Abstract:
An optical element comprises a pair of substrates each having an electrode and bonded together with a gap therebetween and a light adjusting material including a liquid crystal and enclosed in the gap. Each of the pair of substrates has an electrode connecting portion to be connected to an external circuit. At least a part of the electrode connecting portion of each of the substrates is located on the same side as that of the optical element. The electrode connecting portion of one of the substrates and the electrode connecting portion of the other of the substrates have respective electrode portions at regions that are not opposed to each other. The electrode portion of each of the electrode connecting portions is connected to the external circuit.
Abstract:
In a light source device, a row of fibers is provided in which a plurality of optical fibers is arrayed in a single row in parallel fashion separately from each other. A light-direction controller is disposed on one side of the optical fibers, main fibers is disposed above and below the light-direction controller, and a main fiber is disposed at the other end of the row of fibers. Light sources are connected to each of the end portions of the main fibers. Three types of mirrors that mutually differ in direction are formed on the surface of the light-direction controller, light emitted from a main fiber enters the optical fibers by way of a first mirror, and light emitted from a main fiber enters the optical fibers by way of a second mirror.
Abstract:
An IPS-mode transflective LCD device includes an array of pixels each including a reflective region and a transmissive region juxtaposed. The reflective region operates in a normally-white mode, and the transmissive region operates in a normally-black mode. A common data signal is supplied to the reflective region and transmissive region, whereas the common electrode signal in the transmissive region is an inverted signal of the common electrode signal in the reflective region, to thereby obtain similar gray-scale levels.
Abstract:
A conventional liquid crystal display comprises a number of components, so that a manufacturing cost cannot be reduced. Furthermore, a large-area substrate has problems in shipping. According to this invention, a liquid-crystal panel is prepared by forming individual optically functional films, a TFT device and a light-emitting device on a long thin film and then laminating the film by a transfer process. A base film to be a substrate in a liquid-crystal panel preferably has a thickness of 10 μm to 200 μm, a curvature radius of 40 mm or less as a measure of flexibility and a coefficient of thermal expansion of 50 ppm/° C. or less. Furthermore, it more preferably gives a variation of ±5% or less in mechanical and optical properties to a thermal history at 200° C.
Abstract:
Arranged in sequence in a display device are a planar light source, a viewing-angle control unit for increasing the directivity of transmitted light, a switching element for switching between a transparent state for transmitting incident light without modification and a translucent clouded state for transmitting the incident light in scattered fashion, and a display panel. The frequency F2 of the alternating current voltage applied to the switching element by the drive unit is made higher than the drive frequency F1 of the display panel. For example, the frequency F2 is twice the frequency F1 or higher, and is an nth multiple (wherein n is an integer equal to 2 or higher) of the frequency F1. A display device with a switchable viewing angle is thereby obtained in which flickering does not occur even when the display device is used for a long time, and a terminal device is obtained in which the display device is mounted.
Abstract:
A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a backlight used for the LCD and a method for producing the LCD and the backlight are provided which are capable of inhibiting an increase in component counts and in assembling processes and of reducing them, thereby achieving low costs. A display image is obtained by arranging a backlight section being able to perform scanning as a single unit in a manner that it positionally matches a liquid crystal displaying section. The backlight section is provided with a plurality of scanning electrodes and light emitting layers each providing a different luminescent color, and being spatially separated from each other on a principal face of the backlight and scanning is performed on a plurality of light emitting layers providing a different luminescent color.
Abstract:
The liquid crystal display apparatus is provided with a display unit, a video signal driving circuit, a scanning signal driving circuit, a common electrode potential controlling circuit, and a synchronizing circuit. The display unit has a scanning electrode, a video signal electrode, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in matrix form, a plurality of switching elements which transmit video signals to the pixel electrodes, and a common electrode. After the scanning signal driving circuit scans the entire scanning electrodes and transmits video signals to the pixel electrodes, the common electrode potential controlling circuit changes the potential of the common electrode into a pulse shape, overdrives video signals, or increases a torque required to return to a state in which no voltage is applied.
Abstract:
In an orientation division type liquid crystal display device for widen a viewing angle of a display pixel of an active matrix type liquid crystal color display device having a COT structure, pixel color layers (6B, 6R, 6G) as color filters and pixel electrodes 3 are formed on a substrate on the side of the pixel electrodes and slopes 13 are provided along four side peripheries of each pixel electrode. Liquid crystal molecules 8 between each pixel electrode of the pixel electrode substrate and a common electrode of an opposing substrate are controlled in orientation direction along the slopes to divide it to a plurality of directions to thereby widen a viewing angle of a pixel display. The slope is formed on a step portion 12 formed by a BM layer formed on at least one of a gate electrode, a drain electrode and a source electrode formed in a periphery of the pixel electrode or at least one of a gate wiring and a drain wiring formed in the periphery or a step portion formed by partially overlapping peripheral portions of the adjacent pixel color layers.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display has a plurality of pairs of top and bottom pixel electrodes, each of which has a plurality of sub-areas to which different voltages are applied, wherein at least any one of the top and bottom pixel electrodes has an optical compensation layer which has an optically negative uni-axial structure. The liquid crystal display may have a liquid crystal layer which has co-existing different domains differing in the twisted direction and the tilting up direction of the liquid crystal and at least an optical compensation layer having a bi-axial refractive anisotropy between the liquid crystal layer and the polarization plate, wherein the bi-axial refractive anisotropy of the optical compensation layer has three different refractive indexes n.sub.x, n.sub.y, n.sub.z which satisfy the relationship of n.sub.x >n.sub.y >n.sub.z where n.sub.x is the refractive index in a direction parallel to an X-axis parallel to a surface of the optical compensation layer, n.sub.y is the refractive index in a direction parallel to a Y-axis parallel to a surface of the optical compensation layer and perpendicular to the X-axis, and n.sub.z is the refractive index in a direction parallel to a Z-axis perpendicular to a surface of the optical compensation layer.
Abstract:
In a liquid crystal display comprising a lamination of a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal layer, a compensator and a reflector in the mentioned order, the refractive anisotropy of the liquid crystal layer and the refractive anionotropy of the compensator is opposite in sense to each other, and assuming that the liquid crystal layer is sliced in the absence of applied voltage or in the presence of a given applied voltage in the thickness direction into N sub-layers such that the liquid crystal molecule long axis bearing therein can be regarded to be substantially fixed, the liquid crystal molecule long axis orientation of the 1-st sub-layer being represented by a tilt angle .theta..sub.1,i and a twist angle .phi..sub.1,i, and also assuming that the compensator consists of N sub-layers, the optic axis bearing of the 1-st sub-layer being represented by a tilt angle .theta..sub.2,i and a twist angle .phi..sub.2,i, the 1-st sub-layer of the liquid crystal layer and the (N-i+1)-th sub-layer of the compensator are approximately related to each other as .theta..sub.1,i =.theta..sub.2,N-i+1, and .phi..sub.1,i =.phi..sub.2,N-i+1.