direction at an angle of 90°. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100309297 | Display device and display system - Disclosed herein is a display device, including: a display unit configured to display images each corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of shutter mechanisms that carry out opening and closing operation at timings different from each other, in such a manner as to switch the images in a time-division manner; and a shutter controller configured to set a respective one of the shutter mechanisms to an opened state in a display period of the image corresponding to the respective one of the shutter mechanisms, and variably control at least one of start time and length of an opened-state period of the shutter mechanism. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110037915 | Liquid crystal display device - The invention relates to a liquid crystal display device and provides a liquid crystal display device which can achieve high display quality. A liquid crystal display device is provided with first and second TFTs each having a gate electrode connected to an nth gate bus line and a drain electrode connected to a drain bus line; a first pixel electrode connected to a source electrode of the first TFT; a second pixel electrode connected to a source electrode of the second TFT; a third TFT having a gate electrode connected to an (n+1)th gate bus line and a source electrode connected to the second pixel electrode; and a buffer capacitance portion having a buffer capacitance electrode which is formed in the same layer as the first and second pixel electrodes and is connected to a drain electrode of the third TFT and a buffer capacitance electrode connected to a storage capacitance bus line. The buffer capacitance portion establishes capacitive coupling between the drain electrode of the third TFT and the storage capacitance bus line. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110096058 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels each including a liquid crystal element of VA mode and a drive section. The drive section space-divisionally or time-divisionally performs a display drive operation so that the operation includes first and second divisional-drive operation groups. The drive section performs an operation in the first or second divisional-drive operation group, or both thereof. In the former, the output voltage exceeds the input voltage in the intermediate luminance range, whereas in a highlight luminance range, exceeds the input voltage but shows a tendency to be lower compared to in the intermediate luminance range. In the latter, the output voltage is lower than the input voltage in the intermediate luminance range, whereas in a lowermost luminance range, equal to or lower than the input voltage but shows a tendency to be higher compared to in the intermediate luminance range. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110109656 | Image display device and image display system using the same - A display system and method in which light is provided and images are generated by modulating the provided light. At least one of the timing or duty of the provided light may be controlled. By allowing for such control of the provided light an increase in system performance may be realized. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110128259 | Display device and driving method - There is provided a display device including an array substrate including pixels arranged in a matrix manner and gate control circuits that scan gate lines of the pixels and that are provided on the array substrate such that the gate control circuits correspond to the respective gate lines of the pixels. Each of the gate control circuits includes a first output terminal that outputs a signal to each of the gate lines, and a second output terminal that outputs a signal that is supplied to a gate control circuit in a subsequent stage. When adjacent two of the gate lines are scanned simultaneously from an upper part of a screen by the signal output from the first output terminal of each of the gate control circuits, a gate on period is provided during which outputs from the first output terminals of adjacent two of the gate control circuits are the same. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110157531 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device with which response characteristics are able to be easily improved without using major equipment is provided. The method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device includes steps of forming a first alignment film | 06-30-2011 |
