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:
To improve a patterning accuracy of pixel electrodes and common electrodes. The liquid crystal display device includes a reflective display area and a transmissive display area within a pixel that is configured with a pair of opposing substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates. The reflective display area achieves display by reflection of light, and the transmissive display area achieves display by transmission of light. A laminated body including a reflective plate, an insulating layer, and a metal electrode for rotating liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer within a surface thereof is provided within the reflective display area.
Abstract:
A display device is composed of a light source device and a transmissive liquid crystal display panel, and the light source device is provided with a transparent/scattering switching element capable of switching between states in which incident light is transmitted or scattered. Pixels for displaying are disposed in the form of a matrix in the transmissive liquid crystal display panel, and the need for another power supply and signals for the transparent/scattering switching element is eliminated by driving the transparent/scattering switching element using the signals and power supply for driving the pixels. The drive power source of the transparent/scattering switching element for controlling scattering can be made smaller and less costly in a display device that is capable of switching the range of viewing angles.
Abstract:
The display device is divided into a low scattering region and a high scattering region. The display device is disposed on a backlight, thereby constituting a display unit with the display device and the backlight. The low scattering region and the high scattering region can be driven separately from each other. That is, it is a structure in which at least a part of the region in the display device has a scattering power that is different from that of the other region, and each region can be driven independently.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display panel has a drive substrate and an opposing substrate disposed parallel to each other by way of a seal member provided with a liquid crystal injection inlet. A liquid crystal layer is sealed between the two substrates. Apertures are provided in the portion formed on the periphery of the pixel area of the smoothed film that is formed on the surface of the drive substrate, and an orientation film is formed so that at least part of the peripheral edge portion is positioned inside the apertures. Thereby, the liquid crystal injection time can be reduced and the panel can be set in a narrow frame, and the wiring and peripheral drive circuits are not liable to be damaged.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel in the pixel electrode and common electrodes formed within a pixel comprise repeating structures. The angular range of light incident from the light source is narrower along a direction of the repeating structures than along an orthogonal direction.
Abstract:
In a three-plate-type liquid crystal projector, there may be differences in the temperatures generated in each of three liquid crystal panels since the energy of light irradiated to the liquid crystal panels varies by each color. Due to the differences in the temperatures, there generates differences in the response speeds of liquid crystal molecules, which causes contours to be seen with blur tails when a moving picture is displayed. This can be overcome by the present invention in which correction amount performed on video signals supplied to three liquid crystal panels is changed by each of the three liquid crystal panels according to temperatures, when it is determined that a detected temperature has reached a prescribed value through detecting the temperature of at least one of the three liquid crystal panels, or the peripheral temperature of at least one of the three liquid crystal panels, or the temperature of a prescribed part of a liquid crystal projector.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display having a wide viewing angle and easily manufactured. The liquid crystal display comprises an upper substrate and a lower substrate, and a liquid crystal material disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The liquid crystal display has a conductive protrusion disposed on the surface of the upper substrate opposing to the lower substrate. The conductive protrusion is disposed over a scanning electrode line or a signal electrode line and has the same potential as that of the upper electrode. As another structure, each of pixel electrodes on the lower substrate has a smaller area than that of a common electrode on the upper substrate and is covered by the common electrode, and each of the pixel electrodes comprises an electrode portion having approximately symmetrical shape.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device comprising a first polarizing sheet (16a), a color filter layer (6) formed on glass sheet (18), a second polarizing sheet (16b), three-layered HPDLC (17) formed below the liquid crystal layer (1) and acting as a reflective structural layer having a reflectivity changed electrically, and a backlight unit as the lowermost layer. Each layer of the three-layered HPDLC (17) is composed of a liquid crystal droplet layer polymer layer and reflects blue, green, red by Bragg reflection. When voltage is applied to the three-layered HPDLC (17), the reflectivity of liquid crystal droplet layer of each layer change, so that the HPDLC can be made transparent by equalizing the reflectivities of the liquid crystal liquid droplet layer to those of polymer layers.
Abstract:
A novel liquid crystal display device which enables continuous gray-scale display, has a wide viewing angle and readily allows an active-matrix drive. The liquid crystal display device has a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal material having an antiferroelectric phase sandwiched between said pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates undergoing an aligning process. In the liquid crystal display element, a natural helical pitch of the liquid crystal material is smaller than a gap between the substrates, and moreover, smaller than twice a lower-limit wavelength of the wavelength range of light used in the liquid crystal display device.